Guardians

Chapter 26

'Mindlink'

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

'Speaking to dragons'

"Dragon Speaking"

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Aura's POV

The rest of the people came from their rooms. When we finished eating, we were sent to  the meeting room. Once we arrived, we noticed Poseidon, Arthur, and Freya were ready.

"Since everyone is here now, we will now be continuing for our meeting." The King said.

We started talking more about how our training was going so far, after everyone finished talking about that. The King started to ask about how the kingdoms were doing.

"How is everyone's kingdom doing, I think your children would like to know as well." He said. 

"We have everyone getting ready to battle, we didn't get hit as bad as it was besides some burning on the forest, we have some people working on that, mostly our nymphs are working on it, but otherwise we are ready to go to war if need be." Arthur said. He was sitting at his desk with his elbows on the desk and his hands folded together. 

"Alright, and what about you two, Freya and Poseidon?" The King asked. 

"The lightning kingdom is doing good as well with getting prepared. We didn't have many buildings fall that were important, besides homes and a few stores that will rebuild." Freya said. 

"The Ocean kingdom has a lot of construction to do, one of the black dragons came to our kingdom during the attack. There was destruction from that, we will rebuild. Our soldiers are being trained as we speak." Poseidon said. 

The King looked interested when he said one of the black dragons came. 

"What happened when the black dragon came?" He asked. Poseidon spoke," If it is alright with Aura, I would like to say what happened." I looked up at him, to see him staring at me. "It's ok." 

"Alright, then I will explain. Before the attack happened I got told by one of my guards that Aura was in severe pain. When I got to her, she kept saying out. Once we got out of there, she transformed into her dragon. But I noticed the difference between hers and the King and Queen's eyes, they weren't her element. They were red, I assumed that she must've been controlled by an enemy somehow. I don't know what happened inside of her, but I do know she seemed to be fighting something. Either her or her dragon was fighting. Her dragon was the one to mindlink me first, but she told me they were probably a distraction, for the real attack to come."

"Before you continue, Aura do you mind me asking if you knew what was happening?" The Queen asked. 

"I... I do not know what was happening. I didn't know I turned because I blacked out, I slowly came back after what I'm assuming was the black dragon leaving my mind. I could see if my dragon would talk, but she's usually silent." I told them. 

'Aqua?' I called out. 'Would you be up to tell your side of the story, while I was blacked out?' I felt her move in my mind. 'I will do it, there is something else I would like to tell.' Aqua said. 

I focused back to the meeting. I felt one of my eyes change a bit when Aqua took over to talk.

"Hello, my name is Aqua. I heard you want to talk to me?" Aqua said, her voice calm. "Yes, we would like to know what happened during the time Aura was out, we know that one of the black dragons have come to Poseidon's kingdom. If during the time Aura was out, do you know who the dragon was?" The Queen asked. 

"Hmmm, yes," Aqua said, closing our eyes. "I will tell first that the black dragon that was there, was HIS dragon, Drake. He was trying to take control over me, but he was talking about some plan. Saying he couldn't have me stop their plan. When I went to ask what the plan was, he paused. That's when I was able to get out of his control." She opened our eyes before nodding over to Poseidon, "That is when I mindlinked Poseidon over there, telling him we might've been a distraction. Aura did wake up around this time."

The Queen and King nodded their heads, they seemed to be mindlinking to each other. The Queen looked over to us, "We would like to know who is HE? We have heard everyone constantly saying HE or THEM."

The 6 of us went silent. I refused to ever say his name, whenever he hears his name he just knows who's talking about him. Talia looked at the Queen.

"We use HE or THEM, because what THEY have done has mentally and physically hurt us. It is the dark side leader, and his children. THEY made it impossible for us to be comfortable to ever say THEIR names. That is why we never say THEIR names." She spoke softer then usual. She slowly breathed in before breathing out. Everyone else had a more serious face. 

"In that case, I believe we need to work harder on getting training done. I know there are some miles we won't be able to hit in a day, but we only have a little over 2 weeks for the battle. With that little time we have, means we need to work hard. Poseidon, Arthur, and Freya, I would like for you to work much harder training your soldiers. With the battle coming, we don't know for sure if they are going to hit your cities. Make sure your plans in set for those unable to fight. Don't worry too much about sending soldiers to help us out. The surrounding Kingdoms will be with us." The Queen said. 

"And I would also like to train the dragons as well. From learning that you were attacked while in the kingdom, it shows that they have a lot of mental strength. But do not worry we have our dragons that will help you guys out. But before we end this meeting, I would like to know what happened after Aqua being a distraction." The Queen continued. 

We continued with the story until the meeting ended.

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Finished: February 9th, 2025

Edited:

Published: February 20th, 2025

Words: 1029

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