Alright guys, already on chapter four nice! Now I'm not going to lie to you when I say that starting now it may be a bit harder to right these next few chapters. This is because I have multiple scenes in my head, now it's which ones I should use and when. As always be warned for there may be a little, some, or a lot of cursing. Anyway as always hope you guys enjoy : D
Disclaimer: I own none of the Spyro characters, only characters I own are custom ones that I have created for the story
Once at the bottom I used my wing to open the glass door, we all stepped outside.
We started to head towards the center of the dragon temple grounds when we saw a pink dragoness start running towards us "OOOH SPYROOOO!" the pink dragoness shouted sounding flirty.
I looked over at Spyro who now had a sweat drop going down his face "oh no…"Spyro said with tired sigh.
"SPYYYYRRROOOOO!"the pink dragoness shouted in glee "Em-" Spyro tried to say but was cut off her jumping on and knocking him to the ground.
I laughed a bit at this, found it pretty amusing to say the least "Ember… get off him…" Cynder said directly at Ember with a death glare.
Ember looked up towards Cynder and sighed "I know you're jealous because of our love but that- whose that?" Ember asked now looking at me.
My grin immediately went away "This is Haze, a new student who will be staying at the temple with us" Spyro explained while being under Ember.
Ember slowly got off Spyro and started to examine me (You are not into me, you are not into me) I thought as Ember continued to stare.
All of a sudden Ember put on a smile and jumped on me knocking me to the ground "You know you're cute" Ember said with a seductive grin (shit…) I thought, my face showing my thoughts.
"Ember would you get off him" a red dragon said as he came up to us with a white dragon alongside him.
Ember turned towards the red dragon then me and closed her eyes "Flames right" ember said getting off me "Spyros way cuter" Ember finished as she went back over to Spyros side.
(Flame- Red dragon scales, with a golden underbelly, red wings but with gold lining, slightly curved horns) I thought.
I looked over towards Flame nodding as if to say thank you, he understood and nodded back.
"So I'm guessing you're the dragon who they used my life crystal on?" the white dragoness asked as she walked up to me. She had snowy white scales, a light sea blue underbelly that matched the underside of her wings and silver curved horns. Her tail looked like it had been designed after a type of snowflake. And for a moment it actually looked like her scales glittered in the sun.
I felt frozen when I saw her come towards me "Uh, yeah thanks for that" I said sounding a bit nervous.
I could tell Krystal caught onto the nervousness, she looked at me confused "Hey are you ok?" she asked not getting why I would be nervous.
I looked to the side "uh yeah, just fine" I said (Yeah, why am I nervous?) I asked myself in my thoughts.
I then looked over towards Flame who must have also seen that I was nervous for he looked at me then everyone else "Hey guys come on, promised Archer we'd meet him in the cafeteria" Flame said.
Spyro eyes widened "Oh yeah Archer! Haven't seen him in a while"Spyro said as Cynder also got excited.
"Alright so let's go!" Krystal said as she started to walk more into the grounds along with the others.
With everyone starting to walk away I looked to the side and sighed, dropped my head a bit and started to walk to the doors of the building (Well they got their friends now) I thought sadly.
"Hey are you coming?" Krystal asked me sounding semi concerned and curious, I lifted my head and turned around to find everybody standing still only a few feet away.
I was surprised "You guys want me to go with you?" I asked in some shock.
Cynder walked up to me and used her paw to grab mine "Yeah your coming with us!" Cynder said as she practically dragged me to the group.
Being back with the group I smiled "Alright lets go then!" I said sounding a bit pumped.
Going past the building everyone saw the blast mark that was there"So what happened to the building?" Ember asked as she looked at Spyro.
Spyro looked at Cynder then to Ember "Well this morning Cynder was nearly hit by a dark energy blast but Haze pushed her out of the way taking on the full blast crashing into the building" Spyro explained.
Ember looked at me surprised "By the ancestors, how are you alive?!" Ember asked impressed and curious at the same time.
"Hey its guy dragon Ember, we can just about take anything" Flame said with confident smile on his face eyes closed.
POW! Ember hit Flame on the head knocking him to the ground, he then got back up "see… we can take just about anything" Flame said before falling back on the ground with a bump on his head.
I looked at the 2 and laughed a bit with my eyes closed "So how are you feeling now?" Krystal asked me with concern causing me to re-open my eyes and look at her "Better thanks to you" I replied to her.
Krystal smiled "I'm glad I could help" she replied in a friendly tone.
I smiled back before turning slightly away (Why do I keep getting this feeling?) I thought to myself as we continued onward towards that cafeteria
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It took us a few minutes but we eventually reached the cafeteria. Boy was I surprised, the building we entered was similar to the one I had semi slept in last night except no garden and that it was bigger and larger and connected to other buildings. Since I never actually went past the first building I was never able to see it.
When we entered the café I saw all the dragons that lived here at the temple.
(Wow talk about a lot of colors) I thought to myself as we followed Flame to a table that only had one dragon sitting there.
The dragon had grass green scales and an orange underbelly, sun yellow curved horns as well, and reminded of Terrador a bit due to his main color.
"Hey Archer" Flame said as we approached the table and sat down.
I sat down across from Archer all the way on the right; next to me were Spyro, Cynder, and Ember. Across going from left to right were Flame, Archer then Krystal, I just looked downwards feeling nervous to look up.
I looked up slightly though just enough to see Archer looking at me "So you're the new dragon everybody's talking about" he said.
I looked at in confusion "what do you mean?" I asked not getting why others would be talking about me.
He grinned "I mean we thought that we knew about every dragon that was alive, then you show up, a dragon nobody has ever seen before" he replied giving me the impression that he knew something was up.
I felt myself starting to back up slightly, Spyro took note of this "eh doesn't really matter, oh yeah you guys should hear about Haze's ability" he said trying to help conceal my secret.
"Haze huh? That's a cool name" Flame said with a grin now leaning over the table "So what's your ability?" he asked sounding anxious to find out.
I looked to my left at Spyro and Cynder as if to ask permission, Spyro just nodded "its shadow" I answered.
Everyone's face went into shock and I freaked out "What's wrong?"I asked confused as to why they were shocked.
Flame leaned even more forward "Lucky! That's a rare element!"Flame said before Ember pushed his head down "Relax Flame" She said sighing.
Flame just picked his head back "Hey I can get excited if I want"he said pouting.
Ember sighed once more "Yeah but you get excited over everything, right Spyro" Ember asked now facing Spyro with a flirtatious look.
Spyro pretended to ignore her as Cynder gave Ember another death glare "Ember…" Cynder said. The two then basically had a stare down, both sides refusing to give up.
In seeing this I closed my eyes and looked down laughing softly to myself before opening them again and looking upwards to find Krystal smiling a bit at me "Flames right" Archer said. I looked back towards Archer "Shadow definitely is a rare element" he told me.
I looked at him with gratitude "Thanks" I said honestly now feeling a bit proud of my new ability.
I looked towards Spyro "Hey Spyro".
"Yeah what's up?" Spyro asked.
I looked down at the table then back at him again "Terrador said that because of me there are now 3 users of shadow excluding Malefor" I said repeating what Terrador stated "so if that's true then… who is the other user besides Cynder?" I asked.
I then got a feeling so I looked past Spyro to Ember who now had her paws on the table with her head resting on them "Believe me, you don't want to meet him" she said with a bit of anger in her voice.
"Yeah he's kind of a jerk" Flame said to me honestly.
I looked at everyone "Jerk meaning he likes to bully others?" I asked trying for an answer.
Archer looked at me with a slight smile "Not quite but he is nasty towards others" Archer told me trying to explain a bit.
As Archer lapped some water from his water bowl I found Krystal looking at me "You okay?" I asked wondering why she was looking at me, not that I had minded.
Krystal blushed a bit and turned away "Oh uh sorry about that, my eyes just wandered over and when they saw you I guess they just stuck, it's rare to see a black dragon you know" Krystal said explaining her action blushing a bit harder now embarrassed by her action.
With that I started to blush a bit then turned away a bit (Could she? No she just met me… besides there's no way that) my thoughts were caught off by a noise coming from behind me "Hey can you dragons move?!" a dragon said as he pushed through 5 dragons.
I turned around to see a black dragon making their way over near us and he wasn't alone, he was being followed by another dragon that had dark gray scales and a very dark red underbelly that matched the underside of his wings.
"Speak of the devil" Archer said lapping up the rest of water; I just turned in towards the table.
Through my peripheral I found the 2 dragons sit at a nearby table, and I could tell the black one was starring right at me "So what's his name?" I asked turning to the rest of the table hoping for an answer.
"His name is Ghost and the dragon following him is called Reaper"Krystal answered sounding less than thrilled about saying his name "Ghost has the ability of shadow and Reaper has the ability of fear".
I turned towards her than back downs towards the table "is he still looking at me?" I asked looking for a response from anyone.
"Yeah he's, wait he's coming over this way!" Ember said anxiously before sitting back down in her seat.
I could tell everyone was looking at him but I didn't bother I already had a feeling of where this was going to go. Through my peripheral I saw Ghost stop right next to me, I raised my head to the right "Can I help you with something?" I asked trying to see what this guy wanted.
"So you're the new black dragon…" Ghost said with a bit of disgust in his voice "I don't care if you look similar to me or share the same ability your nothing but trash in my book" Ghost told me voice sounding voice of emotion.
"I looked from him to the table "whatever, I could care less about what you think" I said not really wanting to talk to this guy any further.
That apparently made him angry since I heard him growl a bit before using his 2 front paws to push me out of me seat leaving me belly up on the floor.
I rolled over to my side before getting up and I found Spyro jumping in front of me "Just leave him alone Ghost" Spyro said seriously.
I could tell that Spyro was one of those people who would fight for their friends no matter the cost. I found the others also get up and move around to my front as well, and as I was getting up I found Krystal supporting me and as she did I looked into her eyes and saw that she was upset, I could only guess that she didn't like her friends being treated like this either.
"Thanks" I told Krystal as she then let me stand on my own.
I walked up to Spyros side "Listen I don't have any history with you and I don't plan on having any" I told Ghost who still was expressionless.
Ghost just grinned and walked away back to his table "Attention students"I turned to find Terrador in the door way "Flying practice starts in two minutes prepare yourselves" Terrador said before walking out.
I turned towards Spyro "You guys have flying practice?" I asked not really understanding why he and the other dragons would need to practice when they already could fly.
"Yeah well I call it more of flying training since that's all I really do, I think they just call it flying practice since it sounds better"Spyro said answering my question as best he could.
I turned towards the others as they made their way towards the door including Spyro (Great this will be interesting…) I thought as I followed them outside knowing that this was going to be a problem. Problem was that I didn't know how to fly.
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I have to admit getting to the area to practice flying wasn't that hard, all you had to do was make a left out of the building then another left and then you were immediately there. Walking onto the field I was amazed by how huge it was. It was at least the size of a high school football field if not bigger. There were different structures that were painted in different colors. And in each structure there was a gap inside of it as well as a few rings attached which I took a guess you had to try and fly through and judging by the colors and the gaps I also guessed that the color represented difficulty.
"Wow" I said in a amazement, I never expected this for flying practice at all.
"I know right?" Flame said coming up to my right understanding my amazement "the colors go from red, blue, white, black and then purple. I'm at the white level" Flame stated proudly.
I looked from Flame to Terrador who was now standing in front of us talking with Spyro. I couldn't really tell what they were talking about but I could tell it was about me since when they were done they both looked at me and Terrador had begun to walk over.
"So Spyro tells me you've never flown before, is that correct?"Terrador asked me.
I looked at my wings I and tried flapping them but to no avail "Yeah not recently I guess you could say" I replied as I heard the dragons behind me whispering.
"Alright, we are going to do before like we did with your powers, except this time you will search for the ancestors who are deep within side you, they will teach you how to fly" Terrador said.
I gave Terrador a really? Face before doing as he instructed (Yeah tell the person who no dragon ancestors to look for his ancestors to teach him how to fly, that makes sense) I thought as I closed my eyes.
When I closed my eyes I found myself back in the same place that I was in when I slept for the first night in Avalar. It was white all around me except I now had a black t-shirt instead of a white one now, still had jeans on though.
I looked around "alright where would I even begin to look for my possibly existent ancestors?" I asked myself.
After a few moments of wandering I saw the black figure in the distance again "Hey who are you?" I asked hoping to get a response this time.
For a few moments it was silent then the figure began to speak "So Terrador told you to ask your ancestors on how to fly did he? Well I may not be your ancestor but I can still help you" the figure told me. "When this vision is over just imagine yourself flying in the air, don't even think about moving your wings. After you do your first hover off the ground you will be able to control your new flying ability. Keep in mind though that your skill to fly still lies with your own ability to control it" the figure explained.
I nodded "Thank you" I said showing gratitude to the figure before turning around and walking away, after a few steps though I turned my head back towards the figure "who?"
"Do not worry you shall see me again real soon, for soon your ultimate destiny shall begin" the figure said as he disappeared.
After seeing the figure disappear I still looked in its direction as everything started to get bright again "my ultimate destiny?..." I wondered as I all of a sudden opened my eyes to see myself hovering above the ground.
I looked to my right to see Terrador laughing a bit "haha nice job Haze" Terrador said complementing me "Now let's see what you can do, try out the red course" Terrador said wanting to test my ability to fly.
I landed on the ground and got in a takeoff stance "Yes sir, yes sir" I said with a grin excited as I jumped off the ground using my momentum to help me fly.
Since I was going through the red course I made sure I was immediately over to the side where it was. The only obstacles I could see were large hoops that I had to fly through.
The first hoop made me ascend a bit and I have to admit it was a bit difficult, for each time I went a little bit higher I had to flap my wings ever harder just to get a bit more height, after I made it past the first hoop though I immediately found the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th hoop. They had all been together in a kind of straight line.
I hovered near the first hoop which was behind me (Alright not really worried about style points, let's just see if I can get done with the course) I thought to myself as I saw the next hoop required my to dive down a great amount and then glide to get through it.
I shifted myself along with my wings so that I was able to fly down pretty nicely but instead of going straight down I flew down at an angle to make it easier for myself and within the next few seconds I passed the second hoop with my bottom right leg touching the metal ring.
Sadly I didn't have enough time to think about it though, for my next 2 hoops had required me to turn left and then right. As I approached the third hoop I angled my body so that it would veer to the left, as I approached the hoop I felt myself start to wobble but I managed to keep my balance as I got to the hoop. Knowing my next hoop was going to be on my right I grabbed the hoop with my paws and jumped out and to the right to give myself a little leeway as I started to flap my wings more and more.
It took a bit of time and right as my wings started to fail with ascending I quickly grabbed the hoop with my dragon paws and hung on to the hoop. Luckily I was able to pull myself up and I was able to take a break for a few moments. I turned towards the others and I could see that my friends were okay with how I was doing but everybody else had me worried. I saw them start to yawn and talk to others and then I just put my head against the metal ring and thought.
(Am I just embarrassing myself by struggling to do this right now? No, don't worry about what others think just worry about the course) I thought to myself as I looked to the last ring in front of me.
It looked to be about 50 feet straight up in the air "Great, this will be fun" I said sarcastically to myself, it was hard enough to fly up at an angle but to fly straight up that was going to be difficult.
I position myself so that as soon as I jumped I would be ready to head straight up. I wasn't going to hover all the way up; I honestly didn't have the energy or time for that. I started to crouch before I jumped off the ring and started to fly straight up to the last ring.
Sadly though it didn't take long before I felt my wings start to get tired which only made me flap harder but once again to no avail. The harder I flapped the slower I went, and I could tell everyone was watching this hoop to see if I could complete the course or not.
As I neared the ring I only had a few seconds left of energy in my wings so I reached out with my dragon paw for the ring.
(Come on just a little farther…) I thought gritting my teeth and also straining my wings. I touched the ring "Yes!" I said which immediately after saying my wings gave out and I started to fall towards the ground.
I turned my head to the ground which was coming up fast and I closed my eyes waiting for what could be a painful landing until I felt something catch me.
XXX (general POV)
"You did good work Haze" Volteer said as he caught the black dragon within his paws.
Haze opened his eyes to find Volteer flying him over to the other dragons "thanks Volteer I owe you" Haze replied to Volteer with gratitude as Volteer started to land on the ground.
Once Volteer was on the ground he let go of Haze who had jumped out of his grip and ran over to his friends "I did it" he said semi proud not really sure if it was really an accomplishment.
Spyro put a paw on Hazes shoulder "Not bad for a first time flyer"Spyro complemented Haze, Haze just nodded in thanks.
"You really believe you were that impressive?" asked Ghost as he started to walk over to Haze with a cocky grin.
Alright guys what did you think? (Cliffhanger!) Sorry if it's not my best chapter, it's right now gotten to the point where I have the scenes in my head but I just have to place them and figure out how to write them out. Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed the chapter, next chapter we'll be finding out some interesting information along with Haze. I we can get 5-7 reviews for this chapter I will then start working on it early.
As always a few things before I go.
1-Thanks Airchi for beta(ing), you're the best as always man : D
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