I want to say Thanks to Ravenshell for looking at the last chapter and giving me your opinion even without knowing the full context, and you are right Marzipan does look like a complete coward in the last chapter, particularly jarring considering her multiple heroic acts in previous stories...However there will be very specific reasons for her not acting...But your insight did give me the idea for Morgan in this scene to specifically guilt trip her with it...And later in Revenants of Dark Earth, Marzipan will specifically admit to Donatello how much she regrets her cowardice in that situation but we shall soon see

Once Marzipan felt she had enough distance between her and that bedroom, she stood and began to run down the hall...Only to find the White Dragon Face at the end of it...Startled she YOWLED! Her tail all floofed, her claws extended.

"Did you honestly think I would let you get away with that information?" The Dragon impersonator asked shoving her face in Marzipan's face, causing the Cat-Girl to fall on her rear

"You...You'll never get away with this Morgan!" Marzipan knew she was panicking and that a panicking Mage is no good at spells...That was why she didn't do anything when she saw Donatello being raped, she knew the safety rules of spell casting...One stammer while reciting a spell...Or one jittery hand when doing the proper gestures could result in the spell backfiring in spectacularly deadly ways.

Morgan chuckled "Oh you foolish feline...I MEANT for you to see all that! I knew of all the Creatures in your Herd...You were the one who could stop my plans...So I had to lure you in...Isolate you from your furry companions….And you fell for it hook line and sinker..."

The Snake-Girl disguised as a Dragon-Girl threw back her head and laughed baring sharp deadly teeth.

"Oh it is to laugh!" She said "The most powerful Mage in all of existence trembles before me! Because she knows in every fibre of her being that I am the superior Witch! That is why you didn't do anything to stop me from sucking the life energy out of that Turtle!"

She held Marzipan's chin her her scaly claw "Scaredy-Cat, Fraidy-Cat," Morgan taunted "So much raw power...Yet too cowardly to save a Turtle..."

Marzipan felt hot tears sting her eyes...She was a Coward...And it wasn't just because she feared bungling a spell...When she saw Donatello being raped...She remembered her days as a slave at Castle Vortex...Remembering when Duke Vortex would rape a Humanimal Slave, and she learned along with the other Surviving Slaves, that any slave who interfered would be maimed for doing so...Often would have his or her entire face torn off!

"I would eat you alive right here if I could..." Morgan said "...Unfortunately everyone with a proper nose would be able to detect the stench of death afterward, so instead I shall have to settle for burying you deep underground and leaving you to stave to death..."

"NO!" Marzipan screamed but already Belladonna was chanting a spell the floor was vanishing underneath her...She fell into the deep hole and as she fell she could see the hole closing above her.

"You died as you lived," Morgan sneered as the hole sealed "Morbidly obese." With that she returned to the Bedroom for some beauty sleep...She had so much to do tomorrow.

Marzipan, being a Cat was already starting to feel to righting reflex start to shift her body as she fell...But even if she landed on her feet she could still die...However she didn't have that much farther to fall, and she landed on something...Soft...It was a bed of moss.

I think I'll leave it at that. Read and Review