the alarm was so loud that even luna woke up and looked at him in confusion.
"don't worry my love i will take care of whatever it is just rest" aiden assured luna before leaving the room. outside were his guards and they had grim looks,
"what is it? why did the alarm go off? who attacked?" aiden asked. the alarm was to alert them if anyone or anything attacked the royal palace.
"replying to his majesty king aiden shadowdragon de reptiliance, it is red poison cult elder they heard about her majesty queen luna giving birth to three eggs and they attacked the royal palace to steal the eggs away. the soldiers are fighting the cult members and trying to keep them away from here" the guard leader told aiden.
aiden was suddenly filled with rage so much that the bloodlust he had for the attacker was leaking out of his body making the guards around him shiver.
"where are they currently?" aiden asked
"the- the cult members are in the back garden but the leader is not present, we- we tried to track him but he just vanished and we were unable to track him again, i apologize for the incompetence to find him your majesty. i will accept any punishment you will bestow upon us." the guard leader said shuttering
"stay here and guard the room until i come back if anything happened to my queen or the eggs you will wish for a death but wont get any" aiden just glared at the guard group which all bowed and muttered 'yes our majesty' he then went towards the back garden where the fight was going on.
he glanced at the garden which was destroyed and covered with blood, dragon corpses and cult members bodies all lied there while the remaining fought. though the dead dragons were way too less in comparison to the cult member dead bodies.
"you dare try to take my children away from me!" aiden shouted as his energy erupted and covered the whole place. aiden wasn't a king at elemental strengthening stage for nothing. he was one of the mythical creatures that still roamed the land after half of lore was destroyed.
once aiden's energy was locked on each member of the red poison cult he began his slaughter. his two short swords he used were enough to kill thousands of people in minutes and the one present were in numbers of hundred and weak barely knight establishment to king establishment.
but aiden didn't killed them as soon as possible. he captured one here and there asking them about the leader and soon one of the cult member opened his mouth.
"he is affinated to darkness, he can used darkness to vanish and merge into shadows he has gone to get the eggs while we create a distraction. he is in the room where the queen is" it was enough for aiden to burn the cult member to ashes.
when the words registered in his brain dread drowned him as he instantly teleported to the room.
when aiden arrived in the room he was greted with his worst fear. his love, his queen was covered in blood from head to toe barely standing near the eggs. he was instantly by her side holding her
"i am sorry my love i am late! just hang on eat this pill you will be fine" aiden gave a medicinal pill to his queen but she just shook her head.
"it wont help, i can feel my soul leaving my body due to the curse that man casted on me. my king i don't have much time just promise me that you wont let anything happen to my kids." queen luna's words made aiden lose all his senses as he held her tighter
"no don't say that! just eat the pill i will call the royal physician he will treat your wounds and curse, you will be fine" aiden said with tears filling his eyes. he too knew it was too late but it was all his fault.
"just promise my love so that i can rest in peace," luna said in a weak voice.
"i- i promise don't leave me please" aiden sobbed as tears fell over his cheeks
"i have to, but before that lets kill that bastard who thought that i will let him take the eggs just like that without a fight" luna smiled as she used her last bit of energy to transform into her dragon form.
a beautiful ice phoenix appeared on the place luna was standing previously on, the phoenix looked around a room with its glowing blue eyes while aiden stood near the eggs still in tears. the sight he was witnessing would have made him proud and amazed if only his love wasn't covered in deep wounds and blood and wasn't dying.
"you think that i cant kill you?" a voice said from the shadows before a robed man appeared in front of the blue ice phoenix. though the person had a great being and high cultivation realm he was still covered in wounds. he was giving a warning but his whole body was trembling in fear as he glanced at both aiden and his wife.
"you! don't you dare move and let me kill you for hurting my queen and child!" aiden shouted in anger when he saw the person who attacked his wife.
"no! i will deal with him my love" his wife, the ice phoenix said in the dragon language. dragons cant speak human language while in dragon form so she was using dragon language.
"but you are wounded my love let me take care of him you should rest please" aiden pleded but he knew it was his wives last wish so he didn't moved from where he was. he wanted to shread the robed man into small bits and feed them to wild beast but he respected his wife enough to let her do what she wants on her last moments, even if it would kill him slowly every moment in the future.
"dark shadow dragon heed my call and kill the queen" the robed man said as a dragon made of shadows appeared behind him. luna also turned to the shadowdragon and roared in anger. using a fake shadow dragon to fight a phoenix the robed man was a fool! phoenix rules over all dragons, it was common knowledge.
the shadowdragon charged at luna while she easily blocked it even in her almost dying condition and with just a wave of her blue icy wings the shadow dragon was frozen before breaking into tiny pieces. luna then looked at the robed man and pointed her claw finger towards him. the robed man shivered in fear and tried to run away but he was stopped by a wall of fire which blocked all his paths.
"trying to flee? not before going over this king" aiden hissed in anger. if not for his wife's wish to kill the man herself, he would have tortured this person until he wished for death.
when the robed man heard what aiden said he stopped and suddenly began laughing.
"i cant flee? fine i will die but what will you do when the others come? i am weakest member of my cult's elder council, when i wont return they would send another to get the gifted egg and that time queen luna wont be around to wipe those tears" the robed man's laughter rang around the room before he was attacked by icicles that stabbed him all over his body killing him.
the words of the robed man were ringing in aiden's ears as he trembled in rage and grief. he turned his head towards his wife who was still in her dragon form. luna looked at him and gave him a grateful glance with a concerned one.
"its time for me to go my love, keep our children safe and don't mind that man's words. even if i am not around there will be our children with you. remember i love you always" luna said as she finally took her last breath and closed her eyes. the ice phoenix fell on the ground dead just as a loud scream left aiden's mouth in pain of losing his love and grief.
the scream held aiden's powers as it rang in whole capital city of dragon kingdom alerting everyone of the tragedy. aiden's mind wasn't working properly anymore as he transformed into his dragon and burned the dead body of the robed man. not even ashes remained but aiden's grief and fury went beyond calming.
he appeared in the garden where the last of battle was still happening and roared loudly, again his voice echoing in whole capital. everyone who were present were shaking in fear as they watched aiden glare at the cult members and then fire engulfed the whole place. the temperature and intensity of the fire phoenix was too much for even dragons much less the cult members who were humans. they all burned together but dragons were lucky enough to survive until they were out of the garden. the red poison cult was killed instantly after the fire touched them not even giving them a chance to scream.
aiden had went berserk in grief and after burning the whole garden he turned to the fleeing dragon soldiers. 'they were unable to save their queen just like me they deserved to die.' with this though aiden glared at them intending to kill as his bloodlust covered the whole area.