Chosen by the Dragon

“Did you hear?” her eyes glittered with excitement. “Hear what Dona?” I asked my friend who squealed like a pig next to me and I shook my head. This friend of mine a bubble of happiness. “The second prince is home!” she tells me, my friend here always dreamed of being a princess, well at least a concubine to the prince since they hardly take wives but have many concubines.“Well, I get your excitement my friend I do, but you won’t even get to see the prince so…” I shrug and she stomps her feet like a five-year-old. “I will see the prince this time, when he first came, we were only kids but now we are old enough to work at the imperial palace as maids, that way we will get to see both princes all the time. Isn’t great!” Oh, gods of our land, I should have known she had a plan to see the prince.“You have a good plan but…” she cuts me short before I could finish. “No b

The festivities continued, time for Tina to sing and dance came. By that time the second prince was already fed up with all of it. He did not want any of this but the king insisted and he had no choice but to agree. He wanted nothing more than to be in his castle outside the city with his dragon, Milo. But instead, he was stuck here with all these people and this noise.When Tina took the stage, there was a lot of noise in the arena with people talking and laughing, that is not what she wanted, she wanted to be heard, for people to stop what they were doing and listen. Or else how was she going to be noticed by the person who will give her a job if he could not hear her? So, she thought of a song that was going to catch the people’s attention.She thought of a song her mother used to sing to her growing up, it was not a song that people knew because it was from her tribe. She started singing low then got higher and higher with each note. People stopped talking an

Tina followed the prince outside and when they got there he turned a corner. He walked until he turned another corner, she was afraid that he was taking her back to the cells as this looked exactly like the way they came when he took her from the cells. Or maybe it was not but they all looked the same to her, they turned again and came to what looked like a field right behind the palace.The grey ice dragon was there, she stopped walking looking at it. Was he going to feed her to the dragon? Her heart started beating fast in her chest. “I don’t have all day you know.” He spoke without even looking at her and she started walking again. The dragon turned to look their way, when he got to it he bushed its scales and it lowered itself allowing him to go up.She stood there afraid to go near. “I hate repeating myself, come.” He beckoned with his hand and she went. He extended his hand to her and she took it then he pulled her up. By then her he

Pablo was sitting with his father and his brother Felix in the meeting chamber. They were having a light conversation before the meeting starts, the ministers were not all there yet. “So, son, how is the chosen maiden?” asked the king looking at his son with loving eyes. “She is alright.” Answered Pablo indifferently. “Alright, did you figure out why she was chosen yet?” asked the king once again. Felix was already annoyed by this conversation.“There is nothing special about her father, the beast is probably tired of its master not having a woman by his side,” Felix stated but before the king could answer the ministers started coming in. they bowed respectfully to the royal family before taking their seats. “I guess since we are all here the meeting can start, the second prince here is the one that called this meeting, and I will give him the floor to state his business.” The king told everyone.“There

When morning came Tina opened her eyes and stretched. She scanned her surroundings and was shocked to find out that she was in her room. She did not remember leaving the hall and coming back here. All she remembered was resting on the couch then nothing, she tried to think but could not recall what had happened to her. However, she was relieved to see that she was still dressed.She got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get bathing water for the prince. She then went back and brought it to his room. She tiptoed around preparing his bath, not forgetting the leaves she always put in it. The scent filled the room then she left after putting on the fire to make the room warm, it was very cold this morning, and thought that she would have frozen to death if she has slept the whole night in the hall.She internally thanked whoever brought her back to her room as she walked back to the kitchen to get his food. When she came back, she could hear the water splashing so, she