Dragon 5 Chapter 33 - END (Patreon)

“So who won?” Jadelyn asked as soon as I came to sit down in the east parlor with Sabrina. Sabrina’s succubus nature was still on display; she’d left her glasses back in the room.

After we’d finished, she had announced with glee that she was so full that she didn’t even feel the need to suppress her nature.

“He did,” Sabrina admitted as she slumped down into the chair next to Jadelyn and leaned against her. “I should feel shame at losing that challenge, given what I am, but all I feel is very satisfied.”

The girls giggled.

Most of my mates were in the parlor. But only two of the dragonettes were present, and we were still missing Helena. As I noted her absence, she rounded the corner, and my jaw nearly dropped.

“If you ogle me, I will tear your eyes out,” Helena scowled at me.

“That doesn’t sound very maid-like,” Tyrande scolded. “I thought you were going to be my maid for a month?”

“This is not a maid uniform. Did you get this from a sex shop?” Helena picked at the latex maid uniform.

“She borrowed it from me,” Morgana clarified, and I nearly choked.

Once I recovered, I turned to Morgana. “Do you have other outfits like that?”

She smirked, shrugging. “I tried it, but I never really got into it.”

Tyrande held up her cup of coffee, and Helena came over, snatching it out of her hand and walking off to refill it.

“Is this really okay?” I checked with Tyrande.

“If she can put up with this for a month, then I’m convinced that she really wants to repent. Otherwise, she’s my enemy and I’ll never forgive what she’s done. That means Sentarshaden won’t either.” Tyrande crossed her arms as Helena came back and slammed the coffee down on the table.

Tyrande cleared her throat, and Helena begrudgingly added, “Your coffee. M-m-mistress.” She struggled with the word.

“Thank you. That’ll be all.” Tyrande shooed her away with the wave of a hand.

“I need some as well.” Tills held up her hand to get Helena’s attention, but Helena just tipped her chair over, smirking down at her partner. “Do it yourself. I’m only Tyrande’s maid.”

My elven mate happily sipped her coffee again.

“So, any news on the council’s efforts to keep the paranormal secret suppressed?” I asked no one in particular.

But I wasn’t surprised when Jadelyn jumped in with the answer. “It’s going badly. There are a lot of videos floating around. We are doing what we can. Apparently, my father is getting a bot farm, whatever that is, and trying to suppress them. The news is running out an alternative story, but there’s a lot of chatter online still.”

Tills cleared her throat as she came back with a fresh cup of coffee, righting her chair. “I have worse news. We turned in our case report on the congressman, and we got a lot of questions that weren’t even about our case as follow ups. They were coming from on high too. We were asked if we would consider relocation to Philly before I even asked.”

I leaned back in my chair. “Then we stay quiet and hope this blows over. Besides, we have a wedding here in a month and a half. The Winter Queen might need some support, so I’m turning my focus from Philly to the Faerie realm for the time being.”

Tills opened up her laptop and logged in only to nearly spill her coffee all over it.

“Which one of you did this?” She held up the laptop and angrily glared at the dragonettes.

“I don’t know what you are talking about.” Larisa bat her eyelashes innocently.

I got enough of a view to see that her background now had a golden plushie on it before she stormed over to Larisa shouting about how she broke into an FBI laptop.

“Is it wise to get involved with the fae?” Scarlett asked, pulling my attention back to the table as she still scratched at the base of her tails.

But before I could answer that, the door opened, and Maeve stepped in.

“Hope I’m not interrupting anything?” She eyed Helena’s current outfit, but she didn’t say anything.

“No, we were just talking about the fae. How’s your mother?”

“Awake, but not well. She’s insulated herself among some of her most loyal people, and our army has their spirit back for the fight. They took the field this morning without a problem.” Maeve sat down, biting her lip not to directly laugh at Helena. “I see we have new staff.”

The angel snorted. “Serve yourself.”

“Fae princess.” Maeve pointed to herself, and as she said it, Evelyn glided into the room and prepared Maeve’s coffee.

“So, tell me more. What were you discussing?” Maeve focused on me.

“It seems that we nearly blew the lid off everything, and even the FBI are curious. So we need to be quiet, and I can’t think of a better way than supporting the Winter Fae if you need me.”

Sabrina cut off a piece of waffle and fed it to me. She needed me in top condition if I was to keep feeding her sex demon nature.

“I can’t see the future. But for now, how about you focus on your first child, getting married, and getting some of your ladies pregnant?” Maeve countered, and the faces around the room perked up immediately.

“Yes please!” Kelly raised her hand. “If the Dragon King isn’t tired of sex, I’d take another roll in the sheets. All the pregnant bitches around me really make me want to have a tummy.” She made the shape of a pregnant belly with her hand.

I shook my head, my beast nearly purring in interest. “We’ll work on it tonight.”

“We do need to talk more about the wedding.” Tyrande perked up. “Since we recruited the help of the Summer Queen, I wanted to talk about flowers. I always thought one of those vine arches was absolutely perfect.”

“Sure and we could make it from gold,” I added, trying to subtly work in more gold, but the blank stares I got in return said I wasn’t very subtle.

“It’s got to be white,” Jadelyn interjected.

“For once, I agree with her. It has to be white,” Tyrande added.

And from there, the conversation shifted into wedding detail upon wedding detail. As they sank deeper and deeper into their discussion, I scooted back from my chair, tiptoeing away. I was ready to escape to my hoard.

I made it to the door before Yev grabbed my arm.

“Let’s go look at your hoard.” She whispered it so that she didn’t catch the attention of the other women. But she also did a little skip of excitement. “My parents said that if you come with that bracer of yours, they’ll let you take away my hoard.”

I had a feeling the powerful family had another way to move her hoard, but they likely wanted to get me alone.

“I can go tomorrow if you set it up?” I replied.

She made a cute noise as she nodded. “Done. They’ll be excited to see you again. My parents have been wanting to talk to you even before I told them about the pregnancy.”

With the extended Atrium connecting all the way to Sentarshaden now, it was easy for us to get back and forth and make a day trip.

We walked through the atrium and entered my room, but as soon as we entered, my attention was caught. The little gem that held Tia was active as she bounced up and down in the window.

“This is your mother, right?” Yev went closer to inspect it, and Tia beckoned to her.

As she got closer, Yev’s knees buckled, and I dove to catch her.

“What the hell?” I picked her up and looked at the crystal, frowning.

Yev was in the middle of what had become a courtroom with Tia manning the judges bench and Bart looking grumpy as the stenographer.

“Tia, let me in there. What are you doing to Yev?” I shouted at the crystal.

My mother looked at me and frowned before crossing her arms.

I knew exactly what she wanted. She didn’t like it when I called her Tia. “Mother, please let me in.”

She smiled at my correction, and I only had a moment to sit down with Yev in my arms before my perspective warped and I landed in the middle of a courtroom.

“Today, we call to session the judgment for one Yevanara Highaen.” Tia banged a gavel several times.

“Mother, what is this?”

“You spoke out of turn.” She banged the gavel again. “Don’t do that in my courtroom or I’ll kick you out.”

“This isn’t—" I started, but she raised the gavel threateningly, and I wondered if she could actually eject me out of the crystal.

I cursed silently, wondering what the hell my mother was up to.

“My apologies.” I crossed my arms.

“Good. Now, Yev, you are guilty of becoming my daughter-in-law and even bearing my grandson without even coming and asking for my son's hand.” She banged the gavel several more times in anger. “Unacceptable.”

Yev did a small courtesy keeping her head bowed. “I’m terribly sorry, mother. I hadn’t intended to become pregnant already. May I have your permission to be with your son?”

Tia’s gavel hung in the air. She’d clearly expected more of a fight. “You aren’t supposed to just roll over.” She flailed the gavel about. “You are chromatic. Fight me!”

But Yev just shook her head. “I’m sorry, but your son has already tamed my wild chromatic heart, and you are his mother. Given your strength, Tiamat, I can see how he could only be your son.” She kept her head bowed.

Tia leaned back in the judge's bench and played with the gavel while she squinted at Yev. “I want to see my grandson every week.”

“Mother, I don’t know if this space is healthy for your grandson to enter often.” I looked to Bart for support. Coming into the space had given me headaches before, and my body was far more resilient.

“No. No. No.” Tia banged her gavel and shook it at me. “No speaking, son. You make too much sense. I want to hold my grandson.”

Yev was still bowing to my mother. “If nothing else, I think the crystal that you can view the world from should be brought to some dinners with our child so that you can see him,” Yev offered up the suggestion.

“Yes. Yes. Exactly that.” Tia punctuated her words with gavel. “Bart, I want speakers on the crystal.”

Bart just sighed. “We need someone’s help to modify the exterior of the crystal, and a little more power wouldn’t hurt,” Bart commented from his station where he certainly wasn’t typing up notes.

“Sabrina is pretty skilled. If you come up with it, I’m sure she can do it,” I offered.

“The succubus? I’m sure she’s quite skilled.” Tia narrowed her eyes on me. “I need to vet the rest of your ladies. If they are going to possibly bear my grandchildren, I need to meet them.” Tia swung the gavel around before smacking it into her hands like a thug about to crack some skulls.

I sighed. There was no sense in trying to argue with her.

“I’ll happily help you vet them if you’d like, mother,” Yev said, rising from her curtsy finally.

“Yes.” She squinted at Yev. “I just got my baby boy, and now all of you are taking him from me.”

Yev’s expression shifted to sadness as she rubbed her stomach. “I might not have been able to understand you before, but I can’t even imagine such a thing. And I’ve only known I was pregnant for a day.”

Tia nodded rapidly as Yev spoke. “Exactly. Now you understand. I needed to meet you, and now you need to help me meet the other women. Bart, make up the enchantments. We’ll use the succubus to get the changes done. I still wish we knew what happened to our latest reincarnations. If I ever find her, I’ll throttle her for not raising my baby boy and bringing me the memories.” She shook her gavel angrily in the air.

“I wish I knew more, but nothing has surfaced. It’s hard to believe that they lived in this world.” Even with the full resources of the dragons and sirens, months of searching had turned up nothing.It was like my biological parents were ghosts in the system.

“Mother.” Yev added as much sweetness as possible as she spoke. “We were on our way to add my hoard to your sons and check in on an elemental he created. Perhaps we could come back another time?”

Tia hugged herself. “How romantic. The gold part, not the elemental. Bart has made a few that he used to cheat on me.”

“I never cheated on you. We were never together when we were alive.” Bart sighed. Clearly, it was a conversation that they had already had multiple times.

“But now we have, and since I’m the only one for you, then all the previous girls were cheating.” Tia crossed her arms and stuck her nose out.

Bart sighed once more as he waved his hand, ejecting Yev and me from the crystal during her moment of distraction.

I blinked, finding myself back in my room with Yev in my arms. As quickly as I could, I picked her up and moved away from the crystal. But out of the corner of my eye, I could see the two of them arguing.

“She’s… fun.” Yev suppressed a giggle.

“Want to play in my hoard?” I asked her instead.

“Yes please!”

I lifted my mattress and let Yev enter first.

She climbed down and started surveying the gold. “I want to see the elemental. I need to make friends with it if I’m going to be sitting on an egg and not really able to move a ton.”

“Well, Herm told me to try and feed it some mana. It should find my mana familiar.” I pushed my magic into a ball in the palm of my hand and held it out over the massive pile of gold that was my hoard.

I really had gone a long way in learning magic, this would have been a foreign concept to me not that long ago.

There was an instant reaction as I could hear the tinker of gold shifting a little ways away. It was like something was swimming under my gold. The tinkering stopped about four feet from me before the elemental launched itself out of the gold, snatching the ball of mana from me, and landing back on the gold. It took a bite out of the captured mana.

“It’s so cute!” Yev squealed.

“Yeah…” I stared at the gold elemental. It was now almost the size of a house cat, and it hadn’t been bigger than a rat before. “It’s gotten bigger.”

“Aren’t you cute?” Yev bent down.

The elemental moaned, but it didn’t sound like it was in pain, it sounded like…

I smacked my face with my hand. I hadn’t been doing much talking in my hoard, so if it were to start mimicking sounds…

Sure enough, it moaned, mimicking someone’s sexual moans before saying a breathy ‘yes’ on repeat.

“I think I’ve failed to teach it to speak. Instead, it learned… from other activities.” I shook my head.

Yev broke out in hysterical laughter, tears streaming down her face as she continued to crack up.

The elemental continued to mimic moans and cries of ecstasy to try and communicate with me, and I had no idea what to do. After finishing the mana, it relaxed into the gold it was on and took a vaguely humanoid form as it continued trying to communicate.

That only made Yev laugh harder. “All you’ve taught it is sex.”

“Shut up.” I knelt down by the elemental and gave it more mana. “You need to speak if you want to communicate,” I told it. “Those noises are for a certain kind of happiness.”

The head on the elemental tilted in confusion before it took the ball of mana and bit into it again and rubbed its belly.

Yev rolled over to face it. “This thing really is quite cute. And there are a lot of uses for an elemental.”

The elemental perked up and walked over to Yev before going down to her belly.

Yev put a hand between it and the precious new life growing in her out of instinct. “What’s it doing?”

“I think it feels some of my mana in that child.” I knelt on the gold. “That’s my child. Will you help me protect it?”

The little gold elemental turned its featureless face to me and nodded before turning back to stare at Yev’s stomach.

I wasn’t sure just how smart the creature was. Part of me thought the moaning proved it was still rather simple minded, but now I was wondering if it had been messing with me and was smarter than I thought.

“Come on. Why don’t you come with us as Yev picks out how to arrange a nest amid my hoard. She’s going to have a baby soon.” I tried to talk more to the gold elemental, hoping it could pick up speech.

It nodded again, moving around with us as Yev took in the full hoard to choose where she wanted to nest.

I smiled as I watched her begin to arrange the coins. I’d get her settled in, and then I’d go figure out how to make sure we didn’t end up with a very warm summer. I had a feeling I was about to get a crash course in the Faerie realm.