Chapter 5
"Forgive me your highness this is my negligence please punish me" said the shadow guard respectfully.
"Punish you? Do you think if I punish you the life of those innocent people could be returned?" Flaira said sarcastically. "Remember this I don't have a father he is nothing to me. Tell him not to interfere with our lives ever again" said Flaira to the shadow guard. "You can return to him now and leave us" she added.
"Forgive me your highness but my duty is to protect you. I am your personal shadow guard" said the shadow guard respectfully.
Flaira felt her blood is boiling because of anger aside from her aching wound.
"Your highness your mother is temporarily cured. The sword which pierced to her stomach contains Lucid poison, the kind of poison used in war to instantly the enemy. But I give her a temporary antidote which could stop the spread of the poison to her body. The only cure for that is the Leesia flower which could be found in the Dark Elven Queens garden. It could detoxify the poison inside her. We just need to boil it and let her drink it when it's warm. We only have one month to obtain it before the temporary antidote loosen its effect" said the shadow guard.
Flaira didn't know what to think of with the things the shadow guard tell her. She really didn't understand what it is. Her ordinary life turns upside down with just one night. She just looks at her mother and remains silent.
The shadow guard waves his hand and a lot of delicious food appeared out of nowhere. Flaira was shocked of what she witnessed. She looked at that delicious food in front of her. She can't help her stomach growl. She felt shame because she just lashed out to him.
"Your highness you can freely eat whatever you like" said the shadow guard when he heard her mistress stomach growl.
"Thank you I wouldn't be modest then" Flaira grabbed the food and started to eat.
"Just eat to your hearts content your highness. I have a lot of food here" he showed her a ring.
"How are these food stored in that ring?" Flaira asked shockedly.
"Your highness this is called storage ring. You can put here anything except people and animals. You can also preserve here the food. No matter how long you stacked the food here it won't spoil because inside of this storage ring has different time and space" the shadow guard explained.
"Ok, Can I also have that kind of storage if I have money" asked Flaira.
"Yes Miss, more than this kind of things are what you can have" said the shadow guard.
"By the way what's your name?" ask Flaira.
"I don't have a name your highness. I am an orphan raised by your father to become one of his elite soldiers. I am a shadow guard and our task is to protect the member of the Royal family" said the shadow guard.
"So, I belong to a Royal family?" Flaira asked seriously.
"Yes miss, you are the daughter of the Dark Elf King" said the shadow guard.
Flaira was stunned "A Dark Elf King, how come? Based on the legend my mother told me. Dark Elve's are all cruel and cold blooded just like what they did to the people I care about. They looked down on humans and think of them as ants" said Flaira bitterly.
"Your father fell in love with your mother at first sight. So he decided to give the seed of life to your mother as a token of his affection. That is you your highness, the seed of life is not an ordinary magic items. It carries the power of the next leader of the Dark Elf's clan. That is also the reason why your entire village was destroyed. The Dark Elf Queen wants to kill you because someone revealed to her about your existence" the shadow guard said.
Flaira was so shocked of what she heard "So you are telling me that I am the cause of death of those people" said Flaira angrily.
"No, your highness I am telling you this for you to be ready for any kind of danger. The Queen wants your life and Dark Elf's are well known from being cruel and cold blooded as you said earlier. So other beings treated Dark Elves with prejudiced. Now we are here in the Kingdom of Lafarca, to be exact we are in the Dragon's clan territory. After you recover we are heading out. This place are extremely dangerous specially those brute Dragons are hot tempered and they don't like strangers staying in their teritory" added the Shadow Guard.
"How did we end up in here?" Flaira asked with shocked.
"When you passed out I brought you here! You don't have anyone aside your mother whom you called family there and remaining in that place is dangerous" the shadow guard said.
Flaira became silent thinking of all the information the shadow guard had told her.
"Your highness I have here a crystal bracelet. This item is with me when the king found me. You can place your mother here. This is a special kind of item. I have no use of it. Just use it so that we can carry your mother safely" the shadow guard said while handing her a very beautiful crystal bracelet.
Flaira was amazed of what she heard.
"Are you sure that you want to give this to me?" asked Flaira and receive the item.
"Yes miss….." but before they could finished their conversation the ground tremble uncontrollably. Then explosions, the cave they are in are starting to crumble.
"Miss please moves fast put your mother inside the crystal bracelet. To activate it put a little bit of your blood and wave it to your mothers position" instructed the shadow guard.
Flaira followed what he said and she was mesmerized by it. Her mother disappeared and felt her presence inside the crystal bracelet.
The two of them carefully exited the cave and observe their environment. They run fast while hiding on the trees.
"Wait your highness, stop moving at the moment" said the shadow guard.
He covered Flaira with the dark robe and places her under the big tree. He signaled her to look up. There she sees six little dragons. The five dragons, two black, two green and one golden dragons are beating the small white dragon. The white dragon is full of wounds all over his body and severely injured while those who are beating it also has some injuries.
In her eyes the white fluffy dragon is so pitiful that makes her heart ache for it.
"That is a dragon cub, that scenario is very common here in the Kingdom. If you are weak you will get bullied" said the shadow guard.
Flaira got mad because of what she see especially when the time the little white dragon is being beaten altogether by the five cubs. The white dragon falls down on the ground almost beaten to death but still they continue to beat him.
"You're a shame to our clan a weak orphan like you should have died together with your parents" said the little Golden Dragon and smile wickedly.
Then out of nowhere the five little dragons were stunned when someone attacked them all of a sudden. All of them were kicked and thrown far away with where the white dragon is lying.
"What the hell is that?" said the Golden dragon while trying to stand.
"I don't know" answered the Black dragon.
"Ao Kin, look the bastard sissy is missing" said the Green dragon who is also thrown away to the Golden dragon.
"It's not our problem anymore. Let's go and return to the kingdom my uncle will scold me if he found out that I am playing outside the palace" after the Golden dragon said, he flew away without turning back.
While Flaira and the shadow guard run rapidly. She snatched the white dragon cub that is almost beaten to death by the other dragon cub.
"Your highness what you did is risky. Even if they were younglings they are still powerful. You could be killed for acting recklessly" said the shadow guard.
"Hey, Can you cure him?" asked Flaira to the shadow guard.
She stopped for a moment thinking that they are at least farther away now to those cubs.
"Let the cub consume this pills" said the shadow guard.
Flaira is carrying the injured white dragon in her arms. She sits down on the ground and tried to put the pills inside the mouth of the dragon cub. Its body is full of bruises and wounds but the moment it consumes the pills. The wounds healed like a miracle.
"Why is it still remain unconscious?" asked Flaira.
"I think it consume almost all its powers to escape to those dragon cubs.