Advent Of A Gunslinger

The fight against the nurses, while tough, was ultimately not much of a challenge for the Panthera she-cats and dragoness. Soon enough, a pile of their dead bodies was laid out in the middle of the room.

“Agh...hahh…” Leona huffed as she took a knee to recover, “Everyone alright?” She had suffered a few scrapes and cuts in the process, but was more concerned about the condition of her allies.

“...Got a bit of an injury here,” Tabs called out as she noted the scalpel stuck in her foot, “But I’m good otherwise.”

Meanwhile, Baretta was suffering from several bite and scratch marks all over her face and neck. “Ngh...dammit. That pussy got me good. Need a medic.”

Spitha had only suffered minor scrapes at most. Her scales were far too thick to be pierced by regular surgical tools and needles. “I’m fine. I’ll go ahead and see if I can help Mio locate Ron.”

“Understood,” Leona said as she brought out her medical supplies, “We’ll be right here.”

The dragoness nodded, but as soon as she tried to leave...she was stopped dead in her tracks by Mio’s sudden reappearance as he carried her next-door neighbor onto the scene.

“...We’ve got a situation,” he said.

“Lexi?!” the dragon flew over to her lizard friend, “Oh my goodness...what happened to you…?”

The lizard woman coughed a few times and glanced up at her familiar red friend. “...Spith...you’re here, huh? Good...maybe you can talk some sense into that shitty ex-husband of yours.”

“What did...he…?”

After a quick explanation, Spitha could be seen balling her claws into fists. Steam started to pour out of her nose at an alarming rate, and her neck twitched involuntarily.

“...hot damn,” Lexi muttered, “She looks rightfully miffed…”

Leona soon appeared, and took the lizard woman off of Mio’s hands. “Thanks. I got this. Let’s get these chains off and get you some treatment for those wounds,” she said as she carried her over to a mat from her first-aid kit that she had laid out.

Seeing Spitha enraged at Rongu along with the generous medical treatment was more than enough for Lexi. “...Thank you so much,” she said, “I hope you give him hell twice over…”

Mio glanced up at Spitha, who started to slowly walk away. Each thunderous step beneath her claws caused the ground beneath to crack. “...I think we’ll do more than that,” said the tom, “Far more.”

Luckily for them, they wouldn’t have to wait for very long.

Rongu would step off the lift and walk out into the mining facility, completely oblivious to what had happened down there. “Alright. That’s taken care of. Now to…”

“RON!” the dragoness roared, “You’re going to answer for everything you’ve done…”

“...” Rongu stopped dead in his tracks, stared at Spitha, then Mio, then the unconscious nurse she-cats alongside the other agent she-cats who were giving Lexi treatment. It was over. The dragon knew that he was outnumbered, but there was still a chance to be had.

So he started off with a verbal assault.

“Well now, what do we have here?” he called out as he stepped forward, “Look who decided to come crawling back out of her weak little sense of desperation. Well guess what? You’re too late! I’ve alread--!”

“Oh cut the shit, Ron!” Spitha shouted back, “You’ve got no room to talk after all that you’ve done. I desperately wanna end your life, but you know what? No. You’re going to suffer the consequences of your actions.”

Mio stepped forward also. With Spitha at his side, he felt far more confident than the last time he had faced the yellow dragon. “Essentially what she said. It’d be in your best interest to cut your losses and give up.” Part of him was still concerned on the inside, but he knew the odds were in their favor. “This hand is ours to play. He has nothing left.”

“Rich,” Rongu replied coldly, “Very rich indeed. But you were the one who left me, Spitha. You made the choice to throw everything away. You were a foolish incompetent cunt!”

“You were the one who had been lying to me for the past five years!” she screamed as fire escaped her jaws, “I was under the impression that you were doing all that you could to make this place better, but instead you became a part of it. You made things worse! It all made sense. The way you always ignored me, the way you kept pushing me away.” She calmed herself, and looked away. “And I tried my best to stick it out--thinking you were just tired from work so I should never say anything. So you know what? You’re right. I was a foolish cunt. Foolish to not speak up for myself or my own feelings…”

Mio looked up in her direction with a horrified, gaping maw. The fact that she would say such a thing about herself shook him to his core. “...S...Spith…?”

The dragoness shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them. “But that ends today. I refuse to let myself get walked over by you or anyone else, Ron. And I also refuse to let you walk over anybody else. You had the absolute nerve to rape our old neighbor?!” She took a moment to let out a hysteric laugh. “Ah! But that’s right--you’re such an impotent cumstain that she was able to make you cry with a few words! You’re pathetic and have no right to exist on this earth! You hear me?!”

“...” He visibly flinched when she brought up the fact that he had been driven to tears by the words of the lizard woman. “...That’s none of your….look, just...enough already!”

“What’s the matter?” Spitha pressed further, “Are you gonna start bawling again like the little manchild you are? Or are you going to act like a dragon and face your opponent? Choose.”

Forced into a silence, the yellow dragon looked over in Mio’s direction, glaring at the tom with killer intent. “You…”

“Don’t look at me, scum,” the tom commented, “This is on your ass on the line. Not mine.”

“RRGH!” Rongu roared as he flew off the ground and towards Mio’s direction.

But he was stopped dead in his tracks by the dragoness who extended a claw hard enough to punch him in the other direction with a thud! “This is between you and I now.”

“Oof!” he cried out as he landed, then slowly rose up on one knee. “Ghhg….fine then. I don’t need you anyway. You can just go ahead and die like the vermin you are!” He pulled out his revolver. Since they were both fireproof as dragons, it would come down purely to skill and power.

With a bang!, he fired a few shots in Spitha’s direction. The dragoness flapped her wings and flew towards him like a speeding meteor. As soon as she got close enough, she knocked the gun out of his hands and held him by his neck, slamming him against the wall.

“You’re lucky we need you alive!” she screamed, “You and your little gang is going to come down hard once Abyssinia’s soldiers arrive!”

“Even if you take me down, someone else will be there to take my place!” he sputtered back, “So go ahead, see what happens!” With a swift kick, he pushed Spitha off of him, and broke free.

FWIP!

A playing card suddenly nicked the side of the dragon’s head, cutting through his scales and causing him to bleed. “Ach! What--?!”

“Big talk for someone who can’t even be bothered to do anything but selfishly use a gorgeous woman like that for his pitiful masturbation sessions and fall asleep.”

Steam could be seen brewing from Rongu’s cheeks. “GGHHH! Stop talking about my personal life!” he shrieked as he flew towards Mio in a fit of rage, “You know nothing about that!”

This time, the tom was prepared for the dragon’s breath, and kept him at an arm’s reach by scampering down on all fours, narrowly dodging fireballs that created craters in the dirt. “I know more than you think. You don’t deserve this life or any other for that matter, Ron!”

And that gave Spitha the opening she needed as she flew after him, reaching out one of her claws for his wings. “A bit closer...almost…”