DRAGON HEROES
Picking up where the last story left off, Draco is about to face the ordeal of cleaning up Lily's hut while she and the others are going shopping, least that's what they thought. There's going to be some surprises and twists in this story, so get ready! As I mentioned in the previous story, Baby's Day Out, this one is also an idea suggested to me by my friend BlueMario1016, though only a small part of it, namely the bit when Draco cleans Lily's hut.
Lily on the Edge
Chapter 1 – Cream the Rabbit
Draco watched the morning sun rise as he contemplated yesterday's turn of events. After coming up with the plan for Lily to go as a baby in disguise to rescue her baby cousin Flora from the Pyre Squad, he now owed her the favour of fixing up her hut, which he imagined was going to be a lot of hard work.
As headed to the kitchen, Draco could see Darky watching television and having his breakfast. He was enjoying the cute magical horse cartoon. Bowser was nowhere in the hut, which made Draco assume that he might be outside. Darky focused on the television, not noticing that his Charizard brother was up making his cereal. It was then when Draco joined in that he finally noticed.
"Morning, Draco," he said. "Did you have a good sleep?"
"Yeah, fairly much," replied Draco. "I'm still not really keen on having to do all that cleaning up for Lily."
"Talk about a major bummer," said Darky.
"It just isn't fair," grumbled Draco. "Just because I suggested that she poses as a baby to save Flora without falling into the Pyre Squad's trap, she got mad at me for it! It was really the only solution to the situation back there yesterday!"
"Don't feel too bad about it, Draco," soothed Darky. "We at least got Flora back to her family, and while Lily can have a temper, which I never expected from a girl who's always positive and cheerful, she is still nice and does her best to make us feel better whenever we're feeling down."
Draco took Darky's words with a lot of thought. They had known Lily for months, and so far her positive traits outweighed the negative, The Charizard smiled and nodded in agreement, and then he continued eating his cereal while watching the television.
Presently, there was the sound of the Tornado landing near the village. Draco and Darky knew that it was Tails, which meant that they were about to meet the new visitor Blaze told Cynder about.
All the dragons came out of their huts to greet their arrivals. In no time, they could see Tails and Blaze, back in their usual clothes, making their way to the village, and following them was a beautiful female rabbit wearing a t-shirt and long pants. Accompanying her were two cute tiny creatures. One was light blue with yellow tips, pink wings, a red bow tie, and a yellow round orb floating on the tip of its head. The other was a white with blue tips on its head, hands, feet, and tail, yellow tips on its wings, a pink bow tie, and a blue halo floating on its head. It looked similar yet different to its blue counterpart.
"Hello, everyone," greeted Tails. "We're glad that you're up at this hour, because here is Cream the Rabbit, and she will be visiting for the day."
"Good morning, dragons," said Cream politely. "My name is Cream, and I am pleased to meet all of you."
"Nice to meet you, Cream," greeted Cynder. "I am Cynder, and over here are my friends Draco, Jakkin, Percival, Lily, Torden, Bowser, and Darky."
"How are you?" asked Bowser. "My, it really is a pleasure to meet such an incredibly cute little bunny rabbit like you, Cream."
Tails and Blaze winced as they knew that Cream does not like to be called cute by anyone else but her mother.
"Uh, thanks for the compliment, Bowser," said Cream awkwardly. "But there's something you need to know, um, a bunny can call another bunny 'cute,' but when other animals do it, it's a bit, uh…"
Bowser gasped in shock. "Oh, crud, I'm really sorry for that!" he said as he blushed with embarrassment. "Where are my manners? Here I am stereotyping you, and to think that I've been mislabelled all those years back, ugh!"
"No, it's perfectly fine," assured Cream. "You just didn't know."
"Hey, what's with those little guys on your shoulders?" asked Torden.
"Oh, these are my Chao," replied Cream. "This blue one right here is my closest friend Cheese, and this one is a Hero Chao, and his name is Butter."
"Chao!" greeted Cheese and Butter.
The dragons smiled. Tails then checked his watch.
"Well, it looks like I better hurry back to the lab," he said. "Blaze and Cream, may you stay safe, and to the rest of you guys, show her around the park."
"Okay, Tails," said Blaze. "See you when you get back, my love."
"No problem, Tails!" called the dragons. "We'll try to give Cream a real treat!"
Tails nodded in approval. He then got back on the Tornado to start up the engine. The Tornado whirred loudly and it took off into the sky. Everyone watched as it disappeared over the horizon.
"So, what shall we do now, my friends?" asked Cream.
"I've got an idea," said Lily before anyone else could speak up. "There's a shopping mall up north in the city of Nagoya. I'm gonna take you, Blaze, Cynder, and Percival out to the place while Draco will be staying here to fix up my hut!"
Draco groaned as he wanted to join in on the shopping fun with his friends, but he remembered that he promised as part of his repayment to Lily.
"Meh, Torden and I are goin' to do our sparrin' session," said Jakkin. "We won't be missin' much on what you guys will be doin' for the day."
"Let me join in on the fighting, you two," said Bowser.
"Excellent, we can take turns together," smiled Torden.
"How long will you be back from your shopping, Lily?" asked Draco. "I need to know so that your hut will be in top shape by the time you head."
"Oh, we'll be back soon," said Lily. "Now be a good boy, and get busy, Draco. You'll find the list of the chores to do in my room."
"As you wish," replied Draco.
"Come along now, guys!" said Lily impatiently. "I'll show you where this shopping mall is. You are going to be in for a pleasant surprise."
"Oh, I love surprises!" exclaimed Cream. "I can hardly wait to see it!"
"Well, let's get going," said Blaze, and together, the five made their way into the forest. As they were walking, Percival looked back to see Draco sighing dejectedly. He thought it was both unfair and unusual of Lily to single him out like that, and he began to wonder what has come over her. With no other choice, Percival quickly hurried to catch up with his friends.
Author's Note: I couldn't resist making another reference to Zootopia with Bowser and Cream's dialogue. That really got me some chuckles, hahaha!