Ok, so now that I have your attention, I have an announcement: After the Memories trilogy, there is a high chance that I will leave this site. If I do, I will miss you all, and I may pop back in from time-to-time. But, if I do not leave, I am going to work on a Spyro x Cynder fic, probably rated T or M since it is a romance fic…..
Disclaimer: I do not own Spyro
Cynder slowly and painfully opened her eyes, wishing that her eyelids didn't feel like pure lead. She closed them once more, and then opened them as soon as she closed them in shock and looked around the room. Everything was a black-purple color, and black flames raged everywhere, burning all in sight.
She immediately got up, and realized that her wounds were all healed somehow. Looking around, she saw that she was alone, and that half of the house was blown to pieces by something. Carefully, she walked outside, and found that even the sky was a black-purple color, making it seem depressing to her.
After walking not more than a yard, she almost tripped over something. When she glanced down at what she had nearly tripped over, she gasped. It was Klair. He had a hole in his chest that looked like it was created by a blast, and his eyes were shut. He looked like he had struggled, since he had other marks on him that looked like claw marks….
Somehow managing to look away from Klair's body, Cynder continued into the main 'street', as Cynder had overheard a few say while getting Larka to the healer, and continued towards the center of town, where it was strangely empty. Normally, there would be a lot of commotion, but all she saw was black and purple, with the black fire raging.
"What happened here…?" Cynder muttered to herself as she continued past the center of town, confused that no signs of anyone were left. It was as if everyone had teleported or something, and Klair was trying to stop something…
Cynder continued to the edge of town, and saw that the black-purple coloring stretched out as far as they eye could see. The trees around the area looked crystallized and had the same color as everything around them, and there was no wind.
For some reason, Cynder turned back. She didn't know why, but it was as if something was calling her to the hut to her right, and she entered it. There was nothing, but there was a hole on the far side that was big enough for her to enter, in which she did.
It was….well…dark, but for some odd reason Cynder could see as well as day. It was like an underground cave, but it seemed to curve to the right. Curiosity getting the better of her, she followed it, only to see something fly out from around and corner and strike the wall.
It was Fenris. His body was fine, but his wings were bent in an awkward position and his tail was very jagged, which told her that it was broken. Nothing else seemed to be out of the ordinary, but when Cynder moved closer, she saw that his neck was also bent in an awkward angle. His neck was broken, which meant that he was dead…..
Out from the corner of her eye, Cynder saw something on the ground. It was a medium sized mirror, since she had seen a few before and learned the name. Again, she felt like something was calling her over to it and she did so, and looked at it, and she gasped and tried to pull away, but she could not.
It was her reflection, or a type. She was entirely black, and her horns were a dark red color. The weapon that was usually on her arm was a complete black color, and her tail scythe was a red color, and her usual markings on her head glowed a bright red color as well. But the thing that shocked her most was the burning red eyes….
Cynder tried to look away, but she could not. The image of herself grinned evilly, and Cynder herself began to grin in the same way as she looked at her body. It was exactly like the reflection, and the reflection's grin grew larger as it seemed to watch her do the same.
"You are mine…." It spoke in an eerie voice as Cynder suddenly fell to the ground, feeling lightheaded. "You were a fool….now you will serve me…." Cynder struggled to get up, but the ground felt so comfortable right then, and she closed her eyes.
"Forever…."
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"Cynder, are you alright!?"
Cynder heard the voice, but it seemed miles away. Other voices drifted by, and Cynder wished that they would go away. The dull throbbing in her tail and leg had returned, which puzzled her, since her wounds were just healed. Her head felt like it had been smashed on rocks for the past few hours, and every time it pulsed it sent waves of pain through her body.
"I don't know, but she seems to be breathing still. Klair, can you see if she is alright?" Another voice asked, this one sounding younger than the other.
"He's busy, but it seems like you forgot that I can check as well…." A female voice said, and Cynder felt someone putting their claws on her chest, where her crystal was and then it pulled away as soon as it touched it. "Why does she have a crystal there…?" The voice asked once more, worried about something.
"I'll explain later, but right now it seems like she is rejoining us…" The first voice she heard replied as Cynder slowly opened her eyes.
At first, she thought she was blind due to the fact that all she saw was darkness, but then she realized that night had fallen. As she looked up at the source of the voices, she saw Koga, Fenris, and Larka, who had a bandage on her left shoulder that wrapped around her chest, and a large red spot was on her left shoulder.
"Wha…?" Cynder asked in a confused voice, her mind not really taking in what she was seeing, since she was still traumatized after what she had say in her apparent dream. She would have to ask Fenris what it meant later, but for now, she could barely focus.
"You've been out for about seven hours, and we were starting to get worried." Koga said, smiling a bit.
"I just awoke about an hour ago, and saw that you had passed out like I did." Larka said, wincing a bit, "However, it seems that your tail is still bleeding, just like my shoulder is…" She added, looking at Cynder's tail, which was indeed still bleeding through the new bandage on it.
Cynder was afraid to look at it, since she feared going through that hell again. However, curiosity got the better of her once more and she looked at it, and was relived to see that nothing happened. But, that was the only good thing of this due to the fact that the bleeding had not stopped, and it was forming a large red spot on her tail.
"Fenris, can I talk to you?" Cynder asked him as she looked at Larka and Koga warily, "Alone." She added, but no one budged, not even an inch.
"I'm sure what ever you would like to say can be said to them as well…." Fenris replied in an almost casual tone.
"Fine…" Cynder said as she told them what she saw in her 'dream', and finding it easier to talk. Fenris's expression changed many times during it, from confusion to a look of horror, and when Cynder had explained what she had seen in the mirror, she could've sworn she saw a quick smile.
After Cynder finished, no one spoke for a moment, until Larka broke the silence. "Cynder…." She began, "I had one similar to that, except I found Koga first, and then I found Ornlu. Koga had….a large stab wound in his chest instead of a blast one, and Ornlu was…." Larka looked on the verge of tears as she continued, "He was killed by some figure with a large sword with a skull on the handle, but I couldn't get a clear look on who it was. It did have draconic wings, though….." She finished, evidently traumatized after the events.
"Excuse me," Fenris said as he got up, "I need to think about this troubling information. I will return shortly, so don't move or do anything that will make your wounds worse…" He added as he left into the village.
"Was it me…or does anyone find anything….odd about him now?" Koga asked suddenly, which caused both Cynder and Larka to whirl their heads towards him. "I mean," Koga continued, "He has been…jumpy for the past day or so. When you two were passed out, I tried to talk to him, and he almost bit my head off. Larka, when you awoke, he was literately staring at you as if he was trying to get into your soul. He was doing the same for you, Cynder."
"Koga, did it even occur to you that he could've been worried?" Larka snapped, which made Koga and Cynder recoil from it. When did she get so aggressive?
Before any of them could reply, a loud shout from outside alerted them, and Koga immediately ran off. Larka looked at Cynder and helped her up so they could go see what was going on as more shrieks of terror reached their ears, which made them quicken their pace.
Everyone was running past them from the center of town, in which black flames were burning everything in sight, just like in the dream Cynder saw. As Larka and Cynder entered the center of town, they saw Koga looking around for the source as a figure jumped down at them. Cynder couldn't move, but Larka could as she pulled Cynder out of the way of the attacker, only to gasp in shock when they saw who it was.
"Fenris…." Larka whispered.
Indeed, it was Fenris, but he was…corrupted. His wings were a pitch black color, almost with most of his body. However, unlike Koga, Fenris didn't massively grow or anything, but instead grew another tail and a pair of horns on his head, giving him a hellhound look. Smiling, Fenris laughed at them and began to charge up a beam of darkness….
And I shall end it here. Bit shorter than the other chapter, but the next one will be longer. Now, I left hints everywhere that Fenris was corrupted. When he first met Cynder, he showed aggression, and just before Ornlu turned into Chaos, he also showed massive amounts of aggression. And when he said that he thought that the corruption could be transferred via bites and he checked Larka and Cynder's wounds, that was another hint.
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