The History Of Zato

Story by Zato on SoFurry

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#6 of The History Of Zato


(Zato copywrite me, blah blah blah)

The sun slowly rose up into the early morning sky and its rays slowly fell upon the sleeping form of Zato, still balled up in the nest. He let out a weak growl as he felt the suns rays fall upon him and he slowly stood and let out a soft yawn, before moving his head to look under him, and smiling to the sight. There, probably less then a foot off the nests bottom was his swollen stomach. And he knew exactly who was in there. When he had first thought about this, he was actually scared of how uncomfortable it might be, but he enjoyed this feeling. It was...pleasant, to say the least.

Smiling still to himself, he was suddenly hit with the realization that his parents were not in the nest, nor anywhere in the cave. He shook his head and looked back into the nest, there, huddled where he was, were the hatchlings. All seeming to want the warmth he had made there with his body. The sight caused him to let out a soft chuckle and move back over to them, before slowly curling around them and holding his wing down over them. The action causing them to all pip happily up at him as they began to nuzzle against his belly.

"Heh...wonder if you six still want to kill me."

They all looked up to him and gave a cute little tilt of their head, causing him to laugh to himself. His laugh didn't last long though, as they began to let out quiet whimpers and bite against his belly.

"Didn't mother feed you before she left?"

He sighed and gave a shake of his head.

"Hate having breasts...."

He sighed once again and slowly grew a pair of breast, roughly normal sized for his size, before growing two more pairs, each new pair getting a bit smaller, before he rolled onto his sized and moved his left front arm out of the way. And the second he did, all of the hatchlings latched onto his nipple and quickly began to feed, getting an eep from him before a deep blush.

"Heh...now I know why mother feed me so much as a hatchling."

He watched them as they fed and he couldn't help but smile. His brothers and sisters were almost unbearably cute. All looked alike too, almost no differences between them. As he looked, two of them began to fidget and move, and for some reason he heard a low, loving coo emit from his throat, which seemed to calm all of them. So, he just continued to coo and smile to himself. While he thought to himself.

"Maybe I should have been a dragoness."

He almost let out a laugh, before he heard footfall at the caves entrance and look. Which, as he did, he wished he hadn't. He blushed deeply as his parents looked to him and his mother giggled at the sight and hit her mate with her elbow playfully.

"Told you."

Her mate grumbled as he handed over a buck from a couple he was carrying and held it to her, who quickly took it and added to her own three..

"Yes, you did. Didn't think he would feed them."

She stuck out her tongue and moved over to him before placing the buck she had won at his side and rubbed over his head while setting down her other two for him. As she did, he just took one into his maw and swallowed it down hole, just like a snake would.

"Or...you could just eat one like that and be happy for about two weeks."

She giggled before moving over to her mate and dragging him off to their own separate part of the cave while Zato looked down to his brothers and sisters, seeing they were all done feeding and knowing they wanted to be burped. So gently, he put a claw to one of their backs and began to rub gently until he burped, before moving onto another. As he did, he slowly made his breasts dissappear, hating being a male with breasts beyond belief.

As he continued to burp them, he couldn't help but chuckle as each moved closer to his stomach and promptly passed out against him, in the end forming a ball of hatchlings causing his chuckle to continue. His eyes were fixated upon his siblings while he slowly began to drift into deep thought, not even realizing his parents were now sitting across the cave watching him as his claw gently ran absent mindedly ran over their kids.

He would have stayed like this for the better part of an hour, if the sound of a couple of dragons landing outside of the cave didn't jar him into reality. He gave a quick shake of his head before looking to the mouth of the cave before his eye shot open, standing at the caves entrance was six almost painfully golden scaled dragons dawned with highly decorative armor and weapons. It hurt his eye just looking at them with the morning sun washing over their scales.

"Ryunada and Kiznayta Cleear, I presume?"

Zato watched as his parents stood up and walked over to them, bowing before the gold dragon in the middle.

"Yes, it is us"

They both said in unison and just as they did, he seen each of the six look up him in the nest. The look they gave him caused a shiver to run up his spine before he stood up quickly and let a deep growl, barring his teeth, and glaring at each of them. He didn't know why, but he knew these dragons were about to do something....stupid. And the thought almost made a grin run across his maw.

"I see your...son doesn't seem to like us....." The lead dragon paused before slowly moving closer to Zato, causing him to stand his ground and growl deeper and louder.

"Zato, stop! This is the royal guard!"

He heard his mother say while keeping his gaze locked on the lead dragon.

"Zato, is it? Your presence is strange...its heavy....ever since I looked upon you I've felt as though a mountain was placed upon my back. And for some reason this reminds me of...."

Just then, Zato seen realization strike the leader of the group like a three hundred pound war hammer to the back of the head.

"Demon Dragon!"

As the leader said this, each of the six drew up onto their rear legs and drew their weapons, while Zato was about to lunge himself at the leader, but just as he moved to jumped he remembered about his current state, which caused him to let out a deep sigh and lower down onto the ground. Seems they did do something stupid, but Zato did something far more so.

"Sir, he isn't fighting...."

He heard one of them say as their leader walked closer and promptly forced Zato onto his side, though he put up no fight. His eye shut as he felt a claw run over his swollen stomach before he heard laughter.

"Seems he's heavy...well then, lets take him...we'll stick with calling him, him, to the king. He'll decide what to do with this one."

"No, Arthur. You can't, he's our son. You can't just take him from us! He's done nothing wrong!"

"Kiznayta, Im sorry, but I can't help it. It is law to turn in a demon dragon, should one ever be found. I should take you both in for not doing it. Now Zato..."

Arthur said while moving away from him and looking down into the demon dragons eye.

"You can come easily, or painfully."

Zato let out a weak growl and slowly stood up and walked beside the leader, as he did the group put away their weapons and went back down onto all fours before all of them walked out of the cave, save for Arthur who turned to face Kizna and Ryu with his group and Zato out of earshot.

"Please forgive me sister, you know I'd rather not tear him from you two. We'll bring you his eggs after he has laid them, Im sure the king will not kill him while he is heavy."

Kizna slowly raised her head, her eyes already reddened from the tears she was shedding, as well as her mate.

"Arthur, he has been back with us less then a year....and here we are losing him again...."

Arthur let out a long sigh and slowly turned away from his sister.

"Kiz, Im sorry. It's our duty."

He let out another sigh and shook his head.

"We were sent here for another reason as well. The king, our father, wishes you a happy anniversary and wishes for you to join in at the party later this evening, as well as Ryu."

With that he took off, followed quickly by his other five group members and Zato, who flew in the middle of them. Everyone flying silently in the quiet morning sky until the leader looked back at Zato, who was flying with his eye closed.

"I see you do take after your mother."

Zato opened his eye and looked to the leader with a confused chuckle.

"She loves the feeling of flight, the wind washing over her form. She regularly flies with her eyes closed, just gliding with the feel of the wind over her body. See you do the same."

"I do...but also I think about what you all will do with my eggs."

All of them laughed at that before the leader slowed his flight and flew next to Zato.

"We are not the humans, we will not harm them. Once they are laid, we will take them back to your father and mother, who will watch over them. We aren't even going to touch you until they are laid. You maybe a demon dragon, but you seem to be control. You have not attacked us, which is surprising to say the least."

Zato shook his head and gave a weak smile, least he now knew his mates would be fine.

After their short conversation, the flight became quiet once again. However, Arthur was looking to Zato, studying him. Here was a Demon Dragon, the rumored end of peace and tranquility, yet he was listening to them and actually surprised attacking them. Hell, he was even egg heavy! Arthur knew then that this Zato was a herm, but kept the form of a male. He was probably changed to herm by some other means and not born as one. His mind continued to ponder over this until a picture of his sister and her mate crying now, which he quickly shook his head to and growl silently to himself.

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Kizna and Ryu stayed huddled together in the nest, crying over the lost of their son once again, and hoping beyond all belief that he would somehow return the to them.

"Kizna...your father wouldn't kill him...he can't even if he wanted to."

"Ryu, do you not know the way they treat Demon Dragons in the kingdom! It is taught to everyone in the kingdom on how to do so! They will kill him and then burn his body, do you not remember what he said himself?! If he is to die while in his death coma, he will really die."

With that, he fell silent and sighed. They might actually lose their son soon. Then a thought struck him, which caused a smile to cross over his maw.

"Love, we are going to the party tonight. Get ready."

She gave her mate a shocked and confused look before looking deep into his eyes, she knew he had something planned, so she quickly ran to her room to prep her scales and get into her royal clothes, just as he did as well. Their son just might be saved.

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Zato was awestruck with the sight below him as he and the six flew over the kingdom, it was huge! Far down below he scanned, not believing half of what he saw. The kingdom looked as if it was made out of crystals. Houses, walkways, windows, hell some of the dragons looked as if they were crystal!

He kept scanning and once again was shocked, the kingdom was built alongside the forests, valleys, and mountains. No trees knocked down to make room, no valleys filled for houses to stand on, no mountains shaped to ones will for their dream house. Houses were either built around the tress, or in them. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, and all the words to describe it didn't fit what he was seeing.

Though as he looked, he began strange similarities of the human kingdoms as well. The houses were built just like theirs, although much larger to allow the dragons of all sizes and shapes to fit in easily. A lot of the dragons also wore clothes, which he found odd. Dragons didn't need to wear clothes, so why did they?

His mind continued to think and comprehend what he was seeing until a tap to his maw from Arthur brought him back to reality and looked forward. Without a word, Arthur pointed to a large tower in the middle of a equally large castle that seemed to be built out of pure white marble, with golden trimmings and designs etched into it. Which once again hurt his eye, how could the dragons of the kingdom see?

"We are heading there. The king most likely knows that we are coming already, so best be prepared, Zato."

A sigh left Zatos maw as he continued his flight along with the others until they each landed on a ledge on the side of the tower before the six moved around Zato, blocking him from all sides, before moving forward. He had a feeling they'd do this, so he just shrugged it off and followed them while looking around.

Surprisingly enough, the inside of the tower was rather empty. Golden vases or drapes was all he really seen, other then a guard here or there clad in armor that would cost most human kings their entire kingdom to forge.

He sighed once again as they walked in front of a large, oaken door that was stained black. Almost as black as his scales, which he found to be strange compared to the bright kingdom around them. Though, he did not pay this much mind as Arthur pushed against the door and it slide open effortlessly before each of the walked into the throne room, as Zato guessed.

Even this room was empty, thought Zato. Nothing was in here other then the throne, which currently stood empty, and made purely of gold. Though the six golden dragons didn't seem effected as they all moved about ten feet from the throne, before moving into a line behind Zato and bowing their heads, and Zato did as well. He may be a prisoner, to some degree, but he still knew respect and when to show it.

"A Demon Dragon bowing his head and not bound with magic? Well, this is something I thought I'd never live to see, though it being who knows how long since the last the last Demon Dragon, I didn't think I'd live to see another. And one of the my own blood no less!"

He heard someone with a deep, powerful, yet surprisingly...soothing tone say off to his side. But his gaze stayed on the marble floor below him as he heard talons tapping on the marble and drawing closer and closer to him, while he heard the six guards back away.

"Hmm...no shock finding out you are related to me? That your mother is a princess and Athur a prince?"

Zatos gaze still locked onto the floor as a claw was placed under his maw and slowly lifted his head up to look into the deep blue eyes of the king. Which caused Zato to once again become awe struck. The king was pure white scaled, no different colored scales on his entire body. His talons and horns black just like Zatos scales, and his eyes, shockingly bright blue, but shown with a deeper blue for some odd reason as they gazed upon Zato. And the kings size made Zato look as if he was still just a teen dragon, he was huge!

"You may speak, Demon Dragon."

"Sir...it is a shock to find out I am...in some small degree....royalty. However, it does not matter since I will soon be dead after I lay my eggs."

The king tilted his head to this, and upon seeing this, Zato sighed and rolled onto his side.

"Place you claw upon my stomach if you do not believe..."

The king did so, not believing a male was pregnant. But as he placed his clawed paw onto his stomach, he felt the heat of life within his stomach as well as the three eggs.

"Why...I don't believe it....a male is egg heavy."

"Herm...sir..."

Zato slowly stood back up before lowering down onto his stomach and letting out a pained sigh as the king looked to the six golden dragons and laughed.

"You five, leave. Arthur, stay."

As he said this, the six instantly bowed lower and quickly left the room as Arthur moved forward and gave his father a gentle nuzzle, which the king quickly returned it.

"My wishes reach your sister?"

"Yes father, she knows that you wish for her to come to the party tonight. However, with the current lose of her son, I am unsure if she will come."

"You an uncle, and me a grandfather to a demon dragon. Who'd believe it."

He said matter of factly while turning his gaze back unto Zato, who was still just laying there with his gaze locked forward.

"You are so sure you are going to die, yet here you are, unphased by it. No tears, no cries for mercy, nothing. And here I am, king, and yet you do not attack nor bare your fangs."

The kings voice directed to him caused Zato to slowly turn his head and look into the kings eyes, while slowly opening his other, and as he did tears began to run from his right eye and onto the marble. His neon blue left eye with no tears, while his neon green right eye flowed with tears.

"Here I am...egg heavy with my own mates...turning them into dragons like me...when they come into this world, they will not have me to love nor raise them and watch over them. I was born a Demon dragon, yet I have not lived like one. I continue through life fighting the demon inside of me, and only the human king that stole me from my family could release him, I wished to kill the human king, but I knew I could not. Cause then I would be giving into my demon. Of course I weep, cause in the end, I lose the fight I have been fighting my entire life. I have been fighting for a life of my own, not one given to me due to a spell from the humans."

He paused for a moment and sighed heavily, feeling his heart once again ripping apart.

"I am an outcast from my own kind....I am nothing more then something to be killed....and nothing more then a tool to the humans....who know what the other races think of me...."

He slowly turned and bowed to the king, before turning and walking out of the throne room with Arthur about to give chase before a claw from the king was placed upon his shoulder, stopping him.

"He will not run...I know where he is hiding, if he certainly of my blood. Son, I wish to speak with him by myself."

"But father! What would the kingdom think if they see you talking to a Demon Dragon? They all know what he is from when he flew over the kingdom!"

"Son, I think he is the one who will break this curse and finally ensure peace for us."

Arthur feel silent as his father slowly left the throne room after Zato, though at a walk, knowing full well that he would not run from this.

"Father...I hope you are right...."

Arthur muttered to himself while leaving the throne room as well, before turning and heading after his group, wishing nothing more then to sleep after todays weird events.

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Zato stood on top of the tower, looking down upon the kingdom that his kind had made and still getting awe struck from time to time, however this times were short lived since a flying dragon would stop from time to time and let out a hiss before jetting off to the bottom of the tower, most likely to tell the guards. But time after time, he never heard the flap of wings or heard a guards warning. He didn't know why, truly he didn't care. Only thing on his mind other then the sights of the kingdom was his mates. Pink, Ruby, Veon. He'd be dead long before they hatched and they'd most likely burn his corpse once he was in his death coma.

"Could always just just jump off this tower and take them as well...no...they deserve to live a happy life...hopefully they kingdom will like them more then me."

He laughed at his own statement and shook his head.

"Course they will...they wont be Demon Dragons."

He sighed once again and laid a claw on his belly, rubbing and letting out a low coo. Just as he did, he heard someone land behind him and looked around himself, a tad bit shocked to see the king standing behind him, resting on his haunches.

Both just looked to each other before Zato turned his gaze back over the kingdom while he listened to the king draw closer and sit beside him, both still silent as a strong wind washed over them. And as if they had both timed it, they opened their wings and closed their eyes as the wind danced over their forms. And as they did, a few dragons that were flying past stopped and watched the sight, gasps coming from one of them before the dove out of sight as the wind died and Zato and the king opened their eyes.

"Sir...truly...my eggs will be safe...right?"

The king smiled to this and chuckled to himself.

"Don't know."

Zato growled deeply to that and glared to the king, who only chuckled.

"Can you truly keep them safe?"

Zato blinked to that and completely missed what the king meant by it.

"Of course not! Im going to be dead in what, two weeks?! How can you..."

He was cut off as the king put a claw to his lips and smiled.

"You are not going to die, grandson. I truly believe you to be a far different Demon Dragon then your ancestors. And to prove it to the kingdom tonight, at the party in honor of your mother, I am going to announce taking you in as one of my own personal guard. Which, in the kingdom, is an extremely high honor."

Zato didn't know how to respond to this as he felt his tongue knot up and his maw just hang open, causing the king to laugh a great deal.

"Could always take you in as a....what do the humans call it...ah! Jester!"

He heard the king laugh even more as he growled softly, feeling a blush come to his cheeks.

"But sir...how can you be so sure I will not betray your trust somehow...how do you know my demon wont get out and I kill you?"

"Because just looking into your eyes, Zato, I could tell that your demon is well....lets just say, tired."

He heard the king laugh even more before he flew off the tower and back to his throne room, while Zato growled to himself and held his head, confused beyond belief right now.

"I went from going to be killed....to going to be knighted.....ow....my head...."

As he was deep in throat and trying to get rid of the massive headache that had hit him like a boulder, he failed to hear nor notice the three dragons that had landed behind him until one of them grabbed him by the throat in his maw while the two others quickly set about tieing his arms and legs as a loud, ear splitting roar filled the air from Zato before one of the dragons shoved a ball of cloth in his maw before tieing a strong, silken rope around his maw to keep him silent before he was blindfolded and felt his wings get tied, as well as his tail. The method he was tied up almost exactly how he was tied up when the humans caught him, save for the cloth in his maw that he was currently drooling around.

He let out a growl as he felt himself pushed over a bit before a strong blow to his head knocked him out cold, last thing on his mind before he fainted was that of his mates.

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Day quickly turned to night on the outside while Zato slowly awoke with even more of an headache, his world still black as he slowly tried to remember what had happened to him before a flood of the images hit him, causing him to struggle. And as he did, he found all of his limbs were tied and as he continued to struggle and he felt just how he was tied down.

He felt two ropes tied around the wrists of his front legs, both over his head while his rear legs were spread open with rope around the ankles of his legs keeping them open. He continued to struggle, trying to find out what else was tied and he quickly began to realize that his tail was tied straight down to the ground and his wings were tied up tightly together, the pain from them so tightly bound out of his mind at the moment, as a sudden blow of wind caused him to worry even more.

His body shuddered heavily as a gust of cold wind washed over him and more importantly IN him. Someone had spread opened his tailhole, cunny, and slit! Now truly, he was beginning to worry until the blindfold was slowly pulled off his eye and he looked up right into the eyes of one of the golden dragons from earlier.

"I see you're awake and already know what your current state is...so please, stop struggling."

He growled deeply as he tried to snap his maw around the golden dragons neck, but as his head lifted three ropes that he did not feel along his neck tightened and caused him to gag a bit before lowering his head back down, growling still.

"Warned you. Hell, even if we didn't tie your neck like that, you still have the ball gag in your maw as well as the rope from earlier."

Zato opened his eye a bit wide before once again feeling the rope around his maw and the drool running down his cheek and onto whatever he was resting on.

"Arthur and the king might believe you are different from the Demon Dragons of old, but we know you are not. History is doomed to repeat itself, as the humans would say. We five know what you're capable of so we are going to keep you here for some time before we think of a way to easily....discard you. Kings already having everyone search for you."

Zato glared to the gold while he moved around and in between his legs before brushing a claw over his pussy lips, causing him to shudder.

"Same we can't use you though, with those eggs in you. Meh....lots of dragoness' in the kingdom."

With that, the gold took off and quickly moved away from him, giving Zato the time to finally look around at his surroundings and to his horror he found out just where he was. He was in the ruins of the old castle he once called home. He tilted his head as far as he could and sorrow hit his heart hard as he looked upon a pile of bodies, his old friends and those that lived in the castle.

A tear feel down his cheek while he continued to look, even though he wanted to stop. The five golds had assaulted this kingdom once again and not that long ago, fires still burned on the once glorious cheery blossom trees and the smell of blood was still strong in the air.

"Why...why would they assault them and place me here...?"

His mind continued to wonder until he heard the faint flap of wings, and then he knew. They were going to spin their stories to make it sound as if he had caused this attack on the humans...and he would certainly be punished for it, his word meant nothing compared to those that served in the Royal Guard.He closed his eye and sighed, once again his life sunk to nothing only hours after he heard something good was going to happen.

He kept his eye closed until he heard the sound of around six dragons landing before footfall coming closer, and then once he felt breath wash over his face he slowly opened his eye only to see the king looking down at him and glaring, utter hatred burning in his eyes.

"I should kill you here and now!"

A faint whimper emitted from Zato as the king raised his right claw up and glared to Zato, before bringing it down quickly but at the last second the king showed extreme control and stopped an inch over Zatos maw before quickly spinning around and slashing over the maw of the gold that had been standing over Zato not even an hour ago and to Zatos huge amusement, he heard the gold cry out in pain and clutch his maw, no doubt tears streaming from the pain.

"Do you think I am blind! He has no blood on his claws! The smell of death is not on him! But on you! And the other four! My own royal guard doing this! Thankfully though, you all were dumb enough to lead me straight to him!"

"But...but sir...he's a De...."

The gold that had his maw cut had no chance to finish as the king bite viciously into his throat and ripped out a good chunk of it before quickly setting onto the others while Arthur drew over to Zato and gently began cutting off the binds and taking the cloth out of his maw and looking him over for a minute.

"You ok?"

"Yeah....they aren't though."

Zato said while looking to the pile of the gold dragons that had once served under Arthur, with the king standing bloodied over them and grinning.

"Haven't gotten a chance to do that for some time...gods how I miss fighting."

Zato chuckled to himself and moved over to the king, gently moving his maw close and licking away a bit of the blood on the kings maw.

"We could always spar once we are back at the kingdom, may not be true fighting, but good enough."

The king let out a quiet purr from the licks before laughing.

"True, sounds like a grand idea!"

They all let out a laugh before taking off, not even caring what befall the corpses of the golds. Though, before they got too far out of sight, Zato looked back and felt his heart grow heavy. He should have stayed and buried the bodies of those he knew and grew up with, but knowing the army from the neighbor kingdom was surely on their ways from how much smoke was rising into the sky, so with that, he shook his head and looked forward, flying straight behind the king and Arthur. Once the kingdom came into the view of the three dragons, the king looked behind himself to Zato before slowing down and flying beside him.

"Zato, I wonder if you wouldn't mind going along with a little...trick I'd like to pull on my daughter. She most likely thinks, as long as Ryu, that I intend to kill you in front of everyone at the party, or ball as those humans would call it. Id like to actually chain you down and all that, as if I am going to do so, but as your chained down I am going to...whats that thing the humans call it...Ah! Knight you. Minds giving away on me right now, still quite angry at what happened."

Zato couldn't help but let out a quiet laugh at the king before nodding.

"Sure sire, I'll go along with it."

"Great! Let us go then!"

With that, they each flew straight down towards the tower to prepare for the party and prank.

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Back at the Kiznas and Ryus cave, they both had dressed up like royalty, since both were, and were out on the side of the cliff while looking towards the kingdom.

"Kizna, we most likely wont even have to do anything. Im sure your father understands and knows he isn't like the others...he will be safe...."

"Ryu...I hope you're right....I really don't wish to try and kill my father...."

With that, they both spread their wings and flew as fast as they could toward the kingdom, the kids safely protected by all sorts of magics and wards.

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"Perfect!"

Shouted the king as he looked over Zato, fully chained and blindfolded on the ground in the center of the large ball room. His maw tightly, but loose enough not to cause any pain, wrapped in chains with his wings tied together with soft, but strong, silk and his tail stuck to the ground with even more chains. His rear and front legs shackled to the ground and a thick peice of golden cloth wrapped around his eyes, though upon closer inspection you could not a single chain was even tightened around his stomach, ensuring the safety of those inside.

"Nothing is painful, right Zato?"

The king listened to two taps from Zatos claw, signaling he was comfortable enough with about a thousand pounds of chains tied around him.

"Good then, now we just cover you and waited for everyone to arrive! Oh, I truly can't wait to see Kiznas face after this."

Zato listened as the king moved a bit and threw a large cloth over him before walking away, knowing he was going to get ready for the events to unfold. He let out a sigh, knowing he had some time to wait, so he wiggled around a bit and relaxed, trying to go sleep for at least for a few. However, as he laid there trying to fall asleep, he heard the distinct sound of one of the doors opening and a faint gasp emit before he heard the quick patter of someone who was either incredibly small or someone who was extremely sneaky on their feet. He soon felt a claw placed upon his snout, knowing that anyone looking upon could not fully tell what he was.

"Who is under there....I know you're alive...I can feel your breathing from under the cloth...."

He heard an extremely delicate voice say, to him it sounded so calm and delicate that if the dragoness, from the tone of the voice he was guessing, were to speak any louder, her voice would shatter. The claw on his snout began to rub before he heard a faint gasp and the claw suddenly move away.

"The kings emblem....must be a prisoner.....or traitor.....Malla deiata kno lear"

He heard the voice say before moving away, he knew what the words meant and held down a chuckle. "Gods Forgive This Soul" which was roughly translated into human from dragon tongue. Kings little prank seemed to be working.

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Hours flew by with Zato just laying there under the cloth, hearing the occasional dragon moving into the ball room and gasping at the sight before once again uttering the words "Malla deiata kno lear" to him and continuing onto whatever they were doing, or planned to do.

After what began to feel like eternity, he heard the king make his presence known with a loud, echoing roar that caused everyone to bow to him and silence.

"It is great to see so many dragons here! Even my daughter and her mate made their way here from the home far to the east! Kizna, come, greet your people like a true daughter should."

"Father, I will not just ignore what you are planning and go about! Release my son!"

Zato couldn't help but chuckle to himself, knowing the king heard it as he was hit on the snout before the king suddenly ripped the cloth off of him and laughed a mighty laugh as gasps and roars of anger sounded as everyones sights were locked upon the tied down demon dragon, everyone instantly knowing what he was.

"You mean this demon dragon you gave birth to?! But he is an enemy to the kingdom, how can I just let him go? By right of the accident code I must kill him here and now!"

With that he heard the king snap his claws and listen to the footfall of a guard as he ran to him and handed over his sword, before the king quickly drew it and pointed the tip to Zatos head.

"Malla deiata kno lear!"

He heard the king shout as Zato listened to the noise of the sword slicing through the air before it suddenly stopped over his head, the loud cries of his mother easily heard over the gasps.

"However, this Demon Dragon is different. My daughter, and everyone in here, I'd like to introduce you to Zato Cleear, My grandson! And Second in command from this moment on of my Royal guard!"

Zato clearly let out a rumbling laugh around the chains as he heard a few dragons gasp and faint at the news, before the king swung the sword in a heavy arc, cutting all the chains off of him as well as the blindfold. He and the king shared a quick hug, as well as a laugh, before both looked over the extremly shocked crowd as well as the happy faces on his mother and father.

"Hey everyone"

Zato gave a smile as well as another laugh, he didn't know why, but he found this all beyond funny. And from the sound of the kings laughing along with his own, the king did as well.

To Be Continued...