Spyro's Legacy III: When All Has Gone

Chapter 10
Leadership
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"Hey," Spyro whispered at the sight of Jayde looking over the edge of the bed at him, something wild was happening within her eyes and he read it immediately. The last time he had ever seen that look was when he last copulated with Cynder all of those many years before, then the eyes had been older and more accustomed to the feelings being experienced, these eyes were relatively virgin to it.

He decided to act oblivious to it, even though eventually she'd arrive at the conclusion otherwise, for the time being she didn't have to know the truth. He extended his legs and wings outward away from her in an extended sigh. He glanced away briefly as to allow her the time to re-gather herself from the unexpected outburst. Through the window he saw where the sun eclipsed the horizon and birthed the land into a new light, the soft rays shining out the darkness of the night. Memories of his final minutes upon the Earth returned to him along with those first from the world after, he and Cynder's manifestation destroying all opposition to it.

He at last glanced back at the young girl in the room and saw as the feeling dissolved from her face quickly in self-apprehension. "The first morning light breaks Jayde, will you fight it, or will you embrace it on this: the last of days in hiding?"

Jayde blushed at the realization, but the implications of words said perked her up from her bed. "I think I'm ready to embrace it," she replied bravely.

Helgar arrived at the assembly just in time to no be left behind. His night of rest had been far from a good one, the Dio screaming in his ear all night in the most obnoxious manner possible was not the easiest thing to drift off to, even after laying down early.

"This is possibly the best thing that you guys could be doing for me right now, packing up and handing your entire residence to me on a silver platter. You know, this Spyro guy seems to be on my side of this disagreement, after all he is a purple dragon the same as me. Oh, and so is his closest resemblance in this refuge."

"You know," Helgar replied in a rebellion the repelled the presence from his mind once and for all, "You don't even seem to be that strong."

Spyro watched as the battle group assembled around him providing him with an opportune chance to speak with Ignitus and receive the plans he had not been given to previously. "What am I supposed to do from here?" he asked cerebrally.

"Lead them east, lead them east until the peak of Mount Malefor pokes up above the horizon directly shielding you from the blunt of the morning sun. The shade will provide you protection from watch outs at the front of the city allowing you all to enter the eastern entry to the mountain.

"Ignitus, you know that I cannot go in there without the dark powers possessing me, surely you won't send me into there. Or is this the plan that you haven't been wanting to tell me all of this time?"

"No, no, you will not go into the mountain. Only Jayde will go."

"You mean?!"

"It is what must be done"

"Spyro what is it?" Jayde asked him caringly; still not completely convinced that she could not get with him despite the obvious reasons that she wouldn't.

Spyro glanced at her from the corner of his eyes unable to look at her now knowing what would become of her at his choice. "Nothing, it's just that I never did like warfare."

"Oh, the ancestors are big on that are they? Is this how it was in past times?"

He smiled at the past. The past was always embellished by those who had lived it as to make it seem greater than what it truly had been, but this was far and beyond the truth. "The general consensus on war I think is that it is a necessary part of life, and should you feel strongly enough about something that you find it a worthwhile endeavor then it shall be done."

"Is this how you feel?"

"I suppose it is, after being submerged in such a society it's hard to not allow it to wear off on you."

"We fly east from here to arrive at the city of our ancestors: Warfang. There we will find a mountain and we may hide in its shade in order to prevent us from being seen in the city. Jayde and I will enter the mountain and confront the Dio as he absorbs the power of the dark crystals as he does religiously every morning. In the meantime the rest of you will disperse into attack on the city. Know that the force you fight is fighting you against their will. Should any of them offer their surrender accept it and kindly encourage all of those around to do the same using the subject as an example. The opposition may appear overwhelming at first, but the number of those who owe true allegiance to the Dio is few, and in the end this will be the only force you will have to fight.

"Fly with haste, as this time tomorrow we need to arrive there. I will assist in this endeavor using my dragon time upon occasion. The rest you will have to make upon your own wing power. My time passed along time ago. This will be your war, and you alone determine its outcome. The outcome of this battle lies within the resiliency of your own heart, and there is nothing else that can win this fight."

With this the masses took to the air in a simultaneous flap of the wings and explosion of leg power. Spyro however elected to stay Earthbound momentarily.

He glanced away from the group as he absorbed the lies he had fed to the people who had entrusted him with their lives. The power to win the battle was not within them all, but rather with one hatchling dragoness who's own emotions were not always within her control due to the darkness she was being delivered to.

The common people were all most assuredly going to win their fight, only to find their freedom short lived.

"I am sure that you don't understand now, but once you return to this world you will."

A/N: Well, 2 Chapters left. I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly announce my final Fan Fiction plans. "Dark Shrouds Rising" It will be about the rise of Malefor, and all of the events leading to his rise and his eventual destruction of the common way of life in Dragon society. I have spent more time than any other think up to plot and people and weaving in plenty of twists and turns. The typical writer will not know what it is about to start out and will hopefully encourage them to read on. I hope that you will take the prerogative to read it too.

This Fic. only has 2-3 chapters remaining. Once this or The Greatest Weapon: Vindication are finished this new one will start. Then, once they are both done, I likely will be too. (for a few months at least.. possibly forever)

Please leave your comments on the chapter and this note in a review. Thanks as always for reading, without you none of this ever would have happened.

Thanks,
Cornys