All of the village waited anxiously for their queen turned dragon to awaken. Her family laid by her side as she slept refusing to leave her side. Guards stayed watchful over the family as they slept in the palace gardens, Aurther stayed close to the family as well, he watched over them keeping an eye on Ava watching as she slept hoping that he would be able to see her fiery red orange eyes. Bowen and Kara took to the duties of running the kingdom while Ava slept since Bowen was named heir by Ava, and Abiageal had no clue how to run a kingdom. She was also too afraid for her sister to leave her side. Three days had paced since they found Ava and still no sign of her waking up anytime soon. The egg that was found was being nested in hot coals per the advisement of Draco to keep the egg warm while he stayed with his daughter. On the fourth day that passed things started to change. Ava started to mutter in her sleep speaking of a red comet, and a young dragon heart. The fifth day she did wake up for a brief moment before falling asleep again, sixth day she was awake long enough to drink some broth to restore her energy though went back to sleep soon after. The seventh day Ava finally woke up though was still weak so she just rested in the garden.

I was flying through the clouds flying higher and higher into the sky. Flying beside me were three other dragons. We were flying through the clouds to the clouds disappeared in the night sky appeared. The moon was full at its highest point shining bright in the night sky. One of the dragons flew closer to the moon hoping to touch it but as he got closer to the moon a red two-tailed comment smashed into knocking him out of the sky. I dived down trying to reach him and slow his descent to the ground. The two other dragons flew down to help as well. We were able to grab onto him in school slowly carried him to the ground. Just ten feet from the ground when all of a sudden we were attacked by knights wearing red capes they threw grappling hook spears with ropes tight them and fired arrows at us.

Two spears launch into my shoulders while the others were hooked by the grappling hooks causing us to drop our friend. Then knights started pulling us down. We tried to set to the men on fire, but just as we opened our mouths balls and chains wrapped around our mouths forcing them shut. I thrashed my body back and forth trying to shake the men off, to no avail. The others tried the same thing but to the same result. I thrashed my tail back and forth side to side till the knights hooked my tail pulling to the ground, several men then jumped on to my tail pinning it to the ground. The next thing I knew I was completely immobile as well were the others. We all tried to escape our bonds but it was useless the knights held us against the ground as a red scale dragon with horns that curbed upwards against his head walked past the knights towards us. He stood in front of me looking down at me with an evil wicked sneered plastered on his face. Showing me his fangs. I growled back at him. He just chuckled at me before he lunged at my neck. I woke up as his teeth met my neck panting in a cold sweat.

"Ava are you alright," father asked me as I woke up panting looking around at where I was. I was in the castle garden father curled around my body, it was early morning the birds were just starting to sing their songs.

"I'm…I'm okay ...it was just a dream," I panted rubbing my eyes with the back of my hand. When I saw the back of my hand I was stunned to see it was larger and covered in light red scales with shining black claws. I started looking over my body seeing it was now larger and covered in red scales. I had wings now and a tail like fathers, "Or maybe I'm still dreaming."

"I'm afraid not my child," father chuckled a little, "How do you feel, what do you remember?"

"I feel fine I guess," I said moving my tail back and forth then up and down testing the new appendage, "I can't remember much I remember being on the castle battlement with Aurther then a burning pain in my chest then nothing. How long was I asleep?"

"Almost a week now," Bowens voice came from the entrance of the garden, "Scared the whole kingdom half to death."

"I've been out that long?"

He walked closer to me, he was dressed in his usual black armor with a small knife hanging from his belt, "You had everyone worried that you wouldn't wake up. We found you by the river leading to your old cave with a little something with you."

"What was it that you found," I asked, "I can't really remember anything."

He moved aside showing a small fire with a white egg, that was far too big to been a normal bird egg, in the center of the low burning fire. I recognized the egg remembering where I had found it and the attempt to bring it to father. I had found it in the cave in a hallowed out stone in the back of the cave hidden under some dry leaves. It had glowed when I found it for some reason.

"She must have placed a spell on it to keep it from hatching for time," father said.

"She…oh," Bowen said before he became quiet his pasted deeds coming back to haunt him. Abiageal then crawled over fathers back on to mine rolling off my side onto the ground.

"So that is our baby sibling," she said when she landed on the ground, "Guess father didn't need that wine we were going to bring him."

I chuckled a little as did Bowen a little before he went silent. We all were silent for a time till Aurther came into the gardens and practiacly leapt onto my neck excited that I was awake and was talking a million miles an hour before he rushed back out of the garden shouting, "I have to tell the everyone."

"Did any of you catch what he said before he left," Abiageal asked.

"Not a word," I replied.

Sometime later in the late morning I saw Kara and Brother Gilbert who were excited I was awake, and told me all that had happened while I was asleep. Not a whole lot had happened. The last of the clean up for the festival was done, Aurther had decided to join the castle guard instead of leaving with the theater troop, and plans were being drawn up to make an extension of the castle so father could have a place in the castle. Nothing really big had happened since I turned into a dragon. The treasure who had tried to assassinate me was going to be put on trail soon, though Bowen was waiting to see if I woke up before they did in case he had to be tried for succeeding in the assassination. Brother Gilbert was going through my mothers old scrolls and books trying to figure out why I became a dragon while writing a poem about the event. Which wasn't so bad when it came to his poems.

When lunch came around several of the village, and castle children came to visit me bringing herbs, flowers, and one boy brought a tea his mother made that would give me extra strength. I thanked them all then invited them to join Aurther, Bowen, Kara, Brother Gilbert, my sister, father and I for lunch. After we ate, several of the kids laid against my belly as we sat in the afternoon sun. We all were peacefully laying in the sun when a young golden haired girl who had been laying on my stomach got up and walked over to father.

"Lord Draco," she said walking up to his head.

"What is it child," father said lifting his head off the grass.

"Do dragons have two hearts?"

"No why do you ask," he responded a little confused as were the rest of us.

"Because Queen Ava has two heart beats," she replied, "Is that normal for dragons?"

I was stunned for a moment before Bowen ran over to my stomach laying his head against my stomach listening for a moment before his face turned ghostly pale before death glaring at Aurther.

Oh my gods I have had the worst writers block for the past month. Sorry this took so long I finally got over the block like a week ago.