THE DRAGON KING'S SOUTHERN CONSORT

CHAPTER 23 ACCEPTANCE CEREMONY PART 1

Daniel POV

Omega pregnancies are different from female pregnancies, one of the differences is, females give birth in human form, but omegas during the last two weeks of pregnancy will be stuck in their dragon form, then after we give birth we'll be able to shift into our human form after two weeks, then the babies will hatch after two months and be in human form, afterwards their bodies will grow up naturally, so all together it'll be two and a half months until the babies hatch.

I'm currently in the basement in my dragon form, Elyrie has taken over to ensure that I have a smooth birth, Alice has visited me, along with the kids, while I'm down here she's agreed to make sure everything is good with the school I've made and check on everyone in the apartment's.

I'm currently snoozing in my nest when I sense the presence of a dominant dragon, Elyrie is immediately put in a defensive mood, this dragon is not the father of our hatchlings, my dragon let's out a low growl to ensure that this intruder knows to stay away, the door opens and down the stairs comes, Darren.

"It's all right Daniel I mean no harm." He tries to sooth me, but my dragon is in full protective mama mode, he takes a look at my eyes and realization crosses his features, "You must be his dragon. Well either way I'm no threat to you or the hatchlings, my own dragon is already starting to see your hatchlings as our own, that's actually why I wanted to see you today, I wanted to ask permission to perform the acceptance ceremony on you and your hatchlings and the kids." Me and my dragon are taken aback, he wants to perform the acceptance ceremony on my kid's?

Let me explain, this ceremony basically consists of his dragon biting his arm and biting my kids so his blood will mix with their own, he won't be their father or anything like that but with his blood in their own system, they'll have his protective seal, and since he's a royal, they'll have the royal seal, plus he'll be able to telepathically sense them, I performed the ritual on the kids after I got full custody of them, they have my seal of the former fourth empress but once I became the Matriarch, the seal changed into that one,

But the fact he wants to give the kids and even my hatchlings his seal? That's a gigantic step, and I'm not even the empress anymore, he comes up to me and pat's my head, showing he means no harm, all the while I sense Alice, I look over at the stairs and see her smiling at us,

"So you want to perform the acceptance ceremony on the kids? That's a big step, looks like our little one will have some older siblings to look after them." She teased, Elyrie raised our head and tilted it in confusion, "What do you mean our little ones?" Darren asked, I slither closer to her and sniff her stomach, I look her square in the eye and she smiles at me, letting me know my hunch is correct.

I motion to Darren and nose at her belly, he stares at me for a sec then follows my movement, then he looks at her and she smiles and nods her head yes, then his eyes go wide in realization,

"No way!" He says as he hugs her and spins her around, then puts her down gently, "Are you sure?" He asked excitedly, "Yes I'm sure, tyron confirmed it earlier, I'm pregnant." She says cheerfully, they hug and come to me and rub my head, I mind link her a congratulations, looks like the royal family's going to become a little bigger.