TLOS legend of the black dragon chapter 19 true aggression
This is one of my most bloody chapters. As well as one of my saddest. I know there are stories who are way sadder and bloody but my story has a light theme. I do believe that battle looks very well. It sure wasn't easy. The chapter made me sad so I hope you guys too.
The legend of Spyro
Legend of the black dragon
Chapter 19 true aggression
Igüsa was trembling with rage as she stood in the hallway.
She just couldn't take it anymore. Blizzard's attitude was too much. With him barking at Frost after he did everything to allow himself kindness towards her was too much for her to take.
"Why have you ordered Frost to stop all kindness to me?!" She shouted as she cared for Frost and Blizzard was taking away what was almost family to her.
"First he plays around with common dragons and then he also interacts with a maid" Blizzard said while still looking at Frost and not at Igüsa.
"And why can't he interact with me?!" Igüsa shouted partly because of the insult but also because it was about her but he didn't look at her.
"You get out of here and watch the tournament. I will take care of this myself" Blizzard said to his son. Still ignoring Igüsa.
"But dad-" Frost protested.
"Now!" Blizzard said sternly.
Frost obediently lowered his head and walked out of the house just like his father ordered him.
No matter what happened Blizzard was still his father so he had to do as he was told.
As Igüsa watched him walk out of the house she noticed that the red spot from his spanking was still there.
She could only hope that Blizzard would be oblivious to it.
After being sure that Frost had left the house Blizzard turned his attention back to Igüsa.
"What did you do with him?!" He asked punitive.
"What do you mean?" Igüsa shot back venomously now that she finally got his attention.
"His amount of homework was nothing and he could do it in the given time with ease! He had to have done something else in the meantime while he wasn't studying" Blizzard waited a few seconds before continuing.
"There isn't anyone else in this house but you so what did you do with him?!"
Igüsa wanted to shout it out but she knew that she would be in trouble if she did so she kept silent. However she had great difficulty restraining herself.
Blizzard wanted an answer but she felt like she wasn't allowed to give it. She wanted to do nothing more than to spell it out for the brute barking at her but she just couldn't.
"Tell me or you're fired!" Blizzard shouted with retreated lips what showed his bright white fangs.
Seeing that Blizzard gave her no choice Igüsa just said it. Somewhere she actually wanted him to force her as she couldn't seem to do it herself.
"I did what he asked me to do with him and then he helped me with my work" she said. It was what had happened and she wasn't ashamed of any part of it.
"What did you do with him?!" Blizzard shouted as foam was starting to surface from behind his fangs. He was looking like a wild and savage beast as he was shouting at the red dragoness.
"Are you really that blind? That you didn't look to his behind" Igüsa said, the rhyme into it made it sound very mocking.
"What did you do to him?!" Blizzard shouted even louder now.
"I gave him a spanking!!!" Igüsa yelled it out now as she was just as angry as Blizzard was.
"You did what?!" Blizzard shouted so hard that half of Warfang could have heard it.
"Afterwards he spanked me!" Igüsa added.
"How dare you hit my son!" Blizzard shouted as if he hadn't heard it.
"He gave me his permission!" Igüsa protested.
However Blizzard didn't seem to hear that either as he seemed beyond reason now "You!" He shouted.
"Yes what about me?" Igüsa said defiant.
"You're going to pay for hurting Frost tenfold you filthy whore bitch!" Blizzard shouted in such a savage manner that he had the appearance of an untamed beast. Foam was almost all around his mouth and all his muscles were stressed to their limit.
He speeded towards her filled with rage. Igüsa was baffled by him acting like that so it caught her off guard.
Blizzard rammed Igüsa and he slammed her into the wall with enormous force.
Igüsa squealed as she could feel her body being crushed by the brutal and savage ice dragon.
Blizzard was more than a metre taller than Igüsa was and his weight was almost twice hers. He was clearly far stronger than she was.
When he took a step back Igüsa fell to the floor and gasped to get air back into her lungs. She could feel a strong pain in her right wing.
Blizzard didn't let her go but raised his right paw and lashed at her.
He hit her on the side and made a triple set of deep claw marks that were almost 1,5 metres long.
Blood was seeping out and Igüsa screamed from the pain.
"No!" Igüsa thought as she suppressed the pain.
"I won't cower in front of this brute" She grinded her teeth and somehow she found the strength to get herself back to her feet.
She forced her legs muscles to contract and jumped towards her ferocious attacker.
Grabbing hold of his side and she seeped her claws as deep into his shoulders as she could.
The much larger ice dragon didn't seem impressed by it at all however and its only success seemed to be to make him even more angry than he already was.
With Igüsa's claws still into him he smashed against the wall with his shoulder to try and crush her with his weight.
Igüsa wanted to scream as it felt like her body was compressed to just a few centimetres but she swallowed the sound as she would let Blizzard just do as he pleased.
Ignoring the breaking pain of her crushed body she bit him his shoulder with all her might and she felt like she would never let go of him.
This time Blizzard did give a yelp as it pained him but it clearly wasn't enough to stop him.
He bent down and grabbed Igüsa by her neck.
He gave a mighty pull and Igüsa tried to hold on to him with everything she had.
However Blizzard was just too strong for her and he pulled her mouth and all of her 12 claws off of him while Igüsa was powerless to stop him.
He swung his head with a wild swing and threw Igüsa away from him.
Once again Igüsa collided with the wall of the house with full force.
She screamed in pain as she could feel her hip break from the heavy blow.
Not waiting for another second Blizzard fired an ice shard at her while she was laying crippled on the floor, unable to protect herself.
Igüsa tried to get up and get out of the way but a sharp jolt from her broken hip quickly brought her back to the ground and right in the path of the incoming ice shard.
The ice shard was a direct hit and pierced her chest scales. It gave of a horrible sound as it went through her flesh.
Igüsa squealed with everything she had as the agonizing shot impaled her body.
Blood started to slowly leak out from the plugged hole in her on her chest and Igüsa strength was already expired.
Igüsa was no fighter. Despite his attitude Blizzard was a powerful dragon and she was just absolutely no match for him.
The ice dragon raised his strong paw again and prepared to punish the broken and defenceless dragoness even more.
Igüsa didn't have the strength anymore to resist with her wounds paining her and her hip forcing her down.
She just closed her eyes and waited for Blizzard to inflict even more pain.
However Igüsa's eyes shot open again when she heard a thunderous blast coming from outside.
Immediately afterwards she was blinded by a brilliant flash of light as the wall was blown to pieces by an extremely powerful attack.
As soon as she recovered her vision she spotted a small dragon walk into the house. He had a furious look in his eyes that had the motivation to kill.
"Oxidus?!" Igüsa shouted in surprise.
Her brother turned to see her and his eyes filled with even more rage when he saw his sister crippled on the floor.
The ice shard was very prominent as it was stuck in her and was more than a metre long. Her three large wounds on her side were also over a metre long and you could tell by her stance that she had broken some bones as well.
"You!!!" Oxidus shouted with an amount of anger that shocked Igüsa.
This dragon only motivation now was to kill. Not to fight or defend. Only to kill and destroy.
"Get out you!" Blizzard shouted. When compared to how Oxidus looked Blizzard looked perfectly calm and sweet. It sounded pathetic what he was saying to him despite the difference in size.
"You dare hurt the one I love!!!" Oxidus sounded extremely dangerous. Igüsa just couldn't believe this dragon was really her younger brother. She had seen Oxidus angry before but he was now so full of rage that she didn't recognise him anymore.
His bright orange eyes burned with a fire that was completely foreign to her. It wasn't like the fire of passion or excitement he once had at all. It was a look of anger, rage and even bloodlust. The look in his eyes pained Igüsa more than all of her wounds combined.
Blizzard also seemed beyond reason with rage and that Oxidus had blew up his house only made him even more angry.
Blizzard was far larger than Oxidus but the air around Oxidus seemed so dangerous and Oxidus looked so destructive that the size difference looked totally irrelevant.
Not waiting for another second Blizzard breathed a liquid ice stream towards Oxidus.
Oxidus opened his mouth and unleashed a highly concentrated beam of fire. He braced his body as the shot gave a powerful recoil.
The two attacks clashed and both dragons tried to push their attacks towards the other.
They kept forcing more and more energy into it to keep its clashing point away from themselves and push it towards their opponent.
Suddenly Oxidus' attack was starting to gain the upper hand as it seemed Blizzard couldn't force any more power into it. Blizzard was strong but it seemed that Oxidus was even stronger.
The colliding point of the two attacks got closer and closer to him and finally Blizzard couldn't push it back any more and was hit in the face by the powerful blast of fire.
Blizzard was blasted away and collided with the wall of his house. Books and stuff fell down as the house shook from the collision.
Blizzard squealed but he found his strength again and got back to his feet. He did look a bit limp however as the attack clearly had done some sort of internal damage.
Blizzard lashed out with his tailblade at Oxidus but he easily rolled away and dodged it.
While Oxidus rolling over dodging the strike he when blasted a large fireball at the ice dragon before Blizzard even had a change to see what he was doing.
Blizzard was staggered but kept his balance. Not ready to give up yet to the dragon less than a quarter his size.
He now jumped towards Oxidus with his hind legs and tried to tear him apart in close combat.
Blizzard was clearly thinking that because their size difference he could win it in close combat easily from the young Oxidus.
However it didn't turn out to be as easy as he thought it would be. Oxidus fought fiercely and continued to resist. Blizzard tried to grab him by his tail but Oxidus just wouldn't sit still long enough for him to do it.
They kept clawing away at each other and Oxidus proved both strong and fast as Blizzard never could hit him or grab hold of him.
Suddenly Oxidus spotted an opening in Blizzard's assault as he dodged a powerful strike from the right.
The heavy paw still had speed so it flew past him and Blizzard hadn't lifted up his other paw yet.
This meant Blizzard now had neither paws close to Oxidus so Oxidus was free for about one second.
That second was all he needed and he jumped towards Blizzard's chest.
He bit his opponent right in the middle of the chest and hang on to it. He was scratching and fighting as he hang suspended in the air from the dragon's high chest. From this position he tried to do as much damage as he could.
Blizzard was shaking his chest back and forth but Oxidus' grip was much too strong to be released from that. Because Oxidus was at his chest he couldn't use his paws or his mouth to pull him off.
Suddenly Oxidus was able to dig his claws into Blizzards scales so now he had an anchor point upon which he could exert force.
He dug his claws as deeply into Blizzard as he could and Blizzard screamed out. However the worst for him was yet to come.
Using every single one of the large muscles in his body he gave a mighty heave and pulled at the chest scales with all his might.
Suddenly the scales he was holding on to separated from the body and Oxidus fell on the ground. He was still having the former chest scales of Blizzard attached to his claws as well as holding onto the flesh that had come off with the scales.
Blood poured out from the gaping hole and Blizzard screamed with a defaming shout of pain. Everyone could sense the magical energy that he racing out of his body.
He put his paw and pressed it against his wound but that was futile.
The wound was more than half a square metre in size and blood continued to gush out at a horrifying rate.
A puddle of the escaped red liquid was quickly formed under him. It was a scene of absolute massacre.
Oxidus then jumped at the ice dragon again, he was so full of anger he wasn't thinking clearly anymore.
He swung his tail around and he buried the hook on the end of his tail deeply into the flesh of the dragon's right shoulder.
The barbs on the ends of the hooks firmly grabbed hold of their prey and Oxidus' tail was now stuck inside Blizzard while Oxidus was hanging upside down near his shoulder.
Blizzard bucked, turned and twisted but it was of no use. Oxidus' barbs was had firmly grabbed hold and they wouldn't let go of their prey.
Oxidus' weight combined with Blizzard's own movements caused the hook stuck inside of him to move very slightly and put an agonizing pressure on his flesh.
Blizzard's strength was quickly draining; from the pain and from the loss of blood that was still pouring out of his chest.
Oxidus was also lashing out with his claws and biting into the ice dragons scales. Oxidus was appearing wild and dangerous, truly a monster of destruction.
The scales of a dragon are quite hard so he mostly made only scratches but with his tail was still stuck into Blizzard it was torture for the ice dragon.
Blizzard then made a powerful swinging motion to throw Oxidus in his direction and then he bent his head to grab Oxidus in his mouth.
The move put much pressure on his flesh and there was now a bulge on his side as Oxidus' tail barbs still wouldn't let go. Blizzard was in very much pain right now.
He clenched his jaws from the pain and Oxidus was now in his mouth.
Oxidus felt the sharp teeth of the ice dragon pierce into his red scales and he squealed out from the pain as he struggled between the mighty jaws.
It felt to him like he was being broken in half but in reality Blizzard no longer had the strength to do that.
Blizzard was in just as much pain as Oxidus was and he redirected it all towards his jaw muscles to try and crush the fire dragon.
Suddenly Oxidus braced his tail muscles and with every ounce of strength he had he gave a mighty pull with his tail to try and escape.
Blizzard tried to keep him in place but he was greatly weakened from the pain and the loss of blood so he just couldn't summon the strength he needed.
Oxidus slit from between the jaws but the razor sharp dragon teeth left a large number of gashes in addition to the piercing marks that he already had suffered in Blizzard's mouth.
Not waiting a second Oxidus quickly flapped his wings to turn around so that he was facing into the direction of the ice dragon's head again.
Using every bit of energy he could summon in one second he fired a high speed fire stream toward the head of the ice dragon.
The dragon was hit on the side of his head but didn't take much damage as the blast was not really charged and it wasn't a direct hit.
However the recoil from the blast in the addition to the speed of his pull made Oxidus go so fast that the hook finally pulled loose from the ice dragon.
The barbs on the hook however still wouldn't let go and when they were torn out of the body they took a large chunk of Blizzard's flesh with them.
The chunk of meat that was on the end of Oxidus' tail was almost the size of Blizzard's head and still slightly dripping of blood.
It quickly fell off but the barbs had already done their gruesome job.
The ice dragon now scrunched down as he was bleeding heavily from two large gaping wounds now.
The two wounds were spewing out blood at a horrible rate and Blizzard looked defeated and expired.
Oxidus however looked far from satisfied with this fight and breathed another fire stream at the ice dragon.
The ice dragon tried to put his wings in front to protect him but they were no match for the overwhelming power of Oxidus.
The wings were burned extensively and it seemed that almost half of the membrane was completely gone.
Blizzard's screams of agony gave only a mild indication of the pain he was feeling.
Oxidus then used a comet dash and rammed Blizzard right in his chest.
He rammed Blizzard so hard that the wall he forced him in to gave way and Blizzard was laying broken on the streets.
Now outside Oxidus continued to bite and claw away at the ice dragon. Making more and more wounds. He was completely out of himself with anger and wouldn't stop.
Blizzard was completely drained of all his energy. He had incalculable wounds everywhere on his body and had large gaping holes in his chest and shoulder from which he was loosing blood and energy fast. His broken bones crimpled him, he had numerous burn wounds and half his wings were charred away.
Oxidus was still filled with rage and didn't stop. It looked like he was willing to truly kill his enemy by tearing him to shreds. Oxidus wouldn't stop until he was feeling satisfied and he seemed insatiable.
He bit into the ice dragons belly and tore away another part of his hide. With Blizzard so weak now he didn't need much strength anymore to do serious damage. This now brought the number of open wounds on Blizzard the three.
Blizzard squalled blindly as the hellish red demon continued his assault on the exhausted ice dragon.
Blizzard didn't have any more energy left, he was barely aware of what was happening except that he was in agonizing pain.
Oxidus never stopped attacking and before long Blizzard was drenched in his own blood.
Not that Oxidus was clean himself because he was bloody too from the bite wounds all over his body that was also mixed with the blood from the exhausted ice dragon.
Oxidus now suddenly ran up to the dragons throat and lashed at it with his powerful claws.
He was now going to kill the ice dragon that hurt his sister. Nothing seemed to be able to stop the ferocious dragon from killing his broken, beaten and defeated opponent.
Just as his claws were about to decapitate his enemy Oxidus was hit by a powerful blast on the side and crashed into the side of a house in the street.
The blast was not from a physical attack or an ice attack. It was from an attack that had come from another fire dragon.
"Oxidus STOP!" Oxidus looked up and he vaguely spotted Igüsa staggering out of the house.
"Igüsa?!" Oxidus exclaimed in disbelief. He had almost completely forgotten that she was still here but why had she stopped him?
"This isn't you Oxidus, please, don't do it" Igüsa begged although exhausted and very weak. However the words still came like blows to Oxidus.
He felt like his eyes suddenly shot open and he now looked at the crippled ice dragon to see what he had done.
Blizzard's normal blue colour had almost completely disappeared. The only colour visible was crimson red as he was drenched in blood.
The large torn up holes in his side and chest were still spewing out blood that was quickly forming a lake around the ice dragon. Oxidus could now no longer feel the magical dragon energy from Blizzard as it seemed to be all gone. His ragged wings and broken body was looking like a death corps while it lay motionlessly on the street.
However his weak breathing indicated that Blizzard was still alive. He was unconscious from the pain and blood loss but he was still alive.
"Dad!" The perplexed Oxidus heard Frost running up to his father shocked by the state he was in.
"Come on dad, wake up! Wake up!" Frost shook the motionless body of his father.
What he did was of no use, his father was much too injured and exhausted to respond.
"Please dad no" Frost buried his head into his father's blood stained body while crying heavily.
Oxidus was stunned as Frost kept crying and screaming in grief.
"Dad, don't leave me" Frost shouted in tears.
"What in the name of the ancestors has happened here!?" Cyril now arrived at the scene as well and he was followed quickly by Terrador.
"Quickly! We have to get him to the healer" Terrador said as he already turned and bend down, ready to carry Blizzard on his back.
There was no time for explanations or to asses the situation. Blizzard needed help now!
"Oxidus?" Cynder and Spyro were on Terrador's side and were shocked by the murderous scene.
"I will take Blizzard Cyril, you take the female" Terrador said not having the time to explain things here.
"Okay Terrador. You! Help me put her on my back" He was speaking to Oxidus but he didn't know his name.
By now many stunned dragons and other creatures had started to arrive as they were lured by all the rumble of the battle.
"Oxidus!?" Oxidus spotted Georga coming towards him with a stunned look on her face.
However the sight of Igüsa quickly pushed that away, she needed to help her first.
Oxidus and Georga helped Igüsa on Cyril's back. The explanations had to wait until later.
Frost, together with Spyro and Cynder helped Blizzard and they quickly went to the healer with them. Cyril carried Igüsa while Georga and Oxidus escorted him while they followed.
A minute later Frost came running through the healer's office.
"What's the big rush?" The mole at the desk asked surprised by his panic.
"Quickly my dad is dying!" Frost shouted while panting from exhaustion.
Frost had flown ahead to warn the healer and had raced to be there as fast as he could.
The mole pulled the cord that rang the bell and only seconds later Terrador and Cyril entered carrying Blizzard and Igüsa respectively.
"Oh my goodness" the mole exclaimed from looking at the state of Blizzard.
"We don't have much time. Get the healer dragon quickly" Terrador said using his battle experience to retain his calmness. However that it was urgent was very easy to hear.
The mole pulled on the cord again and again in only a few seconds.
Just then an electric dragoness came sprinting from the curtain. The repeated ringing had indicated for her that it was an emergency.
She was rather small and with a slender build. She had 4 horns, large paws, brown wings and a forked tail appendix. She looked very kind dragoness and was an excellent healer.
"Come in here" She said clear and with a controlled haste. She pointed to the room she had just come from as it seemed to be the main treatment room.
Terrador walked in together with Blizzard while Spyro and Cynder were helping to keep him in place.
"Sorry but I needs space" The dragoness said to the many onlookers that had followed them.
"What about Igüsa?" Oxidus said as she was practically being ignored.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine" Igüsa said weakly from the back of Cyril.
"You can let me go now, I think that I can walk again" She wheezed to reassure everyone.
"Are you sure about that?" Cyril asked although he would like to have the heavy load off of him.
"I'm sure" Igüsa forced out a smile.
Cyril let Igüsa gently slide off his back and she got to her feet again.
Oxidus quickly raced up to her and helped pull herself to her feet.
Her broken bones made her stand awkwardly and she still looked a bit weak and injured.
"Please don't worry about me" She urged.
"She said everyone out!" The mole assistant said while he drove out every dragon in the room.
Frost was also being let away but he kept refusing to go.
"I won't leave!"
"The healer clearly said-" The assistant started.
"He can stay here" Terrador said as he walked out of the treatment room "He is the son"
"Okay then fine" The mole sounded really agitated and he let Frost stay.
"Wait! What about Oxidus and Igüsa?" Georga asked as they also needed treatment.
The mole turned back inside the treatment room to ask the healer.
"They go there" The mole said as he reappeared only a few seconds later.
He was pointing towards another part of the healer's office. Most likely it was another treatment room.
"One of the apprentices will take care of them. Will you please now all leave" He urged.
Oxidus and Igüsa walked towards the other treatment room and Georga was coming along as well. She was still out of words by what was going on and she would not leave them. Igüsa kept clenching as her hip send painful jolts of pain with each step she took.
"I said everyone leave" The mole said sternly directed to Georga.
"She is with me" Igüsa said as she would want Georga to be with Oxidus right now. With what happened Oxidus needed Georga by his side.
"Okay fine" The mole said as he chased everyone else out of the room.
"Spyro!" Igüsa shouted before they were out of the room.
"Yes?"
"Go and see if you can find Furno anywhere, he is with Zerzelie now" Igüsa asked.
"Okay I will" Spyro replied as he helped Cynder along who was feeling very reluctant to leave Igüsa.
In the main treatment room Frost was looking very anxious to his dad.
His body was torn up and broken, the table was already blood stained. "Is he going to make it?" He asked the dragon healer fearfully.
"I don't know" The dragoness replied "I am going to need silence so I would like it if you kept silent" She said sternly.
Frost didn't say anything more and watched her put her paw on his father's body and he could feel the energy flow between the healer and his father.
Frost had learned something about healing in his studies and he knew that she was now diagnosing him.
It was done always so that a healer dragon can spot the spots that they need to heal and also how they needed to do that.
It took only two minutes but for Frost it seemed like two hours before the dragoness finally was finished with examining him.
"I think he will make it. There are no serious internal injuries and no other forms of critical damage. I also don't see anything that could lead to complications" She said. "There are some broken bones and the number of wounds is high. He has lost considerable amount of blood and also a large amount of energy is lost. There are some minor internal injuries in his stomach"
Then came the words that Frost hoped so much to hear "However I don't spot any internal damage that I can't heal. A large bunch of red crystal will do for the surface wounds and after some rest I think that he'll be fine"
"That's great" Frost said very happy.
He now turned gleefully towards the healer dragon. "Thank you so much" he bowed in respect.
However the gruesome sight of his father dropped his mood quickly down again.
"I don't think there is much you can do here. Why don't go to the other room and check up on the other patients" The dragoness suggested. She seemed neither pleased nor embarrassed by Frost's gratitude. She has seen these kind of things countless times.
Frost didn't want to leave his father's side when he was in such a state but at the same time the healer had said that he couldn't do anything for him now.
He also really wanted to hear what had happened to his father and he also was worried about Igüsa.
He thought it over and after about a minute he walked out of the main treatment room.
He stopped just before he walked through the curtain and looked back "Bye dad, get better" He said as the electric dragoness put her paws on his father again and she started to glow as she began healing.
He walked through the now empty hallway and entered the other treatment room.
This one was the same size as the main treatment room but it had far fewer stuff and equipment. There was no stone table so Igüsa and Oxidus were laying on the floor.
They were treated by two healer dragons and Georga was sitting next to Oxidus.
The healer dragons were both young adult males. One was an ice dragon and he guessed him at 33 and the other one was an earth dragon who he guessed at 23. Though they were apprentices they were perfectly capable of handling a case like this.
"Frost? What are you doing here?" Georga asked as she spotted him.
"The healer sent me away saying I could be of more use here" Frost answered.
"How are you two doing?" He asked right afterwards to Igüsa and Oxidus.
They were laying on the floor and the healer dragons had just finished with their diagnose.
"They have no serious injury. The male has only a few superficial bite wounds and those are healed with just a bunch of crystals. The female has a broken hip and some compressed organs so that will require some work" the older one of the apprentices answered.
"Frost? What are you doing in here?!" Igüsa asked with a sharp tone as she now noticed him standing in the room as well. "You go back to your father right now!" She ordered.
"But-" Frost protested as he wasn't sure what to think anymore.
"No buts" Igüsa almost snapped. "Oxidus and I are fine. You go and stay by your father's side until he wakes up" She tried to sound stern but her strength was still weak. "I don't want to so you again until it is by his side!"
"I won't leave him again Igüsa" Frost assured her as he walk out to rejoin his father again.
He switched rooms again and walked through the curtain as slowly as he could as to not disturb the concentration of the healer dragon.
She was busy transferring energy to his father's body and Frost watched as the wounds on his father's body slowly started to heal.
Suddenly the dragoness released him and was gasping for air. She had transferred a very large amount of energy and she was very tired now.
"Young dragon" She turned to him, not asking why he had returned.
"Could you go and smash some crystals for me?" She asked.
Frost didn't speak but walked to the piles of red crystal in the room and used his tail to smash them into bits.
Carrying them on his wings he brought them back to his father where they magically flew into his wounds.
Frost then returned to the pile and smashed and brought more shards. First he brought red crystals to heal his father's wounds and later the dragoness ordered him to bring green crystals to replenish his lost energy.
"I think that will do it" The dragoness concluded after all the wounds were gone and Blizzard had absorbed a lot of crystals.
Seeing as he couldn't do anything more Frost ran up towards his father as he wanted to crawl up to him. He knew it wouldn't help but he just felt like he had to do something.
Suddenly he was stopped as the healer dragon put her tail in front of him and blocked his path.
"You must let him rest. His body is still very tired from the punishment it has suffered. I think he will wake up in a few hours"
"Thank you very much" Frost bowed again, very grateful that his father was going to be alright. He had to pay his respects and be gentle with his father now.
"Can I please be with him" He asked the adult dragoness. He would respect a no but he wanted a yes more than anything.
"You can, but please let him rest" The dragoness lifted her tail and let Frost jump up the table and lay down next to his father.
Frost got up as gently as he could and got as close as possible without disturbing his sleeping father.
"Dad" Frost whispered as he lay down next to him.
His father gave no reply but Frost didn't blame him.
He closed his eyes and being very worried about him he quickly fell asleep next to his father.
After about three hours Frost woke up as he suddenly felt something move against his side.
"Dad!" Frost exclaimed as his father was awake now.
He happily rubbed his head against his father's side, overjoyed that his father was alive.
"Frost" Blizzard whined weakly.
"Daddy I'm so glad that you're alright" He said having tears in his eyes from joy.
Blizzard didn't answer and laid back down. Although he was awake now he was still very tired.
Frost's excitement was broken by that but he just laid down and allowed his father to have all the time he needed to recover.
Meanwhile in the room next to them Georga was keeping Igüsa and Oxidus company as they waited for Blizzard to return.
Igüsa had told her what had happened in broad lines and she was shocked by it for sure. However she didn't give any details.
Igüsa had insisted that they didn't leave until Blizzard was up to his feet again.
"Iga, Oxus!" Georga suddenly heard a high pitched tone that could only come from one dragon.
"Furno!" Igüsa beat her to it by calling his name.
"Iga okay?" He asked very worried.
"Sure I'm fine and your brother will be okay as well" she said for him as Oxidus almost never spoke.
"What happened?" Furno asked.
Neither Igüsa nor Oxidus gave a reply to that.
"Oxidus, what happened?" Georga urged as she was very anxious to know more about it too.
Oxidus didn't reply and looked away.
"Now is not the time yet Georga" Igüsa said to her "Let's say it when Blizzard is better"
Furno now crept under her head and rubbed against her. She bent down and they nuzzled each other.
"I'm going to check up on Blizzard" Georga said.
"Just be quiet" One of the apprentice healer dragons said to her.
"I will" Georga whispered back.
She changed rooms and walked into the main treatment room.
"You're awake! Dad" Georga heard just as she entered the room.
Frost jumped off the table and Blizzard gently shove off.
Georga walked up to them happy that they were fine. The healer dragon had already left the room.
"Hi there Georga" Frost said now sounding very happy.
"Where are the maid and her brother?" Blizzard asked right away.
"Oh, Igüsa is in the room next door" Georga said a bit surprised.
"I have a few things I want to say to her" Blizzard said now newfound strength.
He walked out of the room with Frost still by his side and Georga followed them back again to the room she had just left.
Blizzard and Frost walked through the curtain and Georga tried to stay out of sight. This wasn't involved so it would be better if she kept out.
"Igüsa" Frost said trying to draw her attention.
"Oh, Blizzard, are you okay?" Igüsa asked as she finally got up from the ground after laying there for hours.
"I'm good but you're fired!" Blizzard said raising his voice.
"What!?" Igüsa exclaimed totally taken aback by it.
"But why?" Frost asked who was standing next to his father.
"You hurt Frost and then your brother almost killed me. That is enough reason for me to fire an employee" Blizzard summarized not turning to his son.
"Hey you!" Oxidus was getting up again as his rage returned.
"I don't think if you know it here but she saved your ungrateful tail!" He shouted rightfully angry.
"And what is that supposed to mean?!" Blizzard barked at the fire dragon.
"If I had my way you would be laying dead in the streets right now" Oxidus yelled as his body tensed again "She stopped me from killing you and she is the only reason you're still standing here"
"That's right Blizzard!" Georga said trying to support them.
"She constantly put herself second and you first. She sent Frost back to you and she wouldn't allow anyone to leave the healer until you were better!" Georga shouted at him also starting to get angry by Blizzard's ungratefulness to Igüsa.
"If it wasn't for her and her cursed brother I wouldn't be in this situation so she is fired!!!" Blizzard yelled overpowering all other voices in the room.
"Dad, she didn't hurt me at all" Frost still tried to chance his mind. Although the spanking was of course of insignificant value.
"We had a bit of a game and it was only for fun" He urged.
This was a very stupid thing to say now but Frost had problems keeping it together with his father nearly dying and then acting like a jerk again.
"She is FIRED!!!" Blizzard shouted just as he walked out of the room.
It was official now. Igüsa was no longer the maid of Blizzard. She was fired.
Frost quickly shifted his view back and forth as he didn't know who to follow.
Igüsa smiled and gestured for him to follow his father. He bowed to her in respect and quickly ran to catch up.
Oxidus wanted to ran up to Blizzard as well but as soon as he started to move Igüsa bit his tail to stop him.
Oxidus turned to her while snarling but when she released his tail and shook her head.
"No Oxidus, its fine, you don't have to take it up for me" she said soft and kindly.
Oxidus still was growling but he settled back down.
"Iga, what fire?" Furno asked.
"It's nothing Furno, don't worry about it" She said as she nuzzled to comfort him.
"I'm very sorry for ruining it Igüsa" Georga was very surprised to hear Oxidus talk softly.
"I never liked that guy anyway" Igüsa smirked as she tried to sound strong.
"I think we should go home now" Igüsa suggested "My guess is that it is already evening now"
"Why don't you go home now too Georga" Igüsa suggested.
"But-" Georga wanted to protest.
"It's okay, please don't worry yourself about us" Igüsa assured her.
Feeling very torn Georga left them and flew back home. She didn't play this evening either. As Georga put the chain of events together in her head she could feel something break in her chest.
Back inside her home Igüsa had finished dinner and the family was eating together again.
Oxidus was now eating as well and although he didn't say much he seemed to be living in the moment now instead of in his own thoughts
Igüsa had very little to say herself and the dinner was eaten without anyone speaking.
Oxidus played with Furno this evening. Igüsa had asked him and somehow he obeyed and played, something he normally would never do. This day however was an exception as was not surprising. Oxidus apparently felt great respect for Igüsa or guilt for his actions or maybe both.
When it was bed time Igüsa carried Furno to his bed and about an hour later Oxidus went to bed as well. They were all tired from the rough day.
Igüsa's bed time was normally one hour further than Oxidus but she curled herself up in her nest shaped bed as she was exhausted.
"What now?" Igüsa thought. With her brother now asleep she could finally drop the 'everything is alright' façade and take in the consequences.
"Oxidus' job is far too poorly paid to support us all!" she thought desperately.
"Blizzard's decision was final and I doubt I could crawl back to him after Oxidus almost ripped him to pieces" she dispelled that right away.
Igüsa now also started crying "What if I hadn't played that spanking game with Frost. Maybe I would still have my job"
"Spanking the son of my boss! How could I possibly be so stupid? The entire thing started with the spanking game" Igüsa dug her claws in her skull now.
"But are we going to live on the streets now?" Igüsa was starting to despair.
"No matter how small it is this house still has lease and with Oxidus' job we can't even buy enough food let alone pay that"
All kinds of doom futures appeared in Igüsa's head. The next one even darker than the last. They were going to live on the streets and be spit at and be kicked around by everyone that passed. No one had any mercy with beggars.
Suddenly a possible solution entered her mind.
She considered about maybe becoming a prostitute to make the money they needed. She had often heard that she was quite sexy after all.
However that thought was an unacceptable one for her. She would rather live on the streets forever than mate with a just one dragon for pay.
The doom oracles continued as Igüsa slowly fell to sleep with haunting nightmares about mating filthy males and being spit at while living in a dark and dirty allay.