Reign had been transported to many times in her lifetime. It was random and it infuriated her. How dare something random suck her out of her life and plop her elsewhere. But this time she hadn’t been alone. She’d woken up in a strange place with a strange smell but her daughters were with her. Cilicia, Lotus and Atiyah. All had been taken from their home too. But her husband, her beloved Creole and her other children were gone. With no sign of them.

She’d herded her daughters with her, seeking a way back to their family. To their home. But months had gone by and she had no answers on where they were or how to get back to where they came from. Until now, she’d smelled it at first, home.

The air had changed and a static like energy had formed around them. She could feel it, the sense of home. “Girls! Get up, we’re going home today!” She barked at her daughters. Before she started moving toward the source, she could hear her daughters behind her as she pushed forward. The smell of home grew stronger the closer she got.

As soon as she saw it she stopped, it was like a shimmering puddle, but it wasn’t on the ground, it was floating in the air, and she could see home. Peeking around it she could see the pine trees of this strange world and then looking back at the portal the winter wonderland that was their home. Without hesitation she stepped through the portal, the winter air creeping through her bones as she fell into the powdery snow.

Victory! She was home, safe and sound. She’d done it. She’d come back victorious.

Cilicia had followed her mother’s instructions since they’d woken up in a strange place. Every day, they searched for a way home. Her mother rarely sleeping, and growing snappy. Cilicia tried to keep herself in the way of her mothers anger so her sisters wouldn’t see it. They had been taken from their litter mates and father. They were upset too.

But as she was resting after another day of non stop hunting for a trace of home her mother beckoned them to wake up. She thought her mom had finally lost it. But her mother was correct, the air had shifted, she could feel it and smell it all around her. Nosing her sisters awake she took off after her mother.

As she arrived she watched her mother step into a portal and disappear. So she followed suit, falling face first into the snow. Snorting as she tried to clear the cold snow from her nose she stood, looking at her mother. “Are we really home mom?” She asked while looking around in awe.

Lotus was curled between her sisters, sleeping peacefully until her mothers voice woke her, tempted by the call for sleep, she grumbled as someone nosed at her body. Forcing her to open her eyes and watch as her older sister took off. Looking around, blinking slowly she realized both her mother and older sister were gone. Leaping to her feet she took off after them.

She skidded to a stop before the portal before her. Eyes growing wide. She’d never seen anything like this before. Cocking her head to the side she moved closer. Sniffing. She could tell her mother and sister had gone through it. Tentatively she too took the plunge, and came out in a winter wonderland. Squinting her eyes she looked around.

Unlike her mother, she had not been transported once in her short life. So, the feeling of waking up in a new and unusual location was not just startling but downright annoying. This was inconvenient, and to be honest, a complete bore. There had been no way to impress her mother. There was no way to get her mind off of trying to return to their home, and her betrothed.

Reign, her mother, had been foregoing sleep with her search. So, Atiyah, being the good daughter she was, she had taken to hunting to feed her tireless mother. Though she did have the help of her older half-sister, Cilicia. The plants in this world had seemed to be similar to the ones at home, so she played with them and saw what they would do to the animals around her. Experimenting, if you will.

Finally, finally, they caught a break. She had been having a lovely dream when her sisters nose proder her awake, a groan escaped her throat as she blinking up at what was going on.

Oh! Oh, now that was different.

She watched as she siblings moved through the glimmering pool. She tilted her head out of curiosity before following like a dutiful daughter, plus, who wants to be stuck here alone?

Paws the same color as the powdery substance touched the ground of her home, the chill air caressed through her fur, and she could only look around in wonder. She was home, she would see her family again. She. Was. Home.

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Lotus Reign Cilicia Atiyah

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Today... Today something felt different in the air... The air was thick and it felt difficult the breathe... Was it the mountain air today? Was it his sorrows creeping up on his again? Unsure of what was causing this weight on his shoulders and chest he pulled himself from his lying position in their sweet scented, flower laden, den.

In his time alone he'd done the best he could to collect small flowers he found, beautiful red and purple tiny blooms across the mountains, and laid them around the inside of their home... Reign never smelled like flowers exactly but the colors reminded him of her... Of home... And so he'd gathered quite a collection in their little den and piled them in a corner. Their scents filled the area around him and brought him back to who he was and the alabaster dragon shook himself out to try and reconnect to the real world.

Trotting carefully down the mountain the man came to the borders and began walking along them. Doing his best to keep busy as his heart thrummed heavily in his chest, anxiety was upon the man and he couldn't place why...

Suddenly... It was there... They were there...

Reign, Cilicia, Lotus and Atiyah... All four of them were standing before him...

A gasp came from onyx lips as he stood still as stone. Ice came over him as his heart beat faster in his breast. His ears swiveled towards their position and Creole opened his mouth to speak, but no sounds came out, only the clacks of his teeth as he tried to force sounds... Nothing came...

His body, he tried to inch forward and embrace them, tried to move but... He wasn't even sure they were real...

Were they figments of his imagination? Illusions his mind had cooked up for him? Was he falling into madness again...?

Reign...? He finally forced out. A question to her existence... He questioned all of them... But he couldn't make anymore words, sounds, they seemed impossible as his heart felt like it was going to explode.

Was this -- Was this real...?

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Reign had done it, she had truly done it. She was indeed a demon. She’d found her way home through a portal. And in doing so had brought her daughters home too. Amethyst eyes looked over each of their faces, watching their eyes grow big as they realized that they were finally back home. Would see their fathers again…

She would see her husband again. her Creole.

And as if she summoned him with her mind his voice cut through the air. His voice was the most beautiful thing she’d heard in months. She whipped her head towards the sound. And saw him, in all his glory there.

Amethyst gaze met that of melted butter. And she held that gaze for minutes. “Creole!” She yelled.

She didn’t waste any time as she launched herself through the snow, flurries kicking up around her as she moved. She didn’t stop till she was crashing into him. Drinking in his touch and his scent.

Cilicia couldn’t believe it. Her mother had been right all along. The girl didn’t believe that they would ever come home, though she’d never dared to utter those words in front of her mother over the past few months.

She spun around and she realized that she would soon be seeing her father again. Satan. And his wife Nyra. And she could get back to training and being a productive part of Warcrest. So he dad would finally see her potential.

Her own ambitious thoughts were cut short as she heard her mother yell. Blinking she looked around for danger. Muscles tense before she realized it wasn’t a call of danger but of excitement. She watched as her mother threw herself at her step dad.

Lotus was busy playing in the snow. Kicking up the piles around her to watch them fall back down around her. The cold slowly seeping into her bones. Not that she minded because finally they were home. Her family was back together, or well they would be soon enough. She thought of her father and her littermates, of her older sisters brother and father.

And then the commotion came. She watched as her mom tackled her father to the ground. And she couldn’t help herself. “Daddy!” She yelled Like a small child.

She too threw herself into a running motion. Trying to get to her parents. She hadn’t seen him in so long. He hadn’t gotten to see her blossom into her size and her golden colors. And she missed him.

She was at a lose for words, all she could do is take in the familiar scent of her homeland enter her lungs before she exhaled it back out. A soft cloud of ghostly white came with every breathe and she just could not believe her eyes, she was back. She could not see her father, to see her brother whom was her betrothed. Ah, Lucius. She could not help but wonder about how he had grown, she was much more lithe and graceful than her much younger self. It was then she heard her mother's voice, she had not heard her father's but when she shouted his name it shattered the daydreaming she had been doing. Her dual colored gaze focused and the scene played out like a movie. Her mother, who she looked almost identical to, ran to her father and tackled him to the ground. Snow flew up with their combined weight, and soon her ginger sister moved from her playing in the powder of their home. She could only blink, unable to really believe what she was seeing. They had been gone for so long, she had not really thought they would return.

Was this even real, or was this just a fantastical dream that she would wake up from?

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Lotus Reign Cilicia Atiyah

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Soon the man was bowled over by his beloved. Smothered in her aroma and fur the man closed his eyes and sighed... This was the scent of home..

Squinting hard he held back a torrent of tears and only felt a few escape as he whimpered, burying his face into her chest. My beloved... Creole choked as he wrapped his arms around Reigns shoulders.

Soon he was also attacked by Lotus and the man laughed loudly as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders as well, holding the two of them close and laughing and crying, he couldn't help it it was too beautiful...

My family... The Dragon sighed from his position on his back, so happy to see everyone...

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