Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 04

He sighed, "If I wanted to add a fourth to the group?"

Jazzia looked at him, "You can handle four?"

He shrugged, "It would be fun to find out."

Jazzia smiled, "Why don't you see about getting one of us to agree first. You can always look to add a fourth later. If we all agree."

They turned and rode away and he scrambled to find his horse to catch up.

Jazzia thought, "Vrinter ask his horse to keep him running around for a few minutes and chastise him for failing to ask properly."

He heard laughter, "He is refusing to go faster than a walk so he can properly scold him first. Especially about asking for a fourth when he had not even got the first 3 to agree yet."

Jazzia sped us up to double time. She looked at the ladies, "He will be a few minutes. His horse is scolding him at the moment."

The ladies laughed. They went up to her home and sat at the dining room table and ordered up food.

Jazzia looked at Vivia, "You might have a few extra children to look after back here."

Vivia looked at her, "How?"

Jazzia sighed, "Melia is with child again. This time, she will not live through labor. She knows as the goddess told her. She is at peace with it. After what she did for me after my mother died, I told her I would work to ensure they were taken care of. I do not know who the father was other than he died a few weeks after conception. I also think Wendia should be the second wife."

Wendia looked at her, "Why?"

Jazzia smiled, "Given the family history on the lifespan of the last couple of champions it might make sense."

She shook her head, "No, you brought the 3 of us together. You are the second. If he wants to bring a fourth in then they should stay with Vivia."

Jazzia looked at them, "He would not ask if he did not already have another in mind. In which case we should at least hear him out."

They heard him stomping up the hall. Jazzia looked at Vivia, "Take him to the falls. He does not ask right, push him in."

She laughed and got up. He walked over and she grabbed his wrist and pulled him toward the falls. Five minutes later and she was back, "Your turn. I dried him off."

They laughed at her and Jazzia walked out there, "You wished to ask me something?"

He sighed, "Yes, I would be extremely grateful if you would consider becoming my wife. Will you marry me?"

She looked at him, "I want to hear about this fourth first."

He sighed, "I saw this new recruit, like you but copper. She is human."

Jazzia thought, "Your thoughts lady?"

She heard her sigh, "She is not a great match. Very impulsive. I am not sure she would live long enough to get into the war."

She looked at him, "I will say yes to your proposal. I will stipulate the following condition. As she is human and so short-lived when she dies you will add another to act as another stay at home mother. IMMEDIATELY. My father had to have that stipulation placed upon him to replace his wives immediately. In this case a second caretaker."

She heard, "Clever move."

He sighed, "I agree to those terms. If we can get her to agree to it. She has not been receptive to the idea of being one of many wives from the way she talks."

Jazzia looked at him. "If we find her agreeable and she turns us down then if you want a fourth it has to be a second caretaker."

He nodded, "Fair."

She went and kissed him and then grabbed his sack and gave a light squeeze, "You ever hurt any of us and this will become my personal jewelry."

He nodded as she massaged his crotch. He nodded more vigorously, "Understood."

She smiled and patted his crotches, "Down boy, you have a few days yet." She pushed him into the water. "Better cool off before I send our third in here and you get yourself into trouble."

He came up sputtering and looked at her, "Should I expect it from her too. You are the second one to push me into this water!"

Jazzia smiled, "I know."

She walked out while he worked his way out of the pool in his heavy armor. She smiled and looked over at them. "I made him make an agreement with me. We will check out this fourth and if we like her and she agrees then we will look to add her. If she turns us down or she dies then he has to find an immediate replacement to act as a second caretaker. One with Vivia all the time."

Vivia smiled, "Nice agreement I like that."

Jazzia looked at Wendia, "He should be out of the water by now. I had him a little worked up and he needed to cool off. I did not bother drying him off."

The ladies chuckled and she went into the falls area. Five minutes later she came out smiling and soaked. She looked at them, "He insisted on having me stand on the Falls side. After I said yes and we hugged and kissed. I sent us both into the water to cool him off."

He walked out and they smiled at him.

Jazzia sighed, "You know who is in charge of this relationship. The ladies!"

He nodded, "Yes my brides I gathered that."

He chuckled. Jazzia smiled, "Did your mount finish scolding you before you got here?"

He rolled his eyes, "That was why he did that!"

They all laughed at him and nodded. He turned red from embarrassment. She pointed to a room, "You will find towels in there and a shower."

He smiled, "I think I will take you up on that. Else something might chafe off."

They laughed at him as he walked away smiling. The Countess walked in and Jazzia smiled at her. "I have been meaning to ask you a question. You are locked into that form and polymorphing is dangerous while pregnant?"

She smiled, "It depends. The dragon form that you do would not harm a child. The necromancer rings would likely kill the unborn and possibly you. As to us we can change and retain our abilities like you but our 'natural' form does not allow for carrying children internally.

Our form locks into place. Amy does not do it this way. She takes a potion to change forms while this is going on. We use draconic magic to lock her form to keep her from returning to her dragon self. Staria helped her with that after we found she was with a child each time.

She looks like the girl in the ring she was carrying. She got a ring of normal polymorph but that is the image she wears now. The necromantic version went to the forge after your father died. The short answer. Your abilities are safe, as is the spell polymorph. It is different for us and dangerous with the rings."

Jazzia nodded. "Thank you for that explanation."

She looked over to Vivia, "Hand it over." She gave her the ring.

She smiled, "This goes back to Traxxa. Your days of enchanting with draconic magic are over."

Vivia nodded, "Unless I become infertile."

Jazzia looked at the Countess, "Have all the souls been released from these?"

She nodded, "We had it when Melia did the mass cleansing after your father's death so the souls have been released."

She thought, "Your thoughts Lady of Dreams?"

She heard her respond, "Back to Traxxa and then to the forge when it is time. Likely many years yet."

Jazzia looked at her, "The Lady of Dreams agrees with me. Back to Traxxa and then eventually to the forge."

They all got up and the Countess held up a hand, "I came for a reason. Advice for those looking to breed with half-dragons."

Jazzia looked at her, "Alright the 3 of us have agreed to marry him. NOW that he has asked us. What do we not know?"

She smiled, "A lot. For starters, he will be larger equipped. Hung is the word the humans call it. They are advised to do nothing but vaginal sex with you. That is why they seek so many wives. The males do. To allow the ladies to have playmates.

Once he releases you will find it difficult if not impossible to get him out of you until he has finished. By that I mean his cock will swell up. They will pulsate and vibrate but they do not go but one direction. In. Once seated until they release. They will go slow at getting it in. They will not pound you as they could injure you.

The scales on it will expand out making quick extraction very painful and cause severe injury. You have to wait for that to pass. He can go 4-6 times a night but you will have a waiting period of several minutes before the scales will retract to safely let him move on to the next one.

Do not do oral on him or manual stimulation unless you are ready to have your hands or mouth cut open from the scales. This is inherent in the dragon male population. While our young are in eggs we fertilize internally before our body expels them to grow. This warning is to be given before any wedding after a couple of early mishaps."

Jazzia looked at her, "How do the female dragons deal with this?"

She smiled, "Silvers spend a lot of time in elven or human form for the pleasure aspects. When we mate with our males our internal muscles help to push them back down after all of the eggs are fertilized. Then he can safely extract."

Jazzia nodded, "Notes to add to my journal!!" The ladies laughed. Jazzia looked at them and they both nodded to her. "We are not deterred. Thank you for the warning."

They looked over and he walked out. They all chuckled as the Countess blushed. He was naked. He did indeed have scales running the length of his cock and it was a good eight inches soft. He looked down, "What is so funny."

Jazzia smiled, "We just got informed of the 'do's and don'ts' with a male half-dragon speech. We sent him to get cooled off three times already in the falls."

The Countess chuckled, "What did he do?"

Jazzia smiled, "Ask him or his horse."

The ladies laughed as they walked out. She thought, "That was an eye-opening conversation."

She heard the laughter from the Countess. They mounted back up and rode out to see Traxxa.

They rode up as Traxxa was facing toward them and smiled, "He could not get that horse to move beyond a walk. My horse told me what was going on. We laughed at him."

Jazzia looked at Traxxa, "Ask him about his trips into the water while you are at it."

The ladies giggled. "We wanted to give you this ring back. NO female should wear one of those. Unless they are infertile as it could kill her or the unborn. Possibly both. Also, there was some human he wanted us to meet. A dragon blooded copper-based."

He nodded, "We got a few more recruits from the human side. The one who wanted to be a dragon rider. She is coming in now. She had done well adjusting to our elven war horses instead. She has a feather fall item but she prefers to fly her way out of issues. She is on a blue team."

Jazzia nodded. She came in and landed off of her horse.

She sighed, "Those blunted lances fucking hurt."

Jazzia smiled, "What kind of dismount do you do?"

She looked at Jazzia, "Who are you?"

Jazzia smiled, "Captain Silvertree of the Shadow Riders. Knight Champion to Corellon Larethian, Dame protector of the elven people. Master Trainer Blade Singer. Also, a dragon-blooded sorceress."

She thought, "Bring my students in. Tell them I want three dismounts from 10 feet up at my location."

His horse giggled in his head. She looked at Jazzia, "You related to the General here?"

Jazzia nodded, "Half-brother. He is family."

She sighed, "Next you will be telling me you are married to multiple women with a male like some of these others."

Jazzia smiled, "I am officially an adult in three days."

She turned to Traxxa, "How many dragons you got in the air?"

He looked at her, "Five or six."

She screamed, "Mount up!! We are under attack!"

She thought, "Send a message to the Duchess's horse. 60 inbound dragons. Close the shield and alert the capital."

Wendia slid off the back and went with Vivia. They took to the air as word spread. She looked at Traxxa, "I told the Duchess to close the shield and alert the capital through her mount."

He nodded, "Saves me from having to do it."

They left the confines of the shielded area as some went to attack the town and slammed into the shielded area just after it closed. She headed for a red that fell to the ground from the impact. She jumped from her horse and thought, "Watch your back and help where you can."

She fell downward. He was a young adult. He tried to take off but his injuries were severe. He took aim to breathe on Jazzia. Jazzia dropped her sword and changed. He breathed on her as she flipped onto his back and recalled her sword and jammed it into his back. He went to roll over to get her off his back.

She left the sword in him and rolled away and hit him with her breath weapon. All while he impaled the sword deeper into himself.

She dimension door above him and dropped back onto his back as his claws came at her. She summoned her sword again and got it into his spine. He dropped down but was still alive and unconscious. She left him like that as she searched for another target. She saw the copper sorceress being pursued by an older adult blue. She cast a wall of force between them and he slammed into it, hard. She caught up with him and her at the same time.

They both landed on his back and Jazzia jammed her sword into him while they both breathed on him. It howled in pain. The dragon impacted the ground and they went flying. She saw the new girl off to the side, further away, and prone.

She jumped in front of her and wrapped her hands around with some energy absorption. As he breathed onto them. She helped her to her feet. Jazzia cast up another wall of force as his claws came in.

She looked at her and she looked banged up, "Use a scroll and teleport out."

She nodded and teleported to a designated rally point. She looked at him, "My sword will burn its way through you before you do any damage to me." He reached around and grabbed her blade and it did nothing to him. She summoned her blade to her.

Jazzia thought, "Karti' Ros, why did it not kill him to grab you?"

Karti'Ros chuckled, "Magic resistance held."

They circled that wall for a second. She hit him with a polar ray to no effect.

She sighed, "That one has something counter magic I bet." Jazzia came around and he got within striking distance and she hit him with a disintegrate right into his neck. That time he screamed in pain and dropped. He was out cold but not quite dead. She pulled the rings from him and he was an orc with a dragon ring. She killed the orc and went back to the red and repeated it. She killed the ogre in that one.

She thought, "They are using those rings, but these are different. Tell the other horses to drive them into the ground and get their jewelry off."

Her horse relayed the message. The attack force was in full retreat after that announcement. There was another on the ground. A black. She yelled out, "Capture! Do not kill him!"

Everyone backed away from him as he was badly wounded.

Her brother landed behind him, "Why are we capturing this one?"

She looked at him, "The glasses did not pick him up but he has one of those rings I bet."

He sighed. They spent time hitting him with mid-power spells in order to knock his ass out. She rushed forward and pulled the ring as someone was getting impatient and had preparing to throw a lightning bolt. She got the ring off and he shrunk down as the lightning bolt fired to where his head would have been. "Tie him up!"

She held his hands to keep him from trying to poison himself. He stuck her with it instead. She simply smiled at him. Traxxa knocked him out, "What now?"

She looked at him, "Great Uncle John or one of his kids. See what they can pull from his mind before we kill him. We need to report this to the King. How many did we lose?"

He looked at Jazzia, "7 shadow riders and 9 horses. We got 3 of their dragons. A fourth fell but got back up and fled."

She nodded, "Check the fall site and see if a body was left behind."

He looked perplexed but went off. She looked at her copper associate, "We needed him alive to question him. You need to have some patience and follow orders! We will extract the information from the orc. We captured three of these rings. I have them."

Traxxa came back, "Dead drow. With these items on him."

He handed them to Jazzia. The copper sorceress who she knew was named Mary sighed, "I almost fried you."

Jazzia shook her head as she summoned her sword, switched back to a human form, and sheathed It. "Our dragons should check for dragon marks."

They found some on these orcs and ogres and dispelled them. Jazzia looked at her, "Have you been checked?"

She sighed and undressed. They found one of each on her and she was shocked.

They found two on the prisoner. She got dressed and looked embarrassed, "How did they get it on me?"

Jazzia looked at her, "They can do it while you sleep. It could have been on your journey here."

Jazzia looked at Traxxa, "She had two as well. All of our assets on the ground should be checked. These new rings are game-changers."

Jazzia sent a message to her horse which did not respond. She went searching and found his body.

Jazzia sighed, "Damn."

She pulled the gear off of him. Mary came up behind her, "That was your horse?"

Jazzia looked at her and nodded, "Yes, only had him a year. Another from the herd must have relayed my message."

She kneeled beside Jazzia, "He saved my life. He literally flew into the mouth of a dragon pursuing me. Then you did it with that blue."

She pulled the crystal to the King, "Your Majesty, I am standing next to Traxxa. It is safe for the cities. We need to come directly to the conference room and you really should have the Countess with my Uncle John with you. As well as the Duchess and Lady Staria. This needs to be a very secure conversation with our prisoner."

The King sighed, "Very well. Go directly to the conference room."

She grabbed the prisoner while Traxxa looked at her, "You brief him. I have men on the field to finish getting taken care of first. Including searching everyone for those damned draconic runes."

She nodded. "Detect magic on everyone's gear. The entire unit. Search for necromancy items. She grabbed her prisoner and teleported into the conference room. Jazzia looked over and saw lady Staria. "We need a shelter up!"

She cast one up as the King came in and saw the prisoner in hand.

Jazzia threw him inside. They all walked inside. "Uncle John pull his brain apart. Everyone needs to strip and be checked for dragon marks again."

The King was puzzled, "What is going on?"

Jazzia sighed, "Your Majesty, they have developed a new necromancer ring. Our glasses do not detect it. They function differently."

Jazzia stripped out of her gear as did the others. They found 2 on lady Staria and 4 on the King.

Jazzia sighed, "We have a new set of problems."

Uncle John got into the orc's mind and he came back looking white. "We could spend hours in his mind. There is some kind of organized cult led by the 'Dragon Lord of Bone.' He has around a hundred followers who are dragons of various ages. The new rings make the wearer a sacrifice to the dragon if the dragon should fall it will rise again fully healed as it kills the wearer instead.

Once the ring is put on the dragon is in control. He can only feel the pain and watch the events unfold. Anything spoke or heard mentally he can hear. Anything spoke in draconic he would not understand. He had no way of communicating with the dragon."

She placed the four rings out. She looked at Lady Staria, "A blue, black, red, and then a black who escaped. Note the ring still has a taint of necromancy but is no longer functional. The ring is destroyed in the process. That is just the ones on dragons. How long to add detect necromancy onto these glasses?"

She looked at Jazzia, "A set could be done in a couple of days. It is an easy addition. Always on, I take it."

Jazzia nodded, "We need to get this out and into the field. Also, we need to do a dragon mark search upon everyone in the kingdom. Horses included. Nothing says this is limited to rings. What if they did a bridle or saddle with it?"