Chapter 217: 217 – Cheers

Queen Dora was taken aback by the fierce defence of Raven by King Jaren and little Azar. General Aquila was the boy's stepfather, so it was natural for him to be protective of the boy and prioritise Raven over Mana, but even King Jaren had such complete confidence in Raven? And the little black dragon even dared to point his little claws at her?

Queen Dora frowned at Azar. "What do you mean by that?" she asked.

The little black dragon huffed. "Daddy doesn't hurt Mommy, ever. Daddy does everything he can to protect Mommy – he is not like you, Grandmama, You hurt Grandpapa real bad and you listened to other bad people outside and didn't protect Grandpapa. Daddy and Mommy don't do that. They don't listen to bad people on the outside and do bad things to each other!" he scolded. "Grandmama should learn from Mommy and Daddy!" He thought for a moment and then added, "Uncle Jules and Auntie Bella, too. Grandmama should learn from them, too!"

King Jaren sighed and rubbed the little dragon's head affectionately. "All right, little one, that's enough," he said quietly.

"But Azar is right, Grandpapa," the little white dragon spoke up next. "Alya also thinks that Dad and Mama and Uncle Raven and Auntie Mana are more sensible and they don't hurt each other because of bad people on the outside! Grandmama should learn from them!"

Queen Dora was taken aback but had no words to say. She shot an aggrieved look at King Jaren, but her husband was rubbing the small heads of the two baby dragon grandkids of his with a sad smile on his face.

Queen Dora's heart stuttered, and she thought back to the fiasco that had just happened with her master Zed – and then she thought about how she had never even doubted Zed in all these years, but these young ones – Jules and Bella and Azar and Alya and Mana and Raven – they had exposed his true face so quickly. How easily had they spotted the loopholes in his words, and how ridiculous was it that Queen Dora, an adult who had always prided herself on her intelligence – had blindly believed all his ridiculous nonsense for all these years, without a single shred of doubt? How could she have been so blind? And – she had really hurt her Jaren, hadn't she?

"I'm sorry," Queen Dora said. "I…"

King Jaren sighed. "Dora – I know you mean well. But please, don't hurt the children," he murmured. "Raven is a very precious child, and he is as dear to me as our little Mana. I won't let anyone – not even you – disparage him in any manner."

"I understand," Queen Dora said. "It must be difficult for you to trust me now, especially with what happened with master today. I have been ridiculously naïve in my own idiotic righteousness. Jaren, I…"

King Jaren held up a hand. "What is done is done," he said quietly. "We cannot undo the past, so let us not linger in the past any longer. We should learn from our mistakes in the past and move towards a better future with our children and grandchildren."

Queen Dora swallowed her words and nodded.

General Aquila, who had been silent this entire time, said quietly, "Jaren, you really are the best and wisest of our generation." His admiration was sincere, and his dark eyes were truthful.

King Jaren shook his head. "I have been a bigger idiot than I would like to admit – but I hope not to repeat my mistakes in the future. And no matter what, I will protect my young ones," he said seriously.

General Aquila patted the man's shoulder in support. "I will help you, of course," he said.

"Grandpapa, let's go and have chocolate milkshake with Mommy and Daddy!" Azar spoke up, dissipating the heavy mood of the adults.

King Jaren smiled softly. "Yes, little one," he said, rubbing the little dragon's head.

The three adults and two baby dragons made their way to Mana's room.

Meanwhile, Mana was fussing over Raven after bringing him to her room.

"Are you feeling all right? You must be feeling very tired after using up all that magic power! Don't do these reckless things in the future, all right? What if something happened to you?" she fussed, checking him over and infusing her own magic with his. "And this kind of soul searching magic – don't do this again, all right? It's too draining!"

Raven smiled at her. "But I needed to see if your soul was all right," he murmured. "Azar said that old man stole a part of your soul, and then half your soul was in another world – what if there was some residual damage…?" His smile disappeared at the thought of what he would have done if Mana's soul hadn't been found to be whole and complete after his soul searching magic.

Mana huffed. "I could have told you that," she said.

"But you wouldn't know for sure, right? You were used to living with half a soul in both worlds – would you have noticed if someone stole a small piece away? You didn't even know that it was taken, right?" Raven countered.

"If there were parts of my soul lingering somewhere else, we would have just gone and snatched them back," she said simply. "I've got you and Azar and our family, what's there for me to worry about?"

Raven stared at her silently for a long time. "Sometimes, I am intimidated by your unflinching trust in me and my ability," he murmured.

Mana raised an eyebrow. "Who will I trust if I don't trust you?" she demanded. "Is there anyone more trustworthy than you in this entire world?"

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Raven smiled in response and then said softly, "I am glad that you feel this way," he murmured.

Mana pinched his cheeks playfully. "And I am glad to have you in my life," she replied. "We can sit for an entire week to debate on who's happier with the situation."

Raven laughed, and some colour returned to his fair face.

There were footsteps outside their door.

"Looks like Big Brother and Big Sister Bella and Rook are here," Mana said, opening the door.

It was indeed Jules and Bella and Rook, their arms laden with goodies.

Mana immediately stuffed a biscuit in Raven's mouth and started making chocolate milkshake. The first one, of course, she handed to Raven. The next one went to Rook. Then Mana waited until two were ready and handed them to Jules and Bella at the same time – this was because she knew that neither Jules nor Bella would drink theirs without the other one, and she thought it was rather sweet of them.

By then, Raven had finished his glass of milkshake and Mana thrust another one at him. "Drink up," she said. She had even added some of her magic power to Raven's glass.

Raven nodded obediently and drank the chocolate milkshake happily, clearly enjoying his favourite beverage.

Soon enough, King Jaren, General Aquila, Queen Dora, Azar and Alya appeared at the door as well.

"Mommy! Give me!" Azar cried and flew at Mana as soon as he saw a glass of chocolate milkshake in her hand.

Luckily, Mana had already made several glasses already, so there was enough for everyone to have a glass immediately.

Azar dragged Alya with him eagerly and settled on Mana's table where she was making the chocolate milkshakes.

Mana laughed and set one glass in front of the little black dragon and another glass in front of the little white dragon.

Azar and Alya dunked their little heads in their glasses right away.

"Mommy! Chocolate milkshake is super yummy!" Azar raised his chocolate milkshake covered head to say to Mana, and then dunked his head in the glass again.

Alya, naturally, repeated the actions of Azar immediately. She raised her face as well, her beautiful white scales dripping with the brown chocolate milkshake. "Auntie Mana! Super yummy!" she chirped happily, and then dunked her head into the glass with a small splash.

Seeing the two little dragon babies acting like this, everyone burst out laughing.

Mana also handed out glasses of chocolate milkshake to King Jaren, Queen Dora and General Aquila.

Then she handed another one to Raven, again infused with magic.

Queen Dora blinked in surprise – while everyone else was already used to the blatant preferential treatment that Mana gave to Raven, so they had zero reaction to this.

Raven took Mana's hand when she passed him the glass.

"You should also have a glass now," he said softly. "You have been handing out chocolate milkshake to everyone else, but you only ate a small biscuit yourself, Mana."

Mana smiled at him and picked up a glass (there were still a dozen extra glasses on the table). Then she clinked her glass with Raven's.

"Cheers," she said.

Raven, of course, didn't understand what this gesture meant, but nonetheless, he copied Mana and said, "Cheers."

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