Dare To Love A Dragon - Chapter 97

Francis felt his body was on fire after Ander passed out. He was burning from the inside, he set the prince down on the bed. He clutched his neck from the pain. It was an unbearable pain that was forming from his neck to down below. He gritted his teeth heaving for breath as his chest moved up and down.

Alex left Ander’s hand and ran across the bed to hold his beloved, before he laid his hands on his beloved, his throat tightened and he fell to the ground. It felt as though someone was ripping his soul out of his body. His dragon came awake and he was losing control, it was as though something was fighting him.

The family froze seeing the sight before their eyes. Confusion and fear ran down their bodies, unable to understand what was happening the only thing that they could do is to pick Francis and Alex and lay them on the bed. The royal physician was summoned into the room to examine the two of them.

Alex, Francis and Ander moved around on the bed in an uncomfortable way. It was as though they were battling something, the queen mother felt her heart breaking to pieces thinking about what the seer had told them about the dragon king dying before the sun rose in the morning. She could only hope that the seer might have made a mistake and that nothing happens to her son.

“What happened?” Ella asked Avan entering the room. She watched the three on the bed with worry in her face.

“We are trying to figure it out,” Avan replied to him.

Ella closed her eyes when her head started hurting, the pain of the flash forced her to hold on to Avan for support. She drew a deep breath trying her best to stabilize herself. When the pain subsided she stared at Avan with a look that the boy didn’t quite understand.

“What happened?” Avan questioned concerned.

“The prince and the king are fighting for Francis,” she informed him, her voice loud enough for the others to hear her.

“What?” the queen mother asked. Her worst fear, the thing that she dreaded the most in her life was right before her eyes. The first warning she received from the seer of Ander killing the king for Francis.

“Wh…what are you sa..saying?” Avan asked in a soft breaking voice.

“Ander is fighting with the king, if he wins he will become the new dragon king,” she said replying to the question. “A dragon’s mark on Francis’s neck is similar to the king’s throne among the dragons and Ander has also marked Francis. Now their dragons are fighting for dominance over the mate, only the strong dragon between them will win and if the dragon king loses it will prove that Ander is more powerful than him and if he can steal his mate from him then Alex would be unfit to be king anymore,” she added.

“This can’t be happening,” Sofia said worried, she was scared of what will become of her son if he loses the battle. She wasn’t ready to be parted with her son yet. He was too young.

“How do we stop the fight?” Mordecai asked Ella.

“You can’t, the fight will end when one wins,” she said making her way to the bed. She removed Francis’s burning hands from his neck for all to see. On his neck were two dragons, one as dark as night and the other one golden. The dragon pounced on each other, scratching and biting at each other on Francis’s neck. They fired dragon breath at each other with the intention of destroying the other dragon and from the looks of things, Ander’s black moon dragon seemed to have the upper hand on the fight.

“It seems the king’s is weaker compared to Ander, he will surely lose and the dragoons will hail a new king,” she stated to them. “Francis will belong to him forever,” she added breaking the little strength that Avan had in his body.

“Is there something that we can do to prevent that from happening?” Malia asked unable to accept that they were helpless to anything to stop Ander from committing such a big mistake.

“There is one way but it is risky and dangerous,” she said but the royal family could careless of the risky and dangerous part of her statement. All they cared about was the possibility of a solution to stop the fight.

“What is it?” they asked together in unison. They looked at her in hope that she would solve their problem for them.

“We have to interfere with the fight. One of us has to take Ander’s mark from Francis and take it upon themselves. But the person has to be recognized by Ander’s dragon or it will kill him/ her,” she said.

“I will do it,” Sofia suggested and stepped forward.

“The marks will make you his lover, are you sure you want to do that?” Ella asked her. “Moreover, his dragon will kill you the minute his mark touches your skin. You must understand that it will know if you are attracted to him like a lover or not and if Ander sees you in a similar way in the slightest,” she added.

“Then I will do it,” Avan volunteered to them.

“You are a good option but Ander hates you. He won’t accept you as his mate.”

“He will, he won’t refuse me,” Avan said confidently. He strode forward and stood before Ella, he was ready to take the risk to save his lover. The thought of losing Ander before they explored the possibility of what could be between the two of them.

Ella was yanked back with a flash of light; she was the servant of the royal family of dragons. She felt a link with the prince and the king and was aware of the things that was going on between the two in the fight.

“Ander has won, you have to do this now or it will be too late. The new dragon king is now the prince Ander,” she said in a hurry.

Avan was shocked in hearing this. “Tell me, what do I have to do?” he asked to her. His heart was racing so fast in his chest in fear, his love was slipping away from him right before his eyes and it pained him.

“Here,” she said holding a book before him. In the book there was a spell to transfer the dragon mark from Francis to himself.  He drew the rune in the air and positioned his hand over Francis’s hand. He chanted the words of the spell over and over again to ensure that it works.

The dragon mark started moving from Francis neck, the black moon dragon felt a pull on itself. It was one that he couldn’t resist. The golden dragon saw this and seized the moment to attack it, the black moon dragon was struggling with fighting between Alex and Avan.

“Something is wrong,” Ella said feeling a different force trying to pull Ander’s mark from Francis. “Someone else is trying to get Ander’s mark from him,” she said to everyone.

“Is that bad?”

“This is the Ander’s mark we are talking about. It is similar to his soul, if everyone is pulling at it then it will be ripped apart,” she said to them.

Avan channeled the elements in the air, he was pushed with the power of love. He fought with all the forces that wanted to snatch his beloved away from me. He won the fight and got the mark on his body. He released the breath that he was holding when he completed the fight victorious. He backed away from the bed feeling drained, he went to sit down when his eyes suddenly glowed.

He stood up and glared at the dragon prince on the bed. He raised hand up to his neck with a sinister smirk on his face. He hands released a red glow.

“Avan nooo,” Ella screamed at him in fear, he ignored her voice and released the death spell onto Ander’s dragon mark. The moment the spell took form and destroyed Ander’s dragon mark. The room went silent with the family unaware of what was going on. Before they could ask Ella what was wrong, they heard a loud horn in the kingdom.

“The dragon king is no more,” they heard an announcement from above the palace. It was one of the dragons in the kingdom that had made the announcement. Avan dropped to the ground and fainted. A faint light covered his body and the curse of his body was lifted, he was free of his destiny of killing the blood moon dragon as was the reason he was born.

“Dragon king Ander is dead,” Ella announced to the royal family. The minute Avan’s soul recognized Ander’s soul, his destiny was activated and he fulfilled his destiny and killed the black moon dragon as was his duty.

Sofia was shocked with the news of her son’s death, she froze in place with tears flowing from her eyes.