Chosen By The Dragon Kings

Chapter 56

Elora’s Pov

The day passed by quickly and it was good actually having things to do other than remain in the castle

under lock and key. Silas and Matitus allowed me to go help with the children in the afternoon, although

they refused to just let me be on my own, instead following me everywhere I went.

Silas also refused to allow me my own room again even though there were plenty of spare rooms

throughout the castle. After dinner and a shower, I lay on the floor in front of the fireplace with a book in

hand, yet I couldn’t concentrate on the words. Instead, I found myself pondering what that human girl

had said a couple days before about humans believing I was to kill the dragon kings and save them.

“What are you thinking about?” Asked Silas leaning over the side of the bed looking down at me. I had

intentionally kept my walls up not wanting them to invade my thoughts, yet I kept feeling them probing

trying to get in my head. Giving up I knew I wasn’t going to get any sleep without asking.

“Something one of the children said to me the other day,” I tell him.

“And what is that?” Silas asks.

“Did you know humans have stories and legends of their own about the fae with magic, about me?”

Silas seemed deep in thought for a second.

“I was aware but what did they say?”

“That the chosen one would rid the world of the Dragon kings,” I tell him. He growls softly and I see

Matitus sit up behind him.

“That’s what you have been thinking about? Do I need to sleep with a towel wrapped around my neck

to stop you from cutting it in my sleep?” Matitus asks raising an eyebrow at me.

“No, of course not,” I tell him, appalled at him even thinking I would actually try to kill someone.

“Then why are you thinking about it?” Silas asks.

“Everything has balance right, a loophole to take down the other species” Silas turns to me looking over

at me curiously, wondering where I was going with this. I felt Matitus looking at me too.

“Human mortality, vampires, the sunlight, werewolves, wolfsbane and fae were only given one life force

meaning we could die the same way as a human. So, it evened the playing field but what is your

weakness, we know witches it is their magic, use too much it will kill them but what about dragons” I

asked confused, trying to figure out how exactly they were going to restore the balance.

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means they kept it secret, or they were the superior species. Silas chuckles at my question and I can’t

believe I never asked before.

“What’s so funny?” I ask. Silas doesn’t answer but I am surprised when Dragus does.

“Dragons can only procreate with their mates, their fated mates” he answers so, that’s why they were a

dying species, mates were hard to come by, but yet I didn’t really see that as a weakness.

“But how do you kill a dragon?” I ask knowing they were immortal but surely there had to be away,

otherwise the entire place would be run solely by dragons. Silas growls and Dragus answers again

when Silas doesn’t.

“You have to kill their mate”

“But that makes no sense, Blaire died. Silas killed her yet you are all still alive”

“Yes, because we never marked her, she rejected us and didn’t bare our marks”

But that left another question, the girl from the warehouse. Her words about the chosen fae killing the

dragon kings. Did the humans really believe I would kill myself to save them?

“So, we break this curse, and the treaty is restored and the curse on the dragons is lifted?” Silas nods,

“That’s how it's supposed to work. The treaty was broken when Blaire rejected us. Part of the treaty

was that no person can be denied their true mate so when Blaire rejected us, she broke the treaty.

Which was able to start the war. I never would have been able to kill her unless she broke the treaty.

The treaty was bound by blood making it impossible for us to kill each other. When she broke the

treaty, I killed her husband as punishment for breaking our bond. Then Blaire cursed us, and I lost

control and killed her which started the war between the Dragons and the fae because Blaire was next

to rule” Silas said

“Then how do we break the curse on the Fae?” I ask wondering how any of this restores the balance

because how can the balance be restored if the fae have no magic?

“We don't,” Silas says.

“That doesn’t make sense, you said to break the curse on the fae I had to break the curse on the

dragons”

“You and Marian are all that is left, no other fae exist Elora”

I had a feeling he was wrong, surely two people can’t be the only fae left in existence otherwise what

would be the point of trying to break the curse.

“What about Dragon’s then, how many are left?” I ask curious to know exactly how close to extinction

they were.

“You’re looking at them,” Silas growls.

“So, you guys are all that’s left?” he nods, looking down sadly.

“How is that possible?”

“Because when Blaire cursed us a lot of the female dragons who found their mates killed themselves.

Didn’t see any reason to live on without being able to carry their children. Effectively killing off their

mates” Matitus growled, and I could feel his anger like the female dragons betrayed them.

“What about the male dragon that didn’t have mates?”

“They took anyone they could and marked them and killed them to end their lives”

“So why didn’t you do that?” I ask wondering why they saw any point in existence if they shared the

same beliefs.

“Because I trusted the Oracle.”

“Is that why you three took Male mates?”

“No, we are true mates just like you are ours,” Silas answers. I nod thinking it was strange maybe the

fates tied them together to stop the eradication of their kind like our ancestors did to the fae, removing

our magic so we blended in and remained hidden, but that left more questions because did that mean

the Fates knew all along the treaty was going to be broken? That a war would start? I suppose we will

never know those answers and just have to trust blindly that there is a bigger picture, just like humans

believe blindly of their own gods. Hope, that one word so many people cling to, what a dangerous thing

to have it either destroys us or makes us.

“What are you thinking about now?”

“You said earlier that Matitus lied, and you had to punish him, what did he lie about?”

Silas looked at Matitus, yet I could feel he forgave him for whatever he did already and Matitus forgave

Silas for what he forced him to endure.

“When I met Blaire, I thought it was the first time any of us had met her. I was wrong? Matitus met her

first, he knew of Blaire’s existence and kept it from me to protect her. He knew she was married and

didn’t want to disturb her peace; he knew I wouldn’t care that she was married, and he was worried I

would hurt her '' Silas says, laying back down and looking at the ceiling.

“Well turns out he was right I ended up killing her, but it pissed me off when I found out. I felt betrayed

by him so he was punished, I wish I could take back what I did but I can’t”

“And I have forgiven him so just leave it at that” Matitus answers effectively dropping the subject.

“We should get some sleep; we have to be up early,” Dragus says.

“Will you please sleep in the bed?” Matitus asks and I shake my head, I didn’t even want to be in the

room so they will have to settle for me sleeping on the rug or the lounge, though the rug was more

comfortable. Matitus sighs before hopping up and grabbing a duvet and pillow and tossing it to me. He

then chucks another log on the fire before climbing back in bed.