2 Stone fire mountains

The 4 hour car ride was mostly silent, I sat there looking out the windows watching the world go by. He hasn't said anything to me, he looks so disinterested. Should I say something? "When we arrive, what's the plan? Are we going on a tour of your home? Would we go see your village?" Continuing to look forward he huffed at my question as if it was one that was silly. "How long have you lived in the mountains?" This time not a peep but he rolled his eyes, I felt like I was a child asking if we are there yet. "Why do they call it stone fire mountains?" I asked hoping it would at least spark something more than the eye roll and grunt my previous questions received, just as I thought I'd get no reaction... he surprised me. "It's because the first clan to live there was called the stone fire clan, it consisted mostly of fire and earth dragons. The mountains became their safe haven and a safe house for other dragons during the war" that voice is so smooth and alluring but there is definitely an ice cold tone to it. I wonder why the fire dragons needed a safe haven, they were pretty much the reason the dragons were winning. Fire being the easiest way to kill most vampires, the easiest dragon for the vampires to kill were the water. We don't breath so we can hunt for them in any waters, and their water powers don't particularly do much to us either. "Can all dragons live together? Or do the powers mean they can't be together?" Drago turned his head to look at me, he stared quietly for a moment his lips pushed together to form a line. What is he thinking? "No, any dragon can live together. In fact some have mated to create even more powerful dragons that combine more than one element" he said looking straight ahead again. "If dragons can become even more powerful, why don't all dragons breed to create them?" Wait should I really be giving him any ideas, I shouldn't have said it. I look eagerly to see what his reply would be and his reaction to my idiocy! He was smiling? Smug? Why? What is he thinking?! "We are here princess, come".

When I looked outside I saw such a beautiful house, it was huge. Almost like a small English castle, it seems as though it's the perfect spot as we can see out into the mountains and the village down the hills. It's simply breath taking, the castle was made out of beautiful old stone bricks. We walk up to the huge wooden arched door, it reminded me of the castle entrance to a popular book about wizards. He opened the heavy looking door to reveal the inside of this old looking castle, it was modern. Really modern. An open plan house with a log burning fireplace and a massive 50" flatscreen hung on the wall, a beautiful modern kitchen with marble countertops and an island breakfast table also made of marble in the middle of the kitchen. It looks brand new. The chauffeur brought my bags in and placed them upstairs in what I assume will be my bedroom, I decided to follow him and have a look. My room was huge, with a four post bed and another large screen tv, it even had its own balcony. I must admit I wouldn't mind living in this house, the bed looks so big drago and myself could fit with enough room for us to sleep without touching each other. There's even an inbuilt wardrobe ! I'm in love, the wardrobe is bigger than my old bedroom! There's a beautiful Left Hand Chaise Longue In a velvet cream in the middle of the room, there's even a tv in the wardrobe! I feel like I'm on an episode of cribs! As I look at all the extravagant cloths, shoes and jewellery in the wardrobe I notice that there's no male cloths. I wonder back down stairs to see drago outside on the phone, I decide not to bother him and wonder over to the kitchen fridge to have a raid of some snacks. You see vampires can eat human food and it tastes alright but it doesn't feed us, its more for entertainment or to humanise us in the eyes of our prey. After grabbing an apple I sit on the island table and wait for him, "Get it done!" I hear him shout then proceed to walk in. "Who was that?" I asked curious as to why he was so moody and what he wanted done, "nothing that concerns you, did you like the house?" Hmm a change of subject, I can tell by the tone he doesn't really care about my answer. Douche. "Lovely, I do have one question though, why aren't your cloths in the wardrobe?" I asked as I take another bite of the juicy apple, "that's because it is your room, my room is across the hall" my room? Married but not sharing a room? How strange, not that I'm complaining. He's rather rude and clearly isn't interested in what I have to say, it will be nice to have my own space. "Husband and wife with different rooms? That's a new one on me" I say jestingly hoping to get some answers from him. "We May be married but I'm not interested in having a relationship with you, this is purely a business deal which saves my people. Besides I like my own space and I don't want some blood sucking leech hanging around me" blood sucking leech ! BLOOD SUCKING LEECH! "I may need blood to survive but I assure you that I have manors and I don't drink them till they die, I only ever take enough to fill my hunger! In fact people enjoy being fed from because it's erotic for them! I don't expect an emotionless brute to understand the delicate and complex ways of a vampire." He turned round and pushed me against the wall, his hands either side of my face on the wall. As handsome as he is, I can see why he installs fear to some people. He has beautiful big green eyes, you could melt in them but right now they are emotionless and dark. The eyes of a killer. "This is my house, you will respect me or I will send you back to your covern In a box. Do you understand me?" He said with an calm tone, but you could hear the ice in it, the hatred. "You can't hurt me, you'll violate the treaty. You forget I am also of royal blood and deserve respect. Do not call me a leech again and we should be fine, do you understand me?" I tried my best to stay calm and sound together but this is not a place I want to be. This man is responsible for kills thousands of my kind and taking great pleasure in doing so. I must keep my head. "Hmmf" He grunted and walked away, he walked out into the garden and picked up the phone. Great, not been here 10 minutes and I've already angered him. How am I going to live here, I'm already board. I'll go take a nap.

Knock, knock.

"Princess Sapphire, are you in there?" A female voice asked after knocking on my bedroom door, I had better get up. "Come in" I say, curious to see who it was. A muscular lady came in, she had blond shoulder length hair tired into a ponytail. She looked like she was about 6ft tall and sting muscular limbs, she must be a bodybuilder or something. "Good morning your highness, I am Lily the maid. I'm here to clean your room then take you into town to show you around" maid? she looks like an athlete, still if it means I get to explore.. "hi! That would be great, you can skip cleaning my room. I'm excited to see the town" I jumped eagerly at the opportunity to explore. "very well princess, follow me. If you have any questions please ask" she said taking a bow, she's nice, I like her. As we walked down the road heading to the village I had many questions for her, like why the people are so tall and built. "So lily why are the people here so.... tall and..... toned?" She let out a little giggle " because we are dragons princess, it's in our dna. The stronger the dragon the taller and more muscular they normally are" hmm so at 6ft 9 or 7ft drago must be powerful, of course what do I expect from the blood king. But lily is rather tall and bulky, she must be pretty powerful. "Please call me saph, no need for formalities if we are going to be spending a lot of time together." She stopped walking and looked at me "thank you princ-Saph. I thought you'd be so-never mind thank you" while walking I notice quite a few of the dragons we giving me disapproving looks. " lily, why do these people look at me like I'm about to steal their souls?" She didn't look at me, she couldn't I guess. " because you're a vampire, many of your kind has slaughtered ours and well drank our blood or turned out hides into trophy's. Dragons see vampires as... heartless" heartless... "hahaha pardon the pun, happy accident or deliberate?" I asked chuckling away to myself. She looked at me like I had three heads, " you seem different to normal vampires, you seem nice" well she isn't lying, a lot of vampires have no respect for their kills. Dragons blood is an acquired taste but very sought after as many think it's superb. I cant say I've tried it, to me blood is a personal thing. Not something I wish to share with something that is essential a step up from a low life creature, the hides do go for a lot of money depending on the breed of dragon. Water being easy to kill isn't really worth all that much, earth is a bit more expensive, lightning, fire and wind are very lucrative. There used to be rare dragons like night and metal dragons but those are long gone. legend has it they were almost impossible to kill, but my great grandfather made it his mission to slaughter them all. We have a room filled with dragon heads, horned teeth, hides etc. I've never killed a dragon although I've been trained to, being a female born vampire my father wrapped me in cotton wool like I was a china vase.

After spending the day with lily, we really got on. I can see we are going to be good friends, while on our way back to the castle a large earth dragon landed in front of me. He was about 20-25 meters tall, his wing span was rather impressive. You can tell his breed because he has brownish scales and is sticky like a Clydesdale horse verses a race horse. Not very fast but very powerful, know to control the earth element they make a powerful foe, but not unstoppable. He had a face full of horns like a Norwegian ridgetail and spines down his back which ended to a point at the tip of his tail. It roared a fearsome roar, it was clearly displeased I was here. Suddenly lily jumped in front of me, still in human form. Brave or stupid. "Why is she here! That creature is to be locked away so we don't have to smell it, see it or hear it!" Lily looked pissed " Like it or not she's married to the king, you will give her respect. Or do I need to get drago out here and you can explain to him that you are threatening his wife?" With a mighty roar the dragon flew off, "thank you" I said to lily, she stuck up for me and it feels nice. Maybe not all dragons are vile brutes.

The rest of the evening was uneventful, there was one question burning in my mind. Blood.

I walked up to drago who was playing with his phone on the sofa, "what do I do about blood? I'm thirsty and I'd rather not drink the blood of dragons" he stopped typing immediately and looked at me, like he was confused by what I had said. "Well it's good to hear my people don't need to worry about their blood, can you not drink an animal?" Animal? What is this a film? He think I'm going to sparkle in the sunlight too? "We don't drink animal blood, that's vulgar to even think about, I wouldn't make you eat mouldy food" "fine, there's a small human town a few 100 miles east of here. Do you need a car?" It's fine I can run, It will only take a couple hours at most-" He Looked pissed, he stood up and walked toward me "you will not, you belong to me now. I don't simply let my property leave on its own accord, how do I know you will come back? Plus you could get hurt" "awh are you worried about little old me drago?" I said closing the space between us playing with the collar of his shirt. He grabbed my hand and pulled me to him with a sly smirk, " darling, I simply don't like other people touching my things, plus as you've said I can't harm you or allow you to be harmed or the treaty is off. I don't care about you" hmm true "that may be so drago but a car will take way too long, I need to get there tonight while they are still at clubs. So I can take actually eat without breaking any human laws" he stood there for a while with his meaty paw stroking his chin thinking. "Fine. I will have a dragon fly you there, it will take less time than running. On one condition though" a condition for me to eat, because riding on a big lizard back isn't a pain in the arse as it is. "Alright I'll bite, what's the condition?" He pulls my face up with one hand while leaning down to whisper in my ear " I want to come and watch you hunt" great because there's nothing more off putting than someone watching you eat. "Fine but you need to stay back so my chosen person can't see you" He released me creating a gap between us "deal" he said smiling. He pulls out his phone a dials, "lets get you fed then shall we?"