Empyreal Dragons

Chapter Nineteen

*Warning: Some things mentioned in this chapter may be a bit gruesome. Please read at your own risk! *

                       Ahasteen Kingdom

“MASTER! MASTER PLEASE!” 

Hearing the yells of the woman in front of him, King Joshua made a disgusted face at the poor excuse of a woman that was now crying waterfall tears in front of him. The poor woman looked hideous as her empty brown eyes shed tears of fear and sadness but the woman’s eyes looked over at her dead husband that no longer had a tongue, eyes, or a brain to fit in his head.

The dining hall where everyone was, was filled with yells and blood as the 13 Royals of the Ahasteen Kingdom sat watching the horrified scene. 

The Royals sitting at the Royal Table with food on the table looked over in question and fear as they knew how their King was. King Joshua sneered as he wasn’t a man of mercy… anymore. 

The King lost his sanity the day he found out his daughter Rubian Ahasteen, aka Rubian Lovech died by the hands of the stoned face monster himself, Dragnior. His only daughter, his pride and joy that kept his heart beating, died by the hands of a man that couldn’t control his own anger and killed his daughter in cold blood. Dragnior was a murderer! 

King Joshua’s blue eyes glared at the woman as he could hear the cries of the baby. Picking up his cup full of wine in front of him, he could see that the woman held a baby in her arms dearly as the guards in the room looked at their King for further directions. 

King Joshua understood what he needed to do as he tapped his index finger on the table twice. The guards understood their King's message as they all faced forward and began walking towards the crying woman, baby, and hollow man. 

“I will give you one second to plead your case to me.” King Joshua said as he looked at the lifeless man 

The woman behind the dead man lifted her head up in hope as she felt ease slowly calm over her. 

The King is going to listen to my words of pled! The woman felt hopeful as she nodded her head fast and opened her mouth to speak. 

“I…” 

The woman’s sentence was forcefully cut off as you could no longer hear the cries of the baby or the noise from the woman. As Joshua kept staring at the baby and woman, the guards that were surrounding the poor souls sliced the baby and woman’s throat. 

The woman only let out one letter… the letter I. 

King Joshua smiled in satisfaction. I did give her one second. 

Watching the baby and the woman’s blood spread out on the dining hall floor, the Royals in the room closed their eyes in disgust and heartbreak. He just killed a family at the dinner table, they all thought. But no one dared to say anything to their King, because their King could put them next on the list to kill. 

King Joshua tapped on the table once as the guards moved back over to his side. Seeing a servant come close to him, Joshua held out his cup as the servant filled their King’s cup of more wine. 

“Let us enjoy the feast!” Joshua yelled out among the Royals 

One Royal woman couldn’t keep her eyes off of the dead family. The woman felt her stomach twist and turn as she hated that the King didn’t even have the decency to clean up the dead bodies or the blood that was on the floor. 

The King kept the bodies of the family there as the other Royals had to suck it up and enjoy their meal as they could now smell old rusty iron filling the air was the stench of hatred towards the King. The room was filled of the smell from the feelings of the family that their King killed in cold blood. 

The Royal woman shook her head and moved her eyes back over to the food in front of her. She could still see the crying face of the mother as she picked up her fork and carefully placed it onto the plate below her. 

A whole family died… a family died because the King demanded that the married couple gave up their baby so that the King could kill it. And as a reward for giving up their baby, the King would let them have 20 gold coins… but the couple couldn’t do it. The couple couldn’t let their baby die by the hands of their King, so instead the King killed them all. 

The Royal woman glanced up at King Joshua as the King’s blue eyes glared into her heart. The King rose his cup up as a sign of a toast before licking his lips and drinking from his cup. The woman frowned as she could feel tears start to come into her eyes… 

The woman knew what the look meant that the King gave her as the woman shifted in her chair weirdly as Joshua eyes focused on her deadly. Like a prey waiting to find the right time to strike... The King was going to kill her next. 

                     Red Crest Kingdom                                 

“My King! The servant has left to go to the Ahasteen Kingdom. It should be within 3 days that the servant reaches the King.” A man called out 

Aaron laid on his bed sandwiched between two beautiful grey eyed women as they wrapped their naked bodies around him while they kissed all along his body. The two women were twins, twins that were well known among all of the Kingdoms as they have satisfied their taste of having every Royal, Commander, and King… well, almost every King. 

King Dragnior was the man that the grey eyed twins desired the most because he was untouchable. He was a man that could hide from women well as he never explored his s****l desires outside of his marriage, but now he was single, the twins felt the need to gain their way into the bed of King Aaron so that they could receive recommendations to the Lovech Kingdom. 

Aaron glared at the servant that rushed into his room as the servant kept their head bowed and eyes low so that they couldn’t see their naked King or naked women beside him. 

“Very well. You are dismissed." Aaron said 

The servant nodded their head and rushed out of the room shutting the bedroom door behind him. 

Aaron sighed as he then turned his head to focus back on the well known twins. The grey eyes that the twins possessed made Aaron feel like he was sleeping with two Reyna’s… two women that were nowhere near his wife but at least could show him a good time. 

“My King, what would you like?” One twin asked 

Aaron smiled as he roughly grabbed the chin of the twin that spoke. The other twin felt turned on by the actions that Aaron was giving her sister. The twin felt slight jealousy as she moved her body to get closer to Aaron. 

“I want you to get the f**k out.” Aaron said tightening his grip on the twins face 

Both of the twins were in shock as Aaron threw the twin out of his hands and rushed to get up out of his own bed. The twins looked confused as they stared at the King. 

“M-My King?” The twins asked in unison 

Aaron turned around and smiled before grabbing a robe that had the symbol of the Red Crest Kingdom on it… A red moon crest on a white color. 

“Collect your pay from the misters outside.” Aaron said walking away from the women 

No matter how much Aaron wanted the twins to look like Reyna… They will NEVER be half the woman that Reyna was. 

                  Travelling Through Nowhere… Everywhere

The blood that runs through your body

Questions the laws of logic mildly 

As you don’t know who you are, 

You are watched by the Goddess of Stars… 

The being that keeps your heart alive, 

Is the same one that can cause you to die

For you hold the heart of reflection,

That carries The Blood of Conexion 

… 

“We are here…” 

After walking for what felt like YEARS, Doryu ended up leading Reyna to a place that was a little bit outside of the Lovech Kingdom palace as there sat a meadow with huge trees suppressing the view of the sun from the flowers below. This meadow seemed familiar as Reyna kept her eyes on the scenery, focusing on trying to concentrate and remember a place like this that was located back at the palace … slowly… but surely. 

Reaching their destination, Doryu looked over at Reyna as he couldn’t help but question why Reyna didn’t know who she was. She was a powerful woman who not only held sacred blood in her veins, but she already had the blood of one of the most powerful creators… 

Reyna could feel the gaze of Doryu on the side of her face but decided to ignore it as she was met with the sun blazing onto her beautiful golden brown skin as her striking beautiful grey eyes tried to get adjusted to the light rays of heat bouncing from off of the warming sun. 

“Where are we?” Reyna asked puzzled 

Doryu looked at the seriousness that clouded Reyna’s face and he couldn’t help but feel an emotion rising into his throat as he let out a chuckle to himself. Turning his gaze away from Reyna, Doryu lifted his right arm up and began pointing in the direction where he could smell his beautiful wife that didn’t want to see him at the moment. 

Doryu’s right eye twitched as he felt annoyed that his own wife doesn’t want to see him right now. 

“Irma will be waiting for you there.” Doryu voiced out to Reyna 

Feeling slightly nervous all of a sudden, Reyna started to take deep breaths to calm down her aching and fast beating heart. Reyna could feel a bunch of emotions tearing into my soul and tearing away at her skin as she didn’t know how to feel at this very moment. 

She was finally going to come face to face with the woman that brought her here to know more about the shifters of the world that adapted to their climate change and can become humans at will, dragons. 

I’m okay, I’m okay, Reyna kept trying to tell herself. Trying her hardest to reassure herself that nothing will happen and that everything will hopefully be fine. 

Feeling ready to face what will happen next, Reyna nodded her small oval head and started moving her feet hastily, ready to make her way out further into the beautiful meadow before her. 

Reyna was entranced by the beautiful sight of nature as there were pink flowers surrounding every inch of the garden with ease and flawlessness. 

The trees were shaping themselves into that of a heart while the birds sang in harmony as the wind blew against her skin making her shiver ever so slightly at the feel of it. The flowers swayed back and forth dancing to the wind blows as a smile started to form on Reyna’s face. 

This is really beautiful, Reyna thought to herself before her healthy body started to feel a bit… wary?

As she was walking, Reyna noticed that her body was beginning to feel drained of the energy that kept it flowing as she kept taking more and more steps. She didn’t know if it was from the power beams of the sun or soft soil that she was stepping on, but every step that she took made her feel like she was going to drop into the earth. 

Reyna’s feet were feeling heavy and her fast pace that she had starting out began to slow down tremendously. Huffing and puffing now from the lack of everything, Reyna bent over slightly and put her hands onto her knees trying to catch her breath and breathe. Closing her eyes and taking deep breaths, she didn’t realize how hard it was to walk until just now. 

What is going on with me? Reyna thought to herself with sweat starting to show its face on her forehead 

Nodding her now slightly heavier head trying to feel any energy come into her small body so that she could keep walking to see Queen Irma, Reyna could feel something touch her ankle… something that seemed to be tickling her ankle. 

Opening up her eyes, Reyna looked down at her own foot and saw the vibrant flowers that grew their roots into the soil of the ground now turning different shades of colors right underneath her foot. 

Furrowing her eyebrows in surprise, Reyna raised her head to look around her as she watched all of the flowers doing the same thing as they couldn’t help but mimic each other with the way they expressed their cockiness of love. . 

The flowers that were all pink were slowly started to turn into every color that might exist in this world. The flowers were divine as they knew their beauty couldn’t be ignored by anyone. The stems that stood the flowers tall became a bit more rougher as the flowers were experiencing change within their anatomy due to a being. 

The flowers and grass around Reyna started to sway more in the wind that Reyna didn’t notice picked up in force and speed. 

In the distance was a woman… a woman that held her own power as she kept walking to the oblivious Reyna that was glancing at the flowers around her. The mysterious woman began walking, walking towards the little Reyna that kept her eyes focused on the meadow before her with her grey eyes widened in excitement and awe. 

The mysterious woman smiled, maybe she will be the perfect Empyreal one day, the woman thought to herself as she decided to make her presence clearer 

Extracting her aura widely with the intention of dangerous fear, Reyna’s nose twitched by itself as Reyna’s eyes moved away from the flowers as she turned her body around viciously to see what the scent was coming from. Reyna could smell … danger. 

The mysterious woman smiled as Reyna’s eyes widened at the figure she was looking at … the figure she was looking at before her was… 

“Irma.” Reyna said out loud as the mysterious woman was now a few feet away from Reyna

Reyna stood her ground at the sight of Irma coming for her because Reyna wasn’t scared. Well… not anymore. The fear and the nervousness left her body as soon as she stepped into the meadow and she explored the beautiful flowers transforming themselves in front of her. 

The woman smiled at Reyna as Reyna guessed her identity right. Ignoring her words, Irma’s short brown hair flipped in the wind and her green eyes tried to seek into the soul of Reyna, Irma widened her eyes in shock as she couldn’t read into the soul of Reyna. It was like Reyna’s soul was cut off and no one could reach it. 

“Reyna.” Irma replied back to Reyna as Reyna’s grey eyes held nothing but the element of shock 

Irma was even more beautiful than she was in those flashback memories. Irma still kept her short brown hair that fell at her collar bone with ease and softness but her green eyes seemed to look sharper and darker than they once were. 

Her pale skin tanned itself out as her cherry lips were no longer cherry, but instead a solid pink color. Irma’s tall slim body stopped it’s movement, showing Reyna how her body held its state as a child couldn’t even ruin her body's beautiful essence. 

Reyna bowed her head to the Royal Empress of the Lovech Kingdom and the Queen Mother of the man she was beginning to like, Dragnior. 

“My Queen.” Reyna said 

Irma was impressed at Reyna’s actions. Reyna was clearly a respectable girl no doubt, Irma could feel that the second that Reyna touched her statue in the Throne Room. 

But why would a respectable girl like Reyna hold so much hatred within her heart? Irma thought as she remembered when Reyna touched her dragon statute 

“You may rise in the face of Irma Lovech, Doryu’s mate of dragon, the Royal Empress of fear and destruction that affects what causes life.” Irma said 

Reyna was stuck as she rose her body up slowly to match the Queen’s eyes. Everyone’s names seem to hold such great meaning and power behind them. 

Dragnior's being 'the life or death of the peace that revolves around the world to prevent or create chaos' and Irma's being 'the Royal Empress of fear and destruction that affects what causes life'. It was truly remarkable to see how much a name meant to the Royal Family of the Lovech Kingdom. 

“Thank you, Your Highness.” Reyna said looking into the green eyes of Irma 

Irma shook Reyna off with her hand and began walking a bit closer to Reyna before stopping once more. 

“Please sit, I am a bit tired from my walk here.” Irma suggested 

Reyna didn’t hesitate to follow suit as she quickly jumped onto the ground below her. Luckily there was grass underneath Reyna or she would have broken her tailbone trying to impress the woman who gave birth to the man she likes.

“How could you tell that I was the Queen?” Irma asked Reyna suddenly 

Reyna quickly glanced over at Irma as Irma smiled at Reyna dearly. There are two options that Reyna could go with, once is to flatter me or the other is to blame it on her looks of being cute to get out of talking about this topic, Irma thought to herself as Reyna began to speak. 

“Your son has told me so much about you. I don’t believe that an unnerving and random person could give off the same dangerous aura that you spilled onto the field of the meadow.” Reyna answered 

Irma's eyes widened as she didn’t think Reyna was going to say that. 

“May I ask how you knew that I was Reyna?” Reyna asked Irma mocking her question

Irma blinked her eyes a few times before giving a slight cough. Reyna was a tough one. 

“My husband has…” 

“Your husband has been by my side all day and I have not seen you come across us within our time of being here. So how did you know that I was Reyna?” Reyna asked again cutting Irma off mid-sentence 

Irma’s lips slightly curved themselves inwards as a little smile was approaching. Reyna was a smart woman. 

“You are right, I am sorry. Please, tell me who you are.” Irma said 

Reyna looked at Irma and thought about it. What should she tell the Queen her name is? Irma already knows her identity so there’s no need to explain a whole new name. Maybe I should add something to my name like how the people of the Lovech Kingdom do, Reyna thought to herself. 

As Reyna’s brain tried to pick the right words on the spot, when Reyna finally felt satisfied with the right words, she began to speak. 

“My name is Eva’s blood of birth, Reyna Rose. The prophecy that unites the strays of the heart.” 

Irma’s heart dropped as she heard Reyna’s introduction. 

Oh god, Irma thought to herself as she looked at the brown skin beauty. Reyna’s eyes shined the color of gold as Irma could smell the love oozing out of her body with a smile on her face. 

Dragnior has mated with her, Irma thought as she smiled internally. The introduction that Doryu and Irma have was made from a tradition that they passed down to their son Dragnior. It was a tradition inherited from Irma’s family bloodline as those special introductions means one of two things. 

One: The person that has the introduction has either just mated with their partner and is giving them their name to create a bloodline of their blood 

Or 

Two: The person has given birth to a child with the Empyreal Dragon blood and is giving them their brand birth name of blood. 

Just like how Dragnior named his son ‘Dragnior’s blood of dragon, Jyscal. The light of the moon on the death of roses that fall.’

Irma smiled at Reyna as Reyna didn’t even know what was going on. Reyna simply wanted to have a cool introduction of a name just like the Lovech Kingdom’s King and Queen. 

“May I ask… when have you and Dragnior…?” Irma asked trying not to be so direct 

Reyna blushed slightly as she thought about her and Dragnior. That one night in the bedroom so many nights ago… God if Zahn didn’t rush in then… then… 

Reyna’s face flushed even harder as she could imagine all the things that her and Dragnior would have done. 

“O-Only o-o-once m-ma’am. I-In the b-bedroom.” Reyna stuttered in nervousness 

Irma smiled as she only imagined how Reyna felt. Irma used to once feel that way about her own husband. Butterflies and nervousness at the very mention of his name. Irma smiled at the brought back memories. 

“It is very nice to meet you Reyna.” Irma said nicely 

Reyna was surprised to see how well Irma was taking this conversation. So lightly, so easily, it was almost like she was trying to avoid talking about something… something… 

“Excuse ME! May I ask why I am here!” Reyna remembered as she didn’t understand why she almost forgot about that 

Reyna has felt like she was losing a lot of control within her mind lately and didn’t even question it really, until now. 

Irma almost laughed at Reyna as Reyna’s gold eyes never went away in the presence of Irma. It is usually a sign of disrespect to show your gold eyes in the face of the Queen and King. Irma couldn’t fault the woman though, Reyna didn’t even know that she was making her eyes gold by expressing A LOT of emotions. 

“Yes yes… the reason why you are here.” 

Reyna perked her ears up to listen carefully as something in her body told her that something was going to change forever. 

“My son… has he told you that he was a dragon?” 

What… 

Reyna’s mind went blank as she looked at Irma. Reyna's mind became a white slate before she could feel everything returning back to her. Of course Dragnior had to be a damn dragon! If his mother and his father were dragons, then why wouldn’t he be?

Reyna's eyes widened. 

Wait… But then that also means that Zahn is…

“A dragon too? Yes he is.” 

Reyna sharply turned her attention to Irma when Irma cut into her thought process. 

“Dragnior and my grandson are the last of their kind, the last of the Empyreal Dragons.” Irma lied to Reyna 

Reyna took a second to take everything in as she thought about Dragnior. This whole time, she was under the nose of a dragon and didn’t even realize it! 

Why didn’t I pick up on signs? Were there any signs to look for? How would I even have known how to identify dragon type behavior?! Reyna thought to herself in annoyance. She had a million questions in her head and just couldn’t find a way to figure out all the answers to them. Even though most of the answers wouldn't even get answers. 

“No, Your Highness. Dragnior never mentioned that he was a dragon… let alone Zahn.” Reyna said 

“Zahn?” Irma questioned 

Reyna nodded her head. 

“The young prince's name is Zahn. When I first woke up in the bedroom of the Lovech Kingdom, Zahn approached me and explained that that was his name. He ended up having the same name as my so..” Reyna stopped 

Irma squinted her eyes slowly as she knew what Reyna was going to say next. 

So Reyna lost her own son huh? Irma thought to herself as she looked away from Reyna. So Jyscal finally had someone to give him a proper name, Irma thought

Reyna could feel her emotions that she thought were bottled up start to slowly come undone at the hands of herself. Still mentioning her son was a touchy topic since she still didn’t exact revenge for him. 

“That’s right … Zahn,” Irma said, trying to get used to the name that her grandson chose to call himself now “he knows much more than he leads off to believe.” 

Reyna never took her eyes off of Irma as she was stuck looking at the beauty of the Queen. Irma had such a royal elegance about her. 

“I am sure that you have seen the flash backs… Doryu shifted into a dragon… seeing how dragons are very human-like.” Irma said and Reyna nodded her head yes “Many years ago, the sky roamed the sight of beautiful dragons of all species as we were once a united group. But even back then, there was a species that stood over the rest with ease and plenty of power, the Empyreal Dragons.” 

Empyreal Dragons?

“The Empyreal Dragons were ruthless as they never lost a battle. The older they became, the more wiser they are as they are highly sensitive to understanding and strategies. The dragons were supreme as they could do everything. But because they could do everything, humans believed that the Dragons thought they were Gods and decided to tear them down.” 

“Tear down a dragon?!” I asked loudly 

“The human race knew that the dragon species were too kind and caring, so they found a way to poison the food that they decided to feed to the dragons. And one by one, the dragons started to die without anyone understanding why. But by the time Doryu found out what was happening to his people, the only species to still be alive were the Empyreal Dragons.” 

“Why is that?” Reyna asked 

“Because the Empyreal Dragons do not trust anyone. They are sensitive beings that believe in connection and love. So if they do not build a connection with you, they will not be around you.” 

That’s a relief, Reyna thought as she realized that Zahn had a connection with her immediately. But what did Reyna do to make him like her so easily?

“So the Empyreal Dragons decided to go into hiding and watch the world adapt to new things as the human race was changing. The people feared dragons badly as they wished automatic death of dragons, so the Empyreal Dragons found a way to change their blood internally and became shifters that could change from human to dragon.” 

“But wait, if the Empyreal Dragons were so powerful and adapting, why is it that Dragnior and Zahn are the only ones to still be alive?” Reyna asked curiously 

Irma sighed as she knew that question was going to pop up. Irma hated answering that question, but she had to… for the sake of saving her Kingdom and allowing the Lovech Kingdom to have a new and better Queen.

“Dragnior was not my only son,” Irma started as Reyna frowned automatically feeling her stomach drop at the news “I gave birth to 5 children. 2 boys and 3 girls. They were my life, they were everything to me as I wanted nothing more than to keep them protected. But 4 of my children were stolen from me by the hands of the humans who hated us.” 

Reyna gasped hard as she felt the pain. The pain of someone stealing away her children, the pain of someone stealing her son… 

“Me and Doryu looked all over the world trying to find them in human form but it was too late, we never found them. We only had the life of little Dragnior.” 

Reyna placed her hand on her stomach before reaching out her other hand to grab onto Irma’s hand that landed dead in the meadow. Irma flinched before looking up at Reyna and Reyna smiling. Reyna forgot that Irma just told her how the Empyreal Dragon must have a connection before any type of contact can be available, but Irma’s dragon felt secure in the presence of Reyna. Reyna squeezed Irma’s hand tightly as Irma continued. 

“Years later, the Lovech Kingdom fell at war with the Kingdom of no traces, the Eingana Kingdom. Preparing ourselves for battle, we heard cries. But we knew those cries, those were the same cries that were taken from us the day that they were born, my 4 children. The Eingana Kingdom took away my children. Realizing the situation, I ran quickly to see my children as there were 4 large dragons looking down at me. I was so happy! So overjoyed that I didn’t even realize that they didn’t know who I was. The Eingana Kingdom raised them to be monsters, to destroy their own mother and father. And that’s what they did.” 

“No!” Reyna called out as this time Irma squeezed Reyna’s hand 

“I was in so much shock that I couldn’t fight my children, and neither could Doryu… But instead, Dragnior did.” 

“Dragnior did?” Reyna said copying Irma’s words 

“Drangior transformed into his dragon and killed all of his sisters and brother, and because me and Doryu were so stuck in our own heads, Dragnior killed the warriors that were sent out on the battlefield to fight against the Lovech Kingdom.” Irma said as she could feel tears starting to come into her eyes 

"Dragnior became a different boy after killing so many people within a day. It was like he became... numb to it. He expressed no emotions after killing his family and me and Doryu watched him be able to live life knowing that he killed thousands within a day. But... but... As he got older, Dragnior WANTED to kill more people. He became a man that wanted to grant people death by his own hands. He became a insane monster!"

That was the day she lost everything she ever hoped to live for. She lost her children, she lost her faith, she lost her innocent son that grew up so become a monster too, Dragnior. 

“I am so sorry.” Reyna said as she couldn’t do nothing but look at Irma 

Reyna could feel her pain and hurt. Losing a child is NEVER okay or easy, Reyna thought to herself as Irma looked over to Reyna 

Irma just nodded her head slowly as she started recollecting herself. Irma was never a woman to cry or show emotions in front of strangers but here she was, breaking down like a fool. Reyna watched Irma as she let go of her hand and turned her head away to allow Irma her space to clean up her tears and snot. 

Once feeling like she was okay, Irma turned to look at Reyna with awe in her eyes. Reyna would make a beautiful Queen. A beautiful Queen that could be everything she ever wanted… if she could just show her how good everything would be.

"You know… I see a lot myself in you.” Irma said with a smile slowly appearing on her square like face 

Reyna glanced over at Irma from the side of her eyes and smiled back at Irma as she could feel nothing but warmth coming from Irma’s body that was now radiating onto her with no problem. She was definitely worth the title and the praise of being called a Queen. 

“What exactly do you see in me?” Reyna asked still questioning a lot of things 

Could it be the naïveness that Reyna has been showing this whole time? The connection that sparked within Irma’s heart right after meeting her? The knowledge of knowing that Reyna could be reliable and a foe? 

Irma sighed while keeping her smile on her beautiful face. 

“I see that you have lost your way. You have lost what you need to do. You have hatred in your heart that you want to release, YET, you do not know where to start.” 

Reyna’s heart thumped loudly in her chest at Irma’s words as she couldn’t speak because Irma was exactly right. Reyna never understood where to start with her vengeance. 

Reyna believed that by adding James onto her bandwagon would benefit her because he was the second in command and has half influence and power over the Kingdom, but she never had time to ask him anything in regards to the Red Crest Kingdom so that she could start making plans. 

Reyna thought that having Zahn around would help push her because she would be constantly reminded about her son, but she lost herself in the bliss of happiness. She lost her motive. 

Irma could see the concern and worry on Reyna’s face as she decided that it was time to get down to business on the real reason why she called Reyna here. 

Irma knew that Reyna was a guest staying in the Lovech Kingdom and only wanted to meet her to evaluate her, but who would've thought that this woman would have the things to become the next Queen of the Lovech Kingdom?

“King Aaron of the Red Crest Kingdom knows that my kingdom has dragons.” Irma said cutting off Reyna's thoughts 

Reyna's eyes widened as she stared at Irma in question. 

“How does he know?!” Reyna asked practically yelling 

Irma didn’t mind her yelling as she only smiled and waved her off. Reyna had every right as the Queen to be mad and upset about someone trying to harm her kingdom. That was the right response. 

“The commander of the warriors for the Lovech Kingdom, Commander Lucas has been busy spreading around everyone’s business.” 

Commander Lucas?  Reyna thought as she could faintly remember the bald headed man that she bitched back at the shop because he was disrespecting Dragnior. 

It’s no wonder why that man was so disobedient, he was never an ally to begin with. The man had a certain entitled feel to him, but I guess it’s because he’s doing things to deserve that entitlement. 

“What can we do?” Reyna asked 

Irma raised her eyebrows at Reyna in amusement. 

“You meant to say what can YOU do.” Irma said correcting Reyna’s statement 

Reyna looked at Irma confused as Irma raised her tall body from the ground below that she was sitting on. The wind around them started moving heavier as Reyna could feel the wind trying to push me down into the grass. 

The clouds above them started to darken themselves as Irma soft settled eyes became fierce and dangerous as the now gold eyes kept their hold on Reyna. 

“You will be the deciding factor on which kingdom will fall, and which kingdom will remain standing. What will you do Reyna?” Irma started speaking “Will you stand by the side of my son? Keeping our secret as you save the Lovech Kingdom people from danger? OR will you remain a coward at the hands of your own fate?” 

The gusty wind was picking up more speed as Reyna moved my eyes around to see that the perfect little meadow that they were sitting in, was now destroying itself. The flowers that laid in the meadow ripped themselves from the out of the ground and began flying around in the wind above us. The clouds started rumbling in anger as Irma’s gold eyes were still staring Reyna down.

“HOW AM I THE DECIDING FACTOR?!” Reyna yelled out over the loud wind 

“PICK YOUR CHOICE!” Irma yelled back 

Feeling overwhelmed by the sudden decision that seemed like it was going to play a huge factor in her life moving forward, tears started coming down her face from the amount of pressured wind that was hitting her corneas. 

The air felt like it was slicing cuts in her eyes as she looked down to avoid everything that was happening. 

Do I stay the same coward woman that lost everything completely and who isn’t capable of achieving anything…? 

Or do I become the woman that I was always supposed to be…

Is it finally my time to become the woman that told herself how she was going to avenge her son finally and take back everything that was hers by her own hands? Am I finally going to make a move for myself with help supporting me from afar? Is it finally my time?

Feeling like her thoughts were a no brainer as she knew the answer to every question, Reyna smiled to herself as she looked up at Irma. Irma smiled at Reyna in relief as she didn’t know if Reyna would take the bait or not. 

Irma didn’t know a thing about Reyna, but she did know that she carried the blood of the Empyreal Dragon, which made her unable to back down from a fight. 

Irma’s body changed a little as her angry stern face became soft for a few seconds. 

“REMEMBER THIS! ON THE NIGHT WHERE THE LANDS ARE LAYING LOW, AND THE WINDS ARE TOO QUIET ON THE WIDOWS PEAK, THERE WILL BE A MAN WHO HAS COME TO KILL, THE MAN THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SEEKED!” 

A night where lands are laying low? Widows peak? Isn’t that the middle piece of someone's head?! 

Having a million questions running through her head, blinking her eyes, Irma raised her right hand up and smiled at Reyna. 

“I BOW DOWN TO YOU, QUEEN OF MY BLOOD, REYNA!!” 

Bow down? Q-Queen of my b-blood?

With anxiety filling her heart up as Irma kept smiling at her, with the snap of Irma's average looking fingers, it felt like a great force pushed Reyna’s body out of … her own body…? 

Reyna could feel her own body turning itself around in circles in the back of her head a mile a minute as her body felt super light, like… she didn’t even exist anymore. Her body parts, her organs, her senses of touch… all gone as she could feel her soul leaving out of her body. 

Reyna kept her eyes on Irma as Irma still had a satisfied look on her face. Reyna wanted to smile at Irma’s motherly love being expressed to her, but she couldn’t because she didn’t even know if her body was going to react. 

Moving her pupils to look at her surroundings, Reyna’s ears perked up as her hearing was getting weird as she could hear all of the colors that were coming from the vibrant destructive meadow. All of the flowers that kept themselves up in the wind, the color were yelling out to her as she could now hear voices in the back of her head. 

“Reyna…” 

I know what I must do… 

“Reyna…” 

On the night where the lands are laying low, and the winds are too quiet on the widow's peak,

“Reyna…” 

 There will be a man who comes to kill, the man that you have always seeked

“REYNA!” 

I WILL BE WAITING FOR AARON!