Chapter 13: A more typical day

The days that followed Malefor's attempt to capture Spyro and Cynder were much less intense and more streamlined, the Purple Dragon was lounging with his lover in the fields within the temple.

"Spyro, can I be completely honest?" Cynder asked as Spyro glanced over at her.

"Yeah, What is it?" He replied.

"I'm bored today...there's nothing to do, we've beaten Malefor, we already trained today, and as surprising as it is, the Temple doesn't exactly have a store to shop at" she explained as Spyro smirked.

"No kidding, there really isn't anything to do..." he replied as they stayed there for a few moments, until Cynder had finally just decided that enough was enough and stood up, stretching, with Spyro doing the same.

"We should go and find Shard and the others" Spyro suggested as Cynder agreed.

"Well, let's go then..." she kissed his cheek and coiled her tail around his, and they both walked off to find their friends, as they walked further into the Temple, Spyro caught sight of Shard, he seemed to be wallowing...again.

"Hey there, Shard" Spyro greeted him as he glanced.

"Hey Spyro, Cynder..." Shard replied as he stood up.

"What are we gonna do today? Cynder's bored beyond belief, and when she's bored, it's not really that great to be around..." Spyro's witty explaination earned him a playful glare from Cynder.

"Oh really?" She replied wittingly as Spyro smirked.

"Well, what do you want to do? My schedule is open for anything" Shard said, it was then that he had an idea.

"How about a game? Like...Hide and Seek, or something?" He suggested as Cynder shrugged.

"Sure" she said as Spyro felt relieved that he didn't have to come up with anything, he was terrible at coming up with ideas, it was universally agreed upon amongst all of their friends, himself included, however, Cynder didn't know this, so naturally she'd expect him to do something.

"Alright then, if we're playing this game, whose it?" Spyro asked as Cynder grinned playfully.

"Well, I'll be it...considering how "not great" I am to be around, I'll just have to hunt you down, Spyro, and make you apologize" she said with a cheeky tone as Spyro grew slightly nervous.

"Well...count to 30, and we'll go hide" Shard told Cynder as they all scattered, leaving the Dragoness to count, Spyro immediately ran for the one place that no one would think to look in for him, as he settled into his hiding spot (it's not meant to be described that heavily), he was just hoping that Cynder wouldn't find him, however, it seemed as though luck didn't favor him as he saw Cynder's paws inching towards his location, his fears were confirmed as Cynder poked her head into his hiding spot, and grinned.

"Found you!" She said smugly as Spyro chuckled.

"I yield" he replied as she smiled seductively.

"Not so fast, I want a reward..." she pulled Spyro out of his hiding spot, and pounded on top of him, pulling him into a passionate kiss, catching Spyro by surprise, although he quickly melted into it as they lay there in the fields, their tongues wrestling for dominance, as they pulled back, it was clear that Cynder wanted more, but Spyro had an idea in mind.

"Cyn, I think you should go find the others, and then we can go back to my room later tonight..." he suggested as Cynder considered it and lifted herself off of him.

"Why not? But be warned Purple Boy, I'm coming for you when this is over" she replied as she raced off, allowing Spyro to catch his breath in a manner, he figured he'd wait for Cynder to return with Shard. Speaking of Shard, he was grateful that he managed to play this game without feeling depressed, Rose had been on his mind for some time now, fortunately, he didn't have to wait for long as he caught sight of the Shadow Dragoness returning with the ice dragon.

"She's really good at this game" Shard pointed out as Cynder walked over to Spyro, her tail blade sliding under his chin in a seductive manner, causing Spyro to quiver slightly, fortunately, this wasn't taken into consideration by Shard.

"Well, have you been satisfied, Cynder?" Shard asked as she seemed like she yearned for more.

"Well, I have an activity in mind, but it's more for me and Spyro...alone" as she said this, she started dragging Spyro back to his room, and he gave an apologetic look to Shard.

"My lord, what exactly are we doing?" Rose asked as Malefor paced in his incantation chambers.

"We may have managed to raise our new Dragon back from the dead, but they require instructions, their free will remains intact, but they also need to be controlled, however, I require a set of ingredients, however...those ingredients can only be found within the walls of the Dragon Temple..." Malefor explained as Rose didn't seem to be that fazed.

"So, what's stopping you?" She asked as Malefor turned to her.

"The problem is that I can return, or they may kill me, and it's too soon to launch another attack just days after the last one, especially with the plan I have in place, I need you to return there, but undercover, here" Malefor casted a special and blasted it onto Rose, as she looked, she could still see her arms, but Malefor explained what happened.

"I've granted you with the ability to become invisible, it will only last as long as you need it to, this is the list for the ingredients I need to perform the spell, now go" he sent her away, and glanced back at the Orb in the center of the room, the image inside was focused on the Dragon he had raised, and was restrained. Malefor glanced back to make sure that Rose had left, then back to the Dragon.

"All is going according to plan"

he grinned evilly.

"Ow, Cynder, your pulling too hard" Spyro snapped his lover back to reality as she stopped moving.

"Oh, I kinda got lost in the moment..." Cynder apologized as Spyro regained a proper foothold on the ground.

"It's fine, but your desire seems to be really strong" Spyro replied as Cynder seemed to bear an embarrassed look on her face, looking away.

"I...we're together now, right? Like it always should've been for us, I just can't help but want our relationship to be taken to the next step, I want to truly commit" she explained as Spyro bore a sympathetic look.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, Cynder, our relationship in my eyes, is very uncommon, I think that as time goes on, and probably very soon, we'll take that next step, now we should probably go back to Shard and explain all this" Spyro suggested as Cynder seemed unsure.

"Do we really want to tell Shard? It'll just make him more depressed than before, We shouldn't tell him anything, just go back and try to lift his spirits" She replied, and they decided to go back, however, they didn't notice a dragoness moving through the halls, Rose maneuvered over to the storage of supplies that the Guardians had kept, Rose immediately pulled out the list that Malefor had given her, grabbing the various ingredients. However, one slipped from her hand, and fell onto the ground, causing one of the guards she moved past to look inside in the supply room. Rose immediately picked up the ingredient and placed it in her cloaked bag, and turned visible, blasting the guard with fear, when the other guard came in to see what was happening, he too was blasted with fear, and they were left there, helplessly crying in terror as Rose became invisible again, and left the supply room, moving out to the fields and into the forest, her mission was complete...

Spyro and Cynder were heading back to Shard when they were intercepted by Ignitus.

"Young Dragons, I need your assistance immediately, someone has broken into the Temple" he explained as they saw Shard moving towards them.

"Hey Spyro, what's going on?" Shard asked as Ignitus turned to them.

"Someone has broken into the Temple, but what intrigues me is where they decided to go, come along" the Fire Guardian led them in the direction of the supply room, as they arrived, the two Dragons who were guarding the room were laying against the wall, being comforted by Glacia and Voltea.

"I don't know what happened, but these guards were fairly traumatized by something, we figured Dragonesses would be better equipped to help calm them down so they could explain what happened" Ignitus told them as Cynder walked up to the guards, and felt their foreheads, extremely hot, as she backed away, she came to the most suitable conclusion.

"These guards were blasted by fear, someone must've given them a very traumatic vision" Cynder told them of her hypothesis.

"Wait? Can you sense fear?" Spyro asked as Cynder nodded.

"Wow...okay" Shard trailed off as Ignitus walked towards Cynder.

"Is there any chance you could remove the fear? I'm certain the toxin still remains inside of them" Ignitus suggested as Cynder walked towards the guards, with Spyro behind her, and she drew out the fear from both of them, leaving her exhausted as she fell back into Spyro's arms, as the guards shook their heads and they regained their vision, Glacia and Voltea stepped back beside Ignitus, eventually Cynder managed to stand up at the same time as the guards, conveniently. It was then that Spyro let go of her and walk toward the guards.

"Do you know who did this to you?" Spyro asked as one of them looked in his direction, and started to speak.

"My lord, I have returned!" Rose rushed into Malefor's Incantation chambers, with the massive Purple Dragon standing in a rather intimidating manner, he turned to face Rose, who handed him the bag.

"Excellent work, you've proved your resourcefulness yet again, and now..." Malefor took out the ingredients from the bag and dropped them into a nearby bowl, and merged them, crafting it into a liquid that Malefor merged with his dark magic, he then glanced at the restrained dragon in the orb, and blasted it through hitting the dragon, and causing them to absorb the magic as their eyes turned a bright purple, and then to their normal color, he released the dragon from their bonds as they looked around in fear, and ran off, in the direction of the Dragon Temple.

"Now we wait..." Malefor grinned with a look of absolute certainty, as they waited for the dominoes to fall.

(Hello there, apologies for the long wait on a surprisingly short chapter, but I wanted to get this out now rather than later, so here it is, next on the list will either be Chapter 14, or Chapter 3 of Worlds of the past, so until then, peace!)