The dragons that Georgie had summoned were quite tiny, but that was not a problem. They were very well suited for the occasion, because large dragons would not be able to help them much in this situation, even if they were successfully summoned. The ice walls were over thirty meters tall, so there were a lot of ways for things to go wrong - They needed precision to get out of here, and not brute strength.
The tiny dragons pierced through the ceiling of the ice labyrinth successfully, and they did so elegantly. They cut multiple small holes through the ceiling, to create a very-much controlled exit point. It took a while for them to achieve this result, because the exit point ended up being thirty-five feet wide which was exhausting to achieve, and it was that wide, because they were counting Georgie’s wingspan in the equation!
Georgie the dragon had a staggering wingspan of thirty whole feet, he was huge! He wasn’t as baby-ish as Arvena described him, so he needed plenty of space to fly out of here!
“Those tiny motherfuckers look really handy,” Tim complimented, “I like them, dragons are good lads in my book… except for those cock-wielding bastards, I hate them!”
“Let’s not distract our dragon friends,” Arvena interrupted the other’s train of thought, and added. “It looks like they still have a lot of work to do. The walls are really close to each other, so they have to trim the walls down for Georgie to fit through, and this should be the most dangerous part about our escape. Let’s not stay directly under where they’re working.”
There was no arguing with such logic, everyone heeded her advice. Even Georgie moved away from the worksite, as he didn’t want to get hit on the head by a block of ice, it was the sort of pain that he did not want to experience without proper cause.
The tiny dragons kept working. They worked for two more hours, until they widened the gap between the walls enough for their huge dragon friend to fly through. It took a lot of work to achieve this, so much to the point where all seven of these tiny guys were absolutely exhausted in the end!
They were exhausted, but at least Arvena and the team had virtually no other obstacles to face from this point onwards. Their way out was paved in melted ice, so it was about time they got out of here, and they were willing to get out of here immediately, because they had spent too much time in below-zero temperatures!
Georgie the dragon has done a really good job at keeping everybody warm, but the cold has still been overwhelming for them! The team looked like walking corpses, and by all odds, this staggering cold was not to exit their bones anytime soon, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the cold had reached all the way down to their souls already! These past few hours have been absolutely brutal.
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“It's about time we leave,” Tim said, as they all hopped onto Georgie's back. “It's too fucking cold in this death trap…”
They had to hold onto Georgie as best as they could, because from the looks of it, the flight they were about to take was to be very vertical, at least until they made it past the thirty meters tall ice walls! Since it wasn't easy to hold onto smooth scales, the team had to depend on the dragon's antler-like horns for stability for a few seconds.
After they got comfortable, Georgie the dragon then took off! He flew upwards and between the walls of ice, and he made it to the top within ten seconds! It only took a few wing flaps for him to get there, and he did use his claws to bounce across the ice walls here and there, but his steps were smooth and delicate. He did not cause a ruckus.
Georgie was delicate, regardless of how he flew up with this explosive power that just left everyone shocked! They did not expect him to move so bombastically, especially since they've seen him nap for several hours before, point being, he didn’t exactly strike anyone as an agile dragon, no one saw him that way up until now!
“Woohoo!” Ortana hollered in joy, as the dragon's wings slid through the red sky!
Everyone was happy. Riding on a dragon was very accelerating on its own, but they were also very happy to leave that icy death trap behind them!
A lot of their questions about that place were left unanswered, but they simply had to take those questions with them to the grave, because neither of them were willing to explore this forest any longer than they needed to. In fact, they asked the dragon to fly away from the Frozen Red-leaf Forest as quickly as he could, as there was absolutely no benefit in staying here any longer!
The tiny dragons followed after them as well, and they were really distracting. They were these pretty, four legged dragons, who seemed a bit average by figure, but had the same color scheme as a dragonfly insect! Their scales were beautiful, and they had saved the day today, so their value was beyond what gold could buy.
Anyway, they flew away from the forest in ten minutes' time, and they all sighed in relief because they officially left that icy nightmare behind. They did not want to visit this forest ever again, for as far as they would live, so they barely even bothered looking back!
If they looked back, however, they would've noticed something very peculiar. They would've seen that the icy labyrinth that had entrapped them for several hours, disappeared moments after the team escaped the entrapment, it was gone!
Everything about it had been a very physical nightmare up until moments ago, and yet it disappeared so quickly, that one may not consider it physical at all. It took all the carcasses with it too!
Perhaps it was good that the team of goblins did not look back, because they would've just summoned new questions that they would never get the answer to! Some mysteries were best left untouched, there was no other way to go around them, and it was enough of a reward that they survived, even against all odds that were tossed against them!