It was the other two members of the quest and after short prepations they continued on their way through the catacombs.
None of the others saw Nikolai pick up the empty bottle
that had held the dragons blood.The Knight could guess by the roars,gouts of sudden dragonfire and sliited glowing eyes staring at
them as they passed by that the catacombs had a healthy breeding population of
dragons
thanks in large part to this bottle.
Nikolai hoped to end all that by finding a bottomless pit or something to toss this bottle
into,
The Dragoness naturally noticed those other dragons and from time to time wandered off on her own to engage with the other beasts.
The rest of the party had a idea what that engagement was about
but since the Dragon Marcelines human vocabulary lay between
zero to none
a conversation on how this behaviour would
make uncursing her impossible
was a lost cause.
The Knight noticed a small pool of water in a small side cave as they continued
along their quest and that night at camp he showed the rat,goblin and goop thing the
emptied bottle of dragons blood and announced he was heading back to what he hoped was a bottomless pool to dispose
of the cursed bottle.
So off he headed to the Eastern Tunnel and told the others if he was not returned
by the next night to abondon
the quest and return to the surface world.
All was quiet that night
the next morning
the next afternoon
the next evening
and the three human like entities were discussing plans to call the quest quits much
like the Knight had instructed
whilst Marceline the Dragon lay crouched and on guard
duty
when out from the Eastern tunnel
came not Nikolai but a dragon
more specifically a dead ringer for their own beast
down to the stretched womens hose over her massive and well muscled
right hind leg and other stretched garments over her
well muscled dragons body
that made it clear this
roaring beast that was charging in their direction
might once have been a
female human healer
who had transformed into
a dragon.
At this point the male dragon wandered in from the Northern Tunnel
the one Marceline Number One often
used in her nightly
escapeades.
Clearly expecting the Dragoness
he gave out a surprised grunt
when he saw there were now
two of the Dragoness to court.