Empyreal Dragons

One

I had a dream... 

There... was a smile on my face as I could see my husband holding our son in his arms with a smile on his face. Bliss was all that crossed my mind at the sight of the man I loved, loving our son just as much as he cared for me. 

My husband's deep hazel eyes, that can glare with deepen love and so much intensity, but, so did his huge build as he was a muscular man.

His straight black hair caught itself in the wind as looking at him gave me safety. Smiling at the beautiful sight, I began moving my small feet to walk over to my husband and my son... 

Everything was perfect... SO perfect that I got lost in the sight of my husband's handsome face smiling at our son who inherited the hazel eyes of his father.

Everything was perfect... 

That was until my husband used his dominant right hand to grab a sword that was hiding. Slowly but surely as I didn't understand what was going on right in front of my face, my husband used the sword to stab it through the heart of my baby. 

NO!

His lungs were no longer receiving oxygen. With the brain no longer getting the information to transfer oxygen through the body, Zahn's brain weakened itself as his organs no longer had a master in control to tell them how to work. 

With blood spilling down the large sword hurling itself into Zahn, my heart dropped at the sight of my son dying in front of me. 

"NOO!"  

Please don't kill him, AGAIN!

Lovech Kingdom

"NOO!" 

Panting heavily, there was a cloud filling Reyna's mind as she could feel her lungs starting to weaken. Her heart was beating fast and irregular to handle as her breaths were starting to become worse.

Trying to exhale the breath that was being held in her small body, Reyna started squirming with uncomfortability in her own body as she was trying to gasp for air.

I don't want to die, Reyna thought as she finally let out the breath that she was holding. 

Coughing now from the lack of air, the small breathes that Reyna were taking were straining her throat as she could feel her throat burning with intensity. 

Breathing in and out fast making sure to recollect the air that her heart wasn't controlling, Reyna began to recollect the last bit of remaining sense that she had for herself... 

Reyna sighed as she slowly started to realize that she was breathing again.

I'M STILL BREATHING! 

What's going on? What is happening! Panic but excitement began to run through the veins of Reyna's body as disbelief made her wonder and question everything that was going on, she couldn't believe it. 

How?

The brain was filled with many questions, why was she not back in the Red Crest bedroom, where is she at now, and lastly, who helped her? 

I AM f*****g ALIVE!

Slowly starting to recollect from the realization that she could breathe once again after remembering that harsh reality where she was forced to stop breathing, Reyna could see a slight white glare forming itself from the corner of her eye as the sunlight decided to bounce off of the furniture that was surrounding her. 

Huh? 

Moving her eyes to look over at the beaming sunlight, Reyna could feel something different filling the new room that she was unconsciously put in... there was something about this weird place that made everything weirdly feel like... home. 

As Reyna began to start checking out her surroundings to see where she might be, immediately, she could tell that this wasn't her usual Royal Bedroom located at the Red Crest Kingdom. 

The white glare that was noticed was coming from the white walls that were covering the walls of the room all around her. As the walls were a beautiful white creamed color, there was also a huge show of black designs mixed with it as it showed a marble effect covered walls. The room was filled with nothing but flowers and small tables that held little statues of dragons.

Blinking slowly at the weird room and what it contained, there was only one question that kept through the mind of the young beauty. How was I still alive after being stabbed in the heart and in my stomach?

Placing her hands below her as she felt a soft comfortable feeling underneath her, Reyna understood subconsciously that she was on a bed. A bed that seemed to be prepared for someone to stay in. Forcing herself to sit up slowly so that she could get a better view of where she was, Reyna flinched as she could still feel the pain in her destroyed stomach. 

Reyna's body reflectively began to curl itself at the pain that was burning it up inside.

I need to get up... come on Rein.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you. Your injuries were very severe and I am surprised that you managed to survive."

There was a deep rich voice spoke out ... a deep vibrating that sounded like silkiness smoothed the roughed eardrums into believing that it was an angel's voice. 

Raising her right eyebrow in seduction, Reyna moved her eyes towards the bedroom door. With her pupil's forcing themselves to focus began to clear up, her eyes were now looking at a man standing at the now opened door that was once closed.

Goosebumps began to appear on those small dark arms while Reyna's nerves flared from her spine to her brain. 

Reyna's brain was trying to comprehend what was going on, delaying the sent messages to the rest of the body, she was stuck staring at the man as EVERYTHING about him screams want me.

As the mystery man started walking closer towards the bed that Reyna was laying in, there was nothing more that you could see besides his tall muscular build swiftly walking with a sense of arrogant pride and unmatched confidence. 

The eyes that he had were a sight to behold as his green eyes pierced right through the woman's eyes and into her empty soul that was damaged from death. The glance that he gave Reyna could have made anyone crumble as his deep facial structures were effortlessly stunning. 

His jawline was just as sharp as the smell of his cologne as it gave off a vibrant familiar dark mysterious feeling. Reyna was struck by the lightning of s*x appeal.

"I-I..." 

Reyna was confused... Her brain wanted her to ask who this man was, but her heart wanted to keep looking at the man's beauty.

The man moved his eyes to look at Reyna's body as he was slightly concerned. Reyna's stomach... 

This issue cannot be seen by the human eyes, but in the eyes of this strange man, you could see the fatty tissues of the stomach intestines ripped apart as Reyna's stomach took a lot of damage. The sword not only stabbed one part of her stomach, but it also tore her stomach lining as the liquid acid in her stomach began to spill over. 

And her heart... It is known that anyone could die from a broken heart, but Reyna's heart LITERALLY detached itself from their strings. Her once red pumping normal looking heart was now smaller than a normal sized heart as Reyna did completely recover from the stab. 

The cavity that keeps the heart safe and in place was now popped as Reyna's heart could fall into the bottomless pit of her stomach without any problems as nothing would stop her heart from trying to leave her body again. 

The man smirked at Reyna, she was definitely a strong one. Giving Reyna a flashing dazzling smile as his straight teeth shined, the man began to open up his mouth to speak. 

"I understand that you have questions, but let's just take it slow and lay back down. You lost a lot of blood." The man spoke out referring to Reyna's stomach and heart 

Within Reyna soft daze, her brain began to process the information that was given to her. The heart was stabbed and so was the stomach, and the body was left out in the cold rain... there is only one possible answer for what has happened.

I, Reyna Rose, have died...

I died outside of the palace that I lived in for 15 years by the man I claimed as my husband.

Anger started to reside inside of Reyna as her hair began to blow its own wind. Reyna's fist clenched by itself in reflex and she hated herself for everything that happened to her and the blood of the Rose woman. 

With the thought crossing her mind, the anger suddenly left her body but sadness gleaned over the soul of the broken woman.

"I-I can't lay back down. My life, my son, everything is gone." Reyna mumbled as the oval face frowned

Tears started to swell up within those grey eyes as Reyna remembered what happened to her. Reyna could feel the emotion of hatred as she could now see herself as a weak coward who let everything get taken away from her. 

No amount of emotions could describe how horrible she felt, and the only way to explain how horrible the emotions were eating her up inside, it would be for her to have ended her life while she laid outside in the rain wondering what she did so wrong. 

"I know that all of this may seem hard to process and I am here for your health and well-being. You are under the guidance of me, Dragnior. King of the Lovech Kingdom." The man spoke

Reyna's eyes widened as her grey eyes stared at the handsome man. 

Out of people that I had to run into once again after coming back to life, why did it have to be a King?

"My son and I were visiting a neighboring country and found you outside of the Red Crest's palace," Dragnior began speaking "My son didn't want to leave you there and I felt bad looking at you in your condition, so we brought you back."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Reyna replied

Moving her head to look up at the King, Dragnior, Reyna could see him smirking beneath those layers of a nonchalant attitude.

"It is no problem. You are a guest here under the providence of me. Just take your time to heal yourself." Dragnior said turning on his heels and walking away from me

Watching his back, there was only a feeling of relief as Reyna could only be thankful for the mysterious man.

Even though I wanted to die and be with me soon, I guess life wouldn't let me go down so easily? Sighing at her own thoughts, there was a sudden cold shiver running throughout her body as she suddenly remembered the young creature that stood by her side as she was losing life. 

A creature...

"WAIT!" Reyna called out

Dragnior stopped in his tracks before he turned around glancing at the young beauty.

"There was an animal that was with me while I was losing life. Is the animal okay? Did the animal come get you to save me? Where is it?" Reyna asked rummaging around trying to find the right words to each question

The creature reminded Reyna of her son that was ripped out of her sadly in her most desperate time of need... Reyna actually really needed that animal...I need my son.

Dragnior smiled at Reyna before turning away from her with plenty of thoughts inside of his head. 

Did she end up remembering her death? No, she couldn't have because she doesn't remember the face of Jyscal... but ... she remembers a creature. Interesting... 

"Try to relax and rest up, Reyna. You will need it being inside of the Kingdom of Dragons." He replied

Kingdoms of Dragons...? Was that the nickname of the Lovech Kingdom? Reyna thought to herself 

Nodding slowly, Dragnior smiled at Reyna before turning on his heels and walking towards the door. 

Closing her eyes that were swollen because of all her crying and blood vessels pounding inside of her corneas, Reyna slowly laid her body back down on the bed beneath her, images of the most evil and spiteful betrayal kept coming back into her mind to haunt her poor soul.

Everything kept coming into her mind, a woman of the Rose bloodline... Eva Rose, Reyna's mother.

...

Sighing heavily and not being able to fall asleep because of the pains and the millions of thoughts that were clouding over her head, Reyna decided to simply stare up at the white ceiling that caved over her. The ceiling was a marble white color as well as it ascended the rest of the room. 

It's so... 

"Hello."

HUH?!

"What the f**k!?"

Jumping at the little voice that spoke out so suddenly, Reyna's flushed face began to look from left to right to see who the voice came from. Using her weak arms to try and push her body up a little, Reyna turned her head to the right of her side and saw a little boy there that was as cute as a button.

The little boy had brown curly hair that defined his facial features of soft and adorable. His big brown eyes looked curious and explored my face for fears or concerns.

 His small body was skinny but you can tell that he was properly trained to be fit. The freckles that covered his nose sent my heart flying away as his straight teeth flash themselves at me.

Smiling at the little boy that suddenly filled the happiness void in the broken heart, Reyna reached her brown hand out to touch him. The little boy smiled at the woman's actions as he decided to jump onto the bed with her and put himself in the lap of the woman's body.

Empyreal... The little boy could feel the blood of the dragons.

Who is this? Reyna thought

"Hello." Reyna replied smiling at the little boy

The boy stared at her hard before he nodded his head in approval

"It looks like you are doing better." He said

Raising her arch eyebrows in shock, Reyna quickly hid the surprised expression with a smile.

"Did you see how bad I looked?" 

The boy shielded his face away from Reyna as he grabbed the covers from the bed underneath them and placed them over his tiny face. Reyna smiled at his cuteness.

"It's okay, I'm fine now." Reyna called out

The boy removed the covers away from his face, smelling the emotion of "care" coming from the woman, his widen brown eyes changed to a golden color due to the happiness he was feeling. But that happiness wasn't returned by Reyna as she quickly jumped away from the boy. 

Scared... 

The little boy's face clouded over with sadness at the new emotions that he was smelling. Why did she become scared?

"Are you sure you're okay? When I saw you, you... you called me Zahn. Who is Zahn?"

Reyna's shoulders drop as her heart thumped loudly in her ears. Trying to breath and exhale, she could feel her small heart skipping beats back to back as she suddenly couldn't get her breathing right at all. 

With her eyes widened in fear as her brain was realizing what was going on, Reyna was consumed with fear as she noticed that she was now suffocating and didn't even realize until now as her airways weren't getting any oxygen.

The young boy was in panic as he walked over to Reyna and reached his hand out to grab onto hers. Even if it was for a simple second, the young boy wanted to save her. Once feeling contact with his skin, Reyna's body relaxed itself and her tensed airways that wouldn't let any air in were now allowing her to breathe once more. 

Hearing the irregular heartbeat in her ears and feeling her veins fuming on her big forehead causing a headache to come on, Reyna couldn't be more thankful for him being by her side.

What... what was that? Reyna thought to herself thinking about what just happened to her heart

"T-Thank you. What is your name?" Reyna asked the boy in between pants

"My name is also... Zahn."

Looking into the eyes of the young boy, Reyna thought that my heart would start beating irregular again but nothing happened to her as the boy kept hold of her hand.

"Z-Zahn," Reyna called out, moving her free hand to touch the face of the boy "You have the name of my unborn son."

Happiness filled Reyna inside as the boy smiled softly at her. His settle features reminded her of the happiness that she was supposed to be blessed with as she was supposed to give birth.

"Who named you such a lovely name?" 

The boy stiffened as he looked around the room for an answer.

"My m-mother named me. Yea, my mother." The boy smiled confidently with pride in his answer

Rubbing the boy's face once more, Reyna removed her hand away from him as she felt satisfied with him and his answer. 

This boy Zahn... I guess I should call him that from now on huh? Reyna thought as she saw the boy begin smiling at her as he tugged on her arm.

"Have you eaten anything? Daddy said it's not nice to let a beautiful woman starve."

Reyna's lips curled up into a smile subconsciously as she listened to Zahn speak. 

My dear little baby Zahn... Look at you, Reyna thought to herself as she could feel her eyes get watery.

"I think I ate Z-Zahn," Reyna paused waiting to see what his reaction would be calling him her son's name, but the boy just looked at Reyna as if he was waiting for her to continue.

"Have you eaten anything?" 

Zahn shook his head no and Reyna frowned. Why the hell hasn't my son been fed?!

"Let's go get some food Zahn."

Using Zahn's small arm for support, Reyna tried to lift herself from off of the bed and moved her small feet to touch the cold room's floor. Forgetting what coldness felt like since she died, Reyna breathed in and out for a second to remember what everything felt like.

Alright Reyna, let's get up and go

Nodding her head at her inner thoughts for encouragement, Reyna pushed her body up from off of the bed to stand on her 2 feet... until she fell flat on her butt from the weakness of her legs.

Reyna eyes widened in surprise as she could see Zahn's face hiding a laughter that was trying to expose itself.

"What? What happened?" Reyna asked looking down at my legs

"You haven't eaten anything and your body is still bruised up. I don't think you're going to be able to walk any time soon." Zahn stated

Reyna kept her eyes wide as she glanced over at Zahn. His words were proper as if he knew more than what his young appearance let off. 

"That's not true. Watch me get up and walk to grab some food." Reyna spoke

Letting go of Zahn's arm, Reyna put both of my hands onto the bed behind her and pulled herself up back onto her two feet. Taking deep breaths, she could feel her legs shake uncontrollably underneath her. The nerves.

"OH!" Zahn clapped

Rolling her eyes with a smile, she turned to face Zahn and reached out her right hand towards him.

"Let's go get that food." 

Dining Hall

"Here is the dining hall!"

The Lovech Kingdom's palace is huge.

Beautiful decorations covering every inch wall and table that stood tall in the hallways or rooms. The walls are a beautiful color of simple white but it's effective as your eyes get stuck on the beautiful effects of everlasting beauty.  

The flowers that you see in the vases throughout the hallways are beautiful as well, every vase carries 5 white roses and one yellow one. The yellow rose looked sad, sad and empty as the yellow rose looked out of place, but also vibrant in the eyes of the white roses. 

Even as Zahn and Reyna reached the dining hall full of chaos and energy, you could see 20 servants there working on every dish with preciseness and focusing on quality. As their hands moved at a fast speed, their focus was still forced on the food in front of them. 

"This is amazing." Reyna called out as her eyes were memorized by the workers' acute sense to not be distracted and working diligently

“Right! The servants are very fast paced but confident in their abilities.” Zahn said with a smile on his face 

Zahn didn’t think that Reyna would like coming out of her room since he and Dragnior found her dead on the ground in front of a palace. Feeling a frown come into his face, Zahn’s memory began to forge in detail how pitiful Reyna looked when he first found her. 

Zahn has seen this woman, Reyna Rose before as the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princess have had yearly meetings to attend to their duties as royals.

And every time Zahn has seen Reyna, he always falls in love with her more and more. Men worshipped her, women wanted to be her, and she herself was the most humble of people you will ever see in this world. 

How was someone so loved and thought of… found dead outside of their own palace… 

"YOUNG PRINCE!"

Hearing someone yell, Zahn snapped out of his thought as he Zahn physically cowered in his own skin. The cheerful Zahn was now tensely uncomfortable and had a sadden look on his face. Scrunching her eyebrows together, Reyna looked over to where the voice was coming from and saw a stern looking older woman running over to the couple. 

Looking back over to Zahn, Reyna instinctively moved closer to his shoulder and rubbed it to make him calm down some. But it only backfired as Zahn’s brain rushed with scared emotions and he fearfully slapped Reyna’s hand away from him with a horrified look on his face. 

"STOP!" Zahn yelled at Reyna as the older woman came closer to them

I’m sorry…?

Confused by Zahn's sudden outburst, Reyna was brought back into reality a sudden sting made her cheek begin to burn with pain and her small body fell onto the ground. 

Eyes widened and her heart picked up speed as it began to rise in her chest, Reyna was now brought into the sight of Zahn standing in the arms of the older woman. The older woman's face was now looking at her in disgust and anger.

"Young prince, are you alright?" The woman asked

"Z-Zahn...?" Reyna called out with a hand still on her cheek

Zahn didn't look at Reyna as he was stuck and lost within his own head. He mentally checked himself out as soon as he heard Ms. Syrah’s voice calling for him. So as Zahn kept looking away from Reyna, Reyna decided to focus looking up at the older woman that was standing behind him. 

My own son... betrayed me. 

Does everyone end up betraying me, Reyna thought to myself as anger began to rise throughout the body. Feeling the blood rush through her veins, Reyna began to feel hotter than usual as she looked at the two.

"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH THE YOUNG PRINCE YOU SERVANT! You need a punishment!" The old woman yelled as her young face began to wrinkle with lines of aging

Punishment? After I died and came back to life... How dare an old woman tell me that I NEED PUNISHMENT!

By this time, Reyna temperature was hitting the high of 110 degrees and Reyna could feel her body getting hotter and hotter. Her eyes burned in chaotic danger as they felt like they were going to budge out of their sockets from the anger she was feeling. 

Physically her body was in pain, but her heart hurt more than her body did.

The old woman began to worry as she looked at Reyna with concern. 

There was a strange crazy woman standing right in front of her, how know what she could’ve done to the young Master if she didn’t take the Master away from this w***e, Ms. Syrah thought to herself and she moved her head to look down at Zahn who shook his head no at her.

"My son..." Reyna called out

This woman doesn’t know when to stop! Ms. Syrah thought as she glared at the stranger 

Zahn finally moved his eyes away from the old woman, Ms. Syrah and now looked into the eyes of Reyna. Staring at his soft settled face, Reyna couldn't feel anger towards him. She couldn't be angry at her own son. 

Feeling defeated in a weird way, Reyna closed her eyes and inhaled deeply.

I am inside of someone else's country and staying in the King palace, it was only right that the old woman hit me thinking that I was a threat to the young boy, Reyna thought to herself trying to justify why everyone was treating her like s**t right now 

Feeling my skin get cooler and cooler, Reyna opened her eyes again to see that Zahn and the old woman now had guards standing around them, surrounding them.

"Y-You! How dare you hurt the young master! Guards! Seize her!" The old woman yelled

Not moving from where she was standing at, Reyna had a shocked look as she stared around at guards surrounding them. 

I can't do this again... NOT AGAIN!

They was a change in eyesight as she can now see the rusted metal of the men’s armor… the layers of their skin as their pores were open and exposed to get infected… the red blood cells that were either full circles or half-crescent moons… RED BLOOD?!

Reyna blinked her eyes a few times before truly trying to understand what she was looking at. She could now see the men’s genetic makeup as their DNA strands kept dividing and multiplying within their body.  

Swallowing her spit in fear as she could now see the genes of the guards' bodies, looking at the arm of one of the guards, Reyna could see a little singular red blood cell travelling through the veins of his arms. 

That one little red blood cell then gathered up around a bunch more red cells as the blood was now rushing straight to the heart of the guard… his heart needed more blood to pump faster due to his adrenaline. 

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING! SEIZE HER!"

Hearing those words, the understanding about what the current situation was and the sudden change in eyesight immediately put Reyna back into defense mode against the guards. The guards slowly started walking towards her as their feet glided against the floor in concern for their life and safety.

Looking at the guards in fear, Reyna's eyes began to study every guard's movement. As the guards came closer to the young beauty, Reyna could feel her skin start to itch as the temperature in her body began to heat up as every second passed her temperature was still rising despite how hot she already washed.

"Well," Reyna spoke out, perking up one eyebrow "come at me."

Seeing one guard use that as his cue to charge at Reyna, Reyna’s eyes widened as she saw the inside and outside of the man's body. The details that Reyna could see was remarkable. 

Looking at the guard’s arms that carried and wielded weapons pointing towards her, Reyna’s now gold eyes focused on the bones inside of the guards bodies as her bones looked slightly cracked and shattered in a lot of areas. 

Maybe it was because of battles that the men were a part of, or maybe it was because of the injuries that sustained as a child, but Reyna's eyes could clearly see the shattered old injuries that all of the guards carried. 

Waiting for the right second to strike as I feel the adrenaline pumping my blood flow to fight, the skin that laid on Reyna’s body hardened itself as her eyes detailed every movement that the guard more precisely...

"Rip his heart out and tear him from limb to limb to show him that YOU DEMAND RESPECT!" Reyna mumbled to herself as she prepared to fight the guards of the Lovech Kingdom…