Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 126

Matt

Rain had the right mindset. This was fucked up, but we had come too far.

After the pictures, we finally stumbled upon the relic. It was a small relic in the shape of a dragon and didn’t look to be very special. The thing looked like it was centuries old… which it was.

There was also this strange, jet black stone sitting in the dragon’s mouth. I frowned.

From my vague memory, that was a dragon stone, but I had no idea of it’s power. It was something one of the Rosewater coven elders had said would be no the relic.

The five of us didn’t move. It felt like it was a trap of some kind. One of us would rush up and try to grab the relic before the ground would open up and we’d fall to our death.

Or something just as horrible. It was hard to say what would happen. Swallowing, I cleared my throat.

But no one answers. They seemed frozen to the spot, unable to move. I rolled my eyes. I stared at the stone a bit longer before looking around at everyone.

“What the hell do we do now?”

The ground trembled beneath my feet. It wasn’t much-just a slow, deep rumble-but I felt it in my bones. Shit.

Guess that answered my question. Here I was waiting here to see what was going to happen and now the earth was deciding that it was going to punish us from coming here.

I tore my gaze away from the ground. “Lia.”

She was mid-step, pausing at the sharpness of my voice. “What?” “You feel that?”

Her brows pulled together. “Feel wha-“

Another tremor rolled through the ground, this one stronger. Her face paled.

I nodded. “Yeah. That.”

Lia sucked in a breath, eyes flicking toward the horizon like she’d see something there. She wouldn’t. Not yet. But I knew what this meant.

I clenched my jaw. “It’s waking up.”

Her eyes snapped back to me, wide and panicked. “No. No, no, no-“

“Lia-“

“We’re not ready. We’re not even close to ready! How the hell are we supposed to fight a guardian dragon?” Fuck, a guardian dragon. I was trying my best to stay positive and not upset Lia with any of my worries.

Right now she didn’t need someone who was complaining that everything was going to go to hell. She needed someone who was going to have her back and support her. But fuck.

How were we supposed to take out a guardian dragon?

Even with all five of us working together, it didn’t seem like we would be able to do this. I swallowed again, looking at Lia with a smile.

It was a genuine smile. A fearful smile but one that was genuine.

A part of me, for some reason, believed that we could do this. I have no fucking why I was suddenly so determined to believe we could do this b ut the feeling was there.

“We’ll figure it out.”

She Jet out a hysterical laugh. “Oh, great plan, Jesse! Fantastic! Should we just-just wing it? Hope for the best? Throw a rock at its head?”

I grabbed her by the shoulders. “Lia.” Her breath came fast, wild. “I can’t-” “You can.”

“No,I-“

“You can,” I repeated, voice firm. “And you will.”

She blinked rapidly. “Matt, do you hear yourself? This isn’t a rogue shifter or some pissed-off witch. This is a dragon. A guardian dragon. It’s older than anything we’ve ever faced, stronger than-“

“Thank you?” I cut in.

She hesitated. “I-“

I stepped closer, my grip tightening. “Because last I checked, you’ve taken on everything thrown at you, and you’re still standing.”

“That’s not the same-“

“It’s the same,” I said sharply. “We fight. We survive. That’s what we do.” Her jaw was clenched. “And what if we don’t?”

I met her stare without flinching. “Then we go down swinging.”

She let out a sharp breath, something between a scoff and a curse. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” “Yeah, well,” I smirked, “it’s never failed us before.”

Lia lifted her chin, magic crackling along her fingertips. “Then let’s move fast-and hit harder.”

For all my worry, I couldn’t help but grin. This wasn’t the same Lia who once doubted everything. This was someone who knew exactly what she had to do.

“Come on, Rain don’t be such a stick in the mud. We can do this!”

Rain glowered at me. But the glare was cut short when the creature tried to attack He rolled out of the way to avoid getting hit.

It was powerful. The ground shook when it tried to hit us. I struggled to avoid being hit, but the more we worked together the better we were doing.

Lia had to get to the core. She had the ability to wield magic so if she managed to launch an attack at it then it would bow up like she said.

The five of us were thrown and hurt, but somehow Lia managed to get to the core. She launched a spell at it, saying a bunch of words I didn’t understand.

It blew. We all managed to dodge it.

After it was gone, I fell onto the ground gasping.

Fuck that had been scary. But somehow we managed to do it. How?

I don’t know but we did it together?

Lia was getting to her feet, walking towards the relic. “I need to get the relic,” Lia told us.

I swallowed. “Be careful.”

“I will be careful, don’t worry.”

She flashed a smile at me, but I was nervous about her touching this random relic. What would happen if it ended up blowing up on her or something?

But Lia could handle it.

“I’m more worried about whatever that fucking thing will do,” I muttered, glaring at the relic. No one knew anything about that thing!

However, I knew there was nothing that was going to stop Lia from getting that relic.