Fantasy Made Reality 52

It took some time to calm down Anna and Hayley after the encounter with the Whispering Death.
Hayley was having a serious freak out while Anna was just cowering in fear.
I just held the girls close to me in the hopes that doing so would calm them down.
Anna seemed to calm down first, a whimpering mess but calm either way.
Hayley took a while longer. She was thoroughly scared from the ordeal and nothing I was doing wasn’t helping to settle her down.
But then Anna mentioned that their mother would let her sister lay on their mother’s belly. The soft cushiness of their mother’s fat belly had a calming effect on Hayley and always seemed to settle her.
So laying against a tree, I placed Hayley on my belly and hoped that it was soft enough to calm her.
It took some time but she went from violent shaking to steady trembling.
I tried petting her but that startled her and cause the violent shaking to return.
So I just let her just lay on my belly, not touching her at all.
Doing this worked and after sometime, Hayley had actually fallen asleep on my belly, cutely curled up and breathing softly.
I have to admit, it was pretty cute.
And since I had a sleeping cub on me, we couldn’t continue on. So Lance made up a campsite for us until Hayley was ready to travel again.
“I bored.” Anna then whined after Lance had left to get dinner.
“I know sweetie.” I said as I held her aside my side, Hayley still sleeping comfortably on my belly. “But Lance will be back soon with food and he’ll play with you okay?”
“Otay.” She said softly as she leaned against me.
After a moment, I then saw her looking over her shoulders to eye her remaining wing and the bandages. She stretched out her only wing before looking to the other side, as if wondering why her missing wing wasn’t working.
“Anna?” I then spoke after a minute as she kept looking back and forth at her wing and the bandages. “what’s wrong?”
“Why….Why wing no work?” She asked as I saw tears welling up in her eyes. “No feel wing. I no feel wing.”
I sighed heavily as I looked at her. “Anna…..you’re wing……it…..its not there anymore.”
“Why?” She asked as the look on her face just broke my heart. “Why no wing dere?”
Sitting up a bit and being carefully of Hayley, I picked Anna up and placed her on my belly. “Sweetie. Remember the pain you were in? Before it went missing?”
Anna sniffled as she nodded at me. “Uh huh. It really hurted.”
“Well. Castella told me that even if it healed right, you would have been in pain for the rest of your life.” I explained to her as gently as I could. “So…she…..she had to remove it. So that you wouldn’t be in pain anymore. Nor have to live with it for the rest of your life.”
The little one just stared at me for a moment before she started crying. “I no have wing anymore! I no fly! Make wing come back!”
I watched the cub sadly as she just broke down. I then reached out and pulled her into my arms, cuddling her close to me.
“Want wing back Miss Ame!” She cried as she sobbed on my chest.
“I know Anna.” I said softly as I fought back my own tears. “I know. And maybe someday you will. But for now, you…..you’re grounded.”
Anna then sobbed harder. “No grounded! I no want grounded! I no want die!”
I held her tighter, recalling the rule that a downed dragon is a dead one.
I just held her tighter against me. “Anna you won’t die! I promise you that you won’t die!”
Anna then looked up at me with her tear filled green eyes.
Sighing, I then nuzzled her. “Anna you’re going to be okay. You won’t die from having one wing. Technology has seriously advanced since the Viking ages. So hopefully, we’ll find someone out there that can craft a prosthetic wing for you.”
“But….but what if no help make new wing?” She asked as she snuggled herself into my arms.
“They will Anna.” I said as scratched behind her ear a bit. “They will. You just gotta have faith that, one day, you will fly in your lifetime with the aid of a prosthetic.”
“But….but will oder dwagons make fun of me?” she then asked as she leaned into my paw that was scratching her.
“Well…..let me ask you this.” I said as I squirmed a bit to adjust myself against the tree. “You remember Toothless back in China right?”
“Yeah.” She sniffled as she nodded.
“Do you think he lets other’s get him down because half his tail fin is missing?” I then asked of her. “That he lets others tease him because he has a prosthetic?”
“No.” Anna said softly as she blinked away a few tears.
“Does he show that his prosthetic is a burden?” I asked as I smiled at her.
“No.”
I smiled at her more. “Then don’t let having a prosthetic bother you. Those that do tease you about it, they are just jealous that they don’t have something a cool as a mechanical limb as your own. You are a very special girl with incredible parents that love you for who you are. And yes, your mother will love you no matter what is missing from you. She’s your mom and she cares and loves you.” I then frowned into space. “Not that my own mother gave a damn……”
“What?” Anna asked as she tilted her head.
“Nothing!” I said quickly. “Anyway. When you do get a prosthetic, don’t let it get you down. It’s just there to replace what you lost. Don’t ever let it make you feel different. Okay?”
Anna sniffled a bit but did nod. “Otay. I no let pros….prothstic……thing make me feel different.”
I smiled and nuzzled her. “That’s my girl.” I purred as I did so. “And if anyone, ANYONE teases you, you come to me or your parents. Okay?”
“Otay!” Anna said as I soon felt her tail wagging a bit.
I just hugged her and purred, glad that I managed to calm both cubs down.
As Anna snuggled into my arms to be comfortable, I smiled as I realized how easy this was.
Setting against the tree, I then yawned and drifted off to sleep. Not realizing until not how tired I was from flying so hard and from fighting off that Whispering Death.