Chapter 32 32
DAVINA ELM.
My biggest fear was losing my brother; that was why the presence of Dragon Sovereign was both good and bad. They would have chopped off my head if he didn't show up, but now that they finally came to know that indeed, he had been rescued from his cage, they would do everything in their power to fight him, which could lead him to destroying the fae realm, including my brother.
I didn't expect him to listen to me when he almost struck the fae councils, so he raised me into his arms and leapt instantly.
The heavy breeze awakened me, and I gripped his robe tighter, scared that I could slip from his arms to the floor. It didn't take long, and my stomach began rumbling, so I feared I would mess myself up, and continued tapping him to stop so I could put myself together.
“Are you alright?” he asked, standing firm on the floor.
With that last strength in me, I shifted aside and threw up heavily, only for blood to splatter the whole place. I thought I was losing my life at that point as my limbs became so weak, and I was ready to slump to the floor.
Dragon Sovereign reached towards me and smacked my back chest heavily, causing me to spill out more thick blood that covered the floor more. “You were poisoned with a cold iron and salt. So, if you are a sea fae, how come you can't even swim? It could also be why you stayed that long in the river but were still revived,” he uttered and smacked my back once again.
I was a sea fae? No wonder my mother always warned me not to consume anything prepared with salt, and I hadn't tried it for once. But the sea was salty, so why would I survive in a salty sea but get harmed by normal salt?
The blood I was spilling changed colour from dark red to peacock green. That was when I realised I had regained some amount of energy, which meant that I had expelled the poisonous toxins in my blood.
I turned to Dragon Sovereign, whose gaze was narrowed as he stared at me, and then I asked him, “Am I now your slave?”
He nodded.
“I missed the way to your chamber and was abducted. How did the faes get into your realm and be safe?” I asked, and he shrugged his shoulders. “Are you going to find my brother?”
His throat bobbled, and he averted his gaze. “Sure, I will. But for now, you must return to the realm successfully, because right now, we are surrounded by different species that are after my life. It seems your brother isn't the goal since they all now know that I had been rescued.”
Upon hearing those, I slowly darted my eyes around from one side to another. Warriors were coming from different corners, and they didn't seem to be only the faes. I saw the lycans, griffins, werewolves, faes, vampires, elves and the rest of them. Each of their steps on the floor made the ground we stood on vibrate, causing my heart to skip each time.
If this multitude pounced on us, would we survive? How strong was the Dragon Sovereign to fight and conquer them all?
The vampires stabilised their energy instantly, and as one rushed towards Dragon Sovereign, I stumbled backwards upon seeing his head rolling differently while his body pumped out blood as it lay lifeless on the ground.
With that, they all charged towards us forcefully. I feared I would be the Dragons' weakness, but there was nothing I could do. I dodged behind him several times, and the faes almost caught up with me, and I even got tired of hiding so much since I felt my chest exploding.
I gripped his robe so tight and shrieked to his ear, “Let's teleport out of here. They are too much.” But he grabbed me to his chest while still fighting the people after him. “Above is a cold iron barrier that would soon weaken my powers. I had sent for the other dragons, and I believe we would leave with time,” he responded, and that frightened me so much.
The cold irons are the greatest weakness of the dragons, which is why they avoid them so much. It could affect the faes when it's used on their skin, but no matter the distance it was from the dragons, it does affect them so much.
I feared this would be the end of us, and just like I rescued him, I would endanger his life once again. If he didn't come after me in the fae realm, they wouldn't have known of his rescue and come after him.
I didn't realise I was sobbing until I felt the hotness of my tears on my cheeks. And just then, something stirred in me, more like an anger that burned like a flame down to my fingers once again. I noticed my hair all standing and facing the sky, and the bravery I had never had all through my life overwhelmed me.
As I pulled my body away from the Sovereign, I looked up to the sky and saw those cold iron barriers he mentioned. My chest clenched and I faced one of the faes, recalling how they had executed every one of my clan for a stupid reason. I wanted to rip them all apart.
They all began stepping backwards as I faced them, but I wasn't just seeing people but prey. I wanted to devour them, or maybe watch them burn to ashes. The anger swelling in my chest was so much that I didn't even know when I let out a long scream with my eyes shut tight.
As I opened my eyes, I couldn't feel the hotness on my fingers, nor was my hair still standing in the sky. The whole person against us lay helpless on the ground, but I felt so weak as though my bones and muscles were hit mercilessly.
Slowly, I was drifting into darkness, no matter how I fought it. And when I finally couldn't stand it, I gave up on myself, and my mind shut down.
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I couldn't tell how much I had slept, but my dream wasn't a beautiful one. My brother's life was in danger, and no matter how much I cried, I couldn't even reach him. I feared he was dying, or that what I had done back to those species would cause the dragons to finally execute my brother.
Ofelia was seated beside me, wiping the tears I was shedding from my dreams. I held her hand, wailing it all out while she watched.
“How could you be crying this much? You slept for a day…” she said and took back her hand. “Stop it already, it's pissing me off. Shouldn't you be happy that you were saved?”
I shook my head because that wasn't my problem. “My brother is dying.”
“Never!” she slammed and began helping me to sit up. “Dragon Sovereign already sent his men after him. They will find out where he is and make sure no one ever touches him.”
But how was that true?
Every species has a weakness, and since they know that the dragons are affected by cold irons even from afar, wouldn't they use that to stop them from coming closer?
“I want to see my brother…” I broke into sobs again, but all Ofelia could do was pull me into her arms and begin comforting me.
After some hours, Dragon Sovereign showed up and dismissed Ofelia. He sat beside me as well and asked, looking so worn out by the recent stress. “How do you feel now? Too weak?”
I shook my head and then finally recalled what had happened to me back there. I looked at my fingers once again and asked him, “Do you know what happened to me?”
But he ignored me and just stared so much that I almost got pissed. When he got tired of staring, he stood and began leaving the room, which wasn't his chamber. What could it be about me that made him so speechless that way?
There was no way I was possessed, and it couldn't be my fae powers, or he would have told me.