Chapter 29

I decided to go find the Elder Temple while gathering everything in the Homeworld in the process. I ended up finding five different eggs, all of them belonging to Jewel and her actually joining me in finding them. Spyro and Cynder had went into Icy Peak and Enchanted Towers respectively. And I also managed to get 400 gems as I finally found the Elder Temple, it being behind the small mound that was behind the Bamboo Terrace portal. And I smiled as Jewel went to give her kids a rabbit each, since Midday Gardens was filled with them both in the main area as well as in the area with the Elder Temple. "They sure are big eaters, aren't they?" I smiled at Jewel. "They take after me very well, yes they do," Jewel smiled as she snuggled with the five different dragon hatchlings, them all having squirming bellies full of bunny.

We then proceeded to the main area again and finally went to Moneybags, who was guarding another innocent animal, this one looking 40 percent more badass than Sheila because he wore a helmet on his head and had rocket launchers on his back. That and he was also a penguin. "Moneybags, Moneybags... how much money should we pay?" I frowned at him. "Well, I suppose that you can have this naughty bird for... 700 gems?" Moneybags smiled, me being a bit surprised by the sudden high price. "That's over twice the amount for Sheila... fine," I groaned as I produced 700 gems for him that I had to warp from the Elder Temple in the Sunrise Spring to pay him. "Hehe, what a sucker..." Moneybags smirked as he let the bird out of his cage and I was even more surprised at how he managed to fly with his flightless wings!

"Sergeant Byrd, 9 double-O 6-8, awaiting orders, miss," Byrd smiled at me. "Uh, I think you'll need to go to your commanding officer for that, mister flying penguin... by the way, if you had rocket launchers on you even when you were captured, why not use them to escape?" Zoe asked him. "If I were to let off a shot when trapped in a cage, the blast would hurt me too, you know? Besides, I've wanted to conserve them... for this..." Byrd smiled as he pointed towards Moneybags and shot a rocket at him, which sent the fat bear on a wild ride until he flew into the Icy Peaks portal far off.

"By the way, where'd you two come from? I thought that dragons had been dead for over a thousand years or something?" Byrd asked, me understanding his confusion. "Naw, we just were magically warped away to the other side of the world, which we've inhabited for that long. But enough about that, have you happened to see any kind of big eggs of differing patterns on them? The Sorceress sent her Rhynocs to the Dragon Realms to kidnap all 150 of them," I frowned at Byrd. "An egg? I believe I saw a red one of some sort being used as the Sorceress's scepter," Byrd said, me gasping and growling at that. "Red... My egg is being used as a SCEPTER?! UGH!" I growled as I snorted at that. "Well, I say that you should go and kick that scaly ass of hers for messing with the wrong dragon. With those wings, you're sure to be amazing flyers, both of you," Byrd smiled at us. "More her than me, but I can fly pretty well," Jewel smiled. "Then help me back in my Hummingbird Base. I need to check on them so they can be in peak physical condition to take on the Sorceress," Byrd smiled. "Can I?" Jewel smiled at me. "Knock yourself out," I smiled at her, both of them going into the portal as I noticed that Cynder and Hunter left their portal of Enchanted Towers. And I gasped inaudibly when I happened to see the Sorceress's apprentice sitting on a rock in plain view and flipping through a spell book.

"Hmm... Hi ho hee!" she chanted, causing a nearby flower to turn big and grow teeth.. "No... Heebeedungo!" she said, the flower then turning back to normal, me seeing Hunter snicker at that as he and Cynder watched on with care. She then saw a nearby bunny and started to chant again. "Gavee, Gavoo Gavie!" she said, the rabbit mutating into a giant bunny that was four times her size in terms of bulk! He then tackled her to the ground and I gasped. "We should help her!" Zoe said to me. "You're kidding, right?" I asked her. "No, I'm not," Zoe said as I then looked at the girl and saw something truly horrifying. The rabbit gobbled her up in one bite, the spell book flying off and landing by Hunter!

When that happened, I felt something inside me snap as I remembered Zoe, Gulp, and the other fairies that I saved from his insides. I then snapped and rushed forward, connecting a blow to the rabbit's gut that seemed to make him gasp a bit and I saw the apprentice's head almost get out of the rabbit, but he gulped her down again! Hunter then rushed in and started to tussle with the giant rabbit. And when the rabbit left himself open, I collided with him once more, that doing the trick as the purple hooded girl flew out of his mouth instantly, me then finishing the rabbit as I grabbed onto his neck with my teeth and choked him to death, just like I did to bigger prey back home. I may have been sentient, but I loved the thrill of the hunt too!

"T-Thanks..." I heard the apprentice say behind me. "No problem," Hunter said as I looked at her with a frown. "Listen... um... apprentice of the Sorceress using my egg as a scepter... I think we may have gotten off on the wrong terms at first..." I said to her, the girl looking at me in confusion at that. "Um... what?" she asked. "If you really do need dragons in this world, we'll be willing to go back and ask the older Dragons to come and live here. But in exchange, we want to hatch all the dragon babies and take them home with us. We promise we'll let them visit in the future," I smiled at her, the girl looking at me conflicted as she then looked at Hunter and he smiled at her.

"I... I... Uh..." she said with confusion. "You're nervous? Can't blame ya. After all, I did literally bite you in the ass before..." I said with a frown. The apprentice sighed and then let down her hood, me gasping at how she looked when it was down. She was a literal, not even kidding, anthropomorphic BUNNY GIRL! "M-My name is... Bianca... Sorry, but... it's not up to me about what happens with the dragon eggs. It's all up to the Sorceress... but if you say you can help out with making our world magical... I'll go and see what she says..." she said. "My name's Blaze," I smiled. "I'm Hunter," Hunter smiled at her with a happy gaze. "Y-Yeah... hi... and you?" Bianca asked. "Cynder. It'd be best not to test me in particular because while Blaze may breath fire, I breathe this," Cynder smirked as she spat a gob of poison onto the grass nearby, it shriveling up as the ground then looked to be covered in black soot. "Poison?... Oh my..." Bianca gawked. "Just go back to the Sorceress and see what she says. We're still going to try and rescue the dragon eggs though, so you're aware. They are mostly our children. In fact, my one companion, Jewel, is the mother of 60 of these eggs you kidnapped," I said, Bianca gasping at that number. "60?... How can she sit after birthing that much?" she gawked. "They don't birth eggs, Bianca. They are formed between a female dragon and a mate between either a male dragon or a fairy of either gender. It all depends on how much latent magic the duo have as well as how strong their bond is. Jewel was the most productive of any of us dragons, having the biggest brood of all of the dragons for this laying session," I explained.

"I see... well... thanks for handling that bunny by the way..." she smiled. "Before you go, could you possibly turn it to normal size by any chance? I'd hate to leave it go to waste," I smiled. "Fine," she sighed as she rolled her eyes, her waving her hands and the bunny turning back to its tiny state, me rushing it and gulping it up into my belly, which I smiled at. "Okay... bye," Bianca said as she warped herself away and that left us alone. "So what do we do now?" Cynder asked. "I think that you and Hunter can have a go at the speedway instead of me. In the meantime, I'm going to go to that portal that's fashioned out of a tree house," I smiled. "I believe that portal leads to Spooky Swamp. From what texts I've read about it in my studies, people who enter that place find themselves unable to speak in anything but Haiku during their stay there," Cynder smiled. "Oh joy, my least favorite form of poetry..." Zoe groaned.