A/N: Here is another chapter for the story, something is going on in someone's mind :3 (Yeah, more reviews :D) Thank you everyone who has :D Incoming little bonus chapter in 4 days... 12/09/14 seeing some of the more recent past of Lunar and Sol :)
Chapter 4 - Mind Games
Cynder lay on her bed as she was talking to Ember about Spyro and what he was like. That conversation went on for a while.
"What about Lunar?"
Cynder stopped her thought train. "You say what?"
"Lunar, the dragon who was with us a few hours ago. Any thoughts on him?"
"He's a nice dragon, saved me from killing myself and dragged me all the way her to get me help. He is kind to anyone who has talked to him, but there is something about him that doesn't seem right, he looks like he has some background that is shadowing over him. I can't put a claw on it, but it's effecting him, maybe a scar from when I was a Terror? Maybe this Nova he talked about? Flame? It's just all black cloud."
"That reminds me. I need to get in touch with Flame, from what I heard, he has some answering to do."
The door to there room opened as the Black and turquoise dragon walked in. "You would get him here?"
"Who?"
"Flame. I have a few questions of my own." Lunar said with a gruff voice. He had dust all over his body. Cynder noticed this.
"And what happened to you? I don't remember you being so dirty?"
Lunar looked around him and saw what she was talking about. "Oh, that, I had a run-in with my sister, Sol, she had been worried about why I was gone so long. Sister can be such a bloody pain sometimes, but I love her nonetheless."
Ember walked off to write a letter to Flame, to see if he would visit and see if he could clear this all up.
"Sister? How was she anyway?" Cynder asked.
"Not bad, she is in the same position as me, still getting use to the city of Warfang and such, she worries about me too much, I leave for a few days and then return, she is all up on me about being gone so long, I swear that she would be so lost without me."
"Sound like me." Cynder muttered.
"Yeah, it kinda does, but you need some masculinity to keep people in a straight line."
Cynder was taken back by that. "You're saying that we are all useless? That really helps my self-esteem doesn't it?"
"Hey, don't take it personally. It's just how I see it. I usually don't have the most popular opinions, just ones based on observations and other identifiers."
"Whatever then. Anything to tell me about Warfang while you were allowed out and about?"
"What? The city that is still a pile of rubble and looks worse off than you?" He chuckled.
"Nothing new then."
"Of course."
Ember walked back into the room with a scroll in her maw. Going up to her window, she saw a bird and it hopped over to her, taking the scroll in one of it's feet. "Take it to Flame, as fast as you can." She instructed. The bird looked and then turned and flew off into the distance. The night approaching fast. "You two should get some rest, I'll be back in the morning." Ember stated and walked out. Lunar looked as Cynder before settling down on the cushions next to her.
"Your staying here?" Cynder asked
"Yeah, wouldn't want you to run off again." Lunar replied. Placing his head down and closing his eyes. "I'll see you in the morning, my sister yapping at me for more than a few minutes really burns me. No pun intended." He went off to sleep, leaving Cynder on her own, she mustered the energy to get up and looked out of the window that the bird had left by, seeing the constellation again, she sighed.
"I'm guessing this is what I have to live for now, at least it's peaceful, no war, no nothing. Just me and him…." She stopped her thought train as she looked at the black form of Lunar. She studied him in depth for the first time. Black scales with Turquoise stripes, a crescent tail blade that didn't look very sharp at all, he has some sort of fur on top of his head that was light blue in colour but had a darker hue as the fur got closer to his body, He had silver curved spikes coming out of his wings that touched when he was sleeping, the dark blue tips shining in the light.
The colour of his base scales confused Cynder, he had scales like her, but he didn't retain the elements that she possessed, 'He has ice, and that can only be given away by his stripes, so what could he be hiding element-wise?' She didn't ponder on that but the circumstances she was in, she had been saved by him and now he was going to leave her, the only other friend out of the few she knew, this being Ember and the Guardians. She huffed and sat back down next to Lunar, laying down next. She raised a paw at his tail blade and carefully felt down it, seeing if her observation was right, she drew no blood. She then remembered how she didn't die. the tail blade had cut her but it didn't slice her tail off. She looked at the place in question, seeing the scales still forming over the cut. She placed her head down and closed her eyes, hoping for a good nights rest before the next cycle, ready for the departure of Lunar.
-Lunar's Mind-
"So, you have made it back to the female, she is looking over you, just so you know…" said Elprup. Lunar's subconscious looked at him. The black cloud that formed.
"And how does that affect me? She's just curious. Nothing else."
"That's what you think, but don't get too close to her, it may end up in more harm for yourself." Elprup warned.
"What? Why?"
"Lets just say, anything you can do for her in the next few days would be useless, it will be wiped from the face of the planet."
"And how do you plan to do this, you oh-so-magical-voice in my head." Lunar retorted, getting annoyed by the constant ramblings of Elprup.
"Don't listen to him, you can do whatever you want." Said a higher pitched voice, making the deeper voice of Elprup growl at the sound of it.
"Hey, stay out of this, there is no need for your interference!" He shouted.
"Yes there is, you are only using your power like Malefor, don't submit!" The voice shouted back. The black cloud of Elprup disappeared, leaving Lunar on his own in his mind.
'Wonder what she is doing… she is the curious one. Thought Spyro was that one…'
"Spyro? You know him?"
"Not very well. Why?"
"Never mind about that squeaky thing, he is irrelevant in this conversation!" Elprup's voice boomed over the squeak.
"Then why are you trying so blooming hard to get rid of it?" Lunar questioned.
"Because that thing is the manifestation of Malefor, it tries to use compassion to lure you in, that forces you to do things that you don't want." Lunar thought this over, he had heard about Malefor and his scheme that he wanted to destroy the world and create a new one.
"Fine, but you are sounding no better from what I am hearing." Lunar summarised.
"Yes, because playing the hard face gets information over quicker."
"Ok then." Lunar sighed. "What is she doing anyway?"
"Laying there, sleeping, looks like you missed all the interesting parts." The voice chuckled. "Anyway, time flies here, so get ready to wake up sleepy head."
-Real World-
Lunar opened his eyes to a bright light emanating onto of him, he focused his eyes and saw it coming from the window. He got up, but met some resistance, he looked to see what was stopping him getting up and saw a crimson wing atop of him, he froze as he saw Cynder laying next to him. He wanted to move the wing off him without waking her up, he moved his wing slightly, moving the wing up and back onto her body, letting him get up without anymore impediments. He stretched out and yawned, his mind still wondering what had gone on during his sleep, he seemed to be plagued by two entities with differing view on each other.
The black cloud, or Elprup, was heavy handed and got his point across with his forceful motives, on the other hand, there was that little squeaky voice that had invaded the conversations and left some doubt in his mind, but Elprup was quick to clear him up on the confusion, but what did he want out of him, first he was saying that he was going to feel pain, but now he wants to talk civilly, nothing added up.
He turned his head quickly as he heard movement behind him, seeing a pink streak in the corner of his vision, he knew it was Ember, she walked into the room with some fresh meat. Placing it down near herself. "Good sleep I hope?" She asked as Lunar moved toward the meat, he hadn't eaten in many days, his hunger getting the better of him.
"Yeah." Was all he said before taking a chunk out of the meat and chewing on it, tasting flavour for the first time in days.
"A simple 'yeah' sounds so much different from where I am standing." Ember deadpanned. "So, tell me honestly, what's got you all closed up?"
Lunar looked at Cynder and back at Ember, swallowing the food that he was chewing on. "Just some wierd-ass dream about some person who knows Malefor." As soon as he said that name, he knew something was wrong as Ember went rigid. "Er… is that something to worry about?"
"Yes, he was the Dragon who Cynder saved the whole city from."
"Oh sh-"
"Yes, that would be the correct response."
"Anything you can do to help? Or reasons why I'm getting them?"
"No, its mentally, I sadly can't help there, but maybe all the green gems I shunted into your system might be causing excessive brain-wave patterns-" Ember rattled on.
"Please, simple talk." Lunar complained.
"Well, simply, you going insane from all the green gem energy inside of you."
"Oh." Was the simple response that Lunar had formed in the split-second he had to think about it. He left the room, dropping the meat to the floor, muttering to himself. Ember walked over and picked it back up with her heart-shaped tail and placed it next to Cynder for when she woke up.
Cynder woke up to her usual placement on the cushions, but she smelt the smell of flesh and meat, once her eyes opened, she felt like she could move more of her body and moved her head towards the smell. She saw the meat and gouged into it, ripping it apart and eating it fairly quickly.
"Calm down there sister. You're going to give yourself some serious pain if you carry on like that." The voice made Cynder stop and put the meat back down, she looked around and saw Ember over the other side of the room, but there was someone missing. Lunar was gone, just as she had expected. She put her head down in shame and closed her eyes, breathing heavily at the loss of another friend. Ember saw this and moved over to her, pulling her head up with her paw. "What's up? You look quite bad, the meat taking it's side effect quickly?"
"Not in a literal sense." Cynder replied as Ember let go of her head and it sunk back down to where it was before. "When did he leave?"
"Not long, but it's been a while, he left without telling me after the news I gave him."
"And what was this?"
"He seems to be going insane." Ember confirmed.