Chapter 48

Clair - -

Since I am mated to Prince Xander, I should have the Royal ability to mind link with everyone. I must find out how my brother got into this place. Since I just found him, I can't handle his death.

"Colt, what are you doing here?" I asked. Is everything alright? You look awful! I feel sick to my stomach. I wonder why we do not feel each other's pain like my brothers and their twins do. I am not looking at him, so that the rogues don’t realize we know each other.

I hear him groan as Xantara takes her first lash. I look over at my brother and I see a fresh lash on his back. I groan, he is her mate, their bond must be strong, he is experiencing her pain. “Colt, I am sorry, the Princess Xantara is being tortured, I forgot you are her mate. Try as best you can to keep it quiet, they will kill you if they find out you are her mate. Please I don’t want to lose you.”

Colt - “

“Clair, what kind of mate would I be, if I let her hurt, when I might be able to do something about it? I am going to see if the mate bond will let me take her lashes or at least most of them.”

Clair -

“I know you want to save your mate, but it will do her no good, if you kill yourself helping her.”

Colt was silent, and I figured he was probably working on the mate bond. Every so often I would hear him grunt, turning to look at him, I would see a new whiplash. I would see blood trickling down his back, like tributaries that flowed into one big stream. I just don’t know how much more he can take.

I mind link Xantara, “my brother is the wolf they were beating and threw in the cell. He realized you are here and is trying to take your lashes for you.” I hear the whip come down and through the mind link, I can feel anger. Whether it is at my brother or the rogue torturing her, I do not know.

Royals have magical powers bestowed upon them by the moon goddess. What we didn’t realize by my brother taking the torture with the wolfsbane, it gave Xantara’s wolf to surface.

Xantara - -

The power I did not know existed was palpable. My guess is that it has to do with the fact that I have a mate who took my pain and torture. Initially, he saw me as a damsel in distress, but this proved to be beneficial for me.

As I mentioned before, I could feel the power well up inside me like a bomb about to go off. The wolf needed to get out of here, and I felt a warmth that exploded with my fury, killing the tormentor, and blowing a hole through the walls. The forests here are not any forests, they are the magical forests of the red dragon.

Knowing I only have a limited amount of time, I run to the cells that contain my mate and Clair. While I unchained them both, my mate had passed out from all the wolfsbane he had taken in. With the lashes laced with wolfsbane, I could feel his pain. I needed to awaken him and get him to someone who could heal him. He cannot heal himself because his blood contains too much Wolf's bane.

I slapped his face, “Colt wake up now! We need to get out of here!” he didn’t wake up. This time I punched him in the face, which seemed to work as he came to with a groan. “What?” He said still half cognizant.

"Clair and I will assist you in walking, but we cannot carry you." I started to help lift him up when the sparks from being mates shot through me like electricity. He jumped back with me as well. I muttered something, at least that got his attention.

While looking around and getting my bearings, we hurriedly drag him to his feet, one arm on each of our shoulders. I can tell by the eternal small flames that we are in the Red Dragon Forest, and off in the distance must be the border between red and green dragon territories. In the distance, Emerald Gems are growing on trees. It is important that we get to that forest - these dragons are not violent like the red dragons.

I point towards the green forest, and we start to head that way. What I didn’t see was the red fairies. They are mischievous and under the red dragons rule. They are the size of a gnat and can be quite irritating. Some of the elders of the red fairies grow as big as a wasp.

“Stop it fairies what do you want of us?!” I screamed at them in annoyance. I could see Clair batting them off as well.

Everything the main fairy said the other fairies echoed. Answering the main fairy stated, “We want blood.” I hear the others echo they want blood.

“I didn’t think you drank from werewolves.”

I hear them spat in unison, “no werewolf blood is nasty and rank. We need unicorn blood.” They mimicked each other like an echo in a cave.

“Uh guys, I hate to disappoint you, but I don’t carry Unicorn blood around. Besides poor unicorns.”

“You have the descendants of the Melody; she was a unicorn shifter. She saved a male werewolf and they fell in love and had kids. Her and her wolf had 4 sets of twins and each child since her and her wolf have had four sets of twins. Your friends that are with you are part Unicorn.”

I hear Clair laugh, shaking her head. I can see she thinks they are mistaken or looney.

Clair - -

“I have never ever changed into a Unicorn. I am wolf through and through.”

I can see the red fairies like a swarm of insects head over to me. “You are her granddaughter, you are now in a magical forest, her blood radiates through the females.” The echo of radiates through females could be heard like a large buzz amongst the red fairies.

"Fairies, let's make an arrangement. I will give you a few vials of blood if you take us to the Emerald Forest to find a doctor. In truth, I don't think it'll help you, but those are my conditions. Please discuss it among yourselves."

As I listened to the wolves' chatter, I realized that if we weren't wolves, it would sound more like insects buzzing rather than the words they say. It's imperative they hurry, since the King of Rogues doesn't appear to be around. It's imperative we leave before he sees the explosion and realizes we are missing.

As they returned, the fairies said, "We need three vials."

"Okay, I will give you 3 vials, but we also need clothes for the extra vial."

The red fairies gathered again and discussed having clothes for us. The fairies agreed to have clothes for us. We were dressed in clothes that they had chosen for us as they snapped their fingers in unison. They dressed us as elves, with hats and everything. My response was to laugh and thank them. "Are we ready? “?” I asked. "We will follow."

Repositioning my brother's arm over my shoulder Xantara and I start to drag him along. Looking annoyed at us, the fairies made my brother fly like a balloon behind us. I wish I had my cell phone so that this could be posted online. My poor brother, I could see him fighting hard to not totally lose consciousness. Looking at Xantara I could see worry on her face each time she looked at my brother.

I started to tense as I heard a loud thunder of dragon wings, what if it is the red dragon?