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// The least EPS 29 :'( 
// Story: The Dragon Riders 
// by Dragontamer99 
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Lily P.O.V

When I stepped through I fell to my knees. My arm and my leg felt like they were being ripped apart. I need to stay strong I stood back up and faced the people surrounding the portal. They gasped and all of them stared at me in awe. 

I swallowed hard and said "I need a mendon, or a healer... Please." everyone looked at each other. Some looked at the dead healer who had turned traitor. 

Some people shook their head. I turned to look at the portal. blueblood stepped out and when he saw me he ran and embraced me. He was gentle and he made sure not to touch my arm or my leg. 

I embraced him too. After a moment I felt a little tug. I turned to look at a small lady. I smiled and said "Yes ma'am? Can I help you?" she nodded and said "Can I help you." she smiled up at me. One of her eyes was brown and the other was bright blue. 

I nodded and she grabbed my good arm gently and she lead me to a small building. She said "blueblood, please stay outside. I have a feeling you won't want to see this. I turned and nodded to blueblood and he nodded back and stood guard. 

I turned back to the little lady. She had pulled out a mat and was gesturing for me too sit down. I laid myself down great fully and she whispered, "This will hurt a lot okay? I wish I could help you all the way but the best mendon we have was a traitor.

I'm deeply sorry that this has happened." I nodded and said "I am grateful to anyone who helps. I am deeply sorry you had to lose a great mendon." she nodded and then set to fixing my arm. First she put a very strong sleeping ointment on my scratches. After about 5 minutes the scratches disappeared. 

I stared in wonder at them. Next the mendon lady poked and priced me and set any broken bones when she found them. Sometimes I screamed and other times I would gasp and grit my teeth together.

She finally got to my leg and foot. There was a huge gash in my calf and I also had a broken ankle and many of the bones in my foot were broken. She set the bone in my ankle right and then she set to work setting the bones in my foot right too.

She wrapped my foot after a while and then put a very hard cast on it. She also put a very hard cast on my arm too. She then said a few words over each of the casts and suddenly they weren't heavy at all. I smiled and she helped me stand. 

I walked around a little as I got used to the cast. I called in my head "Aradace? Are you there? Please can you hear me?" After a minute of not hearing an answer I finally heard something. Lily? Is that really you, can you hear me?" I said again louder "Aradace! Where are you come get me please!" 

Aradace roared happily and showed me her vision. She was at the mountain where I got "captured" I sent directions through our link and after about 29 minutes I finally heard wing beats. 

I hobbled outside and completely ignored blueblood as he tried to help me. I ran/hobbled to the place Aradace was landing. She ran straight towards me and engulfed me in her wings and she cradled me in her arms against her neck. 

She crooned and fussed over my casts and wraps. I smiled perfectly content. She finally put me down and lifted her wings. I saw Briggen as he stood beside Aradace. He lowered his giant face and nudged me. 

I scratches his chin and he said "Oh Lily I was so worried. Me and Aradace searched everywhere I am so sorry we couldn't have gone faster. I nodded and he lifted his face again.

I said "It's okay it's not your fault Mabuz captured me. I smiled and Aradace said "I am just glad your back. Now you need rest I'll be right there okay?"

I nodded and suddenly realized how tired I really was. One of the leaders came to me and said "Queen haven we have a house ready for you. It will be guarded all night..." He crawled on and when he was silent I said "Thank you but I want all your guards to not protect me but to protect the citizens. 

I want the village protected incase something happens in the night. I watched as the town leader nodded I said "Besides I'll have two dragons and blueblood with me. Its more than enough." He nodded again and said "Very well queen Lily. I will make sure every guard is posted. Thank you, now I will lead you to the house.

Could I get you anything else?" I shook my head and we walked to the house, It has a huge section open. This must be a dragon rider house. I deeply appreciated the house. I wanted Aradace as close to me as possible. 

When we got into the house I went to the bedroom. A moment later Aradace came to the window and laid down with her head and part of her neck inside.

I noticed the bed across the room. It was a king bed. It was huge. blueblood came up the stairs a moment later and noticed me starting at the bed and the the window. He silently wrapped his arms around me and picked me up. 

He set me on the bed and then grabbed the end of the bed. He pulled and shoved till the bed was right next to the gigantic window I was next to Aradace and I dropped my hand over the side of the bed and dragged my fingered softly across her head. 

blueblood sat in bed and said "I had a town baker get us some food she should be here any minute. As if on cue a woman knocked on the door. I said "Come in please." a little too eagerly and the woman walked in and set the food down. She bowed her head to both of us and said "I've made this food myself it should be of the highest quality.

If it is not please send for me immediately and I shall change whatever I've done wrong." I nodded and she left the room. I smiled as blueblood got up. He grabbed a fork and stabbed at whatever was on the plate. He said "This is a type of meat they have here in the tundra." 

He Fed me the bite of meat. It was delicious. He smiled as he Fed me the meat and once it was gone He moved to vegetables and eventually a smooth creamy pastry. I felt full by the time I was done.

blueblood said he had already eaten but I figured it was a lie. He snuggled under the covers, and he threw the comforter over my body. We snuggled close together and in no time at all I was asleep. 





I woke up to sunlight filtering through the window. I reached for Lily but she wasn't there. For a split second I though that yesterday had been a dream but right as I got up Aradace poked her head through with Lily on her neck. Aradace had grown huge.

Her stomach too. She was almost bigger than a small house here. Briggen kept a very close eye on her. I smiled as Lily got down from Aradace. She limped towards me and I held out my arms. She gently pressed herself against my chest and everything that has been happening these past few days came crashing down on me and then passed on to her.

I took in a huge shuddering breathe as tears rolled down my face. I whispered sweet things in her ear as we both cried for a few moments. She looked up at me and I quickly drew her in to kiss her. It was a deep kiss and I enjoyed it because the last time I kissed her I thought would be the last kiss. 

I smiled down at her and kissed her forehead. She smiled and she said "There is breakfast downstairs, me and Aradace were just doing some training and exercises. I nodded and we went to the bathroom to clean up. I got a few glimpses of Haven struggling with her clothes, keeping my eyes averted I walked over to her and gently tugged her shirt over her head.

I Did her belt and then got behind her and brushed her hair till it was silky and curly. I pulled her hair up on top of her head and out of her face. I tied it up with a leather binding. I tied a red sash over her shoulder and then twice around her waist to complete her warrior-like look. I smiled as she looked in a mirror. 

She looked at me surprised and I smiled and laughed. She smiled back and we walked out and down the stairs with our fingers interlaced. I smiled as she got complements about her look and her beautiful curly blond hair. We finally made it to where everyone was having dinner. 

Everyone stood when we entered and I raised my hand and everyone sat back down. I pulled out Lily chair and some of the girls giggled and awed. I smiled and kissed havens hand as she sat down. She looked at me and smiled as I winked.

She blushed and I sat down to the right of her. We sat at the end of the long table. It was made out of a special maple wood that you can only find in the tundra because it was so tough. When we both sat down 8 townsfolk came in with platters. I could tell they worked at the bakery.

When one lady passed me with no plate I stopped her when Haven wasn't looking and said "Could you get the red dragon a platter of bacon? She loves bacon." she nodded and rushed off. One boy was obviously new. He kept forgetting with way to put down the knives and forks. 

When he got to me and tried to figure out how to put the silverware down I leaned over and said "Knives on the right and forks on your left. Knives facing towards the plate so you don't cut yourself." He looked at me awed and put them in the right place.

I could tell he was chanting that over and over and he never messed up once. I smiled and looked at the food that was being placed in front of Lily and I, it was freshly cooked flat cakes with maple syrup. It also had two skinny slabs of melted butter. The flat cakes had eggs surrounding them and bacon too. Lily grabbed some of the bacon and rolled it up in a napkin. 

I knew she would give them to Aradace but I leaned over and said "I already had someone take Aradace bacon, you don't think I wouldn't forget my promise to Aradace?" she made an "o" shape with her mouth and laughed. I laughed too and we ate our breakfast. After everything was fine and everyone had finished I stood and addresses all the leaders. "Everyone, you are too kind to keep us for the night we truly thank you, but we must go. We need to be back home searching for even more dragons. Before we leave we wanted to know if there are any found dragon riders? I noticed that there were only adults." One woman stood and said "There are only two, we don't know where they came from but they are here and all us women take care of them. 

Their names are Aleron and Alita." (Ale-ron) (All-ee-tah) I smiled and Lily said "Can someone call them we need to talk with them." the woman nodded and rushed out of the room. We followed after dismissing everyone and thanking them One last time. We walked outside to find Aradace finishing the last of her bacon.

She had given some to Briggen to because he also was finishing some bacon. Aradace finished and hopped over to Lily She put a wing down and Lily climbed up her wing onto her back. I jumped into Briggen's back with a little boost and right as we were going to set off a humongous ice dragon flew to us. He landed beside Lily and said out loud. "Queen haven I am so sorry to disturb you but I could help but smell you and there is a sent on you that smells like my rider. O-of course I've never smelled him before but I know it's him..." 

He drawled on and Lily eyes widened and she duh around in her backpack and found a shirt. It was her father's. I didn't understand for a moment but then I realized that Havens father's dragon was ice. The dragon said "I've felt this pull ever since last weekend and I just know my rider summoned me. 

I can feel it. haven held out the shirt and the dragon smelled it. He nodded his giant head and said "Yes that's it. In 100% sure that's my rider." Lily smiled real big and said something softly. The dragon reared back and bowed he said I am honored to be his dragon. Of course, of course. What an honor." 

I figured Haven told the dragon that his rider was her father. I smiled and right then two relatively small dragons flew to us. On one dragon was a girl and on the other was the boy I had talked to during dinner. The one placing knives and forks. I smiled at them and they landed. They said "We are the dragon riders you sent for. What can we do for you?" I nodded to Lily and she said "I hope you can get your things packed quick. 

Your coming to live at the castle if that is okay with you." I thought to myself if I told Metin now she could have two rooms already made for them... "Wait we are going to the castle wi-with you?" me and Lily nodded. I said "Yes you will be protected and you'll be trained to be a great dragon rider." they nodded and flew off.

We waited for about 10 minutes before they came back with bags on either side of their dragons. We all made sure we had everything and then with one last wave to everyone at the village we took off into the air. We flew silently for a while but eventually Lily started asking a questions 1.




Lily's P.O.V




We flew for a while silently. Questions I had for Aleron and Alita were nagging me and begging to be answered. I finally asked a question, "So Alita, Aleron, how old are y'all? Alita smiled and said "We are both 19, we turn 20 in the month of september on the 18th." I looked at them and questioned "We?" She nodded and Aleron said "We are twins." I nodded silently and asked "Where are y'all from then? Alita and Aleron cast each other a glance and said together "We don't know." I studied Alita and Aleron closer. Their mother obviously knew about dragons to name them She who is winged and He who is winged.

I looked at them both. Alita had long blond hair that was straight. It flowed like a golden river. Aleron had brown hair that is messy and spiked up. He was very good looking he had broad shoulders and he was tall. Alita was rather tall maybe 5'7 and she also had broad shoulders. Alita had very dark brown eyes while Aleron had hazel almost green eyes. Alita was rather pale though, while Aleron looked a little sunkissed. I looked away and asked "Do you know your mother or your father?" there was no response. I nodded again and we were quiet. I thought about them till the day started to end. I looked up and around at our surroundings. We had gotten directions to our Castle. 

They didn't want us to go back the way we came so we were going on a shortcut. We were going to say on the coast till we came to the castle port. Then we would fly home. This trip, if we only slept at night would take us 4 days. I smiled at the prospect of getting home. Looked around again, we're a few miles from the ocean. We were still in the tundra but I could tell it would be ending soon. Here and there, there was patches of grass. It was still very cold so that grass was yellow. 

We landed on a big patch of yellow grass and set of camp. Since we didn't have and wood we used leather and other resources. I smiled as Aradace lit the fire. I was warm already but I invited the fire. I played with the fire for a while when kain left to go hunting with Briggen. I could tell that Alita and Aleron were watching me play. I twirled my fingers through the fire and brought the fire up. It curled and cracked over my fingered and danced into the night air. It went higher and higher till I curled my arm back and the fire swirled down.

It was beautiful. Once I let go of the fire I sat back and watched as my hands cooled down. When I put them in fire or touch something hot the sort of her a glow to them. I smiled as the twins looked at each other in awe. I turned to them and smiled. The smiled and Aleron put his palm up and a pale blue light started to emit from it. 

He smiled and swirled his finger and a little bluish white tornado rose from his hand. He sent it into the air and he made more of them. About 15 snow tornados flew around our heads. I summoned my fire and made a ball. It swirled and made intricate patterns. I sent it up into the air and it swirled around the air. It would bump into an ice tornado and when that happened the ball would go through it 2nd then the tornado would fix itself. I was amazing. 

I was so fixated on the fire I didn't realise that blueblood had come back and was starting to cook the Food he had brought back. He had killed two quail like creatures. They were big and me and blueblood  would share one and Alita and Aleron would share. I smiled as blueblood  sat down and wrapped his arms around me. I sighed and leaned back. He was almost ice cold, I slightly raised my body tempature and he sighed as he rested his head on my shoulder.

We sat like that for a while and finally our birds were done. I ripped of a quail leg and ate most of that, it was so good. We are our fill and then put the birds in a cooler that Metin had constructed. I smiled and leaned against Aradace. She curled her neck around and laid her head on my lap. I knew Alita and Aleron wouldn't be cold. They were immune to the cold as I was heat. I smiled as they curled next to their own dragons. 

My father's dragon curled up alone and I saw Briggen try to decide whether or not to sleep near Aradace or Him. I saw Briggen turn around and go towards the dragon. I heard Briggen say "I am sleeping near Aradace would you like to come with us so you're not alone?" the dragon nodded and got up saying "Thank you, i've always slept alone because I was almost the only one without it a rider..." I frowned and Aradace said "it will be fine Lily, he had friends but they slept with their families. We talked." I nodded as she concluded her statement. I knew he would be happy when we got home.

I watched as the all curled up together. blueblood  curled into Briggen's side. Briggen wrapped his tail around sin and curled his neck around so his head sat on the groin close to blueblood . The ice dragon sat against Briggen. That was the last thing I saw before darkness settled in. I didn't dream that night. 2





It has been three days since we left the tundra, we should be getting the the port today. I could wait and so when we saw the port I couldn't hardly contain myself. It has been almost a year since we started looking for dragons. I was excited to finally be home. We will be staying home for a few months and then we will go to search for mountain dragon. When we returned from that Aradace will be ready to lay her two eggs. I smiled at the prospect of two little Aradace's running around. We finally got to the port and I basically had to be restrained by Aradace from jumping off of her and injuring my arm and leg even more. 

I smiled as Aradace reached down and gently took me in her mouth and set me on the ground. I laughed and walked to the port/gate guard. I said "Hello, We have been travelling from a long way away and we need to get past to the castle." the guard bowed low and said "You need now ask princess Lily, you know you can pass free." I nodded as he straightened I said "I am no different I will still pay the fine

. I pulled out 4 gold coins and said "The dragons I'm afraid count as one. I dropped one more gold coin and the guard bowed low again as he opened the gate. We stepped through the gate and then got up on our dragons again. Our dragons walked fast towards the castle. They slowed when we got to the village, my father's dragon held his head high and Aradace and Briggen did too. 

The two ice dragons didn't hold their heads up as high but I could tell they were curious and proud. I waved to a few people and blueblood did too. I smiled and when we finally got to the castle my father was waiting at the castle doors. I got off Aradace and was going to Run to father but a the dragon reached him first. The ice dragon jumped over my head and landed beside my father. 

My father was startled at first but then startled he said "You're... You're my dragon!?" the great dragon lowered his head and spoke out loud "Yes, I am yours and you are my rider. I've waited my whole life for this." I walked over and said "Father he doesn't have a name. You name him." my father though for a minute but he eventually said "You, my dragon will be called Polaris, or North star." the dragon stood tall and did his name "Polaris... I love it! I finally have a name." I smiled and Polaris lowered his head again and my father rubbed his head. 

I was so happy. I grabbed a few shrinking pearls and threw them in every dragon except Aradace and Briggen. My father was startled when Polaris shrunk to a size a little smaller than a large horse. I laughed as my father opened the doers while Polaris strode through followed by mesmerized Alita and Aleron with their shrunk dragons. I smiled and I watched Aradace and Briggen flew away bumping into each other and roaring softly in happiness. I grabbed blueblood hand and we followed my father inside. 

We walked through a few halls and then we got to the dragon rider hallway. I had Metin construct a big room for both Alita and Aleron because they didn't want to be separated. The of course had separate bathrooms and beds. We got to their room and I opened the door and was met by a white interior accented with blue, purple and green. It looked like the Aurora Borealis dancing across ice, I smiled and backed away from the room.

"Go on in..." I swept my arm to the side and watched their faces as they walked in. They hugged each other and then when They came out they smiled wide and said "I love it!" together. I smiled and nodded "In so glad. Why don't you guys get ready Dinner will be in 30 minutes. They nodded and closed the door. I went to my room and blueblood  went to his. Before I could open my door I was tackled by an unknown person.

I flipped them over and held their arms down. I finally got a good look at them and when I did I laughed, sitting beneath me looking so very pleased was Amber. I laughed and let go. I stood and offered a hand up. She smiled and stood with my: help a:nd she said: "I really thought you weren't expecting that...!" I laughed again and said "I wasn't that's why I acted so fast, I was reacting to something unknown, it keeps you alive." 

she nodded and we walked into my room smiling. "So how was the trip to the tundra. I can tell your still hurt because of the cast on your leg." she looked worried and confused. I wouldn't blame her. I had already gotten the arm cast taken off, my arm hadn't been that bad but there would still be scars. My leg was very bad and I had to wear the cast for another week. I sighed and said "I'll tell everyone over dinner. No one knows the full story yet. So I'll share during Dinner." she nodded and Amber left so I could get dressed. I carefully put on some blackpantn and ananenandt onana orange shirt.

It was cut but casual. I smiled and a put myanblondan hair into an intricate bun. I smiled at my reflection and then left the bathroom. blueblood was waiting for me propped up on the bed. 


I smiled and he took my hand and we walked out to meet with Alita and Aleron. I smiled at them and we all headed to dinner where all the kids would already be. We finally made it to the dinner and when we stepped through the door my father looked at us and jumped out of his seat. Everyone looked towards us but I was as confused as everyone else.
My Father walked over and studied Alita and Aleron. His face widened and he said "Alita? Aleron? Is that you?"

I stumbled a little and said "How do you know them already? I haven't even introduced them?" at faattr talked to me and then back at them.

I was so confused but my father said: "Come here look at this mirror." I stood in the mirror and Alita joined me followed by him.

When I studied all of us my eyes widened. We were all a mirror image of the each other. My father stepped into the mirror and said look at all of you. 

"I wish your mother could be here to witness all her children in the same room."





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