TLOS legend of the black dragon chapter 22 Georga's hope
Author note: Here is the biggest chapter my story has. Normally when a chapter surpasses 10.000 words I split it up but this time I didn't. This chapter is strongly one unit, it makes no sense if split up. But that makes it the largest one with ease with 11.702 words. It also is one of my favourites. The way Georga snaps out of it is great and I think that scene with Glacia is really nice. Also the spanking I consider one of my best.
Glacia I have borrowed from Dragonshina. I thought it would be funny since she there takes over the role of Ember (forcefully trying to take Spyro away what makes her Cynder's worst enemy).
The legend of Spyro
Legend of the black dragon
Chapter 22 Georga's hope
Her eye lids opened up as a young fire dragoness woke up after an excellent night of sleep.
She yawned and raised her head to look outside and check the weather.
It was clouded and there was a heavy wind. But for Igüsa that didn't matter as she could feel the sun shine inside of her.
She was full of energy and looking very forward to going to her new job in the citadel today.
She looked to her brothers and spotted them both sleeping peacefully cuddled up to her.
She was curled around and they were lying like hatchlings in the circle of her body.
Last night she had drawn all of them together and fallen asleep with them.
She had half expected Oxidus to escape as she was asleep. Normally he was very reserved and always kept away from things like hugs.
But to her surprise he was still in the same position as yesterday; sleeping peacefully together with his family.
She now carefully removed her body and gently moved away from them. She didn't want to wake them up and especially not Oxidus.
When she felt that she had put enough distance between herself and them she raised herself to her feet as there was work to do.
She started to work on breakfast but she kept doing it as quietly as possible.
She hoped they still had some food left and checked the main drawer.
It was empty but she just checked another one.
This drawer was filled to capacity with meat and fruit.
"Boy I was really worried about nothing. We have plenty for weeks" She though.
Yesterday she was convinced they were going to starve tomorrow already.
Even if they didn't have any food it seemed a little exaggerated. They could survive weeks without food and go out hunting for food was always still an option. She almost felt embarrassed that she was such a worrywart.
After her discovery that they still had food she got to work.
She decided to put a lot of effort in the breakfast of today because she thought they had something to celebrate.
She picked only the best pieces of the meat out of the drawer she could find. Not that they had much of high quality but she picked the best of what they did have.
She gently cut it apart with her claws into fine strips of meat. She only used the best parts of the animals.
She now picked some fruits and squeezed them out over the meat what caused the liquid to drip out of it.
She took a small bite from one of the strips but she didn't judge it good enough yet.
Then she remembered that they still had some spices left.
She had to search for it but eventually she found some pigous berries.
She picked the hard red fruits and she broke them over the meat.
It unleashed a tiny cloud of pollen that dwindled down on the meat.
This time it tasted better but still not yet good enough.
She now put her creativity skills to the test. They didn't have any high class culinary goods so with basic fruits and some very simple spices she did the best she could.
When she was finally feeling satisfied she cooked it.
She gently breathed fire at the meat. With this little energy she had to keep it up for a very long time until it was finally hot enough.
After she was done she divided it into three scales; two large ones for herself and Oxidus and a smaller one for Furno. Then she put them down on the ground.
She now looked at the bed and to her surprise both her brothers were still asleep.
Oxidus was normally already up at like 6 o'clock or sometimes even earlier. It was now 7:15 and he was still asleep.
She decided it was time to wake up because although her job was later it was still in the early morning.
She walked over to her brother's bed and feeling a bit mischievous she tenderly nuzzled Oxidus.
Oxidus slowly and unconsciously he grinned as he opened is eyes. But at the second he noticed that Igüsa was nuzzling him he jumped back.
He slammed with his back against the wall what caused Igüsa to giggle a bit.
"Good morning Oxidus" Igüsa said with a happy girly voice.
"Don't do that!" Oxidus shouted to her as he got up. For this moment he was looking like the stubborn boy again that Igüsa remembered.
"Oxidus" Igüsa was so happy that Oxidus was expressing his emotion again.
"Morning big sis, big bro" Furno said as he got up.
"Morning little bro" Igüsa said using a female version of his childlike high pitched voice.
"I hope you boys are hungry" Igüsa said happy.
"Sure am" Furno chirped as he ran towards the smallest bowl and started eating right away.
"Furno" Igüsa said a bit forbidding.
Furno took a step back from the bowl but didn't speak. He knew what he was doing wrong.
"Come on Oxidus, let's eat" Igüsa said urging.
Oxidus' depression seemed to return now because he didn't reply and walked silently to his bowl.
"Piece by piece" Igüsa thought. "Piece by piece, slowly but surely Oxidus will return"
She walked over to her own bowl and told her brothers they could start.
The three siblings enjoyed their meal very much because Igüsa had put so much effort into it.
The meat was only the tastiest of the animal, it was spiced, juicy and it was gently cooked and baked instead of burned.
Furno was eating very quickly and before long his bowl was already empty.
He gave a loud burp and fell down on his back to allow his fully tummy a bit more space.
"So, enjoyed it?" Igüsa asked her little brother.
Igüsa was eating slower so her bowl was still half full.
"Good cooking Iga" Furno complimented.
"Thank you" Igüsa replied cheerfully.
Oxidus didn't speak but Igüsa could see he was enjoying his meal.
"So Oxidus having a match today?" Igüsa asked although she knew he had one.
"Yeah" Oxidus said like he didn't care.
"Well good luck, I'll come and watch it for sure. Igüsa said sounding happy.
Oxidus didn't give a reply and just returned to his meal.
Igüsa also returned to her meal while still smiling.
When they were all finished Igüsa put the bowl back and decided it was time to head for her new job.
"Furno!" She said. She didn't need to tell him what to do as Furno knew the whole thing by heart.
The little fire dragon walked up to her and stretched out while at the same time lowering himself.
Igüsa said goodbye to Oxidus and then she grabbed him in her mouth.
Igüsa first flew towards Zerzelie where she dropped off Furno before turning back to head to her new working place.
It was the same route she had flown before and nothing seemed to have changed at first impression.
However Igüsa knew it was different when she reached the point where she normally turned towards Blizzard.
Now she kept flying straight towards the citadel that towered over the rest of the city.
When she had reached it the fire dragoness walked into the enormous building and saw it was already packed with activity.
"Well, I'm here but what am I supposed to do?" Igüsa thought.
She knew she had to do chores but she had no idea of where to start.
"Ah there you are" right on que Igüsa saw Cyril appearing from the crowd.
"Why don't we go somewhere else because this seems a little bit to noisy here" He suggested.
Igüsa nudged and followed Cyril.
He let her to his room where he turned to see her.
Igüsa waited patiently for what kind of thing he had in mind for her.
"I want you to clean the kitchen together with the other cleaners. That will be all for today" Cyril said.
"That's all?" Igüsa said puzzled. Only just the kitchen seemed a bit little for a work day of 10 hours.
"It will keep you busy, trust me" Cyril sneered.
"Okay" Igüsa nudged and walked out.
"Wait a moment!" Cyril said before she could leave.
Igüsa turned her head back "Yes?"
"I think Spyro would be very pleased to see you here so why don't you go up to his room before you begin" He suggested.
"Okay, I will" Igüsa said as she walked out of the room.
After Igüsa had forced herself a way through the crowd she reached the stairs going up to the room.
Just as she put her first paw on the steps she stopped because she heard something.
"Hey, hallo there Igüsa" A voice sounded from behind her in the crowd.
It was clearly a female and the voice sounded familiar but she couldn't place it.
Igüsa turned and right away recognised the unique colour of Ember as she walked out of the crowd.
"Hallo Ember" Igüsa replied.
"Here to watch the tournament?" Ember asked.
"No, I work here" Igüsa replied feeling a bit proud of it.
"Work? I thought you worked for Blizzard?" Ember tilted her head a bit in confusion.
"Why don't you come with me and Spyro and I will explain" Igüsa said as she started to walk up the stairs.
Ember didn't know why or how Igüsa had switched or what Spyro had to do with it but she just walked alongside her as Igüsa would explain it in the room.
The two dragonesses reached the top of the stairs and Ember opened the door.
"What! Um, hi" Cynder stammered with a brush clamped in her tail.
Cynder was aqua blue from end to end but Spyro was she was still busy on Spyro. Only his behind and tail were red, the rest of his body was still purple.
"Bad timing?" Ember asked rhetorically.
"Well, yes" Cynder said.
"We'll wait outside" Igüsa said as she walked back out of the room to let the two dragons finish painting.
"No wait, it's fine" Spyro said as he walked up to them.
With his mostly purple body and red behind Igüsa thought him look very silly.
"No, no, you finish painting and we will wait outside" Igüsa insisted as she walked out with Ember still by her side.
Spyro didn't protest further and when she looked back Igüsa saw him getting back into his stance to allow Cynder to finish.
While Ember and Igüsa were waiting for Cynder to finish a green female earth dragon was eating the last pieces of her breakfast at home.
Georga was never giving a reply to any of Volt's questions and even if she did it was only to cut the subject.
"So Georga, Oxidus is having a match again" Volt kept trying to get Georga at least a little bit excited but nothing ever seemed to work.
Just like last time Georga didn't reply to him.
She had barely spoke to Volt at all ever since the incident of Blizzard.
Volt had heard from Terrador yesterday evening exactly what had happened but he couldn't figure out why it was making Georga act like this.
"Oh Georga" He thought as she looked so much now like Oxidus.
"I need to do something" Volt kept thinking that but couldn't get any idea of what he could do to help her.
"Maybe I need her again" He thought as it looked very hopeless.
"But... even she couldn't do something" he though even more desperate.
Cynder had come to visit them yesterday but even she couldn't figure out what Georga had in running around in her mind.
"Last time Cynder had managed to pull Georga out of her sadness while I couldn't. But this time around even she seems powerless. If Cynder can't do it then who in this world can?"
Cynder also remembered her meeting with Georga yesterday and how much she was shocked by what Georga had become.
She was almost finished painting Spyro so she pushed it away as she needed to focus. Her dexterity was poor so painting Spyro was very difficult for her.
She now gently painted his head and made sure to watch out for his eyes.
"Would you turn around now?" Cynder asked so that she could inspect him in search of missed purple spots.
Spyro slowly spun around and Cynder brushed away the few last purple spots until Spyro was almost totally red. Only his eyes, nose and mouth still had some purple but that was only visible if you really looked for it.
"We're finished!" She shouted to the two dragonesses waiting.
Igüsa and Ember walked into the room again and especially Ember looked puzzled.
Cynder lie down while Spyro kept standing up. The paint needed a few minutes to dry so Spyro had to keep standing until then.
"So Igüsa, what are you doing here?" Cynder asked as she was very anxious to know.
"Didn't Spyro tell you?" Igüsa asked back sounding a bit surprised.
"Well no he didn't" Cynder replied as she looked at Spyro who looked back innocently.
Spyro had left early yesterday and she had noticed that he was very busy with all kinds of things.
During the evening she asked him what he had done but he said that he was too tired and just went to sleep.
"Well then I will tell you now" Igüsa said apparently very happy.
"Cyril has employed me" Igüsa said simply.
"Employed?" Cynder repeated a bit confused.
"Yes, now I am his maid" Igüsa said satisfied.
"What happened then, weren't you the maid of Frost's father?" Ember now asked.
"After he healed from his battle with Oxidus he fired her" Spyro said to her.
"Well congratulations" Cynder said. She felt it sounding a bit stupid but she didn't know what else to say.
"I have come up here to thank you Spyro" Igüsa said.
"Don't think anything of it" Spyro said humble while he shrugged.
"Huh?" Cynder still didn't understand how Spyro was involved with Igüsa's job now at the citadel.
"It was Spyro who convinced Cyril to hire me" Igüsa explained.
"Really?" Cynder asked looking to Spyro.
"Yeah, boy you should have seen him when I told him what happened" Spyro grinned.
"Well then what did happen?" Cynder urged as the things still didn't add up for her.
"Well to shorten it" Spyro began "After Oxidus seriously injured Blizzard Igüsa kept putting herself before him" Spyro started. "She kept sending Frost away to look after his father and kept insisting that she was fine" Spyro stopped his story for a moment and looked Igüsa because he felt a little bit uneasy about praising her so much when she was sitting in the room.
However Igüsa smiled and nudged for him to continuo.
"After he woke up Blizzard went to Igüsa and fired her. Georga and Frost tried to protest but Blizzard wouldn't listen" Spyro said.
"The next day I went to Frost and talked with him about what happened. Then I got the idea about Cyril and together we went to him and convinced him to hire Igüsa" Spyro finished.
"You're very kind Spyro" Ember said smiling very warmly.
"Oh, um, thank you" Spyro stammered taking a step back. It wasn't visible because of the paint but Cynder knew Spyro well enough to know when he was blushing.
"Yes Spyro, you're very kind dragon" Cynder took a few more steps towards him to torture him even more.
Now even through the paint Cynder could see his blush.
Cynder didn't want to torment Spyro more so she turned back to Igüsa "So is it better than your previous job?" she asked.
"Much better, the pay is far greater and the workload is much less" Igüsa said cheerful.
"Yeah and you seem to have taken a liking of your new boss as well" Spyro said sly.
"Oh, that, um-" Igüsa now started blushing herself.
"Huh?" Cynder hated it that she knew so little about what was going on.
"Just ask it to Cyril" Spyro suggested.
Seeing that Spyro really liked to keep her in the dark Cynder decided just to do that.
"Well I really need to go now" Igüsa got up from the floor "I don't want to look bad on my first day"
"True" Spyro said.
Igüsa turned and walked away but when Cynder looked at Ember she saw that Ember was still in the room.
"Um Cynder, I was wondering if you would stay with me. I have a few things I would like to discuss" Ember now asked.
"What then?" Cynder asked.
"Well I would like to say it to you in private" Ember said looking to Spyro
"That's fine" Spyro said. "I'll go to the dragon stands and watch the tournament"
"I'll join you soon" Cynder said to him.
"Okay" Spyro said before closing the door behind him.
"So Ember, what's up?" Cynder asked now that they were alone.
"Have you been around Georga lately?" Ember asked with a seriousness that Cynder hadn't heard from her before.
"Yes, I visit her yesterday but she had very little to say" she said.
"She was silent to me as well" Ember sighed.
"What do you think happened to her?" Cynder asked.
"I don't know but my guess is that it has something to do with Oxidus"
"That's what I was thinking too" Cynder agreed.
"I say that we go and check it out" Ember said strongly.
"What!? But how are we going to do that?" Cynder asked very surprised.
"By asking!" Ember said with a raised voice.
"Are you sure?"
"Well if we don't do something Georga will turn out just like Oxidus" Ember said pressing.
Cynder suddenly realised that Ember had a good point in that one.
The way she was acting. Georga indeed started to look a lot like Oxidus.
And that was something that they could not allow.
"Yes Ember let's go" Cynder said now also was convinced that they should do something before Georga was gone.
The two dragonesses flew trough the aerial entrance and instantly headed towards Georga's house.
They reached Georga's house in about 10 minutes of flying and landed in the streets.
Cynder took the initiative and knocked on the door. She doubted Georga was watching the matches seeing the mood she was in.
A minute later Volt appeared in the hallway with a half sad look in his eyes.
"Oh, hi there Ember. Who's your new friend?" He asked with a clearly fake cheerfulness.
"Oh, um, well, this is Glacia. She is one of the dragons I play tailball with" Ember lied.
"Glacia?!" Cynder wanted to correct her but she closed her mouth just in time.
"We wanted to talk to Georga" Ember's voice now sounded very serious and mature.
Cynder was quite surprised by that, Ember was usually childlike, carefree and sometimes a bit shy. Now Ember sounded very mature and sure of herself.
"Well she's not home, she went to watch the tournament" Volt said.
"Okay thank you Volt" Ember said before turning back.
She had gone to watch the tournament after all but Cynder somewhere found it more likely that she was off moping somewhere.
Ember took off and Cynder was close behind.
"So what do you think we should do once we see her?" Cynder asked as they flew back to the citadel.
"I don't know Cynder" Ember said a bit uncertain.
"But I'm defiantly not going to let Georga follow in Oxidus' footsteps" She added to that compulsively.
"Yes that's not going to happen" Cynder was very impressed by Ember's determination and assertive attitude. She had no clue of what was going on or what she could do about it. She just knew she had to do something.
Suddenly Ember turned around and headed away from the citadel.
Cynder quickly turned as well and made a few fast flaps to catch up again.
"Where are you going?" She asked her pink companion.
"Talking to Georga right now will get us as far as talking to Oxidus" Ember said.
"We have to do this in private" She reminded Cynder.
Cynder still didn't really get it but followed Ember nonetheless. Ember seemed to have ideas while Cynder didn't know anything.
Suddenly Ember went downwards and not knowing why Cynder dove after her.
They landed in the garden of one of the houses and Ember walked through the curtain and into the house.
Cynder guessed this house was her own by the casual way Ember acted so she also went inside without asking.
Cynder had never been in Ember's house before so she looked around.
The house was a standard model just like the ones of Georga and Flanner so it looked a lot like those.
The living room was centred around the fireplace and there were two couches to lie on. The walls were just brown yellow like the exterior walls and there was some stuff littered around. There were a couple of curtains who let to different rooms and on the right side Cynder spotted a small desk.
Being busy over that desk was a adult fire dragoness. She was of a heavy build, had large demonic black spikes on her back and her scales were a crimson red. Cynder didn't know who this dragoness was but she seemed to be absorbed in the book she was reading.
"I'm home mom" Ember said answering the question of who the dragoness was.
"Not feeling like watching the tournament anymore?" The mother asked while she looked up from her book.
"Oh hallo there" She said right away as she spotted the blue Cynder.
"I'm C-" Cynder started.
"This is Glacia" Ember quickly corrected her.
"Hallo there Glacia, my name is Wilmfe" Ember's mother said kindly.
"A pleasure" Glacia said.
"She has come to play mom, is that okay" Ember took the word for Cynder again.
"That's fine" Wilmfe said as she turned back to her book.
"Let's go to my room, I have something you just gotta see" Ember said with a pretended cheerfulness.
"Sure thing" Glacia chirped back following in Ember's act.
As Glacia was following Ember suddenly something caught her eye.
On the corner next to the desk someone had painted the word 'NAUGHTY' in bright red letters.
Glacia didn't know what it was or what it was for so she just followed Ember to her room but it really caught her eye.
Ember walked through the curtain that Glacia guessed was her room.
When they entered they could drop the Glacia act again.
Ember's room was just like Cynder had imagined it to be. A full toy shelf and many bright happy colours. Other than that it was pretty plain.
"What was that corner about?" She asked.
"What corner?" Ember asked ignorant.
"That corner that has the word naughty written on it" Cynder said although she found it hard to believe Ember didn't know what she was talking about.
"That's nothing" Ember tried to dismiss it but her voice betrayed something hidden.
"Well It's still there" Cynder insisted.
"It was my naughty corner when I was a hatchling okay!" Ember snapped.
"Okay, okay. No need to be so fierce" Cynder took a step back.
"But anyway, what are we going to do about Georga?" Ember said either trying to stick to the point or to lure Cynder away from the topic.
"You know Georga longer than I do so I have no idea either" Ember had asked her multiple times but Cynder never had an answer.
"Georga told me you managed to cheer her up before so how did you do that?" Ember said.
This now explained for Cynder why Ember was seeing her like the expert despite her shorter term relationship with Georga.
"Well last time I pushed her into a corner and then her will broke"
"You mean that you battled her and defeated her?"
"Yes, but I don't think that will work this time around" Cynder said a bit sad.
"Last time she was sad and very emotional, however she was still open so I just faced her problem head on and when I got her to talk we settled it"
"But this time-" Cynder started.
"Is no different" Ember finished for her.
"No different?" Cynder said sarcastically.
"No different, we just need to push her in a slightly different way" Ember said as she apparently had an idea.
"And what were you thinking about then?" Cynder asked very curious to what Ember had planned.
"Well you better sit down cause I don't think this will be easy" Ember said as she sat down now.
Cynder settled down as well and the two dragonesses slowly created their plan.
It was in the afternoon as Volt thinking about Georga again in his house.
He didn't go to the tournament with Georga today as he thought it was too painful.
"Georga" it just pained him so much to see her like this.
"Just what has happened to you?" he had asked himself that question thousands of times and he never got an answer for it.
He would want nothing than to snap her out of it and get his daughter back but she never responded to anything he said.
Nothing he did seemed to work on her. Not words, not action, nothing.
Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted as he heard someone knock on the door.
He got up and opened the door with his mouth.
He looked down and saw the same ice dragoness that was with Ember this morning.
"Hallo Volt" Glacia said.
"Can I help you?" Volt asked.
"Well actually Volt, you can"
The dragoness suddenly walked past him and jumped on one of the couches. She didn't ask anything and even ignored him.
Volt didn't think it as very proper but he didn't correcting the dragoness and just settled down on the other couch.
"Well I'm in a bit of a rush so I'll get right to it" Glacia said impatient.
"I want you to keep Georga busy for the rest of the afternoon" she said like an order.
"What?! Keeping Georga busy?" Volt was very surprised by the dragoness just walking in and giving him orders.
Especially orders about what he should do with Georga.
"Yes, think of something. It doesn't really matter what it is but just keep her busy" Glacia confirmed.
"What do you want? And why anyway?" Volt said confused and also a bit angry by the attitude of this dragoness.
"That's a secret" Glacia said fierce.
"I also don't want you to mention me to Georga at any point" she strictly added.
"But what?" Volt had no idea what to say.
"If you love her than you will do this. Make sure she doesn't get anywhere" Glacia now sounded serious.
'Love her' the words resounded in his head.
"Make sure that at 7 o'clock she is at the-" the dragoness started but didn't finish.
"No, put her in the honour box and I'll take care of it" Glacia said apparently changing her mind.
"I, um, sure" Volt stammered.
"If you love her than you will do this Volt!" she said stern.
Glacia got up from the couch and walked towards the exit with a hastened pace.
"We're counting on you" she said very grievous and almost threatening.
She spread her wings, flapped them and disappeared.
"What was that about?" for Volt it all had happened so quickly that it was already over before he even got a grip on the situation.
He took a deep breath and replayed the event to get it sorted out.
"That Glacia just comes barging in. Jumps on a couch and orders me what I should do with Georga!" Volt though angrily.
"If you love her than you will do this Volt!" now the though entered about that sentence that she had said.
He did love her and he desperately wanted to do something for her.
"But maybe Ember and that Glacia can really bring Georga back" Volt though as it was the first signs of hope for him.
Volt took some more time to think it over and then he decided he would do it.
If Ember and her insolent friend could really bring Georga back then he would help them in any way he could.
Actually what he had told Ember and Glacia this morning was a lie. Georga hadn't left the home at all today and she had even missed the match of Oxidus.
He walked towards the room and got through the curtain.
Georga was lying on her straw pile. She was lying with her back towards him and seemed far in thought.
Volt swallowed as the sight pained him. He felt a strong urge to go away again as every detail of the broken dragoness was torture for him.
"No, I'm doing this because I love her" he thought to encourage himself not to flee.
"Georga!" Volt said a bit fierce.
Georga didn't reply but Volt could see that she wasn't asleep.
"Would you like to-" Volt cursed himself now as to not thinking of something to do, before he addressed her.
He quickly ran a list of anything that he knew Georga liked but more or less picked something at random "Visit the park?" he suggested.
"Visit the park?!" he thought right away "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" he kept his mouth closed and his posture fixed to not let Georga notice his doubt and insecurity.
But the idea just was so wrong. It was cold outside and the wind was blowing hard. There was also a reasonable chance that it was going to rain. It was totally the wrong weather for a walk.
Georga let out a deep groan "Okay" she said reluctant.
"Maybe- What?!" Volt had never expected Georga to agree like that "Well let's go" he said.
Georga got up from the bed and walked out.
Volt followed her as he thought that she might peep out if he lost sight of her.
It was a stupid though but that Georga agreed to go was so unexpected that Volt felt that anything was possible.
Georga walked outside and waited there.
Volt now spread his wings and took off.
As soon as he could he turned to see if Georga was still with him but to his relief he saw that she too had spread her wings and had gone along with him.
Georga and Volt flew towards the large park and in a large grass field they then landed.
The park was very close and they had been here before. The park was mostly grassy fields. There were some tries but not all that many. There were a lot of flowers everywhere however and also bushes were plentiful.
The park brought back memories of Georga and Gaius playing together but Volt quickly pushed those away.
He started walking and Georga went along.
"So Georga-" he wanted to start a conversation but he couldn't think of something.
"Did something interesting happen?" he asked.
"Nope" Georga said.
"I mean, outside of, you know. The incident with Blizzard" he said.
Georga stopped now and didn't reply.
"Georga?" Volt looked back to see why she had stopped.
Suddenly Volt's heart skipped a beat as he could hear Georga starting to sob.
"I didn't mean anything by it Georga, I just asked if something happened outside of it" he said in panic.
Georga stopped sobbing and joined him again but she kept her head low.
So low that Volt couldn't even see if she was still crying or not.
Now in fear Volt didn't say anything more and kept walking with Georga.
They kept going for about an hour. They never stopped to rest. Volt really wanted Georga to start complaining about it but she never spoke.
Normally she would be nagging about being tired by only half this time but this time she said nothing.
"Hey Georga, do you know Glacia?" Volt decided to try again to make her speak.
Georga looked away and Volt didn't try to ask it again.
He kept walking with Georga for the rest of the afternoon without saying anything.
When it was six o'clock he ordered Georga to go to the honour box.
Georga didn't object and just did what he told her to do without asking questions.
This again felt very disappointing for Volt.
He was longing so for her to talk. It didn't really matter to him what she said. He would even be happy if she was scolding him and calling him a palooka. He just wanted her to say something.
But Georga never spoke. There seemed no happiness, no anger or any other emotion in her. Only sadness was still there and it seemed to be going away as well. And when it did Georga didn't have any emotions left.
Volt spread his wings and took off back towards his home.
"Can I really rely on that Glacia?" he wondered.
"I don't know the first thing of her and I just allow her to do who-knows-what with my daughter?!" he was now starting to feel a bit reluctant and even felt something for going after Georga and keeping her home.
"But- if she really could do it" Volt stopped and hovered above the ground.
"Georga"
Somewhere he felt like he had no choice but to leave Georga to Ember and Glacia.
"What kind of parent am I?" he thought very serious.
"I've never been able to support her. Not last time and not this time either"
He now continued his way home with almost the same mind as Georga had.
In the early evening Georga was watching the watches unfold from the honour box.
She had hoped the walk with Volt would clear up some things for her but it only had made it worse.
She had been watching for about half an hour now but felt that she had only just arrived.
When she was in the honour box Frost mostly kept her company but this time she kept him as far away as she could.
Georga just didn't know what to do anymore. Oxidus was gone for good and that was all her fault. What could she have done? Just why had she lost him?
"Hey Georga?" Georga recognised the voice of Cynder behind her.
She didn't reply nor did she even look back at her. She just wished for Cynder to go away again and leave her alone.
"AU!" Georga cried as she suddenly felt the sharp fangs of a dragon biting in her tail.
"Hallo Georga" Cynder said now releasing her tail.
"What are you doing?" Frost now involved himself as well.
Cynder whispered something to him and Frost instantly backed off.
"Georga, Ember told me to come and get you. She has something she wants to show you" Cynder said apparently excited.
"No, but thanks for asking" Georga said absent.
one of the dragon guards now approached them "I'm sorry but only invited dragons can enter the honour box" he said admonished.
"It's okay, she is with me" Frost assured him.
"Relatives need permission too" The dragon insisted.
"Just give me a few seconds, I've only come here to pick up Georga" Cynder said agitated.
"Just make it quick" The dragon said apparently agitated as well and he returned to his watching post.
"Why not Georga? She has specifically asked for you" Cynder said.
Georga pretended to be watching the match but it looked very fake.
"She said it had something to do with Oxidus" Cynder said.
Georga's blood temperature went up for a second but then quickly went down again.
"She had a plan to what you could do for him" Cynder said.
"Something I can do for him" those words really hit Georga in her heart.
"Fine, I come" Georga said. Maybe if this was real then at least she could have done something for Oxidus.
Cynder didn't say anything more. She spread her wings and the two dragonesses took off from the honour box.
While they were flying Cynder kept a good distance from Georga and didn't speak to her. She was very happy that Georga had agreed to come as she for a second was afraid that she might have to use force.
Why the second argument about Oxidus worked while the first one didn't have any effect at all was a mystery to her. But only thing that really mattered was that it had worked and that their plan was now set in motion.
Despite everything set in motion Cynder still had doubts about it "Can this really work?" she thought.
She remembered that Ember was waiting for her to bring Georga so she pushed the thought away.
Cynder let Georga halfway across town but when they flew over Ember's house she didn't show any signs of gliding down.
Instead she continued on her path towards their destination.
Georga didn't say anything but just followed Cynder.
Cynder was running their plan inside her head again and again. Ember had done most of the preparations and Cynder hadn't been there to see it.
Therefore she had no idea of Ember had succeeded or that she had failed.
But too bad the only thing she could do was trusting that Ember could pull this off.
Cynder was a bit insecure about these things and hated it if she couldn't be sure. She didn't know Ember all that well yet and now she had to trust her that she could do something very difficult to do in only a day.
Cynder's doubts were also partially because she knew she could never do it.
And even if Ember had the ability to do it there was still no quarantine that it would work.
With her head full of doubt Cynder landed in the middle of the city close to a place that was very familiar to Georga.
It was a large dragon dojo and it was the same one as where Oxidus gave his lessons.
Cynder looked to see how Georga was doing and she spotted her eyes starting to moisten. They were clearly wet but they were not yet so wet that she was crying.
"She will be soon enough" Cynder thought to herself as she walked into the dojo.
Georga never spoke to her and kept following. Things were going well on her end and she really hoped that they were also right on Ember's end.
After all they all needed to do their respective part perfectly in order for this to succeed.
She walked through the curtain on the far right just like agreed.
Suddenly Georga stopped and it seemed like she was facing an invisible wall.
"I don't want to" Georga whimpered like a little hatchling.
"But you have to Georga, for Oxidus' sake" Cynder said as apparently it made an impression on Georga.
It worked and Georga got moving again.
Just before they were going to enter through the curtain Cynder unleashed a fear scream to give the sign.
She now quickly stepped behind Georga and pushed her along.
"You're not going to like this" Cynder whispered to herself.
Georga walked through the curtain with Cynder behind her. How this was going to help Oxidus was a complete mystery to her.
Then, suddenly, she heard a tremendous blow and quickly poked her head through the curtain to see what it was.
Her breathing stopped and her heart froze as she spotted small young fire dragon battling a full grown adult ice dragon.
Fire dragon was covered in smears of blood coming from holes everywhere on his body and he seemed full of rage and anger.
His opponent was also covered in blood and Georga could see heavy injuries all over him.
The fire dragon roared and unleashed a strong blast of concentrated fire.
This move was very familiar to Georga.
The adult ice dragon got hit full in the chest and was blasted into the opposite wall.
He was screaming loudly and seemed to be in a lot of pain.
The ice dragon shot an ice shot but the fire dragon countered with another fire stream. The fire completely melted the ice attack and when it hit the dragon it caused him to scream once more and even louder this time.
Memories and thoughts about Oxidus instantly reappeared in Georga's mind.
Oxidus was tearing Blizzard apart!
"Oxidus NO!" She shouted almost without thinking.
The fire dragon didn't seem to hear her and continued his relentless assault on the ice dragon.
The ice dragon unleashed a barrage of ice shots but the fire dragon easily dodged them all.
He used a comet dash and slammed hard into the ice dragon's chest.
The ice dragon was blasted into the opposite wall again. The blow was hard and the dragon wheezed from the blow.
"Oxidus stop it! You have beaten him!" Georga shouted out with all her might as she started to cry.
"You're going to pay!!!" The fire dragon said with a grinding voice full of hate, rage and aggression.
Georga couldn't bare the scene anymore and turned around to run away.
Suddenly she bumped into Cynder who had her wings spread wide to completely block off the exit.
"Let me go!" Georga yelled at her full of pain. The scene was pure torture for her.
"No!" Cynder said a voice that wasn't moved by her tears at all.
Georga fearfully turned her eyes back to the fight where the fire dragon now bit viciously into the flesh of the ice dragon.
The sight overwhelmed Georga and she wanted to run out of the room but once again Cynder just wouldn't allow it.
"Go away!" Georga shouted at her ferociously.
She didn't have to see this! She could just run away and forget this all even exists.
"No Georga, I won't leave" the blue dragoness said harsh.
"I beg you Cynder" Georga whimpered full of tears but it didn't seem to have any effect on Cynder.
Georga then tried to ram Cynder out of the way but as she perfectly knew Cynder was just way too strong for her.
She tried with all her might but she couldn't move Cynder even one little bit. Georga just was too weak.
"Please Cynder, if you're my friend then" Georga sobbed "Then please let me go" She screamed with all her agony.
"I'm sorry Georga but I can't" Cynder said emotionless.
Georga's attention was forced back to the massacre by a loud roar from the fire dragon. He rammed the ice dragon hard in the chest with his horns. He had a lot of speed because he had used another comet dash.
The ice dragon yelped from the pain. The horrible sound cut clean through Georga's hearing senses.
However the ice dragon quickly swiped the fire dragon away with on of his paws and the dragon skated along and came to a rest on the floor.
The fire dragon then jumped up again and unleashed another loud roar.
Georga had all seen it in her head and now it was all real. Everything she feared for now really was happening right in front of her.
"Please stop this! This isn't a battle Oxidus!!!" She yelled with all her heart and soul but nobody seemed to hear her.
The fire dragon opened his mouth and unleashed a steady barrage of fire balls at the wounded and weakened ice dragon.
The ice dragon screamed from every single blow as they kept coming one after the other and seemed much too weak to defend himself.
However that didn't stop the fire dragon at all as he continued his assault.
The ice dragon was defeated. But it looked like the fire dragon didn't even notice that.
The melody of the blasts and the screams just felt like the most horrible sound in the world to her. Oxidus wasn't going to stop for anything. He was going to kill him and then keep attacking until there was nothing left.
"Oxidus no!" Georga now ran towards her friend with tears flowing down her cheeks.
She rammed him hard with her horns and finally stopped his relentless assault.
"This isn't you Oxidus! This isn't-" Georga yelled while she was standing over him but then her jaw fell open as it hit her.
This dragon indeed wasn't Oxidus at all.
He also had bright yellow wings, a muscular build and a red body but it was not her best friend.
The dragon's eyes told her that he wasn't Oxidus and they also told who it really was.
"Spyro?!!!" Georga yelled in disbelief. "What!? What is this?!"
"Good Georga, good work, do you feel any better now?" Ember appeared now behind the curtain.
She smiled and seemed almost amused like she had watched a good stage act.
"What? How? This is!" Georga absolutely had no idea what was going on.
"Now that you have stopped Oxidus do you feel any better now?" Ember asked cheerfully.
It was a scene of destruction and pain and Ember didn't seem moved at all.
"This isn't Oxidus!" Georga yelled the obvious.
"Sheesh you think so?" Spyro said sarcastically from his uncomfortable position on the ground still pinned down by Georga.
Georga jumped off of him still looking shocked and very confused.
"So Georga" Ember still sound very casual "What was it that was bothering you so much you started to imitate Oxidus?"
"I wasn't imitating him!" Georga shouted while snapping her head furiously towards the pink and blue dragons.
"Well you sure were acting like him" Cynder said also in a amused tone.
"I was not!" Georga denied.
Suddenly Ember's face turned very serious and even dangerous "Yes you were" she said sternly.
"Why is it that you've started to act so coldly? Is it because Oxidus is as well?" Cynder said.
"No!!! It's just that-" Georga just couldn't find the strength to finish her sentence.
"Because he has left you!" Cynder insisted.
"It is because I couldn't do anything!" Georga finally admitted.
"Oxidus is gone now and it's all because I didn't provide him the support he needed!!!" Georga yelled with an deafening loud voice as it came from the very bottom of her heart.
"Oxidus isn't gone" Cynder denied now walking closer towards her.
"Of course he is!" Georga snapped.
"No Georga, Oxidus is not gone" Ember's words seemed to make more impression than Cynder's.
"But we sent up this tournament to find out what was wrong didn't we?!" Georga shouted with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, so?" Cynder said ignorant.
"So! Why isn't it working?! I need to do something but I can't but I have but I-" Georga rattled in tears.
"Not working? The tournament isn't over yet!" Cynder interrupted.
"We still have the victory tournament Georga"
"But what if that doesn't work either?" Georga snapped with fear.
"But what if it does?" Ember asked sternly as she also walking closer to her.
Both Ember and Cynder now were less than a metre away from Georga.
"I can't just gamble on him!" Georga shouted now also showing signs of anger.
How could these two expect her to just take a chance with him?! Oxidus wasn't a thing you could just bet on like in a contest.
"So you can't trust him?" Cynder asked shocked.
"What?!" Georga exclaimed with tears in her crystal eyes.
"You can't trust Oxidus that he will return?" Cynder was sounding very serious now.
"I-I-" Georga stammered.
"Georga, do you care enough for him that you can put your faith in him?" Cynder asked sounding death serious.
"Can you trust your best friend?" every single tone of the words hit Georga in the core.
"Of course I trust him!!!" Georga shouted out feeling assaulted by the question.
"Well then trust him that everything that everything will be fine Georga" she urged.
"Cynder is right you know" Ember said.
"You must trust Oxidus that he will find his way again"
"But when I lost my way he did so much for me and now I can't do anything for him" Georga said regretful.
"You indeed can't do anything by giving up on him Georga!!!" Cynder yelled with aggression.
"You must have hope and support him like you've always done" Ember said with a more kinder tone than Cynder.
"But-"
"But nothing Georga!" Cynder said still with an aggressive voice "Oxidus is still your friend, no matter what happens Oxidus is and will always still be your friend!" she shouted to her.
"But I just can't be sure that the friend I want will ever come back to me" Georga protested fearfully.
Cynder took a deep breath and waited a few seconds before speaking "Georga-" she now sounded more calm but her voice still had a sharp edge "-Let me tell you this: I also don't know what to do with Spyro. He never seems to notice me no matter what I do, but I believe in him and I will stand by his side no matter what happens"
"You haven't failed him yet Georga" Ember now spoke up again.
"But you will fail him if you give up" Cynder added.
"The old Oxidus is still somewhere deep inside and ready for you to find"
"Yeah but can I find him again?" Georga asked sobbing.
"Not yet Georga" Cynder shook her head sadly "You were right about one point. Right now Oxidus is out of your reach but that doesn't mean he's gone forever"
"We've set up the Igus cup to find the reason behind his depression and the cup isn't over" Cynder said although she had the feeling that they have been through all of this all before.
"So if you now start to become depressive too then we have two lost dragon to find" Ember joked as to lift up the mood a little.
"So do you really want to give up on Oxidus?" Cynder asked her voice also having a lighter tone.
"No! I won't give up on my best friend!" Georga shouted as it felt as an accusation.
Cynder and Ember took another step towards Georga and the three dragonesses all were face to face.
"Remember this Georga" Ember said soothing "You are never alone. Even if Oxidus is out of your reach you will always still have your friends with you" Ember said with an extremely soft and almost maternal sounding voice.
"We will always support you Georga" Cynder said soothing. "You can count on us. Always"
"Thanks, you guys" Georga hugged them with her wings while shed the last of her tears.
As long as her friends were here she indeed was not alone.
They would always be there to help her whenever she needed them. No matter what it was.
"You know Georga, you should really make yourself a bit tougher" Ember lightly, breaking the touchy moment.
"You face a few setbacks and you're in tears right away" she said almost patronizing "Come on, you're thirteen now and that means you're not hatchling anymore!"
"Oxidus isn't gone but only away for some time" Cynder said a bit more gentle
"You said that he supported you? Well this is your chance to repay him by never giving up" she encouraged.
"I won't ever give up on anyone ever again Cynder" Georga said determined as she brushed away the tears from her face.
"That's the spirit" Cynder said tenderly.
Cynder and Ember now started walking towards the exit and it was only now that Georga took notion that Spyro and the ice dragon were both gone.
She was so into the moment that she hadn't even noticed them leaving the room.
"Hey are you going to come or what?" Ember asked a bit impatient and Georga quickly rushed after her.
When she walked out through the curtain she spotted Spyro and the ice dragon standing side by side at the other end.
"I hope it was a success" The ice dragon said and he clearly was not pleased.
"You guys are going to kill me one day with these requests of yours" he said very fierce and with a clear sense of anger.
It was only now that Georga realised that the ice dragon who Spyro had been fighting was Cyril.
He had been painted partially red to imitate blood and he looked like he had a few burns from his fight.
Spyro had crimson red paint on him as well and they had painted the wounds on his body as well.
"Was I really fooled?" Georga found it embarrassing. The blood made of red paint was so fake that it looked like not even an ape would buy it.
"Maybe you should go home now Georga" Cynder suggested.
"Yeah I think so" Georga said as she also wanted to get away from this. It was all still a bit traumatic for her.
"I promise you that I won't give up on Oxidus ever again. And when the time is right I will take him back!" She assured them "You can count on that!"
"You will Georga" Cynder nudged.
"Thank you so much for reminding me not to give up on my best friend, and for giving me the hope back that one day he will return" Georga said grateful now feeling hope for the future again.
Oxidus wasn't gone and she hadn't failed anything. That it didn't work yet just meant that it needed more effort and with what she owned him she was more than happy to give that effort.
If it was for Oxidus it seemed that she would and could do anything.
"Should we go with you?" Cynder offered.
"No, I will get home now by myself" Georga said smiling but actually she tried to hide something else.
"Thanks again you guys, I will never forget this" Georga smiled down at her group of friends.
"Bye Georga" Cynder said as that was normal.
"Bye" Georga said just before walking out of the building and spreading her wings to take off.
Georga was flying back through the evening sky with both a lack and an abundance of energy.
She was feeling very tired from the shocking day but she was also feeling full of energy to make Oxidus come back.
However instead of flying straight home like she had said she was heading into a totally different direction.
There was something she still needed to do before this matter was solved.
She landed in the old part of Warfang and walked to a decayed house that stood there.
She knocked on the door with her talons and waited patiently for someone to open.
Georga had promised her friends that she was fine now but in reality she wasn't okay just yet.
She had to hear it from him first. Only then could she finally put the things that she had witnessed behind her.
After what seemed like ages the door opened and revealed Igüsa standing in the hallway.
"Well hallo there Georga" She said in her usual friendly tone.
"I have come to talk with Oxidus" Georga sounded both strong and weak at the same time. She was determined to do it but it was clear in her voice that she was still emotionally unstable
"Well come in then" Igüsa said still with her usual cheerfulness.
Georga walked through the door with a very heavy mindset. She didn't know if she would even be able to take a refusal.
She walked towards the garden where she him like usual. He was looking at the moon and appeared deeply in thought. Yet somehow it gave Georga a better impression than it had once done.
"Um, Oxidus" Georga said very uneasy and almost scared.
"Yes?" Oxidus said sounding absent but not sad anymore.
Georga tried to get the words out but yet somehow she didn't feel able to.
"Enjoying the night?" She said as a substitute. It seemed her lips weren't going to allow the words she wanted to go through.
Oxidus didn't give a reply and for Georga that only made her situation even more difficult for her.
"Oxidus, what I really wanted to ask you-" Georga's jaws uncontrollably shut tight now and wouldn't open.
Her tail was curling in circles and her wings rubbing against each other as she put herself under tremendous pressure.
Oxidus didn't look to her anymore and Georga felt that raise the pressure even further.
She had to ask it! She had to ask it now! She had to ask it right here, right now!
"Are we still friends?!" Georga shouted as she used every last bit of her will to finally force the question out.
Oxidus at first didn't reply but then he looked at her with his bright orange eyes. Georga's face was full of fear. If he said 'no', well she couldn't even think of what she would do.
"We are friends Georga" he said with a voice that warmed her soul.
"Thank you Oxidus" Georga said very happy as she could now feel her broken heart heal.
"I won't bother you any more Oxidus" She said "But remember that I will always be here for you. You are never alone" She said now very determined to do her saying.
"I won't give up on you and if you need ever something then remember that I will always be there for you" She soothing.
Oxidus didn't reply to it but it didn't bother Georga any more. She got the answer she wanted already and she had said the things she needed to say.
"Bye Oxidus" Georga said as she prepared to leave.
"Bye" Oxidus replied a bit weakly.
Knowing that Oxidus was still her friend was all Georga needed to know and she prepared to head back to her own house now.
In that house Volt was waiting for her. Oxidus might be away now but that would not last forever. That much she knew for sure.
Something she also couldn't forget is that Volt still loved her very dearly. She couldn't let him suffer as well by giving up. She had to keep going and stay strong. For the sake of Oxidus, Volt, her friends and also for herself.
Just as she flapped her wings and took off from the ground she thought heard the words "Thank you" however it sounded so vague that she properly just imagined it.
Meanwhile Ember had already arrived home.
She had to talk over what had happened with Cynder before she could leave. After that she had to thank Spyro for efforts and then she also had to make ten apologies to Cyril before she finally could leave.
Luckily for her the street that her house was on was directly linked to the central square so the reached it quickly.
"Where were you?!!!" As soon as she entered the house the razor sharp voice of her mother shot as lighting through her body.
Ember held her breath and she felt her colour turn bleak. Ember always needed to be back home before dinner time and it was way past dinner.
The consequences of being late she knew only too well.
"I had to do something important" She said as strongly as she could. She didn't feel naughty at all at this moment.
"Well what then?!" Her mother now appeared from the kitchen and looked with a punitive glare down at her.
Ember gulped and unwittingly cringed in. The look in her mother's eyes was one of a spanking. She would recognise that look anytime.
"Georga!" She squeaked with a high pitched voice.
"You think playing with Georga is a good enough reason!?" Her mother now not only sounded punitive but now even angry.
"Well I-" Ember wanted to say it but just couldn't collect enough courage to do it.
"Come here you!" Her mother said harshly after making her decision.
Ember just lowered her head and obediently walked over to her mother waiting to receive the spanking she didn't deserve.
However her mother had made her decision and it was going to happen. No matter if it was righteous or not.
When she was facing her, her mother turned around and shove her tail underneath Ember.
Ember had her eyes closed as she could she herself being lifted up. Knowing the back of her mother only to well she grabbed the spikes without even looking.
"35 for late, 2 for trying to find an excuse and 13 for lying to me" Her mother summed up.
"50?!" Ember exclaimed with her eyes shooting open in shock.
"But I didn't lie" She whimpered as tears already started forming in her eyes before the spanking had even begun.
"I wasn't fooled by that lame disguise!" Her mother snapped.
Ember tried to protest but she just couldn't work up the strength.
She now felt her mother's wings on her back again and she readjusted her breathing a little as she was pressed down.
With the large wings of her mother pinning her down and her paws holding onto the black spires Ember waited for the pain to come.
It came seconds later with the first of the many hard blows on her tailbase.
Ember forced her jaws tight to muffle out her scream.
The next blow followed quickly and it burned into her with the pain that only her mother could give her.
Ember gulped to remain silent but inside she knew it was futile.
The third blow came and Ember didn't bother anymore to keep silent and screamed out her pain.
The fourth blow came and then the fifth.
The blows were harder each time and tears were already on Ember's cheeks by number ten.
The burning feeling of the spanking coursed through her body.
Tears kept rolling down her cheeks and she could hear every blow being harmonious with the pain.
Somehow hearing the blows made them feel even worse. Although she perfectly knew it the sound confirmed that it was really her that mother was causing it by hitting her. The pain that she was feeling came from those blows and not from anywhere else.
The tears on her cheek were now so numerous that the first one dripped onto her mother's back when they had reached number 20. However they weren't even halfway there yet.
Trying to protest to her mother was pointless. All she could do was accept her punishment while crying and shouting out her pain.
The injustice she so strongly felt made it also mentally more agonizing. She had to help Georga and her mother was punishing her because she thought that she just went to play with her.
"This spanking-" Ember's thoughts were shortly interrupted by a hard smack.
"-I didn't deserve it" Ember thought as she grinded her teeth from another hard blow.
Wilmfe continued to spank her daughter using her tail with the same machine like ruthlessness she had always done.
Ember could feel her tailbase growing red and she desperately wanted the pain to stop. She just feeling so powerless.
Her mother was punishing her for the wrong reasons and she had to accept that.
But it just hurts so much. Ember didn't deserve any part of it.
She cried harder and harder with each blow that landed on her. By the time they had reached 40, her tailbase was completely red and every part of Ember's face that was below her eyes was completely wet from her tears.
Ember just couldn't take it anymore. "Please stop!" she screamed.
"I beg you mom. I had to help Georga!" She cried out.
She then felt her mother stop. "Maybe mom does understand" Ember thought hopeful.
"5 more for talking back!" Ember screamed from an unexpected blow on her rump as the spanking started again.
The force of the blow combined with the razor sharp edge of her mother's voice quickly destroyed any hope that Ember had.
Ember didn't bother talking anymore as her mother would only add blows. She would never subtract them.
Ember had not lost tract of the blows and just continued to count them.
She just cried and screamed from the pain until as the number slowly rose towards the end.
Now they had reached 50 and because she had talked they were not done yet.
Her mother didn't stop at 50 for second and just continued beating her.
Inside Ember's sense of justice was yelling at her to stop this.
However as strong as it was the blows on her behind were even stronger.
The blows beat the strength out of her every time and Ember was completely helpless against the pain that her mother was giving her.
As if it took forever they reached her mother hit her the additional 5 times and then at last she finally stopped.
Ember was crying heavier than she had ever done before during a spanking because she felt that it was the right thing to do for what she was just punished.
"You're going to sleep in the naughty corner tonight you hear me!" Her mother ordered harshly before she even lowered Ember down.
"Yes mom" Ember whimpered as she was crying so heavily that she had to do her best not to stutter.
She felt her mother shoving her tail under her again and lift her up. When she was put down on the ground she walked towards her naughty corner and rested down. She never spoke nor did she stop crying.
To not let her sore behind lay on the grinding floor she put her legs under her. When she was on the floor she curled her tail around herself to keep warm.
"I want you in that corner when I wake up!" Her mother said hateful.
"Yes" Ember whimpered through her crying. She didn't look up at her mother and just kept lying in her sleeping position.
When her mother had left to lie down on her patch of straw to sleep Ember looked back on her behind that was so brutally beaten.
55 was much. Mostly it was between 20 and 40 but no matter what the number was Ember hated it.
Her tailbase was bright red and fell really out of place with the rest of her pink scales. The pain from the spanking hadn't subsided yet and Ember knew her behind would soon heat up as well and also start throbbing what was a very unpleasant thing.
She just pretended to ignore it and catch some sleep on the cold floor.
She was feeling sad and miserable because of her punishment but then she remembered the reason for what she was spanked.
The thought about that made the pain slip away a bit.
She had really helped Georga today and managed to prevent her from turning into another Oxidus.
Ember could still very well remember the thought she had this morning when she was together with Cynder.
"If she turns depressive just like he did than there is no more hope left for either of them" That thought was what got her to put so much effort into it.
The spanking aside, Ember felt no regrets about today and was feeling fully satisfied.
"I wonder how Georga will be tomorrow" Ember thought as maybe Georga would like to come and play again.
She really looked forward to playing with Georga like they used too.
The two dragonesses had been friends for a very long time.
Ember had not seen Georga so often anymore since the siege. But ever since the Igus cup had been first been announced they had spent a lot more time together again. In some way Ember felt that it had reunited them.
"Last time she needed me I wasn't there for her but this time I was" Ember thought half satisfied half regretful.
"But at that time Cynder was there for you" Ember thought. "Cynder is a really nice dragoness. She might be a bit reserved and absent sometimes but she really nice"
Ember now also recalled the act itself to see if she had any regrets about that.
She could very well remember that the heaviness of Georga's reaction had surprised her quite a lot.
It had taken quite a bit of control from her to keep calm and not get emotional herself while Georga was screaming and sobbing.
She had expected her to cry but not to go mental so completely.
"The way she was talking about it-" Ember thought.
"I knew Oxidus meant a lot to her but I had no idea it was that much" Ember somehow felt a bit of shame that she had never spotted how much Georga really cared for Oxidus.
"Oxidus" Ember also wanted back the old powerhouse that she had always thought to be very inspiring to watch in battle.
She had always really liked him and they had played together a lot. Ember also missed him as well did she miss Georga's brother.
He had made quite a few nasty comments on her but he was always nice and friendly.
Ember quickly dispelled the thoughts as to not end up like Georga but her painful tailbase wasn't helping things.
"I wonder how Flame has done today" Ember shifted her mind to him now.
"He had to win if he wants to advance to the victory tournament"
"And he has to. He possesses the power to win the cup"
For the first time Ember was starting to feel guilt that she hadn't shown up at his match today but she had felt that aiding Georga had priority.
It was the only regret she had about this day. But it was either watching Flame or helping Georga.
After thinking it over Ember was convinced that she had made the right decision in helping Georga.
With everything now settled in her head Ember closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep.
The floor was cold and her tailbase was throbbing painfully but Ember was a tough girl. She could handle it. It looked like Ember was a dragoness who could handle anything.