Surviving Against the Odds

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All I can do for a few moments is blink at my mother, taking in everything she has said, everything we know now. "The Oids and Maintoids have declared war on not just the Thrains but also the Draconians for taking and hunting her" I state to my mother. "I think they are just clueing into the cluster f**k they made. Let's not forget the humans are also angry, I have been studying the scout reports about the humans. Have you realized that they are on a death planet? They should not have survived this long, they are war like and it truly shocks me that they have managed to thrive and develop as they have. Humans are..... Resilient". my mother finishes in a fascinated tone.

SHIT!!!! I have to go, she will shift. I exclaim already running back to the medical room. If her Draconian side is awaking they have a shift form that closes would be a dragon from human mythology. Oh f**k, those myths are Holly's ancestors. They where able to shift only a few thousand years ago.

I am not even in the hall when I hear the yelling, she has shifted and isn't in the room any longer. I am so far out of my depth now Draconians are reclusive since the last civil war 50,000 years ago. I don't know how to help her, I just need to buy time I know my mother would have reached out to them and explained what's happening.This is a diplomatic mess on so many levels.

I see Kells holding the humans off down the hall, growling and swiping at anyone stupid enough to try and get by him.

DID YOU KNOW!!!! Kells yells into my head as soon as he sees me. Mother just informed me she is a Tribryde. Human, Thrain and Draconian, she is also their only heir and the True Princess of the Thrain. I can feel Kells shock through the bond. There is also an emergency council meeting to declare humans breeding slaves, mother is sending the fleet and is expecting the Draconians to be here shortly, I say to my still stunned bonded.

I get my first look at Holly around Kells, she is magnificent yet not what I expected.

She is now well over 8 feet tall, a huge change from her 5'3, she is covered in red scales that shimmering red, tapering down her arms into blue/black fur and five 4 inch clawed fingers. She has three swishing tails covered in what looks like fur scales and sipped with what looks like razor sharp spikes. She looks like no Draconian I have ever seen, they don't have fur. Finally I take in her face, OH God's, she has a double row of upper fangs, her face is elongated similar to out Battle Tigers, she has adorable whiskers along her blue/black fur scales, the whiskers them self are red like her pure scales. Her ears are the same fur color, similar to our cats with adorable tuffs of ruby red fur.

Suddenly our eyes meet and I feel like I've touched a live wire. Something clicks, I swear I can hear it inside me. Her eyes are the same glowing blue and I can't look away. Suddenly I relize what has happened, the mate bond is complete, that isn't possible, this isn't how the bond seals.

I'm blasted by her pain, she is in agony both physically and emotionally, she is scared, so damn scared. Her pain and fear have over whelmed me, I can't think, I can't process.

YOU NEED TO BREATH AND CALM Kell screams at me.

Suddenly I feel a new presence. You are her mate, you need to comfort her, calm her. She is still shifting, my bonded is only instincts right now and the humans tried to take the cub. We are confused, why is she shifting like this? I head a panicked female voice in my head, Kitty? I asked more confused, bonded it unbounded Battle Tigers can not speak to others, only their bonded and other Tigers.

Yes she replies quickly.

Holly is a Tribryde, Human, Thrain and Draconian she is the True Heir to both races. The Bonding and her deaths have awaken both sides. Mother is sending the fleet, and the Draconians will be coming. I say trying to calm her a bit as I push through the humans not caring where they land as I push the out of my way.

I stand before my marvelous mate as she looks down at me, her growl vibrating in my chest. I start the mate purr the one I used on Kepliar station. Kells and Kitty start purring with me, slowly I reach for her cured cheek stopping just out of whisker reach, letting her make the choice to to close the last of the space. Minutes pass as I wait, not stopping my purr, I'm starting to worry that she isn't going to accept me when she suddenly presses her cheek firmly to my hand. She makes a gravely purring sound, staying like that for a few moments as I'm lost in how soft her fur scales are, she is really warm but so soft to the touch.

The next moment she is gone, she has wrapped herself around kitty and her cub. Curled so her tails are in front of her face, they are still moving. The spikes glinting in the light and making a sharp noise when they drag across the tile floor.

She tenses, almost like a spam, I feel blinding pain rip across my every nerve. I know I'm feeling a fraction of her pain, how is she still conscious, I wonder in awh and fear. Huge wings unfurl from her back, they are red scaled and with blue/black fur. Spiked ridges along the spine of her wings and spikes on the tips similar to her tail spikes. She covers Kitty and her cub with her wing, complete encasing them, I have a feeling her scales are titanium strong and no one is getting through until she decides so.