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Although the young red dragon couldn't help but complain, but the only thing he got out of his mouth were groans that only made the girls in front of him find him cuter. Despite being a Fire Dragon, most likely, he was very small and defenseless.
"(Alright, let's settle down for now and let's go with the flow. Apparently, these two girls see me as some kind of sacred beast, so let's go with it for now, maybe they could offer me some protection as I grow up as a baby dragon.)"
Joan was quick to adapt to his current situation.
Then again, it wasn't as if he had any other option.
"Aw, and it's so cuteeee!"
The cutest of the twins suddenly grabbed him with her big, giantess hands, raising him above her head. Our young fire breather attempted to free himself from her grasp, but it was futile.
Desperately, he tried to muster some words, however…
"Graaooo…! Gra?! Graaooo! Graaaaoooo! Grahh…"
Indeed, nothing articulate came out.
"Shoo cuteee! Are you hungry little dragon? Do you want some milk?" She asked, completely clueless about dragons in general, mostly due to their rarity and also due to her own ignorance.
"Idiot, dragons don't drink milk! And we have to tell the Elder about this!" Her tomboyish sister, which seemed way more down to earth, quickly interrupted her.
"Eeeh? But Nadia, all pups drink milk!" Pouted her sister.
"Have you ever seen a lizard drinking milk? The mothers don't hate tits either, dummy…" Sighed the tomboy, named Nadia.
"Geeh! Shut up! He's my baby now!" Complained her sister.
"Mina, stop! Give it to me!" Said Nadia, stretching her arms and trying to grab the precious creature in her sister's hands.
"No, it's mineee!"
The two girls began to fight for the newborn Dragon, as Nadia's strength overwhelmed Mina quite easily, and she ended grabbing him. Between their tribe, fights were common, and most of the time they were just to play around, their insane physical strength and defense allowed them to be rough with one another, even when playfully.
"Now, I'll bring it to the Elder!" Nadia said, rushing outside, as Mina followed her from behind.
"Stop it! I want to carry it! I am her Saint!" Cried Mina.
"Shut up!"
The two annoying girls carried the little dragon outside of this cave, as he was finally greeted by a bigger picture of where the heck he had landed into.
A land of fire!
The sky was reddish orange and the sun was shining brightly atop the heavens. The temperatures were extremely hot, yet he felt strangely accustomed to such heat, perhaps due to his fire-breathing lineage.
The rest of the world was just as wondrous. He quickly realized he had been carried outside of a small cave within a gigantic, red-colored mountain. The surroundings of the mountain were a near-endless forest of red, orange, and black-colored trees, with enormous black spikes growing from the ground made of dried out molten rock, fiery red crystals grew everywhere, decorating the already fantastical landscape as rivers of boiling lava spread around.
There was no water in sight yet vegetation thrived just fine, even in conditions where there were flames everywhere. He could recall a few plants that lived near volcanoes, but never something like this before.
To make things even more shocking, inside the forest there were countless beasts roaming. His draconic senses awakened automatically as he was able to see enormous red panthers covered on flames, giant turtles with shells resembling volcanoes, and more.
"Graaahh…!"
He couldn't help but groan in utter surprise, everything around him was surprising and amazing!
Yet… there was something even more shocking once he glanced to the left.
"GRAR?!"
There was a gigantic skull!
Yes, there was an enormous mountain-sized dragon-like skull accompanied by a gigantic skeleton resting at the side of this mountain, above this enormous pile of bones, which were bigger than mountains, there were all sorts of vegetation growing from it, and of course, fauna such as animals and monsters.
The two girls quickly noticed his attention towards the skeleton, as Mina seemed to want to explain to him what this was, although Nadia, the one currently carrying him, felt it was rather useless to explain things to a monster that wouldn't understand them to begin with.
"Oh, are you interested in that big skeleton over there? That's your mama!"
"GRAH?!"
The little dragon was even more surprised, his new mother was… already dead?!
"Why are you explaining things to a dragon? I bet he doesn't even know what you're talking about…" Nadia said.
"Nah, I bet he does! He got that spark on his eyes, don't you realize how he looks at things? He's surely a smart boy!" Mina seemed to have high hopes on the hatchling.
"(My mother? is that giant dragon skeleton? So she died? Why? How? Huh?!)" He was indeed very confused, groaning with both excitement and lots of confusion. "Grawr? Graah! Graah!" He was trying his best to communicate with Mina, trying to ask for more information.
"You want to know who she is? Well her name's-"
"We're here. Stop talking to the Sacred Beast already, Mina." Sighed her sister, interrupting Mina.
The two girls carried him inside a larger cave, these people clearly lived inside of this mountain. This large entrance led to a series of cave sections, ultimately bringing them into a larger and wider space inside the mountain, illuminated by red and blue crystals stuck into the ceilings.
The mystical sight made the little dragon roar in surprise, his tail began waving around unwillingly, even when his human soul found such an act as embarrassing, he couldn't stop his dragon instincts.
"Roar! Groar! (Uoooh! This is really fantasy-like!)"
There was also a large underground lake inside, which was one of the things he had been trying to find, a water source. There was no way people could live without water, right? Even these red-skinned fire wielding people needed to satiate their thirst from time to time...
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