Empyreal Dragons

Chapter Twenty Four

It’s been a few days… 

The strategies for war are still uncertain but the hands of time are clicking closer and closer to the destined time where Reyna will meet the man, the man that she will seek. 

Red Crest Kingdom 

“Okay okay… f**k I CAN’T DO THIS!” 

As Clarissa stood at the front door of her single bedroom that she shared with no one as the bedroom had the presence of an alone woman, the empty presence that her mind achieved since her daughter was no longer alive, Clarissa finally made the movements to destroy the man that she married and got pregnant by, Aaron Crest. 

Clarissa was ready to risk everything as she no longer wanted to deal with the selfish man anymore. Aaron was an evil man that didn’t care about anyone but himself as he decided to constantly belittle and treat Clarissa horribly. 

Aaron knew that the last thing he ever wanted was a woman down his neck questioning his every move even though he knew that he was a weak man, but he didn’t need the reminder. 

At least Reyna was woman enough to allow Aaron to receive the respect that he knew that he had from the royals and his warriors. 

Ever since Aaron married Clarissa, Clarissa made him look like a fool in front of his men day after day and Aaron was tired of it …. so was Clarissa. 

Getting ready to push through the wooden door that will lead her to her potential horrible fate, Clarissa made up her mind realizing that she was ready to break free. SHE WAS READY TO LEAVE! 

Sighing out the last bit of doubt from her body, she was ready as she began moving her body to face the door with force backing itself under the balls of her feet. 

She was going to use the window to escape so that no one would know that she was running away, but she had to come to the realization that if she fell from the window, the impact might end up leading her to an early death that she didn’t want to come. 

Settling for the door of doom, Clarissa forced motivation into her body as she used her shoulders and hands to push open the door of her bedroom. 

Once hearing the heavy cracking sound of her shoulder breaking from the impact of the door, Clarissa winced in agony, but that didn’t stop her movement as the door broke open. 

Once the door ripped itself from the hinges that held it in place, Clarissa quickly made her move as she turned her feet to begin running away. 

Faith? Psychological safety? Conditioned firmed belief? 

Clarissa had a bunch of emotions running through her head as she was running away from her bedroom, with a slight smile on her face and her bloody shoulder that dislocated itself when she pushed the door down from the hinges, Clarissa strongly believed that she was escaping the death that Aaron was planning for her… 

But down the hallways of the Red Crest Kingdom, where the Battle Table was, there sat King Aaron, Mistress Ester, King Joshua, and the commanders of the Red Crest Kingdom. 

The Battle Table was the table where the strongest people in the Red Crest Kingdom got together in order to strategically come up with plans on how to go about a war safely with the Red Crest receiving more benefits than hurtfulness. 

King Joshua kept his eyes still on Mistress Ester as the Mistress had a servant beside her fingering her under the table. Aaron felt uncomfortable on how a woman could be so willing to do that and not feel ashamed, even as a man, Aaron was scared to do something like that. 

But Joshua was enjoying the moment as he licked his lips with the eagerness to strangle her underneath his touch as he felt the rushing thrill of killing people push his d**k to become erect. 

“What the hell do we do about this war? We’ve been back and forth at the battle table for days now! King Aaron, you’ve claimed to want to start it but you haven’t made claims on how to achieve the starting steps.” A commander called out 

Aaron knew that him calling this war was going to be the start of a battlefield, but he didn’t think that the battle field would start in his own home before it started with the enemies. 

As Commander Lucas looked around the room at the sullen faces, he decided to give an idea of wisdom but costly backfires. 

“MY KING! We have to ask the other great Kingdoms to aid us in a fight. The fight for our lives!” Commander Lucas yelled out 

Joshua rolled his eyes at the ignorant words of the bald headed commander. 

Though there were 3 strong kingdoms and the leaders of those strong kingdoms were here at the battle table trying to talk business, no one knew where to start as everyone sat silent at the table with their heads in their hands. 

“Commander, it is not that easy to persuade the other Kings into helping us without the words of a wise man leading the conversation into a succeeding story.” Joshua replied harshly 

The lowly commander lowered his head in defeat of the man in front of him. Commander Lucas didn’t dare to even try and question his words or harsh tone as he knew EXACTLY what Joshua was capable of. Instead, the commander simply let Joshua be, and Joshua expected that. 

“Humph! Why the f**k would we need another strong kingdom when we have 3 sitting at this battle table right now?” Ester mumbled but said her words clear enough for everyone to hear 

“Are you f*****g stupid? Didn’t we just say that we need MORE HELP! WHY THE f**k ARE YOU AT THIS TABLE IF YOU CAN’T EVEN LISTEN YOU DUMB w***e!”

Ester’s p***y walls tightened as her heart dropped at the same time. With a weird thump in her heart at Joshua’s harsh words, Ester couldn’t understand why she was feeling suddenly so damn s****l. 

“I…” 

As Ester was about to speak to defend herself, Joshua shut her up as his large hand raised itself in the air and slammed down on her right cheek. 

Everyone at the table watched the scene with wide eyes as everyone saw King Joshua strike Mistress Ester across the face hard. Aaron flinched in his chair at the loud noise as Joshua smiled as there was blood leaking from the lips of Ester. 

“I let the "Mistress" speak as much as she wanted to, but now it’s time for the MEN to take over the planning and speak. “Joshua said as he turned his head to look around the room 

Joshua was a monster, a monster, Ester thought to herself as she could feel her tiny model body shaking as her neck felt hot and swollen from the sudden forced head turn. 

Ester could feel her cheek swelling up automatically as the rich taste of blood filled her mouth immediately. Her body didn’t waste any time shedding it’s blood for Joshua. 

“Y-Y-Yo…” 

As Joshua raised his hand up again, Ester shut her mouth quickly as she didn’t want to get hit again. 

“I will tell you this once Ester. There is only one woman that I will EVER deem worthy of talking in a room full of Kings, and that is the woman that I had to force to become my goddaughter because I couldn’t have her as my wife.” 

As if a click went off in Aaron’s head, Aaron knew exactly who Joshua was talking about when he mentioned goddaughter… this was probably the only reason why he was giving the Red Crest Kingdom such a hard time, and it is all because Aaron decided to kill… 

“Reyna Rose.” 

“R-Reyna?” Ester called out in slight confusion as she wanted to know who the woman was that Joshua was speaking so highly of

“The previous Queen of the Red Crest Kingdom and the only woman that I acknowledge as my potential own blood. A woman that is crazily dangerous and was worthy of bearing my sons.” Joshua said with a smile 

A SMILE?!

Everyone in the room eyes widened at the smile that Joshua gave as he spoke of his goddaughter, the daughter that he wished he had since he couldn’t have her as his wife and bore his potential strong sons that could rule the world with the snap of a finger. 

Aaron shuddered at Joshua’s words, maybe everything would have been better if Aaron didn’t kill Reyna, maybe Reyna would have stopped Joshua’s rampage of killing his daughter and breaking Clarissa when he needed that useless woman the most right now. 

“Hmm… she sounds just like a whore.” Ester said with blood gathering itself on the inside of her cheek

Joshua’s face flushed red of anger before Ester could even finish her sentence, and so did the faces of the warriors from the Red Crest Kingdom. No one disrespects Reyna. 

As the warriors of the Red Crest Kingdom took a quick side step and drew their weapons in the face of Ester, Joshua tapped his finger on the table once as the guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom were ready to kill. 

Ester widened her eyes in fear. What the hell was happening?!

Joshua let out a loud yell as he was angry at the words coming from a stupid waste of life like her. Ester was once amusing to Joshua, but now it just felt like she was constantly provoking him to gain something… or maybe something was already gained, Joshua thought to himself 

Pulling a sword from out of his boot that were his favorites, Joshua rushed the sword at Ester’s neck as the knife stopped right in front of her windpipe. As Ester took a deep swallow at the cold compress at her neck, she could feel her p***y walls tighten as tight as they ever had as she felt like a born-again virgin. 

“You might want to be careful love, I will kill you over the mere mention of Reyna.” 

Aaron watched the couple with owl eyes as he stalked his prey with answers and notes writing themselves down in his head. Aaron wanted to make sure that Ester was convincing herself to connect with Joshua in order for his plan to work. 

Convincing Ester to have s*x with Joshua to forcefully keep Joshua. Forcing Ester onto Joshua becomes a gain for Joshua because the Eingana Kingdom crafts black magic, which could make Joshua the most powerful man in his own mind if he decides to see past Ester’s slutty ways. 

It was a good plan, if it could just be put together right, but after hearing that Joshua has only ever fully wanted one woman, it’s making that mission impossible… 

“What is it about Reyna that’s clouding your head to revolve around her?!” Ester asked 

Or is that mission really impossible?

Joshua rolled his eyes at the pathetic woman as Ester felt slightly relentless and couldn’t understand why. Was it because she actually wanted Joshua? Was it because she was feeling an emotion that she never experienced before? 

As Commander Lucas smirked, he knew that he was the reason why Ester was feeling this way towards Joshua. 

As Lucas and Aaron discussed the plan to forcefully put Ester and Joshua together, so for the days that Ester has been here in the palace walls roaming freely and acting foolish, the whole time Lucas was putting a little bit of powder into her drinks so that she could mistake her s****l desires for love and end up chasing after Joshua. 

And from how everything is happening now, it didn’t seem like the plan was going off the rails as Ester is trying to figure out her emotions. 

“GUARDS! WE ARE LEAVING THE RED CREST KINGDOM!” 

Aaron’s eyes widened as well as Lucas’s and Ester’s. Did Joshua just claim that he was going to leave?! 

“W-What?! WHY?!” Aaron yelled out as he stood onto his two feet 

With anger rushing through him, he demanded an answer out of Joshua now. 

Joshua raised his eyebrows, feeling slightly impressed by Aaron, but not enough. 

“You don’t have the men nor the balls to start a war. I was better off doing this s**t myself.” Joshua roared 

“YOU PROMISED AN ALLIANCE!” Aaron yelled 

“I said a daughter for a daughter. I don’t owe my life to you, but I did owe my life to Reyna. She is no longer here, so I will no longer be here either. When you finally decide to be a King, come see me in my kingdom and step into my Throne Room full of the skulls of the men who defied me.” 

Aaron felt his heart drop in fear at the mention of skulls hanging around in Joshua’s Throne Room. As much as Aaron was scared, he couldn’t let this happen, Joshua was his only way to a successful war against the Lovech Kingdom. 

Moving his eyes to look around at Lucas, Aaron knew that what he must do to keep Joshua on his side once and for all. 

And, that was to make Lucas drug Ester even more than he has been already. 

Lovech Kingdom

“Does my mother still refuse to look at me?” 

As Reyna and Dragnior sat at the dining hall table with food spread out amongst them, Dragnior listened to Reyna’s question with a heavy heart. 

He hated hearing Reyna sound sad and it made it worse that it was because her mother was ignoring her. Reyna was a sensitive being, even though she transformed into a monster, it didn’t change her swollen mother loving heart. 

Dragnior still didn’t like Eva after hearing her say that she wanted to take her daughter away from the Lovech Kingdom, but Dragnior understood how much Eva meant to Reyna. They are inseparable. 

“Sad to say, but yes.” Dragnior said as he rubbed his large hands through Reyna tight curls. 

Reyna’s white hair was looking more and more glowy as Reyna still hasn’t seen herself yet. 

Dragnior made an order that every mirror or object that has a reflection must be removed so that Reyna can’t see what she looks like. But with all the drama that has been occurring within her mind, the last thing that Reyna was thinking about was how she looked as she believed that she still looks the same. 

Reyna sighed deeply before she simply shook her head okay. Eva was doing a great job showing Reyna how she doesn’t want to be around her, and Reyna had no choice but to accept it because Eva refuses to even be in the same room as her. 

“Would you like some more meat?” Dragnior asked Reyna as he smiled softly knowing that she had a thing for eating heavy meats 

Reyna made a disgusted face and shook her head no. 

“I would rather have some frozen water.” Reyna said as she remembered the chefs in the Red Crest Kingdom freezing water to make this thing that was super crunchy

Dragnior scrunched up his face in concern, Reyna is asking for ice? Dragons don’t like ice at all, even if it is to eat. 

“S-Sure, I’ll make sure to tell a servant right away.” Dragnior said but Reyna shook her head no. 

“I’d rather go myself, there’s no point making someone go for me.” Reyna said 

Dragnior was scared, but he nodded his head to let her go. Reyna hasn’t been completely stable with everything going on with her, the least that she could do is use the servants to her benefit so that she doesn’t have to strain herself. 

Huffing and puffing, Dragnior watched his lover leave the room as Reyna moved herself into the hallway of the Lovech Kingdom. Reyna could feel her heavy bladder filling itself the more that she kept walking and she couldn’t stand the feeling of having to pee on herself. 

Instead of walking her way towards her and Dragnior’s room, she ended up doing herself a favor and walked into her old room that Eva now sleeps in. Reyna subconsciously wanted to see her mother’s face so much, that she ended up walking into the room without even knocking. 

But much to her surprise, Eva wasn’t inside of the room. The room felt empty like Eva hasn’t been inside this room for a couple of days. Reyna sighed. 

Walking to the left side of the room, Reyna opened the door to the bathroom and hurriedly sat herself down so that she could release herself. She didn’t know why, but it felt like she’s had to pee way more recently than usual. 

After flushing the toilet and finishing everything, for the first time in a couple of days, Reyna saw the sight of a mirror in front of her. 

A mirror… a reflection. 

It was then that she realized that she hasn’t seen herself in days so she has no idea if she’s been looking in the eyes of her lover. 

Rushing towards the mirror to make sure that this whole time she’s been looking fine, one looks into the reflection and Reyna could see a stranger looking back at her. 

A stranger that had flowy white hair as the white hair looked so natural coming from the scalp. The stranger had these beautiful grey-golden eyes that stared directly into her pupil and showed her the sight of her own pink brain laying safely within it’s skull. 

Reyna widened her eyes in fear at the vivid sight. The stranger had perfected facial bones that looked carved out to be on the face of a statute as the face held so much beauty, this stranger looked absolutely perfect. 

So perfect that it was terrifying. 

Feeling her stomach rumble at the sight of the alien-like beautiful human in front of her, Reyna’s mouth instinctively opened and let out all the food that she ate earlier today in the sink before her as her throat burned from the sudden puking. 

Reyna’s stomach was hurting, but not as much as her heart as she realized why everyone was looking at her differently, it was because she was different. She couldn’t see any traces of her past face within the face that she has now. 

Quickly running the water in the sink so that the thrown up food could go down the drain, Reyna quickly pushed water into her mouth and let it out. Putting water in her mouth once more and spitting it back out, Reyna felt confident that the water got rid of some of the thrown up smell. 

Scared to even see her lover like this again, Reyna shamefully walked her way back into the Dining Hall. 

But, in the Dining Hall, Dragnior was joined by a taller and more older-looking Zahn as Zahn had finally reached the age of 12. With his dragon blood, Zahn grows more than the average child, but Reyna didn’t seem to notice because of her own personal issues. 

As both of the men sat at the Dining Hall table, there was a sudden strong sense of smell that hit both of their noses at once, making them freeze up. Zahn was stuck with a fork in his hand as he kept his eyes focused on the door and Dragnior kept his back facing the door as he didn’t want to turn around. 

As Reyna slowly made her way into the Dining Hall, with her eyes facing the floor before lifting her head up slowly to look at the new guest that decided to join dinner. 

“Oh, hey baby boy.” Reyna said as she felt a sudden gust of energy to run towards Zahn 

Moving her body to walk towards Zahn, Zahn escaped his trace and he recovered himself from the frozen state. Lifting himself up to stand in front of his mother, Zahn reached his tall body down to hug his mother as he opened his nostrils to smell her deeply. 

It was a fresh new smell… 

Moving his hand slowly to touch Reyna, Dragnior could see Zahn’s hand moving and could feel a sweat fall down his forehead and onto the Dining Hall table. Not wanting to see his son hand touch his woman, Dragnior roared loudly as both Zahn and Reyna jumped. 

Reyna felt startled and pulled herself away from Zahn and looked over at Dragnior as she saw him giving her a disgusted face. Reyna’s heart broke at the sight. 

Of course Dragnior wouldn't like this appearance, who would… Reyna thought to herself 

Zahn cut his eyes low at his father as he felt anger at his father’s reaction but Dragnior didn’t care. Fear was shaking through his veins right now as he wanted nothing more than to leave the room. Picking himself up from the chair, Dragnior left behind his lover and his son to rush out of the room in a hurried panic state. 

Dragnior couldn’t stand to be around Reyna anymore. 

Zahn felt disrespected and angry as he could smell the sadness coming off of his mother, there was no way that Dragnior didn’t smell that either, unless he chose to ignore it. 

“I-Is he okay?” Reyna asked with a light voice 

Zahn sighed as his tall body was now bigger than Reyna’s and Reyna didn’t even notice. 

“He is going to be fine, everything is going to be fine.” Zahn said as he moved his hands to hug his mother again 

Taking a deep inhale of his mother, Zahn moved his hand once more and finally placed his hand where he wanted it to be this whole time… on her stomach. 

From the second that Reyna was outside in the hallway, I’m sure that everyone in the palace could smell, that Reyna was carrying the next heir to the Lovech Kingdom… Reyna is pregnant.