XLVII. Unexpected reunions

The race of natural dragons was leading the group towards their home, the four of them had their eyes blindfolded, noses and ears clogged, they wanted to make sure that the group where two of the Greater Dragons were could not memorize the path that led to their home hidden from the world. The only one who more or less had things easier than the rest was Alexandra because she was human, the dragons tried to be as kind and gentle as possible with her, on the other hand, the dragons accompanying the human girl had them well guarded.

"Two of the sacred relics of the ancestors, the divine Rellix was right in asking me to guard the outskirts of Berk'Drac, I just have to see how to steal the relics from the girl," thought a red-skinned dragon with protruding and colorful scales.

"We are here, you can see our guests" snaps the leader of the natural dragon vigilance squad.

"Yes my lord"

The dragons removed the bandages and blockers on everyone's noses and ears. Both Alexandra and Magarai saw that at the slightest opportunity they would cause a disturbance to free themselves and annihilate those warriors who ambushed them. Ssaull looked very relaxed waiting for the gases from his jaws to begin to take effect on the natural dragons to put his captors to sleep.

"If you think that the gases that your race uses to have an advantage against other dragons will work against us, I recommend that you do not waste your time, our entire race is immune to that kind of thing" explained the squad leader.

"Damn!"

"Ssaull that snout" exclaimed his sister.

"Are you planning to hand over Rellix, to the Council of Queen Erisha or will you kill us yourself?"

Magarai takes a few steps ahead of the group to show her bravery and determination, the dragons recognized that the legends of her will were true, the white dragon of the oceans was difficult to intimidate.

"Queen Erisha has nothing to do with us, much less someone as violent as Rellix, we are only cautious with you," said a dragon with some clothes highlighted of authority.

Seeing that coal-black dragon, they both realize that she looked a lot like their queen except for the protruding scales and the fact that she had a longer tail than usual, yet it was undoubtedly that this female dragon must be Erisha of Mork herself. Ssaull and Magarai reflexively kneel and bow their heads out of the great respect and appreciation they both had for the dragon.

"Mother?"

"Brother?"

Both Rophttys and Alexandra were watching their families in surprise, wondering what was going on in their minds.

"My Queen, we ..."

"You don't know how happy it makes me see you again my old friend"

"Hahaha, I won't lie that being mistaken for my twin sister is still the best entertainment of all," that dark dragon laughs some more. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm afraid I'm not my dear and beloved older sister Erisha, my name is Elenai of Mork and I'm the Master Guide of the Natural Dragons" she bows out of politeness.

"Elenai!" both respond.

"Someone explain to me. Who is Elenai ?!" asks the human.

"She is supposed to be our queen's rebellious sister," Magarai explains.

"I thought she would never see you again, not after your sister expelled you" expressed the blue dragon.

The dragon looks at the two Greater Dragons with a certain air of contempt and hatred as if the two of them had done something against her to justify that look of hatred that the natural dragon had.

"Sure, that lie is in your best interest to hide the crimes of your bosses," she snaps her fingers and the natural dragons hit Magarai and Ssaull. "There is nothing I hate more than the Greater Dragons"

"Leave them!" Alexandra demanded annoyed.

Alexandra tries to hit the dragons that had hurt her loved ones but is held back by the dragon that was behind her, the dragon that ruled the others realizes the reaction of the only human in the group, her curiosity increased by meeting this curious soft-skinned creature.

"And your beautiful lady. How did a sweet girl like you end up with nefarious creatures like them?" Lifting the human's helmet from hers he notices all the burn marks on her face. "For mother Desthy! Who hurt her ?!"

The dragon with evident rage looks at the three dragons looking for the culprit and gives him a just punishment for his crimes. She asked again with more force in her voice and showing her fangs aggressively that they did not give her answers, such acts deserved to be punished in the worst possible way.

"If you don't say anything I will assume that you three are the culprits and I will distribute the highest sentence equally to everyone!" she exclaimed losing more of her little patience.

"We didn't do anything to her, please trust our words!" Said Rophttys trying to calm the dragon.

"They would swear it on their pathetic lives!"

Magarai and Ssaull hesitated to answer, in Ssaull's case he remembered the first time he met the human and how he almost robbed her on her first mission, in Magarai's case he remembered when she was carried away by her anger at the death of her best friend and nearly hanged her daughter, being haunted by anger and a desire for revenge.

"You are the worst" the greenish dragon pointed out to both dragons.

"Kill the Greater Dragons, in the end, they only know how to harm the innocent" ordered the dragon.

"NNOOO !!!"

Alexandra elbows the dragon behind her to move freely, using her relic of skeletal dragons increases her strength to break the ties of her arms, with her free arms she takes her relic out of the ocean to attack the others. dragons and allowing her mother and friends to break their moorings as well and to fight, Rophttys simply stands behind her brother to protect her.

"I won't let you hurt my mother and friends"

"Mother? Friends? Do you mean it?" comments the dragon astonished by the movements of the human. "You move like a Greater Dragon, not to mention that you handle the relics quite easily" she praised her impressed.

"You want to see how I can use the Colaza to kill you," says the furious girl.

"Why do you protect them? They look at you with much worse hatred than the skeletal race. They don't deserve your pity."

"They are my family, I already lost my best friend and I am not going to lose more, much less my mother"

"She is your mother?" Elenai points to the green-skinned skeleton dragon.

"I have no children!" Rophttys clarified quite uncomfortably.

"Oh no, not even the worst curses can generate something as sick as this. Magarai is the mother of a human."

The dragon turns her back on the human and her group quite shocked at this rare revelation, she refused to believe that the Greater Dragon of the oceanic was the mother of the human, it was impossible, of all the dragons it was impossible for Magarai was to be the girl's mother. While the leader of the dragons looked like she was going to vomit for some reason, Ssaull points the natural dragon to her oceanic companion who gave her instructions with her hand to use her as a hostage and escape from the place as soon as possible.

"Do you know that Magarai is the one who attacked and killed a lot of poor humans in the past?" when mentioning that the oceanic dragon stops scared. "It was a night where they stained their hands with the blood of innocents"

The oceanic dragon worries about her daughter's reaction, she did not even have time to talk about it with her and give her the terrible news about her. She could not see her daughter's face because she was behind her, yet she imagined the disappointment, pain, and hatred that her daughter must feel against her.

"And that?" the dragon looks at her daughter in surprise. "Ssaull already told me the story of that night and ... and ... I don't care what my mother has done in the past, because she is now a different dragon than the one you know."

"Daughter"

The natural dragon observed everyone's expressions, she verified that the girl was not lying, she did not know how much truth the human knew about the crimes of the Greater Dragon, especially about the dragon who claimed to be her supposed mother. The natural dragon asking her guards to keep an eye on the dragons, she would give the four of them a short tour of her home away from the dragon tyranny of Berk'Drac. Nobody wanted to follow the dragon, first, they spied on them, kidnapped him, and tried to kill him, it would be suicide to follow her even if she was the sister of Queen Erisha.

More warriors of the natural race approached the place to subdue the dragons, even so with two Greater Dragon and Alexandra with two of the relics of the ancestors, without a doubt they could subdue their enemies and win this fight. When the leader of the natural dragons moves some curtains decorated with flowers to one side, Alexandra sees a place where humans and dragons lived in harmony and with great cordiality. The girl and her group could not believe what they were seeing, it must be a kind of illusion, the relics let the girl know that it was not about that, they were real humans and dragons living together in peace.

"Daughter, we don't have to follow her"

"It sounds weird, but I think Magarai is right" Ssaull takes the girl's arm.

"Of course so that her crimes are not discovered, typical of a Greater Dragon, you are worse than trash"

"Ssaull slew the Greater Dragon of the west and gave up his title!" Rophttys defends her brother.

"You don't have to trust me if you don't want Alexandra, but your human uncle would certainly be very happy to see you!" shouted the natural dragon.

When Alexandra heard that she had a human uncle, her heart was filled with an illusion of finally meeting a relative of hers of the same species, she could finally learn more about her family legacy of a human being, something she had expected when she arrived in New Hope and she did not succeed because no family member knew her. The girl runs following Elenai to meet that uncle of hers and check if it was true, the oceanic dragon follows her with the fear that this could be the last time she could tell Alexandra her daughter.

They did not have to walk much, they came to a large tent full of special red leaves and branches similar to roses unknown to them, the girl stops with some fear at the entrance of the place, finally, after seventeen years, he would know part of his family. She did not know what to say, they would even speak the same human language, he would recognize her despite having grown up, he would love her as well as her parents would have. Magarai approached her nervous hand feeling scared, she sacrificed everything for her and did not want to be separated from her daughter again, but she knew very well deep down she knew that if her daughter when she knew the truth, Alexandra would not want anything to do with her, The dragon would do nothing to stop it just because she knew she was going to deserve the hatred of the daughter she loved so much.

"Whatever happens, you will continue to be my mother," she said to calm her mother, she saw how the oceanic dragon suffered from what could happen and if it weren't for that dragon, she would not have reached that place.

"Thank you, but I will accept any judgment you have about me after you talk to your uncle." she expressed to her daughter.

She knew that once the truth of her was revealed to Alexandra, then not even with all the love in the world could she overcome the hatred that the girl would feel against the dragon when she knew what kind of assassin Magarai was.

The girl enters the place to finally meet the man who would be the brother of her human mother or father, she did not know what would happen from now on, the only thing she thought was that no matter what she heard from her mother Magarai, she would forgive her thanks to so many years of care and love that that oceanic dragon has given her throughout her life. Upon entering the store she sees a man with little red hair like hers, he was drawing a picture of what appeared to be him with two people who had a baby in hand.

"Am, they told me I had an uncle here and that I should talk to him, it might sound weird, but. Are you my uncle?" she said in English hoping the man spoke the same human language like her.

The man turns to see who it was, he had long ago given up all hope of seeing his family again because of the dragons as well as returning home, the only thing that gave some peace to his wounded heart was painting what he loved, the family he held dear, and any new natural or human dragon friends he might have made.

"Who would you be in such a case to think that we are family?" The man replied in English as well and then turned to see who was speaking to him.

When he saw the girl's face, he could see the reflection of his younger sister in the young woman's face, she had inherited her mother's face a lot and the red color of her hair was unmistakable from her family. He couldn't believe it letting go of his brush, his niece was alive and had grown up into a young teenage girl who wore armor, despite the noticeable wounds on her face, he knew it was his niece because of the kinship she had with her mother.

"Alexandra"

It was all that man could say, he was still in shock to see her alive, he never imagined that he could see her again after so many years.

"Yes, and you are .."

"Your uncle, yes" the man's eyes fill with tears and he quickly approaches to hug her.

In a reflex she takes the sword from her and points it at him for fear of being hurt, she did not like strangers getting so close to her because of her experiences.

"Sorry it's a reflection, you can't imagine everything I've been through so far in my life" she puts the sword on a small table next to her and hugs her uncle, calmer than hers.

"Don't worry little one, I understand that you must have suffered a lot from your burns, but don't worry, now everything will be better. I promise you, Alexandra"

Alexandra closes her eyes happy to meet her family, being able to meet someone with the same blood as hers after so many years was something that made her very happy. Near the area, a group of dragons is following a thin magic line that created a secret path for them, that group of warriors was made up of several assassins loyal to Rellix who were approaching the hidden land of natural dragons to claim what belonged to his beloved captain.