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I had never known I had such strong protective traits until I met them.
“I’ve been cursed with my beastly forms as Akem’s slave for nine centuries,” I said.
“Where’s thisAkem?” Blaze snarled, looking around to seek him, as did the other enraged princes, who drew their swords.
“We’ll finish him,” Iokul said with steel and ice in his voice. “No one enslaves you.”
“The elemental entity was gone before you arrived. The Wickedest Witch in the universe trapped him,” I said with a sigh.Must they always interrupt me?They seemed to have a habit of disrupting each other.
“Lucky he got away,” Rai said, pulling his sensual lips back in a half snarl.
“You all got lucky,” I said matter-of-factly. “If he were still around, your ship wouldn’t have landed. It would have crashed. And none of your advanced weaponry would have worked. Akem didn’t just absorb spaceships’ energy. He fed on all aliens. We were all his prey when he was here. He owned this planet.”
I’d thought I’d have all the freedom by sending the elemental away, only to find that anyone with a big gun could come hunt me now.
“It doesn’t matter that he’s gone,” I said sadly. “I didn’t gain my freedom. I’m still trapped here and will forever be shackled until my curse is lifted. My dragon is caged. I have an hour every day in my Fae form. The rest of the day I have to stay in my mutant Fury forms. That’s about it.”
“Then let’s get rid of this curse of yours,” Rai said.
Blaze gave his brother an annoyed look, as if blaming him for stealing his line.
“How can we remove the nasty curse, Daisy?” Blaze asked softly, my name sounding like a caress from his lips.
I shivered in pleasure. And I was grateful to them all that my hideous form didn’t make them cringe. They still wanted to help me.
“I’ll walk over a sea of burning coals for you,” Blaze continued.
“Really?” Rai sneered. He was usually the gentlest and level-headed. “You’re a fire dragon. Fire won’t touch you. You do know how to pick the easiest task.”
“It’s a figure of speech!” Blaze said.
“The first words coming out always speak the volume,” Iokul said.
Blaze glared at his two half-brothers with dark suspicion in his molten-gold eyes, as if he believed the two were joining forces to take him out.
If I let their jealousy and possessiveness keep getting the better of them, we’d never get anything done. “No more such banter,” I said. “Whoever stays petty and catty will be out of my favor.”
All three of them quieted immediately.
“The reason I can’t choose any one of you is that I’ll need a kiss from all three true loves to lift the curse,” I said.
Their jaws all dropped. Their eyes darkened.
I sighed. I knew it.
Love was difficult. True love? It was like myth. Who knew if it even existed.
However, the princes’ dismayed look disheartened me to no measure.
Was I deemed to be doomed?
Nine centuries of misery and dim hope. And then it came to this. I wanted to bury my face in my hands and weep a little, but I couldn’t do that in my Fury forms. All I had were fangs and claws and scales.
I composed myself.
“The term of true love is probably a metaphor,” I said, adding a bit steel to my voice, “or a children’s bedtime story. The point is three is the required number. So, you see, I can’t choose.”
The three brothers traded a look.
