Book 14: Chapter 55
Stupefied, I turned my head to see Mommy Vyvyan’s ecstatic face. Her beautiful face was distorted due to her joy. It looked so hideous that she resembled a demon from hell. Terrified, I backed off, but she grabbed me and pulled me right into her arms. She gave me firm strokes on my back and buried my head in the warm valley. However, the blood on Mom was so sickening that I couldn’t breathe.
“Mommy is right here by your side. Mommy is by your side. It’s all right. It’s all right. It’s all right.” Vyvyan hugged me tightly and emotionally sobbed from overhead.
I heard a cry from the water. At the same time, I heard the sound of metal cutting flesh ring in the air. I vigorously spun my head around and belted in the direction of the sound, “Stop!”
A long sabre pinned the dragon’s enormous tail to the shore. Blood spurted from her tail as if it was a geyser of blood. Ying stood to one side with her black sabre stabbed into the tail as though it was the nail in the coffin, pinning her down in front of her cave just as if she was lying in her coffin.
I shouted toward Ying from Mommy Vyvyan’s embrace, “Ying!! Stop!! Stop! Don’t hurt her!!”
Ying froze. She then turned to look at me. She was stained with blood, but her face was particularly clean. She looked at me and calmly saluted me as if we were in the palace: “Hello, Your Majesty. It is truly an honour to see you again after not seeing you in so long.”
“Kill her!!” Vyvyan shouted toward Ying from overhead.
Ying ignored Vyvyan. As a matter of fact, she didn’t even look in her direction. She ignored Vyvyan’s command and pulled her blade out. She then stood motionless to the side. Surprised, Vyvyan thundered, “Ying! Did you not hear me?! Did you not hear me?! I said kill her! Understand?! Kill her?! Did you not hear me?!”
“I apologise, Queen Vyvyan. I am not your bodyguard but His Majesty’s. I do not need to take orders from you. I only need to take orders from His Majesty. He has asked me to stop, so naturally, shall not continue. I am glad you are all right, Your Majesty.” Ying politely and yet resolutely refused Vyvyan.