The Dragon's mate

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Red-tinted eyes stared at the young human before them, a smirk was wanting to appear on the slender face. The human had a warrior’s spirit, he can smell it and see it hiding in the plum eyes. He seen it in action that night he had taken the human back to his home. He may act docile now, but he will turn into a beast when back into a wall.

This human will make a good protector for his children.

“ Like I said, we will be mated at the end of the month. Then you will take on the duties of the submissive mate. You take care of my home, prepare for when important guests visit and care for my children.” Yuan walked over to a large wine-red leather chair and calmly took a seat. His proud head held high and his ruby eyes fixed on the new ‘mother’ of his seven hatchlings.

“Listen here.” Cole pointed a newly cleaned finger at the lord, a fist on his hip. “Just because I look like a woman doesn’t mean I can do what women can do! I.E. GIVE BIRTH TO YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!”

The golden scaled man wiggled a finger in a ear, wondering if a ear drum just burst. The child sure do have some powerful lungs. His youngest have a set to match as well. Which reminds him, he should wear plugs in his elfin ears should these two try to out scream each other.

“Done? I know. That’s why I picked a male as my second mate. I already have seven children by my first but I didn’t want an overambitious female killing my hatchlings so her own children could take their place as First Nest.” The long white nails lightly traced along the rich rowan wood arm rest of the chair.

“If you have already a mate, then why am I-”

“She was killed defending my eggs a few months before they had hatch.” His eyes closed as the heartbreak of that day filled his body. Bao Yu was prefect. The meek jade dragon was his anchor, his center in this world of chaos. And she was strong till the end.

No-one can replace her as his true mate. This human was bought here to take care of his home and children and so the idiots of the court would let him be about finding a replacement for his Bao Yu.

Nothing else.

“Oh.” Cole lowered his pointing finger and lowered his eyes. “I’m sorry for your loss then.”

Yuan just sighed and rubbed his brow. “Now that’s cleared up.” He snapped his fingers and a tall and robust dark-skinned woman in a short dark green cheongsam that showed off her strong powerful legs walked in from the stone doors. Her dark face glimmered red and copper on her cheeks under her orange eyes. Cole paled and whined at the fact that this woman was not just bigger then him but could snap his bony frame like a twig should she want.

He preyed that she should never want to.

A lowly yellow-skinned toad of man scampered in after her with a portable writing desk hanging from his slumped shoulders. He hissed at Cole as his almost cleared green eyes flamed hate at him. He just sneered back. Ras-nahs toddlers were a bigger threat then this toad was.

“This is Hua. She will be your second in command, so to speak.” The powerful woman bowed her head, which threw the human off guard. Six years and the only sign of respect that was given to him was a nod from a much bigger human when Cole broke a female Ras-nah’s arm when she tried scalped the older but now dead male.

And that was about five years ago.

“She will also help you planned the marriage ceremony. I will be far too busy with my own duties.” The dark-haired lord gave a wave of his hand as a sign that he was done with this visit.

The toad man and Hua bowed at the waist but Cole waited as the news of his new fate settled in his mind. Then he bowed his head and left the room with his head lowered and his new, as strange as it sounded, servants following him. Leaving the dragon lord of the east, to softly shed tears at the memory of his departed mate.

No-one shall replace his Bao Yu but their children needed a strong care-taker and this human will do.

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His head hurt. His eyes were strained to point that one was twitching and his ears were wanting to shut down. A week has past and already, he had went through the horrors of flower-arrangement and whetever should they go with gold plates or gold trimmed china plates. How the hell did normal people go this kind of stuff and still remain sane in the end?

At least the kind-smiling cheetah demon stayed at his side and placed a cup of the honey-rich tasting liquid in his hand when he felt an powerful headache coming. At least he made a friend in this world above the sewers, cause frankly he needed someone on his side beside Amazon Queen and her pet toad man.

“Come Little sir.” Alma crooned as he led the dead tired man down the halls to his bedroom. “Time for rest wary bones and minds. Tomorrow, Little sir will meet the little babies and then have a meeting with the dress-maker.” Cole was already half asleep before they were even reached the halfway point to the yellow-white room.

He whined like a child that just wanted to go to bed as he feet dragged. The twin spites was waiting for them at the door and immediately went to work to removing the golden jewelry and silk clothing as Alma went into the large washing room and ready an jasmine-perfumed hot bath.

The ribbons and little jeweled pins were removed as the braid was brushed out. Then the human was led into the washing room and into the large porcelain tub. He hissed but quickly sink to his nose in the hot water.

A hot bath like this is a gift of GOD! With Alma’s skilled but gentle fingers massage his head and scarred back, Cole was in Heaven and never wanted to leave. EVER!

Nothing existed outside this tub. Not thunder-thighs and her little toady! Not the elusive dragon lord that just placed a world on his shoulders. Or the idea of becoming a mate and ’mother’ to seven little draclings. Here was his sanctuary.

Alma crooned the human out of the tub and toweled him off with white cotton towels and the spite twins dressed him in soft sleepwear and braided his wet hair loosely. Then he was taken to lay in the bed. The spotted man pulled transparent yellow drapes to enclosed him from the world outside his bed.

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He woke and panic flowed through his body. He breathed heavily through his nose as he went to his feet and crouched low behind a rusty pipe. His masters were coming home, the stank of their hunt was fresh on them. One of them, a big tree of a monster stopped in front of where the young human of twenty-one sat hiding. He gave a sniffed in the air and snarled as he stomped forward.

Cole quickly tried to move but the meaty hand grabbed him by the throat and pulled him over the big pipe, cutting his skin on the poking screws as his feet and legs kicked in the air and his cracked nails clawed at the vile thing.

He cursed and screamed in the Rah-nas’ harsh and grunting language before a fist collided into his jaw and he was thrown onto the rough slimy ground. Legs and arms were pinned down as the creature pushed back the cloth that guarded the human’s back and front side and slammed his thick and bumpy penis through the ripped ring of muscle.

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A scream rang out the living quarters of the large estate of the Dragon lord of the east. Causing Yuan to jumped to his feet as he pulled out of sleep. The screaming continue as he ran down the marble-floored hallway. Servants puzzled and still sluggish with sleep knew enough to quickly get out of the way of their lord.

The bedroom doors of his future mate were already thrown open as the demon that was placed in charge of the well-being of the human held the crying and screaming human to his chest as human nails clawed and dug into his skin. The spites that were the demon’s assistants were trying get the frighten human to calm down by sing and comforting touches.

Red-tinted eyes stared in mild horror before he ordered for all to back away from the human, that touch was doing more then good. He had forgotten that Ras-nahs weren’t not that gentle to their captives. And this was no doubt six years of pure horror showing through.

Cole screamed in the harsh language of the sewers as his voice turned horsed and his body shake with dry sobs. When there wasn’t enough energy in those hands to cause much harm, Yuan gently sat on the soft bed and pulled the human onto his lap. His silken sleep pants were gripped hard as he ran fingers through the plum-dark hair, cooing soft words as he did for his own children when they had the worst of nightmares.

Soon, the frighten cried himself to sleep again and Alma had taken over, curling up against the human and purred a lullaby as his fingers smoothed down his hair.

“For now on, you will sleep with him till he is healed of his nightmares.” The golden lord ordered before leaving the room, closing the wooden close behind him.

He may be a warrior but he isn’t without damage. He thought as he walked back to his own quarters. The little human will need a tender hand for a long while before the pain that the Ras-nahs had given him could disappeared fully. But he wasn’t the tender hand that the child needed. Hells, he wasn’t yet over the death of his own mate. How can he be so tender when he just was as damage.

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(a/n time) Thanks for the reviews. I was only expecting two reviews when I posted this morning with chapter one and was stunned with all this great responses. For someone that wanted know if Cole was fully human or not. At the moment, I want to say that he is but I tend to fully develop my chars as the story goes on. so right now let's just say he is and for his age, he is twenty six when Yuan recuse him from the evil Ras-nahs.