Allandra felt a bit amused how he reacted to her pulling him along. "I could get used to this. It was your idea after all, so it would be better if you played along with this" she said with a wide smile and head tilted a bit to the left as she turned around to take a good look of the annoyed dragon. "We need to make this look believable." giggling a bit and then turning again to tug him along as they headed to the shrine.<br/><br/>As they arrived at the opening, a marvelous sight awaited him. It was like magic, everything there so beautiful, well taken care of. The place itself looked like a story from the fairytales being told to the children. In the middle of all that, a shrine that was surrounded by water. Offering a passage in one direction and there stood a priest. Praying along with dragons and humans. Dressed up in full white robe and holding a crescent staff. He spoke of the mother dragon and how she sacrificed herself to the greater good of all the living beings in the realm. Azarias could feel the joy surrounding them as they got closer and magic empowering every one of them, even him - the light that gave life to the realm. Something so miraculous indeed.<br/><br/>"This is the place.." she said and shook her head as Allandra knew when they would be noticed, things would escalate into something very interesting. "This is where I pray to the gods. Ask them to be merciful to you and me, give our lands the power the survive all this chaos that we have endured. This is the core, allowing the people in this realm to recover their lands in much faster rate and give hope to people." she spoke with a rather calm tone in her voice and pride that flowed out of her. Expressions of her turned rather happy as they got there. She felt safe, no matter how evil his presence existed to be. They moved closer slowly and she eyed her surroundings. Speech of the priest was interrupted as one of the dragons noticed what the guardian had brought there from the forest. Now every single of dragon there felt the unwanted presence "What the hell is the meaning of this?!" one of the dragons yelled amongst the crowd. Allandra quickly stepped in front of Azarias as she noticed how quickly two of the dragons came in their direction. Yet staying in their human forms as they came close with a fast pace, expressions revealing their intentions of nothing good towards the black dragon. They knew and were angry at the girl as she of all them knew how inappropriate this was.<br/><br/>Allandra had trouble swallowing in panic as she saw them approach them and quickly once more turned around to look at him "Okay, I think this will be rather troublesome.  Those two..." her speech was interrupted by Dydrass, a green dragon that spent most of his time here praying and taking part in the restoration project. Brown hair and eyes, looking very good for someone in his age. Every feature of him told of battles he saw in his life span, but it didn't seem to wear him down. He was strong in the battle and wise, age taught him many things of the realm and how things should be handled. This subject he would not take lightly and was ready to get rid of the black dragon prince.<br/><br/>"How do you DARE to bring that creature here? Have you lost your mind little girl? Are you blind or can't you smell the reek of darkness that comes out him?! You... no.. We need to get rid of him. He can't be here and whatever he learned about this place, we must make sure it doesn't end up in the hands of other blacks. If they would learn of what we achieved here.. you could only imagine what kind of destruction they could do!!" he yelled at Allandra giving her little time to reply as another dragon interrupted her as she was about to answer. Neldrianos, a golden dragon that wore a full plate armor painted with sacred signs of the old. Everything, from bottom to top spoke of a sacred warrior that held some sort of ancient powers in his grasp. Blonde long hair and blue eyes stared into Azarias as he spoke with a despising tone in his voice "There is no excuse. You've broken the laws what you, your mother and Tyranell have agreed upon. You should be punished for bringing him this close. Now let us do what you seem to be unable to do, young guardian." they took steps closer to both of them and the situation was about to get out of control.<br/><br/>Then all of the sudden Allandra yelled enough loud for everyone there to hear what came out of her mouth "Stop it there right! There is a reason why we are here and why he is being chained!"<br/><br/>Dydrass started to laugh, while eyeing Azarias and looked at the girl "Are you really that simpleminded to believe he would be restrained by such things? Can't you feel it?!" he said and thought Allandra to be somewhat stupid for believing him to be a friendly face. Neldrianos added "Like every black dragon, the darkness flows in this one strong. But his eyes are different. It still doesn't change the fact that he has information of this location and we of all, need to do something about this before it's too late" speaking to the girl, then turning his gaze to the black dragon with a smile on his face. Once again, they both took steps closer to them and the situation felt more hostile between both of the groups.<br/><br/>"You will step down and listen what he has to say or otherwise I will be... unforgiving" and right at that moment, Allandra's hair floated lightly in the air as she gathered power. The girl's body empowered by so much magic, that the air started to spark a bit around her and energy that gathered in her caused sounds of electricity. Both of the men looked at her eyes wide open, expressing their surprise of the one that was supposed to guard them, turning now against them.  If they would execute this black dragon without listening to a word what he had to say, she would not accept the fate of him and would interrupt both of them if needed.<br/><br/>"I want you to listen to him, then we decide what we do. I am the guardian of this sacred forest and you won't do anything before I say so" she spoke with a commanding tone to both of the men. They knew that they would break their oath, but would justify it by saying that the black dragon clouded the girl's mind or did something else to her. It was about to get worse, they were so close to turn dragons and start fighting, until the priest ran in the middle of them and yelled them to stop right now, before things turned ugly. "You cannot do this! Look at yourself! You are turning against each other for nothing. All that she asks is to you both listen to this man. It is a simple request and like she said, then you decide what you will do.. together."<br/><br/>Dydrass tried to speak "But... But... he" and he got interrupted by Allandra "No! Think of Phaelyn, she saved my life and I am grateful for her existence. You know the story and without her, I would not exist here today and nothing of this forest would be like this as it is now. Can't you give him a chance? I know it wasn't thoughtful of bringing him here, but I couldn't leave him injured in the forest alone.." she spoke with a determination that was going to affect both of their decision about this matter.<br/><br/>Both of the men looked at each other. They shook their heads and realized how bad things were about to turn. They apologized to Allandra and agreed to listen to Azarias, then decide what they would do to him.<br/><br/>She turned around facing Azarias and she spoke with much calmer tone "Now it's your turn to tell them. Tell everything you told me and don't hold anything back. Make them see.." she smiled and touched his shoulder to comfort him as she could imagine how bad he felt for getting such a response from them. She moved next to him and listened, while the people there gathered together to listen whatever that black dragon had to say. Close to 50 people now surrounded them,  dragons, children, men and women. All with the expression of wanting to know his story.<br/><br/>After he had spoken, dragons gathered together along with Allandra to discuss this matter so Azarias could not hear what they were talking about. It took some time and finally, they came to conlusion and Neldrianos approached him.<br/><br/>"You are very lucky dragon indeed. Be glad that she speaks of you the way she does.. otherwise, I would be glad to get rid of you. One less trouble for the world and they would thank me for it" he said with an annoyed expression. Soon Allandra came next to Nel and took a good grip on his hand "You don't need to be so cold.. not everyone is like them. I know you mean only good, but.. you could give him a chance to show that he is not like one of them. I feel the darkness in him, but I also.. feel something different from the path of which most of his kind walk. He is not full of the hate that we do not welcome..." she spoke assuring tone in her voice and wanted to change his mind about things. He let out a sigh, loud enough to be heard by everyone and shook his head. "I'm glad we still have you and your warm heart. I know why he thinks of you so highly" he smiled while turning his gaze on Allandra and patting her head. That beautiful smile then appeared on her face as she got more respect out of him.<br/><br/>Then the girl walked to Azarias and said with that certain smile "They will let you go, but you can't stay here. I will come along with you to escort you out of here and when we hear from our Lord, we shall meet him. But not right now. I must see you out of here" she said and smiled once more, giving him a wink of an eye as she had something else in her mind obviously than taking him out of here. She knew a perfect place to take him to. There he would be safe and could get some rest. Also, she could get known with him better this way when there was no one to bother them. They said farewells and even Azarias got some wishes of good luck in the future on his part. "Your story will be heard in the whole realm, trust me. These people are very good at spreading information around" she giggled as she thought of him becoming one like Phaelyn. Very known and reputable in the realm.