Disclaimer:

Mr. Paolini, Your world is a difficult one to be funny in… I already told you, but Mrs. J.K.'s world is way more easier to mess with. I continue to try though. For free even.

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The discussions resumed the next day, the presence of dragons prevented shouting matches and duels. It was funny to see the surprised faces when the colors of the dragons kept changing.

At the end of the day we still had twenty candidates who wanted to sit on the iron… nope, different world, who wanted to sit on the throne. Tomorrow one can sit on it.

12 Hail the new king?

When we finished breakfast, we guided the twenty candidates into our mansion trunk to show some samples of our civilization, the motorcycle with a sidecar made a big impression, especially the machine gun that was mounted on it.

After a demonstration in a secluded corner of our mansion, the candidates were convinced to never piss us off. Angela commented: "This is a whole new game Dragon Lord, this puts the dragons second on the food chain. I am not certain what to think of this, will it benefit our world or destroy it?"

Lady Lorana from Feinster and Lord Halstead from Aroughs looked at each other, they found out we endorsed their candidacy, and witnessing our power and technology were now wondering now if it was a good or bad thing.

Also, Jeod Longshanks and the ruler from Teirm were worried by our demonstration, Jeod asked: "Lord Potter? Are you going to produce and sell those vehicles and weapons? Or are you going to use these to dominate our people? The power difference is too big, we would be destroyed or enslaved by you."

Fleur answered: "We showed you these to demonstrate the level of technology from our world. These weapons we showed are from an era fifty years ago, the weapons of this age are twenty times more destructive.

The people of our society however only use magic with a minimum of this technology. Our community is hidden from the normal world to protect us and them, to prevent conflicts, so in our world, it is impossible to fly freely in our dragon form. Our world is too heavily populated to do so without being discovered, hence the claim on the lands in the east.

We are not certain we will move more of our people here, because recently we ourselves experienced a civil war. For now, we only want this for our family, maybe in time we will all travel here. Altogether we are about 2 million magicians worldwide."

Daphne added: "The grays, the gods of the elves, gave us the task of liberating Alagaesia from Galbatorix and saving the dragon race. What happens after that is up to us alone. We can already tell you that traveling to and from our world can only be done by our family, the portals are bound to us, and the energy required to open them will kill any magician, human, or elf. So even when more people immigrate here, it will never be in great numbers.

It was never our goal to rule Alegeasia, you would not be standing here if it was, we believed in peaceful cooperation, but Brom and Ajihad made it impossible. We decided to put a king or queen on the throne and leave the rest to yourselves. We only claim the lands in the east, the rest is your problem."

Orik sighed, only now he realizes the amount of damage Brom and Ajihad caused with their betrayal. He asked: "What problems will the new ruler face Lord Potter? And will your people be causing them?"

Tracey glared at Orik: "Remember what we were coming to warn you for Orik! A shade controlling Urgals, moving to an abandoned city of yours. The shade is gone, but the Urgals need more lands to live on. Conflicts are inevitable in the next years if you can't find a peaceful solution for both sides. Do not think you are safe in your tunnels when they move to the Beor mountains. Another problem is relocating the Varden, some will claim lands and titles that Galbatorix stole from them, lands that are now occupied by others. Do not think all Varden are innocent and pure, and their actions against Alagaesia were for liberating the country, Ajihad and Brom proved that to us. But no, we move east, and leave those problems for you to solve."

Aria argued: "If you leave the king now, then the country will descend into chaos! It will take six months before our dragons are strong enough to carry us. Can't you at least wait that long? Innocent people will suffer, all the deaths you avoided by killing the mad king, they will fall when some nobles think they have a chance to rebel. It will make this victory useless, and force the dragon riders in a role that we are trying to avoid."

We looked at each other, Aria did have a point, can we let the actions of two fools cause the deaths of thousands?

Fiona was the first to respond: "Harry? Aria Drottningu has a point. Can we leave some sisters here? I volunteer to stay here for six months, Ellesmera is a part of Alagaesia too and it will leave a bitter taste behind if we let them deal with the humans."

Ophelia was second to volunteer, Lineria, Miramar, Luna, Pansy, and Milli followed. With a big sigh, I said: "Alright, you convinced me, we will leave a delegation behind to prevent or suppress any rebellions. This is only to keep this country together until you are ready."

I looked around and said to everyone: "This is the main reason I am not fit to rule this country. Instead of punishing the two men that wronged us, I wanted to punish the whole country for their actions. I let my emotions get out of control, and lashed out to the wrong people."

Dathedr smiled at my statement: "Knowing and admitting it proves you are almost ready to do so Dragon Lord. The fact that you are listening to our counsel and your wives, even going back on your decisions are signs of wisdom. We are grateful for liberating our nations."

Dathedr addressed everyone: "Our Dragon Lord is right about one thing, they did enough for our country. It is up to us now to reform our lands and laws, not only humans but dragon riders, elves, and even dwarves need to adjust to this new era.

Even when the Dragon Lords people don't bring much technology, they will bring the knowledge of their advantaged science. We have a lot of catching up to do."

Being king is not so appealing anymore, a few nobles canceled their candidacy for the election, Jeod was one of them, he said: "I am not fit to rule either, my strong points are more academic than diplomacy, thank you Lord Potter for the honor of nominating me."

Xxxxx

We returned to the throne room with eleven candidates that were confident enough to do the job. We left them so they could discuss the new information among themselves. The elves and dwarves did a private meeting to analyze the new information about our people, I think we scared them shitless.

Lunch in our mansion was used to unwind from our stress, no heavy talks or decisions, just me and the wives discussing where the return portal could be.

"In the books, and when we visited the portal in the DOM we could hear voices, no doubt that the portal is hidden in a crowded area under some kind of Fidelius. Could it be that the Grays are hiding it until all our tasks are done?"

"Then we need to solve the Urgal problem too, that is the only solution to a stable peace." Commented Fleur on my question, "It is that our war within five years, they need new lands to expand, are we going to offer parts in the east next to us?"

I thought about it, Luna mentioned thirty wives, I am on twenty-nine right now, knowing Luna there will be one more wife… The scary part: it could be a dwarf or even a Urgal. I have Elves and Dragons, so the chances of wife Nr. 30 being short or with horns are bigger than I want to admit.

"So we split up again? Who wants to search Ellesmera? Who wants to stay here? And who is visiting the Urgals?" Was my question, the wives looked at each other, Luna answered: "Hubby, you and I are visiting the Urgals, any volunteers to come along?"

Crap! I already imagined wife 30 getting... horny? That is a nasty picture, worse, wife 30 getting mad and chasing me with her pointy horns. There is enough evidence on YouTube that getting on the bad side of something with horns can be painful.

Dwarves… well, if they have the same build as the males, then their maximum height is four feet… The image of a Lolli is out the door too, they are built too sturdy for that. Although a Lolli with a couple of battle axes…

Daphne smacked the back of my head: "Your imagination is running wild again Harry, it shows on your face. Save it for tonight, we all need some too. It has been too long since we played with our pets and I am sure Imira has some good ideas about that."

Somehow we lost interest in the election and started to question Imira about her experience of bedroom plays. A thousand-year-old elf is a treasure cove! Her stories and suggestions gave us the fuel for many months, Tracey and the Carrow twins' eyes were shining, even Parvati and Pansy got curious.

Two hours later Aria and Murtagh came looking for us to attend the election.

Xxxxx

The election was won by Lord Halstead. He was forty-five years old, his son Tharos took his position over as Count of Fenmark. In the books Halstead died in a wine cellar with his daughter, suffocating from smoke when Roran burned the door to the cellar. The daughter, Galiana, a pretty sixteen-year-old girl was glowing with pride and joy.

Belladonna, Ginny, and Fauna circled Illirea in Dragon form, shouting with amplified voices the name of the new king. People came out in the streets to watch and listen to a red, golden, and silver Dragon announcing the new king's name. The rest of us took portkeys to different cities to do the same, Fiona practiced her Patronus and send the message to Ellesmera and Oromis.

Tracey took a few guards of Orik along to Farthen Dur to inform the Varden and his king. The Varden had mixed feelings about the new king, after Galbatorix's death, they expected to be the rulers as a reward for their suffering, but I took it away from them. Meh, they can fuck themselves for all I care. Let the new king deal with them.

Xxxxx

That night, Tracey and the Carrow twins were spoiled by us, in my mindscape Imira showed her talents as a mistress, aided by Daphne and Fleur. Elves got their own kind of kinky side and we all loved it, the new toys were a big hit, the way Elves controlled nature is awesome. We learned to grow roots to bind our girls, raise them into the air in all kinds of positions, as I said, Imira is a very experienced girl.

A disturbing part was her memory of the Urgals and her ability to conjure some females in my mindscape…

When we left my mindscape, I gave them all a happy ending that lasted for several minutes, it was a bit of revenge for the last half hour in my mindscape when the girls ganged up on me, and let those Urgalettes loose on me.

Anyway, we learned the Urgal language and swearwords, cries of despair... anatomy… the rest is blocked.

Xxxxx

The next day the new king held his first court in the throne room, he officially reinstalled relations with the Elves and Dwarves, also confirmed a place with a cushion next to the throne for a werecat.

Our turn came up, "Dragon Lord Potter, this nation has a big debt to you and your wives, I am sorry to say that we still have to burden you with our problems, and ask you to assist us a bit longer. We, the Elves, Dwarves, and us met last night to talk it over."

I could tell he was nervous for the next part, "Ambassador Orik suggested creating an alliance through marriage to connect your and our people closer together, ambassador Aria and Dathedr agreed and suggested two names. One is my daughter Galiana, the other is Nasuada of the Varden. We talked it over with both and they are willing to be your wife."

Luna interrupted: "You forgot one issue king Halstead, all of us are magicians, being a wife without magic among twenty-nine with magic will cause a lot of trouble and sorrow."

King Halstead nodded: "I am sorry to say that will rule Nasuada out, my daughter however has a spark of magic, we hid it from Galbatorix or he would have summoned her to be trained. The rumors of his training methods were disturbing. I ask you to consider my daughter as wife to bind our people together."

Well… she doesn't have horns or axes. My girls circled Galiana and analyzed her, the spells indicated she had magic, but not a lot. Daphne faced her and asked: "You witnessed that we can change into dragons, how do you feel about that?"

Galiana swallowed and answered: "To be honest, I am scared out of my mind, and at the same time I am eager to join. We all grew up with tales of dragon riders, to be part of a family that can change into dragons is… I have no words for it, but I am willing."

Fleur asked next: "What if we turn you into one? To give you the ability to turn into a dragon? Being a part of our family is a very big step."

Galiana glowed: "I can turn into a dragon? Yes! The last few days I watched you all change into dragons and envied you for it."

Everyone looked at Luna for confirmation, Luna took Galiana's hands and closed her eyes, after a minute she said: "She will do, but it needs a lot of work, it will not be easy for her, or us."

Parvati cheered, "Welcome to the family Galiana! You are the last one, I can't wait for the next ritual."

I commented: "If you want a grand wedding, it will have to wait until all of us are united again. Sire, this can take months, we need to start her magic training as soon as possible, so I suggest miss Galiana stays with us. Fleur will be her companion this week, to let her travel home to say goodbye and pack her belongings."

Fuck it! I am way over my head again, this wife doesn't have a clue about our mating habits and will have a major culture shock on our first night, especially when Imira is leading the orgy, or me getting drunk.

Xxxxx

We divided up, Imira went back to her post with the army of elves. Aria and Murtagh, the two twins, Ginny, and Katie traveled along to Ellesmera to search for the portal, while Ginny returned with the mansion trunk.

Before Ginny left, they showed the new dragon riders, Islanzadi and Oromis the memory of Brom's betrayal in Surda in the pensive.

Ginny commented: "We really liked Brom, he was a grumpy grandpa to us. It hurt us a lot when he endangered our safety to get some benefits for his rebel group. Harry was the most affected, after everything we've done and been stabbed in the back like that, it's thanks to Eragon that Brom is still alive."

Oromis sighed: "This is very unfortunate, we were hoping that you would help train the new riders. Being a dragon yourselves gives you a unique perspective, the way Lord Potter guided Eragon helped a lot. Even now the results are showing, Saphira is growing into a fierce hunter and exceptional flier. They hunt together and spend a lot of time growing into their bond. It is very different from the way we raised the young ones. We sheltered them too much I suppose, but the damage is done, we can only try to avoid future mistakes.

In name of the dragon riders, I am offering our sincere apologies for Brom's actions. When he arrives, he will be put on trial and punished accordingly. I can only hope that he can overcome the loss of his dragon now that his revenge is done."

Aria, Eragon, and Murtagh watched the memory too, witnessing the ballistae and scorpions launch their spears at us as if they were there shocked them. It was a whole different conversation from a few moments before when the night activities of us came up. It dampened the mood of their arrival in Ellesmera.

That night Ellesmera celebrated the new dragon riders, too bad I wasn't there. Ginny left the next day with a hangover.

Xxxxx

Meanwhile in Illirea, we prepared to send the nobles back, each received their portkey and left. Daphne, Ophelia, Lenora, Fiona, Lineria, and Padma stayed in Illirea, along with Pansy and Milli. Tracey was fond of the dwarves and handled our interactions with them. The rest wanted to see the Urgals.

Fleur traveled with Tharos and Galiana to Fenmark, news that Halstead is the new king, got the whole city to celebrate. They got in a frenzy when they found out that their little princess is going to marry their liberator, Tharos, as the new count, announced a two days holiday.

With the tasks divided, I ported to Narda with the wives. We changed into our dragon form and took to the sky, Miramar was riding me and guided us to the oldest village.

When we arrived at the village, we began circling it high in the sky. I amplified my voice with a sonorus and said in their language: "We came to talk!"