CHAPTER-5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Austin woke with a start and looked around the spotless hotel room, feeling his pounding headache, and wading through the empty bottles around the bed.

"What the hell? Did I just imagine a party?" he said to himself as he opened the door from his room and found that Flame, Draganta and Spyro had trashed the rest of the room, as well as themselves.

Flame was passed out halfway on and halfway off the couch, with a lampshade over his head.

Draganta was standing in the kitchen with a cup of hot, black coffee, holding his head, with his eyes half open.

"Some party last night Austin."

"Do you remember what happened?"

"Nope."

"Then that makes two of us… let me get some of that joe."

Spyro had fared better than all of them, having actually made it to a couch and managed to stay on it for the duration of the night.

"Are Spyro and Flame still alive?" Austin joked

"Only one way to find out." Draganta said

Draganta filled a cup up with cold water and Austin did the same.

Draganta splashed Flame and Austin splashed Spyro with the icy liquid.

They awoke quickly.

"What the f-"Flame yelled, but stopped himself realizing it was just Draganta

"What the hell was that for?!" Flame snapped

"For not getting up when we tried to wake you up the first time." Draganta laughed

Spyro yelled just like Flame did and soon everyone was fully awake.

"You guys chill here and I'm gonna see if we can get some breakfast…" Austin said as he opened the door and walked down the hallway. He turned a corner and saw the hotel manager, a squad of special operation black September soldiers, and the four guys they stole the dragon costume from.

"Dammit! I knew I should have killed them!" Austin said as he ran back to the room and slammed the door behind him.

"Austin, whats wrong with you?" Spyro asked

"Black September…knows…we're…here…"

"What?! How?" Draganta said

"Those guys…we stole the…costume from…ratted us out…" Austin said catching his breath.

"I knew I should have killed them!" Draganta said

"I know!" Austin answered as he started grabbing everything of value from the room and stuffing it in his cargo shorts.

"What are you doing?" Spyro asked

"Grab anything that looks expensive! We'll need to pawn this stuff for cash later."

"Stealing?! I've never stolen anything in my life!" Spyro said proudly

"Maybe not in avalar, but here, without cash, you're done. Now if there are no further questions, STEAL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!"

They grabbed what they could just as they heard pounding on the door.

"Open up prophet! We know you're in there!"

"Lets get out of here!" Flame said as Austin threw a chair out of the 25th floor window.

"What? We must stand and fight!" Draganta said drawing his sword

"No we must not! They will call reinforcements and then we will have the entire army of the sun up our ass!" Austin explained

"I can take them! I've defeated hundreds of evil hordes in the past!"

"They had ancient weapons, these guys have guns! Draganta you have to come on!" Austin said as Flame and Spyro jumped out the window and glided to the ground.

"Grrr…fine…" Draganta put his sword away begrudgingly and flew out of the window just as the bullets ripped through the door.

They regrouped in the alley and counted their funds.

"Okay…I'm going to go find a pawn shop; you guys stay in this shed, and keep a low profile. Flame, no touching, messing with, or molesting any objects unless you know what it is. And even then, don't touch it!"

He turned to Spyro.

"Spyro, keep an eye on Flame. And Draganta, no killing please."

"Ugh…first you don't let me kill those guys in the alley, then the guys in the hotel, and now this? What kind of warrior are you?" Draganta asked

"Don't worry; you'll get plenty of chances to kill, trust me. Now all you guys, stay in this old shed until I get back ok?"

"Oookkk…"they said in dreary unison

(A/N: we skip ahead to when Austin has gotten the money and was walking back down the street toward the shed where he left his three friends.)

Austin returned to find the shed, and the three buildings surrounding it engulfed in flames.

"Oh my Christ…this has Draganta's fingerprints all over it…" he said looking around for spyro, flame or Draganta.

He found them standing in the middle of the street staring up at the flaming structures.

"Wow…Draganta…you are in sooooooo much trouble! Flame said not breaking his gaze at the towering flames."Draganta! What the hell? Keeping a low profile doesn't usually involve setting fire to buildings!" Austin yelled over the roar of the flames and wail of approaching fire engines.

"Black September found us! I had to take them out somehow!"

"How many came?"

"about twenty or so."

"Kill all of them?"

"Duh."

"Good man…er…dragon. Let's get out of this down before we destroy it!" Austin said taking to the air, followed by Draganta, Spyro and Flame.

They flew until the sun set and they made camp in the jungle.

"This looks like a good spot for tonight, tigers don't frequent this part of the jungle." Draganta said

"Cool, helicopters are patrolling the woods for us, so don't light any fires, or make our encampment visible in any way." Austin said getting into his sleeping bag.

They all slept soundly that night, not knowing the long, harsh road they lay ahead for all of them.

There is ch 5! i dont own draganta or any origional spyro characters, only Austin, and the storyline.