Chapter 2: Dark Past
As Spyro and the others where heading for the temple it became dark, "We'll have to stop and camp here for the night" Mark said and landed near a small clearing in the woods. When everyone landed they began to make camp, spyro went and got wood while the others prepared the camp. When they finished they sat near the fire and had some sheep they brought for dinner.
After dinner they talked around the fire but mark was silent through out the time. "You ok?" spyro asked. "Yeah, so your spyro? Names Mark" he said and shook his hand. As they introduced themselves mark explained about what happened during his absence, he told of his arrival and meeting Ignitus and the others. Of his battle against revan when he joined Falzar, meeting Ansem and becoming a dragon, fighting the four demon lords and being captured by Falzar, of his torture and how he got the dragon's arm, and about his month long training and meeting Elva and Leon, of battling Revan and found out that he was his brother, of the battle and Falzar's defeat and about how they got to the well.
"Wow, that's a lot of accomplishments you and your friends did." Spyro said. "Well you know" he said shrugging. "So who's this Sedro guy?" Sparx asked in Mark's face. "Okay first don't fly in my face, second he was the first human to come here in millennia." He told sparx who got out of his face. "So you came from the human world?" Cynder asked Mark. "Yeah, well Yulie, Siegfried, and Revan came before me, I came after." He told her. "Tell us what you did before you came here." Spyro asked. Yulie and Siegfried told about their lives before they came, Siegfried was a warrior who followed in his dad's footsteps while Yulie told she was training to become a healer back home. But Revan and Mark where silent. "What's wrong?" spyro asked them. "Nothing, I just don't want to talk about my past." Mark said.
"What's wrong? Had a bad live?" Sparx asked. "Sparx" he said and he shut up. "Lets just say, it's a topic I'm not fond of talking about." He told him and left the fire. "He's had a rough live, we both did." Revan whispered as soon as he saw Mark leave. "What happened?" Cynder asked. "Our home was attacked by pirates, we lived by the ocean, which meant that pirates love to attack us, this one was worse, thirteen of our people betrayed us and helped the pirates burn our town, and they killed our parents and people, leaving me and my bro alive. Mark took it hard. So we lived with our uncle for the rest of our lives, we didn't know what happened to those thirteen, but most didn't like us mainly mark." He told them with a dark look on his face. "Whoa, tough man" Sparx said.
"Sorry, I didn't know" Spyro apologized. "Don't blame yourself Spyro, it couldn't be helped." Revan said. After a while Yulie said "I'm going to check on Mark" and left to find him. "Why did they hate mark?" cynder asked "I don't think they hated him, well some did but they made fun of him because of what he was, they told him because they wanted to make him tough, back then he didn't like to fight, that day changed him though, he began to toughen up and became what he is now" Revan told them.
Meanwhile, when mark left he came to a good place far from the others and took out the photo he had, he looked at it and shed a tear why… Why couldn't I save them? He thought, he closed his eyes and thought of that day, there was fire everywhere and people screaming, the pirates where slaughtering them all and he saw his parents dead on the ground "Mom, Dad!" he yelled. Then he saw thirteen black figures and a big fourteenth figure standing on a dead body. The figure held a severed head in one hand, then it shed wings, they looked like a demon's wings, the figure looked at him and his heart stopped, he saw one of the eyes turn into a slit and bared it's teeth, they where covered in blood.
Mark opened his eyes and slid down the tree he was leaning on, he was shivering from that dream So much fire, so much death. He thought "make it stop, make it stop" he said. He curled up in a ball and began to cry. Yulie heard this and found him crying "Mark" she said. He looked at her "Please, leave me alone." He told her but she kept coming closer. "Are you okay?" she asked softly. "Yeah I'm alright, I just needed to be alone." He told her and wiped the tears from his eyes. "If you ever want to talk, I'm here." She told him. "Thanks, don't tell anyone about this okay?" he asked. "I promise." She told him, they went back to camp.
"Hey, about time, you alright?" Revan asked. "Just fine" he told him. After a while they went to bed, they went to their tents while Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, and Falzar slept outside. "Night guys" Mark told them. "Night" they said. Spyro sat on his stomach next to Cynder "They seem nice" he told them. "Yeah, but I feel bad for Mark and Revan" she said. "Yeah I know kind of feel sorry for them." Sparx said. "Sparx" Mark called. "Yeah?" he asked. "Shut up" he told him. "That's cold man" he said and then fell asleep instantly. Spyro shook his head and fell asleep.