Hope you enjoy the new chapter. I tried to make a cliffy at the end but I don't think I did a good job. Please pretend the spelling mistakes, (if there are any) are not there. Hope you enjoy the new chapter! I'll update soon!

That afternoon the box was taken to the king. The king looked at the worthless looking box and pushed it a side waiting for something better to turn up. But when nothing else turned up the king decided to look at it. First the King looked at the features of the open box. He looked at the dark wood and the small dent the 12th king's hammer had left. Then the king looked inside the box. There, folded neatly was a stack of small papers.

"Dear King," the first paper read.

"We need to inform you that we, the first 4 council men, have made the deal with the closest dragons to you, the E-Rise dragons, so we had enough land to create the city. We are informed that the E-rise are the most powerful dragons known but as long as you follow our directions carefully you should have no problems with them. If you do not accept this 'offering' then the dragons have been given permission to do what ever they would like with the city. I'm sorry but this has to be done.

Directions;

We promised the dragons a princess. Any royal person has hard to come by with the castles and the dragons want a princess to kill. You must send your oldest princess to the dragons on the day on the dragons on your year."

The king looked over this. "Sir," said one of the king's councilmen. "The day of the dragons is," the councilman began to stutter a little. "Isss, tomorrow." he said slowly. The King's face turned hot red. He didn't see his daughter Ember often but he didn't want to loose her to a dragon. The king read on.

"The Princess must be wearing her best gown and favorite shoes. If this task is completed on time the dragons will never bother you again. You must send a message to Queen Una of the E-Rise dragons the day before the day of the Dragons to tell her you are going through with the plan. The dragons will be at the castle at 9:00am to get the princess"

-The first 4 council men."

The king put down the letter. This would have to be done. He would risk Ember or everyone else in the city. He snapped his fingers. A slim slave boy went to the king and bowed. The king slowly said. "Tell Princess Ember, to come to me wearing her best dress and her favorite shoes tomorrow at 8:30am" he said, a small tear, to small to see trickled down his face.

The next morning Ember arrived in the thrown room in her best dress and favorite shoes. She knew what was going to happen for she had been listening when the king had read the note aloud the day before. The king told her what had happened and what she must do to protect the city. Queen Perta kissed Ember softly on the head and the king didn't even kiss Ember for the last time. Then the dragons entered the room. Ember carried a small purse with pictures of her family and her favorite slaves and tucked them in her dress.

"Well, have you decided?" asked Queen Una. "Yes, the princess in yours." said the king nodding to Ember who looked like it anyone touched her she would fall over. Queen Una smiled an evil smile. Then, the dragon, which had impressed the princess with her beauty the day before, turned from the most beautiful creature in the world into the meanest and ugliest. Ember walked over to the dragon and she softly said. "I'm ready." The dragon smiled and grabbed her with her mighty paw and tossed her onto her back like throwing a toothpick into the air. Ember sat edged between hooks on the dragons' back and the dragon flew away. Ember felt like trash. No one loved her and her parents had given her up without and value what so ever. Ember felt her cold tear roll down her face. And she fell asleep listening to the quite flapping of the dragons' mighty wings.

When she woke she was on a velvet bed in a stone room. She slowly walked over to the small window at the edge of the room and saw not what she thought she would see, which would be dragons, but instead she saw a stone place surrounded by hot boiling lava with a tiny wooden bridge leading 2 miles away from the castle onto a black mountain.

Then she heard a hissing voice that was none other then Queen Una's hissing voice. "Sssso princessss, have you disssscovered where you are yet?" she hissed.

"Yes," said Ember softly. "I am a princess, guarded by a dragon in this castle, and I will stay like this until a prince comes to save me." Ember whispered.

"Yessss!" hissed the Queen Una. "You are aloud to explore the place as much as you want but when some prince comes and try to take you, my prize, you will be put back in your tower. The dragon that is going to watch over you name is Kora. Have a nice time little Princess!" said Queen Una leaving a pink/ purple dragon behind. Then the dragon disappeared into a section of the stone castle-leaving Ember all alone once again.

Ember sat in the corner of the room and waited.