A/N: The next chapter will be the last of Bronnor's side of this story but don't worry.
The next book will be called Coming Down and will be from Tristan's POV from here on.
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The air around us suddenly held tension and Brad gripped onto my legs with a pout.
"Please don't go"
This whole sad pouty look wasn't gonna change my mind so I just shook my head and tried to walk past the brunette in front of me.
"Seriously babe,
Please don't"
"Brad stop it, I have to.
It's now or never,
Do you have any idea how fast dragons grow?
It's probably already in it's teenage years and will soon be too big to handle"
"But you saw what it did to Brynn and Tristan,
I can't let you get hurt like that"
I sighed.
I know he had a point, I would be devastated if Brad would do what I was going to do now.
But,
I'm the only one who can do this,
And I knew that if I didn't interfere that that dragon was going to kill Tristan.
Hell, I'm not stupid.
Hades send that thing to camp for one reason and one reason only.
To get rid off Tristan so that he couldn't take over Olympus.
I figured Brad and James hadn't figured that out yet.
But as I said,
I'm not stupid.
"Brad,
Babe,
Seriously,
If that thing is going to kill me then by all means you can stop me.
If however, I'm going to walk out of that forest alive then I demand that you let me go"
Tears welled up in Brad's eyes as he stood up.
"Just, be safe okay.
I can't lose you"
My heart broke then and there and wanted to bad to stay and cuddle for a few hours but I couldn't.
So I just gave him the tightest hug I had in me.
"Don't come after me okay,
Don't let Tristan come after me,
Don't let James come after me,
I don't want you guys to get hurt and it will upset the dragon and possibly hurt me"
Brad just nodded and wiped his eyes quickly.
"I'll come back,
You know I will"
Brad nodded again and gave my hand a squeeze.
"Love you"
I couldn't help but smile.
"Love you too"
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Now the thing about this dragon is that it's all alone.
It never had a mother,
It never learned what's right and wrong.
That makes it vulnerable and unpredictable.
I figured it was going to tear down the entire camp.
Of course it wouldn't know what it was looking for,
It would have just grown out of the small forest and seen the camp and thought it was a threat.
Because Hades can't implant the image of Tristan in a baby dragon.
It didn't know it had to kill Tristan.
All it knew was that the camp and all the people in it were a threat.
So he would simply kill everyone.
And let's be honest,
Hades doesn't give two shits about us.
So he would let the dragon.
As long as Tristan's out of the way.
Now here's where I come in.
The plan is to feed the dragon.
That way I won't be a threat, just someone who helped him feed himself.
I'll need to teach him how to hunt for the proper animals.
How to fly.
All that stuff.
I'm gonna need it to trust me.
After that, I'm not sure.
That depends on what Tristan wants to do with it.
I was too lost in thought to notice what was going on around me,
I quickly snapped out of it as I heard the dragon breath.
I could actually hear it breath, which was very cool but also not my main concern right now.
Dor was skipping next to me and refused to leave, no matter how hard I tried to send her away.
So I just walked along with her by my side.
As long as Ale wasn't here the dragon probably wouldn't sense a threat.
Who I could also hear by the way.
It was howling just outside the forest.
I figured it was waiting there with James and the others.
Suddenly a branch snapped in front of me and I was eye to eye with the dragon.
Too soon.
I would have rather first faced it from a few foot away,
Not right in my face.
It let steam out of his nose so I did what I had to do.
I dogged to the ground and covered my face with my arms.
It looked silly but had the dragon turn it's head.
I looked at it through my arms and slowly backed up.
I got it confused and shown it that I wasn't a threat.
Once I had a reasonable distance between us I slowly stood up straight.
It looked at me and huffed.
I was already getting ready to duck again but Dor went to stand in front of me and looked the dragon in it's face.
That's the second time it got confused.
Then more animals joined Dor.
Birds flying around the air above me.
Squirrels and other little animals crawling to my feet.
The dragon looked me right in the eye,
And layed down.
Never in my life had I ever imagined it would trust me,
Just like that.
But it knew.
Apparently it knew me and what I stood for.
So I finally let out a deep breath I had been holding in for long.
And sat down across from the dragon.
I pulled some meat out that I had brought with me from camp.
And I finally properly looked at the dragon.
It was black and big and majestic.
It was beautiful.
So young, so scared.
And so so beautiful.
I threw the meat to the dragon and it quickly caught the food.
We sat like that for what felt like hours.
Just looking at each other,
Growing a bond.
Learning each other's secrets through their eyes.
"Can you, like breath fire yet?"
It seemed to understand me because it huffed out some steam yet no fire came out.
"Don't worry, we'll work on that.
We have all the time in the world okay?
You're not alone.
I'm here"
It cried out a beautiful sound and I felt the relieve and love break through it.
I couldn't help but smile.
And I heard myself call out Brad's name loudly before I could progress that I had done that.
This was amazing and he should be here to see it.
The dragon blinked and I took it as a
"What did you just do?
What did you say
What's a brad???"
It was curious.
As it should be.
That made it easier for me to learn it stuff.
I just smiled and shook my head.
Because how even was I going to explain what Brad was to the animal sitting in front of me.
I couldn't even explain to myself sometimes what Brad meant.
But I guess now that I think about it it means a lot.
Brad's my love, my home, my safety and the last thing I want to see when I die.
Which won't be for a very long time.