queen of the dragons

newborn powers 2

HUH?"

Clarissa didn't see them but she could feel that the twins behind her were freaking out.

"What do you mean by that?" Isa asked, taking her hand away from him.

He stood up and looked Clarissa directly in the eyes, "I am from the realm of the dragons, my name is Elijah a dark dragon. I have been tasked with the goal of setting a marriage between us"

"Why?" This is the first Isa has ever heard of a dragon realm, though she does suppose that it exists because Elise and Ember must have come from somewhere.

"....to ally our two nations" that was the most bullcrab like she's ever heard, it was even worse than whenever Tristan would try to lie, Elijah's tone and body language all called bull.

"You're lying aren't you?"

Apparently he was also terrible about being confronted by his lie, his face went embarrassed and he tried to make excuses. "No-no, we just need to become uh Ally's- there couldn't be any other reason"

She breathed out a sigh of despair, "listen Elijah, you can't just ask a girl for marriage without stating the reason-and plus I am ten years old-"

"I'm ten too!" He perked up, for someone who had given off the dark and cool type at first glance he was Totally different person.

"I could already tell that, you just need to say why"

He opened his mouth to stay something but paused before he could, "that's kind of a..taboo topic between us dragons"

"You don't want anyone to know the reason why?"

"Yeah" now he looked like a depressed puppy.

"Fine then, you tell me the reason why and I pledge on my life to never tell another person without your permission"

He instantly went from sad puppy to confused puppy, "your swearing on your life?"

"Yes, if I ever tell a living person what you tell me, I will cut my throat" this was quite a big problem but Isa was pretty good at keeping secrets and lying unlike some other members of her family.

"Okay" Elijah said, looking at the ground.

"..."

"Because if you don't, my entire race is going to die" both Elise and Ember passed out and the purity of being flabbergasted showed up on Clarissa's face, 'what? Why how?' No thoughts were actually able to leave her mouth.

"We dragons...are beings that exist purely off of elemental magic, unfortunately Britannia has very little of it, so we have to resort to the drokna realm. We always call it the dragon realm though, it supplies us with the elemental magic we need to live"

This is a lot of exposition and Clarissa could tell that this wasn't going to end anytime soon.

"All of the elemental magic from the drokna realm comes from one single shrine, it's a very large shrine that came from an unknown source called..." he stopped and completely ignored what he was going to say. "It has kept us alive for over a millennia but.." oh no here comes the bad part. "But over the years it has depleted, all the way until we're just barely surviving"

"Where do I come into all this?" All Elijah has told her was about the demise of the dragons, nothing to do with herself, though Clarissa does get now as to why he was so hesitant to talk about his race.

"You have a contract with those twins behind you right?" isa nearly gasped out how shocked she was, not once in her entire life had she told anyone about the 'contract' she signed with elise and ember-she couldn't even explain it to someone if she tried.