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Chapter 5: The Queen

Author: Cooper
last update publish date: 2026-04-12 10:42:43

Yet midst these lords who seek to reign,

One soul stands silent in her pain.

She walks in silk and royal thread,

But moonlight masks the life she’s led.

Skylar

The moment my father raced off, I went straight to my bedroom. In the very back of my closet, I have the dark cloak that I wear when I steal eggs and sneak out of the castle. I quickly change out of my high heels and into shoes I can run in, and then put the cloak over me.

As I make my way back to the egg, I’m thankful that everyone is e
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  • The Dragon Thief   Chapter 5: The Queen

    Yet midst these lords who seek to reign,One soul stands silent in her pain.She walks in silk and royal thread,But moonlight masks the life she’s led.SkylarThe moment my father raced off, I went straight to my bedroom. In the very back of my closet, I have the dark cloak that I wear when I steal eggs and sneak out of the castle. I quickly change out of my high heels and into shoes I can run in, and then put the cloak over me.As I make my way back to the egg, I’m thankful that everyone is either panicking or rushing to fight. In my cloak, no one pays me any attention.I can hear the roaring of multiple dragons outside, feel it in the shaking of the concrete walls of the castle, and smell it in the dust and debris that shakes loose as the walls quiver, fighting to maintain their position while the dragons roar threatens to bring them down.The moment I’m back at the dragon egg, I wrap the long silk scarf I brought around my neck, tying in in a knot and letting it hang to my waist.

  • The Dragon Thief   Chapter 4: Dragons' Attack

    For kings and queens, their hunger wide,Would trade all love to mount and ride.They scorn the bond, they steal by night,To claim the sky through wrongful right.RyukiWhen a Queen calls, the dragons come. All of them.As we fly toward the castle where the golden egg was taken, the setting sun glints off silver, bronze, red, blue, and green. And at the very front, it shimmers off our golden queen.While I can’t hear Ylys, all the dragons can speak to each other. I don’t have to have a mind link with the queen to know that she’s furious. I can feel it rolling off her in waves. Her fury is flaming the rage in the rest of the Thunder.We’re in flight formation, a typical V-formation which I thought was because they are winged animals. However, Bynjym brought to my attention that it’s about their numbers not because they can fly. Ylys is in front, by herself, followed by the silver dragons, then the bronze dragons, then blue, red, and finally, greens.There are only four silver dragons,

  • The Dragon Thief   Chapter 3: Preparing for Battle

    Dragons of old, with eyes like stars,Held truths more vast than mortal scars.Their eggs, like jewels of breath and flame,Now fall to hands that know not shame.SkylarI watch as my father and his soldiers enter the castle walls. My father looks smug and proud.“My people, we have done it,” he says, uncovering the golden egg and lifting it above his head.Everyone around me gasps, then applauds, as if stealing a dragon egg from its mother is something to be celebrated. I ignore my own aversion to the practice and clap along with everyone else.“Call everyone in and lower the portcullis! The dragons will be coming for this one.” My father’s voice booms through the courtyard.He gets off his horse, carefully holding the egg, as one of the stable hands comes to get his horse.“Get the horses secured quickly,” he says, turning to his soldiers. “Get the torches lit and the harpoons manned! Hurry,” he says, before striding quickly in my direction. “Prince Kenneth, Skylar, come with me.”K

  • The Dragon Thief   Chapter 2: Dragon Bond

    In elder days when flame met air,And dragons ruled the heavens fair,Where once they soared on wings of grace,Now storm and sorrow take their place.Ryuki“Seriously? You’re hungry again?” I ask.‘I am a dragon. I’m always hungry. Just be glad I don’t eat you,’ Bynjym, my dragon says.I love my dragon. Ever since I bonded with him a year ago, my life has changed for the better.It was an accident. I stumbled across him while he was eating. Imagine that. My dragon was eating.I smile, remembering that day. I had been running from a group of people I’d stolen food from. I was starving, not just in the ‘really hungry’ way, but in the ‘I won’t survive much longer without food’ way. I can find water, but food is scarce in winter. It was just a small loaf of bread, something small enough that a normal person would eat it in one sitting, but I would have made it last for days.I’d had my head turned, looking behind me, watching to see how close they were to catching me, when I’d run into a

  • The Dragon Thief   Chapter 1: The King's Return

    **A special thank you to my Delta, Angela, for writing the poem that you'll see throughout this novel.Let this be read in whispered halls,Where shadows linger and embers call.A tale of fire, of sky, of strife,Of stolen eggs and secret life.SkylarI look at myself in the mirror as my maids put the finishing touches on my hair while adding the royal jewels to my neck, wrists, and ears. Being a princess has its privileges.It also has its struggles.My father, King Augustus, is returning home tonight. He’s been away for a week, so the entire kingdom will be celebrating his return. Since I am an only child and my mother died when I was very young, I was in charge of making sure that everything was ready for this evening.My father was out hunting dragon eggs again. I hope, like the last three times he went out, that he comes home without an egg.There are six colors of dragons – the rarest are the golden queens. They are the most powerful of all dragons. Their mates are primarily the

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