The Original Dracia Finds Her Flame

Chapter 7- The Calm Before the Storm

*Saphira*

I chuckled to myself at the way Lucian was scolding his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in commands. He sounded like a disappointed dad scolding his sons. Coming out of my thoughts I realized that the four of them were patiently waiting for me to continue. “Well, it’s nice to meet you three. Anyways there aren’t meant to be very many elemental dragons alive at one time, we are very territorial and we can grow to be quite large. On top of that thunders of dragons aren’t meant to be very big, all dragons and their twin flames need their own space.” I paused as I felt the pull I had been ignoring come back full swing, it was so powerful that it almost knocked me out of my chair.

One of the three pups that interrupted me the first time spoke up “What do you mean by flames?” I met his gaze and sent him a look that told him to be patient and not interrupt me again. “Flames are what dragons call their mates, since all dragons need a lot of space to live typically, thunders are only supposed to be made up of around 20-30 dragons. Even then that’s on the larger side, in simpler terms a mated dragon pair would need about 4 acres of land. If we are in to close of quarters with other beings for too long we get antsy.But by the same token we can’t be to far away from other dragons, we tend to be solitary for most of our lives but young dragons enjoy the company of their wise and ancient grand/great grandparents that we call ancients. It’s kind of like the elders you have as wolves except ancients don’t really make rules or try to rule over anyone”

I paused for second as I realized that my skin was starting to crawl and my back began aching, a telltale sign that I needed to shift. “I think that will conclude our lesson today, I’m getting quite unrestful and I’d like to go and stretch my wings, if you need me stand outside and howl for me. Otherwise I’ll be back tomorrow morning.” With that I stood up and walked to the front door of the pack house, I wanted to find Zephyr and ask him a couple of questions. It wouldn’t hurt to stretch my wings in the process to try and get my mind away from this pull. With that I felt my skin rip away and my true form come forward, shaking myself out I took off, catching Zephyr’s scent in the process.

*Lucian*

As Saphira made her way out of the door I turned my attention to three grown men that have been acting like pups for the past few days. “I’m giving each of you 5 minutes to explain where in the hell you’ve been.” My Beta Drake looked over at my Delta Blade and nodded his head. Blade looked up at me with sad and tired eyes “I can feel my mate dying, she’ll be here soon and I’ve stayed up for the past three nights trying to greet her. It feels like she’s been poisoned with wolfsbane.” I felt horrible as my Delta had obviously been going through this without me, Blade is a Lycan and therefore only died from being killed but his mate Lily is a werewolf/Lycan halfbreed she’s susceptible to illness and poison. I looked at my Gamma Callan as he hugged my Delta that looked like a shell of the man he once was.

“Drake I want you to go and wait by Yggdrasil in case Blades mate ends up coming to us within the next day. Callan help me get Blade to the pack’s head doctor to see if we can’t get something to block the pain that way he can sleep.” With that Drake left out the front door of the pack house while me and Callan led Blade to the infirmary. On the way there I mind linked the packs librarian and told him to get started with researching Saphira’s materials.

The entire way to the pack doctor all Blade did was groan and complain about how he was fine and needed to feels his mates pain so that he knows what she’s going through. I shook my head and just continued to lug him up the stairs. While yes he may want to know what she’s going through the man still needs his sanity. I mind linked the pack doctors and told them to be prepared cause their Delta’s being even more stubborn than usual. Once we got there me, Callan, and two doctors had to hold him down in order to sedate him. “You know you’ll have work quick to numb him up cause that sedative won’t last long” the doctor just glared at me and got back to work.

Point taken, I’ll just let them do their jobs, me and Callan left the room and waited outside with our backs against the wall hoping for the best.

*Saphira*

I flew above the dense foliage and forest that surrounded Lucians pack house before I started flying in Zephyr’s direction. It seemed as though him and two other wolves were patrolling the boarder of their packs territory. Scratch that he was leading a whole brigade, there were about twelve different scents in total that I was able to pick up. I tailed them for a bit until the group came to a stop most likely taking a break, they had a big territory which I suppose is good for the amount of wolves being housed in it. I faintly felt a surge of energy coming from somewhere past Yggdrasil I couldn’t really tell what it was but it made my heart rate pick up and my entire body come to attention. Whatever it was, it was powerful and possibly dangerous. I don’t really know how dying or pain works here in the afterlife so at best I’ll be on guard. With that I landed next to the group of wolves and may or may not have scared a few of them. “ZEPHYR” the pup approached me with his ears back and a glare “your really loud y’know, I wasn’t that far away” I rolled my eyes and began asking him a few questions.

“What time are you from?” He looked at me confused for a second before he registered what I had asked him. “I died in the year 2016 I was born in 1920.” I looked at him sadly, “So young? What happened?” His eyes widened a bit “Young? You think I was young? For people of my time I was quite old although I will admit that I was very sickly in my time alive. I had constant health problems and I couldn’t use any magic or fire with out suffering serious consequences for a few days”. I processed what he said for a second “So your mother was a fire dragon, and your father was a werewolf? Did you hatch from an egg? What health problems did you have? How come you weren’t able to use fire? Is your wolf a separate entity or does it have dragon- like qualities?”.

As I spewed out all these questions it seemed like I was overwhelming the poor pup. “Slow down with the verbal vomit there miss Saphira. Ok so starting from the beginning, my mom and dad were fated mates, she was mostly a fire dragon but she was mixed with other things, I fondly remember her playing with me by growing flowers and small plants in the forest by our home. In fact that’s where I was able to train my nose so well to pick up the faintest of scents. When I was little my parents quickly found out that my wolf genes were trying to reject my dragon genes, when I growl it sounds like a cross between a hiss and a bark and in bright lighting my pupils turn to slits like a snakes instead of a smaller circle. At the age of 8 I began to spew my first sparks of fire if I became to angry, the problem with this is that a wolfs throat is not made to hold a flame. There were many trips made to the pack doctor because I burnt my insides to a crisp. When I was alive I had to take pills in order to suppress my dragons blood from completely rejecting my wolfs blood, I made that decision because by the time it was causing a serious problem I had already met and grown attached to my wolf. I ended up dying by protecting my pack house, we were having a dispute with vampires and it got out of control. They attacked us and had my Alphas pregnant Luna as a hostage, without a second thought me and my wolf made the decision to summon up our fire and kill as many vampires as we could. Before I took my last breath, my Alpha rushed to my side and told me thank you and that his Luna had a few burn marks but she survived.” He looked at me with a melancholy expression for a split second before he brightened up “But it’s ok, at least I was able to save a bunch of people and it’s been nice not living in pain anymore, and for the record no I didn’t hatch from an egg that’d be weird” we both chuckled at that last part “I’m sorry about all the questions I’m just really trying to get a good idea of what to expect when I summon my mother. You seem to have died a very noble death and I’m sorry if my questions were a bit prying”. He gave me a wolfish grin “It’s ok miss Saphira I’m just glad I was able to help you out, and I don’t mind telling my story I just miss my mom and dad sometimes is all. The afterlife is huge and trying to find people here is hard so even though I’ve looked for them, I haven’t been able to find them.” He got up and turned to lead his group of wolves “Maybe think about getting some rest, even dragons need sleep sometimes” I laughed and bid him farewell before I took off to find a tree to make a little bed.

As I was flying I let my thoughts consume me dragons blood isn’t meant to mix with any other species and the match maker is supposed to make sure that situations like these don’t happen. Selene hand crafts every dragons soul and makes it different so that we don’t have to worry about inbreeding. Goddess this would explain all the confusing scents I keep picking up though. I decided to find a nice big tree and make myself a spot to sleep, I hadn’t rested since I came to this wolf pack and it’s been a few days already. Granted I slept under Yggdrasil for awhile but I could feel my senses start to dull.

*Drexyl*

I woke up feeling refreshed and relaxed for the first time since I began to feel that pull. My wings were sore from all the flying I had done the day before and protested against me getting up and wading into the lake I slept by. This lake was huge and quite deep it was full of fish and I felt my mouth starting to water as I looked for my breakfast. For the hell of it I willed my body shape to change and my once black scales were now a deep blue and my nostrils on my nose faded away in favor of gills. My feet grew webs and my spines that ran down my back began to morph into more of a crested sail. Happy with my change I dived into the water and enjoyed swimming around and catching fish for awhile. My sore muscles felt much better in the ice cold water and I was able to clear my head for a bit to just enjoy what I was feeling.

After an hour or two I got out and changed back into my normal self, I stretched out and gingerly picked up the two vials of Gumiho spit that I had been gifted. Without a further thought I took off and began speeding towards Yggdrasil again, with any luck I’ll finally reach the tree and put this annoying pull to rest. As I was flying I noticed that I could sense a few wolf packs scattered throughout the forest with the largest one being a few hundred yards away from Yggdrasil. Maybe once I get this pull figured out I’ll go and see if their Alpha has any ideas on what all is going on in the other realms.

*Lucian*

The pack doctor finally managed to get Blade to sleep, I hadn’t heard anything out of Drake yet and faintly I realized that with all this craziness I hadn’t slept in few days or let Fennris out for a run in awhile. I’ll run and then I’ll sleep, I looked over to tell Callan that I’d be back only to find him passed out snoring against the wall. I patted his face a bit “Come on Callan wake up you gotta get to your bed” I slung one of his arms over my shoulders and hoisted him up the three flights of stairs to his room. Feeling way more exhausted than I did before I made my way to the end of the hall and barely made it to my bed before I fell asleep forgetting about clothes much less a run that I had promised Fennris. Right before I lost consciousness I made a mental note to check on Drake when I wake up.