Chapter 41

The Red Dragon had lived centuries longer than any other dragon. However, he did not have his full wits about him. In the same way that a human becomes senile, so was the Red Dragon King. This made it easy for Andor the Emerald Dragon's brother to manipulate the Red Dragon King Almadine. Almadine couldn't see well and had mostly forgotten his memory.

Andor knew that King Almadine outlived his mate and all his children. What helps Andor is that the King doesn't remember his children dying. Andor convinces the Red Dragon King easily that he is his son and is helping his father rule the Kingdom.

There is a widely held belief that Andor rules from the throne with an iron fist. In Andor's mind, there is an overwhelming sense of loneliness, since his father makes his younger brother a priority over him. This feeling of loneliness became a feeling of hatred for his friends and family and for the world. Instead of feeling pain, he felt anger and hatred. Andor used that hatred to kill anyone and everyone.

During Andor's childhood, his father would read to him the prophecy of the green dragon. According to the prophecy, the green dragon would not be raised among her own kind. This hybrid will bring all the different magical species into one world and will unite them in harmony. Dragons will no longer live alone among dragons, and wolves will no longer live alone among wolves or any other type of magical being living alone in solitary packs.

The story told of when the green dragoness and the mighty gold dragon her mate, take down the dragon of hate with mighty swords of fire. After his father read that part, his father would look into his eyes and say to him, it is you they will come for unless you change your ways. Andor's father really was just trying to get Andor to quit picking on other whelps and to let go of the hate.

What Andor heard differed from what his father had said to him. Andor heard he was the evil king of prophecy, and that the child of prophecy would kill him. That is why she must die; he had a right to live as much as any other dragon.

Andor blamed his father and his brother for creating him. He blamed his mother for being weak and not defending him. She should have convinced his dad to let Andor rule the kingdom. It was rightfully his. Instead, she sat quietly next to his father and said absolutely nothing.

Andor reasoned with himself that these parents could not be his biological parents. His biological parents would not have chosen his younger brother over him. Each day at the dinner table with all the wolves, his anger festered until he could not hide it anymore. Today, he was making his mark; he had already taken over the Red Dragons Kingdom, his brother’s mate is about to give birth to the child of prophecy. This was now the time to kill them all and for the story of the prophecy to die.

He smiled as he watched the wolves around the tables fall over dead from the poison. He snuck into their food. He proudly pulls himself out of his chair at the table, heading over to the stairs to find his parents that would be in their room. Turning the handle to their door, it opened without the squeaking of the door. He was in socks without shoes as to muffle the sound of his feet.

His parents were sitting out on the balcony. They were so mesmerized by the surrounding beauty, they didn’t even notice Andor walk in. Andor had his long steel blade freshly sharpened to end the pathetic lives of his parents, or anyone else who stood in the way of him claiming the Emerald Kingdom.

When Andor raises his sword in the sunlight, it gleams brightly in the sun, and his parents look up surprised, but not soon enough to fight him off. The strength that Andor had in his hands was extreme. As he cut off their heads, their heads flew off the balconies into the forest. Seeing that he was one step closer to the Emerald throne at this moment, Andor turned to look satisfied.

Andor's men were not winning this battle, as he could hear them fighting in the distance. Andor was unprepared for a battle like this. He exterminated the royal couple that claimed to be his parents. When he finds his brother's mate, he could gut her of her young and then slice the young into pieces for the vermin to eat in the woods. This is if he finds her.

Andor summons his Captain of the Guard to talk to him about the upcoming queen's whereabouts. The captain stated that an elf rescued them, and he has men chasing them down, that the queen gave birth to a little girl.

Andor growled and sliced off the captain's head, killing him out of anger. He was determined to find that child. The baby princess's days are numbered until he can kill his niece.

Andor knew that his brother the King was out on pack business and was not around. His sister-in-law had escaped. Andor rounded up his troops and sent them back home. He was returning when the King and Queen least expected it. He now installed fear into the Emerald dragon kingdom, it made him feel powerful, to know that he could bring them nightmares.

When the Emerald King returned, it was up to him to figure out where his wife and their whelp were. His father and mother were now dead, and he knew who had done it. Taking a knee, he knelt as he stared at his parents'' dead bodies, headless weeping; he realized there was only a short amount of time left for him to cry.

It was imperative that he find his family and let his kingdom know they would bring the perpetrators to justice.

Besides putting an invisibility cloak around the queen, Elanor mind-linked her fellow elves to tell them where the queen was and to come protect her.

That is why when the elves knew the king had returned, they sent an emissary to the king to come and see his wife; She was being examined by the doctor resting from having her baby. Tears pouring from her eyes, she had sent her baby away to be protected from her evil brother-in-law.

The prophecies they had been told all their lives were coming genuine right before her eyes. She knew she could not even raise her own baby girl. Even though life isn't fair, the queen had to love her daughter enough not to let her be in danger, but far away and hidden. Even knowing this didn't lessen her pain. She knew it would depress her for a long time. She would always wonder where and how her baby girl was.