The Dragon of Dreams

Chapter 122: A Grave Misunderstanding

Late Morning - Early Summer : Bahamut Estate

"The maid here, the demihuman and the fenrir, My Lady." The maid looked up at Mother with an oblivious look.

A deafening silence filled the room as everyone stared at the maid in shock.

"Hm? Did I saw something wro-"

*BANG* *WHAM*

Before she could finish talking, Mother appeared behind the maid and threw a kick with her whole body behind it.

Not being able to react at all, she was kicked all the way across the room and through the giant front doors we just walked through.

I sat there in shock at the scene.

The floor Mother was standing on shattered from the kick and the door was blown to bits.

-Welp, guess she's dead.- "Mother, that was a fairly easy misunderstanding so you didn't need to do that.." I wasn't too offended since it was an easy assumption but it seemed like it pushed the wrong button on Mother.

As if she didn't hear me, she looked over towards the door with incredible bloodlust.

Realizing the situation was going to escalate even further, I transformed to my dragon form.

*Crunch* -Well.. I was right about that at least..- The floor shattered under my weight but it didn't matter since the entire entryway floor was destroyed.

I quickly moved in front of Mother and gave her a hug. "You can calm down Mother.. That maid just didn't realize the situation. It was just a misunderstanding.."

Finally calming down a bit, she finally took a deep breath and leaned into me.

"Intruder!" A new unknown voice rang from outside as a small orange 20 meter dragon charged in at me. "Let go of her you beas-"

*CRACK* *BANG*

Not letting go of Mother, I smacked the impudent dragon with my tail and sent him flying back out the door and through the outer walls surrounding the estate.

Even though Father was furious at the situation like Mother, he still winced at the sight of me smacking the daylights out of the dragon.

It was only once he came back to his senses that he realized he needed to intervene.

He released all of his aura and used wind magic to amplify his voice. "THERE IS NO INTRUDER! EVERYONE ASSEMBLE IN THE MAIN HALL, NOW!"

After hugging for a second longer, Mother finally pulled away. "I'm sorry Vasilias.." She looked down at the ground as if disappointed in herself.

"It's fine Mother.” -I think her emotions from this morning piled up and overflowed with the maids misunderstanding..- “You didn't do anything wrong.. I do think we should try to clear that misunderstanding quickly though."

"Hooh.. right.." Mother took a deep breath and collected herself. "You, the maid over there." She pointed at a young looking maid who had fallen to her knees watching the exchange. "Go find Antonia's body and bring her to the medical ward. I hit her pretty hard but that's not enough to kill her.."

Giving a violent nod, the young maid jumped to her feet and ran over to the pile of rubble where the door was, eventually pulling out the maid from earlier.

She was covered in blood with several visible broken bones and a piece of stone lodged in her stomach.

"Is she alive?" I quickly scanned her with my aura and noticed her vitals seemed fine. -Wait.. did Mother say Antonia? Like the head maid Antonia?!-

Noticing my aura, the maid carrying Antonia quickly paled and picked up the pace with shaky steps.

-She talked to Mother like they were close but..- The visual of Antonia getting kicked through the giant door resurfaced in my mind. -There's no way..-

Not too long after that, mostly everyone had finally assembled in the main hall.

There were around 60 people, a mix of maids, butlers, chefs and knights but they were all in their humanoid forms kneeling or bowing in front of us.

Noticing everyone was here, Mother finally stood up. "Sorry for the short notice everyone, I originally wanted to get situated before introducing everyone to you all but it seems like that isn't possible.."

Everyone in the knight order including Alistair immediately broke into a cold sweat seeing Mothers obvious annoyance.

"To start the introductions.. for those of you who are new, my name is Zachari Ragnarok and I hope we can get along well."

I glanced over the maids and noticed they were all acting normal, some even looking at us with excited eyes. -So they knew we were Ragnaroks already..-

"Here with me is my husband, most of you who were here before already know who he is but for those who don't, he is Osto Ragnarok, your lord." She glanced down and Krystallo and I with a motherly smile. "As for the new faces, this here is Krystallo, my adorable daughter and next to her is my son, Vasilias."

Looking over the group of people, almost all of them were eyeing me, all wondering the same thing.

"For those of you wondering if he is a true Ragnarok, he is. Not long after he hatched he happened to touch an ancient artifact which.. changed some things… In other words, he is a special child and I wish you all to treat him with the love and care you gave to me all those years ago." She looked towards an old, assassin-looking, butler with a warm smile.

Some of the people in the group gave me looks of pity while most of the younger ones got caught in a trance. -I'm barely even letting aura touch them.. they can't be that weak right?-

"For the last two introductions, we have Ilios, a fenrir that Vasilias keeps. Please treat him as if he was one of us, he is both smarter and stronger than most of you. Then over here is Maria, a halfie slave that will be serving us along side you all. I don't think I need to mention it but if you have complaints, you are free to leave at any time. Just keep in mind the laws regarding the confidentiality of information said in this estate."

A few maids that were looking at Maria in disgust quickly stiffened and changed their expressions and the old assassin-looking butler spoke up with a smooth voice. "It is our honor to devote our lives to the Ragnaroks, My Lady."

"Good to see you're doing well Galen. I wish to talk to you personally later so come to my office once things settle down."

Galen quickly gave a light bow.

Seeing he understood, Mother continued. "Now that the introductions are out of the way, it's time to set some rules!"

Immediately after that she started listing off tons of standard rules I thought were to be expected, but ended off with an odd one.

"Vasilias will have complete freedom to do as he wishes and no matter what he says, you must follow his orders!" Mother puffed up her chest and wore a proud smile.

Scanning the room, she checked to make sure everyone understood the rules.

"Then, to wrap things up.. Galen, please show Kystallo and Vasilias their rooms, Alistair go ahead and get people to fix the damages here and.." Mother quickly scanned over the maids and picked out one that looked to be a similar age as Maria. "You there, take Maria and show her the way things work here. Other than that, you all can return to your normal duties."

With Mother's dismissal, everyone quickly started returning to their jobs and started cleaning up.

As everyone dispersed, Galen walked up gaving Krystallo and I a warm smile. "Well, Young Lord and Young Miss, shall I show you to your rooms?"