The Dragon

I stood in front of everybody in the village and everyone's eyes were on me. Standing there with my black dress and black high heels I felt lost.

'Everyone go back to what you're doing, don't pay me any mind.' I tried to laugh off the tension, but people were hesitant to go back to what they were doing. I guess when you're known as an evil queen who took over the lands, being chill isn't exactly the energy you spread.

I tapped the red haired guard on the shoulders and he gave me his hand and guided me away from the statue.

'Is something the matter my queen? You don't seem quite like yourself today.'

Well of course, I'm not the evil queen, I'm just another boring person from earth.

I let out a sigh and figured it was probably time to ask him what his name was since referring to him as the red haired guard all day long wasn't exactly convenient. Maybe it was normal for the queen to not know the name of her guards right?

'I'm fine, uh what's your name again?' His eyes widened at the question and I could see there was a small smirk on his mouth.

'It's Chase. Your majesty.' He bowed to me, one hand on his chest, as he told me his name. It couldn't have been comfortable doing that in a suit of armor, but hey that was his job right?

'Chase. That's a nice name. Show me around the town will you Chase?' Still bowing he looked up at me with eyes filled with confusion.

He then quickly masked his confusion and stood straight again and replied, 'Of course, your majesty.'

We then walked around the village and I saw lots of things that would be in a medieval village. There were farmers, a blacksmith, I even spot a bookstore down the village. However they all had one thing in common.

Everyone in the village looked like they were starving with their thin bodies. You could also feel the weariness of their muscles as the slaved away tiling the soil, smashing hot iron and baking bread. Just looking at them makes me want to sweat.

I walked up towards a village woman who was working in the bakery with her husband. Both of them were as thin as twigs and were quite old to still be working. Back on earth people as old as them would be in retirement.

As they saw me coming they began to tremble and backed away from my touch. I was a bit annoyed by their attitude, why would they be afraid of me? Of course, I am currently in the body of the evil queen.

I guess they saw my expression and quickly bowed to the ground, their foreheads touching the dirty pavement.

'I beg your forgiveness, your majesty!' The couple shouted together which led to everyone in town looking our way.

In my black dress, it was the first dress I saw in the closet, I tightly grabbed my dress and felt my heart clench while looking at the couple. I quickly crouched down and held their hands bringing them back up to stand properly.

They flinched at my touch and were still trembling as I brought them back up.

Well isn't this fun. Everyone is scared of me and I could not even hold a proper conversation with anyone here or else they will flee in fear. I don't want to live like this.

Maybe if I show them that I am different from before they might treat me differently. I was about to tell them to calm down and that I wouldn't do anything to them, but then a high-pitched scream came from a woman at the edge of the village.

'It's the dragon! Everyone run!' The village was immediately in a state of panic. People were running left and right trying to retrieve their precious items before running for their lives.

I looked up to the sky where the villagers who saw the dragon pointed towards and in my vision I see red scales on a huge reptilian body. There was scorching hot fire breather out from its nostrils and it was approaching the village at an alarming rate.

Oh sh*t.

If only I was the real evil queen who had magical powers, then maybe I can do something to stop the dragon.

The dragon the landed with a loud BAM on the ground. The village was in chaos as people were running away from the direction of the dragon.

'Your majesty! Get behind me.' Chase said as he put his body in front of mine and immediately made a fighting stance with his sword pulled out from his waist to keep me safe from the dragon.

At that moment I tried to get everyone to calm down so there wouldn't be anyone trampled, that was when I saw a little child about 5 years of age falling to the ground. His parents were dragged away by the crowd and couldn't get back to their child as they shouted for help.

The dragon was breathing out fire from his mouth that lead to the houses of the villagers being on fire. Soon it saw the child that was left behind and crying alone on the ground. The dragon then stood on its four legs and was about to stomp on the child.

That was when my instincts kicked in. Without another thought I ran towards the child and grabbed him in my arms. I looked up and saw the dragon's foot was about to step on us.

'Your majesty!' Chase shouted. The last thing I saw was Chase holding out one hand toward me as if he could grab me from such a distance. My body won't move and I closed my eyes thinking I was about to die. Again.