A Not-So-Different Beginning

Chapter 6

A/N Hey here's my next chap and I've been trying to make a picture of my character Kirk and I've basically failed miserably so I've been wondering if someone will help me out but I won't be able to pay. I know it's a dumb question because I can't pay but I was hoping maybe someone would want to do it for fun or to be a nice guy/girl. Well anyway for anyone who draws please keep that in mind and thanks for reading my story.

Thanks also to Garrettlifegem for becoming an editor for me on this story, thank you so much

Chapter 6

Spyro and Cynder were walking over to cafeteria for lunch when suddenly the pink dragoness popped up between them and said "Hey Spyro I saw you looking at me, was there anything you liked?" then she bumped her hips against his. Cynder got angry and nearly pushed her away but said "Oh high, Ember. Don't you think Flame would be happier talking with you?" she said though clenched teeth.

Ember looked over and said "Flame? Why would he want to talk to me, he's got other girls to talk to like you, which reminds me he would love to talk to you so give me and Spyro some 'alone time"

Cynder had hated Ember since she met her; she was so annoying and instantly didn't like her for some reason. In the end she basically wanted to rip her head off every time she laughed. Spyro gave Cynder a quick glance begging her to save him so Cynder went invisible and appeared in front of Ember scaring her long enough to take her place right beside Spyro.

He sighed "Thanks Cynder, but… umm you think you're a little close?" Cynder blushed and said "Sorry but I'm staying close because if I move Ember will get close again" Spyro shrugged and let it slide since he was kind of enjoying their scales rubbing against each other. When they reached the Cynder finally split off from Spyro and they grabbed their food.

When they were done Spyro sat down but Cynder saw Ember coming and pushed him to the edge so no one could sit on his left and then sat on his left. Spyro looked at her like she was crazy then she pointed to where Ember was who had an angry look and Spyro sighed with relief "Thanks, now I owe you two"

She smiled and then noticed Ember sat directly across from Spyro and just stared at him in her own world. Spyro was creeped out and looked at Cynder who spun her claw beside her head telling him she was crazy, Spyro nodded chuckled. Ember was so far in her own world she didn't notice what Cynder had done and just sighed dreamingly at Spyro.

Suddenly the blood red and black hornless dragon came over and the red one said "Hey can we sit here all the others are filled with people talking about you" he said to Spyro who said "Knock yourself out"

They sat slightly beside the hypnotized Ember and ignored her, the red one said "Thanks, everyone is talking about you and no offence but it's kinda annoying" Spyro smiled "No worries, personally I hate it too"

The other two both laughed and the red one said "Hi I'm Kirk and this is my step brother Nick" Spyro asked "Those are kinda weird names" and Kirk replied "Yah don't ask, I'm named after some famous adventurer and Nick I'm not sure about" he chuckled.

Cynder and Spyro both chuckled too and Spyro said "So Nick you got anything you want to say?" Nick didn't answer and Kirk said "Sorry about my brother, he doesn't talk much" Nick nodded and started eating. Spyro shrugged and said "Ok now I'm hungry so let's eat"

They ate quickly and when they left Ember took her place beside Spyro and Cynder glared at her angrily, as soon as they reached the dojo again and sat down Cynder quickly pushed Ember away from Spyro and sat beside him. She was going to sit on his other side but Kirk quickly took that place too and Ember growled and walked away. Spyro sighed and said "Thanks" to his friends.

Terrador and the other Guardians stood in front of them and Terrador said "Everyone we will do some elemental training then we will do some sparing, and for now please don't worry about partners please"

Although he warned them they all had partners in mind and Cynder quickly moved beside Spyro mere seconds before Ember could get there. She growled and walked away and found only the red dragon Spyro learned was Flame was free. Terrador growled at the fact they didn't seem to listen but continued.

"Ok all the earth users will come with me, all the ice types will go with Cyril and Everyone else will go with Volteer since they're less electric dragons and Volteer has memorized some of the more odd elements basics and some fire basic too. Lastly Spyro choose who you want to go with today"

Spyro suddenly was in the spotlight as everyone looked at him but he already knew who he was going with, even thought that person was annoying. "I'm gonna go with Volteer to work on fire and electricity" he chose because he knew Cynder had an odd ability.

Just then he realized that he was in the same group as Ember too and slapped his forehead. The three groups dispersed and Volteer came up to Spyro "I won't be teaching you anything new, so try to help the others if they need it and work on your old abilities" Spyro nodded and went next to Cynder and Kirk.

Spyro looked around and noticed that Nick was gone and asked Kirk "Hey I thought Nick was a shadow dragon, so why isn't he with us?" Kirk smiled and said "Well have you noticed his other color is blue?" Spyro looked again and said "Oh he has ice too, I get it"

They went to their section of the dojo where Volteer was waiting and Spyro sat down with his two friends. "Today I'm going to teach you all the basics of Fire, electricity and the other odd elements" Everyone nodded and split up according to their powers, while Spyro went off by himself a practiced a few of his weaker moves.

Even these impressed the others and soon everyone was watching him. He noticed when he saw Cynder and Kirk staring at him while he was charging a move and realized he had stopped the whole class. Volteer smiled but shook his head annoyed and walked over to Spyro and said "Sorry about this but try to keep your attacks low for now, they're still adjusting to having you around" Spyro nodded but was annoyed at the fact that he had to tone it down because other couldn't pay attention.

He found the only good part about it was that he decided to teach Kirk a few moves and that he could watch Cynder. Although that was all great but he quickly found a bad part to it too, Ember was constantly asking him to teach her and generally be around him.

Luckily the time went by fast and the time to spare came and since the pairs weren't official Cynder once again was able to protect Spyro from Ember. Kirk paired up with his bro like they had planned and Ember was still stuck with Flame.

"Hey Cynder do you want me to go a little less than 100% when we fight"? Spyro asked. She looked at him and said "You do whatever you want cause I'm not holding back" she smiled. Spyro raised an eyebrow and said "Fine but I'm warning you"

Cynder smirked and went to the stands with Spyro while a pair went to the center ring. Spyro sat down and watched the fights as they went by, some were short but brutal, some were long and exhausting, and some were just boring like Ember and Flames fight.

Ember walked up to the opposite side of the ring from Flame and looked bored or disappointed but she got into fighting stance and waited for Terrador to start the match. When he did Ember and Flame circled each other thinking of a plan.

Ember shot a weak but fast fireball and charged in behind it while Flame comet dashed, when he collided with fire ball it dissipated instantly and he continued onto Ember. Even though Flame was comet dashing he seemed to go a bit slower than normal and Ember was easily able to jump over him.

Spyro was trying to figure what was causing him to go slow when suddenly Cynder said "Flame's holding on purpose" Spyro got confused then suddenly realized what was going on, it all made sense now. This morning he was watching Ember and himself like he was jealous, and later at lunch Cynder suggested that Flame would be happy talking with her.

Spyro smiled and said "I think you're right" The fight continued for a while and there were rarely any real hits until Terrador stopped the fight a little angry at the poor performance and called up Kirk and Nick.

Kirk and Nick smiled and they walked to opposite sides of the ring. Nick went into a standard fighting stance while Kirk unexpectedly stood on his hind legs but not standing straight up. He spread his wings for balance and used his tail to keep him from falling forward and finally he spread his back legs slightly for even more balance.

Spyro was surprised and asked "Has he always done that"? Cynder smiled and said "Well in the short time I've watched him for the last few days he learned that special way to fight from his dad and it has basically made him one of the best fighters in the class… besides me" she smirked at the end. Spyro shrugged and watched.

The match started and Kirk jumped straight forward so quickly he flew inches above the ground towards Nick who smirked. Nick blasted a wall ice in front of him and Kirk saw it coming and shot a stream of fire at the ice wall trying to melt it. Nick saw he was going to succeed and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Kirk flew straight through the hole he made and clawed at nothing, he turned around once he lost all his speed and saw his brother right in front of him about to slash out at him. He ducked under the claws and head butted his chest knocking the wind out of him and finally whipped him hard in the face with his tail.

As Kirk hit him with his tail Nick turned invisible again and appeared a few meters away from him so he could get his wits back. Kirk shot a fire ball at him and Nick was just able to side step away from it. Nick shot a flurry of ice shards at Kirk. He knew that he wasn't going to dodge it so he fired a torrent of flame trying to melt it.

Even though quite a bit of ice was melted but some got through and shredded the sides of his scales. He growled in frustration and started shooting fire balls from his maw blasting his brother in fire. After a few direct hits Terrador stopped the fight and Kirk stopped immediately and helped his brother back to the stands.

"You ok"? Kirk asked and Nick nodded still a bit hurt. Spyro raised an eyebrow and said "That was actually some good fighting" Cynder nodded and suddenly Terrador called up her and Spyro, as she walked up she got death stares from Ember but only smirked to her and kept walking.

Spyro walked to the other side of the arena and waited for Terrador to start the match, Cynder was swaying back and forth in anticipation and as soon as Terrador said "Go"! She disappeared in a puff of smoke. Spyro looked around a just as she was about to make a move her claw scraped against the ground and Spyro fired an ice shard in that direction.

Cynder barely got out of the way and breathed a shadow cloud around Spyro so he couldn't see; she head butted him and sent Spyro sliding against the ground cringing in pain. Luckily Spyro slid out of the cloud and blasted fire into the cloud making the cloud disappear but failed to hit Cynder before she escaped.

Cynder jumped on his back trying to get her jaws around his neck to end the fight but Spyro bucked her off and jumped on top of her to also get his jaws around her neck. She struggled until she bit his shoulder making him recoil allowing her to kick him away.

He cringed in pain but was able to side step as she dove at him. As she flew by he grabbed her tail with his mouth and dead stopped her. She grunted and was about to go invisible but suddenly felt his jaws around her neck and Terrador ended the fight.

Spyro got off of her and helped her up, she thanked him while she got her breath back and said "That was the best fight I've had" He smiled and continued to walk back to the stands but Terrador said "Well that's the last fight for the day so go and enjoy the rest of the day, class starts same time tomorrow"

Spyro sighed with relief and he waited for Kirk and Nick to come over to them "So we're done today, what now"? Kirk asked still slightly supporting Nick. Spyro thought it over and said "I think I'm gonna chill, what about you three"?

Kirk shook his head and said "I'm gonna bring Nick over to the infirmary so he can get some red crystals so I'll see yah later" he walked away helping Nick and Spyro turned to Cynder "And what are you gonna do"? She shrugged and said "Nothing really, you ok with me staying with you for a while"?

He smiled and said "Sure wanna go to a place for something to eat"? She smiled and nodded, they left the temple and went to a place called "The Hungry Drake" Spyro ordered a table for two and they got a seat immediately since it wasn't quite the dinner rush yet.

Spyro sat opposite to Cynder who had a slight smile on and said "So what do you think about that gods and goddesses lesson"? Cynder smirked and said "It was sort of interesting but I knew all that stuff already so it wasn't that new" Spyro nodded and said "I never heard about that stuff before so it was kinda interesting"

Cynder chuckled remembering that he lived with dragonflies and waited for the waiter to show. The both ordered and the food came quickly, they ate without much talk and when the waiter came around with the check and said "So did the couple enjoy their food"?

Spyro and Cynder both blushed and the waiter chuckled realizing they weren't dating and handed over the check. Spyro and Cynder split it and left, since Cynder's house was nearby Spyro walked with her back and dropped her off at home.

Spyro flew back home and found Sparx in his hammock staring out the window and said turning around "You're finally back, what took you"? Spyro hopped on his bed and said "I was out with Cynder" Sparx smirked "You were 'out' with Cynder eh"? Spyro shook his head and went to bed.

Well there's chapter 6 and I think I'm doing pretty well so far… or at least that's what you are all saying. Alright chapters are gonna go a bit slower because Halo 4 is gonna be out. Lastly I want to thank Garrettlifegem again for helping now see yah later.

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