Empyreal Dragons

Six

I saw his face … 

The face of the man who ruined my life as he kept going with ease and no faults. A carefree smile as he sat with his "new" wife in front of my face. That face... That evil face of the man who willingly accepted my death by his own hands ... And what could I do? 

Ha! What could I do?

... I couldn’t even get to him fast enough to kill him with my own hands. 

Lovech Kingdom 

“How is she doing daddy? What did I miss? What’s going on?!” 

Reyna was still asleep in the inbetween states of being conscience and never-ending sleep, but Reyna could hear concerned voices yelling out around her. Not fully conscience, she couldn't single out the words exactly, but she could tell that someone was talking. 

“Shut the hell up Zahn! She’s sleeping for now. She managed to make it through the ritual and shifted into a dragon.” 

There was a long pause as Zahn widened his eyes brown eyes and a loud gasp came from him. 

“Her DRAGON?! That requires months of prepping and concentration. But she… She didn’t do any of that. W-Will she go rogue? WILL SHE DIE?!” 

“No. Luckily she stayed in her own state of mind throughout the whole process. The chances of her going rogue is 0 to none.” 

There was a sigh of relief that came from Zahn. Zahn couldn't imagine what he would do if his mother that he choose went rogue. 

“I am glad, but how do we explain everything that's happened to her? She will have questions when she wakes up.” 

As if Dragnior's words lit a spark in the mind of Reyna, as she was on cue, Reyna began to open her eyes to the world in front of her ready to see who the hell was talking around her. 

Squinting her eyes as they had to adjust to the sudden brightness that she wasn’t prepared for since the sun decided to be extra kind today and light up the skies. Seeing the ceiling and walls come into better focus, Reyna could now see the marble effect that stained them. 

Reyna smiled before she turned her head to the right and saw Dragnior and Zahn standing over her with worried faces. 

Frowning at the fact that they weren’t happy to see her up, Reyna began to sit up in the bed. She misunderstood their worried faces. 

Reyna's brain was froggy. Even though she heard them talking, she heard every noise that they made... she didn't not a single noise that escaped from their lips, she had no idea what they were saying. 

Why are they standing around me and watching me in my sleep? Is there something wrong with me?

“R-Reyna.” Dragnior said 

“H-Hey.” Zahn called out after his father 

Looking between the two of them, you could see the awkwardness that three of these idiots were sharing between each other. The weirdness started to creep me out as the room remained silent.

Something was wrong here... as Reyna tried to move her head to look into the eyes of either Dragnior or Zahn, both boys would turn their heads away from her. Avoiding her gaze completely. Something is wrong... 

“Dragnior.” Reyna decided to call out

Dragnior jumped in his clothes as he looked Reyna in the eyes. Reyna eyes began blinking fast by themselves as she could feel a rushing of attraction towards Dragnior the second that he looked into her eyes. 

Reyna's beating heart began to beat unstably as goosebumps crawled their way up her arms. Feeling her stomach turning in excitement, Reyna could feel a pull of emotions trying to reach out to Dragnior. 

Hearing my heart beat horribly in my ears as they rung with love once more, I could hear a faint voice in the back of my head.

Did you miss me…

Looking into his eyes that suddenly turned gold…

Did you miss me…

Swallowing the saliva that was caught in her throat…

Did you miss me…

Reyna wanted to kiss the lips that looked back at her with desirable lust. Closing her eyes to get rid of the thoughts in her mind, Reyna opened her eyes back up and looked towards Zahn instead. 

Looking at him, he tried to prop up a weird half smile as concern still filled his face. 

“Zahn.” Reyna called out 

Watching him jump and then close his eyes in fear, Reyna became saddened at what is currently going on. What the hell is wrong with them? What's wrong? 

As Dragnior stared at Reyna, he could feel his lower half trying to grow in excitement as he didn't understand what was going on at first. Before the day of the ritual, Dragnior didn't gave a damn about Reyna as he spent all of his time cursing her existence after coming back to life. 

Its understandable that it would be hard for Reyna to get back on her feet after realizing that she died... but why isn't she getting back on her feet! Dragnior disliked Reyna as he considered her useless for the Kingdom of the Lovech people... that was until the ritual happened. 

After the ritual, maybe it was because of the dragon's blood that the two shared together and Reyna's dragon finally accepting the dragon's bond that there was now a sudden connect between them that became dangerous. Dangerous as their dragons have constantly been craving each other due to their bonding. 

The thoughts of him remembering the day of the ritual and how good Reyna looked started making his green eyes... turn gold. 

“ALRIGHT!” Reyna yelled out

Dragnior jumped himself out of his thoughts as his gold eyes refocused on his other half and his new bond, Reyna. 

“What's going on here? Do ya'll know something that I don't know?” 

Reyna was now crossing her arms over her chest as she glared hard at the two boys in front of her. Dragnior turned his gold eyes over towards Zahn and nodded his head slowly as if they were having a silent conversation. 

Sighing, Dragnior turned to Reyna again as he then smiled. 

“How is your body feeling?” 

My body?

Reyna looked down at her body as she couldn’t see any scars or marks anywhere on her. 

“My body is fine.” Reyna replied confused on why he even asked

Zahn sighed in relief as Dragnior asked another question. 

“W-What do you remember about yesterday?” 

Yesterday? Reyna thought to myself as she put her right hand under her chin as she questioned what occurred yesterday? 

As Reyna started questioning what happened to her yesterday, her stomach began growling badly as the feeling began to cave itself in and begin to hurt. Looking up at Dragnior and Zahn, they both turned their heads away to try and suppress their laughter to laugh at Reyna stomach's own intentions to rumble. 

“Would it be okay if we could get breakfast first?” 

Zahn walked over to his mother and placed his tiny hands onto hers. Smiling with his brown eyes sparkling at the mention of food, he perked up his mood. 

“Lets go!” He said 

Smiling at him, Reyna finally began to push herself off of the bed and onto her small feet. 

I would love to take a shower and soothe my body’s tiredness, but my stomach was rumbling and twisting too much for that option to even stay in my head, Reyna thought to herself

Starting to walk away from her bedroom and towards to her bedroom door, Dragnior smiled as he gave a quick loud cough to gather Reyna's attention. 

“Reyna, you're still in your sleep wear.” Dragnior pointed out while his face was turning red

Looking down at her body, Reyna's flushed red as she could see the silk material wrapping around her body tightly as the short cut dress showed her body. Exposing her shoulders and a bit of her chest, Reyna rolled her eyes as she just wanted to simply eat. 

“I hope that this is fine. I only want to eat.” Reyna stated as she began walking towards her bedroom door 

Dragnior clenched his teeth hard. Grinding them together as Reyna didn't seem to want to put something over her exposed body... allowing those lowly servants to see her! Sadly, Dragnior didn't have a choice as Reyna was already making her way to the bedroom door opening it up. 

Rolling his eyes,  Dragnior and Zahn were now following behind Reyna as she opened up the bedroom door and escaped down the empty hallways with happiness in her heart. 

She was finally going to eat! 

Using her nose to follow the scent of freshly heated bread and meat, Reyna hummed as she led herself to the dining hall. 

As soon as Reyna placed her feet into the dining hall, she felt her eyes widen and shine at the feast of food that was in front of her. Reyna's stomach mirrored the emotions that she was feeling and decided to pitch in its excitement. 

“Wow.” Reyna mumbled as she began walking over to the servants table 

Knowing that her stomach was going to have a ball with all the food today, Reyna smiled internally... that was ... until she saw the faces of the other servants as they stared at her with a worried look. 

Removing any form of happiness from her body, Reyna looked down to the ground ready to ignore their words. 

“Reyna!” Someone called out 

Turning her head around to the sudden sound of her name, there stood Dragnior with his right hand raised in the air as he motioned for her to come over to him. Confused, Reyna glanced over at the servants and to her surprise, the servants changed their stance as they all had their heads bowed down to Reyna. 

What’s going on, Reyna thought to herself as her feet picked themselves up. 

Not wanting to make Dragnior wait, Reyna quickly rushed to his side. He was sitting at the Royal Table, at the head of the table, where the King is supposed to sit. It was weird to see that the King would call her over to be by his side as he ate food. 

Making it by his side, Dragnior snapped his fingers twice and a servant appeared behind Reyna. 

“Ms. Reyna, please take a seat.” One of the servants said as they pulled out a seat from underneath the table 

“What?” Reyna questioned as she scrunched her face up 

The servant looked from Reyna to Dragnior before bowing their head down once more. 

“Ma’am…” The servant repeated with their head still down 

Looking over at Dragnior, Reyna could see the annoyance on his face as it looked like we were wasting his time. Reyna didn’t want to see his face annoyed, so she walked over to the pushed out chair and sat down. 

Looking down at the table in front of her, the difference from the servants table and the Royal table was clear as day. Under each plate and silverware was a cloth that had a dragon’s crest on it. Everything was spotless and squeaky clean as you could see your reflection from off of the plates and forks. 

“Your Highnesses and Miss, breakfast is done and will be served.” 

Looking up to see who was speaking, there was Ms. Syrah with darkness under her eyes as the bags that she had were now growing into even bigger bags under her young eyes. Her pale skin was paler than usual as she looked drained and tired. 

Behind Ms. Syrah were the other servants from earlier who were bowing their heads down to Reyna. They were now serving breakfast on our plates. 

Feeling uncomfortable, Reyna looked over at one of the servants that came over to begin serving her and coughed to get their attention. The servant flinched as they sudden turned their eyes on their Queen quickly. They didn't want to get in trouble with King Dragnior. 

“E-Excuse me. I don’t think I’m supposed to be at this table.” Reyna confessed awkwardly 

The servant widened their eyes as they chuckled. Out of all the things that Queen Reyna could've said... she could've cursed them for bullying her all this time, she could've wished their death, but instead... she simply stated that she felt awkward at this table. 

We misjudged her. 

“You are supposed to be here Miss. From today onwards, this will be your new seat. By the side of the King.” The servant said as they rushed away from Reyna leaving her even more confused than ever on everything that’s going on 

“Reyna? What’s wrong?” Reyna heard Dragnior’s voice

Sighing, Reyna looked up at Dragnior from the full plate of food and felt tears trying to make their presence known. The servants could see this as 3 of them rushed towards Reyna with handkerchiefs in their hands and looking at her with concern.

“Ma’am! Is everything alright? Is there anything wrong with the food?!” All 3 of them asked while practically yelling 

Shaking her head no, Reyna grabbed one of the handkerchiefs that was held for her as she began dapping her tears away from her eyes. 

“E-Everything is just confusing.” Reyna spoke honestly as the servants looked between each other in worry 

“Just the other day y'all were making fun of me and pushing me around with Ms. Syrah but now y'all are treating me like a Queen.” Reyna said as tears were now bursting out 

The servants looked sad at her words. Frowning, they all took a step back away from their Queen to let her continue her tears as Dragnior and Zahn watched Reyna in worry too. The whole room was in a nervous wreck at her tears. 

“Reyna, please eat before the food gets cold. You said you were hungry.” Reyna heard Zahn speak to her

Nodding her head, clearly her tears some more, Reyna moved the handkerchief as she placed it on her lap. Looking down at her plate, there were actually huge pieces of chicken there with plenty of bread and fruits. Thinking that was all too much, Reyna picked up the big piece of chicken and took a tiny bite into it. 

This is actually really good, Reyna thought to herself as she took another piece this was actually REALLY REALLY good. 

Chewing on the piece of chicken in front of her, Reyna closed her eyes and hummed in enjoyment of the food. But as she went to take another bite, Reyna's eyes opened in surprise as she bit down on something hard. 

Looking down, there was nothing but a big bone in her hands. 

No sight of meat being anywhere on this bone as it looked spotless. 

What happened to the FOOD?! I ONLY TOOK TWO BITES! 

Placing the bone down on the plate, Reyna lifted her eyes up and saw everyone in the room looking at her in shock. Their mouths were all wide open as they looked like they didn’t know what to say. 

“I-I’m sorry. I think that someone may have eaten my food with me. I only took two bites and everything was gone. Would it be p-possible to have another piece of meat?” Reyna asked slightly embarrassed 

The servants looked their Queen up and down before recollecting themselves and smiling. It's amazing that she hasn't been eating that much before. 

“Of course ma’am.” They said in unison as the all went back into the kitchens 

Sighing at the relief of there being more food, Reyna glanced over at Zahn and saw him holding out a piece of chicken to her, untouched. Reyna eyes widened as she snatched the food away from him. Closing her eyes to enjoy the savoring taste of the food, Reyna took a bite and loved every second of it.

Chewing the meat made her feel complete as her stomach enjoyed the new addition of food to digest. As she opened up her mouth to take another bite, Reyna was met with a hard thing hitting my teeth. Opening her eyes again, there was nothing but a bone ONCE AGAIN! 

Standing up from my seat, Reyna looked at Dragnior and Zahn as they were the only two people in the dining hall with her. She was now glaring at them.  

“Alright! Which one of yall touched my meat?!” Reyna asked angrily 

Dragnior looked amused as Zahn’s face looked a bit disgusted.

Reyna grey eyes looked back and forth from both men before the servants brought out another big piece of chicken. Glaring at both of the men that were sitting next to her with their plates still untouched because they haven't eaten any food, Reyna eyes dared them to touch her chicken once again as she decided to take my seat. 

Lovech Kingdom; Dining Hall

Dragnior watched as Reyna bite into her 3rd piece of chicken, not even noticing that she was subconsciously doing it, she was using her dragon teeth to chew off more than what she thought she was eating.

But because she had her eyes closed, she couldn’t see the 2 inch teeth that extended themselves to thoroughly enjoy the food. As she once again only took 2 bites before all of the chicken was gone, everyone could still hear her stomach rumble as she stood up from her chair angry. 

“I am retreating back to my room. It seems that some people can’t keep their hands to themselves.” Reyna stated as she stormed off to her bedroom. 

Drangior laughed at the sight of her. She woke up and didn’t remember turning into a dragon. She completed the ritual so she could turn into a dragon whenever she wanted to without consequences, but she didn’t even seem to remember doing it. 

Dragnior looked over at the servants who were still surprised at what they saw. They’ve never seen a dragon’s physique because Dragnior hired them after he was already shifted and Zahn still hasn’t come of age to be able to shift. It was the first time for everyone.

Dragnior felt full of food just by watching Reyna eat as he stood up from the table. He enjoyed the little funny show that Reyna put on, but now it was time for business. 

Walking away from the table, Dragnior rubbed Zahn’s head before he set off towards his office. 

As Drangior walked down the hallway and into the room where his office was located, he could see James there sitting in his chair with his feet put on top of his wooden desk and his eyes closed. 

This man must’ve lost his damn mind!, Dragnior thought as he kicked the wooden table with much power and force behind it. 

The force from the kick shook James’s feet off of the table and it sent him falling out of his chair. Wondering who was the i***t to wake him up in such a rude manner, James glared at the black figure that stood at the door until his pupils made the image come into focus as he saw Dragnior there glaring right back. 

“Yelp!” James yelled out as he rushed to gather himself from off of the floor and away from the wooden desk 

Dragnior rolled his eyes and walked towards the chair and sat down in it. 

“Tell me, do you think Aaron and his w***e saw what happened with Reyna?” Drangior asked with a serious tone 

James thought about it for a few seconds before he could give his official answer. James shook his head yes at Dragnior’s question. 

“I will not lie, there is a big chance that they’ve seen something before I could gather their attention. They were focused on watching someone die that their eyes never teared away from any of the scenes happening.” James spoke as he was careful not to disrespect his new Queen with any words 

Dragnior sighed as he realized that this could mean war if need be. 

Dragons were supposed to be extinct years ago due to humans no longer accepting the supernatural. The power that dragons contain is apparently too powerful in which we became a huge threat to the human race. Because our flames could kill as many Kingdoms as it wanted, that made us more feared as humans began to tell tales of what horrible monsters we are.  

Many high ranking officials believe that dragons should be killed on sight, which is why Dragnior has tried his hardest to keep himself and his son out of the limelight. He couldn’t deal with the death of his son, but now he had another thing to worry about, his Queen Reyna. 

Rubbing his forehead deeply, Dragnior knew that none of this could be good. James watching Dragnior so upset began to feel bad. If the Red Crest King and Queen didn’t come here, he wouldn’t have had to worry about such issues like this. 

But why would they request a sudden peace treaty anyways with a lowly Kingdom like ours? James began to question things as he daydreamed 

Dragnior sighed before standing up from his desk. Looking at James daydream, Dragnior smirked as he lit his index finger aflame. Slowly walking over closely to James, Dragnior placed the lit finger onto James’s coat tail that was sticking out badly. 

James, smelling a bit of fire, broke out of his daydream and turned his head to Dragnior. There Dragnior was smiling as he stared James in his eyes. 

Oh no, James thought as he looked down at his now burning coat and pants. 

“AHH!” James yelled as he rushed out of Dragnior's office 

Dragnior laughed at James’s reaction as he tried to lighten up his own mood by burning down James’s. 

 Lovech Kingdom; Reyna's Bedroom 

I just don’t understand, how could 3 big pieces of chicken like that be gone in 2 bites?! Reyna kept questioning herself as still scene still didn’t make any sense. 

Even though Reyna blamed Zahn and Dragnior for the missing food, there was no proof showing that it was either one of them. There was no signs of them standing up and stealing the food from her.  So was it actually me who was eating all of that food. 

But how? Reyna asked herself 

Hearing a knock at her bedroom door, Reyna cleared her throat to speak. 

“Come in!”

Watching the door knob turn, in came a little angel with the name of Zahn. As Zahn looked at Reyna through the small crack in the door’s opening, there was a smile plastered on his face. Zahn pushed the door open and ran to her bed as he jumped on top of her. 

Catching him in her arms, Zahn situated himself on her lap as he got comfortable. 

“Are you okay Reyna? You were pretty upset earlier at breakfast.” Zahn asked 

Feeling guilty about how she went about doing everything, Reyna bowed her head down to him placing her forehead on his forehead. 

“I am sorry Zahn. I was being very disrespectful to both you and your father. I didn't realize how hungry I was until I actually started eating. I am sorry."

Zahn moved his head away from Reyna as he nodded his head and became stall faced. 

“What’s wrong?” Reyna asked

Zahn looked up at Reyna with question in his heart as he didn’t know if he should tell her what’s been on his chest among a bunch of other things. Closing his eyes to make a choice, Zahn finally looked at Reyna before speaking. 

“I wanted to talk to you about my real mom.” 

Zahn’s… mom? Reyna tilted her head at Zahn’s words. 

It's true that I’ve never heard anyone mention the words of any previous Queens being around the palace, but what does that mean from Zahn? 

“My mother was once a beautiful woman who loved to travel from what I heard from the servants. She was a woman with blonde hair and brown eyes. The servants explained that her favorite saying was ‘the lighter your hair color, the more cherishable you are to impact the heart of others’, and that was exactly who my mother was.” Zahn began speaking as a smile appeared from him talking about her 

“She was an amazing woman that fell in love with my father at first sight. After getting married, they rushed to have a child right away because my mother couldn’t wait to see what her child would look like. But she never did get to see what I looked like as she died from bandits ripping me from out of her stomach.” Zahn paused as Reyna frowned and placed her right hand on my stomach “Dad said that I was lucky that help found me so fast, or else I would have died too.” 

Seeing tears fall gently down his face, Reyna wrapped her arms around Zahn as she could feel his pain. His body temperature began raising as he started sniffing and crying into her silk nightgown. Rubbing his hair with her small hands, Reyna felt sadness washing over her entire body as tears started to overflow on its own. 

Frowning with some tears falling out of her eyes, Reyna placed her head down on his shoulders and began to cry too. 

She cried for his pain of never seeing his mother, she cried for his pain for never having a mother’s love, she cried for his pain as he had to experience this world without a guiding woman by his side…

Lovech Kingdom; Hallway

“Sir Drangior?” 

“SHUSH!” Dragnior half whispered and half yelled 

Dragnior was caught in the midst of a conversation that he didn't expect to be hearing from his young son that he always thought was naive and stupid. 

On his way back to the dining hall where he believed his son was still sitting, Dragnior was curious but interested on what Reyna could be doing since she left towards her room in a such a hurry. 

Believing that he was just wondering, Dragnior decided to walked past Reyna’s room as he could see that her bedroom door was opened wide.

Did she leave it open? Drangior thought to himself as he moved his body closer to the door 

Dragnior expected to see a angry looking Reyna sitting in her bed wondering why she could eat food fast, but instead Dragnior ended up seeing an unexpected sight. In the eyes of Dragnior, he could see Zahn in the room with Reyna as the two were both silent, Dragnior wondered what could be going on. 

“She was an amazing woman that fell in love with my father at first sight. After getting married, they rushed to have a child right away because my mother couldn’t wait to see what her child would look like. But she never did get to see what I looked like as she died from bandits ripping me from out of her stomach.” Zahn said and Dragnior heart dropped 

Dragnior could feel a million needles poking at his heart strings as Zahn was talking to Reyna about his mother who passed so long ago, his mother Rubian Lovech. 

“Dad said that I was lucky that help found me so fast, or else I would have died too.” Zahn said, finishing his sentence as he was now breaking down crying. 

Reyna grabbed Zahn into a bear hug as she rubbed his hair with plenty of tears in her eyes too. Through the dragon connection, Dragnior could feel Reyna was actually shedding tears of sadness along with Zahn as she held onto him. 

Dragnior clutched onto his heart that he believed was non-existent, his heart that he believed withered away when his wife Rubian died, but yet here it was right now beating. 

It was beating the sound of his son crying, it was beating to the heartbreak he experienced years ago that he wanted to forget, it was beating for the existence of Reyna. 

James watching Dragnior and over hearing everything that was happening inside of the room. He smiled as Dragnior for once in his life made the right choice. 

By bringing Reyna into this Kingdom, she might just be able to unbreak the saddened soul of the man who lied to his son about his mother. 

The soul of the man who found out his wife was a traitor and a spy for one of the neighboring Kingdoms that wanted information on us. 

The soul of the man who killed his wife by grabbing her heart from out of her chest and crushed it while looking into her crying beautiful blue eyes….