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| �I don�t get it.� Lady Dura said. She had been sitting at Drake�s side listening to the conversation and trying to make sense of it all, but it was not coming to her. �I will meet with the Lords and Ladies of Dragonaria. Maybe they will know what to do.� Drake told his mate. With that, he told his messenger to send the word to the dragons. As Diablo descended into the Ice Lands, Lady Frost came out to great him. �Lord Diablo, thank goodness.� Diablo landed, the coolness of the ground was strange to him. Always was at first. �What is troubling you Lady Frost?� He asked her, bowing gracefully before her. �You haven�t heard? All the talk of the old disputes have not gotten to the Fire Lands?� �Here to?! I thought they were only in my lands.� Lady Frost sadly shook her head and looked to the Main Hall, �All the other Lords and Ladies have already gathered to discuss the matters. Along with all this, we have just gotten a message from the Vampire Lord saying that talk was there to. The strange thing is that we have no idea who started all of it.� Frost began to move to the direction of the Main Hall, she motioned for him to follow, �Come, we must not keep them waiting.� �Would not be a very good idea.� Diablo answered and followed her to the Main Hall. Inside the Main Hall, all of the Lords and Ladies of the other lands we gathered around a huge table. They were all talking of the same thing. The old disputes. Lord Blizzed looked up at him. �Lord Diablo. How good of you to come. Were is Lady Shair? I would have expected to see her by your side.� �She decided to stay and watch over the palace. She was also quite tired. I suspect she got little or no sleep last night.� Diablo answered him as he took a seat at the table next to Blizzed. �Has she fallen ill?� Blizzed asked with concern. Diablo shook his head, �No, not Shair, she is a little too stubborn to fall ill.� Diablo chuckled a little good-naturedly. Blizzed and Frost joined in. They agreed with him completely. Just then, Lord Aqaniss stood up and announced loudly over the noise, �We must do something about this. The last thing we need is another war with the vampires. What if this spills over to Vampirea? What will we do? We are power less to stop it.� His mate, Lady Hydra put her hand on his arm. She then stood up next to him. �Aqaniss is right. We must do something. It�s not like we can stop the gossip, the other dragons would think of us as tyrants.� Her voice was filled with fear. Her eyes showed her fear as well. She was only a little hatchling when the war began, but she remembered it like it was yesterday. Her father had been killed in the war and her Mother died from the grief of loosing her Father. Just then, there was a knock on the door. Lord Blizzed went to answer it. At the door stood Lord Drake and Lady Dura. Lord Blizzed greeted them and directed them to a seat. �I trust you all know why we are here.� Lord Drake said calmly. �The talk of the old disputes have been swarming around our Lands. Revolts and war talk is going around. We must find a way to stop all of this before it results in another war.� Lady Dura spoke up, �We have a good idea that one of your messenger men has started all of this gossip. It has all been forgotten about by all of us. You are the only ones who would still have it in your history and in your books so it is not surprising that it was brought back up again.� she accused. At that statement, every dragon looked at her. Lord Diablo was the first to speak up. �You have no right to accuse us of this, Dura!� he roared. �They could have been brought up on your side just as well. What do you think that vampires are better than dragons?� �Lord Diablo is right� Lord Aero said, coming to the aid of his friend, �You think that it�s our fault that this was brought back up? How dare you!� �He is right�, Lady Rainera said, standing up at her husband�s side, �You are completely out of line to make such an accusation to us. We have been at peace for so long.� All the other Lords and Ladies began to yell at Lord Drake and Lady Dura. Lord Aqaniss and Lady Hydra had to have been the loudest of all in the argument. They were always known for taking up for the dragon pride. Just then, Lady Hydra shot an insult to Lord Drake and he slapped her on the side of her face. Lord Aqaniss had to be held back by all the other dragons so he would not kill him. Lord Diablo stepped up and let Drake know that that was way out of line and if this was the way it was going to be, then let the wars come. With that, Lord Drake responded bye nodding his head and excepted his declaration. He and Lady Dura calmly left the Hall and went back to there land on the backs of black winged horses. Lord Aqaniss was released by the other dragons and rushed to Hydra�s side. �Are you alright, my dear?� He asked her as he looked at her face. A slight bruise was forming on her sea green scales. �Yes, I�m alright.� she replied shakily. Her eyes showed her fear. �If it�s war Drake wants, then war is what he will get.� Declared Lord Diablo. �Send out the word. Rally all the soldiers that will fight. This will not go unlooked and unresolved.� With this, he turned and flew away to his land to tell Lady Shair what had happened. �The dragons want war. They challenged us. We will respond.� Lord Drake was talking to his army that had already been gathered long before he had went to Dragonaria. All the troops were standing in perfect formation and were listening to him tell them what to do. |
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