The Destiny of A Dragon Rider [SLOW UPDATES]

Chapter 2: One Week Later

One Week Later

"I'm not going to sit around while you all go out and risk your lives," I snapped defiantly, slamming my fist into the table for the third time. My knuckles throbbed, but I ignored it. "We have been over this before, and I can go over it again-"

A councilmen held his hand up, indicating I should stop talking. It took everything in me to keep an angry retort from escaping my lips. I clenched my jaw shut and mustered the best respectful look I could manage.

The man folded his hands together and leaned his elbows on the table. "Mrs. Hades, we fully understand your desire to join the fight. However," he continued with a quick glance to my showing stomach, "we have considered your demand, and in your condition we do not think it's in the best interest of you and your child."

"Excuse me?" I hissed, showing my teeth angrily and giving them and the other councilmen a burning glare. "First of all, I'm pregnant. That is not a condition. Second of all, you don't get to have a best interest in me and my child. I can assure you. I'm pregnant, not useless. Stop acting like it."

"The risks are to high. What if you were to get injured? So would the child."

"I have a dragon!" I roared, once again pounding my fist into the table. "Screw what you think! Have you any idea the hell I've been through?"

Arch cleared his throat awkwardly from across the table, but I ignored him. I also ignored the warning looks I got from my parents and Jackson.

"I can't say we have," the man said calmly, his eyes not meeting mine. "However-"

"These people have murdered my cousin, kidnapped my sister, put that same sister in a coma, and then killed my brother and his family. They had a five year old daughter!" I yelled, reaching closer and yelling in his face. "I don't care your opinions, and I don't need your damn blessing!"

"Faye-" my dad started wearily, but I whipped around and turned my rage to him.

"I would expect you to understand, Dad! It just hasn't been painful for you guys!"

"You're carrying a child, dammit!" Dad yelled back, standing up. "You're being very selfish right now, sweetheart. You're letting the grief cloud your common sense!"

I lost it. I was grieving, sure, but I knew how to take perfectly good care of myself and the baby I'm carrying. Not only that, Leto was the only one who was backing me up on this. She felt my pain, and she wanted to avenge my family just as much as I did. She understood.

"Screw this. Screw all of you," I snarled, shoving the meeting room's doors open loudly and storming out. I ignored the calls from the room I was leaving behind. I didn't want to hear what they had to say, not anymore.

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I curled my hands around the empty vanilla crib in the twins' bedroom, listening to the wind blow against the windows angrily.

How could this have happened? How could the twins have gone? Unless the kidnapper was invited into Dragon's Cove or was a Rider, there was no way they could have gotten in.

Someone betrayed us, I know it. But who? I thought with a flash of doubt. Maybe someone who's a rider, it's the only true logical explanation.

If that was the case, then why did I feel like it wasn't? Why did it feel like the twins' disappearance wasn't done by a dragon rider?

I soon found myself pacing, pacing so much that I was afraid I might burn holes into the floor and fall right through. At this point, that didn't sound to bad.