"It is not my fault!" She shouted back, then calmed herself "I... The other Riders and I... We were told... We had to obey... It was under eyecontact oders! We cant disobey that without losing our magic!"

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"Then we have a problem don`t we? ... hmh... yes you riders were forbidden to tell and what him?"

Ladeos pointed at the resting silver dragon.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"No..Not him..." She looked at the dragon sadly.

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Ladeos was getting impatient and he pondered, what did they all want with him? Everything seemed to be leading to him, the mages, his mother and then the dragonriders. Ladeos looked into the side of the cave at his treasure, his eyes largened in horror and shock.

"You all are after my treasure aren`t you? Or something in there? I am right aren`t I?"

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"No." She answered strongly "I we were, we could have gotten it in an easier way."

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Ladeos would have wanted to kill the puny rider there and then in his fustration, but he couldn`t figure out anything what would have lead them all to him. They were all after him, but yet he wondered why? There might be different reasons, but knowing his mother it wasn`t his services she mostly wanted.

Ladeos began suddenly checking the magical protections of the back of his cave and the took breath in with a slighering voice, they were all missing. Ladeos roared in rage as he began look trough, why wasn`t everything taken? Why didn`t he notice anything missing? Ladeos looked at the rider.

"Someone has been here and they have taken something... without a doubt... it was my mother, but what was she after??"

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"I admitt I was the one who got rid of the protections. We were going to steal something, be we were to slow. It was gone before we could act...."

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"So you lied!"

Ladeos began with a thundering voice and began transforming into his real form, when he was back he looked at the rider with anger filled eyes and spat toxic out of his mouth to the floor making the ground melt.

"Give me one good reason why not to melt your puny body for lying or what if I killed your prince?! I am tired of people`s games! But at least it`s gone whatever it was and I am not going to be troubled anymore..."

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"There are many things that speak against it!" Rhan cried, watching the ground melt steadily away. It made her feel sick "For example..." her mind wandered aimlessly "For example that I could help you!"

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Ladeos hmped.

"Help me in what? I don`t want the item back unless it threatens me, if the item would be of great power I wouldn`t even care then because it means too much trouble on my account..."

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"You wont know unless you take the chance." The rider said cooly.

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. O r b i s N o n S u f f i c i t .

"And that chance I won`t take, I know that the mages were after the same thing as my mother and al tough magic is comes first to me I see when it is worth trying to get something...."

Ladeos looked around pondering and turned to his cave beginning to re-establish his magic protections, after a while he turned bac to look at the rider.

"I am going to need someone to deliver the mages a message ecspecially to the second in the council. You may go there with your prince here, he might be wounded, but he should be able to fly I presume or do I have to heal him making him a threat to me?"

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"He wont hurt you." She promised with a weak smile "But I'm affraid I have no dealings with the mages. My orders come from else where."

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"What I meant was elf that it is your time to repay me for saving your lives.."

Ladeos said with a cunning smile.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"What do you want!" she snarled suddenly alert that this was dragon she was talking to. Her mind a check of Cayo's state of health. gently she prodded his mind
You alright?
Oh yes, wonderfull...
came the sarcastic answer.
I thought I was dead.
You were nearly..
Ladeos?
Yes, he saved us.
Great. Now we're in debt to a dragon. Well done.
Oh shut up! What was I supposed to do? Let you die?!
Cayo stayed silent.

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"Or well... perhaps it is best that you won`t do that since they wouldn`t believe you, but they would believe me..."

Ladeos said as he inspected the silver dragon, the rider had mentioned something that it was a prince among it`s kin, which made Ladeos realise something. This was the son of the silver that had fought his mother or so he suspected.

"Tell me rider... is his mother powerful by any chance?"

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!