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Of course the illustration done by \n\t\t\t\t\trisenpaw is one of the things you can expect in this edition.

If you need to catch up, you can read The Mimic here: https://inkbunny.net/s/1492559

Yori the Goldyura belongs to Totodice
Shiro belongs to me.", "writing": "With the end of the previous day, Shiro headed home to return to his beloved. With the day’s events having taken their mental toll on him mentally, Shiro quickly found himself in a deep slumber. Over the course of the night however, the ruby couldn’t find himself able to sleep as peacefully as he would have liked. Amidst the tossing and turning overnight of the many things that “might have been” from the events prior, a mental scene of Yori being crushed by the creature caused him to jump from the bed in shock. Shiro shook his head and looked over towards Moyo who was still fast asleep. Shiro got up to to wash his face a bit, trying to calm himself down and head back to sleep. The wash bin had a small, round, blue crystal affixed to the center of the bowl, to which Shiro sighed at the sight of. \n\n“These things…”\n\nShiro tapped the crystal with his claw gently, causing it to glow a bright blue color. Within moments, crystal clear water began to flow into the bowl and continued to cleanse itself constantly just like a fountain. Shiro cupped the water in his palms and splashed some of it in his face a couple times before drying himself off with a washcloth. While it may have simply been a dream, the thought of it happening felt a bit to real. \n\n\nAs Shiro made his way back to the room, the sky outside emitted a soft blue hue, indicating the arrival of morning. Had he truly managed to sleep through the night? Regardless, he walked back to clean himself up before quickly heading out for the day, deciding to get an early start. As the thought of food ran across his mind, he recalled all that had happened the previous day. Assuming he did not go out sometime that night, he would have not eaten at all. \n\nShiro sighed once more, complaining about how ineffective Yori was at taking care of himself before flying towards the market. Upon arrival, the ruby was greeted with a large assortment of fruits from all across Edarel, displayed in a beautiful arrangement of colors and sizes. Shiro never made a point to visit the fruit stands before, so seeing them now caused him to take a moment and marvel at the various displays of grown produce before asking around for what would be best to buy a goldyura. Eventually, he was ushered over by a deckannima selling smaller items resembling berries. \n\n“Looking to buy for a goldyura? Need to feed your servant eh?” \n\nThe deckannima let out a laugh at what was clearly meant to be a joke at the species’ expense, one that Shiro quickly made a point in reprimanding the seller for. \n\n\"He's not my servant, and last I checked, goldyura are free to eat. Now are you gonna sell to me, or not?\"\n\n\nThe deckannima stopped laughing and made an effort to apologize, being taken aback by the surprisingly negative response. After the short exchange, the seller brought Shiro over to a large batch of small blue colored berries, easily being the size of small marbles. \n\n“These are fruit found on Aussir that goldyura typically eat. Frost berries. Goldyura typically love the taste of these items. If you’re looking for a delicacy to give to your ser- err...f-friend. Then these are the things to get!” \n\n\nNodding, Shiro looked at the price tag attached to the small basket. They were only sold in baskets so regardless, Yori would end up getting a lot. However, upon looking at the tag listing one being 30 gold made his stomach churn. \n\n“Why are these so expensive?!” \n\nThe deckannima looked at him, trying to figure out if he was serious or not. After a moments pause the shopkeeper slowly began to explain how the berries were difficult to gather due to location and local goldyura on the continent. \n\nAs Shiro was given the explanation, he thought about it for a bit before shaking his head, reluctantly placing the gold on the table. \n\n\"So these can only be the genuine fruit then? I mean they certainly don't look like anything that grows here. The goldyura of Aussir must really like these things...I guess they're worth this ludicrous price then. Even though I'm pretty sure you're just taking advantage of me, I'll buy a bag.\" \n\nThe shopkeeper smiled and quickly handed Shiro one of the small baskets of fruit, clearly desiring him to leave his company, more than likely due to his unnatural attitude towards the species. Shiro grabbed the bag and quickly made his way towards where Yori lived, making sure to grab a plate to put the berries on in order to look more appealing. Still, the thought that Yori may not eat them crossed his mind, unsure if he would accept such a charity or not, but in the end, Shiro decided it best to try.\n\n---\n\nAs for Yori, the morning of the next day broke with a beam of sunlight from the top of the cave shining through the center of it. Yori, the goldyura mage living in the cave alone, awoke as the beam broke through and various birds began to sing outside. A few thin rays of light trickled into the cave, hitting Yori as he slept on one of the many different small trees dotting the cavern. The sudden ray of light caused him to shield his face in frustration until he finally gave in and pulled himself up.\n\nThe day pretty much went as per normal, with Yori getting up and heading over to the small lake to clean himself up. Yori swam inside for a while, thinking to himself as he floated on the water’s surface. The events with the mimic still vividly ran through his mind despite the situation being over and done with. Why had Salomé chosen him to go along? Surely if it was because of his neutral magic she could have gotten other mages to aid Shiro. Ones with better combat skills or ones that could get along with him better. \n\nEither way, no matter how much he contemplated the decision, it wouldn’t matter in the end. Perhaps she misjudged his ability, or perhaps she had some ulterior motive. But with the mimic gone and dealt with, the question as to why would forever remain a mystery to him. \n\n\nAs he got up, he quickly made a point of drying himself off before heading off to the study to do more reading and research. As he did however, his stomach growled in protest due to his decision to not get anything to eat despite Shiro’s request. The moment caused Yori to grumble in annoyance, blaming Shiro for the moment of weakness due to having no one else to pin it on otherwise. \n\n“I need to eat then...I guess I should head out and find something.” \n\nWith that, Yori quickly donned his typical strap, hood and gloves before heading to the portal, opting to leave his rod as it seemed unnecessary for such an outing. Upon opening the portal, he found himself face to face with a plate of frost berries. Yori stared at the plate for a good while, contemplating the reason for it being there. Shiro on the other hand hid himself behind a wall, watching to see if Yori would take them. \n\nEventually, Yori picked up one of the berries and popped it in his mouth, savoring the taste of his home continent’s main produce before commanding a familiar to pick the plate up for him as he was unable to do so himself. Watching the scene unfold, Shiro gave himself an internal pat on the back before turning to leave. As soon as he did however, a leftover rope laying over the ground caused the dragon to trip. In short order, Shiro found himself entangled and frustrated over such a small inconvenience and began shouting out in anger. Yori, who had nearly gone back inside, stopped as he heard Shiro’s voice in the distance and began thinking. Putting two and two together, Yori quickly made his way over to the place Shiro was, motioning the familiar to follow him along. \n\n“Well well...losing to ropes now? Honestly, and here I thought you couldn’t get any weaker.”\n\nShiro stopped and turned his gaze directly towards the goldyura who looked down at him in an overly condescending fashion. Embarrassment began to overcome him before he finally snapped himself out of it by remembering who he was talking to. \n\n“Shut up rodent and help me out of this thing!” \n\nYori stared at him for a brief moment before directing the crystal spirit to place the plate of berries next to the dragon, but not before grabbing a handful for himself. Taking a single one of them in hand, he tossed it over to Shiro, causing it to bounce off his form and onto the ground. \n\n“I’m helping by giving you incentive. See, this way, even if you take a long time to get out, at least you’ll have some food to eat.” \n\nShiro’s visage became noticeably fiercer, with an anger rising from within him at the thought of Yori leaving the expensive berries out in the daytime to spoil. \n\n“D-don’t leave those out! They were expensive!” \n\nYori simply shrugged and began to walk away from him, turning his back on the dragon and the plate of fruit with the familiar following close behind him. \n\n“Next time, try not treating me like some charity case. See ya, loser.” \n\nWith that, the last straw had been pulled and Shiro’s anger erupted as he let out a ruby red flame in the area, burning the rope to ash within mear seconds. The dragon quickly rose and picked the plate up before grabbing Yori around in a tight, commanding grip as he stormed through the portal leading to the glade. \n\n“Oh no, These things cost a lot, and I’ll be damned if you don’t eat every single one of them! Even if I have to force them down!” \n\nYori struggled to free himself from Shiro’s grasp, an action proving itself to be pointless by all accounts as Shiro simply continued without notice. Shiro stomped towards the study table, pushing the books that sat upon it aside, much to Yori’s anger, and placed the plate of berries down in their place before carefully grabbing one. He motioned the small piece of fruit towards Yori’s mouth, as he commanded him to open. Yori however, refused to do so, turning his head away from the fruit in disgust. \n\n“Like I’d eat anything you feed me! Besides, if you think you can force me around like this, then y-”\n\nThe cocky little bat found himself cut off by Shiro pushing the berry into his mouth with ease despite his claims. Yori quickly began chewing the berry in an attempt to swallow it, but the dragon holding him began stuffing more into his mouth, preventing Yori from talking as he struggled to swallow the fruit being forced into him. \n\n“What was that? You want more? Greedy little rat aren’t you.”\n\nShiro continued to stuff more of the berries into Yori’s mouth, causing the cockly little mammal’s mouth to widen in order to accomodate for the mass of fruit. He stopped as Yori began to choke on the amount, smiling from the sight of him being shut up in such a proficient way. \n\n“Maybe I should do this again. Ha! Kinda cute now that you can’t talk.” \n\nYori continued to struggle in Shiro’s grasp, but the efforts of doing so proved futile. Furthermore, with his arms stuck tightly in his grasp, no magic was possible either. He was well and truly stuck, forced to try and eat his favorite food while choking on them! \n\nDespite the current situation, a certain spark emanated from the treatment, causing his tail to flick wildly from the abusive treatment. Regardless of Yori’s efforts in trying to hide it, Shiro’s domineering nature and overall abusive attitude towards him caused the diminutive mammal to slowly but surely get turned on due to his inherent masochistic nature. Once he began to realize this fact, he quickly motioned to cover himself, moving his thighs inwards so to cover his growing arousal. \n\nThankfully, Shiro seemed to have not noticed, as he continued to stuff Yori’s mouth with more and more frost berries, smiling with a small sense of sadism at how easy it was to abuse the cocky little creature. For Shiro, Yori’s sheer helplessness, and need of a protector to keep things such as this from happening planted a seed that he had not known to be there. Despite the dragon’s desire to protect those like Yori, the inherent nature of his species always found a way to find a release, that being through intercourse. Loud, cocky, yet unable defend himself, Yori was the goldyura many a ruby would dream of raping. \n\n\nAnd likewise, things developed as the two males found themselves enjoying the interaction more, with Shiro’s tapered member sliding itself out of his slit. Unlike Yori however, Shiro was more than accepting of his own arousal and accepted it as it came. There was a certain appeal to treating Yori in such a way. \n\nAs his cock began to grow, he looked down at Yori, still trapped in his grip while the berries filled his mouth, with Shiro now not even bothering to hold his arms, knowing full well Yori was far too weak to free himself anyway. As he stared down however, the ruby noticed Yori’s own growing erection and along with it, a devilish smile crossed his jaw. \n\n“So...that’s what you’re into huh…?” \n\nThe comment caused Yori’s heart to stop, making the world around him almost pause. Yori struggled to speak, only to cough up some of the berries still in his mouth. The action simply caused Shiro to admire the goldyura’s weakness even more. Before continuing on, it quickly crossed his mind that things could be better were he able to hear Yori talk. Wasting no time at all, Shiro moved Yori down and began sliding his head across his hardened rod, causing the natural lube from his cockslit to cover the fur on his head. \n\n“Now look what you did...you’ll have to go and fix this. Leave it to you to mess up again. Does the weakling need help swallowing too? Hehe, oh don’t worry. Plenty to drink down right here!”\n\n\n\n\n\nThe action gave Yori some time to chew the berries down, albeit with some effort. After the action, Shiro pulled Yori upward, looking down at him giving him a chance to admire Yori’s form for a moment. It wasn’t long before Shiro pulled the cocky little mammal’s head back before shoving his cock into him, pushing the berries down and causing his own shaft to be covered in what was left of the berries in Yori’s mouth. The dragon let out a soft growl as he continued to rock Yori up and down his length, pounding away into his mouth despite Yori’s attempts at resisting him. Yori’s mouth wrapped generously around his cock, completely filling his mouth with his shaft. In short order, Shiro let loose a reverberating roar as he shot waves of cum into Yori’s mouth, causing it to splatter out and cover Yori’s head and upper body due to the amount. \n\nAs he pulled Yori free, the tiny mammal wiped the cum from his mouth and attempted to cast another spell, firing a small orb at the dragon, only for it to break apart without even making him flinch. With it, a small bit of silence befell the two, with Shiro laughing to himself at Yori’s helplessness. As he did so, the mammal quickly made a point to redeem himself, even if it was a lost cause by this point. \n\n“S-stop laughing! Just because that happened, doesn’t mean you are in charge or anything! If anything, it just shows how far below me you are! I’m the one in charge! And the one that’s the dom, and don’t forget that!”\n\n“Oh really? Let’s see you prove it then!”\n\nThe comment from Yori only served to ignite Shiro’s lust, now turned on more than anything by the sight of Yori finally falling into his foolishly boastful nature. While annoying for certain, there was a charm in crushing it, and he knew right away how best to do it. As Yori continued to struggle in Shiro’s grip, unable to even escape from being clutched in just his paw, Shiro positioned his “prey” to rest just above his now fully extended member just to compare the size difference between them. It was clear Yori was significantly smaller. \n\n“Oh, I won’t be done after just one shot! When a dragon needs to get off, we can have quite a bit of stamina. Now then, got anything to say?”\n\nYori looked down at the dragon’s length as he lined the tapered head up to the small hole a bit under his tail. Shiro’s length dripped impatiently with cum from the tip as the fluids created from being inside Yori’s mouth along with the cum from before served as a substitute for the lube. \n\n“Y-yeah, if you think you’re sticking that into me then you have another thing coming! There’s no way I’m letting you do that!”\n\n\n\n\n\nShiro began to caress Yori’s cum soaked fur, working his seed into the weaklings coat as a sign of ownership with Yori trying his best to keep Shiro from doing so. Despite Yori’s resistance, the dragon continued to do so in a mocking fashion before finally stopping and possessively groping at the goldyura’s thicker lower frame. \n\n“This is too easy, it’s like you’re practically letting me do this. Secretly enjoying this, hm?”\n\nYori snapped back while trying to move his hips from out of the ruby dragons grip as Shiro forcibly spread his legs out, revealing his hidden arousal to him. The small mammal began to stutter as his arousal was now openly revealed to Shiro, the latter of the two smiling at the now flustered bat. \n \n“M-ME?! D-Don’t go putting words and actions on me you stupid reptile! You forget who’s in charge right now! If it happened it was because “I” wanted you to and did it myself!” \n\nThe goldyura’s gaze slid down over his shaft while his own stood at attention, betraying his desires to the dragon moments away from rutting him. Still, despite Shiro’s impatience, he knew full well that while things stood as they were, he wouldn’t get Yori to admit the true scope of the situation. He needed to solidify his dominance, and while penetrating would help, he needed more. Immediately, Shiro tucked his head down and shut his maw around the goldyura’s miniature rod, making sure to be extra careful not to do anything more. Once he was satisfied, he began maneuvering his tongue to lick and prod at the goldyura’s shaft, causing Yori’s resolve to weaken as the tiny mammal moaned from the pleasure. \n\nBefore long, Yori erupted, sending small bits of cum into the dragons waiting mouth. After his tiny release, Shiro pulled back, licking the small bits of cum in his mouth whilst keeping the same smile as before. \n\n“Heh, you taste pretty sweet actually. But we aren’t done yet. I won’t be satisfied with just that. I need to be sure to shut you up proper.” \n\nYori stayed silent this time, panting from the sudden service to his own shaft while Shiro got ready to finish Yori’s resolve completely. Lining up his shaft with the goldyura’s tailhole, he began pushing the head in, causing Yori’s rear to spread open and around the much larger male’s sex. \n\nThe goldyura moaned, uttering out the last small remnants of his perceived control, claiming to be the one dominating Shiro. The claims only served to spur the dragon on more as he pushed more and more of his thick shaft into the tiny bat, even going as far as to pull his expansive rod out more to accomodate for the sheer size of his length. Even still, he made a point in tightening his grip, enjoying the softness of the fur on his rear as well as the overall roundness. \n\nYori himself, finally reduced to nothing more than a mess of haggard moans could do nothing to stop Shiro from using him, the scene being all to obvious to anyone who the real one in charge was, with the goldyura as weak and defenseless as he typically was. No amount of magic Yori had would allow him to free himself, regardless of how hard he tried, and with the last shred of resistance now gone, and the truth having set in, Shiro began to thrust in and out of Yori’s rear with abandon. \n\nThe dragon pushed further and further in with each successive thrust as Yori’s gasps became louder and more submissive the wider he was spread open by the dragons length pushing into him. The sight of the self proclaimed “powerful mage” now reduced to nothing more than a moaning whore taking Shiro’s manhood like a trained cock slut further stoked the flame of dominance that already raged within him. Without notice, Shiro closed his eyes before grasping the tiny mammal’s thick rear tightly and rutting him with feral need, intent on breeding every part of the pathetic goldyura taking him. Cum from the rabid pounding made it easier and easier for Shiro to pull Yori up and down his shaft while he thrusted his hips upward, determined to push himself as deep as he could go. \n\nShiro couldn't help but enjoy his partner in this very heated moment, the tightness of Yori’s rear and his overall submissiveness. Each thrust from Shiro spread Yori's hole wider and wider still, the dragon’s shaft dwarfing Yori himself in size. The pressure from it caused Yori to wince as it happened, but the force applied, along with the sheer dominance Shiro portrayed over him excited him to no end. Being sexually dominated and raped by a large and powerful dragon, only to have to hide it in favor of his pride drove the goldyura’s arousal ever further. He was filled, completely at his mercy, with only his lines of control being said simply to spur his partner on in using him even harder to put him in his proper place.\n\nAfter what felt like hours of thrust after successive thrust, Shiro could no longer hold himself back and gripped Yori tightly, breaking the goldyura out of his euphoric trance when he felt Shiro grab hold of his wide hips before feeling him thrust one final time into the rear, the furthest he ever had and enough to elicit some pain as Shiro, the big strong dragon he was, released his second orgasm into the body of the tiny Goldyura. With his last thrust came a torrent of cum, that while normal for a dragon, the sheer volume of it was far too much for a goldyura’s tiny body to hold in, muchless one as small as Yori was. Just like when he was forced to drink down Shiro's cum, it erupted from his rear, filling his insides with warm dragon cum and within a short moment, streams of Shiro's seed began to erupt Yori's compact hole. The dragon’s seed spilled all over his own member and fell to the floor, creating a pool of cum below them and leaving another section of Yori's home slick with Shiro's sperm. After his climax ended, Shiro began to breathe in slow and elongated breaths. He pulled himself from Yori's rectum and watched as a thick waterfall of his seed escaped from Yori's backside. Yori found himself stretched further than he had ever before, knowing full well that he may be stretched out like this for while, if not permanently. As he was pulled free of Shiro's rod, the weak little mammal found himself struck with a breeze of cool air with cum flowing out of his hole and into the large pool underneath the two.\nShiro held in him no hesitation, dropping Yori dropping the golduya in the pool underneath them, being left to lay immersed within it after being raped and claimed by a dragon he had no chance of ever taking. The dragon stared down at the pathetic weakling, smiling at the sight of the broken mess that now lay before him. Yori was left panting, covered head to toe in the other males seed while leftover cum dribbled out the side of his mouth. The sight was more than befitting of one so weak despite his boasting and deserving of the supposedly great mage he claimed to be.\n \nAfter his final release, Shiro turned Yori around to look at him. Yori’s small body was covered in the dragons seed, proving who truly was in control of whom the whole time. Despite it, Yori’s face was content, an expression of pure lustful desire fulfilled, a sight that also made Shiro happy to see. The dragon moved his head down, and licked Yori's body, taking some of Yori's seed into his mouth from his earlier release. \n\n\"Heh, not bad...You did good. Taste delicious too.\"\n\nShiro sat down and took Yori into a hug, before laying on his side in the pool of cum spilled below. He nuzzled the goldyura much like a child would a plush toy before closing his eyes, as he hugged Yori around, caressing his fur coat. With Shiro’s face firmly nuzzled against the tiny mammal held within his grip, the dragon was only moments away from drifting off. \n\n\"That...tired me out...So very good...I...liked it...with you. You're...not bad...Yori. I...lo...\" \n\nThe tired dragon soon enough drifted into a nap with Yori tucked in his arms. The dragon's warm breath slowly beat against Yori's miniscule frame, bathing the tiny bat in hi warmth. Yori was left to his own thoughts and cum soaked body while listening to the silent breathing of the slumbering dragon.\n\nHow likely was it to happen a second time?\nThe goldyura’s thought drifted through his mind as Shiro's final words left him, and Yori's own sight drifted into darkness; his eyes closing slowly. \nLo...? \nWhat it could have meant he didn't know...but alas...he had not the time to think it over before he himself was gifted with silence , still the broken mess of cum he was moments earlier.\n\n---\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHours went by before Shiro finally stirred from his slumber. He opened his eyes and gazed at the Goldyura resting silently on his face, his fur being a complete mess from sleeping in the remnants of their intimacy, now having dried up.\n\nShiro let our a yawn as he looked down at the goldyura in his arms, smiling at the sight of how cute he looked while asleep. The way his mouth hung open with drool pooling to the sides, along with his quiet snores brought a smile to the dragon’s face. After admiring the tiny mammal for a bit, Shiro checked to see if Yori was still exposed, and just like Shiro, both their members were tucked back in their hiding places. Though Yori looked strangely naked without his cloak, Shiro found that he didn’t mind it too much. This was a moment he would treasure, even if Yori would most likely rather forget about what happened. He moved his head away from Yori and looked around, noticing just how messy the floor was now that he wasn’t distracted. Looking it over, Shiro knew he was mostly at fault for it and soon accepted that he would have to help clean everything up.\n\nWith that, Shiro picked Yori up off the ground so that he was cradling him in his arms, much like after the time with the mimic. As he cradled the sleeping goldyura in one arm, he proceeded to walk over to where the goldyura normally bathed where a waterfall had created a personal lake from within the cave. He looked around the rocks lining the edge of the water for soap of some kind before locating a small container of liquid. Shiro chuckled and took the container, popping off the lid easily and dumping the contents into the water. Shiro looked on as suds began to coat the surface of the water and then at Yori. He frowned a bit, knowing he had to wake Yori from his sleep before moving his head down towards Yori's face, giving it a small nudge with his snout.\n\nYori however, found himself resting on a chair, laying down with a pillow to give him comfort. His eyes opened slowly as Shiro stood over him with a soft smile across his face, proceeding to wet a towel to the side of him. The sight confused him, prompting Yori to move, only to quickly find himself unable to do so. He let out a pained groan, causing Shiro to shift his attention towards him, wiping a spot of blood off the goldyura’s arm. What was going on? Why was Shiro there and what were the wounds from? Everything around him was foggy and very confusing, but with it came a very...comforting scene, in a way. He let his mind drift, allowing the events play out as they would, curious to see how things would go.\n\n\"W-what happened?\"\n\nShiro laughed at him, before washing the towel off in the stream and placing it on a nearby rock.\n\n\"What happened was...you got beaten up again. This is the forth time in just a week that attitude of yours got you in this condition. You need to stop acting so cocky all the time...what if I'm not there to save you?\"\nYori moved his head to the side, finding it the only part of his body he could move without hurting himself in the process.\n\n\"I-I'm fine...I don't need you to help me...\"\n\nShiro let out a soft laugh as he stroked Yori's head softly before petting him. \n\n\"Considering I keep needing to save you...you clearly do. But...I don't mind. Protecting you is something I want to do.\"\n\nYori couldn't prevent himself from grumbling at the lameness of the line, but all the same, a slight blush came to his face from it.\n\n\"Why do you keep saving me?\"\n\nShiro stopped to think to himself, putting his claw to his chin as he formulated the answer in his mind. After a short wait he looked down and laid himself next to him before petting him once again.\n\n\"Why? Well...I want to protect those who can't protect themselves. Despite all your boasting...you're actually pretty weak. Plus...\"\n\n\"plus?\"\n\nShiro paused for a bit before speaking, then gave Yori a soft peck on the head.\n\"Because...I-\"\n\nBefore Shiro could what he was about the say, a rush of water covered Yori’s entire body, taking over his senses while immediately waking him from his dream. The real Shiro was standing above him, holding his claws to his hips as he looked down at Yori below the water, having dropped him into the lake. \n\n“Wake up you layabout! You're filthy! Falling asleep on me like that! Clean yourself you're disgusting! I don't want to be seen with such a dirty rodent who can't even keep his fur clean. Geez, this is why I'm glad I have scales, I don't have to worry about such annoying things like fur. Another useless trait to a useless mammal.” \n\nIn no time at all, gone now was the comforting Shiro that tended to his broken body, and instead the one that was loud loud and obnoxious, speaking the way he normally did. Yori waitied underneath the surface for a bit before swimming back up, feeling melancholy over the loss of the shiro from his dream. There had been a part of him that enjoyed the tenderness of it all, but alas, a dream was a dream and he had to accept that. As he pushed the contents of the dream out of thought and mind, Yori swam his way back up over the water, quickly finding it it full of soap. His fur was wet, but carried alongside it the strong musk that he recognized almost immediately. The memory of all that had happened earlier that day came flooding back to him, causing Yori to touch the fur over his body. He shot an intense glare back at the dragon before quickly casting a spell to spray him with a large wave of water and soap from the pond. \n\n“Me!? You’re the one who ended up doing all that stuff to me earlier! What kind of ruby dragon goes around raping a goldyura anyway! I bet you only brought me that fruit to do that to me to didn’t you! Dammit! My ass hurts like hell because of you! You're way too big, and your stupid scales are way too hard! When I tell Salomé...or worse, Moyo about how you decided to rape me in my own home you'll get what you deserve. Stupid, stupid...!”\n\nYori quickly rose out of the lake water, shaking himself off to purposely get Shiro wet as he began walking away. He barely made it a couple steps however, before falling over as he yelled in pain from the gait in his step. The sight of Yori falling flat on the floor made the dragon chuckle at how pathetic it looked, despite now being covered in soapy water..\n\n“Oh right, that talk should be amazing then. Yes, let's tell the whole world how the, oh so powerful grand mage Yori was effortlessly overpowered and dominated by a single ruby dragon in his own home. Let's go ahead and do that, then you'd finally be admitting just how weak, pathetic and useless you actually are.”\n\nAs Yori attempted his rebuttal, he let out a small burp, causing the taste of Shiro's cum and the fruit to return to his mouth. He gagged a little from the taste, coughing from the awkward combination of fruit and cum. Despite his reversions about it, he did little to get it out of his mouth however. Shiro quickly walked over to Yori’s prone state before gently placing his foot on top of Yori, preventing him from moving despite the lack of pressure being applied. Yori flailed his arms and legs in an attempt to escape as Shiro pressed him to the ground with his foot, laughing at the bats pathetic attempts to do so. In an attempt to escape, the goldyura created a small bit of magic in his tiny hands and shot it directly at Shiro, only for it to fail to make the dragon so much as notice his efforts to deal any damage, similar to any other creature Yori fought. With his offensive magic failing him as it always did, the weak little mage found himself defenseless once again, with no choice but to let Shiro slide him back into the soapy water. The action caused the residual dirt from around the edge to collect into his already matted fur before being washed out again due to the soft current.\n\n\n\n\nWith Yori now back in the pond, Shiro nodded, content that Yori would finally wash himself off instead of wasting his time trying to stop it from happening. He let out yet another laugh at the hilarity of the situation before continuing to mock the goldyura for his weakness and inability to defend himself in an attempt to cement his superiority over him. \n\n“I actually like that idea of you admitting I'm superior! Let's go and do just that you little rodent. But only after you've cleaned yourself of all that gunk in your fur of course. Do not come out of there until you're spotless, or the next time I put you in there will be to clean you myself. I'll scrub you so hard, you're fur will be torn from your body. Understand? Now...you left quite a mess in your living space so I'm going to do you a favor and clean it up. If I catch you out here without you being clean, then after I clean you furless, I'll use your tongue to clean your mess in the other room got it? Now get scrubbing rat!”\n\nWith those final words, Shiro began making his way back towards the study. His odd forcefulness and demand that Yori wash himself was, for all intents a unique way of Shiro showing care and concern for Yori regardless if the goldyura could see it or not. Shiro wanted to make sure Yori was spotless while he cleaned up the living space, though he'd never openly admit that to Yori.\n\nYori himself grumbled as he watched Shiro walk back, choosing not to say anything in return. He knew he couldn't tell anyone what happened, less he found himself on the receiving end of even more ridicule than he already was by many, but the pain of having to deal with Shiro and give into his demands annoyed him to no end. Still, with Shiro now distracted and Yori free, he rose his hand to create a vine of energy around the dragon’s leg, causing him to trip and fall straight down onto the floor with a thud. The impact caused the dragon to cringe in pain from his weight hitting the dirt so suddenly. The magically created vine however broke apart from the force of Shiro’s foot as well, unable to hold up against the pressure of even his normal walking pace.\n\n“You have fur too stupid! Or were you planning on just walking back like that as well? Scales or not, you still smell like cum! And don't you dare lay a claw on anything in my study! The last thing I need is a magic illiterate reptile ruining my stuff!!”\n\nAfter hearing Yori speak, much as Shiro hated to admit to it, he had been so worried about Yori's condition that he had forgotten his scales were not immune from the smell of their actions after having laid in his own. Shiro blew a tiny gout of fire from his mouth in frustration before turning and growling at Yori. For the goldyura however, seeing Shiro fall sparked a bit of satisfaction in him, believing himself to have beaten the dragon and proved his superiority once and for all. Yori’s dreams were quickly crushed underfoot however, as the goldyura watched Shiro turn towards him and begin glaring down at his tiny frame. Yori watched as Shiro spread his wings and fly into the pond with him, taking up nearly the entire pool of water with his size. As big as he was, his entire size could not fit, and the water came up to about his knees. His size causing some of the water to overflow and spill out onto the floor.\n\n\"It's hair, not fur you stupid rodent! Plus, I don't need you to tell me I stink of seed! Plus, I wasn't going to touch your stupid books, I was going to clean the mess you made! But...I do...need to wash...geez, couldn't you have gotten something a little bigger? It's like sitting in a puddle after it rains.”\n\nYori quickly protested, seeing the water flow out of the natural pond and onto the surface above due to the dragons sheer bulk in comparison to the size of the tiny pond. While Shiro’s frame only took up a portion of the small pond, his size in comparison to Yori was made quite evident, especially with the two now standing next to one another.\n\n“Well it wasn't intended for a dragon to jump in it!”\n\nShiro simply let out a small puff from his mouth in response before looking around the area, annoyed by Yori’s response. Before long however, as he took in the goldyura’s frame, he began to smile as a devious thought entered his mind. \n\n“Well...turns out, you don't have anything big enough to clean me with...except of course...you. You're just the right size for a scrub.” \n\nAs soon as Shiro said that, Yori quickly began trying to swim away at the notion, the response being a scenario he himself was worried may to fruition. He tried his best to swim away as fast as he could. but given his weak physical strength and lack of a streamlined body, Shiro was able to grab ahold of him with ease. As he was held in the dragons strong grip, Yori once again tried to attack him with the vine from before. This time however, shiro expected it, and with little to no trouble, destroyed it with a single swipe of his claw. Yori’s nervousness began to mount as he watched it unfold, now kicking and screaming in order to get the superior dragon to stand down. \n\n\"N-no! Don't you dare! That water is freezing cold! W-we can get ple-err...\"\n\nYori stopped himself before continuing on, noticing his use of the word \"we\". He immediately corrected himself in an attempt to hide, further adding to the now awkward moment.\n\n\"I mean..y=you can get plenty clean..I mean...j-just get underwater or...or something! I don’t care what you do, just let me go! I'm a mage, Not your damn cleaning cloth!\"\n\nShiro chuckled at the comment, more so by the fact that Yori still saw himself as a competent mage despite the many instances even in just the last couple hours that obviously proved otherwise. Still, while there was a charm in such a weakling continuing to believe he was as strong as he claimed, there was washing to be done and the dragon knew that the action of using Yori as a cloth was something he both deserved and would prove to be a lot of fun. Shiro then quickly shoved the Goldyura into the water over and over until Yori was completely covered in what was left of the soap. When he was finally pulled back out, Yori was covered from ear tip down to the tip of his tail in suds. \n\n\"Now, let's see about getting my scales nice and shiny!\"\n\nShiro took Yori and began to use the goldyura's body to scrub himself, gliding Yori along his chest, belly and parts of his arms. The dragon continued to thrust Yori in and out of the water over and over, causing some of it to get into Yori’s mouth as he attempted to protest against the treatment. \n\nShiro even made sure to rub Yori over his slit, just to be safe and transfer the soap to his body. In fact, Shiro began to focus heavily on his slit, enjoying the idea of using the goldyura to clean himself in such an area as he gently humped Yori’s body while doing so. Yori found himself being turned on all over again as he found enjoyment in being forced to service the dragon’s sex even when not aroused. With his arms held tightly by the red dragon and his thick lower body being used like a shower puff, Yori had no choice but to wait till the ruby dragon felt clean enough, retroactively cleaning Yori in the process, albeit with Shiro's scent covering his entire body because of it.\n\nAs soon as he finished, All of Yori's fur was wet and soapy with his eyes closed shut so as to avoid get any soap in them. He coughed and sputtered in Shiro's strong hold over him, unable to free himself no matter what he tried to do. Shiro looked at Yori as he sputtered, all while covered from top to bottom in soap and water. The sight of it caused the dragon to let out a soft chuckle, especially given Yori’s inability to stop it from happening. All in all, Yori’s defenselessness just made the sight of it all just too cute, giving Shiro an inexplicably warm feeling inside. The feeling made him feel odd...as if something about Yori made Shiro feel very good on the inside. Despite the odd feeling, Shiro quickly shook the thought from his head before turning his attention back to Yori.\n \n\n\"Oh man, you make a great as a cleaning cloth! Since magic doesn't seem to be working out, I think you've found your true calling! We're just about ready to rinse and I have to say, covered from head to toe in soap, you almost look cute. Almost.\"\n\nThough Shiro's real thoughts were that he definitely did, he made sure to watch himself, making sure not to openly admit to it. The water now began to wet the ground around them further, almost making the washing redundant to do between them, causing Yori to protest as fast as he could.\n\n“Don’t you dare go putting me under that waterfall. The water is freezing cold and the last thing I want is to be doused in it!”\n\nShiro groaned as Yori’s mouth removed any semblance of cuteness from him outside of the tiny mammals strong vocal resistance to being taken advantage of. Still, with the way things always went when he got this way, it still managed to excite the dragon holding him, if only to further exercise his actual dominance over the weaking. \n\n\n\"You know damn well I can't just dump you into the water when it has all our filth in it as it is. The only way we rinse, is the “freezing cold waterfall” as you so put it. I'm sure you're just over exaggerating as usual. Besides, I don't know what you're complaining about, this water is just fine.\"\n\nWithout hesitation, Shiro put Yori right into the center of it. The water ran right over his entire body, washing out all of the soap alongside any remnant of seed from his body. To Shiro, being fire element, the water was far from actually freezing, cold sure, but to him, it certainly wasn't freezing. And by extension, Yori's own...or rather a goldyura's affinity for cold made the water feel closer to room temperature rather than freezing. The claim of it being freezing simply being yet another attempt to stop Shiro which like all the rest, ultimately failed once more. After he rinsed Yori off, Shiro moved towards the falls himself, washing off the parts of him that Yori unwillingly scrubbed for him until the suds that were still present on himself were washed away a well. \n\nOnce pulled out, Yori glared at him, but unlike Shiro's scales that gave of a shiny gleam from the water, Yori's fur was wet and dreary looking as the water in it dripped out and back into the tiny pond. He coughed and spat the water out of his mouth before looking back up at Shiro holding him in his grasp to prevent Yori from doing anything. This had been his first time seeing a dragon after being doused in water...outside of Pearl Dragons of course, so it was a bit surprising to him. Shiro's coat was shiny, the small trickles of light in the cave reflecting off the white, while the crystal of his tail cast a bright red gleam over his body. Yori found himself staring at Shiro for sometime, at least long enough for things to get awkward, before finally snapping back into reality once Shiro began talking again. \n\n\n\n“There naked rodent, you're now as clean as the day you were born. And with that we’re, all clean. Not so bad huh?”\n\nFinally, after the loud, arduous and abusive cleaning session, Shiro stepped out of the lake with Yori dripping wet and Shiro still quite soaked. Shiro quickly looked at Yori who was still firmly in his grasp, unable to free himself. As usual, his arms weren’t bound as the dragon saw no need to bother doing so. \n\n\"Now we're both free of the smell of our activity. Happy wet boy?\"\n\nYori was still dripping wet, his fur coat damp and full of water as he looked back at Shiro, completely unamused by the dragons apparent good cheer. To him, he smelled of Shiro’s scent, something that he knew himself would not be coming out anytime soon. Regardless, with the actions now finished, the only thing left to do was to dry off, no doubt with Shiro finding some way to abuse him in that regard as well. \n“O-ok...fine...then drying? I assume you have an appropriately abusive way of doing that to you stupid reptile?\"\n\n“Abusive no... but it is a sure fire way to dry you. For me, my body will naturally dry because of the fire inside, as soon as my temperature rises again. As for you...well...we gotta get creative, don't we?”\n\nShiro walked into Yori's study with Yori still in hand, unable to do anything as he listened to Shiro. The emphasis he put on the word fire causing his ear to twitch and his tail to flail about nervously as he waited to see what exactly Shiro planned to do. As the two made there way to the den, still as messy as it was left, the dragon proceeded to pull Yori up towards him and held him out like a cloth on a rack directly in front of him. After being secured, Shiro opened his maw, with Yori getting a front row seat to the sight of sparks beginning to form deep within his throat. \n\n“Prepare yourself....”\n\n\"W-w-w-wait! S-Shiro! S-Stop! What do you think your doing?! Don't! Don't do it!\"\n\nBut the dragon ignored his words, and Yori watched in horror as the flames began to grow, thoughts of being incinerated by Shiro filled his mind in what he considered a very unsatisfying end. Yori quickly shut his eyes and made one final plea, something he never considered doing before to the dragon, much less anyone else ever. \n\n\n\"ALRIGHT!! I'M SORRY FOR INSULTING YOU!!! J-JUST P-PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!\"\n\nBut almost as soon as he had finished, he felt the temperature around him rise, causing him to whimper. Just as Yori thought the next thing would be himself burning to death within Shiro's fire, instead was a very warm, humid air blowing over him. Shiro used his fire to superheat his breath and then used it like a powerful blow dryer in a sense. His hot breath, which Shiro kept Yori at a distance so that the smell of it wouldn't be overpowering, battered against Yori's tiny frame. It was as if a heat wave suddenly overcame him, and quickly began drying Yori's fur and skin underneath. Within a few minutes, Yori was as dry as he was before Shiro had showed up earlier that day, though his fur puffed out from the breath making Yori look rather funny. The sight of it caused Shiro to laugh as he looked at the now puffy, blue and white furball. Shiro reached his claw out and began to stroke Yori's stomach gently, an action far different than anything he had done up to this point. He traced his finger around the goldyura’s belly and through his fur, even going up to the crest at the top of his chest before finally moving down to grope his rear again with a smirk, enjoying the softness of the tiny mages body and fur. \n\n“See? That wasn't so bad, was it Yori? Now you're not only sparkling clean, but, you have the driest and softest fur in all the land. That soap really does wonders for you doesn't it furball?”\n\nYori however was completely shaken by the events that unfolded, unable to even stammer out so much as a complaint or rebuttal as his heart raced and his entire body continued shaking from the fear of nearly dying once more. As he began to compose himself, he let out a whimper, forcing the next couple words out. \n\n\"I-it...is a soft...s-soap..to help make it s-soft.\"\n\nHe looked at Shiro, finding those the only words he could muster out as his heart still continued to calm down from it's rapid beating. As Yori still tried to recover, Shiro finished rubbing his belly, pulling his claw away from him as he placed Yori gently to his feet, releasing him from his grip. As he looked down at Yori, who was still having a hard time standing up, the smirk from before widened into a soft and caring smile, both happy to finally see Yori now calm, and his cocky nature broken as he stood over him, at least for the time being. Eventually it would come back, but for now Yori was back to being as complacent as he should be. \n\n“You idiot... I would never dream of killing you. I didn't go through all this trouble just to turn you into a smoldering pile of ash. I care about yo--... uh...I care about...what others might think...if you were to uh...suddenly vanish. Though I accept your apology anyway.”\n\nShiro’s voice trailing off as he tried to cover up his words. A momentary silence began to fill between them, now beginning to make it more awkward for the dragon. Shiro quickly took his claw and placed it on Yori's face to playfully drag it down, trying to bring the situation back to normal. Yori himself did nothing to stop Shiro from pushing down on him, still shaken from all that had just happened. He looked over the study and saw the mess of half eaten fruit and toppled books along with dried piles of cum on the floor. He let out a sigh as he tried getting himself up, struggling to move Shiro even when he was casually pushing him down.\n\n\"Anyway rat... do you want my help cleaning your home? It's already late in the afternoon and I'm sure Moyo is wondering where the hell I am. I've already been here for quite awhile now. I mean...I don't regret it...but babysitting you today was not what I had originally planned. Since you don't want me touching anything in your precious study, is there anyway you can make everything just...disappear or something?”\n\n\nShiro stared at the mess in the study, his eyes trailing over the many different books inside, both on the desk and in the log cabinets with glass cases that kept the outside air from entering inside them. The sight made him roll his eyes, as he was reminded of Moyo’s study, being similarly filled to the brim with many different books, tomes and scrolls. \n\n“I swear, if a book had an ass, you and Moyo would stuff it all day.\"\n\nThe comment finally managed to snap Yori back to reality, and while still shaken, he at least was able to finally form more words. He quickly began pushing his fur coat down with his hands, trying to pad it out as best he could before responding, clearly more worried about his fur than the mess in the study. \n\n“W-well...Spells are kept in books, and books record everything about them and the theory behind them. Reading a lot...just happens to be part of being a mage. A old quote in one of the starting manuals was...\"A mage is only as strong as powerful as the spells they know.\" So...hence lots of reading. As for this mess...hrm…”\n\nYori snapped his fingers and at once a swarm of the tiny cloudlike familiars with diamond shaped crystals surrounding them began to gather on the spot. They began picking up books and cleaning the area of any residue, the sheer amount of them making short work of the cleaning process. Yori's cocky smile began to return as they did their work, clearly having a small sense of superiority by the site of it. Shiro watched as the familiars entered the room cleaning the area and picking up after their mess. \n\n“Hehe, well...no spell for cleaning things...but this is...something just as good I suppose. Since they will be taking care of all the cleaning you don't have to stick around of you don’t want to.”\n\nYori's ears dropped before he continued to speak as his voice became noticeably more depressed after saying what he did, despite his attempts to hide it. Even if he didn’t want to admit it, he himself quite enjoyed the time the two had, especially the actions from before. \n\n“Ah well...I guess...you should be getting back to Moyo. He is probably looking for you. It’s whatever, I n-never asked you...to stay anyways.”\n\n \"Heh...staying with you? Seems like too much trouble.\" \n\nShiro responded with no real meaning behind his words instead of sounding like he normally would when addressing Yori. Still, he didn’t want to leave to much time for Yori to realize that, and quickly headed for the portal. As he walked near the still open gateway, he turned to Yori and gave him a rather errotic smile. \n\n\"You didn't actually finish all your berries. There was way too much after all...so...I'm still leaving that here. Eat them, or don't...your choice. See ya around rodent.\"\n\nShiro turned back around and waved as he left with the portal closing behind him. He stood once more outside Yori's home and frowned, holding his claw to his chest. That warm, vibrant feeling was back...and the sudden want to stay. Shiro knew what this feeling was, but could it be certain? Had he really...well...perhaps exploring this further was what was needed. He certainly couldn't rule this out. He turned to face the gateway once more,now simply a wall with an arch to show where to enter from.\n \n\"Goodbye...Yori...my friend. It was...fun.\" \n\nHe knew Yori could no longer hear him, but saying it made Shiro feel better. He spread his wings, and took flight off towards his home. As he flew back, an odd feeling steadily grew behind his scales...Yori seemed to be casting a spell on him, one they were both unaware of.\n\nAs Shiro left his parting words, Yori listened in, choosing to keep his back turned and watch the familiars clean up. Annoying as they were, they helped a lot for many different things, from just cleaning to other less menial tasks. Still, he sat by himself looking at the basket Shiro brought him, though he noticed many of the berries were now messy and covered in cum from what had happened. The idea of eating one repulsed him somewhat as he completely removed the thought of having one from his mind. Unlike before though, Shiro's words noted a tinge of concern, if letting him choose was a sign of that anyway. Regardless, he stayed quiet as Shiro left, not thinking much about it as the portal closed when he walked through.\n\nAfter a short while it suddenly it dawned on him that through everything that had happened, from the washing to the drying to...the more private interactions, the portal was never closed throughout all of it. Meaning that everything that happened...would have been overheard. Or worse he thought...seen. Yori did his best to push the thoughts out of his head, choosing instead to drown himself in study again, given the entire morning went to waste. \n\n“Well...maybe not...entirely I guess. For what it was...it was nice.”\n\nYori's words echoed through the cave, finding himself alone again inside it brought forth a small bit of depression with it. He didn't know fully why though, never had he cared about being alone...so why now? And because of Shiro of all people? \n\n“I...must be sick...y-yeah. That's probably it, s-stupid dragon…”\n\nThe last words in the line for him held little force behind them, the dream earlier on now being represented vividly in his head once again. more and more questions arose before he finally decided to ignore them. \n\n“I have...work to do.”\n\n---\n\nOutside the Portal, a small crowd had formed, comprised of mostly women, but a small few males were there as well, listening to what happened, hidden behind a corner to avoid being seen. Unbeknownst to Shiro and Yori, they were going to find people reacting to the two of them quite differently. \nThe few males who were there snickered amongst themselves...\n\n\"Hehe...nice to see that little wimp finally get put in his place\"\n\"S-so...someone finally did it...knocked him down a peg.\"\n\"More like...knocked him up! The Great and Powerful Yori was finally raped, hmm?\"\n\"That Shiro, to think he'd do that?\" \n\"What a scary guy...to be able to do that so publicly...\"\n\"Shiro's a true blood ruby afterall!\"\n\"Oh man...I can't wait to tell Eramin in the lecture tomorrow!\"\n\n---\n\n\nLater that afternoon, Shiro returned home to which he shared with Moyo the Pravitalia. Shiro couldn’t get the early morning activities out of his head. Being that way with Yori felt…strange. It felt…surprisingly good. Really good to be with him intimately…but more so to fool around the way they did. Shiro never considered himself someone who would do anything to harm anyone as fragile as Yori is, but to be that way with Yori, even if it was all a rouse, made him feel closer to him. Shiro wondered what Moyo actually thought when he saw them bickering the way they did. It must have appeared as if the two really hated being around one another. As his thoughts centered on Yori, the memory of what had happened with the creature before resurfaced, the sight of Yori’s body being battered alongside it while being unable to defend himself. The memory reminded Shiro of how terrified he was when that creature almost killed Yori. He was angry that Yori was so hurt and relieved when he woke up that day. Yori made his chest feel…warm. Could this be what Shiro was thinking? He thought that he and Moyo were close, but unlike Yori, Moyo was far from incapable of protecting himself when need be. Was it Yori’s fragile weakness the drew Shiro to his side? Constantly arguing with him just so that he had an excuse to keep talking to him? The feeling left him confused, convinced that he’d need to think on it more.\nIt took nearly an hour to meet with Moyo who was busy studying. The two had lunch together and during the time, Shiro told Moyo of his time with Yori. At first Moyo was concerned, but when Shiro insisted that it was merely role playing and he’d never dream of doing anything harmful towards Yori, Moyo believed him, having known the dragon for quite some time.\n\nShiro however chose not to tell his friend about the uncertainty he was feeling inside, convinced he would need time to consider it himself. Still, despite Moyo’s understanding, it still didn’t save Shiro from being scolded for being overly rough with Yori, reminded of how fragile a goldyura was in comparison to a ruby dragon especially one as physically weak as Yori was. After his friends scolding, Shiro decided to go fetch some food to cook for supper that night, happy to have a chance to clear his head for a bit. He stepped outside and began to walk instead of flying, as was his routine after eating a meal. He didn’t want to burn energy too fast from such a physically taxing endeavor. Shiro walked with a hum, smiling and looking rather chipper though, failing to notice the stares and whispers of the people around him.\n\n“Hey Shiro.” \n\nA voice called from his left, snapping him out of his trance as he looked over towards the direction the voice came from. The voice belonged to a praimortis that called out to him. Shiro raised his brow, surprised to find a Praimortis in the city. But after looking him over some, it was clear the dark attributed roo was a mercenary living in the non mages district of the city. \n\n“Nice work with that Goldyura, we thought you were a goody goody, turns out, you’re just as wicked as most of your kind.” \n\n“Excuse you? Do I know you Praimortis?” \n\nShiro questioned his response with a low growl. The Praimortis, hearing the sound of the threatening growl threw his hands in defense, smiling as he did so.\n\n“Hey man, no need to get feisty with me. Just saying, well done. Especially with that big mouthed, egotistical little weakling who thinks too highly of himself.” \n\nShiro suddenly got this bad feeling settle in the pit of his stomach by the response as his mind began racing over why he would have said such a thing. Before he could think about it for long, a Pearl Dragon came up from the side of him, her face sour as she starred Shiro down with an intense gaze. \n\n“Are you proud of yourself, you brute? Just because he talks the way he does, doesn’t mean it was true! You should have just ignored him like everyone else does! You hurt the poor little guy! Here we thought you were different, but you’re just like any other ruby dragon aren’t you?” \n\nShiro clenched his teeth. Did they know? What they did? Clearly…they somehow found out…but how? Their moment was supposed to be..! At that moment the days events snapped back into his mind, from the time he entered to the moment he left...the Portal was never closed!\n\n“N-No! You don’t understand! It isn’t like what you saw at all!”\n\nDespite Shiro’s attempt to resolve the situation, The Pearl Dragon turned her head and began to walk away, purposefully hitting him in head with her tail fin. \n \n“Don’t try and talk your way out of it! We saw and heard everything! You disgusting, filthy creature! Guess Moyo likes housing beasts as well as healing them. You are a disgrace! Hmph, some hero you’re supposed to be!” \n\nAs she walked away the Praimortis shrugged before leaning over towards Shiro, now acting more buddy buddy than he had before now. He still wore the smile he had moments before, except it was now followed up with an arm around his the dragons shoulder. \n\n“Don’t listen to the Pearls, most of them are annoyingly righteous…it was about time someone knocked that Yori down a peg anyway. Glad to see you to be the one to do it! Hey, if you ever want to pick on some goldyura, or heck, go and rough Yori up some then-”\n \nShiro shot the praimortis a death glare, causing him to pull back in shock at the sudden response from the one he believed to have done the task no one else would.\n \n“Shut up now! Nothing you saw was what it seemed!! Don’t go assuming things! I would never dream of hurting Yori! I—”\n\n“Defend the weak? More like fuck the weak. Ha ha ha ha ha!” \n\nThe Praimortis, getting his composure back, began laughing along with other members of his team before they all began to walk away and continue about their day. Many others in the city, be it Pearl Dragons, Pravitalia and even some of the deckannima and flower dragons continued along, shaking their heads as Shiro passed by, most in approval, but with a few others in disgust. The few that kept to themselves discussed what they thought to have happened amongst themselves. \n\nThe conversations reached Shiro’s ears, and the thoughts of what they all thought began to quickly put him into a state or depression.\n \n“No… that… that isn’t….” \n\nShiro’s arms began to relax on his sides with his head falling in defeat. As the crowd around him began to thin out, Shiro was finally given time to be left thinking. He knew how it looked yes, but, surely, he couldn’t be believed to be a beast? After everything he had done to help those in need? Even after even questing with Yori, and saving his life, he’d be considered a beast after a single event? They took it completely out of context…it wasn’t fair…and to drag Moyo’s name through the mud alongside his own made it that much worse. It was as if once someone saw what they perceived to be an awful deed, it immediately became their label and outweighed all the good. Why this was the case, he did not know, but if anything, no doubt it would have been due to the label of his species. Moyo thankfully at least listened to the explanation so was he not deserving of the same? This had gotten completely out of hand. As he finally began shaking it out of his head, trying to reconcile and convince himself to mend things as best he could, Shiro’s eyes shot open and his head rose quickly upon realizing what it could mean for Yori. \n\n“Oh god…if this got out…Yori…Yori could be in trouble!!” \n\nNo doubt if others did believe such thing to have happened the way it did, then there was a good chance, no practically guaranteed chance, that Yori would get assaulted by someone who truly did intend to hurt him. Shiro immediately spread his wings and took flight towards the Goldyura’s home. When he got close enough, he quickly landed to make the rest of the way by foot. Knowing Yori was unable to fly, he would be somewhere down here if he left, but hopefully he was still home. \n\n“Yori, please be safe!” \n\nShiro focused on making his way towards Yori’s home as he began running when a figure suddenly caught his eye as it approached. Shiro stopped short when he realized who was approaching him. An immediate snarl came to Shiro’s maw and he bore his teeth. A small smoke stack rose from his nose and with a deep growl in his throat, he said his name: Eramin.\n\nEramin, the ruby dragon professor who was the epitome of everything Shiro was against. The exact thing he fought, a close-minded, power drunk individual who saw everyone but his own species as stepping stones, even going so far as to make it no secret either. Shiro’s stomach churned just by the sight of the older ruby. He was the only other ruby dragon he could say he hated with everything he was, the other two being his mother and father who managed to be far crueler than even Eramin managed to be.\n\nThe professor made his way directly towards Shiro, no doubt noticing him when he landed moments before. This was not someone Shiro desired to see at all, especially not now. Trying to avoid Eramin at this point however would prove a useless endeavour. He would need to deal with his enemy first, before being allowed to continue on his way. As Eramin reached earshot, Shiro spoke to him in a growl, forcing the words out with as much venom as he could. \n\n“Professor Eramin… just when I thought I would be able to make it through the day without the fear of losing my lunch.”\n\nDespite Eramin attempting to make himself as open as he could, he quickly noticed the snarl and smoke coming from Shiro, finding that the task would be harder than he had originally thought. Even still, he knew himself that he wasn't coming to insult of berate the young ruby dragon on his choices in life like he tended to do when the opportunity presented itself. No, this time was quite different. \nFor the first time in over a year, Eramin was able to hear how Yori was put in his place once again, his only regret being unable to see it happen first hand this time. But that detail was overshadowed from the realization that the act was from the one source he was convinced would have never done so. This Shiro, to him, at least up to this point, was considered a lost cause in terms of their kinds \"better nature\" as he put it, since he choose to lower himself to the level of slaves and those objects they call pravitalia. But...if what he heard was indeed true, and he did what he said...Shiro may have some ruby left in him after all. \n\n\"Sod it, brat. I'm just here to talk, or rather...congratulate you on a job well done. Many a student of mine have attempted to show that annoying, loud mouthed piece of filth just how little he's worth...but many stopped bothering or at worst failed thanks to the efforts of the other professors. But, thanks to you’re standing, you were not only able to get close to him, but even went as far as to use that freedom to not only once again show everyone how truly pathetic he is, but even did something so brazen that no one’s ever had the gall to do. You could have gone and taken some random gold...ah...forgive me, rat slave on Charir to do what you did, but oh no...you aimed for the one who really needed the lesson. And not only that, but you did it. I'm just hear to say...well done. I hope that you will continue doing things more befitting of you, perhaps like dropping that walking staff you call a friend at some point. In any case, I am quite busy, but I wanted to take time out of my schedule to mention this to you. Good day Shiro, I hope that you will continue to show the little creature how little he's worth in the coming days.\"\n\nShiro listened to the what Eramin had to say, the ruby dragon professor saying exactly what Shiro thought he would. The words only served to rub the salt in the wound that his image to these people may truly have been shattered. He was meant to be a savior and now they see him as the exact thing he despised. The townsfolk hurt but...Eramin's words...they burned. He clenched his fists together and growled as Eramin began to leave. Shiro couldn't leave things as they were, he had to do something to fix the broken pieces and put them back together. And a good way to start doing that, now walking away.\n\n\n\n\"Don't you dare lump me in with the likes of you, Eramin. Someone like you who is as powerful and intellectual as you are should be able to see when there is something wrong about a situation. You know I have never once berated a single creature that couldn't fight back. I am not so cruel that I would harm a follicle of fur on Yori's head, not a goldyura, Pravitalia or any creature that are viewed the way you think they should be. If that is what I strive to do, then in all my time here, why would I try and tarnish it now? Especially to someone everyone already knows is all talk and no bite. Perhaps you should use that brain of yours to figure out that he and I were putting on a show. None of what you heard happened as you think. Yori is my team mate...I would protect him with my life. If you truly believe the words you heard were true, then you aren't worth your title as professor. You're washed up, just as Salomé proved all that time ago. Then again, wasting words on you is meaningless...old dragons will always be set in their ways, so go about your day, but at the end of it, you really don't know anything at all. \nIn fact...I'm going to go see my teammate right now so, see ya old man.\" \n\nShiro spoke confidently as he turned and headed in the opposite direction, no longer paying Eramin any mind should he be speaking. He needed to find Yori now, and work on shedding light over what had happened. \n\nEramin glared at Shiro after he finished, moving forward so as to make a rebuttal to the insults thrown at him. No one would dare open their mouth so openly to him, and while he knew he couldn't do anything to physically hurt Shiro without problems arising from it, he couldn't simply let the words he spoke settle the conversation.\n \n\"Now you listen here you little shit! Here I am, Congratulating you on all that happened and you do something so appalling as to spit it back in my face as if I'm some nobody! Washed up!? I'm 86 years old, not even hitting 100 yet and still at the pinnacle of my-! Are you even listening to me?!\" \n\nBy this point however, Shiro had already turned his back on him and proceeded to continue his search for his tiny friend. Feeling even more annoyed at how the younger ruby ignored him, Eramin growled and quickly followed along, simultaneously annoyed and curious at the same time. \n\n\n---\n\nLater that same morning, Yori walked outside, taking with it a deep breath as he did so, unsure of what to expect given what happened yesterday. It was late in the day, that much he knew, so any early lectures would have ended. If he could, he would have preferred not leaving the comfort of his own home, but it's lack of food was always an issue that he had to deal with. He briefly considered buying something to grow there, but making a garden inside a cave would take a lot of money he didn't have, so he dropped the idea entirely in short order.\n\n\n\nAs he walked, he noticed many sidelong glances from others around him, looking or laughing to themselves as they passed him by. Still he ignored them, but one in particular came up to him. The one that did was a Pearl Dragon, the same one that had been taking to Shiro only moments prior. She walked up to Yori, her size quickly blocking off the route Yori was taking.\n\n\"I'm so sorry for what happened to you! I hope you're alright?\" \n\n\n\nYori looked up at her, lost as to what she was even talking about. He had an idea, but assuming such wouldn't be the best thing to do at the moment. Still, being blocked from his route to the market, by a female no less, made him significantly more irritable. \n\n\"I...guess? What are you even apologizing for?\" \n\nThe Pearl Dragon leaned down and began to pet Yori in what was supposed to be a comforting fashion, but given the nature, difference in size, and gender, only served to begin pissing him off as it felt more condescending than anything else. \n\n\"We know...it must have been hard and I'm sure you're hurting both physically and mentally. Just know that there are some here for you. To help you through what that beast Shiro did to you.\" \n\nShe continued petting him, as Yori's nerves began to grate and rise even further. \n\n\"What? Shiro didn't-\" \n\n\"Shh...it's alright. I know...you're repressing it, but you can confide. I promise that we'll help you through the trauma.\" \n\nAt that point Yori's patience had reached its end, as he looked up at the Pearl dragon that attempted to comfort him, giving her a death glare. \n\n\"You've got about 3 seconds to get lost before I break that hand of yours off.\" \n\nThe Pearl Dragon recoiled quickly and got up, smiled and bowed before quickly running off, trying to hide a small chuckle, thinking of Yori’s attempt at being threatening to be rather cute. As she left, Yori let out a sigh, proclaiming out loud how much he hated women because of stuff like that, unconcerned with anyone who might overhear him. Continuing his walk, he spotted Shiro in the distance, who seemed to be talking to Eramin of all people. What he would have to talk about was anyone's guess. Still, Yori tried to reach him but was suddenly pulled away again, this time by a much rougher and more forceful grip. The hand belonged to something strong, not terribly powerful, but stiff and confident, no doubt belonging to another ruby. But alongside it was surprising to him. An amber dragon was buddied up with him, donning mages robes.\n\nThe style of the robes made it clear that this particular amber was a 3rd year, and seemed to be focusing his efforts on earth magic. Unsurprising given the ease of which the species could use it despite their lack of skill in magic. Still, he was clearly a bit of a runt, noticeably younger and weaker then Shiro. The ruby dragon however was older, by the design of his robes, was definitely either an 8th or 9th year student, so the situation made it obvious that the ruby took the amber on as a lackey of sorts.\nThe observations Yori was making were cut off by a rough push into the wall by the ruby in question. He seemed to be quite pissed off, no doubt due to the fact that Yori hadn't really been paying attention to him. He must have been talking to him while Yori ignored him. \n\n\"You think you can just ignore me?! I'm a ruby dragon! Little wimps like you can't go and act all high and mighty!\"\n\nYori finally started listening to him, though if he had said anything previously, it didn't really matter as Yori paid no mind to it. He had more important things to do than waste time with this, so he proceeded to get up and try walking away, before the amber cut him off and pushed him back. Now surrounded by the two dragons, Yori let out sigh, feeling as though the day was going about as he expected it to, but it still made it no less annoying to deal with. What these two wanted with him however still escaped him. \n\n\"Move or I'll force you. You don't want to go pissing me off...\"\n\nThe ruby laughed at the statement, before looking down at Yori, smiling sadistically as he did so. \n\n\"And whatcha gonna do? Use your magic? Go ahead, I’ll even let you get the first cast.\"\n\nYori clicked his jaw and quickly rose his hand to cast, firing out a larger orb than normal thanks to the time he was given to power it up. Despite the larger orb, the ruby thrust his arm forward, breaking through Yori’s offensive spell with ease before grabbed his arm and pulling him around. He twisted Yori’s tiny arm around his back painfully before pinning him against the ground. Yori quickly began to raise his wand hand only for it to also be pinned to the ground with the dragons other hand, though thankfully not across his back like before. Still, with Yori being pinned down like he was, his rear was now positioned upwards, with his tailhole now parallel to the ruby’s slit. The position the dragon put him in made the goldyura immediately realize his intent. Yori’s wand hand was pulled over his back and into the dragon’s other hand, now both being effortlessly held down by just the one. With one of his hands free, the ruby dragon quickly weaved a spell to quiet the area so no one could listen in on the the group.\n\n“If Shiro could rape you, then why can't other ruby dragons do it right? Now that I know anyone can do it, I think I’ll be taking a shot at you myself. I’ve wanted to hear you scream for so long now. Maybe after I’m done, I’ll even beat the hell out of you for closure!”\n\nThe ruby dragon laughed to himself as the Amber watched from a distance. It was clear from his expression that he wasn't at all fond of the situation, and seemed to have mixed feeling about staying. He wanted to leave, but seemed to stay for whatever reason or another.\n\nMeanwhile, The ruby pinning Yori to the ground strengthened his grip in an attempt to get the goldyura to groan, tightening his grip to the point of neary breaking Yori’s arms. The student found sadistic pleasure in hurting the little wimp as he took his free hand and slapped Yori’s rear painfully. It was far different than what Shiro did to Yori earlier that day, there was no affection or ruse in the action was shown. The student took a sadistic pleasure in watching Yori struggle uselessly in his grasp as he tried to keep the dragon from hurting him further as a smile crossed over his face before he let out a small laugh.\n \n“Hehe, wow...You’re pathetic! What kind of spell was that supposed to be? Haha! I’ve fought flit foxes that were more of a threat than you! Hm...well it wouldn't matter anyway after I’m done. To be honest, I kinda prefer pegging females, but I think I can make an exception just this once. I wonder how much I can put in before I start to break you?”\n \nThe Amber behind him finally spoke up, albeit quite timidly, stepping forward to try and help make his point. \n\n“M-maybe...u-um...t-this is going...a bit far? W-we don't know if-”\n\nBefore he could finish however, the ruby snapped back at him, his voice was a mix of anger and anxiety within them. It was clear he was nervous himself, but determined to see the act through to the end.\n\n\"W-Who said you could talk?! Shut up and do your job! I tutored you didn't I? I think this serves as a way to pay me back for all the help I gave you starting out.\"\n\n\n\nAs this went on, Shiro continued looking around with Eramin yelling at him from the back. He continued to ignore him however, preferring to focus on finding Yori before someone less savory got to him before he did. Shiro pulled out of the market towards th library when suddenly something caught his attention. A scent, unique and rather familiar, belonging to something that he had picked up recently. Shiro took a moment to think and focus on the scent, when suddenly it dawned on him where it came from. He had picked up on the scent during the bath he had with Yori! The unique scent of goldyura’s soap made locating him easy for those familiar with the brand. Shiro sniffed the air a few times to get a direction and turned his head to see deep in an alley, the smell emanating from within. Worried about what Yori could possibly be doing in such a concealed alleyway, Shiro ran towards the tucked away area before turning his head inside. When he finally got close enough, he could see what all was occuring. An amber dragon was watching a ruby dragon pin a goldyura to the ground. Shiro had to squint to see what exactly was happening, but after a moment's look, immediately recognized the goldyura to be Yori. \nShiro gasped as a sudden anger befell him. He spread his wings and launched himself at top speed into the alleyway at top speed, flying right past the amber dragon guarding the area. Shiro’s sudden appearance caused the young amber to grimace and back away from the ruby snapping at him. As Shiro flew past the amber, within a few moments he slammed the ruby that had Yori pinned into the wall with a deafening slam, creating an indent and spreading cracks through the stone. He made sure to quickly pin the dragon, grabbing his throat with one claw and squeezing his arm with the other claw to discourage any casting. The ruby student let out a painful roar as the silencing spell broke, alerting any passerbys of what was happening, including Eramin who was still trailing Shiro.\n\n\"What in the hell do you think you're doing you scum!? How dare you try something so bold in this city. Especially to someone who has me as his ally!\" \n\nShiro growled, gripping the boy tighter as his glare pierced the ruby dragon to his core before turning to glare at the amber dragon who was too stunned to even attempt to do anything.\n \n\"And you...to allow such a thing....I know you were raised much better than this...because I know your kind would detest such an act. Your amber brothers and sisters would be disgusted with you. They sent you here to learn, not harm others! We're better than that. Better than rubies. Get lost and if I ever see you with this other dragon again, I'll send you back to Inik myself.\"\n\nAfter Shiro finished his speech, the young amber dragon quickly shook his head and ran off as fast as his legs could carry, the typical girth the species is well known for slowing hims down as he tried his best to get away from the area as per Shiro’s command. Once gone, Shiro quickly turned his attention back towards the ruby dragon still pinned to the wall as Yori struggled to his feet and groaned, coddling his arm softly in an attempt to alleviate the pain inflicted while Shiro continued his argument with the other ruby. \n\n\"You...if I see you anywhere near Yori again, I will break your arms so that you will never weave a spell for the rest of your days. And If any of your friends come after Yori, I will break your arms...after I break them. Do I make myself clear? I never want to see your face again for as long as I draw breath.\"\n\nShiro let out a tuft of flame from the side of his mouth, squeezing the boys arm so tightly now, the pressure felt as if his arm would snap at any moment. He quickly nodded, wanting nothing more than for the other dragon to let go. \n\n“Argh?! Dammit! G-get off me already that hurts!!! Alright! I’ll leave! Geez!\n\nShiro stared into the boy for a moment before letting him go reluctantly, knowing that should he go any further then he’d be the one at fault in the situation.\n\n\"Never come around here again, you low life scum. Remember my words if you value your future.\"\n\nShiro let out a powerful roar as he took the dragon from the wall he was pressed into and with his mighty strength, threw him over Yori and near the end of the alleyway. Shiro finished addressing the dragon before looking towards Yori and his face souring a bit as the Goldyura coddled his arm.\n\nYori watched quietly as everything unfolded between Shiro and the other two students, holding his arm from earlier on in pain. The ruby dragon mage, who was both younger and much weaker physically in comparison to Shiro managed to hurt him so easily. And the amber dragon, however he will react to it, saw it as well. With everything that happened, the four of them were drawing a crowd, and others now had the chance to see it all happen. While Shiro might be out of the eye of everyone, his actions pretty much confirming that what happened before might have truly just been rumors afterall, for Yori, they now saw him being saved by a ruby dragon. His only solace was they knew not of what happened previously, but...this one...and the amber knew. How things would change he knew not, but it was clear that they would begin talking, and no matter what...the ruby certainly wouldn’t miss the chance to brag. \n \nEramin watched from a distance for a bit to see what happened, choosing not to interfere too quickly. He heard Shiro's speech, causing his already tarnished view on Shiro to be torn apart even further. Friends? Allies? Teammates? With YORI?! A goldyura. Already had he subjected himself to dating a Pravitalia. But the pain itself was alleviated partially thanks to the fact that Moyo was, for all intents, a very skilled wizard. But this one? Yori? The rat’ only redeeming trait was his ingenuity when it came to magic, but outside of that his magic paled in comparison to that of a true mage. Worthless, loud, cocky and a show off when he could barely cast a draconic spell, let alone make anything strong enough to break through even rock! He was pathetic, in every sense of the word. And to see and hear Shiro, a Ruby Dragon, disgracing himself by protecting him. The thought made a knot form in his stomach, the sight something that he himself wanted, down to his very last scale, to see stopped. Yet alas, his position would not allow him to do so directly. So...he watched, waiting for a moment to intervene.\n\n\n\n\n\nShiro, finally having calmed down some, moved towards Yori and looked him over, watching him coddle his arm in pain as he stood to the sidelines, watching everything take place. Yori’s ears were pointed downwards as he continued rubbing his arm, noticeably lost in thought. Shiro, concerned his mind may be far more wounded then his body had no idea what those two, or even if those two did anything else to him before he got there. Worse yet, if Yori ran into any townsfolk who might have made remarks about what happened. He began talking to his partner softly in an attempt to revitalize some of Yori’s pride. \n \n\"...I'm sure you had that handled...I just hate ruby dragons like that. Are you okay anyway? Not that I think you aren't...just...you're holding your arm and...I’m sorry. I should have gotten here sooner.\" \n\nShiro crossed his arms, trying to hide his grave worry for Yori behind a stale expression. As caring as the ruby dragon is, it was hard for him to completely hide any concern, especially when it came to people he cared deeply about, to which he discovered Yori being one of them. Yori himself was broken from his thoughts by Shiro, who talked to him softly, noticeably concerned for his well being. Yori himself was grateful, but...he couldn’t very well show that. Still...he found himself hard pressed to be rude as well, and tried to force out a thank you as best he could. Before he was able to however, a angry voice could be heard from behind him, the air was becoming hotter and brighter as well.\n\n“You bastard! Threaten me huh?! I-I’ll show you Shiro...you and your pathetic little boyfriend!!!” \n\nYori, along with any others in the area, quickly turned towards the student from earlier. Yori let out a sigh as he spoke, watching the fire gather in the air. \n\n“Boy…? Do all of you just latch onto extremes? It was a one time thing! He’s with Moyo!” \n\n“Who fucking cares what it’s like between you two! You’ll both be a pair of ash piles when I’m done!”\n\nThe ruby dragon rose his claws and shot out a massive ball of flames, a level 4 spell no doubt. This one was, much to Yori’s surprise, actually quite proficient in fire magic. Though that isn’t a surprise given the affinities of ruby dragons. The flames careened towards them and Yori pushed his still good arm forward, making a loud grunt as he did so. The flames careening towards the two began to slow down as Yori kept his arm out, wincing in pain from the endeavor. Eventually however, the spell slowed to a halt, stopping in mid air as the ruby looked on slack jawed at what had happened. \n\n“H-how?”\n“Don’t you know...a-anything. Make fun of me all you want, call me weak and demean me as much as you like. But if you don’t even know...what I did now...then you...s-shouldn’t be wearing those robes.” \n\nThe dragon looked down at Yori who was struggling to breath as he continued to hold his arm out, clearly spent from stopping such a large spell. The student however had blood was dripping from his claws, a clear indicator of him already going over his mana limit just to cast the said spell. \n\n“You need...to understand...that there’s more to magic than just using the strongest spells. All you dragons every care about is power, power and more power. But control matters also.”\n\n\n\nYori stopped as the dragon clutched his hands angrily, yelling back at him. By this point, a large crowd had formed, listening in on everything that was happening. The crowd of various species looked on at the sight of not only Yori having stopped the fireball midair, but of Shiro nearby, having come to his aid. The ruby, now quickly becoming the focus of attention quickly began trying to rectify the situation.\n\n“Shut up! You only focused on that because of how pathetic a caster you were! I was taking classes here while you were a student to, smartass! You think I don’t know! You cheated!” \n\n“It didn’t cheat! I graduated just like everyone else, regardless of what you think I did or didn’t do!” \n\n\nThe student, now even more enraged, lifted his hands up as flames began to surround his palms and cuts began forming across his arms as he began attempting to push the spell towards Shiro and Yori. \n\n“Shut up! I don’t need to hear that from some weakling who somehow graduated despite getting their tail kicked at their own graduation!”\n\nThe efforts, while dangerous, proved fruitful as Yori was quickly being pinned down, and the massive ball of fire began to rapidly descend towards the the pair. With no other option, Shiro spread his wings and was about to attack, before the ball once again stopped in mid air before vanishing in a puff of smoke. From a distance in the air, Eramin could be seen flying down as his finger was pointing at the spot the fireball was moments prior.\n\n“That’s enough, I think our little magic demonstration is done here. Clearly...everything was just a false rumor.”\n\nThe entire group looked towards Eramin as the student attempted to utter his name before the professor gave a intensely harsh gaze. He knew full well the words forming in Eramin’s head, not even attempting to respond as the professor stared him down. \n\n“Leave...now. Before you make things worse for yourself than they already are.”\n\nThe student ran off, away from the crowd, as Yori looked back at Eramin. He tried to process what all was happening, muttering out a small bit before falling over from exhaustion.\n\n“Y-you’re...just playing nice...for the crowd…” \n\n\nAs Yori fell back from exhaustion, nearly spent on his own reserved of mana, Shiro quickly noticed and instinctually reached out to catch him. The small Goldyura fitting easily in his embrace. Shiro coddled him like a child and held him close to his chest, making sure to cradle him by his rear. As he did so Eramin walked up to the two of them. \n\n“You...Shiro...take him to the infirmary...or Moyo...I don’t care. Trying to reverse a spell...would be tiring for any mage to do, even Yori.”\n\nHe turned his back, and shortly after realizing his comment, quickly rectified the situation by hitting Yori in the face purposefully with his tail before walking towards the crowd. Eramin did however stop momentarily to address Shiro privately. \n\n“I’m not mad...just...disappointed. I should have expected as much from someone like you…well, no matter.”\n \nHe walked away, leaving Shiro to attend to Yori as Eramin began talking louder to address the crowd that had gathered around to watch everything unfold. \n\n“Don’t you all have other things to attend to! Get out of here, the lot of you!” \n\nWith that, the crowd quickly began to disperse as Eramin’s sheer presence reaffirmed how formidable a force he was just on his own. He then looked back at the two with a hateful glance before flying off, leaving the two alone. Yori looked up at Shiro, clearly unable to move his body. A slight pause overtook the area, with Yori thinking about what to say. In the end, despite what he wanted, he opted to leave out the insults just this one time. \n\n“Walked off without talking back...Eramin’s pissed...what did you say to him?”\n\nBefore answering him, Shiro started to make his way out of the alleyway and into the open, some stragglers still watching to alleviate any remaining doubt that the rumors were just that. Thankfully it only took one hard glare at them to make them quickly dispersed. \n“I said he's a washed up Ruby Dragon who talks a big game but still lost to Salomé, and talking to him is a waste of breath... more or less. As if his disappointment in me means anything. It's about as valuable as the ground I walk on, even then... that's too high of praise for him. His acceptance of me is also about as valuable as the ground I piss on...and I piss a lot...I'm a dragon.”\n\nShiro hoped as he walked that he could get Yori to grin or even let out a small chuckle just to see if his little companion was doing alright. He walked up towards the archway leading to Yori’s home before moving his gaze down towards Yori once again, watching the small mammal continue to breath heavily in his arms. Shiro gave the goldyura a soft smile before stopping next to the gate, speaking to him while his energy slowly returned. He made sure to continue keeping him comfortable, with cradling him being his top priority to avoid any additional stress or pain.\n\n“Look...this whole thing...got really messy because of me. For once this is my fault. I'm just glad I got to you in time. I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you today. Thought I should at least apologize for my involvement. Speaking of Salomé though...there is no way she won't hear of today's events. I have a funny feeling we will be summoned sooner or later.” \n\nYori himself let out a small sigh as he laid in Shiro's arms, thinking it a bit ironic to find himself being held by him again like this. Though the circumstances differed a bit, it still felt embarrassing to be carried so carefully through the crowd. Still, it was nice in a way as well. Unlike before, he was fully cognoscente of the feeling, and found Shiro's grip to be exceptionally strong. The muscles below his scales were obvious as well, making it a hard, albeit secure, cradle. It wasn't any different than what he used to sleep on in Aussir really...though most certainly warmer. He leaned his head back, trying to relax as all his energy was spent from just the one action, but even still...he found it worth it for the reaction alone. \n\n\n“Hmph...your damn right it's your fault. Had you made sure the portal was closed this wouldn't have happened. Still...I don't mind...really. B-because I finally got a chance to show you I-I'm…”\n\nYori sighed before finishing, finding himself to tired to even finish the line. He paused for a while before speaking again as he noticed quite fast how taxing it was to even talk in his current condition. \n\n“You ignored Eramin as well...haha...it...it's fine. I hate...the infirmary. Always treat me like some kinda precious weakling. A-ah...I...never got to eat. Y-you can...make it up...to me. Go get me...food.”\n\n\n\nYori let out a small, weak laugh as his voice grew weaker the more he spoke. Shiro himself, upon hearing that he had ignored Eramin’s orders was confused for a small moment after it was explained to him that he ignored Eramin. Still, thinking about it, he must have been to concerned about Yori to have noticed or even remember. \n\nRegardless of the reason, the tiny bat seemed to prefer it that way, so Shiro quickly put it out of thought and mind, moving back to Yori’s request. Since he could still demand things of him, it was clear that Yori was simply exhausted, rather than hurt in anyway, shape or form. He was still worried, but not nearly as much as before.\n\n\"Tsk. I'm not your errand dragon you rodent. I didn't take you to the infirmary because you didn't get any injuries worth looking over. You're a man right? Something like this should be easy enough to recover from on your own. Though seeing as how we both agree that this is my fault, I will treat you to a meal...again.\" \n\nShiro quickly began to leave and make his way towards the market district of the town, cuddling Yori in his arms and close to his bosom. He had no intention of letting Yori go until Yori felt comfortable enough to walk on his own or desire to. Of course, given the sight of a dragon cradling him as he did, people began to stare and some even gave a soft smirk in adoration while others snickered and talked amongst themselves as they walked through the bazaar of sorts, seemingly returned to their original view of Shiro now that the rumor was dispelled. Above all, Shiro simply enjoyed keeping Yori so safe. It brought him back to a time as a hatchling when he used to do this with that stuffed Goldyura is parents were so keen on making him destroy. This was the real deal. Now he had something to protect, despite Yori's protests and claims about being strong enough able to handle himself. \n\nAs they continued to walk, Shiro looked down at Yori, watching him as he closed his eyes and rested in the dragon's embrace comfortably, clearly in no hurry to walk or be put down. The sight of it put a small grin to run across Shiro’s face, finding the sight to be adorable, even if Yori would never admit to that. \n\n“You look comfortable. Enjoying your stay in my embrace? Heh.”\n\n“Well...I don't need...or want to go anyway…”\n\nWith that, Shiro nodded and continued to walk until finally reaching the market place. As it was, the market was bustling with many different races wandering about within it looking to buy whatever it was they required. Be it meat, fish, weapons or crystals, there were stalls for everything around. The sight momentarily reminded Shiro of his own errands, prompting him to put in the back of his mind and do so after he was finished making sure Yori would be alright. At the very least, he knew it would be what Moyo would want him to do. \n\nYori let himself relax in Shiro's arms as he walked. It was an odd feeling to be sure, to be held so tenderly by someone like this, a feeling he had long since forgotten about. Regardless though, it wasn't like he had the energy to stop it. Sure, he could voice the difference between physical exhaustion and mana exhaustion, but in the end he vouched for not doing so as he found himself enjoying the chance to be carried around in such a fashion. With how much that last action took out of him, he was struggling just to stay awake and not pass out. He closed his eyes and let Shiro walk around, oblivious to the thoughts of those around him for awhile as he took time to simply enjoy the warmth Shiro's body gave off. His tail, ever an indicator of his feelings, began to clutch Shiro's waist involuntarily.\n\n“Anyway, what was it you wanted to eat Yori?”\n\nShiro's voice kicked him back to reality, with his tail suddenly letting go in a shock. In the end he ended up passing out after all, but it was most likely something he would have been unable to prevent anyway. How long had he been out he wondered, looking over at the stalls in the market. \n\n“O-oh....not long then. Hm…”\n\nHe looked over the stalls, trying to figure out which to get. Large fruit, berries and everything in between the two were present. What should he get? After the whole thing with the berries yesterday, he vouched for a larger one this time around, moving his arm as he pointed to a stall housing baskets of large, round, pink colored fruit with a massive stem and leaves attached to it. It was a fairly common fruit found on Achuak, so thankfully was fairly cheap in price despite its size. \n\n\n\n“Hah...you are my errand dragon. W-walking around...cause you have to...s-since I'm better than you and all. Now go to that one. And...maybe get something else with it. Water...or fruit juice.”\n\nShiro looked down at Yori in his arms and glared at the Goldyura. He took his claw and made a fist before and very lightly hit Yori on his forehead to avoid hurting him. \n\n\"Don't push your luck Goldyura, or I'll very quickly forget how exhausted you are.\" \n\nShiro warned. He then looked over at the stand in question and huffed walking over to it. The merchant looked over the odd pair for a while, the sight of a ruby cradling a goldyura like a baby nearly giving the merchant a laughing fit. The Pravitalia was stifling his laughter as tears welled in his eyes.\n\n“Uh…c-can...I help you?” \n\nShiro looked over the merchant and had a slight blush in his cheeks knowing full well what the stifled laughter was about. He tried his best to ignore it, and continue his purchase as per normal. \n\n\"I'd like to buy some fruit please. These ones... I'll take two.\" \n\nThe Pravitalia nodded and reached for the fruit in question, continuing to laugh to himself as he reached for the fruit.\n\n\"Sure... one for you... and one for your uh...kek little friend?\" \n\nSeeing a ruby carrying around a goldyura in such a way with how much profound pride a ruby normally had and the way society as a whole viewed them made Shiro look very much like a weakling in the eyes of this Pravitalia, not that Shiro actually cared, though being seen like this in public was still as embarrassing as ever.\n\n“So um... is that all?”\n\n\nYori quickly opened his mouth, demanding something to drink while at the stall, causing Shiro to glare back in his direction as the Pravitalia held himself back from laughing out of professionalism. Shiro’s own blush deepened as the merchant asked, before nervously asking about the item in question. \n\n\"Do you have any...fruit juice?\" \n\n\"Sure, and would your little friend like it in a bottle with a teet?\" \n\nWith that the merchant couldn't keep his laughter stifled any longer and nearly fell over. He held on to his stall for support as his laughter drew the eyes of the surrounding crowd, though they did not keep staring. Shiro grew even redder as he grew even more uncomfortable, though after what he put Yori through, this was the least he could do for his friend. \n\n\"I'm...I'm sorry friend...truly...it is just....this sight is rarer than a shooting star. I couldn't pass it up. N-now then...that’ll be 3 silver and 1 gold, a discount for the little one!\" \n\nThe merchant wiped his eyes as he continued to make jokes about the sight of the two as he got Shiro his juice in a waterskin that was still much in the shape of a baby bottle. \n\nShiro reluctantly thanked the merchant as he placed the required amount on the counter, pulling the coins out of a small sachel around his waist. With that, the pravitalia took the money and dropped it into a case behind the counter before waving the two goodbye. \n\n\"You two take care now. Make sure you burp him afterwards...PFFFFTTTT HA HA HA!\" \nThe merchant began to laugh once more, this time failing at keeping on his feet, falling on his back, holding his stomach. Shiro walked away as fast as his legs could take him as the crowd around them began staring once more, now at the entire lot of them. As Shiro got a fair distance away, he stopped, taking a couple breaths to get his energy back as well as his composure.\n\nAfter all was said and done, Yori looked back over towards the stalls glaring at the pravitalia. The idea of being treated like a baby pissed him off, but in this particular moment, discretion would be better, especially after all that happened earlier on. Yori took the bottle of juice, and drank from it all the same, much to the amusement of anyone else that was around. Still, they stayed quiet thankfully, focusing on their own day to day errands. After finishing the bottle, Yori pulled his arm out from its comfortable position, waiting til the two were a good ways away from the stall, before moving his finger slightly. At once, a couple chips appeared in the foundation of the pravitalia's stand, making Yori smile as he made himself comfortable once more. \n\n\"Let's walk away now, but I want to see the fun ensue. You don't go making fun of us without paying for it. Especially not someone like me. It'll take a moment, but it will be fun.\"\n\nShiro looked at Yori curiously before moving his head back towards the stall where the pravitalia was assisting his next guest, curious of what the goldyura had done. Though he wanted to ask what he did, the question ended up needing no answer. For as soon as Shiro had gotten ready to ask, a paradise flower dragon landed on the stand. At once, the entirety of the stall came tumbling down on both the patron and vendor. Shiro's eyes widened at the sight before he quickly made himself scarce before turning his gaze downwards at Yori, staring at him with a glare.\n\n\"Are you an idiot? You know how much trouble we could get in? We literally just beat the crap out of a student. A ruby student. We're walking on thin ice as it is.\" \n\nShiro could hear the Pravitalia panicking and complaining how his food was now ruined and such, unable to at least let out a small snicker at the small bit of karmic redemption. Still, he made sure not to linger on it for long, and quickly cleared his throat.\n\n\"A-Anyway... what happened to being unable to use magic? Guess you're feeling better. I'd rather not have to carry you around if I can help it. It's bad enough we've spent so much time together. People are going to start to talk you know. I don't mind taking you home if that's where you're going to go, but, I'm not your personal slave to have traveling around either. You're still annoying.\" \n\nDespite what he said, Shiro still continued to cradle Yori in his arms, holding him warmly as he began to finally walk back towards his home. While the dragon did quite enjoy the situation as a whole, given all that had happened during the afternoon, he couldn't have Yori thinking too little of him and after today's events and desired to go back to some normalcy between the two.\n\n\"I never said I couldn’t use any magic. Simple spells like that are easy. Plus pretty much everyone already doesn’t like me and Salomé won't get rid of me because of how amazingly brilliant I am. Due to those reasons, I can do what I want...it makes no difference in the end. Can’t say the same for you though.\"\n\nYori's attitude began to return in spades as his magic slowly regenerated, the spell used barely costing anything for him to do. After they walked a fair distance Yori did what he could to pull himself free, a feat rather tough to do due to Shiro’s natural strength. \n\n\"Hm...I guess you don't \"want\" to be around me. Well that's fine. You can take me home like a good dragon and then be on your merry way. I ended up getting to shut up both Eramin and a cocky student, got myself a dragon chauffeur and even ended with a dinner and a show! If false rumors end like that, then I wouldn't mind making more of them!\"\n\nYori couldn't restrain himself from laughing out loud after the comment, clearly enthused over the actions that had transpired while the events of nearly being raped and beaten up only moments before seemed to have vanished from his memory.\n\nAs Yori began to return back to normal, Shiro continued to glare at him, but found himself happy to see him finally return to form, a part of him having missed the old cocky Yori that constantly worked his nerves. \n\n\"How is it, having such a massive head on such a tiny, weak little body? You must hit it a lot when you're walking in your small home. Heh..allow me to deflate your ego rat. If it weren't for my involvement, you would probably have gotten beaten and used by that ruby. Plus, you only shut that student up for a bit before he started overpowering you, “again”. Once again, needing your big buddy Shiro to save you. I expect a thank you.\" \n\nYori began to gare back at him, before shaking his head in response, content in the thought that Shiro had little to do with the results of what all had transpired despite what had actually happened. \n\n\"Like you said, I had it covered, regardless if you showed up or not I'd have sent them packing! You just ended up making it a convenience. I don't really need you or anyone's help when things like that happen.\"\n\nAfter he finished, Shiro began gripping his claw over Yori's face in a playful manner as he walked Yori back home. The claw wrapping around Yori afterwards cut him off from continuing to annoy the dragon as he began fearing he would be crushed by him in anger. Yori tried resisting him, only to be to weak for Shiro to even notice his failed attempts at resisting him physically. As Shiro held him however, it became abundantly clear he was only teasing, something Yori played up and convinced himself that it was simply just Shiro realizing he couldn't do it in the end. Not to one as amazing and powerful as he was.\n\nThus, the two walked back in silence, before finally arriving back at the archway leading into Yori’s home. As soon as the two arrived however, Shiro released Yori from his arms, causing the tiny bat to fall down on his rear as he hit the cobblestone pathway. Yori let out a small grunt of pain as it happened. As he was dropped down, one of the fruit fell next to him, nearly damaging it in the process. \n\n“I hope you enjoyed today, because this isn't happening again. I've paid my debt for the trouble I caused, and if you bring this up again, I'll hit you so hard, I'll knock the color out of your fur, got it? I still have a reputation to uphold after all.”\n\nYori himself, annoyed at the action, quickly got himself off the ground before shaking his arms in anger at the ruby before him, the size difference between them only making the action come off as both foolish and adorable at the same time. \n\n\"Whatever! Be more careful! You nearly damaged the fruit from that, stupid. Besides, we both know if you tried hitting me then I'd have you on you belly, begging for me to spare you in 10 seconds flat. You can't hold a candle to me.\" \n\nAfter he finished, Yori opened the portal and attempted to move the fruit, only to quickly find it impossible for him to move on his own, unable to even make it budge from the area it landed. After awhile, he finally complained under his breath before making a familiar that was able to pick it up and carry it inside for him with ease. \n\n\"Anyway, that's that...you can leave now, no need to leave your precious \"Moyo\" waiting. After All, you do have a thing for settling for less.\" \nYori laughed to himself as he turned his back towards Shiro, who had half a mind to punish Yori for so very quickly getting a big head despite all that happened earlier that day. But he held himself back, knowing that it would have to wait for another time. After all, they had just finished with such a large problem and who knows what will happen if Shiro and Yori started once again. Instead, Shiro opted to tap that back of Yori's head, causing the goldyura to fall down on his stomach with his large rear sticking up in the air as if to present himself to the dragon inadvertently.\n\n\"Watch it, or we may have a repeat of yesterday! You really know how to try my patience! And don't go saying Moyo's name like that! Besides, I'm not settling for anything. Moyo was a great friend to me when I first got here and we kinda just...hit it off. One thing lead to another...\"\n\nShiro stopped himself and looked to Yori blushing a bit, realizing quickly at the similarities between how things had gone with Moyo, and now with Yori as well, though with a few many differences between them, ones that made him question a few things. Shiro quickly stammered out the rest of his thoughts, intent on shaking the epiphany from memory as he continued on. \n\n\"That's not important! What he and I do in our spare time is our business! Don't presume to know my relation with him...things can change.\"\n\nIt was still too hard for him to ignore the feeling he got whenever he was around Yori. It was familiar...and after today, he was pretty sure he knew what it was. Which the thought caused him to turn a tad redder as a result.\n\n\"Ah! You have me thinking strange things! Just...go eat your fruit, and try not to choke yea? I'm not exactly here to feed it to you this time.\"\n\nShiro chuckled before spreading his wings and turning back towards the marketplace to get what he originally came for. \n\n“See you around rat. Next time be a bit more grateful, I spent a fair bit of coin on you today. Though I wonder if such a thing is even in your ability, oh great wizard.” \n\nYori proceeded to pick himself up off the ground, snapping back at Shiro as he began to fly away, doing his best to catch him before he left. \n\n\"A-as if i'd choke on some fruit! I...ah...whatever...\"\n\n---\n\nAs Shiro was flying, he couldn't help but think to himself, lost in the thoughts he had floating in his mind. \"A-Am I really...falling for that Goldyura..? It's hard to believe...but...it's such a warm feeling...Yori would laugh and make fun of me for certain.\" \n\nShiro smiled and clenched his fist. \"Then I'd probably hit him or something.\" He turned over, gliding on his back through the sky. \"Ha ha...I won't deny it. I enjoy our arguments and rough housing....He doesn't need to know that though. I wonder...if it's hypocritical of me to act this way towards him...hmmm...I won't think too much on it. If it's not broken, I won't fix it. I wonder...what I should tell Moyo.\"\n\nAs Shiro thought, the poor soul didn't notice what was in front of him as he was gliding and crashed clean into the side of a passing Ruby, causing the two to plummet down into a small pool of water. The Ruby got up, this one being yet another student, this time in especially extravegent light blue robes, soaking wet and pissed.\n\n\"Watch where you're flying you asshole!!\" \n\nAfter the quick reprimanding the student storming off, refusing to leave Shiro time to so much as apologize over the situation. He felt a little embarrassed as he watched the student storm off, apologizing to himself at least for not paying enough attention. \n\n\"I...probably shouldn't think so deeply while flying...I think I'll walk from here...\"\n\n\n\n\n\n---\n\nWith Shiro now gone, Yori proceeded to walk through the portal himself, quickly making doubly sure to close it this time around as he walked back into the glade serving as his home. The large fruit was now resting on a table in the den before Yori quickly made a makeshift platform to place it on with a spell. Yori wasted no time in cutting the large fruit up and quickly began to devour it as he thought about all that had transpired. As time went on, he began to slow down his eating to a more relaxed pace, thinking about what all it had meant. No doubt he felt something, anyone carrying him around like that would have been met with tremendous protest as Yori effortlessly beat them into submission for treating him in such a way. But Shiro...why was he so comfortable with him? \n\nThe thought of possibly falling for him crossed Yori's mind, only for him to laugh it off as a joke, convinced that he couldn't possibly fall for anyone, much less a dragon. Besides, even if it were true, what good would it serve? Shiro had a mate already in Moyo, that was no secret. Even if he had these feelings, they wouldn't mean anything aside from Shiro laughing it off and making fun of him for it all.\n\nYori's thoughts were quickly cut off as a chunk of the fruit became lodged in his throat, causing him to gag. Was he choking? The thought flashed through his mind rapidly before he began protesting the cruel irony of it happening as he toppled over. Within moments, many of his familiars rushed over to him and began slamming themselves into him until the overly large chunk came out, the familiars saving him, now having been rescued twice today. He looked at the small chunk of fruit for a bit, churning his face in disgust as he lifted it up and crushed it with a spell before tossing it into the stream to be carried out of the glade. \n\nAs he watched it drift away, Yori figured it best to not eat any further and continue studying and practicing his circle magic. Regardless of the events over the course of the day outside and his personal feelings, he still had work that needed to be done.\n\nHe sat at his usual spot requesting a book be brought over detailing the uses of blank spells again, one he had already looked over many times before. Still, review was review and it was useful to keep up to date, especially with circle spells.\n\nTime went by, and Yori was already working with spells, creating miniature clear disks in his palms. Despite holding the spells he was talking to a familiar next to him, something he was used to doing when needing to rant to someone in the lonely cavern. \n\n\n\n“I mean...yeah I do love him...no well...I mean I MIGHT love him, but what would it matter you know? Besides...who ever heard of a ruby dragon and goldyura dating right? I couldn’t even take...like...half of him! M-maybe...I don’t know.” \n\n\n\nThe more he ranted the less focus he kept on the spell in his palm, to which the familiar noticed all to well. The little smoke like cloud of solid mana watches as the spell became more and more unstable, before finally launching out of Yori’s palm. It flew out into the area and began to wheel back. The familiar quickly pushed Yori’s head down, causing the disk to narrowly miss him as it cut clean through a small tree branch and bore into the ground before dispersing, now making it the third time he had been saved that day. Yori watched as it vanished before letting out a sigh and getting up. He now knew full well his focus wasn’t in studying at the moment. \n\nWith that, he proceeded to make a set of three, thick energy vines around him. Looking at them all he tapped his finger on his chin before finally settling on an hour. He proceeded to let the spell off, as the thick vines began to wrap tightly around him…", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "With the end of the previous day, Shiro headed home to return to his beloved. With the day’s events having taken their mental toll on him mentally, Shiro quickly found himself in a deep slumber. Over the course of the night however, the ruby couldn’t find himself able to sleep as peacefully as he would have liked. Amidst the tossing and turning overnight of the many things that “might have been” from the events prior, a mental scene of Yori being crushed by the creature caused him to jump from the bed in shock. Shiro shook his head and looked over towards Moyo who was still fast asleep. Shiro got up to to wash his face a bit, trying to calm himself down and head back to sleep. The wash bin had a small, round, blue crystal affixed to the center of the bowl, to which Shiro sighed at the sight of.

“These things…”

Shiro tapped the crystal with his claw gently, causing it to glow a bright blue color. Within moments, crystal clear water began to flow into the bowl and continued to cleanse itself constantly just like a fountain. Shiro cupped the water in his palms and splashed some of it in his face a couple times before drying himself off with a washcloth. While it may have simply been a dream, the thought of it happening felt a bit to real.


As Shiro made his way back to the room, the sky outside emitted a soft blue hue, indicating the arrival of morning. Had he truly managed to sleep through the night? Regardless, he walked  back to clean himself up before quickly heading out for the day, deciding to get an early start. As the thought of food ran across his mind, he recalled all that had happened the previous day. Assuming he did not go out sometime that night, he would have not eaten at all.

Shiro sighed once more, complaining about how ineffective Yori was at taking care of himself before flying towards the market. Upon arrival, the ruby was greeted with a large assortment of fruits from all across Edarel, displayed in a beautiful arrangement of colors and sizes. Shiro never made a point to visit the fruit stands before, so seeing them now caused him to take a moment and marvel at the various displays of grown produce before asking around for what would be best to buy a goldyura. Eventually, he was ushered over by a deckannima selling smaller items resembling berries.

“Looking to buy for a goldyura? Need to feed your servant eh?”

The deckannima let out a laugh at what was clearly meant to be a joke at the species’ expense, one that Shiro quickly made a point in reprimanding the seller for.

"He's not my servant, and last I checked, goldyura are free to eat. Now are you gonna sell to me, or not?"


The deckannima stopped laughing and made an effort to apologize, being taken aback by the surprisingly negative response. After the short exchange, the seller brought Shiro over to a large batch of small blue colored berries, easily being the size of small marbles.

“These are fruit found on Aussir that goldyura typically eat. Frost berries. Goldyura typically love the taste of these items. If you’re looking for a delicacy to give to your ser- err...f-friend. Then these are the things to get!”


Nodding, Shiro looked at the price tag attached to the small basket. They were only sold in baskets so regardless, Yori would end up getting a lot. However, upon looking at the tag listing one being 30 gold made his stomach churn.

“Why are these so expensive?!”

The deckannima looked at him, trying to figure out if he was serious or not. After a moments pause the shopkeeper slowly began to explain how the berries were difficult to gather due to location and local goldyura on the continent.

As Shiro was given the explanation, he thought about it for a bit before shaking his head, reluctantly placing the gold on the table.

"So these can only be the genuine fruit then? I mean they certainly don't look like anything that grows here. The goldyura of Aussir must really like these things...I guess they're worth this ludicrous price then. Even though I'm pretty sure you're just taking advantage of me, I'll buy a bag."

The shopkeeper smiled and quickly handed Shiro one of the small baskets of fruit, clearly desiring him to leave his company, more than likely due to his unnatural attitude towards the species. Shiro grabbed the bag and quickly made his way towards where Yori lived, making sure to grab a plate to put the berries on in order to look more appealing. Still, the thought that Yori may not eat them crossed his mind, unsure if he would accept such a charity or not, but in the end, Shiro decided it best to try.

---

As for Yori, the morning of the next day broke with a beam of sunlight from the top of the cave shining through the center of it. Yori, the goldyura mage living in the cave alone, awoke as the beam broke through and various birds began to sing outside. A few thin rays of light trickled into the cave, hitting Yori as he slept on one of the many different small trees dotting the cavern. The sudden ray of light caused him to shield his face in frustration until he finally gave in and pulled himself up.

The day pretty much went as per normal, with Yori getting up and heading over to the small lake to clean himself up. Yori swam inside for a while, thinking to himself as he floated on the water’s surface. The events with the mimic still vividly ran through his mind despite the situation being over and done with. Why had Salomé chosen him to go along? Surely if it was because of his neutral magic she could have gotten other mages to aid Shiro. Ones with better combat skills or ones that could get along with him better.

Either way, no matter how much he contemplated the decision, it wouldn’t matter in the end. Perhaps she misjudged his ability, or perhaps she had some ulterior motive. But with the mimic gone and dealt with, the question as to why would forever remain a mystery to him.


As he got up, he quickly made a point of drying himself off before heading off to the study to do more reading and research. As he did however, his stomach growled in protest due to his decision to not get anything to eat despite Shiro’s request. The moment caused Yori to grumble in annoyance, blaming Shiro for the moment of weakness due to having no one else to pin it on otherwise.

“I need to eat then...I guess I should head out and find something.”

With that, Yori quickly donned his typical strap, hood and gloves before heading to the portal, opting to leave his rod as it seemed unnecessary for such an outing. Upon opening the portal, he found himself face to face with a plate of frost berries. Yori stared at the plate for a good while, contemplating the reason for it being there. Shiro on the other hand hid himself behind a wall, watching to see if Yori would take them.

Eventually, Yori picked up one of the berries and popped it in his mouth, savoring the taste of his home continent’s main produce before commanding a familiar to pick the plate up for him as he was unable to do so himself. Watching the scene unfold, Shiro gave himself an internal pat on the back before turning to leave. As soon as he did however, a leftover rope laying over the ground caused the dragon to trip. In short order, Shiro found himself entangled and frustrated over such a small inconvenience and began shouting out in anger. Yori, who had nearly gone back inside, stopped as he heard Shiro’s voice in the distance and began thinking. Putting two and two together, Yori quickly made his way over to the place Shiro was, motioning the familiar to follow him along.

“Well well...losing to ropes now? Honestly, and here I thought you couldn’t get any weaker.”

Shiro stopped and turned his gaze directly towards the goldyura who looked down at him in an overly condescending fashion. Embarrassment began to overcome him before he finally snapped himself out of it by remembering who he was talking to.

“Shut up rodent and help me out of this thing!”

Yori stared at him for a brief moment before directing the crystal spirit to place the plate of berries next to the dragon, but not before grabbing a handful for himself. Taking a single one of them in hand, he tossed it over to Shiro, causing it to bounce off his form and onto the ground.

“I’m helping by giving you incentive. See, this way, even if you take a long time to get out, at least you’ll have some food to eat.”

Shiro’s visage became noticeably fiercer, with an anger rising from within him at the thought of Yori leaving the expensive berries out in the daytime to spoil.

“D-don’t leave those out! They were expensive!”

Yori simply shrugged and began to walk away from him, turning his back on the dragon and the plate of fruit with the familiar following close behind him.

“Next time, try not treating me like some charity case. See ya, loser.”

With that, the last straw had been pulled and Shiro’s anger erupted as he let out a ruby red flame in the area, burning the rope to ash within mear seconds. The dragon quickly rose and picked the plate up before grabbing Yori around in a tight, commanding grip as he stormed through the portal leading to the glade.

“Oh no, These things cost a lot, and I’ll be damned if you don’t eat every single one of them! Even if I have to force them down!”

Yori struggled to free himself from Shiro’s grasp, an action proving itself to be pointless by all accounts as Shiro simply continued without notice. Shiro stomped towards the study table, pushing the books that sat upon it aside, much to Yori’s anger, and placed the plate of berries down in their place before carefully grabbing one. He motioned the small piece of fruit towards Yori’s mouth, as he commanded him to open. Yori however, refused to do so, turning his head away from the fruit in disgust.

“Like I’d eat anything you feed me! Besides, if you think you can force me around like this, then y-”

The cocky little bat found himself cut off by Shiro pushing the berry into his mouth with ease despite his claims. Yori quickly began chewing the berry in an attempt to swallow it, but the dragon holding him began stuffing more into his mouth, preventing Yori from talking as he struggled to swallow the fruit being forced into him.

“What was that? You want more? Greedy little rat aren’t you.”

Shiro continued to stuff more of the berries into Yori’s mouth, causing the cockly little mammal’s mouth to widen in order to accomodate for the mass of fruit. He stopped as Yori began to choke on the amount, smiling from the sight of him being shut up in such a proficient way.

“Maybe I should do this again. Ha! Kinda cute now that you can’t talk.”

Yori continued to struggle in Shiro’s grasp, but the efforts of doing so proved futile. Furthermore, with his arms stuck tightly in his grasp, no magic was possible either. He was well and truly stuck, forced to try and eat his favorite food while choking on them!

Despite the current situation, a certain spark emanated from the treatment, causing his tail to flick wildly from the abusive treatment. Regardless of Yori’s efforts in trying to hide it, Shiro’s domineering nature and overall abusive attitude towards him caused the diminutive mammal to slowly but surely get turned on due to his inherent masochistic nature. Once he began to realize this fact, he quickly motioned to cover himself, moving his thighs inwards so to cover his growing arousal.  

Thankfully, Shiro seemed to have not noticed, as he continued to stuff Yori’s mouth with more and more frost berries, smiling with a small sense of sadism at how easy it was to abuse the cocky little creature. For Shiro, Yori’s sheer helplessness, and need of a protector to keep things such as this from happening planted a seed that he had not known to be there. Despite the dragon’s desire to protect those like Yori, the inherent nature of his species always found a way to find a release, that being through intercourse. Loud, cocky, yet unable defend himself, Yori was the goldyura many a ruby would dream of raping.


And likewise, things developed as the two males found themselves enjoying the interaction more, with Shiro’s tapered member sliding itself out of his slit. Unlike Yori however, Shiro was more than accepting of his own arousal and accepted it as it came. There was a certain appeal to treating Yori in such a way.

As his cock began to grow, he looked down at Yori, still trapped in his grip while the berries filled his mouth, with Shiro now not even bothering to hold his arms, knowing full well Yori was far too weak to free himself anyway. As he stared down however, the ruby noticed Yori’s own growing erection and along with it, a devilish smile crossed his jaw.

“So...that’s what you’re into huh…?”

The comment caused Yori’s heart to stop, making the world around him almost pause. Yori struggled to speak, only to cough up some of the berries still in his mouth. The action simply caused Shiro to admire the goldyura’s weakness even more. Before continuing on, it quickly crossed his mind that things could be better were he able to hear Yori talk. Wasting no time at all, Shiro moved Yori down and began sliding his head across his hardened rod, causing the natural lube from his cockslit to cover the fur on his head.

“Now look what you did...you’ll have to go and fix this. Leave it to you to mess up again. Does the weakling need help swallowing too? Hehe, oh don’t worry. Plenty to drink down right here!”





The action gave Yori some time to chew the berries down, albeit with some effort. After the action, Shiro pulled Yori upward, looking down at him giving him a chance to admire Yori’s form for a moment. It wasn’t long before Shiro pulled the cocky little mammal’s head back before shoving his cock into him, pushing the berries down and causing his own shaft to be covered in what was left of the berries in Yori’s mouth. The dragon let out a soft growl as he continued to rock Yori up and down his length, pounding away into his mouth despite Yori’s attempts at resisting him. Yori’s mouth wrapped generously around his cock, completely filling his mouth with his shaft. In short order, Shiro let loose a reverberating roar as he shot waves of cum into Yori’s mouth, causing it to splatter out and cover Yori’s head and upper body due to the amount.

As he pulled Yori free, the tiny mammal wiped the cum from his mouth and attempted to cast another spell, firing a small orb at the dragon, only for it to break apart without even making him flinch. With it, a small bit of silence befell the two, with Shiro laughing to himself at Yori’s helplessness. As he did so, the mammal quickly made a point to redeem himself, even if it was a lost cause by this point.

“S-stop laughing! Just because that happened, doesn’t mean you are in charge or anything! If anything, it just shows how far below me you are! I’m the one in charge! And the one that’s the dom, and don’t forget that!”

“Oh really? Let’s see you prove it then!”

The comment from Yori only served to ignite Shiro’s lust, now turned on more than anything by the sight of Yori finally falling into his foolishly boastful nature. While annoying for certain, there was a charm in crushing it, and he knew right away how best to do it. As Yori continued to struggle in Shiro’s grip, unable to even escape from being clutched in just his paw, Shiro positioned his “prey” to rest just above his now fully extended member just to compare the size difference between them. It was clear Yori was significantly smaller.

“Oh, I won’t be done after just one shot! When a dragon needs to get off, we can have quite a bit of stamina. Now then, got anything to say?”

Yori looked down at the dragon’s length as he lined the tapered head up to the small hole a bit under his tail. Shiro’s length dripped impatiently with cum from the tip as the fluids created from being inside Yori’s mouth along with the cum from before served as a substitute for the lube.

“Y-yeah, if you think you’re sticking that into me then you have another thing coming! There’s no way I’m letting you do that!”





Shiro began to caress Yori’s cum soaked fur, working his seed into the weaklings coat as a sign of ownership with Yori trying his best to keep Shiro from doing so. Despite Yori’s resistance, the dragon continued to do so in a mocking fashion before finally stopping and possessively groping at the goldyura’s thicker lower frame.

“This is too easy, it’s like you’re practically letting me do this. Secretly enjoying this, hm?”

Yori snapped back while trying to move his hips from out of the ruby dragons grip as Shiro forcibly spread his legs out, revealing his hidden arousal to him. The small mammal began to stutter as his arousal was now openly revealed to Shiro, the latter of the two smiling at the now flustered bat.
  
“M-ME?! D-Don’t go putting words and actions on me you stupid reptile! You forget who’s in charge right now! If it happened it was because “I” wanted you to and did it myself!”

The goldyura’s gaze slid down over his shaft while his own stood at attention, betraying his desires to the dragon moments away from rutting him. Still, despite Shiro’s impatience, he knew full well that while things stood as they were, he wouldn’t get Yori to admit the true scope of the situation. He needed to solidify his dominance, and while penetrating would help, he needed more. Immediately, Shiro tucked his head down and shut his maw around the goldyura’s miniature rod, making sure to be extra careful not to do anything more. Once he was satisfied, he  began maneuvering his tongue to lick and prod at the goldyura’s shaft, causing Yori’s resolve to weaken as the tiny mammal moaned from the pleasure.

Before long, Yori erupted, sending small bits of cum into the dragons waiting mouth. After his tiny release, Shiro pulled back, licking the small bits of cum in his mouth whilst keeping the same smile as before.

“Heh, you taste pretty sweet actually. But we aren’t done yet. I won’t be satisfied with just that. I need to be sure to shut you up proper.”

Yori stayed silent this time, panting from the sudden service to his own shaft while Shiro got ready to finish Yori’s resolve completely. Lining up his shaft with the goldyura’s tailhole, he began pushing the head in, causing Yori’s rear to spread open and around the much larger male’s sex.

The goldyura moaned, uttering out the last small remnants of his perceived control, claiming to be the one dominating Shiro. The claims only served to spur the dragon on more as he pushed more and more of his thick shaft into the tiny bat, even going as far as to pull his expansive rod out more to accomodate for the sheer size of his length. Even still, he made a point in tightening his grip, enjoying the softness of the fur on his rear as well as the overall roundness.

Yori himself, finally reduced to nothing more than a mess of haggard moans could do nothing to stop Shiro from using him, the scene being all to obvious to anyone who the real one in charge was, with the goldyura as weak and defenseless as he typically was. No amount of magic Yori had would allow him to free himself, regardless of how hard he tried, and with the last shred of resistance now gone, and the truth having set in, Shiro began to thrust in and out of Yori’s rear with abandon.

The dragon pushed further and further in with each successive thrust as Yori’s gasps became louder and more submissive the wider he was spread open by the dragons length pushing into him. The sight of the self proclaimed “powerful mage” now reduced to nothing more than a moaning whore taking Shiro’s manhood like a trained cock slut further stoked the flame of dominance that already raged within him. Without notice, Shiro closed his eyes before grasping the tiny mammal’s thick rear tightly and rutting him with feral need, intent on breeding every part of the pathetic goldyura taking him. Cum from the rabid pounding made it easier and easier for Shiro to pull Yori up and down his shaft while he thrusted his hips upward, determined  to push himself as deep as he could go.

Shiro couldn't help but enjoy his partner in this very heated moment, the tightness of Yori’s rear and his overall submissiveness. Each thrust from Shiro spread Yori's hole wider and wider still, the dragon’s shaft dwarfing Yori himself in size. The pressure from it caused Yori to wince as it happened, but the force applied, along with the sheer dominance Shiro portrayed over him excited him to no end. Being sexually dominated and raped by a large and powerful dragon, only to have to hide it in favor of his pride drove the goldyura’s arousal ever further. He was filled, completely at his mercy, with only his lines of control being said simply to spur his partner on in using him even harder to put him in his proper place.

After what felt like hours of thrust after successive thrust, Shiro could no longer hold himself back and gripped Yori tightly, breaking the goldyura out of his euphoric trance when he felt Shiro grab hold of his wide hips before feeling him thrust one final time into the rear, the furthest he ever had and enough to elicit some pain as Shiro, the big strong dragon he was, released his second orgasm into the body of the tiny Goldyura. With his last thrust came a torrent of cum, that while normal for a dragon, the sheer volume of it was far too much for a goldyura’s tiny body to hold in, muchless one as small as Yori was. Just like when he was forced to drink down Shiro's cum, it erupted from his rear, filling his insides with warm dragon cum and within a short moment, streams of Shiro's seed began to erupt Yori's compact hole. The dragon’s seed spilled all over his own member and fell to the floor, creating a pool of cum below them and leaving another section of Yori's home slick with Shiro's sperm. After his climax ended, Shiro began to breathe in slow and elongated breaths. He pulled himself from Yori's rectum and watched as a thick waterfall of his seed escaped from Yori's backside. Yori found himself stretched further than he had ever before, knowing full well that he may be stretched out like this for while, if not permanently. As he was pulled free of Shiro's rod, the weak little mammal found himself struck with a breeze of cool air with cum flowing out of his hole and into the  large pool underneath the two.
Shiro held in him no hesitation, dropping Yori dropping the golduya in the pool underneath them, being left to lay immersed within it after being raped and claimed by a dragon he had no chance of ever taking. The dragon stared down at the pathetic weakling, smiling at the sight of the broken mess that now lay before him. Yori was left panting, covered head to toe in the other males seed while leftover cum dribbled out the side of his mouth. The sight was more than befitting of one so weak despite his boasting and deserving of the supposedly great mage he claimed to be.
 
After his final release, Shiro turned Yori around to look at him. Yori’s small body was covered in the dragons seed, proving who truly was in control of whom the whole time. Despite it, Yori’s face was content, an expression of pure lustful desire fulfilled, a sight that also made Shiro happy to see. The dragon moved his head down, and licked Yori's body, taking some of Yori's seed into his mouth from his earlier release.

"Heh, not bad...You did good. Taste delicious too."

Shiro sat down and took Yori into a hug, before laying on his side in the pool of cum spilled below. He nuzzled the goldyura much like a child would a plush toy before closing his eyes, as he hugged Yori around, caressing his fur coat. With Shiro’s face firmly nuzzled against the tiny mammal held within his grip, the dragon was only moments away from drifting off.

"That...tired me out...So very good...I...liked it...with you. You're...not bad...Yori. I...lo..."

The tired dragon soon enough drifted into a nap with Yori tucked in his arms. The dragon's warm breath slowly beat against Yori's miniscule frame, bathing the tiny bat in hi warmth. Yori was left to his own thoughts and cum soaked body while listening to the silent breathing of the slumbering dragon.

How likely was it to happen a second time?
The goldyura’s thought drifted through his mind as Shiro's final words left him, and Yori's own sight drifted into darkness; his eyes closing slowly.
Lo...?
What it could have meant he didn't know...but alas...he had not the time to think it over before he himself was gifted with silence , still the broken mess of cum he was moments earlier.

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Hours went by before Shiro finally stirred from his slumber.  He opened his eyes and gazed at the Goldyura resting silently on his face, his fur being a complete mess from sleeping in the remnants of their intimacy, now having dried up.

Shiro let our a yawn as he looked down at the goldyura in his arms, smiling at the sight of how cute he looked while asleep. The way his mouth hung open with drool pooling to the sides, along with his quiet snores brought a smile to the dragon’s face. After admiring the tiny mammal for a bit, Shiro checked to see if Yori was still exposed, and just like Shiro, both their members were tucked back in their hiding places. Though Yori looked strangely naked without his cloak, Shiro found that he didn’t mind it too much. This was a moment he would treasure, even if Yori would most likely rather forget about what happened. He moved his head away from Yori and looked around, noticing just how messy the floor was now that he wasn’t distracted. Looking it over, Shiro knew he was mostly at fault for it and soon accepted that he would have to help clean everything up.

With that, Shiro picked Yori up off the ground so that he was cradling him in his arms, much like after the time with the mimic. As he cradled the sleeping goldyura in one arm, he proceeded to walk over to where the goldyura normally bathed where a waterfall had created a personal lake from within the cave. He looked around the rocks lining the edge of the water for soap of some kind before locating a small container of liquid. Shiro chuckled and took the container, popping off the lid easily and dumping the contents  into the water.  Shiro looked on as suds began to coat the surface of the water and then at Yori. He frowned a bit, knowing he had to wake Yori from his sleep before moving his head down towards Yori's face, giving it a small nudge with his snout.

Yori however, found himself resting on a chair, laying down with a pillow to give him comfort. His eyes opened slowly as Shiro stood over him with a soft smile across his face, proceeding to wet a towel to the side of him. The sight confused him, prompting Yori to move, only to quickly find himself unable to do so. He let out a pained groan, causing Shiro to shift his attention towards him, wiping a spot of blood off the goldyura’s arm. What was going on? Why was Shiro there and what were the wounds from? Everything around him was foggy and very confusing, but with it came a very...comforting scene, in a way. He let his mind drift, allowing the events play out as they would, curious to see how things would go.

"W-what happened?"

Shiro laughed at him, before washing the towel off in the stream and placing it on a nearby rock.

"What happened was...you got beaten up again. This is the forth time in just a week that attitude of yours got you in this condition. You need to stop acting so cocky all the time...what if I'm not there to save you?"
Yori moved his head to the side, finding it the only part of his body he could move without hurting himself in the process.

"I-I'm fine...I don't need you to help me..."

Shiro let out a soft laugh as he stroked Yori's head softly before petting him.

"Considering I keep needing to save you...you clearly do. But...I don't mind. Protecting you is something I want to do."

Yori couldn't prevent himself from grumbling at the lameness of the line, but all the same, a slight blush came to his face from it.

"Why do you keep saving me?"

Shiro stopped to think to himself, putting his claw to his chin as he formulated the answer in his mind. After a short wait he looked down and laid himself next to him before petting him once again.

"Why? Well...I want to protect those who can't protect themselves. Despite all your boasting...you're actually pretty weak. Plus..."

"plus?"

Shiro paused for a bit before speaking, then gave Yori a soft peck on the head.
"Because...I-"

Before Shiro could what he was about the say, a rush of water covered Yori’s entire body, taking over his senses while immediately waking him from his dream. The real Shiro was standing above him, holding his claws to his hips as he looked down at Yori below the water, having dropped him into the lake.

“Wake up you layabout! You're filthy! Falling asleep on me like that! Clean yourself you're disgusting! I don't want to be seen with such a dirty rodent who can't even keep his fur clean. Geez, this is why I'm glad I have scales, I don't have to worry about such annoying things like fur. Another useless trait to a useless mammal.”

In no time at all, gone now was the comforting Shiro that tended to his broken body, and instead the one that was loud loud and obnoxious, speaking the way he normally did. Yori waitied underneath the surface for a bit before swimming back up, feeling melancholy over the loss of the shiro from his dream. There had been a part of him that enjoyed the tenderness of it all, but alas, a dream was a dream and he had to accept that. As he pushed the contents of the dream out of thought and mind, Yori swam his way back up over the water, quickly finding it it full of soap. His fur was wet, but carried alongside it the strong musk that he recognized almost immediately. The memory of all that had happened earlier that day came flooding back to him, causing Yori to touch the fur over his body. He shot an intense glare back at the dragon before quickly casting a spell to spray him with a large wave of water and soap from the pond.

“Me!? You’re the one who ended up doing all that stuff to me earlier! What kind of ruby dragon goes around raping a goldyura anyway! I bet you only brought me that fruit to do that to me to didn’t you! Dammit! My ass hurts like hell because of you! You're way too big, and your stupid scales are way too hard! When I tell Salomé...or worse, Moyo about how you decided to rape me in my own home you'll get what you deserve. Stupid, stupid...!”

Yori quickly rose out of the lake water, shaking himself off to purposely get Shiro wet as he began walking away. He barely made it a couple steps however, before falling over as he yelled in pain from the gait in his step. The sight of Yori falling flat on the floor made the dragon chuckle at how pathetic it looked, despite now being covered in soapy water..

“Oh right, that talk should be amazing then. Yes, let's tell the whole world how the, oh so powerful grand mage Yori was effortlessly overpowered and dominated by a single ruby dragon in his own home. Let's go ahead and do that, then you'd finally be admitting just how weak, pathetic and useless you actually are.”

As Yori attempted his rebuttal, he let out a small burp, causing the taste of Shiro's cum and the fruit to return to his mouth. He gagged a little from the taste, coughing from the awkward combination of fruit and cum. Despite his reversions about it, he did little to get it out of his mouth however. Shiro quickly walked over to Yori’s prone state before gently placing his foot on top of Yori, preventing him from moving despite the lack of pressure being applied. Yori flailed his arms and legs in an attempt to escape as Shiro pressed him to the ground with his foot, laughing at the bats pathetic attempts to do so. In an attempt to escape, the goldyura created a small bit of magic in his tiny hands and shot it directly at Shiro, only for it to fail to make the dragon so much as notice his efforts to deal any damage, similar to any other creature Yori fought. With his offensive magic failing him as it always did, the weak little mage found himself defenseless once again, with no choice but to let Shiro slide him back into the soapy water. The action caused the residual dirt from around the edge to collect into his already matted fur before being washed out again due to the soft current.




With Yori now back in the pond, Shiro nodded, content that Yori would finally wash himself off instead of wasting his time trying to stop it from happening. He let out yet another laugh at the hilarity of the situation before continuing to mock the goldyura for his weakness and inability to defend himself in an attempt to cement his superiority over him.

“I actually like that idea of you admitting I'm superior! Let's go and do just that you little rodent. But only after you've cleaned yourself of all that gunk in your fur of course. Do not come out of there until you're spotless, or the next time I put you in there will be to clean you myself. I'll scrub you so hard, you're fur will be torn from your body. Understand? Now...you left quite a mess in your living space so I'm going to do you a favor and clean it up. If I catch you out here without you being clean, then after I clean you furless, I'll use your tongue to clean your mess in the other room got it? Now get scrubbing rat!”

With those final words, Shiro began making his way back towards the study. His odd forcefulness and demand that Yori wash himself was, for all intents a unique way of Shiro showing care and concern for Yori regardless if the goldyura could see it or not. Shiro wanted to make sure Yori was spotless while he cleaned up the living space, though he'd never openly admit that to Yori.

Yori himself grumbled as he watched Shiro walk back, choosing not to say anything in return. He knew he couldn't tell anyone what happened, less he found himself on the receiving end of even more ridicule than he already was by many, but the pain of having to deal with Shiro and give into his demands annoyed him to no end. Still, with Shiro now distracted and Yori free, he rose his hand to create a vine of energy around the dragon’s leg, causing him to trip and fall straight down onto the floor with a thud. The impact caused the dragon to cringe in pain from his weight hitting the dirt so suddenly. The magically created vine however broke apart from the force of Shiro’s foot as well, unable to hold up against the pressure of even his normal walking pace.

“You have fur too stupid! Or were you planning on just walking back like that as well? Scales or not, you still smell like cum! And don't you dare lay a claw on anything in my study! The last thing I need is a magic illiterate reptile ruining my stuff!!”

After hearing Yori speak, much as Shiro hated to admit to it, he had been so worried about Yori's condition that he had forgotten his scales were not immune from the smell of their actions after having laid in his own. Shiro blew a tiny gout of fire from his mouth in frustration before turning and growling at Yori. For the goldyura however, seeing Shiro fall sparked a bit of satisfaction in him, believing himself to have beaten the dragon and proved his superiority once and for all. Yori’s dreams were quickly crushed underfoot however, as the goldyura watched Shiro turn towards him and begin glaring down at his tiny frame. Yori watched as Shiro spread his wings and fly into the pond with him, taking up nearly the entire pool of water with his size. As big as he was, his entire size could not fit, and the water came up to about his knees. His size causing some of the water to overflow and spill out onto the floor.

"It's hair, not fur you stupid rodent! Plus, I don't need you to tell me I stink of seed! Plus, I wasn't going to touch your stupid books, I was going to clean the mess you made! But...I do...need to wash...geez, couldn't you have gotten something a little bigger? It's like sitting in a puddle after it rains.”

Yori quickly protested, seeing the water flow out of the natural pond and onto the surface above due to the dragons sheer bulk in comparison to the size of the tiny pond. While Shiro’s frame only took up a portion of the small pond, his size in comparison to Yori was made quite evident, especially with the two now standing next to one another.

“Well it wasn't intended for a dragon to jump in it!”

Shiro simply let out a small puff from his mouth in response before looking around the area, annoyed by Yori’s response. Before long however, as he took in the goldyura’s frame, he began to smile as a devious thought entered his mind.

“Well...turns out, you don't have anything big enough to clean me with...except of course...you. You're just the right size for a scrub.”

As soon as Shiro said that, Yori quickly began trying to swim away at the notion, the response being a scenario he himself was worried may to fruition. He tried his best to swim away as fast as he could. but given his weak physical strength and lack of a streamlined body, Shiro was able to grab ahold of him with ease. As he was held in the dragons strong grip, Yori once again tried to attack him with the vine from before. This time however, shiro expected it, and with little to no trouble, destroyed it with a single swipe of his claw. Yori’s nervousness began to mount as he watched it unfold, now kicking and screaming in order to get the superior dragon to stand down.

"N-no! Don't you dare! That water is freezing cold! W-we can get ple-err..."

Yori stopped himself before continuing on, noticing his use of the word "we". He immediately corrected himself in an attempt to hide, further adding to the now awkward moment.

"I mean..y=you can get plenty clean..I mean...j-just get underwater or...or something! I don’t care what you do,  just let me go! I'm a mage, Not your damn cleaning cloth!"

Shiro chuckled at the comment, more so by the fact that Yori still saw himself as a competent mage despite the many instances even in just the last couple hours that obviously proved otherwise. Still, while there was a charm in such a weakling continuing to believe he was as strong as he claimed, there was washing to be done and the dragon knew that the action of using Yori as a cloth was something he both deserved and would prove to be a lot of fun. Shiro then quickly shoved the Goldyura into the water over and over until Yori was completely covered in what was left of the soap. When he was finally pulled back out, Yori was covered from ear tip down to the tip of his tail in suds.

"Now, let's see about getting my scales nice and shiny!"

Shiro took Yori and began to use the goldyura's body to scrub himself, gliding Yori along his chest, belly and parts of his arms. The dragon continued to thrust Yori in and out of the water over and over, causing some of it to get into Yori’s mouth as he attempted to protest against the treatment.

Shiro even made sure to rub Yori over his slit, just to be safe and transfer the soap to his body. In fact, Shiro began to focus heavily on his slit, enjoying the idea of using the goldyura to clean himself in such an area as he gently humped Yori’s body while doing so. Yori found himself being turned on all over again as he found enjoyment in being forced to service the dragon’s sex even when not aroused. With his arms held tightly by the red dragon and his thick lower body being used like a shower puff, Yori had no choice but to wait till the ruby dragon felt clean enough, retroactively cleaning Yori in the process, albeit with Shiro's scent covering his entire body because of it.

As soon as he finished, All of Yori's fur was wet and soapy with his eyes closed shut so as to avoid get any soap in them. He coughed and sputtered in Shiro's strong hold over him, unable to free himself no matter what he tried to do. Shiro looked at Yori as he sputtered, all while covered from top to bottom in soap and water. The sight of it caused the dragon to let out a soft chuckle, especially given Yori’s inability to stop it from happening. All in all, Yori’s defenselessness just made the sight of it all just too cute, giving Shiro an inexplicably warm feeling inside. The feeling made him feel odd...as if something about Yori made Shiro feel very good on the inside. Despite the odd feeling, Shiro quickly shook the thought from his head before turning his attention back to Yori.
 

"Oh man, you make a great as a cleaning cloth! Since magic doesn't seem to be working out, I think you've found your true calling! We're just about ready to rinse and I have to say, covered from head to toe in soap, you almost look cute. Almost."

Though Shiro's real thoughts were that he definitely did, he made sure to watch himself, making sure not to openly admit to it. The water now began to wet the ground around them further, almost making the washing redundant to do between them, causing Yori to protest as fast as he could.

“Don’t you dare go putting me under that waterfall. The water is freezing cold and the last thing I want is to be doused in it!”

Shiro groaned as Yori’s mouth removed any semblance of cuteness from him outside of the tiny mammals strong vocal resistance to being taken advantage of. Still, with the way things always went when he got this way, it still managed to excite the dragon holding him, if only to further exercise his actual dominance over the weaking.


"You know damn well I can't just dump you into the water when it has all our filth in it as it is. The only way we rinse, is the “freezing cold waterfall” as you so put it. I'm sure you're just over exaggerating as usual. Besides, I don't know what you're complaining about, this water is just fine."

Without hesitation, Shiro put Yori right into the center of it. The water ran right over his entire body, washing out all of the soap alongside any remnant of seed from his body. To Shiro, being fire element, the water was far from actually freezing, cold sure, but to him, it certainly wasn't freezing. And by extension, Yori's own...or rather a goldyura's affinity for cold made the water feel closer to room temperature rather than freezing. The claim of it being freezing simply being yet another attempt to stop Shiro which like all the rest, ultimately failed once more. After he rinsed Yori off, Shiro moved towards the falls himself, washing off the parts of him that Yori unwillingly scrubbed for him until the suds that were still present on himself were washed away a well.

Once pulled out, Yori glared at him, but unlike Shiro's scales that gave of a shiny gleam from the water, Yori's fur was wet and dreary looking as the water in it dripped out and back into the tiny pond. He coughed and spat the water out of his mouth before looking back up at Shiro holding him in his grasp to prevent Yori from doing anything. This had been his first time seeing a dragon after being doused in water...outside of Pearl Dragons of course, so it was a bit surprising to him.  Shiro's coat was shiny, the small trickles of light in the cave reflecting off the white, while the crystal of his tail cast a bright red gleam over his body. Yori found himself staring at Shiro for sometime, at least long enough for things to get awkward, before finally snapping back into reality once Shiro began talking again.



“There naked rodent, you're now as clean as the day you were born. And with that we’re, all clean. Not so bad huh?”

Finally, after the loud, arduous and abusive cleaning session, Shiro stepped out of the lake with Yori dripping wet and Shiro still quite soaked.  Shiro quickly looked at Yori who was still firmly in his grasp, unable to free himself. As usual, his arms weren’t bound as the dragon saw no need to bother doing so.

"Now we're both free of the smell of our activity. Happy wet boy?"

Yori was still dripping wet, his fur coat damp and full of water as he looked back at Shiro, completely unamused by the dragons apparent good cheer. To him, he smelled of Shiro’s scent, something that he knew himself would not be coming out anytime soon. Regardless, with the actions now finished, the only thing left to do was to dry off, no doubt with Shiro finding some way to abuse him in that regard as well.
“O-ok...fine...then drying? I assume you have an appropriately abusive way of doing that to you stupid reptile?"

“Abusive no... but it is a sure fire way to dry you. For me, my body will naturally dry because of the fire inside, as soon as my temperature rises again. As for you...well...we gotta get creative, don't we?”

Shiro walked into Yori's study with Yori still in hand, unable to do anything as he listened to Shiro. The emphasis he put on the word fire causing his ear to twitch and his tail to flail about nervously as he waited to see what exactly Shiro planned to do. As the two made there way to the den, still as messy as it was left, the dragon proceeded to pull Yori up towards him and held him out like a cloth on a rack directly in front of him. After being secured, Shiro opened his maw, with Yori getting a front row seat to the sight of sparks beginning to form deep within his throat.

“Prepare yourself....”

"W-w-w-wait! S-Shiro! S-Stop! What do you think your doing?! Don't! Don't do it!"

But the dragon ignored his words, and Yori watched in horror as the flames began to grow, thoughts of being incinerated by Shiro filled his mind in what he considered a very unsatisfying end. Yori quickly shut his eyes and made one final plea, something he never considered doing before to the dragon, much less anyone else ever.


"ALRIGHT!! I'M SORRY FOR INSULTING YOU!!! J-JUST P-PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!"

But almost as soon as he had finished, he felt the temperature around him rise, causing him to whimper. Just as Yori thought the next thing would be himself burning to death within Shiro's fire, instead was a very warm, humid air blowing over him. Shiro used his fire to superheat his breath and then used it like a powerful blow dryer in a sense. His hot breath, which Shiro kept Yori at a distance so that the smell of it wouldn't be overpowering, battered against Yori's tiny frame. It was as if a heat wave suddenly overcame him, and quickly began drying Yori's fur and skin underneath. Within a few minutes, Yori was as dry as he was before Shiro had showed up earlier that day, though his fur puffed out from the breath making Yori look rather funny. The sight of it caused Shiro to laugh as he looked at the now puffy, blue and white furball. Shiro reached his claw out and began to stroke Yori's stomach gently, an action far different than anything he had done up to this point. He traced his finger around the goldyura’s belly and through his fur, even going up to the crest at the top of his chest before finally moving down to grope his rear again with a smirk, enjoying the softness of the tiny mages body and fur.

“See? That wasn't so bad, was it Yori? Now you're not only sparkling clean, but, you have the driest and softest fur in all the land. That soap really does wonders for you doesn't it furball?”

Yori however was completely shaken by the events that unfolded, unable to even stammer out so much as a complaint or rebuttal as his heart raced and his entire body continued shaking from the fear of nearly dying once more. As he began to compose himself, he let out a whimper, forcing the next couple words out.

"I-it...is a soft...s-soap..to help make it s-soft."

He looked at Shiro, finding those the only words he could muster out as his heart still continued to calm down from it's rapid beating. As Yori still tried to recover, Shiro finished rubbing his belly, pulling his claw away from him as he placed Yori gently to his feet, releasing him from his grip. As he looked down at Yori, who was still having a hard time standing up, the smirk from before widened into a soft and caring smile, both happy to finally see Yori now calm, and his cocky nature broken as he stood over him, at least for the time being. Eventually it would come back, but for now Yori was back to being as complacent as he should be.

“You idiot... I would never dream of killing you. I didn't go through all this trouble just to turn you into a smoldering pile of ash. I care about yo--... uh...I care about...what others might think...if you were to uh...suddenly vanish. Though I accept your apology anyway.”

Shiro’s voice trailing off as he tried to cover up his words. A momentary silence began to fill between them, now beginning to make it more awkward for the dragon. Shiro quickly took  his claw and placed it on Yori's face to playfully drag it down, trying to bring the situation back to normal. Yori himself did nothing to stop Shiro from pushing down on him, still shaken from all that had just happened. He looked over the study and saw the mess of half eaten fruit and toppled books along with dried piles of cum on the floor. He let out a sigh as he tried getting himself up, struggling to move Shiro even when he was casually pushing him down.

"Anyway rat... do you want my help cleaning your home? It's already late in the afternoon and I'm sure Moyo is wondering where the hell I am. I've already been here for quite awhile now. I mean...I don't regret it...but babysitting you today was not what I had originally planned. Since you don't want me touching anything in your precious study, is there anyway you can make everything just...disappear or something?”


Shiro stared at the mess in the study, his eyes trailing over the many different books inside, both on the desk and in the log cabinets with glass cases that kept the outside air from entering inside them. The sight made him roll his eyes, as he was reminded of Moyo’s study, being similarly filled to the brim with many different books, tomes and scrolls.

“I swear, if a book had an ass, you and Moyo would stuff it all day."

The comment finally managed to snap Yori back to reality, and while still shaken, he at least was able to finally form more words. He quickly began pushing his fur coat down with his hands, trying to pad it out as best he could before responding, clearly more worried about his fur than the mess in the study.

“W-well...Spells are kept in books, and books record everything about them and the theory behind them. Reading a lot...just happens to be part of being a mage. A old quote in one of the starting manuals was..."A mage is only as strong as powerful as the spells they know." So...hence lots of reading. As for this mess...hrm…”

Yori snapped his fingers and at once a swarm of the tiny cloudlike familiars with diamond shaped crystals surrounding them began to gather on the spot. They began picking up books and cleaning the area of any residue, the sheer amount of them making short work of the cleaning process. Yori's cocky smile began to return as they did their work, clearly having a small sense of superiority by the site of it. Shiro watched as the familiars entered the room cleaning the area and picking up after their mess.

“Hehe, well...no spell for cleaning things...but this is...something just as good I suppose. Since they will be taking care of all the cleaning you don't have to stick around of you don’t want to.”

Yori's ears dropped before he continued to speak as his voice became noticeably more depressed after saying what he did, despite his attempts to hide it. Even if he didn’t want to admit it, he himself quite enjoyed the time the two had, especially the actions from before.

“Ah well...I guess...you should be getting back to Moyo. He is probably looking for you. It’s whatever, I n-never asked you...to stay anyways.”

 "Heh...staying with you? Seems like too much trouble."

Shiro responded with no real meaning behind his words instead of sounding like he normally would when addressing Yori. Still, he didn’t want to leave to much time for Yori to realize that, and quickly headed for the portal. As he walked near the still open gateway, he turned to Yori and gave him a  rather errotic smile.

"You didn't actually finish all your berries. There was way too much after all...so...I'm still leaving that here. Eat them, or don't...your choice. See ya around rodent."

Shiro turned back around and waved as he left with the portal closing behind him. He stood once more outside Yori's home and frowned, holding his claw to his chest. That warm, vibrant feeling was back...and the sudden want to stay. Shiro knew what this feeling was, but could it be certain? Had he really...well...perhaps exploring this further was what was needed. He certainly couldn't rule this out. He turned to face the gateway once more,now simply a wall with an arch to show where to enter from.
 
"Goodbye...Yori...my friend. It was...fun."

He knew Yori could no longer hear him, but saying it made Shiro feel better. He spread his wings, and took flight off towards his home. As he flew back, an odd feeling steadily grew behind his scales...Yori seemed to be casting a spell on him, one they were both unaware of.

As Shiro left his parting words, Yori listened in, choosing to keep his back turned and watch the familiars clean up. Annoying as they were, they helped a lot for many different things, from just cleaning to other less menial tasks. Still, he sat by himself looking at the basket Shiro brought him, though he noticed many of the berries were now messy and covered in cum from what had happened. The idea of eating one repulsed him somewhat as he completely removed the thought of having one from his mind. Unlike before though, Shiro's words noted a tinge of concern, if letting him choose was a sign of that anyway. Regardless, he stayed quiet as Shiro left, not thinking much about it as the portal closed when he walked through.

After a short while it suddenly it dawned on him that through everything that had happened, from the washing to the drying to...the more private interactions, the portal was never closed throughout all of it. Meaning that everything that happened...would have been overheard. Or worse he thought...seen. Yori did his best to push the thoughts out of his head, choosing instead to drown himself in study again, given the entire morning went to waste.

“Well...maybe not...entirely I guess. For what it was...it was nice.”

Yori's words echoed through the cave, finding himself alone again inside it brought forth a small bit of depression with it. He didn't know fully why though, never had he cared about being alone...so why now? And because of Shiro of all people?

“I...must be sick...y-yeah. That's probably it, s-stupid dragon…”

The last words in the line for him held little force behind them, the dream earlier on now being represented vividly in his head once again. more and more questions arose before he finally decided to ignore them.

“I have...work to do.”

---

Outside the Portal, a small crowd had formed, comprised of mostly women, but a small few males were there as well, listening to what happened, hidden behind a corner to avoid being seen. Unbeknownst to Shiro and Yori, they were going to find people reacting to the two of them quite differently.
The few males who were there snickered amongst themselves...

"Hehe...nice to see that little wimp finally get put in his place"
"S-so...someone finally did it...knocked him down a peg."
"More like...knocked him up! The Great and Powerful Yori was finally raped, hmm?"
"That Shiro, to think he'd do that?"
"What a scary guy...to be able to do that so publicly..."
"Shiro's a true blood ruby afterall!"
"Oh man...I can't wait to tell Eramin in the lecture tomorrow!"

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Later that afternoon, Shiro returned home to which he shared with Moyo the Pravitalia. Shiro couldn’t get the early morning activities out of his head. Being that way with Yori felt…strange. It felt…surprisingly good. Really good to be with him intimately…but more so to fool around the way they did. Shiro never considered himself someone who would do anything to harm anyone as fragile as Yori is, but to be that way with Yori, even if it was all a rouse, made him feel closer to him. Shiro wondered what Moyo actually thought when he saw them bickering the way they did. It must have appeared as if the two really hated being around one another. As his thoughts centered on Yori, the memory of what had happened with the creature before resurfaced, the sight of Yori’s body being battered alongside it  while being unable to defend himself. The memory reminded Shiro of how terrified he was when that creature almost killed Yori. He was angry that Yori was so hurt and relieved when he woke up that day. Yori made his chest feel…warm. Could this be what Shiro was thinking? He thought that he and Moyo were close, but unlike Yori, Moyo was far from incapable of protecting himself when need be. Was it Yori’s fragile weakness the drew Shiro to his side? Constantly arguing with him just so that he had an excuse to keep talking to him? The feeling left him confused, convinced that he’d need to think on it more.
It took nearly an hour to meet with Moyo who was busy studying. The two had lunch together and during the time, Shiro told Moyo of his time with Yori. At first Moyo was concerned, but when Shiro insisted that it was merely role playing and he’d never dream of doing anything harmful towards Yori, Moyo believed him, having known the dragon for quite some time.

Shiro however chose not to tell his friend about the uncertainty he was feeling inside, convinced he would need time to consider it himself. Still, despite Moyo’s understanding, it still didn’t save Shiro from being scolded for being overly rough with Yori, reminded of how fragile a goldyura was in comparison to a ruby dragon especially one as physically weak as Yori was. After his friends scolding, Shiro decided to go fetch some food to cook for supper that night, happy to have a chance to clear his head for a bit. He stepped outside and began to walk instead of flying, as was his routine after eating a meal. He didn’t want to burn energy too fast from such a physically taxing endeavor. Shiro walked with a hum, smiling and looking rather chipper though, failing to notice the stares and whispers of the people around him.

“Hey Shiro.”

A voice called from his left, snapping him out of his trance as he looked over towards the direction the voice came from. The voice belonged to a praimortis that called out to him. Shiro raised his brow, surprised to find a Praimortis in the city. But after looking  him over some, it was clear the dark attributed roo was a mercenary living in the non mages district of the city.

“Nice work with that Goldyura, we thought you were a goody goody, turns out, you’re just as wicked as most of your kind.”

“Excuse you? Do I know you Praimortis?”

Shiro questioned his response with a low growl. The Praimortis, hearing the sound of the threatening growl  threw his hands in defense, smiling as he did so.

“Hey man, no need to get feisty with me. Just saying, well done. Especially with that big mouthed, egotistical little weakling who thinks too highly of himself.”

Shiro suddenly got this bad feeling settle in the pit of his stomach by the response as his mind began racing over why he would have said such a thing. Before he could think about it for long, a Pearl Dragon came up from the side of him, her face sour as she starred Shiro down with an intense gaze.

“Are you proud of yourself, you brute? Just because he talks the way he does, doesn’t mean it was true! You should have just ignored him like everyone else does! You hurt the poor little guy! Here we thought you were different, but you’re just like any other ruby dragon aren’t you?”

Shiro clenched his teeth. Did they know? What they did? Clearly…they somehow found out…but how? Their moment was supposed to be..! At that moment the days events snapped back into his mind, from the time he entered to the moment he left...the Portal was never closed!

“N-No! You don’t understand! It isn’t like what you saw at all!”

Despite Shiro’s attempt to resolve the situation, The Pearl Dragon turned her head and began to walk away, purposefully hitting him in head with her tail fin.
 
“Don’t try and talk your way out of it! We saw and heard everything! You disgusting, filthy creature! Guess Moyo likes housing beasts as well as healing them. You are a disgrace! Hmph, some hero you’re supposed to be!”

As she walked away the Praimortis shrugged before leaning over towards Shiro, now acting more buddy buddy than he had before now. He still wore the smile he had moments before, except it was now followed up with an arm around his the dragons shoulder.

“Don’t listen to the Pearls, most of them are annoyingly righteous…it was about time someone knocked that Yori down a peg anyway. Glad to see you to be the one to do it! Hey, if you ever want to pick on some goldyura, or heck, go and rough Yori up some then-”
 
Shiro shot the praimortis a death glare, causing him to pull back in shock at the sudden response from the one he believed to have done the task no one else would.
 
“Shut up now! Nothing you saw was what it seemed!! Don’t go assuming things! I would never dream of hurting Yori! I—”

“Defend the weak? More like fuck the weak. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

The Praimortis, getting his composure back, began laughing along with other members of his team before they all began to walk away and continue about their day. Many others in the city, be it Pearl Dragons, Pravitalia and even some of the deckannima and flower dragons continued along, shaking their heads as Shiro passed by, most in approval, but with a few others in disgust. The few that kept to themselves discussed what they thought to have happened amongst themselves.

The conversations reached Shiro’s ears, and the thoughts of what they all thought began to quickly put him into a state or depression.
 
“No… that… that isn’t….”

Shiro’s arms began to relax on his sides with his head falling in defeat. As the crowd around him began to thin out, Shiro was finally given time to be left thinking. He knew how it looked yes, but, surely, he couldn’t be believed to be a beast? After everything he had done to help those in need? Even after even questing with Yori, and saving his life, he’d be considered a beast after a single event? They took it completely out of context…it wasn’t fair…and to drag Moyo’s name through the mud alongside his own made it that much worse. It was as if once someone saw what they perceived to be an awful deed, it immediately became their label and outweighed all the good. Why this was the case, he did not know, but if anything, no doubt it would have been due to the label of his species. Moyo thankfully at least listened to the explanation so was he not deserving of the same? This had gotten completely out of hand. As he finally began shaking it out of his head, trying to reconcile and convince himself to mend things as best he could, Shiro’s eyes shot open and his head rose quickly upon realizing what it could mean for Yori.

“Oh god…if this got out…Yori…Yori could be in trouble!!”

No doubt if others did believe such thing to have happened the way it did, then there was a good chance, no practically guaranteed chance, that Yori would get assaulted by someone who truly did intend to hurt him. Shiro immediately spread his wings and took flight towards the Goldyura’s home. When he got close enough, he quickly landed to make the rest of the way by foot. Knowing Yori was unable to fly, he would be somewhere down here if he left, but hopefully he was still home.

“Yori, please be safe!”

Shiro focused on making his way towards Yori’s home as he began running when a figure suddenly caught his eye as it approached. Shiro stopped short when he realized who was approaching him. An immediate snarl came to Shiro’s maw and he bore his teeth. A small smoke stack rose from his nose and with a deep growl in his throat, he said his name: Eramin.

Eramin, the ruby dragon professor who was the epitome of everything Shiro was against. The exact thing he fought, a close-minded, power drunk individual who saw everyone but his own species as stepping stones, even going so far as to make it no secret either. Shiro’s stomach churned just by the sight of the older ruby. He was the only other ruby dragon he could say he hated with everything he was, the other two being his mother and father who managed to be far crueler than even Eramin managed to be.

The professor made his way directly towards Shiro, no doubt noticing him when he landed moments before. This was not someone Shiro desired to see at all, especially not now. Trying to avoid Eramin at this point however would prove a useless endeavour. He would need to deal with his enemy first, before being allowed to continue on his way. As Eramin reached earshot, Shiro spoke to him in a growl, forcing the words out with as much venom as he could.

“Professor Eramin… just when I thought I would be able to make it through the day without the fear of losing my lunch.”

Despite Eramin attempting to make himself as open as he could, he quickly noticed the snarl and smoke coming from Shiro, finding that the task would be harder than he had originally thought. Even still, he knew himself that he wasn't coming to insult of berate the young ruby dragon on his choices in life like he tended to do when the opportunity presented itself. No, this time was quite different.
For the first time in over a year, Eramin was able to hear how Yori was put in his place once again, his only regret being unable to see it happen first hand this time. But that detail was overshadowed from the realization that the act was from the one source he was convinced would have never done so. This Shiro, to him, at least up to this point, was considered a lost cause in terms of their kinds "better nature" as he put it, since he choose to lower himself to the level of slaves and  those objects they call pravitalia. But...if what he heard was indeed true, and he did what he said...Shiro may have some ruby left in him after all.

"Sod it, brat. I'm just here to talk, or rather...congratulate you on a job well done. Many a student of mine have attempted to show that annoying, loud mouthed piece of filth just how little he's worth...but many stopped bothering or at worst failed thanks to the efforts of the other professors. But, thanks to you’re standing, you were not only able to get close to him, but even went as far as to use that freedom to not only once again show everyone how truly pathetic he is, but even did something so brazen that no one’s ever had the gall to do. You could have gone and taken some random gold...ah...forgive me, rat slave on Charir to do what you did, but oh no...you aimed for the one who really needed the lesson. And not only that, but you did it. I'm just hear to say...well done. I hope that you will continue doing things more befitting of you, perhaps like dropping that walking staff you call a friend at some point. In any case, I am quite busy, but I wanted to take time out of my schedule to mention this to you. Good day Shiro, I hope that you will continue to show the little creature how little he's worth in the coming days."

Shiro listened to the what Eramin had to say, the ruby dragon professor saying exactly what Shiro thought he would. The words only served to rub the salt in the wound that his image to these people may truly have been shattered. He was meant to be a savior and now they see him as the exact thing he despised. The townsfolk hurt but...Eramin's words...they burned. He clenched his fists together and growled as Eramin began to leave. Shiro couldn't leave things as they were, he had to do something to fix the broken pieces and put them back together. And a good way to start doing that, now walking away.



"Don't you dare lump me in with the likes of you, Eramin. Someone like you who is as powerful and intellectual as you are should be able to see when there is something wrong about a situation. You know I have never once berated a single creature that couldn't fight back. I am not so cruel that I would harm a follicle of fur on Yori's head, not a goldyura, Pravitalia or any creature that are viewed the way you think they should be. If that is what I strive to do, then in all my time here, why would I try and tarnish it now? Especially to someone everyone already knows is all talk and no bite. Perhaps you should use that brain of yours to figure out that he and I were putting on a show. None of what you heard happened as you think. Yori is my team mate...I would protect him with my life. If you truly believe the words you heard were true, then you aren't worth your title as professor. You're washed up, just as Salomé proved all that time ago. Then again, wasting words on you is meaningless...old dragons will always be set in their ways, so go about your day, but at the end of it, you really don't know anything at all.
In fact...I'm going to go see my teammate right now so, see ya old man."

Shiro spoke confidently as he turned and headed in the opposite direction, no longer paying Eramin any mind should he be speaking. He needed to find Yori now, and work on shedding light over what had happened.

Eramin glared at Shiro after he finished, moving forward so as to make a rebuttal to the insults thrown at him. No one would dare open their mouth so openly to him, and while he knew he couldn't do anything to physically hurt Shiro without problems arising from it, he couldn't simply let the words he spoke settle the conversation.
 
"Now you listen here you little shit! Here I am, Congratulating you on all that happened and you do something so appalling as to spit it back in my face as if I'm some nobody! Washed up!? I'm 86 years old, not even hitting 100 yet and still at the pinnacle of my-! Are you even listening to me?!"

By this point however, Shiro had already turned his back on him and proceeded to continue his search for his tiny friend. Feeling even more annoyed at how the younger ruby ignored him, Eramin growled and quickly followed along, simultaneously annoyed and curious at the same time.


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Later that same morning, Yori walked outside, taking with it a deep breath as he did so, unsure of what to expect given what happened yesterday. It was late in the day, that much he knew, so any early lectures would have ended. If he could, he would have preferred not leaving the comfort of his own home, but it's lack of food was always an issue that he had to deal with. He briefly considered buying something to grow there, but making a garden inside a cave would take a lot of money he didn't have, so he dropped the idea entirely in short order.



As he walked, he noticed many sidelong glances from others around him, looking or laughing to themselves as they passed him by. Still he ignored them, but one in particular came up to him. The one that did was a Pearl Dragon, the same one that had been taking to Shiro only moments prior. She walked up to Yori, her size quickly blocking off the route Yori was taking.

"I'm so sorry for what happened to you! I hope you're alright?"



Yori looked up at her, lost as to what she was even talking about. He had an idea, but assuming such wouldn't be the best thing to do at the moment. Still, being blocked from his route to the market, by a female no less,  made him significantly more irritable.

"I...guess? What are you even apologizing for?"

The Pearl Dragon leaned down and began to pet Yori in what was supposed to be a comforting fashion, but given the nature, difference in size, and gender, only served to begin pissing him off as it felt more condescending than anything else.

"We know...it must have been hard and I'm sure you're hurting both physically and mentally. Just know that there are some here for you. To help you through what that beast Shiro did to you."

She continued petting him, as Yori's nerves began to grate and rise even further.

"What? Shiro didn't-"

"Shh...it's alright. I know...you're repressing it, but you can confide. I promise that we'll help you through the trauma."

At that point Yori's patience had reached its end, as he looked up at the Pearl dragon that attempted to comfort him, giving her a death glare.

"You've got about 3 seconds to get lost before I break that hand of yours off."

The Pearl Dragon recoiled quickly and got up, smiled and bowed before quickly running off, trying to hide a small chuckle, thinking of Yori’s attempt at being threatening to be rather cute. As she left, Yori let out a sigh, proclaiming out loud how much he hated women because of stuff like that, unconcerned with anyone who might overhear him. Continuing his walk, he spotted Shiro in the distance, who seemed to be talking to Eramin of all people. What he would have to talk about was anyone's guess. Still, Yori tried to reach him but was suddenly pulled away again, this time by a much rougher and more forceful grip. The hand belonged to something strong, not terribly powerful, but stiff and confident, no doubt belonging to another ruby. But alongside it was surprising to him. An amber dragon was buddied up with him, donning mages robes.

The style of the robes made it clear that this particular amber was a 3rd year, and seemed to be focusing his efforts on earth magic. Unsurprising given the ease of which the species could use it despite their lack of skill in magic. Still, he was clearly a bit of a runt, noticeably younger and weaker then Shiro. The ruby dragon however was older, by the design of his robes, was definitely either an 8th or 9th year student, so the situation made it obvious that the ruby took the amber on as a lackey of sorts.
The observations Yori was making were cut off by a rough push into the wall by the ruby in question. He seemed to be quite pissed off, no doubt due to the fact that Yori hadn't really been paying attention to him. He must have been talking to him while Yori ignored him.

"You think you can just ignore me?! I'm a ruby dragon! Little wimps like you can't go and act all high and mighty!"

Yori finally started listening to him, though if he had said anything previously, it didn't really matter as Yori paid no mind to it. He had more important things to do than waste time with this, so he proceeded to get up and try walking away, before the amber cut him off and pushed him back. Now surrounded by the two dragons, Yori let out sigh, feeling as though the day was going about as he expected it to, but it still made it no less annoying to deal with. What these two wanted with him however still escaped him.

"Move or I'll force you. You don't want to go pissing me off..."

The ruby laughed at the statement, before looking down at Yori, smiling sadistically as he did so.

"And whatcha gonna do? Use your magic? Go ahead, I’ll even let you get the first cast."

Yori clicked his jaw and quickly rose his hand to cast, firing out a larger orb than normal thanks to the time he was given to power it up. Despite the larger orb, the ruby thrust his arm forward, breaking through Yori’s offensive spell with ease before grabbed his arm and pulling him around. He twisted Yori’s tiny arm around his back painfully before pinning him against the ground. Yori quickly began to raise his wand hand only for it to also be pinned to the ground with the dragons other hand, though thankfully not across his back like before. Still, with Yori being pinned down like he was, his rear was now positioned upwards, with his tailhole now parallel to the ruby’s slit. The position the dragon put him in made the goldyura immediately realize his intent. Yori’s wand hand was pulled over his back and into the dragon’s other hand, now both being effortlessly held down by just the one. With one of his hands free, the ruby dragon quickly weaved a spell to quiet the area so no one could listen in on the the group.

“If Shiro could rape you, then why can't other ruby dragons do it right? Now that I know anyone can do it, I think I’ll be taking a shot at you myself. I’ve wanted to hear you scream for so long now. Maybe after I’m done, I’ll even beat the hell out of you for closure!”

The ruby dragon laughed to himself as the Amber watched from a distance. It was clear from his expression that he wasn't at all fond of the situation, and seemed to have mixed feeling about staying. He wanted to leave, but seemed to stay for whatever reason or another.

Meanwhile, The ruby pinning Yori to the ground strengthened his grip in an attempt to get the goldyura to groan, tightening his grip to the point of neary breaking Yori’s arms. The student found sadistic pleasure in hurting the little wimp as he took his free hand and slapped Yori’s rear painfully. It was far different than what Shiro did to Yori earlier that day, there was no affection or ruse in the action was shown. The student took a sadistic pleasure in watching Yori struggle uselessly in his grasp as he tried to keep the dragon from hurting him further as a smile crossed over his face before he let out a small laugh.
 
“Hehe, wow...You’re pathetic! What kind of spell was that supposed to be? Haha! I’ve fought flit foxes that were more of a threat than you! Hm...well it wouldn't matter anyway after I’m done. To be honest, I kinda prefer pegging females, but I think I can make an exception just this once. I wonder how much I can put in before I start to break you?”
 
The Amber behind him finally spoke up, albeit quite timidly, stepping forward to try and help make his point.

“M-maybe...u-um...t-this is going...a bit far? W-we don't know if-”

Before he could finish however, the ruby snapped back at him, his voice was a mix of anger and anxiety within them. It was clear he was nervous himself, but determined to see the act through to the end.

"W-Who said you could talk?! Shut up and do your job! I tutored you didn't I? I think this serves as a way to pay me back for all the help I gave you starting out."



As this went on, Shiro continued looking around with Eramin yelling at him from the back. He continued to ignore him however, preferring to focus on finding Yori before someone less savory got to him before he did. Shiro pulled out of the market towards th library when suddenly something caught his attention. A scent, unique and rather familiar, belonging to something that he had picked up recently. Shiro took a moment to think and focus on the scent, when suddenly it dawned on him where it came from. He had picked up on the scent during the bath he had with Yori! The unique scent of goldyura’s soap made locating him easy for those familiar with the brand. Shiro sniffed the air a few times to get a direction and turned his head to see deep in an alley, the smell emanating from within. Worried about what Yori could possibly be doing in such a concealed alleyway, Shiro ran towards the tucked away area before turning his head inside. When he finally got close enough, he could see what all was occuring. An amber dragon was watching a ruby dragon pin a goldyura to the ground. Shiro had to squint to see what exactly was happening, but after a moment's look, immediately recognized the goldyura to be Yori.
Shiro gasped as a sudden anger befell him. He spread his wings and launched himself at top speed into the alleyway at top speed, flying right past the amber dragon guarding the area. Shiro’s sudden appearance caused the young amber to grimace and back away from the ruby snapping at him. As Shiro flew past the amber, within a few moments he slammed the ruby that had Yori pinned into the wall with a deafening slam, creating an indent and spreading cracks through the stone. He  made sure to quickly pin the dragon, grabbing his throat with one claw and squeezing his arm with the other claw to discourage any casting. The ruby student let out a painful roar as the silencing spell broke, alerting any passerbys of what was happening, including Eramin who was still trailing Shiro.

"What in the hell do you think you're doing you scum!? How dare you try something so bold in this city. Especially to someone who has me as his ally!"

Shiro growled, gripping the boy tighter as his glare pierced the ruby dragon to his core before turning to glare at the amber dragon who was too stunned to even attempt to do anything.
 
"And you...to allow such a thing....I know you were raised much better than this...because I know your kind would detest such an act. Your amber brothers and sisters would be disgusted with you. They sent you here to learn, not harm others! We're better than that. Better than rubies. Get lost and if I ever see you with this other dragon again, I'll send you back to Inik myself."

After Shiro finished his speech, the young amber dragon quickly shook his head and ran off as fast as his legs could carry, the typical girth the species is well known for slowing hims down as he tried his best to get away from the area as per Shiro’s command. Once gone, Shiro quickly turned his attention back towards the ruby dragon still pinned to the wall as Yori struggled to his feet and groaned, coddling his arm softly in an attempt to alleviate the pain inflicted while Shiro continued his argument with the other ruby.

"You...if I see you anywhere near Yori again, I will break your arms so that you will never weave a spell for the rest of your days. And If any of your friends come after Yori, I will break your arms...after I break them. Do I make myself clear? I never want to see your face again for as long as I draw breath."

Shiro let out a tuft of flame from the side of his mouth, squeezing the boys arm so tightly now, the pressure felt as if his arm would snap at any moment. He quickly nodded, wanting nothing more than for the other dragon to let go.

“Argh?! Dammit! G-get off me already that hurts!!! Alright! I’ll leave! Geez!

Shiro stared into the boy for a moment before letting him go reluctantly, knowing that should he go any further then he’d be the one at fault in the situation.

"Never come around here again, you low life scum. Remember my words if you value your future."

Shiro let out a powerful roar as he took the dragon from the wall he was pressed into and with his mighty strength, threw him over Yori and near the end of the alleyway. Shiro finished addressing the dragon before looking towards Yori and his face souring a bit as the Goldyura coddled his arm.

Yori watched quietly as everything unfolded between Shiro and the other two students, holding his arm from earlier on in pain. The ruby dragon mage, who was both younger and much weaker physically in comparison to Shiro managed to hurt him so easily. And the amber dragon, however he will react to it, saw it as well. With everything that happened, the four of them were drawing a crowd, and others now had the chance to see it all happen. While Shiro might be out of the eye of everyone, his actions pretty much confirming that what happened before might have truly just been rumors afterall, for Yori, they now saw him being saved by a ruby dragon. His only solace was they knew not of what happened previously, but...this one...and the amber knew. How things would change he knew not, but it was clear that they would begin talking, and no matter what...the ruby certainly wouldn’t miss the chance to brag.
 
Eramin watched from a distance for a bit to see what happened, choosing not to interfere too quickly. He heard Shiro's speech, causing his already tarnished view on Shiro to be torn apart even further. Friends? Allies? Teammates? With YORI?! A goldyura. Already had he subjected himself to dating a Pravitalia. But the pain itself was alleviated partially thanks to the fact that Moyo was, for all intents, a very skilled wizard. But this one? Yori? The rat’ only redeeming trait was his ingenuity when it came to magic, but outside of that his magic paled in comparison to that of a true mage. Worthless, loud, cocky and a show off when he could barely cast a draconic spell, let alone make anything strong enough to break through even rock! He was pathetic, in every sense of the word. And to see and hear Shiro, a Ruby Dragon, disgracing himself by protecting him. The thought made a knot form in his stomach, the sight something that he himself wanted, down to his very last scale, to see stopped. Yet alas, his position would not allow him to do so directly. So...he watched, waiting for a moment to intervene.





Shiro, finally having calmed down some, moved towards Yori and looked him over, watching him coddle his arm in pain as he stood to the sidelines, watching everything take place. Yori’s ears were pointed downwards as he continued rubbing his arm, noticeably lost in thought. Shiro, concerned his mind may be far more wounded then his body had no idea what those two, or even if those two did anything else to him before he got there. Worse yet, if Yori ran into any townsfolk who might have made remarks about what happened. He began talking to his partner softly in an attempt to revitalize some of Yori’s pride.  
 
"...I'm sure you had that handled...I just hate ruby dragons like that. Are you okay anyway? Not that I think you aren't...just...you're holding your arm and...I’m sorry. I should have gotten here sooner."

Shiro crossed his arms, trying to hide his grave worry for Yori behind a stale expression. As caring as the ruby dragon is, it was hard for him to completely hide any concern, especially when it came to people he cared deeply about, to which he discovered Yori being one of them. Yori himself was broken from his thoughts by Shiro, who talked to him softly, noticeably concerned for his well being. Yori himself was grateful, but...he couldn’t very well show that. Still...he found himself hard pressed to be rude as well, and tried to force out a thank you as best he could. Before he was able to however, a angry voice could be heard from behind him, the air was becoming hotter and brighter as well.

“You bastard! Threaten me huh?! I-I’ll show you Shiro...you and your pathetic little boyfriend!!!”

Yori, along with any others in the area, quickly turned towards the student from earlier. Yori let out a sigh as he spoke, watching the fire gather in the air.

“Boy…? Do all of you just latch onto extremes? It was a one time thing! He’s with Moyo!”

“Who fucking cares what it’s like between you two! You’ll both be a pair of ash piles when I’m done!”

The ruby dragon rose his claws and shot out a massive ball of flames, a level 4 spell no doubt. This one was, much to Yori’s surprise, actually quite proficient in fire magic. Though that isn’t a surprise given the affinities of ruby dragons. The flames careened towards them and Yori pushed his still good arm forward, making a loud grunt as he did so. The flames careening towards the two began to slow down as Yori kept his arm out, wincing in pain from the endeavor. Eventually however, the spell slowed to a halt, stopping in mid air as the ruby looked on slack jawed at what had happened.

“H-how?”
“Don’t you know...a-anything. Make fun of me all you want, call me weak and demean me as much as you like. But if you don’t even know...what I did now...then you...s-shouldn’t be wearing those robes.”

The dragon looked down at Yori who was struggling to breath as he continued to hold his arm out, clearly spent from stopping such a large spell. The student however had blood was dripping from his claws, a clear indicator of him already going over his mana limit just to cast the said spell.

“You need...to understand...that there’s more to magic than just using the strongest spells. All you dragons every care about is power, power and more power. But control matters also.”



Yori stopped as the dragon clutched his hands angrily, yelling back at him. By this point, a large crowd had formed, listening in on everything that was happening. The crowd of various species looked on at the sight of not only Yori having stopped the fireball midair, but of Shiro nearby, having come to his aid. The ruby, now quickly becoming the focus of attention quickly began trying to rectify the situation.

“Shut up! You only focused on that because of how pathetic a caster you were! I was taking classes here while you were a student to, smartass! You think I don’t know! You cheated!”

“It didn’t cheat! I graduated just like everyone else, regardless of what you think I did or didn’t do!”


The student, now even more enraged, lifted his hands up as flames began to surround his palms and cuts began forming across his arms as he began attempting to push the spell towards Shiro and Yori.

“Shut up! I don’t need to hear that from some weakling who somehow graduated despite getting their tail kicked at their own graduation!”

The efforts, while dangerous, proved fruitful as Yori was quickly being pinned down, and the massive ball of fire began to rapidly descend towards the the pair. With no other option, Shiro spread his wings and was about to attack, before the ball once again stopped in mid air before vanishing in a puff of smoke. From a distance in the air, Eramin could be seen flying down as his finger was pointing at the spot the fireball was moments prior.

“That’s enough, I think our little magic demonstration is done here. Clearly...everything was just a false rumor.”

The entire group looked towards Eramin as the student attempted to utter his name before the professor gave a intensely harsh gaze. He knew full well the words forming in Eramin’s head, not even attempting to respond as the professor stared him down.

“Leave...now. Before you make things worse for yourself than they already are.”

The student ran off, away from the crowd, as Yori looked back at Eramin. He tried to process what all was happening, muttering out a small bit before falling over from exhaustion.

“Y-you’re...just playing nice...for the crowd…”


As Yori fell back from exhaustion, nearly spent on his own reserved of mana, Shiro quickly noticed and instinctually reached out to catch him. The small Goldyura fitting easily in his embrace. Shiro coddled him like a child and held him close to his chest, making sure to cradle him by his rear. As he did so Eramin walked up to the two of them.

“You...Shiro...take him to the infirmary...or Moyo...I don’t care. Trying to reverse a spell...would be tiring for any mage to do, even Yori.”

He turned his back, and shortly after realizing his comment, quickly rectified the situation by hitting Yori in the face purposefully with his tail before walking towards the crowd. Eramin did however stop momentarily  to address Shiro privately.

“I’m not mad...just...disappointed. I should have expected as much from someone like you…well, no matter.”
 
He walked away, leaving Shiro to attend to Yori as Eramin began talking louder to address the crowd that had gathered around to watch everything unfold.

“Don’t you all have other things to attend to! Get out of here, the lot of you!”

With that, the crowd quickly began to disperse as Eramin’s sheer presence reaffirmed how formidable a force he was just on his own. He then looked back at the two with a hateful glance before flying off, leaving the two alone. Yori looked up at Shiro, clearly unable to move his body. A slight pause overtook the area, with Yori thinking about what to say. In the end, despite what he wanted, he opted to leave out the insults just this one time.

“Walked off without talking back...Eramin’s pissed...what did you say to him?”

Before answering him, Shiro started to make his way out of the alleyway and into the open, some stragglers still watching to alleviate any remaining doubt that the rumors were just that. Thankfully it only took one hard glare at them to make them quickly dispersed.
“I said he's a washed up Ruby Dragon who talks a big game but still lost to Salomé, and talking to him is a waste of breath... more or less. As if his disappointment in me means anything. It's about as valuable as the ground I walk on, even then... that's too high of praise for him. His acceptance of me is also about as valuable as the ground I piss on...and I piss a lot...I'm a dragon.”

Shiro hoped as he walked that he could get Yori to grin or even let out a small chuckle just to see if his little companion was doing alright. He walked up towards the archway leading to Yori’s home before moving his gaze down towards Yori once again, watching the small mammal continue to breath heavily in his arms. Shiro gave the goldyura a soft smile before stopping next to the gate, speaking to him while his energy slowly returned. He made sure to continue keeping him comfortable, with cradling him being his top priority to avoid any additional stress or pain.

“Look...this whole thing...got really messy because of me. For once this is my fault. I'm just glad I got to you in time. I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you today. Thought I should at least apologize for my involvement. Speaking of Salomé though...there is no way she won't hear of today's events. I have a funny feeling we will be summoned sooner or later.”

Yori himself let out a small sigh as he laid in Shiro's arms, thinking it a bit ironic to find himself being held by him again like this. Though the circumstances differed a bit, it still felt embarrassing to be carried so carefully through the crowd. Still, it was nice in a way as well. Unlike before, he was fully cognoscente of the feeling, and found Shiro's grip to be exceptionally strong. The muscles below his scales were obvious as well, making it a hard, albeit secure, cradle. It wasn't any different than what he used to sleep on in Aussir really...though most certainly warmer. He leaned his head back, trying to relax as all his energy was spent from just the one action, but even still...he found it worth it for the reaction alone.


“Hmph...your damn right it's your fault. Had you made sure the portal was closed this wouldn't have happened. Still...I don't mind...really. B-because I finally got a chance to show you I-I'm…”

Yori sighed before finishing, finding himself to tired to even finish the line. He paused for a while before speaking again as he noticed quite fast how taxing it was to even talk in his current condition.

“You ignored Eramin as well...haha...it...it's fine. I hate...the infirmary. Always treat me like some kinda precious weakling. A-ah...I...never got to eat. Y-you can...make it up...to me. Go get me...food.”



Yori let out a small, weak laugh as his voice grew weaker the more he spoke. Shiro himself, upon hearing that he had ignored Eramin’s orders was confused for a small moment after it was explained to him that he ignored Eramin. Still, thinking about it, he must have been to concerned about Yori to have noticed or even remember.

Regardless of the reason, the tiny bat seemed to prefer it that way, so Shiro quickly put it out of thought and mind, moving back to Yori’s request. Since he could still demand things of him, it was clear that Yori was simply exhausted, rather than hurt in anyway, shape or form. He was still worried, but not nearly as much as before.

"Tsk. I'm not your errand dragon you rodent. I didn't take you to the infirmary because you didn't get any injuries worth looking over. You're a man right? Something like this should be easy enough to recover from on your own. Though seeing as how we both agree that this is my fault, I will treat you to a meal...again."

Shiro quickly began to leave and make his way towards the market district of the town, cuddling Yori in his arms and close to his bosom. He had no intention of letting Yori go until Yori felt comfortable enough to walk on his own or desire to. Of course, given the sight of a dragon cradling him as he did, people began to stare and some even gave a soft smirk in adoration while others snickered and talked amongst themselves as they walked through the bazaar of sorts, seemingly returned to their original view of Shiro now that the rumor was dispelled. Above all, Shiro simply enjoyed keeping Yori so safe. It brought him back to a time as a hatchling when he used to do this with that stuffed Goldyura is parents were so keen on making him destroy. This was the real deal. Now he had something to protect, despite Yori's protests and claims about being strong enough able to handle himself.

As they continued to walk, Shiro looked down at Yori, watching him as he closed his eyes and rested in the dragon's embrace comfortably, clearly in no hurry to walk or be put down. The sight of it put a small grin to run across Shiro’s face, finding the sight to be adorable, even if Yori would never admit to that.

“You look comfortable. Enjoying your stay in my embrace? Heh.”

“Well...I don't need...or want to go anyway…”

With that, Shiro nodded and continued to walk until finally reaching the market place. As it was, the market was bustling with many different races wandering about within it looking to buy whatever it was they required. Be it meat, fish, weapons or crystals, there were stalls for everything around. The sight momentarily reminded Shiro of his own errands, prompting him to put in the back of his mind and do so after he was finished making sure Yori would be alright. At the very least, he knew it would be what Moyo would want him to do.

Yori let himself relax in Shiro's arms as he walked. It was an odd feeling to be sure, to be held so tenderly by someone like this, a feeling he had long since forgotten about. Regardless though, it wasn't like he had the energy to stop it. Sure, he could voice the difference between physical exhaustion and mana exhaustion, but in the end he vouched for not doing so as he found himself enjoying the chance to be carried around in such a fashion. With how much that last action took out of him, he was struggling just to stay awake and not pass out. He closed his eyes and let Shiro walk around, oblivious to the thoughts of those around him for awhile as he took time to simply enjoy the warmth Shiro's body gave off. His tail, ever an indicator of his feelings, began to clutch Shiro's waist involuntarily.

“Anyway, what was it you wanted to eat Yori?”

Shiro's voice kicked him back to reality, with his tail suddenly letting go in a shock. In the end he ended up passing out after all, but it was most likely something he would have been unable to prevent anyway.  How long had he been out he wondered, looking over at the stalls in the market.

“O-oh....not long then. Hm…”

He looked over the stalls, trying to figure out which to get. Large fruit, berries and everything in between the two were present. What should he get? After the whole thing with the berries yesterday, he vouched for a larger one this time around, moving his arm as he pointed to a stall housing baskets of large, round, pink colored fruit with a massive stem and leaves attached to it. It was a fairly common fruit found on Achuak, so thankfully was fairly cheap in price despite its size.



“Hah...you are my errand dragon. W-walking around...cause you have to...s-since I'm better than you and all. Now go to that one. And...maybe get something else with it. Water...or fruit juice.”

Shiro looked down at Yori in his arms and glared at the Goldyura. He took his claw and made a fist before and very lightly hit Yori on his forehead to avoid hurting him.

"Don't push your luck Goldyura, or I'll very quickly forget how exhausted you are."

Shiro warned. He then looked over at the stand in question and huffed walking over to it. The merchant looked over the odd pair for a while, the sight of a ruby cradling a goldyura like a baby nearly giving the merchant a laughing fit. The Pravitalia was stifling his laughter as tears welled in his eyes.

“Uh…c-can...I help you?”

Shiro looked over the merchant and had a slight blush in his cheeks knowing full well what the stifled laughter was about. He tried his best to ignore it, and continue his purchase as per normal.

"I'd like to buy some fruit please. These ones... I'll take two."

The Pravitalia nodded and reached for the fruit in question, continuing to laugh to himself as he reached for the fruit.

"Sure... one for you... and one for your uh...kek little friend?"

Seeing a ruby carrying around a goldyura in such a way with how much profound pride a ruby normally had and the way society as a whole viewed them made Shiro look very much like a weakling in the eyes of this Pravitalia, not that Shiro actually cared, though being seen like this in public was still as embarrassing as ever.

“So um... is that all?”


Yori quickly opened his mouth, demanding something to drink while at the stall, causing Shiro to glare back in his direction as the Pravitalia held himself back from laughing out of professionalism. Shiro’s own blush deepened as the merchant asked, before nervously asking about the item in question.

"Do you have any...fruit juice?"

"Sure, and would your little friend like it in a bottle with a teet?"

With that the merchant couldn't keep his laughter stifled any longer and nearly fell over. He held on to his stall for support as his laughter drew the eyes of the surrounding crowd, though they did not keep staring. Shiro grew even redder as he grew even more uncomfortable, though after what he put Yori through, this was the least he could do for his friend.

"I'm...I'm sorry friend...truly...it is just....this sight is rarer than a shooting star. I couldn't pass it up. N-now then...that’ll be 3 silver and 1 gold, a discount for the little one!"

The merchant wiped his eyes as he continued to make jokes about the sight of the two as he got Shiro his juice in a waterskin that was still much in the shape of a baby bottle.

Shiro reluctantly thanked the merchant as he placed the required amount on the counter, pulling the coins out of a small sachel around his waist. With that, the pravitalia took the money and dropped it into a case behind the counter before waving the two goodbye.

"You two take care now. Make sure you burp him afterwards...PFFFFTTTT HA HA HA!"
The merchant began to laugh once more, this time failing at keeping on his feet, falling on his back, holding his stomach. Shiro walked away as fast as his legs could take him as the crowd around them began staring once more, now at the entire lot of them. As Shiro got a fair distance away, he stopped, taking a couple breaths to get his energy back as well as his composure.

After all was said and done, Yori looked back over towards the stalls glaring at the pravitalia. The idea of being treated like a baby pissed him off, but in this particular moment, discretion would be better, especially after all that happened earlier on. Yori took the bottle of juice, and drank from it all the same, much to the amusement of anyone else that was around. Still, they stayed quiet thankfully, focusing on their own day to day errands. After finishing the bottle, Yori pulled his arm out from its comfortable position, waiting til the two were a good ways away from the stall, before moving his finger slightly. At once, a couple chips appeared in the foundation of the pravitalia's stand, making Yori smile as he made himself comfortable once more.

"Let's walk away now, but I want to see the fun ensue. You don't go making fun of us without paying for it. Especially not someone like me. It'll take a moment, but it will be fun."

Shiro looked at Yori curiously before moving his head back towards the stall where the pravitalia was assisting his next guest, curious of what the goldyura had done. Though he wanted to ask what he did, the question ended up needing no answer. For as soon as Shiro had gotten ready to ask, a paradise flower dragon landed on the stand. At once, the entirety of the stall came tumbling down on both the patron and vendor. Shiro's eyes widened at the sight before he quickly made himself scarce before turning his gaze downwards at Yori, staring at him with a glare.

"Are you an idiot? You know how much trouble we could get in? We literally just beat the crap out of a student. A ruby student. We're walking on thin ice as it is."

Shiro could hear the Pravitalia panicking and complaining how his food was now ruined and such, unable to at least let out a small snicker at the small bit of karmic redemption. Still, he made sure not to linger on it for long, and  quickly cleared his throat.

"A-Anyway... what happened to being unable to use magic? Guess you're feeling better. I'd rather not have to carry you around if I can help it. It's bad enough we've spent so much time together. People are going to start to talk you know. I don't mind taking you home if that's where you're going to go, but, I'm not your personal slave to have traveling around either. You're still annoying."

Despite what he said, Shiro still continued to cradle Yori in his arms, holding him warmly as he began to finally walk back towards his home. While the dragon did quite enjoy the situation as a whole, given all that had happened during the afternoon, he couldn't have Yori thinking too little of him and after today's events and desired to go back to some normalcy between the two.

"I never said I couldn’t use any magic. Simple spells like that are easy. Plus pretty much everyone already doesn’t like me and Salomé won't get rid of me because of how amazingly brilliant I am. Due to those reasons, I can do what I want...it makes no difference in the end. Can’t say the same for you though."

Yori's attitude began to return in spades as his magic slowly regenerated, the spell used barely costing anything for him to do. After they walked a fair distance Yori did what he could to pull himself free, a feat rather tough to do due to Shiro’s natural strength.

"Hm...I guess you don't "want" to be around me. Well that's fine. You can take me home like a good dragon and then be on your merry way. I ended up getting to shut up both Eramin and a cocky student, got myself a dragon chauffeur and even ended with a dinner and a show! If false rumors end like that, then I wouldn't mind making more of them!"

Yori couldn't restrain himself from laughing out loud after the comment, clearly enthused over the actions that had transpired while the events of nearly being raped and beaten up only moments before seemed to have vanished from his memory.

As Yori began to return back to normal, Shiro continued to glare at him, but found himself happy to see him finally return to form, a part of him having missed the old cocky Yori that constantly worked his nerves.

"How is it, having such a massive head on such a tiny, weak little body? You must hit it a lot when you're walking in your small home. Heh..allow me to deflate your ego rat. If it weren't for my involvement, you would probably have gotten beaten and used by that ruby. Plus, you only shut that student up for a bit before he started overpowering you, “again”. Once again, needing your big buddy Shiro to save you. I expect a thank you."

Yori began to gare back at him, before shaking his head in response, content in the thought that Shiro had little to do with the results of what all had transpired despite what had actually happened.

"Like you said, I had it covered, regardless if you showed up or not I'd have sent them packing! You just ended up making it a convenience. I don't really need you or anyone's help when things like that happen."

After he finished, Shiro began gripping his claw over Yori's face in a playful manner as he walked Yori back home. The claw wrapping around Yori afterwards cut him off from continuing to annoy the dragon as he began fearing he would be crushed by him in anger. Yori tried resisting him, only to be to weak for Shiro to even notice his failed attempts at resisting him physically. As Shiro held him however, it became abundantly clear he was only teasing, something Yori played up and convinced himself that it was simply just Shiro realizing he couldn't do it in the end. Not to one as amazing and powerful as he was.

Thus, the two walked back in silence, before finally arriving back at the archway leading into Yori’s home. As soon as the two arrived however, Shiro released Yori from his arms, causing the tiny bat to fall down on his rear as he hit the cobblestone pathway. Yori let out a small grunt of pain as it happened. As he was dropped down, one of the fruit fell next to him, nearly damaging it in the process.

“I hope you enjoyed today, because this isn't happening again. I've paid my debt for the trouble I caused, and if you bring this up again, I'll hit you so hard, I'll knock the color out of your fur, got it? I still have a reputation to uphold after all.”

Yori himself, annoyed at the action, quickly got himself off the ground before shaking his arms in anger at the ruby before him, the size difference between them only making the action come off as both  foolish and adorable at the same time.

"Whatever! Be more careful! You nearly damaged the fruit from that, stupid. Besides, we both know if you tried hitting me then I'd have you on you belly, begging for me to spare you in 10 seconds flat. You can't hold a candle to me."

After he finished, Yori opened the portal and attempted to move the fruit, only to quickly find it impossible for him to move on his own, unable to even make it budge from the area it landed. After awhile, he finally complained under his breath before making a familiar that was able to pick it up and carry it inside for him with ease.

"Anyway, that's that...you can leave now, no need to leave your precious "Moyo" waiting. After All, you do have a thing for settling for less."
Yori laughed to himself as he turned his back towards Shiro, who had half a mind to punish Yori for so very quickly getting a big head despite all that happened earlier that day. But he held himself back, knowing that it would have to wait for another time. After all, they had just finished with such a large problem and who knows what will happen if Shiro and Yori started once again. Instead, Shiro opted to tap that back of Yori's head, causing the goldyura to fall down on his stomach with his large rear sticking up in the air as if to present himself to the dragon inadvertently.

"Watch it, or we may have a repeat of yesterday! You really know how to try my patience! And don't go saying Moyo's name like that! Besides, I'm not settling for anything. Moyo was a great friend to me when I first got here and we kinda just...hit it off. One thing lead to another..."

Shiro stopped himself and looked to Yori blushing a bit, realizing quickly at the similarities between how things had gone with Moyo, and now with Yori as well, though with a few many differences between them, ones that made him question a few things. Shiro quickly stammered out the rest of his thoughts, intent on shaking the epiphany from memory as he continued on.  

"That's not important! What he and I do in our spare time is our business! Don't presume to know my relation with him...things can change."

It was still too hard for him to ignore the feeling he got whenever he was around Yori. It was familiar...and after today, he was pretty sure he knew what it was. Which the thought caused him to turn a tad redder as a result.

"Ah! You have me thinking strange things! Just...go eat your fruit, and try not to choke yea? I'm not exactly here to feed it to you this time."

Shiro chuckled before spreading his wings and turning back towards the marketplace to get what he originally came for.

“See you around rat. Next time be a bit more grateful, I spent a fair bit of coin on you today. Though I wonder if such a thing is even in your ability, oh great wizard.”

Yori proceeded to pick himself up off the ground, snapping back at Shiro as he began to fly away, doing his best to catch him before he left.

"A-as if i'd choke on some fruit! I...ah...whatever..."

---

As Shiro was flying, he couldn't help but think to himself, lost in the thoughts he had floating in his mind. "A-Am I really...falling for that Goldyura..? It's hard to believe...but...it's such a warm feeling...Yori would laugh and make fun of me for certain."

Shiro smiled and clenched his fist. "Then I'd probably hit him or something." He turned over, gliding on his back through the sky. "Ha ha...I won't deny it. I enjoy our arguments and rough housing....He doesn't need to know that though. I wonder...if it's hypocritical of me to act this way towards him...hmmm...I won't think too much on it. If it's not broken, I won't fix it. I wonder...what I should tell Moyo."

As Shiro thought, the poor soul didn't notice what was in front of him as he was gliding and crashed clean into the side of a passing Ruby, causing the two to plummet down into a small pool of water. The Ruby got up, this one being yet another student, this time in especially extravegent light blue robes, soaking wet and pissed.

"Watch where you're flying you asshole!!"

After the quick reprimanding the student storming off, refusing to leave Shiro time to so much as apologize over the situation. He felt a little embarrassed as he watched the student storm off, apologizing to himself at least for not paying enough attention.

"I...probably shouldn't think so deeply while flying...I think I'll walk from here..."





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With Shiro now gone, Yori proceeded to walk through the portal himself, quickly making doubly sure to close it this time around as he walked back into the glade serving as his home. The large fruit was now resting on a table in the den before Yori quickly made a makeshift platform to place it on with a spell. Yori wasted no time in cutting the large fruit up and quickly began to devour it as he thought about all that had transpired. As time went on, he began to slow down his eating to a more relaxed pace, thinking about what all it had meant. No doubt he felt something, anyone carrying him around like that would have been met with tremendous protest as Yori effortlessly beat them into submission for treating him in such a way. But Shiro...why was he so comfortable with him?

The thought of possibly falling for him crossed Yori's mind, only for him to laugh it off as a joke, convinced that he couldn't possibly fall for anyone, much less a dragon. Besides, even if it were true, what good would it serve? Shiro had a mate already in Moyo, that was no secret. Even if he had these feelings, they wouldn't mean anything aside from Shiro laughing it off and making fun of him for it all.

Yori's thoughts were quickly cut off as a chunk of the fruit became lodged in his throat, causing him to gag. Was he choking? The thought flashed through his mind rapidly before he began protesting the cruel irony of it happening as he toppled over. Within moments, many of his familiars rushed over to him and began slamming themselves into him until the overly large chunk came out, the familiars saving him, now having been rescued twice today. He looked at the small chunk of fruit for a bit, churning his face in disgust as he lifted it up and crushed it with a spell before tossing it into the stream to be carried out of the glade.

As he watched it drift away, Yori figured it best to not eat any further and continue studying and practicing his circle magic. Regardless of the events over the course of the day outside and his personal feelings, he still had work that needed to be done.

He sat at his usual spot requesting a book be brought over detailing the uses of blank spells again, one he had already looked over many times before. Still, review was review and it was useful to keep up to date, especially with circle spells.

Time went by, and Yori was already working with spells, creating miniature clear disks in his palms. Despite holding the spells he was talking to a familiar next to him, something he was used to doing when needing to rant to someone in the lonely cavern.



“I mean...yeah I do love him...no well...I mean I MIGHT love him, but what would it matter you know? Besides...who ever heard of a ruby dragon and goldyura dating right? I couldn’t even take...like...half of him! M-maybe...I don’t know.”



The more he ranted the less focus he kept on the spell in his palm, to which the familiar noticed all to well. The little smoke like cloud of solid mana watches as the spell became more and more unstable, before finally launching out of Yori’s palm. It flew out into the area and began to wheel back. The familiar quickly pushed Yori’s head down, causing the disk to narrowly miss him as it cut clean through a small tree branch and bore into the ground before dispersing, now making it the third time he had been saved that day. Yori watched as it vanished before letting out a sigh and getting up. He now knew full well his focus wasn’t in studying at the moment.

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