I attempted to block my ears without success due the helmet and the dragon was trying to wriggle away from me, I'm assuming my armour looked terrifying to him plus all the blood and viscera on my body.
I wiped a bit of the gore off of me and took a look at the terrified dragon, he was mostly purple but had a golden underbelly, horns and lines for his wings. This wasn't who I was expecting to say the least but then he attempted to communicate and I stress that word.
"W-w-who are you?" he barely sputtered out, I attempted to respond but nothing came out, I was silent.
After a while of me attempting to speak, I decided to use the universal language which is me just shrugging my armoured shoulders as I didn't exactly know myself.
"O...kay, why are you covered in blood?" he asked after dragging the O in okay a bit, he seemed to be concerned about my appearance to which I didn't want to explain.
Hesitantly I pulled a throwing star out of my pouch and sliced his bindings open and motioned for him to see the outside of the tent to which he then proceeded to do. He peered out the tent and sighed.
"Apes...I would have fought them too if they attacked me so I guess the blood on you is explained" he said while looking around to see more of the corpses, he wasn't too disgusted by this as he probably did the same thing before.
I nodded, at least he was reasonable and hardened despite him screaming a few a minutes ago, he looked up to see a light at the end of the huge cavern and pointed to it with a claw.
"You can go your own way if you want, I have to find someone but I appreciate your help" he said while trying to smile.
I shook my head as I had no place in this land as I was awoken in this unfamiliar time and I need to do something so I don't go insane and I'm thinking that my best bet for survival is to hand around with someone who knows what he is doing so I give him the 'wait' motion and used a throwing star to carve on the wood, it wasn't good but it works.
He walked over to it and read it which said 'I'm coming'
"Are you sure about this because I wouldn't want to see you hurt, I already saw enough friends feel pain because of me" He said in an attempt to persuade me but I didn't budge and that seemingly convinced him that I was coming with him whether he liked it or not.
"Alright you can come with me, it's good to have three people...Wait where's Sparx?" He slowly said before becoming alarmed by the fact that this 'Sparx' was missing.
First he started to frantically look around before calling out his name as he was becoming more and more stressed, soon I saw a glowing light that was yellow and soon it was starting to fly quickly towards us, I was about to poke the drake before the light called out.
"Spyro look out man!" he yelled out while pointing at me.
Immediately the dragon known as Spyro turned around; saw me and sighed.
"Sparx he's a friend, he rescued me from an ape encampment" he explained but I kinda have to give Sparx a point because I was still covered in blood.
"Spyro, have you lost your mind? he's covered in blood and he is armed to the TEETH, plus he has the horns of a minotaur and that's already bad enough!" Sparx explained and strangely that struck a cord with me because I just noticed that I have horns, strange ones as well due to their downwards facing angle.
"Sparx...You do realise that end up covered in blood a lot of times as well, sometimes I even burn the enemy to a crisp, you notice that?" he asked which quietened Sparx.
"Yeah I forgot about that, nightmares for life but please do not tell me we are bringing him with us" He desperately said but Spyros nod would shut him up.
"Fine, if he ends up backstabbing us then don't go crying to me" he said as he crossed his arms and faced the opposite direction of us while making a 'Hmpf' noise.
Spyro then sighed and looked at me "He's stubborn but he is a great friend to have, I hope you can understand" he pointed out.
Quite frankly I wouldn't really know myself considering how Sparx would like keep as much as a difference between me and him as possible. I looked around and poked Spyro several times to grab his attention and pointed towards the exit as he then nodded.
I then made my way up the rather steep cavern with the two following me as we progressed up towards the exit without any lighting aside from my helmets night-vision capability and Sparx's bioluminescence. I was nearing the exit of the cave and was beginning to take in what was outside as I saw massive trees with purple glowing leaves.
I looked around to see the two still following and I then stepped out of the place; trees that must be a hundred feet adorn this land as foliage with purplish glowing features emanate a mist, in front of us is a lake that has a dark, dark purple colour.
"This is the Ancient Grove, I'd recommend that you don't touch the waters, I saw creatures fall in and not come back out" Spyro explained with Sparx nodding to back him up.
Several bugs flew around and landed on a bush before being immediately consumed by a moving plant-like jaw as it then retreated back into the ground, we decided to make to make our way up the river as Spyro remembered being told that he was supposed to head up the stream and find the 'great tree' as it appeared in his dreams.
I let Spyro take the lead as we made our way through the forest while swatting a few bugs and such. We didn't face any enemies despite this forests supposedly dangerous nature, I'm guessing you need to be smart and not eat anything that is native to this place and we haven't done that yet.
After passing through a tree stump and going through a tunnel that it led to, we were greeted by a vast expanse of darkness and floating jellyfish, I was unsure of how to deal with this until Spyro jumped on one of them and motioned for me to do the same; reluctantly I jumped on the jelly surface as Spyro then jumped off and landed on another one and vice versa until we made our way to the other side without any issues aside from Sparx's fear of heights and some occasional electric jellies that we took care of by just timing our jumps.
"I can see the exit straight ahead" Spyro pointed out before being jumped by two plant-like giants.
One of them swept their clubs at the purple dragon but he jumped out of the way and shot a fireball at him which set the beast on fire, quickly I pulled my Pole-arm out and charged at the second giant before front flipping over him as he swung his club at me; quickly I slashed him in half and moved on to the other giant that Spyro was combatting.
He rolled out of the beasts club strike and leaped onto its face and ripped it open with his claws before unleashing a whole load of fire in the hole where its head would be; the creature was then engulfed in fire as it tried to put itself out before being rendered to simple ashes, I guess I didn't really need to intervene.
We then moved on and fought a few more times but they weren't much of a threat until we moved on further until I could see an encampment below a hill we were walking up.
"What are they?" Spyro asked, hoping to get an answer from me
"What are tho-" Sparx jokingly asked before Spyro gave him a stern glare, I couldn't help but feel as if he referenced something.
I gave the 'wait' motion and looked down at the encampment that was next to a purple stream that held a crashed pirate ship that was adorned with red and golden colours, I took a closer look at the encampment and saw several strange canine people, I took my bow out and the duo behind me seemed to have figured out what I am going to do.
Silently I grabbed an arrow out of my quilt, placed it on the string and pulled back as I then took the calculations for the distance of the target and the drop my arrow would have; I then released the string as the arrow flew into the sky and embedded its razor sharp tip into the skull of a canine and watched him drop as I did the same with the others.
"They could be friendly, have you ever thought about that you mass murderer?" Sparx questioned while pointing my helmet.
"They are called Skavengers and those people tend to be very violent, you can learn something if you take the time to listen to volteer" Spyro explained to Sparx who was now more concerned about Spyro actually listening to the mentioned person.
I finished off my last victim before he could find the last body, I then motioned for the two to follow me down the hill where we then looted the encampment, the insides of the tents were bright red and yellow as a fur carpet was laid down on the ground as a floor, the room was adorned with candles and torches which made darkness nonexistent as Spyro was waiting for me to finish up with looting everything.
Sadly I couldn't find anything of use but I had that strange urge to just take anything that wasn't nailed down to the ground, I guess it's part of my previous life. I sighed as we then exited the encampment and found a hollow log leading through the mountain.
"Oh out of all the places we have to go, we had to go through this, dangit" The bug whined as Spyro rolled his eyes.
"You can act as a light or we could just snag one from the encampment" Spyro offered as Sparx sighed.
"Fiiine I'll act as the light source, I'm too lazy to fly my way up there again anyway. I was never scared of the dark" Sparx said while flexing his nonexistent muscles.
I motioned for the two to follow me after they finished bickering as we then headed down the dark log that Sparx illuminated, unaware of the horror of what we would be facing.
((Hey guys, thanks for reading this story; if you can then help me out by pointing out what is wrong with this story and how I should fix it. Basically stuff like grammar issues and/or plot-holes))