Chapter 2

"Careful Cynder, don't burst the goddamn stitching again, it takes forever to do it with your magical skin." Ember said as she looked over Cynder, making sure that she wasn't going to waste her time. "Oh, and I'll like you to meet someone." She moved and let Lunar move over Cynder.

"Hey there. you alright, you look like you have been to hell and back." Lunar said as he looked over Cynder's belly, seeing the raised skin.

"If you had tagged along with me, you would have seen hell many-a-times in a few years." She replied back with a smile. "Although, waking up in a hospital two days in a row is a new thing for me. How long am I stuck her this time Ember?"

Ember had moved off to get some red gems. "Another 3 days, you better get comfortable, Mr. Saviour here is staying here for the next two days." She moved and released some red gems along Lunar's back, letting them seal the wounds on his back that she had missed due to his charcoal skin. "Sorry. missed some." She chuckled.

"You left them on purpose didn't you, just so I can experience the pain. Ah…" He could feel the burn of the healing substance in the gems at work. The burning then subsided and he let go of his weird face and looked at Ember with a stern face before being cracked in the face with her heart shaped tail.

"Shut up before I fill your system full of so many green gems, you won't be able to stop moving due to the adrenaline." She threatened before moving out of the room.

"Ha. Score one for the medical profession, zero for the hero of mine." Cynder said as she was still on her belly, unable to move. Lunar joined her as she snorted at him, the shadow magic being released from her snout. Lunar responded with some Ice breath with made the shadow power freeze into black ice particles and fall to the floor. Making Cynder laugh and Lunar chuckle in his stupidity. "Funny, you might want to get rid of it before it bores a hole in your brain."

Lunar picked up the Ice shard and threw it out the window next to him, hearing a satisfying smash as the ice let the shadow magic into the air and dissipate.

"Smartass ice dragon alert, please, don't become a Cyril." Cynder said.

"Cyril you say?"

"The ice guardian? You should've heard of him, If I have, everyone else has."

"Doesn't ring a bell."

"Brimming with pride and arrogance, claiming that his lineage is that of some long forgotten yet great dragons?" Cynder spat out the first things that came to mind.

Lunars eyes dilated and Cynder could see his black pupils for the first time, them being a black hole to his full white irises. "Ah, him. I see what you talk about, I'll stop."

"Awww. its funny though if you don't take it to Cyril levels."

"I'm guessing that line is quite large?"

"Yep, very, it's quite hard to do it before I get annoyed."

"Anyone else I need to be wary about turning into then?"

"Maybe Volteer, but you speak at a normal pace and also, most importantly don't list off all of the different words for a certain word that can be found in a thesaurus."

Lunar's eyes went back to his normal white colour and then put his chest up as high as he could. "Aggravating, bothersome, disturbing, irritating, troublesome….vexatious" He said quickly, making Cynder laugh again in his show, making Volteer look silly in comparison.

"Don't do that or I may actually kill you, I was close when he was doing it himself." Lunar stopped and lied back down to Cynder's eye level.

"So, how do you know these guardians so well. If you know their personality so much and you have been this 'Terror of the Skies' you must have an interesting story. Cynder sighed in a good way and went about recalling her story up to now, in a more precise form, Lunar just sat there, taking it all in, not asking a single question, unlike Ember who wanted details. Cynder had to stop to check if he was alive at one point because he had been so quiet.

Next Day

Lunar and Cynder had had a good night sleep after Cynder told him her story, but she made him promise to tell her about his background and everything. just to make it even, and because they still had a day to go before one of them was allowed out of the Hospital.

Ember did her routine check up and heard about their planning of hearing what Lunar's background was, she wanted to join in as well, neither of the two patients minded, the more company, the better.

"So, about your past…" Cynder started.

"Well, I was born 18 years ago, in a town called Galaxy

Story Time!

It was a big town in effect of how much space was used, but the population was quite small in comparison, I lived with my mother, Venus and my father, Mercury, I am a twin to my just-younger sister Sol, we were a quiet group that get along with the neighbours and it was a great atmosphere to be around in really. We had the Nebula as a household next to us, I had a great friendly relationship with their son, Nova, we always use to play out with each other, make sure everyone was alright, it was like nothing could touch us in the world.

'Wait… those names sound like they have a lot in common.' Ember pondered.

Yes, because it made everything much simpler, we all knew each other by at least surname.

Here, funny story;

Me, Sol and Nova were all going down to the market where we were buying supplies for our families, as we had grown up enough to be trusted with all the gems that my parents had. While we were getting all the supplies, a fight broke out in the middle of the Market, a electricity dragon had started one with a fire dragon, just out of spite, nothing else. They had a go at each other, and because we had such a peaceful town, most of the townsfolk acted as the law, we really didn't have an army to keep the people inside safe, we could at least deal with it ourselves.

We had to just watch the fight carry on as the rest of the people thought that it would end soon, but it didn't and it got ever so more violent until one had punched another one so hard that his body flew towards him. Me, being 11 at the time, didn't know what to do, so I just screamed in terror, but instead of air and sound coming out, all that came out was a wall of blue particles that stopped the flying body in its track and dropped it to the floor, the electricity dragon frozen in my ice block.

"So you froze a guy on accident, how did you even manage that in the first place?" Cynder questioned.

I have no idea myself, but it didn't go down very well as I was punch right in the snout by another person who I think was the dragon's wife, I was thrown back into a market stand. While this was happening, Sol was using her little fire breath to melt to dragon out. I stood back up, dazed and heard a high pitched laugh, turning to my right I saw a creature in a full clock that had a bag on him, I looked down at my neck and saw what he was laughing about, he had stolen all of my gems that I had gotten from my Parents.

The moment to creature saw me move, it started to run at amazing speed, outrunning me outright, I couldn't catch him in a straight running race. I enlisted the help of Nova to be an ambush maker, he placed himself on top of a rooftop in a pile of carpets. I then ran after the thief and chased him so that he would jump onto the roof, when he did, he fell into the trap, with less desirable consequences. Nova jumped out and grabbed the thief, but he had launched himself to a point where he was off the roof, he flew with the thief and dropped him in front of me, which I proceeded to freeze into a solid block again with my scream which again was the ice element. Nova dropped off the bag and we went back to where Sol was and her had got the dragon out of the cocoon that I had made, he thanked me for saving his life and such and we went on our merry way.

It was all very peaceful for the next few years, just business as usual, with a side of me, Sol and Nova training with my Parent with our respecting traits. All went well.

Until you showed up and crashed the peace.

"I'm so sorry for what I have done." Cynder said.

No need, you were not the one who cause the most grief that day for me anyway.

"What? Who did then?"

Flame did…

"Wait? Flame? A fire dagon about the same age as me?" Ember said with worry.

Yes, and he is on the top of my list for people that I need to find.