DISCLAIMER: I do not own any Bleach or Spyro characters. I do own The Lieutenant and Doragon.
Author's Note: Even though I own Doragon, I do not own his image. When they first thought of Spyro's color, it was originally going to be green. I used that idea to make Doragon.
Chapter 1: The Dragon Soul Reaper
The lieutenant left the Soul Society in search of the spiritual pressures that existed in another world. The world he way was nothing like the world he knew. He noticed creatures that he's never seen before. He knew he'd want to explore at some point, but today wasn't that day. He head off in the direction of the spiritual pressures.
Meanwhile, as Spyro and Cynder were trying to find their way home, they also were trying to remove the chain that was connecting them.
"UH! What is...this thing...made of?" Spyro asked, pausing in between tugs on the chain that connected them.
"I don't know," Cynder said, "But I'm certain that it's not Malefor's doing. He would have used magic. This chain is solid."
Spyro then tried flaming the chain then freezing it. He repeated this process for about an hour. Then he tried his Earth Shot at the point where he weakened the chain. But chain just didn't break.
Spyro then finally was able to shatter the chain. There was still several feet connected to Cynder's chest. But there was less than an inch left attached to Spyro. The piece of chain that was connected to Spyro began to quickly disintegrate, "Spyro, what's happening?" Cynder said with concern in her voice.
When Spyro's chain disintegrated completely, Cynder noticed a hole forming in Spyro's chest where the chain was. Before anything happened, Spyro looked at Cynder with fear in his eyes, "Cynder, I'm scared," Spyro said quietly, his voice wavering in fear. But the fear they were feeling then didn't even compare to what was about to happen.
A white ooze began to stream out of Spyro's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The white ooze began to cover his face, "SPYRO?!" Cynder cried out, horrified at what she was seeing. Spyro transformed into Dark Spyro while this was happening. The ooze then turned black and began to harden, beginning to form a skull-like mask on Spyro's face. The mask was black with three, purple, think, vertical stripes. Two of the stripes went down over the eyes. The third went down the middle, splitting at the snout and going around it.
"Spyro,"Cynder whispered in fear of what she saw, "What's happening to you?"
Spyro saw the fear in Cynder's eyes. This managed to get through to him. Right as the mask finished forming, it vanished and Spyro returned to his normal self...mostly. The hole in his chest was no longer there. Spyro saw that Cynder was on the ground with crying with her paws covering her eyes. She was also trembling to the point of almost convulsing.
When Spyro saw Cynder in this state, and knowing that it was because of him that she was like this, he began to cry as well, "Please don't be afraid of me, Cynder," He said trying to comfort her.
Cynder looked up and saw that Spyro was back to normal. Cynder jumped onto Spyro and hugged him. But she was unable to stop crying, "I was so scared, Spyro," Cynder said.
"So was I," Spyro said, sharing her fear of what happened.
"What was happening to you?" Cynder asked.
"I don't know," Spyro replied in a sad tone. Spyro and Cynder both lied down. Cynder cried herself to sleep. Once she was asleep, Spyro kissed her on the forehead, "I love you," Spyro whispered before laying his head down, falling asleep as well.
--Meanwhile--
The lieutenant continued his search, "I wish I would've arrived closer to their location," He said. Then his radar picked up something. There was a hollow being born, "Oh, no! I hope I'm not to late!" He said. Then he noticed that only one of the spirits was going through the hollowification process. He then went at full speed toward the signal.
A few minutes later, the signal disappeared. And what took it's place was a spirit similar to that of a soul reaper. He continued on for about an hour. When he arrived, he was shocked at what he saw. Two young dragons cuddled next to each other, asleep. He couldn't disterb their slumber seeing how peaceful they looked.
As Spyro slept, he had another dream...
--Spyro's Dream--
Spyro was back on the mountain. In front of him, the green dragon that looked like him was there waiting. For Spyro, "What? You again?" Spyro said, "Who are you? And where am I?"
"You're in the world of your mind," The green dragon said, "The place where many soul reapers go to train with their Zanpakuto's."
"Zanpakuto? Soul reapers? What are you talking about?" Spyro wondered.
"A soul reaper is a soul that exists to keep the balance of souls between the world of the living and the spirit world." The green dragon said, "A Zanpakuto is the weapon that that a soul reaper wields. A Zanpakuto represents it's user's spirit. Spyro, I am your Zanpakuto."
Spyro was beginning to put everything together, "If you're my zanpakuto, that means that I am a sould reaper. If I'm a soul reaper, then I'm a spirit. If I'm a spirit..." Spyro didn't want to say the last part.
Spyro's zanpakuto finished for him, "You didn't make it out of that battle alive. You won against Malefor, but at the price of your own life. Cynder as well."
"But when a dragon dies, their spirits return to nature," Spyro said, "So why haven't I? Why haven't we?"
"Once in a while, when a dragon dies before their time, they do not return to nature," Spyro's zanpakuto said, "Their spirits live on for a little while to be given judgment. This judgment is to determine the rest of their life. They could either get the chance to be given back their life from where it left off, relive their life through reincarnation and losing all of you memories that you've gained, get the chance to return to nature, or...you'll just cease to exist."
"You still haven't told me your name," Spyro said.
"You can just call me Doragon." His voice trailed off as Spyro woke up.
--End Dream--
Spyro was waken up by Cynder moaning in pain, "Cynder, what's wrong?!" Then Spyro saw the chain connected to her chest was disintegrating like his own was earlier.
The lieutenant saw the chain disintegrating, "Oh, no! Why didn't I notice it before?" He said, "Her soul chain has been broken!" The same thing that happened to Spyro was now happening to Cynder.
How's that for a cliff hanger? Please R&R.
I'll put in some Japanese to English translations as they appear:
Doragon = Dragon
