Flying to the Dragon's Land

Under the dark starry sky, the group of dragons was flying to the cold North at enormous speed. The first one was carrying his own King with his precious load. Sienna was feeling the cold air hitting her face as she sat on the back of the big black dragon. She tried to protect her face with her hands, but they were getting cold too. Her eyes were tearing from the strong wind, so she tried to keep them closed. It was so different to the Eagle or Vulture fly! 

Sienna felt the strong hand clenched around her waist. She was supported from the back by the Dragon King. She tried not to lean on him. He was a stranger after all!

"He wanted to burn my entire Crystal City just for fun! He is not normal." she thought disturbed." Is he so cruel or just emotionless? Or is he so dumb and prideful, willing to end people at his whim? I need to be careful not to enrage him. This will be hard! "She sighed in her mind.

Sienna tried to hold her head up but was getting tired. She felt quite on guard around him, but as the Dragon King did not do anything out of order for a while, she kind of got used to him holding her. The day was long and she felt exhausted as her body was fighting the sleepiness. Sienna wiggled when she felt her head drop slightly on Dragon King's shoulder; she felt adrenalin coming in and lifted it quickly! She was doing this for what felt like hours... till the strange Dragon King touched her cheek from behind with the back of his hand.

"You are freezing, Sienna!" he said calmly. He took his scaly leather-like cape and put it over her shoulders. Sienna felt the manly smell from it, it smelled like cedar tree and sandalwood, it was really warm, and it felt so strange to have some other man's scent on her, but she was grateful for the heat even if it came from his body.

"Thank you, Your Majesty," she said quietly.

The warm cape made her feel sleepy even more, her head started to fall against her will, but the King held her forehead and pressed it on his chest, "You can rest, we have still a long way to fly, don't be shy." he said calmly.

"Thank you, your Majesty." She murmured tiredly. She did not call him "my King" instinctively because he felt too distant. She did not feel like acknowledging him this way." Your Majesty is less personal..." she thought half sleeping. Sienna closed her eyes finally allowing herself to rest. She was snoozing peacefully in the arms of the one who wanted to kill her!

The serious Dragon King watched the soft body in his hands...She was resting on his chest as if having no worries in the world. Her hair smelled of strawberries and was getting wet from the moisture in the clouds, so the King covered her head in the cape clumsily and twisted her sleeping body to lean on him a bit roughly...

"Hey, be more gentle!"His dragon suddenly growled in his mind.

"What is your problem?"The Dragon King asked surprised. His dragon could go on for months without speaking to him. 

"I like her! She is a brave little Queen and she liked me!" the Black Dragon said confidently.

"No females like dragons! She was probably scared and stared at you."The Dragon King shook his head in a scoff.

"No! We had a magical moment till you changed into grumpy yourself and scared her off! Now she is wary of you. Be nicer. I liked it when she smiled. I want to hear her laughter!"His Black Dragon said in his mind firmly.

"Laughter?"The King asked in unbelief at his dragon's weird request.

"Yes, that strange noise which is missing from our kingdom for a long time..." his dragon hissed...."Don't you think of hurting her!"

"You know why I need her..." the Dragon King murmured." She has blue eyes and golden hair."

"I do not agree. "The dragon growled.

"I have to try it..." the Dragon King muttered blindly.

"You killed way too many! There is no chance!"The Black Dragon was raging in his mind.

"Maybe this one will be different."The Dragon King shook his shoulder nonchalantly.

"You must be doing something wrong."The dragon said firmly."Only fools do the same thing all over again and expect a different result!" he shook his big scaly head...

"I will do what I was told will work..."The Dragon King hissed through his teeth stubbornly.

"You should ask a proper sorcerer, not a crazy palm-reading market hag!" the Black Dragon shook his head.

"She came strongly recommended! And there is no more time!"The King bit his lips." Besides it was your idea to banish the few witches we had left from our Kingdom." he added.

"They were selling deadly poisons, they were herbalists, not witches. How can you be so dumb? Look what that hag did to you? To our Kingdom? You are way too proud even thou you are not a good King anymore! You become a burden to our kingdom! I will drop us from the sky if you hurt this Queen!" the Black Dragon decided to threaten his human form.

"Fine, I will try to be gentle."The Dragon King bit his lips. There was no point in arguing with his Black Dragon, he would do what he wanted anyway and he could not affect his human form without consent till he was sober.

"You better be because I'm getting fed up with this! I'm missing on life..." the dragon snorted.

"How can you be so soft? You are the dragon! The family comes always first..."The Dragon King shook his head at their ridiculous conversation. His Black Dragon never got involved this much in his bidding even if he did not agree with him!

"And I said my heart first. You already made me a monster. I have enough!"The dragon was getting angry.

"You know I have no choice..."The Dragon King said quietly.

"You will ask her for help first. She is definitely more clever than you!"The Black Dragon growled.

The King frowned but then he looked at Sienna's beautiful face and his expression softened a little."I hope you will survive this..." he thought.

"And you will be dead if she does not..." the Black Dragon growled. He felt deep remorse within his heart and the fire of anger burning inside his veins...He decided to betray the body he was part of. He did not like being a monster, because he felt Sienna's kind heart. It shone brighter than her beauty to him. It was like a star calling him home. Hurting her would destroy his already dented heart and make him unwilling to exist.

The dragons flew for most of the night, to the country covered in thick sparkling snow. In the pure contrast with the Dragon's King's black heart...He unloaded the sleeping woman in his arms and took her to the bedroom he had always ready for such occasions. The lavish room for her short stay with a beautifully painted ceiling... The Dragon King placed sleeping Sienna into the bed and looked up. The painted princess with blue eyes and golden hair was so similar to the one lying in the bed. "If she were awake, it might look like a mirror reflection." he grinned in his mind.

"Just get out and let her rest."The dragon in King's mind shook his head."You are acting weird!"

The Dragon King went to his bedroom. It was covered in dust. He did not care much for life anymore...he was emotionless. He rarely slept and hunted with rage, his life was eloped by the cloud of cruelty and bad dreams where he heard the screams of those who he betrayed in his twisted righteousness. He was truly a monster suffering with himself.

"Hey, get someone to clean this place up."His dragon snorted."You have a full castle of useless servants. Get them to work again! They walk over your head with their laziness. I do not want you to embarrass me in front of her." he sneered.

"Hm, are they?"The Dragon King awoke from his thoughts. He stared at his disarrayed room as if he had come to a strange place. His dragon was right!

"Everyone here!"The Dragon King shouted. The servants and warriors within the castle gathered at his door."What is this? Clean up everyone. We have a guest." he raged and went to hunt. He killed a deer in the snowy forest and watched its blood form droplets in the white snow. "So beautiful, yet deadly." he thought.

"Just eat and do not think. Your thoughts worry me...you are half crazy." the Black Dragon sighed. "I have to keep her safe." he thought in secret.