Aerial Acrobatics

“Ok, now dodge and counter attack!” John commanded Yatina, who obediently followed orders by performing an aileron roll, commonly miscalled a barrel roll thanks to a certain Nintendo property, to get behind Idena. Once behind her, Yatina let loose a torrent of magical breath attacks that Idena was unable to fully dodge, scorching the tip of her left wing, which caused her to spiral down to the ground and land with a loud THUD.

“Owowowowowowow!” cried the harpy while the whelp happily flew around her head and purred. Idena reached out with her hands to which Yatina flew into. Idena pulled her close and hugged her while Yatina rubbed her cheeks with her muzzle. “Oh I can’t stay mad at you! You’re too cute!” Yatina let out an approving roar in response. John walked over to the girls and gave each of them a pat on the head.

“Good work, girls! This training has gone exceptionally well!” he said with a smile on his face. Idena returned his smile while Yatina gave his face a lick. After John and Idena had a quick but passionate sex session, John had decided to check on Yatina. When he came back in, he found corpses littering the main hall and Yatina had gained 3 levels, raising her to level 4. Through their training, Yatina had learned how to do a breath attack in both a single stream and in ball form. John thought it was strange that Yatina didn’t have the traditional fire breath like he always saw in movies or most games. Rather, her’s was translucent with a slight purplish tint to it. It also had some weird side effects if one was hit with it for a prolonged period of time.

2 hours earlier

“What…happened here?” John said as his eyes scanned the main hall of his castle which was now covered in corpses. That’s when John heard a happy roar as Yatina divebombed him from the rafters, plowing into his chest and forcing them both onto the floor.

-35 HP

“Oww. That’s the most painful glomp ever I think,” John said as his baby dragon repeatedly licked his face in her happiness to be reunited with her master. John patted her head as he continued to receive her barrage of licks. Idena, once she recovered from her fit of laughter when she saw Yatina bum rush John, came over to the two of them and started petting the whelp. “Well, you’ve clearly been busy,” John said as he stared at the pile of carcasses that remained of Yatina’s meals, to which she let out a happy yelp. “Well, what do you say we do some combat training?” asked John, to which both girls happily agreed to as all three went outside.
The next 30 minutes had Yatina and Idena doing aerial acrobatics as the two basically played tag in the air. John had decided to start with Idena testing out Yatina’s flying skills and improve those first and foremost. She is certainly skilled at flying, with being able to keep up with Idena’s more and more advanced maneuvers. I can’t wait until she’s a bit bigger and I can ride her into battle! thought John as he swelled with pride as his faithful harpy and dragon whelp danced in the skies.
“Ok, girls, let’s do some combat training,” John informed them, to which they flew back down near John. “Ok, Yatina, can you do any breath attacks?” John asked his whelp, who gave him a quizzical look as she turned her head in confusion. “You know, summon fire or something and breathe it out!” John had no idea how to properly explain what he wanted Yatina to do. After a moment, Yatina inhaled deeply and let out a jerked flow of the translucent, purple fire. Once done, Yatina looked at John with eyes that asked if she did well. When she saw a huge smile on John’s face, her entire body felt warm and happiness flowed through her so much that she tried again and let loose a proper flow of fire from her mouth.

“Ooooo, it’s kinda pretty!” Idena noted as she watched the whelp practice her new attack. Another 20 minutes of practicing the attack and Yatina was able to perform the attack in a conical breath attack as well as in a fireball form.

“Ok, now let’s practice fighting!” John announced as the two females nodded. John had the two go to separate sides of the field just outside the castle. Idena started out using long range magic attacks, hurling lightning at the young dragon who, thanks to Idena’s earlier training, was able to dodge the attacks. John could tell that Idena wasn’t trying 100% to attack Yatina, rather she wanted to give the whelp experience in dealing with ranged attacks. When Yatina got close enough to counter attack, Idena let loose a blast of wind that blew the dragon backwards, causing her to tumble in the air and hit the ground. After a few seconds, she got back up on the ground, let out a snarl, and unleashed a trio of fireballs at Idena. The attack caught her completely off guard and she took all three blasts to her chest. Yatina, sensing the opening, got close to Idena and released a breath attack that engulfed Idnea.

“YATINA, STOP!” cried John as he rushed over to Idena, who cried out in pain. Yatina immediately stopped and cowered, afraid she had angered her master. John made it to Idena and saw her engulfed in the translucence flames as she laid on the ground. John picked up her head and torso, crying out her name. Suddenly, her eyes burst open and shoved John away, sending him back a foot. Idean shot up, and just stared at John.

“They come, they come! From their homes outside space, they shall return!” she said in an ominous tone. “The stars that fell to the vengeful light shall arise from the ashes! Their storm shall engulf the world in flames!” she yelled, a wicked smile on her face. John noticed that the flames were slowly dissipating. Idena just stood there, with that wicked smile on her face, staring directly at John. Her eyes then darted over to Yatina and the smile grew even wider. She let out a laugh, a twisted laugh full of dread and despair. This lasted for 5 long minutes, all the while John could see his King’s Mark glow radiantly on Idena’s body. Finally, the flames disappeared from Idena and she collapsed. Both John and Yatina rushed to her side.

“Idena? Idena! Can you hear me?” pleaded John, worried that his faithful servant was going to die. After a moment, Idena’s eyes slowly opened.

“Ugh. W-what happened, master?” Idena asked in a hoarse voice. “My head feels like someone just squeezed it like a fruit trying to get the juice out…” she mumbled, clearly weak from her trauma.

“I…I don’t know, Idena,” John admitted. “Something happened to you when Yatina attacked you with her breath attacks. You became covered in fire and started saying these weird things, and then you just stared at Yatina and I and just laughed,” John told her, Idena’s eyes went wide as she heard what happened.

“I-I didn’t hurt you did I, master?” asked Idena as tears formed in her eyes. John pulled her head to his chest and patted her head.

“No, of course not! Your love clearly stopped whatever happened to you from hurting me,” John said. “I know you’d never hurt me!” Idena smiled when she heard her master say such a sweet thing to her. They spent another 30 minutes holding each other as Idena recovered from her experience.

Back to the present

“Ok, what do you say we go another round?” John asked the harpy and whelp.

“I will if you command it, master, but I am tired. We’ve been doing this for a while,” Idena told John, with Yatina giving a bark in agreement with her.

“Fine, fine! We can take a break!” John said as he threw his arms up in mock protest.

“Thank you, master!” Idena happily said as she bounced up and kissed him passionately on the lips while Yatina gave them both a loving lick on their cheeks.