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00:12Tomorrow is my 18th birthday. I can finally leave this place for good and live with my knight, my fiancé
00:18Leon, forever.
00:23Damn, you're getting better and better at this.
00:26I only have your highness's training. I'm nothing but your loyal weapon from battlefield to bed chain.
00:33Leon, how could you do this to me? Tomorrow is the day you're supposed to come and take me as
00:39your bride. I've been waiting for this since I was ten.
00:45You're really willing to let your fiancé marry that evil dragon who feasts on brides and feel nothing at all?
00:51She's only the king's bastard after all. Being able to spare you and her majesty the burden by sending her
00:57in your place.
00:58And if he rip us her before he kills her?
01:02Then her sacrifice will be even more meaningful. Her blood will buy the kingdom at least ten years of peace.
01:08It's the best deal we could ask for.
01:27Eileen, you're not going anywhere. Come with me. We have a wedding to prepare.
01:31What's the point of preparing for a wedding? Wouldn't it be simpler to just kill me now?
01:37How could we do that? You're the princess.
01:40I never imagined that the freedom I've waited eighteen years for would end like this.
01:45Because you're the filthy little snake blood half-breed father could never stand the sight of.
01:50Eileen, mind your tongue around the princess.
01:54Guards, take her. Lock her in the water dungeon.
02:01Every ten years, the Empire must offer ten brides to the Dragon King.
02:07Otherwise, dragon fire will rain down and burn our towns to ash.
02:12This year will be different. I only want one of you. The rest may live.
02:20My patience is running out. Otherwise, you all die.
02:26Ten. Nine.
02:28Even if I live, what then?
02:30I've never had a family who loved me.
02:33I've been a walking corpse for years, but they're different.
02:38They still have family's lovers waiting for them.
02:51Eileen!
02:53Eileen, farewell.
02:55I'm sorry, Maya. I swore I'd take good care of her, but I had no choice.
02:59If I didn't do this, the people would revolt and the kingdom would fall.
03:04You're still thinking about that shameless woman?
03:06She was the one who couldn't keep her legs shut.
03:09Cheated on you with the snake folk, and that's how that little snake blood half-breed came to be.
03:13Trading her for ten years peace is a bargain.
03:16You, on the other hand, should be worrying about your own daughter.
03:19Wickie is already eighteen.
03:21Prince Silmus of the Serpent Clan.
03:22May his magic truly protect Wickie and this kingdom.
03:27A wise decision, my king.
03:29I'll go make the marriage arrangements.
03:32You pathetic old fool.
03:34This crown should have been mine long ago.
03:42Who are you?
03:44Are you a dragon too?
03:46You don't bite, do you?
03:47Can I pet you?
03:49Don't touch it.
03:50That's the fierce beast of the Sky Castle, its guardian.
03:54My lord, I offered myself willingly as your bride.
03:58You can eat me if you must.
04:00Just spare the innocent commoners.
04:02In the eyes of you foolish humans, I'm nothing but a man-eating monster, am I?
04:10I don't know if you eat people or not, but...
04:14I'm hungry!
04:16I need food!
04:17Otherwise I'll starve to death here!
04:20There is no food in the Sky Castle.
04:23Drink some Sky Water and you'll feel full.
04:25I'm hungry!
04:47My lord, wake up!
05:10don't come any closer this is a ladies bathroom men and women shouldn't share a bath
05:14but i'm not human that still doesn't mean you can just strip my head claws off whenever you want
05:22if i don't take off your clothes to wash you how can i eat clean and delicious food you can
05:29eat me
05:29i'm willing to be eaten by you but before i die could you at least let see liwan one big
05:35time
05:36how dare you mention another man in front of me
05:52he's actually more handsome than humans
05:57if i looked like this would you still reject me didn't you volunteer to be my bride i won't eat
06:05you but you must let me let me insert this huge thing down below into your body what did you
06:11say
06:12then you should become pregnant give birth to a more powerful dragon egg for me
06:16but because of this you might not be able to withstand it facing the risk of exploding and
06:22dying please please just eat me how could i ever eat you as long as you bear my egg
06:32i'll guarantee the people of your kingdom safe and unharmed you swear
06:41of course i swear by this dragon
06:43of course i swear by this dragon
06:45of course i swear by this dragon
07:12who are you have you forgotten your own husband this soon
07:15what are you for real a dragon or a man we dragons can take on any form we wish
07:22but humans cursed us when only one dragon remains in this world the curse says he can't fully change
07:28back unless the bride who truly loves him bears his child only then will the spell be broken
07:34so right now you're last night you took the initiative to have my descendants
07:40so i can manage to change back halfway
07:49seems you're still not quite used to your husband's appearance
07:52i could never fall in love with a beast
07:54i have endless time to wait until you
08:05it's freezing here
08:06can you take me away from this place
08:08i have to get out of here before i die in coldness
08:21that bitch
08:22all of this perfect man should have been mine
08:26my sweet girl the serpent clan is way stronger
08:28the dragon tribe has come down to that pathetic half dragon half human freak
08:32i don't care that one doesn't get to walk away with this
08:34i was supposed to be the dragon's bride
08:36me
08:36enough
08:39you're about to be betrothed to the serpent prince
08:41watch your tongue
08:42father why is eileen still breathing
08:44eileen was taken by the dragon king to save your life
08:47silas has already agreed to send troops against the sky castle and bring eileen back
08:51as long as she's still alive you should pray she returns to us safe
08:54what did you say are you sending an army to rescue her
08:57it's the perfect excuse to march on the dragon and besides
09:00i gave maya my word i'd look after her daughter
09:02i won't discuss this further
09:07mother it's not fair
09:09don't worry eileen will die
09:11i can guarantee
09:18let me go
09:19you you monster
09:22it seems i've been far too indulgent with you
09:32reflect on your actions here
09:35you'll stay until you've come to your senses
09:42open up
09:44let me out
09:51i'm so cold
09:53i'm so hungry
09:58the dragon sanctum is no playground for mere mortal
10:15you think you could just march in here
10:25what a high maintainments woman
10:35my lord
10:36save me
10:38i'm freezing
10:40now you finally remember me
10:42darling
10:43i'm sorry
10:54wait
10:55it's too much
11:01dear lord
11:23keys my foot and swear it
11:25swear you'll kill eileen
11:29eileen and i grew up together
11:30she's like a sister to me
11:31i
11:32i can't raise a hand against her
11:37do you actually think you're someone special
11:39i am the princess of the empire
11:41i'm not asking leon
11:43i'm ordering you to kill that wrench
11:47as you command my princess
11:50do this right
11:51and silas might just let you stay on
11:54as my little secret
11:55my lapdog
12:00i'll deploy my troops on one condition
12:04you publicly declare me
12:07the rightful heir to the throne
12:09is the sky castle not enough for you
12:12keep it then
12:13it doesn't matter
12:14once you're dead
12:15the empire falls to me anyway
12:18everything will be yours
12:20provided you marry my daughter
12:22and eileen
12:24must be mine
12:26as well
12:29not a chance
12:30she is maya's daughter
12:31old man
12:32the only woman i'm marrying
12:34is the one you've proclaimed to the world
12:36as the princess of this empire
12:38this empire
12:49my lord
12:56eat
13:00you expect me to eat this raw
13:02just like that
13:03how else are you supposed to eat it
13:04you clearly have no idea that humans don't do raw
13:07so much trouble
13:10my lord
13:14my lord
13:15how about i teach you how to grill
13:18absolutely not
13:19i ref
13:21your turn
13:22light the fire please
13:24you want me to use my noble dragon flame to cook a fish
13:28exactly
13:37um
13:38would you mind if we went back and caught another one
13:42no
13:51say uh
14:04my bride looks after me
14:06and me alone
14:16that's the first time i've seen you smile
14:18uhm
14:20yeah
14:21I
14:30you
14:31I
14:33I
14:35I
14:36I
14:36I
14:51NOAAA!
14:53NOAAA!
14:54NOAAA! STOP!
14:55YOU'RE HURTING ME! PLEASE!
15:12NOAAA!
15:13Why did you bring me here?
15:16The wind. It feels like it's screaming.
15:19It's not the wind.
15:21It's the ghosts of my kind.
15:23Look at this cliff, Eileen.
15:25What happened here?
15:27Ten years ago, I watched my father die here, pierced by human spears.
15:33I was so small.
15:36So full of hate.
15:38I jumped from this very ledge, wishing for death.
15:46But you survived.
15:52I didn't just survive.
15:54I changed.
15:55At that moment, I became the last dragon on Earth.
16:14Stop! I can hear them! The women crying!
16:18That is the legacy of my ancestors.
16:21They sang the dragon song to lure girls like you.
16:24Why? Just to kill them?
16:26To survive.
16:28To breed.
16:29But no human girl could survive the hatching of a dragon egg.
16:38They died in agony.
16:41Their bodies.
16:42They literally burst from the inside.
16:48And the dragon fire.
16:50I saw it in my dreams.
16:54My ancestors burned them alive.
16:57Hoping the flames would save the eggs.
17:00It never worked.
17:06Now you know why I keep you at a distance.
17:08To touch you is to sentence you to death.
17:17He told me the truth, how every bride before me died, burned and torn apart from the inside.
17:23I should be screaming, but all I see is a man drowning in a curse.
17:26I won't let him face it alone.
17:29Get away!
17:30Didn't you hear me?
17:31If you don't run, you'll be the next name carved into these stones!
17:36My inner beast has smelled your blood.
17:38It's begging me to tear you apart!
17:40Then why are you shaking?
17:42If you were just a beast, you wouldn't be suffering like this just to warn me.
17:53Because I refuse to be a monster like my father.
17:57I won't watch you turn to ashes in the flames.
18:00Then don't be him.
18:02I'm right here.
18:03I'm not afraid.
18:05Her kindness is a trap.
18:07If I let her stay close, I will lose control and kill her.
18:11If I can't make her leave, I'll make her wish she had never stayed.
18:21You want to save me?
18:23I'll make you regret every heartbeat you spend in this castle.
18:27Noah?
18:28What are you doing?
18:30Kindness is meaningless to a monster, Eileen.
18:33Since you've chosen this fate, I will lock you away and show you the true power of the dragon.
18:39I will break you before the curse does.
19:16Noah, let me go! Why are you doing this?
19:19The humans and the serpent clan. They are coming for my head. I need the dragon's power to kill them.
19:26Then let me help you.
19:28Don't lock me away like a prisoner.
19:31You don't understand. The more I stay a dragon, the less I can control the hunger for you.
19:38Wally.
19:41Keep your pet quiet, or I'll feed him to the storm.
19:46You're becoming a monster before the battle even begins.
19:55Stay alive. Even if you hate me.
20:02So, she likes it rough. A little Fost pay to keep the marriage spicy?
20:09Eileen, you're getting more and more to my taste.
20:15I can't wait to see you scream in my chairs.
20:19The king thinks I'm his savior. He actually believes I'll help him rescue you, his daughter, for free.
20:27Foolish old man. I will use the human army as bait to lure the dragon into my curse formation.
20:36Once the beast is trapped, I will swallow the empire and the sky hustle in one bite.
20:46And you, Eileen, you are the ultimate key. You are the dragon's heart and the human princess.
20:54By making you my bride, I won't just be a king.
21:01I will be the god of the three realms.
21:04Your scream will be my victory song.
21:16I brought some food from the human realm. The kind you used to like.
21:21I don't want your cakes. I want my freedom.
21:24Freedom. To run back to that traitor, Leon? Or to be eaten by the serpents?
21:31That is my home. I won't die.
21:34Don't you understand yet? You are just a disposable pawn.
21:39They can sacrifice at any moment. You have no home anymore.
21:42Your freedom is to stay right here and live.
21:49Noah, are you okay? Stop hurting yourself.
21:53I'm trying to keep you safe.
21:58Why can't you just obey me?
22:00Because I'm your woman, not your trophy.
22:03Fight the beast, Noah. Don't let it win.
22:19Stay back.
22:21The dragon, it wants to tear you apart and consume you.
22:25No, Noah. Look at me.
22:27Not with the dragon's eyes, but with yours.
22:30It's too late.
22:31The scent of your blood, it's calling to the beast.
22:34Then listen to this.
22:36This is a human heart.
22:38If you want me, you have to find your own again.
22:45Why? Why don't you run?
22:47I'm a monster, Eileen.
22:48A monster wouldn't try this hard to protect me from himself.
23:12There are thousands of them.
23:14Leon and Silas.
23:15They've actually come.
23:18They don't come for you, Eileen.
23:19They come for the power they think I possess.
23:22Noah, please.
23:23Don't let the dragon take over again.
23:25I don't need the dragon for these ants.
23:28Watch.
23:34It's a slaughter.
23:38They never stood a chance.
23:49Look at you, Noah.
23:51Playing house with a human girl while your kingdom burns.
23:55You're lucky the storm hasn't ripped your tongue out yet, Silas.
23:59Oh, but you should thank me.
24:01Do you even know who you're protecting?
24:04I'm nothing to you, Simus.
24:05Leave us alone.
24:06You're the secret daughter of the High King, the blood of the very man who hunted Noah's father to death.
24:15Is it true?
24:16You carry the blood of my father's murderer?
24:19I didn't know.
24:21Noah, I never knew.
24:24She's the bait dragon, and you fell for him.
24:42Duke, my love, save me!
24:51I was so small, so full of hate.
24:56I jumped from this very ledge, wishing for death.
25:02The man who killed my father, he did it for Maya.
25:06You have her eyes.
25:08Tell me the truth!
25:10Maya was my mother, but I am not Duke's blood.
25:13I am the child of her shame, not his crown!
25:19Look at her, the king's pure little bird.
25:22Don't you want to see what happens when you clip her wings?
25:27And what do I get in return, my queen?
25:30Let your guards defile her.
25:32Make her your vessel.
25:33Do this, and I am yours.
25:49No!
25:55Duke, please.
25:57She has my eyes.
25:59She is innocent.
26:01Don't, don't let them kill her.
26:02Innocent, she is the living proof that you were touched by those snakes.
26:08Just let her live as a servant.
26:11Anything.
26:13This is the serpent's filth.
26:15You are my greatest shame.
26:16You are a curse I must keep in the shadows.
26:25Noah, look at you, guarding a woman who was born in my people's fifth.
26:29Does she smell like the snake pit yet?
26:33I will rip the tongue out of your head, Silas!
26:37She is mine!
26:39Enjoy the leftovers, dragon.
26:41When I'm done, this castle becomes my nest.
26:44And Eileen, she'll finally come home to the snakes.
27:00Attack! Kill the dragon!
27:02Bring me the girl alive!
27:04Bring me the girl alive!
27:11Bring me the girl alive!
27:15Take a babe!
27:19Come, baby!
27:21Come, baby!
27:41readily
27:44Your heart belongs to me now, Noah.
27:48Noah! Get up!
27:51Don't let him take you!
28:03I will tear you into bloody pieces!
28:08Get out of my reel!
28:12Impressive, Noah. You burned half your life force just to kill a... shadow.
28:18No! No! A shadow?
28:22I am everywhere. And I am nowhere.
28:26If a mere projection could break your wings, imagine what I will do when I arrive in person.
28:34Next time it won't be a test. It will be your funeral.
28:40And Eileen will finally have a real king.
28:48Noah! No, please, my lord! Don't die! Don't leave me alone in this darkness!
29:04Noah, look at me. His words are just poison. I am here. I am not going anywhere.
29:10I should have burned them all! I am still a monster to them. And maybe to you too.
29:14No. You are the man who saved me. But if you keep acting like a beast, you're just giving them
29:21what they want.
29:28And what do you want, Eileen?
29:30I want a husband. Not a weapon.
29:35Learn to control the fire inside, Noah.
29:39If you want me to stay, show me you can be more than just a dragon.
29:52How is she still alive?!
29:57That servant should be dragon beat.
30:00Simus, go get her!
30:01Bring her back so I can make her pay myself!
30:06Did I hear a command, Wiki?
30:09I... I am the princess!
30:12You are my fiancé!
30:13You are nothing but a pawn for this alliance.
30:17Don't mistake a snake's patience for loyalty.
30:26I'll bring the dragon back, but the girl...
30:29She belongs to me now.
30:33A pawn?
30:34You think I'm just a piece on your board?
30:37I am the blood of the Empire.
30:40If Silas wants that servant so badly, he can have her corpse.
30:46I'll burn the Sky Castle to the ground before I let her take my throne.
30:50Or my man!
30:52You want to see her scream, Silas?
30:58I'll make sure she's screaming for mercy when she meets her end.
31:06Too hard, Noah.
31:08You're trying to touch me, not crush a stone.
31:10Again.
31:13This is ridiculous.
31:15My claws are for killing, not for stroking skin.
31:19If you want to be with me, you have to learn.
31:22Softly, like a breeze.
31:25Is this... what humans call gentle?
31:29Yes.
31:30And try not to singe my hair with your breath next time.
31:36You are a very demanding bride, Eileen.
31:45And I have kept my promise.
31:47I am listening to you now.
31:49But Eileen, I need you to feel my world, too.
31:53Not just the one you imagined.
31:55But the one I truly live in.
31:57You must see the sky through a dragon's eyes.
32:00Not just a prisoner's.
32:04Noah, the heights.
32:07They remind me of the storm.
32:08Of the way you grabbed me in the darkness.
32:11I'm afraid of that power.
32:15The storm is only one side of me.
32:18Humans fear the wind because it can tear down houses.
32:21But they forget it's the same wind that carries a bird home.
32:26It sounds so violent.
32:28It feels like it's screaming.
32:30Listen closer.
32:31If you don't fight it, the wind becomes a cradle.
32:37Close your eyes, Eileen.
32:39I want to show you the world not as a battlefield, but as a masterpiece.
32:48Noah!
32:49We're going too fast!
32:51Please, put me down!
32:52Look in your eyes, Eileen!
32:53Look at what it means to be a dragon!
33:05It's beautiful!
33:07The world looks so small from here.
33:10The humans only see the storm.
33:13They never look high enough to see the peace above it.
33:18I'm not afraid anymore.
33:20With you, I feel... free.
33:22Then stay here.
33:24Be the only light in my endless sky.
33:41Eileen, there is a reason I haven't... claimed you yet.
33:45I thought... you were just trying to be human for me.
33:48It's more than that.
33:50To truly stabilize my power, we must perform the great rule of the dragons.
33:54A wedding?
33:55A soulbinding.
33:56Our hearts must beat as one during the union.
33:58Only then will the beast truly submit to my will.
34:01You mean...
34:03If we don't do this, you'll never be able to control the dragon?
34:06If I don't, I will eventually lose my mind.
34:09But I won't force you.
34:10Show me the way, Noah.
34:12I want to be your bride.
34:22A hundred years of darkness.
34:25I thought that's all I deserved.
34:27Hunger kept me alive.
34:29I figured one day it'd swallow me whole.
34:31I was just... waiting to die.
34:34My whole life, I've been invisible.
34:37No one wanted me in that palace.
34:40I was a shadow with no name.
34:42A servant.
34:45Until...
34:45You were never invisible to me.
34:48The moment you stepped onto that sacrificial ship.
34:52You became the only place I could breathe.
34:55A human heart.
34:56Taught the beast how to feel.
34:59Then let the girl with no home find one in your arms.
35:03I don't need a palace, Noah.
35:05I just need you.
35:07Everything else, I can learn.
35:12This...
35:12is my vow.
35:14As long as the sky remains and the dragon fire burns,
35:17you are no servant.
35:19You are the only queen...
35:21of the sky.
35:24Aelin,
35:25will you bind your soul to mine?
35:27Through blood and breath.
35:29Through fire and eternity.
35:31Yes. A thousand times yes.
35:33I choose you, Noah.
35:35In this life, and every life that follows.
35:47Noah, just now...
35:50What is it?
35:52Nothing.
35:53Maybe my eyes were just bluttered by tears.
35:56Noah, just now...
36:04What is it?
36:04Nothing.
36:05Maybe my eyes were just bluttered by tears.
36:07I have given you both.
36:14My ancestors used this altar to shackle their brides.
36:17To force a union.
36:19But I have cleared the blood of the past.
36:22Today, this place will witness a union...
36:25of choice.
36:26Does the ceremony scare you, Noah?
36:29I can feel your heart racing.
36:31It scares me that I might fail you.
36:33The ritual will drop my barriers.
36:35For one hour, I will be as vulnerable as a human child.
36:39But it is the only way to kill the beast inside me.
36:42And become the man you deserve.
36:43You are already that man, Noah.
36:45The beast is just a shadow.
36:48Don't do this for the ritual.
36:50Do it for us.
36:56I will give you a wedding that the legends will sing about.
36:59A wedding where the dragon finally finds his peace.
37:03And the girl finally finds her throne.
37:13That's strange.
37:15Huh?
37:16Maybe I'm just too excited.
37:19My heart...
37:20It feels like it's beating incorrectly.
37:22Mine too.
37:24For a hundred years, it's the first time my heart has raced like this.
37:29Beat away, little bride.
37:31When your heartbeat sinks with mine,
37:34you will know who your true master is.
37:41Shh!
37:42Is he coming?
37:46Close call.
37:47We have to finish this tonight, Ollie.
37:52Tomorrow, I want to see the Dragon King's eyes when he realizes he's no longer alone.
38:01Am I just too tired?
38:04It's nothing.
38:06Maybe it's just the moonlight.
38:23Maybe it'll be in the background.
38:25It makes it easier for everyone.
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