Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 145

Ria

We were minutes from landing. I looked around at the kids. Most of them were just chilling out, reading books, watching videos, talking, or playing on handheld video game things. I could never figure those fucker out. Of course, the kids loved it, because when they talked me into playing with them, they knew they’d kick my ass. So, there was that. 

Brand must have felt me watching them because his head snapped up and he looked right at me. He raised an eyebrow at me and I just smiled and nodded, then he smiled and nodded back. I always knew when I was looking and checking on them all, and he was so attuned to not only me, but the other kids as well. I just didn’t want him taking on a huge burden thinking he needed to take care of everyone.

“He’s empathic you know, that’s why he always watches you, and he knows what you’re feeling so much of the time. The same with the others. We’ll have to work with him on shielding, so he’s not bombarded with everyone else’s emotions all the time, or it might start to really be a problem. That’s probably why he was close to your room in the first place when he heard you guys arguing, he was probably pulled there because he felt your distress.” My eyes got huge.

“Oh my fucking god, Dad, how often has he been overwhelmed with all of the bullshit that was going on. Fuck, with the whole thing with the guys and me, the whole situation with the girls, all of that grief. Dear god, how can I help him with that, because I know he’s now technically a man, but he is still my boy, and I’ll be fucking damned if I let him face something like that alone.”

Dad grabbed my hand and squeezed because, yeah, I was losing my shit. The idea of having Brand be empathic in our house was horror novel level of oh fuck to me. “I’ve talked to him some, and he’s done well about developing some of his own ways to block stuff out. That’s another reason he seeks out the younger kids when they’re just out having fun, because that helps him maintain.”

I blew out a breath. “I forget sometimes you have your ability to know what ours or theirs are. That might come in handy, but I wish he’d have come to me. I don’t know if he knew what was going on really, so whatever you did for him, thank you. It actually does make a huge amount of sense with how sensitive and attuned he has always been with his older sisters and me.” 

I leaned my head back against the seat, waiting for us to land, “You know, with just as much as we have to do with teaching the kids about correct dragon information, well fuck, teaching me as well, then we need to find out and teach the kids about their powers. I have a gut feeling that I have some kids like me who have some unusual ones, so that is probably going to be a rather huge undertaking.”

“Well, I have thought about that. We have already talked about you guys relocating. So, I had been tossing around an idea I wanted to pitch to all of you, but then this whole fucking shit happened. What would you think about having a dragon training facility? These dragons could learn about the truth of where we come from and our history, as well as discover their abilities, train with them, hone their skills, and learn to control them if necessary. You have a whole lot of kids who are going to need that. There were apparently kids in the village who needed help with it too and Brand and the older kids took it upon themselves to do that training. I think we should keep that up, but on a bigger scale. Not like some huge boarding school or anything. Just a training facility where dragons, especially kids, can come and get things figured out. Some of those stronger gifts, those are hard to control, and harder to learn to wield correctly, so they could definitely use help with things like that.”

I looked at him wide-eyed, “That is an amazing idea. I have lamented so many times about needing a fucking manual for all of this shit, so in a way that would be doing that for a lot of dragons. Plus, should we not be able to completely wipe out the crazy cult people, if there is any fighting left to ever do, they would be the ones faced with all of that, so that would be a very big necessity. We’ll have to hash out some definite plans for that.” 

“Well then, that sounds like a plan. First, we take care of these fuckers, because they need to be taken care of. They have already attacked 2 families at least, who knows what the fuck else they have been doing, and they are now threatening my family. So, yeah, heads need to roll.”

I laughed at my dad’s vicious streak, “Well, we are working on that. So many gaps need to be closed and questions answered. Then we need to hunt down those who are the immediate threats and eliminate them. Then, we can begin to make decisions about the long term as far as where to settle. How to teach and help the kids. Then also, now this amazing idea of how to carry that forward with all of them. I have a feeling that this is going to be more far reaching that we can eliminate at one go. We might have to clean up for a while. So, I will definitely be making sure the kids are equipped to deal with that.”

David nodded “Well, hang on because we are about to land. The buses are supposed to be waiting for us, then we’ll get them loaded up, and figure out where we’re going first.” 

I nodded, “I thought in keeping with the whole family vacation and adventure vibe we are trying to maintain, it might be good to choose 2 or 3 places, then let the kids vote on which one they want to go to 1st. Like Italy or Greece, or even more like Ireland or England. So, we can throw some of that out there as far as first destinations.”

Right then Cinder sat next to me, leaned over, kissed my cheek, and said, “That sounds like an amazing idea love, like your idea too David, so I think we should definitely start trying to write down ideas about all of that.”

We all nodded as the plane descended.