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Chapter 28: Avani
CooperWho thinks Avani will walk out with his hands up?
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The Dark Protector Chapter 29: Merethyl
I hear the humans tell us to put our hands up. My senses aren’t as good as Avani’s especially at night, but one thing I do know, is that he is protective. There’s no way he has any intention of turning himself or me in to these hunters. I don’t know what he’s going to do, but I know I need to be ready. I turn my focus on the hunters, just as Avani shivers beside me, his body growing in an instant with his shift. The trees around him are leveled as he takes his dragon form and the shots ring out. They come from everywhere and I throw my hands up, trying to divert as many as possible as Avani swings around, his tail slashing through the air, taking out a large number of hunters. “Lower your wing!” I shout at him. I need to be able to see and he’s too large to see around. It was different when we were inside. I knew where he and I were in relation to the room and the walls. Outside, the area is much too large for me to manage blind. He has moved his large body in front of me, but I see
The Dark Protector Chapter 30: Avani
I begin racing after the hunters and those bastard scientists that are doing experiments on shifters, trying to create who knows what kind of creature. I’m still distracted by Merethyl moving me with her element. She shouldn’t have been able to do that. I’m a fucking dragon. I know I was in flight, but her ability to maneuver me mid-flight caught me off guard. For a moment, I thought she had decided to take advantage of the situation and claim me. She could have. She might have, if she had continued on the way she was. I had roared my fury at her and got her simple ‘sorry’ in response. Seriously? The woman has no clue how much strength she has and how much power she truly has over me. I almost couldn’t wait to get away from her, needing this time to calm myself. Of course, now that I’m away from her, I want to get back to her. Fucking mate bond. I hear cars starting in the distance and I realize the hunters and scientists raced to their cars, thinking they could out run me. Not a ch
The Dark Protector Chapter 31: Merethyl
After Avani left to go after the hunters, I had an easy time getting everyone out. There was no one here to fight me and I realized he did that on purpose. Always so protective. I want to believe that it’s because I mean something to him, but he’s called the Dark Protector for a reason. And that reason has nothing to do with me. When I hear him roar, I go rushing out of the laboratory. I was healing some of the shifters and was nearly done. I know Avani enough to know that when he roars, he’s pissed. I’m shocked when I walk outside and see him confronting a shifter, rather than fighting a hunter. The shifter, a leopard Avani called him, realizes that Avani outranks him, or whatever it is in the animal kingdom, and he defers to him. When Avani says the leopard can’t kill one of the scientists, I know he has a plan. I also know that he’s on the verge of shifting and tearing this entire place apart. I put my hand on his arm, pushing calm into him until I feel him respond. I turn and l
The Dark Protector Chapter 32: Avani
I don’t know why I didn’t want Merethyl to know that I had let those humans burn alive, but something about her seeing my darker side didn’t sit well with me. I trusted her to watch over the scientist while I doused the flame. I made sure none of them had escaped before I pulled the fire back, keeping it from catching on the surrounding trees and brush. When I returned, I heard Mere talking about the goal of the Chief. He wants to kill the dragons. Of course he does, we’re the reason his arenas are being destroyed. However, the idea of him building an army makes me uneasy. What sort of army? I glance at Mere. What if they make her brother into one of these creatures. I know her well enough to know that she’d never be able to kill him and she’d never forgive me if I did. But if he became a killing machine, working for the Chief, I’d have no choice. I walk over to Mere, seeing that she’s nearly done healing the shifters that are left. “G’day sir.” One of the shifters bows his head to
The Dark Protector Chapter 33: Merethyl
Mates? I’m mated to a dragon? How is this possible? Wait, I've heard about mate bonds in the shifter community. Is this why I’m so drawn to him? Is this why he smells so good to me? Avani said that there was a time when dragons and elves were mates. That was centuries before my time. Our most recent history was a time when elves forced dragons by claiming them. Then they abused that power. My parents always made it clear to both me and Yhendorn that we should never abuse our power. We should never forget who we are and what we stand for. And what we stand for is our people and others who can’t stand for themselves. I look around at the shifters that I helped to free, the ones that I’ve recently healed. This is what my power is for. I don’t want to become someone like Naremyn who seeks power for the sake of having power. “Merethyl.” His deep voice resonates in my body. At least now I understand why. I don’t face him. “I can’t be mated to you, Avani. I can’t.” “And yet, you are, Mer
The Dark Protector Chapter 34: Avani
I didn’t like Merethyl saying she couldn’t be my mate. It felt like a rejection, something I’ve never experienced in my two centuries of life. No one has ever turned me down. No one has ever said no to me. When I realize that she’s afraid of abusing the power that claiming me would give her, something in me settles. Not only is she not rejecting me because I’m her mate, but knowing that she doesn't want to be one of those people that abuses power means a lot to me. While I’m surprised, I guess I shouldn’t be. Whatever or whoever in the universe creates mate bonds, they do it for a reason. We’re supposed to be two halves of a whole, or two beings that, once connected become whole. Or some bullshit like that. Tana spouted off about how great it was, but I wasn’t listening. I didn’t believe her, I didn’t understand. But I do now, much better than I did then. The dragon in me needs to know that she understands that she’s mine. While I settled, the feeling of rejection is still there. An
The Dark Protector Chapter 35: Merethyl
I come awake slowly, my body still thrumming with the massive orgasm I had. I open my eyes and see a small fire. It’s dark out and the area around me doesn’t look familiar at all. I jolt up, looking around. “You’re safe.” Avani’s deep voice says as he comes walking out of the trees nearby. He’s carrying what looks like a wide variety of berries, plants and roots. I look up into his face. “You brought me dinner?” “I did. Which reminds me, you never got to eat on the mountain, did you?” “No, the hunters found us before I could make anything.” He looks down at the bounty in his arms. “Will this be enough? I can go get you more.” “It’s fine.” I look around again. “Is it safe to have a fire here? And where is here?” He drops the food in front of me before reaching behind him. He’s somehow found a large rock that has a dip in it, perfect for cooking my food. “Some of those are reeds with water inside, or I can pull some water from the ground for you, if you need more.” He says. “I
The Dark Protector Chapter 36: Avani
This was definitely NOT the conversation I wanted to be having right after Mere found out that she is my mate and having to convince her that I didn’t want to be mated to a dragon. I’m not sure how to explain to her that she’s my entire life and no one will ever take her place. I can’t exactly describe the other dragons like sisters since I’m having a child with one. I see her body tense up, and she looks back at her food. That food must be so fucking interesting because she’s focused more on it than me during this entire conversation. “I have, or will have, a child with Zephyr. In a few weeks.” She frowns, staring into her bowl of food. “So, you’re going to go have sex with her and have a child with her?” “No! No, that’s not what I mean.” I sigh, rubbing my hands over my face. “I’ve already impregnated her. It was before I met you.” “So you have a child?” She asks slowly, as if she’s trying hard to figure out a very difficult problem in her head. “We will, when he or she hatches
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