Captured By The Dragon
Episode 61

Patara

Dylan shifted into a dragon right before my eyes. I stumbled back into Anna and she kept me from falling. I had almost forgotten how magnificent he is when he was in his dragon form. His big, beautiful dark wings that matched the color of his hair. He immediately made the room fall back away from him in shock.

They could all see how big and deadly he was. It was written on their faces of how scared they instantly became when that fear wasn’t there before. Even their own team looked on in awe of what was before them.

It was enough of a distraction to keep bullets from flying before he could attack them. And—Dylan was much faster than them. His claws lashed out and took four men out with nothing left behind but their screams. I wanted to close my eyes and pretend I was anywhere else, but I suddenly remembered what he told me before he shifted.

His impatient gaze met mine when he glanced back at me. It was strange—I could see Dylan’s human face in that look when our eyes met. He must have given me that look a hundred times since I met him. I ran forward and climbed up on his back to hold on for my life.

Dylan made a loud screech before he moved forward. He took out anyone that pointed a gun at him and some of the men turned the other way to run. Their fear was evident and wide in their eyes, perhaps that only encouraged Dylan more.

Our team soon got over their own shock of Dylan in his dragon form. Many still looked at him as if they hadn’t seen a shifter actually shift in their life. They pulled out their weapons and helped take out the ones that slipped under Dylan’s hold. Clearly they were prepared to give a bloodbath if that was what it would take.

I looked around the room and tried to be his eyes where he couldn’t see. My heart was loud against my ears as a ringing made me cringe.

“Dylan, look out!” I screamed when I saw a man run straight for him with a long knife in his hand. I knew that wasn’t just any knife—it was a shifter dagger. Their blades were specially made so that shifters couldn’t heal fast enough if they were stabbed. If he hit him in a fatal spot—it might be over.

Dylan turned too late when the man reached him. He plunged the knife deep in his side and made him screech out loud enough to pop my ears. I gasped and tried to reach the wound to stop the b***d, but it was too far from my reach.

Dylan didn’t falter in the slightest as if the pain was nothing. His tail whacked the man over the rail and all they could hear was his screaming all the way down before he went completely silent. How far did that dark hole go?

The hallways were cleared, but it seemed that Dylan could hear more on the way with the way he tilted his head. He led them forward and I gripped onto his neck to keep from sliding off his back. I didn’t dare glance back to see if our team was following. I could hear their steps echoed off the walls behind us.

Dylan broke through the wooden doors at the end of the hall and didn’t stop going until we reached the first cells.

I was… horrified. There were hundreds of cells and I couldn’t tell if each one of them were occupied or just a few. They looked like prison cells. Dark and damp with no lighting. This place must have been once used as a dungeon or something horrible before they made it into this.

No, no—these were much worse than prison cells. This looked like a part of hell that people would beg to get out of. And the smell… it made me want to gag. They clearly tortured these children and didn’t care if they wet themselves or anything else…

My heart broke in my chest and a new rage ignited inside me like never before. My child had been through this, my child had suffered when he should have been held and loved by me. How many more did they steal like him? What did they do to him?

It still didn’t feel real that this was because of my mother. I knew how she had felt about the shifters, but to put her own b***d through this because of who he was? How could she sleep at night?

The cells were blocked by more anti-shifters and their weapons. Although they looked a bit shocked at Dylan’s appearance, they held their guns steadier than the last group did. I swallowed my fear that was starting to out weigh my anger.

Dylan didn’t give them a chance to react. He stuck out with a force that sent all of their weapons flying out from their grasp. While they tried to grab their weapons, Dylan didn’t give them the chance to stand straight again.

Even with his injured side, he didn’t let anything stop him. Suddenly without warning, he shifted back into his human form and caught me in his arms before I hit the ground.

“What just happened?” I gasped. He set me down and punched a man in the throat and threw him over the edge before he could land his axe in Dylan’s shoulder.

“The halls are too small for my wings. I can get our baby faster this way.” He said to me as chaos broke out around us.

He pushed me behin d him and kicked a man in his wrist to send his gun down the black hole before he sent him in there after it. I was glad to see it—they all deserved to fall down that hole and never come back up.

Our team was bigger than I realized. Soon I saw that we out numbered the anti-shifters, but I had a bad feeling that there would be more the further we went in.

“Is he here? Do you feel him?” I asked Dylan and he picked up a shifter knife and stabbed the closest man to him. I had to look away from the b***d that pooled the ground at our feet.

“He’s further down.” Dylan said. He glanced back at me and I almost screamed at him not too—but it was too late. An anti-shifter picked up a fallen gun and shot Dylan right in the shoulder.

Dylan g*****d and stumbled back into me. When he opened his eyes, they were darker than night. The man went to shoot him again, but the gun jammed.

Dylan charged at him and picked him up with one hand by his throat. He slammed him down against the ground and choked the life out of him before he pulled him up and threw him over the railing with the rest.

I hurried up to him and tried to stop the bleeding with my hands, but it was no use.