TLOS: why we fight
AN: this is my first fanfic so pleases don't hate. This is a spyro/cynder fic, and im going to start it at a T rating, but may move it up to m later if that is wanted. I've tried writing before, but have never liked how it would turn out. This is my first step in opening up my writing to others. I've always been a huge fan of the legend of spyro games and really wish they had gone a bit more into what happened after malefore was defeated. So here is my take at it! Enjoy!
cynder was slowly waking up, stretching and rubbing the sleep from her eyes with her front paws. yawning she sat up on her haunches and ,through half lidded eyes, glanced around without much thought. "why am I in this field?" she mutters to herself, "where is the temple?"
then it hit her like a ton of bricks and her eyes flew wide. Shouldn't she be at the realms core with spyro? And should they be dead? As she began to remember their final fight with malefore, she sighed as she remembered his final words as he disappeared into the core. Then she blushed a bit as she recalled her last words to spyro before blacking out.
"wait" she said aloud, "spyro!" she stood up quickly and looked in all directions. Where was he!? She needed to find him and make sure he was ok. "Spyro! Spyro where are you!" she shouted at the top of her lungs as she attempted to take flight. She only got about three feet before crashing back into the ground. She stood up confused and looked back. Her wings were there, but when she went to unfold them, she winced in pain. Her wings felt like they were on fire, so she folded them to her side and began searching for spyro again.
She noticed that she was in the avalarian valley. The first place she looked was the near by supply cave, but there was no trace of him. She then checked the dock where they found the raft. Still, no sign of spyro. shechecked a few other places but found nothing. she was getting rather worried by this point "no. he cant be gone! Not after all we went through!" she said determinedly. "wait! He could be at the village!" she said excitedly. She ran as fast as she could towards the cheetah village. When she reached her destination, she bound into the village shouting "spyro! Answer me, where are you! Spyro!" her shouting woke the guard who was supposed to be on duty. Luckily no one had noticed him drift off, or chief prowlus would have his hide for it. "ho! Who goes there!?" he shouted, "only those with chief prowlus' permission may enter!" he ran towards her and took up a defensive stance with his sword drawn.
Cynder stopped yelling to see who was coming, when she heard his shout and saw his sword drawn. Cynder said, "my name is cynder. Iv helped this village out before, spyro and I helped defend it from the grubblins and found medow." The cheetah relaxed his stance but kept his sword drawn. "you know spyro? Where the hell is he then? I would gladly like to meet the worlds savior." He asked sarcastically.
"so spyro's not here then?" she asked with a quivering voice, " then where could he be? He can't be dead. damn it! I won't believe that." The cheetah slowly walked up to her. As he approached, he wondered to himself "cynder. Iv heard that name before, but where from? oh shit! The terror of the skies!? But she doesn't look like that big of a threat. Still better be careful." he stopped a few feet short of her "but wasn't spyro travelling with a dragon named cynder when he helped us? Is this really her? and if so, is she still evil or has she changed? plus shouldn't spyro be near by as well?" he contemplated these and said aloud, "how do I know who you say you are if you have no proof? If you had spyro with you I may believe you more readily."
At this moment chief prowlus ran up beside him. "I heard yelling, what in the hell is goin…." Prowlus trailed off when he looked passed the guard and saw cynder sitting there. "cynder? Is that you?" he asked with a bit of aw in his voice, "we thought you and spyro were dead! It has been almost three months since you two went to face malefore. It is good to see you alive and well! But where is spyro? Is he not with you?"
With some effort cynder opened her mouth and spoke "im not sure where he is, or even if…" she paused "if he is alive. I was hoping that he would be here." She sat back on her haunches with a worried expression. Prowlus walked up and put a comforting paw on her shoulder. "where have you looked for him so far? Maybe he is still unconscious somewhere." Prowlus asked. He looked over his shoulder at the guard, "you, whats your name?" he asked with a stern voice.
"M-m-my name is swift sir." The guard said while hastily standing at attention. "grab a few more guards and ready for a search, and do it quickly! We need to help cynder find spyro, and hell take me if we don't find him soon" prowlus growled as he comforted cynder. "Y-yes sir!" swift said as he saluted and ran to find a few more guards.
Cynder looked to prowlus and said with a shaky voice "thank you for this, ill help look for him as well. I just hope he is okay" Prowlus nodded and stood "I wish you luck in finding him. I would get hunter to help if he were here, but he is at warfang helping the moles with the cities reconstruction" cynder nodded and stood as swift came back around the corner with four others.
she faced the group and said "Iv already looked through the supply cave and the dock, we should start by scouring the west side of the valley and work our way back up the east." As cynder finished saying this and turned to walk away she heard prowlus say "split into groups of two, don't loose sight of your partner. We don't know if there are any more grubblins about. Swift!" swift started but stood before his chief, "go with cynder, if your alright with that?" prowlus asked with a raised eyebrow. Cynder ruffled her wings in the dragons version of a shrug "as long as he doesn't slow me down im fine with it" she said. " good!" said prowlus "now that that's settled, I expect this party to be back by nightfall! Good luck and watch yourselves."
The party began to work their way down the western edge of the river. as they searched they found nothing. not even a claw print or disturbed bush. after an hour or two they were near the end of the valley. Swift was looking with as much concentration as he could muster while still keeping track of cynder. "nothing here!" he heard the group in the next glade over shouted. "same here!" came a slightly more distant yell. He looked to cynder who shook her head "nothing over here either!" swift yelled back. "let's move to the east side of the river and work our way back up!" he called.
A few moments later the other two groups walked into the grove. "this is taking longer than I thought it would, and why do we need to help these 'high-and-mighty' dragons who treat us like shit?" one of the guards complained to his friend who shook his head and gestured at cynder, who was only a few feet away. At hearing this cynder replied quietly "if you are tired of searching, you don't need to stay. I can find him on my own. If we are so much better, as you claim we see ourselves, I wonder why spyro faced down malefore and all his minions for the likes of you. Sure! We obviously treat you like shit when spyro probably gave his life to make yours better." She turned and stormed to the edge of the river and made to jump over it. "wait!" said swift. Cynder stopped and glared at them over her shoulder. "he didn't mean it like that, we just didn't expect to go on a man search today. It's just kind of sudden" he said. "yeah, sorry if I sounded disrespectful, I was only running my mouth. I still want to help" added the guard who was looking at the ground in shame.
Cynder scoffed and turned to face them, "ok, I forgive you. so let's get back to searching then. If you can put up with a 'high-and-mighty' dragon for a bit longer" she exclaimed with a snicker at the guard who had complained, as she made a soaring jump to the opposite bank of the river, gliding to help her make the jump. The guard looked at the ground in shame as the others chuckled at his predicament. The cheetahs made their way across as well and they began to work back up the valley.
A few hours later they were back at their starting point and had still found nothing. The cheetahs had given up and were heading back to the village. "you can stay inside for the night if you want" swift offered, but cynder declined politely, Instead choosing to stay under the big tree at the rivers fork.
As she lay down wondering if she would ever see spyro again and letting her mind wander, the moon broke through the cloud cover, bathing everything she could see in a silvery light. Cynder lay her head down on her paws looking out over the river. She sighed and tried to sleep, but sleep would not come. She lay awake for a few hours hoping spyro was ok before finally drifting slowly into sleep. As sleep finally began to take full hold of her, she caught a slight glimmer from the corner of her eye, but was too groggy and tired to check it out. So she fell asleep thinking nothing of it.
So that's it for chapter one. Not the longest chapter, but I'll try to make them a little longer as I go. Ill try to update biweekly but if not it shouldn't be more than a month at a time, sorry but I don't wright quickly. It's just the way it is. Please review and give me some feedback though! I'm already working on the next chapter, but any ideas will be considered and I might work them into the story a little later on.
JVuk out!