Ch. 19: The Dragon

Eric quickly turned as he caught the knife before it hit him. They struggled as Eric was push back and the knife changed into a long sword with it against Eric's throat. He swallowed harshly as Kaelyn shouted, "Leave him alone."

Andrea looked up in surprise, "How are you alive?"

"You don't read your potions fully," Eric commented. In a swift motion, Eric moved it out of the way and ducked as Andrea swung it at him. He rolled onto the ground trying to grab a sword to protect himself but instead hid in the shadows as he blew out the torch in the room.

The room Kaelyn stood became suddenly dark. She looked around before back into the mirror to see Eric hiding under a table as Andrea walked around and spoke into the darkness, "You think that will work?"

"You'd be surprise how the darkness becomes your sight," Eric retorted.

"It doesn't matter; you won't be able to save Kaelyn. Once this night is over, she'll be dead and I'll rule this land as the fairest in the land."

"I don't think so," Grumpy argued as he tripped her. Andrea stumbled slightly and turned to the dwarf, lifting her sword. Suddenly a loud crash came causing her to turn to see Eric standing at the window with the book in his hand.

Her eyes widened as she stepped toward him, "Give me the book."

"You have to come and get it," Eric yelled before he back to the window. His eyes darted to the mirror and his eyes locked with Kaelyn's before he stepped onto the window ledge. With on last glance at Kaelyn then back at Andrea, Eric jumped out of the window.

"No," Andrea yelled as she ran over to the window but noticed that there was no body on the ground below. She looked up to see Eric struggling as he climbed with the book under his arm while he used his other hand to climb up. She stepped away and looked at her cauldron before looking up at Kaelyn. A dark looked covered Andrea's face as she said, "Your love won't last."

"You don't know Eric," Kaelyn argued.

Andrea smirked before turning the cauldron, "Take me to him and give me what I need." She waved her hand over the cauldron before a green smoke came from the cauldron and took over Andrea causing her to disappear.

Kaelyn watched as Andrea disappeared. Now she was useless knowing that Eric was now out of her sight. Suddenly she heard a loud thud and she looked out to see a faint shadow outside of the window. She ran to the window, pushing it open to see a ghost like figure that was climbing up the wall of the castle. She squinted her eyes noticing that in the arms was a book shape and she shouted, "Eric!"

"Eric," he heard causing him to look around. He looked down seeing the window open but continued to climb determined to escape and save Kaelyn. He reached the top of the castle and groaned in pain from his muscles. He opened the potions book again, searching the page he was on.

Suddenly he heard a loud hiss. His eyes widened as he quickly looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened as green fire attacked him causing him to fall off almost.

Kaelyn noticed the green fire appear and Eric was hanging from the ledge. She gasped as she stepped away and began to run up the staircase to the roof of the castle. When she reached there, she looked up in amazement for there her stepmother was a giant fire-breathing dragon. Unlike Eric, it was a solid being whose tail swung at her. She rolled out of the way and quickly looked down at the ledge to see Eric's ghostlike body hanging from the ledge.

"Eric," she called out to him.

He looked up and the dragon's eyes darted over to her. "You," Andrea shouted, "How is this possible?" However, it was possible, you see the realm of the Sleeping Death or the mirror world was very interesting. The mirror world limited to see through the mirror but in Kaelyn's case, she was a shadow in reality and in the mirror world, the people she saw were shadows.

Both worlds were able to interact still but the dragon, Andrea was part of both worlds.

Kaelyn looked up and stood up noticing Eric's bow and arrows on the side. She slowly walked around the dragon while the dragon circled her also. Eric struggled to pull himself up as the vibrations of the dragon's movement loosen his grip. "I'm going to make sure that you are dead," the dragon hissed.

Kaelyn grabbed an arrow focusing on the dragon. She had watch Eric shoot his arrows for practice. He would take a deep breath and when the time was right, he would release the arrow and hit the target. She slowed her breathing and aimed but the tail swung at her and she ducked, taking a deep breath one more time.

Eric finally pulled himself up and threw the book over. He looked over to see his archery equipment floating slightly in mid air and gave a curious look as it pulled back and was aim at dragon. Then he saw her.

Kaelyn…

He stood up and the dragon noticed his movement, breathing fire at him. He jumped and grabbed the sword swinging it, cutting the dragon. Kaelyn noticed that Eric was distracting the creature; its footsteps moved toward the edge of the castle while Eric circled reaching Kaelyn. He pressed his body against her back; he placed his hand over hers as he guided her and whispered into her ear, "Now."

Kaelyn released the arrow hitting Andrea straight into the heart. Kaelyn pulled out another arrow and fired, hitting her again.

They watched as the dragon began to change forms slowly as it lost its step. Falling, the screams of Andrea finally came as she plummeted to her death. Eric limped over to the edge to see nothing and he turned back to see Kaelyn staring back at him. She walked up to him and touched his cheek with Eric only feeling a light gust of wind. The sound of footsteps followed to see the dwarfs armed with the helmets of soldiers on their heads with Goofy carrying Sweetie.

Eric looked down seeing the book and grabbed it. He looked over at Kaelyn to see that she faded out of his sight. He opened the book and turned to the page of the Sleeping Death as he began to read it once more before his eyes widened, "The only cure to the Sleeping Death is…love's first kiss. If not given by the three days, the victim will die."

"Eric," Grumpy shouted as he pointed over to sky.

Eric turned around and his eyes widened. Dawn was slowly approaching with barely anytime left. Eric quickly ran down the staircase while the dwarfs followed quickly behind.

Kaelyn lost sigh of Eric as she rested against the castle wall. She felt tired and very cold again, as she did when she bit the apple. The spell was starting to take over and she only had a little bit of time left before she was no more and unable to tell Eric she loved him.

She loved him the moment she met him.

We are about to conclude our story…I'm so sad and happy at the same time! Time to think up another fairy tale to do soon. I think two more chapters will work. But thank you to all of my followers for your comments and thoughts of this story. You make me so happy! Review, comment, PM, etc!