Chapter 41

" Hey" She heard Raphael's voice in her sleep.

" You are here." She run to hug him.

" How have you been? Raphael asked inhaling the scent of her hair.

When he finally looked at her face, his heart stopped a bit as she looked really breathtaking that evening. The cool air that blew Inside the room beat her neatly combed straight hair. The reflection of the moon that entered  the room made her look angelic.

" What has Adrian done to you?" Raphael asked looking at her lovely face.

  " What happened?" Elsa asked worried. A minute ago she could see the sweetness on his face and how happy she was that her extra efforts weren't in vain but now he was saying something else.

" He has brought the beauty Inside of you out and I must say very impressive." He said still holding her Shoulders. He could feel his heartbeat increasing and he was scared of kissing her lovely small pink lips if he didn't leave there or change the topic.

" Urgh" he coughed turning away from her to sit on the nearby chair.

" So, what's going on here? How is it going?" He asked her sitting down.

" Well, things are fine. I'm enjoying the training and if I continue this way, I would be able to defeat you Inna dual." She laughed a little.

" I miss you, or should I say we miss you alot. I just want you to be the best of yourself when you return." He said.

" I'm glad you are being treated better than we can ever treat you here." Raphael replied now standing up.

Elsa wanted to say something to make him feel less guilty but words failed her. Raphael disappeared out if sight and she opened her eyes.

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" I want to expand my kingdom." Adrian said to the General.

" What shall we do sir? " The general asked.

" Prepare for war." Adrian commanded. " Yes sir" was the response he got before the room was left empty with him alone. 

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Swords were being sharpened, ropes were prepared, everyone was busy and Elsa wondered why. She tried asking Adrain but she didn't get a satisfying answer. One night Raphael came to visit, she tried explaining the preparations that were going on. Even though Raphael couldn't tell in detail was was happening, he knew it wasn't something good and it could lead to more tears than happiness especially since the weredragons were serious about it.

" I will try to find out more." She promised getting the point that the only thing that made the weredragons that occupied could and should be link to death.

" You grew taller and you added flesh. It suits you! " Raphael said after staring at her for a while.

Elsa wondered if it was a compliment or not but she looked into his eyes, she could see the softness of in his eyes. She wondered if Raphael had a crush on her. Immediately he left, she ran to the mirror to have a good look at herself and indeed she different and prettier.

As she replayed Raphael's words in her head, she felt someone's hand hold her waist from behind. 

" Hey beautiful." Sham attempted to place a kiss on her cheeks. As soon as his lips drew near, she pushed him forward and landed a slap on his face.

" Don't you ever in your betraying life try that with me again." She said pointing her index finger at him.

Sham held his cheeks and Chuckled.

" You know the more you play hard to get, the mode my heart draws to you." He said smiling at her.

" I want nothing with you and never will I. Respect yourself before I hurt you. " She threatened.

Hearing the word ' hurt you' made him laugh. 

" You are very funny, you can't hurt me." He said still caressing his cheeks. The thoughts of him looking down on her, irritated him even more and her hatred for him only increased. 

She refused to respond anymore to whatever he had to say.

*****

" Great Kings conquer territories to expand their kingdoms and ofcourse you my faithful labourers will not go unrewarded. We March as warriors to wipe from the surface of the earth the weak and cowardly. We March to victory! " Adrain roared as he stood in front of over a thousand men who looked brutal and ready for battle with their swords and Spears. 

Elsa stood at her room's window with Joan and Rose.

" Where do you think they are going?" Elsa asked covered in goosebumps. The Adrian she was getting used to was quite different from the man she was currently staring at. He looked so blood thirsty and power hungry on the armour suit he was wearing.

" Probably to a nearby village or even a Faraway city. " Joan spoke.

" The King does this whenever he felt he was losing his power. This has become a norm, if he isn't attacking the humans villages, he would go after the werewolf. All to show that he is all and all and that no one was greater than him." Rose who was more outspoken explained.

Fear gripped Elsa as she worried for the poor and unprepared people Adrain was going to attack. She wished she could stop it, she wished she could warn them before hand but it was beyond her power. 

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Arrows of fire rained on the small town called called Aaz. Everyone ran out of there houses and the roof and their farms caught fire. As people ran of their houses, they came face to face with feirce looking men. The men of the Village were slaughtered by their neck right at the spot were they stood. The ones that withstood them were forced in a tin of container and a great rock thrown of it. Blood was seen escaping the container and there was no doubt that those men were dead. Beautiful ladies were raped at the spot while pregnant women were tied immediately. The younger men were bound in chains and just like a nightmare, a once peaceful place was turned upside down.

" Will you accept Adrain as your lord and King? " The general asked the defenseless people who had no choice. 

" Yes" the eldest man of the land said shaking. " We will do all you ask please don't kill us." The man pleaded lying flat in front of Adrain. It was this kind of reference that Adrain liked, infact it was all he desired from every race and specie.

" You will pay tribute to us and give your women to be our wives while your men will toil the ground for us. In return, we will leave for now with a few people and leave the rest to raise the place back for Adrain to Lord over. Your children must beer forget the name Adrain, the conquerer of all times. " The general added all stained with the blood of those he slaughtered. 

" Agreed, agreed" the old man couldn't stop crying as he didn't know who else will die.

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Back in the weredragon kingdom, Elsa tossed on her bed all day long thinking of the oppression the poor humans had to go through. She wished she could do something there and then. Her mind flashed back to when she was still little and she wondered if Adrain was responsible for her losing her family.

Flashes of the memories she had long buried came running through her face and there was no doubt that Adrain was the cause behind the deaths in her early life.

" There were fire, deaths, blood, destruction and evil that day." She murmured to herself. " Adrain" she grunted in annoyance. " It was the weredragons, they changed my life forever, they made me homeless! " She said angrily as fresh tears ran through her cheeks. For tears of anger, it grew of sorrow and intense pain she had buried deep down in her heart for long.

" Why?" She lamented asking no one exactly. It was hard to tell whether the pain was from the present havoc Adrain was creating of from the one she experienced or probably from the ones she had no idea of .

" Hey, why are you crying?" She heard Raphael's voice looking up.

" Raphael." She cried running straight into his arms.

" Shuu...what happened?" He asked patting her hair that ran down to her back.

" Adrain...he... killed...my family. That's what he...does! Infact...right now...he is making people slaves, widows, widowers, orpha...ns, home..less and eve...n some dead. What... do we do to stop all this? " She snipped as hot tears poured down her cheeks and her body shook.

" Relax" Raphael kept saying as his hand on her hair held it tighter and he pushed her body closer to himself that he could feel her warm breathe on his neck. Raphael swallowed hard as he focused on comforting her and not what the closeness of their bodies was doing to her. 

" Elsa" he called looking closely to her face now. " There is little or nothing you can do for now." Raphael started.