Chapter 122 CHAPTER 122
DRACO'S POV
My spine crawled with dread and guilt as I watched the swirling in the air gradually disappear.
I ran towards it, trying to hold still but my scream had literally broken the mirrors holding them together.
My body was threatening to shut down but I had to, needed to.. do something.
Anything to bring her back.
What else was I to do?
She can't leave, it makes no sense for her to come into my life and leave.
It doesn't work that way
Destiny can't be that cruel.
It's my fault that I didn't accept her properly, it's my fault that I allowed her to get hurt several times, it's my fault that I didn't let go of all my fears and embrace her thoroughly but this punishment was too great.
I refuse to accept it.
Another scream ripped out of my throat, making the glasses shatter further.
I dipped my shadows into the tiny swirl in the air that was dissipating, hoping to reach them but it was violently cut off, leaving a piece of me in the nether.
My claws grew impossibly longer as my dragon became painfully aware of what just happened.
He began flying towards this house and I knew if I don't stop it, he'll tear this building down to shreds in search of her.
But even though it hurts me to the core to say it, she's gone.
Alira is gone.
I don't know why I thought she'd stopped looking for a way back, that she'd accepted that she belongs to us and not that powerless dimension she was raised in.
I let down my guard, even allowed that bastard into my space.
Zade was supposed to be my friend.
We used to fight together on the battlefield, he saved my life many times and I saved his.
I thought that meant something.
So when he crawled out of his shell and came seeking me out, I was elated to indulge him.
It was another reason I saw Alira as a miracle.
She just made things happen regardless of how impossible they seemed.
Florian was no longer walking around with a dark cloud in his eyes, she brought out Zade from his self-imposed exile and me?
She chased away my nightmare, made me smile in the middle of the day for no fucking reason and yet, I gave excuses.
And he was there, ready to do anything for her.
Nothing was too much for him to do for her, which in retrospect, is the kind of love she deserves but fucking hell, this was too much.
My speed increased as I heard ShadowRider’s screech.
The bond between dragon and dragon kin is sacred but with Soul Tie mixed in, a lot of things kick up.
Just the way Styx is protective of her, he knows that she's a part of me, she completes me and he feels the burden of protecting her more than anyone else.
I've been stopping him from doing his duties and every time she gets in harm's way, I explain.
I control.
I stop him from burning the school to the ground.
But this?
She wasn't close to death's door or fighting poison.
She was gone.
Poof.
The bond between her and me, the one I woke up to this morning after our memorable night and felt, literally felt, was ripped in half, the other untraceable while I had a link that led nowhere in front of me.
ShadowRider flew above my head and I stilled, watching him fly over there.
“Shadow!” I screamed, watching his black, large frame cover the suns as he sailed past me, flapping his wings angrily.
In two seconds, he had passed.
He ignored my call.
“She's not there Shadow, she's gone. Destroying the house won't bring her back, besides we need the book to try and find her.”
I was lying and he knew it.
I don't know the dimension they went to and there are millions of those in existence.
I'll have to search every dimension, and hope by chance or luck I find the one she's in.
An impossible mission.
I remembered when I realised something was horribly wrong.
It wasn't even the missing book, it was the stupid doctor asking me about Alira three times this morning.
I waved him off and went about my day.
That disease was spreading faster than anyone could control it and now there was a large gate, separating the Lowlands from the rest.
The King was telling them they could die for all he cared and I didn't like that.
I wanted to help more than I already was and was in the middle of sending troops down there to administer the newfound vaccines when something clicked in my head.
An intuition, a need, something.
But I rushed back to my house and straight to that room.
The book was gone and I instantly knew why Zade had been in my house, looking around and asking me stupid questions.
If he wanted her all to himself, all he had to do was just ask, why take her to some place where she has to reduce herself to exist?
I watched in horror as ShadowRider destroyed his house.
It gave me a sickening satisfaction.
Serves him right.
Although that's quite stupid, he followed her to wherever they went and won't feel the impact of the new house I gave him being pummeled to the ground.
Soon people began gathering, asking me questions, looking to me for explanation.
“What happened Principal?” The doctor she hated so much asked me.
“Isn't that Zade's house? Why's your dragon tearing it apart?” Tessa asked.
“Wait, is Alira in there? I saw her, she was heading to Master Zade's house! Is she in there?” One of her classmates added, and all the voices were nearly driving me mad.
What the fuck do I tell the king?
No, I don't care about the old fool.
The question is, how do I go back to living without Alira Ferguson?
I looked around at the people who wanted answers and I couldn't come up with a lie, a diplomatic truth or anything to explain why ShadowRider was doing that
So I told them the truth.
Right before me, the impact of her three-month short stay with us unravelled.
She will be missed by many.