#3: The Brothel

Tempest led Cynder down a long narrow alley with various small shops and dwellings for people to live in. Cynder had been down this way many times before but had never actually stopped at the shops. Most of the people moved out of Tempest's way, showing that many had a degree of respect for her. The wind dragoness nodded to a few others as she walked past and Cynder found herself thinking back to when she had first visited Warfang City.

Cynder had never much cared for crowds, she hated the idea of being one tiny person in a sea of thousands. Yet here she was, following a dragoness she had never met before as she looked around. One male dragon gave Cynder a look over and whistled to her, Cynder glared at him in reply as she continued on.

She pushed to catch up with Tempest "where are we going, this market is full of possible attackers."

"Relax Cyn, I can call you that right?" Tempest asked with a look that suggested she would anyway, even if Cynder told her no.

"I suppose that's fine." Cynder said with an uneasy expression, they pushed on a bit further until Tempest began to lead Cynder toward a large dome shaped building. If Cynder remembered correctly it had once been a temple to the ancestors. Now it was something else, Cynder had never actually been inside the building before Malefor wrecked everything. But nonetheless, Tempest led her inside and Cynder beheld a temple that had been changed for a different kind of blessing.

Various female dragons and males were cozying up with each other, some were kissing back and forth. One couple slipped off into a side room to be alone for a while. Tempest glanced at Cynder over her shoulder and said "welcome to Valgoth Brothel, the only one in the city. Where all your romantic fantasies can be satisfied."

"This is… interesting." Cynder remarked as a male dragon walked over to her and grabbed her hand. With a seductive smile he kissed her hand and Cynder blushed. Then she shook her head and pulled her hand away and gulped as Tempest started up some stairs a few feet away. She hurried after the wind dragoness with a flustered face "you actually run this?"

"Yep, once we are done planning how to kill Novak I'll let you have a free night with one of my whores." Tempest said with a chuckle as she hurried up the stairs.

They entered a small room with nothing but stone within it to speak. Tempest smiled at Cynder and tilted her head "now, let us speak on how to kill Novak. For starters he won't be out in the open, he's a shadow dragon much like you."

"He is nothing like me, I have control of the darkness." Cynder said with a look of distrust to Tempest and she glanced out at the brothel below. Seeing several dragons and dragoness's taking their turns with the private rooms. A cheetah bard played music on a small stag from a lute that looked as if it hadn't been tuned in years.

Tempest smiled at Cynder and bowed her head "thank you for doing this, please enjoy all my home has to offer."

Cynder nodded and went down the stairs, she had little interest in prostitutes. But she wondered if she could gain a bit more information and just who she was currently working for. Cynder slipped past a male dragon and walked over to a currently unoccupied whore.

She was a pink dragoness with light blue eyes, her horns were bent backwards and she wore a heart pendant on her neck. Upon seeing Cynder she bowed her head "greetings M'Lady. I am Ember, how may I entertain you this evening?"

"actually, I just wanted to ask about your boss Tempest." Cynder said softly.

"Oh her? No one gets to touch her M'Lady." Ember said as she tilted her head at Cynder and blinked.

Cynder rolled her eyes at the comment "that's not what I meant, how is she? What is she like?"

"Oh! Lady Tempest is alright, she gives us work and we get food and water. So you'll hear no complaints from me." Ember said as she realized that Cynder just wanted to know more about her boss as a person.

"Well are you happy here?"

"Oh yes! We are protected by the Vargoth Citizen's Gang so there is no need to fear of hunger or thirst." Ember answer as as she sat down and yawned.

Cynder smiled and thought about Tempest, it seemed she really was caring for the people that had been stolen away. That was all the info she really needed to commit herself to the task she had been given.

Ember chuckled and smiled "you know, you would make a great whore. We don't have any shadow dragons here so you would be something exotic."

"Oh well… umm… I'll keep that in mind." Cynder blushed at the idea and turned away, she gave Ember a quick bow and turned to leave the brothel.

Novak would be dead before the night even ended…

Malefor stared out at the wastes that his palace sat on, he frowned and blinked at the patches of grass that had appeared in the last couple months. Malefor was against the plant life, it was just that after five years of wastelands and open area. It seemed fitting that after destroying the world it would restart itself and begin to recover.

"It looks so… dead." A voice said from behind him, the Dark Master frowned and glanced over his shoulder at a dragon with a cloak over his face. The dragon shifted slightly and bowed his head "you asked for me Dark Master?"

"Yes, I need you to find someone for me. A shadow dragoness named Cynder." Malefor answered

"The Terror of the Skies… She destroyed my temple eight years ago." The hooded dragon said with a grime tone in his voice "why would you want me to find her?"

"What does it matter… Just bring her back here alive."

"As you wish Dark Master."

Author's Note: Thanks for reading guys! So I won't lie, there was almost a lemon between Cynder and Ember there. But I was able to restrain myself for now! But I will warn that there will be lemons later. Tell me what you guys think, which dragon character that's still alive would you like to see Cynder with?