Tempting Dragons.

THE HUMAN GIRL.

Smaug laughed. ‘Grit your teeth all you want; you can never beat me or stop me from talking. Any more bullshit of yours, I will f**k your wife tonight.’ He calmly uttered it with a devious smirk on his face to provoke him.

“LORD SMAUG.” He roared in his dragon’s breath, morphed his hand into his large dragon fist, and was about to land a blow on Smaug’s face when the king held his fist with his hand.

“Calm down, Lord Tanwen.” The king ordered, and Tanwen’s red eyes glistened with anger as he tried to calm down and sit down on his chair because of the king.

“This is not over yet.” He muttered, changed fully into his human form, and sat down on his chair, still fuming in rage, and wouldn’t take his eyes off Smaug.

“They are always fighting between themselves; it’s been more than a hundred years; why can’t they stop fighting?” Kai, one of the council elders and best friend of Donovan, muttered mischievously with a wicked grin at Donovan, who kept rolling his fingers thoughtfully on his glass, feigning ignorance about what just transpired between the two of them.

He didn’t want to get involved. Listening to them was already a headache itself.

“As I was saying, thank you all for coming for this meeting.” He shut his eyes, opened them, and boldly continued. ‘I have summoned Donovan and Kai to retrieve a human girl from the human world. She is mixed and has the dragon’s blood running through her veins; she is a Dracotaur.”

“WHAT!” They bewildered in unison, wondering how that was possible.

“A Dracotaur?” Tanwen exclaimed.

“How is that possible?’ Cliff, the third member of the Council elders, added surprisedly. “I thought humans with dragon blood were dead thousands of years ago and they no longer existed.”

“This is so shocking.” Dust, the fifth member of the council elders, joined in.

“They do exist,” Damon, the sixth member of the council elders, added with a laugh. “I saw how beautiful she was. She was like a goddess of the dragons; she looked exactly like Kaida Terrafirma.”

They all gasped in shock. “Kaida Terrafirma?” And muttered under their breath.

“She must be f*****g pretty.” Smaug softly spoke out with a wide grin.

“I guess you saw her, Donovan,” Damon added with a chuckle. “You seem flabbergasted that a human had the face of Kaida Terrafirma, your lover, for whom you will burn down the world for. How fascinating to see a human girl with a face like that; it makes me want to have her as soon as possible.” He struck out his tongue as he laughed like a lunatic.

“SHUT UP.” Donovan darkly warned; his eyes were purely devoid of any emotions. “I am not Tanwen; I’m Donovan; you better watch your mouth.”

“What is that supposed to mean?” Tanwen raised his brow. “You are not me?”

“Yeah, I know, Donovan Terrafirma.” Damon stated.

Everyone went silent, realizing that all that Damon had stated was true.

Donovan Terrafirma

“So, what are we going to do with her, since she is mixed? Kill her or use her to restore the red dragon stone? Besides, she is the only one that can track it down. How about that?” Cliff suggested.

“Does she have any superpowers?” Dust questioned.

“I couldn’t sniff anything on her; she is empty as hell; she has no superpowers,” Kai nonchalantly informed everyone.

“I felt the same; she is as empty as a shell.” Damon agreed with Kai, fixing his white hair behind his back.

“You mean she is not like Kaida Terrafirma?” Dust asked in a surprised tone.

“Not even close,” Kai informed them again.

“That is so poor,” Tanwen murmured, facing the king. “What are we going to do with her? We can’t just keep her here in the dragon realms; she is going to be a problem for everyone.”

“We need to have her investigated.” The king broke the tension after so much thought. “Let’s know the sort of family she is from and what she is; we need to keep it a secret that she is mixed to prevent war from the other dragon clans. For a human to have dragon blood, we have to know how and when she was born, so before that, we have to keep a close watch on her. Till then, I will come up with a decision about what we are going to do.”

“Yes, your majesty.” They all said it in unison, and before the king could say another word, Donovan got up and walked out of the chamber, and Kai ran after him, shutting the door behind him.

He quickly held his arm. “Calm down, dragon. What is wrong with you?”

“I want her back to the human world; she is of no use to our clan.”

“The King wants to know who she is. There’s nothing we can do about it.”

Donovan glared at him. “I should have dropped her there,” he uttered deeply. “The minute I saw her face. I knew it was a bad idea to bring her to the clan. It was a very terrible idea. I should have pushed her away from myself. The old memories I’m trying to forget are slowly coming back to me. I don’t want her here; she’s bad news.”

Kai knew how affected Donovan was by seeing the face of his ex-mate of the clan in a human girl; he knew how desperately he tried to forget Kaida; he knew how he suffered; and how he wished death could take him so he could be with Kaida.

“I understand how you feel.”

“No, Kai, you don’t understand how I feel; my forbidden feelings for Kaida: not even the realms must hear of them. Why has fate torture me this way?”

Kai could see those memories hurt him; his golden eyes revealed his emotions.

He hated seeing this look on his face; this was why he hated Kaida.

Kaida brings out the worst in Donovan.

“Donovan,” he muttered, and he put his hand on his shoulder.

Donovan heaved a sigh of relief with a shaken breath as he roughly ruffled his hair.

“I could not save her and our child; our forbidden love, but Kaida didn’t care; she only wanted us to be together; she didn’t care we were dragons; we were the gods to the world; she was strong and determined to sacrifice everything for my sake; but what did I do? We quarreled, not knowing I wouldn't see her again.”

Kai looked down at Donovan’s bloody hand.

“Donovan, you are hurting yourself.” Kai informed him, but Donovan didn’t care how hurt he was.

‘This pain is nothing compared to Kaida’s pain when she died, Kai.’

“I don’t know why you still love her so much after all these years; she betrayed you. She is my sister, but I gotta speak the truth.”