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