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Left in Limbo

Mallory wished she hadn't used her grapple hook so high, now she had to climb down. "I just hope Canard's okay. He better be." She said to herself as she made her way down. "Canard?" He was nowhere to be seen. "Canard where are you? Please tell me you're okay." There was no response.

"Don't be dead." She whispered, looking around herself. He couldn't have been far. She walked in the direction he would mostly likely be and found his wire hanging from a tree. He had made it down safely. Her heart slowed at the knowledge but she froze when she saw his ammo bag on the ground next to very large foot prints. An imprint of Canard's body was on the ground, as if he had fallen on his front, his foot prints weren't anywhere to be found but these giant feet lead away from where she was. She had to assume this giant had Canard. Pulling out her gun, she carefully tracked the footprints. "I hope Ember's okay."

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Canard woke up with a horrible headache. He tried to use his arms to sit up but his hands were tied behind his back. "Well lookie here. He's awake." A deep voice with a thick accent said.

Turning to the voice he found the ugliest creature he thought he had ever seen. It stood ten feet tall, carrying what must have been a tree trunk for a spear. Leather was wrapped around it's waist like a skirt. Its fat stomach protruded out over the leather but for some reason the ribs on the side of his body were showing. Its arms while bulky looked like the skin was sagging on them. It had a head that looked too small for its bod and it had no beak. Just a jaw that protruded out and sharp yellowish-green teeth, that stuck out over its upper lip. Black beady eyes, stared at him, looking lifeless. It stood on two scraggly legs and was covered it wet pinkish looking skin. "Is my dinner awake?" Another voice said. This creature looked pretty much the same, only it had white hair on top of its head and warts around it's mouth.

"It is love."

Canard searched them both and found more of his equipment on them. They were definitely the ones who took Ember's children. "You. You took those young dragons, didn't you?"

The creatures seemed surprised that he could speak. "Would you look at that love. It talks." Said the bald one, who then laughed and snorted like a pig.

"Yeah it does. My look at that thing. It's so ugly." The white haired one spit green drool as it spoke.

"Hey man, you don't see me insulting your looks." Canard barked. The white haired creature's eyes widened in offence.

"I'm not a man!" It said, it's voice a little higher pitched then the other's. The bald one grabbed Canard by his feet and hung him upside-down.

"Apologize to me lady." The male brut shook him.

"That's a female?" It slipped up before he could stop himself. The bald one angrily dropped Canard on his head. "Ouch! Hey!"

"Don't worry love. This ugly creature wouldn't know beauty if it kicked him in the bloomin' face." The bald brut caressed the female's shoulder.

"Oh stop you charmer. Yehehee." The female cackled waving its hand in what was supposed to be a feminine motion. Canard shivered in disgust. He knew beautiful, this thing was as far from beautiful as anything could possibly get.

"What have you done with the young dragons?" Canard needed to find out.

"Did he just ask about those dragons?" Baldy asked dumbly.

"He did. What do you want with those?" The white haired female asked, putting her hairy hands on her fat hips.

"Their mother wants them back. She'll be here any minute. I hope your prepared to deal with a pissed off momma dragon cause if not, she's gonna tear you limb from limb." They only laughed at Canard, he was confused by their response.

"Let the little missy come then. She don't frighten us. We eat dragon all the time." The bald male laughed.

"Did you eat the young ones?" Canard attempted to slip his hands out of the ropes but they were tied too tight.

"We still have them, back at our home." The white haired female said.

"Quiet woman. We don't want him to know that."

"Oh who is he going to tell, the dragon. Ha. That dumb creature wouldn't know the first place to look." Canard growled at them about to say something nasty when a glimpse of red hair caught his eye. He looked out into the forest and Mallory peaked her head around a tree, putting her finger to her beak. Behind her he could see two yellow eyes and steaming nostrils hiding in the darkness of the trees, Ember. He smirked. These two were as good as dead but he needed them to take him to their home so they could lead them to the children.

"Well shall we cook him love?"

"Out here? Oh I just want to rest my delicate little feet." She sat down and lifted her giant hairy foot, rubbing the wart covered bottom of it. She brought her foot to her mouth and licked it to clean it off. Canard was almost sick. No wonder she had warts around her mouth.

Controlling the need to puke he spoke. "She has a point besides, that dragon and my friends are out looking for me. They'll find you soon."

"I ain't worried about no dragons. Together, me and me wifey can kill just about anything." Mallory peaked around the tree at the ugly creatures that had Canard. They spoke in what was an ugly version of a British accent from Earth. It grated on her nerves. She wanted to just kill these things and be done with it but Canard caught her eye and he shook his head no at her. Why? She looked around and didn't see Ember's children so why bother with these things.

"Well none the less. I'm a duck. Haven't you seen my kind before? Don't you know we're poisonous to eat during certain hours? I'm poisonous for at least another two hours." The brutes looked at each other.

"See, we should take him home and eat him, besides those little dragons would probably taste good with him." The female said. "We've been looking for the right time to eat them. So let's finally do it!"

The male rubbed his chin as if it was a hard decision. "Alright love. If that's what you want."

"Oh yay! I love dragon stew."

Canard looked back to Mallory and Ember, Mallory nodded and moved back with Ember. They would follow them to their home then attack.

"Well, Let's go then." The male grabbed Canard by his feet and threw him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Canard gagged at the smell of this thing. It was horrible and its skin was slimy. He and his clothes were going to need a really good washing after this.

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The trip didn't take as much time as he thought it would, they were at the home in an hour. Their home was a cave in the side of a cliff, a large boulder was used as the door. Canard could hear what sounded like crying dragons, at least what he thought they would sound like. "Here we are. Home sweet home."

The male dropped Canard to the ground and placed his spear against the wall. With great effort he moved the boulder covering the entrance aside. "Time to eat."

He went to grab Canard but puck-ropes were shot out of the trees, tying the ugly male's hands together. Mallory jumped out, her gun aimed. "That's what you think." She shot more ropes and tied up the male's legs. He went to his knees and struggled.

"Ugly little creature! I'll tear you apart!" The female charged Mallory. Mallory taunted it with name calling. Infuriating it even more. It was so busy trying to kill Mallory it didn't see Ember flying above, then dive down at her but the male did.

"No love. Look out!" It was too late. Ember landed on the females back, putting all her lumbering weight down on the ugly female. Her jaws locked onto the back of its neck, a sickening crunch was heard and the female screamed. The bald brut yelled out for its partner. He used his strength to ripe the ropes off himself. It grabbed one of Canard puck canons and went to shoot Ember but Mallory shot the gun from his hand.

Ember gave the back of the ugly white haired female's head a couple of good yanks and ripped it clean off. Tossing the head off into the forest. The male brut yelled and ripped the rope off its legs. It ran at Ember, Mallory kept firing on it but it did no good. It punching Ember hard in the back and tossed her away from the dead female. He kneeled down next to her not sure how to fix her. Mallory used this chance to untied Canard. The male looked at the two ducks, blaming them for this. "This is all your fault! Your fault! Your fault! Your fault!" He banged his big fist on the ground like an impudent child. Grabbing a rock which actually was a boulder, he tossed it at the two ducks. They dove out of the way, just avoiding being smashed but the brut got up and charged them while they were down. Seeing him coming, Canard thought fast. He looked to the large spear the brut left next to the door and knew just what to do.

"Hurry and help me Mallory." He pushed on the bottom of the spear and started tilting it forward the brut was almost on them. It finally fell forward, just in time for the dumb brut ran right into it, spearing himself right through the chest and stopping its charge in its tracks. The brut fell to the side, laying motionlessly on the ground.

"Are you alright?" Mallory and Canard asked each other at the same time. They smirked seeing that everything was fine. Ember rushed passed them, knocking Mallory into Canard in her panic to see her children. Canard caught her as she fell into his chest, they both looked at Ember in surprise, usually she was more careful with Mallory. They followed Ember in and found the young dragons were about the size of horses and they were all locked in cages. The cages were on the ground, right next to each other. They whined and cried when they saw their mother. She cooed to comfort them, touching her nose to each of theirs.

Seeing the sweet display, Canard begrudgingly admitted to himself that maybe Ember wasn't that bad. Mallory looked around trying to find some kind of key to let them out and finally spied one on a table. It was just out of her reach. Seeing her struggle Canard walked over and grabbed it for her, pulling the large heavy key down. He grunted at the size of it. It was the size of his leg. Both he and Mallory walked up to the cage and inserted the key into the first lock. Ember and her babies watched them struggle but finally unlock the cage. They opened the door and the first baby was out. Doing the same with the other two, the family was finally reunited.

While they had their reunion Canard went outside to collect his stolen gear back from the two very dead brutes.

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Turns out the kids could fly just fine on their own. They ended up having to go back East to get to the Brawns. Ember knew where they were, she knew because she knew not to go there. Unfortunately, the Brawns fired on anything they didn't recognize as friends, so Mallory and Canard would have to be dropped off a two days walk from the Brawns. Which wasn't bad considering, the walk to them would've been much longer before they met Ember.

They stopped for the night, tired from their long day. The babies curled up contently at their mother's stomach, making little purring sounds. Who knew a dragon purred? Meanwhile Mallory and Canard went to bathe. Canard had picked more herbs and made his special soap again but he made extra this time since he touched that disgusting thing. He still smelled bad from it. Giving Canard the chance to wash first Mallory laughed and the grossed out noises Canard was making as he washed his clothes. "I don't think I've ever smelt anything so bad in my life."

"Yeah but what you did was smart. We never would have found the kids if we attacked then." Mallory peaked over her shoulder at him. Canard was scrubbing away at his clothes while, scrunching his beak up at the smell. Mallory laughed.

He looked up to see her looking at him over her shoulder. "Peaking again?" He smirked at her.

"Maybe." She surprised him with her response.

"Well, if that's the case, feel free to join me." He laughed scrubbing his clothes and dunking them under the water then pulling them out and giving them a sniff. "Finally the smell is gone." He looked up and found Mallory standing at the water's edge looking down at him. She either moved fast or he wasn't paying very good attention.

"I was really worried about you today." She said, her eyes taking on a softer look.

"Oh yeah." He watched her nod her head. There was a long pause as they gazed at each other. "Come join me Mallory." He said it with the utmost seriousness. Mallory didn't answer and he thought that maybe he went too far until she started taking off her clothes. Canard laid his clothing on a stone to dry out and then turned back to Mallory. He stood in the middle of the large pond, waiting for her to join. His heart was beating against his ribcage as he watched her undress. When she was finally naked, she gently walked into the water, making small ripples in the surface as she approached him.

"My god your beautiful." He said breathlessly, swallowing and moving towards her, trying to keep his pulse down. They stopped right in front of each other, slowly their hands moved up and wrapped around each other. Canard's slid over her waist and pulled her close, their bodies pressing into each other, while her arms wrapped around his neck. She pulled his head down and brought his mouth to hers for their first kiss. It was sweet and gentle. He explored her mouth and held her tight. Her breasts pressed into his chest and one of his hands slipped down to grabbed her butt. Giving her cheek a squeeze he slid it down further and lifted her leg to wrap around his waist. She used the opportunity to place him at her entrance and slid down onto him, Canard gasped. Mallory tighten her arms around his neck and lifted her other leg to wrap around his waist, locking them in place behind him. Both his hands went to her backside to help hold her in place. She gasped when he started rocking his hips back and forth. They were in the water so nothing could be seen below their waist but what they were doing was pretty obvious. Canard sped up his pace and Mallory followed him. She threw her head back and Canard kissed her neck. Putting his hand on the back of her head, he pulled her to him for another long kiss. Moaned into it, feeling that she was going to reach her end soon. She broke the kiss and hugged her arms around his neck tighter, using it to keep her pressed into his front as she panted and moaned in his ear. He groaned and finally under the strange purple sky, Canard and Mallory found completion together.

Gasping and panting, Canard found a stone on the side of the pond in the water to sit on. Keeping Mallory's legs wrapped around his waist he sat down on the stone and kept her close. He smiled up at her and she caressed his face, kissing his beak with sweet soft little pecks. She rubbed his shoulders while he ran his hand along her waist and her back. They stayed that way, just staring at each other and enjoying the peace that surrounded them in this moment.

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The next morning, Canard woke up with Mallory sleeping in his lap. Her head was on his chest. His eyes traced her face, her long eyelashes curled up and swept over her cheeks, her vibrant hair was tussled, and her peach colored feathers looked as soft and sweet as peach fuzz. So beautiful. He caressed her pretty orange beak and tickled the edge with his fingertips. She shifted away from his hand, her eyes slowly opening to reveal the emeralds hidden beneath soft lids. To him, everything about her was perfect. Her eyes focused on him and a breath taking smiled lite her face. "Good morning." She whispered.

"Morning." He said back, kissing her on the forehead. Mallory closed her eyes and savored the feeling of his kiss. She had never felt this way about anyone before, it was so strong. "Canard?"

"Hum?" He smelled her haired, sighing in contentment.

"I think I-" She was cut off by three young dragons charging them and running around them, making lots of noise. "I guess it's time to get up." She said, standing and stretching.

Canard reluctantly let her go. "I guess so." He wanted to hear what she was going to say but it would have it wait it seems. Giving him a hand up, they walked over to Ember, her babies bouncing around them happily. Ember laid on her belly letting them up onto her back. They crawled up with Mallory in front and Canard behind her then took to the skies.

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It wasn't long before Ember got them as far as she could without endangering herself and her children. When she touched down, she let the two ducks slip gently off her back. Mallory thanked Ember for her help as did Canard. The Dragon curled her tail around Mallory and nestled her head into her chest while Mallory placed her hands on her head and leaned her head on hers. It was a goodbye hug.

Releasing Mallory Ember looked to Canard next, he nodded to her, expecting the same response but was surprised when she gave him the same hug she had given Mallory. He patted her head and smiled. "Yeah, you're not so bad either." He said as she let him go. They said their goodbyes to the children and the dragon family was off but not before Ember used her tail to knock Canard's legs out from under him one last time. Mallory snickered while Canard sat up abruptly to watch Ember go, shaking his head at her playful goodbye and last chance to pick on him. He was actually going to miss her, not that he would admit that out loud.

"Well, we be better start walking, we've got a two day walk ahead of us." Mallory sighed looking at the giant base the Brawns used. It was as large as a mountain.

"You're sure they won't attack you? Even Ember wasn't willing to mess with them." He said looking out across the land.

"Oh it's Ember now huh?" Mallory teased, Canard realized his slip up.

"Crap."

"I knew you would miss that dragon." Mallory laughed and started walking.

"Definitely not."

"Sure Canard, Sure." Mallory's teasing sarcastic tone did not go unnoticed by Canard. He rolled his eyes and followed his little vixen towards the Brawns.

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