Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful...
#3 of The Dragoness' Cave
It had been roughly half a year since Reishi had been molested and subsequently taken in by Mongol; Winter had come and gone, yet she chose to stay in the castle, likely because she had no other home to go to in the first place. She'd slowly warmed up to him overtime and could almost be considered a friend of his by now, the incident in the past long forgotten. She'd also been taught to not be a mountain savage, since she was wearing actual clothes now instead of going around naked.
She was just calmly flying around outside the castle, out for a morning glide.
Below, Mongol was helping to clear away the snow, winters were particularly hard in Movarah, as the Northern Sea brought terrible blizzards each year.
She spotted him below and slowly circled down, before alighting on the ground. She shivered a bit; she never was comfortable with cold weather. "H-Hey, Mongol! W-W-Would you like help with that?" She was shivering a bit, but she wasn't freezing per se.
He breathed fire on a massive pile, the tips of his wings and crest had small icicles on them, "N-no, but thank you." He tried to keep his fangs from chattering.
"Maybe y-you should c-call it a day?" she suggested. "Y-You've been out all m-m-morning, you should really warm up back inside!"
"I-I will take my rest wh-when my people can." He blew a small jet of flame down to heat himself up.
"Thank you King Mongol." Some small school children who he was helping said, waving as they left.
"You're a good king," she told him kindly, "but you can't stay out here forever or your people eventually won't /have/ a king! C-Come on, Mongol, please?"
Grumbling, he knew she was right, "F-fine." With him no longer needing to steel himself, he shivered as he shook the ice off himself.
She smiled and took a hand in one of her claws, making way for the castle. "Come on, I'll make use some cocoa or something. God, I forgot how harsh the winters were...!"
Flapping as he tried to keep up, the thought of cocoa already warming him. "Yeah, they are pretty brutal." Despite their home being a desert, it got large amounts of snow. As the ascended the mountain, there was a large pile of built up snow, "But first we should take care of this, if it falls, there could be an avalanche."
"Leave it to me!" she replied determinedly, letting go of his hand to focus. She gathered flames in her mouth, then breathed it in a powerful stream on the snow in question; most of it melted, leaving a smaller, more harmless pile behind.
"Good one." He congratulated, a bit too loudly, making a large, unseen pile destabilize, and with the one she had just melted gone, more rushed down to fill its place, "Oh fuck n-" He began to yell as the snow overtook him.
Reishi was already barrelled over in the falling snow, letting out a muffled yell as this happened.
The swirling mass of white and cold hurled down the mountain, them inside it, "REISHI!" He yelled, the cold creeping around him, before the avalanche began to spill down a crevice.
Reishi couldn't be heard, trapped under the tumbling snow as she was before it went and fell into said crevice.
Smacking into the ground, he searched the mass of snow for his friend, finding her tail sticking out from her buried body. Quickly, he began shoveling snow out from around her, knowing it was double lethal to the both of them. It chilled him through his claws, past his scales and into his bones.
She eventually managed to wiggle her way out, but she collapsed on the ground as soon as she was free, shivering harshly. "Thanks...I g-guess this is just b-b-bad luck...?" she wondered, teeth chattering.
He put his larger body on top of her, trying to warm her, "We always get stuck in caves together." Her wrapped himself around her, rubbing himself against her warm her. "St-st-stay w-with-th me."
"Y-Yeah, looks that way d-doesn;t it?" she stammered, before shivering a bit, her ruff fluffing up. She didn't resist his attempts, quite welcomed them actually; "Th-Thank you..."
Rubbing her back, getting the snow out of it, but most of it already had melted, and was soaking in, he had to act fast. "Th-this m-may hurt a bit." Inhaling, he used a light flame thrower above her back to get the deadly water out.
She didn't feel hurt by it, instead she sighed a bit as the water was washed out; the only real consequences were that he'd burned through her shirt at the back, so it was no longer wearable. Not that she cared, she was just happy to be alive.
After doing that, he fell on his back before her, his breath visible. "O-o-one good thing-ng ab-bout sn-snow...gr-great insulat-tor of heat."
"Mm...hm," she agreed, curling up a bit, still shivering; "S-So, what d-d-do we do n-now?"
He grabbed her, and lifted her onto his body, "St-stay as close as possible, and as warm as possible." Her wings wrapped around his and her bodies. "th-thank you, for f-forgiving me."
"S-Say what now?" she asked, wrapping her wings around him too to provide additional warmth; "Forgive you? O-Oh, you mean...for that one time..." She was quiet for a moment, then gave his forehead a small kiss from where she was. "Water under the b-b-bridge, r-right?" she told him semi-cheerfully.
His quivering lips turned into a smile, he could feel her heart beating, and she could his. He closed his eyes happily, "W-we should be ok."
"W-We'll be fine," she assured. "Worse things h-have h-happened, right? B-Besides, I...st-still gotta give you that early christmas present..."
"P-present? W-what d-did you g-get me?" His hands went onto her shapely hips, holding her closer.
She purred a bit; "M-Maybe I'll show you if w-we survive, yeah...?"
Smiling, pressing his head to hers, beginning to drift to sleep. Outside, a faint muffled sound could be heard.
She began to drift away as well, nuzzling her head against his, the cold beginning to fade away as body heat was shared.
"L...............u..............." He whispered. "......v..........."
She smiled a bit, knowing what he was trying to say. She just slowly licked his forehead in affection; "I...know..." She was gone to the dreamworld.
Signing in relief, he drifted to sleep.
Outside, where was a faint scraping sound. Then the wall of snow and ice broke, outside, several guards, "My king? Mistress Reishi?" They asked upon breaching it.
The Noivern was without response to the guards- she was in a deep sleep by now.
"Why is it every time the two go out together, HUMF," One hefted Mongol over his shoulder, as another did the same with Reishi, "They always come back almost dead?"
"Beats me." The other said, taking them up to the castle, where they awoke hours later, wrapped in blankets in the same bed.