Vargfreid moved from his throne towards the group sitting in the center of the council chambers. Germ stood up staring directly at the giant beast, this time with no fear at all even if he decided to lunge. Germ really didn't know these dragons and the group could all be killed in seconds if for some reason they decided to change their minds . Varg looked down and shook his head slowly.
" Do you really want to do this now" he asked.
" I want to know why you didn't help all the other people from my evil parents" Germ responded unflinchingly.
" The simple answer is that I could not be there for everyone and you were the most important one that needed to be safe" Varg bellowed at Germ.
" That is no excuse" Germ went on" You obviously knew what was going on. Yet you let who knows how many kids die or worse. That just means you really don't care about people. Once you only care about one or just a few , you are just as bad as the true monsters that harm people everyday. That makes you selfish".
" You don't even know what you are talking about , little one" Varg chuckled a little bit with that. " Before you didn't even know anything else even existed. I do what I have to for a much bigger plan. We helped who we could. Besides they aren't even your real parents".
Where Germ was once angry now confusion has set in. " What do you mean ".
" I brought you to them to hide you from worse. I did not know what that man was capable of at first. Trust me " Varg simply continued, " Once we found out we stopped him from worse. It was a means to an end. Your true parents were ordered to death by the evil dragon bitch, Lorelei. She knew of your lineage and what it could possibly mean. Also probably not the best place to talk about this".
The others in the council chambers were a bit confused now. Not that any of them knew Germ personally, but obviously they were someone important to the dragons. Henry stood up next and dusted off his coat a little bit.
" Why would the truly evil ones care about Germ so much" Henry asked truly wanting to end these few past weeks of serious confusion.
" Why " Germ echoed the question.
" Her lineage stretches back many years and she holds a key to defeating Lorelei in her veins" a sly dragon grin spread. " Looks like the cat is out of the bag".
All of the dragons had known , but the two other guests did not. Henry stood stunned for what seemed like an eternity. " Wait. You said her".
Germ pressed her mohawk down some and fumbled a bit inside the long black coat before removing it. Germ definitely had feminine features, but hers were easy enough to hide to make herself into a passable teenage boy.
" I had to do something drastic to hide from my dad. Well the person I thought was my dad. " She slumped to the floor now as tears rolled down her cheeks. " It was easier when I thought he was anyway. At least I had something I was running from. Now I don't even have that".
Henry slid down beside Germ and hugged around her shoulder to console the girl. Than it suddenly dawned on him and probably the reason the dragon brought him here. " Jennifer"?
Germ nodded her head. " That's my name. The best way I knew how to hide from that horrible man was to change everything".
" What did you see" Henry asked.
" He was hurting people. He was involved in a lot of bad things. Drugs. Kidnapping and selling people. All kinds of horrible stuff" Germ responded burying her head into Henry's shoulder.
" I had been following his exploits and trying to track down things he was accused of " admitted Henry. " I just couldn't find any proof of anything enough to stop him. Plus politicians have a lot of money and power. They tend to corrupt enough good folks to turn a blind eye and pay off the rest to get away with anything unfortunately".
" No more" Germ finally stated and slowly pushed herself to her feet. " No more corrupt leaders. No more evil dragons to control everything. It's time to fight back before there isn't anything left to fight for"
Zenoxial grinned himself with that statement. " I fully agree child. We need to fix this world and the only way to do that is to stop ignoring what's wrong with it and take the fight to them . No Lorelei to control everything and no corrupt humans either. We are to stick together and help this world to be better before the evil overtakes it fully and darkness is all there is".