---The Next Morning---
Leonidas was woken-up by Rachelle. Rachelle was licking her father’s cheek but when she saw that he was awake, she then nuzzled her father’s cheek. Leonidas then smiled and rubbed noses with his little girl. Rachelle rubbed noses back and then placed a kiss on her father’s cheek. Leonidas then smiled and then got out of bed as Rachelle then jumped on his back. Leonidas then walked with Rachelle down to the Dining Hall and he noticed that he and Rachelle were the first ones awake, that sure is a first. Leonidas then walked out onto one of the open windows of the Dining Hall and noticed that it was only sunrise. Leonidas thought that he could have kept sleeping by now, but since he’s awake, I don’t really see how he can fall back asleep seeing how everyone else is gonna be up soon. So Leonidas just sat down at the table and placed his little girl down on the table in front of him. Rachelle then smiled and just sat down and looked around the table looking at all the fancy things she’ll get to use when she got older. Leonidas then looked over to the moles in the kitchen and saw that only half of them were awake so he decided to wait for all of them to wake-up. After all the moles had finally woken-up Leonidas then nodded to them. The moles then began making both his and Rachelle’s breakfast. While the moles were preparing Leonidas and Rachelle’s meals Spyro and Cynder walked in, “Morning brother.” Cynder said. “Morning sister, Spyro.” Leonidas said. “Morning Leonidas.” Spyro said looking to Rachelle on the table. Rachelle looked to her aunt with her swishing behind her. Cynder then walked over to little Rachelle and nuzzled her niece and said, “Good morning little one.” Spyro then nuzzled Rachelle and also said, “Good morning little Rachelle.” Leonidas then smiled and looked and watched as the moles came out with he and Rachelle’s meals. When the moles placed Rachelle’s meal down in front of her she began eating it piece by piece. Leonidas then began eating his breakfast and was actually quite fascinated by the moles cooking. Spyro and Cynder had their meals brought out to them and began eating as well. As the four Dragons continued eating, the guardians started coming in to join them. When Leonidas had his parents on both sides of him he was actually quite comfortable, and yet Cynthia wrapped one of her wings around her son and placed a good luck kiss on his cheek. Leonidas was a little embarrassed but he only blushed lightly and placed a kiss on his mother’s cheek. Cynthia then blushed a little back but was a little embarrassed as well. Terrador smiled and wrapped one of his wings around both his son and his mate. Leonidas and Cynthia then looked over to Terrador and both gave him a hug. Terrador then hugged his family back and then placed them both down in front of their meals, considering that Leonidas was already done, so Leonidas nuzzled Rachelle and then gave his sister a hug and then left and started his walk towards the Arena.
Arriving at the Arena, Leonidas found out that he was supposed to be teaming up with a Fire Dragoness named Wilmfe. While Leonidas walked around he noticed a pink Dragoness that caught his eye, and yet he was absolutely intrigued that a little thirteen year old Dragoness was in this tournament along with her friends. When Leonidas looked up to her mother she noticed that she was a red Dragoness that looked a bit like Ignitus did, but Leonidas walked over to her and said, “Hello.” The Dragoness looked to Leonidas and asked, “Hello, are you Leonidas?” “Yes, are you Wilmfe?” Leonidas asked. “Yes, I am.” Wilmfe said with a smile. “It looks like we’re gonna be teaming up in our next match.” Leonidas said. “Hmm, this should be fun.” Wilmfe said. “Though if I were you, I’d watch out for my Black Fire breath.” Leonidas said in a warning tone. “Black Fire breathe, really?” Wilmfe asked. “Yep, no joke.” Leonidas said in a serious tone. “Then show me your Black Fire breath.” Wilmfe said. “Then please come outside with me.” Leonidas said walking towards the entrance of the Arena. Wilmfe then put Ember up on her back and walked outside behind Leonidas. “You ready to see this?” Leonidas asked. “You better believe I am.” Wilmfe said. “What exactly are we seeing mom?” Ember asked her mother a bit confused. “Watch, and you’ll see.” Wilmfe said. Ember looked to Leonidas and was very surprised with his size and noticed that he was a few inches taller than her mother was. Leonidas then faced up towards the sky and then unleashed a huge stream of Black Fire. Wilmfe and Ember looked on in complete shock. After a few moments Leonidas then stopped the stream and looked over to Wilmfe and Ember, who were both completely shocked. Leonidas then walked back inside running his tail along the wrist of Wilmfe’s paws. Wilmfe then noticed how sharp Leonidas’ tail was and then looked to hers but noticed that hers was nothing compared to Leonidas’, ‘He could kill someone with that thing.’ Wilmfe said in her head. Ember was saying in her head, ‘I hope that he and my mother can work together in their match.’ Wilmfe then walked back inside and placed Ember back by her friends and then went around looking for Leonidas and then, finding him a few moments later in the VIP area and sat down next to him watching the match that was currently going on. Leonidas watched on as he saw the match that he thought would last a life time, it was a his two older brother’s Murghus and Demetrius fighting it out in the Arena, considering that yesterday, he beat both his brother’s yesterday. Wilmfe then scooted a little closer to Leonidas and tried intertwining tail with Leonidas but, Leonidas looked to Wilmfe in a little bit of confusion. Wilmfe looked back at Leonidas but couldn’t help but look at his red eyes. Leonidas then took a moment to intertwine tails with Wilmfe. Wilmfe then smiled and pressed her head against Leonidas’ shoulder and closed her eyes a little feeling like she had someone she can stay with. Though Leonidas didn’t feel comfortable with this and knowing that his mate was watching somewhere, he just decided to go with it. Leonidas and Wilmfe then looked to the trajectory of the sun and noticed that it was time for their match to begin. Leonidas then teleported himself and Wilmfe to the gates to enter the Arena, as the officials opened the gates Leonidas and Wilmfe then walked into the arena, then they looked across the arena and looked to their opponents and they both knew at that moment sweet time was over and they had to pull off some pretty good combo moves and have each other’s back. Leonidas then looked up into the stands and saw Nightfire along with the rest of the Platinum-Force watching. Wilmfe looked up into the VIP area and saw Ember along with her friends watching. Leonidas and Wilmfe saw that they were up against two Fire Dragonesses. Wilmfe took on the weakest one while Leonidas took on the strongest one. Leonidas just blasted a Black fire ball at the Dragoness in front of him and like a light-bulb she was down and out. Wilmfe then smiled and blasted the hottest stream of fire at her opponent that she possibly could and she was down for the count. After a few moments the announcer said, “The winners of this match is the team of Wilmfe and Leonidas the Dragons.” Leonidas and Wilmfe then gave each other a hug and then went into the back where Ember was the first one to greet Wilmfe and then Anna and Sedarah came out of nowhere and gave Leonidas a hug. Nightfire know that the hug that Leonidas gave Wilmfe was a sportsmanship hug and yet she wasn’t angry at all and was very proud of her mate for being a good sportsman and was also proud of him for how strong he was. Leonidas and Wilmfe then looked to each other and then Wilmfe said, “Thank you Leonidas.” “You’re welcome Wilmfe.” Leonidas said. Even though Leonidas thought about staying he didn’t wanna stay too long so he decided to leave and went home to his parents and his daughter.
Leonidas then walked to his parents room and knocked on the door and then heard his mother say, “Come in Leonidas.” Leonidas then opened the door and walked into his parent’s room. “Why are you home so early dear?” Cynthia asked. “I thought that maybe I should spend some more time with my little girl instead of just staying focused on the tournament.” Leonidas said with a smile. Cynthia then smiled and placed a kiss on her son’s cheek and then said, “That’s a wonderful thing to hear sweetie.” Leonidas then looked to Rachelle who was lying on the bed with her eyes open. Cynthia then took Rachelle off the bed and placed her on her father’s back. Rachelle then, she made herself comfy on her father’s back and curled up into a little ball. Leonidas smiled and then gave his mother a kiss on her cheek and then left with Rachelle. Rachelle climbed up her father’s neck all the way up to his head and then looked around at where her father was walking. Leonidas smiled then tilted his head back and had Rachelle slide back down to his back. Rachelle then giggled and thought that the slide was actually very fun. Leonidas then walked into his room and slid Rachelle off his back and down onto his bed and placed a kiss on her forehead. Rachelle then nuzzled her father back in response. Leonidas then heard a knock on his door; he used his Shadow sight ability to see that it was Cynder and then said, “Come in sister.” Cynder then opened the door and walked inside and closed the door behind her, and then she asked, “How did it go in the tournament today?” “It went actually very well today.” Leonidas said. “I heard you were Teaming up with a Fire Dragoness named Wilmfe.” Cynder said. “Yeah, I did.” Leonidas said. “What happened in the match?” Cynder asked. “We won.” Leonidas said. Cynder then went wide eyed and asked, “You and Wilmfe were able to work together in the match to win?” “Yeah, also I saw that she had a daughter about your age named, Ember.” Leonidas said. “Was she a pink Dragoness?” Cynder asked. “Yep, Ember was actually seemed really cute.” Leonidas said. Cynder then gave her brother a hug. Leonidas hugged Cynder back. Cynder then looked to Rachelle and licked her cheek. Rachelle smiled and licked Cynder’s cheek back.
Later at nightfall, Leonidas was leaving the dining hall for dinner and had Rachelle on his back that had finished her dinner and was very tired. Leonidas smiled and as he walked closer to him and Rachelle’s room, he looked out to the starry sky and then thought about having Nightfire by his side to see what a beautiful site it was. Leonidas then reached him and Rachelle’s room and placed Rachelle down on the pillow. Rachelle then let out a big yawn and then after a few moments she curled up into a ball and fell asleep. Leonidas smiled at the site of this and then placed a kiss on Rachelle’s cheek. Rachelle smiled in her sleep. Leonidas then heard a silent knock on his door, he walked over to his door and opened it and saw that it was his parents. “Can we come in son?” Terrador asked. “Yeah, but your gonna have to be quiet, I just put Rachelle asleep.” Leonidas said. Cynthia and Terrador came quietly into Leonidas’ room trying their best not to wake-up the sleeping Rachelle. “Is there something you guys wanna talk about?” Leonidas asked. “Actually yes there is.” Terrador said. “It’s about if you become the Fire Guardian sweetie.” Cynthia said. “What about it, if I become the Fire Guardian?” Leonidas asked. “If you become the Fire Guardian, we’re gonna put you as second in command.” Terrador said with a smile. “Really, I’m gonna be second in command?” Leonidas asked a bit shocked. “Of course, Cyril and Volteer have agreed to it as well.” Terrador said. “Awesome, then I’m gonna make sure that I keep winning.” Leonidas said. “Good, with that attitude you’ll never lose.” Terrador said patting his son’s back. “For now sweetie, you should get some rest.” Cynthia said. “Alright, I will.” Leonidas said giving his father a hug and giving his mother a kiss. Leonidas then layed down on his bed laying his head on the pillow next too Rachelle and held her close to him and then closed his eyes and then fell asleep. Rachelle then layed next to her father’s muzzle and fell back asleep. Terrador and Cynthia then quietly left leaving Leonidas and Rachelle to sleep in peace.
To Be Continued…………………………..
