The Bond Of Dragons The Dawning

Chapter twenty-Seven: Betrayal

Chapter twenty-Seven

Betrayal

I thought my heart was going to burst from my chest. I was constantly wiping my sweaty hands on my dirty burned t-shirt. My jaw was clenched so hard it began to get sore.

I listened to the dragon's feet slushing on the muddy floor. No one talked but I kept hearing words in my head. The way he looked at me and talked, made me start to shake. He acted like I was a monster and that having powers of fire was a bad thing.

I yelled at Will and Asper about losing Isha even though they were going through it also. Diago disappeared on Will. I don't even know how or if he's okay because I was too busy burning everything down and yelling at them. I cupped my face. I just wanted everything to stop. I didn't want to think of anything anymore.

That's when I heard it or more like I couldn't hear the sloshing of mud anymore. It was a soft sound more like grinding. the sand they were walking on sand.

"Were here," I said over my shoulder. My heart began to skip beats. They were so close the answers to my parents were just around the corner. Right past this and the towns right there. Just a few more feet...

A shadow swung in the cave, and the object that casted it hung just out of reach. hung by a rock and Twirled in the breeze. . . the moon pendant. I stood on Isha's back and grabbed it off the rock.

"So you dragged us down a random burrow that could lead straight off a cliff," Cleo's voice was cold "but I'm happy you got back the pendant."

She was right after all but it slipped out before I could stop

"I didn't ask you to follow me" I snapped but I was happy they did.

We walked into the blinding light and the heat hit me first. It was warm before but now I started sweating. The air was stale and hot. When my eyes finally adjusted I already heard gasping around me.

"Oh no," they said so low it was barely audible.

I blinked hard I tried to focus faster and my vision was back.

Half buried remains of an old town were left and the whole city was destroyed, completely abolished. Buildings stood by the last thread of their life. No people walked around, no animals. It was like this for a long time. A long-time ghost town.

Sand swept up with the wind it covered the broken buildings even more in its grip soon they'll be gone forever. Buried under rubble and sand.

My chest filled with its own sand as we walked through the destruction. This was supposed to be the chance that we had to find them to find out what's happening with the disappearances and Cleo's family, the shades, the answers to everything it was supposed to be here. The answers to this pendant, it felt even heavier in my pocket.

"What now?" Cleo said, sliding off. "You dragged us here, what now princess?"

"Don't call me that," I said through a clamped jaw.

"Why?" she huffed "you act like one like everything's all about Kiora and her problems everyone is bidding on you! I came with you and I left my home to help you and you turned out to be a big waste of time. I actually thought for a second that you might be able to fix the dawning but now I'm not so sure."

"No one asked you to leave you! could have just let us go you didn't have to follow us like a lost puppy!'' I yelled.

I thought she was going to cry. I regretted the words as soon as they came out. But her face was stone cold. She looked like her mother.