Chapter Nineteen – Dwarfs.
Margaret didn’t feel the pressure much but Scott and the wolf seemed like they were in pain.
“Wolves have better hearing this could be worse for him” She quickly calculated. His ears began bleeding, confirming her calculations.
She dragged him up and placed him over her shoulder. The little wolf folded himself around Scott’s legs and together they all dragged themselves to the cavern.
“Those dwarfs! Why didn’t I think of this?” Scott moaned.
Dwarfs? Margaret nearly dropped him on hearing such. Dwarfs were around the forest? Then she and her sisters had to run away.
Those were one species in the world that they couldn’t handle. The rowdy disastrous nature of dwarfs beat reasonable solutions.
“We are almost there” Margaret assured Scott as he was losing strength. She punched the button on the rock and it sped open. She sped inside and it shut.
Due to the strong rocks and walls, the sound of the cymbal wasn’t heard as loud as before. Scott ran to his cave after he got himself.
Evelyn, Lydia and Han came out of their cave and Margaret hurriedly gave them a download of what had happened.
Scott returned with horns and handed each one to each girl. He was wearing a headband that covered his eyes with a large cloth.
“Follow me please. Blow the horn so the animals would stay in their hideouts. Those dwarfs are looking for me”.Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.
Han decided to stay and tend to the weak pet wolf.
The girls dispersed immediately, even though Lydia was still unwilling to go out when dwarfs were ravaging the forest.
And why should protecting some animals be her priority over her own safety?
She didn’t know how to blow her horn so she sent in all her breathe into it.
An elephant trumpet erupted scaring her, alongside the birds perching on the tree she was at.
She shrugged nevertheless, blowing it as loudly as she could. If it could scare them then it should scare them inside their holes.
***(Dragon Dynasty)***
Lu ran into the court, panting like a dog. He was still holding his cymbal and leaf disguise.
The dragon queen frowned as she saw him, “Lu, you little animal. That cymbal nearly killed the dragon I sent to watch over you”.
She stomped to him and dragged him by the ear. He winced in pain and wanted to push her over but her elder brother’s dark gaze on him made him stop.
“So where is the boy?” she finally let go of his ears, pushing him to the ground. Lu sent her a glare.
Despite his size, he was already thirty years old. When would respect come with his age? How long would he continue with the inhumane treatment just because his lineage were servants of the dragon dynasty.
He looked up to her frowning face. Should he really tell her what he saw? What about him siding with the Werewolf Alpha instead? And risking being her dragon’s meal?
“Sir Lu, didn’t you hear her?” a cold yet calm voice asked. It was the Prince, the Queen’s older brother.
Lu stood up. At least someone called him ‘Sir’ around there.
“Well, I didn’t miscount earlier but it seems the boy got himself two more girls. I don’t know which one is his mate. But at the village, they are considered married” he made a short bow.
When he raised his head, the dragon prince seemed to be in deep thinking but then his sister sent a resounding sound across his face.
Lu literally flew into a maid that was coming in with wine. He held his cheeks in embarrassment as he looked up at the maid who was now wet with red wine on her white gown.
He looked down, both humiliated and angry. The maid was his long time crush, Isabella. She quickly apologized and ran off.
“Is that the only information you could give, huh? Three girls presumably married to him? What does that mean?” the Queen raged.
Lu boldly stood up, he sent a glare to the girl and was swearing under his breath.
“Maybe he’s creating a pack of his own for defense” the dragon prince said. Lu calmed down on hearing his calm voice.
His sister turned to her brother with a disgusted look, “Is he an Alpha? Only Alpha’s have right to create a pack? Or are you a nut job too?”.
The Prince ignored her and stood up, “Good job, Sir Lu. Now we know his company, we just have to find a way to catch them alone. Set a trap. Inform me directly” he marched out of the court.
“Inform you directly? I am Queen here. Lu, inform me directly” The Queen ordered before leaving.
Lu said nothing other than forcing himself to bow as she passed. She’d see who he reports too. A crazy teenager or the cold Prince?
At least the little respect being dished to him by her brother was tolerable.
He walked slowly out of courts and jumped on his donkey. He was glad his three foot size could still ride a donkey.
He looked at his cymbal inside his pouch. He would try his plan again along his dwarf team.
If it could summon the werewolf boy, along side his three ‘whatever-they-were-to-him’, then, it could rat the girls out.
A large beast flew above him. He knew it was the dragon bird that the Queen had sent to follow him.
Why didn’t she tell her most ‘trusted beasts’ to just catch the Werewolf boy themselves? It would be an easy task for them.
He entertained betraying the dragon dynasty to work with the werewolves but he knows the werewolves might be even crueler to his type.
Werewolves hated noise, dwarfs are noisy. Werewolves had inborn power, dwarfs had inborn vulnerability. Werewolves are among the top of the food chain while dwarfs struggle down below.
The contrast was too much. Only being enslaved to either party was befitting for the dwarfs.
A shrill sound interrupted his thoughts. The dragon bird descended. Lu was thrown away by his donkey due to fear. His head almost hitting a nearby tree.
The dragon raised his wings higher breaking some low branches.
“I should ride you? Am I that slow? I can’t ride you. I rather walk” Lu answered it. He somehow could understand it telepathically.
“A werewolf is around here?” Lu half screamed. He turned to run back and warn the highnesses. He stopped, if a werewolf was planning a lone attack, he’d surely fail.
Of course not without killing one member of the dragon dynasty. Chances are that, it would be that naughty princess.
Lu climbed atop the dragon, “Take me to the Alpha’s forest. Nothing here concerns me”. He makes a short smirk as he was taken above the trees.