Salthazar sat on his throne, Tobias beside him. A thousand thoughts were flowing through his mind as he sat there. The Knights Of The Round Table entered shortly after his thought processes began. Currently only consisting of his closest friends and others.

Yukito being the top knight in the kingdom, who frequently escorted the queen everywhere. Sir Danth and Sir Kmaro walked in and sat down. Followed by Sir Haku and several other knights whom Tobias had hand selected.

Salthazar had not bothered to learn any of their names just yet.

A messenger arrived to the throne room, rushing inside with a letter.

“Urgent news my liege! The Kingdom Of Fars has declared war on Dirue! also, a group of Vampswill have been spotted in a village with a child on our farthest northern border!”

Salthazar waved the man away as he stood up. “Are you going then?” Tobias asked cryptically voice clipped and short.

“Of course I am going my wife, why would I not? We will discuss the important topic of our marriage when I return in no less than 5 days ride.” Kissing his stony faced wife of 12 years, the king left with his knights in tow, leaving Yukito to ‘tend’ to the Queen. Though Salthazar’s knowledge of it was greatly stunted into platonic where there was none.

When the king and his men rode off to deal with the various problems of the kingdom, Yukito approached the Queen. Escorting him to the farthest area of the castle away from the throneroom, to the bedchambers Tobias shared with his husband. As the door closed behind them, the Queen’s robes slipped away from his body. Next sight visible as the door swung closed, Yukito’s hands then firmly pressed into the backs of Tobias’s thighs.

As the King rode to his destination, the Vampswill Jirai rode up beside him. “Do you not think it odd, your holy crusade against all Vampswillkind and yet you keep an old man like myself around?”

Salthazar shook his head, smiling for the first time that day, “nonsense, you basically raised me, when my father’s madness took hold and the castle was about as safe as a pit filled with poisonous snakes and spiders. I care not about your Vampswill race, You are as a father to me Jirai, I am yet a young King, such guidance is needed. What say the dragon?”

The Dragon that lived in the cave system on Yon mountain, was a fierce and temperamental beast known as the Darda Dragon or the Winged beast Of Dirue. For the large dark purple dragon possessed nine massive wings. He was of great council to Jirai, warning he and the King of the possible futures that could befall them should something foolish happen.

“The dragon….he says you have made your choice, he wishes to speak with you again but not soon. He is only helping you because of me and even then his help is neither beneficial nor detrimental and only the choices you make can decide the outcome of the future.”