“Oh sure nice. I’m sure you are so very pretty to them.” She made a gagging noise as him and chuckled a bit more. He was pretty to look at though that much was sure. “They probably would nab you just to have children with you.”

Once they got to the herd she nodded and split off before she stopped. “JACE!” She yelled at him. “BE CAREFUL.” Her heart rabbited a bit faster at the thought of him getting hurt again before she ran towards the hydras. She spoke to them the way only Rosenites and other forest aligned critters could. “You need to move. The dragon is coming to get the hatchlings.”

She scooped one of the baby rose hydras up and started to herd them. “Come on go faster! We don’t have a lot of time.” That was when the boreas dragon swooped in. The adult hydras got around Remedy as she tried to get back to Jace who was facing off against the beast.

The Boreas dragon must have been able to smell that they were coming because almost as soon as Jace had gotten to a point where he could intercept the dragon, it decided to take wing. It remembered from their previous encounter than he was landlocked and that the beast had the advantage of flight. However, now Jace was able to focus on the dragon alone, and not on Remedy or an egg snatcher. 

As the dragon launched itself upward to glide across the fields of wildflowers to attack the herd, Jace positioned himself directly between the frost dragon and his island charges. With a grunt he heaved this staff up and threw it like a javelin with extreme precision and skill. The staff point struck one of the wing joints and the wing was instantly crippled and it crashed down with an angry roar. Jace sunk into a low stance and stalked towards the dragon. 

"It's about time you and I had a little chat," Jace growled low, his eyes flashing as the spikey fringe on his draconic arm grew and hardened into protective blades. The dragon surged to its feet and tested its wing experimentally. It proved uncooperative, and the dragon turned its icy angry gaze on Jace and roared angrily. Since it couldn't fly, it started running at Jace, charging towards him in hopes of either catching him in its jaws or trampling him. 

Jace in turn ran forward, snatching up his staff as he went. He kept low, and dodged in and out of the dragon's legs, striking it at key points with his staff, making it quite angry. 

It didn’t want to talk to Jace. It just wanted a meal. Jace was looking mighty tasty about now but that loud mouth little one he had been with looked tastier considered how much of a target she was being. The boreas dragon narrowed its eyes on Remedy from a fair and let out a loud roar as it began to charge towards the group.

The hydra circled around Remedy who was with the little ones. “JACE!” She screamed as she watched him literally leap onto the dragon’s face. He probably did it to get the dragon to pay attention to him. Rem’s heart was racing as she tried to get back the hydras. They weren’t letting her through so she hugged the baby closer. “JACE!”

The dragon let out a ferocious roar as it flung its head about and when it finally got Jace off of its face and into the air… The dragon got Jace in its mouth. If it couldn’t chew Jace it was going to try and swallow Jace.

There was a heartbroken cry from Remedy as she busted out of the hydra’s line and ran for the dragon head on. “LET HIM GO GOD DAMN IT” There were actual tears coming from her eyes as she ran for the dragon without a weapon. He wasn’t dead yet… She would have known because she would have been dead too.

When Jace saw that the dragon was willing to leave him alone in exchange for going after Remedy and the herd, he knew he was going to have to do something drastic. So when he got the chance, he used his staff to vault up and over the dragon's neck where he landed square on its head. He grabbed the dragon by the horns and tried to get the dragon to steer itself into the ground. This just irritated the dragon, and it thrashed its head back and forth in an attempt to dislodge Jace.

Jace lost his grip and was sent skyward. He hadn't planned on this. He had no way of controlling where he was going, and as soon as he saw those dragon jaws coming up to snap at him, he made himself as small as possible as the maw closed around him. 

As Remedy broke through the hydras, yelling and screaming at the dragon to let Jace go, the dragon turned its attention back to her and charged at her, content to have another tasty snack. A suddenly look of discomfort and disgust filled its scaley face and it reared back and began acting as though it was choking. It lowered its head to the ground and looked as though it were struggling to keep its jaws closed tight. 

There was a loud grunt, but who from it was hard to tell as the dragon's maw slowly began to part. Jace stood there, feet braced on the dragon's slimy tongue while his arms and back pushed hard against the top of the dragon's mouth. His form seemed changed, scales patching parts of his face, and his eyes shone a fierce amethyst, as draconic horns were sprouting from his head. 

"REMEDY, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! GET THE HERD BACK!!" he growled at her. He slipped slightly on the dragon's tongue and the mouth closed for a moment before he forced it open again. Carefully, he reached out of the dragon's mouth and grabbed his staff. He forced the dragon's mouth open as wide as he could and wedged the staff in place long enough for him to exit the jaw without begin caught by the teeth. 

"All right, now you over grown scaly pain in the ass," he said to the dragon as he walked around and grabbed it by the eyelid. "That's enough out of you!" The aura that Jace was putting off at that moment was one of ancient draconic lineage, and the Boreas dragon's eye widened for a moment before it stopped still and stared at him. 

Remedy was ready to fight it but one of the Hydra’s grabbed her by the back of her shirt. She watched as Jace got a handle on the situation. He was actually yelling at her. The herd had been back though but when she sprinted the herd that went to get her. “IT WAS BACK YOU PIECE OF SHIT.” She was fighting the hydra to let her go. She wanted to help him. Her little heart was going about as fast it could.

The hydras moved back and took Remedy with them. Dropping her on her ass. All of the hatchlings came around her which made it impossible for her to move. “FINE, you win.” Some of the smaller ones got on her lap and made all sorts of noises at her. “Don’t be cute with me.”

However, it was the aura that was surging through her body now that made her start to hack and cough. It was almost suffocating her. The hydras let out a distressed call to Jace as Remedy eventually passed out from the intense magic.

When Remedy passed out, Jace was in the process of carefully removing the staff from the Boreas Dragon's mouth. It had agreed to be calm and still in exchange for the removal. Jace didn't let his aura drop until the staff had been removed and he heard the hydras crying out to him about Remedy. He looked at the dragon. "Don't you move," he ordered and he turned and jogged over to the herd. The hydras were going on and on about his aura choking her. Alarmed that he might have been hurting her, he released the aura and his draconic features receded to their normal state. He lightly tapped Remedy's cheeks, and called out her name to try and get her to wake up.    "Remedy! Wake up!" He lifted her up into a sitting position and continued tapping her cheeks.

Once her eyes fluttered open, he sighed and sat back again. "Ok, I know I am amazing and all, but seriously? I didn't think you liked me enough to swoon over me like that." The hydras around them let out cries that might have been considered laughter as the hatchlings nuzzled the two of them. "You ok?" he asked as he stood up and offered her his claw.

Remedy sputtered awake like she had been in a daze. His words were barely reaching her. “Shut the fuck up… You are killing my head.” She rubbed her eyes to hide that she had been crying over him. The last thing she needed was him to catch onto that.

“Was not swooning over you. I was worried you were going to get me killed. So I went and I was going to help you but then you were all ‘No Remedy get back to the herd.’ and the hydras picked me up and put me back like a damn doll.”

She heard the laughter and gave her own as she took his claw and got up. “I’m alright. Just wasn’t prepared for something that intense.” She staggered a bit with her movement and looked at the boreas dragon. “Damn I missed it giving in?” She looked so tired now like her body hadn’t been prepared to deal with that.

The little ones came over and rubbed on her legs. “I’m alright little ones.” She rubbed their heads softly and released she was still holding onto Jace. “Give me back my hand.” She pulled her hand back and stuck out her tongue.

"Nice to know that someone had the good sense to grab you—wait, were you CRYING over me?" he asked as she wiped her cheeks. "See, now, I'm touched. You were WORRIED about me!" 

He let go of her hand like she demanded, though it had been HER that had been holding his. "Yeah, while you were busy fainting, I was actually getting something done," he chuckled. He moved passed the hydras and walked back up to the dragon and stood directly in front of its snout. Like he had ordered, the dragon had remained absolutely still. 

"Now, let's make something clear. You will not venture out of Glaciem with intent of snacking on the other dragons again. You have plenty to eat in Glaciem. You will not attack me, and you will not attack Remedy. You will let me do my rounds in Glaciem unhindered. I will respect you, and you will respect me. Fair?"

The dragon got a very offended look on its face and narrowed its eyes at Jace. 
"Well?" Jace asked. 

"I don't suppose I have any choice," the Boreas Dragon conceded. 
"Not if we want to remain friends."
The dragon scoffed and rolled its eyes, but growled in defeat. "Fine…"

"That's what I want to hear," Jace grinned. "Now, get out of here," he said, pointing back to Glaciem. The Boreas Dragon didn't have to be told twice. It got up off the ground and tested out its wing before it took off towards its own territory. He heaved a sigh of relief as the hydras came over and nipped and nudged at him.

"That could have been a lot worse," he said, as he scratched the neck of one of the hydras. He heaved a deep breath and turned back to Remedy. "I don't know about you, but I think I am done for the day," he said as he ran his claw through his hair. He pulled his claw away and made a face at the smelly slime it came away with. 

"What did I expect? It probably had dead knights rotting between its molars…"

“NO, I got something in my eye when your dumbass got eaten by the dragon that’s all.” Remedy huffed up at him. “I was not worried about you. Worried about you killing me maybe.”

The discussion with the dragon went well and Remedy took a sigh of relief. “Oh gross you smell terrible.” She picked him up over her shoulder and hauled him back to the house. “You smell like gross rotten fish.” She threw him into the water and let out a noise as he pulled her in with him.

“JACE!” At first, she flailed in the water. “Son of a bitch,” she gasped as she started to immediately strip off her heavy clothes. “Everything is soaked…” She threw off her top and her pants and flailed about until she stopped dead and realized he was in the water with her.

“WHAT?!”

Remedy was an incredibly deceptive individual. Outwardly she didn't look like she could lift anything heavier than maybe twenty pounds, let alone a full grown man. She was light too, which made her picking HIM up like a doll and carrying him all the way back to Venti going on about how badly he smelled. When she went to throw him into the large hot spring there, he held on to her arm and dragged her in with him. 

When he surfaced he had a big grin on his face as she yelled at him. What he hadn't expected was for her to immediately start stripping down. He gawked for a moment, trying to process exactly what she was doing. 

"Wait, Rem, what are you—-ayayay…" he turned his back to her, and used his hands to push his hair and water out of his face. "You know, if you didn't want me to pull you in, you really should have not carried me back here on your shoulder," he said with a slightly nervous chuckle. As if sensing their return via scent, Gogi was flying above them and dropped a bar of Sularian soap into Jace's hand. 

He cleared his throat and offered her the soap without turning to look at her. "Here… might as well use it since you've gotten undressed…"