Chapter 9: A priceless reward.
Night was drawing near, the three had flown hard all that day to make up for the lost time that morning.
"Down there, by the river.", Skorpion said, "is where we should make camp for the evening.", "See that pile of rocks? We can sleep in there."
"Since when do you decide where we sleep?", Spyro questioned.
"Since you made me make out with you,", Skorpion replied.
"You're the one who did it!", Spyro protested.
"And your the one who let it happen", Skorpion answered, "Admit it, you enjoyed it."
"Can we just drop it?", Spyro said.
"What, the soap?", Skorpion joked, "Because I don't do all that."
The dragons landed at the foot of the rocks.
"We need to go hunting, I'm hungry.", Cynder said.
"Can't you go hunting by yourself?", Spyro replied, annoyed.
"Nah, it's too funny watching you two argue to just leave.", Cynder replied.
"Fine, we'll head out in a moment, I'm thirsty.", Skorpion quickly stated.
Spyro leads Cynder back near the pile of rocks, while Skorpion proceeded to drink from the river.
"I need your help with something", Spyro told.
"Does it involve revenge?", Cynder questioned.
"Yep, I need you to help me though.", Spyro replied.
"Sure, anything.", Cynder stated.
"Alright, we need to get into the rock pile and slide the biggest rock we can find over the entrance.", Spyro plotted.
Skorpion continued to drink from the river, when he heard a pleasured moan from the rock pile, he perked his head up in question.
"Oh, Spyro!", a feminine yell from the small cave.
Skorpion spat all the water from his mouth uncontrollably, in shock of what he just heard. He ran to the base of the rock pile, in order to assure what his wondering self.
"Oh yes, please, more..."
This made the black dragon's jaw drop, he tried his hardest to push the large rock that blocked off the the inside of the rock pile.
He hopelessly abandoned the idea of pushing the large rock from the entrance and proceeded to knock the rocks off the top of the pile, a much easier task.
Spyro and Cynder sat in the hollowed-out rock pile, laughing.
"We got you, didn't we?", Spyro joked.
"Wait... what?", Skorpion pondered.
"We were trying to make you think that we were-", Cynder stated, but interrupted by the only other black dragon
"I know, I know!", Skorpion lightened up, "just the thought of that makes me shake."
"You deserved it, this was revenge.", Spyro laughed.
"Well, expect a form of payback.", Skorpion jokingly threatened, "By the way, why did you agree to this?"
"Because your reaction is too funny.", Cynder replied.
"Funny? That was torture!", Skorpion implied.
"Why?", Spyro asked, still laughing.
"You didn't see or hear it from my point of view.", Skorpion replied.
"Heh, I could only imagine.", Spyro replied.
"You should expect revenge.", Skorpion said.
"I won't fall for it, now that you told me.", Spyro said confidently.
"We'll see.", Skorpion remarked.
"Now that we got that out of the way, I'm still hungry.", Cynder stated.
"I'm sure there is something to kill.", Skorpion replied.
"Let me make this more interesting.", Cynder said with a smirk.
"Oh boy.", Spyro rubbed his eyes.
"I agree with purple boy.", Skorpion said, "Why do you insist on these games?"
"It's fun watching you two fight.", Cynder replied.
"Fine, I'll do it.", Skorpion replied, "Simply because it's fun beating purple boy."
"Count me in, you don't know how much I'd love to wipe that smirk off his face.", Spyro agreed
"The first one to kill an animal to eat and bring it back will get to sleep in the rock pile.", Cynder explained.
"That's it?", Spyro questioned.
"Did I mention that I would be sleeping in the rock pile", Cynder added, "And I probably won't be tired."
With these words, Skorpion dashed off into the nearby woods.
"Hey, that's not fair!", Spyro yelled as he followed into the deep forest.
Skorpion climbed up the nearest tree for a vantage point, Spyro watched his eye movements to see where he saw possible food. The black dragon stared towards the nearby plains, at a small group of sheep; Spyro took quick notice and ran forward. Spyro dived through the forest, dodging all trees in his way, while Skorpion jumped from the tree-tops silently, causing a bit of a race. Skorpion shot from the top of a tree, in his landing he would tackle a sheep; Spyro noticed this, and found a way to awake a long sleeping ability, Dragon Time.
In a race against time, Spyro ran as fast as he could in this time-slowing daze, becoming roughly the same distance as his opponent from the sheep by the time his mystical ability ended. Spyro breathed a fiery rage at the sheep, while Skorpion pierced it's back with his tail-blade; a victor near-impossible to determined.
"Cheater, I saw that.", Skorpion yelled.
"There was no rule against using Dragon Time.", Spyro challenged.
"Wait, what's that?", Skorpion seemed worried as he looked behind Spyro.
Spyro turned around, questioning what the dragon was worried about, only to find nothing, and that the sly dragon had ran off with the dead sheep.
"Get back here!", Spyro flew after the fastly running dragon.
Spyro tackled Skorpion, before attempting to grab the dead sheep; the black dragon grabbed the sheep and a tug of war began. Both the dragons pulled until they could hear the sheep's spine crack, they both kept the sheep in their mouths and began to walk back to the rock pile.
"Who won?", Cynder asked.
The dragons refused to drop the sheep, in fear of losing.
"You can drop it now, it won't count against you.", Cynder stated.
Both of the boys slowly placed the sheep on the ground.
"So, who won?", Cynder repeated.
"We did.", Skorpion quickly replied.
"So, who gets the reward?", Spyro questioned impatiently.
"How do I know that you didn't plan it out so you could both enjoy 'the reward' ", Cynder asked.
"That's easy, because we hate each other.", Skorpion answered.
"Maybe you two made a deal, a pact, perhaps?", Cynder wondered.
"Screw this, I'm sleeping in that rock pile and if you want to join, maybe I'll screw-", Skorpion said defiantly, but was interrupted by Spyro.
"Please...do not finish that sentence.", Spyro interrupted.
Skorpion stormed into the hollowed rock pile and sat down, making himself comfy.
"Get out, you lost.", Cynder demanded.
"Make me.", Skorpion dared.
"Alright, you asked for it.", Cynder stated, before trotting into the cave.
Several seconds later, a loud girly scream was heard from Skorpion, before he ran out of the pile, his tail tucked between his legs.
"What did she do to you?", Spyro asked, fearing the same may happen to him.
"She did things to me, that no one else could ever do.", Skorpion cried.
"Come on in, Spyro, let's see if you'll cry too.", Cynder threatened.
"No.. I think I'll be fine out here.", Spyro mumbled in fear.