Sorry this chapter took so long to get out, had a little trouble trying to connect this to the main storyline. As always though, this was a blast to write and I hope you guys also enjoy reading it. Well hope you enjoy : )
"What I did, I did without choice, for the sake of peace and sanity, and I only hope that whoever is reading this understands what I did to keep the lives of Avalar safe. My name is John Overfang, my journey is now over."
That was it for the entry, no more pages to turn, nothing.
I put my paws behind my back and started to lean on them "can't even imagine how hard it must have been to do that" I said feeling sorrow for John "You sacrificed everything for Avalar, you're a real hero" I added now over come with sorrow for him.
I stayed in the position for a minute or two before getting up on all fours; I then grabbed the book and headed out of the room.
I stood at the top of the stair case for a moment before walking downstairs "So I'm guessing by the gesture you didn't find anything?" Terrador asked starting to sound a bit disappointed.
Reached the first floor I walked over to Terrador and put the journal on his desk "I did it's just that" I paused looking downwards not wanting to continue "Just that what?" asked Cyril curious as to why I wasn't continuing.
I looked up at Cyril then Terrador and sighed in depression "Just that those rumors about him working with the dark master are true but he did it to betray Malefor in the end" I explained "I can't help but feel much sorrow for him, to sacrifice everything you have for the greater good, I could only imagine how much pain he went through to seal away Malefor" I furthermore added.
Terrador now looked at the journal that lay on his desk "I figured if anything you might like to read it Terrador, there isn't a ton of information in there but just enough to explain his actions" I explained before turning around and walking away.
Walking away I could feel them both looking at me, being honest I was wasn't surprised, I was depressed from reading that and my face and voice showed it.
I walked through the office doors leading out then closed them with my wings, I leaned against the doors closing my eyes for a moment "I need to get my mind off of it" I told myself as I re-opened my eyes backing away from the door.
I turned around only to find that nobody else was nearby, even Spyro and Cynder were out of the cafeteria "Well maybe today I can actually spend a day without needing to do anything right off the bat" I said to myself.
Granted I could have gone looking for them but…
Flashback XXX
Spyro just continued to smile down at the table, I could tell this little chat had made him happy "In my book though we are friends since we get along, but there's also one more who I'd like to befriend" I said as I held out my hand to Spyro.
Spyro lifted his head and saw my outstretched hand and looked at it then me "If you are willing to accept it" I said basically hoping this would work.
Spyro looked back to the outstretched, lifted and put a dragon paw on my hand "I'd be happy to" Spyro replied with a smile.
Flashback over XXX
I sighed with my head leaning towards the ground "Ah who am I kidding, just because I said I was friendly a bit with Cynder doesn't mean we are friends. And for All I know Spyro was just trying to be nice" I said as I lifted my head up "Oh well, maybe in the future that will happen" I added wondering.
Since I had nothing else to do at the moment I decided to go get some breakfast, so I headed over to the cafeteria to find a mole behind the food counter "Hey, you still serving breakfast?" I asked.
The mole turned from what it was doing and turned towards me "Yeah I am" the mole kindly answered with a smile.
/Girl mole huh? / I thought to myself curiously as I continued to look at the mole for moment waiting for something to happen.
After a moment the mole looked at me confused "Honey aren't you going to get a tray?" she asked.
My eyes widened as I realized what she was saying "Oh yeah, sorry about that" I replied to her honestly as I went and grabbed a tray with my wings over by the nearby table and brought it to the counter.
I placed my tray on the counter "Here you go sweetie" the mole said kindly as she put a chunk meat on the tray "Thanks" I replying with gratitude for the meat.
I started to walk over to an empty even though they were all empty "Hun", I turned around to face the mole "smile, it's a nice day outside" she said with a warm smile.
I smile back at her "We'll see" I said as I turned around and sat at the closest table.
I put my tray down on the table and without think just dug straight in. As I began to eat the meat I took an end into my mouth and put my front paws on the rest of the meat. While I used my head to pull upwards I used my paws to push down on the meet eventually tearing a piece of allowing me to chew a piece in my mouth.
/This isn't half bad/ I thought to myself as I continued to chew.
While chewing I began to think some more about what to do for the day, I swallowed the meat in my mouth and then looked at my paw "I should test that out after I'm done here" I said to myself now having an idea of what to do after breakfast.
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I got up and brought the tray over to a whole bunch of other dirty trays using my wings "Thanks for the food" I told the mole with gratitude before leaving the room, she only smiled before getting back to work.
As soon as I stepped out of the room I stopped and began to gaze over the floor a bit "What was it that I was going to do after" I lifted my front left paw "Oh yeah!" I said anxiously to myself now remembering.
With that I walked completely out of the building I was in, I walked a few steps before looking to my left. Looking over to my left I found all the dragons and dragonesses that were here, walking about, which included Spyro, Cynder and the others.
I moved my gaze from them to straight ahead where I found a nice hill in front of me that had a tree on it "It's amazing what you tend not to notice unless you need it" I said laughing softly to myself a bit.
I started to walk towards the hill, as I did I felt the sun shine of my scales"Guarantee that within a half hour of being under the sun my scales are going to be burning hot" I told myself knowing that the color black absorbs heat easily.
It didn't take that long for me to reach the hill, about a minute or two I would say. Once I reached the hill I walked onto it and under the shadow of the tree that was there.
I lay down in the shadow facing the building and the center of the temple where most of the dragons were "Now this is what I like" I admitted with a smile of relief "Sitting back and staying on the sidelines".
I rolled over onto my back staring up at the blue sky that had a few clouds in it, smile now gone "In a way though this is just like how I started up at my second school, unless someone approached me I didn't bother to socialize since I was always to afraid that I would be rejected" I reminded myself, recalling from my past.
I slowly closed my eyes as I felt the breeze from the wind come by me, after a few moments of having my eyes closed I opened them "Yeah, maybe that's not the best idea, if I sleep now then I won't be sleeping much at all tonight" I reasoned thinking ahead.
"Shadow revolver that was the name he gave me for my first shadow move" I said moving on to another topic as I then opened my mouth to let a ball of darkness form.
After seeing the ball form I took a moment to look at it before having the energy subside. From my eyes the energy looked to be some type of gas just dyed black with a purple current going around it, though it could be that I didn't change the form of the element yet.
I then looked at my paw which I put forward towards the sky "I wonder…" I questioned as I began to focus energy into my paw.
It took a few moments but eventually I saw energy start to form around my paw "So far so good" I said with hope that this would work.
As the energy started to get stronger around my paw it formed a cloak which was transparent and began to form the shape of the paw, the only difference being that the claws were bigger and longer.
I smirked a bit "Shadow grippers" I said to myself proud of inventing my own first real move.
Mere seconds later my joy turn into surprise and shock when I found the energy become unstable and burst releasing a dark cloud; I closed my eyes on reflex.
I opened my eyes back up and coughed a bit "Well *cough* that didn't go as planned" I said in a slightly raspy voice not knowing what to think.
"Don't be disappointed"
I rolled over to my side and looked forwards to find Krystal behind me "New moves do take time to form completely" She said in a comforting tone.
I looked at her in shock "I thought you were with Spyro and the others?" I questioned her.
"I was but when I found you by yourself I thought you might want some company"Krystal replied as she began to lie down to my left.
I gave her a reassuring look "You don't have to if you don't want to" I told her feeling that she must have felt sad for me or something.
She only smiled at me "Well I do want to" she replied to me honestly.
I looked from her then back to the sky and rolled over on my back once more "So what was that move you were working on?" Krystal asked curiously.
I put my paw forward towards the air "Shadow Grippers" I told her "It's a move that will allow me to move more effectively while being damaging at the same time" I explained.
There was honestly more moves that I had already thought of trying out, heck ever since I was little I always dreamed of having powers so I always created new types of moves with different possible elements.
After a moment of silence I looked back toward Krystal who was looking at me shocked"Wow, sounds like Cynder's shadow veil" Krystal said explaining her thoughts.
"Maybe but the only difference is that I'm not protected by shadow if attacked. The purpose of the move is just to help when moving like climbing, better traction like on ice" I explained looking back at the sky.
"So now you have what two moves?" Krystal asked.
"Possibly more than that" I answered "You see I actually have quite a few moves dealing with shadow that I had thought up a while ago, now it's just getting them to work" I explained.
"That's impressive" Krystal complemented me as she lay her head back "Usually it takes dragons a while to come up with more than 2 moves" she said as she moved her gaze towards the sky.
I moved my gaze from the sky over to Krystal, and being close up I could see that she was a very beautiful dragoness, she had nice curves and that went along with her white scales which I liked /could I really be falling for a dragon?.../ I questioned myself in thought.
Krystal turned towards me "Something wrong?" She asked confused as to why I was looking at her.
I quickly darted my eyes away "Ah no nothing, I just think that you look pretty today" I told her.
After finishing that sentence I realized what I had just said my entire body froze, I moved my gaze towards the sky now feeling awkward.
Krystal giggled "Thanks, you know you don't look to bad yourself" Krystal said complementing me back.
I looked back toward her and then stared at my black scales, honestly I don't know how I could look good, I didn't really see any beauty in my scales, just a color.
I donned a smile, feeling a little good about myself "Thanks" I said looking back towards her "I really appreciate that" I told her honestly as I moved my gaze back towards the sky.
I heard movement and I took a guess that Krystal was shifting her position to lie on her stomach "So tell me about yourself, where are you from? Most dragons here came from colonies or little villages" Krystal told me.
"Well" I paused, thinking on how I could explain something which I couldn't "Let's just say I'm from somewhere far away" I partially answered.
Krystal looked at me with confusion "Far away as in long time having to travel?" She asked.
"Yeah something like that" I replied /If only you fucking knew/
"You must miss your friends and family from back home" Krystal said with a hint of sorrow in her voice.
I put on another smile "Nah, where I'm from I only had one friend, we were close though, like brother close. As for my family well we were together but no real close bonds" I explained to her.
"My parents died when I was just a hatchling" Krystal said as she moved her gaze now towards the sky.
I looked at her with sorrow and saw regret in her eyes "It wasn't too much later after that though my uncle Cyril took me in" Krystal explained.
My eyes went wide after what she said; I never had even considered that Cyril even had a niece.
"I'm so sorry" I told Krystal not knowing of what else to say.
Krystal turned her gaze over to me "It's okay, it's not your fault, my only regret was not getting to know them" Krystal explained even more.
All of a sudden I felt uneasy; I turned over to my stomach to find Ghost and Reaper walking up to me "Haze was it?" Ghost said void of emotion "I apologize for yesterday, I had some… family issues which had caused me to lash out towards you" Ghost explained.
Krystal also now faced Ghost before looking at me, she knew he had my attention and she was correct "So why are you here?" I asked him seriously since his first impression didn't move me so well, so I really wanted to know why he singled me out.
Ghost just smiled a devious smile "Straight to the point, I like that. I'm here to offer you a proposition" Ghost said head up.
I was now skeptical and my face showed it "Really? What kind of proposition?" I asked curiously.
"I would like you to join my group. A group made of elite dragons, the most powerful in the temple. Only thing is that you would have to dump your loser friends" Ghost explained to me.
"Right, is that it then?" I asked wanting to make sure that was everything.
Krystal looked at me with a surprised look wondering if I was actually going to join "Yes that is all" Ghost answered confirming my assumption.
I sighed closing my eyes in the process then re-opened them "All right, you know what… you can take your proposition and stick it" I told Ghost flat out.
Ghost barely flinched "How dare you" Reaper said to me stepping forwards "You know how much of an honor it is to be accepted into our group?" Reaper asked me.
I looked from Ghost to Reaper "Funny" I said sarcastically and seriously "sure doesn't sound like an honor to me, besides the fact that Spyro and his friends were the only ones who have shown me any kindness ever since I got to the temple" I explained to Reaper telling him off.
Reaper was about to take another step forward only to be stopped by Ghost with his paw"Must say I'm disappointed" Ghost told me no longer smiling "You have potential which is why I gave you this proposition" Ghost said.
I looked back towards Ghost "If I have potential then I will realize it my own way" I told Ghost confirming my answer to him.
All Ghost did was close his eyes and slowly start to turn around before walking away, Reaper followed.
After a moment Ghost turned his head around to face me "Should let you know, we have sparring practice tomorrow" Ghost said grinning a bit before completely walking away with Reaper.
/Why do I have the feeling that you're implying something? / I thought to myself as Krystal walked to my side.
"Well it's getting late" Krystal said starting to walk past me only to turn her head back towards me "Are you going to be at the practice tomorrow?" Krystal asked.
"Yeah I'll be there, see you tomorrow" I answered Krystal as she then started to walk away.
After Krystal walked behind one of the buildings I looked towards the sky "I wonder if you can fight as well as you fly Ghost" I wondered now starting to get anxious about the outcome of tomorrow.
Alright guys hope you enjoyed this chapter! Now this chapter wasn't originally planned but I must say that I thank Avimus for inspiring me to have a chapter that builds on the relationships of two of the characters. Now before I go I just want to let you guys know that for most of my characters information on them will come over time, I don't reveal everything right away since to me that isn't fun.
Last few things:
1- Thanks Airchi for beta(ing)
2- PLEASE REVIEW
3- Character bios will be updated
