Previously On Centaurus: The Dragoness Has Arrived.
Now, Chapter 44:
"What the fuck do we dooo!!!"
"S-Stop panicking Fey, calm down, we can- we can think of some way out of this."
"She's a giant Dragoness Ella! And she wants me!"
"She doesn't own you Fey, she can't just have you."
The sound of a window rattling draconic voice came booming from outside.
"Fey Fleethoof you are mine, I own you. Come out where I can see you."
Fey lifted her hands up and set her lips in a line, brow rising, as if to say 'you see!'
"That doesn't matter, you aren't a thing to be owned. Look, all we need is a plan, some kind of- of p-plan."
"No plan is going to hold up under dragon fire! I'm doomed, doomed to become a Dragoness's masturbation toy!"
Ellaria wiped some of the dust away from her face. "I can come up with something Fey, I know I can, I just... need time to think."
"Oh no, you aren't saying what I think you're saying."
"It will probably be okay Fey, it's only… You know, just a little talk with her, a distraction, a play for time?"
"You want me to try and talk down the Dragoness who has literally never not gotten her own way?" hissed Fey.
"Yes. Remember I'm still your captain Fey despite our...closeness. If I think a strategy is right for the band you will execute my command."
Fey's hooves danced on the ground with nervous panicky energy, but in the end, she just couldn't deny her captain, she was her captain after all.
She took a step toward the door. Then she took another step.
A noise drew her attention and she turned to find the gaggle of maids she had healed tiptoeing in her steps, expressions determined, as if expecting to follow her into hell.
"Fey, we'll back you up!"
"You're gonna get turned into maid barbecue!" whisper-hissed Fey back at them.
"She's right," said Ellaria. "You lot, go look for any others who might have been injured by the landing and bring them here. Stay out of sight of the giant Dragoness."
"B-but!"
A red fireball flared to life over Ellaria's hand with a sizzle and the maids squeaked and fled, disappearing into the passages and corridors of the estate to seek out the injured.
Fey took another step forward.
"What do I even talk about to keep her distracted?"
"It doesn't matter, just anything will do, play for time Fey, don't worry I'll be nearby."
The centaur swallowed but approached the entrance, her hooves feeling like they were lined with lead, each step heavy.
She stepped out the door. Or at least part of her did. She kept her back half hidden behind the wall. She awkwardly lifted an arm and tried to casually lean against the door frame. It wasn't very successful.
"H-Hello, Alexandria," she spoke, her voice somewhere between seductive and terrified.
Alexandria was there, somehow significantly larger than she had been in the palace. She lazed across her great cream-white cum belly, framed by her actual body which was violet scaled. Her body was large enough that her hands and feet were on the ground despite her stomach's Flora sized size.
The air audibly whished as the enormous dragon head moved down to her. The head was very very large, larger than a library, and Fey was faced with a pair of eyes larger than she was.
"Mmmff Fey!" spoke the Dragoness. Fey's hair whipped around her head as though in a gale force wind from the breath. "I have many treasures in my hoard, but I think I will be having you as my crown jewels."
"I'm not a thing!"
The dragoness paused. "But you are Fey. You belong to me, therefore you are my thing."
"You can't just say that, it's not legal to just take another person and make them a possession!"
"Oh, I assure you it most definitely is, if you would care to look up Bine's city law you will find a definition that was recently modified which reads: 'No peoples may be another's possession… Except for Fey Swifthoof who absolutely belongs to Lady Alexandria.' The ink on the amendment might even have dried by now."
"Y-You can't just change the law on a whim!" cried Fey.
The Dragoness stared at her.
"Why?"
Fey opened her mouth, struggling for an answer.
"Because it's not right!"
"I am a Dragon. What you consider right does not apply to me because I am very strong."
Fey reluctantly had to admit that was probably true.
"But that's not fair to everyone else!"
"You seem to have mistaken me with someone who cares."
Fey realised it might actually be quite hard to successfully argue with a dragon.
"Keep going Fey", whispered Ellaria from behind.
She swallowed nervously and looked into the dragoness's eyes.
"What do you intend to do with me? To kidnap me again?" whimpered Fey.
"I see no need. My palace is in a rather sorry state after I climbed out of it and drained my general's seed into myself. That's actually why I also took possession of this when I visited the law house."
"T-took possession of what?"
"This estate obviously. It really is absurdly extravagant, almost draconic in its luxury, really I should have plucked it up a long time ago but that bothersome Lamia would not stop being such a pain."
"This bothersome Lamia is going to sue you into oblivion! Trade sanctions! Bank account freezes! Merchant strikes! Union action! Lawsuits raining down from the heavens like meteors!"
The dragoness scowled as she turned to see a pink Lamia on a rooftop, one hand hanging onto a chimney to keep herself steady, her fist raised at the dragon as she bellowed her fury.
"Rina Besindral. Did you think you could keep such an accumulation of wealth away from me forever? I am a dragon you know."
"Bine is a city of free trade!"
"I allowed you to think that so you would bring treasure to my door you silly little Lamia." She petted her vast cream coloured belly, "But with Fey I am more than satisfied, she is my shiniest of treasures. I shall now be harvesting the treasure crop you and your merchant kind have so kindly grown me."
"You don't scare me! You don't know what's coming! I collect lawyers as a hobby! The nastiest scummiest lawyers who would just love to tear your face off! The kind who foam at the mouth! I dig deeeeep for my lawyers Alexandria. You think I just scrape the bottom of the barrel? No no no, my litigious legion have origins far below that, you should think of these lawyers as coming from the planet's crust, no, deeper, such wretched evil vile creatures that-"
The dragoness looked mildly annoyed by the Lamia's legal rant.
"Go away."
Alexandria pursed her draconic lips and blew out a breath. Rina screamed as she was ejected off the rooftop and went flipping end over end out of sight.
"E-Ella did she just kill Rina?!" whispered Fey out the side of her mouth.
"I've already sent maids to check if she's okay. Keep going!"
Fey licked her lips, her throat dry.
"S-so you don't need to take me anywhere? since you own this estate now?" said Fey to the dragon head as it lazed back around to see her.
"You are already on my estate, there isn't anywhere to take you, your hooves rest on my home."
"I… see."
Fey floundered for a moment.
"I've got it! I know what to do Fey," said Ellaria from behind.
"Well, quickly tell me so we can get out of here!"
"It's not that simple, and there's a big problem, we need way more time."
"I can't get you way more time!"
"She thinks she's literally in her house, she's just moved in, nobody hurries in their own house, there's a way to stall her I'm certain. Look, just try and figure something out, I need to dash off for a bit."
Fey turned, horrified to see her captain marching away down a corridor until she disappeared out of sight.
Deeply concerned, she slowly turned back and looked up at the dragoness..
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