The slaver showed up again in front of Claug about half an hour later. He smiled, rubbing his hands together. “A woman stood behind him with a baby in her arms.”

“Sir dragon, I have brought her.” She pointed at Tina behind him. “The woman’s name is Tina, and the child…” He looked at Tina.

“Serin, she’s a girl.”

“Tina and Serin. They are all his,” He looked at Arad, who was sleeping in his draconic form.

“Who?” Tina gasped, looking at the sleeping black dragon. “This is him?”

“It’s the massive young lad. Make sure to serve him well.” The slaver stared at Tina and then ran back as fast as he could.

Tina looked back at the slaver and then at Claug towering over her. She gulped down, “What should I do?” she mumbled.

“Nothing at the moment besides behaving. At least until he wakes up,” Claug moved her head around Tina, sniffing her.

“A single mom.” Claug smiled, “Very fitting.”

“What do you mean?” Tina gasped.

“I don’t know,” Claug sniffed her, glaring into Serin’s face. The baby’s eyes glowed with a golden light. You might not be as good as her, but you will do the job.”

Claug smiled

^I sense a hint of divine magic from this little girl. An angelic bloodline sorcerer, and a powerful one at that if it shows even as a baby.^ She giggled.

Tina shivered, hearing Claug giggles, “You won’t eat me, right?”

Claug looked at her, “I won’t eat someone that belongs to another dragon. Especially this one.” She licked Arad, “He could eat you if he wished, but I will advise him to leave Serin alive.”

“He can?” Tina gasped.

“Of course. You belong to him now,” Claug started licking Arad, “You don’t bring a chicken home and expect not to eat it, right?”

“We don’t eat it as long as it keeps making eggs.” Tina tried to defend herself.

“You have to deal with him,” Claug replied while looking at Arad.

“Why do you keep licking him?”

“Mammals give anti-toxins and anti-disease properties to their children by breastfeeding them. Dragon gives them by licking our wyrmling and very young dragons.” Claug looked at Tina, “It helps him recover faster,”

“He didn’t look like a baby,” Tina looked at Arad’s draconic form.

“But he is still one.” Claug laughed, “Now that you mentioned it. It’s strange seeing a very young dragon like him having so much power.”

“Alcott is stable,” Ginger stood, “We can go.”

“Are you sure? Did you check his pulse and breathing?” Claug looked at her.

“He won’t die even if his heart stopped,” Ginger said, looking at Alcott while shoving one finger at each of his carotid arteries. “I linked out the circulatory system. He can live with me supplying him with blood.”

Claug looked closer at Ginger, “This is the first time I saw blood link being performed by a vampire lord. Your fingers fused into his neck, didn’t they?”

“I will cut them off when he recovers. For now, he would get nutrients when I eat. That’s what matter most.” Ginger looked at Alcott, sad that she couldn’t comb his hair. “When we get home, I will slowly increase his healing.”

Claug nodded. “Well, get on.” She extended her claw to them.

Ginger lifted Alcott with her wings and looked at Tina, “Come, she will lift us to her back.”

“Yes!” Tina gasped, rushing after her. ^She’s a vampire?^ She was both fearful and confused about the situation she ended up in. Being gifted to a dragon.

Claug looked at Ginger, “You aren’t going on my back,”

“What?”

“I will carry you on my palm. A dragon won’t carry any creature on their back.” Claug snorted. ^I can’t tell then I don’t have any way of securing them to my back. I doubt they can hang onto my scales while I climb up.^

Claug then grabbed Arad with her mouth like a cat and jumped into the ceiling, climbing to the surface at an incredible speed.

Ginger looked up, seeing faint light at the end of the darkness. It’s surface. BAM! Claug jumped out of the hole she dug and landed on the ground.

Ginger froze as the dark shadows loomed. Tina pissed herself seeing the horrors surrounding the hole, and Serin started crying.

The whole land was covered in a dark shadow as the winged monsters blotted the sun.

Thousands, no, tens of thousands of dragons covered the sky and the land, each of them almost the size of a mountain. But their numbers and size aren’t what scared Tina and Ginger.

Metallic dragons gathered to the east of the hole, and the chromatic dragons to the west. Each of them was at least an ancient dragon. The undefeated draconic armies glared at each other, ready to wage war at any second.

The blood lust was unbearable until the dragons spotted Alcott’s unmoving body. BAM! A titanic gold dragon flew from the metallic side, and a comparable red dragon did from the chromatic side.

The two dragons gently landed beside Claug even though they were bigger than her.

“ZOOHOO!” The gold dragon growled, staring at Alcott.

“ZOOHOO! DARIIIN!” The red dragon grunted, glaring between Alcott and Ginger.

“DARIIIN? DUKL DOM RIII!” The gold dragon glared at the red dragon, growling with glowing eyes.

The two dragons glared at each other silently, without blinking. Tina could feel their bodies slowly moving, and Ginger could tell their bloodlust was increasing.

BAM! The two dragons lifted their claws, about to start fighting. 𝒷𝒹ℴ𝓿𝓁.𝓬𝓸𝓂

A silver dragon flew in, pulling the gold dragon away, while a blue dragon did the same, dragging the red dragon away.

Tina turned toward Claug, “What did they say?”

“The gold dragon said, glad you’re well.” Claug looked at Ginger. “The red dragon said, glad you’re well, thanks to us.”

“What?”

“The red dragon made it seem like it was a win for the chromatic dragons that I, a green dragon saved Alcott and not a metallic dragon. That infuriated the gold dragon.” She sighed, “The gold dragon said. Thanks to us? Your kind tried killing him before.”

“Chromatic and Metallic dragons hate each other. The fact this place hasn’t been flattened is a miracle.” Ginger pointed at a flower blossoming in the ground.

Arad slowly opened his eyes, seeing two massive armies of dragons flying over him, with a heap of bloodlust floating in the air.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! He roared at the top of his lungs, going into high gear and ready to fight to the death.