The Dragon Saviour

Chapter 11

Drake’s POV-

Kenneth and I walked quietly to the palace, and then up to meet with Robert in his office. I was actually a little nervous about seeing him again. I kissed his daughter at school, in front of many of his people and my own people. She also said that she was my girlfriend. So, our relationship has changed a lot, but I still need to speak with her about it. I just hope he doesn’t go nuts about it, if he has heard what happened at school.

We knocked on Robert’s office door, and he called out, “Enter,” to us.

We opened the door and entered his office. Robert was sitting at his desk just doing some work. He gestured for us to take seats opposite him at his desk. We took seats after closing the door. We waited in silence, while he finished what he was doing on his laptop, before he looked at us properly. He glared at me for a split second. Oh, great, he had heard about the kiss. It made me gulp, which he noticed. He smirked, “Don’t be so nervous, Drake. Yes, I heard what happened at school today, but as long as you are respectable, and it stays in your pants until she turns eighteen, then I do not mind you two dating, you are fated mates after all.”

He pointed at my pants, when he said “it”, I knew he meant my d**k. He is a guy, after all, he knows exactly what us guys think. He was taking this better than I thought he would. I honestly was expecting him to beat the crap out of me for kissing his little girl. Though I had a feeling that Violet had a talk with him about it, she seemed highly more accepting, especially when it came to fate. I smiled, “You have my word, nothing like that will happen until then. I want to wait till she feels the full mate bond, as I do.”

“Good, just don’t go kissing in front of me, and keep staying in your own rooms. I don’t think I will be able to restrain my Lycan then,” Robert warned.

I nodded in understanding. I am sort of relieved that he was alright with us being together. Robert smiled, “Now the whole father/daughter’s boyfriend thing is out of the way, should we get down to business?”

“Yes, that would be great. I had my meeting with my council so I thought I would come and speak with you about it,” I said.

“Did it go well? I suspect you have some requests about certain things, so let’s hear them and I will see what I can do,” he stated.

I nodded, “It did go well. Mr Hemming stopped by so he could show me the blueprints for my future palace. I love the designs. I actually have four things to talk to you about.”

“I am glad you like the designs. I believe that Elisa had some input on the design of your palace. Certainly, her mother’s daughter loved to design things. Now, let’s go through those four things one at a time, see what we can do about them,” he replied, as I made a mental note to thank Elisa for giving her input.

“So, the first thing is, Marcelo, my people’s historian, and my council member, would like access to the dragon scrolls and tomes which are being held in your vaults. He would like to research something on my behalf,” I explained the first request, which I felt was the most important.

Robert nodded, “It isn’t exactly a vault, it is more of an archive, it is just forbidden to enter unless you are the royal, Beta, or Gamma families. The only other way to have access is for the King or Queen at the time to give you permission to enter the archives. Tell him he will have access. I will have Beta Quinn come collect him tomorrow, say 10am. He will take him to the Lycan Royal archives, which is where it all is. May I ask why?”

“I will have Kenneth tell him. Yes, I want to see what we have on the Dragon Saviour, to see if we can give you and Violet more information. Next, we have a request to be able to have private training sessions in your warriors building for dragons only. We understand and are grateful for the training you are giving us, but you can’t teach us to fight in flight, or to control our fire breathing. We need to be able to train our young for that,” I kept a certain confidence that only came with that of a leader, as I spoke.

He smiled, nodding, “I will get Beta Quinn to go over the schedule with me and see when we can give the warrior building to you, weekly, so that your people can train in that way. As for the information to do with the Dragon Saviour, could any information you do find be run by Violet and I first before you tell Elisa?”

“Of course, I will, but I will not keep it a secret from her. If Kenneth is present when you go over the schedule, then he can take the information and inform the council members that are my best warriors and in charge of training my people,” I replied.

“I will make sure to have him present for that. There are still two more requests, so what are they,” Robert inquired.

"Yes, the next one is, our farmers have requested farming tools, and fruit and vegetable seeds, so they can do some crop growing, where it would be appropriate for them to grow the crops too,” I asked.

“Well, I can make an order today for farming tools. I take it they would prefer hand farming tools-none of these tractors. As for the seeds, I will get fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Now, for where, Mr Hemming is expanding your village towards my people’s village, your palace is being built between my palace and your village, so that leaves the side near the woods, you could grow the fruit and vegetables there,” Robert responded.

I nodded, “They actually were kind enough to write a list of all the equipment they would need, to save us time.”

I handed him the list, and he quickly looked over the list, nodding his head, “This will certainly help me do the order. If you let your people know where, and then when the equipment and seeds turn up, you can begin the farming.”

“Thank you, Robert. Now, the final request, some of the women want to travel to the Sanctuary mall, but they are worried that they could get attacked while there. With everything the vampires have done in the past five years, they are afraid of getting attacked,” I explained.

“I can understand that the Sanctuary mall is meant to be a place where all the species can get along, but sadly, it is not the first time that there have been attacks there. Violet got attacked there by the Hybrid, King Victor’s son, while she was pregnant with Elijah and Elisa. So, how about on a Saturday, once every other week, we arrange a shuttle bus, to take your people there with some of my warriors,” Robert suggested.

I agreed, “That suggestion is good. We can work with that. Why did the Hybrid attack Violet?”

“Well, Quinn and I will make arrangements with our warriors, say for this Saturday, if you inform your people, to be here at the palace by say 10am. The Hybrid believed that Violet was rightfully his mate, which wasn’t the case, but when he found out that she was pregnant with both a boy and a girl, he decided that the girl would become his mate. Violet killed him to protect our children,” Robert told us.

I growled at the idea that someone else had tried to forcibly steal my mate when she was only an infant. I guess the fact that the asshole was dead is a good thing, because over my dead body will anyone or anything take her away from me. I noticed that Robert was smirking. I guess the fact that I growled showed him that I would do anything to protect her. Honestly, I would protect her with my life. I knew that all too well.

I nodded, we made quick work of the requests from my people. I helped Robert with the ordering of the equipment and seeds. He wanted me to learn how to use the ordering system that they use. It was slightly different to the dragon one I was trained to use. But it was actually a lot easier to use. Quinn came in, and we spent the rest of the afternoon organising time for the warriors building, and a group of warriors to escort the dragon women to the mall that Saturday. Quinn then went to find Marcelo, so he could take him to the archives, rather than Kenneth telling him.

“Well, with all our work done, you boys can go have some fun now, relax,” Robert grinned.

“We have homework to do, once we have made the notifications,” I smiled.

“Oh god, I hate homework,” Kenneth groaned.

I chuckled, “Well, maybe do the notifications first, and then do the homework. I have already looked over it, and it is easy.”

He groaned again, “Fine.”

Robert and I were laughing at Kenneth, as Quinn returned after escorting Marcelo to the Lycan Royal Archives. We talked for awhile longer, but then Robert went silent, for awhile. I grew concerned for him. After a few moments, he looked at me and said, “My scouts have returned with their report. They are coming up the stairs to see us. So, if you want to hang around for the report, you are welcome too.”

We nodded, and I got up from my chair, eagerly pacing the room. I couldn’t get out of my head, there was a bad feeling, I knew something bad had happened. I could feel it. Robert and Kenneth both tried to calm me down, but everything they said fell on deaf ears. I really did not want to listen to anything but that report now. God, what was taking them so long? Robert gripped my shoulders, and I looked at him, and said, “What?”

“Sit down, and rest. They are coming from the border, it will take them another five minutes to get here,” Robert told me.

I huffed, I needed to know now what happened. But I did what he told me, and I sat down on the sofa in his office. My knee kept bouncing uncontrollably. I was nervous and worried. I just felt that this was going to be bad news. I would certainly need to either be left alone after this, or I would need to be held by my mate. She will probably be the only one to calm me down, and keep me from either losing my s**t, or going into a catatonic state. She has done it before. I know she can do it. God, please don’t let this be bad news. I don’t want Elisa to think I am weak. I can’t let anyone see me break down.

Time honestly seemed to slow, it was like I was being tortured by time, it really dragged while I was sitting waiting for the scouts to arrive. Finally, there was a knock at the door. Charles enters first, looking directly at Robert and Quinn. I think he is mindlinking them something, but thanks to their years of practice with mindlinking, they do not give away any facial expressions, making it hard for Kenneth and I to decipher what they are saying.

But when the two scouts walked into Robert’s office, their eyes looked at mine, and I could instantly see the sorrow and grief in their eyes. I gulped, Kenneth too. This was bad news. Please, God know what happened? I tried to steady myself, and calm my nerves, long enough for me to ask, “What happened? What did you see?”