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Crystal lay in the sun outside the cave, feeling the warmth soak through her fur and into her body. An ear twitched as a fly buzzed past but otherwise she was completely at peace. The dragoness yawned, feeling like she could just go to sleep, right here. The only thing stopping her was a scent that reached her on the wind. An eye flicked open lazily and she saw the familiar form of her mate dragging recent hunt up the short incline to their cave.

"A meal? All for me?" Crystal said, getting up with a smile.

Hyruzon smiled back at her. "Partly," he said, nosing the fresh kill towards her. "I feel bad for leaving you, even if it is only for a little while. Plus, I didn't just push a clutch out of my sex."

"That was a week ago," Crystal said, "although I can and will be playing that card for as long as I can. Mostly for food and attention."

She began to eat the deer and Hyruzon laughed, nuzzling her neck gently. "Well, I'll indulge you for a little while. Here's one more meal."

He left her to eat her fill of the deer, which Crystal did. Her belly was comfortably stuffed when she dragged what remained a little way into the forest and away from the cave. When she returned, Hyruzon was fiddling with a bag which he then slung over a shoulder. "All ready to go?" Crystal said, looking him up and down. Hyruzon was a talented mage and someone in a nearby city had requested his services.

"Yep," he said, coming over and nuzzling her again. "I'll be back tomorrow morning, afternoon at the latest."

Crystal purred softly. "I'll be here." She waited on the flat bit of ground in front of the cave, watching as her mate walked off into the forest. He turned as he reached the trees, raising in a paw in farewell. Crystal mirrored the motion, waving goodbye as her mate disappeared from view, lost in the shadows beneath the canopy. She waited for a few more moments then turned, walking into the cave.

The first room was easily the largest, with a large depression at one side. This had been filled with moss and other soft things to make a large, comfortable nest for the two dragons to lay in. Next to this nest was a small alcove, hollowed out of the rock. The floor here had also been carefully covered in soft material and nestled in the space were five eggs. Crystal purred quietly to herself at the sight of them, nosing the closest one gently. She checked them regularly; it was her first clutch after all. The dragoness studied each of her eggs closely but nothing had changed with them and she stood up again, satisfied.

There were two other rooms in the cave. One was a small storeroom where they put spare things, like food in the winter, interesting items, or stuff traded with humans when Hyruzon visited them. She walked over to the passage cut into the rock and poked her head into the room. There was a small pile of the cushioning moss in the corner, dried up and old. Otherwise, the room was empty.

The last room was most definitely not empty; it was where the two dragons kept their hoard. Crystal looked into this room and hummed happily to herself again. There was a magical gem set into the centre of the ceiling, casting a radiant white light onto the treasures below. Gold, in bar and coin form, made glittering heaps on the floor, interspersed with silver and other, less precious metals. Gems were scattered around as well, most quite large: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. Most were cut so that they glimmered, although others were still in their raw form, chunks of rock that were only slightly less valuable.

There were pieces of jewellery and armour as well, either found or traded for--most dragons hadn't had to fight human attacks for decades. Here and there were a few magical items, some glowing faintly and other indistinguishable from the other precious things. The wealth in the small room was vast although few knew it existed. As dragon hoards went, it was pretty large although there were richer ones. Hyruzon's work as a mage gave him enough money and respect among humans and other dragons that the hoard grew slowly.

Crystal, like most dragons, liked the shine and glimmer of her hoard and watched it for a minute or two, mentally running through her favourite items. One especially was a large, cut diamond that her mother had given her. The dragoness picked it up. The gem was enormous by human standards, and looked big even in Crystal's paw. She stared into the fire inside it for a moment, turning it over and over before replacing it carefully on the ground.

A yawn spread her jaws; her full belly was making her sleepy again. With one last look at the hoard, she returned to the cave entrance, glancing once again at her clutch as she passed through the first room and returned to the warm path outside.

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Crystal was again laying on the warm stone outside the cave, dosing happily in her patch of sun. She was drifting in that content place between wakefulness and sleep, thoughts sluggish and slow.

Then there was a snap from the forest. Crystal's eyes blinked open and she looked across the open space in front of the cave towards the tree-line. It sounded like a large stick cracking, as though someone or something had stepped on it. Not very worried, she rose to her feet and stretched. There were rarely any humans near this area and none of those would dare trouble her or Hyruzon. It was also unusual for animals to come this close to their home; the scent of dragon must be all over the surrounding area.

She slowly walked towards the forest, not really concerned; she could handle pretty much anything in this forest. The sound happened again, a clear snap! It was clearly audible in the trees and came from the same place as the previous noise. "What is it?" Crystal said to herself, intrigued now.

The furred dragoness pushed through the undergrowth, winding around trees as she headed in the general direction of the creature that was apparently trampling around the woods on this fine day. Whatever it was couldn't be too deep into the forest, considering where she heard it, but her nose detected no scent. That didn't really matter; the wind was in the wrong direction.

Perhaps it was a small animal, Crystal thought, looking down at the low plants and bushes, thinking that she had clearly missed whatever it was. That was when the sound of a third branch snapping sounded, quite close this time! Crystal curiously made her way towards the sound, stepping into a small area that someone had cleared of the brush. That alone made Crystal frown, her happy mood evaporating. A human had cleared this place quite recently. She growled; this was too close to the cave! To the eggs!

Then she spotted the contraptions on the ground. There were four of them, with a base and two arms rising from the tops. They were metal and clearly mechanical in nature, human made. Three held broken branches, but the fourth held an unbroken one. A ticking noise came from it and as she watched, the arms of the contraption began to bend the wood they held. Someone had placed long-dead wood in the machine and when it was finally bent too far, it made a loud crack, the same sound that she'd heard thrice before.

The machine stopped ticking, as silent and still as its three brethren. Confused now, she nosed at them experimentally. Here, so close to them, she could smell a human although it was several hours old. Why had they placed four machines in the forest that simply snapped wood? What was the point of that?

Then Crystal went cold. They had made a very clear noise, one that she had heard clearly. And like an idiot, she had followed it, all the way to this little clearing, while Hyruzon was away. Leaving the cave completely empty. The eggs! Crystal turned and sprinted through the forest, mindless of the branches and burrs that caught at and tore her fur. The eggs, the eggs, she repeated numbly in her mind, running faster.

It was only a minute before she was out of the trees, her paws drumming loudly on the ground as she ran to the cave. There was no one in the first chamber and Crystal didn't check the others, going straight over to the hollow where the eggs lay in her nest. The dragoness's frantic eyes raked over them, counting hurriedly. Five, she thought in relief, then counted twice more to be sure. Her eggs were safe, they hadn't been touched.

Now that she knew that the clutch was safe, the dragoness raised her nose, sniffing hard. The terror at the thoughts of her eggs being in danger was being replaced by fury, and the anger only rose as she smelled a human--a human!--inside the cave. He hadn't touched the eggs, thank the gods, but gone down the passage where her and Hyruzon's hoard was kept.

Now that she was quiet, listening intently, she could hear the clink of coins and gems moving, the occasional music note as one of the former was dropped onto the stone floor. Then, footsteps, moving closer. Keeping herself between the opening in the rock and the clutch, Crystal waited, lips pulled back in a silent snarl as the footsteps approached. And then he appeared.

A young male human was lugging a large bag behind him, the glint of gold and silver visible beneath the leather flap. He was smiling to himself, obviously pleased with how his robbery had been progressing. He was of middling height, with long hair that fell in his eyes. He lifted the bag with a grunt, setting it on his shoulder and was bowed over slightly with the weight of Crystal's and her mate's riches. He was facing away from her as he exited the passage.

Crystal growled, loud and deep. The human froze. He turned, spinning around to face the enraged dragon. His mouth fell open as he saw her, and Crystal roared in his face. "Aahhh!" he screamed, and stumbled back, the bag falling from his shoulder and spilling coins over the floor. The man was fumbling at his belt, moving backwards as he tried to take something from a pocket in his clothes. He slipped on the coins, falling on his backside and scooting way from her.

Crystal stalked forwards, snarling, teeth bared. She wasn't sure how far she was going to go, but she was not_going to let this human get away unscathed after trying to steal from them! And especially when her eggs were here, the beautiful, _vulnerable eggs. She raised her head, ready to bite. The man had pressed himself against the cave wall, unable to retreat any further, when he found what he was looking for in his pocket.

"Stop!" he screamed, holding something up in front of her face. There was a flash of light and the tingle of magic in the air and Crystal's body froze up, jaws open above the intruder. She was unable to even blink. The human was holding an intricate golden amulet, roughly triangle shaped with a glowing turquoise gem in the centre. Other symbols glowed softly around the edges.

The amulet moved as the man rose and Crystal found her eyes following it involuntarily. She simply couldn't look away. The would-be thief brushed himself off, smiling now. "Not so tough now, are you?" he shouted, bravado appearing now that he wasn't in immediate danger.

Crystal was still frozen in the same position, jaws poised to bite. The panic and fear was coming back now. Hyruzon was the magical expert, not her. She knew enough to recognise arcane power, not that a glowing amulet was that hard to identify, but other than that, she was defenceless against such things. She tried to remember what her mate had told her about such artefacts but besides 'Don't touch statues', something she had learnt the hard way, the rest escaped her.

"Sit," the man commanded and there was an answering glow from the amulet. At once, Crystal moved into a sitting position, her mouth closing as she kept her eyes on the glowing gem. So, this is a control magical item, she thought, fear mounting again. There was no way that she could fight such magic, not untrained. Hyruzon probably would have been able to but she had no hope.

"Works like a charm, doesn't it?" the human said, then laughed at his own joke. "Bought it off a mage for a hundred gold pieces. I told myself, 'Thaddeus, you're getting scammed', but I owe that guy an apology. Move back."

This time Crystal struggled against the magic, trying to force herself to stay still, but she needn't have bothered for all the good it did. She fluidly stepped back a few paces, then resumed the siting position. Thaddeus placed the amulet around his neck and Crystal found she could move her eyes, as long as she kept the magical item in her line of sight.

All fear was gone from Thaddeus's face now, and he was looking up at Crystal with a smug expression. "If I'd known that this would work so well, I wouldn't have bothered with the twigs." The human reached forwards, stroking the soft fur of Crystal's chest. She growled muffledly, unable to open her mouth, and Thaddeus flinched slightly, before resuming his stroking. "Soft fur," he noted, moving his hand through it wondrously. The hand moved higher, stroking up along her neck and then scratching beneath Crystal's jaw. It was an oddly intimate gesture and she growled louder.

This time he only smiled wider. "You're like a big puppy," he said, laughing, "or a cat! Purr for me." To her horror, Crystal's body once again obeyed, a low, happy rumble sounding in her throat as the fingers scratched beneath her jaw. She kept purring happily, otherwise unmoving.

He stopped after a few more moments, looking over her with interest. "Never really been this close to a dragon before," he said nonchalantly, "but I've always been...fascinated by your kind. Now, you male or female? Turn around and raise your tail."

What!? That was far more than Crystal was expecting. Pervert, she thought, trying to growl the same but the word wouldn't come. The magic could not be fought and her body did as commanded. It turned, moving into a mating pose as her tail curled over her back. A fuming Crystal was left facing the other way, presenting her sex towards Thaddeus.

"Ah, female!" his gleeful voice said. "I did wonder which of you had left, but that's how my luck's been going. You know, before I left the city...I did have a thing for dragons."

She had time to narrow her eyes dangerously, and she was able to growl again, although it was a weak, almost inaudible sound. Then a hand stroked through the fur on the back of her hind leg, dangerously close to her sex. A quite hiss escaped her next and she trembled slightly, a ripple moving through her body. Am I regaining control? The amulet was out of sight; maybe that had something to do with it?

The hand continued to move, leaving her leg and running through the softer fur beneath her tail, barely an inch from her sex. Crystal strained to move, mostly so she could attack Thaddeus but that wasn't possible yet. Still, the first touch to her lower lips was like an electric shock and she jerked forwards imperceptibly. The human's fingers were slim and dexterous, nothing like anything on a dragon.

Thaddeus explored the dragoness's sex with his hands, pushing back the fur to leave her completely exposed. "You're even prettier back here," he said, stroking her folds. The intimate touch made Crystal shiver and growl again, this time loud enough for Thaddeus to start. "Enough of that," he snapped, walking around her front and placing the amulet on the ground. As soon as it was within her sight, Crystal couldn't help staring at it and what little control she had regained disappeared.

Leaving the amulet, Thaddeus returned to her rear. This time he pressed firmly on the larger dragoness's sex and Crystal couldn't even growl. The small hands, so unlike anything that she or Hyruzon had, pressed and massaged one of the most sensitive parts of her. When his fingers found her clit though, even the magical amulet couldn't stop the small jump that followed. Thaddeus smiled. "Found something there, did I?" he said with a false innocence.

Crystal gave a silent, internal whine and was helpless to stop the human from doing it again. The fingers danced around the sensitive nub, which began to elicit a reaction from the dragoness. Crystal felt it and a flush of humiliation and anger rushed through her and she glared at the amulet.

"Someone's enjoying herself," he said sweetly. "Big, strong dragoness is getting wet for the human. Must be embarrassing..."

The fingers never stopped moving, rubbing and massaging over her increasingly-damp folds. Occasionally they rubbed at her clit or even pressed into her a little way, collecting some of her arousal and then rubbing it across her lower lips and into her fur. Her scent was clearly heated now, enough even for Thaddeus to be able to smell clearly as he played with his new magically-enslaved pet.

Slowly, very slowly, the pleasure began to build inside Crystal's body. It jumped higher whenever he touched her clit and soon she was panting through her nostrils, sex clenching irregularly, wishing that Hyruzon was back. Specifically his cock. The slender fingers of Thaddeus barely pressed into her entrance and were frustratingly small, nowhere near enough to sate her. She and Hyruzon hadn't mated for weeks on account of her having and then laying the clutch. Crystal liked sex, and it was already a long time to go without any. If Thaddeus hadn't turned up, she probably would have eagerly given Hyruzon an enthusiastic greeting when he returned.

The human intruder was taking advantage of her pent-up lust and Crystal, partly hating her body for it, was approaching a slow climax, her pussy clenching down whenever Thaddeus's fingers even moved near her entrance. Her arousal was running down, matting the fur beneath her tail as the pressure built inside her slowly, a climax approaching.

She was perhaps a minute away, maybe less, when Thaddeus pulled away, walking in front of her once again. "Fun as this is," he said, "I did come here for something." His hands were still slick and he went to wipe them off on his clothes, then thought better of it, wiping them through the fine fur of Crystal's face and neck. Her own powerful scent filled the dragoness's nose.

"I rushed through your hoard before," Thaddeus continued. "Didn't know when you'd be back, so I just got in and out. Although not fast enough. But now, I have a chance to look through properly, and find the most expensive stuff. After all, I'll have to pay off that amulet. But, I did tease you a bit, and it's rude to leave a lady such as yourself wanting. So, while I go search your hoard more thoroughly, entertain yourself with your muzzle."

The amulet glowed brightly as it heard Thaddeus's command, and while the human returned to the hoard room, Crystal curled up. She twisted so that she was in a tight circle, the amulet still in the corner of her eye, but her sex dominated Crystal's field of view. The lips were red and swollen from Thaddeus's teasing, wet with her juices with her clit standing free of its hood.

The green glow, just visible, increased yet again and Crystal jerked her head forwards, her wide, flat tongue running across her sex from top to bottom in a single motion. A low moan sounded, pleasure rushing through her, more powerful than that from the human's hands. She didn't need the magic to make her continue; this was better, more natural, than being stimulated by a human. She hadn't masturbated like this for a long while; usually Hyruzon was more than happy to help when she got horny. He was nice, but Crystal's own tongue was skilled as well.

It lapped over her folds, running across her sensitive nub. That made the dragoness's hips buck and squirm. More of her juices began to trickle from her folds and Crystal's taste filled her mouth as she licked faster. She alternated between lapping at her clit and then pushing her tongue into her sex, clenching around it needily. The arousal grew quickly, Thaddeus already having brought her quite close and soon the dragoness was grinding against the blunt end of her muzzle as best she could.

A howl burst from Crystal, muffled by her own sex, as she began to cum. Weeks of pent-up lust burst from the furred dragoness, waves of pleasure rippling through her, pussy clenching and rippling. Her arousal soaked her muzzle, filling her mouth as the climax dragged on and on, Crystal shuddering and quivering as it did. Her tongue never stopped moving, licking and lapping, prolonging her orgasm as the magic forced her on.

Crystal was cumming so long it forced tears of strain from her eyes before it slowly tapered off, the dragoness heaving in breaths. She licked her lips, panting hard, only to hear Thaddeus say loudly, "Sounds like you're having fun!"

Crystal growled in reply but the sound quickly turned into a yelp as her tongue flicked out, the tip catching her clit. So recently after an orgasm, the little nub was painfully sensitive, as was the rest of her sex. Her tongue continued to move, her body leaning in closer to her folds as she whined in oversensitivity, unable to stop or even pause for a moment. That the magic would not let her do and no matter how she whined or squirmed, she couldn't fight the amulet shining at the edge of her vision.

Slowly, the oversensitivity began to fade, replaced by the build to another climax. The sounds of Thaddeus rifling through her possessions faded into meaningless background noise as the need to cum filled Crystal again and she licked more willingly, using her skilled tongue as she had quite a lot in the past.

If anything, the second orgasm was even more powerful than the first. It ripped through Crystal, making her cry out as she squeezed her eyes shut. Her sex gushed its juices, rippling and clenching on nothing as she shook, breathing hard. She never stopped licking, like the last time, prolonging her own pained pleasure until she was whimpering for it to stop. The oversensitivity returned, making Crystal howled as she lapped at her clit, the sensation painfully strong.

The gem in the amulet glowed, as if smug about her whole ordeal. The magic inside it forced her to obey and she did so. Crystal brought herself to orgasm twice more before Thaddeus's feet appeared in her vision and he stooped to pick up the amulet.

"You can stop," he said. "Sit again."

Crystal gave a whine of relief before the sound was cut off, her muzzle finally leaving her sex. The lips were a deep red now, swollen and dripping with her arousal and the remains of four orgasms. She rose gracefully to her feet, sitting in front of Thaddeus with her tail curled around her. He's picked us clean! That wasn't quite true; it would have taken the human several trips to carry out her and Hyruzon's entire hoard but the backpack that he had brought was bulging again. It was so full in fact that the seams were about to split and the top flap wouldn't even close properly: he had had to tie it down with twine. Jewels and gold were peeking out from a little space and Crystal had little doubt that they'd be the biggest and most precious in the hoard.

"Have fun?" Thaddeus said, grinning and pointing to the matted fur on her rear legs. "Looks like it. Smells like it too. Well, I chose the best pieces from that room you got back there and let me tell you, it was not easy. But, hard decisions were made and I'll definitely make a profit with this little venture. However, there is one last problem...you. Going to have to find some way to occupy you for a while as I get far away from here and a particular dragon that is going to be very angry. Let's see..."

He tapped his chin ponderously, looking around the room for inspiration. This was likely to be the only time he had a dragon, if not anyone, entirely in his control and he didn't want to waste it. His eyes fell on the eggs and a moment later a smile split his face. "Oh yes," he muttered to himself and walked over to them.

Crystal's eyes widened as she saw where he was going. Not the eggs! If you hurt them, I'll hunt you to the end of the world! Perhaps Thaddeus knew what she was thinking, because he turned as he neared the clutch. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm not so cruel as to hurt your little clutch. But we can have fun with them all the same."

He picked one up, grunting as he felt the weight. "You lay all five of these? Impressive." He moved the egg over in front of Crystal and set it down on the cave floor carefully, then did the same for the others. In a short minute, all five of Crystal's eggs were sitting in front of her. She looked at them with no small amount of apprehension. What is he going to make me do?

Clearing his throat, Thaddeus lifted the amulet again, holding it in front of Crystal's face. "All right, here's what you're going to do. I want you to take that egg and rub your pussy on it; get it nice and slick. Then, shove it up your ass."

Crystal's eyes widened in horror and anger but her body was already moving. She moved the closest egg beneath her with a paw, holding it in place as she squatted over it. The smooth, rounded surface parted her folds slightly as she ground against the egg. Her juices ran over the surface, dripping onto the floor but she tried her best to get a good covering, turning the egg to slicken most of the surface. She was going to need it. In her mind, Crystal was cursing Thaddeus with every insult and curse that she knew, but none of it showed on her face. Except for her eyes.

"Look happy when you do it too," Thaddeus remarked and the dragoness felt a wide smile split her muzzle, her face obeying the command. Her eyes kept the worried look though, contrasting with the expression of enjoyment that the magic made her adopt.

The egg beneath her was very wet now but Crystal delayed as long as the magic allowed her. No matter how slick the egg was with her juices, this was not going to be very pleasant. Slowly, tremulously, she moved the egg back further, angling the pointed tip upwards. It felt like a perverse inversion of what she'd gone through last week. Instead of laying the eggs through her sex with her mate close-by, offering encouragement, she was here, about to push the egg up her tailhole while a human mocked her.

She had the time to take a deep breath before the magic took control and her body lowered itself. The slightly pointed tip of the egg pressed against her tailhole then slowly forced it open as more of Crystal weight came down. Dragon eggshells were thick and hardy and there was no chance of it breaking now. The result however was a completely unyielding surface that spread Crystal's rump open wider and wider.

Her arousal spread over the egg's surface helped but she still whined and huffed, the magic letting her pause several times to adjust to the size. She couldn't see how far down the egg she was, but it felt like a tree trunk was being shoved beneath her tail. Even anal with Hyruzon hadn't prepared her for this!

She tried to keep her body relaxed but her tailhole still spasmed as the egg sunk into her. The wide grin was still on her face, tongue lolling out as she looked at Thaddeus. Sinking a little lower made her groan but Thaddeus was smiling. "You're such a bad girl," he chuckled, watching her struggle avidly. "Shoving your eggs up your ass, and enjoying it too."

A small whine came from Crystal at that. She wasn't enjoying it! And yet, she could feel her sex still dripping onto the stone floor and the pleasure from her tailhole as it spread for the egg. It was uncomfortable, sure, but it was pleasurable in its own, unique way.

Thaddeus watched as Crystal slowly sunk onto the egg, more and more of it disappearing inside of her as she let her weight fall to the ground. Her already slow progress almost stopped as she reached the widest part of the egg and she huffed. This she remembered when she'd lain them the first time; the cresting of the egg, but this time in reverse.

"Come on," Thaddeus encouraged. Crystal let out a strangled howl as she relaxed again, letting her weight fall on the egg. Her tailhole strained for a moment around the shell then slipped past the widest point. A small spasm of pain rushed through her as her body was spread a little too far but it faded a moment later, her body drawing the egg further into her rump. The underside of her tail pressed against the floor as the dragoness panted, feeling the weight inside her. She'd carried the clutch around in her womb for months so this was both familiar and alien at the same time. The dull weight she knew, but its position felt weird to the dragoness.

"Bravo," Thaddeus said, clapping his hands. The applause echoed around the cave, making it sound like a crowd of people were clapping at her 'achievement'. "One egg down, four to go." Crystal whined, her eyes wide above her grinning maw. Thaddeus set the amulet by the cave entrance, hefting his treasure-filled bag onto his shoulder with a grunt and staggering a bit. "I'm going to need my head start with this," he chuckles. "But you, dear dragoness, just keep shoving those eggs up your ass. Wet them first!"

With that, he walked from the cave, back bowed with the weight of stolen riches. His amulet glowed faintly in the entrance, holding Crystal's view. As the human vanished from sight, her paw felt along the ground for another egg, scooping it along gently until it rested against her sex. At least he isn't here to watch, she reasoned to herself but that was a small comfort at the moment. A quiet whimper fell from her still grinning muzzle as she began to rub her arousal over the smooth surface. Her folds hadn't stopped dripping the entire time and the pleasure from grinding against the hard egg only increased it.

In what felt like much too soon, Crystal moved the egg to her rump again, angling the pointed end towards her already stretched tailhole. This time it was slightly easier, probably because of the first egg but it still took the dragoness several minutes to work the egg inside her, whining or groaning in discomfort as her poor tailhole stretched wider than it had before around the egg.

A small puddle was forming beneath her as the second egg joined its clutch-mate inside her. The pleasure from her ass was strange but made her sex clench as the egg slipped into her. By the time the third egg began to 'crest' at her tailhole, she was panting and squirming, the puddle between her hind paws growing.

Her belly was looking very large again as more than half of her clutch was once again inside her and it swelled again as the fourth egg joined the others. The familiar large and unwieldy feeling returned as she balanced herself, just having got used to her old centre of gravity, but the feeling of being stuffed was definitely different this time.

There was only one egg left and Crystal barely had to try to get that one slick; merely placing it beneath her pussy was enough. For this one, her aching tailhole spread easily, the fifth egg bumping against the fourth and pressing the others deeper into her. The dragoness squirmed on the egg as it sunk into her. A familiar pressure began to faintly build, a climax approaching from her forcing her clutch up her rump, but Crystal fought it. That was one more humiliation that she didn't need.

The last egg entered her the quickest of the clutch, and then all five were weighing Crystal down again. As soon as her now-loose tailhole closed around the shell, the light from the amulet died, leaving it just a chunk of gold and gem and Crystal found herself able to move. She staggered as control returned to her limbs, not realising how heavy they were with exhaustion until they were hers again. The eggs shifted and moved within her, making the dragoness groan and the last was pressing against her tailhole, nudging it with every movement.

Too tired to do anything, she stumbled to the back wall, using it to help her slide down onto her side. She kept her head facing the entrance, not wanting to get close to the amulet but able to see if Thaddeus were to return to torment her. She kept watch for only five minutes before the dragoness felt her eyes closing, drifting off into exhausted sleep.

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"Crystal!"

The voice penetrated Crystal's dreams and she shifted in her sleep, feeling familiar weight in her body. Not too long, she thought hazily. I'll lay soon. As she slowly rose to wakefulness, that seemed strange. Wait, didn't I already do that? Then what's...

The memories from the intrusion into her home rushed back and Crystal snapped her eyes open, looking around quickly. The sun was shining into the cave in morning light; she'd slept through the rest of the previous day and the night. Rising to her feet, Crystal groaned as she felt the eggs inside her, definitely not where they should be.

"Crystal!" came the voice again and she recognised it as Hyruzon's.

"Here!" she called back. "In the cave! Careful of the amulet in the entrance!"

Moments later, Hyruzon appeared, walking up the slight incline to the entrance. "What's happened?" he said. "I smell human and...what's this?"

He looked down at Crystal's warning, looking carefully at the little enchanted chunk of gold. The gem glowed gently at his approach then rapidly cycled through a rainbow of colour. Not seeming all that concerned by this behaviour, the dragon picked it up, turning it over in his paws. "Control magic..." he muttered to himself and then his head jerked up. "The eggs!" he said, alarmed, looking towards the empty alcove.

"They're fine," Crystal said hastily, waddling a little close to him; every movement made the clutch move inside her distractingly. "They're safe. A thief came with that and stole from our hoard though."

Anger flashed across Hyruzon's face at that; no dragon liked being stolen from. Then he looked carefully at Crystal, looking surprised instead. "Ah, Crystal," he said carefully, putting the amulet to one side. "Where are the eggs?"

The dragoness blushed. "Ah, the human came with the amulet and...to stop me from going after him..." She shifted, her face on fire. "He made them put them in my rump," she muttered, turning her head away from him.

More surprise from Hyruzon. "All of them? In your ass?" he said, circling and studying her closely. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Crystal said a little shakily, and nuzzled against Hyruzon.

He returned the motion. "Good," he said comfortingly. "I'll see if I can't track down the thief. But he has given us a nice amulet."

She shivered, remembering the feeling of helplessness and loss of control. "That wasn't good. Can you train me to resist magic like that? I don't want it to happen again."

"Sure. I think you'll be able to learn quickly. We'll use this to practice." He held up the amulet and a sly smile crossed his face. "I'll make sure to make the commands fun things; if you can't resist, at least one of us will be happy."

Crystal grumbled a bit at that but smiled all the same. "One problem at a time," she said. "First, I'm going to have to get these eggs out of me, and something tells me it isn't going to be as pleasant as the first time. This is one story we are definitely _not_telling the hatchlings."