Braving the Flames

Chapter 12: Fighting the Sickness

Inferno and Aggro were disgusted. They had woke up early when they felt something...icky mixing in with their water form, only to discover that the dream was real and they were now inside the stomach of a sick Riptide. Worse, looking around they found that there was a layer of sludge building up from the sickness, and their water forms had pulled it off the walls and mixed it with them and the stomach acids and it was somehow stopping them from changing back.

"Oh great! Not again!" Aggro groaned in annoyance upon realizing that she and Inferno were yet again in the stomach of a dragon. "This is like the third time that this has happened!"

Inferno sighed deeply and took in a breath through her nose, trying not to gag at the terrible stench.

"So we do we now?" Aggro asked to brake the silence that followed. "How do we get out of this one?"

Inferno looked down at her feet in thought. "I think we should try to find a way out of here, and if we can't, then maybe we can try to fight off some of the sickness inside of Riptide's body."

Aggro didn't look happy at hearing what would happen if they couldn't find their way out, but she nodded her head in agreement with her mate's suggestion nonetheless.

The first thing they tried was to try and form into the water to float to the bloodstream, but it didn't work and they were shot backwards into a fleshy wall.

The second plan they came up with was to enter through Riptide's watersack. But upon entering the chamber that her sack was located, they soon found out that it was infected with a sorts of nasty stuff.

"yuck! That's absolutely disgusting!" Aggro muttered while backing away from the overwhelming stench. "No wonder Riptide's been so sick! Her watersack's infested with infected fish and other stuff that I don't even want to know about!"

After the last two failed attempts they decided to try one more this time swirling themselves around until all the sludge was in a single clump before Aggro slowly seperated her water and with no sludge was able to turn back into herself, before glaring at the sludge and burning it. Allowing Inferno to change back as well, glad that her fire fury side prevented more of her water from evaporating.

Suddenly they felt the stomach groan as they were pushed against the flesh where they could just hear the others through the flesh.

"Oooh!" Riptide groaned, shifting her body and slowly opening her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Sapphire asked, patting over and taking a seat next to Riptide.

"It felt like a wave of heat went through my stomach," Riptide moaned. "Though strangely I feel somewhat better now."

"Maybe you managed to fight off some of the sickness," Eclipse said with a thoughtful look forming on her face. "And if that's the case, it means you'll be better in no time."

Riptide slowly nodded and gave the younger dragon a small smile.

"Hey where are Inferno and Aggro?" Tempest noted while looking around for the two fire dragons.

"I think they're still sleeping in the cup," Nightshade replied while glancing over at said cup still sitting on the table. "Probably for the best with Riptide vomiting on them last night they might have gotten some of the sickness in them. Let them rest for today, and tomorrow we can check on them just in case they need help as well."

"Okay." The others agreed before settling back down to sleep or do other various things like chatting quietly to one another or staring up at the ceiling.

Aggro and Inferno were then forced away from the stomach wall by Riptide getting up.

"So by destroying the sludge I made Riptide feel temporarily more pain, before feeling better." Aggro said with a confused ylook on her face.