I stood perfectly still for what seemed like an eternity. Sadon looked me over, even pushed me to the side to see if my back was hurt. He genuinely seemed to care. I didn't understand it at all. It didn't make any sense.
"You tried to kill me!" I hear myself say. I didn't intend to scream, but I couldn't hold it in any longer.
"No, I saved you, didn't I?" "You son of a... You saved me after you tried to drown me! How is that any better? Oh come on, Sadon. I'm wet and my whole body is aching. We can lay all this behind if you just give me the antidote and let me be. I promise I won't try to kill you." He smiled, showing a wall of white, sharp teeth.
"Promise?"He asked. I shrugged. "I said I wouldn't try, didn't I?" But I never said anything about finishing the job, moron. I thought trying to keep all emotions off of my face. He put me on the table. That's when I noticed we were still in the same room he had destroyed. I sat utterly still as I saw him take out the bottle of potion. He held it in his hands for a while, thinking.
My muscles aches so much that I couldn't sit straight, so I lied down on the table. Closing my eyes and feeling the sleep taking over. It felt like I had been at the river all day with my friends and then had a good training session afterwards. Needless to say, I was exhausted.
When I was just beginning to give up the hope of ever getting to my normal size Sadon poured the antidote on my head. It reversed the... you could call it "spell" if you want to, and made me and my clothes the same size again. I lay on the table catching my breath again. It felt like a dragon had just rushed over my head, vacuuming all the air.
"Elegant." Sadon said with a smile curled around his perfect lips. I lay there for a while. Just looking at the ceiling. It was made of tree and I could swear it was falling apart, yet it never fell.
If I jump and get hold of that piece... No, it'll take too much time and effort. What if I grab hold on one of the bigger splinters he made when he destroyed the door? Darn. I turned my head and saw that he had put all the pieces of the broken door in one of the corners. The corner behind him.
He gave me a hand, like a father giving his hand to his child when it falls trying to ride a bicycle for the first time. I took it.
"I think your customers will be satisfied, Sadon." I finally managed to say after five minutes with an awkward silence. It didn't seem that he minded it though. It may just have been awkward for me. You know, since I was inside of him just a minute ago. Oh God, this must be the same with a "one night stand" when the girl tries to talk to him and he just ignores. I slapped him hard on the cheek. My eyes went wide with fear.
"I-I didn't mean it! No wait... I kind of did. I almost died, you know. And you did this without my consent. If you were someone else I would probably just have tore you open from the inside." "It's all right." He said, taking one hand to his cheek. It was already beginning to get red.
"I now know that a person can survive in another persons belly for at least more than 20 minutes. You're job here is done. We can go home now. Or you can go wherever you want." The hallway wasn't on fire anymore. It didn't even seem to be touched by fire. The whole thing must have been an illusion. Damn, I could have escaped! But... it was kind of a fun adventure...
"The antidote. I want it. If this happens again I need the protection." He took it from his belt and held it for some time.
"Sure, just... ehm, what!? YOU DID WHAT!?" I stood with my arms out not knowing how to respond to him. "I didn't do anything: you did. Now give me the damned thing so I can get some rest for once." He took it back and put it in his belt. Turned his head and began thinking. I recognized his "thinking face". I wanted to kick him this time, but there was a chance he would fall and break the vial where my antidote was. I couldn't risk it.
"Give it to me, Sadon. I'm not going to ask politely again." I said through clutched teeth.
"Imber is in trouble. Lagoon just told me he's eaten her." I froze in place. "What do you mean: eaten her. She's a God damned dragon! Dragons don't eat each other!" I was screaming in his face now, but he didn't seem to mind it.
"Come on, we need to help them." He said calmly, taking my hand and making me follow him out of the mansion.
***
Lagoon was lying on his side, curled up like an infant. His hands were on his stomach. He looked pregnant. It was kind of hilarious, a male dragon looking pregnant. Especially him, because he was always the strong and manly kind of dragon, full of muscles and now... a belly that looked out of place. I came closer and he lifted his paws from it. Just like you would do on a pregnant woman I took my hand to it and felt Imber moving inside.
She's asleep. Don't worry she's alright, but I'm not. I'm scared to be honest. I can't move and my whole body hurts from her weight. Lagoon said soflty.
"Okay here's what we'll do. Nessie is going to go inside of your tummy; give Imber the potion to make her smaller and take her out of there." "And what the hell will you do?" I said crossing my arms and taking a stand.
"I'll hold your feet and help you inn and out, don't worry, it'll be over before you know it. Besides, it's not like you can carry my weight." "I'm not going to shrink again." He made a hand sign telling Lagoon to open his maw. "No need for that, and I won't be able to help you inn and out if you shrink anyway. So don't get hurt ot scared or whatever. Just don't shrink and it'll all be fine. Now get in while your clothes are still wet."
I cursed under my breath and did as he told me. He gave me a small vial that I put into my pocket and gave me the instruction on how to use it on Imber. If the stuff got on Lagoon I would probably kill the three of us. Lagoon would shrink and our bodies would destroy his while he would suffocate us.
"I better not screw up then." I told him as I he helped me get into Lagoons huge mouth. I felt like I had shrunk again, but I knew I hadn't. Lagoons tongue wasn't like a humans. It could flay me if I moved to much and his teeth were as sharp as razors so I didn't dare hold unto them. I just crawled down his mouth until I couldn't crawl any more.
"If you screw up now. If you loose my feet or something, I swear Sadon, I'll make a living hell for you." And with that he took hold of my feet and lowered me down the huge dragons throat. Sadon kept himself from falling by holding the tongue with his legs.
The inside of Lagoon wasn't what I had expected. It was rougher than a humans and there wasn't as much saliva as I would have thought. He could adjust the length of his neck, making it easier for him to devour food faster and more efficiently. The ability also made me get to the belly in record time. I liked this much more than I had like the way Sadon had devoured me, because I now had a lot more air and I could get out in an instant if I wanted to. That was, of course, if Sadon didn't betray me and if the potion worked.
"Imber!" I yelled, making the whole place echo. How big was it? She woke up. The only thing I could see was her side, she had landed the wrong way and didn't seem to be able to turn. At least that's what I thought.
No, I just found it easier to sleep this way. It's much more cozy. She said after reading my thougts. "Good." I said with a huge relief. "Get your head over here now, you need to get out of there." She turned slowly, trying not to poke Lagoons belly with her horns. He turned her head carefully towards where I lay.
I've already tried getting out of here but I can't. I'm too big and I'll only kill him if I poke holes everywhere. She said distressed. I could only see a small part of her maw, just the nose to be exact.
"Poke your tongue out and drink the potion I give you. But you need to make sure it only gets on you, because it'll make Lagoon shrink if you spill a drop of it. Ergo making us both die and brutally murdering Lagoon from the inside. Not that he doesn't deserve it. He did devour you. Anyhow, are you hurt?" Not the least. I was just sleeping here. Like I said it was quite cozy. Warm walls and all that. I kind of liked it here. Where were you all this time? She showed me her tongue. I grabbed hold of one of her teeth to keep myself steady.
"I'll have to tell you all about it when we get out of here. You could say I was on an adventure myself. Now take the potion and as soon as it works try to--- aaaargh!" my hand hurt so much I almost lost the vial inside her mouth, or his? I had tried to pour just a drop of it unto her tongue but it had worked before time so I wasn't sure if a drop may have spilled into Lagoons stomach.
"Get me out of here!" I yelled kicking with my feet. Sadon took the hint and pulled me out. Imber had bitten me and it hurt badly. She was holding on to me by biting my hand. Well, at least I was able to catch her before something bad happened. I was bleeding rapidly but couldn't do anything about it.
"Are you all right?" Sadon asked as he took me by the waist and pulled me up under his arm. He was holding the uvula and standing on the tongue with one leg and the other pressed against the wall behind the throat.
"I think I may have spilled a drop into Lagoon. We need to get out of here! Wait why is he--" Lagoon closed his maw. Making us fall to out knees. "No, not again!" I pushed Sadon away and began hitting Lagoons teeth with the good hand. Imber was still holding on to the other.
"Nessie," Sadon said putting his hand on my shoulder. I jerked away and kept hitting desperately. "Nessie!" This time he grabbed the hand. I'm not sure how he managed it because it was so dark I couldn't even see my own hand in front of me.
I'm sorry. I got cramps in my jaws. Sadon opened his mouth and let us out. I couldn't remember the last time I had been so happy to see the morning sun.
We crawled out of his mouth, Sadon helped me since Imber just didn't want to let go. She was rather cute when she was as small as a bird, but her deadly teeth were like something out of a nightmare. A cute but deadly thing. Sadon pured the antidote on her head and gave the reast of the vial to me as soon as she turned back to normal.
"Why didn't you shrink again?" He asked as we were about to take our separate ways. I wish we didn't have to though, but his love was too crazy for me. I wasn't prepared for something like that, at least not yet.
"I wasn't scared." I told him smiling honestly to him. "But you were mad, and bled a lot. How did you not get scared?" He watched me carefully, trying to find a logical answer but couldn't.
"Because I know you better than you know yourself. I know that there is no place safer than with you, not for me at least, yet it is the most dangerous place. You would kill and die for me, and you know I would do the same. In the mansion I feared you had lost your feelings towards me, but when I was inside of you I knew that you only wanted to keep me for yourself, to keep me safe." He came closer. His eyes shining brightly.
"Then stay with me, Nessie!" He pleaded. I shock my head.
"I do not fear you, Sadon. But I fear love. Farewell." Imber drew a deep breath and threw her wings up in the air, making us move of the ground. She only looked back once. She said something I couldn't hear to Lagoon and we were off.
You said you went on an adventure, care to tell me? She flew playfully, circling and ducking regularly. The saliva and water in my hair and on my clothes dried slowly and painfully.
"Oh I'll tell you everything. But just let me... sleep for a while." I lay my head down on her neck and snuggled up. Listening to the wind and the scream of a hurt man and the roars of a broken dragon.