Chosen By The Dragon Kings novel Chapter 66

Elora’s POV

Aldrin takes a stance in front me, his whip in hand. I feel my magic flow, as it charges at us. But I wasn’t even sure what I was doing and would need to rely heavily on instinct. Abigail blasts it with her magic making it hit the ground. The half Dragon shifter gets to his feet before whipping his tail at us knocking me off my feet before I could react. Beside the scales and tail he looked like a man.

He roars loudly before lunging, just as I lifted my sword, he lands on me, the blade slicing through his torso, and his face twisted in pain on top of me before Aldrin kicks him off, my sword ripping from his chest spraying the snow in blood, when we start to hear the echo of roars all around us. We were surrounded. Worst part was we couldn’t see them. Looking down at the Dragon slumped on his side I notice something strange my sword wasn’t enough to kill him, but he started changing, changing back to man before more eyes. I didn’t get a chance to figure out what was going on with him before another attacked.

Taking out Aldrin and biting into his arm. Aldrin was quick though and I could tell he was trained as he moved his body, making me wonder what it was he did all these years in hiding. We fight them off holding them back, but we weren’t a match for Dragon’s or even these half Dragons. I see a big ball of red and orange heading my way and I raise my sword on instinct the blade cutting through the flames, before purple light engulfed us. Looking up, I see that the sword acted as a shield blocking the fireball aimed at us.

Aldrin was using his whip expertly. The whip wrapping around another beasts neck and I don’t hesitate plunging the sword into its chest. The beast shriek falling to the ground but not before its teeth sink into my leg. I scream out in pain when suddenly they stop advancing, and I figure this one we took down must be the leader. The other three stop there advance staring at the Dragon fallen.

The beast screaming on the ground my legs bleeding profusely into the snow staining it red.

When something remarkable happens, it shifted back into human form, the man had skin the colour of Mocha, pitch black curly hair and dark brown reptilian eyes as his head snapped up. His scales disappearing and he looked normal, like any normal shifter man.

The other beasts start attacking again, and we use everything to keep them back but nothing we do kills them, I notice the other man I stabbed in the chest was now back in human form, he had looked familiar to me, yet I couldn’t understand why. The curly haired dark man that bit me screamed loudly above the wind.

“Grab the Fae woman” What the hell was going on. I see a few of the humans drop when they try to stop them turning for me. My heart clenching at the sight of my fallen people. I swing my sword at the man who gave the order slicing him down the chest. He shrieks when the other man tackles Aldrin, punching him in the face. I go to help him when I feel myself get yanked back by my hair.

“You’re coming with me pretty” He growls, and I throw my head back connecting with his face, just when we hear the mightiest of roars and I see fire rain down from the sky, Silas and Matitus dragons above us. Relief flooding me although I know I am in some deep shit when I get home. Matitus black dragon dives down grabbing one the mutated Dragons and picking him up with his talons before flying high and dropping him.

The ground shaking as the Dragon hits the ground. Shrieks from the other two as Silas drops in front of us blocking them from attacking.

For the first time ever, I see human’s run behind him, shielding themselves from the dragon’s, they felt safer with Silas the dragons they knew, then the ones trying to kill us.

A scream leaving my lips when I feel claws bite into my arm, pivoting I swing my sword. The man’s arm slicing off at the wrist like a hot knife through butter. He screams loudly and I Duck just in time as Silas tail whips through the air hitting him in the chest and sending him flying.

Silas growls menacingly at me and I could tell he was pissed off. Matitus lands on the other side of me on the snow. Everyone trapped between the two dragons and their wall of scales.

Aldrin shrieks, and I jump over Matitus tail ripping the man off him who was raining blow after blow down on him. He almost looked frenzied with the way he was punching Aldrin. We hit the snow and I get to my feet and raise my sword about to use it when Matitus voice cuts through the air.

“Dakari?” Matitus says making me look over my shoulder and I see he had shifted back. The man I was straddling with my sword above his head sits up, looking around my side at the name.

“Matitus is that you?” He asks in a deep voice that was hoarse like he hadn’t used it in years. I stand up and the man sits up. It was clear they knew each other. Matitus steps forward and I feel Silas move closer, wrapping his tail around my body like a snake and moving me underneath him between his front legs. He looks down at me, the hot air of his breath warming me slightly under his huge, scaled head.

“Aldrin” I call to him when Silas grabs his clothes with his sharp teeth lifting him off the ground.

Aldrin’s wife screams thinking Silas was about to eat him, but he doesn’t just places him on the ground next to her and she clutches his clothes shaking him. When his eyes flutter open, I let out the breath I was holding. His face swollen from the relentless blows this Dakari inflicted, but otherwise he was okay.

My eyes snap to Matitus and the man who were both staring at each other like they couldn’t believe their eyes, before Matitus grabs the man crushing him in a hug. The other man pats his back and I see a tear slip down his face.

“Brother” He says, and I look up at Silas gold dragon confused. I didn’t know they had siblings.

Abigail climbs over Silas big tail that was still trapping me. He growls at her but doesn’t do anything else. I assume she too, is also in trouble when he forces us home. I had no doubt he would make everyone turn around. But after what happened It wouldn’t be smart to continue.

Matitus turns around his arm wrapped around the mans, shoulder as he squeezes it. Matitus was completely naked standing in the snow. Abigail averts her eyes from Matitus, but I notice she openly stares at the other man who was also regarding her, an interested look in his eye.

“Elora, this is my brother Dakari, Dakari this is my mate Elora” He introduces us.

Silas growls and Dakari looks up at him before clearing his throat and I could see the fear in his eyes as Silas reptilian eyes watched him.

“Silas, I am sorry, but I didn’t know she was your mate” He defends himself. Silas growls his tail wrapping around me before he places me on his back away from the man. I walk along his scales sitting between his shoulders. I press my hands on his scales which were warm.

Matitus Shifts back and I see his brother climb up on him before he reaches a hand down to Abigail. She shakes her head and Matitus voice flits through my head.

“He won’t hurt her, tell her to climb up”

“Won’t hurt her he just tried to kill us” I tell him. Dakari looks over at me hearing what I said.

“I’m sorry, you have no idea what it is like being stuck like that. I should say thank you, your magic saved me I have been like that for over 70 years” He tells me, but I don’t trust him, and I am shocked at how easily Matitus just forgave him.

“What do you mean?” I ask. I stabbed him, I would hardly call that saving him.

“Your magic when you stabbed me. I will explain when we get home. We need to leave before they come back, they will come back Silas” He says looking at him. Silas head turning toward him, and he growls.

Silas angry voice runs through my head. “Tell your people to climb up, we need to leave” He growls at me. I flinch away from the anger in his words as they echo in my head.

I stand up walking along his back and down his tail.

“We are heading back, climb up on them they will take us home” I tell them. They all look uncertain but once Abigail took Dakari’s hand and let him pull her up the rest followed. Silas flew slowly, those that didn’t fit on them Matitus and Silas grabbed in their talons caging them in. We trekked hours to get to where we were but were back at the castle in minutes. Silas and Matitus landed next to the green houses letting the people stuck in their talons out before landing.