THE BATTLE OF DRAGONS: Auryn and the fate of Nagendra

Auryn

I wake up again in a tent. My head hurts like hell and I don't want to get up. I slowly blink and lift up my head.
Elyse sits in front of me, looking worried. She plays with my hair, like she used to do when I was little, when she used to care for me. I don't react. I missed those days. I remember the time Keira was born. She always wanted to play with us, but she was too young to join. Or the time when Matteo's father took us fishing and Matteo fell into the water. I used to call them mom and dad when I was little, but they aren't my real parents, so I decided to call them by their name. Where are my parents?
My eyes adjust to the darkness, and can see Elyse clearly now. She wears a black armor.
Not just a black armor, a BlackSider armor.
I almost jump and I shuffle backwards, feeling betrayed. I never want her hands to touch my hair.
'Auryn, will you allow me to explain everything?' She speaks with a calm voice, as if she's trying to calm a wild animal.
'Where is Matteo and Keira?!' I ask aggressively. I can't trust her anymore. I don't need her explanation, I saw everything.
'They are here and they're safe. Look Auryn, I'm not leaving this tent before I explain everything.'
' You're a traitor. Everything was a lie, that's the explanation.' After hearing my own words I start to tear up, but I won't cry.
'I've been a BlackSider my whole life, I haven't betrayed the WhiteSide. I was a spy for the Blackside, an no, nothing was a lie. My love for my husband, my children and for you was and is still real. If it wasn't, I wouldn't order everyone not to hurt you.'
I can't believe what she's saying. I lived with a BlackSider spy my whole life, how can I believe that everything was real?
'Are you kidnapping us to the Blackside? I'll always be loyal to to the Whiteside and nothing can change that. I'll escape and kill everyone in this camp, you'll see.' I try my best to sound controlled, but there is a storm inside me.
Elyse sighs.
' You think that the BlackSide is bad? You know how crazy the queen is, you know how Everyone treats dragons.'
I look into her green eyes. Yes, they do beat dragons up, and the dragons act rebellious...
' I couldn't let you go hurt Nagendra while she's vulnerable.'
'I follow the queen's orders.'
'Does the queen care about you? Does she? Who are you when you're not killing living creatures for her? She treats you bad and still you're loyal. Where does this loyalty come from?'
No, the queen doesn't care about me. I'm no one when I don't follow orders or when I don't kill. And my loyalty isn't loyalty. I just want to be someone. If I didn't serve the queen I wouldn't be famous or well known. But that doesn't make the BlackSide the good ones.
'You're more than the queen's marionette', she continues. ' You're Auryn Tyrell, you're strong, brave, and most importantly, you're kind to vulnerable creatures. you can be whoever you want in the Blackside, you'll be free.'
Her words are touching, it almost makes my anger fade away. But if I learned anything form being a warrior, it is being alert. People may think I'm dumb, but I can be smart sometimes.
'I chóse to be a warrior, I chose my life, and I am free. Stop trying to brainwash me, it doesn't work.'
She looks hurt, as if she meant those words. Perhaps she did.
The tears comes back again, but I blink them away. I'll escape.
'You're going to come with me no matter what. You'll see how bad the WhiteSide is. Just think about the things I said, you'll see that I spoke the truth.' She stands up and has now serious face expression, like when she's guarding queen Rexanne. She walks towards the exit. I can see the sun rising when she steps outside. I just follow her with my eyes, still disbelieved.
'We leave after thirty minutes.'
She closes the drape, and I can see the BlackSider Symbol: A black dragon.
Elyse comes back in and looks at me with pain in her eyes.
' It's going to be alright Auryn, I would never do something horrible to you. You're my daughter.' She leaves after those words.
But you already did something horrible, especially to you loved ones.
I let myself fall on my back, and notice now that I'm tied up, again. My head hurts so bad and I'm tired of struggling with ropes.
I do what Elyse told me to do: think about what she said.
Yes, the queen is crazy and I don't like her, I was never loyal. I even tried to break into her library to unravel her secrets, because she accidentally said I'm a dragon protector. I hated it sometimes how the dragons are treated, but nowadays I didn't care anymore. The queen always sent us to quests to kill BlackSiders, but I never asked why.
Why did I never ask?
Because I'm stupid and dumb, I never thought about it. Because I'm a marionette, a puppet.
Tears roll on my cheeks as I realize I was blind the whole time. I just lived for the queen.
The feeling of crying is a feeling I hate to experience. I almost never do it, but I just can't hold it back anymore.
I cry more as I think about everything. And now I lay tied up in a BlackSider tent, defeated.
Why do I hate Blacksiders? Because i was thought to hate.
But this doesn't mean I'll stay here, not when I fought against these people, not when I hated them my whole life. I will return home