It was only a few hours later that the sun made his appearance, making the prince slowly open his eyes, his beauty sleep interrupted by the sunlight.

With sleep still blurring his vision, he prompt himself up on one elbow, slightly rubbing his eyes and looking around.

"Good morning kiddo! How did you sleep?" Patton whispered as he quietly snacked on an apple.

Roman looked at him for a second, his eyebrow raised.

"Good morning padre, I slept well thank you, but why are you whispering?" He asked, but instead of receiving an answer, the cheery guy just pointed behind him, making him slowly turned around.

The prince's eyes widened as they landed on Logan and Virgil's sleeping figures; the nerd was cuddled up next to the dragon-witch, his arm loosely wrapped around him, Nyx's body circling both of them as she quietly observed him. He could see why Patton would find them cute and want to let them sleep more; what he did not understand though, was why a sudden and extremely strong rush of jealousy ran through his body, making him feel the urge to pull them apart.

Roman took a couple of breaths, trying to calm himself down. He could feel the dragon's eyes on him, looking at him curiously.

After a few minutes he finally felt calm enough and was about to turn around when his eyes once again landed on the two. In a sporadic and impulsive decision he got up and started stomping towards the two sleeping guys.

"Roman, what are you-?" Patton started, but before he could finish the question, Nyx's low and threatening growl interrupted him and made Roman freeze in his tracks.

"Roman, I'm not really sure, but I don't think she wants you to wake them up yet."

The prince just glared towards the dragon, looking at her right in the eyes. The staring contest went on for a good thirty seconds and the princely guy could tell the creature was studying him carefully to try and figure out his next move, her tail slowly swiping across the ground like a cat's.

Finally Roman smirked, breaking eye contact to move his gaze to the two sleeping figures.

"LOGAN!" He yelled after taking a big intake of breath making Patton jump and Nyx stare at him in surprise.

The nerd woke up with a startle, immediately sitting up, scaring Virgil in the process.

"What the hell is happening?!" Exclaimed Logan, his breath labored for the scare as his eyes wildly looked around to find the source of the danger.

No one answered and they all watched as Roman stared at Nyx smugly before sticking his tongue out childishly, making her roll her eyes and blow out some smoke from her nose.

"You better tell Prince High Pitch over there about the whole soulmate thing today."

Hearing this words, Virgil head immediately snapped towards the dragon, his eyes wide as she just looked at him with an unimpressed expression.

"What?! N-no I can't tell him! It'll scare him away or, even worse, weird him out and make the situation awkward."

Nyx scoffed and slightly shook her head.

"Weirded out? Awkward? Oh please that's already happening! Look at him: his poor little brain doesn't comprehend why he was so jealous when he saw you and Star-Nerd all cute and cuddled up! You have to tell him sooner or later!"

Virgil blushed, his eyes avoiding the dragon's amused gaze and falling on the prince who was now sitting near what was once a fire, a stick in his hand as he drew on the soil, a confused and thoughtful expression on his face.

He knew Nyx was right. He had to tell him. Roman had the right to know why he was feeling the way he was. But he himself still couldn't wrap his head around the idea of having a soulmate, so how was he supposed to explain it to someone else?

He shook his head, letting out a mumbled "fine" through the mind link before tuning in on a grumbling Logan.

"Was it really necessary to take me up like that to tell me we had to eat breakfast and get back to walking?" He grumbled glaring towards the prince who just shrugged carelessly and went on with his soil doodling.

Virgil got up and stretched his back, letting out a small groan at his bones popping, before leaning back on Nyx, letting out a sigh as the creature's warm scales came in contact with his back.

"Good Morning, kiddo! Would you like an apple?" Patton said cheerily, handing him a fruit as soon as he nodded. He then turned towards Logan, offering one to him as well. The nerd smiled gratefully, starting to munch on it calmly as he tried to wake himself up completely.

"Okay," Started Virgil, pushing away from his dragon's back and throwing her the half eaten apple, which she effortlessly caught and immediately swallowed. "If we want to get some progress towards the kingdom we should start walking. Considering the fact that we have to avoid all the main paths to decrease the possibilities of running into the assholes that attacked Roman, it will take us at least two more days to get there. So we better get going."

They all nodded and packed everything up. After spending a good five minutes trying to convince Patton that he could not ride Nyx, they resumed walking, the chirping of birds and the cheery guy's squealing while riding the dragon.

They chuckled as Logan rolled his eyes at the thousandth time they heard Patton yell "This the best day of my life!" At the top of his lungs.

"This is so dangerous, he could fall at any given time, all it takes is a slightly stronger gust of wind and he is doomed." The nerd grumbled, making Virgil scoff.

"Lo, I already told you that Nyx assured me she would not let anything happen to Pat. Can't you trust her?"

Logan didn't say anything, but still nodded as they kept walking in a comfortable silence.

After a few minutes, Roman gathered enough courage to walk up to the dragon-witch, leaving the nerd slightly behind and falling into step with him.

"I'm sorry for scaring you awake this morning." He said sheepishly, making Virgil shoot him an amused grin.

"Nah. Don't worry about it, it's not like it's the first time I woke up like that. You know, the occasional curious squirrels are unstoppable and fearless."

Roman chuckled, feeling slightly less guilty.

"You know, it wasn't my original plan to wake you up like that. I wanted to just shake your shoulder but as soon as I tried to get closer the Giant Lizard growled and threatened to take my hand off." The prince said rolling his eyes.

"That son of a- Does he know I can metaphorically and physically roast him?! I'm sorry Virgil but I'm about to turn your soulmate into a meat skewer."

"You should really stop calling her that Princey, or I won't be able to stop her from burning your ass to ashes." He laughed watching the guy pale and widen his eyes, wearingly shooting a look towards the sky.

"Plus she probably just wanted Logan and I to sleep in a little since we stayed up all night talking."

That caught Roman attention, who turned to him with a curios glint in his eyes, his head slightly tilted to the side.

"About what?"

Virgil smiled, remembering the long conversation from the previous night.

"A bit of everything. He wanted to know what kind of powers I had, I wanted to talk about the stars. We even found out a new skill I have."

"Really?" He asked smiling slightly.

Virgil nodded smirking.

"I can let Nyx use my voice to talk to people. Wanna try?"

Roman eyes once again widened, as Virgil shot the dragon's a message through the mind link, telling her to get ready to use his voice.

"N-no, she clearly hates me, I don't thing it's-"

"Bitch, I don't hate you. You're just annoying as hell." The prince jumped, almost falling to the ground, when he heard Virgil's voice overlapped by a feminine one and saw his eyes morph in Nyx's snake like eyes.

"I mean, I would totally burn your ass off if it wasn't for the fact that you're Virgil's future hus-" Immediately Virgil eyes went back to normal, his cheeks a deep crimson red as he avoided Roman confused eyes.

"What is she talking about?" He asked curiously.

An awkward and tense silence filled the space between them as the dragon witch did his best to look anywhere but the prince.

"Nyx I'm gonna fucking murder you know that right?" The dragon did nothing but chuckle and close off the mind link.

He sighed defeated, about to answer Roman question, when Logan's loud voice broke the silence.

"VIRGIL, ROMAN GET DOWN!"

Sorry if it took so long guys! I had to figure out some new character's role (c;) and wanted to try and draw them out, which did not end well, but since I can't draw I kinda expected it not to lol.

Anyway, I have a bit of the plot figured out and I'll do my best to carry it out.

I hope you liked this chapter, let me know what you think in the comments!

Feel free to point out any mistakes/typos you may find!

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Bye,

Ali c: