The winged reptile aimed his arm cannon at Fox and Krystal. "Normally, General Scales delivers me my meals, but another one just walked on it. I look forward to slurping your blood!"

Fox and Krystal readied their staffs and aimed them at the winged reptile. Fox snarkily said back to the beast, "Sorry, but eating us will give you a bad case of food poisoning."

Krystal then followed that by saying, "That's right! Now, if you value your life, you will hand the SpellStone over to us peacefully."

The winged lizard laughed evilly and arrogantly. "Isn't that adorable? My mere meal thinks they could kill me." He then aimed his arm cannon at Krystal. "You know what they say about pride coming before the fall, little girl!"

"It's not a mere death threat. If Scales wins, then the planet falls apart, and everyone on it dies. Including you."

"You think I would be so scared that I would prefer a life under oppression from CloudRunners and EarthWalkers over ultimate martyrdom!? You think I would fear for my life so badly that I would rather live in servitude than not live at all?! If I give you the SpellStone, the other tribes of Sauria will walk all over us again! And if you think I would find such a life preferable to an honorable death, then you are a pair of cowardly worms!"

Fox sneered, "That's the problem with fanatics like you. You never listen to reason."

The armored winged lizard laughed evilly yet again. "You two obviously don't know who you are dealing with. I am the mightiest warrior under the command of General Scales! I! AM! DRAKOR! When General Scales began his experiments here on Dragon Rock, I volunteered to be his first test subject, hoping that his experimentation would make me stronger. And it did! It was a painful process, but it paid off in the end!" Drakor charged up a massive amount of energy in his arm cannon. "Allow me to demonstrate!" He then fired his charged energy shot at Fox, only for Fox to instantly activate his reflector, causing the blast to bounce right back at Drakor. The blast knocked Drakor against the wall, and then he collapsed, clutching to his chest in pain as he got back up. Drakor snarled at the vulpine duo. "You rotten vermin!" He then spotted the reflector on Fox's belt. He knew what he had to do. He then charged at Fox, but Fox dodged his charge by rolling out of the way, but then Drakor whipped his tail at Fox, knocking him to the ground, then grabbed his Reflector with his left hand, then pressed his foot down on Fox's chest and viciously ripped the Reflector from Fox's belt as Krystal charged at Drakor shrieking her Cerinian war cry, but Drakor took off into the air before Krystal could succeed in striking at him with her staff. Drakor smugly grinned at the vulpine duo, saying, "Let's see you be so high and mighty without this protecting you!" He squeezed his hand tight and smashed Fox's Reflector to tiny bits of scrap metal.

The two vulpines then drew their staffs but Drakor started firing at them. Fox and Krystal started dodging the blasts that Drakor was shooting out at them, but with nothing to use as cover, the vulpine duo couldn't gain a breather so they could strategize a way to counterattack Drakor. Drakor kept firing a few shots aimed at Fox, then at Krystal, then back and forth between them as they kept dodging the blasts.

Then Krystal had an idea. She then used her telepathy to communicate it to Fox. Fox! I have an idea! I'll draw his fire, then you strike from behind!

Fox instantly started to worry. Draw his fire!? But you'll...

I'll be fine!

Fox didn't want to take Krystal's word for it, but Krystal did seem to be giving him a choice in the matter. As soon as Drakor prepared to take another aim at Fox, Krystal then shot a few Fire Blasts at Drakor, shouting, "Hey! Ugly!"

Drakor angrily turned towards Krystal. "You dare!?"

"Come and get me, you freak!"

Drakor flew a foot or two in the air, then swooped down, charging at Krystal, but she dodged his swooping attack in panic as Drakor's use of a close-range attack threw off her strategy.

Krystal then jumped in the air, preparing to strike at the evil Drakor, but Drakor turned quickly enough for his tail to slam Krystal into the wall. Before Krystal could fall back to the floor, Drakor grabbed her by the throat and flew upwards, but Fox kept shooting at Drakor with his Fire Blast causing him to stagger and drop Krystal. As Krystal fell toward the floor, Fox dashed right over to her and caught her before she could land on the floor. As soon as Fox landed safely on the floor, with Krystal in his arms, Krystal immediately said, "Thanks, Fox." Then Krystal immediately vanished, much to Fox's bafflement. Then, Fox gasped in terror as Drakor charged at him, preparing to grab him by the throat. Fox quickly rolled out of the way, but as soon as he finished dodging, he saw Drakor's movements. His back was pulled backwards and he squirmed around like he was trying to get something off of his back. Fox saw something hit the back of his neck hard and jolts of electricity were surging right through it. In an instant, Krystal reappeared, and she was clutching onto Drakor's wings and ramming the tail end of her staff into the back of Drakor's neck. Drakor screamed in pain and electrical shocks burned away at him. He then flew backwards, slamming his back, slamming Krystal against the wall. Krystal gasped in pain as her back hit the wall faster than she could blink. She ended up letting go of her grasp on Drakor and started sliding back to the floor.

Drakor prepared to fire an energy blast at her, but then Fox dashed right up to him and smacked him in the back of the head with the head end of his staff faster than he could even react, slamming him into the floor. As Drakor's face met the floor, Fox saw something in the armor on Drakor's back. He recognized it. It was the SpellStone! He rammed the tail end of the staff next to the SpellStone and struggled to pry it from Drakor's armor. He pulled on it with all his strength, but only got part way pried out of the armor before Drakor got up again, shook Fox off his back, and whipped at him with his tail, knocking him back against the floor.

Drakor then aimed his arm cannon at Fox, preparing to blast him to smithereens, but then Krystal jumped onto Drakor's back, and her weight on his body threw him off balance so suddenly that his aim was severely thrown off and he couldn't aim anymore. Krystal grabbed onto the SpellStone that Fox pried part way out of Drakor's back armor, and pulled on it with all her strength, saying, "Thanks for loosening the SpellStone, Fox!" She then pressed her feet on Drakor's back while still holding onto the SpellStone, and then jumped off of him with all her strength. She backflipped onto the floor, whipped out her staff, fired a few Fire Blasts at Drakor, stunning him, then dashed over to Fox, handing the SpellStone over to him. Fox quickly put it in his backpack, thanking Krystal.

Drakor screamed in rage, and pointed his arm cannon at the vulpine duo, and attempted to fire at them. But nothing happened, baffling Drakor as he kept trying to fire over and over again. But no projectiles were fired. "What!? What's happening!? Why is my arm cannon not working anymore!?"

Krystal smugly smirked at Drakor. "The SpellStone implanted in your armor acted as a battery to power your arm cannon. But we took it from you. You can have it back over our dead bodies."

Drakor let out a seething scream. "I WILL DESTROY ALL WHO DEFY GENERAL SCALES!" He then flew up towards the ceiling and slammed his fist into a switch on a higher point in the room. All of a sudden, the floor started moving. The floor was instantly divided into four sections that slowly separated further and further apart from each other. Beneath the floor was a gargantuan lava pit. Krystal felt uneasy. She hated lava pits. She and Fox prepared their staffs and tried to keep their wits about them.

Drakor flew up high in the air and prepared to swoop down on the vulpine duo, preparing to grab them and toss them into the lava pit below. Fox and Krystal started shooting their FIre Blasts at him with reckless abandon. As soon as Drakor approached as he swooped down, the vulpine duo dodged the attack, but before Krystal could even react, Drakor grabbed her by the head, and tossed her into the lava pit, leading to her screaming in terror as she fell.

Fox heard Krystal's screams. "Krystal!"

Krystal hurriedly pointed her staff back at the platform and pressed a glyph on her staff, and in an instant, energy from it started to propel her forward, towards the platform. She rocketed into the air, soaring back to the platform that Drakor threw her off of.

But a terrible thing happened.

Krystal's Rocket Boost ran out of power, and her ascent pretty much started to cease. But before she could start plummeting again, Fox quickly jumped and used his Fox Illusion gadget to dash right after to her. He grabbed her, and activated his Fire Fox gadget and aimed it at the direction back to the platform. Flames ignited around the vulpine duo, but then they shot back to the platform. Drakor charged at them to prevent their recovery, but Fox's Fire Fox brutally assaulted him, burning him up and by the end of the attack, the two foxes safely landed back on the platform, while Drakor struggled to re-orient himself. Fox and Krystal each aimed their staffs at one of Drakor's wings and fired their Ice Blasts at them.

Drakor's wings were each frozen solid as layers upon layers of ice coated them until finally, the wings were frozen solid. Drakor was rendered unable to flap them to keep himself airborne, and he fell down into the lava pit below. He splashed into the lava and screamed in pain as he surfaced. He screeched, "I WILL BE A MARTYR! GENERAL SCALES WILL AVENGE MEEEEE!"

Krystal shouted in reply, "If you can't destroy us, what chance does General Scales have? Burn, you vile beast! And soon, General Scales will burn too!"

Drakor continued to scream in rage, "YOU WILL DIE! YOU WILL DIIIII…" but Drakor burned to death in the lava and as he perished, the floor closed up again, sealing the lava pit. Fox and Krystal breathed a sigh of relief that the lava pit was sealed up again. Then a hatch opened in a wall.

Fox breathed, saying, "Well, I'm glad that the lava pit is closed up again."

"Me too." Krystal replied. "And I'm glad to see that heartless beast, Drakor, perish the way he did. Those who serve a ruthless tyrant such as General Scales deserve no mercy. Anyway, thanks for rescuing me, Fox. If it weren't for you, it would have been my flesh that got incinerated."

"You're welcome, Krystal. I'm always happy to help. Anyway, we got the third SpellStone. Now, let's get out of here."

"Good idea." Then Fox and Krystal spotted the newly opened hatch and immediately jumped into it, and started sliding down a chute.

A small hatch on the outer wall of the tower at the center of Dragon Rock opened and Fox and Krystal instantly slid out of it. They landed on their butts on the ground, but it didn't take long for them to regain their footing. As soon as they were back outside, Prince Tricky ran up to them. He excitedly shouted, "Fox! Krystal! You did it! You got another SpellStone!"

Krystal picked Tricky up and hugged him, saying, "I told you we'd make it, Tricky! Though I will admit, I barely escaped with my life back in there." She put Tricky back on the ground, gently, and patted him on the head while he had a terrified expression after what he just heard. "But don't worry. Together, Fox and I are unstoppable."

Kite flew up to the vulpine duo. "You two are safe! Thank the Krazoa!"

Krystal hugged Kite again.

Lord Godora asked, "And what of the beast that General Scales had lurking in that tower?"

Fox replied, "No problem. We killed it."

"Now get that SpellStone back to the Volcano Force Point Temple. Then there will be only one more before we can all return home."

Then the HighTop, Teala, said, "There's an old friend that we would all like to see."

Fox stretched his arms out. "Thanks guys, but I'd like to get some rest before we head back."

Krystal replied, "I highly agree. We just killed a dangerous beast, so I think we should rest up a bit before heading back. How about we do so inside that shuttle?"

Fox blushed, but it seemed like a great offer to him. "Sure. That'll be great."

Tricky then shouted, "But what about me? Don't I get to go in that shuttle with you?"

"Sorry, Tricky. Stay nearby Lord Godora."

"But you guys are like family to me!"

"Yes, but what we're about to do in that shuttle might not be appropriate for children. Just be patient." She then gave Prince Tricky a kiss on the cheek like a loving mother would.

Fox was carrying the sleeping bag from the Arwing. When he and Krystal got to the shuttle that Krystal used to escape from the collapsing Cerinia, Krystal entered the combination near the entry hatch, causing the hatch to open while pressurized air hissed nearby. Fox and Krystal stepped inside, and when they were in the shuttle, she pressed another and the hatch closed. Krystal then replied, "Too bad I left the mattress that was in this shuttle back in Cape Claw. Fortunately, I've got another one." She then went to the opposite side of the shuttle and got another mattress just like the one she left at Cape Claw and laid it on the shuttle floor. Fox put the sleeping bag on top of the mattress. "Well, I was hoping to tell you a few new things about my tribe's culture, but I felt that they may be a bit too racy for Prince Tricky to handle, so, I was hoping that we'd do it in private."

Fox was already feeling a triggering of arousal knowing where this was going, but he sat down attentively. "Okay. What is it?"

Krystal then said to Fox, "I was wondering if I would show you a certain tradition among our tribe. During our festivals, the women of our tribe (myself included) perform a special dance that we call, a 'mating dance.' I recognize that your culture calls it "belly dancing," and I see why they'd call it that since our midriffs move around a lot during the dance. Given the name, you'll definitely find it pretty… arousing. I know you'll want to refrain from masturbating to it, because the women of your culture find it perverse and disturbing, but I and our other tribe women view it as a sign of approval, so..." She then started rubbing the hilt of her staff with her hand. "Feel free to fap to my luscious dance."

Fox blushed profusely. "You definitely take pride in your sexuality, Krystal."

"Thanks. Do you have any warrior-of-the-jungle type music on you?"

Fox looked at his PDA on his wrist, saying, "Okay, let me see…" Fox then scrolled to the mp3 player on his PDA and he looked at his files. He then found a music track from a movie about a jungle warrior tribe, then he set up the audio to surround sound, then asked Krystal, "I found one. You ready?"

"I'm ready, Fox. Now start it up." Fox pressed play on the audio player on his PDA and the jungle warrior music started playing. Only a few mere milliseconds after the music started, Krystal immediately started very rapidly jiggling her hips back and forth to the fearsome flute playing and especially the passionate, rapid drum beats. As she fiercely jiggled her hips back and forth, her smooth, beautiful, sexy midriff rapidly undulated and her breasts bounced around uncontrollably. She kept jiggling her hips as she moved her body into a position where Fox could see her posterior and moved her tail out of the way so Fox could see it jiggle around. Fox felt enticed and aroused by it all. Krystal's bouncing breasts, her twisting tummy, her rumbling rump, Fox quickly put his hand in his pocket and started rapidly moving it. As Krystal continued dancing, Fox kept moving his hand in his pocket, and the more rapidly Krystal wiggled her hips, the more rapidly Fox moved his hand. He kept feeling a sensation of physical pleasure building up and building up inside him, a warm, wonderful feeling in him reaching a peak of ecstasy, and then...

A sheer bursting of pleasure happened within him, and he breathed a sigh of exhaustion. He continued to watch Krystal's sensual dance until the music track ended. When the music track ended, Fox turned off his mp3 player, while Krystal asked, "Well, how did you like it?"

"I loved it. Very much."

Krystal spotted a strange blotch on Fox's pants. Particularly the crotch area. "I see. While I would have liked it if you… expressed your appreciation more openly, I don't blame you for keeping it concealed."

"So, did you always dance like that in your people's festivals?"

"Yep! It was an effective method of titillating any man I became eager to sleep with. Of course, I do remember one festival specific. About three months after the post-Kaijira Moment of Celibacy ended, our tribe battled and killed a monstrous demon, saving a group of small villages, and preventing so many deaths. We had one of those festivals afterwards, but because of the horrible things the Nemarian women went through, thanks to Kaijira and his thugs, we asked them to stay in their homes during the festival, in Elysia's case, our palace. And then, I attended the festival, danced for my fellow male warriors, had sex with them, and overall, had a wonderful time. But then, I noticed something..."

Krystal breathed heavily in the afterglow of making love with one of the males of her tribe, a strong, sexy man named Tokara. She was sweating and her heart was pounding rapidly. "Well, Tokara, that was fun, wasn't it."

"Yep. It was fun. So much fun. By the way, your majesty, I absolutely love the way you delivered the final blow on that demon. It was totally epic."

"Aw, you flatter me. And I thought I told you to just call me Krystal."

But she heard a voice call out to her. "Hey, Krystal!"

Krystal immediately looked to see who it was. It was Korak. "Oh, hi, Korak!" She started stroking her finger down Korak's abs. "Have you been having a good time with some of the other girls?"

"Yep. Tokara's twin sister, Tamala was eager to play with me, and I showed her a good time."

"Well good for her, and good for you, Korak. How would you like to..." But then Krystal felt something nearby. She stared off into the distance.

Korak asked Krystal, "Hey, Krystal? What's wrong?"

"I think I sense someone somewhere nearby. Hold on. I'll be back in a moment." Krystal went off in the direction of the thought patterns.

Krystal walked towards the source of these thought patterns she detected. She then came across a huge tree, and spotted someone… a woman… a woman she recognized, up in the tree. "Elysia? What are you doing here?"

Elysia then timidly climbed down the tree and came to Krystal right there. When she came to her, she seemed nervous, confused, and a bit shaken up. Krystal asked "What's wrong?"

"I saw you do it."

Krystal looked worried. "Do what? Did I stir up bad memories for you?"

"I saw you… pleasuring the men of your tribe. And all the while doing it, you were smiling. Laughing even. They weren't forcing you, nor were you obligated to it. You enjoyed it. You wanted to have sex with them."

"I did. Our tribe lets our women do what they wish with their sexuality. Whenever we aren't having a Moment of Celibacy, I often sleep around with the males of our tribe. However, nobody is going to make you sleep with them. If you don't want to have sex, we don't blame you for it, and we will respect your choices. Not all the women of the tribe are as eager for much sex as I am, and we respect their choices."

"But how… how could you let them hurt you like that?"

"They were not hurting me! Our sex was something that we agreed to! My consent matters to them and theirs matters to me! Don't compare the men of our tribe to Kaijira and his barbarian slimes! They don't force women to give them pleasure, they accept pleasure offered to them!" Krystal embraced Elysia, saying, "But after everything you've been through, I see why you would be reminded of it. This is exactly why I told you to stay in the palace. Because I was afraid that attending it would bring up these memories for you. We all were. For all your people. So please. Go back."

Elysia smiled weakly. "I'm sorry, Krystal. I just..."

"Don't be sorry. It wasn't your fault. I'm the one who should be sorry for not noticing you earlier and for scaring you."

Elysia eased up on Krystal, saying, "It isn't your fault, Krystal. But.. you left this behind." Elysia handed Krystal a necklace with a green jewel as its pendant. "That's why I left the palace."

Krystal accepted the necklace and then put it on. "Thank you, Elysia. But please go back to the palace. I can't let you attend our festivals until you're more used to seeing sex in a benevolent context. Sex is like human nature itself; it has its good and its bad forms. Obviously, you'd be reluctant to experience the good kinds of sex, but right here and now, I want you to know that they exist."

"Okay. Thank you too, Krystal." Elysia then turned around and rushed back to the palace.

"Due to the abuses that Elysia endured under Kaijira's captivity, it was difficult for her to adjust to the reality of the existences of benevolent, gentile forms of sex. And sadly, since she and the other women of her tribe spent their lives up until then in servitude, only doing what they are told and bowing down to the whims of others, being given freedom causes them to feel lost and unsure of what to do. A lot of the Nemaria tribe's women were so unused to the fact that our women pleasured the men by choice and were never forced into it. In fact, when Elysia asked Sabre if she would be having sex with him, she was shocked when he told her that it would be for her to decide."

"Well, I'm glad that you and your tribe did everything they could to help them."

"I am too, but trauma isn't something that can be cured. Anyway," Krystal leaned over so that Fox would end up looking down her cleavage. "how would you like to touch my body again?" Krystal placed her hand on one of her breasts. "I'll even let you touch my breasts."

Fox blushed but was feeling a bit lustful anyway. "Okay. Why not?" Krystal sat into Fox's lap and then he started fondling her breast with one hand, and her midriff with the other.

Krystal smiled and let out an almost orgasmic moan. "Your hands feel so warm, Fox."

"Thank you, Krystal. You know, you said that in addition to power hungry tyrants, you and your tribe have battled demons, too. You even said that you killed one before that celebration you just told me about." Fox then started stroking Krystal's legs. "Could you tell me about some of those demons?"

Krystal smiled. "Okay. The demon we battled before that celebration I mentioned was a colossal shadow beast the size of a temple, resembling an upper torso of a humanoid creature, with large arms and a head that looks like a skull with demonic glowing eyes. Other demons included a giant nine-headed snake, winged lizards with poisonous fangs, a gargantuan spider that caused tremors every time it took a step, and much more. I'll tell you about our battles with each of them some other time, because it too would take too long."

Fox then placed each of his hands on each of Krystal's breasts, much to her delight. Krystal moaned sensually as she felt Fox's fingers mush around her large bouncy breasts. She loved it. Then Fox's hands moved to Krystal's shoulders and he started to massage them. He then asked, "So, how did you become such a great warrior, Krystal?"

"Ever since Sabre and I were little toddlers, our parents trained us to become warriors. During our mid-to-late toddler years, they taught us the basic stuff, teaching us how to hold our ground, focus on our targets, and a few basic attacks and had us test them out on training dummies. I was excited to get to the attacks right away, but Mother and Father wanted me to learn the disciplinary elements of combat first. So I had to learn to be patient. During my toddler years, they taught me how to focus on my target, and learn how to anticipate their attacks, so I could counter them. When Sabre and I were at the age of eight, we had friendly sparring matches together, and learned how to exploit each other's weaknesses, and eventually overcome our own. Most of the time, we were tied in our matches."

"Your parents must have done a great job of instructing you."

"Well, I wouldn't last two seconds against General Scales and his armies if they haven't, now would I? When Sabre and I gained our Krazoa powers and our staffs at the age of eleven, we tested them out on training targets that the Krazoa Spirits generated for us at Cerinia's Krazoa Palace."

Fox then started to massage Krystal's beautiful, sexy, bare midriff. "Did you ever have difficulty using the magical attacks from your staff, Krystal?"

"Well, my aim started off very sloppy, but became more acute and precise as I kept practicing with it. It took about a year, but it paid off. Other than that, use of my staff didn't require that much effort. I could use the powers that required my staff pretty easily, but the ones that mainly used my own Krazoa energy within me required me to practice with them more consistently before I was able to use them nearly as easily as I am now. Take invisibility for example. When I first practiced it, I could only turn invisible for about a second or two before burning myself out."

"And now you can combine it with cloaking your body heat without any effort." Fox kept one of his hands on Krystal's midriff, and put the other on the back of her neck. "That really helped us rescue Sabre back in the Komalia Jungle and made you like a silent ninja in the shadows, a lurking predator who stalks her prey and strikes when they least expect it. You simply never relented in learning how to use your powers and now to say that it has paid off would be an understatement."

"That's quite true. You'd have to train hard to become such an elite warrior."

Fox then started fondling Krystal's breasts again. "And your leadership skills are impeccable too. When this mission's over, I ought to make you the second in command of Star Fox."

"I would love that, thank you."

Fox then put his hands off Krystal's breasts. He then said to her, "It's getting late now, so how about we get some rest before we return it to the Force Point Temple?"

"Good idea, Fox."

Fox then took a quick look inside his backpack and looked at the SpellStone. He saw that the core was orange and the shell was red. "I'm afraid that SpellStone will have to be returned to the Volcano Force Point Temple."

Krystal cringed. "Well, at least it'll be the last time we have to go there."

Fox then closed his backpack and took off his boots, gloves, shirt, and pants, stripping himself down to his underwear, once again, wanting to give Krystal a chance to ogle him in return. Krystal took great delight in watching Fox undress. She watched on lustfully and she nearly felt a growing wetness in a special part of her. She kept wanting Fox to ask her if he could have sex with him. Fox then unzipped the sleeping bag, then he and Krystal lied down on the mattress using the sleeping bag as a blanket. They turned towards each other. Fox smiled, saying, "Since you are fine with me fondling your breasts, I think I'll let you rub them against my chest."

"I'd love that, Fox. Thank you." Krystal then started to rub her breasts all over Fox's chest. The sensation felt wonderful to them. They sensed a rush of warmth and lust within them, and Fox started to feel tempted to ask Krystal if they could have sex. He kept rubbing his hands on Krystal's back.

Then after Krystal stopped rubbing her breasts all over Fox's chest, Fox then asked Krystal, "Have you fought demons after fleeing Cerinia?"

"Yes, but none of them were powerful demons that were locked away until their seals were disrupted. They were just lesser demons that crawled around the landscape. Most of my major enemies were horrid tyrants who hurt or killed hundreds of people for their selfishness."

"You've always fought the good fight. You're a true warrior and a true hero. You'd be a perfect wife for me."

Krystal smiled. "I'd love to marry a man who respects my bravery and strength, Fox. I'd love to be your wife."

"We can talk about marriage when this mission is over, though. Good night, Krystal."

"Good night, Fox."

Fox and Krystal fell asleep, in each other's arms, preparing to return the penultimate SpellStone.

Author's notes: So, in this scene, I had Krystal belly dance to warrior-of-the-jungle type music along the lines of the music that plays in the Disney Tarzan movie during the battle between Tarzan and Sabor. I would love to see a youtube video of a hot sexy woman belly-dancing to that particular music track.