Chapter 17
Asgeir POV
"Because he told me he wouldn't and I trust him." I said, showing no signs of moving from where I stood.
"What the fuck are you now! The Dragon whisperer!" He yelled and laughed so loudly, that a few of his men began looking at each other with questionable gazes.
"That's enough son, do as the boy says." Came a strong voice and everyone turned to see Gregor's father, looking at him with a stern gaze.
"Seriously Father, tell me you're not buying this bullshit! Everyone is going to die if we don't kill it!" He screamed back at his father.
"Everyone, weapons down." Gregor's father said, and like that, all of Gregor's soldiers dropped their swords, until Gregor was the only one holding up his sword. Even my brothers had put away their swords and was just looking at me, with their worried gazes.
I turned around and looked in the eyes of the dragon, feeling that warmth over take me all over again.
"I am taking you with me."
"Why?" I asked. But he didn't give me an answer to that question and instead said.
"Resist and I will not think twice to kill everyone here."
I nodded at him and turned around to face my brothers as the tears rolled down my face. I watched them widen their eyes, and I hoped that they knew what had to happen, because telling them would just be so painful.
"What did he say?" Arkyn asked as he walked towards me slowly, despite the low growl the dragon was making behind me.
Arkyn walked till he was standing in front of me, and pulled me towards his chest. I wrapped my arms around his waist and buried my face in his chest.
"He says I have to go with him or everyone will die." I said as I sobbed against his chest.
"Why you?" Arkyn asked, and I could hear the slight shake in his voice, and I knew he was trying his best to keep his tears back.
"He wouldn't say." I said as I withdrew from his chest and looked up at him with my tear filled eyes. He smiled at me, even though it was full of pain and wiped away my tears.
"Why him! He's just a boy! You can have anyone of us!" Arkyn screamed at the dragon but I knew it was futile, because I had heard the determination in his voice when he told me that it had to be me.
"Can I at least say goodbye?" I asked the dragon with my tears pouring down my face. When the dragon lowered his head, I took that as consent and ran into the arms of my brothers. I felt Arvid and Armod engulf me in such a tight hug, I wished it would actually kill me.
"I would tell you that you don't have to worry and that we'd kill that son of a bitch over there, but I know you're a stubborn shit, and you'd do your own thing anyway." Arvid said laughing and wiping away my tears.
"No one has to die for me." I said and smiled back at him.
"And I know he won't hurt me." I said trying to assure them.
"How do you know that! How can you be so sure that he won't bite your head the second he gets the opportunity!" Armod said loudly while the tears rolled down his face.
I reached up and wiped them away and wrapped my arms around his waist, hugging him tightly, while I buried my face in his chest.
"He won't. I promise." I said.
That was all I could tell them. I couldn't very well tell them that I felt some weird kind of warmth every time I looked into his eyes, or that I have never felt so much peace as I did when his eyes locked with mine. That , that alone was enough to assure me that he wouldn't hurt me.
I said a goodbye to my brothers and hugged my parents, telling them that I'd be okay, and this was my destiny. That they shouldn't worry and that I'd come home again.
After that, I walked back towards the dragon, despite the cries and screams of my Dad, telling me not to leave him. He cried and screamed so much, that father had to hold him just so he wouldn't fall down.
I walked and stood in front of the dragon and looked up at him with my tear filled eyes. I didn't have the heart to turn around and look at my family once more, not when I could still hear my Dad screaming for me to come back.
I watched as the dragon lowered his head and I felt his taloned claws wrap themselves around my body and lift me off the ground while he flapped his wings and flew higher into the sky.
I closed my eyes and let my tears fall down, as he flew with me, between his claws.
All the while, I prayed that he would just open his claws and allow me to fall to my death, maybe then this heartache inside me would subside a bit.
He flew for I don't know how long with me in his clawed talons, before he flew through something that looked like smoke, making me cough a bit and looked down while he flew, wondering where he was taking me.
I didn't have to wonder any further, because I was soon met with a dark castle, and I knew instantly that it was the castle known as The Dragon's Den.
One word to describe the land itself, on which the castle was situated, would be death. Everything as far as my eye could see was dead. There was absolutely no sign of civilization anywhere, which made sense, since all the dragons were supposed to be dead.
He flew over the plains until he reached something that like looked a rocky cliff. I wondered if this is where he finally decided to kill me.
He flew over it and let me loose, I gasped a bit when I felt myself falling from his grasp, but I soon met the rocky surface and found myself rolling across as he had just dropped me there and didn't even bother to place me down.
I rolled for a bit and only stopped when I hit my head against something hard. I sat up slowly and hissed when I felt a sting. I placed my hand behind my head and looked at fingers, seeing it stained with blood.
I let out a sigh when I felt myself slowly becoming drowsy and I leaned my head against the rock for a bit, and eventually fell down flat unconscious, a result of the impact of the rock on my head. I closed my eyes with one thought on my mind.
I thought he wouldn't hurt me?