here is the guaranteed chapter for this week, there is not much to do when babies are sleeping, which is lucky as my birthday was on thursday and this chapter almost was pushed to next week. as always i want to thank rouge and mejinzs for their proofreading support.

without further ado Chapter 48

———————————Fafnir POV——————————-

“So, you ready to clean the bathroom?” I said as I landed with a thud, dropping the small corpse of a screamer bat on the floor of my lair.

“But… I thought… it was…” Ryan stammered staring at the small mangled corpse.

“These annoying things are irritating to say the least, but you eventually tune them out.” I replied while licking the blood off one of my claws.

“Fine,” Ryan sighed as he turned toward the back of the cave, “I will clean the bathroom.”

I left my sulking brother behind as I headed to see what Azazel was doing. I entered her cavern to find the draconic demoness sitting amongst tons of little plastic men which encircled an impressive looking fortress.

“Ha Ha Ha! You think you can storm my Daddy’s lair? no one can defeat my Daddy!” Azazel said as she grabbed a ball of plastic blocks and threw it knocking down lots of the little men.

“Azazel, what are you doing?” I asked concerned over what my daughter was doing.

“All the little men are trying to storm you lair and steal me but you flew in and turned them all into the blue stuff.” She said with a smile.

“I see… ok, just… have… fun,” I stammer as I leave her cavern, “I really have to find her someone her own age to play with or she may become the demon lord.”

I headed towards the main cavern when I heard someone call “Hatchling, where are you?”

“Well I guess it was going to happen eventually.” I sighed. As I poked my head out of Azazel’s cavern I saw a large blue eye peering into the entrance of my lair.

“OH, there you are!” she proclaims as the large eye is replaced by a dragon just a bit shorter than the cave’s entrance, “Aww, he’s so cute!” And before I know it I am being crushed by an incredibly heavy claw.

“Please get off me!” I barely manage to growl at the heavy dragon crushed the life out of me.

“Is that any way to treat you Aunt Tenabrexa?” she replied, just as I pass out.

“And that is why no one lets you handle their children!” I heard someone shout as I woke up

“What happened?” I moaned trying to think through my splitting headache.

“See he’s still alive, he’ll be fine, mana dragons don’t need to breathe.” Someone smugly replies.

Light stabs my eyes as I open them, after blinking a few times I see a dragon being pinned to the floor by the goddess. “What are you two doing?” I hesitantly ask the two women.

“I am here to see my neph…ACK” The dragon replies, before she is cut off by the goddess

“I am restraining a trespasser, who is trying to kill one of my charges.” The goddess smiles, as she continues to squeeze the life out of the dragon.

“Huh, is that your brother, Daddy?” Azazel gasp as she enters the main cavern.

“No dear, that is Alexandra’s friend.” I gingerly replied to the little demoness.

“But he looks like you.” She replied as she skirted around the two women and hugged by leg.

“Azazel, go play with Ryan for a bit, I have to speak with these two for a little bit.” I said as I nuzzled the demoness towards the back of the lair.

“Ok,” she replied and left the main cavern.

“So, someone want to explain?” I asked looking at the two women.

The goddess looked at the dragon and with a sigh let go. “I am Tenabrexa, and I am your aunt.” The dragon declares as she puffs out her chest a bit.

“That’s what you think.” I heard the goddess mutter while staring at the dragon.

“I am somewhat sure that you aren’t my aunt.” I bluntly reply.

“There are only three mana dragons left, and Alexandarax only really slept with my sister so… yah.” Tenabrexa bashfully replied as she looked away.

“Hold on a minute Tene, that’s not quite true,” the goddess interrupted with a guilty look on her face.

“What do you mean?” Tenabrexa asked her eyes scrunched to near slits, “You didn’t do what I think you did, did you?”

“Well you see… there was a botched summoning ritual and his soul got trapped in my realm, and I have been meaning to teach the mortals a lesson… so I might have used the Wheel of Fate ritual.” the goddess stammered out, avoiding the gaze of the dragoness.

“How is he still alive if you turned him? You know what happens when you put a soul into a vessel it cannot handle, and you know that that ritual is forbidden after what happened to the others who tried it!” She growled with barred teeth at the goddess.

“Hold on, what are you talking about?” I asked confused over their arcane babble.

“You were an impossible accident,” the goddess replies with a nervous smile.

“My father said the same thing,” I replied, causing the dragoness to snicker, “but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m here.”

“That’s not what I meant” the goddess frowned.

“Then what did you mean?” I asked more than a little annoyed with everything.

“The wheel of fate is a practical joke that gods use to screw with mortals by giving them the most powerful form that their soul can handle and unleashing them on their own race. Your soul is just a weak mortal’s, it shouldn’t have been able to stop on the mana dragon slot but it did. And I was curious as to what would happen, so I didn’t interrupt it.” She replied with a awkward smile.

“Well…” I manage to reply stunned at the implications, “Then how am I a mana dragon?”

“I don’t really know.” She confessed.

“You will be perfect for my niece!” The dragon exclaimed.

“You have a neice?” both me and the goddess asked at the same time.

You said there were only three dragons besides me.” I accused the goddess.

“As far as I knew, there were only three.” she stammered.

“She should hatch any…” She started, when she just stopped at the same time I felt a tingling sensation along my spine “Scratch that, now there are a total of five mana dragons.”

“What do you mean?” The goddess asked with a confused look on her face,

“My niece just hatched!” She said with a large grin before turning towards me, “ I will be back soon, I have to find my sister and let her know that I found her daughter a mate.” With a flash of light she vanished.

“Ok, you need to cast some sort of ward or spell so people can’t just pop in and out of this universe in the middle of a conversation.” I said to the goddess more than a little annoyed.

“That will be the least of your worries,” she absently replied when she too vanished in a flash of light.

“Daddy, who were those scary people and why did they just vanished?” Azazel asked hidden behind the lip of the hallway.

“I will tell you when you are older.” I sighed as I started to walk back to my hoard. “What did I do to deserve this mistreatment…”

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