THE BATTLE OF DRAGONS: Auryn and the fate of Nagendra

Auryn

I pat Sarnai's snout and head to the castle. The big white castle looks wonderfull with the fall leaves, it is like a bright sun. As I arive at my chambers I sit on my bed and think. I need a plan to find out the queen's secret. I was planning to break into her library but i'm not sure about it. The only thing I know is that the private library of the queen is opposite her room. But is it guarded? I don't think so, who would break into the queen's library except for me? I need someone who knows the castle very well. I just need to know if there are guards or not. Should I go or should I send someone else? Mighty dragons I hate making plans. Just when I need Matteo he needs to work. I'm just going to do it. Walk past the library. But it is dark now, and Matteo will come take a visit before he goes to his familiy. I can tell him my plan but he will never aprove it. Trying to break into the library at night while the chambers of the queen is close by isn't a good plan. I change my clothes and put on my night gown and go to sleep.

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I wake up because of loud knocking and suddenly Matteo comes in with wild eyes.

'Why bother to knock if you won't wait for my answer? Do you realise how late-'

' Yes i realise how late it is, but something happend.' he looks panicked and I jump of my bed. 'What's wrong?'

' The queen killed the king.', he says calmly. The queen killed the king? How does Matteo know this information? But I keep staring at him. It is too late and I am too tired for this.

' My mother saw it, she was guarding the throneroom that day. She saw king Dryston laying on his stomach, bleeding out of his back and the queen looked paranoid. She said that if someone would spread this...event, she would kill them with her own hands.'

I just blink. I can't say anything. What in the mighty dragons happend?

' And yes mother told me and i just told you because-'

'Why are you telling me this at midnight!?', I yell. Litteraly why? This is important information that i didn't need to know, not right now.

' Because I thought you were going to break in to the library.'

' I waited for you to make a plan. The queen killed the king and we don't know the reason but why should I change my mind?' But why did the queen kill Dryston?

' Because the queen is... a bit unwell. She first asks you to go on a impossable mission and now she killed the king. Do you hear me Auryn? The king!'

I grab his hands to calm him down. ' Well, rest in peace king Dryston, but he is not our problem. I have to know who I am and I only have two days left. I will be busy with packing things and training. That's why I need your help. Can you break into the library?'

He only stares at me, but then he asks: 'how?'

' We'll discuss that tomorrow, thank...' suddenly i feel nauseous and my warrior instict is on. Something is wrong.

' What's wrong?', Matteo asks. I gesture for him to be quiet. I slowly get of the bed and walk towards the door. I hear Matteo getting of the bed. He goes into a fighting position. I count in my head until three and then I slam the door open. A young man was eavesdropping, or spying. I slam him against the wall, grab his arms from behind and toss him in my room. Matteo jumps on his back and grabs his hair so that he looks up to me. I lock my door quikly and ask him with a cold voice: 'Who are you and who sent you?' but the spy doesn't answer. He just stares at me with his black eyes. Did he really think he could spy on me? I don't like wasting time and keep asking questions. Let's get down to business.

I walk towards my bed and grab my knife under my pillow. You never know when you need it.

I kneel in front of him and I plant my knife in his throat. ' I don't mind if I spill blood on my carpet, so i would start talking if I was you.' He still stares into my eyes, he doesn't even resist. 'Alright then, I always wanted a red carpet.' I start with a cut in his throat and he starts to groan.

' Auryn perhaps...'

' Stay out of this, Matteo.' ,I cut him off. No one spies on me. This is why I'm feared. This is what I'm known for.

' How do we get Information out of him if you kill him?'

'We aren't dumb, Matteo. We can find it out by our self.'

'Just hide him in your closet with a apple in his mounth and his arms and legs bound.'

I start to get frustrated, and that's not good. Matteo is right, as always. I always lose controle when it comes to fighting or threatening someone. ' Alright, get some rope from your house and somthing to cover up his mounth.' Matteo looks relieved and leaves my room. I still hold the knife on his throat. ' Are you from the Black Side?', I ask. That girl who stole my necklace was lucky to get away, but this one has no luck. He just smiles defiant. His long, raven black hair is in a pony tail and he has scar on his cheek. Well, he has a new scar on his neck, thanks to me. He looks atleast 25 but look like he has seen to much. We keep staring in each others eyes, both waiting who will break first. definitely not me.

' You are lucky that my friend was here, or else you'd be laying here as a dead cow.' A few seconds ago i thought that girl from the Blackside was lucky and he wasn't, but I was wrong. As always.

He starts grinning like a idiot, and I hear him talk for the first time.

' So those stories are true. I wouldn't dare to mess with you ' His voice sounds gravelly, low and rough.

' And yet you did.'

He chuckles. 'I didn't, the person who sent me did.'

I press the knife harder on his throat. ' And you will tell me who it was.' He is getting on my nerves.

His hands goes to my long, white hair. But before he can play with it I knock him unconscious with the handle of my knife. I can't help it and start grinning. he is so pathetic.

Now I will wait for Matteo and  will find out who sent him before I leave.