"J-Jet. Is that you?" "Yes sis its me." I felt someone holding both my hands. I slowly opened my eyes but it was a little bright. Then someone must have closed the curtains because it was easier to keep my eyes open now. "Jet, Arrow help me up please." They carefully helped me up and adjusted the pillows so I can stay sitting up. "Damn! She was right. I'm still in some pain." "You ok little sis?" said Arrow. "Yeah I'll live. So how long was I out this time?" It got quiet. "Come on. Someone please tell me." "Sis. You were out for a month." Said Jet. "A month huh? Well when I'm with the goddess it seems likes its only minutes or assuming hours." "So what did she have to say?" "Well she told me that the one and only dragon princess my grandmother had only 6 dragons. So when I got the 7th one it almost killed me. It was thanks to these two. My assistants that saved me. If it wasn't for both of them I wouldn't be here. So she decided to let me keep Sitka and add one more to the list. I want to test Denzel. I know he is a slacker but I want to watch him for a bit before I decide. Don't worry I won't fight until I am better ok? Can one of you bring him in for me? Oh also I have something to tell you boys later. Jet and Arrow." "Ok sis just rest ok? I'll go get Denzel for you." Said Jet. "Yeah." I said in a strained tone. Once he was gone I asked the others in there with me a question. .
"How are the others? Are they doing ok?" I asked Arrow and Ezra. "Yeah they are fine. Just waiting for you to wake up. Sitka feels bad you did that for him though. Sitka was in a wreck when you collapsed. He blames himself." "Sigh. After I'm done talking to Denzel bring the boy in." "Hey he is older than you by 2 years you know." "Yeah so what? They are all boys and girls to me. Not men and woman."
Finally Jet came back in with Denzel. "So back from the dead huh?" "Ha ha very funny Denzel. Ah." "Take it easy there. You ok?" "Yeah I'll live. So I can take on one more dragon I chose you. I heard you slack off quite a bit." "Yeah well I'm working harder not to. I don't know why I slack off so much. But I've been trying to stop before this all happened." "Yeah I've heard from Zoe. If you were to become my dragon I won't take slacking off. It will show in your training and just by looking at you I can tell if you slacked off. If you do there will be consequences with me and you won't like them. Ask Jet. He knows better." "Yeah better not make her mad dude. Trust me. you don't like her punishments." "I have to punish them harder because we are about to go to war people! We can't afford to slack off! The goddess told me to get my warriors ready. So once I am better I will check on how much you slack off and I will get down to the bottom of it before I can accept you ok?" "Fair enough." "Ok well she did say it was up to me how quick I get better. The more I rest, the quicker I get better. Jet its not everyday I ask you this but if I try getting out of this bed I either want you to have Rena knock me out somehow or I need you to tie me up. Once in a lifetime I will ask you this." "Haha I'd like to tie you up but you are in pain I'll go easy and see if Rena can knock you out." "OK fair enough. Now Denzel go do what you have to. Now I need to talk to Sitka please bring him in Arrow." "Yes little sis." So he went out and I looked at everyone.
"I'm really sorry everyone. I never expected to be the next princess or do something this stupid. I just wanted those two both on my team. They are good fighters. Also Denzel is a good fighter. I will get him to stop slacking in no time. I'm so sorry I didn't mean to worry everyone." "Its ok Zel. We know you well enough to know you didn't mean to do any of that. It was something you had to do." Said Hawk. "Ah it hurts to move. Are they almost here?" "We're here!" Sitka saw me and I saw his face in shock. "Hey Sitka. Sorry about my voice. It still hurts to move but I'll be ok in a few days." "I'm sorry Zelda." "OK everyone can I talk to Sitka alone please?" Then everyone went out one by one.
"Ok so I heard you weren't doing so well since I collapsed. Did it affect your training?" "No I promise you it didn't. if anything I trained harder than before so I could surprise you." "Hmm I see. Did you hear about Denzel joining? What do you think?" "Well I agree with Zoe. He is a good fighter when he trains with us. I notice when he slacks off he looks like he has something on his mind. I did go up and tell him he can talk to me and if not he needs to talk to someone. I'm so glad you are ok." He hugged me gently. "I won't break you can hug me tighter." Then he did. "Much better." He finally let go and I saw tears in his eyes. "I was able to keep you and in return I could choose one more person and chose Denzel. That is how I was able to keep him. Like I told everyone I have to supervise him before I can accept him." "Yeah that's a good idea." "I'm so glad I was able to keep you and Aries. The goddess is giving me a trial. If everything goes well she will keep it to 8 and if the next princess or prince want another and try they will have another family be the prince or princess. My grandmother was the first one. I am only the second. This war that is coming I don't know how long its been going on but that war is what killed my birth parents. Arrow's, Jet's and My mother. Also jet and I father. Now they are after us. Do you know a man called Leon?" "Hmm Leon. Is he that half vampire guy?" "You know about him huh?" "Yeah he is sort of famous for evil deeds. Anyway sorry about your parents." "Its fine. So Leon has had years to train so when I get better in a few days we are going to kick ass. We are going to train like crazy. Also yours was on my arm instead of my back." So I showed him my upper arm. "Woah cool. Is Denzel's going to look like that too?" "Similar yes. Now go out there and train. Ah. I need rest. Oh and get my brothers and Rena in here to help me rest. Thanks." When he walked out I heard relief in his voice. "He must have been really worried about you Zelda." "Yeah I bet he was."
Then finally my brothers and Hawk came in and they helped me lay down and I groaned in pain. "Argh. Easy guys jeeze don't kill me." "Don't worry we wont kill you but we will torture you." Said Jet. "Haha very funny Jet. Is Rena going to be here soon?" "Yeah any minute." Said Hawk. "Sigh I'm so glad I'm ok and she let me keep those two and one more. I hope this battle goes well." "Don't worry about battles right now little sis. Worry about your health before you worry about battles. You need to be in perfect health to worry about battles." "Thanks dad." "Hey someone needs to I'm just your baby brother remember." "Yeah by one year not a big difference." "OK everyone she needs rest." Said Rena. "OK Rena. We will see you later ok?" "Yeah love you all." "We love you too Zel." Said Hawk. Then Rena put a spell on me to help me sleep.
The next few days I was fine. Full health. I went to see all the people at the training grounds. They were all happy to see me alive and well. "OK everyone! Remember what I said! All my dragons gather round please! That includes you Denzel. You are a future Dragon!" Once everyone gathered I spoke again. "Ok we will not only fight with eachother but nothing in warrior training has changed other than you all here being my dragons! So work your asses off like crazy! Thankyou that is all! Denzel follow me!"
"So Denzel. Sitka told me when you slack off you look like you have something on your mind. You need to talk to someone. I don't care who it is. If you don't let it out one day those feelings are going to go out of control. Trust me I know. When I was younger I bottle so much up and when something happened to trigger it I blew up. Haha its funny now but then it took the warriors to calm to down. I can't remember how many but it could be worse for you. If you don't you will continue to slack off and I won't be able to make you my dragon. Now I know you are a good fighter but I want you to please tell me what's up."
"Sigh. Fine. It happened like 4 year ago. I had a brother. I say had because I was the one who got him killed. That is what has been weighing on my mind." "OK so what happened?" "I knew you were going to ask that. Well I was doing something stupid as usual then my brother came to rescue me. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know there were evil people out there at the time. I fooled around like always and mom must have sent him to get me like always but I didn't see the man behind me. If it wasn't for my brother I would have been the one gone and him here. I would have deserved it. I was stupid back then." "Oh Denzel. It wasn't your fault. I don't think your brother would have thought so either. He would want you to continue being your carefree annoying brother self like you were back then. Maybe he would have liked you to be a little more cautious though so something like that doesn't have to happen again." "You really think so?" "Yeah I'm sure that is what your mother told you too huh? We aren't just saying that. I have a brother too. Well now two. I found out not that long ago Arrow was my mothers child before dad. She had to leave for some reason." "Hmm I see. At least you have siblings. I don't have any left." "Well now I don't think that's true. We may not be blood but everyone at the dojo and everyone you will be hanging out with the dragons are your new family ok? You have a big family." "Yeah I guess your right. Thanks Zelda. Now do you think you will be ok to train today?" "Yeah a lot better now thanks." "No problem." Then I saw him brisk walk over there. I had a smile on my face because the way he looked now looked a lot better and relieved. "Ok now I can't be sitting here either I need to get my butt up and do something." But before I could do something Taki made me stop. "What is it Taki? Is it the enemy?" "I don't know if its an enemy or an Ally. Something feels strange." "Which way?" "At 6 o clock position." I turned around and she said "Walk a few steps and we will see them. I think it's a woman." Then I walked for awhile and they were halfway here when I saw them. I was ready for a fight. "Who are you? Are you an enemy?" "Woah there girl. My daughter told me about you. You really are the cautious one aren't you. My name is Mara. My daughter is Nakita." "Oh well I'm sure you heard and its all over. My name is Zelda. I'm the dragon princess and I have chosen her to be one of my dragons." "Yes she was so excited. We all were." "Her? Excited? She is mostly serious at training. I've only seen her roll her eyes when she likes someone. The only time I have seen her smile is when she met my half brother Arrow." "Ah yes the famous Arrow." "Yes well there is something about him that could change their relationship. Its not mine to tell. Arrow will tell her when he is ready." "I see. Well may I enter to see my daughter?" "Yes I apologize." "No reason. It's a responsibility of a dragon princess to protect their family." "Thank you for understanding." Then I walked with her to the Warrior field.
When we got there, I yelled for Nakita. "Nakita! Come here please!" She jogged over to here. "Oh hey mom. Thanks Zelda. Sure, no problem." Then I went over to the others. Steel and my assistants were there too. 'Oh don't tell me. Did something bad happen?' 'I know as much as you do Zelda.' Said Taki. Then I found Hawk. "Hey Hawk. What's going on? Where is everyone?" "Oh right you haven't heard." "Then Jet was seeing what he was about to do and ran up. Hawk come here please." "What? Can't she know?" "Come here Now!" "Ok ok. Sorry Zel I have to go." Then he ran over to Jet. I went over too.
"Someone tell me what is wrong right now or they will regret it and get my punishements or if that doesn't work you will never see me again which is worse. Now someone better tell me what is wrong NOW!" "Jets the leader and doesn't want you to know." Said Hawk nervously. "Hawk that is enough go join the other dragons now." I heard him clench his teeth in anger. "Now sis. I am not a child anymore. I know what and what not to do. I don't care about your punishments. Also we don't care if you run away one of us will find you. Now you don't need to know right now. When the time is right you will know." "Oh I have ideas of finding out even without asking. I have to be somewhere. I'm late for a meeting." Then I jogged back to the palace.
"Hello is the prince here?" "Yes he is in his office." I nodded then went to his office. the guards knocked on the door and said, "Princess Zelda is here." "Let her in." "Ezra. I need your help. I know you are tired just from looking at you." "Sigh what seems to be the problem Zelda?" "Jet and the others know something and aren't telling me anything. I know something is up and they aren't telling me a thing." "Well I don't know anything. Lets go I will try to help. Let me talk to my father to see if he knows something. Wait here." So I stayed in his office and waited for him.
About an hour of waiting the king came in. "Where is Ezra?" "He is resting. He was exhausted." "That's good. Can you help me?" "Ezra told me that something is up and your brother and the dragons aren't telling you anything right?" "Yes please can you help me?" "Sigh. I'm afraid not. You have to understand Zelda. The princess's dragons are there to protect you. I'm sure your brothers wouldn't do anything to hurt you. Now since it doesn't look like training is happening today why don't you go for a walk in the forest and clear your head." "Yeah I think that's a good idea. Thank you, my king." "Oh, please you can call me father-in-law. You are my future daughter in law. "Ok thank you father-in-law." Then I went to my room and got changed. Then I headed to the forest.
Sigh. Here I go. I shouldn't go alone but I did. I needed to be alone and can defend myself. I walked into the forest and got to mine and Ezra's place then decided not to go there and keep walking. I don't know where I would end up but I just went for a walk and ended up at the werewolf village. "Ah crap. Too far." Before I can turn back someone called me. "Princess Zelda!" I turned around and saw someone familiar. "Oh Oliver right?" "Yes. It's a pleasure to be remembered. So what are you doing here?" "Mind if I talk to you for a bit in the forest?" "Uh sure is everything ok?" "I don't know."
He followed me deeper into the forest until we got to the perfect spot. "This place is?" "Yes it's the home of the boss of little creatures. Now what's wrong? I noticed when I saw you. You didn't look to good." "Yeah well there is a reason for that. OK so I just got my last dragons, then Nakita's mother came. She is one of the warriors and she is one of my dragons. Then I was about to come to go back and train when I saw everyone gathered without me. Hawk who is my childhood friend is like my brother. He is also one of my dragons. Came up to me and was about to tell me what was going on when my blood brother Jet. Of all people who is human and future King of my old palace told him not to tell me. Then I went to my fiancé crown prince Ezra. Then he went to his father. Then only his father showed up since Ezra was resting because he didn't look to well. The king told me my dragons and my brothers wouldn't hurt me. Also not only then. My assistants and the witch Rena of the palace was there. The King told me that the princess's dragons wouldn't do anything to hurt her. They are sworn to protect her. He knows that my brothers wouldn't hurt me. I know that too. I know none of those people will hurt me but something is up they aren't telling me. I have a feeling its not something good. My brother told me I would know in due time. I just don't know what to do."
"Hmm well. Let me tell you something. I see your side and the Kings. We know about the previous Dragon Princess. She was your grandmother. She only had 6 and you have 8." "Yes it wasn't pretty when I got the 7th one but I managed with the help of my assistants. If they didn't help me I'd be dead. I don't get what this has to do with anything." "Well I have a feeling you will surpass the last dragon princess. So all I can say is trust in your dragons. Trust in your friends and family. No one said you have to be blood to be family." "Yeah I know what you are telling me now. Why do you always talk in riddles? I hate that. You will rub off on me then I will irritate others. Well I better go. Thank you Oliver. Again thanks for saving me. Oh yeah in order to thank you do you want to see me shift? Taki reminded me." "Yeah sure." "OK then. I'm ready Taki." Then we slowly shifted then finally I was fully shifted.
"Wow you are very beautiful." Said Oliver. "Can I touch you?" I nodded. He came up slowly not to scare Taki. "Wow soft too." We felt him touch our wings and it tickled. "Does it tickle?" He asked. We nodded in acknowledgement. "Sorry I just never seen one in real life. You are one of the last still alive." I nodded to agree. "No way are you? Taki are you really?" She rolled her eyes then we shifted back. "Yes we both are royalty. Taki Explained it to me. Well I should really be going. People will start looking for me soon. Thank you for listening to me." "Sure no problem. Anything you need I'll be here ok?" "Thanks." Then I saw him turn to Fang and run back to the village.
I went further into the forest. Back to the place where Ezra and I usually stayed. I climbed the tree to think. I have decided to stay here for a night. It was getting late anyway. I sighed not knowing what to do. Before I can think anything I drifted off to sleep.