The Dragon Empire

Chapter 4

For the next eight weeks Drachen trained under Elizabeth, hating every moment of it, who taught him everything about being a vampire, from how to use and fight with his new powers he had which were increased strength, durability, stamina, intelligence, his wings and one of the ones he found surprising and disturbing, vampire allure, which was similar to veela allure but it was much stronger. History and culture were also taught and Drachen noticed that the veela were always described as dirt beneath them and that they needed to be exterminated. After he had learned all he needed from Elizabeth he was more than happy to leave her.

As he made his way out of the training hall and down the corridor towards his hated master Drachen could help but wonder what he was going to happen after his master was defeated, he had seen the reports, the allies were almost at Berlin, where they were staying, and it was predicted that they would arrive within the next three months. He knew that if he went to the allies they would kill him for serving Grindenwald; he couldn't hide in Europe as he knew that the allied wizards would not let one servant of Grindenwald escape them and their vengeance. He would figure it out later he mused as he entered his master throne room to see over twenty muggle men held down with chains as they stared at his master with fear in their eyes, as he approached his masters throne he heard his master muttering a spell in a language he did not understand but he could see the affects for himself. The men on the ground got bigger and more buff, their fearful expressions turned to blank look as they turned to look at Drachen, Drachen wasn't sure what his master had done but it was unnerving how the men looked at him with a blank look but Drachen knew that underneath that was a mind that was completely obedient and loyal to him.

"Welcome my apprentice, may I present you the newly formed Death Guard...your knew servants" Grindenwald as he looked at his apprentice with a hard look which was saying to keep quiet and accept it. He then proceeded to tell him that they were completely loyal to him and that they were the best military officers and soldiers in German army, as Grindenwald had taken kidnapped them for this purpose and this made them the most deadly group in the whole of Berlin. After Grindenwald finished he motioned for Drachen to speak, when he spoke it was in a quiet voice with barely contained curiosity. "Why have you done this and if I'm to lead them how am I to do that?"

Grindenwald merely threw a gauntlet made out of metal Drachen knew well, Dwarven steel; the gauntlet was a dark black with dragon carved into it with a dragon head with an open mouth holding a glowing spherical amethyst. In Drachen's opinion it looked pretty intimidating and heavy but as soon as he lifted it and placed it on his right arm it resized itself until it was form fitting and felt as if it was a second skin, he also felt a connection form in his mind to his new warriors. As soon as this happened the chains disintegrated and they stood up and turned to face him and knelt with their head bowed and said as one "my lord", Drachen turned to look at his master who was looking at him with a pleased smile on his face as he lent back into his throne.

Drachen left the throne room with his new warriors and headed to the armoury to outfit his new servants and to get himself his armour which was being repaired from the mission before the veela raid. As they entered the armoury Drachen went to armour master and sent and image of some armour which was a black cloak with a hood, steel chest plate with pouches ,containing more projectiles ammunition clips, on the belt below the armour, bracers with a pointed blade on the right arm, should plates with Drachen banner sign on the right shoulder, black leather knee high boots with steel tip ends and a metal face mask with a built in gas mask and the eye sockets were covered in violet hardened glass which was clear on the inside of the mask.

"I want twenty armours like these built by the end of the week and I want runes inscribed into the armour which will make it indestructible to muggle projectile weaponry and I want the poaches enchanted so that they carry and create more ammunition for a muggle weapon called a stG 44 assault rifle" Drachen said as he handed the woman a note from his master saying to give Drachen everything he needs. With that done Drachen went to the weapons master and sent a image of a black sword with a steel guard and the hilt was made of Quebracho and a dagger which was like the sword but dagger sized with runes and indestructibility and sharpness on them, there was also a image of the scabbards' which were black and made out of leather with steel at the top of them where the blades slid into them. He also sent an image of an stG 44 with runes on the barrel which made the bullets more powerful and explosive on impact of the enemy, there was also a rune on it which made it maintain itself constantly. Drachen said the same thing to weapons master as he had done with armour master and left with his warriors to get Drachen's armour which was sitting on a manqué in the corner of the room, if one looked at it they would feel two things, fear and awe, the armour was similar to his soldiers but instead of it being steal armour it was made out of a metal which can only be found from old Dwarven ruins, who had gone extinct millennia ago after the wizards destroyed over a petty trade argument, cloak was grey instead of black, the left bracer had the blade instead of the right one. The sword was like his soldiers but it had an amethyst on the end of the hilt and the blade had runes which would make the blade catch fire as soon as it came in contact with flesh of the enemy. Drachen noticed that the right gauntlet was gone before he realized that his master had uses the gauntlet to form his new one on his, which would not come off no matter how hard he tried. After they were done, Drachen led his men towards one of the unused barracks which had been assigned to his soldiers, after he dropped his men off at the barracks Drachen proceeded to the court yard to get some practice with his dragon form. When he arrived at the court yard he saw the moon high in the sky as it illuminated everything in area in it bright white light, the only people out here were the night watch and they knew about his dragon form training and weren't surprised when he collapsed to ground and changed. Where there was man before there was now a twenty metre tall and long violet dragon, Drachen's dragon form had dark violet scales all over his body which were slightly lighter on his belly and neck, he had four thick legs with midnight black claws which looked like they could cut through anything, his wings were attached to his front legs and were a dark shade of violet, almost black. His tail was curled around him but if he were to stretch it out it would show all of his twenty meter length glory at the end of his tail was a trio of spikes which were also midnight black and looked to be a metre long. His head was truly fearsome, his eyes were completely back and if you looked into them it was like looking into the void of death, he had multiple rows of pearl white teeth in his mouth, and he had two horns at the back of his head which were pointed.

Drachen's dragon was truly fearsome and when he leaped into the air with a flap of his enormous wing it truly showed his ultimate power, as he was sawing through the air he decided to fly around the compound to make sure that there was no enemy scout around the area. After ten minutes of flying he decided to land in an secluded area and try out his dragon fire and his dragon tongue, which was known to unnerve most people who did not have strong wills, he landed over mile away from the fortress and looked around for a boulder he could use which he found after a few moments.

Drachen unleashed a torrent of his dragon fire at the boulder and most would expect a flame either red or orange hell even blue but most wouldn't expect for a flame of pure jet black to come forth and completely vaporise the bolder and leaving nothing, not a speak of dust. Drachen nodded his dragon head slowly before smiling which to anyone passing by would look like a smile the devil himself would fear, Drachen looked around for a moment before he did something the dragons themselves had forgotten to do thousands of years ago, he spoke. "It seems as if my dragon fire is improving hehe, I'd hate to be the person on the receiving end of the fire. Now I think I should come up with a plan for what I should do after my master is defeated" He lay there for a long hour thinking of ways to get himself and his warriors, he couldn't leave them to die now that they were bound to him, eventually he gave up and decided to go and do some research in order to see if he had missed out anything of importance during his training under Grindenwald.

A few hours later Drachen was back in his human form and looking through some old tomes in the library in the hopes of finding something that will help him and his soldiers, eventually he came across something on portal magic which hadn't been attempted in a thousand years since the high elves left this world for who knows where but if he could do the same rituals as they did which included blood of hated enemy, a scale of a Dragon king and a ridiculous amount of power or, if he reading this correctly, he could use the soul of an evil man in order to create a gateway stone, which could be used to go to Avalon anytime. Drachen smiled at the last bit as he knew exactly he was going to use for this ritual, but when he put all the books he had been using away in order to not attract attention from his master, he thought that maybe he should go to the US and try and hide there and worse came to worse he would use the gateway stone and take his men and leave this.

Drachen decided that he would stupefy his master, bind his soul to the gateway stone and destroy the oath which connected him to his master in servitude, obliviated him, take his men and portkey them all to one of Grindenwald's safe houses in the US and wait for the Wizards to forget about him while he planned and gather his resources and make his dream a reality.

A world of peace and order, no more secrecy for the magical's, an empire to last for the rest of time and him as their leader.

The Death Guard Armour is basically Blackwatch's armour from Prototype 2