Dare To Love A Dragon

"I want to jump off the roof. I want to jump off the roof," Sofia chanted over and over again repeatedly. She was on top of the roof of the school, she stood at the edge of the roof determined to jump.

With one quick movement she jumped, her screams were heard as she fell. Luckily for her, some witches went out for a walk and saw her falling. They stopped her from falling. She fainted out of shock when she finally came to her senses.

They carried her and took her inside the school. Ella rushed to call Avan after she learned of the news and Amaru tagged along with them. They sat around Sofia worried and concerned for her. They were taking Ander's death badly but she must have it worse with how much she loved the boy.

Annak helped Sofia to regain her senses with the help of a little magic. The whole family had a word or two to say to the suicidal woman.

"What we're thinking trying to kill yourself?" Malia let out angrily.

"We know that you must miss Ander but killing yourself is not going to help anyone," Mordecai said.

"I wasn't trying to kill myself. I would never think such thoughts," Sofia stated surprising everyone since she did the opposite of what she was saying.

"Then why did you jump off the roof aunt?" Avan inquired.

"I didn't want to but there was a voice inside my head that pushed me to do it," she said catching everyone's attention. "I was getting ready for bed when suddenly I started feeling guilty for Ander's death. I felt this immense sense of being guilty of his death and a voice in my head kept telling me that jumping off the roof is the only way to redeem myself," she explained.

"What did this voice sound like?" Annak questioned. Being a witch she didn't take such things lightly. She very well knew how cunning witches and warlocks were. They use all sorts of tricks to get their goal.

"It was male, definitely young but that wasn't what was worrying about it. The feeling I got when I heard the voice was what I always imagined death to be like," Sofia said trembling at the thought of that whispering voice.

Annak placed her hand on Sofia's head and just as she had suspected the woman was under the influence of magic. She was controlled when she wished for death and she was lying about the dead feeling she had felt because Annak felt the same thing from her.

She opened her eyes and gazed at the ex-queen with sadness in her eyes. "I'm afraid you have been marked for death," she informed causing panic in everyone's heart.

"That feeling and the voice won't stop bothering you until you are dead. And from the looks of things whoever marked you is faceless, I can track them. All I see is darkness when I try," she explained not liking where things were headed to.

There was only one person in the magical realm without a face to track or a shadow. The faceless god, she didn't mention it as she wished not to frighten them but her heart was racing.

The faceless god had been cursed to sleep for centuries and he is not supposed to be around at all. The fact that he marked someone for dead meant that he had broken out of his prison. The impossibility of that was so that she found it hard to believe that he was free.

The only thing that could have broken his prison chains were the tears of a broken soul with nothing but pure anger expressed in three rarest fires in the world. The reason this was the key to his freedom was that no one was capable of doing that and hence he would never be able to be free and would rot in prison forever.

'Think not of irrelevant things my dear Annak,' she heard in her mind. 'What should worry you sweet whisperer is how you will save the woman from me,' the voice challenged.

"It's you," she spoke out loud. "I know you are close show yourself if you are brave."

'You will meet me very soon. Don't be impatient but only when you prove worthy,' the voice said. Annak felt a hand on her throat, the hand traced a circle around her neck. 'If you prove unworthy then I shall cut where I have marked,' it added.

"Whom are you talking about?" Avan asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"I'm afraid the person who has marked you is close by. He is watching you," she said to Sofia. Sofia was so scared. She was so terrified of the thought of her death. "But I won't let you down. All of us are to watch her, she must be left alone with her thoughts," she said with everyone nodding their heads accepting to help.

"Kids, go rest. We will look after her first," Malia said kissing Avan and her friends Amaru included good night before sending them off to bed.

"Who do you think it is that marked aunt Sofia and what is their motive?" Avan questioned Ella.

"I don't know. Let's try and figure it out tomorrow, I'm worn out," she said retiring for the night.

"You must be scared Amaru. What you've heard today must have frightened you," he said to the pretty boy beside him who hasn't said a word.

"I'm fine but are you fine?" Amaru asked.

They made their way back to their rooms.

Avan thought about Amaru's question and if he were, to be honest with him, he was not fine. He just found out that his aunt, Ander's mother has been marked for death by someone and he is helpless to help not to mention he was not sure if she was the only one the person was after and it terrified him.

What if he was next.

"I am scared," he said in reply to Amaru's question.

"Want me to sleep with you to keep you company in the night. I don't mind," he offered.

This caused Avan to have a flashback of the first time that he and Ander shared the bed. He missed the dragon prince sleeping beside him at night. He scratched the dragon mark as was his habit when he missed Ander too much.

"No," he declined the offer. Only Ander had the right to share the bed with him and he didn't plan to change that. No matter what happens what is Ander's will remain his.

"Suit yourself," Amaru said. He changed into his nightwear before jumping into bed. Avan observed his sleep. He too tried to get some sleep but he kept on thinking about what happened to Sofia and for some reason he felt a chilling aura in the air. It wasn't cold but it did feel like the grim reaper was around looking for souls to rip.

He got up from his bed and walked over to Amaru's bed. He slid into the male's bed with his wooden toy in hand. He slept facing away from Amaru and closed his eyes.

'That was sweet, getting his to stay by your side. Too gullible,' the voice inside Amaru's head spoke.

Amaru opened her eyes and smirked. He might have forced Avan to join him in his bed but he didn't feel guilty about it. He felt at peace with it, it calmed down his heart from the epic fail he suffered from not succeeding in killing Sofia. But he was not one to give up.

The woman has death coming her way and so does everyone else in Arimelari and he was more than happy to deliver this to them.

'I will burn all of them to the ground,' he thought and turned around. He stared at Avan sleeping so peacefully with the man for whom they were sharing a bed. The person he is afraid of is the one he is seeking comfort from, this thought put a smile on Amaru's face.

"As long you start close to me then you shall not he harm. I will be your protective shield from me and the worlds but if you go away from me, then I will personally send you to the depths of hell," he whispered his face going from sweet to evil in seconds.

Avan was already asleep. He didn't hear a word he said and also didn't realize when Amaru wrapped his arms around him. He laid his head on Avan's shoulder and started in the distance.

"A life for a life," he said softly. "But I am willing to overlook one life for you my darling mate," he added with a glint of fire flashing through his eyes.

he closed his eyes to get some sleep but not forgetting to eat his meal by inhaling the fear that Avan felt. The boy had so much negative energy to spare and he loved it.

"Ander," Avan whispered in his sleep.