Talking

I am shocked. Why would someone laugh about someone else's father dyeing. It sick. I still have my hands covering my mouth in horror as the man stops laughing and he looks at me with cold eyes.

" Haven't answered my question yet. Why is your dragon unslaved. Or not in battle. " he said coldly.

" I told you my father is from here. " I say my voice cracking. Moonlight frowns. He is angry I can feel the waves of anger coming from him.

" If your father is from here so are you. Now...  Let's go see the king. "He smirks and glared at Moonlight. He grabs my wrist in a firm grasp and I yelp in surprise. Moonlight growls deeply at the man. He raised his wings and growled even more loudly.

The man seemed a little frightened and let my wrist go.

" We will go to the king. We will not be fighting. " I say the same amount of ice in my voice as there should be. The man snorts.

" We'll see about that. " He begins to lead us through the horrible image my town has become.

The while inside is worse than I thought. The man that I assume is a government official does nothing when people scream for help. I wish I could help, there's just one of me. I stare at all the stuff that is going on. The stealing the pain.  I shutter. We approach a huge castle. The kings  castle, the place where you used to pick your dragon and you used to train them. Where it was a place of safety and security now is a place to a king.

" Is this the kingdom... Or castle to the king. " I ask with clear angry and disdain. The man sneers at me.

" I guess you picked your brick headed dragon from there once. " He sneers as he shots Moonlight a look of violence and anger. I hear him growl at him but I can feel a little fear from the mind link. He's worried they may hurt us. If they do force us in the war, what will happen? We would probably die. Obviously.

" Idiot" I hear Moonlight mutter to me. I nod   a little. We are nearing the castle. We go thru huge oak door before we come to a court yard. There are hedges of fighting dragons and humans. I cringe. What kind of decorations are those.

I stumble a little. I look down to see some upturned tiles. Or bricks. I snort at myself. We walk up to even bigger oak doors and the man pushes them open with some visible difficulty. He looks like he was sweating from the feat. We go down a hall way. The walls to the place before the king used to have cool and amazing holes in it and artwork.

Now they are all blocked off and a plain white. I cringe a little more. We are lead straight to the chosing room. There are now three door in the walls and there are many benches.

" You will wait here for the king to be ready with you. " He says. I look at him like he's crazy.

" No. Or I'll be leaving. I don't need to loiter around for the ' King ' to see me. " I say being extremely sassy. The man glares at me with fire in his eyes. He raises a hand to slap me but Moonlight slaps it with his tail. The man yells from the sudden attack. It would not have hurt, Moonlight has a thick tail not a whip tail.

" You are a disrespectful little whiner. You will wait. Then you will fight. " He says and turns around to leave.

" We'll see about that. " I mutter and glumly sit on a bench. Moonlight is majorly struggling. The castles wall are brushing his head and he's a little cramped up in here. The place has shrunk.

" Sorry Moonlight. " I say. I can finally feel the unbelievable grief invading my body. I slouch over and hide my face in my hands. Moonlight puts his tail on my lap. I pat it. I have not cried for a long fine. There was no reason to every thing was so great.

" I am so sorry. " Moonlight coo's at me. I pat his head gently.

" It's none of our faults. We didn't know that my dream was real. That the place was crazy. "I say. Moonlight agrees by nodding his huge head and hitting it on the roof. We sit there awhile. I don't say much but Moonlight coo's me the whole time. I pat his head after the coo's stop. A little man walks in. He has a dead look on his face.

" Aurora. The king will see you. Now. "He says and I get up.

" Alright. " I say. Moonlight begins to get up but then the little man says.

" Without the dragon."

" No! The dragon comes with me. " I say nearly yelling. The man Stares for a second. He nods a little. He leads us out of one of the three doors. We go down one, two, three, four, five hallways before we reach the... Throne room? The place has like one small chair and a few guards. All of them flinch as we enter. The man on the throne is not big but not small. He has a small beard. I don't like him.

" Aurora. " He says. I flinch. How does everyone know my name.

" How do you know my name?" I ask out of instinct.

" You are known by the general as a whining coward that flees the war. " He says in a cold drooling voice. I glare at him. Who would say that?

" Whose the general?" I ask. I don't really met his eyes.

" Gretchen.  She has a very powerful Midnight Fury dragon and she is the most loyal. You fled. " He says and I sigh inwardly.

" How could I have fled the war when I left five years ago. "I ask. The king rolls his eyes.

" Why are you here. To refuse to fight. "He asks. I shake my head.

" I came to see my father. He's dead. " I say. The king smiles a little.

" Then you will fight to avenge him. There all done. "  He says. The guards begin to haul me away.

" Hey wait! " I say. But before I can finish Moonlight roars loudly.