Chapter 30 - The Triplets Of Doom

The triplets held hands together and chanted under the moon. Together they aligned the stars, the moon, and the sun to perform the task which they wanted. They set the heavenly bodies together and turned back the time.

"Wait, you two continue. I have to go and get something," Nayla said and left her sisters and rushed back to Arimelari.

She used a locater spell to track down Alexander. She located him in Princess Silvia's room and went over to him. Without knocking she forced the door open and went inside.

"Nayla," Alexander called out surprised. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

Nayla went to him and embraced him, she pulled Silvia into the hug. She held the two of them and froze them using her magic. She held them close as the time started going back. It reminded back and the events ran back, she witnessed it all until they arrived back in Silvia's room when she and the prince talked when he came to seek his help.

"Stop," he held and the time stopped. "Let time ran normally from here," she said and her sisters stopped the spell.

She let go of Alexander and Silvia and released them from the spell. "What are you doing?" Alexander asked her. "And where is Francis?"

"Francis is fine. He is in his room," she replied.

"He came back. This means that he doesn't hate me. He still loves me?"

"No and no. He is here because he doesn't have a choice. Now let's hurry up before something else goes wrong," she told and rushed out of the room on her feet. She ran to Francis's room at full speed. Alexander and Silvia who were curious about what she was going on about followed her to Francis's room.

They found Francis leaving his room. He avoided making eye contact with the Prince and tried to leave without getting noticed.

Nayla cast a sleeping spell on Francis and made Alexander carry him back into the room.

"Is there a reason that you just attacked my wife with magic?" Alexander asked her.

Nayla ignored him and froze him. He tapped Francis's heart three times and his soul on the form of a butterfly out from him. "Lie down," she instructed Alexander.

Alexander listened to her and did as she said. Nayla chanted a merging spell to merge Alexander and Francis's soul. She used all her stretch drawing every from the elements inside the room from the fire, air, water, and the earth. Francis's soul fought back and was refusing the merge but Nayla was able to drag it into the body of Alexander.

"It's done," she said before falling. Her nose and ears were bleeding from straining herself with the spell.

"What was that? A witch, sh..she is a witch," Silvia said with disbelief.

"I know."

Alexander took Nayla into his arms and left the room after covering Francis up properly. He took her to the room next door which was his and the princess locked the door behind them.

He laid the witch on his bed. And turned to Silvia who was still waiting for an answer from the weird things that she had just witnessed.

"What do you want to know?"

"Everything Alex, from how things got to this point that the dragon prince is taking advice and help from a witch," she said taking a seat by the window.

"She is my friend, she has helped me a lot. I would go ahead and say that she is the reason that Francis hasn't killed me yet. What you saw her do earlier was her way of helping me. The butterfly she placed inside me is Francis's soul. Without it he is simply Francis and not my bane, that is why it is important to keep it out of Francis's body since my heart is destined to his. It is the only place his soul can be kept," he said and explained everything that had happened since he met Nayla.

"So she can help you ask Francis for permission?" she asked him with the hope that their love story still had hope of having a happy ending.

"I hope she can. Now that she has returned and brought Francis back to me. I can't let this opportunity pass me by. I will ask her to help me," he said.

"But how sure are you that she is doing this to help you. She could just be a bad person. Aren't all witches evil?"

"I am sure she is on my side. I have earned her trust and made her my friend and she won't ever leave me. She understood my situation and all I needed was to understand her and we became friends."

"And what exactly did you do to earn her trust?" she asked worried that he might have sold his soul to the dark forces.

" I offered to marry her," he said shocking the life out of the princess.

"You proposed to a witch? Have you lost your mind, Alex?"

"I haven't, all I did was understand the loneliness and pain that she was in. Had she agreed then I would have married her. But she declined, she just wants Francis to be happy, and from what I saw in her eyes. I doubt anyone can love Francis more than she does. Not even me, I wanted to bring her close to the one she loves. As my wife I would have given her permission to get close to Francis," he said surprising Silvia.

"I don't understand. What does she have to do with Francis?"

"When she first introduced herself to me and explained things to me, I was curious about her and wanted to find out if she was telling the truth. I went to the old library underneath the palace that has information about witches and magic. I was able to check the things she told me and when Francis called me today. It made sense to."

"I am still confused. What did you find in the library and how does it prove anything and what made sense. Speak more clearly if you wish forms to understand," she said.

"The prophecy of the Chosen One, it is written that the chosen one will bring to an end to the reign of the dragon kill. And for many years the chosen one has gone after the dragon king and the king evaded death. The chosen one would die and be reborn with the same purpose because as long as the dragon king still lives the chosen one will never fully die. And the chosen one doesn't work alone. For centuries his witches, the triplets of doom always follow him in every birth to help him kill the dragon king. And I am the dragon king," he said. The princess listened attentively to what he said.

She tried her best to understand him and what he was saying but her mind rang with a lot of questions. How and why's filled her head and she couldn't decide where to begin.

Alexander went to his drawer and fetched a big brown book, he opened it to the page he wanted and gave it to her. She read the information in the book and her eyes went wide with shock.

"Th...this says that Francis figured out a way to kill you before he died before. So now he is capable of killing you," she said referring to what she had just read.

"Yes, but we can change destiny. He can't kill me if he loves me. The witch that cursed me was Nayla's sister Zorra. She has a thing for bending rules. She did it to protect me and not to hurt me, the curse made me transform into a dragon only at night which made it hard for Francis to recognize me as the one he was seeking. The fact that she turned me into a dragon was also a lie, I was a dragon way before she showed up. The curse was also to help me and Francis to realize that we were destined to each other from the beginning of time. Our love can set us both free from the road of destroying each other and get the happiness we deserve. They have been helping me from the beginning despite their job to destroy me because Nayla is in love with Francis and wants to see him happy," he said.

Silvia took him into his arms and hugged him. She couldn't believe what he was saying to her. For all this time, people had learned to hate witches when all they were doing was helping them. She felt grateful to Nayla for going out of his way to help Alexander other than supporting. She felt relieved that Alexander had many others on his side that was helping him get the happiness that he deserved.

"Witches are the new awesome right. Now I wish I was a witch," she said and he smiled.

"I love you just the way you are. Don't change even if the witches ever recruit you," he told her.

"I think that you should do something to thank the triplets for the trouble they are going to for you," she said and he nodded in agreement.