Sophia showed Nathan’s group so more of her domain while also explaining even more about her portals and how to use them while traveling. Afterward, she brought everyone to the cottage so they could et Steph, Chloe, Aura, and Fen, since not all of them had seen each other yet.
"How's the ship, by the way?" Maya looked at Steph with a questioning expression. Nathan and his group had left for the castle again after having gotten to know everyone better because they wanted to make so plans for their future travels. Fen and Aura had also gone to Kel because they wanted to play, so it was only the girls left in the cottage’s living room. “You were all alone on it after I left with Sophia and Luca, so I’m sure you gave it a try, right?”
“It was amazing!” The dog-girl instantly admitted to it and looked at her with sparkling eyes. “The rocking and swinging caused by the waves is an amazing addition to playti!”
“It was, uhh, rather pleasurable.” Chloe agreed with her. “Though, it’s rather hard to tell whether it was because of the waves or Steph being even more motivated than usual.”
“I was very excited!" Steph's tail wagged even more while sounding proud of it.
“I think we need to do more research to see whether it was thanks to the boat or my excited puppy.” The fox-girl let out a small chuckle.
“Let’s go!” She liked the sound of that.
“It’s Sophia’s and my turn first, though!” Maya stopped the energetic dog-girl. “You may have called first dibs, but that’s it. I already claid the second round!”
“I think it’s only fair that everyone should get their turn first.” Ari sided with the cat-girl.
“Ohh!” Hearing that, Anna happily clapped her hands while smiling at the jaguar.
“I’m surrounded by perverts.” Sophia only lightly shook her head.
“As if you don’t want to have sex on the boat!” Maya didn’t believe her for even a second.
“I never said that I don’t.” The blonde stuck out her tongue while looking at her.
“Good.” The cat-girl was relieved to hear that, and now that she had gotten what she wanted, or will get, she thought of a different topic to talk about. “What is the plan? Luca and the others went back to the castle for the ti being, but what is the long-term goal? Are we going to travel together?”
“No.” Sophia shook her head. “Well, at least not all the ti. I’m sure we’ll et each other a lot in the future, but the four still want to do their own thing. I kind of want to do the sa, too. Nina and especially Vivi were pretty cool because they took being fairly well, but I want to pick up our pace. Not that Luca and Nathan aren’t great people, of course! They’re amazing~." She smiled at Anna and Maya at the end.
“Fair enough.” The two weren’t surprised or upset that the blonde preferred the pretty and brave girls over their permanently flabbergasted brothers.
“What exactly do you an by picking up our pace…?” Ari thought she heard sothing rather concerning. “Weren’t we already speeding like crazy?”
“Aura and I learned sothing new and amazing about Kelkel that made getting to the demon continent as fast as possible our absolute top priority!” The blonde gave her a thumbs-up.
“Tell EVERYTHING!” Hearing that, Steph imdiately moved closer to her sister and stared at her with wide, sparkling eyes. "What did you find out this ti without letting in on the fun?!"
“I also just heard about what Mira told Aura, okay?” Sophia tried to defend herself.
“Don’t care! Details, please!”
“Apparently, our Kel isn’t your regular dragon, but the elder water dragon, which basically ans he’s the boss of every single aquatic dragon!”
“Wow!”
“Even better, there’s an elder dragon of every main elent, as well as a bunch more, like lightning or poison! That ans there's a whole bunch of them out there, and Aura wants to fight every single one of them, while I want all of them inside my domain for them to have fun and create their very own thed bio!"
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“Wait, that’s so cool!” The dog-girl got even more excited. “We have to find all of them! Also, I call first dibs on the fire elder dragon! I'm fireproof after all, so I might have a chance of beating them! Kel, being the water one, was a bad match for !"
“Sure thing!” The blonde just smiled at her.
“I don’t think you’re that fireproof.” Ari had her doubts about the plan.
“It’s fine~.” Steph didn’t share her concern. "Do you really think Fey, the partner of Mira, who trained and caused my resistance, would be weaker than a dragon?”
“Hah.” She paused for a second. “I guess you actually have a point there. Though, even if fire doesn’t hurt you, do you have any ans of hurting a dragon of Kel’s caliber? You weren’t able to scratch him, after all. Even if you could withstand the fire, the best outco would still be a draw, right?”
“I like you a lot less when you make logical argunts!” The dog-girl started pouting.
“Hehe.” Ari let out a small chuckle.
“Do you know where they are?” Chloe also got curious about the dragons. “I’d very much like to befriend the ice elder dragon if they exist!”
“Ohh!” Steph liked that idea a lot.
“I don’t.” Sophia shook her head. “Mira apparently didn’t want to tell Aura about their positions.”
"That does sound like sothing she'd do." The fox-girl wasn’t surprised by that.
“Well, Kel knows where so of them used to be, so we’ll at least have a bit of a lead. Also, as dragons seem to be abundant on the demon continent, that will be the best place to start our search.” The blonde nodded a few tis. “I don’t know if the elder dragon of nightmares will also be there, though. It might also be possible for them to be on one of the poles of the continent.”
“I know you just said that because you don’t like ice and cold, but ’Elder Dragon of Nightmares’ goes hard!” Steph liked that na. “How high are the chances that sothing or soone like that exists?”
"There's supposed to be an elder dragon of every elent, and there is darkness magic, soo…” Sophia shrugged. “There might actually be sothing quite close to it.”
“Let’s go!”
“We’re still going to my hotown, right?” Maya was curious about that part.
“Of course!” The short tiger smiled at her. “The general plan of heading to your ho and then into the monster country still stands. I just want to speed it up a little more because there’s no need to place portals for us anymore. Except the one in your ho, that is.”
“Aweso!” She looked happy about that. “Though, is rushing there really the best option? Like, a lot of things have changed since the last ti we were there, and you probably have a lot of explaining to do once we et so people there. Don’t you need so ti to prepare for that?”
“That would be the clever decision, yes.” Sophia agreed with her.
“But you don’t do clever decisions.” Maya understood her reasoning.
“Exactly!” She just nodded. “Also, what good will it do ? Even if I co up with a fancy and elaborate plan, which I won’t, I wouldn’t stick to it and just improvise in the middle of it, anyway. So, why even bother?”
“That does sound like you.” They all had the sa reaction.
“I will agree that it’s going to be complicated, though.” The blonde awkwardly scratched her cheek. “Not that you won’t have a much easier ti with Chiyo. Explaining youand to her is going to be your job.”
“Ah.” The cat-girl froze. “Wait, you actually rember her na?!”
“Of course!” Sophia started pouting. “She was cute!”
“Fair.” She had no complaints with her reasoning for rembering it.
“Who’s Chiyo?” The other girls looked confused.
“She’s an adventurer who lives in my hotown.” Maya shrugged. “Soone who had a very obvious crush on Sophia.” She then paused for a second. “Also, soone I told I had no feelings for Sophia.”
“Oh.” Ari, Anna, Steph, and Chloe had the sa reaction.
“T-To be fair, I actually did think that I had no feelings for her back when I ntioned that.”
“I don’t think that’s going to help you.” Ari slowly shook her head.
“I know…” Maya hung her head. “I just hope that Dannie finally made a move. That would make things so much easier!”
“Who’s Dannie?” The girls were unable to follow the conversation.
“She’s also soone who lives there. She’s in love with Chiyo, but never had the courage to confess.”
“Why would she-” Ari started talking, but then imdiately stopped. "I never said anything. Ignore that I opened my stupid mouth."
"Good." Sophia and Maya stared at her while slowly shaking their heads. After all, she had no right to say anything regarding that topic.
“Sorry.”
“Anyway, back to the previous topic, sort of, aren’t you glad that Kel turned out to be the elder dragon of all water dragons?” The blonde smiled at the jaguar.
“Why?” She just looked confused.
“He’s going to accompany us when we’re crossing the ocean to reach the demon continent, and you were worried about monsters, right? Do you think there’s anything in the ocean that would and or could pick a fight with the boss of all aquatic dragons?”
“Ohh!” Ari happily clapped her hands. “I suddenly feel a lot more relaxed about that trip!”
“Great to hear!” Sophia let out a small chuckle. “You good, too, Maya?”
“That’s definitely the best-case scenario here.” She nodded in agreent.
“I seriously can’t wait!” Steph, as usual, only got more excited about it the more they talked about it. “Especially with all the new potential dragon friends we’ll et!”
Once that topic was taken care of, the girls got curious about Chiyo and Dannie again, as well as Sophia and Maya’s involvent in all of that, so the group kept chit-chatting for another hour or two afterward.
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