All Chapters of The Dragon’s Tears Dried Up: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

"Noxivira, Aithne's health is getting worse by the day. She can't conduct the drug test anymore—they're life-threatening for her."My parents crowded around me, once again urging me to agree to the drug test. I'd lost count of how many times this had happened."You and Aithne are both about to reach adulthood. But she has been unable to absorb the elemental power. If this continues, she won't survive for long. "“Only taking the drug test has a chance to save her. You are the most powerful dragon among our clan. You should take better care of your sister.”"Noxivira! Don't be so selfish. You two hatched from the same clutch. You're the only one who can take her place. Can you really stand by and watch your own sister become a crippled dragon?"Morpheus frowned, his face dark with anger."If you refuse, we're done. Call off the engagement. Aithne doesn't have much time left, and I want to help her fulfill her last wish."He threatened me again with breaking off the engagement."If you

Chapter 2

Mother froze, then reached out and stroked my head."Why would you say that? You’re our child too. If Morpheus treats you badly, we’ve got your back."Feeling mother’s big hand on my head, a happiness I’d never known rushed through me. They’d never shown me this much care, not since I was tiny.Just because we hatched at the same time. Aithne couldn’t bond with the elements while I was blessed by ice, they decided I’d stolen the power that was hers by right.So from the moment we hatched, I owed her.Every birthday when I was growing up, I just stood off to the side, watching.Parents would crowd round her, singing, baking her special cakes, buying her gifts, making her birthday wishes come true.I got nothing.Once, Aithne’s birthday wish was: I wish someone else could do the drug tests for me.They shot me those accusing looks, like I’d done something unforgivable.I felt like an outsider, only ever allowed to watch their perfect little family of three.I often thought, if only I we

Chapter 3

They dropped me at the edge of the Fire Dragon territory. Wave after wave of heat rolled over me.I glanced back—they were already gone, leaving only their retreating backs in view.I’d always known they didn’t love me, that they’d never fret over me, but in that moment, it still felt like a blade had been driven clean through my heart.Tears slid down, only to be scorched dry by the furnace winds.I waded through magma. The ice armour on my body evaporated, and a suffocating, searing heat swallowed me whole.My skin went bone dry and itchy, my throat felt like I’d swallowed a handful of razors, and another blast of pain in my gut forced a mouthful of blood past my lips.The Fire Dragon chieftain stood high above, looking down at me like I was a piece of trash.“Dare to hurt our little princess? I’ll show your parents exactly what can be done to a precious daughter.”I smiled, bitter as gall. I wasn’t their precious daughter. If I died, no one would grieve.A full day and night passed

Chapter 4

The next day, my parents stared in confusion at the fresh wound on my wing and scolded me.“You’re starting the tests today! How could you be so careless and get hurt again?”Morpheus frowned, his eyes fixed on the wound. “Don’t worry. The doctor has plenty of potions. He’ll get you fixed right up.”I knew I wouldn’t make it through. I was meant to die of life energy draining anyway.When all that’s left is a cold corpse, how would they react?Would they grieve for me? Shed a single tear?I doubt it. When the unwanted one finally goes, they’ll just feel relieved.Sure enough, the moment Aithne appeared, every pair of eyes latched onto her.“Our poor Aithne finally has hope!”“You’re going to get better. You’ll be another princess of the Ice Dragon clan. Let’s have a grand feast to celebrate later.”Morpheus tenderly stroked her head.“Once you’re well, we’ll keep our promise and travel the world together!”It was me who was about to die, yet they only cared about Aithne.Watching thei

Chapter 5

There was a pause on the other end, then a laugh.“Are you having a laugh? Noxivira’s strength is beyond question. How could she possibly be dead?”The doctor stared at the stiffening corpse on the operating table, his voice cracking with agitation.“I’m dead serious—her heart has stopped!”Morpheus’s voice drifted through, completely offhand.“Faking it, right? Doesn’t want to do the tests? Don’t let her fool you.”He hung up. The dial tone buzzed. The doctor couldn’t believe it.He rang again and again, but nobody picked up.He looked at my ashen face and smashed his phone in fury.Cursing under his breath, he went next door, grabbed his things, and got the hell out.No one knew that this so-called research lab was nothing but a creation of Aithne.All to maintain a frail image, to keep my parents’ love, to get Morpheus’s treasures.My soul drifted above, watching my own corpse slowly rot.My body began to stiffen, then soften.The ice element surrounding me gradually vanished.I loo

Chapter 6

“I’m calling the Council of Elders.” Morpheus was the first to snap out of it.“NO—!”Aithne instantly went berserk, ignoring the medicament covering the floor and trying to stop him.But she was too late. The call went through.I hovered in mid?air, coldly watching her panic mount.Her voice quavered. “I’m scared. I want to go back.”She tried to bolt, but Morpheus blocked her path.“When you did the texts before, was it like this? What the hell is going on?!”“I… I don’t know.”Aithne’s lips trembled. She collapsed to the floor in a heap.“Noxivira, is it really you? Are you just playing a joke on me…”Morpheus looked utterly broken. He clutched my hand and wailed.“How could she be dead? It was just medicine texts. Aithne went through them loads of times and nothing ever happened…”But I wouldn’t answer him anymore.Once upon a time, I would have wiped away his tears. But now, I could no longer touch them.And I didn’t want to, either. His tears had come far too late.Several elders

Chapter 7

“Elders, the case has already been presented in full, hasn’t it?”The priestess looked slightly perplexed, but nodded.Morpheus acknowledged it, then drew out an ice crystal from within his robes. Trapped inside was a wisp of memory?light.“Then it’s my turn.”“I formally accuse Aithne Vira of illegally operating a medicine?trial research institute, and of premeditated murder of her own sister, Noxivira.”What?!Parents whipped around, staring at him in utter disbelief.But Morpheus didn’t offer a single word of explanation. He crushed the ice crystal in his grip, and the memory?light projected into the air.Inside the image, Aithne’s shrill, piercing voice echoed through the Dragon Keep’s great hall—“…Who told you to kill her!”“I’ll give you a million gold coins. Come back, take the whole rap, and don’t let them trace it to me!”The vision lasted only a few breaths, yet it seemed to freeze time itself.Every gaze in the hall fell upon the ashen?faced white dragon girl standing by th

Chapter 8

(Third Person POV)That day, Morpheus sensed something was terribly off with Aithne and quietly followed her.Hiding in the shadows, he watched her make a phone call with that fake doctor just outside the lab.He heard her hiss through clenched teeth, "I told you to torment her, not kill her!""I'll give you a million gold coins. Come back and take the fall for everything..."Morpheus didn’t know how he dragged himself away from that laboratory. All he remembered was that it was the hottest day in a century.By the time he flew back to the Dragon Keep, his ice armour had nearly melted right off him, yet he felt not a lick of pain.He stared at his trembling hands, thinking of that icy corpse he’d just touched.A bone?deep chill.He sat in the corner of Noxivira’s empty chamber, replaying that memory sealed in the ice crystal over and over, his expression twisted with agony.On one hand, a tidal wave of fury at being deceived. On the other, the deceiver was the “little sister” he’d dote

Chapter 10

Aithne was arrested by the Council of Elders.The charges: fraud, illegal experimentation, and the premeditated murder of her own blood.But Parents had no time to grieve, much less save her.The appalling news of a dragon slaying her own sister tore across the world like wildfire.The rumour spread that the Ice Dragon clan had slaughtered their own princess.It was rumored among the Fire Dragon clan that before Noxivira passed away, her whole body was burnt, with rotting flesh spreading everywhere, and she even went on behalf of Aithne to apologize. Overnight, every foreign trade port of the Ice Dragon clan was blockaded by angry general public.Debt?collecting merchants of every tribe and furious reporters jammed the gates of the Dragon Keep so tightly a breath couldn’t squeeze through. A torrent of curses flooded the two old dragons’ ears.Soon enough, from days of running himself ragged begging for mercy, Father’s fatal scale shattered.But Mother dared not open the door to summon

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