2 Chapter 1: Dragon Mistress

Chapter 1: Dragon Mistress

Maggie tried not to run. But it was becoming more difficult not to pick up her long bouncy heavy gown and run.

She knew what was waiting for her at the end of the hall. She could hear the screams. The Queen was in labor and it was becoming a difficult childbirth. Maggi knew it was twenty four hours already and still counting yet there was no changes yet.

Maggie hesitated before she pushed the door to the midwife's room open. She had one task and it was to protect the Queen and it looked like she had failed. Maggi hated that she had to inform the Queen of her failure now that she was in a terrible pain.

"Ahhhh" Queen Eireth screamed as she pushed for the hundredth time. Sweats dripped down her face and she was close to tears. A maid wiped her forehead with a clean rag.

Queen Eireth let out several breathe from her mouth. Her hands grabbed the sheet on the birthing bed and she twisted it around her hands.

The midwife, an elderly woman with gray hairs and a bad back, finished up with the concoction she was preparing on the little wooden bucket and poured it into a cup. She moved very slowly towards the Queen and she handed it over to her.

"Drink, your majesty....it would help with the pain" the old woman urged her along as she placed the smelly liquid near the Queen's nose.

"You said the same thing three cups ago!" Queen Eireth felt another bout of pain go through her as she grabbed the sheet even tighter.

"Drink it... Emerald"

Queen Eireth stopped writhing the sheets. The pain she felt even reduced momentarily.

"What did you call me just now?" She demanded from the midwife.

The woman smiled displaying a crooked tooth and stained yellow teeth."I said drink, Queen Eireth"

"No. No, you called me Emerald. How do...you know that name? How did you know I am ferratti"

"I don't. Ferratti's are extinct remember, Queen Eireth? Dragons and their mistresses are all but gone. Now, drink the tea?"

Eireth narrowed her eyes as the midwife shoved the green concoction to her face.

"No" Queen Eireth whispered and took her face away.

"Drink it, Queen Eireth!"

Then it dawned on her slowly.

"Shadowers!" Eireth felt the chill run down her spine. She knew with the amount of green concoction she took, her life force was depleted and if she was dying. So was her dragon.

Eireth turned her face away from the midwife and slowly, she used her remaining life force to conjure a spell of separate between her and her unborn daughter. It would keep the poison from passing over.

"Stop her!" The midwife shadower yelled at the maid wiping the Queen's face.

The maid shadower covered the queen's mouth with her palm.

Maggie opened the door to the see the Queen under attack.

Eireth managed to take away the maid's palm and yelled to Maggie.

"They are shadowers! I need my rod, Maudyn" Eireth called maggi by her Ferratti name.

Maggi stretched out her hand to the north and she called upon the rod of Ferratti which can only be welded by the leader of the Ferratti or their servant with permission.

"I call you, rod of Ferratti"

Her brown eyes turned black as the rod flew into her hand. Maggie used it to strike the maid shadower. The power that came out of the rod pushed the maid shadower to the wall, knocking her out.

The midwife moved with so much speed towards the Queen to attack the unborn princess. Eireth knew she had to protect her child. Her eyes turned black just like Maggie's and her blonde hair changed to white. Eireth moved like she was a feather and she grabbed the midwife's throat and lifted her. Both of them floated above the ground.

Eireth was a dragon mistress and the leader of Ferratti since her mother died in last battle between shadowers and dragons.

"How dare you?" Eireth spoke in the scared language of the Ferratti.

"How dare me? Give Marduk back his powers, dirt" the midwife shadower said in a hoarse voice.

"Marduk will destroy everything that breathes and thrives, shadower!"

"Why do you care such much about the humans? They hate the Ferratti and her dragons just as much as the Shadowers" the midwife shadower started laughing in a high pitched voice.

"By the power of fire and Tiamat, I rebuke you to the flame of the abyss" Eireth yelled in a loud voice as she cast the magic upon the abominable creature.

"No! Don't send me there!" The shadower appeared terrified and just as Eireth was about to finish casting the spell, she turned to the sound of the door about to open.

She knew it was her husband. The king Cypher of Lamek.

With one hand still on the shadowers throat, she used her free hand to lock the door by casting a spell on the bolt.

"Lukk!" The bolt obeyed her.

Eireth went back to casting the abominable creature into the abyss.

" Be gone, vile creature!"

"Noooo!" The midwife's mouth opened and a dark smoke left her body.

Eireth released the midwife and she fell to the ground.

Slowly she descended back to the ground. Her hair returned to normal and the next she blinked, her eyes were blue again.

"Her Majesty!" Maggi ran to her side.

She felt her forehead and Eireth was burning up. She took the rod of dragons and shone the light on the queen's skin, the green spike was spreading fast on her body.

"Queen Emerald! What can I do?"

"Did you find any more Ferratti?" Eireth asked weakly.

Maggie felt the sadness tug at her heart. She has to break the news to the Queen. Going into hiding to save the tribe wasn't a good idea after all. Ferratti' were gone...the rod couldn't find any more of their kind.

"They are gone. The rod of dragons couldn't detect any more Ferratti. You are the last of your kind, Queen Emerald"

Eireth felt the sting in her already fragile heart.The shadowers got them after all.

"And the dragons are gone too?"