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"Well if it isn't the great and powerful purple dragon, It's an honor to see you again," said the dragoness cloaked in light. Spyro was once again in pitch blackness with the bright light which was used to hide the identity of the dragoness. "likewise," said Spyro with a smile upon his face. "if I didn't know any better I would've thought that you wouldn't show up not wanting to put in the work," said the dragoness walking by spyro.
"Tell me Spyro why have you come here?" asked the dragoness. Spyro turned around to see that she was walking away from him and slowly started to walk along side her, "well you spoke of skills and knowledge that you could teach me, so, here I am," said Spyro sitting down. The dragoness stopped briefly and side glanced at him, "indeed you are...come with me," said the dragoness walking away once more. Spyro looked at her and started to follow her into what seemed like a library full with books and scrolls.
The dragoness walked towards a giant bookshelf in the far end of the room which held old looking scrolls and tablets, most of which were covered in cob webs. While the dragoness rummaged through the many papers and hieroglyphs in the shelf Spyro moved about freely looking around the rather messy library finding it hard to walk seeing as how the whole floor was littered with opened books and scrolls, "Spyro come here please," said the dragoness. Spyro walked over to the dragoness who had now sat down next to a table with a pile of tablets and scrolls.
"Tell me Spyro what do you know about wind breath?" asked the dragoness. Spyro looked down to the floor and thought about the question, "I've seen Cynder use it to throw enemies into the air or to wrap herself in a tornado but other than that," Spyro shrugged signalling that he didn't know any more than that. The dragoness moved behind the table and picked up a scroll, after checking to see if it was the one she wanted, she spread it out on the table infront of Spyro who looked down at it.
The scroll contained pictures of a dragon blowing out wind which then turned into a whirlwind, another showed a dragon encased inside of a tornado. Spyro studied the scroll and the words that described how to achieve each move, "you want me to learn how to do that?" asked Spyro. The dragoness chuckled and sat down across from Spyro, "oh I don't want you to learn anything Spyro, tis your choice to learn or not I merely guide you," said the dragoness. Spyro looked over at her then back down at the scroll.
Spyro opened his mouth and blew as hard he could but barely managed to move the scroll, "you didn't think it was that easy did you!?" asked the dragoness surprised at Spyro, "no my friend in order to wield this ability you will have to come with me so that I may show you how it is done," said the dragoness standing back up and walking away towards the corridor from which they came, "...unless you don't want to learn it," said the dragoness stopping briefly seeing if Spyro would join her. Spyro looked down at the scroll for a while but finally stood up and started to walk over to the dragoness, who had continued walking as soon as she saw that Spyro was coming.
After a few minutes they reached a great, big door adorned with two dragons who seemed to be fighting. The dragoness pushed the doors open and revealed an arena of sorts, it had a roof painted as if it were the sky and walls made of metal, "what is this place?" asked spyro looking around the wide area. "This," started the dragoness walking towards the middle of the field, "is where you will be learning new skills," said the dragoness sitting down and looking at him from the center of the arena.
"Okay then, now before you even attempt it you must first understand how it works," said the dragoness walking towards Spyro. She stood infront of him and grabbed his paw placing it on his chest, "what are you doing?" asked Spyro a little confused. The dragoness drew her paw away and looked at him, "what do you feel when you breath?" asked the dragoness. Spyro looked at her, "what I always feel," said Spyro wondering what she meant. She took a deep breath and looked down at Spyro, "do you not feel the air go into your lungs? do you not feel the wind as it leaves you?" asked the dragoness walking behind him.
Spyro turned around and looked at her, "yeah, what's your point?" asked spyro tilting his head to the side wondering why she had asked that. The dragoness sat down infront of him, "Spyro in order to use the element of wind you must feel and understand it, you must see how it works within you and understand its power," explained the dragoness. Spyro stared at her blankly, "what do you mean?" asked Spyro making the dragoness sigh in frustration. Spyro looked down and thought about what she said, he closed his eyes breathed deeply and exhaled slowly feeling the air leave through his nostrils, he looked at the dragoness infront of him and took in a deep breath filling his lungs with pure air and released it hard as he could.
The dragoness looked at Spyro and felt a slight breeze as he opened his mouth, "Spyro I'm beginning to feel that wind might not be your kind of element," said the dragoness walking back towards the big doors. Spyro looked back at her and breathed in as much air as he could and blew the air out causing a whirlwind, about half his size, to go spinning right towards the dragoness but before it even reached her she destroyed the small whirlwind with a mere flick of her tail, "not bad but if you hope to get better then you better train or at the very least read some scrolls over at the library," said the dragoness resuming to walk towards the big doors.
Spyro looked at her and walked towards her passing once again through the big iron door and walked back to the room where he had entered, "well I wish it were possible but unless you wish to oversleep it is time for us to part," said the dragoness standing infront of the shining circle. Spyro looked down at the circle and then up at the dragoness, "I've only been here for about an hour why would I be oversleeping?" asked Spyro confused at why she would say that he would oversleep. She began to walk away and disappear, "time flies when you are asleep Spyro," said the dragoness finally disappearing into the darkness.
Cynder shifted in her sleep and awoke with a start having dreamt about what she had seen yesterday, "what was that thing?" Cynder wondered as she lied back down on the makeshift bed. Cynder got up and looked around the somewhat small cave and saw Spyro lying on the floor, Cynder wondered why he hadn't slept on the bed he had made.
Cynder looked outside only to see that the sun hadn't even risen yet and, trying not to loosen any of the bindings, slowly got down from the bed and walked over to Spyro. Cynder gently tapped his shoulder trying to awaken him, he moved his head and brought it up to cynder nearly touching noses, "hmmm...what is it Cynder?" asked Spyro trying his best to stay awake. "Why didn't you sleep on the bed?" asked Cynder. Spyro laid his head back down on the hard floor trying to fall back asleep, "because you were sleeping there and I didn't want to invade you private space," said Spyro starting to drift back to sleep. Cynder rolled her eyes at Spyro's excuse and grabbed him under his shoulders, "sure you didn't," said Cynder not believing him.
Cynder dragged Spyro over to the bed and laid him down on the end that touched the wall with her on the other end, their bodies touched due to the beds size but this didn't really bother Cynder or Spyro seeing as how he was too sleepy to care. Cynder looked over at Spyro and wondered if he had fallen asleep already, "Spyro you awake?" asked cynder, whispering in case he was asleep. Cynder waited a few minutes and when Spyro gave no answer she slowly moved closer to Spyro and laid her head on Spyro's chest feeling more comfortable and fell asleep herself.
Spyro yawned and rubbed his eyes, the sun was now starting to rise and light was creeping into the cave, he stretched and tried to get up when he felt something on his chest. Spyro stared in amazement when he saw Cynder lying asleep on his chest, he raised his paw and placed it on her back and was about to wake her up but the look of peace and beauty stopped him, he had never seen Cynder so calm. Spyro rubbed Cynder's back feeling her smooth scales and, being careful not to loosen any of the bindings, moved his paw down to her waist caressing each scale along the way.
He couldn't deny that he indeed loved her but was afraid that she didn't feel the same way so he never said anything, he simply kept to himself but whenever he had the chance he would just look at her and take in all her beauty and wondered if she felt the same way. Spyro leaned his head down and kissed the top of her head and looked at her face, "oh Cynder if only you felt the same way," said Spyro running a paw from her face all the way down to her waist, Spyro sighed and continued to caress her.
Cynder moaned at Spyro's touch and slowly started to wake up, Spyro quickly drew his hand away before she noticed and looked down at her, she raised her head and looked at Spyro, " morning Spyro," said Cynder. Cynder got off the bed and stretched, Spyro watching her body noticing every detail and how the sunlight made her scales shine, Cynder looked over at Spyro who seemed to be hypnotized and walked over to him, "hey Spyro you okay?" asked Cynder. Spyro shook his head snapping himself out of his trance, "yeah I'm fine," said spyro getting out of bed and stretching.
Cynder got closer to him and looked him in the eye, "oh and Spyro next time you touch me like that," Cynder started lifting her scythe tail up to his neck, "I'll cut your throat...got it?" asked Cynder pressing her scythe lightly against Spyro's neck, Spyro gulped and looked down at her tail. Cynder smiled and drew her tail away giving him a kiss on the cheek instead, "I'm just kidding Spyro," said Cynder giggling at how much she had scared him, "but seriously go any further then that and I will off your paw," said cynder walking out of the cave leaving Spyro standing in the middle of the cave.
The day was bright with only a slight breeze, the sky had a few clouds floating around here and there but nothing to worry about, and the animals like deer and rabbits were already running and eating the tall grass in the field. Cynder's stomach growled, the lunch she had last night wasn't exactly satisfying and now she was starving, Cynder was about to go get a deer but saw that Spyro was already creeping up to one of them and instead walked over to the pond to get a drink of water to clench her thirst.
Once spyro had taken down two deer he walked over to Cynder with them on his back, "hey Cynder would you like yours roasted or raw?" asked Spyro getting Cynder's attention. She walked up to him and grabbed one of the deer eating it on the spot, Spyro shrugged and started eating the last one feeling a little bit better and with more energy, "ahh that was nice," said cynder finishing the last bit of the deer. Once they were both done they took a quick drink of water and started to make their way back to Warfang.
They both traveled blindly through the thick forest trying to find some kind of path or sign, sometimes trying to fly or even trying to climb a tree falling most of the time due to their size and loss of strength. By the time the sun was halfway across the sky both dragons were completely clueless about where they were and tried to remember their way back only to end up going even further into the thick forest, "so mister hero any idea where we are?" asked Cynder taunting spyro. Spyro looked around trying to find something familiar but with no luck, "Of course I know we are...it's that...we should..."Spyro looked for some sort of excuse to not look clueless about where he was but couldn't come up with anything.
Cynder sighed and looked up at the sky, or at least she would but they were so deep in the forest they couldn't even see the rays of the sun anymore. As Spyro and Cynder walked aimlessly through the forest the sun began to set making it hard to see and to make things even worse the temperature began to drop, "Spyro we b-better look for sh-shelter soon or I swear I'm going to f-freeze out here," said Cynder starting to shutter. Spyro too felt the air growing colder but didn't show it and walked around as if it didn't effect him.
The sun finally set behind the horizon making it nearly impossible to walk tripping on branches and rocks most of the time the further they walked, as they walked they began to hear steps around them as well as whispering voices making the place feel even more ominous. Cynder got closer to Spyro walking as close to him as possible, Spyro noticed Cynder looking around the forest at the slightest sound with a look of fear upon her face, "you're not scared are you Cynder," teased Spyro knowing the answer.
Cynder was about to say something but was interrupted by a soul-piercing screech that of which they had never heard, Cynder too afraid to think clearly began to run quickly in no specific direction wanting to get away from whatever had made that noise. As Cynder ran she heard something running after her and foolishly looked behind her tripping on a root and rolling off a cliff landing hard on the ground causing some of her wounds to open and her bindings to loosen, she slowly rose back up from the ground and started running only to fall back down on her side.
Cynder looked down and saw that a rock had dug its way into one of her open wounds opening it even further causing Cynder immense pain and to make matters worse the screeching and whispering was getting closer. As the noises came closer Cynder quickly rose back up and limped away as fast she could manage to trying to get as far away from whatever it was that was making those horrible sounds as she could, but as she got to the edge of the forest the sounds stopped completely which made cynder stop and look back at the forest, had she outrun them? could the creatures not leave the forest? did she imagine the whole thing? Cynder thought about it for a few minutes but decided to not think about it and simply sighed in relief glad that the noises had stopped.
Cynder looked ahead only to see a middle aged female cheetah wearing an apron and reading glasses. Cynder wondered where she had come from and asked her if she was lost but she gave no answer and so she tried to ask again but was interrupted by the cheetah, "Cyyynndderrrrrrrr," whispered the cheetah in a ghostly voice causing a shiver to run down Cynder's spine. In a blink of an eye the cheetah turned into some sort of devilish form, one of her eyes was missing, her right hand was a blood covered bone and her left hand was missing completely, her dress was torn and burnt in most areas, her legs were skinless leaving only bloody muscle to be seen, she twitched and sounded as if she was choking with blood squirting out of her mouth.
Cynder froze in fear at what lay before her, she wanted to scream as loud as she could but couldn't even breath due to the amount of horror she was in. The cheetah rose her hand and pointed a bloody finger at Cynder and screamed a head-piercing cry, "you did this to me Cynderrrr, youuuu killedd meeee, youuuu killed all of usssssss," screamed the creature in a horrifying voice that inflicted fear into Cynder's very soul. Cynder was quickly surrounded by other cheetahs, males, females, and even children none of them in any better condition than that of the female infront of her.
Cynder sunk starting to cry from the fear and sorrow she felt, mostly fear. All of the villagers were looking at her their gaze piercing her heart like the sharpest sword in the land, "you killed us Cynder," the cheetahs began to get closer to cynder, "murderer, murderer, murderer," they all repeated in unison causing Cynder to break down crying and covering her ears yelling trying to block out their whispering voices, which only made the whispering grow even louder causing her to cry even more.
As Spyro ran towards the edge of the forest he found Cynder yelling like crazy and crying, she was surrounded by ten creatures concealed in shadows except for their hands which were white bone with a ring on one finger. Spyro ran towards them and spit a fire ball which all of the creatures dodged except for the one that was infront of Cynder which was hit straight in the face instantly starting it on fire, the creature ran around screeching frantically trying to put the fire out with all of the others backing away
Spyro took this chance and ran over to Cynder who tried biting his neck as soon as he touched her, "whoah Cynder its me okay its me see...come on we gotta get out of her," said Spyro getting Cynder on his back and looking around for a place to hide and noticed that there was a cave next to pond. Spyro's mouth dropped open, they had gone in a circle and were back to the same clearing they were in when they first started, he shook his head and looked back at the creatures who were rushing at him now that the one that had caught on fire lay on the ground completely covered in flames.
Spyro ran towards the cave as fast as he could trying to keep Cynder on his back and the creatures off it. As Spyro entered the cave he quickly breathed fire blocking the entrance with a wall of flame which kept the creatures out, Spyro panted from all the running and got Cynder off his back looking her over and tightening her bindings so that the bleeding would stop, "okay Cynder this might hurt a bit," said Spyro pulling the small pebble lodged inside Cynder's paw out as quickly and painlessly as he could.
Cynder was too paralysed in horror to notice when he pulled the pebble off and just stared blankly at the wall, Spyro pulled her into a hug and rocked her back and forward rubbing her back , "shhhhhhhh, it's over now Cynder it's over," whispered Spyro trying to get Cynder to calm down. Cynder slowly wrapped her paws around his neck and dug her head underneath his starting to cry, "I-I-I k-killed th-them Spyrooo, I-I'm a murder-er...I'm a monster-r-r-r," Cynder stuttered crying more then she had ever done before.
Spyro kissed the top of Cynder's head, "no you're not Cynder," whispered Spyro soothingly at Cynder who just kept crying more and more. Spyro slowly wrapped his broken wings around Cynder trying to make her feel a little bit safer, this seemed to work as her crying slowed and turned into just sobbing, "just calm down Cynder...just calm down," said Spyro rubbing Cynder's back a little slower. Cynder went quiet a few minutes later keeping her head under his, "Cynder...Cynder?" Spyro looked down only to find that Cynder had fallen asleep.
Spyro smiled at cynder and sighed, she looked so peaceful when she slept. Spyro shook his head and started to carry Cynder to the leafy bed trying his best not to wake her and laid her down on the bed with him next to her, he wrapped an arm around her and slowly extended a wing over her to keep her warm. Cynder shook and turned around to face Spyro snuggling even closer to him digging her head on his chest, "Spy-ro," Cynder whispered as she fell into a deep sleep, Spyro smiled and kissed her on her head, "good night Cynder," said Spyro laying his head down next to her and falling asleep.
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Alright, this took me a while but here it be in all its glory. Many errors no doubt but if anyone reads this at the very least leave a review or something so that I at least know that someone is reading this...please.
Till next time, Peace.