Pumpkin

Pumpkin
A wanderer in search of a purpose

“I am pretty new here but I know this will be a great place for me to stay. I appreciate your kind gesture Gueldia”
-Pumpkin

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(Continued from Spice’s bio)

Pumpkin hated King Tang and Queen Poprocks with every fiber of his being. The king and queen had hung his best friend because he had spoke out about how they discriminated against male dragons and LGBTQ+ dragons within their castle. The loss of his friend had shattered Pumpkin and made him into the bitter dragon who hardly fit his own name.

He had wanted to hate their daughter and crown princess, Spice, too, but that wasn’t as easy as he had thought.

Pumpkin had kidnapped Spice and planned to hold her for ransom. Once he obtained his desired sum of treasure and gems from the royal family, he planned to give all of it to the rebels, who were dead set on overthrowing their rulers, and fight along side them once their army was ready.

The only problem with that plan was that Pumpkin didn’t want to send Spice back to that castle. Not after he had seen the cuts on her arms and her joyless violet eyes. Every dragon in that gods forsaken place had treated her like a pawn and convinced her that her life was worth nothing more than a dried-up worm the sidewalk.

They hadn’t told her that had she had the biggest heart in the whole darn world and that she was one of the best listeners he had ever known. They hadn’t told her that the sight of her toothy smile could light up an entire room or how the sound of her whistle had the most beautiful tune.

They hadn’t even bothered say ‘I love you’ to her.

Pumpkin hated them all for hurting Spice and was intent with idea of murdering the king and queen where they slept, but Spice, of all dragons, convinced him not to. She told the spiral that she didn’t care about her parents. She told him that only thing in all of Sornieth that mattered to her was him.

Then, she said that she loved him.

Loved him.

With tears in his eyes, Pumpkin pressed his forehead against Spice’s and told her that he loved her too. The spiral silently swore that he’d remind the ridgeback of that every single until his death.

Once those words had been exchanged, the spiral decided that the place wasn’t welcoming for him anymore so he preferred to leave it once and for all not forgetting the friendships he met there. Pumpkin took his most valuable items and wandered off through all the world to find a better place for his being to stay.

At the end:

He found it.