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Legend of Spyro: Gifted Curse

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CHAPTER 27

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Rifling through her papers for the hundredth or so time, Ember glanced it all over with sightless eyes, her gaze turned inwards with doubts and second-guessing. Were they actually ready for this? Her wings kept stroking over the growing swell of new life in her belly as she debated the move. With a long, deflating sigh she slumped at the table, scattering the signed forms.

"You alright Emby?" came a voice from the kitchen, her younger mother peeking in with a concerned look.

"Hmph."

Edging around the table, the older dragoness nuzzled at her softly. "Getting cold paws about it huh?"

"Dunno..."

"I'd say Flame should give you a good invigorating hump but..."

"Yeah, Dad's probably cumming in him right now." She batted limply at the few papers still before her. "I don't know. I don't...really want to leave, but I do so much want to leave and I don't know what to think. I'm not even horny right now."

"Oh...it's that bad, huh?" With a sigh of her own, her mother sat down by her and mantled her wing over her daughter, Ember leaning in against her. "Listen, Emby...I know we've said it a hundred times, but we are super proud of you. Both of you. You know what you want to do...at least you do, I don't know about your brother."

"Do I?" she countered. "I mean...when I was at the Silver Grotto, yeah, I felt like I could take on the world, but...right now..."

"You're scared. It's okay to admit it, baby girl." Kissing her cheek, she purred deeply. "Listen. I know I haven't talked much about my past but I was in the same boat you are now."

"Huh?" Ember sat up a bit straighter.

"Yeah. I was fully ready to go waltzing off with a handsome guy, just before the wars happened. He was hot, smart, funny...perfect mate, really. I was going to fly away with him to some far-off country, we just wanted to explore."

"But then...you and dad...?"

"I know. That's all you've seen and heard of me. I loved him, but I also loved dad. And when it came time for us to elope...I froze up. Nothing felt right. Everything felt...hollow. Like how you feel now."

"It hurts..."

"I know. Confusion, depression, anxiety...they all run counter to our goals. But, sometimes, for a good reason. And I'm glad you're slowing down right now."

"Why?"

"Because I think you need it. You've always been a headstrong girl, Ember, with barely any time for considering your options...until you got pregnant, and the focus was no longer on you, but your kids' future."

She looked away, not really wanting to voice how spot-on her mother's words were.

"I'm not saying you've been selfish, don't get me wrong. You've always known what you wanted, and you went for it. You're apprenticed to a renowned jewelsmith, and you're making wonderful art pieces. Does that bring you fulfillment?"

"Yeah."

"It feels like you're in the zone, that you could do it all day?"

"Yeah...but that's also how I feel about sex."

"Mmmm...oh, I know hun. I can't even remember now if your egg came from me or not but you got my slutty side. That's where my confusion came from. I couldn't tell if I was following this guy for my heart, or for his dick. And let me tell you, he had a wonderfully amazing dick!"

"Was it ridged? Barbed?"

Her mother smirked. "Prehensile~"

Ember's eyes nearly bugged from her skull. "What??"

"Yep. He was a water dragon. One of the really ancient tribes too that's almost totally aquatic. He wanted to see the world's lands, he was so taken by mountains and waterfalls and caverns that weren't covered in water. But that night...I hesitated, and almost panicking really. I didn't want to let him down. I felt like I loved him, but...he didn't bring me fulfillment, and I honestly didn't know if traveling with him would bring me that, either. I wanted...to settle down, have a family...and I truly loved our dad. The depression spell mellowed me out and I had to do a lot of inner reflecting. I felt guilty for planning to run away from my family who didn't even know what I was doing. I almost felt like I was betraying them, going off on an adventure to Ancestors know where and maybe never seeing them or my other friends again." Reaching over, she lifted Ember's chin with a claw. "Tell me, hun...is that what you're feeling here?"

It took her a bit to figure a response. "....Kinda...not really, I guess, but kinda? Like...I don't wanna leave you an' dad an' everyone else..."

"Listen, hun. At some point, you have to live your own life. We'll miss you, but you have it much easier. The Silver Grotto is only a few days away by flight or walk. Visitng is totally within reason. But...you need to get out and do what you feel to be best for yourself...and for them." Her paw moved down her daughter's body to her belly. "You and your brother will have to support new little lives. And I know how badly you wanted to have a huge family with him."

Ember frowned and looked away again. "I do...so much...and I love little kids but...I can't tell if this is what's right for us...or if it's my fetishes jerking me in a direction I might not be able to handle. Flame wants a large family too but...you know how he is. He can't settle on any one thing to do."

"Ember. Look at me." Reluctantly, she glanced up at her mom's stern gaze. "Ember...do you love Flame?"

"Duh."

"No, don't do that, hun. You need to say it. Is Flame your true love?"

"Yes!" She practically bounced up from the table with a bit of outrage. "Why are you asking me this? Of course I love him!"

"Are you completely sure you want to commit yourself to him?"

"Yes!!"

A smirk cracked her face and she nodded. "Then you'll have to keep after him and get him to settle on something...just like he's had to keep you fairly grounded. Have you noticed?"

"Noticed...?"

"Your brother is the self-titled Stud of Warfang. He's had so many girls after him, and he's got his pick of any to have a family with. And he's been choosing you, and making sure you know it. I've seen you get jealous here and there. He knows he needs to find a calling, for your sake and now for the eggs. But he hasn't found it here. Which of you was it that decided to settle at the Grotto?"

"Me-...oh...wait. No...it was him."

"You're hung up over futures, fetishes, and feelings, hun. But I'd say Flame has a gut feeling of where he finally wants to go, and you seemed happier there than you were here even with your jewelsmithing. Flame made that call for himself, but also for you, because he saw you happy there, happy and excited like you haven't been here before. I think, even though we'll miss you dearly, you're being called to the Grotto. Both of you. And you have a much bigger network there for help than you do here. You'll do well. I know it. But...what are you feeling right now with all this? Are you hesitating because of your friends? Us?"

Her wings rubbed her belly again as she bit her lip. "I don't....I don't know."

"Probably just fear of the unknown...it's a legitimate fear. But you've been there for a bit, and at the Temple, and you're not far away from home. And if Flame pisses you off too much you still have a bed here to cool off in."

A small smile pulled at her muzzle. "I guess...but...are you an' mom gonna...have more babies too? Would I still have a room?"

"I'll make sure you do. But...we're still debating. Your father does want to raise kids again, as do we, but...we're not exactly in the best position financially to do so, we had been readying for retirement. Mom wants eggs right now..."

"Heh...I did kinda joke to Spyro that you two would want eggs immediately once you heard about him being a breeder."

"And we do, so very much...but right now we can't realistically do so. But you can. The Grotto seems to be a good choice for your skills...both in crafts and in body."

Ember blushed and smirked. "You're really fine with me being such a slut?"

"Oh hun, I would be a total hypocrite if I wasn't. I was an even easier lay than you are. Not so proud of it now that I'm older, but at your age I was a cum dump. Bit of a prostitute really, guys would pay for my tail."

"Not sure how to feel about that, honestly."

Her mother giggled with a bit of a blush. "I think that was also part of my confusion...and my unwillingness to leave. I know you're very attached to the casual sex with your friends here."

"Am I...?"

"Oh you are, hun, and it's not something to be ashamed about! Pleasure is fun, and can be pretty bonding. You did better for yourself than I did in how selective you've been with sharing your body. You've got good friends here, and that's hard to pull away from. But, like I said, you need to live your own life and do it how you feel to be best...and no one is saying your move is permanent. You can visit, you could move again, who knows where life will take you, and of course we'll see you again at your officiation ceremony! Don't be afraid to branch out. Remember how excited you were for the adventure of visiting the Temple for your first appraisal?"

"Kinda..."

"You were so cute and bubbly...and very horny...couldn't stop talking about the visit, how much you wanted to see the Temple for yourself! This is just another adventure for you. Have fun with Flame and your friends there, and touch base with us once in a while. Don't gum yourself up with mopey adult stuff, be like a kid again."

A loud set of moans caught their ears, the two giggling. "Yeah...sounds like Dad couldn't resist his ass again."

"Dad has always secretly been fond of anal sex...something we girls don't share with him."

"Oh yeah, I know. Flame loves it too."

"Let me guess...he got quite a bit out of his system with Cynder?"

"Oh yeah. I don't know how she does it, probably that Matriarch thing, but she's always down for cock in either hole. Though, of course, she's skittish around new faces."

Her mother's smile faded at that. "I do feel bad for her...poor thing has been through hell. But...it's nice to hear she's enjoying herself."

"Yeah. Flame an' I helped her out of her shell. She's already come a long way in just these past few months."

"Good. I'm glad you're able to help her, Ember. It sounds like she really needed some female friend support."

"Yeah...wasn't really expecting friendship to happen with her but it just kinda fell into place between me going into that insanely strong heat cycle and her helping me out with that, then the whole news dump and all we were telling them about Dragon culture and such."

"That was mentioned at dinner...what exactly happened at the Temple?"

Tapping her claws on the table in thought, Ember processed her reply, her other paw idly rubbing her belly and gently groping at the eggshells under her hide. "I guess Spyro's Patriarch pheromones were being spread around without anyone knowing. I went to the Temple for appraisal because I thought it was a safe time, but just an hour there and I was staring at Terrador's balls and just drooling like an idiot...they gave me a guest room to try to weather it out but it just got so bad I had to get out, so I went to Spyro and Cynder's little home a small walk away. Unfortunately, that just kinda clinched it because apparently his place is saturated with his pheromones, of course...Cynder helped a little bit with showing me how to use the unopened mushroom sprouts as dildos..."

"Oh? That's an interesting idea."

"Yeah, it did help a bit, but I needed Flame, and thank the Ancestors he showed up when he did...I guess I practically raped him with how needy I was...I mean not really but I guess I was super pushy..."

"I get it, hun. But wow...to think Spyro is a Patriarch..."

"By the power of that curse, yeah."

"The poor boy. But he seems really nice."

"He really is. He an' Cynder are really chill, they're good beans. I'm glad I got to meet them and befriend them. You really wouldn't think they're world saviors with how down to earth they are. It was...actually kinda refreshing to hang out with someone who isn't lofty or monied or all these other Warfanger cliches. Spyro's a gold heart. He cares so much about Cynder it's adorable."

"I could tell at the dinner. There's a spark between them that is so very rare anymore."

"Yeah...I kinda...feel like even though I love Flame, we couldn't measure up to Spyro and Cynder's relationship purity..."

Her mother nosed at her again. "There's no standard metric. Everyone is different, everyone has different needs. No two relationships are the same, you should know that from all your smut stories. The good ones."

"I guess. I guess I kinda just..." She frowned and looked at the door. "I guess...I'm jealous of them. Heroes, Matriarch and Patriarch, no real obligations, living off the land so simply...madly in love, and just...so pure together. It's so ideal. And I'll never have that. None of us really can."

"And that's why there's no standard metric, and thus why you shouldn't compare, hun. They've made their relationship work, and I'm sure you haven't seen half the struggles they've gone through or continue to have in order to make it keep working. No one ever has it perfect. And those with the seemingly better relationships...often have darker skeleton closets."

"I guess..."

"I saw how anxious and secluded Cynder was. Social anxiety. I can't imagine the breakdowns, nightmares, and other pitfalls she and Spyro have had to weather together. But, that's what a relationship is - compromise, constantly, finding middle ground between each others' issues. You and Flame have been together despite your sibling bitchfits and other squabbles. You can do it. Don't compare yourself to the successes of others, because you don't see the failure it takes and is still taking to keep it there."

"I just...wanna be happy...with Flame...with kids..."

"And you have this chance. Seize it, make it yours." Giving her a small peck on the cheek, she added "and make sure you get a load from your dad before you leave."

That finally made her giggle again, her tail raising subconsciously. "Oh, I wouldn't miss that for anything."

"That's my girl. I'd say let Flame be Dad's cocksleeve for tonight, go get yourself filled by your friends for now and make some more memories, then spend the next day with Dad in bed. I'll even get you two some of your favorite poultry roast."

"You spoil me."

"Hey, only because I've been there~ now go get yourself some good penis and make sure more than a few testicles are empty tonight." A teasing grope to her daughter's ass led to her slipping her claw into Ember's wet slit, the younger girl moaning softly and wiggling back against her mother's paw. "Now now, that's not a penis!"

"Still feels good..."

"Go meet your friends, I hear them milling around outside." She watched Ember head out the door, then giggled at the following surprised moan and laughing. Flame came shuffling in, followed by their dad, both of them sporting throbbing erections, Flame grinning dumbly and glassy-eyed. "Ember's out for the night, she needed some time away from the paperwork."

"Thought so," Kindle grunted in affirmation.

"Hey mom..." Flame churred.

"Hey Flamie hun. Is that for me by any chance?" she asked with a wink.

"Are you sure you want it?" he teased, then yipped when his dad slapped his butt.

"She's not asking, you know."

She grinned and lifted her tail, Flame grinning back and quickly mounting her, both of them moaning softly as he slid into his mother's soft, warm grip. Kindle growled with lust at the sight, then came up behind them and neatly slipped himself into Flame's welcoming tailhole, the younger boy moaning louder as his dad's balls snuggled up to his own. "Is my ass gonna survive for my friends?"

"Hey, like you keep saying, it's made for cock," she replied, curling her tail over both of them.

"Wonder if the grandkids will be buttsluts like their dad..." Kindle purred, giving him a strong hump and smirking at the resultant lewd moan from his son.

"So Flame...mmmm, right there...what're you planning for an occupation?"

The red-scaled dragon grunted, doing his best to grind his tip against his mother's favorite spot while also humping on his dad's length. "Hfff...gonna try to...work in studding for now...hfff...take some pressure off Spyro..."

"Keep your title?"

"Somethin' like that..."

"But you can't do that all the time...right?" his father rumbled, hilting into him and giving a teasing grinding thrust to run their balls together, pressing him deep into the dragons under them.

"I'll find something!" he yelped at the pressure on his prostate almost making him cum right there. "Ooohh I don't wanna cum just yet dad...don't do that...."

"Savoring your mom's pussy?"

"Hehe, he sure is, he's throbbing so much~"

"I can feel it back here."

Grinding back into him, she teasingly clenched herself on her son's cock with a purr, making him growl softly and start thrusting faster. "Ember's getting worried, Flame, you need to...mfff yes...you need to line something up soon."

"Got a few...hf...a few things to..." he tried to explain, but the pleasure between his parents was getting to him quickly.

Kindle growled out again and Flame felt those age-sagged balls pull up against his own, the cock that had made him going more rigid in his rear for a second before it throbbed mightily and a gush of warmth sprayed his insides. His eyes rolled up as he groaned out, trying his best to hold out while his father filled him again. "Imagine that's Spyro's penis in you~" his mom teased.

His grip in her hips strengthened as his resolve crumbled, jackhammering into her and making her yip out and cum, her hips jerking erratically under them. "His penis is so freaking long..." he grunted back, reaching lower to rub at her clit. "He bulges everyone when he gets balls deep..."

The counter-tease had the effect he wanted, his mother clenching under him with a shaky moan as she climaxed right on the heels of her first, humping back on them for more, pleasure rippling through her body at the mental image of so much cock eventually being in her and giving her more eggs. Kindle finally dismounted, cum splattering all over beneath them and dripping down his son's sack. A bit freer to operate, the "stud of Warfang" went even harder, pounding his mother's hips and nibbling at her neck as she moaned out in bliss, pawing at the floor, until with a low roar they both climaxed together. Huffing and panting, he kept lightly bucking into her through his orgasm, Kindle moving over to hug and nuzzle at them both. Three purrs echoed in the room for a while as they recovered.

"Gonna miss you..." Flame mumbled.

"We'll miss you too, Flame," his dad rumbled, giving his neck a small affectionate lick. "But I expect to hear nothing but praise from the girls you stud, and even more from your sister, understand?"

"Yeah, that's what I aim for."

"Good. Got enough for your mother?"

"You bet."

"Mmmmm..." the pink female under him murred happily, wiggling her hips. "Keep it in me for a while, please..."

The door opened again, making them all glance over. "It smells like sex in here, you all better not be fucking over my rugs again!"

"We're not!" all three responded.

"Good, now one of you boys better be hard!"

"Guess I'm up already then," Flame grunted, giving his mom an apologetic kiss as he slid out, his shaft still raging against his belly. "I'll try to fill you again after."

"No rush, I'll just sit on Dad 'til he gets hard again." They both chuckled, Flame moving over to his mother and nuzzling at her neck.

"Hard, hm? Was the meeting really that bad?"

"Get your penis into me and we'll go from there."

"Flame...?"

Yawning, the red-scaled dragon stretched a bit, finding himself pressed into the bed by something warm and heavy. Ember was laying atop him with a strange look on her face. "Mmmmph...yeah?"

She lightly bapped his cheek and laid her chin on his chest. "Are we...really ready?"

Looking over at the window and finding it to be early morning, he sighed nasally and slipped his paws under her forelegs to pull her up to his face, nuzzling at her nose softly. "Ember...my sweet sister. What's going on?" he whispered.

"Are we ready for this?" She grabbed his paw and pulled it down to feel her belly. "Four eggs...and more on the way. I don't think we are. I was looking over our finances and doing the math on how quickly I can build things versus what I can charge...and unless you get a big salary as a stud, we might not be able to raise our kids. Even with the communal nature of the Silver Grotto and other places. Money still runs a lot of stuff. I'm just...an apprentice. I can't command big prices...and it could take ages if I send the pieces out for trade."

"Hey, Em. We'll make it work. It's not that big a deal. Yeah, you're used to money. Look at Spyro and Cynder. They were living off the land and have a whole setup. Plus, the breeding stuff is there to make sure our kids can thrive and that we can provide for them." He frowned at her glare. "No, I'm not just riding this to be taken care of. I do plan to find something to help everyone else out. I can go hunting, foraging, whatever, and I'm sure there will be plenty of oddjobs in the meantime for me to throw myself at around the Grotto." Rubbing her neck, he sighed softly. "I get you're worried...and scared. So am I. But we need to go into this with confidence."

She shifted atop him, her cummy nethers grinding lightly against his sheath, her tail a bit sticky from the cum still leaking form his ass. "It's not that, Flame. Are we...are you and I...just riding our urges? Our fetishes, our fantasies?"

"Where did you get that idea after all this time?" he grunted. "That actually kinda hurts."

She frowned again. "I'm serious!"

"So am I!" he almost barked. "Ember, I've wanted nothing more than settling down with you! It's not just our fetishes and urges here! All through the war, all I wanted was to find you, fuck you full of eggs and make you as happy as I can, as my mate! I love you, Ember, with everything I have, and we'll make this work! What's gotten into you all of a sudden?"

A tear squished out the side of her eye. "I don't know...I'm scared..."

Hugging her tightly, he cuddled his sister with an all-limb cocoon of his wings, legs, and tail, nosing at her. "Hey...I love you. I love you so much. We're not going into this just because it's hot and sexy...we're doing this because we both wanted it. And...I'll be honest, if we really aren't ready by the time we get settled in there...there's always adoption. We can give our eggs to someone who is ready for them. We have options, so don't get yourself caught up in feeling trapped...please? For the eggs at least? Don't stress them out." Rubbing her back with his paws, he nuzzled against her neck. "You're my mate and I love you and I want to marry you and grow old together with lots of kids, I want you as the match to my heart."

"You fuckin' dick you stole that line from my pornos..."

"But it's still true enough."

"Ugh..."

Pulling back a bit, he held her cheek and pulled her in for a kiss. "Ember...I'm serious. All this time, all our lives, I've only ever wanted you. No other girl completes me the way you do."

"Shouldn't we...have looked around more?"

"Ember, listen to yourself! We've fucked like, half of Warfang and quite a few others from the smaller local villages. If we haven't found anyone else we want from all that variety...pretty safe to say we're not going to. I know you're my soulmate. We need to own this, especially now that you've got two of my eggs in your uterus."

His paws groped her belly and she shivered at the small surge of arousal that shot through her at the contact. "I don't know what's wrong with me..." she whimpered.

"I guess it's pregnancy hormones catching up after all the excitement. C'mon. Let's just go for a walk. No sex, none of this moving stuff, no parties."

"'M all sticky with cum..."

"Well whose fault is that? Not mine this time. We can stop by those water cascades and scrub off."

It took him a bit of rousing and urging, but he did manage to get his sister to follow him out onto the streets. The mid-morning horn went off, the crowds in the streets parting, but they took some of the thinner back roads to a set of cascading waterfall outlets. Some of the overnight workers were showering there, the two dragons taking an empty outlet and yipping and cringing at the chilly water gushing over their bodies. Flame made sure to scrub Ember's crotch thoroughly for her, then they shook themselves off and ambled out into the sunlight. Up some flights of stairs they went to the outer walls of the city, looking out over the recovering battlefield and the distant land chunks beyond rising up or even fully floating in the air. The battlefield was being slowly turned into a grand park, various Earth dragons and other species laying out the groundwork for walkways and garden plots and tree transplants after the winter months. Ember flared her wings a little to get more sunlight to warm herself against the winter breeze threatening to blow in some snow later. The hustle and bustle of the crowds was a dull murmur up here, the two just slowly padding along, past the damaged portions of the walls where the siege towers had impacted or fallen over, stopping for a bit to inspect a cannon mount.

"Hard to believe Spyro and Cynder were up here fighting to save the city...probably even at this turret."

Ember shivered a bit, her brother draping his wing over her. "We were holed up on the other side of the city...but we could hear almost everything..."

"You didn't see them though, did you?"

"No...they were only here at the front of the battle."

"I really wish we hadn't gotten separated...I was stupid..."

They fell quiet again and kept walking, until they reached the Golem's breach where the walls had been collapsed under its weight. "This is gonna take a lot of work to repair."

"Yeah. But they have their plans already."

"How long did Warfang even take to build?" Ember asked, looking up over the city's inner rise.

"I have no idea. It was supposedly built in honor of Dragons...back in the day. I assume the Mole population density was a lot greater then...they probably had some crazy coordination to pull this off." Glancing at his sister, he regarded her sunlit form in the morning light. The gentle S-curve of her neck, the way her hips sat just a hair higher than her shoulders when she stood, that lovely swell of new life in her middle, the heart-shaped crest at the end of her tail... She caught him looking, tilting her head at him.

"What're you lookin' at?"

He just gave a dumb grin and shook his head, moving to turn around with their progress blocked by the collapse. Following him, she watched his tail and ass sway side to side with his gait, then moved up alongside him just a tad to side-eye those orbs bouncing between his legs. Around the other wall they walked, looking out over the ruins of the Dam, the resultant lake that had crippled the Destroyer, part of its leg still stuck there. From here they could dimly see dismantling crews still winging around and building scaffolds everywhere to salvage what they could of the Dam and the Destroyer remains. "Damn..."

"Yes, it was."

"Hey I'm supposed to be the cheesy pun master here."

"Too bad."

He huffed as he gazed out over the wreckage. "In a way...I'm gonna be glad to get away from all this. It's kinda...depressing, seeing all this war ruin around here."

"Thought you said nothing about the move on this walk."

"Egh..." Shaking his head, he sighed softly. "My brain's still spinning."

"I can tell. Usually by now around me you'd be rock hard."

"Didn't I say no sex, too?"

"Oh come on, you know that's not us."

"Let's get away from this sight before we discuss sex stuff."

The tension was growing between them, but looking over their home city had them mellowed out for a while. The hustle and bustle, the war damages and recovery efforts, the old memories triggered as they passed this stall or that alleyway or those halls, it gave them a lot to think about, especially as Flame draped his wing over her again and rubbed her belly light.y Coming up to a small snack stall, He got them some shaved ice and they sat down by a fountain to lick and nibble at the sweet cold treats, the sky graying and darkening a bit ahead of the incoming winter storm. Some snowflakes started dancing around them and the red dragon tented his wing around his sister, the pink girl snuggling up to his side and giving a soft nasal sigh as they watched the fitful bursts of water filling the basin.

"Y'know..." she muttered, "I think...maybe I really am ready for this, after all."

"Hm?"

"Ready to...move and be a mom. I love this city, it's my home, but...it's huge, and scary. The Silver Grotto is smaller, more...cozy, but still lots to explore. They did a great job making it all wavy and contorted like flowing water, definitely fun for kids to explore. This palce...remember how scared we were when we got lost?"

Rolling his eyes, her brother huffed at the memory. "Yeah...we got lost five times, and just down the road from home."

"Yeah. For kids, this place is...frightening, and we grew up here. I think...I'd want somewhere smaller, cozier, and much more child-oriented. I don't regret growing up here, but..."

"It's a city for Dragons, but not for kids."

"Yeah."

"I get you. Me, I'd rather raise them away from all this...money. Money, money, money, always on the brain...kids shouldn't have to go through that. Richy-rich idiots looking down on us, economics causing stress...going hungry because we don't have enough pocket change for a basic snack...and kids need a lot of food. They've got so much growing to do. That's why I wanna become a hunter or forager...I know that struggle. We weren't exactly starving, but...there are better ways to go about it, and those ways weren't being done. Because money."

Ember frowned and nodded against him, nuzzling into the crook of his neck and prompting him to lean his head against hers. "Yeah...in that perspective...and you can't really be a good hunter around here because the area's so large and already saturated with other hunters looking for sport and money, not food."

"Exactly."

"You've been doing a lot more thinking about these things than I thought...I'm sorry I snipped at you..."

Reaching up and catching her chin with his paw, he tilted her face to look at him and gave her a passionate kiss, Ember squeaking in surprise and then melting and pressing into him. They made out for what felt like hours to them but was really only a few seconds, purring softly. When they separated for a breath, he stroked her cheek and she leaned into the gesture. "Yeah, I know. I'm stupid. I should've been talking to you more about this...but I didn't wanna break your good mood. Your excitement, your bubbling over the move and the possibilities...you've been so buried in your jewelsmithing and finance work for months before your Temple visit, it was so nice to see you smile and get excited again. Like...actually excited."

Licking his nose, she nuzzled him again. "You really are looking out for me...I guess I was selfish again."

"No...just high on life, and that's one thing I really love about you. You're the best thing in my life, and always have been...and Ancestors willing, always will be. Maybe second only to our kids."

His paw rubbed the bulge of a shell in her belly and she shivered and purred, then shivered a bit more strongly at the wind picking up. "I should know how quiet and introspective you are, but...I just keep forgetting. I feel really dumb now..."

"Hey, don't do that to yourself. You're also pregnant. Mood swings are part of that...and apparently both of our moms had it really bad, so you probably got it from them too. Just...don't make any rash decisions when it hits, alright? Promise me that. I've weathered your bitch modes a lot...just don't let them drive a wedge between us."

"I know." He leaned in for another kiss and she met him for it, the two purring deeply, their pulses rising up. His paw over hers drifted up to her shoulder, her tail sweeping over his and coiling tightly, their reflective mood quickly turning amorous. With a small, heated gasp, she broke free of the kiss, giving him her best bedroom eyes she could at the moment, Flame giving a deep-chested rerr of lust. "You said no sex..."

"That goes against our nature, you said so yourself..."

"I know..."

"I can't help it...you're so...so damn sexy..." he whispered, nipping along her neck and making her coo and shiver again at the rush of anticipation through her form. "I don't know why but when you're pregnant you just glow so brightly...and I _have_to have you..." he growled, nipping more strongly at her shoulder, making her gasp and moan, her pussy winking under her tail.

"Flame..." she breathed, panting already with lustful need.

"Your gorgeous sunset-pink scales with flowery magenta..." he continued, nibbling at the pink and licking at the magenta, "soft rose-gold horns..." Trailing up along her neck again, he pulled her into a kiss, catching her eyes with his. "and those...*peck* those beautiful rosy irises..." he rumbled. "How can I _not_get aroused by you every chance I get? Every chance to prove to you I love you, I crave you, I want you by my side as my lifelong equal half?"

She shuddered with a low moan, then grabbed him and rolled over onto her back, Flame stepping over her and immediately grinding his firming sheath against her sensitive, wet lips, the two mashing muzzles and kissing deeply. "Flame..." she huffed. "fuck me...right here..."

"And violate the terms of our walk?" he whispered with a devious grin, hotdogging himself between her labial folds.

"Did I stutter?" she panted back to him.

"I dunno, could cause a scene again..."

"Lemme spell it out for you, flamebrain...I want your big, throbbing, incestuous penis buried to the sheath in my vagina, and I want you to ejaculate in me at least three times before we go back home."

"Yes, ma'am," he growled and licked his lips with a huge grin, then his head shot down with a dull roar of need, clamping his teeth firmly around her shoulder at the crook of her neck, Ember gasping out and going limp under him, allowing him to spear himself right up into her needy passage and start rutting her right there in the street, his paw roaming her body and massaging all the right spots he could reach.

"Really? In public?" came a voice at them, a voice that went ignored with their passion. The twins giggled and shook their heads, their wings rubbing each others' swollen bellies.

A knock on the door made Ember jolt up in alarm. "Oh fuck...I slept in!" she yipped, her dad shifting against her and grumbling sleepily.

"Five more minutes Em..."

The knock came again, with Flame's voice. "You ready, Em? Wagon's loaded!"

"Crap..." she hissed, scrambling out of her father's nest, her mothers also looking up blearily and yawning.

"S'it morning already...?"

"Yeah and I'm late! Fuck you dad for being such a good lay!"

"No, I fucked you," he mumbled back, leaning in to nuzzle and nip at his older wife while their daughter spooned up behind him. Ember was awkwardly trying to wipe off her crotch with one of their fresher cleaning rags.

"Okay, I've gotta get going!"

"Give us a min..." her mother replied with another yawn. Yanking the door open, Ember came face to face with her anxious brother, the big red grinning and kissing her muzzle in passing.

"Morning."

"Hi I need food and drink and a wet rag," she replied as she flitted past to the kitchen. "I'm covered in dad's cum!"

Flame chuckled behind her, glancing at the window just barely illuminated with morning light. One by one, their parents left the bedroom, shuffling and stumbling sleepily from the long night of raunchy goodbye fun. Pausing to yawn and shake herself off, their mom squeaked and moaned when Flame nudged her tail aside and buried his tongue into her snatch, sloppily making out with her lower end. "Mmmmm~ Flamie...you really know how to wake me up..."

"Love you, mom." He patted her rump and she turned and nuzzled at his neck.

"Gonna miss you...be safe out there and take care of your sister."

"Goes without saying." He tackled his mother next, nudging her tail aside and quickly mounting her, the older dragoness churring softly and humping back against him while he gave her a few good-morning humps. "Love ya, mother."

"Hey Flame...that feels really good. Gonna miss your horny ass railing me every day."

"That's what dad and your eventual new sons are for." Dismounting, he moved up alongside her and she ducked her long neck down under him to suckle on his shaft, purring around him for a bit, even giving his balls a good groping. He purred, nuzzling at her neck. "Don't overwork yourself out there."

In the kitchen, Ember moaned softly, her father grooming under her tail with his tongue. "Daddy...d-don't stop..."

"Oh, love, I wouldn't if you didn't have to leave this morning." Kissing her netherlips, he stood over her and she purred happily as that familiar shaft slid into her eager passage, her father humping her slowly, deeply, leaning in to groom and nuzzle at her neck. "Lemme just cum in you one more time for the road."

"Yes please!"

Flame smirked at the scene, shuffling past them to get some snacks ready. His mom glanced at the window and scoffed. "Smartass...getting us up this early."

"Hey, I know my family's needs," he replied, moving over to her and mounting her, making her gasp out and buck into him. "Also gotta cum in both of you at least once before I leave."

"Mmmm...good priorities~"

By the time the sun crested Warfang's walls to illuminate the hulking beasts of burden being hooked up to their wagon, Ember was full of three loads from her father, and Flame looked ready to go back to bed after filling both their moms several times. Giggling lust-drunk and exhausted, the pink sister leaned against her brother as they headed out the door, their parents a purring pile of scales at the table. After the door closed, they turned to look over the place one last time, their sexual mirth fading to nostalgic sadness mixed with excitement. "Now...onwards, to the rest of our lives," Flame muttered, then kissed his sister's cheek, Ember sighing softly.

"Gonna miss this place...already miss Dad's penis."

"You'll get it plenty again at the officiation." His tail curled under hers and stroked at her labia, the pink girl murring softly with a grin. She leaned up and kissed him, the two standing there purring back and forth softly.

"So...this is it..."

"Yep. You ready to finally be a real adult?"

"With you as my mate...yeah. I'm ready."

Kissing her once more, he smiled. "My sister, my wife-to-be. I love you. I promise you I'll find at least some kind of job there within the first few weeks."

"I know. You do you. And the girls."

"You are my prime girl." Nosing at her, he licked her cheek. "Now c'mon."

He moved over to test the reins, catching sight of Ember chancing a peek through the shaggy fur of their hunchbacked bovine carriers, licking her lips at the sight of those massive low-hanging orbs. "What?" she asked when Flame rolled his eyes. "I didn't say anything."

"You're my sister, your libido screams louder than your words." Helping her up onto the cushioned couch at the helm, he sat by her and jiggled the reins, the beasts lowing in protest but moving slowly and steadily. Glancing back over the cart, Ember found everything thoroughly tarped and roped down. Flame's collections, her jeweling supplies and tools...they didn't actually have a lot of stuff. but it was heavy nonetheless.

"Mmmm...nice day..." she muttered at seeing the gray sky overhead, flexing her wing and pulling a furry robe from her inventory and spreading it over herself. Flame did the same, holding his tight around his body with his wings. "We should share some warmth later."

"What, you want me to just casually hump you while steering the steer?"

"Sure, not like they're gonna go off the path anyway once we get outta Warfang."

"Sounds fun."

It took them longer than expected to get through the main gate, quite a few merchants holding up the line, but presently they were finally on the road and slowly rolling towards the Silver Grotto Temple. Ember lounged on the cushioned L-shaped couch, her paw rubbing her belly and gently groping at the firm shells forming inside her womb. Across the war-torn plains they trundled, spying various construction projects much closer-up than their excursion along the walls a few days prior. "This is gonna look so nice when they're done...and when things have regrown."

"Wonder if Spyro could help that along."

"Mmm..." Ember sighed softly at that. "He could, but Cynder told me he's...afraid of overusing his powers to make nature recover. He doesn't want to play at being a god and rush the natural order, lest it cause some unforeseen problems later."

"Eh...true enough I guess. Valid concern. Still sucks though, having that kind of crazy power and not being able to use it."

"You mentioned seeing his abilities at the Screenath test? What was that like?"

He winced and sighed again. "Honestly, made me feel like a total fool." That vulnerability from her brother made her sit up against him. "It was...I mean, I'm strong with my fire, you know that...like, Warfang Guard level of skill."

"Yeah. They wouldn't stop hounding you to apply."

"Yeah...but Spyro is...literally godlike in comparison, and I think he was holding back significantly. He was pulling elemental power levels that made me..." He shivered a little. "I was scared. Did you...ever feel that gut-sinking hopelessness during the war, like you can't even move?"

"Yeah...when we saw the siege towers..."

"It was like that. All the elements...and time."

"Time?"

"Yeah. Spyro's got Time powers too. It hurt my brain. Like...that confusion when you misplace something and you could absolutely swear it was in another place? Imagine that, but Spyro in a testing area, and suddenly you're...afraid, because you literally can't tell where he actually is while he's out there, you think you're seeing him but he's not actually there and you think he was over in another spot a few seconds ago but he's actually right next to you but then again he's not?"

"Oh...oh right, yeah, the Matrons said it was his Time Fury that carried the curse...damn, I can't believe I forgot about that crucial part of all this..."

Nodding, her brother huffed. "Ya think you've got it good and then you meet someone who's literally too high above you to even compare."

"Do you...resent meeting him?"

"Nah. Maybe if I'd seen that crazy power level before we got to know each other, but...well. He did show us some displays of power getting us back to Warfang."

"Like what?"

Giving a contemplative chuff of fire tongues between his teeth, he puffed his cheeks a few times with his breath while he thought back to a good example. "Oh yeah. So, Lonimba was taking us across what's known as the Shattered Vale now, it's a bunch of floating close-knit shards, and the ground feels weird, like really soft sand giving way under your paws, like every large shard is just a whole buncha tiny shards all magnetized together. Gravanta almost fell through one because she went to jump and when she shoved off, it collapsed under her. Spyro suddenly flashed with yellow and there was this powerful crack of thunder around us, and we all look up and he's got her across his back on some actually stable ground. He breathed green fire and some of these larger land shards suddenly froze in place with that green glow, and it looked like a zigzaggy bridge. When we walked across it, it was solid and felt like glassy crystal."

"Oooo..."

"Yeah. Later, he breathed ice and made this fancy-ass bridge between land chunks, and then started slinging fireballs everywhere when a flock of rabid giant bats assaulted us. I've never seen them before but they were using this sonic call that made us hallucinate, it was horrible...but Spyro kept them from getting any of us."

"Holy..."

He gritted his teeth with a pseudo-smile. "Yeah...he got us to safety, but sometimes I felt like baggage, y'know? The Stud of Warfang, helpless."

Nuzzling at his neck, she nibbled lightly on his collarbone. "I like my Flamie just the way he is. You don't need to be an elemental powerhouse. Or purple. I like your fiery red. It complements your penis very nicely."

He scoffed and laughed. "Oh, so I complement my penis, that's the most important part. I see how it is. Marrying my dick."

"Marrying a dick, yes."

"You know you like it."

She made a pointed once-over of him with her eyes, licking her lips with a smirk. "Oh, yes I do~"

"Well, why don't you show me how much you like it?"

She rolled over onto her back with a sultry grin and her best bedroom eyes, caressing her growing gravid middle. Licking his lips at the display, Flame hooked the reins on the carriage horn, and moved over to cover his sister, the two purring and nosing at each other, Ember reaching up to stroke his chest, his shoulders, his neck, pulling him in for a deep kiss. He slid his hardening length into her without missing a beat, laying down on her gently and making out with her while their bits snuggled intimately. "Mine..." she whispered against his mouth, curling their tails together. "My big brother...my husband."

"We're not married yet." he teased back.

"Don't care. You egged me up."

"I egged up a lot of girls."

"But you're mine. My Flame. My big dumb candle blazing in the night."

"And you're mine. My Ember keeping my heart warm." With that he started rutting her hard and fast, the two groaning out together in carnal bliss while their steeds kept steadily trudging along, snow starting to fall around them.

"Oohhhh, these are pretty..." Cynder muttered, eyeing the large crystal clusters on the table. "What're these for?"

Spyro smirked. "Well, I figured you could take your pick of two for yourself, but the rest I'm gonna take over to Flame and Ember's place and give them a greeting present before they get here."

"Oh!" She giggled. "Well, if you insist...I like this purple amethyst with the glittery mica flakes."

"Thought so. Looks like me, huh?"

"Exactly. and...I actually really like this one, what is it?"

"Malachite geode with some swirls of opal, believe it or not."

"Oh! It's so pretty...could you put it up on that top shelf over the stove for me please?"

"Can't you like, magic it up there?"

"I'm not that skilled yet."

Taking the geode cluster, he set it up high, having to stretch a bit to reach, Cynder smirking. When he came back down, he smirked back. "You just wanted a peek didn't you? You know you can just ask to see my parts. Not like you ask though anyway."

"There's just something about seeing it more casually, not just on command," she replied with a smug grin.

"Girls." Shaking his head, he huffed and pocketed the other gem clusters. "Alright. I'll be back in a bit. Gonna go set these around their table."

"Oh!" Lifting her paw, Cynder gritted her teeth lightly, Spyro watching a thin streamer of fire reach out and flicker in and out of existence a few times before one of the baskets on their countertop shifted. "Here, this one. Leave it on their table too."

"Alright. Sure you don't wanna come with?"

"I'm sure." Nuzzling at their eggs, she stretched and laid her wing over the nest. "I don't wanna wait out there in the cold when they could be hatching anytime now."

"Alright. I shouldn't be long, they were scheduled to arrive by noon."

"Assuming they don't sideline themselves with sex."

As he left, he raised his tail and swayed his hips, Cynder whistling at the sight of his hefty nads. On his way up to the Temple, he passed by Volteer speaking with a group of the Matrons' students. "Oh, Spyro! Salutations!"

"Hey Volteer. Is something up?"

"Just conducting personal investigations. No requirement to concern yourself."

"Alright."

"Is Cynder doing well?"

"Yeah, she's with the eggs."

"Good, good." The way he trailed off left Spyro feeling a bit confused, but Volteer went back to chatting with the girls, so he continued up and out of the main entrance and wove his way down the streets to where Flame and Ember's reserved home was situated. It was a cozy little place, or "little" by the standards of dragons expecting children. Ember's outdoor workstation was all shuttered up against the cold, affixed to the house with a walkway with more shutters for quicker access to the small front plot of gardening boxes. Nudging his way through the door, the purple dragon frowned a little at the bare, musty interior. While finished, it was dusty from the months of waiting for occupants. With a sweep of his wings he shot forth a blast of Wind power, scrubbing the floors and walls with buffets of swirling air, then yeeted the dust outside to the storm drains. Taking some glowing crystals from his inventory, he slotted them into the holders on the walls, the small house growing brighter already. The master bedroom had a nesting chamber on one side, and Spyro moved over and threw his wing over the floor, manifesting some more furs and nesting softs he'd picked up to surprise them, leaving it in a neat pile for Ember to do her nesting thing at her discretion. He then left the gem clusters from before on the table, arranging them neatly.

"Ah, Spyro?" came a voice from the front door. Volteer was poking in. "I am terribly sorry, but I've just received some urgent news about those golems you were concerned about. Am I interrupting?"

Glancing back at the table, Spyro huffed softly. "I was gonna greet them but...I guess it'll be better off as a surprise for them. Why...is something wrong?"

"It might be. We must convene with the Matrons immediately."

Noon arrived and passed, going on half past when Flame and Ember rolled in at last. Excited chatter met them as was shared back and forth, some of their friends from Warfang and other districts congratulating them on settling down. Coming up to their house, they disembarked and unhitched the steeds, a handler coming over to lead them away for a return trip while the two dragons parked their wagon. With a deep breath, Ember shivered with excitement and a bit of the cold wind kissing the sticky wetness under her tail.

"Heh...we have winter to settle in, then spring and a new beginning to deal with the eggs."

Flame grinned and kissed her again. "Isn't it great? Our own home..."

"Yeah..." Moving over to the door, she lightly graced her paw along the wooden surface. "It feels...so surreal. We actually have a place we can call our own."

"Well...let's make it so and start unloading."

Nudging the door open, she paused, brow furrowed. "This is our place right?"

"Yeah, why?" Flame asked, coming up behind her and pausing when he saw the light from the crystals. "Huh..."

"Yeah, it's the right place..." She stepped in and wound around to the dining room, gasping softly. "Oh...these are- Wow! These are rare and so damn beautiful!"

"Hey Em!" he called from the bedroom, the pink dragoness bounding over and gasping at the sight. "Nesting materials!" he yipped rhetorically. "But- I thought they were leaving furnishing to us?"

She sniffed at the softs, then smirked. "Uh huh. Smartass. These are presents."

"From who? Your nose is better than mine."

"A certain jock whose kids are growing with their siblings in my belly."

Flame smirked and rolled his eyes. "I'm a jock now, huh?"

"Not you, dumbass, Spyro!"

"I know, I'm teasing." Nuzzling at his sister, he nipped her neck playfully, making her shudder when his teeth pressed at one of her erogenous zones. "Wanna help me unpack and then we can properly appreciate these gifts?"

"I was thinking..." she whispered as she turned to face him, giving him an appraising, sultry look, "we make this place our own first..."

He growled lustfully and she giggled. "Now you're speakin' my lingo..."