Chapter 36

Atlas was getting pretty upset with Aurinax when he found out what was going on. He made it so that Akira (Rose) could know her mate as soon as she reached an age where she was ready. Aurinax would be suitable for that role, but Aurinax is a whoremonger who is reckless and indiscreet. Atlas is mad, very mad. It seems Aurinax isn't even aware that two of his she-wolves are pregnant. Apparently, he does not give a damn about anyone but himself.

In the present, Atlas must confront Selena. He must offer to make these she-wolf hybrids so they will not die giving birth to a dragon.

I (Atlas) remember when sweet baby Akira was born to the queen of the green dragons. The dragon rogues were pounding their way into the castle, while the queen's husband was off fighting rogues in other areas of the kingdom.

For centuries, the elves have been the allies of the green dragons. It has even been said that there is elf blood running through the veins of the green dragon.

To ensure her tiny princess' safety, the Queen had an elf girl take the infant and put them both under an invisibility spell shortly after her birth. The young elf girl tried to lift the queen by herself, but the queen could not move after giving birth. The queen ordered the elf, clarifying that the matter was official, and they had to act to save Akira.

According to legend, Akira will be the one to bring the dragons together, as well as all the magical beings. The strongest warrior dragon was to be mated with her, and together the two of them would reunite the magical world.

The young elf girl's name is Elanor. She is only 15 years old; and she is a powerful fighter, but she is still very young. All the elves and dragons of adult age were fighting the rogues.

She put the newborn infant into a front pack and began walking deep into the woods with the invisibility cloak wrapped around her, hiding them from any would-be attackers. The plan was for Elanor to go to the Elven lands far away from where she lived, hide out with Akira, keep her dragon suppressed and raise the child as an elf.

Elanor was terrified of her own life and that of the princess of prophecy as well. The fighting and death were all around her, but she remained silent as she walked on tiptoes through the bodies of the dead. As Elanor holds her breath, she feels as though she cannot breathe, and when she can breathe, she will only experience a nightmare. However, this is not a nightmare.

Elanor took to the trees as elves were very nimble in their movement and could jump from branch to branch with ease. The baby is sleeping from having just been born and tired. Which has helped Elanor create a lot of distance between her and the castle and the war going on.

As the future princess of prophecy, the dragon rogues wanted her dead. They did not want to see unity among them. The head of the rogue dragons was the brother of the Emerald King, who was also the head of the rogue dragons.

He hated his brother, for he felt they had overlooked him as King and that the title had been his to have. In the days of kings and queens, many dragons were tired of the aristocracy. They wished they could return to the times when there were no kings and queens. There was a time when they lived in their own private family units.

The King's brother decided we should never have put one dragon above another. Now, the aristocracy wants to unite all magical beings. As far as the king's brother was concerned. The other magical beings aren't worth their time. The wolves smell like dead dogs. A witch is never to be trusted; the elves are only to be regarded as servants and no more.

There are too many magical communities, and none compared to the dragons, nor do the dragons want to socialize with other communities. It is time for the aristocracy to end, and that means the child from the prophesies needs to die.

Elanor was just about to cross the dragon's border into wolf pack land when she hears a woman yelling and crying. Elanor recognized the voice, it was her sister, not wanting the baby to get hurt while she fights off her sister's attacker.

She put the baby in the bushes next to the road for safety while she saved her sister. The assailant on her sister was a big, dirty dragon rogue. Elanor grabbed her knives and threw them into the dragon's head, he roared out of pain, and by the time she got back to the baby, the baby was gone.

Frantically Elanor searched but she never did find her, she felt like she had let the queen down. So, Elanor has been searching ever since that day for baby Akira.

Atlas was going to have to punish Aurinax, which hopefully will educate him on becoming a decent Dragon King.

Back at the King Reynolds' castle Clair says good night to the Queen. The Queen made certain to hug Clair before she left. Clair turned towards the bed after locking her door behind her.

Clair-

I am most likely to have trouble sleeping without Xander. Now that he has been sleeping with me, it feels more like punishment for me. I shake my head, trying not to think of his firm jaw, his warm full lips. Ugh Clair he needs to learn to respect you, not treat you like a breakable crystal. I also don't like being lied to. He tried to get me to believe the first warrior was his most talented warrior. However, that warrior was clearly not his finest.

There were a lot of things in my closet that needed to be hung up and I folded my underwear and nightwear into drawers. Having unpacked my bath supplies and having filled the bathtub with bubble bath, I slipped into the steaming water and absorbed the steam before closing my eyes and letting slumber rise inside me.