Cold blooded 4: The keys and the stones

Chapter 3

Silver's POV:

It was a brand new day for us. As soon as it hit morning light, we hit the skies once more. There were little complaints since we were pretty much used to this type of stuff during long missions and such and such. I was just as quick to put out the fire too.

"Alright everyone. Let's hit the road, and quickly. We don't know how many of those evil wizards and sorcerers there are lurking around." Hart warned us. "Right." I agreed. "Mhm!" Alex nodded. "Yeah yeah, I was off guard last time. They won't get lucky a second time." Leo scoffed.

"I bet they won't Leo. Which is why I think it's best for us to pick up the pace. Alex. Silver. Can you keep up?" Hart asked us. "I can do that. Don't worry." I assured. "It depends on the speed King Hart." Alex bowed.

"In that case..." Hart opened his wings and began to morph into his pure dragon form once more.

"Hop onto me. We can make it there faster before the day's end." Hart spoke in a voice that was deeper, and close enough to divine. "Y-yes sir!" Alex obeyed and floated onto his back, keeping a soft yet firm hold of his hairy tuft.

"Heh, imagine having to ride another dragon to keep up." Leo joked. "Imagine getting frozen in time. Could not be me." Alex teased back. Leo couldn't help but be caught aghast. "Pfft, at least it wasn't ice this time." I snickered.

"Shut up you hag-!" Leo protested. "Enough okay! We need to be smart about this at the moment. So let's go already, okay? We don't need anymore of those amped up cultists coming after us again." I reasoned.

"Much agreed my former student." Alex nodded without a single problem shown on her face. Leo just opened his wings with a scoff. "Now that you two are done bickering, Silver, are you sure you can keep up?" Hart asked me one more time.

"Not without getting tired of course, but I think I'll live." I assured. "Hm. Not buying it. You and Leo hop on. I can take us all their in a matter of minutes." Hart demanded. I wanted to protest, but it felt like I didn't have much of a choice anyways.

"Hell no! I don't need you to make it there for me. I could do this on my own-" Leo denied. "Leo. You WILL do as I demand of you." Hart growled. "And if I don't?" Leo's eyes flared with blue fire and protest.

"Then good luck on your own." Hart was about to leave him behind. "Alright alright, damn! I'll go along with this sh*t.." Leo and I flew onto his back. Once we got on, Leo folded his wings reluctantly. "Now hold on tight." Hart warned us.

Before I could even ask why, I kept a firm grip before anything. And after that, everything else was a bright blur. It felt like those roller coaster rides my mom would take me on when I was seven. No idea why this felt any similar though.

"OKAY!! I SWEAR WE ARE GOING AT LIGHT-SPEED RIGHT NOW!" Alex screamed. "WOOOOOOOHOOOOO!!" All I could do was enjoy the ride. Although the thought still lingered in my head... could I ever go this fast?

But this thought process only lasted for so long. Mostly because that was the max amount of time that it took for us to make it to Yellowstone. And just like that, we slowed down phenomenally. We looked down below, and saw a castle amongst a beautiful forest filled with nature, and wonder.

"Ain't no f*cking way." Leo finally spoke after holding onto Hart for dear life. "We're actually here?!" Alex said in shock and disbelief. "Wait, the hell? Why didn't you do this before?!" I questioned.

"I thought you lot would keep up since the fate of the world is in our claws, but perhaps I was wrong." Hart shook his head as he flew towards the higher castle above the mountain.

"I can't believe it.. we actually made it to Yellowstone in a freaking instant!" I laughed hysterically, not internally believing that this speed was even canonically possible. It even had me thinking if he was even mortal.

But I couldn't start thinking like that, I only know one God anyways. One true God. But of course, business to find the stone stayed on my mind. Hart hovered close to the castle entrance and we all floated off of him with ease.

After that, he reverted back to his humane form with a sparkly effect. "The safest thing to do is assume that this kingdom might have possession of the fire stone." Hart spoke in his normal voice again. "I guess. so do we just enter inside?" I looked at the entrance perplexingly.

"Allow me." Hart walked towards the doors of the castle, and knocked. "Allow me in! It is I, King Hart of the Riordan clan! Open these premises at once!" Hart commanded formally with assertiveness. And just a moment later, two dragon guards opened the doors from the inside.

"My king!" The guards both bowed immediately at his feet. "Stand for your King! I wish to meet the ruler of this kingdom." Hart demanded. "Follow us, your graciousness." One of the guards said with eager and respect, leading us to the inside of the palace as the other close the doors.

"Tch, now I'm definitely gonna steal that title away from him." Leo taunted. I elbowed him in his arm. "Don't kid like that! You're gonna get us in trouble." I snapped. "Like they can even hurt us. We'll be fine." Leo smirked.

I rolled my eyes when we came to a stop. The guard opened the last door, and a look of shock rushed upon my face. "Behold! Her highness that sits on her grand throne!" The guard bowed as he presented his Empress.

"Leo? Alex..? Silver?!" Her eyes shifted from a look of superiority into a look of pure shock. "Faria?!" Me and the others could only gawk at the changes she made to her status that day.