The Dark Moon

Chapter 4

‘SHE WHAT!!!’ the king screamed as one of his guards on his knees, told him that I am a dragon tamer.

‘I'm sorry your grace, an egg hatched on the girls hand’ the guard on his knees said.

Brief explanation. After the egg hatched in my hands, I was taken to the palace immediately. The king ordered his council members to gather in the palace. By the way, the king is furious. Ha! You should see the rage in his eyes. He’s been pacing up and down ever since they told him that I'm a dragon tamer.

‘Your grace, there’s nothing we can do. A dragon is in her hands’ one of the council said. All of them pacing like something real bad has happened.

The bad egg is a dragon tamer. I couldn’t help laughing out loud. Few minutes ago I thought I’d be a slave and now, I am a dragon tamer. Life’s a b***h.

‘And who gave you the permission to laugh?’ the king stated angrily.

‘With all due respect your grace, I don’t think I need permission from you to laugh' I spoke out loud with a bored face making all the council members to gasp. Their eyes wide! I'm sure they can’t believe this is happening.

‘Can't we kill the dragon?’ the king asked and anger immediately engulfed me.

‘I would die before anyone get close to my dragon.’ I seethed

'Then its settled! We kill her and the Dragon.' The king exclaimed with his hands raised in the air.

Are they really going to kill my dragon? No. There's no way I'm letting that happen.

'I'm sorry your grace, but you can't do that-

'Know your place Nathaniel. You can't tell me what I can and cannot do' the king Interrupted the council member.

'Forgive me. Your grace. My intention was not to be rude, I am simply concerned for his majesty. A Dragon that belongs to a Dragon Tamer should not be separated. The Dragon would grow to be wild and uncontrollable. That can bring harm to Reobell" The Nathaniel guy said as he bowed to King Kelvin.

"Oh shut up. Now you're concerned for me? You are clearly concerned about only your safety.' He King said with a bored tone.

'John' the King called guard standing next to me

"Escort the witch to the other Tamers. They leave for the Dragon Academy tomorrow."

‘

My dragon on one hand and the cage on another. I gripped the cage tightly to my body as I raised my left hand which had my dragon in it and brought it in making my elbow pulp out and hitting it against the switch making it switch on careful not to harm my baby.

I walked slowly to the bed at the centre of the room as I took in the room slowly. I dropped the cage on the floor and slowly and carefully I peeled of my baby dragon from my hand and placed it on the bed still overwhelmed about the room. It was elegant, Beautiful.

Still overwhelmed, I walked over the large window only to meet the sun setting. I had never seen one like this before.

Feeling exhausted, I removed my daggers, placing them on the stand as I bent over to remove my shoe. Lastly, I removes my sword from my waist and placed it on the bed the I got on the bed and slept close to my dragon wrapping one hand against my dragon and the other, on my sword just in case anything happens as I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Need to pee!!! Squirming, I rushed to the bathroom to deliver. Sighing in satisfaction I cleaned myself and all of a sudden, I saw something twitch. Like for a mili second, there was darkness and then light. I crouched slowly towards the door and saw that everything was normal. My dragon sleeping peacefully, the ray of light from the moon shone brightly on the mattress

Smirking internally. Whoever is in here is smart. But I am smarter.

Grateful that I had picked my daggers from the stand, I quickly pulled them out of my boot. Standing erect at the entrance to the bathroom, I scanned the room intensely to try and spot whoever is in the room.

The person is smart. I give that. He/she is probably on full black that’s how he/she is able to blend well with darkness.

But I was trained for this.

Squirming my eyes, I searched for any glitch. Just a little. The room isn’t completely dark I should be able to spot….

Ha-ha.I've found my target. Smirking internally, I gazed at the dark figure near the closet. Quickly moving my vision in order not to alert the person that I know of his location.

Oh am soo having fun. I walked out of the bathroom standing proud and behaving as if nothing had happened with 2 daggers on my hands. I walked lazily to the bed just to fool the person.

On reaching the bed, I spun and threw my dagger so fast and quick and fast that am sure he didn’t see it coming. I didn’t bother checking to see if I hit the target. I know I did, the groans coming out of the persons mouth says it all. Walking over to the bed to be sure that nothing had happened to my sleeping baby, I walked towards the door leading out of the room, arriving there, I stood few steps to the door and switched on the lights and immediately, the darkness in the room was gotten rid of and light shone brightly.

I turned my back to the door as I took a good look at the stranger that was in my room with one dagger in his finger and went straight to the wall making him stuck. And the other sticking his black robe to the wall. The person wore a hood to cover his eyes and had a mask on.

Walking over to my bed, I picked my sword and used an eye to see that my dragon was still sleeping.

Walking over to the stranger, I placed the tip of my sword at his neck.

‘Who are you?’ I asked but received no answer.

Walking closer, I pulled down his hoodie only to be greeted by forest green orbs staring straight into my soul.

‘FATHER!’ I exclaimed as I took in my father figure. I removed his mask quickly and went over to his hand.

I grimaced as I pulled my dagger out of his hands.

‘What the hell is wrong with you! I could have killed you!’ I shouted furiously as I removed the other dagger in his cloak and all he did was chuckle.

‘I missed you girl.’ He said chuckling

‘ I certainly did not’ I said as he pulled me for a huge hug.

‘cant-breath’ I chocked out as he squeezed the death out of me.

‘You got me scared girl’ he said as he released me from the huge hug. I immediately tore a piece of my clothe, pulled out his hand and wrapped the cloth over the wounded hand

‘You? Scared? Puft’

‘girl don’t you give me that type of shock again. I was s**t scared’ he said as he walked to my dragon and sat next to its sleeping form.

‘How embarrassing do you think it would have been if ye old man had peed in his pants?’ he asked c*****g his head to the side.

‘ ewwwwwwwww’ I exclaimed as I scrunched my face holing my nose.

‘Didn’t say I did it’ he said rolling his eyes

‘It’s still gross’ I said as my dragon flapped its wings in attempt to stand.

‘You got a diamond here’ dad said as he leaned forward to check it

‘ this is a rare one you have here’ he said as he reached for his pocket and brought out his round crooked glasses and put it on.

‘It’s scale…..’ he trailed off

‘Tell me, what happened after you were taken to the town square’ he asked shifting his gaze to me

‘I escaped’ I said grinning

‘Details.’

‘I found a way to cut myself loose, created a distraction then dashed for the forest cause that’s the only skin am comfortable in. I hid somewhere then I saw Bunnie. Got annoyed told him to leave. I was about to run then my foot collided with a stone. I cursed, looked down saw a dragon egg. Picked it up it hatched and here I am.’ I said in a breath.

‘What was a dragon egg doing in the bush? A rare one at that?’ he questioned as he stroked his long beard.

‘I have thought of that too but found no answer came up. I find it so strange and have never seen a dragon of this colour making all the more suspicious. By the way, you’ve got to clean up your hand immediately you get home to avoid infection. It’s probably going to scar forever'