Chapter 30: Shade's Point Of View:

Freya's sadness was all consuming. Heavy sobs racked her body..her baby was gone and there would never be another. Thanks to what Niko had done to her. I push forward with all my might trying to reach her mind. I needed to comfort my human! She needed to know that she wasn't alone! I had lost our baby too! I roar trying to get her attention. But she was being swallowed by her own grief.

'Mistress I am here. You are not alone!' A scream escaped Freya as a blade dug into her skin. I snarl. They were carving into her arm.

'Shade...The pain is to much..I cant..' Freya's voice was weak. She was fading..regressing into her own mind. Damn this girl! I have to take over or she will kill us both!

I inhale a deep breath and regulate the warmth of our body. Flames swell in our chest. I sigh and allow the grief to fuel the flames. The anger and rage that we had both felt.

I needed to concentrate. The blade still carving but Freya's body was numb. She wasn't here now. Her body was racked with pain and burned like hell fire.

I lift my eyes to meet Niko's and he seemed surprised when he saw them.

"Shade? Where's Freya." I snarl and let the flames swarm around me. Niko yelps and staggers backwards away from them.

I could smell melted metal knowing that the chains had melted away. I force our body to stand up and I wince as a cracking sound cones from my arm. Then groan as scales erupt and out fingers extend into sharp talons.

A wicked smile forms in my lips. Niko snarls lunging for me. In a flash a dagger was thrust into our torso and our taloned hand ripped through Niko's flesh, through his tendons and muscles until it wrapped around something beating in a frantic rhythm. Niko gasped for air and I stared into his eyes his mouth fell open and blood oozed from it.

I rip our hand free from his chest cavity his heart coming with me. I watch numb as his body crumpled in a heap on the floor. I just stated at his heart in my hand.

All this coward had done was take and take from Freya. He deserved to die this way. I may be apart of Freya but I was still a dragon.

****Raph's Point Of View***

The Castle was burning! What the hell was going on?! I rushed inside. I couldn't feel Freya anymore and that worried me. This Blood Oath connection was going haywire!

I growl and push my legs to go faster. Niko must be holding her in the dungeons. I could feel my wolf coming to the surface and he growled. He was ready to kill. He was angry that he didn't protect Freya. The amount of pain I felt was nothing compared to what Freya must have went through.

I stagger to a stop and my eyes widen. Freya stood there. Hair matted and a dagger sticking out of her torso. But worried me was what she was staring at in her hands. Great thing about wolf senses I could see it plain as day..it was a heart! And her hand wasnt just a hand now. It looked like a Dragon's talons.

'Shade' My wolf had only spoke one word. If that was Shadd where was Freya? Why couldn't i feel her?!

"Shade?" At the sound of my voice Freya's head turned but all I saw was the metallic silver eyes. Shade was present. And she had literally ripped Niko's heart out of his chest.

I slowly approach her with my hands up in surrender. I didn't want to spook her and her attack me. The heart fell to the floorb as she turns to me. She smiles sadly and inhales a shaky breath.

"Freya's retreated into her mind. I can't reach her!" She sounded so desperate. I step up to her and glance down asleep thendilagger still sticking out of her. She looks down too and rolls her eyes. Yanking it from her body. I rush forward to cover the wound but stunned I watch as it heals instantly.

"I can take you to Dragon's Keep. We can get her back there." My heart was silently racing in my chest. Freya had retreated into her mind...What happened to her?! I was to late...

"Then we should go before it's to late. I am not meant to take over for to long." I nod and pull a silver crystal from my pocket. Shade eyes it for a moment before sighing.

"I shouldn't be surprised that you have a transportation crystal." I couldn't even smile..I wave the crystal and grab Freya's arm.

My stomache drops as the world shifts.

The burning smell was gone and replaced with the smell of wild flowers. The old castle stood infront of us.

Shade let's out a long sigh.

"This place was suppose to be destroyed a long time ago...But to see it still standing gives me some peace. I have alot of work to do." I nod and usher her inside. There was no time to take anything in. I pushed her toward the Temple. She groans slightly touching her stomache under her belly button.

"What's wrong?! Are you hurt?" Shade blinks back tears and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The pain that I felt...The loss that I had felt from Freya. The reason she had retreated into her mind....She was pregnant. Shade inhales a few deep breaths before straightening back up.

"We don't have alot of time Raph. I need to get Freya back before it ls to late." I nod and against my better judgment I lift Freya's body into my arms and hold her tightly against me as I fast walk toward the Temple.

I kick the doors open without a second thought and flames ignite all around the room. A great Silver Dragin Statue stood at the front with its human counter part underneath it with its arm stretched up toward the Dragon. Shade gasps.

"Demona."