A Not so Different Beginning

Chapter 25

A/N Hey what's up here's chapter 25 and I am gonna drop a bomb on Silas like the last chapter implied. I have decided on who will tell him and I hope you enjoy who/how this person tells him and the aftermath. Next if anyone was wondering about Nick and Autumn(only one person brought that up but I thought it was because it was SO obvious people didn't even bother to mention it or people didn't care) you'll have to see what happens. Lastly if anyone was wondering I will have a chapter more dedicated purely to Spyro's 'family'.

Lastly as a PS note, my poll for favorite characters is still up and Kirk and Demodius are STILL tied, I don't care if you choose Demodius over the guy who's essentially who I am and also who I want to be but to be honest I'm not that amazing and not that narcissistic, if you guys want to choose Demodius(and others) GO AHEAD I'd be happy with both.

Silas saw that nobody was answering him, it terrified him that the idea that he lived over Anaya because she was far more maimed then him or that she died and he was simply in a coma. He could only think 'Ancestors I fainted and she died for my weakness!'

He started to breathe heavily as no one answered until finally a voice broke through "It because of special circumstances"

Everyone looked towards the doorway, the direction the noise came from, to see Rorek, he was still very weak looking but he hobbled in and explained further "We would have saved her too but I wasn't informed in time and THEY, took too long to decide" he said looking to the three Guardians.

The Guardians were obviously not happy he was throwing the blame at them and Terrador "You snake! You were the one who proposed this crazy idea! And it was you who went with our choice!"

Rorek looked at the large dragon and growled "I could have done nothing! Eh? Would you enjoy that idea, both of them die, hell I nearly gave my own life to partially fix the terrible decision making you three have, if we had acted quicker both would be alive RIGHT NOW!" he felt very strongly about this, he came out of hiding and risks being arrested or killed to save his friends and this was how he was treated.

Terrador was about to argue back when Silas said loudly "What are you talking about, both of us dead, I thought I was severely injured?"

Both dragons shut up but after a moment Rorek said "Silas, you were… dead, both of you"

Silas went wide eyed and tried to say something but words wouldn't come out, he was so shocked by this news he had no idea what to say, so many things were in his mind 'If I died then, where were the ancestors, where was the light, where was the anything?' He had been told you'd see things when you died but for him it didn't happen, why?

He finally was able to spit out "But… I didn't… see… the ancestors?... Only darkness"

Rorek said "I have only one theory, the animals that killed you have special powers and one literally eats your souls. My guess is when a soul is devoured they are taken to this void you were in, I'm sure when… the ancestors coming knocking next time you'll see them" he knew how important his belief in the ancestors was for and didn't want him to have more on his plate to worry about.

Silas was in a state of shock, was Rorek lying or was he telling the truth, his only reason to lie would be to make him feel better but despite all this he had one more question "Why me?"

Rorek looked to the Guardians, that was their choice, you should be asking them" he said accusingly. He had always known that Silas would be destroyed by being alive over Anaya but in a way he wanted to see the Guardians crash and burn and make yet another bad choice. They hunted him down like an animal for wrongly accused charges and he was gonna make them pay any way he could even if this would never become public, he wanted this to sit on their souls.

Silas sadly looked to the three and Cyril said "Please understand that under any other circumstances we would have…"

He was cut off by Silas who yelled angrily "TELL ME, NOW!"

All the people in the room were surprised by his aggressive behavior especially Rorek who knew him the best but Terrador cleared his throat "We chose you because the hellhounds are not only dangerous but being controlled by a force we've only seen once before. This is extremely confidential information but… Spyro has turned to the darkness"

Cynder said "No he didn't, the darkness is inside him, it wasn't there originally it entered his body at some point, I can feel it!" she had days to think about this, Spyro was far too nice to be playing an act, not mention all the time she had to speak with Sparx. He had never shown any signs of aggression in his youth.

Terrador said "It doesn't matter, he's gone and we need to get rid of him before he kills us all" completely ignoring her comment.

Cynder growled and was about to say that they didn't have to but Kirk made a quick gesture that sort of said 'quiet' then said quietly "We are trying to save him, forget about them"

Silas growled after Kirk said that and looked at the Guardians "You ended Anaya's life for that!? You let her stay in that abyss because you wanted to kill a dragon that may or may not be in control!" Even though Terrador had blown off the comment but he heard it and was disgusted that they so willing through away such a beautiful woman so they could use him to fight the dogs.

Cyril said "You should be more respectful to the men who brought you back to life, besides their plenty of woman to choose from find another!" his 'royal' attitude coming through with his rather mean comment.

Silas nearly attacked him on the spot at his words about Anaya but before he could say anything Rorek said "It wasn't you who brought him back! All you did was choose who would be more 'valuable' to keep alive and nearly killed myself to do it because you took so damn long to choose"

Silas caught this too and said "You were the one who brought me back… AND DIDN'T SAVE HER ANYWAY!?"

Rorek backed up "I didn't mean to hurt you, I brought you back because they chose, if I had been contacted earlier, WITHOUT THREATS AND GUARDS, I would have been able to save both of you but they would never have saved even one of you if it hadn't been for those kids, they made more of an effort to speak to me in a civilized manner than these idiots did. Without then neither of you would be back at all" He tried to say that he was lucky to be alive at all because of children and that it was the Guardians fault Anaya wasn't able to be saved.

Silas wouldn't let that stop him and said "Even though I'm grateful they found you but you had a chance to save Anaya and even when you knew I'd want her alive over me you still saved me!"

Rorek couldn't argue, he really wanted to do it but vengeance was on his mind and he let it cloud his judgment, but in all honesty he was probably gonna die if he disobeyed them and losing their attack dog. He really wanted to do it and at the risk of his friendship with Silas and even risked the dragons races future. They were so low in population that every female was a miracle, if they were gonna repopulate every female would be one more, or possibly more, children.

He had no response and lowered his head in shame at what he had done and said "Yes, this is my fault" even though he knew the Guardians had another reason for bringing Silas back instead of Anaya he would take the blame for this.

Silas growled "Get out of my sight" Rorek did as he said and left sadly but didn't try to defend himself. Terrador being the one who hated Rorek the most smirked seeing the dragon leave but all the kids frowned seeing the sad dragon leave. For some reason it felt like it would be awhile until they saw him again like he was gonna go underground, maybe they could speak to him again by just going to the brothel again, even if for Kirk that was a bad idea.

Terrador broke the silence and said "Thank you Silas for…"

Yet again Silas interrupted the Guardian and said "You as much to blame as him, you three out too, the only ones I wish to speak with are those four" pointing to the younger dragons and dragonfly.

Cyril said "You can't…!"

"OUT NOW!" he demanded.

Volteer stuttered "I-I w-would take that as our chance t-to leave" as he was already moving. Like always he seemed to be the least aggressive of the three Guardians and with him backing off the other two angrily left not used to being told off by others.

After a moment Silas took a deep breath and turned to the kids and said "I wanted to thank you four personally for what you've done for me, even though I would have much rather liked this to have gone differently you wouldn't have known and the fact you went such lengths to save, from what you thought at the time, both of us. I can't blame you what happened but because of you maybe I keep her memory living on. Thank you for that chance you four"

Sparx scratched his head "Well actually I wasn't a part of that, I was still kinda sad my bro is gone"

"Well it doesn't matter thanks to you I'm alive and will get revenge on the ones who killed Anaya" Silas vowed.

Cynder said "You better not try to kill Spyro, we're still trying to find a way to save him, the Guardians have lost hope that they can save him and are just trying to kill him now. Sadly the one guy who knew anything about the darkness and it's domain just walked out and now have to find him again"

Silas was slightly sorry that he had done that to them but at the moment he didn't want to see his face, hell all his talk about living on for Anaya was bull, he actually felt he had almost no reason to live right now which was why he was so angry, Anaya had so much to live for, to find a man, get a family be a mother. Now she'd be denied all of that.

Silas said "I apologize for that, I hope you can find him before whatever the Guardians have planned happens; now I… want to try walking. Leave me be and tell a nurse that I'm up and trying to walk, hopefully I'll see you soon so I can more properly thank you for your service to me"

They all nodded and gave him some encouraging words and hopes that he'd recover quickly and left to get down to their own business.

The four walked down the hall and Cynder said "I've been meaning to ask you guys, why do the Guardians seem like they want to get rid of Spyro so much?"

Kirk had no clue but Nick said "They're probably just scared, I mean we just got out of a massive war with the last purple dragon, they probably just feel like a major war is gonna break out again. You can't blame them for being worried about their people"

This made sense to the other three and Cynder asked next "Do we still not have a plan?"

Both guys shook their head, right now there was no plan except the plan the Guardians had which ended up with Spyro dying.

Cynder sighed and said "I think I'm gonna head home, my dad will be making dinner by now"

They all nodded and kept going while she ran in another direction.

Kirk looked to his half brother "So what was with you and Autumn this morning?"

Nick stopped and said "Nothing, she was just annoying me" he defended himself.

"No it felt like there was something else going on" Kirk asked more suspicious by his overly defensive stance.

Nick said "There was nothing else going on she was just bugging the crap out of me"

Kirk smirked "Ya but what about all that noise I heard when I knocked on your door this morning?"

"I fell out of bed and got wrapped up in the sheets" Nick said.

Kirk laughed loudly not buying it "Ya right, but I'm sure you got wrapped in the sheets some other way"

Nick went wide eyed and looked at him before growling "What are you implying?"

Kirk smirked "Yes, I knew it!"

Nick said "Tell me what you meant right now before I beat you to death like an older brother does"

Kirk was unfazed by his threat "I think you exactly what I'm implying, you and Autumn happened to be both sore for the same reason, she apparently came to the caf right before we did, and lastly you took several minutes to leave you room"

Nick said "Don't you dare say it"

Poor Sparx had been listening to the conversation and knew what he meant too and slowly drifted away to stay as far away from the two as possible.

Kirk smirked "You and Autumn are totally, undeniably having amazing crazy se-AH" suddenly Nick pounced him telling him to shut up and they wrestled on the ground.

At Cynders house…

Cynder had returned home and could smell food cooking and smiled as the aroma entered her nose. It was one of the few things she looked forward to since the rest was all about depressing subjects like dying and killing her boyfriend.

Her father turned hearing her come inside and said "Hey Cyn, just in time for dinner, where were you all day… with the Guardians and whatever it is you do with them" he asked not liking how that came out since it sounded weird.

Cynder said "Ya, really important stuff, what's for dinner anyway?"

Lightning smiled "Smoked deer, hope you like it"

Cynder said "Of course I do" and went to eat.

She and her dad ate but very little was spoken of since lately Cynder was secretive in her life but she was able to ask about his day. Apparently he had been going out and trying to find a new mate, since her mom was gone Lightning had decided now was finally the time to start trying to find someone new. Cynder was happy for him even though the idea of a totally new woman trying to act like a friend/mom would be kinda awkward but encouraged him all the same, after all this time he totally deserved to find happiness in someone his age again.

He smiled at her encouragement and said "Thanks Cyn, I'm glad you're on board"

She smiled back and finished up her food and after helping her dad clean the dishes and talking a bit more she went upstairs to read. Sparx hadn't come back with her for some reason but without him she was able to learn her dad was dating again.

She had been reading for maybe half an hour before hearing something downstairs, it sounded like a loud thud. She thought maybe her dad had smacked his leg into a cabinet or something since he did that sometimes but it came again louder and she heard plates crash and thought 'he's never dropped plates before?'

She got up and walked downstairs to see if he was ok when she heard a loud growl when she was halfway down the stairs. She froze and had a bad feeling and slowly descended the rest and peaked down to see what was happening.

She then heard a demonic sounding voice ask "Where's the girl?"

She her heard father which made her heart skip a beat "I'll never tell you where my daughter is"

"If you don't then you will die" the voice growled and gurgled.

Cynder froze and then started to shiver in fear, she covered her mouth with a paw to keep from making a noise as she started to cry her mind screaming to run in and help but then she'd surely get killed too.

Lightning said "What does it matter, you'd kill me too"

Cynder barely held back her own crying as she listened to her father's last moments, he was being the best dad he could by protecting her but she couldn't let him die, several times she tried to step forward but then her brain would tell her to stop and survive. She was so torn. She couldn't lose another parent again but he was sacrificing himself for her.

"Well you'll just have to trust us then" the voice said trying to sound trustworthy.

"What kind of man would I be if I told you where my daughter is on the hopes that you'll keep me alive, no screw you" Lightning held his ground.

Cynder couldn't take it, she was frozen as her father was about to die but at the same time wanted to run in and help, maybe attract them and run off, but they'd catch her before she got to the door since she couldn't fly.

The demonic voice said "Fine, I guess your soul will be ours then"

Cynder gasped hearing those words and as she heard dog growling and barking as they attacked her father she ran upstairs to run. Her father's screams of pain could be heard as she went to her room and tried to open her window. She couldn't see properly from all the tears and fumbled to get it open.

Within a few seconds her father's screams were gone and she started to cry even more finally getting the window to open and heard them coming upstairs. She looked back to see one that was pure black fur and it growled loudly at her and barked.

She gasped barely seeing it through her tears and pushed the window up hearing it running to get her and she just barely jumped out the window.

As she flew away she heard then howling at her since they failed and she cried flying through the air heading for the temple.

DAMN Cynders dad is GONE. How will she react now? Oh I let you guys think of that one. Hope you enjoyed my rendition of Silas and I hope you enjoyed that chapter. Oh and ya I'M TOTALLY BACK… hopefully.

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