Empyreal Dragons

Unlocked Her Monster

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

Red Crest Kingdom 

“Hello, King Joshua.” 

Hearing the voice of an insecure man, King Joshua glanced over at the man who finally decided to show his presence to the gathered men of the Ahasteen Kingdom, King Aaron. 

And, beside King Aaron stood his wife and his daughter, Clarissa and Andrea Crest. Two more morons... 

Joshua felt annoyed as he looked at the pathetic couple coming into the Dining Hall with smirks on their faces. Joshua thought that these fools would even feel lucky that he forced himself to come to the Red Crest Kingdom after Aaron sent a servant to come and plead with him to make his appearance. 

The only reason why Joshua decided that he was going to come to the palace was because the servant mentioned the words “Killing Dragnior.” 

Those were the only words that Joshua needed to throw on his Royal Clothes and hop onto a horse, riding to the Red Crest Kingdom. 

The travel took 3 days as it took the servant 3 days to get to him. With his loyal guards behind him, Joshua traveled South to meet the King that claimed that he was ready to go to war with the man that killed his daughter, Aaron. 

But yet, the second that Joshua arrived at the Kingdom, he was treated like a mere noble in the face of everyone as the servants were lazy and had no discipline. The Kingdom had dusty and dirt covering every hall and the King ran late and brought his whole family with him! 

But the woman beside him isn’t the Queen I remember, Joshua thought to himself

Clarissa blushed as Joshua stared deeply at her. 

Joshua ocean blue eyes carved their way into the soul of Clarissa as she felt her woman’s part melt and liquid started coming down her thighs. His blonde hair that was styled beautiful in a little updo showing his beautiful caved in cheeks and semi-high cheekbones as his blonde beard covered his scars that laid underneath it. 

His Royal Outfit showed off the muscles that you wouldn’t think an old man had as his body made you want to scream DADDY! 

God he’s perfect, Clarissa thought as Joshua finally understood what he was thinking about. The woman in front of him wasn’t Reyna! 

Moving his eyes around the room, he was trying to look for the woman that he admired deeply as he wanted to see his godchild. But, as his eyes kept looking throughout the room, he saw no signs of her or his godchild… 

Is Reyna’s disappearance the reason why this palace looks like s**t? Joshua thought to himself as he rolled his eyes 

One of the guards that stood beside Joshua frowned as he knew what his King was looking for. He was looking for the woman he claimed as his god daughter, Reyna. The last time we saw Reyna, she was 4 months pregnant and just showing the bump that her son was giving her. 

Even though Joshua was a crazy man that wanted to kill people left and right, Joshua was actually afraid of Reyna and didn’t even want to try to touch her or anyone of her blood, but no one ever knew why. But one thing that was sure was that Reyna had enough power to shut down a man that wouldn't wait a second to kill the entire human race. 

Aaron rolled his eyes and looked Joshua up and down before walking over to the seat that was made for him. Slowly taking his seat at the head of the Dining Hall table that was full of food and drinks, Aaron didn’t care but he left his daughter and Clarissa to simply stand there looking stupid in front of all the men inside of the room. 

Fucking i***t, Clarissa thought as she pushed Andrea up closer on her chest so her daughter wouldn’t fall. Looking around the room, Clarissa could only hope that the men weren’t judging her for being a stupid woman.

“Now.. let us commence this meeting for us, future partner…” Aaron said with a smirk 

Joshua ignored Aaron’s words and picked up a cup of wine that sat on the table in front of him. At the sight of the cup, Joshua frowned as he could see hand prints and dirty inside of the gold cup. Losing his appetite at the trifling sight, Joshua cleared his throat to speak. 

“What do you want?” Joshua asked 

Inside of the Dining Hall stood the warriors of the Red Crest Kingdom and guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom; the warriors from the Red Crest looked at King Joshua shocked as they didn’t expect the older man’s voice to sound so deep. Not only was his voice deep, but the King was acting like HE ruled the Red Crest Kingdom. 

Aaron couldn’t help but be as shocked as his warriors, no one expected that from Joshua. As Clarissa saw everyone’s confusion, she decided to take this time to speak her mind and show everyone that she’s not just a stupid woman standing inside of the room.

“Your alliance to our Kingdom would do us well as we know of your hatred for Dragnior.” Clarissa spoke 

Joshua's ears started to turn red … 

“Oh?” Joshua replied 

“That is correct. We understand the importance of wanting to take down the same person, so we have made direct contact to be able to achieve this goal.” 

Joshua’s eyes cut themselves. There was nothing he hated more than a woman that didn’t know her place. Who the f**k was this low life woman to even think about talking to him directly! 

“Aaron… Where is Reyna?” Joshua asked 

Aaron’s body temperature dropped a few degrees in fear as he felt a cold sweat running through his body and coming onto his forehead. The nerves in his brain started making his head feel itchy as he was scared to tell Joshua anything close to the truth. 

Joshua loved Reyna like she was his own daughter, how the f**k would he feel if we explained that she died?!

“We killed that b***h with our own hands!” Aaron heard a voice yell in happiness 

Widening his eyes in fear, Aaron turned his head sharply and saw that Clarissa was smiling in the face of Joshua after saying the words she said.  

“Killed?” Joshua asked surprised 

“We killed that b***h and her son! We stabbed her in the stomach and watched as her son bled out of her while she couldn't do anything. She wasn’t worth it… not a weak woman like her.” 

All of the guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom looked shocked as they turned their attention to their King. Joshua’s eyes started to twitch as he looked away from Clarissa to Aaron as he was waiting for Aaron to confirm this tale. 

“It is true… C-Clarissa and I k-k-kille…” 

“You killed my goddaughter?” Joshua asked amused 

Clarissa could feel her heart drop as she didn’t know Reyna was King Joshua goddaughter. No one in the room knew what to do, but Joshua didn’t decide to keep up with the knowledge of this information as he decided to simply change the topic. 

“You called me here for Dragnior, I presume?” 

Aaron locked eyes with Joshua and nodded his head yes. 

“I am at an understanding that the Lovech Kingdom has dragons and I need one.” 

“Need?”

“NEED!” Aaron yelled

The Ahasteen Kingdom guards felt that Aaron was getting too hyper as they took their steps forward in front of Aaron. Aaron looked at the guards with sacredness in his eyes as he cleared his throat trying to ignore such an inch that the guards took. 

“I would like your help in killing Dragnior.” 

“Dragnior isn’t an easy man to kill.” 

“Indeed he isn’t, but I’m sure Rubian knew much about him to use against him.” 

At the mention of his daughter’s name, Joshua rose out of his seat and ran towards Aaron at top speed as his large hand wrapped around the neck of Aaron, strangling him. Aaron was caught for a lost of words as he could not inhale any air from Joshua choking him. 

“Don’t think that I forgot about you f*****g my daughter! DEFILING MY DAUGHTER!” Joshua said tightening his grip 

Aaron could only look at Joshua in fear as his eyes started to become bloodshot red and the veins in his face started showing through his body. Clarissa looked in horror at the sight as Joshua stared Aaron down before speaking once more. 

“The only reason why I am not killing you is because you have something to live for.” Joshua said before letting him go roughly.  

Turning his back to Aaron, Joshua walked back to his seat as heathen decided to glanced over at Clarissa and baby Andrea before looking back at Aaron. Coughing the fear out of his lungs, Aaron looked up at Joshua and nodded his head before deciding to keep pitching his plan. 

“You know more about Dragnior than any other person on this Earth. We have the resources and the men to go to war with the Kingdom… please.” Aaron begged 

The warriors of the Red Crest Kingdom shook their head at how weak Aaron was. Aaron wasn’t a King… he was a little boy that took over for his father because he was the only living heir that he left behind. He was a waste of sperm, just like his mother used to always call him. 

Joshua simply closed his eyes as he wanted time to think. 

Taking her chance to try out a plan she was thinking of in her head, Clarissa was now tired of standing and she decided to test the visiting Kingdom was something… her daughter. 

If Clarissa couldn’t trust them with her daughter, then how could she trust them with her life? 

Walking over to the guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom, Clarissa held her arms out that Andrea laid in and smiled to one of the guards that were standing around Joshua. The guard raised an eyebrow at Clarissa as the guard didn’t understand what the woman was doing. 

“Can you please hold my child for me?” Clarissa asked sweetly 

The guard looked over at his King but Joshua kept his eyes closed in thought. The guard sighed as he walked forward and grabbed the little baby from Clarissa’s arms. Andrea looked at the new blob that her eyes were seeing and started smelling the man before her. 

The man smelled just like blood and battles. Andrea frowned slightly as she didn’t know what this smell meant. 

Did the smell of blood of battles mean that he was there to kill her?

Scared of everything, Andrea started to cry with her small eyes closing as the mucus layered tears fell down her face. 

The guard didn’t expect for the baby to start crying, so he didn’t know what to do, but the guard looked at Clarissa for help as Clarissa did nothing. 

“Hush hush.” The guard said now bouncing the baby in his arms 

The guard was very used to taking care of babies as he had his own family at home that included 4 children and one more addition on the way. 

Andrea wouldn’t cease her crying as Aaron looked at his stupid wife in question. 

What the f**k was this dumb woman doing? Aaron thought to himself as she stood up from his seat 

Joshua, listening to the sounds of the cries beside him, started to get angry. Joshua started to get annoyed. Not only did Aaron f**k his only daughter, killed his goddaughter that replaced the presence of his daughter, but now he wants to team up together to destroy Dragnior? 

Joshua was in wild thoughts as he had to make a decision… kill the man who violated his daughter and killed his other daughter, or finally kill the man that killed his original daughter in cold blood? 

Feeling like both options had their downfalls, Joshua kept getting interrupted by the cries of a baby… 

“SHUT THE HELL UP!” Joshua yelled as he snapped his eyes open 

Grabbing the sword that sat beside his chair, he rose the sword up harshly and rushed it through what felt like bones and flesh as blood splattered across his face. 

Seeing every action that he did, everyone inside of the Dining Hall looked shocked as their eyes widened in fear. The cries of the baby were no longer happening as the man shushing the baby was no longer talking either. 

King Joshua sliced the throats of the Princess of the Red Crest Kingdom, Andrea… and one of the Royal Guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom, John. 

The guards of the Ahasteen Kingdom looked horrified as Joshua threw his sword on the ground and looked over at Aaron with a smile. Joshua didn't even care that he just killed one of his men in cold blood. Joshua didn't care about taking anyone's life... even if it is the life of the man he once called best friend. 

“Now we are even… A daughter for a daughter.” Joshua said as he rose his hand out to Aaron 

It was the same hand that just killed his daughter. 

Aaron was physically shaking in his clothes as he was scared of Joshua. If Joshua could kill his own man and a baby with ease, imagine what Joshua could do to him. Aaron didn’t hesitate to reach out to shake hands with Joshua, when a woman’s voice started yelling. 

“NO! ANDREA!” 

Clarissa fell to her knees in a heart break as she was now looking at the limp body of her baby girl.

Her daughter's beautiful brown hair was now muddy with her own blood as her brown eyes were empty. The s***h in her throat showed the yellow fatty tissues behind the skin and the bones that were keeping her neck in place, telling Clarissa that the s***h was deeper than she imagine. 

Andrea whole demeanor looked lifeless as the couple of month old baby still had her eyes opened looking at the mother who lead her to her death... Clarissa. 

Clarissa cried harder looking at Andrea. 

Her daughter, the only heir to the Red Crest Kingdom, was now dead at the hands of a man that killed for a living! He killed her daughter with no problem! 

“YOU MURDERER!” Clarissa yelled looking up at Joshua 

Joshua extracted his hand from Aaron and looked over at Clarissa with a smile. 

“How does it feel to be inside of the same situation as Reyna… watching your child bleed out in front of you as you can’t do anything but sit there like the b***h you are waiting for your next orders to bark.” Joshua said with a wicked smile showing evilly on his handsome face 

He is the devil… 

Clarissa couldn’t hold back sobs as she kept crying for her daughter. But everyone one else… 

Everyone else was more focused on the man that Joshua just killed with no problem. 

The Royal Guard John was Joshua’s right hand man in battles and in life. John served by the side of Joshua for 15 years as he dedicated his WHOLE life to Joshua. John had a family of 5 children and a beautiful wife… today was his last day of being on duty since Joshua granted John 5 years away from his services to him… just to be killed the night before he was supposed to return to his family. 

John was a loyal man… who died because he couldn’t keep a baby quiet during the King’s thinking. The Ahasteen Kingdom guards simply closed their eyes to respect the Royal Guard and bowed to his dead body that held a little baby in his arms. 

Tapping his fingers on the table once, Joshua began walking away with his men following after him… This was only the beginning of what Joshua had stored for the Red Crest Kingdom.

Lovech Kingdom 

The palace was in a drought. 

Reyna Rose, the Queen and woman, that every servant in the palace of the Lovech Kingdom accepted has vanished into thin air by the hands of the Queen Mother, Irma Lovech. 

It has been a week since Reyna’s body disappeared into the dragon realm and no one could bring her back because no one could enter the dragon realm unless invited in. 

Dragnior was in sadness as he couldn’t help but wrap his mind every day about where Reyna was and why she still wasn’t back yet. Dragnior looked like he aged slightly as he now had bags under his beautiful green eyes from staying up every night thinking that Reyna might return in the dark one night. 

His hair looked dull as he hasn’t been keeping up with his bath routine and his body stunk of filth. Dragnior stayed inside of the Throne Room every second of the day looking at the statues of his parents as he pleaded everyday for them to bring Reyna back. 

Zahn could not stand beside his father and decided to stay away from Dragnior until he was feeling better about Reyna leaving. Zahn has never seen his father look this pitiful ever in life. Zahn hated that Reyna was gone and that she left them, but he couldn’t be mad at his mother… he was mad at Irma. 

Zahn was mad at Irma for taking away the one woman he finally decided to love. 

Even though Zahn hated this feeling of being helpless, he decided to use that anger to put his all into learning more about poisons and valuable information that is great for him to have. Eva, despite the emptiness she felt of her daughter being gone, kept teaching the servants how to detect poisons.

 The servants in the palace will make or break this kingdom, so she couldn’t help but teach them more so that they could grow strong to protect this Kingdom that her daughter lives in. 

As Dragnior sighed deeply with his hot nasty breath flowing into the air, Drangior ears twitched as he could hear something out into the distance. A voice… 

“I WILL BE WAITING FOR AARON!”

REYNA’S VOICE!

Dragnior stood up from the chair that he was sitting in and looked over the Throne Room with happiness in his heart as his eyes and ears were in a high keen sense. He was ready to have Reyna back. He missed her… he craved her… and for the first time in a long time, Dragnior could feel that the emotion he had towards Reyna was different from when she left.

Moving his body left and right, pacing around the Throne Room ready to see his woman, there was a bright light that started to shine slowly coming from the dragon statue of his mother. The dragon statue was glowing slightly. 

“Reyna?” Dragnior called out

The dragon statue started to get brighter and brighter as Dragnior could see the arm of a woman began to come from out of the statue's mouth. 

BABY!

Dragnior ran over to the dragon statue and reached his large hand out to grab onto the arm that was coming out of the statue. Just like a mother trying to give birth to a baby, Dragnior slightly pulled off Reyna's arm as he was allowing Reyna to take her time to come out of the statue so that the pain of coming out all at once won’t kill her. 

As Reyna’s left and right arms were finally out of the statute, next to come out slowly was her beautiful slightly puffy oval face as Reyna’s eyes remained closed.

Dragnior moved his face to get closer to Reyna to check and see if she was breathing, and she was. In happiness, Dragnior pushed his mouth onto Reyna’s as Reyna didn’t make a reaction back because she was unconscious. 

Dragnior kept pulling Reyna lightly as her upper body was now out of the dragon’s mouth. Surprisingly, Reyna’s lower body came out without much time as Dragnior yanked Reyna away from his mother’s statue and rushed to the other side of the Throne Room so that his mother couldn’t decide to take Reyna back.

“ZAHN! JAMES! SYRAH!”  Dragnior yelled out 

As if everyone heard their names, everyone whose names were called immediately ran to the Throne Room in a hurry regardless of what they were doing. They were scared of what could make the all powerful Dragnior yell. 

Was he going crazy?

As everyone opened the doors to the Throne Room in panic, everyone’s face fell in relief and a spark of hope shined in their hearts as they saw a woman in the arms of Dragnior as Dragnior’s green eyes stared dangerously at the group. 

Zahn almost choked on his own gasp as he realized who the woman in Dragnior’s arms was… his mother. 

“MOM!” Zahn yelled

Dragnior moves Reyna from out of his arms and onto the floor so that everyone could get a good look at her… Reyna looked a little different from when his mother took her away.

“Where did she come from?!” James questioned as he rushed over to Reyna with Syrah by his side 

Syrah felt tears forming in her eyes as she was happy that her master and Queen were alright and that there was nothing wrong with her. Reyna was in perfect condition. 

“Mother returned her to us… I guess whatever they had to speak about was done now.” Dragnior spoke

“Do you know what Royal Empress may have wanted with Reyna?” James asked confused 

Dragnior shook his head no as Zahn kept looking at Reyna weirdly. Feeling like there was something wrong and different about Reyna, Zahn used his dragon eyes to look closer at the weird looking Reyna before his eyes widened and he decided to yell. 

“DAD SHE’S CHANGING!”

It was as if something had awoken in Reyna after coming back from the dragon realm where she stayed under the time span of a week, within the body of Reyna, everything in her DNA started to mold itself differently than it had once before. 

The bones in Reyna’s body started to shift as her once slightly weakened and damaged bones straightened themselves out as they recovered their own structures with more calcium to render them stronger than before. 

Her blood that consisted of red blood cells that were pumping throughout the body from the heart, slowly started to make themselves smaller and turn into a different color as her body no longer had any human aspects to it. 

Her brain that had multiple nerves and synapses providing information throughout the rest of her body slowly started to kill themselves within the brain cells and quickly replaced the neural pathways with different ones, which reset Reyna’s brain and helped her achieve more information that her own body was keeping away from her until she was ready. 

Reyna’s oval face started to reshape itself as the facial bones also shifted as well as the other bones, which made Reyna’s cheekbones sit higher up, causing her once puff out cheeks to slim down giving her a sharp deep feature of seduction as her face no longer had a slight childish aspect. 

She looked dangerously sexy. 

The long wavy brown hair that laid on Reyna’s head started to change colors. 

Because of the sudden change of her neuro pathways changing their course and providing different information to spread throughout the body making everything change, Reyna’s hair also followed suit as her long brown hair was now turning the color of white… 

Reyna could not feel her body going through these changes because she was still unconscious from Queen Irma transporting her body back to the human realm. 

Their Queen was changing right in front of their faces. 

Dragnior couldn’t help but look at Reyna with even more love and devotion as he wanted to scoop up Reyna from the floor he placed her on and kiss her dearly. 

Physically Reyna was absolutely a different person as she no longer had any physical traits from the Reyna everyone has once seen.

Even though the group watching over Reyna were in awe and shock about everything, down the hallway in the Dining Hall laid a Eva that was yelling in pain. 

Eva was in the middle of teaching the servants their lessons when suddenly she was struck with a weird pain as it felt like her heart was burning from a fire. Eva fell to the ground yelling and crying in pain as she has never felt this before. 

Eva has given birth, was whipped almost to death, got stabbed with a sword multiple times, almost bleed out to death. But none of those things could compare to the pain she was feeling right now.

The servants around Eva were scared as they all moved to find things that might help their new Queen Mother. Eva opened her eyes to look around the room as she couldn’t comprehend what the hell could have happened to her, until a thought crossed her mind. 

Reyna… 

“WHERE THE f**k IS MY DAUGHTER!” Eva yelled

The servants stopped their movement and turned their attention back to Eva as she yelled out wanting to know about her daughter. The last time they checked, the Queen was still missing and she was nowhere to be seen. 

As the servants were about to answer her, a loud bang came from the doorway of the Dining Hall as everyone saw the young prince Zahn there panting with sweat while huffing trying to catch his breath. 

“M-Mother! S-She’s back!” Zahn yelled 

All the servants didn't register the information at first, but Eva did. Eva closed her eyes and smiled in relief as she knew that her daughter was alright. But what was wrong with her? 

As Eva was smiling at her thoughts, the information finally collected itself with the servant’s heads and they started cheering. 

“The queen is back!” 

“HAIL THE QUEEN!” 

“Where is the Queen?!"

At the question of the servant, Zahn shook his head no and everyone frowned. 

“Right now the Queen is changing physically and we do not know what exactly is happening.” 

THAT'S WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME! Eva thought to herself as she opened her eyes quickly and looked over at Zahn 

Reyna must’ve found out something about the Blood of Conexion while she was away,  Eva thought to herself as she felt her burning heart starting to cool down. 

Swallowing her spit and trying to ignore the vast amount of sweat on her forehead, Eva tried to think about what exactly Reyna could’ve found out about herself. 

Does Reyna know that she’s not actually a human? Does Reyna know that she carries the blood of the woman who could unite every Kingdom in this world? WHAT DID REYNA FIND OUT?!

Starting to get paranoid, Eva watched as Zahn ran over to her. Zahn couldn’t just sit there and watch his grandmother struggle on the floor. Reach his arms around her, Zahn smiled at Eva and he slowly started to guide her up to her feet. 

“Thank you.”

Zahn simply nodded his head and began walking Eva over to a chair where she could sit down at. 

“Is everything okay?” Zahn asked Eva 

Eva only looked at him. 

For the first time in forever, Eva was scared. Eva was scared because she knew what type of person she gave birth to years ago underneath the brightest stars that connected to help push out a little baby girl. Eva clutched at her heart even though her heart wasn't burning anymore. 

Eva gave birth to a monster. 

The power that Reyna has inside of her could be what unites all the Kingdoms for peace, or what could gather people to destroy, including humans themselves. Reyna didn’t know anything that she has within her, but whatever Reyna found out about herself while she was away gave her access to unlock what she truly is… 

Reyna unlocked the monster inside of her… 

Eva's face started to frown by itself as she could feel herself begin to cry. 

Her innocent little daughter will never be the same again...