Chapter 2: Better Times

I jolted awake in my bed in Warfang with sweat all over me. I groaned as I remembered my dream, "why me?" I asked myself. "Why am I the one whose brother is forced to be Malefor's replacement for Cynder?" I sighed and got up and walked to the door, it has been ten years since my brother was turned and I could remember that fateful moment, but Spyro and Cynder killed Malefor 5 years after Ashter was transformed and I thought he would be released of his hold but he wasn't.

Flashback

"River run, you must get out of here before he gets you too!" Ashter said as the dark magic coursed through him again.

"I'm not leaving you no matter what you're my brother I can't just leave you to a fate worse than death." I said as my brother gave me an agonizing look.

"You must, I can't leave the dark master is already here you must go and keep Starlight safe, please as a brother I'm asking you to leave and never come back."

"No, I can't."

"Yes you can the… the transformation is almost complete!" Ashter said as he screamed again. "RUNNNNNN!" he roared so loud the walls shook as the transformation was finished.

I turned and ran, but as soon as I turned around I felt a couple of sharp stabs in my back and a chuckle from someone but I ignored it and keep running. As soon as I was out of sight of the castle I flew and didn't stop. Soon I was in sight of Warfang and I flew faster. I passed the walls of the city but my body got jolted with pain. I was immobilized and hit the ground. I tried to look at my arm and it was black with a tint of blue and yellow, "oh no," then the world went black…

End Flashback

"Better times," I mumbled to myself.

"Hey," Starlight said, bringing me back from my memories.

"Oh, hey didn't see you there." I said.

"Are you ok, you don't look to good," she asked

"Oh, ya I'm fine I was just remembering when," I shuddered "when Ashter was transformed… along with me". I said with a sad look.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know," she said.

"It's ok what's past is past so lets go get some breakfast, eh" I said.

"Sure let me jus…" she started to say when someone else outside said, "Intruder, sentries to your stations."

"C'mon lets go," I said. Once we gout outside we saw a huge black dragon flying towards Warfang. "I wonder who that could be." I said to myself as Starlight gasp, "look" she said. I looked and behind the black dragon were at least five hundred other dragons flying behind it.

"Oh no," I said as the dragon got closer I saw who it was and I touched my scar that curves down from my eye brow across my eye (in my left eye I can't see in the middle because of the scar I got) and down my face until it reached my chin. That black dragon was my… brother. "Starlight look," I said. "Ashter" was all she said. Now maybe I can finally kill my brother for what he did to us.

"Your going to kill him aren't you," Starlight said startling me.

I sighed, "I have to, for ten years I've searched for a cure to bring my brother back but I haven't found one so I must," I said with a sad voice.

"I know but still I wish there was another way you know I still love him but," she said.

"I know I want him back to" I said. I looked up as a roar pierced the sky. "Go see if you can help the other dragons and be careful I don't want to lose you too," I said.

"Ok" she said.

"Even though I can't kill my brother," I whispered to myself as I took to the sky to meet my brother thinking about my scar. I came up beside him. "Ashter," I said. He turned and looked at me.

"Well if it isn't my little brother, I thought I killed you when I gave you that scar," he said with a menacing laugh.

"You almost did if it wasn't for Starlight I would be dead."

He stiffened at the name and I new I had hit a nerve as part of my plan so I went on, "Another thing I think you should know it that during these past ten years me and Starlight have gotten closer and now we are mates," I said with a big smile.

He looked at me with a horrifying gaze and yelled, " you what!"

"We are mates and we have already had a set of kids," I said with the last part a lie and a chuckle. Actually the whole sentence was a lie I'm not Starlight's mate, she is like a sister to me.

He roared as loud as he could and every head turned our way as he lunged at me. I moved to the side, "Is that it? Wow you have gotten a lot slower since the last time we met." He spun around and hit me in the side of the head with his tail blade. I spun to the ground and hit it with a loud thud. My brother laughed but was stopped short when a bolt of lightning and ice hit him in the chest and sent him into a wall.