Drowning in Fire

My queen?

Cerrian looked at me with a disgusted face

I quickly turned away from her and tried to get out of her way, but she had friends and they quickly began to surround me.

"Hey b**** I'm talking to you!" her voice echoed through the market place causing many heads to turn in our direction

They began to get closer to me surrounding me in the circle

I looked for a weak spot to run but there were too many girls surrounding me.

" look at you" she sneered

" you couldn't even hide the bruises covering your body" she continued

"She probably got them from the soldiers she seduces every day" I heard a familiar voice chip in

I looked at Rosie

Her eyes filled with no sympathy, despite some of the bruises that came from our interaction just moments ago.

My arm then felt a sharp mark of heat. I looked down to see blood flowing from my arm

Cerian held a blade in her hand. I looked into her eyes for the first time in a while. Her eyes were filled with hatred and for the first time, I felt a bit of fear. She has pushed me before and struck me whenever she felt like it. But she has never cut me before.

Pure hatred radiated from the body of everyone around me

They truly hated me and wanted me dead

"But why" I found myself whispering holding onto my now bleeding hand

"Our village was flourishing until you arrived here ever since everything has gone to ruin. We cant even marry in our village because you walk around here seducing our men! Once you are gone we will be restored to our former glory"

My eyes drifted throughout the crowd and I could see some of them nodding their heads and whispering in an agreement

More and more people gathered around us anger filling

I made eye contact with a hooded figure with a dark figure. My eyes followed his movements into his cloak where he pulled out a pin I noticed that design!

My mind went back to that night and I felt a painful shiver down my spine

"Intruder" I yelled my voice breaking as I screamed

"Nice try witch but you can't get out of this one" she sneered drawing the knife above her head

I tried to point as the man approached us but it was no use

By the time his presence was felt but everyone else a dagger was already plunged through her chest.

A scream rang through the crowd as hundred of the hooded figures surrounded us

" if you all can just answer our questions no one else will have to be hurt," a venom-filled voice said

The crowd remained silent fear visible in their eyes

How could rebels invade our village with no one noticing

"Where is the dragon?" he asked

No one answered

" has anyone seen a blue dragon," he asked once again his voice quiet but filled with power

My mind went back to the morning and the blur scale I saw in the sky

Another scream rang through the crowd as he plunges his blade into another innocent villager's chest causing another body to fall to the ground.

"Has an-" his question was cut off by a roar coming from the sky an arrow can down from the sky plunging into one of the heads of the hooded men.