Qamar Kelzrecrynth
The blackness fades and is filled with a bright light, my sleep disrupted by a mournful howl.
I wake with a roar and leap to the skies and despite my wings being unused for hundreds of years they flap gracefully, and I lift off my wings carrying me as fast as possible, faster than I've ever flown before.
The howl-I've never heard such an awful thing not the sound itself that was beautiful, but that it means that our taw' am alruwh was in trouble and filled with despair.
We failed her.
It is the worst sound a dragon hears, our worst fear. The only thing that could rouse me from my hibernation.
My full name is Qamar Aikhtiar Batal Kelzrecrynth I am the warrior dragon, loyal soldier of the Malik Altiniyn-The Dragon King. I fly all day and night as fast as I can cursing the gods.
Why couldn't we be closer?
As a dragon I am huge as big as four elephants stacked on top of each other (I have actually seen that sight before) and humans only reach my ankle, so I have a large wingspan, but I feel like a tiny dragonet again, still learning to fly.
I roar with frustration and blast a large flame into the sky though still frustrated to not be with my taw' am alruwh but it calms me enough to fly carefully.
Finally, I smell her my taw'am alruwh, my soulmate.
Alcmene Argent
I wake at the sound of the most beautiful hum of a song. It's like a low rumbling hum. I am hypnotized by it climbing down and walk towards it humming the song with it.
I see a large dragon black as night with some navy-blue swirls. He's truly beautiful like night personified but he also looks dangerous, not to me as my instincts and beasts tell me but also by the soft gaze, he looks at me with.
I walk over to him and touch his nose and he lets me just staring at me with his cyan eyes letting me touch him even pushing his muzzle into my hand amazed I stroke his head in between his eyes a few times before running my hands all over his body. He stares at me though whole time, not angrily but amazed as if he believes I'll disappear if he lets me out of his sight. He nudges me closer to him and wraps his tail around me possessively but carefully. And as I touch his chest, he rumbles vibrating his hot scales against my hand.
Then he crouches and puts his wings to the ground. I step onto his back and grab a spike. He waits patiently for me to settle on. I sit on his shoulder blades in between his spikes and grab onto one with my right hand and with my left I stroke his back letting him know I'm ready.
He takes off lightly as if not to startle or shake me and he slowly descends into the night sky.
It is beautiful, mesmerizing being closer to the moon and stars. I feel the moon's strength and it just feels right. Being on with this dragon, and flying it feels like it was meant to be. I stand up on his back and he looks back worriedly. Then I feel a strong breeze and it knocks me off his back and I fall. I hear him dive after me as fast as he can but then I hear my bones breaking and a new voice in my head.
Stop anima gemella, for I am dragon. Let me fly.
I can tell she was talking to the dragon to, not me. But then I realize what she said. Anima gemella-Soul Mate. I can't have two mates and Eli isn't dead. He can't be my mate. But then the dragon speaks back.
But mate, you are falling. I cannot let you be hurt.
Then I shift into a dragon. I am ten times larger than my hybrid wolf with a wingspan the size of a small mesa. My scales are a silvery blue color and I have dark blue wing membranes. I beat my wings and fly higher and bump playfully into my mate. And he bumps back, then we fly together, and dance and play in the night sky the moon lighting up and reflecting off of my silver blue scales. Then we sing my higher melodious voice mixing well with his low crooning. We begin to soar down, and I shift into a human and he presses me into his chest and wraps around me keeping me warm and safe as I fall asleep.
I wake up drowsily surprisingly warm even for me. Then I feel a warm vibration against my back and press into it. I turn over and open my eyes and see a large chest and slightly tanned skin. I jump back and look at it. A large, muscled man who must be 6'6 and a bodybuilder. He has long shiny black hair with waves. He's gorgeous but not my mate.
Mate. All my beasts respond objectively.
Okay he is my mate, but he's not Eli.
"And who the hell do you think you are?" I snap angrily
He wakes with a start and smiles at me. But when he sees my glare, and he bows his head, "What did I do?"
I almost feel bad when I hear his sad tone. Though my beasts are busy swooning over his voice with a weird but sexy accent. But I ask again. "Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Qamar Aikhtiar Batal Kelzrecrynth I am the warrior dragon loyal soldier of the Almalik Altiniyn. The dragon king." He sounds proud and puffs up. He looks at me expecting me to be impressed however I didn't really understand. But he looked so proud I decided to let him have it I smile proudly, and I let my beasts talk for me.
"My beautiful sexy warrior mate." Then I take control again.
"So, bye." Then I shift into a wolf and run but after a few steps she stops and looks back and nods at him to follow. I see him light up like a goddamn Christmas tree and his eyes narrow to slits letting me know his dragon is up to play. He motions for me to go ahead and I hear him say. "Sa'attbieuk dayiman taw' am alruwh. Eashrat, tiseat, thamaniat, sabeat...Yarkud."
And I run as fast as I can, and I manage to steer clear of the rest of the group. Then I come up with a plan to lose him. I find a mesa that looks safe and steep and I shift into a human. Then I start to climb. As a kid I loved climbing, anything, and everything. Once I reach the top, I wait for Qamar to find me. It doesn't take long.
Qamar Kelzrecrynth
She doesn't know what she just got into. She just challenged me to chase her the second step in a dragon mating ritual, Alsayd or the hunt, the first being, Alraqsa or the dance. My dragon on the surface itching to break out of my skin.
I try and reason with myself she had no idea what she was doing and the human part of her probably didn't, but her animal, especially her dragon, side must have. I give her ten seconds before I start to track her letting my dragon take control of my body.
I remember this morning, and her hateful glare. It was awful I was almost positive she was going to reject me. That was a fate worse than death, to live forever without anything and unable to fall asleep with her alive.
I will prove myself to her.
I chase her down running as fast as I can, catching her scent I run faster closing my eyes and following my nose. I follow her scent to a mesa where her scents the strongest. I look up I see her heaving herself on top of the mesa and I worry. I trust her to know what she's doing, but her being in a possibly dangerous situation without me. I let my wings out and fly up on top and grab her.
"Caught you." I smirk at her and she wiggles trying to escape my grip. Then she jumps out surprising me and lands on the ground in a crouch. Then she runs off of the cliff as my wings go away and I land. I panic she's running way too fast and if her wings don't come in time they will dislocate, and she will fall. I sprint and try and catch her. She leaps off and I miss my hand just barely grazing her foot.
"No." I whisper, and I jump off too, I fall fast being as heavy as I am, and I get within arm's reach, but I never catch her, and I hear her body splat against the ground and blood pooling around her. I hear her heartbeat stop and mine with it as I slam into the ground next to her but I'm not dead as much as I wish to be. I heal way too quickly, being weak and wishing for physical pain over grief. I lost my mate before we mated, or I even was trusted with her name. And I still don't know the cause of her grief that made her howl.
I shift into my dragon and scorch the ground and burn her body. I fly away but come back to fall asleep near the spot she dies to remember my failure but, I cannot fall asleep. Which can mean only one thing, she's still alive, and my mate is more powerful than she seems.
I get up and shake my wings my dragon holding onto the hope that she's still out there. I fly to the mesa where we burned her, and we find a larger burn mark than what we left but there were no ashes or but a black spot in the shape of her body as though she had been set on fire.
Then a breeze blows, and I smell smoke and ashes but also her scent, stronger than if the fire had burned her but as though she was the fire.
I follow that scent as far as I can then the trail leads me into the sky and I fly up following it and when I get above the clouds, I see her but as a fire bird, a phoenix.
She is mesmerizing a large bird about the size of a deer, but her fire makes her seem much larger and light. She is dancing in the sun and her wings barely flap. Her fire burns a perfect mix of white, blue, yellow, and orange, with large aquamarine eyes.
She sings to me like a songbird and trills at me to join in. I am in shock for a second but then she shakes her head, and her eyes shine with a silver ring and she's off faster than light itself down and I lose her in the clouds.
Suddenly, I see a flare of fire and tuck my wings in and dive and shift into a body of a human with the wings of my dragon. I am diving fast now probably three hundred miles an hour. I finally catch her but don't make my presence known for worry she will run again, and I follow her silently back to the ground where she becomes a wolf and runs.
I fly overhead far enough behind her enough that she doesn't see me but close enough she doesn't leave my vision.
Then she becomes human again and I see her go into an abandoned building and I land nearby peeking through the windows until I can see and hear her.
I hear her talk and then I hear voices back most relieved and happy. But three are male voices and when they hug her, and I can't see her I burst through the window and wall and pull her away shielding her from their view with my wings. I growl at them and bare my teeth.
"Mine."
I hear my mate sigh and push me off of her, "Really, stronzo? Get off." She snaps tiredly and I let her go.
"But Mé what about Elijah?" I hear one guy ask and I narrow my eyes at him but then I growl that he talks about her and someone as though she is his.
"Mine." I growl again for emphasis.
She straightens and pushes me away. "I don't how that's going to work with him. My beasts still call him mate, but they also call this one mate."
I hate how she calls me 'this one' like I'm a stranger, like we aren't mates but I'm a random nuisance following her around. But I get over it because she also acknowledged me as her mate, granted she was extremely confused and apparently has another mate. but I don't see him, so we'll worry about that later.
"Mate, leave." I whine at her I really don't like her in the presence of others, not touching me and other men seeing her naked.
"No, Qamar. These are my family and friends. You can leave though." She waves her arm to the spot where I came in and I am hurt she doesn't want me near her.
I want to stay close, so I bring more of my human mind forth and bow my head, "I apologize taw' am alruwh. May I stay?" I ask quietly rumbling the words I keep my eyes averted.
"Sure, just be nice to my friends and don't touch me." She sighs and it hurts to hear she doesn't want me, her getting really close to rejecting me. I bow to her and nod my head keeping my eyes on her and I ignore the males. Then they form a circle and I sit behind my mate.
"Okay so where are we going next?" My mate starts out the discussion.
"We need to find a real shelter. The twins aren't going to keep going forever they are only eleven and are human." The other girl says looking over at the two young and I see my mate look over at them with fierce protectiveness and love that I am almost jealous. And it makes me more determined to win her over knowing she is capable of such passion.
I clear my throat, and everyone looks to me as though they forgot I was here, but I carry on, "I have a mountain a day's flight from here and inside it is very habitable, and we will all fit."
They look at each other and finally my mate speaks, "I will go with you there and check it out if it works, we will come back and pick up the others, got it?"
"Of course, rohi." I bow to her and I follow her down and out of the tree. Once we are on the ground I shift and, in my dragons, voice I rumble into her mind.
Hop on mate of mine.
I grin which probably looks terrifying but she jumps on my spike on joint of my foreleg and climbs up before I have a chance to bend down but she get onto my shoulders and clicks her tongue and kicks my shoulder letting me know to move, however I do not take kindly to being treated like a horse and I take off with no warning going up as fast and high as I can before I flip onto my back and free fall for a bit putting my magic underneath her like a safety net in case she falls. I hear her scream then I right myself and head north to my den. I hear her heartbeat settle and she screams into my mind.
Are you out of your goddamn mind? I could have fell I thought you passed out or was dead you fottuto bastardo.
Aw, you care, and I would never let you fall you were completely safe the whole time.
Stupido idioto, of course I care if you're alive you're MINE.
Yours, and you're mine.
I'm nobody's.
Agree to disagree.
I fly slowly, enjoying my time with her and I know she enjoys it too. I feel her fall asleep about three hours later and I wrap my magic around her and fly faster and by sunrise my mountain is in sight. I rumble trying to wake her nicely and she yells at me something in a different language, but I get the meaning 'shut up and let her sleep.'
I then put her down on the floor and she wines at the loss of my heat. I walk over to a stream that flows into my mountain and I drink before collecting some in a golden goblet I have hoarded for a while and I bring it over to her and gently shake her awake.
After mumbling a few curses and bitch slapping me she gets up. I offer her the water and she grabs it and gulps it all before noticing the cup.
"Holy mother of fuck! Where the hell did you get this?" She screams at me noticing the gold and gems.
I smirk my dragon proud of the cup I chose and loved showing off our riches. "I stole it 2,000 years ago."
"Fucking hell." She mumbles under her breath her attention turning to me, "How old are you and can I keep it?"
"I am only around 2,000 you lose track of the years after a bit and most of them I spent sleeping so it wasn't like I was really keeping track. You can have anything you find though I ask that it stays with you not given away or sold. Want to see some more and maybe the rest of my mountain?" I cock my head at her, smiling a little, my dragon really wanted to show off now.
"Of course." She replies almost eagerly, and I brought her to the nearest room which happened to be my treasure room.
She walks in and twirls looking around in awe and I have a hard time controlling myself then my mate in my hoard it is like a dream come true. She looks through some things and I almost preen when her jaw drops as she sees some crowns and a throne.
"Someone sure thinks highly of himself, doesn't he?" She accuses me teasingly.
I let out an amused rumble and tell her the truth behind that stuff. "It's all for you dragons typically hoard gold and jewel for power and eventually our mates but I went a little extra and stole those from a king who I really didn't like for my future mate."
She stares at me for a second before disappearing and I smell her nearby so I let her before I see her come out in an Egyptian golden dress made for the wife of a Pharaoh that ends up showing a lot of skin she puts on a crown that is made of nickel silver with onyx and moonstone jewels throughout and she sits on the azurite throne or rather lays across it her head resting on one arm rest and her legs hanging over the other and she smiles at me teasingly and tells me, "Get on your knees peasant."
I immediately walk over to her and drop to my knees kissing her stomach and when she lets out a moan it awakens the primal side of me, and I keep worshiping her exposed body and the gold on her breasts. I let out a growl when she sits up and knots her hands in my hair and pushes my head down to her sex.
I kiss her clit before waiting for her reaction and she tightens her grip on my hair pulling it a bit. The slight sting urges me on, and I suck her clit into my mouth running circles around it with my tongue and I reach a hand up and rub it against her wet center.
She moans then growls and pushes me further against her as her hips jerk towards me. I rumble my pleasure to her, and the vibrations make her have a mini orgasm before I push two fingers inside of her almost to the knuckle and I undulate my finger and end up rubbing her G-spot every so often and I nibble on her clit and suck harder my dragon rumbling again and she comes, exploding on my tongue as she lets out a loud groan that has a growly edge.
Her hands tighten and her thigh tremble and clench around my head making it almost impossible to breathe. Then she relaxes and pulls me up with her grip on my hair and stands and makes me sit before she sits on top of me.
I stroke her hair as she relaxes against me and I admire her face she takes a nap and I chuckle at her tiredness and I just stare at her and admire her features taking in and memorizing my mate. She's perfect but I know she has friends and a…a mate. She wakes up shortly not an extremely long nap and stares at me for a second and I can feel her mind whirring. She just slightly shrugs her shoulders and relaxes against me for a minute.
"As much as I enjoy holding you would you like to see the rest of my mountain? Though I am happy with never leaving I don't think your friends would like it nor would I really like them in here this is a room for a dragon and his mate nobody else, well maybe our young but even then, not forever." I ask her in a low tone though almost rambling. I can't help it she's perfect it amazing she even lets me be in her presence let alone touch her.
She gives me a dazzling smile that would bring a man to his knees. "Come on chair. Show me around."
So, I pick her up and try to carry her out. Try being the operative word. She's not heavy but she really doesn't want to be picked up. She wiggles and punches and kicks. Then she punches me near my shoulder and my arm goes limp and she falls out and lands in a crouch on the ground.
She grins and informs me, "A hit to the Brachial Plexus causes your opponent's arm to be paralyzed for an hour."
Then she runs and I stare at her for a second before jogging back up to her and grabbing her hand with my working arm. I guide her around my mountain showing her the few rooms I had in case I ever had a mate and kids before I slept.
The beds are outdated but more comfortable than hers were before as she informs me, making me growl and the world turn slightly red the thought that she was ever not treated like a goddess.
That night I go out and hunt and cook it on a fire. When she sleeps, she invited me to sleep with her and I did.
That night I hear whimpers and moans and no, not the sexy kind, the fearful and in pain kind. I woke up in panic and ready to kill but my mate is still asleep but crying and thrashing in pain. Her arms aren't moving at all though making it seem as though she is restrained.
I hate this. I can't help her by eliminating the threat because nothing is actually happening. I lay on top of her to stop the thrashing and I keep stroking her face hoping to calm her. Finally, after what feels like hours of this she relaxes and falls asleep again and I calm but I touch as much of her as possible all night worried and angry.
The next morning, I wake to my mate gone from the bed. I run around looking for her and I find her looking at the sky right before the sunrise you can just barely make out the stars. I sit behind her and I rub the small of her back before massaging her shoulders. I kiss her neck and she moves away from my touch and I know he is the cause for her sadness and pain. I move close to her again this time to her side before putting my head in her lap.
"Want to talk about him." I ask her almost hesitant and slightly angry at him for causing her this much pain.
"His name was-is-Elijah Asminioslykos. He was a guard at the MCI and was the son of the leader. He originally kidnapped me, but I know that he was terrified of his father and I would be too. He was annoying to say the least and I didn't really like him at the beginning. He was hot though different from you he had blond hair that was semi-long and golden skin, his eyes were almost a navy blue.
"He was never awful though he showed me almost kindness. Then he got his wolf and the mate bond clicked into place. He got me out for a night and let me run as a wolf. He shifted too. His wolf was a large black wolf, almost as big as me. He then let me drink from him.
Then we fucked and marked each other awakening my Phoenix. He snuck me back in and showed me even more kindness in secret eventually he snapped when his father told him of his breeding plans for me with other guys and he stole me from the MCI."
"After a day of nothing but touching me I convinced him to get my friends out too, so he did and as part of the deal I had to stay behind. He got everyone else out, but they had a huge army and eventually they got him and now he's being tortured by his father as he had as a kid.
Occasionally the mate bond brings me into his body trapped as a bystander but feeling his emotions and pain hearing his thoughts but unable to talk back to him or move. Because of my Phoenix he won't die so he is to be tortured physically and with the memories until I can get him out or I die for the final time." She looks up at me a single tear rolls down her cheek and I brush it away with my thumb and I wrap my arms around her waist, and we stay there until I hear her stomach growl.
"Want to come and hunt and shift with me you choose breakfast?" I ask softly and she nods and gets up shifting immediately into her wolf but after I shift, I realize that she changed into something different, a hybrid. A wolf with dragon wings, extra-long fangs, and fire in her fur or rather fire is her fur but when I touch her, she just feels warm and my dragon croons in my head,
the mate bond idiot, or else it would kill us. it will kill anything that isn't hers.
She then lifts her wings up and flaps them down hard and takes off me after her and I see her sniff the air for prey before she singles in on a moose five miles away. She swoops down and grabs it obviously controlling her fire as she rips it's throat out and flies up, she offers me a toothy wolf grin as best as she can with the buck in her mouth. We fly back to my mountain together before we fly back to collect her friends.
I'm fine with her friends personally but I much prefer my mate to myself, but whatever makes her happy. She has also gone through my treasure and taken to a ring of mine that has a moonstone gem on it but if you twist and lift there is a needle and a reservoir to put poison that she filled with her vampyre's deadly venom.
We arrive a day later, and I land next to the tree before shifting and putting on clothes that my mate handed to me. I kiss her softly before following her up and she is immediately attacked by the twins followed by the girl, but I growl before either of the guys touches her.
Azazel Argent
After Mè leaves I am left with Mel because I am not close with the others and after the inner Azazel talked to me, I needed someone who knew of my power. It wasn't a long only four days but when they got back, I could tell they were closer. Well, Mè closer to Qamar he seemed just as smitten as he was before if not more.
I still can't believe that the dragon is letting us join him to his home he is hopelessly in love, Dragons are extremely territorial they only let their mate into their lair they even kick their dragonlings out as soon as they are able. To let not only the siblings of your mate, but friends too especially an unmated male…he's whipped.
I only half pay attention to the voice, but what I hear seems to be him pondering how strong Qamar's attachment to Mè is strange and stronger than he had thought.
Over the days the few times I have talked to everyone we planned on how to get Eli back and we officially have a plan.