As the morning sun began to shine through the cave entrance, both dragons awoke from their slumber. Rory yawned as his eyes settled on his blue rival across the cave.

"This will be the day! The day I take back what was stolen from me! Just you—" Rory let out a huge yawn.

"Oh? Too sleepy to do anything, I see!" Blaine exclaimed. "Unfortunately for you, I'm a morning person!" A big smile spread across the blue dragon's snout. "I have already tasted victory, and today will be no different. Behold! The Dance of Victory!"

Blaine began performing an elaborate victory dance. "Are you mocking me?" Rory asked. 

The wimpy blue lizard in front of him was doing his best to make the dance look mighty and triumphant. To Rory, however, Blaine looked like he was practising a poor imitation of a stressed-out chicken. "Pfff!" Rory snickered loudly.

"Wha-what? Why are you laughing at my victory dance?" Blaine demanded, visibly irritated. "I still have two of your coins, you red fiend!" Blaine spoke with growing embarrassment.

"Hahahahaha! You should see yourself! Here, this should be an accurate impression of your awkward movements!" Rory flapped his wings and strutted around like a chicken.

"Becaw! Becaw! Hahihihi!"

"I… You… Is that what I look like when I do that?" Blaine thought to himself. He quickly regained his composure. "Oh, ha. Ha. You sound like a cackling goblin!" Blaine's face flushed with embarrassment as he glared at his red rival. "You will rue the day you made fun of the Blue Fury! For now, I shall acquire your remaining coins and claim them as my own!" Blaine scoffed, raising his head arrogantly.

"Don't think I'll just let you do that. I will stop you with all my mighty strength!" Rory declared. "Have at thee!" With all his might, Rory charged towards Blaine. "Oh no! Ack! Ow! Ouch!"

Just a moment later, Rory lay sprawled on the ground in front of his opponent.

"Did… did you just trip over your own tail?!" Blaine exclaimed, his voice echoing through the cave. "I did not! I just, eh… It was part of my strategy!" Rory wrapped his tail around Blaine's front paws and yanked them out from under him. Their not-so-fierce battle raged on like a small, smouldering fire. During the pathetic scuffle, the two coins Blaine had stolen the day before rolled away. Of course, in their minds, the struggle resembled a battle between mighty beasts.

Despite their fierce determination to defeat each other, this was the most fun either dragon had experienced in a long time.

 Caught up in their mildly chaotic movements, they failed to notice that their tails had become tangled together. "Ugh! Hey! Our tails, they’re tied together," Rory uttered.

"I can see that. I’m not blind, stupid. So much for your grand strategy, I suppose," Blaine laughed back. "N… no! You see… I restricted your movements, you see. Now you can’t steal any more coins. I’m a master at strategizing, you see?" Rory murmured back in a panic.

"Oh, really? So, I can presume you ‘can see’ those ravens over there grabbing your coins, I presume?" Blaine retorted with a smug smile.

"WHAT! No, oh no! Let them go, you nasty birds! Come on, blueberry, help me save them!"

With their tails tied together, they stumbled over to the plundering ravens.

"Shoo! Move! Get out of here!" Rory yelled with all his meek might.

"Yeah! Go away, you dumb birds!" Blaine added.

After the scuffle had ended, the little dragons were faced with a horrifying truth. No coins remained but the one silver coin. Rory wailed and yelled in a tantrum, rolling on the ground like an animal.

"You! This is all your fault, you blue… BABOON!" Rory yelled in frustration.

"Baboon? Excuse you? If you didn’t run at me like an idiot, the coins would still be here," Blaine spat back. ‘’My fault? If you just had helped me, the crimson menace sooner, it would have been prevented!’’ Rory yelled, his voice cracking a bit as he tried to uphold to his grandiose persona.

‘’The blue fury does not concern himself with the feelings of a rival. You should have protected them better. Like the big dragons do.’’ Blaine uttered. Rory stared at him. His face forming a large frown.  Those words: like the bigger dragons. Set Rory off. His carefully maintained façade of being a grand dragon dropping like a stone.

"Those coins were all I had! Don’t dare pin this on me," Rory said in anger.

"Oh, please, don’t act as if some big dragon would not have stolen them in due time."

"They were still mine!"

"I never owned any, so you should have shared!"

"You tried to steal them!"

"And? So what!"

"With them gone, I have nothing. I’m just…"

"Just what?!"

"ALONE! Just alone… again."

"Oh…" Blaine answered, awkwardly looking at the one who calls himself the Crimson Menace.

"Umm… there, there." Blaine patted Rory on the back while looking visibly confused. "The silver coin is worth more than all the copper coins combined, so who cares, right? Heh…" A single drop of sweat dripped from Blaine’s head from the effort it took him to spin this into a positive note.

"Right… that really cheered me up," Rory sighed with a sombre look. He grabbed his silver coin and trudged to a corner in the cave. "Just… leave me alone, will you? I’ve had enough blue for today."

"Right… But don’t think tomorrow will be without attempts to steal that silver coin," Blaine said. But there came no answer. "Right… heh. I will just, uhm, be over here plotting my grand heist."

Blaine lay down on the other side of the cave, feeling an odd sympathy for Rory. This new feeling clashed with his desire for the silver coin. God… stealing from such a depressed-looking dragon is not going to be fun. Will he even be okay when I inevitably get my claws on that coin? Even if I, the blue fury deserves it. Blaine thought.

Blaine looked at Rory, who was slumped in the corner, looking at his one coin with a sad expression because he had shared too much of his feelings with a stranger.

"You could always… never mind," Blaine said. "I’ll just leave you alone for today…" Blaine uttered, quickly wiping the idea he had thought up away. He moved a bit closer because he felt that this is kind off his fault. ‘’Don’t mind me… this particular section of stone just looks more comfortable.’’  The silence was loud.