ch 7. will spyro betray his friends for love? read it and find out!

CHAPTER 7- TRAITOR IN THEIR MIDST

"Either of you seen spyro?" flame asked as he met Austin and snow on the outskirts of town.

"I don't know. I woke up and he was gone. I thought he was out getting food or something."

Spyro came walking out of the woods, bruised and cut up. He had tried to wash the blood off in the water, but the wounds were still pretty obvious.

"What happened to you?" Austin asked grabbing the various supplies and putting them in his pockets.

"Nothing…a gnorc caught me off guard last night while I was out…no big deal."

They departed into the thick woods and walked for half a mile before Austin asked

"Wait…how do we know where they took ember?"

"The only villain that controls gnorcs and dreadwings is the sorcerer. I know where his fortress is, I've kicked his butt before."

"Then he's helping black September."

They walked for a few more miles before stopping for rest and lunch.

Spyro tried to sneak off without the others noticing, but snow spotted him.

"Where ya going spyro?"

"Nowhere…uhh gotta go take a leak…"

"Ooooo…k…."

Spyro went into the woods until he was sure he was out of earshot of the others.

"How is this supposed to work?" he said to himself trying to figure out how to turn the communicator on.

Suddenly a holoscreen appeared a few inches above Spyros arm with the same hooded figure that he met the night before.

"I knew you would see it my way. What do you know?"

"I swear I'll kill you for this."

"Tell me what I want to know or…well you know."

"Here are our coordinates, we will be moving along this route."

He traced the route with his claw against the holoscreen map.

"Good. That's all we need for now. Report back at sunset. I'll be waiting."

The holoscreen disappeared and he walked back to the rest of the group.

"You were gone for a while. You get lost?" Austin asked, picking up the supplies and getting ready for more walking.

"No, let's just go."

They continued down a seemingly random path as spyro led the way.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to walking after flying!" Austin said as he cut a path through the dense jungle with his arm blade.

"Why are we walking in zig zags?" snow asked

"To throw off anyone trying to follow us. Plus it makes us harder to ambush."

They continued for a few hours until late in the afternoon

"There is a clearing ahead where we can stop for the night." Spyro said

They came upon a thick row of bushes which formed a crescent around them.

'May the ancestors forgive me' spyro thought as he took another step forward and 10 gnorcs popped out of the dense shrubs, with guns drawn.

They began firing at them but luckily, gnorcs were terrible shots due to the fact that the weapons they wielded were designed for humans, and they were way bigger than even the largest human.

They dove for cover as Austin laid down suppressive fire with his plasma cannon while flame and snow advanced on the attackers. Spyro just stayed behind a large fallen tree. He couldn't bear to see one of them die because of his spying.

Flame and snow took out 7 of the gnorcs and Austin killed the last 3, collecting their ammo for later use. Austin noticed spyro still behind the tree and ran to him, assuming he'd been shot.

"Spyro! Are you ok? Where are you hit?"

"Nowhere…I'm fine…"

"Why didn't you help us?" snow asked innocently

Spyro glared at her but then broke it and said

"I…they…I got surprised…I'll help next time…I just needed rest…"

"We should probably set up camp for the night; we can keep going in the morning."

They gathered around a fire spyro lit and watched it burn. They all talked around the bonfire, telling stories about past experiences, jokes and horror stories. All of them except spyro, who just sat their, staring into the fire, lost in his own head.

'I cant do this…its not worth it…no…it is worth it…I have to see Ember again…if she gets hurt I'll never get over it…besides…they weren't even hurt…but what if the next attack is worse? Damn that Crozier…'

"Spyro? You in there?" flame asked, lying down by the fire, about to fall asleep.

"Huh? Oh…sorry…you guys goin to bed?"

"Yea, it's late as hell…plus we got more walking tomorrow." Austin said as he got comfortable on the ground, covering himself with a camouflage blanket.

"I wonder if the professor put Tetris on me…nah…night guys."

Once he was sure everyone was asleep, spyro snuck out of the clearing and into the hedgerows surrounding it.

Spyro held out his arm and waited for the communicator to activate.

"What do you have for me?" Crozier asked as the holoscreen appeared in midair.

"Nothing but contempt"

"Don't toy with me dragon, she'll be dead if I give the word."

He hated being in this position, he was always careful to never leave himself at the mercy of his enemies. The very thought of being blackmailed, being powerless to control your own actions, filled spyro with rage.

"Here is the route we'll be traveling tomorrow…" he showed it to him on the map like he had before.

"There will be two attacks tomorrow, one will be a light skirmish, but the other, will be the finisher. The first attack will be an ambush, nothing for you to concern yourself with. After the first one, report back to me.

The second attack will take place here. Be sure to get them into position exactly as shown. Understand?"

The X's on the map indicated that they travel through a valley with steep cliff walls where gnorcs will be stationed with automatic weapons. The attack would commence as soon as spyro led them into the canyon and spread his wings.

"By the way…if you bring us the prophet, we'll release Ember. Make sure you get them there, or the deals off. And if you're thinking of telling the prophet of our plan…well…he doesn't take very well to spies, as you already know."

Spyro was trapped. He could either lead his friends to slaughter, or save his friends and lose ember forever.

"I swear I'll rescue ember and kill you and all your followers…you bastard…"

"Sure you will. Just do what needs to be done, and no harm will come to her."

The holoscreen disappeared and spyro stared up at the moon.

'Why? Why was I born the purple dragon? I didn't ask for this…if I wasn't the hero, none of this would have ever happened…'

Spyro walked back to the clearing and lay under the stars. His thoughts kept drifting to his impossible choice, he couldn't sleep at all. He waited for the sun to rise, finally it did.

"Spyro you look terrible. Did you sleep at all?" flame asked yawning

"I'm fine…let's just get going, we gotta find Ember."

They followed spyro through the woods in a strange, random path, cutting through the jungle. They walked for hours in what seemed like unchanging forest.

Then the first ambush exploded onto all of them.

Gnorcs, about 20 of them began firing out of the woods wildly. Flame, Austin and snow quickly went to work on the attackers.

"This is an ambush!" Austin shouted as he sent a plasma ball through a gnorc's gut.

'This is the second time this as happened! How do they know? It's like they know our route…but we're following spyro…no…it can't be him. He loves Ember, why would he betray us when we're trying to find her?'

It was at that moment that most all of the gnorcs had been slain, and he began to count the bodies.

"17…18…19… hey, weren't there 20 of them?"

Time seemed to slow down to ¼ its normal speed. The final gnorc rose up from behind a fallen tree, right behind flame.

Austin yelled for him to turn around but his words failed. The gnorc fired a single shot into flames back at point blank range.

"FLAME NO!!" spyro shouted as he watched in slow motion, the bullet left the barrel of the AK-47 and pierced flames scales. Spyro picked an AK off the ground and held the trigger down, filling the gnorc with lead.

Flame dropped to his knees and then fell over onto the bloody dirt.

They rushed to his side and tried to help him.

Spyro however didn't go to his side; he just stood there in shock, staring at his fallen friend.

"This is my fault…this is my fault!" he said as he ran off into the woods, holding back a tear.

"Spyro wait!" snow called after him

"No time! We'll find him later, we gotta help flame!"

'Ok professor, I hope you put some medical stuff on me' he thought, and sure enough, text appeared describing the situation:

SUBJECT-FLAME

SPECIES-DRAGON

INJURY SEVERITY- CRITICAL

RECOMMENDED ACTION-

PROP BACK LEGS OFF GROUND

EXTRACT BULLET.

PUT PRESSURE ON WOUND TO HALT BLEEDING

STERILIZE WITH ANTIBIOTICS AND WRAP WITH BANDAGE.

SECONDARY PROCEDURES-

1. 300mg OF MORPHINE IF NEEDED

'Seems easy enough…' he thought

"Stay with us flame! Look at snow, talk to her!"

Flame was losing blood fast, and he was semiconscious.

"Snow find something to prop his legs up with!"

She found a large rock and used it, then went back to flames side

"Stay with me flame, you're gonna be ok…" she said looking into his glazed eyes and feeling tears well up in hers.

"How…bad…is…it?" flame gasped

"You got a hole in your back…it's about the size of an acorn. Here, bite on this."

He put a thick tree root in flames mouth,

"Ok we gotta flip him over, I got his arms, grab his legs, and one...two…three"

Snow was grabbing dangerously close to flames groin, she almost dropped him when she realized this, but there was no time for embarrassment, they had a life to save.

"Ok flame this is gonna hurt, I have to get that bullet out of you. Three, two, one…"

Austin worked his blade into flames back and tried to find the bullet. Flame bit down as hard as he could, almost breaking the root in half.

Austin pulled out a small vial with a needle on one end.

"Snow, stick this in his leg until its empty ok?"

"What is it?"

"Its morphine, just do it!"

She did and flame's bite loosened and his eyelids drooped.
Austin put his blade away and put his fingers into his wound, he felt fragments

"Damnit! The bullet's fragmented, hang on flame, we're almost done."

He removed piece after piece of the bullet until it was all out.

He saw flames heart rate in his vision and it began to drop.

"He's going into cardiac arrest! Snow we gotta flip him back over!"

In a burst of strength, she flipped him over by herself.

"Stay with me flame! I'm not giving up yet!"

"Don't let him die!"

The heart rate monitor he saw was slowly fading away with every beat.

'Shit, the professor didn't give me a defibrillator, what do I do now?!?!'

Then he remembered his plasma cannon shot electric bolts before it fired.

'Its risky…but I he'll die if I don't.' he thought

His weapon rose out of his arm and began to charge.

"Snow stop touching him or you'll get shocked!"

She jumped back and Austin waited for his cannon to charge, which seemed to take an unnaturally long time.

Flame's heart rate was still dropping…then the unthinkable…he flat lined

"HELL NO! YOU'RE NOT GOIN OUT LIKE THIS! NOT HERE!"

The cannon finally charged and he laid one side of it on flames chest and fired.

Flame's body jumped as the plasma shot off into the woods.

His heart restarted and Snow and Austin breathed a sigh of relief.

Flame opened his eyes and saw the two of them, their arms and chest covered in his blood.

INJURY SEVERITY-

STABILIZING….

STABLE

HEART RATE- NORMAL

INFECTIONS- NONE DETECTED

"Thank god. I thought we'd lost you there buddy." Austin said smiling.

"I'm so glad you're alright!" snow said as she hugged him

"AAAAAHHHHHH!!! I HAVE A WOUND THERE!" flame yelled

"Oh I'm sorry flame!" Snow backed away timidly.

"Be cool flame, she is just as responsible for you being alive as I am."

"Sorry snow…I'm just sore still."

"Its ok flame."

They bandaged him up and helped him to his feet; he stumbled around as he tried to regain his balance.

"Snow, help him walk, we gotta find spyro, and it wasn't like him to run off like that."

They set off in the direction that spyro was last seen.

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"How effective was the ambush?"

"YOU SHOT FLAME YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

"I don't care about 'flame' what about the prophet?"

"You missed him." Spyro growled, his anger at Crozier and himself building to the point where he could barely see straight.

"Just remember to get them in the canyon at the appropriate time. I want him dead."

The hologram shut off and he heard a noise that put ice in his veins.

click clack

It was the familiar sound of a pistol being cocked.

'No…' he thought

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spyro has been discovered! will austin forgive him? can he ever be trusted again? will i ever stop asking questions that i, the author already know the answer to? maybe. anywayz the next chapter may be late. prom is next weekend and i will have a grand total of 0 hours of free time. i'll figure somthing out. later! r&r!