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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Princess Malia 
// by Creativa-Artly01 
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A few minutes later, Princess Malia goes inside to check on her own two hatchlings, Thorax and Pharynx. "Hey my little baby boys," she says sweetly as she grabs them from the crib, "someday this'll be your kingdom to rule but not yet." She then cradles them in her hooves. Thorax giggles while Pharynx moans. Even though they're brothers, they have very different personalities from each other. Princess Malia then hands each of them a little bug to eat, which they then down. She smiles as she watches them eat. She is glad to be their mother. That's one thing that will never change. Once she sees that they're done with their meals, she takes the two outside and lets them look out over the kingdom they're going to rule one day. "My little boys, someday this land is going to belong to you," she says. The two hatchlings in her hooves smile as they clap their tiny hooves together. Malia smiles. She then takes the two back inside and puts them down for their nap. She then goes off to tend to her beautiful flower gardens. She couldn't be happier knowing that her own hatchlings are safe. 

In her garden, Princess Malia hums an old tune that her mother used to sing to her when she was a young changeling as she waters her flowers. "Flowers are so pretty, so beautiful, so delicate, so fragile," she sighs before returning to humming that tune. As she continues to water, she is soon interrupted by one of her hoof maids named Cecelia. 

"Princess," says Cecelia, "little Pharynx has gone missing." 

Princess Malia turns around and flies out of the garden in search of her son. She can't believe Pharynx would just abandon the nest, abandon her, abandon his brother. She searches high and low before she finds him on the border of the Dracon Woods. She swoops down and sweeps him up in her hooves and gives him a stern talking to along with a small spanking, one still hard enough to hurt him and show him that he did wrong though.  She then flies back to the nest and thanks Cecelia for informing her before it was too late. The hoof maid nods before leaving the throne room. Pharynx is then taken back to his room by another one of the hoof maids named Clarice. Princess Malia takes a deep sigh. She's glad her son is safe and still in one piece.