The Dragon Saviour

Chapter 5

Violet’s POV-

Robert and I woke up early the next morning. We had a lot to do before this feast tonight, to welcome the dragons, and hopefully it will allow our two peoples to forge new friendships. Felicity and Amelia had arranged to look after the children, so I could speak with Robert and then the maids and chefs, in preparation for this feast. After we had dressed and eaten, we returned to our offices. I was planning on hiring a few dozen bouncy castles. Fortunately, the company was run by good witches, so they were more than happy to get it sorted for us within a few hours' notice. Robert needed to go over some more of the order forms for the pack, and for the dragons. We wanted to double our food and medical supply, until their palace was built, then Drake would be in charge of sending out food orders. I think he was also looking into expanding the pack hospital, to make it the interspecies hospital he was hoping for.

Robert had some great ideas, and he was dealing with those ideas, while I went to deal with getting the feast prepared. I made a quick phone call and got the bouncy castles all built. I had a few dozen of the castles arriving. That way, there would hopefully be enough for all the children, in both my pack and the dragon pack. I entered Robert’s office, to find him sitting at the desk, ordering double what we normally ordered, on his laptop. I went up behind him, and wrapped my arms around his chest while he was typing on his laptop. He immediately stopped, and smiled, “To what do I owe this adorable cuddle?”

“I just wanted to check on you, before I headed down to speak with the maids and chefs. I thought I would give you a nice cuddle,” I buried my face in his neck, to breathe in his scent.

“Well, I am absolutely fine, thank you. I am almost done, and then I should be free to come and help you. But if you keep moving your hands like that, I will have to take you against this desk,” he groaned, as I rubbed his chest south toward his abdomen.

“Well, you can’t, because I have a lot of work to do. The good witches that run the company that makes all the party event items, like bouncy castles, are bringing all the bouncy castles they have in a few hours to get them all set up. They also told me they are looking in to buying pool party items, like water slips and slides, and inflatables. That would be a good idea for the kid’s birthday,” I replied, moving to his side.

“That sounds like a wonderful idea. What are you going to go do now,” Robert asked.

“Well, I was going to head down to see the maids and chefs, get them organised and complete the tasks I need them to complete,” I smiled.

“I will join you shortly, just a few more things to add to the order and then I will be sending it off, and I will come down and join you,” he took my hand, and kissed my hand.

I leaned down, and placed a kiss on his lips, before leaving to head down to the kitchen. I was due to meet the maids and chefs in five minutes. But when I got there, they were all there waiting for me. It really didn’t surprise me, anytime I called a meeting with them, they always arrived early, because they wanted to impress me, and a lot of the staff were added on after the incidents with the hybrid and the dark witches, so a lot of them were incredibly grateful and wanted to give me any and all help that they could. I smiled when I saw them, they all bowed when they saw me, and all said, “Your Majesty,” in unison.

“Thank you for being here and early. Now, let’s get the planning underway so we can get to work,” I thanked them all for coming.

I had a list of produce that I wanted brought up from the cellar, so I handed it to a couple of the young maids, asking, “Could you two go down and start collecting all the items on the list. We are going to need enough food to cover six thousand people, so we will need lots. Probably best to bring those two things first, they will take the longest to cook.”

They both nodded, and made a move towards the cellar door. I turned to face everyone else. I clapped my hands together, and began to speak, “Right, chefs, I want the feast to be a roast dinner, so let’s have lots of vegetables, as I understand that dragons do love their vegetables, but they also love their meat like us. So that new rotisserie is over there, get as many whole chickens in it as possible. I also want you to try to cook some other meats. We have beef and gammon down there, so I would suggest both. I would suggest doing the trimmings like Yorkshire puddings, pig in blankets, gravy, and sage and onion stuffing. So, if the chefs want to run off now, go down and start helping the two maids I sent down to start gathering the food.”

The chefs nodded, turned the ovens on, and made their way downstairs to get the food they would need to start cooking. Once they had left the room and gone down the stairs to the cellar. I turned back to the maids. They were the last in the kitchen, and I smiled, “Now, I want you all to get out the long tables, and get them set up with chairs in the throne room. We have enough tables to cover over five thousand people, we have around four thousand coming to this event. I want someone to make sure there are tablecloths and the five armed candelabras. I also want place settings all set up. There don’t need to be names, but there needs to be plates, napkins, and cutlery. As for the head table, I know it is normally for just the royal family, Beta family, and Gamma family, but I want to have two more added on. King Drake and General Kenneth will have places at the head-table. While you get the tables done, I will go down to the wine cellar and pull out some choices of Lycan wine, and the usual sparkling fruit drink, called Shloer, that the children have. Now, let’s get to work.”

Everyone nodded, and began to filter out of the room, just as the chefs came in with the meat that would need to be put on to cook as soon as possible. I turned to them, and said, “Please make sure that you save food for all those that are on patrol, leave it in the kitchen and I will make sure that when the patrol change happens, they come here to get their roast dinner, so make sure you put a little of everything on their plates. I will send Robert around here shortly, so he can tell you the time they will change and how many will be on patrol.”

“Of course, we can do that, your majesty,” one of the chefs nodded.

I nodded back and headed down to the wine cellar, and began to load crates with the red, white and rose wine that is for Lycans. I recall King Drago and Queen Adalinda handling more than a bottle each themselves. I had a crate of twenty-four red wine and white wine packed by the time Robert came down to find me. He smiled, “What do you need me to do, my love?”

“Could you run upstairs to go tell the chefs when the patrol change is tonight and how many will be coming off patrol,” I replied.

“Of course, I can, and then I can come back down and help you here with the wine,” he kissed my cheek, and headed back upstairs.

He did exactly that, he rushed upstairs, informed the chefs, and then returned to me. He helped me make quick work of the wine and Shloer. We put them in the wine cooling fridge inside the kitchen. That gave us the perfect time to check to see how far the chefs had gotten. They had all the meat on, and were well underway with getting all the vegetables on. They were even planning on making both roast and mashed potatoes. I was glad they thought ahead and decided to do both. I told them that I would check on the progress of the throne room, and then I would return to help them.

Robert and I headed to the throne room. When we arrived, everything was basically ready, the maids worked very fast. I clapped my hands to get their attention, and called out, “When we have everything in here sorted, get some tables in the banquet hall, with table cloths on, with wine glasses, ready to be filled. As everyone arrives, they will have a place to talk and get a drink, before they come in here to take a seat.”

The maids nodded; they really did work very fast, so there wasn’t much left to do up there. I decided to go to the kitchen and make the sage and onion stuffing that my family loved. I had to make a lot of it, but I would much rather make it. Adds a special touch from the Queen of all beasts, for her to personally make an item of food, let alone plan this event.

It didn’t take long to make enough. Things were almost ready. From what I heard, Elisa and Drake had spent most of the day together. All that was left to do was for us to get ready, and be in the banquet hall to greet our guests.