Chapter Two

As they were moving out of the forest. Leslie asked

"Why are we running? "

"There are people coming here" replied Milo

"People are coming here? Why? " asked Leslie with a change in tone.

"To kill the child"

"Why? " asked again Leslie with a bit of suprise.

"Here is the short story. Kid is a prodigy. Family's enemies got jealous and sent assasins after them. Kid's family fought but lost so they set up a distraction and sent the kid through the river. Anyway that's what the mesage had for me. "

"What message? " asked Leslie

"Soul message. It was set for the person who touched the kid" replied Milo while adjusting the child in his arms.

After running for a while,

Suddenly Milo said

" Kid's name is Claude"

" Claude? There should be a second name too" asked the lady

"Yes, and it's what you guessed. it's Targaryean" said Milo with a sigh.

Even after guessing the kid's background she was still in shock after Milo confirmed her guess.

"We cannot take him with us. We already have our hands full with our problems. We don't have time to raise the kid. "

"We already have one foot in our graves. We cannot take responsibility for him. They will kill him too if they ever find out about him"

said Leslie.

As she said that she took a look at Claude,

He was as normal as an infant could be. But there was something different about him and you could see it in his eyes. They were amber colored but that wasn't what she was looking for rather it was the curiosity she could feel from him.

After staring at him for a while, she started giggling.

Milo said "What happened?"

"Nothing, just he is such a cute child" said Leslie

" Really, to me he is just trouble." retorted Milo.

"Cute or not, I wish we could have left him to his condition but we can't. " said Milo

" Why" asked Leslie doubtfully

"Beacause my soul got branded by the person who left the message. They said someone would come for him one day and if they don't we could raise him as our child."

" What a pitiful child! So now we have to raise him, don't we?" said Leslie. Though she liked Claude, but they had their own troubles.

"Maybe, he could be our solution. He could relieve us our troubles. Maybe, he...."

Milo didn't get to finish his words when Leslie interrupted him.

"You want to get him involved, a kid who doesn't even know his parents. What can he do? Are you getting senile? " Leslie said angrily

"Don't be so selfish and destroy a child's life" she continued.

Milo qietened down for a second.

" Maybe, i am reallly getting senile. I think i should accept the reality now. We don't get our all wishes fulfilled, do we?" said Milo with a smile as he turned towards Leslie.

Leslie heart pained when she saw him like that but there was nothing she could do. Console him, he didn't need that. She was too powerless to help him.

Milo began "Let's raise him as our son. What do you say, my wife?"

"No" Leslie promptly replied. "I am taking him as my disciple and then we will see whether he is qualified enough to carry our burdens"

Milo was stunned. He stuttered for a bit and then said

" What are you saying? Didn't you just rejected me earlier for my notions?"

"Yes, I did before but then i thought that if his family ever comes for him so what he is going to face would be tens or hundreds time difficult the problems we have. So why don't we train him a bit and see?"

"Well, you are right about that." said Milo

House Targaryen was one of the oldest houses in Dragon Realm. So they were right about the adversities Claude was going to face.

2 hours later

They came to foothills of a mountain range. In far distance, one could see a grand mansion. It was surrounded by trees and one could see wildlife roaming in the outskirts.

As they moved to the entarnce of the mansion, there came a weird creature running towards them. It had three heads and a body size of around 10 metres.

"Good boy. Did you guard properly?"

said Leslie.

It was her companion of many years, Cerebrus.

Cerebrus moved his heads and eyed the baby in Milo's arms curiously.

Leslie laughed as she saw this and said

" We've got a new house member today. So you have to protect him too. By the way, his name is Claude. Claude Targaryen."

Strangely Cerebrus nodded his head or heads as if he understood.

As they moved inside the gate of mansion, there was a sight to behold. A mansion out of the medieval period. There was a fountain in front of the main doors of mansion. Different types of flowers were planted in the gardens which gave it mansion a aesthetic touch.

Mansion was out of the ordinary too. You could see that at the entrance weremajestic doors. Designs were exquisitely crafted on the doors.

Leslie moved forward, lifted her hand and put it on a panel on the front doors. A dim light shone for a second and the doors started to move.

The trio made their way through the door with Cerebrus following closely behind.

Milo spoke first

" You want him as your disciple?"

Leslie replied without stopping

"Yes"

Milo waited for a second and said

" Then i will also accept him."

Leslie doubtfully

" Accept him for what?"

Milo took a breath and said with conviction

" Of couse, as a disciple"

Leslie couldn't believe what she heard. Her husband wanted to take her disciple as his disciple.

Leslie couldn't help but ask " Why?"

Milo explained" Since we couldn't solve our problems with individual power, maybe he could do it if we impart him with our every ounce of knowledge. "

Leslie frowned and said " It isn't common to have two masters"

Pointing towards Claude with his chin and said " He also isn't common"

Leslie thought for a second and let out a deep sigh said " Okay. Then he shall have two masters. And if he really understands our knowledge, maybe he could solve our problems."

Milo began to speak again " There was a boat, right? Let's see if there is something helpful for him."

Leslie took out the boat magically out of the thin air.

As Leslie started inspecting boat, Milo dragged a table and put Claude on it.

As he put Milo on the table, he heard Leslie shout " Milo, come here instantly."

Milo rapidly went next to her and as he saw the scene, his started breathing rapidly.

He caught Leslie's shoulder and said weakly

" L..Le..Le..Leslie, what are those?".

There were five ellipsoidal shaped eggs in front of him. But they weren't normal eggs, these eggs were around the size of a football. All of them had different colors and vibes. One of them was black, one was ice blue colored, one crimson colored, one was golden colored and one pure white colored.

Leslie replied to Milo's question with a shaky voice " Th..Th.. Those are Dr.. Dra... Dragon eggs!!"

As soon as she finished speaking, both of them looked towards Claude who was looking back at them with a slight smile on his face and with an expression as if mocking them.

" How's that? Are you suprised?"