Chapter 34: EXPLAIN!

Davyn:

After countless missions with bullets whizzing past our heads, bombs exploding feet from our locations, could not be compared to the fear that haunted our mates face. She fought back, playing coy as she tricked that “Asshole” into thinking she was fainting, kicking him away.

“That was a good one.” Mikkel chuckled darkly as we watched them disappear from the screen, jumping over to our private surveillance system on the rooftop.

“Okay, she got to the roof.” I pointed out as we watched her stumble through the steel door, shin busted to hell and back, but she darted towards the ledge.

“MOTHERFUCKER!” We growled darkly as Zek appeared at the last moment, slamming her to the ground by her beautiful locks, curling into a semi-ball as she held her stomach.

Turning our eyes away, knowing what happened next as that “Cocksucking-lizard prick” took off with her in a semi-conscious state.

Remember my warning about Mikkel and his suppressed anger, well let’s say the island became a rubble pile as the girls shifted back to protect the babies. Birgir and I had to subdue him, before he really exploded and then no one would be able to calm him, except Onyx.

“Get ahold of yourself. Our girls could get hurt.” I growled lowly in link as his body shuttered in a dark tremor, turning his enraged, glowing yellow orbs towards our innocent girls whimpering.

“Shit!” He exhaled in our holds as the elevator dinged, causing everyone to shift defensively as Nana and Hali stepped out the door.

“We come in “Peace”.” Hali held her hands up in surrender as Nana smacked her arm with a scowl.

“Excuse this brainless bear, she sometime forgets her manners.” Nana spoke sternly as she perked a brow at Hali’s mocked expression of hurt, rolling her eyes.

“Bear?” Everyone spoke in unison as our noses sniffed the air, sensing no “bear” scent or any other supernatural scent from the two ladies.

“Yeah. Nana is a Dragon too.” Hali pointed her thumb over her shoulder as we all snapped our eyes to Nana with a tilted frown, smacking Hali across the head.

“Ow! Why did you do that?” Hali groaned lowly as she bared her fangs at Nana for a split second, causing Nana to step forward with a deep chest growl.

“There’s a reason I mask my scent, Hali.” Nana snarled lowly as she ran her hands along the smoothed peppered locks tied into a secretary bun.

“Why is that? And does Onyx know about you?” Birgir crossed his arms over his puffed out chest, side glancing Mikkel and me.

“For her safety, no.” Nana replied as we shared confused expressions.

“Onyx” is Princess Onyx, last of the Royal Emerald Guardians.” She looked at us with warmth and love as her eyes trailed over the girls, sleeping soundly.

“I need a drink.” I exhaled darkly as Pap handed us a few scotches, gulping it down with a smooth huff of smoke.

“How do you know this?” Bryon spoke for us as we stared at each other with a realization of our situation.

“Kano was my mate.” She walked over to Pap, accepting the scotch he handed her with a deep scowl laced across his face at the mentioning of his brother.

“We should kill you NOW!” Birgir growled loudly, spooking the girls into whimpers.

Nana flicked her wrist, placing a barrier around her as Birgir and Mikkel slammed their fists against the flashing translucent orange bubble. She casually sipped her scotch, waiting for them to calm down as Byron stood next to me with a weird smirk.

“Why is it, every elder I meet is a “Bad Ass” woman?” Byron laughed darkly as Nana perked a curious brow at Byron.

“If you gentlemen are finished with your outburst, can I finish?” She asked waving her hand gracefully through the air with her glass of scotch.

“Whatever.” They scoffed as they stepped back, standing in a defensive stance.

“Chill.” I linked them, nodding at the calmness of Pap and Mam, along with Hali who was standing over by the girls, cooing at them softly.

“I am the one that alerted the Guardians of the planned attack, assisting in the escape of Onyx’s grandmother and her daughter, along with her mate. We got separated after the portals closed, finding myself in the middle of nowhere.” She stopped for second to breath slowly, holding her hand over her chest to calm her racing heart.

“From what Onyx shared with us as her memories returned, only solidified my suspicions of her identity.” Nana sat on the sofa with a sad smile.

“She watched her mother and older siblings be tortured and dismembered for their blood and organs.” Hali sat with Nana as tears slipped slowly down their cheeks.

“That must have been what triggered her first recession into child form.” Byron spoke as he looked at Lea with large tears dripping down her chin.

A firm grip on my shoulder, pulled me from a dark spiral into a raging darkness as Pap looked at us with that same “Be Strong” bullshit gaze he had given us so many times in that dungeon.

“The day she was sold over to a “Sex Trafficking Ring”, she broke loose from the transport and bolted.” Nana laughed softly as she wiped away her tears as Lea and Byron silently conversed in their link.

“That was the day Atlas ran into her in Vegas, literally.” Lea pointed to Byron, while she placed the pieces together leading up to them meeting Onyx the first time in Demon Wolf.

“Hang on. She had a memory flash back right before our trip.” Mikkel exhaled slowly as his hand shook with the glass of scotch as he took a long swig.

“What does that have to do with “Zek” taking her?” I growled darkly as Birgir gripped my shoulders, snarling lowly as we felt the heavy anchor sink through our chests.

“Actually, it’s very serious.” Nana stood with her hand cupping her chin, pacing slowly along the open floor between the sofa and elevator.

“I don’t like where this is going.” Mikkel linked Birgir and I as we nodded in agreement.

“Seeing who your Pap is, you already have been filled in on Kano and Zek’s relationship to you.” Nana pointed her finger towards Pap, talking to herself like a mental list of where to actually start, snapping her fingers as she turned towards us.

“Her pregnancy. How much do you know about her pregnancy?” Her eyes glowed a bright honey as we looked at one another with perked brows.

“Nine months, no nesting, no incubation, live birth like a normal human pregnancy.” We recited in unison as we began to pace in a nervous circle, watching everyone nod in agreement.

“Yes. Do you know “why” that is “NOT” normal?” Hali laughed softly as she looked at Jun, sniffing her closely.

“Dragons don’t give live birth. We birth eggs, nesting, then incubate until they hatch. Usually, twelve months in total of pregnancy.” Birgir spoke quizzically, side glancing between Mikkel and I with a tilted smirk.

“Evolution my good boys.” Pap smiled brightly as Mam gave him that “ Smartass” brow while she swayed with Keilani in her arms.

“Kano destroyed the realm, wiping out the Royal Guardians not realizing they were the key to breeding. Probably, after he killed the last remaining Guardian, hatchings slowly stopped.” Jun gasped loudly as she held onto to Dirk’s arm with those bright cobalt eyes.

“Jun, sweetheart. What is it?” Mom asked softly as she rubbed her back in a motherly fashion.

“Besides those “Assholes” feasting on us like a buffet to keep us in check, Kano and Zek spent a majority of their time in the underground laboratory, reading through old books and scrolls. One day a few months before Onyx appeared for the first time, Kano summoned Zek to the library talking about “hybrids” and “prophecy”.”

Jun’s brows pitched darkly as she scanned her memory about what she heard.

“Hybrids? Dragons can’t mate outside of the species.” I spoke coldly, feeling my heart fluttering in fear at where this was going.

“Dr. Amy.” Dirk growled lowly as his eyes darted along the floor with a scowled expression.

“Who?” We asked in curiosity.

“Some crazy, whack-job scientist they have working for them. I tell you guys, she gave me the heebie-jeebies, always dragging in the corpses of dragons and the “SMELL”. Gag!” Dirk grabbed his stomach as he literally gagged, remembering the smell this scientist was creating.

“Dirk, she was always taking blood from Onyx.” Jun growled lowly, grabbing his arms in realization at what was happening back then.

A deep grumbling growl roared from us, hearing another sicko touching our mate for some fucked up experiment.

“Easy Boys!” The guys approached us, trying to calm us down.

“Onyx is the last Guardian that can take back the Realm, and with all the changes we have witnessed, means the Dragon species will evolve. I have a feeling Kano discovered something in the Dragon archives about “her”.” Nana walked over to Jun, rubbing her arm with a soothing smile as her eyes snapped up to her with a mortified expression.

“Not good.” She whispered in panic as Jun broke down into heavy sobs.

“Will someone FUCKING EXPLAIN!!” Birgir slammed his fist through the wall with a small ball of green flame puffing from his nostrils.

Nana leaned into Jun’s ear whispering, nodding as Jun stuttered out her answers to Nana’s questions.