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My mates and the other dragons hovered nearby, still cloaked with Elvey’s spell. He and Rosalinda hadn’t come with us. They’d left the mountains before us, and I had no idea where he’d gone. I’d like to have his support, even just morally, but I hadn’t had a chance to talk to him after I’d performed my blood oath and landed the deal with the realm and the goddess.
My three mates, Adrian, and I, had talked about my entrance. I’d come up with this style—to confront Lysandra alone at first.
One dragon wouldn’t pose a threat, but a group of dragons crashing the coronation would cause a great conflict before I could challenge the witch.
Fear would make humans do rash, stupid things.
I raised my hands in the air, adrenaline pumping in my bloodstream.
“I’m Princess Daisy Danaenyth,” I pronounced loudly for all to hear. “And I’m not armed.”
They wouldn’t shoot an innocent, unarmed woman, would they?
The mass gasped, and a camera turned and focused on me. I could see my own image on the glass façade.
Opposed to Lysandra’s diamond dress, I dressed in a glowing white gown that flowed down to my feet. On my head, I already had a crown of gold, diamond, and emeralds with the crest of a royal dragon carved on the surface.
I outclassed the witch by the design.
“Lysandra, unfortunately, I can’t allow you to keep doing this,” I said. “You cannot legitimately take the crown, and you never will be.”
“Seize her!” Lysandra screamed, forgetting she needed to keep a graceful public image. “Seize the assassin!”
“I’m unarmed, and I’m far from an assassin,” I said in dark amusement. “Think you can’t handle one opponent? If you want to be the queen to my realm, you’ll need to up your game.”
“You aren’t allowed to be here,” she hissed.
“Why is that?” I asked. “Afraid my presence will prove that you’re the fraud?”
“Kill her!” Lysandra screamed at the guards. “She’s a threat to the crown.”
“My crown, you mean?” I asked. “It’s appalling that you’re so desperate to take what’s mine and eliminate me before the people get to know me.”
“It can’t be her!” one of the mayors whispered. “The lost princess—”
The guards rushed toward me, and at the same time, the witch’s coven tossed their spells at me.
Fire poured out from above. Blaze and a few other dragons spat fire at the spells before they could reach me. The dragons removed their magical cloak and revealed themselves, their shimmering scales carrying the sunlight.
A gray-storm dragon’s thunder rolled across the sky, and lightning struck. That was Rai’s signature. Then Iokul shifted to his human form, a current of icy wind pouring from him, pushing the human guards back.
The audience screamed, jumped from their seats, and scurried for cover.
“The dragons are with me,” my voice boomed as I scanned the panicked crowd. “They won’t harm you if you don’t try to shoot them.”
A black dragon that was Adrian roared before shifting. Then the rest of the dragons shifted to their human shapes and formed a ring around me.
Someone recognized Adrian and shouted, “The general, the black dragon, has returned!”
“Yes, I’ve returned,” Adrian called to the mass, “for my legitimate queen Daisy Danaenyth. The lost Dragon Princess, the true heir to the throne and now Queen of the Danaenyth dynasty, has broken the curse placed by the dark Fae Queen. She’s returned home to reclaim what’s hers. No one shall harm her!”
“We don’t want her!” one of the witch’s minions screamed. “We don’t want any dragon to rule us! The dragons’ reign is over. Humans Superior and First!”
Damn, that minion was good.
She was calling for the mob to echo her. And before I could stop it from happening, the entire audience booed me and erupted with cries of, “Humans Superior and First!”
They didn’t want me. They didn’t want me to rule over them.
