A Light in the Shadows.

The Missing Piece.

Whew, that was eventful.

When I got back to the palace someone informed me that Lyka was waiting for me with a report.

I sighed and headed to the meeting room.

I walked in and as soon as my feet crossed the threshold Lyka was telling me to sit down with a serious expression on her face.

"Good to see you too Lyka" I muttered.

 "Okay, listen to me." she demanded.

 I looked at her. She took a deep breath. "So, your majesty." she said "do you want the long version or the short?"

 "long"

"okay. So, we were sent as reinforcements, they assessed it and there were too many dragons to fight on their own, but you know that. Anyway, we got there and we realized. Seraphina, these aren't regular dragons, they had these extraordinary powers and their dragon forms were like none I have ever seen."

"What kinds of powers?" I asked, starting to worry at Lyka's panicky tone.

 As far as I knew she was almost impossible to scare.

"Well, they- they, i don't know how to describe it. It was like... like they caused a ripple in the world and... they created with it, but somehow it seemed like... like, they destroyed something for everything they did. There was a price for everything.

 I paled.

 I recognized this but I couldn't figure out where it was from.

 "What did they look like?" I asked "it was like the universe had somehow appeared on their scales."

how? He left me, but why? He could have killed the queen of dragons but he didn't. Why? Suddenly a string of flashbacks hit me.

It all started when my parents were killed. That's when I saw the dragon, the one time I saw one... that's what I thought.

At my coronation, a dragon. He was wandering through the crowd, but somehow they seemed to be completely nonexistent to everyone but me, they passed through dragons and no one turned to stare.

one was an assassin! How did I not notice that? One of the dragons attempting to assassinate me. He looked like some sort of shadow dragon hybrid then, but how?

How, how, how.

And then... I searched my memory wait, at the party. How did I not realize? Somehow, there was a trick, and if they have that power... and this bending of the world.

 This could be the end of the world.

What is my brain hiding from me?

Why do I recognise this!?

What is wrong with me? I collapsed on the ground.

 "What's wrong?" Lyka asked me.

She lifted me off the ground and supported me against her.

"I know..." i rasped "but I can't  know something but I don't know what... I can't remember, I ran my hand through my hair. "I've seen them." I grabbed onto Lyka desperately

"that's the same type of dragon that killed my parents!"

 "Are you sure?" she asked me.

 "positive. And he didn't kill me, there's something we're missing!" I said in frustration.