Empyreal Dragons

An Abundance of Fear

Lovech Kingdom; Dragnior's Office

“Master, is there anything that you would like to finish before going ahead to sleep for tonight?” James asked Dragnior

Dragnior placed his large hand over his lips as he remembered what could’ve happened to him and Reyna. The dragon’s pull was stronger than usual today than it was any other day.

Why is that? Dragnior asked himself as he looked at James who did nothing but smile at Dragnior

Dragnior rolled his eyes as he knew that James really liked Reyna. He liked her so much that he decided to make things right between Dragnior and her. Dragnior didn’t know anything when it came to rumor and speculation about what’s going on inside of his palace.

He only cared about wars that may come, meetings with the noble men of his kingdom that still aren’t convinced that he isn't just simply a tyrant, and trying to make his son a good heir to the throne.

Dragnior sighed as he thought about where his son could be at. Before Reyna came, Zahn was a quiet, no-named little boy who barely attended breakfast and dinner in the dining hall. But now here he was, at the dining hall all the time passing Reyna whatever left over foods he didn’t want because he knew Reyna’s appetite was growing badly.

“There is nothing that I want,” Dragnior stated “but could you tell me where Zahn is?”

James raised his eyebrows.

“I believe the Master has the answers to that.” James replied

Dragnior sucked his teeth, he's with Reyna… AGAIN?!

“FINE! If you want to sleep with her then so be it!”

James started laughing at Dragnior outburst before he suddenly stopped as if he remembered something important.

“Master! I received something in the mail today. Two things actually.” James said

Dragnior looked at James and motioned for him to continue.

“Well we received mail saying that we are receiving a guest from the Red Crest Kingdom. Someone by the name of Queen Mother who is the mother to King Aaron.” James said

Dragnior ears perked up.

“Do you think they found something while they were here?” Dragnior asked and James nodded his head

“Reyna seems to know the most about him so maybe she can explain that better than I can.” James said trying to find a way for Reyna and Dragnior to talk to each other more

Drangior nodded his head at James' accurate words. Reyna would know more about what Aaron would be planning by sending someone else over to Lovech. Maybe James was right when he said that Aaron and Clarissa may have seen what happened with Reyna.

“Alright, I shall talk to her in the morning then. What is the second thing?” Dragnior asked

“Well,” James said nervously “there may be a situation where the commander of the warriors, Commander Lucas have made a mess within the kingdom’s area and the people would like for their King to address the situation.”

The situation? Personally? Dragnior thought to himself as his mind wandered over to Reyna.

She’s been nothing but a guest inside of this house, so maybe it would be best if he brought her outside to view the kingdom’s areas instead of just laying in the bed all day while wandering the palace.

“James, tell Ms. Syrah to pick out a formal outfit for Reyna in the morning. After breakfast, she will be coming with us to the kingdom’s area to watch me take care of the business. She simply has spent way too long inside of the palace to not be experiencing life outside of the walls.” Dragnior told James

James smiled and he quickly agreed with that. The Queen needs to meet her people and understand what is going on in her own kingdom. She’s been living in naïveness as she doesn’t understand anything outside of these walls.

True, she’s had problems in this palace when she first arrived and first got here… but she now needs to know her kingdom.

She is an Empyreal Dragon after all.

Lovech Kingdom; Reyna's Bedroom

“Miss Reyna… Miss Reyna please wake up!”

“MOM! MOM!”

Reyna scrunched up her face as she could feel tiny hands shaking her awake. Being forced to opened up one of eye, Reyna could see Zahn and Syrah there looking at her with happy faces.

What the hell is going on?

“Good morning.” Reyna voiced

“Good morning.” A deeper voice replied

Both of Reyna's eyes shot open as she lifted her body up to see where the voice came from because that was not the voice of Zahn or Syrah. Looking around the room, behind Syrah who was standing close to the door, was Dragnior as he stood there smirking.

Looking at Dragnior, Reyna could see that he had on nice formal wear as his white shirt was buttoned down perfectly and was tucked into his black pants. His hair was slicked down as it was usually rowdy and wild looking, but his slicked down hair gave his face more definition as it really looked good on him.

Over his shoulder was a shawl that had the Lovech Kingdom dragon on it as the green shawl flamed with fire and determination. His green eyes looked sharper and more dangerous than usual as he looked like he was in business mode.

“Good morning Reyna.” Dragnior spoke

Reyna gulped.

“G-Good morning.”

“I have some business to attend to outside of the palace walls and I realized that you haven’t come outside of the palace walls since you’ve been here. So it will be nice for you to experience a change of pace.”

Reyna smiled.

When she first looked into his, she wasn't able to notice but his eyes are a deeper shade of green than what they were last night.

“James made mention saying that it might be for the best if you got out and I agreed as I haven’t noticed before that you’ve been spending your days in this room doing nothing.”

UGH!

Looking over and Zahn and Syrah, they both were making the same face as Reyna as they couldn't eblieve their King was so foolish.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Reyna replied as she started moving to get out of the bed

The second that Reyna lifted herself onto her feet, Dragnior’s hand swiftly grabbed her chin and forced Reyna's head to look up at him. His lips were so close to hers as his hot breath faced itself onto Reyna/

“Your Highness?” Dragnior questioned

Reyna blushed at his hand being under my chin. The forcefulness of his actions made me cower in submission to his … hard on?

Widening her eyes, Reyna looked down to see that her mind wasn’t wrong. There was a bulge on the front of his pants that was stabbing at her thigh.

“DAD!”

Zahn’s voice broke up the moment once again as Drangior backed away from Reyna. Coughing to redirect attention, Drangior glared over at Zahn before looking over to Reyna and smiling again.

“Please get ready so that we can go.” Drangior said and made his way out of the room

Zahn shrugged his shoulders before also leaving with his father as the two men left reyna and Syrah in the room with each other.

“Well then, let’s get me dressed.”

Lovech Kingdom; Front Gates

“What is it with Reyna and getting dressed?!”

This is the second time Dragnior has had to wait for Reyna and she always ends up making him wait a few extra minutes..

“I'm sure that she will be here soon sir.” James replied

Dragnior nodded his head before he looked out at his surroundings. He was outside of his palace and was standing at the front gates waiting beside his carriages.

The carriage rider was looking around as he didn’t know who the Master was waiting for since he never brought anyone out of the palace with him, until he heard a sweet voice call out.

“I am sorry Dragnior, here I am.”

Dragnior, James and the carriage rider both looked at the brown skin beauty in awe.

The beauty was once again wearing her hair in a slit ponytail as her hair was laid at her lower back. Her grey eyes looked around with a cute, confused look, gathering the hearts of the guards surrounding them.

Reyna was wearing a tight green, emerald dress that hugged her body nicely, even though every dress hugs her curves well enough to show men what they want to lust after. Her shoulders were covered by a shawl that hung around them and laid loose on her chest, exposing her neck and upper shoulders.

Her beauty was murderous as she gave a wink to the guards around her, they all lost their footing and went weak at the knees.

James whistled at this.

Making her way closer to Dragnior, Reyna began to feel her heart thump in pride. Feeling the cold wind on her, Reyna sniffed with her nose and could smell something… weird.

It wasn’t something she ever smelled before but instead it was like she could smell a feeling.

The smell had anger to it and a bit of sadness. The sadness wasn’t going to cry but it did feel like it wanted attention. And because the sadness wasn’t getting the attention, it started to get angry.

This feeling… is it jealousy that I smell? There's no way that I can actually smell jealousy, Reyna thought as she got closer to Dragnior who now had gold eyes instead of his green ones.

Dragnior could feel all the men’s eyes on Reyna as her hips swayed back and forth while the roundness of them showed its curves. The guards were going crazy by just looking at her… looking at my woman, Dragnior thought to himself

Dragnior rushed over to Reyna and grabbed her hand within his.

“Let us go.”

Reyna didn’t think that Dragnior would actually decide to put his hands in hers. She was surprised but enjoyed it. As Dragnior put Reyna into the carriage, Reyna sat her butt down on the seat and quickly looked out of the window.

As they began to ride into the Kingdom of Lovech, Reyna began to realize that she doesn’t know anything about this kingdom. She doesn’t know the people, the traditions, the culture, nothing. As the doors of the gates opened to let us out of the palace grounds, they made their way out of the palace and now into the Kingdom’s Area.

Lovech Kingdom; Entrance

“Q-Q-Queen Mother, are you sure that this is the right place?”

Eva rolled her eyes at the remark from the man who was driving the carriage. They were on the wheels for a few days now, only stopping to go to the bathroom and eating inside of the carriage, non-stop.

There were no people outside as the houses of the kingdom looked lifeless and dumb.

“This is where Aaron and Clarissa sent me. If it isn’t the right place, I will go back and kill them myself as a waste and disrespect of our agreement.” Eva said annoyed

As they rode through the area around them, everything was either empty or looked abandoned. What type of kingdom is this, the carriage rider thought as they could hear noises coming from ahead

Eva’s ears perked up as the noises got louder. Knocking on the carriage door, the carriage rider stopped and Eva flung herself out of the carriage. Looking around, true the kingdom was empty, but the noises she could hear were loud as day.

Where are the noises coming from? Eva thought as she began walking closer towards the kingdom. As her feet got closer, she took one more step before the empty and abandoned kingdom as it suddenly became one of people laughing and gathering everyone.

Crowds of people were all around Eva as her eyes widened in shock.

Where did all of these people come from, she thought.

Turning her head around to look at the carriage, the carriage was gone. There was nothing behind Eva but more crowds of people and places where you could buy things from, shops. The people of the kingdom looked happy and joyful as they walked around without a care in the world.

What just happened?

Even though Eva wanted to keep asking herself questions, she decided to ask someone from the crowds of people. Walking up a young woman, Eva touched the woman’s shoulders and the woman looked over her shoulder at her.

“Hello! I was hoping that you could tell me where I was?” Eva asked

“The Lovech Kingdom! The Kingdom of the Dragons!” The young woman replied

Dragons?

“Why are there crowds of people today?” Eva asked another question

The young woman didn’t seem to mind answering the questions even though the woman appeared out of nowhere.

“The King is visiting the kingdom walls today! It is the first time in the long time that he is showing his face to the people!”

The King is showing his face? Eva thought and then smirked, seems like this will be easier than I thought.

Lovech Kingdom; Dragons Center

As they finally reached their destination, Dragnior stepped out of the carriage first before extending his hand to Reyna. Excited, Reyna grabbed onto Dragnior’s hand and he lifted her out of the carriage.

“MY KING!”

“KING DRANGIOR!”

A smile crept onto Reyna's face. No, the people were not calling her name, but it reminded Reyna of when the Red Crest Kingdom was excited to see her face. Excited to see her so much that people would throw red roses onto the carriage as she rode by as a sign of respect and love for their Queen who supports them.

I am happy that Dragnior has this same connection with his own kingdom.

“Why are you smiling? They aren’t calling your name.” Dragnior said to Reyna noticing her smile

“It’s because they love you that I am happy. They are happy because they know that their King cares for them and for that, I am happy as well.”

Dragnior rose his eyebrows at her as he looked at her smiling face.

“W-Well let us hurry so that we can make the business meeting.” Dranior said

Business? Reyna thought to herself as Drangior hand stayed in hers. As Reyna could feel her skin grow hot from where Dragnior touched, a voice began to speak from within her.

Will you be with me?

As Reyna look at the side of his sharp jawline…

Will you leave me?

Watching Dragnior lick his juicy pink lips…

Will you stay with me?

Reyna could feel her heart melt in the abundance of fear.

“Reyna?” Dragnior called out

Snapping herself out of the daydream, Dragnior was looking at Reyna with his green eyes showing concern.

“Oh umm, yes?” Reyna asked blinking

“I said that we are here.” Dragnior spoke

As Reyna moved her eyes to look at where Dragnior eyes located themselves, in front of them was a shop whose door was open widely. Confused, Reyna looked around and saw that the crowds of people were now gone as it was just her and Dragnior. But Reyna could hear a bunch of men voice talking.

Nodding her head at Dragnior, Dragnior pulled her hand as the couple walked into the shop.

The shop was beaming full of men drinking and women sitting on the men laps, but as soon as Reyna and Dragnior walked in, all talking and commotion stopped. All eyes were on the couple as Reyna subconsciously smiled at the men who were making lustful eyes at her.

Dragnior pulled Reyna closer to him as he wrapped his arm around her waist.

“MY KING! I AM GLAD THAT YOU COULD MAKE IT!”

Everyone in the room began to bow down to the man who started making his way over to the couple. The rudeness that the people had in this building to bow down to this mystery man instead of their King is ridiculous, Reyna thought.

But to her surprise, when Reyna looked up at Dragnior's face, it seemed like he was used to this treatment.

The man was an older man that had no hair on his shining bald head. His body was built largely as he had muscles but then again he looked weak, like his weight wasn’t matching up with his muscles. The man had a scar that went across his left eye and a smile so wide that it crept me out.

“Sir.” Dragnior replied to the man as he got closer

The man smiled before bowing slightly to his King.

“May I have the pleasure of knowing who this woman is?” The man asked while winking at Reyna

“Reyna Rose,” Reyna replied holding out her right hand “A pleasure to be in your company.”

The man took Reyna hand and kissed it..

“Come! Sit down!” The man said as he led the couple to a table in the middle of the once commotion.

Everyone in the room was silent and watching Reyna and Dragnior’s every move. I can’t stand this! Did Dragnior not establish who’s in charge in HIS OWN KINGDOM?!

“Please sit.” The man said to Reyna as he pulled out a chair

Smiling, Reyna removed the shawl from around her shoulders and the men in the room started whistling. Ignoring their whistles as she sat down in the chair, Dragnior sat down next to Reyna and put his arm around her waist. The man sat down in front of the couple as his wide grin went away and seriousness clouded the entire room.

“I’m going to get straight to it, Dragon. We need more money to fund more weapons from other kingdoms.” The man said

Reyna eyes widen at the disrespect this man just gave off within the first few seconds of being face to face with his King.

“What happened to all of the money I already gave you?” Dragnior asked to the man

Dragnior furrowed his eyebrows as he didn't think that this is the conversation he would be having with the commander of the warriors, Commander Lucas.

He thought that all he had to do was get rid of him from the kingdom for a while since him and his men have a tendency to eat and drink everything that all the shops have to offer, but at this point, Dragnior knew that wasn't going to work anymore.

The man laughed at Dragnior's words.

“We spent it all playing with these cute little girls.” The man said as he slapped the behind of a girl standing near him

All of the men in the shop began laughing before Commander Lucas lifted up his right hand to silence them all. Dragnior didn’t say anything.

Reyna could feel her blood boiling as her body temperature began to grow hot. Reyna glanced at Dragnior from the corner of her eyes and knew what the situation was already without anyone having to explain it.

The Commander of the Warriors abuses his power so much that Dragnior, A DAMN KING CAN NO LONGER DEAL WITH HIM.

Reyna stuck her nose up at the man.

If he isn't going to put him in his place, then I will, Reyna thought to herself ready to attack.

“What if I…”

“What makes you think the King should give you more money?” Reyna asked the man cutting off Dragnior's words

Drangior was shocked at Reyna's sudden outburst and so was the Commander.

Who does this little b***h think she is? The Commander thought to himself

“I didn’t know that we had to speak to someone new little princess.” The man said to Dragnior

“It’s not speaking to someone new. It’s gathering better information so that your King can access what type of plan he needs to give you everything properly.”

The man now started glaring at Reyna as his men started to shuffle their bodies around them. The man snapped his fingers and his men stood up from their seats as they grabbed their weapons that were shielded away from the public eye.

The warriors only follow the strong, the weak have no place in the battlefield, and with this motto, they believed that Dragnior was not their King since he never the warriors go to war to kill people. Dragnior avoids war as much as possible, which made him a weak link.

“Now little b***h. I don’t know what Dragnior may have told you, but we run things in this kingdom. I am the Commander of these Warriors. The warriors who go to battle within these wars while this princess does nothing inside of his own kingdom.” The man claimed

Reyna laughed at the man's words.

The audacity he has!

Dragnior moved his hand from the waist of Reyna. The Commander was not a man to cross or be on the bad side of. He has connections that expands the Lovech Kingdom.

“Just let it go. I will give him the money.” Dragnior said as if he was trying to avoid the conversation

Let it go? How could I let Dragnior, the damn KING BOW DOWN TO A LOWLY COMMANDER! Reyna thought to herself as she could feel her throat start to burn.

Her blood recognized that it was needed in this situation due to the lack of respect that people were giving her. Her body started to prepare itself, ready to demand as the blood that passed through her veins began to pump violently.

Dragnior used his dragon nose and smelled something weird coming from Reyna. It was a weird smell that wasn’t an emotion, no, it was a feeling that only the mind could reproduce. Dragnior made a confused face as he looked over at Reyna.

Looking into her body with his dragon eyes, Dragnior could see Reyna’s blood begin to swell. The circular red blood cells were now turning a gold color as the cells began getting smaller and producing more of themselves. Dragnior was in shock.

As Reyna turned to look back at the commander, her mouth opened ready to expand its radio waves as the pre-waves were attached to the ear drums of the people in the room.

“BOW DOWN TO ME!” Reyna yelled as her grey eyes turned gold

Immediately after the last word left Reyna's mouth, everyone in the room could feel their bones cracking themselves to bend at the will of their Queen. Their calf muscles began tearing themselves unwillingly as everyone fell to the ground.

Then their heads felt immense pressure as if someone was behind them pushed their head forward. Trying to follow gravity's pulls, everyone's heads fell forward hitting the ground underneath them. Everyone was now on the floor with her heads down on the ground, bowing to their Queen as their blood understood who she really was.

Reyna sneered as the Commander wasn’t on his knees because he was still sitting in a chair but his head was forced onto the table in front of him. Reyna looked over at Dragnair and he looked shocked as the room was bowing down to Reyna.

Reyna stood up from the table as she kept her eyes on Dragnior. Dragnior couldn't believe what is going on. One second Reyna was a humbled woman just listening to the conversation and the next second, she commanded a whole room of people to bow down to her!

“If you do not teach a dog to respect you now, then it will grow up learning to bite you every chance it gets.” Reyna said as she walked around the table to the Commander’s chair and grabbed the knife that laid in his side pocket

Pulling out of his pocket, Reyna opened her mouth to speak once more.

“Raise your heads.”

Everyone in their room heads raised while their knees still stayed on the ground. Everyone’s eyes looked fearful at her motions and were confused as to why they were listening to her commands.

“W-What are you?!” One of the warriors yelled out

Reyna glared at him as her gold eyes were projecting powerful heat behind them.

“Did I tell you to talk?” Reyna questioned while scratching the knife against the table in front of her “Or to breathe?”

Suddenly, the warrior began to clutch at his throat and looked like he was trying to exhale. An abundance of air gathering in his lungs as he wasn't able to push out the air, the man’s face began to turn red. Wheezing now, Reyna sighed. She simply meant to make an example out of him, not to almost kill him.

“Breathe.” Reyna yelled and the man finally exhaled his forced held breath

Everyone started to scream in horror as they couldn’t move and her voice could kill them in any second. Reyna tilted her head to the side as she started to get annoyed by the yelling of the people.

“Be quiet.”

The room went still as nothing made any sounds anymore. Not making any peeps of the slip on the tongue, there was nothing. Looking back at the Commander who was now looking at her with his one eye wide, Reyna smiled. Placing the knife in her hand on the back of his neck, she rubbed the knife against his neck slowly.

“Now like I said, tell me why the KING should give YOU, a low life commander who doesn’t know his place and is busy spending his money and time on women and instead of making his men stronger, more money?” She asked

Reyna asked that question knowing that she wouldn’t get a response. She knew that everyone in this room couldn’t speak, so she continued asking questions that she knew no one could answer.

“Oh I see, you can’t tell me why because you don’t even know yourself.” She said as she grazed the knife against the skin of his neck, lightly peaking it enough to make the skin bleed

The commander shuddered as he lowered his head back down on the table.

“In the name of the King, you will receive 2,000 gold in order to maintain your image of having the kingdom believe that you run s**t,” Reyna said as she grabbed his chin and forced his face to look at hers

Squeezing his cheeks within her small hands, she smiled and kept talking.

“But from now on, I run s**t here “Commander”. Don’t forget the place that I am putting you in, or you will suffer your first loss from a woman. Don’t f**k with me.” She said throwing his face out of her hands

Throwing the knife out of her hands and onto the floor, Reyna looked over at Dragnior who still had the expression of complete shock on his face.

Dragnior didn’t understand how Reyna had such control over everyone in this room. It was just like the day he disagreed with her in the gardens. The second that Reyna told him to stop, his body was no longer able to move at all.

Reyna stared blankly at Dragnior. Her words were something that she never knew how to control but, whenever her body felt like it was in danger, the power within her words would come out and control people.

Hence the reason why the Red Crest Kingdom never had any problems while she was reigning, because her words were always absolute.

Walking over to Dragnior, Reyna grabbed his hand lightly as she thought that maybe he might be scared of her. Grabbing his hand, she nodded her head at him as he lifted up his body and looked around the room.

“The same goes to the warriors, test my patience if you want to,” Reyna said turning back around to glare at them “I will show you no mercy.”

Everyone's eyes were on her and Dragnior as they began walking toward the door of the shop.

"Be at ease."

Everyone fell to the ground and began talking once more in terror and confusion as her last words got rid of the controlling words.

Pulling Dragnior out of the door with her, the couple stepped foot out of the shop and Dragnior coughed.

“What did you… how did you?” He started to ask before Reyna could hear a voice speak out

“Rein…”

Reyna’s body froze. All of her nerves tensed up as the voice registered through my brain. Feeling her mouth frown, she closed her eyes as her heart started to beat irregular.

I got out of one situation and into another, Reyna thought to herself as she opened her eyes and moved them to look at the familiar voice who called her.

The familiar voice that knows all of her secrets and all of her fears. The woman that always wants to destroy her and put her down in the face of the world. As the woman in front of Reyna smiled like the devil she is, Reyna laughed as the world has officially f****d her over.

“Hello, daughter.”