Chapter 4 - Reunited

It was the early hours of the morning, birds were chirping outside as flowers bloomed and the day was sunny as the wind was gushing lightly through the sky and Sophie, Xiaver and Bjørn were sitting in the throne Hall watching as her father ordered around the guards as they were working to decorate the great throne Hall for the upcoming ball. Sophie was sitting next to xiaver on the thrones stairs and they were talking as Bjørn was standing near the hall entrance.

The Queen, Flora walked in the Great Hall and she looked around at the working men and then looked at her husband and she raised her eyebrow. "Good morning...?" Said the Queen frowning. loki stopped as he saw flora, Sophie sees her mother and she smiles xiaver and Bjørn stopped talking and they looked at flora and xiaver stood up out of respect. Sophie stood up and went to her mother and she hugged her. "Good morning mother." She said smiling and flora huged her back.

The queen then looked at the king crossing her arms. "it was nice to wake up in a cold bed...."

Loki chuckled softly as he held his wife. "I'm so dearly sorry my love but I had some work to do as you can see." He said as he looked around the hall and flora sighed looking at the hall as well. "Well the place is turning out well I suppose, well the breakfast is ready so let's go." Flora said. "Yes wait" Sophie said as she jogs to xiaver and Bjørn and she wraps her arms around their's smiling at them. "Let's go?" Sophie said, Bjørn and xiaver smiled and they nodded. "of Course princess." Said Bjørn "its Sophie! Bjørn." loki and flora watches them, Bjørn chuckled abit and they began walking to the exit. "My apologies. " Bjørn looks at flora and he bowed down abit. "My Queen" He said and flora nodded abit. They walked out of the throne Hall as Loki and Flora watched them leave the throne Hall.

"well it seems like our precious daughter had made friends with the advisor's son and her knight." Said loki and flora sighed and she nodded abit.

This morning Loki had brought his unborn daughter and grace his other baby daughter to his dimension to complete his family and also flora had been devastated to loose them in both of the failed pregnancy. And so whatever power had left within loki he used all of it and opened up a portal and grouchy his two daughters back to him.

Loki took flora to a room where petra and grace were waiting for her and he opened up the door only to reveal a girl standing infront of the window, flora walked in as she was facing the girl's face and flora widened her eyes as she instantly felt who the girl was. Petra turned around and looked up at her mother. "Mum?...." she said as grace was on the bed cooing. Petra 15 at that time and grace is 2 years old. Flora looked up at loki as she felt tears in her eyes. "H-How?..." she mumbled under her breath and loki looked down at her. "I opened a portal to their dimension... it took a quite of maigc from me but it was worth seeing that smile appear back on your face my darling...." said loki as he gently wiped her tears with his thumb.

They all hugged and cried for hours on end and they chuckled happily and cried out of happiness, soon they went to the diningroom where Sophie was, she ate breakfast whilst she talked with xiaver and Bjørn stood near the entrance door as usual and his hands clasped behind his back and was looking forward. they walked in the diningroom and Petra sees sophie, they stopped talking once they walked in and Sophie's eyes shifted to the door that just opened and she looks at them and sees petra as she widened her eyes abit.

Sophie stands up looking at petra, lucas was in the baby char and he sees loki and flora and he starts cooing. Sophie had seen petra in her dreams time to time, her unborn sister. She recognised her face immediately as it was very familiar to her. "Petra??" Said Sophie as she began smiling happily. "Sophie...." Sophie smiles happily and she quickly goes to petra and hugs her and petra hugs her back as she giggles.

They sat infront of the table and ate their breakfast and laughed and talked for a while.

Sophie sensed something was not right as she stopped eating and she looks around and looks at flora and loki as Sophie starting to feel worried but dosent know what's worrying her, she looks up at the massive skylight worried. there was a huge glass made skylight above the diningtable. Sophie kept looking up at the sky and starting to notice something up in the clouds. "Uhh ye-" Sophie widened her eyes as the creature who was behind the clouds came to veiw, it was the same dragon she had been with and the dragon was at full speed towards the sky light, Sophie stands up grabbing petra's wrist. "GET AWAY FROM THE TABLE!!! " She said looking at everyone.

Seconds later the dragon came crashing through the sky light as it screeched, Sophie quickly pulled petra away from the table and moved her away from thetable as petra watched in horror. the glass's shattered everywhere as the dragon landed on the diningtable roaring, xiaver widened his eyes as he screamed terrfied and quickly ran away to save himself and Bjørn watched as the dragon came in pure shock but had to stay strong infront of the king and queen and not show any fear, Bjørn quickly ran towards sophie.

Flora had quickly grabbed Grace and gotten away from the table in time and looks at the dragon widening her eyes in shock, loki had grabbed lucas in time as well and he ran quickly to flora while looking up at the beast who was roaring and screeching, it seemed like it was worried and scared about something.

Sophie looks up at the dragon knowing something is wrong and petra held her sister's hand tightly scared, Bjørn got infront of Sophie so now his back was behind her. Flora had looked up at the dragon with one of her hands glowing bright blue in case she needed to use her powers, dragon finally spotted Sophie and it leaned its neck down alittle as it screeched loudly, Bjørn watched the dragon as he pulls out his sword, Sophie noticed that while looking up at the dragon and she steps forward.

Flora noticed her daughter step forward and she turned her head to Sophie. ".....Sophie stey back!" Said flora terrfied. petra grabs sophie's hand pulling her away "sophie what are you doing??!!" Said petra as she had tears in her eyes from how much she's scared. Sophie looks at petra, the dragon noticed Bjørn pulling out his sword and it glared at him and roared at him angrily as it slowly steps forward to Bjørn and Bjørn looks up at it terrified. "h-hey it's okay" Sophie gets petra's hand away from hers and she looks up at the dragon and she starts walking towards it. Flora handed Grace to a maid and she tried to go to Sophie "Sophie don't get close to it!" Flora yelled.

Sophie glanced at her mother "m-mom it's okay i-i'll explain it.... a-all later" loki stops flora getting closer and the dragon roared loudly at Bjørn and was about to attack him with it's claw but Bjørn managed to dodge the attack, Sophie looks at the dragon and quickly runs towards it worried. "hey it's okay! It's okay!! " Said Sophie as she patted the dragon's neck.

the dragon looked down at sophie screeching softly and it lowered its neck down to her level and it looked into her eyes worried and Sophie looks into hers as she pets the dragon's neck while looking at her. "what's wrong??..." Her Parents watched as the dragon became calm around Sophie and did not know what to really make of all this...

everyone watched in shock as the dragon calmed down around Sophie, the dragon looked into her eyes deeply trying to communicate with her into her mind and try to tell her what's worrying her so much, but it was too much for Sophie though she was only a child and could not handle such power into her mind, Sophie started feeling light headed as she tried her best to stand and she felt tears in her eyes and her vision started to get blurry "i-i....." Sophie tried to talk but her head started to spin as everything looked blurry.

Flora looks at Sophie feeling she wasn't alright and she teleports behind her holding her up "sweetie whats going on??" Said flora there was worry in her tone and she was very much scared and confused.

the dragon looked at flora growling lowly while glaring at flora, Sophie slowly passed out as the dragon Whispered to her in her mind why she came here. Flora held Sophie in her arms as sue looked at Sophie worried. "Sophie?? Sweetheart say something...."

The dragon then spread her wings wide and it flew out of the castle and loki hands lucas to the maid and he quickly ran to sophie. "wh-what happened??! Is she alright???" He said looking at his daughter worried. "I-i'm not sure but I think she just needs some rest...." said flora worriedly.

Sophie was sleeping in her bedroom, Loki and Flora were sitting next to her bed waiting for her to wake up so that sophie can do some explaining.. Sophie groaned softly as she slowly woke up and she rubbed her eyes as she sat up in her bed, her head throbbed in pain as she blinked and opened her eyes only to see her parents, Sophie's visions slowly adjusted and she looks up at her parents. Flora looked at Sophie "How are you feeling sweetie...?" Said flora and Sophie looked at her mother "my head is hurting...." sophie said as she rubs her head gently. "Sophie what happened??" Said flora looking at sophie and Sophie looked down. "i-i..." Sophie looked down afraid to tell them the truth as she picked at her skin near her nails nervously.

"Sophie you have to tell your parents what happened..." said loki. Sophie then took a deep breath and then she looked at her parents. "alright but you have to promise me one thing..." said sophie "what is it?" Said flora raising her eyebrow abit. "no harm comes towards Xiaver. . . . ." She said as sue looks at loki "I'm looking at you dad" Sophie said and loki frowned "xiaver?..." He mumbled. "Dad promise me...." loki sighed and he nodded "Alright there won't come no harm towards xiaver, just tell us what happened...."

"Dad when I asked to be in your study room.... there I found a stack of papers on the desk, they were complaints.... and all of them were only complaining about one thing... that was people and animals would go missing on the farm's side and no one knows how they disappeared... and they kept hearing roaring from up from a mountain that had a cave.....I grew very curious and so I wanted to go but xiaver tried to stop me pleading to not go on such dangerous journey.... b-but there wasn't anything gonna stop me and so he came along with me....." she takes a deep breath looking down, her explaining was not yet over.

Loki glanced at sophie as he listened. "the-there we saw the dragon... I saw that it was injured and I felt really bad for it and it had a hard time getting food because she was now very weak.... and so next time I snuck out by myself and went back to the cave and tried to calm her down and try to be friends with her and gain her trust..... I-I started speaking with her in dragon tongue and soon she started to slowly gain her trust and then I fed her and I.... climbed up on her back and flew t-till dawn....."

Loki and Flora widened their eyes in shock "Y-You what???" After Sophie was done explaining loki looked at flora just Speechless and did not know what to really say, flora on the other hand also did not know what to really say about this.

Sophie slowly realises what the dragon had said to her and she quickly gets out of bed. "Where is she??" Said Sophie worried as she felt tears in her eyes. Flora gently held her daughter's arm thinking she was about to fall if she wasn't beening too careful. "wow there calm down. We need to still talk young lady...." Flora said as she raised her eyebrow at her daughter's sudden outburst. "n-no they're in danger!! Please! " Sophie said as tears rolled down her cheek. Loki looked at his daughter worried "sweetie whose in danger???" Said loki "s-she communicated with me through her mind saying the ca-cave was about to collapse!! And she couldn't get her e-eggs out o-of th-there!...." said sophie as she began to tear up.

"Calm down ok? If that's really what's happening then i'll go with you but after that we'll talk alright?" Sophie wipes her tears looking down. "o-okay....." Sophie stuttered. Loki stood up looking at his wife. "I'm coming too"

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Flora Loki and Sophie went to that cave where the eggs were and there wasn't any much time left because the cave was crumbling everywhere and they needed to get the eggs out of there, fast. Once they successfully got the eggs out of there now they needed a safe place for them and for their mother, Sophie pleaded with her parents to let her keep the dragon because she did not had any other place to stay and keep her eggs in a safe place. So her parents let's her keep the dragon for the time being.

Loki had made the dragon stay in a cave near the castle, it was perfect for the dragon and her eggs. And off then her tried parents went to bed, they never had an adventure like this in awhile now.