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Finding Home- Chapter Five (Conclusion)

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The throne room was magnificent.

Looking around, large pillars stood tall, supporting the ceiling. It looked as if it were made out of solid gold, with rubies encrusted within the metal. The walls were lined with paintings of dragons in shining armor.  Most likely past kings of knights. What a sight! A red carpet lined our path that stretched out all the way to the throne. Making it feel like as if I was transported to a Hollywood screening.

Looking to where the carpet led, I saw two dragons. The one on the right was wearing a red cape lined with white cotton, a king's crown resting on his draconic head. Obviously the king...Sarah's father. It looked as if he was asleep. I stifled a chuckle, for General Incepto was still with us. The other dragon was a bit smaller than the king, and was a female. Judging from the facial structure. Without looking at her, I knew she was the queen. Sarah's mother. But didn't she say she was human?

I nudged Sarah, and she looked at me as if saying "what's up?"

"I thought you said your mother delivered you when she was human! She doesn't look human to me!" I said in a whisper.

"Remember the trait I told you about? Remember how I could turn into a dragon at will?" She responded.

"Oh yeah...Forgot." I chucked a bit. And instantly regretted it.

Incepto jabbed me on my side and gave me a dirty look. Obviously he thought I was insulting the king and queen. Keeping my jaw shut, our little trio made it to the thrones.

When we made it to the thrones to where the king and queen sat, Incepto stepped forward and knelt before them. Taking off his helmet.

"My Lord, I have brought you your children, they are alive and well." Incepto announced.

Why did he say "children" as in plural. They only have one descendant!

The queen took notice of the kings' silence and nudged him awake. The king woke up with a start, eyes snapping open. After his eyes adjusted a bit, he narrowed his eyelids towards the ceiling as if he had not idea where he was.

"God blast it Selena! What is it!" The king spoke after a pause, looking at the queen.

Selena? What kind of draconic name is that?

The queen, Selena, just pointed in our direction. The kings' face beamed as he saw us both. Not just Sarah. BOTH of us. That kinda creeped me out. I had no blood relation to him whatsoever, I was just a friend of Sarah god dammit!

"Sarah?..Farvin?" He asked slowly.

This time I stepped forward, frustrated.

"How do you know my name?"

"Ah, I know much about you.." The king started.

"Like what?!" I asked. Confused.

"Yeah! I'm kinda curious too!" Sarah announced, stepping forward.

The king sighed. Then explained.

"I guess you ought to know. You too haven't been together since you were born. Sarah, Farvin, you are both children of me and my wife."

My jaw dropped. I...was related to Sarah?! That made sense now why everyone was calling me "Prince". I thought it was a misunderstanding, but all along, it was all true. I had found my real parents! Finally!

Sarah looked at me aghast. Probably shocked that she was related to me.

Then a question popped into my head.

"Wait....i was always human...I only became a dragon a few days ago. How can I be related to you guys?" I asked.

"Yes.. that's the hard part. You see... when you two were but a few months old, we had a battle between the dragons and the orks. The orks are long dead now, but they came with a price. Apparently, a loyal sorcerer in our castle had showed the orks where our kingdom was, but when he saw they had failed...he took his aggression out on you two..." The king explained.

"What did he or she do?" Sarah asked, obviously intrigued by all this.

"He cast a disease on you that even our finest healers couldn't fix. He made you guys human..." He started, then stopped abruptly, as if living that moment in his memory again. After a pause, he continued.

"Once you guys were human, the sorcerer was banished to the world of the forgotten. You guys were outcasts throughout the kingdom for a while. So me and Selana decided for your own safety that you get sent to the human world, where you could grow up there until we found a cure for the disease. Sarah was an easy fix, for she still had some power present within her, all she needed to do was find it."

Sarah beamed with pride. The king continuing with his story.

"But you Farvin.. you were different. The disease hit you the strongest. You lost all your powers. We couldn't risk you guys being together for fear of you guys growing jealous of each other and hate each other. So we put you in separate human families, posing as humans as a disguise. Years later, once we found a cure, we found that you were travelling in the forest, so we planted a necklace containing the antidote in a place a human mind would be dying to venture in... a creepy dark cave." The king chuckled at this last remark. Thus concluding his story.

At first, I was shocked that I had been born a dragon and that all this had been kept from me for 16 years. Then I realized that all this happened for a reason, and that I was grateful that I had received such care.

"Also, Sarah knows her real identity, but you Farvin... your memory was wiped somehow when the disease hit you."

Intrigued I had to know.

"What is it?"

"You are Prince Monar, my son and Royal Heir to me: King Glycon to the Kingdom of Dragons." The king beamed, then walked over to me. Coins jingling was heard on his pouch hanging off his waist as he came over. He clasped me on the shoulder, then whispered in my ear:

"You have a bright future ahead of you, King Monar." Then stepped away from me, obviously ravished.

"Thank You My Lord." I said, going to one knee and bowing my head.

Jenny stepped out from behind my large frame and showed herself. I completely forgot about her! I tried to pull her back, but it was too late.

"What's this?" King Glycon asked.

I decided to be the man (or dragon) here and speak up.

"This...This is Jenny, my sister from my human family."

"Where are her parents?" Queen Selena asked, sitting up.

"Dead." I said, cutting to the chase.

King Glycon looked at Jenny, then asked me.

"Is she loyal to you?"

"Yeah, you could say that." Smiling at Jenny with my razor sharp teeth. Jenny looked startled, so I quickly withdrew my smile and looked back at the King.

Note to self: Never smile to a human again.

"Then she will be your royal guest and ours too. She is welcome to stay in the Kingdom as long as she is with you at all times." King Glycon proposed.

"Agreed." I said. Jenny smiled and squeezed my paw with delight.

"I have to attend to other members my children, I'm sorry we can't talk more. Maybe tomorrow, you guys need some rest anyway." The King told us.

Sarah nodded, then started to walk away, and I followed. But before we left the area where the King and Queen resided, I asked them a final question I have been dying to know.

"What happened to the person who tried to kill me? His name was Reggie."

"He was taken and dropped off in the middle of a park with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. If anyone finds him, they will think he passed out drunk. Now please.. Monar, I must attend to my duties." King Glycon responded, then waved me off.

I followed Sarah's silver form out of the throne room where we were met by General Incepto and Jenny. Jenny holding gigantic keys that were meant for draconic use. But she looked cute either way.

"I will show you two to your rooms." General Incepto said to us, then led us to a winding passage towards the heart of this palace.

            .    .    .

Stretching my claws, I stretched out on a large sized bed that was easily twice the size of any king sized mattress in the human world. But hey, we're dragons, we need the extra room. I thought the bed was all for me, but when Sarah came into the bedroom too, I saw what was happening.

"Move over King Monar." Sarah commanded, winking.

"I don't wanna" I teased, then laughed.

"Then I'll force you!" Sarah laughed, then pushed me to the side of the bed. I instinctively opened my wings to block her from getting in the bed.

"Sorry! No Entry!" I laughed.

"Ha! You call that a challenge?" Sarah teased.

Just as she finished that sentence, a cannon sounded from the outside. Assuming it was nothing, I just went back to laughing.

That was, until a huge cannonball went through bedroom window and almost killed Sarah with the impact. The window shattered into a million pieces and I tried desperately to cover Sarah from airborne glass shards with my wings. The end result was not pretty.

After the chaos, I stood up, numb with pain. Sarah took one good look at me and screamed.

"Oh my gosh Farvin! Your wing!"

I looked at it, and it looked as if the very membrane had been torn.

"Funny, I don't feel anyth-" I started. Then stopped as a jolt of pain radiated from my wing.

"OH GOD! I WAS WRONG!" I said, nearly collapsing.

More cannonball shots were heard as the palace started to shake from all the impact. As we started to make our way to the door, General Incepto bursted through the door with blood on his paws.

"General? What happened?!" Sarah asked, running to him.

"The humans, they have found us... and are invading us." He paused as the next words struck me the hardest.

"King Glycon is mortally wounded, none of the healers expect him to survive."

"Oh no!" I screamed, furious at the thought that I had only known my real dad fro a short amount of time, and he had to be taken from me so soon.

"Take me to him." I commanded.

General Incepto did not hesitate, he lead me and Sarah down to the thrown room, where the ruby doors were already shattered with what looked like explosive devices. As we ran down the red carpet, which was torn to pieces, I saw Queen Selena hunched over King Glycon's dying body, weeping.

"Mom!" I called out. It felt odd calling her mom.
She looked at me with teary eyes, then allowed me to speak to my dad.

I bent over to him and inspected his wounds, he had a horrible gash along his belly, which looked infected. I started to cry myself at the thought of losing my father.

King Glycon beckoned me to come closer so he can whisper in my ear.

"My son, I am saddened that I must depart so soon.." he said, his breathing labored.

'I'm sorry this happened to you..." I responded.

"No matter, take my sword, I called it Butcher, for it protected me in times of need...Except one..." King Glycon said, handing over a shining ice blue blade that felt cold to the touch. He then took rasping breaths as he muttered his final words.

"This kingdom...needs a leader....you....must take the role...of king....there is not time for a ceremony...continue my legacy...keep our dragon kin alive!" King Glycon said with his dying breath.

He relaxed, then stopped breathing.

I stood up, angry tears streaming down my muzzle, I was furious that my father had died. As I stared down at his corpse, the widow Selena came up to me and Sarah. Holding a crown that King Glycon wore.

"As the new king of this kingdom, I deem you and Queen Hitachu leaders of the Kingdom of Dragons. Don't let us down... King Monar." Selena said, then put the crown upon my head.

The crown felt heavy with responsibility, a symbol that I now had the power to change history. Not but a couple days ago I was a regular human teenage boy playing video games. Now I was a ruler of a kingdom.

Sarah came up behind me and hugged me tightly.

"What will you do now?" she asked, almost in a whisper.

I thought to myself that the fate of this kingdom rested in my hands. This was no longer just fun, it was an all out war between Humans and Dragons. If I needed to die to protect the kingdom and the inhabitants, so be it.

My father's death will be avenged, in blood.





                                                        The End of "Finding Home"

                                       The Story will be continued in the Series "Destiny"
Hey Y'all!

Thank you for he overall success on this series! I hope you guys enjoyed it as I did writing it :)

ANYways, I set this up for my new series "Destiny" coming out in the next couple weeks. I'll let you guys see what it's about :)

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Rethar-Stonehammer's avatar
I have no words to describe the sheer awesomeness of this tale!!

Utterly amazing!! :jawdrop: