The Legend of Spyro and Cynder: A New Destiny
Chapter 2: Crystal's memories and meeting Flame and the Asassians
6 years later…
The six year old Crystal looked out at her window, everything in the dragon City seemed normal for now, but her dad always told her to be on the look out since the Dark armies of the General and Dark Mistress can attack this city at anytime soon. Crystal sighed as she thought back to when her mother left her for the first time after her father recovered from his wounds given by one of the apes on a dreading.
*Flashback*
"Why do you have to leave Mommy?" The 2 year old Crystal asked her mother as she was preparing to meet Pyra, Ignitus and the other guardians.
"I need to go and help Pyra and his friends fight back the dark forces before they can bring any harm to the Dragon City and you, it's always a dragons duty to protect ones they love and care for." "And besides, you wouldn't want your dad to leave you, wouldn't you?"
Crystal thought for a moment.
"No, I don't. But still, what if something bad happens to you?"
"I will be fine my dear Crystal. I am very capable of handling on my own, and even if anything does happen to me, you still have your loving Father who will always look after you and you have the ancestors to always watch over you too."
Crystal, while still a bit upset, knew she was right. She still had her own Father and even if he was gone too, the ancestor will look after her too.
"Well…..Ok Mommy. But please be careful and if you can, please visit me from time to time, ok?"
Lola nodded while seeming to tear up too.
"Yes, I promise. Because you will always be my special baby to me."
Then Lola left Crystal in the care of her father Riki and head off to join with the other dragons for the great war….
*Flashback ends*
It's been at least a week and a half since her mom last visited her. The little blue ice dragoness worried about her safety everyday. Sure, at least she had her dad to look after her, but what he was suddenly called to participate in the war too and then something horrible happened that ends in losing both of her parents! She would be an orphan, and then…..
"No, wait, this is silly….." Crystal thought to herself. "My Mom is very tough when in battles. Nothing ever bad will ever happen to her."
Just when crystal finished calmming and reassuring herself, her father Riki opened the door and came to her.
"Crystal?" Riki, her father asked. Crystal then saw him and got off from the window.
"Yes, dad? Did you need me for something?" The eight year dragon asked.
" I've noticed that you have been staring at the window for a long time now." Her father told her. Crystal immeditly cringed back. She had no idea how to answer him, but she didn't want to lie about what her problem was either.
"It is about your mother Crystal?" Riki asked his daughter. Now knowing her father was onto her, Crystal spoke up.
"Yes dad. It's been a really long time since mom came over, and the war seems to be getting worse and worse each day. I hope she's doing alright." The blue dragoness sighed to herself. Riki thought a bit to himself. It was natural for her to worry about Lola since he himself was concerned for the well being of his own wife. But he had to give his own daughter a bit of hope. He then spoke to her.
"Crystal, I know it's been a long time since your mother had last visited you, and the war has been getting really bad recently but we still need to have hope in that everything will be alright. It is said by the ancestors that even the smallest amount of courage can be enough to turn around these dark times."
Crystal nodded, then she smile.
"Yes, I think you're right dad. Even if the dark armies are a lot stronger then us, we still won't give up hope. and plus there's the purple dragon that Ignitus spared at the night of the raid so maybe someday soon, the legendary purple dragon will come and save us all."
Riki chuckled and answered to his daughter: "Yes, maybe you are right, maybe when things are looking at it's worst, the purple dragon will come and save us all."
"Yeah, we should always never give up hope." Crystal answered with a smile on her face.
Riki then smiled at his daughter and hugged her which she eagerly hugged back. "Well, are you ready to go see your friends Byron, Kassie and Francine?" he asked her.
"I sure am dad." Crystal answered back and smiled.
"Ok then, let's get going." :) Then the two of them started to head off outside to meet with Crystal's friends…..
Meanwhile, somehere in the concurrent skies lies a huge tower looming over, no sunshine ever shown through the constant dark skies as thunder and lightning struck it from time to time. Hanging on top of it's peak was a dark crimson blood red dragon with dusty golden horns, dark yellow crest and muddy yellow and silver wings. He was quite large for a male dragon and his eyes were an almost souless yellow although if one were to squint carefully, one can see he has orange irises. He also had choker chains on his neck, front legs and tail. His wings had a lot of holes in them in account for the many victories he has won and his tail was dusty yellow with quite a few cracks in it.
His name was Flame, the top general (Besides the ape leader Gaul of coarse) of the dark armies.
He started to scowl as he was starting to loose his patience out of the fact the 3 so called dragon assassians were taking too much of his time.
"Ok, where the heck are those 3 assassin fools?! Gnasy gnorc, Ripto and that Sorceress jerk are late again! We won't be able to capture the last guardian if they keep it up like this!"
Flame once again scowled under his breath as he passed around the floor again.
"I really didn't want that blue lizard queen to come along, but The Mistress insisted she is of much better assistance then the other two and Gnasty and his big mouth convinced her all the more….."
Flame muttered and even swore a bit under his breath. He knew deep down his mistress knew what she was doing and her orders benefited everyone in the dark army, but he just wished she'd give him a break from the nonsense of the assassins and those apes.
"They should've gotten everyone else ready ahead of time…" Flame kept talking to himself as he paced around some more. Then he suddenly heard a noise and turned around. There he saw a giant green orc like creature in golden armor with museles, a small orange reptilian dinosaur wearing ninja assassin like clothing and an overgrown blue lizard with regal robes. Flame knew immediately by looking that it was the 3 hired asassinans his mistress hired.
"Sorry we're late Commander Flame, we were held up by some problems a while ago." The Green Orc told the dark red dragon nervously.
"If by problems Gnasty Gorc, you mean getting hugged slobbered all over by sir show off's pets!" The female lizard like dinosaur known as the Sorceress claimed while point towards the Orange male one.
"Hey, it's not my fault! Crush and Gulp act stupid and canine like when we're about to leave for an important mission!" Ripto, the orange dinosaur yelled back. Flame groaned at all 3 of their stupidity.
"Silence!" Flame shouted, having the 3 nervously turn to his attention then the large blood red dragon continued. "The important thing is that the 3 of you have all finally showed up. I've got the message from one of the ape soliders that The mistress is planning a surprise attack tomorrow morning to distract the dragon army long enough to capture the top squire Pyra and maybe if we're lucky the last guardian Ignitus too."
"Why do we need to capture the squire Flame?" Ripto asked him.
"Yeah, can't we just go after the fire guardian himself?" Gnasty Gnorc added.
"Don't tell me you've forgotten the reason why that last guardian has avoided capture within these years?" Flame asked with a slight taunting tone in his voice. "Pyra his Squire and 2nd in command has been guarding Ignitus even more furiously in the last few years since the other guardians are in our clutches. And since he happens to be the sister of that Malina hero, he appears to be just as skilled as her in his own way as well. We'll need to figure out something get to both of them without being overwhelmed at the same time."
"Why not just send in the Mistress herself? She's actually killed several adult dragons in every battle she's entered." The Sorceress.
Flame thought for a second, then he nodded. "That may work. But we'll need to see if she is willing to enter the battle herself. If she agrees then this should a piece of cake for all of us."
"And not to mention pretty hot too." Gnasty Gnorc added with an excited growl.
Flame growled while his eyes burned with rage. "HEY! Hands off my sis-I mean the Mistress you creep!" Gnasty Gnorc squeaked in terror as his eyes widened in fear. Flame then continued.
"So we'll ask the Mistress if she is willing to participate in the battle with us and regardless of what answer she gives us, we'll head off soon. And remember all of you, Do not fail this mission no matter what! The mistress will not keep being merciful to you forever!"
Then everyone heard a mysterious voice. "Don't you worry Flame, I'll make sure none of you will fail this mission at all." Flame turned to see who spoke. He didn't see anything except for some green glowing eyes. He immediately recognized whom did those green eyes belonged to.
"Mistress Em-" Flame begain to speak.
"Yes, it's me. I've heard your conversion, and yes, I am more then happy to help you all out with the capturing." The voice said with an evil chuckle."