The blue dragon stared down the purple dragoness, once more crossing paths with her.
'Damn, what's he thinking?' Cynder could only think of what the blue dragon was contemplating.
Malevolent hazel eyes continued to watch and judge her, as if they were trying to figure out who she was and what she means to do.
"As much as I hate the idea of you being here," he began. "You have done nothing to hurt anyone or cause any sort of noticeable 'harm'," the dragon sighed. "I'm going to give you a chance only one though, so if you hurt anything I care about or step out of line, I will not hesitate to kill you." his voice was cold and commanding.
Finding her voice Cynder retorted. "I don't have a reason to do anything evil you can think up about me Ryuujin, I'm not in Malefor's control anymore, he's dead spyro killed him"
"Malefor, dead, ha!" Ryuujin scoffed. "Someone powerful like my father just doesn't simply die or fade out of existence; he's probably waiting around somewhere to constitute his resurrection."
"Why? Why you even think that."
"Why? WHY? Because that dragon was pure darkness, darkness just doesn't vanish with a slash of a claw!" the blue dragon responded. "Darkness never dies; it can only be delivered and gathered again. As well a dragon never truly dies from this plane."
"But, aside from that, remember what I said one chance is all you get." the blue dragon finished with a snarl.
"Why are you giving me a 'chance'?" Cynder asked.
"Gaia convinced me I was to harsh, so that's why, until I see otherwise which I'm sure I will, welcome Cynder to dragons haven."
Spyro had ended up in another part of Dragons Haven, a part where he ended up encountering unlike Cynder who just had a run in with one (Ryuujin). Spyro had the luck to run into a group of eight other dragons his age, most of them seemed to be just lounging around in.
Of course he had seen three of them already.
The first he noticed was the dragoness Gaia, who simply smiled at the newcomer. Gaia was a slender female earth dragon, four jet black horns adorned the dragonesses head, her scales glowed a dark forest green with a tan underbelly leading toward a tail with jagged three spikes on the end and her gold eyes held a piercing yet caring look to them.
Next was Azodro, this dragon held menacing red eyes accompanied with two curved pure white horns, his scales held the typical trait of his heritage, a light blue to almost white his underbelly showed as a light brown and on his tail sat a sharp spearhead.
Of the other would be Aulosrin, the ice dragoness was near identical in her features to her brother, expect for being female of course, and yellow eyes that held a judgmental stare, akin to the violent red eyes of her brother.
Another was a fire dragon, deep blood-red scales showed across his being with a black underbelly, upon his head eight jet black horns, four on each side followed by a wave of ridges along the spine, black just like the horns; finally on his tail was a scythe like tail blade with six 3 to 4 inch spikes just above to the blade. The fire dragon had dull red eyes that showed nothing, but uninterested at the purple dragon.
One dragon was not paying him any heed at all, sitting up on a high ledge reading a scroll, he seemed to be a electric dragon, four dark blue horns sat on the dragon's head along with a single contacted ridge along his spine, with a serrated tail blade.
So was another dragon that was ignoring his presences, was a blue dragon that was lying under a overflow of water. He had no wings which were strange for a dragon; two grey horns came from his head with a following of spike like frills down his back.
Laying next to him was a silver scaled dragoness asleep just like her partner beside her, fours horns sat on her head while a single spear point aronded the end of her tail, grey luminous scales covered her being with a white underbelly, she had a slender form like most other dragoness with several scars showing on her body.
The next was the other earth dragon that resided, aside from Gaia that lived here, spyro believed his name was Xelo. There was something familiar looking about this dragon, the earth dragon had purple eyes along, with two gold horns, with a small golden curved spike on his head, continuing down his spine at several different intervals. His tail weapon was a typical blunt weapon a spiked mace. The earth dragon like the rest of his species had a variation of green colored sales.
The scene was kind of foreign to Spyro sure he had spent time with other dragons, but those dragons we're four elder dragons and the other was his age. Aside from that though, neither he nor cynder had never really met or socialized, with a group of dragons their age before. So this to him was awkward at best.
"So, your one of the two dragons, that the the twins and ryuujin had a scuff with huh?" the fire dragon began. "You don't look like much."
"Looks can be deceiving Blaze." the electric dragon said, countering the fire dragon.
"tch, whatever Kaiyofes." Blaze responded, getting up from lying down and stretched. "Go back to reading; your input isn't needed here."
"Blaze, knock it off." a new voice threw in. "me and Athena are trying to sleep here." which came from the blue dragon sleeping under the water overflow. Who which now was awake.
"You know we do have a newcomer here, so how about we behave?" the male earth demanded of his fellow dragons.
"Xelo you have no authority over us." Kaiyofes said. "The only ones who can boss us around are ryuujin and Flarera, and neither is here."
The earth dragon growled at the electric dragon. "Oh a primal growl scary." Kaiyofes said sarcasms thick in his voice.
"Stow your touge Kaiyofes!" Gaia snapped at him, getting tired of the tense feeling that was beginning to build.
The electric dragon reeled back in fear of Gaia, almost losing his footing on the ledge. If there was abouslity anything to know in dragon's haven, it was two, never disobey or speak out against ryuujin and one NEVER piss off Gaia.
"So newcomer what is your name?" Blaze said trying to cut the tense apart.
"It's Spyro." the purple dragon answered.
"Spyro? Isn't that a dragonfly name?"Kaiyofes asked.
"Yes I received it, while under the care of my parents who were dragonflies." Spyro said.
"Hmm a dragon raised by dragonfly's, that's a new one for me." Kaiyofes said, before looking back down at his scroll and kept reading.
"So did you ever think even for second that you were different from them?" Gaia asked who was somewhere between shocked and about to burst out laughing.
"No, I don't think I ever really gave it any thought." Spyro answered relucktly, as he was getting the feeling he was going to get laughed at.
"When did you find out you were a dragon?"
"When I met the dragon guardians." Spyro stated.
"You met the dragon guardians of Esricith...lucky."Blaze said feeling jealous and dejected.
"Esricith?"
"You're kidding? You don't know what Esricith is?"
Spyro shook his head, not knowing what they meant.
"Okay history lesson time, Kaiyofes get your ass down here and explain the history of Esricith for our friend here.
"Oh fun!"
"Let's start from the begening."
"Esricith is the largest dragon nation in the realms, despite its scattered cities and populations, it is largely dotted with ancient ruins and great grasslands. Esricith is viewed as the second most powerful nation next to the dragon empire; it is ruled by a monarchy meaning a king and queen. Esricith has the highest concentration of purple and earth dragons. Esricith is most known for producing some of the highest rated fighters among dragons, but that really all I know; I have very limited knowledge on it." Kaiyofes finished. "I never read many scrolls on it, so sorry." before turning back to read his scroll.
Elsewhere
"Ryuujin can I ask you something?" Cynder asked.
"Uh, and what would that be?" the blue dragon responded, still struggling with himself to get along with the former terror of the skies, at Gaia's request.
"Is there any way to find out if one dragon is related to another?"
"Maybe, but it hasn't been used in over a thousand years." Ryuujin pondered.
"What's it?"
"Well it is a stone, well more like a giant slab, it said to be able to tell which dragon is related to who and where they are; but only its creator could use it," Ryuujin said. "So I'm not sure if we could even use it, not to mention you might not want to know who you're related to."
"Why would I not want to know, it's something I've wonder about since Spyro freed me," Cynder lowered her head as she spoke, while dug her claws into the ground out of frustration. "I just want to know,.. I just want to know what happened to what family I had, before malefor took me and tore everything apart!" tears began to from near Cynder's eyes and dropped to the floor.
Ryuujin watched as Cynder shedded tears of agony at the horror that was the unknown, he could actually feel his heart ache with pain at the sight, why was he feeling bad for the terror of the skies? He let out a frustrated grunt with a sigh not long after; he held a claw to his head, at an attempt to quell a coming headache. Why WHY was he feeling sympathy for the terror of the skies WHY?
"Fine...if you really want to know that badly," Ryuujin sighed. "I'll see what I can do, but you'll owe me got it!"
Cynder could only nod, and somewhat smile.
Ryuujin turned away from Cynder, and raised his head up toward the ceiling; then let out a roar that echoed the caves. He turned around once more and walked past Cynder, continuing to walk he cocked his head back at Cynder, "well you coming or not?" He asked. Cynder didn't responded, only followed.
Ryuujin lead the dragoness though a off to the side path, it was dank and a little fighting.
"In case you're wondering, we're heading to the artifact vault."
"Artifact vault..."
Flashback
An ape carrying a pair of white and yellow colored orbs approached Cynder, "mistress, we have located two more." the ape said, laying them in front of her.
"Good, I have one less reason to kill you now, go put them away with the other artifacts in the vault and lock it up." Cynder told the Ape.
"Yes mistress and thank you!" the ape said before running off.
"Why is it so difficult to find the Arca, without it we will never free Malefor."
"is there anything called the Arca in the vault." Cynder asked, wondering what her past memories were trying to tell her.
The blue dragon froze dead stop, he looked back at her fear running through his eyes, "Why would you ask that, that thing is the evilest artifact in existence, it is capable of stealing any beings power. That's how Malefor got out from the seal my mom put him in, isn't it?!"