Spyro's Legacy III: When All Has Gone

Chapter 9
Guilty Strokes
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Helgar looked out into the horizon as he felt the great presence grow nearer. Ancestral ties were greater with this than any he had ever felt before, much greater than Jayde's even. Actually as he examined the anomaly more he could feel that Jayde's essence was there with it. Whatever the other thing was Helgar could feel her deep appreciation for her company.

"Send out a welcome party for them, but be cautious of the strange dragon." He told one of the guards who had called him to the watch tower; his orders were immediately carried out.

"Why don't you just kill him if you are so afraid of him?"

"Because he could be of great importance for our war whatever he is."

"I doubt it; he's just one of my agents."

Spyro saw a group of five take off from the rapidly approaching city. "Do you know these guys?" he asked her.

"They are just part of the city watch. They greet all incoming traffic regardless." She said out with noticeably less nerve. She even made eye contact this time, but quickly withdrew it.

"They are of no threat then?"

She fully turned her head to him. "No, and even if they were, they wouldn't be with you."

Spyro felt obliged to return the contact and entertain a possibility of relationship between the two if only to give himself a greater influence upon her. "The power I once had is no more." He replied in a somber tone. Intellect is my greatest weapon now."

"Oh,"

Later was later now in the day, Spyro and Jayde sat in Jayde's home with the company of Shandy and Barvin now. Spyro could nearly smell the two female's feelings towards him. Maybe it wasn't the greatest of ideas to make him their age, but then again this would give him more of an influence. It made him more uncomfortable nonetheless.

"Jayde, what are your plans with attacking Warfang?" he asked interrupting a long period of silence.

"Why?"

"I was hoping that you were going to attack them soon as their defenses seem to be at a weak point now. Now is as great a chance as ever." He lied to her out of necessity. His goal was not an honest one, but it was a necessary one. Time was the greatest enemy of the resistance.

"Well, I guess we could do that if the board agreed."

"Good, we need to go now. This is why I have come here to help at last. As I said I haven't much time to waste now"

"Oh, you should have said something sooner. We better go now and get this show going." She replied without much of a thought. She had placed her trust within Spyro now and she would bend to his desire up until the point that she had given everything away.

The whole gang exited the home and took to the air. The short flight seamed to take forever in terms of the ancestral world where everything happened instantly. Working to get somewhere was unusual for Spyro now, but he enjoyed it more this way.

The flight landed and was first met by Jayde's father who seemed to have left the meeting and stood outside.

He glanced at them in question, and was only responded to by Jayde's thumbs up.

They walked into the meeting like nothing was going on stopping the speaker mid-sentence. Suddenly all of the room was focused upon them in the back.

"We must fight now. This deliberating may go on for days and by then the window of opportunity will have shut and left us out of options and without my assistance. I understand that some of you may have your doubts but you must trust me. This is the best course of action, and possibly the only in this entire generation. You must trust me in this."

The members of the board deliberated to one another for a few moments before Helgar stepped to the front and beat on the podium. "All right, let's get this over with them. Against attack?"

A few hands came up shyly.

"For?"

All most the entire assembly raised their hands immediately. They too had a trust for him. It seemed that his entire plan had worked out perfectly to this point.

"All right, fair enough, first light tomorrow we must assemble at lakes edge and set out together for this the greatest battle of your time!"

Jayde slept alone in her bed. Spyro dozed on the floor just below her with his legs flowing underneath her bed. Hours had gone by and she still could not fall asleep. Those memories of her mother and the traumatic situation she had just been put through with her father made her very wary about the situation at hand. She did not believe that a fight was necessary to take back Warfang and free those who were trapped within the Dio's grasp.

Spyro might know military tactics, but he had never really tried to solve a situation without violence. Maybe, he didn't know as much as she did. After all how long had he been dead?

She glanced over the side of her mattress and gazed upon his body as it rest gently. The relentless master of all elements, the most handsome of all male dragons who had ever lived, slept mere feet away from her in her own bedroom. Before the day had started she never would have believed it could happen, but now it seemed nothing more than stimulating.

Forgetting the events that were to transpire in the morning she privately stroked herself. With the strong muscles that protruded from his body, the beautiful hue of his scales and the great clearness with which they reflected the dim night light. No visible flaws disgraced his pictures body, maybe it was that the ultimate vision of beauty was based off of him. Then again this pointed out the way that other's probably felt about her. This turned her on more and she brought up the intensity of her strokes.

Suddenly Spyro's eyes popped open.

A/N: Thanks for reading and I must apologize that the update took so increasingly long. I wish that I could have made the time to write this update a long time ago, but now it seems to be a fast forward chapter because I didn't like where the story was. In reality though that is the way I had planned it; just happened to be this chapter that was like that.

I hope you enjoyed and please review so that I can know what I need to fix and/or don't need to fix.

Thanks again for reading,
Cornys