Page 18 of The War is Coming

“Ready, sire?”

Tudor nodded. “I guess let’s do this.”

They both partially shifted so their wings came out.

“Amazing and so pretty,” Henry said, popping up next to Alex.

“Your wings really are,” Alex agreed.

“Thanks see you soon.”

And with that, both Tudor and Gentzen flapped their wings and flew to the roof, Tudor to his spot and Gentzen to his.

Gentzen grinned down at them and shifted into his proper gargoyle form of mottled grey. As he shifted, his gargoyle hunched down, his wings spread out, and he turned to stone.

Alex looked at Tudor, who was smiling softly down at him and with a final wave, Tudor shifted.

“Wow,” Henry said, looking at Tudor and Gentzen.

“Wow indeed,” Alex agreed. Sure, he had seen Tudor shifted before, at the vigil, but that wasn’t really the time to look him over, and it wasn’t a proper resting shift.

In Tudor’s shifted form, he was like the others, hunched down, his wings were out wide, his ears pointed, and he had two short horns coming out of the top of his head. He was a deep grey, and much larger than Gentzen, indeed larger than the other gargoyles who were also resting.

“You’re stunning, sweetheart,” Alex called up.

“Thank you love.”

CHAPTER 9

Everyone watched the three of them leave the kitchen.

“So, what did we miss yesterday?” Blake asked.

“Tudor had the thought that Barnabus might try and break demons out of Tartarus, so Frederick and Hades went to look into stopping that from happening,” Ash told him.

“And I found out the farmer to the west of here is selling land, so I’m in the process of buying it,” Dane added.

Tudor and I are buying it and putting it in all our names. Puff said.

“Excellent, I was hoping we could acquire more land; we can all three pay for it. Dane, if you come across more land for sale around us, just buy it.” He looked at Puff. “Is that alright with you?”

Puff nodded. Yep, sounds good.

“I can see if the farmer is willing to sell the whole farm, if you want,” Dane offered.

Puff nodded.

“Please, Dane, thanks,” Blake said.

“Puff, I’ve sent you Padraic’s email,” Peyton told him.

Thanks, I’ll contact him once we’ve finished here and bring them back into the family. He looked at Paris. Is that okay?

Paris nodded. “Yes, they didn’t deserve to be rogues.”

“You could look at other dragons your father registered as rogue and see about overturning his ruling,” Mateo suggested.

I can do that. There must be a list somewhere.