Orphan Dragon Lord

Chapter 3: No longer yours

The room was silent for a while before 3 very good looking men came up to the podium where Julia and I were standing. Julia extended an arm out to shield me. “I would not take one step further.” She said. “I just wanted to see if you were telling the truth” He gave her a toothy smile, if I was not done with romance and handsome men I would have fallen for that smile. He bent down a bit to look me in my eyes. “I have some questions for you… Your highness” He said and a gasp filled the room, like him saying that was what stated that Julia had told the truth. “Normally you would introduce yourself first if you were raised right, but okay, I guess the old man did say you were spoiled” He gritted his teeth after me saying that, I don't really know what came over me, but hell this was rather fun. “I apologize, your highness. My name is Robert Geller Blackblood” he said, rather upset and annoyed. “Hello, Im Nadia” I said, and it looked like he was waiting for me to finish. So I went with it, and said. “Theodor Silverblood” now people looked angry. “That's your name?” I nodded, holding my ground somewhat. “The name I was given from Theodore” I said, murmuring started up again, pissed once this time. “How did he give you that name?” I took out the envelope and showed him. He grabbed it out of my hand, first to study the handwriting then to look for the letter inside. “Where is it?” He asked angrily, “Where is what?” I asked, playing ignorant, this was not my first rodeo with people feeling entitled to things that were not theirs. “THE LETTER” He yelled, funny enough his voice sounded scary but was far from it, it did not intimidate me, even though people yelling usually ment me curling into a ball of nerves. “Its my letter, so why would you read it? '' He tossed the envelope on the ground and walked back, pissed off and kicking every table on the way. He turned around and pointed at me and hated radiating out of his eyes. “HE f*****g TRANSFERED HIS ESSENSE!” He yelled, and that apparently was the last punch to the face of all the people in the room, cause they all ran out the room as fast as they could muster themselves. Left was Julia and myself together with guards standing all around the room, those I just saw now. “Wanna see your room my Queen?” Julia smiled at me. I did not like her calling me Queen, but it felt more like a statement than a discourtesy from her side. “Sure I said,'' My body felt lighter and more relaxed, it was like 80kg was lifted from my shoulders and I could finally breathe again. “The feeling you are experiencing is your body getting accustomed to the realm and the Essens being manifested now.” She was smiling smugly as she was walking slowly with me up and down the halls. The guards by the sides were bowing when we passed, and funny enough I felt at home. Julia opened a pair of dobbelt doors, they were engraved with all the elements. Not one spot had been missed. We walk in and the smell of the old man hits me like a brick wall. This was his room, the King's room, and Julia now said it was mine. We sat down and not long after, the head maid, the head butler and the commanding guards were introducing themselves, the head maid was giving me the creeps and so was the butler, the way they looked at me was disturbing, so even though they were in the room I still asked Julia. “Can I replace any of the people working here?” The look in their eyes disappeared, like they found out they no longer had the upper hand. “Yes, why do you ask my Queen?” I smiled and stood up. “I do not value people looking down on me, you may take your things and leave this castle, you are no longer needed” The butler and maid looked at Julia, “That is exactely the reason why you are leaving, not knowing who you serve” And as I said that a weird fag formed around us, the maid and butler struggeling to catch their breath taking there hands to their troughts. “You need you to relax my Queen, unless you want to kill on your first day on the throne” Julia said behind me, I relaxed and sat down, the former head maid and head butler were dragged out by the order of the commanding guard. He bowed and left the room. I slumped back into the way too comfortable couch. “You okay?” Julia asked, “Hmmm.. Just tired” I answered back, she drank some tea and sat back with me, “Where did all the kins go?” I asked Julia as I realized that was what I was most confused about. Julia smiled over at me then looked at the ceiling, I looked at what she was looking at and found the most beautiful mural on the ceiling. “You see, the rulers of the dragons don't step down from their seat as King unless they die, if it is by another's hand or by old age like Theodore, they never give up their claim to the throne until their last breath, and actually even after normally. Normally, the one to take over the throne is the one with an Essence similar or strong enough to overtake the King's Essens, normally this is done at the funeral that the kins of the deceased King will be given the chance to take the throne, something like by force. But in this case, our King, Theodore gave you his Essence, something that requires no strength or power from your side. He gave you his Essence, which means he not only gave you his Essence, but also his dragon.” I was getting it for the most part, but the part about the Dragon threw me off. “I thought you were Dragons” She smiled and sighed. “We are, sort off. When we come off age, we go out to find a dragon that is on wavelength with our Essence, when a contract has been established with this Dragon, we get some of its powers, like its eyes, strength, and when the relationship with the dragon is as strong as it can get, we are able to warp with them, we can call upon them even from great distance and be two beings in one body.” It was amazing, this whole explanation was that out of a fairytale. Even considering I had not seen a dragon yet. “Can you do it? What happens if you die?” I was about to ask a thousand more questions before Julia was laughing. “No, I cannot warp with my dragon, we are on and off. Mainly because I don't go to war. And if you die normally, a word I feel like I use a lot today, the dragon will die too, but because you were given the Dragon and Essence, the Dragon is still alive.” Julia Smiled and stood up. “I think it is time for the others to have come to the realization that there is no Essence back to claim” Julia gestured for me to follow, and I did, we stood in the yard of the castle, the Old Man laying on a gigantic table made out of what looked like marble. “Why would you give it to that!?” The old lady from the portals said. She was fuming and really getting her anger out. The old man looked like he was sleeping and was just laying there. Taking every insult and accusation flung at him. “It is time to send out the former King to the after realm” I looked at a much older man, he was bent forward and was slightly shaking. “My Queen,” He said and looked at me, or I would think he did, the big bushy eyebrows covering his eyes very well. “Yes” I said, after Julia slightly poked at me. “Do you have something to say to him before he leaves?” The others were getting pouty, but there actually was something I wanted to say. I walked over to him, the yard was filling with more and more people, I ignored the angry stares along with the confused once. I take his hand, squeeze it ever so lightly and bend down, I kiss his cheek and whisper in his ear. “I hope you knew what you were doing, cause the love that you promised me, it feels like i'm saying goodbye to it.” I let go and stepped back, a few tears ran down my cheeks, gasps and other weird sounds could be heard but right now I was just going to focus on him. The older man came forward placed his hand over the old man's heart and chanted something, right at the end he said “I was hoping you were not going to give me the honor of sending you off, but now that you have, I hope you are my last royalty.” He stepped back, and the old man went up in flames, no smoke no nothing. After a few minutes the fire was gone and there was no trace of him ever having laid on those stones. I held my head high and took in a deep breath. After opening my eyes that I had shut at some point more than a hundred people were staring at me. I looked around and saw more young people than old. “They are the former king's children, great grandchildren and so on” Julia said, she grabbed my hand. “The throne had been given to her but that does not mean we cannot keep it in the family” The playboy said as he walked over to Julia and I with a smug look on his face. He reached out his hand for me to place mine in it, Julia looked at me puzzled as to why I did not give him my hand. “You expect me to take a hand, that I don't even know where it has been last, or in whom it has been in?” I asked looking down at his hand, he got pissed, closed his hand and took a step back. “I will take you as mine” He said with more venom in his voice than I had ever heard someone have before. “Good luck when you won't see me anymore” I said, and he looked at me as one big question mark. “What do you mean?” a younger girl said. She placed her hand on the playboy's shoulder. “Julia stated that this was no longer yours” I said, gesturing to the big ass castle behind them. “She got moving” I said, it was not like I hated them, but my life was here now, and they were not happy about me being here, so they might as well realize that this was now mine, and no longer theirs.