Author's note: So this I think I have one more chapter to go before I end this story. The sequel is already coming together and should up also. However I would like to know what you all think of continuing the sequel in this story or posting it in a completely new one. I have thought about it and not sure which you the readers would prefer. Let me know in a PM or leave it in a review. And as always thank you for reading and hope you enjoy this longer than normal chapter.
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The Ash was nervous, he knew of no Fae that had the ability to do what this woman was doing to block the powers of the Fae was unheard of. And this woman was here for his ward and friend, no he had a life debt to the doctor and would fulfill that oath even into death.
"What business do you have of Dr. Lewis. I will not let you bring harm to her no matter what you are a capable of."
"Do you think you could stop me, if I was here to bring harm to the doctor." the small woman actually giving a small smile to the Light Fae leader. "But you need not worry about that, I do not wish bring harm to her."
"Then release us from your hold on us, and we can talk about this rationally. Otherwise, I will take this as an attack on the Fae." The Ash spoke calmly through his gravely voice gave it a more authoritativeness tone. As he watched the woman take a few seconds to ponder his words, before he felt his gifts come back to him.
"Very well, we shall see where this goes then."
"Who the hell do you think you are coming into this chamber demanding anything from us, especially a human slave we own." Elder Nash yelled out, feeling more confident that he had his ability to summon fire back. Already he was warming his hand to bring forth a fireball at an instant notice if need be. "What we do with our property is of no concern to you."
"I see, Elder Nash correct? You have learned nothing since I last conflict. You Fae are just as arrogant now as you were then. But since you are so concerned with who I am then let me introduce mysef." As she turned to look at all the Elders in the meeting, then the Ash, then back to look directly at Elder Nash. "My name is Tiamat Ella'Mandor, Fae-slayer of the Kronus Clan, the one that held the fate of the Fae in the Fae-Dragon War, Queen of all Dragons, and most importantly grandmother to Lauren Lewis."
The Ash sat back down, shocked and speechless, he had heard of the Great Fae-Dragon War. A betrayal by Trick's grandfather who was Blook King at the time, had sent the Fae to the brink of doom when the Dragons untited against the Fae. He remember hearing of the Queen of the Dragons coming to an accord with two Sisters of Life that ended with the Dragons leaving this realm. But this woman claimed to be his friend's grandmother, how was this possible. He looked around the assembled Elders and saw that each of them knew the history of the Dragons and what exactly they were capable of doing. Even Elder Nash whos own father had been fought in that war looked startled and afraid.
"That is impossible, Dragons left the world and the Blood King made it were no children could be born." Elder Nash who had gotten over his initial shock yelled out. "You are an imposter, and this is trick of THE SLAVE we own." Emphasizing the status of the doctor to this clear imposter.
"You are as much a fool as your father was back then. Do you really think that Fae Magic, even Blood Magic, could effect a Dragon? Though it is true we can no longer have children or female children, however that magic only works in this realm. In our realm we do not have that problem, but that you need not concern yourself with. As for my granddaughter though, and I do mean DOCTOR LEWIS she is the daughter of my son Marcus although I guess you would know him better as The Mountain, giving his title when he lead both Light and Dark Fae, and the Sister of Life Gaia. So you see, not even your little magics could prevent a Dragaon being born here."
The Ash looked between the woman and Elder Nash, he knew that what she was saying was true. He had realized the Sister was here for a reason, although he wondered why Lauren never said anything to him about her parentage. They had ran extensive background checks on her when she took the oath of servitude, and all things pointed to be the adopted child of the Lewis family. He knew that other Elders were hoping to get access to her fortune when she had became a slave, but she had some very powerful lawyers and accountants that made that impossible and he was glad for that. But to not say she was a Dragon was uncalled for, it would have been simpler in that he could have just hired her then. All the things she had endured over the years in her service, was for nothing. Why do that to herself, no this woman must be mistaken in her thoughts of the doctor.
"Please, let us all calm down then. Lady Tiamat, I believe that you may be mistaken in your identification of Dr. Lewis. She is not a Dragon, just a very brilliant human. I say this as the Ash and more importantly as a friend to Lauren, she has never said she was anything other than human. We even ran a test once on her thinking she was new type of Fae, because of her intelligence but it proved she was merely human." The Ash explained to the Queen, not wanting to upset her more.
"Of course, I see I came too soon then. She has not had time to tell you then, well let me explain to you how wrong you are. Lauren did not know she was a Dragon until yesterday, she was not complete until recent events. If you do not believe me ask the Sister, she would not lie to you. But if you need more proof then, I give my Word as Queen of all Dragons that Lauren Lewis is a Dragon and my granddaughter." The sound of thunder and the seemingly quake of the air itself in the room, and all those assembled knew the truth of her words. "Now that that is settled, let us talk about your intentions with my granddaughter."
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Bo, Kenzi, and Gaia were all sitting in the diner eating breakfast and telling stories. Having a great time all around. They had been here for about twenty minutes while they were waiting for their breakfast when Gaia turned to Bo and asked. "Bo, tell me has my daughter had a good life? When she spoke it, I could tell she kept things back and avoided things."
"I don't know much about her life prior to knowing her, I know that for the last five years though it has not been an easy one. She traded her freedom on the hopes of curing her ex-girlfriend making her a slave to the Fae. And it changed her from what she use to be to what she is like now, hell you saw her when she thought you were powerful Fae. That is the life she has known, and as much as I would love it to be different its made her to what she is. I just hope I can help her have some fun and enjoy life a little more." Bo answered truthfully, she knew she had no real idea of Lauren's life prior to the Fae but she knew who she was now. And Bo wanted to be that person to help her girlfriend take it easier and enjoy herself sometimes. "But I do know that if you ask her if she would change anything, she would tell you she wouldn't, that is just the type of person she is."
"Thank you, she is like her father I think. He would sacrifice everything he had to help others, no matter the cost to himself. He never wanted to lead the Fae, far from it actually. But he could not stand to see the fighting and chaos that it brought. I think his only friends were Matrim and his own guard, Matrim more than most though." Gaia stated, thinking of Marcus and how much his daughter was like him so much in personality. "I told her that I would give her a blood sample so that she could test it, and good lord you would think I just gave her the keys to the greatest treasure ever. Her face lit up like it was already doing a million calculations." The Ancient laughed at remembering her daughter's face at her agreeing to her request.
"Yeah that is all Hotpants, what me and you would think of as boring as hell she thinks it the most fun you could have." Kenzi piped in, not really sharing in most of what Lauren considered fun to her standards. "But if you need her then she is always there for you, even if you are mad as hell at her."
"Hey I like the geeky talk from her, I don't understand a word she is saying but she gets this look on her face that makes her more beautiful than anything I have ever seen." Bo admitted to the two others at the table. "And that is without the golden aura I see around her all the time."
"Golden aura? What do you mean by that?" Gaia asked, her curiosity sparked now. She knew all about auras and had never heard of a golden one before. Thinking back to when she saw her daughter for the first time the aura she had seen was all greens and blues.
"Lauren, her aura is all golden. It must be a Dragon thing, since it is the same aura around Thomas, Matt, and the those other two at the Dal last night. I thought it was just Lauren, since she has had that aura since the first time I saw her, but then I saw Thomas and Matt and they have the same color aura." Bo answered, not sure why Gaia had asked.
"Bo, you should not be able to see that. Dragons are pretty much immune to any detection abilities that Fae have. Even I can't see their true auras, only the false one that they give off that makes them look like humans or fae. You must never let on to it, it could be dangerous to you if the Dragons think you would use it to harm them." Gaia warned her friend, not understanding how a mere succubus could be powerful enough to see Dragon auras.
"I thought it was a succubus power, I assumed everyone saw the same aura. Like Kenzi's is all blue with streaks of yellow and orange. And yours is all green and red with a tinge of brown around the edge. What do you see when you look at people." Bo asked not sure now about her own powers.
"Kenzi's is the same as you said, but when I saw Lauren's it was all green and blue with streaks of white in it. It would seem that you are more than a mere succubus, childe. We could all hope to be more than what we were born, do not let it doubt yourself." Gaia stated seeing that Bo was starting to rethink herself. "We are all giving gifts for one reason or not, perhaps you have a bigger destiny than you thought. But I think now we should eat." As the waitress had finally brought their breakfast to them.
"Yeah Bobo, lets put some food in this body." Indicating her body with her hands much like a tv game host. "I mean this great looking thing I call me, needs to keep it all there." As she dug into her pancakes with reckless abandonment. As Bo and Gaia laughed at the crazy human, and started to eat themselves.
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Lauren was about on her tenth patient of the day when one of her newest patients had come in. Roger was an incubus who had been having problems lately with addiction. She had learned that he had been systematically starved when he first came of age and gotten his power. His parents were very strict and believed that personal suffering through fasting was the way to achieve an elightenment that only they believed could happen. When Roger had finally became and adult and had left his strict parents house he would gorge on the chi that humans and fae gave to the point that he had drained several of them leading to their deaths. When the Light Fae had caught up to them they had brought him to the doctor for a full work up when she proposed that he was suffering from a form of addiction. She had developed a serum to help him manage his hunger, the same serum she had modified to help Bo. As she approached Roger she saw the look that he was nervous.
"How are you feeling today Roger?" Lauren asked her patient. She had already prepared an injection for him and had gotten the Ash to find another Incubus to help Roger further. She was to bring the idea up to her patient to see if he was interested.
"Docter Lewis what have you done to yourself?" Roger's eyes had turned glassy, as if he had gotten high. "Your blazing..."
And before Lauren could do anything, Roger jumped at her grabbing her. His lips made painful contact with the doctor's and she could feel the pull of her chi being pulled out of her against her will. It was painful, Roger was taking too much too fast for her and it was causing her too lose focus. Roger could not stop himself, the doctor's chi was powerful it was like an endless supply of the most intoxicating chi he had ever had, he sent a pulse into the doctor to further draw the essence out of the doctor. For her part, Lauren tried to push the Incubus off her, but he had a strong grip on her and had backed her into a table so she had no leverage. She could see the stream of chi being pulled from her, and noted the blue and gold coloring of it. It both intrigued and scared her at this, but Roger still pulled the chi from her. She could hear voices, down the hall but could do nothing as she was pinned by his body and lips. Roger was lost to his addiction, he never wanted to stop he did not care if it left another dead body in his wake. The doctor's chi was calling him it was a magnet and it seemed to be overflowing. No human should have this much chi or it be this powerful, he briefly thought before he sent another pulse into the doctor. He could hear her moan at the pain and pleasure he was giving her and drew more of the chi out. And then a pain he had never felt before hit him square in the face, as a ball of fire had engulfed his face. The only thing keeping him alive was the fact that he had so much chi in him he literally healed instantly. He looked toward the doctor only to see a five foot long golden dragon staring at him, a wisp of black smoke huffing out its snout. Lauren was in shock, she did not know how she had shifted or how she had spewed out flames she only knew she needed help, but did not know how to communicate in this form. She had briefly called out to Bo in panic, but now was backing herself up away from her attacker. She could see the shame in Roger, but she could not dwell on that.
"Oh my god, Doctor Lewis, I am so sorry. I don't know what happened, what did I do." As he turned to run, only to be blocked by a small older woman and The Ash himself. "I am so sorry, I didn't mean it." As he dropped to his knees in shame, he had attacked the The Ash's ward it was a death sentence.
"I told you she was a Dragon." the small woman spoke to the Ash, never turning her head.
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'Bo, help' Was all Bo heard in her head, as she was putting the fork in her mouth, which she instantly dropped at hearing her girlfriend. She could sense the fear and helplessness in the voice.
"We need to go, Lauren is in trouble" She got up instantly not even bothering with the check as she took off at a dead run out of the diner. Both Gaia and Kenzi quickly got up as Kenzi threw money on the table more than the tab was worth, but having no time to count out what she needed.
"Yo Bo, what the hell." Kenzi yelled after her friend, clearly something was going on.
"Childe, stop what is the matter?" Gaia asked as she and Kenzi both reached the car that Bo was already getting into.
"Lauren is in trouble. I have got to get there." Bo answered as she was about to open the door, she found herself standing in the hallway of the Ash compound near the medical labs. Startled for a moment she looked at Gaia.
"Figure this was faster."
"Holy shit balls how did you do that." Kenzi asked the Ancient as her stomach threatened to expel what little food she had already consumed. They could hear voices from the lab, and Bo was already at a flat run when they entered the room.
The first thing that Bo noticed was the golden dragon that was her girlfriend backed up from a man on his knees that was holding himself. She could see the chi oozing from every pore on his body, and she saw the very familiar coloring of Lauren's chi. Her fury instantly ignited as she realized just exactly what had happened, her eyes went a shade of blue that none had ever seen on a succubus before her. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TAKING WHAT IS NOT YOURS TO TAKE! I WILL DESTROY YOU AND ALL THAT DARE HARM MY LOVE. I AM MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU ALL, I WILL DESTROY BOTH LIGHT AND DARK UNTIL IT IS NEITHER AND BOTH." As she started to pull the chi out of the kneeling man, she could taste Lauren's chi mixed with his and this only made her madder. She was going to kill this man for daring to touch what was hers. No one touched the doctor, she was vaguely aware of others in the room when she heard.
"Stop and sit down, before you do something unpleasant." The small woman who had been standing near the man, Bo now recognized as the Ash. And her anger left her just as instantly as he came unto her. She turned to look at the woman and saw the very familiar golden aura surrounding her. Its intensity was even more bright than Lauren's, but then she saw the actual dragon form of her girlfriend and moved to sit by her taking her head in her hands.
"Baby, you are safe now. I will not let anyone harm you, what happened?" Bo put her forehead on the dragons own, as she witnessed all the events that had taken place in her girlfriend's mind. Bo's anger again surfaced and her eyes blazed again before she was once again drawn back by the voice in her head.
'Bo, I am alright. He did not mean for it to happen, it was like when you mother last night. My chi pulled him to me, I did not even think about it when he came in. He suffers from a form of chi addiction, it was like putting an alcoholic in a storage room of beer and liquor. It was too much for him, please don't hurt him.' Lauren pleaded with her girlfriend, she knew that Bo was very protective of her and rationally she knew that Roger had succumbed to his base nature through his addiction.
"I take it you are Bo?" the small woman came to stand next to Bo.
Bo looked up from where she was kneeling on her knees to look at the small woman, she placed herself in front of her girlfriend who could probally defend herself in this form better but not taking any chances. "I am and you are?"
"Bo this is Tiamat, Lauren's grandmother and Thomas' wife. Tia this is Isbeau, Lauren's chosen mate and her protector." Gaia did the introduction, she had recognized Tia the moment she walked into the room. Gaia walked to her daughter, and kneeled down next to her. "It seems this is becoming a habit me kneeling and you as a dragon." She gave her daughter a wide smile and placing her hand on her back, to help comfort her a little more.
"Its Bo, nice to meet you." Bo answered sticking her hand out in friendship, might as try and start being on the good side of her girl's family.
"Tia," And to Bo's and Gaia's surprise, she stepped forward to give the succubus a warm embrace. "I see my granddaughter is well protected then. You are very powerful for a succubus."
"Thats what I am starting to learn." Bo answered as she felt Lauren behind her shift back into her natural form of being human and immediately taking her jacket off for the doctor to step in. Bo made sure she had placed herself directly in front of her girlfrend hiding her from view from the kneeling man and the Ash himself. As Kenzi moved to bring some scrubs over from a locker she had seen.
"Here doc, no one but Bobo wants to see you naked." Kenzi smirked at her best friends embarrassed look. "I mean don't get me wrong, you look good...not as good as me naked. But you will never get to see that. But one question...why don't you have like wings? Don't Dragons have wings."
"That is a myth, lil'one. I don't know where those pictures of dragons with wings came from but they don't have them." Gaia answered.
"Well I guess that settles that, Dr. Lewis I am afraid since you are no longer human, your services are no longer required by the Light Fae." The Ash told his friend and ward, his contract had been fulfilled and now he could appease the Fae laws in one swoop.
"I am fired?" the look on Lauren's face was one of disappointment and defeat. "I will pay for all the damage here."
"No childe, you misunderstand. I am bound by the laws of the Fae and has it stands no human can work for the Fae and not be a slave. However since you are no longer a human, I would like to offer you a formal job and recognize you as such." The Ash corrected himself, he hoped the doctor would accept his offer. The Elders did agree on one thing, Lauren was the best doctor they had ever had and really was worth what every she asked for. "You would no longer be a slave, but you would still have protected status as a ward of the Light Fae. And you would be free do come and go as you like. Think about and let me know what it would take to hire you, you can tell me tomorrow though, take the rest of the day." As he turned to leave. Nodding towards Gaia and then towards Tiamat with the utmost respect he had for her.
"Well holy shit balls, you are free." Kenzi was the first to say something and in a most uncharacteristic move hugged the doctor who was still shocked. "Oh sorry I don't know what came over me, probably some mind control thing or something."
"Thanks Kenzi, I think." She did not where she stood with the young goth half the time, so she would just go with the flow of it.
"Hey look at you, free and all. And now no longer officially human. You know what this means?" Bo turned to look at her girlfriend with all the love she had for her. Seeing the blonde shake her head indicating no she didn't know what that would mean. Bo stepped closer to her and in her personal space, "it means I can do this when I want to now without hiding." As she took the blonde's head in her hands and placed her lips on the doctor's and sent all the love and passion she had into it. She held nothing back and merely continued to press her lips to her girlfriend's until oxygen became an issure for both of them. Only hearing the coughing of someone else made them look to whoever had interrupted them.
"So Lauren it is so good to finally meet you, I am your grandmother." As Tia stepped up and seemingly lifted off the ground so she was eye level with the doctor and hugged her for all her worth. "I have waited for so long for you to be born." She whispered into the blonde's ear for her alone. As she extended one of her arms toward Gaia to engulf as well in the hug. "Thank you for bringing giving me another grandchild, I knew when we first met you would have an affect on me." She winked at the Ancient Sister, remembering how she had thrown Gaia and her other Sister Nintu over her knee and gave them both a swatting to remember.
"Now lets get the hell out of her and go celebrate." Bo suggested, she had been dragged into the hug by her girlfriend as well and was glad to be welcomed into the family.
"Did you say celebrate...oh yeah lets go get our drink on. And yo Hotpants, you are so buying."
"Shush you...or you start paying rent." Lauren joked and gave a wink to Bo, she knew she would have to explain about her finances but later. "And as much as I want to celebrate, I am starving for some reason."
"Oh sweetie, you need to feed." This coming from Tia who knew that she would need to help her granddaughter in discovering her powers and helping her as she could.
"Oh...I never thought of that. So what do Dragons feed on?" The look of scientific curiousity coming over the doctor all of a sudden. Bo and Gaia both rolled their eyes at seeing the look come over the blonde and both knew celebrating was going to be awhile now.
"Oh that is the best part, come with me and we will go feed. It will be better if it is just you and me at first, so you are not distracted." Tia stated, although it sounded more an order that was not to be disputed. "Come on it will not take long, I know the perfect place. I promise you no harm will come to you." She said this more to Bo than anyone else, she had seen the protectiveness in the succubus.
"Okay." Lauren agreed and nodding to the succubus who she could see was wanting to go. "Next time, Bo you can come with. I need to learn this stuff now and I would be too nervous if others were there also." As she moved to her girlfriend and lowered her voice into a whisper for the succubus alone, "and if you hear me in that beautiful head of yours...you come running blue eyes blazing." As she gave the succubus a kiss on the cheek and then on the lips in goodbye.
"Come on,childe. We will wait at the Dal for them." Gaia stated as she gathered Bo and Kenzi together and then they were standing outside the diner at Bo's car.
"Jesus that is freaking awesome, but I think I am going to be sick." Kenzi blurted out.