Chapter 143 CHAPTER 143
“I'm sorry Valyra, I shouldn't have –” I began.
“Your excuses mean nothing!” She snarled in my head and her roar made everyone stand still.
The dragon pen had been calm before; the dragons ignored the mass of Year One students heading towards the place where training was happening.
No danger in sight.
But now, everyone was getting their first lesson.
Don't stay around angry dragons.
Everyone began running while I stood there, holding onto a rock so I wouldn't get matched to death.
“So you're the one causing this madness.”
“Please leave me alone Asher,” I breathed, not even bothering to look at him.
“I'm just saying. If they kill you, they'll be doing this realm a favour. All you do is cause trouble wherever you go.”
And he was gone, leaving me with the three dragons flying towards me.
I could have run with everyone else, but deep down I knew it was futile.
Plus, Valyra held me down; her connection with me now served as a chain.
With the cave area now cleared, they stopped before me and the dragons behind them quietened.
All staring at me.
Fuck.
“Did you feel the pull that brought you here the first time?”
“It was really confusing so I don't really remember,” I answered, looking down and trembling.
“And the second time you were in danger. But there's been a hand guiding you all these while, you must have felt it.”
Then I remembered the situation with Styx that first time.
And a flurry of other memories even me going to Eruwan at the most important time.
“I… I remember.”
“That's a sacrifice we all made. The three of us put down fifty years of our lifespan so you could be guided home and what do you do with it?”
“I didn't have a choice Val, everything was trying to kill me.”
“And instead of talking to us, you decided to abandon your destiny and run away?” Another voice, female, older and coming from the blue dragon to my left boomed.
She was angrier than Valyra.
“I'm sorry, all of this is confusing and a bit too much. I don't even know why you guys made this sacrifice for me. Earth isn't paradise but at least I was surviving.”
The green dragon by my right scoffed.
“You were going to die. That's what was happening on earth,” Valyra said. “And as for why? I'll tell you. This realm is in trouble. My ancestors chose this place to settle in and now, a petty squabble between two idiots is going to destroy it if we don't intervene and it's your job to do that.”
“Whoa, whoa, slow down. My job?”
“Yes, Alira.”
“Thanks but I'll pass. You have so many options to choose from. Pass it on to someone else, thank you.”
“You dare to reject the claim of destiny on your soul?!” The angry woman bellowed, taking a step towards me.
But I was far gone.
Or suicidal, can't decide.
“Yes, and you know why? Because all this realm has ever done is push me towards death. And when it's not doing that, it's hurting me. Training is so draining I wonder what it's for. On top of that, you handed my mind and body to three men who are dragging me in several directions and hurting me today and loving me tomorrow! My parents? Murdered like chickens even though I've heard they served this same realm you're demanding that I serve. And the attacks? Every fucking time! I don't know who you've offended but someone has figured out that you chose me to save your realm and they're desperate to kill me so do both of us a favour and pass on the baton. I'm selfish and horrible and shorter than everyone else in here. I'll pass.”
I yanked off Valyra's hold one and walked away.
“Come back when you're feeling better!” Valyra said as I got closer to the exit, her voice less angry.
Like yes be angry but you're not escaping this.
The idea of being some chosen one messed with my head more than I could process as I headed to see the Principal as he'd asked me to.
It still shook my axis when I remembered our session last night.
I pulled my coat tighter to my body as I headed there.
But before I could, something covered the two suns and I looked up to see Florian's dragon.
Anger rose in my chest, hard and tense and I wished to have passed the trial already.
I would have climbed my own dragon and flown off.
But I couldn't, so I waited until the dragon landed before me and then I began moving.
“Wait! Alira! We have to talk!”
“I'll rather chew rocks,” I muttered under my breath and kept moving, going around the dragon while he tried to tie something I couldn't see.
Didn't bother to.
But he's a being of speed and soon he was next to me.
“I need to –”
“Ahhhh krrrrr!” I made loud screeching noises and began running.
“Princess please let me just –”
“Vummmmm sssss eeeee!”
“Damn.”
He left me alone and I took my pissed-off self to the Principal's office.
“I heard you made the dragons angry,” he said as I settled into the visitor's chair.
“I've been doing that to everyone so why not them too? Everyone hates Alira now.”
“An issue with your friends?”
“They're icing me out. Not even a peep from them. Since I couldn't tell them I was leaving, they feel like I don't deserve to hear from them anymore.”
“I interrogated them quite… harshly because I thought you did. That might be part of the reason.”
“Thanks for making my life worse. What did you need?”
“A report. I have to send one to the King, there have been several developments since you left.”
“Oh? What is that?”
“Don't worry, I'll fill you in later.” Then he pulled out writing materials and began asking me questions. “How did you manage to leave Drakkonia Miss Ferguson?”
Oh, it's an interrogation ‘interrogation’.
Cool.