Draco and Abiageal roared in pain, collapsing to the ground. Bowen looked over to where he had last seen Ava with Aurther only to see Aurther looking over the edge of the castle wall before he started chasing a slim man and tackling him to the ground. Fear turned Bowens blood to ice as he, and several other men, ran to Aurther who was now punching the man repeatedly. Hewe was the first to make it to Aurther, pulling him off the man,even though Aurther tried to to continue his assault on the man.

"You cowardly bastard," Aurther screamed at the man as he furrishouly thrashed in Hewes hold, "You killed her! Murder!

"What has happened," Bowen asked, "Where's Ava."

"Check over the wall," the man wickedly laughed wipping the blood from his broken nose. Fear ran through Bowens' blood as he quickly ran to the castle wall.

"Ava," he yelled leaning over the wall trying to see Ava but instead he was knocked onto his back side as a red scaled dragon flew over the castle wall. The new dragon roared as it flew a circle around the castle then flew away towards the forest. Everyone stood stunned at what they had just seen. Staring at where the new dragon had flown off. Bowen quickly gathered his wits, got to his feet, then began orders for search parties be made to find Ava, the traitor be taken to the dungeon, and another group of men fallow him into the forest to search for the new dragon. A group lead by Hewe and Aurther went looking for any sigh of Ava around the castle grounds to the relief and confusion of everyone there was no sigh of her body causing many to believe that the dragon they had seen was their young queen.

Draco and Abiageal were unconscious for the whole search of the castle grounds and into the early morning. Kara and Brother Gilbert stayed by their side watching over them throughout the night. Aurther spent that time looking for any sign of his Ava, while Bowen and his search party searched through the forest all night and into the day. The only thing that was found of Ava was the burnt and torn remains of her dress, and no sign of the new dragon. The next morning the search for the new dragon continued as Bowen lead the first party meeting up with Kara, Aurther and Hewe, as well as new men to rotate with Bowens men so they could rest. Bowen however continued to search with Kara, Aurther and Hewe refusing to rest till the new dragon was found.

Draco and Abiageal were too weak and tired to go on the search themselves so they rested at the castle Brother Gildbert keeping an eye on them and reading his poeter to entertain them, though it did little more than put Abiageal to sleep. It was not until that evening did the search parties find the scarlet dragon asleep by the river leading to Draco's cave. Two men found the dragon first laying at the edge of the river holding something in its arms, and quickly ran to tell the others.

The two ran back to tell Bowen what they found, "Sir Bowen we found the dragon."

"Where?"

"By the river leading to Lord Draco's cave," one of the men replied.

Aurther rode up to Bowen and the other men, "Have you found something?"

"We found her," Bowen replied as Aurther got off his horse and fallowed the two men to where the dragon was laying. They made it to the river where the dragon was laying half in the water and half out of the water. Bowen and Aurther went closer to the dragon who shared a lot of Draco's physical appearance right down to his tail blade, even the shape of his head and horns. The only difference from the two was the coloring, and size. Aurther moved closer to the dragons head while Bowen looked over the dragons body.

"Where do you think he came from," Aurther asked.

"She," Bowen corrected, "And I think she is a mother."

"What," Aurther asked running to were Bowen was kneeling. He was looking at something the dragon held close to her chest. It was an egg, a white dragons egg, that the dragon was holding tight against her body as if her life depended on it. Bowen moved closer to her head examining to her to see if she was still alive. She was still breathing slowly but evenly. He looked her over then he noticed a green scale tied around her neck. Bowen looked closer at the green scale necklace noticing it was the same as Ava's necklace.

"Aurther," Bowen gasped, "It's Ava."

"What," Aurther said shocked.

"This dragon is Ava she is a dragon now."

"But how?"

"It must have something to do with her bond with Draco. We need to get her back to the castle, we can figure it out there and maybe Draco will know more about what has happened to her."

"I hope so but what about the egg," Aurther said pointing to the egg still in Ava's arms.

"We will take it with us," Bowen said picking up the egg then turned to one of the men standing by, "Inform the others that we have found Ava alive, a bull and a cart as well."

"Yes sir," the men replied before they ran back to the village while Bowen and Aurther stayed with Ava. Bowen made a small fire while they waited to keep the egg warm.

The men returned with more men, a bull and cart, as well as a sash for Bowen to carry the egg. Kara and Hewe were with the men as well.

"Is it true," Hewe asked as the other men and Aurther lifted Ava into the cart, "Is that really Queen Ava?"

"Yes from what I can tell it is Ava," Bowen replied.

"But how is that even possible," Kara asked then saw the egg Bowen was caring, "And where did that come from?"

"I hope to find out soon," Bowen replied, "How are Draco and Abiageal?"

"They started to wake up just as we left the castle," Kara replied.

"That's good maybe Draco can shed some light on this whole mess," Bowen said then turned to the men when they loaded Ava onto the cart, "Come on men lets get back to the castle."

Sorry it has taken me so long to update this story.I have been busy working on other stories as well as this story, and I thank you all for being patient with me I very much appreciate it and hope you enjoy this chapter as well. To MMM, yes I have heard about the new Dragon Heart movie and have plans on watching it as well as Dragonheart 3 sorcerer's curse, but I don't think I will be adding them into my story maybe who know's.