Chapter 37-(Working at Muansi Sini)

A/N: I'm trying to be quick about the story these days since I will soon be gone for a WEEK. This Saturday of August to the 2nd Sunday of August. So that is a little bit more then a week, August 1st to August 8th And I am trying to get as much of the story done within my short time period. Hope you guys enjoy the new chap!

While the events of Drake's Castle were going on, during that time at the Black Mountains, Yulie and her daughter Flare had been put to work with countless thousand of other dragons who had been captured. The place the two were working at was called Muansi Sini, Draconic for Large Mine. The entire place was a giant work-place. Guards were patrolling high above on the cat-walks. They were linked together from one side of the area to the gigantic black castle that dwarfed everything. It probably went higher then it looked but Yulie was not going to bother with that place just yet. Yulie was in line with her daughter right next to her, chained together by their feet and hand. Flare was very uncomfortable with the chains being on her and she was trying all she could to break it.

"Flare darling, stop fighting! The next thing you need is to be whipped by those guards!" stated her mother.

"But these are very annoying! It feels as if the last guy who wore this had some scratching disease or something!" snarled Flare as she bit down on the chain. She suddenly was whipped hard on the back and she fell down to the floor in pain.

"The last guy who wore that had the same problem and all of his complaining ended him up dead. So if I were you, shut up, and listen to your mother." spoke a guard coldly as he looked at Flare and went off. Yulie got down and she picked up her daughter who was crying softly.

"There, there now Flare. Don't worry, Daddy will be here with the others to free us all." spoke Yulie.

"I hope you are right mom. The place that we sleep in is so scary with all the blood and people that I don't know. This entire place itself is scary. Just look at everyone's faces." whispered Flare, showing less signs of crying. Yulie did just that and she noticed how most of the dragons around them were women and children. There were a few men, more like a few who were old or were missing a limb. They soon were chugged forward from a guard behind them.

"Keep the line moving lady!" yelled the guard.

"Well excuse me, you don't have to be so rude." snapped back Yulie.

"Oh you will regret saying that Queen!" yelled the guard as he took out a club and began beating up Yulie.

"Mommy!" cried Flare. The guard only shoved Flare away as he grabbed Yulie by her hair and hit her a couple of times in the back.

"You better watch your mouth here Queen Yulie. In this part of lands, you're high social level doesn't mean jack to any of the guards, nor the Dark Ladies." spoke the guard before he spat at Yulie's face, picked her up and slapped her awake before he left. Yulie only held her back as she gasped softly in pain and wiped the spit from the guard. She had a few rough marks on her face from where the guard had slapped her, but she was a tough woman.

"Mommy, are you okay?" asked Flare with worry.

"I'm alright darling. I am not some stupid bimbo that can be so easily be miss-treated." growled Yulie in anger.

"My Lady...please...there is no point in fighting." spoke a dragon from behind. They turned around to see a light blue dragoness who had dozens of scars and bruises.

"Christ woman, what happened?" asked Yulie.

"This is what happened when I tried to fight back. I got beaten up, whipped, slashed, and even raped. So please my dear Queen, don't try and fight, or you will end up like me." spoke the dragoness.

"And your name is?" asked Yulie once more.

"My name is Eve, I come from Galit. My husband had been killed by the fire and my son had been left behind." spoke Eve.

"Well we did investigate that city as soon as the fire spread out. You said that you had a son? What did he look like?" asked Yulie as she moved up in line and looked back to her loyal citizen.

"My son...I really didn't even name him yet, I just hope that he is alright. Anyways, he is like me, but he is only a few months old." spoke Eve.

"Hey Flare...don't we know someone who we found at Galit?" asked Yulie to her daughter.

"I think so. Galadrial found some blue dragon and she had decided to take care of him along with Demitri. They named him Pythios." answered Flare.

"Was he found in a large house in the center of town?" asked Eve who seemed to feel a bit more tense.

"DL Mark did say that that was were he found the kid." said Yulie. She paused for a while before she spoke once more.

"Wait a second...you're his mother." whispered Yulie.

"So my baby boy is alive!" squealed Eve in joy.

"Oh thank you so much! I was so worried about him!" cried Eve as she hugged her queen.

"Hehe, not a problem." replied Yulie feeling a little bit embarrassed. Eve quickly realized what she was doing and she let go.

"Sorry my Lady." whispered Eve.

"It's okay, just be glad that Pythios is alive and well in good hands." smiled Yulie as she moved up in line.

After a few minutes of just standing in line, they finally had reached the front. A couple of guards were sitting there and there was one man who has red hair but a brighter shade of red, like fire almost. The man also was wielding a large sword that looked like Dante's Rebellion sword but the metal was red and the handle was black. It was Rado, a member of the Fallen Ones.

"Oh no...I can't do this." whispered Eve.

"Why what's wrong?" asked Yulie. Eve however did not speak and Yulie moved forward. When Yulie came in front of the desk, she saw Rado writing down names of all the prisoners they had.

"Name?" asked Rado with a strict tone.

"Yulie." spoke Yulie softly.

"What?" asked Rado as he looked up and realized who was in front of him.

"Oh, so Queen Yulie is her as well. Not surprised. And I take that small one you are carrying is your daughter Flare?" asked Rado. Yulie only nodded her head. She never met a member of the Fallen One, but she had heard about them through the night about the prisoners that she was with.

"Alright so Queen Yulie and Princess Flare...okay, now just wait over here so that your last chain-mate gets cleared." spoke Rado calmly. Yulie stepped to the side and noticed that the chaining was every three. So it was her, Flare, then Eve. Rado looked at the two before he placed his sight back up front and noticed Eve.

"Oh please...again?!" yelled Rado. Eve was quite and she seemed to be trembling in fear.

"This is the fifth time you had been put back on this line for escaping! Why I ought'a show you what it means to run away! Guards! Un-chain her!" ordered Rado in anger. Eve tried to flee but the guards were quick and they grabbed her and pinned her to the floor.

"No!! Let me go!" squirmed Eve. The guards were able to release her and handed her over to Rado who placed a tight grip in Eve's neck and began to drag her. Eve was screaming for help, begging Rado to let her go. Yulie with quick thinking stood in front of him.

"What are you doing woman?!" asked Rado in a quiet, angry tone.

"If she goes...then we both go." stated Yulie. Rado only looked dead-center into Yulie with his blazing eyes. They showed signs of anger and torture. Like fire itself, he can easily get out of control.

"Your damn lucky that Lady Kiara put you on the list for important people. If you were one of these sorry ass bitches I probably would've messed you up sooo badly that you wish you were never here in the first place." stated Rado coldly and in a dark, angry matter. He looked at Eve who was crying bitterly and threw her down to the floor next to Yulie.

"She will be your responsibility now. She does anything stupid, does anything to the guards, or is lack of work or clumsy...you will be the one punished. The same goes with your daughter. Eve is both of your responsibility." whispered Rado killingly.

"Make that all me Rado. I am not letting anyone hurt my daughter." replied Yulie.

"Fine your highness, if any one of them slack off...your skin is on the line." stated Rado before ordered the guards to chain Eve back with them. He got down on one knee and held Eve's head tightly, forcing her to look at him.

"Just be glad that you Queen saved your ass. You screw up, she will be the one who gets punished." spoke Rado before he let go of Eve and went back to name-checking. Yulie helped up her friend as Eve whimpered under Yulie's arm.

"Don't worry, your save with me now." whispered Yulie as they went off to get their gear.

After following the path to get their gear, they were escorted to work at a certain shaft and they were linked with the others. Yulie looked around and she looked at what the others were doing, pick-axing the wall.

"Mommy, how are we suppose to do this?" asked Flare in a quiet voice.

"It's pretty easy darling. All you got to is hold your ax tightly, raise it over your head and hit it against the wall!" grunted Yulie in effort as she chipped off a large piece of rock. Since Flare was much more smaller and younger and had a smaller ax, she was working on the ground level of the wall, while Yulie was picking off the wall with her hight and Eve was doing the same as Yulie. For many hours, they sat in the same spot, their legs numb and their body dirty as hell. Yulie noticed that what Eve was doing was that whenever she had chipped off a large piece, she placed in a small bucket in front of her and two other workers would come by and take it. One would take the bucket and the other would hand them back an empty one. As work continued, Yulie would usually look around, noticing that the workers that came by were actually little kids, mostly dragons, between the ages of 4-7.

At one moment, Yulie and Flare both saw two girls, perhaps a year older then Flare. One was a blue while the other one was a green-yellow dragon. The blue one was carrying the rocks while the other one was carrying the empty ones. The green-yellow dragon looked so weak as if she was dieing from thirst. Then she fell down to the cold hard floor, gasping for breath. It sounded as if her lungs were as dry as a desert. The blue one did not realize till her chain held her back and she ran to her fallen friend.

"Oh no, Emily!" cried out the blue dragoness as she held Emily.

"W...w...water....please..." mumbled Emily softy.

"I'll try my best Emily...just hold on!" replied the blue dragoness. Just then a shadow loomed over her and she saw a guard who seemed to be pretty pissed.

"Again you two are slacking off?! This is the last straw!" yelled the guard as he began to whip both Emily and the blue dragoness. Yulie couldn't stand watching two kids being punished like that and she tackled the guard down, lunging Eve and her daughter with her. Yulie was lost in rage as she began pounding away at the guard, beating him into a bloody pulp.

"No! My Lady please!! You must stop before we all get in trouble!" begged Eve as she held back her Queen. Yulie only panted in anger, her hair messed up and she looked back at Eve.

"I'll take it all. Beat me, screw me, I don't care...I ain't going down that easily." stated Yulie as she panted for breath. Just then a few more guards came as well as Rado.

"Oh come on! I just knew this was going to happen! Unshackle her!" ordered Rado. The guards grabbed hold of Yulie and took off the chains and brought her in front of Rado.

"Now you will see my dear Queen what I can do when I am mad." spoke Rado coldly.

"Go ahead...do what-ever the hell you want. You guys say you are so powerful and fearful, then why are you taking orders from a bunch of old ladies?!" asked Yulie in anger.

"Ohh wanna be tough then? Fine! You asked for it." stated Rado as he took out a small communication device, it looked like a crystal and soon a small image phased into the crystal.

"What now?" asked Kiara.

"Queen Yulie here is not-being good and she has some words that she would like to say some things to you Ladies." spoke Rado. Kiara only gave out a heavy sigh and looked at Rado.

"I'll send someone down." spoke Kiara before she went off. Rado only looked at Yulie evilly and then back at the large castle in the distance.

They waited for a few minutes and soon a large ice dragoness came down and she looked very beautiful. Her icy blue scales and her royal blue underbelly scales and under-wing color made it well known that she was one of the Dark Ladies. Her icy blue horns being sharp, while her white fluffy hair ran down the back of her head. Her tail was unlike any other which matched her necklace. Both looked like frost-balls. (A easier way for details, one of the ice talisman from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Pretty much that's Trinity's tail symbol and necklace) It was Trinity, the Dark Ice Lady and she landed right next to Rado.

"You shrieked?" asked Trinity blatantly

"No...and don't get me started Trinity, our problem is this woman right here." pointed out Rado.

"I'm not blind you know. I'll take it from here you hot-head." replied Trinity. Rado cursed under his breath and left, storming angerly. Trinity then looked back at the problem and she saw Yulie being held by three guards.

"What are you three doing? Get the hell off of her!" ordered Trinity. The guards without hesitation let go of Yulie and the two met face to face.

"About time we had met Yulie." greeted Trinity.

"So....you must be Trinity, one of the Dark Ladies. You don't look that bad or evil." spoke Yulie.

"Please darling...if you were to be around the time of when Malefor was a child...I was a cold-hearted, insane woman." spoke Trinity as she twirled her hair.

"She's so pretty." whispered Flare.

"Hehehe, why thank you young one. Out of us 5, you can pretty much say that I am the best looking one." replied Trinity with a seductive smile.

"Enough chit-chat though, what the hell did you do?" asked Trinity as she leveled out her eyes with Yulie's. Yulie only pointed to the two small dragoness' who were whimpering in fear and just next to them was an unconscious guard who got his face broken up by Yulie.

"Good lord woman...what do you eat?" asked Trinity.

"Let's just say...being the wife of a powerful DK does make me feel great." smiled Yulie.

"Hah, you would make a fine woman if you were one of us. But I can clearly tell that being with us is out of the question." spoke Trinity.

"Exactly...now can you at least tell me that punishing children who are dieing from thirst is not right!" stated Yulie.

"It ain't and please don't tell me that you want me to take this girl to a safe place for her to be till she recovers. I may be mother, but having one electrifying child was quite enough for me."

"Are you the only one out of the five who has a child?" asked Yulie.

"A biological related child, yes I did. His name is Voltron, he's a good young man if you don't get him on his nerves. Believe me when I say this, he sometimes makes me feel scared." whispered Trinity towards the end.

"Thanks for the tip...so you going to help this poor girl or not?" asked Yulie.

"Ohh alright...having a child did make me soft. Take this..." spoke Trinity as she held Yulie's hand and in an instant, a glass bottle with perhaps the clearest water ever, was now in Yulie's hands.

"Give it to the poor girl. This is something that I myself had created. It should make her feel better, and by tomorrow, she will be back in full health." spoke Trinity as she got up.

"Thank you so much Trinity." smiled Yulie.

"Just don't get your hopes up that because I helped you out doesn't mean that I will be-friend you or help others. I only do these kind of things once in a while and that is it. Also, since you care so much about these girls, you are going to keep them." stated Trinity as she looked back at Yulie before she flew off back to the mountain. Yulie watched her fly off before she quickly went to the weak green-yellow dragoness and opened the bottle.

"Come on girl...drink this." whispered Yulie as she poured it down Emily's throat. Emily gulped it down and she only sighed deeply and closed her eyes and fell asleep.

"Is this really suppose to happen?" asked Eve.

"Maybe this makes them feel better while they sleep." pondered Yulie. Luckily for them, work-time was over and it they were going back to their huts. Luckily for them, they were moved to a hut entirely to themselves. Yulie was carrying the young dragoness named Emily and gently placed her onto the bed and gave a sigh of relief.

"Now then...what is your name little one?" asked Yulie as she looked at the blue dragoness.

"My name is Aqua, I come from Zonith." spoke Aqua.

"That's a pretty name." replied Flare.

"Thank you Flare...your's is too." smiled Aqua.

"What happened to your parents?" asked Eve. Aqua only looked up at Eve with a sad face and she shed a few tears.

"My parents were killed a long time ago. When that Atreus guy attacked the city. My father was one of the soldiers who died during the battle. My mother was only a day pregnant with me and she raised me for only 8 years. Just last year she caught a rare heart-virus that killed her and I had no one else to go to." sniffled Aqua.

"Ohh dear me Aqua. That's so terrible! Tell you what, since you are here with us, I suppose it won't be bad having you with us." smiled Yulie. Aqua only looked up at her queen with a smile.

"You really mean that my lady?" asked Aqua.

"Of course...just how old are you exactly?" asked Yulie once more.

"I am only 9 and a half. I had been living by myself pretty much around the area of Zonith, eating nothing but sea food." spoke Aqua with a sigh.

"You surely must've ate some meat before." said Flare.

"I did, but I like to keep myself from being a little bit weighted. My mother always told me that eating too much meat will only make me meatier. From my mother, I pretty much learned a lot about food and when I was on my own, I knew just the difference between the berries and animals that were not good to eat." spoke Aqua.

"Wow...you really are a smart young lady. Do you know who this Emily is Aqua?" asked Eve.

"Emily here has been my friend since the day we were chained together. She comes from Galit and supposedly her parents were taken here. When the Fallen Ones had attacked and took her here, she tried to find her parents but so far has been unsuccessful. Also she told me that she liked this kid that began with an L. I don't remember but he is purple that's one thing." spoke Aqua.

The three ladies shot each other, knowing that there so far has only been one dragon who is purple and who's name begins with L.

"I am not surprised since the kid you are talking about, happens to be DL Mark's and Godith's purple son Leonidas. A lot of girls like him." spoke Yulie.

"I like him too, but....Emily likes him a whole lot more then perhaps any girl in the entire world." spoke Aqua.

"Like how much?" asked Flare.

"If I told you that she dreams about him, and sometimes draws him using only the black rocks, will that be enough for you guys to say that she is perhaps in love with him?" asked Aqua.

"I think that it was good enough about dreaming him...wow, just hope that Leonidas feels the same about her." spoke Eve.

"Oh trust me, he will. Anyways...time to hit bed you guys...it may not be pretty, but it's better then having to sleep with nothing over your head and on the cold, rocky floor." spoke Yulie.

"Agreed. Good night mom." spoke Flare as she kissed her mother and went to sleep. One by one, they all went to sleep. There weren't enough beds and Yulie really didn't want to ask someone to scoot over so she could sleep with them. Not to mention that she wanted young Emily to be well rested. So Yulie only took the last spare pillow around and she placed it onto the floor and lied down and plumbed her head right onto it. It wasn't long before sleep came to her and all was quiet in the Mountains.

A/N: Looks like things aren't as bad as it seems while being at the Black Mines...or are they? What will the ladies do while they wait for their loved ones to come and free them? Find out soon enough on R.O.D