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I hadn’t thought they would attack us in the open when we’d only wanted to show them who I was and reason with them.
They didn’t want reason or peace. They wanted our blood. They craved havoc and destruction.
They injured my mates and my warriors.
Fire, frost, and lightning flared out of the dragons’ nostrils, and the murderous fury in their eyes told of their intention to kill every human here.
The same rage coursed in me. I could kill them all, every one of the humans.
But I did not want to plunge into the carnage. It would be what Lysandra wanted, and more to the point, it was what Tianna wanted.
Luckily for the humans, I still had an ounce of mercy.
I restrained the dragons from burning the humans on the rooftop.
But if one of my mates or the warriors had died under the attack, I wouldn’t have spared any human here. I’d slaughter them myself, all of them.
The realm would agree with me. It was less mercy than I would have granted them.
While the light of rainbows held the mobs at bay, I pulled the magic from the land again.
It filled me with power, giving me full support.
I had been worried the link between the land and me in the city would be weak. I had been wrong. The whole realm, including all six cities, was mine. I was its rightful Keeper.
My ancestors hadn’t bothered to extend their powers outside the Dragon Realm, but here I was, claiming the cities back and showing the humans who owned the land.
They’d think twice if they still wanted to eradicate the dragons. I’d make sure they would not forget so quickly after today.
I threw up my hands in the air and commanded the land, and it gladly obliged.
The City of Amethyst quaked. Buildings swayed. Rifts opened on the streets, and some empty buildings toppled down. Tremors spread throughout the land.
Screams rose all over. Yet I hadn’t destroyed a life that hadn’t threatened a dragon. I held the land’s magic in rein and didn’t allow it to touch the humans in all six cities.
“Call the other five cities and see ifTurquoise,Jasper,Heliotrope, Sodalite, andChrysocolla are all having an earthquake at the same time,” I ordered the reporters from the news media team, and one of them flipped open a communication device.
The crowd—the rich, entitled class—on the rooftop held onto their lives, fear and hate on their faces. The realm’s colorful light bound them and shielded us. A few dragons flew around them, puffing fire, to further remind them to behave.
A reporter called back loudly, “All six cities are having an earthquake. There have been no deaths, except for those on this rooftop.”
At the same time, a live feed of the other cities’ earthquakes swirled on the glass façade. A camera flicked to a cloud of dust and smoke rising into the air as a building on an abandoned block collapsed.
“There’ll be enough death if the Humans Superior and First movement make another move,” I said. “The land is mine. Stop being dense, humans! You want a war, you’ll have it, and you’ll lose. Only fucking morons pick a fight they can’t win.”
I flicked a wrist, and all the quakes stopped in sync.
The camera lens returned to me as I glowed like the goddess of war in wrath, blood on my white gown. “I’m Daisy Danaenyth, the legitimate queen to the Dragon Realm, to the citiesAmethyst, Turquoise,Jasper,Heliotrope, Sodalite, andChrysocolla. I’ve returned to reclaim what’s mine. You don’t need to like it. You’re welcome to leave my land and you won’t take anything that belongs to my land. Those who mean the dragons harm will have three days to leave the cities. Should you stay, the land will purge you without mercy. It’s sentient, as I’ve showed you. It recognizes any hostile force.
For those who are allowed to stay, keep this in mind: don’t abuse the land. Don’t treat it as your servant and do whatever you like with it without considering that it’s also living and breathing. Respect it. I’ve come back to this planet to guard it. Those who want peace are welcome to stay and live a life of freedom and prosperity. The land won’t harm you. Humans Superior and First is unacceptable as Dragons Superior and First.”
As I looked around, the crowd—most of them—only snarled and hissed. My words couldn’t get through their thick skulls.
“Pretty speech,” Lysandra laughed coldly and victoriously. “They’re mine, through and through. It took a lot of work, but it didn’t go to waste. No matter what you say or do, soon-to-be-no-more-queen Daisy Danaenyth. All I need to do is eliminate you, and you’ll be gone just like before, without leaving a trace or a wrinkle in time.”
Thick smoke twirled around her to shield her, while a part of it darted to me like black arrows pushed by high waves.
My land magic could rumble the earth and buildings, but it couldn’t counter the foul magic which had made it sick. My White Light could expel the living smoke, as it had done before, but it was fickle and unstable. I’d been summoning it since I’d landed on the rooftop, and it hadn’t bothered to show, despite that I’d clenched my teeth and hissed at it where it circulated like a ribbon of light and fire at the bottom of my magical well.
