The Dark Moon

Chapter 3

He is angry. The look sure doesn’t suit him. He looks awful as he glared down at me to submit. But you can’t blame him can you? He sure doesn’t know me too well does he?

‘How dare you speak to your king like that’ his voice so strong that it sent waves of fear in the court but surprisingly, I am not affected.

‘Apologies, your grace, it was not of my intention to speak out of manner but your guards are really incompetent for a young fragile girl like me to beat them. isn’t that so your grace? I said with a smirk treating to set lose.

‘ENOUGH!’ he bellowed.

‘ your punishment for dare speaking to your king like that, you will serve as the palace maid for a month, cleaning the dungeons and attending to my personal needs if by any chance, you don’t become a dragon tamer. He said with a smirk as big as his ego which I’ll so gladly cut down.

You’ll see. I thought seething as I went up to the eggs. I’ll teach that stupid king a lesson. I thought furiously as I touched the first egg…..but nothing happened.

No worries, there are still 2 left. Gaining my confidence, I touched the second egg and still nothing happened. The crowd, the king, the royals were looking all in anticipation

Please lord, let this be mine. I prayed as I slowly placed my hand on the last egg. This time, I felt something move in the egg.

Excitedly, I waited for it in anticipation ………but nothing happened?

Shattered, tears leaked down my eyes as reality dawned on me.

I’ll be a slave? No! I shouted as I chocked on my tears. The villagers laughed the king the royals all of them laughed! Making fun of me but all I could do was cry. I caught my father’s gaze in the crowd but it wasn’t good. Disappointment screamed in his eyes but his lips said something else as he smiled and shaked his head.

Our new dragon tamers! The king bellowed as 7 out of 15 of us were chosen by the eggs. They all smiled with a sleeping baby dragon curled up on their hands, all with different colours.

Seize them!’ the king shouted at the remaing 8 of us who would be slaves. Guards immediately rushed out of every corner as the sized us with force.

‘Your grace, have mercy!’ some of the girls quailed as the struggled with the guards crying but I was paralyzed. I couldn’t feel, I couldn’t cry. All I know is that I can’t be a slave and especially after the punishment given to me by the king. Only God knows what he meant by attending to his needs.

‘Take them to the town square where they would be sold. But after that witch is sold, bring her and her owner to the palace. She must observe her punishment’ he said pointing at me.

We were all suddenly mishandled by the guards as they dragged us away from the court.

‘ not so much you can do now can you?’ one of the guards spat in my face as I looked up only to see it was one of the guards I had beaten. The one who got knife through his hands. I looked down at his hands to see it had been bandaged.

‘How’s your hand doing? I hope you aren’t in too much pain. Are you? I said with a large smirk as the guard looked angrier than before.

‘We’ll see who will be in pain in a few hours time’ he said glaring as he roughly pulled me.

‘Get down!’ the guards hallowed as they opened the cart for us. As I got down, I looked around. We are in the town square where we would be sold but the place isn’t crowded yet for everyone was in the court.

This is my chance to escape. I might not get another chance. There are only 6 guards with us. Two weak (the once I injured) and 4 okay but they aren’t near me. They are dressed in their total Amor which wouldn’t allow for flexibility. I have a chance. I might be able to outrun them.

Stupid. They didn’t bother to unarm me before taking me hostage. Smiling at myself. I fell into step with the girl at my back. Blonde, green eyes and well…don’t care

‘Hey can you try taking the dagger in my boot and cutting this rope off my hand’ I whispered close to her

‘I would never let a demon escape’ she said and I groaned. Gosh! Could life be any difficult?

Nobody will help me. Why didn’t I think of that before? Laughing slightly, I went to the edge of a metal shop careful not to fall of the line so that the guards wouldn’t notice. Seeing that the coast was clear, I turned my back and placed my hand knotted together by the rope on a sharp metal edge and began to scrub.

Soon enough, the rope fell off but I still kept my hands at my back

Next phase, create a distraction, run the opposite direction and into the forest.

Distraction it is.

‘Hey! He is escaping!!’ I screamed as all the guard faced their attention to the guy I was looking at. They all rushed to him

‘Please…i.di-didn’t…do any..Anything’ he stammered but I didn’t wait to hear the rest as I dashed off the opposite direction.

‘She’s escaping!’I heard someone scream but I kept on running

Duck. Jump. Duck. Side……sorry…excuse me…I said as I rushed past the swarm of people. Lucky me they are just all arriving at the town square they obviously don’t know what is happening yet.

‘Catch her!’ I heard one of the guards holler but their too late. I would have laughed if I wasn’t panting so hard. I was already in the forest. I began to run again this time easier cause this is my home. I climbed a tree ducking along the way and jumping down to hide behind a thick bush.

‘Roe’ I heard a voice that sounds like that of Bunnie. I turned towards the sound only to be greeted by Bunnie.

‘Hey. What are you doing here? It dangerous!’ I scolded. The thought of me loosing Bunnie scared the s**t out of me

‘Okay am going.’ He said as he hopped off

‘Wait!’ I hollered

‘I heard a voice! She headed north!’ I heard a voice. Probably one of the guards.

Shit. I cursed as I took a step to turn only to hit my foot against a stone.

Are you shitting me! Must I always be unlucky? Bunnie you’re so dead. I threatened as I look down to see if I had sustained an injury only to meet an egg? No stone. My foot hit an egg/ but unlike the rest of the eggs I had seen, this one is different. I thought as I bent down to inspect it. It’s pure white. You could mistake it for a snake egg only that it’s bigger.

Wow……. I was fascinated as I picked up the egg

‘Hands up!’ I heard a guard call out as I looked up to see that I was surrounded.

‘An egg?’ one questioned.

‘Where did you see the egg. Did you perhaps steal one?’ one of the guards accused.

As I was about to speak, I heard a cracking sound and I immediately looked down at the egg. It had cracked and a white, pure white dragon baby got out and rapped itself on my hand and gasp erupted.