Tensions Grow
Once Katie was able to walk, the three of them got together and planned their next move, "So... If Katie is right, there should be an Argylian village to the north, and mountains to the east," Said Carrie.
"I guess that means we head south?" Asked Spenit.
Carrie nodded, then turned to Katie, "You get a say in this too. Do you want to take the chance that they wont recognise us and visit the Argyles to get that wing fixed?"
Katie looked at her injured wing and thought hard, "One part of me is saying yes, while the other keeps reminding me that it was the Argyles that did this in the first place."
Spenit and Carrie both found themselves horribly intrigued, "How did that happen to your wing?" Asked Carrie.
"It's a long story." Katie broke eye contact and blushed.
Spenit and Carrie looked at each other, then at Katie. Spenit shrugged, "I don't know if you've noticed, but we're not exactly pressed for time."
Katie looked at the ground, obviously thinking, for a minute or two. Then she looked up and said, "You might want to sit down, this'll take a while."
Katie entered the Argylian town through the north gate. She was on her way to Warfang and needed to rest for a bit before continuing her journey. As she entered the inn, she started to become nervous. Everyone around her was giving her strange looks. Some flirtatious, some angry, "Maybe I'm interrupting something important? I should hurry and get my room before any of them decide to to more then stare," She thought, increasing the speed of her paws.
When she stepped up to the counter, she was met by a burly red dragon. He looked her up and down, the asked, "What'chu want?"
"Uhm..." She looked around nervously, "A room, for one."
The inn keeper grunted, turned around, and grabbed a key off the wall before turning back to hand it to her, "Second floor, last door on your right."
"Thanks." She placed three gems on the counter, then grabbed the key.
Just as she was placing the first paw on the first step, she heard the inn keeper say, "You may want to lock your door tonight." And shivered.
"It may have been a better idea to just sleep in the woods..." She thought to herself as she neared the door to her room. Katie fit the key in the door and it swung open easily. Inside, there was one bed, a sink, and a table with a chair. Not exactly what she was expecting, but it would do. She quickly remembered what the inn keeper said and locked her door. Then she walked over to the bed and rested her aching body upon it. Not long after she started to fall asleep, there was a knock at her door. She approached it cautiously, "Who is it?"
There was no reply, just the sound of tearing and snapping wood as a huge yellow dragon burst through. Katie obviously screamed, but to no avail. The yellow dragon grabbed her by the throat and hauled her out of the room. The next thing she knew, she was thrown down the stairs and grabbed by a different paw in a different area. She struggled and squirmed, but the dragon holding her was too strong. He lifted her onto his shoulder and carried her outside. From her upside-down viewpoint, Katie could see at least a hundred muscle-bound male dragons standing around her captor, cheering. Then the one holding her spoke, "We have a new contestant everyone!" The crowd roared happily, "This little bitch is going up against, The Amazon!" This made everyone roar even louder.
Katie had no idea what The Amazon was, or what the hell was going on. All she knew, was that she was knee deep in some of the worst trouble she'd ever been in. There was no telling how this was going to turn out. The beautiful young dragoness felt the male underneath her start walking again. Anything was better then being shown off like a trophy to every male in the town. It wasn't until she was thrown onto the sandy ground that Katie realised just how wrong she was, "C'mon bitch!" Shrieked a high pitch voice from behind her, "Turn around and fight!"
Katie slowly turned, more than reluctant to see what was behind her, "Oh no..." Her jaw dropped. Standing before her was the ugliest, smelliest, toughest looking dragoness she'd ever laid eyes on, "You have got to be kidding me."
"No one's kidding anyone you little whore!" Shrieked The Amazon, "Now hurry up and get ready to fight!"
A red dragon behind Katie nudged her with something sharp, "Hurry up, new blood."
Katie shrugged, "Looks like I've got no other choice," She thought, and stepped towards the one they called The Amazon.
"Guess who won?" Rhetorically asked Katie.
"That's horrible!" Cried Carrie.
Spenit nodded with a concerned look on his face, "How'd you wind up in the forest though?"
"The loser is basically abandoned to die in the wild. I was really lucky you two showed up." Katie looked at the ground shyly, then looked up at them with intense gratitude in her eyes.
Carrie surprised Katie by hugging her tightly with her wings. Katie's shocked expression quickly changed into one of pure happiness as she felt the immense comfort and support being offered by this strange orange dragoness. In short, she felt loved, "As long as you stay with us, we'll make sure that never happens to you again."
"Thank you so much," Purred the white dragoness.
Spenit couldn't help but grin as he watched the two females embrace each other. But all good things must come to an end, "We have to get moving. The sun wont wait for anybody, and we've only got today to get to a friendly village," He interrupted.
Carrie and Katie separated, then Katie asked, "Why do we only have a day?"
Carrie answered her with a large amount of fear in her voice, "Something that's taught to every dragon in school, never spend more than one night in the wild. If anything dangerous has found your scent, it will wait till the second time you fall asleep to strike."
"Wait, so you guys went to school? Where are you from exactly?"
Spenit and Carrie looked at each other nervously, then back at Katie. Spenit decided to tell her, "Have you ever heard of Spyro?"
"Well duh! Who hasn't? He's like, the greatest hero this world has ever- Wait... You're not telling me what I think you're telling me, are you?" She took a step forward, squinting at him as if trying to get a better look.
The green male sighed and nodded, "Yep, I'm his son."
"Ah ha!" She cried, her entire body suddenly filling with pride, "I knew it! You look exactly like him, only... Greener!"
Carrie giggled.
"So let me guess, can't live up to the immense amount of fame and awesomeness of your mommy and daddy so you ran away?"
He nodded solemnly, "That pretty much sums it up."
"You have to promise you wont tell anyone we come into contact with, okay? We have no wish to experience Cynder's wrath," Said Carrie.
The excited white dragoness nodded happily, "Of course! No one will know but you guys and me, I promise." The smile on her face was so big Spenit thought it might get stuck that way. Wouldn't that be something, eh?
Once Katie was finished drilling Spenit for information about life in Warfang, the three dragons started off on their quest. Not one of them could even begin to imagine the adventure that awaited them.
Cynder threw open the doors to the throne room and stormed in. She looked like hell, and smelled just as bad. Her three advisors, Rugle, Tinara, and Zsaz stood at attention beside her throne. All three of them wrinkled their faces at her smell as she closed in on them, "Dear god m'lady, didn't you take your morning bath?" Asked Rugle, the most bold of the three.
The dark queen threw herself into the throne and laughed maniacally, "A bath? Why on earth would I need to bath, when my mate is dead and no one seems to give a shit about me?"
The three advisors looked at each other, then at her. Rugle once again opened his brown mouth to say yet another thing that the black dragoness didn't want to hear, "M'lady, you need to be in pristine condition at all times. You are the queen of this kingdom you know."
Cynder rolled her massive green eyes, "Blah blah blah blah blah... I don't give a fuck!" She rolled over on her chair and let her tail hang lose, "Go, be advisors somewhere else. You aren't wanted here."
Tinara, a small blue dragoness, surprised Cynder by speaking for the first time in years, "Spyro must be turning in his grave."
As the three dragons left, Cynder stepped off her throne and laid down facing out the nearby window. Her thoughts were on her lost beloved purple dragon. The darkness swirling around her slowly started to fade, leaving behind a sad, pitiful, broken version of the once strong and proud terror of the skies, "I just want things to go back to the way they were."
Then she started to cry.
The darkness. The screams. The pain. The blue dragon felt nothing but the former. And it pissed off his torturer like a fat kid surrounded by plastic food. What on earth could you do to some one who felt nothing, to get information out of them? Torture is all about feelings, and the blue dragon had none. He was the perfect soldier, numb, strong, and violent.
"About ready to give up you ugly snake fuck?" Spat the prisoner, displaying an evil grin.
Finally, the mysterious figure came into the light. Well, his head did at least. And the blue dragon was right, it was a snake head that appeared out of the darkness, "You and I, it seems we are meant for each other."
"How so?"
"Well," the snake retracted back into the dark and moved it's coiled body so that the tip of it's tail rested on top of a lever, "I will never give up until I get the information my buyer paid for." His tail pulled sharply on the lever, making it slam to the ground. And activate the electricity gems strapped to the blue dragon's underbelly. He screamed in agony for a few seconds, then the gems were empty of power, "And you, no matter how I hurt you, will never break."
The blue laughed, blood dripping from his mouth, "Why don't you ask me to marry you then?"
The snake cringed, "Always with the joking. Why do you do it? You aren't even that funny! Does it keep you sane? Does it distract you from the hurt? What if I didn't let you say anything? Would you go insane? Maybe then you'd tell me what I want to hear." It slithered through the cell door, closing it with it's tail.
As soon as the snake left, the blue slipped out of his chains (having starved himself till he was skinny enough to slip through), and started to search the cell for some way out. He was weak. Weak beyond imagination. But his sheer will was what forced him onwards, what dragged his dull claws against the ice cold cell walls, what gave him the idea to use his forehead as a battering ram. As he broke through the wall, he roared in victory. But as he regained his vision, he felt his limbs go weak with the sudden loss of about a hundred brain cells. Bleeding from his head, his chest, his mouth, and his wings, the blue dragon made one last futile attempt to move onward in the darkness. He found himself tumbling downwards. Then there was a loud thump, and he finally came to rest on a soft cold patch of grass. The sigh of relief was well deserved.
"Free."
Carrie, Katie, and Spenit found themselves walking into a Warfang owned village.
"Okay, I'm pretty sure no one in some random town this far outside of Warfang is going to recognise us, but just in case, we should disguise ourselves," Said Spenit.
They stood just outside the village, Carrie and Katie facing him, while he had his tail to the wall. The gate was open and there were people coming and going, so he kept his voice down. Besides the annoyingness of their small predicament, it was a beautiful sunny day, and the birds were chirping happily.
"And how exactly do you suggest we do that?" Asked Carrie, taking on a confronting stance by shifting her hips slightly and giving him a weird look.
Spenit thought for a bit, then said, "One of us has to go in and buy paint; the rest I'll leave up to your imaginations."
Carrie and Katie looked at each other, then at Spenit, "So who's going to go in there?"
"Well, I'd say Katie cause no one would recognize her, but she's badly hurt. There's me, because it's my plan, but I'd stick out like a sore thumb seeing as I am Spyro's son."
Carrie nodded confidently, "So it's up to me then." She moved closer to Spenit and gave him a kiss.
"Good luck my love," He whispered.
And with that, she disappeared around the corner and into the small town.
"Woah! What was that?" Exclaimed Katie, surprised by the kiss.
Spenit chuckled, "Sorry, we forgot to tell you before. Carrie and I are together." He beamed proudly.
Katie looked disappointed, "Aww... I was just about to hit on you too..."
Suddenly Spenit felt like he was missing out on something. He was about to change his mind, when he remembered what Carrie said, "Just remember who loves you." He snapped out of it immediately. Keeping a stern look about him, he responded properly, "It's okay Katie, I'm sure you'll find somebody some day."
"You really think so?" She pipped up, looking at him with one of the happiest/perkiest faces he had ever seen.
"Definitely! I mean, you're beautiful, you're young, you're strong, and best of all, you've got an amazingly overwhelming sex appeal." He grinned, giving her a wink.
She smiled shyly, "Thanks Spenit."
"Hey no problem."
"So what is it about Carrie that makes you choose her over me?"
Spenit grimaced, "Fuck... She just had to come at me with one of those questions." He thought. The nervous male quickly came up with something, "Well, she's... She's uhh... She's been with me longer."
Katie just stood there staring at Spenit blankly for a few seconds, then said, "So there's no difference then. Well have you two mated yet?" Spenit replied with a quick shake of the head, "Good, so that means I still have a chance."
He sighed, shaking his head while the happy female turned away from him and started to silently sing a cheerful song to herself.