Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

I had just neared the end of my acceptance speech and they were going to place the crown on my head when the gym

doors disintegrated. The music stopped and the spotlight showed where the doors once stood. Three large ravens flew

through the opening and began circling overhead. Miss Alman screamed and then mumbled, “Prophet!, thing of evil! –

prophet still, if bird or devil! Quoth the raven, never-more,” as she began to sob loudly and uncontrollably.

Draven lept from the stage. “Where do you think you are going?”

He says over his shoulder, “I know what you and your girls did. Now you will atone for it all.” Just what the hell does he

mean by that? No one knows what we did before getting dressed for prom. The only one that does is Tim and he’s likely

dead. The ravens began diving down at me, Heidi, and Lenore. They forced me from the stage and to a fountain in the

center of the dancefloor. What is going on?

**Draven**

I left Jessica and approached the exit. I stopped when I saw motion in the shadows. Out of the darkness, Avery emerged

with the Trio and Tim flanking her. The spotlight hit her and made her glow like an angel. Her hair fanned out and

billowed in an imaginary breeze. Her dress sparkled like an endless sky. She looked like The Goddess herself.

“Bow!” Avery bellowed in a mix of her and Regina’s dominant voice.

Lenore screamed, “No! You’re dead! Why aren’t you dead?” she fought against Avery’s command but only succeeded in

falling flat on her face. “You will pay for that,” she yelled furiously.

the Ravens shifted. Donn snapped his fingers and their coins

before she turned to address the crowd. “You

draw your last breath.” Avery pushed Regina forward

a glimpse of her before she waved her

laughed. “Everyone meet Draven from Blackbriar.” Cassius pulled the two Dragon Blades from

us find these and led us to the women who used them to try and

Cassius.”

you just stay fucking dead?”

to us anyways. It is her word versus ours,” Lenore

“It isn’t just Avery’s word against yours. It is

glares at Tim, “You are her pathetic friend that we took from the mall. Your dragon is

can’t wait for what

you know them. It is true that the meak shall inherit

because the Goddess designed it that way. Tim laughs as he holds up Avery’s left hand.

beams of colored light in all directions. Everyone gasps

to

the full experience. You

else. Happy reading!

hand. He typed a few words

to their knees when they saw the image of the King Of Kings

James Balans, King of Talos and King Of Kings, echoed throughout the

act on my behest. Talos

screen and Tim pocketed

to distract me so that they

abandoned asylum. They cut me with a poisoned Dragon Blade

could kill her. I died, but Avery

means that