Page 147 of The Wild Prince’s Favorite (The Dragon Empire Saga #3)

Immediately, Kein turned its silver eyes to the crowd and let out one long, furious, and menacing growl that had most of them panic again.

A few ran toward the nearest tunnels, hid behind others, or ran to the wall like Kein wouldn’t be able to reach them.

Secretly, Alezya found it a little bit funny, and she had to bite her lower lip.

Even better, Niiru made a little jump to climb on Kein’s back and, like a miniature version, imitated Kein’s growl, letting out a sound that was far cuter than fierce.

“...It’s fine,” Alezya told the group of terrified adults. “I was just trying to show you what I can ask them to do, like growl.”

Not looking annoyed in the slightest, Kein moved into the water, walking up to Alezya until it could press its snout against her core.

She smiled before remembering she was pregnant, according to Kassein.

Could the dragon feel that she had a baby in there?

Was she genuinely pregnant? It still felt too crazy to believe, and right now, she couldn’t focus on that.

With a hand petting Kein’s head and Kassein’s arm around her waist, she turned to the clans again.

“See? I promise the Dragon Clan will be on our side. You may stay out of it, but my father is set on fighting them, and he will take many clans down with him, but he won’t win. I don’t think so.”

Not with Kassein and Kein fighting. She had seen both of them in action many times. No matter how many men her father threw at the Dragon Clan, and though she was still scared to find out the actual number, Alezya still believed Kassein would come out victorious.

There were a few seconds of silence, but after a lull, several of the clan chiefs exchanged glances and determined nods before turning to her.

“Fine, Alezya of the Lumiata Clan,” said one of the clan chiefs, stepping forward.

“The Samial Clan shall ally with the Dragon Clan. So long as they uphold the promise to let us live and have the dragon leave our mountains alone, we will fight with them. The Deklaan Clan has abused our trust for too long for their gain, and we refuse to stand aside while the future of our mountains is decided in this battle. It won’t be said that my clan hid like cowards while the Dragon Clan won that war for us. ”

“Nor mine!”

“Neither will we!”

Just like that, several clans reconfirmed their desire to fight, giving her determined nods and fierce gazes.

Alezya tried to take it all in calmly, but she felt strangely empowered to see so many clan leaders addressing her like they would a peer.

She had been the pariah of the Deklaan Clan for the longest time, and now, she was hailed as a leader.

“Alright,” Ekut said, gesturing for the attention to get back to him.

“Alezya will explain to the Dragon Clan who the enemy is, but we need to be sure who our allies are. Reach out to any clan you know that might still be on the fence. From what we’ve heard, Deklaan has rallied at least eight or nine clans to their cause, and their numbers might still be growing.

The Dragon Clan might be mighty warriors, but like you said, they won’t fight this whole battle for us.

We need to properly rally with them and get ready for the biggest war our clans have faced in decades. ”

Alezya listened while leaning into Kassein as the twins took over the war plan.

The first part was all about leading their new allies to the Dragon Clan; the Munsa Clan couldn’t stay here after the word was most likely already out that they were now allied with her and Kassein, and their warriors had to gather somewhere to prepare for the battle.

When she turned around and tried to explain, using as much of his vocabulary as she could and with many hand gestures and pointing at the men, Kassein focused on her, his eyes drifting to the clans every now and then and nodding along.

“ We hunt those who hurt you ,” he finally hissed.

“ Yes ,” Alezya nodded, cupping his cheek. “ The other clans , my friends, want to be friends with the Dragon Clan too, and hunt together. ”

“ Together ,” Kassein nodded.

“Alezya?” Ekata called her in a whisper, approaching them while her brother was still talking to the other clans.

“Let him know our Munsa Clan will be fighting by the Dragon Clan’s side.

But the truth is, we cannot guarantee who will be on our side or not.

So, what we will do is ask the other clans to attack the Deklaan Clan from different angles.

Since we cannot be sure who will switch sides, we will send them out of our way.

Either they fight the Deklaan Clan as promised, and we can corner them, or we will have a more significant battle ahead, but at least we won’t be in an ambush.

We know which ones we can trust for sure and those we will bring with us to meet the Dragon Clan.

Now that we’ve got everything we need, you two should leave, Alezya.

We will find the Dragon Clan, but you should go with him and explain to his clan.

You’ve done more than your share already; let us handle things from here. We will meet you tomorrow at dawn.”