Dragon Prince Fairy

Chapter 14

Aurora

I got up and started to walk down hill, I was too scared to face Tyr and finding out he wasn't my mate. Every few steps, I stopped looking back. I want to run up the mountain and find out. Sitting and thinking for a while just didn’t help. I still feel I am being torn in half. I couldn’t just go up there and see him with his new mate. But maybe that is what I needed to help me move on and prove I was right. Sighing I walked down. My head was too messed up right now.

As I got near the bottom, a tree fell and blocked my pathway. It was too big to climb over, so I had two choices, go in the forest or go uphill. I thought on it for a few minutes and went for the forest. Being one with nature, I am sure they will guide me to where I need to go.

I walked for a while on a track and still haven't got to the bottom of the mountain, no exit, and now I am lost. Shoot, what am I going to do. Looking back, the path was gone.

What the-

The path was missing!

A breeze blew past, pushing me to go forward. Following the path in front of me, I kept going. I'm not sure where I am going. A twig snapped behind me. Looking around, I couldn't see anyone. A bad feeling went through me. I picked up my speed on walking, keeping to the path.

Another branch snapped, causing me to stop. Another path was to the side of me. I could just get through. Following this one, it got more open the further I walked. Coming to the edge of the forest, I see some men and women standing guard to some land. Oh, fairy sticks. Have I come to a pack? I'm not sure what to do as the path behind me again has disappeared.

Looking to the trees scalding them, they better not get me killed. A branch pushed me forward. This caught the attention of the guards. A woman guard stepped forward. Maybe I should just ask her for directions.

"Who are you, and what do you want?" I didn't know what to say.

"I I I got lost. I was with Tyr, and I got lost." Maybe they know who he is. The guards looked to each other, not believing me. The woman grabbed me and pulled me into their land. My suitcase I let go of from the force the woman used.

Tyr's parents met us at the border as they called it, the guards must have used what they call the mind link. Tyr’s parents ran to the border. His mum had hope in her eyes seeing me. Confirming I was Tyr's mate, the guards let me go and all bowed down to me. Why are they bowing? No one here knows who I am.

Tyr’s parents asked me to follow them to the house they lived in. They were holding hands which I don’t know why made me want to laugh. I mean the size difference was funny in itself. My self-doubt came to mind. Is this why Tyr didn't want me, as I am so tall, compared to his mum. Does he prefer smaller women?

I was shown to the kitchen and sat at a breakfast bar. Tyr’s parents introduced themselves properly giving me their names. Ase started to cook and make tea and coffee, asking me what I would like. I have never had either, so Ase offered tea.

Trying this opened my world up, where had this been all my life.

"I'm so happy you came, Aurora. Tyr puts on a brave face, but I know he needs you as you need him." How do I tell her it was by accident? The forest tricked me.

Biting my lip and putting me head down, all I heard was, "Oh, I see." This made me feel more guilty. Ase put some food in front of me, but I couldn't eat. How can she be so nice to me.

Ase chuckled without humour. "Tyr can't eat either, I'm just glad his managed to fall asleep even if it isn't his room." Ase rolled her eyes. My body stiffened. He has moved on already.

"He is missing his twin. When they were little, they would share a bed if they couldn't sleep. Most mornings, we would find them holding hands asleep. When they got older, they went to separate rooms and still sometimes ended up in the same room. They took comfort from each other and only understood each other." This made me feel better.

I can't believe I got jealous thinking he was with another woman. I need to ask some serious questions now that I am here. I need to understand why Tyr claimed me as his mate, is it true mate or chosen.

Can my heart take the news if I was chosen? Yes, I would, I would hold my head up high and walk out of here. I sat feeling awkward, not believing I am going to ask these questions.

Looking at Ase, about to ask when Dimitri walked in. I clamped my mouth shut. What if they are chosen mates and I offend them. I know Erik and Tyr said they had a love story but did they mean real mates.

"It's ok you can speak freely here Aurora." Dimitri said to me, hugging Ase from behind, kissing her head.

I thought about how I would phrase the question without upsetting them. Screw it I'm going to ask how it is and if they get upset so be it.

"Please don't be offended, but are you true mates?" Confusion and shock were on their faces.

"Yes, we are true mates, Dimitri is mine and I am his." Ase answered, but I felt she didn't get the question, rephrasing it to, "so you are not chosen mates?" Shaking both of their heads no. Ok so that's good they are not chosen.

"In this tribe only, true mates are to be together, if two people lost their mates and do not get a second then they can choose, though we do not recommend it." This made me get more questions. It goes against everything I had been taught.

"So, no one here has a chosen mate?" Both furrowed their brows at me as if I didn't speak the same language.

"No, no one is to have a chosen mate here. We go by the Goddess. All tribes and most packs go by the Goddess." Well, this is defiantly different to what I grew up learning.

"Is this a new thing or something?" I had to ask as I was just getting more confused. I seem to be getting more questions than answers.

"No, it has been this way for over a thousand years. When the new royals all took over, chosen was stopped." What. The fairy's pulled away and closed the portal only 500 years ago.

Have we been taught wrong? Why have we been taught wrong? Is it to keep us together or for the king to have his pick? More and more questions came in my head. I felt more confused and lost. This is strange that we had been taught this way and it was a pack of lies.

"What do you know about shifters Aurora?" Dimitri asked, pulling me out of my thoughts. I told them what we have been taught in the fairy world and how the fairy's lived. The more I spoke, the more their faces turned to horror. I felt stupid when they looked at me like that.

"Aurora, for over a thousand years, we changed that. Mates missed out on being together or tortured with their mate having a chosen, a mistress. When the fairies were here over 500 years ago, they see we only chose our destined mates.’’ Dimitri went on to explain the fairies knew who the royals were and met his parents when they were king and queen.

He told me the story of when a fairy wanted a female dragon to take back with him as a chosen mate. The royals in charge then for the fairy's, which was only one kingdom sent him away for thinking like he did. Tyr has been brought up to only find his mate. He has never been with anyone.

‘’Even though we are royals and can choose a mate, we have always gone by the Goddesses ways. Only our destined is to be ours." Dimitri told me. So, Tyr will not go for a chosen mate then. that means he will have his second chance and be happy.

Hold the phone did they say Tyr is a royal!?

Snapping my head up I had to ask, "You are the King and Queen of the dragons?" I managed to whisper out. Nodding their heads, yes. I felt dizzy, Tyr was a royal, a Prince. I know I never told him I was a Princess, but I left that life behind. No more was I a royal.

Wrapping my head around all the information given to me, gave me comfort to know what we were taught was wrong, but now I have questions for the fairies. Why have they lied to us?

Maybe Ase and Dimitri would know, so I asked them why we would be taught that. They had no answers for me, only my parents would be able to tell me this. I wanted to scream and cry. I could pull my hair out in frustration. My whole life yet again has been a lie, everything in my life a lie. Tyr, and his family have been honest with me the whole time I have known them. I felt it in my gut they were telling the truth.

I needed to lay down.

I need to think.

I need to apologise to Tyr.

"Come on up, we will give you a bed to sleep in, I know you have been up all night, and having all this information thrown at you must be a lot." Nodding my head, feeling my energy leaving me, I followed them upstairs. I got shown to the guest room, not even looking around. I fell on to the bed. A headache was coming on, so I closed my eyes and fell asleep.