Chapter 13

Everything was up in flames as Helen walked around a foreign land in her dream. "Boss, this place was the last known residence of the last survivor of the royal family but there are no traces of her only just a grave showing her death," a voice sounded far on Helen's right.

She flashed forward to the place and saw a very dangerous looking assassin talking to one of his own dressed in similar black attire. "Very good, but not every last royal family of the Lescrese is dead," the assassin said in a deep voice that sounded familiar to Helen.

"I don't follow...." the other was about to say but was interrupted by the assassin saying, "When the Queen of the Lescrese realized she was having another baby, she called in a favor from her most trusted advisor on the high council to help her out with protecting her recent child from the ruling qualities to be raised in a normal environment to see how she would turn out. After she gave birth to twins, she made the entire castle staff keep quiet about the birth and raised her children in a summer home pretending to send prisoners to justice. Actually, she did do that, so it wasn't much a lie as much as a secret. Anyway, those girls grew up without the knowledge of being crown princesses because 'the prince' persay was out of control in his ability to save the planet. Now with the planet destroyed, I can rule the remaining survivors on this world and the dragons shall be mine forever. The problem lacking is the last family member of the royal family. My sister."

After the assassin said that, he pulled down his face cloth to reveal himself as Jean De Zela. Helen's older brother.

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Helen woke up from her dream gasping. Quickly, she changed into her normal clothes, grabbed her weapons quickly, and was about to head out before she tripped over something. Groaning, she got up and turned to look and see that the problem was a wooden plank board of her floor was somehow pulled up a bit. Carefully placing her weapons down, Helen got onto her knees and pulled up the board before setting it aside. Inside was the box her birth mother gave to her before the destruction. Taking it out, Helen took a deep breath in and opened the box to see inside was an upper arm bracelet that had her family warrior emblem symbol in front of it.

She carefully reached inside and took it out to see that it was made out of beautiful iron metal, had dragon that wrapped around the arm with the family jewel connecting its metal wings. Looking inside the box, Helen pulled out a note from her mother that said,

"Dear Helen,

If your reading this, then it means you probably found out about your heritage to the Lescrese or the gods have given you a dream in warning of the danger that is yet to come. This bracelet was once your best childhood friend. Say the name Silvershadow and your other dragon friend will appear in the place of the dragon. When her job is done, she will turn back into the bracelet and hibernate until you need her again or whenever she can sense when your in true danger. I love you Helen and I wish that I could've told you the truth but there were eyes everywhere in people wanting you dead because your brother proved that the royals could never handle the threat of our dying planet. Please be yourself and defeat your enemies of both dragons and your new people.

Sincerely yours,

Queen Jewel Da-De Zela, your mother.

Tears leaked out from her eyes and onto the paper as Helen began to cry on all the lies she was told. Hearing the door open on its own, she got up on guard and quickly grabbed her favorite knife ready to take down whoever was here. "Helen? Helen, are you up?" Audun's voice said from the floor below her before she jumped down and landed on her feet before getting into battle stance.

"Audun! You scared me! I thought that you were somebody else!" Helen shouted angrily as she put her knife away.

"What are you talking about? Who else would have my voice?" Audun asked as he lowered his axe.

"My people. Some of us have the ability to use vocal manipulation and mimic other people's voices," Helen said with her voice grave as she held up her letter and her bracelet in both hands.

"What are those?" Audun asked curiously as he came forward.

"This bracelet was the last thing my birth mother gave me before I was pushed into the portal making it here. This letter...see for yourself," Helen said with her voice cracking at the end as she handed the letter to Audun.

Audun took it confused and began to read it until he reached the end of the letter with wide eyes. "Whoa. This is..." Audun began to say but was interrupted by Helen saying "Disturbing and weird and shocking."

"I was gonna say shocking and interesting. Why would your parents not tell you before you were pushed?" Audun asked Helen curiously.

"I don't know, (groans) I think that there must've been some people watching my family as my parents pushed me through, with the help of my twin sister, and they couldn't say a word at all. But what does it matter? I'm not the crown princess of the Lescrese. I'm just a survivor of the destruction," Helen said running her hand through her free bed auburn hair in frustration.

"Aren't there other survivors?" Audun asked curiously.

"Well, I wasn't certain until the dream I had last night. I saw an assassin looking for every person of the royal family. I think the last one he assassinated was my cousin and when he removed his mask, he revealed himself to be my brother saying that he will rule the survivors of the Lescrese on this world. So there must be others and the last of my family relatives are dead," Helen replied getting frustrated.

"Helen, breathe. I'm sure there is an explanation. We just have to head down to the cove, before we hit the training arena, to ask your mother to tell you everything and the truth okay?" Audun asked trying to get Helen to calm down.

Helen just took a deep breath in before letting it out slowly and saying "All right. Let's go meet Toothless and my mother before training."

They both then took off, but not before Helen placed on her upper arm bracelet and stowing away her letter in her left grey fur and brown wrap armband, and headed towards the cove. A few minutes later, they made it and Helen touched her necklace to summon her mother. When her mother arrived in a flash of light, Helen quickly got straight to the point saying "Tell me the truth. Was my brother the crown prince of the Lescrese making me the crown princess?"

"Yes, I wanted to tell you but I couldn't as we had ears and eyes everywhere because of your brother. We didn't know his intentions when training you but he would never do that unless your Aunt Lekel or your Uncle Bomber was there. He wasn't always like this because back then, before I was pregnant with you and your sister, Jean was always wanting to create plans to save our world and give us more time to prepare for evacuation, if needed. But they were a bit ambitious to the council and were rejected. This made him bitter because he believed that the council was corrupted and became even more bitter. When you and your twin were born and announced to be raised normally, Jean saw you and your sister as a threat to the throne because either one of you could have the perfect husband and become the rulers of the Lescrese. We tried to keep quiet about the rulings but Jean often tried to thwart our attempts at making our lives seem normal. They were often foiled because you and your twin sister were too innocent to learn of the royal family and could never be exposed to the royal teachings. When we sent you to this world, Jean some how came here as well and has been hunting for you ever since. That was why I wasn't able to make contact with you because of the dragon inside and of the alliance Jean has made with the dragon," Jewel explained sadly.

"Wait, the dragon allied itself with Jean? Why?" Helen asked confused looking at Audun fearfully then looking back at her birth mother.

"Because he's desperate to destroy you and the only way to do that was to stop me from coming to you and teaching you how to control your powers when you could be accidentally unleashing them and leading him right to you to eliminate you. However, he forgot that I had someone place a protection on you to control your abilities to hide them yourself making you undetectable to him. I'm so sorry for not telling you but you needed to control your abilities before you face the enemy of all dragons. While you were sleeping, I was able to detect a huge dragon that strikes fear into the dragons while making them fall under her command with a humming noise that's ancient. I couldn't get inside because the power in there is too strong, someone is gonna have to go in there and see what is living inside that island," Jewel explained once more.

"Oh the gods, this is awful! My brother hates me and has allied himself with a dragon living on an island that is powerful enough to take control of a dragons mind! How are we gonna get inside and stop it?" Helen asks horrified of what she is hearing and how awful her brother was back then.

"More training and learning to fly with your dragon?" Audun asked confused and suggesting at the same time.

"Yes you will need more training with your powers dear but you also need to learn how to fly with your best friend since he has a problem with his tail," Jewel said to her daughter but emphasized 'best friend' to Audun to get it through his head.

"Your right mom but why exactly turn my second dragon best friend into an upper arm bracelet, Silvershadow never did that when I was a kid," Helen said unintentionally making the bracelet glow.

The glow then faded to show a small silver dragon with sharp wings, a sharp tail, long metal neck, glowing green eyes, a silver body, and a shadowy essence along its claws and legs. "Whoa, how did it do that?" Audun asked in awe.

"First of all, it is a she and she happens to be my second dragon companion friend next to Toothless. I named her Silvershadow because of her ability to pass through shadows of walls like they're nothing. Second, I don't know how she did that," Helen responded putting Audun in his place yet again.

"That's always been the ability of her kind. They are known as the Protectors. Their species have always been with a royal family member until the person they are protecting dies and if their charge dies then so do they but if the opposite then the charge doesn't die and the Protector gets to live on. In other words, their charges lives are tied to their own. Silvershadow was chosen as your protector because of her ability in the form of a Sharp Class dragon and she is fiercely protective of her friends. That's why I gave her to you because I knew that there would be some complications and questions asked back then before our planet exploded. If you ever need her to pass as a regular jewelry then say the word and she will turn back," Jewel explained once more.

"Jewelry," Helen asked confused then a light appeared from her upper arm before fading to show the bracelet back in its original form.

"Helen, we have to go. Gobber will probably be wondering where we are by now," Audun said looking at the sky and realizing they have to leave for training.

"Okay, by mom! I love you! Flying will have to wait a while Toothless! Still love you bud!" Helen shouted to her family before leaving with Audun in front of her hoping to make it to training on time while placing her messy hair into a messy braid and keeping up with Audun on their way through the forest towards the village of Dragon Killers.

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Oh! I hope you all liked the little twist I put in this story! Helen is the Crown Princess of the Lescrese and never knew it! Isn't that exciting! Plus you all got to see her second companion! Don't worry about eating or sleeping though. For the past 9 years, Silvershadow has been in hibernation while in bracelet form sleeping off the weariness and waiting for Helen to open the box. Also @JaninneSudjatmiko came up with a ship name for Helen and Audun. It's Hedun!!! Hope you all love it cause I sure do!! So, hope you all enjoyed the next chapter. Read, vote, comment, and follow. Shayelee8 Out! Peace! Love ya'll!

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