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For those of you who have read this chapter before I rewrote a small section so that the chapter would make more sense...I hope. Anyway that's all I have to say so, have fun
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Chapter 6
Spyro and cynder watched as the arrow flew past them and disappeared into the woods. Everyone grew quiet as they waited expecting to hear or see something, minutes passed and still nothing had happened.
A few of the archers had strung an arrow and held it close to the fire just in case, others simply waited, their hand still hovering over the quiver on their backs. Thorin drew another arrow and pulled it back slightly, he leaned forward squinting at something.
Spyro and Cynder followed his gaze and found the still lit arrow floating on the edge of the woods. As the arrow moved further away from the woods and into the moon light everyone found that the arrow had been caught by one of the creatures, who was pointing the arrow upwards.
Thorin ignited the arrow he had already strung and pulled it back, the other archers ignited their arrows as well but waited for Thorin's signal. Thorin looked around trying to see if there were any more of those creatures pointing an arrow at him but when he looked back at the one that had caught the arrow it had already pulled out a bow and had an arrow strung ready to fire.
Thorin acted quickly and aimed his bow at it , he released the arrow which collided with the creatures head causing it to give a high pitched screech before falling to the ground dead while the fire consumed him. At the sound of the high pitched scream some archers had held their ears while still holding onto the bow and arrow, but others had dropped everything including the arrows which were slowly starting a fire on the wall.
Some of the cheetahs that were behind the wall with their heated weapons saw this and one ran towards the river which went through the small town, one or two followed him while the rest stayed in case they were needed. The fire caused the archers atop the wall to lose their composure and run away from the fire.
Spyro, Cynder, and Thorin tried to keep everyone calm but they would not listen, some archers collided against each other, others fell of the wall and others jumped on purpose. The fire spread quickly and had consumed most of the northern wall, some of the archers retreated off the wall while others less fortunate had caught on fire and either died, jumped off, or ran towards the river.
Thorin had Spyro and Cynder destroy the parts where the walls met so to contain the fire from spreading further, as he walked over to try and reorganize his men he noticed them looking around and talking amongst themselves.
"What's going on?" Thorin asked walking over to his father. Thyrougn wore a leather cuirass, a rusty iron helmet, and copper bracers, while others wore either their usual clothes or simple pieces of leather or copper armor. "Three of our men left to get water from the river and haven't returned, we sent two cheetahs to go check on them but that was a while ago, maybe th…" "AHHHHHHHH!"
Everyone turned towards the direction the scream came from, "that came from the river, half of you come with me, Thorin, stay here with the rest and guard the wall." Thyrougn and half of the remaining cheetahs turned and ran towards the river, Thorin was about to run after him but was stopped by Cynder, "we'll go with him, you worry about the wall."
Thorin nodded, "everyone, with the wall burning it will provide us some time but as soon as the fire goes out the enemy will have nothing keeping it from entering the town, archers I need you to go and look for torches so we can light the arrows, soldiers half of you go to the river, the other half stay here and ready for battle." Everyone split up and left, the archers went around town looking for either torches or something to make torches out of, half the soldiers followed Spyro and Cynder towards the river and the remaining soldiers simply walked over to the wall and placed their weapons on the fire to keep them warm and ready for battle.
As Spyro and Cynder neared the river Cynder stopped when she thought of something, "Spyro, is this river inside the wall," Spyro stopped and walked over to her. "yeah, I think so otherwise how would they get to it, anyway why do you ask?"
"Spyro if there's a river, shouldn't there be an opening in the wall where the river runs through." Spyro thought about it for a second then understood what she was talking about, "you don't think the.." Spyro's sentence was cut short as a high pitched scream came from the direction the river was in.
At the sound of the scream the soldiers that had been following them charged towards the river running as fast as they could, Spyro looked over at Cynder who looked back at him with a worried look on her face, "I don't think that was from the outside," she said as they both ran in the direction the soldiers had taken off in.
Thorin had been throwing stuff onto the wall trying to keep the fire going when he heard the scream coming from where Spyro, Cynder, the soldiers, and his dad had gone. He whistled and his men all gathered infront of him.
"Take anything that can keep this wall burning and place it on the fire," the Cheetahs did as they were told and moved around taking planks, straw, rags, anything they could find and threw it on the fire. After that was done they all gathered infront of Thorin once again awaiting further orders.
"Alright now we need to..." Thorin was interrupted as the wall gates, which had been reduced to a pile of smoldering wood, were loudly collided upon causing some of the now extinguished pieces of wood to go off flying randomly, one narrowly missing Thorin which caused him to stumble back.
Everyone readied their swords and spears, while the archers ran either towards the wall or towards a nearby torch to ignite their arrows. Thorin and the others stood still waiting for what would happen, one archer shot an arrow at the gate in an attempt to re-ignite it but there was nothing flammable left.
Thorin slowly turned to his men and ushered a few soldiers to come with him as they slowly made their way towards the heap of burnt wood. When Thorin and his men were mere inches away the pile blew apart as one of the creatures ran through it. Thorin and the men that had fallowed him were hit by some of the flying pieces of wood wounding most of them.
Thorin looked up as the creature slowly turned to look at him, a sword materializing on his hand. Thorin tried to get up and run away before he used the blade but found that his leg was crushed by a wooden beam, Thorin attempted to move it but it was too heavy for him to pick up.
The creature raised its sword and was about to bring it down on the cheetah but stopped and fell to the ground as a barrage of arrows came in contact with its body killing it in mere seconds. Thorin looked back and saw the soldiers running to his side, helping him and the others up.
"What do we do now," asked an archer as he helped Thorin get back on his feet. Thorin dusted himself off and picked up his blazing sword, "the only thing we can do." the cheetahs got in position as more of those creatures came through the opening, Thorin raised his sword up ready to give the command, "at…"
"tack!" ordered Thyrougn as he and his men charged the now surrounded enemy. Everyone lashed away at the creatures with their swords or spears but only one or two went down as the rest swung their swords or smashed them against the ground killing almost one third of Thyrougn's men.
Thyrougn ran towards one of the creatures and slid as it swung his sword, he grabbed onto his skeletal hand as it went by and jumped off stabbing his sword into his back causing the creature to give a loud screech in pain.
It ran around for a while trying to shake him off but eventually reached back and grabbed Thyrougn, smashing him on the ground causing him to yell as he felt something break. The shadow turned towards him and raised his sword ready to deliver the final blow but was stopped as a fire ball sent him flying backwards onto another one of the creatures.
Thyrougn looked back and saw Spyro and Cynder running towards him along with some cheetahs who immediately rushed to aid the rest, "are you okay?" Asked Cynder helping Thyrougn up while Spyro went on to help in the fight.
"I just got smashed onto the ground," Thyrougn fell to his knees as he felt a large amount of pain surge through his body when he tried to stand up. "And I'm pretty sure I broke something." He sat down and lied against the remainder's of a wagon, "does it sound like I'm okay," he asked as he looked at Cynder with a look of pure hatred.
Cynder snarled causing Thyrougn to shift away from her and grab a nearby sword pointing it at her in an attempt to defend himself. Cynder backed away and sighed turning around and running towards where everyone was fighting the creatures, by the time Cynder arrived there were only two or three of them left what with Spyro being able to breath fire and all it didn't take long to take them down.
One of the shadow cloaked monsters pushed through the cheetahs and ran towards Spyro, he tried to breathe fire but all that came out was a puff of smoke, oh this is gonna hur, "agh."Spyro's thoughts were interrupted as he was hit by the rushing creature's sword sending him flying off to the side and crashing through a wall on the second floor of a house.
Spyro heard someone yell his name but was barely able to hear it, his vision was blurry and he could only hear the slow beating of his heart. Cynder watched as Spyro was struck by the creature's sword and was sent flying into a building, Cynder yelled out his name catching the attention of the cloaked creature that had rushed him.
It turned and ran towards her, sword held high ready to strike as soon as it got the chance. Cynder, thinking quickly like usual, ran over to Thyrougn who still pointed the sword at her and, using her scythe tail, snatched the heated sword away from him and threw it towards the rushing enemy. The creature tried to get out of the way but before it could even move the sword had pierced its skull causing it to fall on its back at the sheer force it was thrown with.
Cynder didn't even bother with making sure the creature was dead and ran towards the building that Spyro had been thrown into. Spyro hissed as he lied against a wall, though the purple dragon's scales were exceptionally tough to pierce, the creature's blade still manage to wound him, leaving the dragon with a nasty gash and losing an excessive amount of blood.
Cynder flew through the hole that Spyro had made and skidded to a stop barely inches away from him, "Spyro, ar-are you okay," she asked as she slowly extended her paw and touched Spyro's wound. Spyro snarled at the touch and Cynder quickly drew her paw away, "you're loosing to much blood."
Cynder was terrified at the sight of so much blood coming out of Spyro, she quickly took off her bandages and carefully attacked them onto his body. "Cynder, what are-wha-what are you doing," Spyro asked barely able to say a word as he struggled to stay conscious.
"Spyro you need these more than I do...That sword had some sort of poison, even a cut this deep shouldn't be bleeding this much," Cynder now had tears rolling down her cheeks, "I-I don't know how to fix it, if you keep loosing this much blood you'll...you'll," Cynder placed her face on her paws and started crying.
Spyro extended a his paw and laid it on her shoulder causing her to look up at him with teary eyes, "Cy-Cynder," his breathing was heavy, "I..I.I don't know how much longer I'll be able to...to stay awake...listen, while we were..we were working I saw, a clutch of red...crystals, next to this river...on the .. them..bring th," Spyro eyes shut and his paw slid to the floor.
Cynder almost had a heart attack fearing the worst but was relieved when Spyro's chest rose, if only slightly. Cynder immediately took off flying towards the wall where the river came through and, dodging a swing from one of the creature's making their way through the small opening, flew out towards the open field.
Cynder barely noticed the creatures swinging at her as she flew quickly towards a slight, red glow from near the forest. Cynder landed next to the crystal cluster and carefully pulled out the biggest crystal there was and held onto it with her paws as she slowly made her way back towards the wall.
Cynder stopped as she found herself surrounded by the creatures that had been trying to come through the opening in the wall. Cynder had no time to fight so instead she flew towards one of the shadows, who raised it's sword ready to strike, and sent the crystal sliding in between the two creatures infront of her.
As the creature swung its sword at Cynder she evaporated into the ground surrounding herself in a cloak of shadow as she slid from under the creature and just as quickly jumped out of the ground. As she did she released a choking cloud of shadow, witch the creature behind her breathed in causing it to fight against the other creatures next to it.
This served as a distraction as she grabbed the crystal and made her way towards a tree next to the small entrance, she laid the crystal inside the wall and flew back out. She ran over to the tree and, with a strong slash from her scythe tip, caused the tree to slowly crack as it bent slowly towards the entrance.
Cynder rapidly flew inside the small canal but yelled as she was pulled back by a skeletal hand from behind her, the creature behind her screeched but stopped as it was smashed by the tree that crashed down on it causing it to submerge.
Cynder flapped her wings but the creature pulled her under water, Cynder squirmed and flapped her wings trying to release herself from the monsters grip. She turned back at the creatures hand that held onto her and clawed at the bones trying to break them but when that didn't work she pushed the hand away as she flapped her wings trying to pry her paw free of the grasp.
Cynder gasped, releasing all the oxygen, as she looked down at the blood that floated up from where her leg was still trapped. Cynder concentrated and managed to cloak herself in shadow as she slipped away from the creatures hand and up to the surface.
Cynder coughed out and threw up all the water that had managed to get inside, she took a while to get her breathing back to normal then grabbed the red crystal and proceeded towards the house that Spyro was still lying in.
She climbed in through the hole and dropped the crystal as she ran over to his side, each step she took was met by the sound of splashing blood. Spyro's body was surrounded by a puddle of blood almost the size of the room he was in, Cynder made sure he was still breathing and proceeded to unwrapping the bandage off his bond. Breaking away a small fragment of the crystal Cynder laid it next to Spyro and allowed his body to absorb the red gems that the crystal released.
Cynder's smile faded and was replaced with a look of sheer horror and surprise as his wound didn't seal up, she proceeded to cutting up another fragment of the crystal and allowed the gems to be absorbed by his body once more.
Yet again his wound stayed the same and Cynder nearly broke down in tears but quickly thought of an idea. This is going to hurt, she thought as she closed her eyes and both her and Spyro's bodies were engulfed in blinding light.
This lasted for about a minute when finally it faded away leaving Cynder with a rather familiar slash across her body causing her to stumble to the ground out of pain. Cynder tried to ignore the pain as she broke the rest of the crystal releasing the remainder of its gems and watched as they were absorbed by both her and Spyro.
After a while Spyro groaned and opened his eyes, he rubbed his eyes and was surprised when he no longer felt the agonizing pain of the injury he had only minutes ago. He looked down and saw that the gash that was once there had disappeared, his look of happiness disappeared when his gaze fell on Cynder who was bleeding slightly less than he was mere minutes ago.
"Cynder wha..what did you do!?" asked Spyro walking over to her side and staring at the slightly smaller gash on her side. "I had no choice Spyro...ahh..the cut wouldn't heal," Cynder clenched her teeth tight as Spyro tightened the bandages around her body in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
"Then why did you do this, I'd rather have me die then you," he said a little afraid as to what would come of his companion. Cynder was a little happy at what Spyro said and turned to him trying to smile, "don't worry Spyro...I'll be fine," she slowly got up and nuzzled Spyro so that he would calm down a little, "I'm a dark dragon remember and have the element of poison remember, most poisons don't have an effect on me...hopefully this is no exception," she pulled back only to give him a small peck on the lips.
"plus," she grinned at Spyro as he somewhat dozed off, he still wasn't used to that, "you're not getting rid of me that easily, now come on, I'm sure the cheetahs still need help with the creaturesaaah!" she yelled as she stumbled to the floor.
With all the adrenaline and worry, she had forgotten all about her ripped paw, not to mention her newly added injury. "Cynder!" he looked down at her paw and looked in slight fright, "your paw...what happened, how did this happen?" he asked.
Cynder slowly rose back to her feet, lifting her injured paw so as to not touch the ground, "I had a run in with one of those creatures, nearly drowned too but...still here," she said as she limped towards the hole in the wall. Spyro walked ahead and blocked her with his paw, "oh no you don't, Cynder you are in no condition to fight..you stay here, I'll deal with them."
Cynder was about to protest but stopped as a horrific amount of pain ran across her hole body, making her lie down on her stomach and release a few tears, "okay...fine," she said as she lied her head down on her paws.
Spyro placed his paw back on the ground and looked outside, most of the creatures were now slain and only three were still standing. Spyro carefully looked down and leaped out the hole, landing softly on a pile of rags, he then made his way towards the battlefield.
Spyro knew he didn't have any breath power left so he had to do this the hard way, he looked around and took hold of any heated weapons he could find. The fact he couldn't breathe fire or fly just made fighting them harder, but not impossible.
The cheetahs had managed to back the creatures against the wall and were carefully closing in on them, Spyro took as many weapons as he could and climbed up onto the wall and waited till he had a clear shot to one of the shadows below.
Spyro took hold of a spear and pointed it downwards at one of the monsters that rose its sword ready to strike, he fixed it so that it was aiming towards its head and released it hoping that gravity would do the rest.
The creature managed a swing, taking out two of the cheetahs, before it fell to the ground with a stick poking out of its head. The other two shadows backed away and looked up just in time to dodge another spear witch shattered as it hit the ground.
They both looked up at Spyro and one of them changed its sword into a bow and released an arrow, Spyro barely had time to dodge when the other one threw its sword at him. The cheetahs closed in on the distracted enemy and attacked them, they managed to take out the archer but backed away as the other one swung its sword at them.
At the swing some of the cheetahs had stumbled onto the floor and looked on in horror as the creature swung again, cutting some of the cheetahs beside them in half. The monster barely had enough time to raise its sword as a barrage of heated weapons fell onto him killing it before it even hit the ground.
Spyro sighed in relief and ran down to help out the injured cheetahs, Thyrougn slowly made his way towards Spyro with the help of two cheetahs that held onto him so that he wouldn't fall. He stood infront of him and seemed to be hesitating, "th...thank you dragon...It pains me to say that we would've failed without your help."
Spyro smiled but it quickly faded as he saw Cynder slowly limping towards him, "though...I can't say I'm grateful for that demon being here," Thyrougn whispered and looked back at the remaining men, "alright everyone back to the main wall!"
Spyro looked at Cynder's paw and saw how badly hurt it was, there's no way she can walk on that... after a while of thinking he slid under her, making her release a startled yelp as his body ran under her stomach. Spyro looked back at Cynder's surprised face as he lifted her up, "comfy?" he asked with a playful smile.
"warn me next time you do that...and yes, I'm very comfy," she said trying to ignore the frills under her. Spyro smiled and looked back ahead as he walked towards the wall, the trip there was quiet as most of the cheetahs were too exhausted to even utter a single word.
Cynder was struggling to stay awake as the grip of sleep tightened, Spyro noticed and looked back at her, "hey Cynder, why don't you turn so you can rest you head in between my horns, might be a little more comfortable to fall asleep that way."
Cynder snorted and shook her head, she lazily looked at Spyro, "fall asleep? I'm noaaaaaahm, hmm...not even tired," she said as she tried to keep her head from falling. Spyro shook his head and lowered himself so that she would move into a more comfortable position, it took a little convincing but eventually she turned and lied back down on his back.
A shiver ran up her body as one of Spyro's frills ran through a certain spot on the lower section of her body, Spyro looked back at her with a look of concern on his face, "you okay Cynder, cold or something?" Cynder could feel herself blushing again and quickly shook her head, "uhm, no I'm..I'm fine," she said with an awkward smile on her face.
Spyro tilted his head in confusion but simply shrugged it off and kept on walking, Cynder quietly let out a sigh of relief and laid down her head on his. As the group arrived at the wall they were surprised to find a giant hole on the wall where the gate once stood and a massacre of cheetahs and skeletons alike all over the ground.
Spyro was about to ask Cynder what she thought had happened but stopped as he felt her breath run down his face in a relaxed way, not tired huh? I guess its better that she doesn't see this...who knows what this would do to her.
Spyro and the others backed away as they saw three of those shadows walk in through the now open gate and readied themselves for another fight. The creatures rose their swords and charged towards them, making their way through the dead.
Everyone was about to run at them but stopped when they saw all the cheetahs that had been on the floor supposedly dead, rise back up and charge the creatures. While the enemy was confused the cheetahs all attacked at the same time and did short work of them, eliminating them all without a problem.
"Dad!" everyone turned to Thorin who was wearing a white cloth drenched in red, "good to see you're still alive though, I must admit I didn't expect you to come with broken bones...how bad is it," Thorin asked in a serious tone.
Thyrougn looked down at his feet then back at his son, "I'll live...good to see that brain of yours kept you alive, I must say I'm impressed," Thyrougn smiled slightly but quickly turned back to his usual serious look, "how many men did we lose?"
Thorin looked down, "uhh...nine...you?" Thyrougn looked down and back up a look of fear on his face, "...fourteen," he said as he sat down on a nearby pile of rags, "anyway...did that little plan of yours work?"
Thorin was a little confused by what he meant and then remembered his little trap he had the town set up, "oh no, I completely forgot about that...well on the bright side, we still have our stuff...though some of it is without owner now."
A loud screech came from the entrance and everyone saw a single shadow standing there, he was different however. Unlike all the rest he had no weapons drawn and overall looked weak, this however changed as he held out his skeletal hands, the ring started to glow and he breathed deeply.
Everyone was confused as to what it was doing, but soon the question was answered as the darkness surrounding his fallen allies was slowly pulled towards him. As the shadow absorbed the darkness he began to grow and change form, some cheetahs attempted to kill it before it was too late but fell to the ground as they breathed in the poisonous shadow that surrounded it.
Some fired the last arrows they had left but they were extinguished before they even reached it and ran right through him without harm. As the creature breathed in the last of the darkness it started twitching, it fell to its hands and his head turned in every direction as his skull started to poke out of its cloak and extended outwards nearly two yards before it stopped.
Something started to come out of its back and as the creature arched his back, wings with nothing but bone burst out causing some of the cheetahs to stumble back. The horrifying creature looked up and released a roar that caused the ground to shake and for some cheetahs to run away.
Cynder woke up with a start and fell off Spyro's back, landing with a loud thump as she hit the ground, "oww, what was that." Spyro looked over at Thorin who had drawn his sword and was preparing his men to fight.
"Thorin, I need you to stay and make sure that Cynder stays here, don't let her get near that thing." Cynder's head rose as she heard him and turned to see Spyro running towards the demonic creature that was currently crawling closer to a group of cheetahs.
"Spyro!" she started to run towards him but was stopped as Thorin grabbed onto her tail and pulled her back. "Cynder don't..you can't fight like this," Thorin was slowly being pulled by Cynder, leaving tracks on the ground as he slowly slid forward.
"Cynder! he told you to stand still," Thorin turned around and laid her tail over his shoulder and pulled, "Cynder...stooooop!" Thorin yelled as he slowly slid to the point where he was now lying on his face on the ground.
The cheetahs trembled as the horrific being came closer and closer towards them, the five cheetahs all ran in different directions as the monster lunged at them. The creature closed its mouth on the top half of an unfortunate cheetah that didn't have enough time to run away and shook him violently throwing him in the air before it caught him with its mouth and sliced him in half causing blood explode all around the creature.
The monster turned towards two cheetahs that were running away and ran after them, one of the cheetahs yelled in surprise as the creature tripped him backwards with a swipe of its hand. The cheetah that had been following him skidded to a stop and started to run back before the creature turned around and landed on top of him, crushing the cheetah to death.
The cheetah that had fallen slowly got back up and limped as quickly as he could to get away from the creature, the cheetah reached out towards the door of a hut before his head was suddenly cut off and thrown in the air.
The body limply fell to the ground as a bloody tail ran by it, the creature's tail retracted towards the shadows that still surrounded the demon. Spyro sneaked towards the monster while it was distracted and, grabbing a nearby spear, slowly walked toward his side.
By the time the creature realized Spyro was next to him he had plunged the spear at his side causing the monster to give a bloodcurdling scream as it turned around and swiped at Spyro. Spyro barely had enough to time to dodge as the demon swiped at him from all directions, as the monster smashed both its hand to the ground Spyro took the chance and jumped at its skull, he then breathed fire into the back of its head using the last of his breath power he had left.
Spyro back flipped as the creature stood on its legs and screamed in pain as the fire that spyro had started slowly spread, Spyro noticed too late as the monster hit him with the blunt of its tail and sent him rolling away crashing into the wall, splintering the thick wood as he collided with it.
"Spyro!" Cynder kicked Thorin onto his back but he still held onto her tail, "let me go!" she yelled looking back at Thorin with rage filled eyes. Thorin hesitated but held firmly onto her tail, "I-I can't, e-even if I did what could you possibly do, that thing will tare you apart." "and if I don't do anything it'll do the same to Spyro!"
Thorin though for a moment of something to do, "okay...ahh.." Thorin let go of her tail and rose to his feet, "...I got it, Cynder I'm gonna need you to lure him outside, you think you can do that?" Cynder spread her wings and rose to sky, "I think I'll manage." "here! You'll need this to start the fire!" Thorin yelled as he threw a torch at Cynder, she caught it in her mouth a little confused but after a while she understood what Thorin was planning.
The demon fell back on its hands still shaking its head violently trying to put out the flames, when that didn't work he roared in rage and charged at the unconscious dragon, as he neared Spyro it was suddenly struck by a barrage of swords. The creature looked up and saw Cynder flying in place with a torch in her mouth.
The demon growled and jumped up, narrowly missing Cynder as she flew away. The monster followed her out of town and into the open fields that surrounded it, come on, just a little further, Cynder thought to herself as she flew towards the circle of flammable items that surrounded the walls.
The monster tripped and fell as it stepped on a net, as it struggled in an attempt to free itself he managed only in tangling itself further. Cynder swooped down towards the creature and dropped the torch allowing it to ignite the rope and the rest of the items around it, over in the entrance of the wall Thorin sighed in relief glad that his plan had worked.
Cynder landed next to the entrance and watched as the monster screeched and thrashed around as the flames engulfed its body, finally snapping the burnt ropes, it jumped out of the fire. The demon was completely engulfed in fire and its bones were burnt, "how are you still alive!" yelled Cynder as she turned and ran.
Cynder fell to the ground as her injured paw touched the floor, "dammit," she hissed. She looked up in horror as the creature stood on its feet and raised its hands ready to slam them down on her, Cynder stared at the creature but was surprised when it was tackled to the ground by Spyro. Spyro limply rolled away having used the little energy he had left, the creature lied still on the ground a couple feet away from Spyro seemingly unconscious.
"this isn't good, what do I do what do I do, think...ooooo," Thorin took off towards a tower that stood next to the burnt wall, "good thing they destroyed the places where the walls came together," he said as he climbed a ladder on the side of the tower.
Cynder tried to stand up and help Spyro but she didn't have any energy left, The creature groaned and slowly stumbled onto its feet, "oh no you don't," she said as she sent a small twister towards the creature, since the monster was still weak from the fire the twister was enough to make it fall back down.
As Thorin reached the top of the tower he rolled onto the floor exhausted by how many steps that ladder had, "why did this tower have to be so tall?" he groan and slowly stood up and walked over to the ballista. "okay so...how does this thing work..ahh."
He circled the machine a couple times before he slowly sat down on a platform, "okay, so I move with this," he said as he turned a crank next to him which moved the machine left and right, "alright and ahh...I shoot with this?" he said as he grabbed onto a lever that was next to his seat.
The demon slowly stood back up and looked over at Cynder who was slowly crawling away, the creature roared as his side was impaled once more by a spear and turned around to look at Spyro. The monster growled and ran towards Spyro, as he lunged at him it was struck by a giant, blazing red metal rod and sent it back into the fire. Spyro looked up at the wall and saw Thorin sitting atop a bow-like machine.
Spyro didn't waste time to wonder what the contraption was and limped towards Cynder, "I thought," Spyro flopped to the ground, too exhausted to stand any longer, "I told you...to stay away from that thing." Cynder looked at Spyro in confusion but he simply smiled at her.
Spyro raised a paw to the back of her neck and pulled her into a quick kiss, "thanks for not listening," he said as he lied back on the ground. Cynder smiled at him and rested against the burnt remains of the wall, "well I couldn't just stand by and watch you have all the fun," they both laughed slightly before they groaned, finally feeling their injuries.
Thorin climbed down the ladder and walked over towards the entrance of the wall, "that thing was freaky," he said as he passed some of the injured cheetahs. The healer had retrieved his healing equipment and scattered it around while he helped the soldiers, "don't think he'll mind if I just, borrow this," he said as he grabbed something and quickly walked away.
"Well, that was something wasn't it," Thorin walked over to Cynder and handed her a new, clean bandage, which she gladly excepted. Thyrougn walked over to them with a large, sturdy staff he was now using for support, "is everyone okay?"
Everyone nodded and Thyrougn took a deep breath, "good...then get out!" he said causing all three of them and the cheetahs around them to look at him in confusion. "you can't just leave them out here alone, they won't last the night in the state they're in!" argued Thorin in an attempt to defend his friends.
"who said they would be alone?" he asked as he threw Thorin's bag and bow towards him. Thorin looked down at his things in surprise and then back at his dad, "yo...you're kicking me out too?" he asked, hurt by what his own father was doing.
"Don't tell me you're surprised, it was you after all the one that brought them and these things here. That little mistake of yours cost us nearly half our tribe." Thorin looked down at the thought of so many dying.
"fine," he said quietly as he took hold of his bag and hung it by his shoulder, "come on Spyro, Cynder?" she looked up at him, "can you walk." She tried to stand up but fell back to her haunches and shook her head, Thorin was about to ask if she wanted him to get a cart or something but stopped when Spyro stood next to her and lowered himself to the ground so that she could get on.
"you sure you can carry me, you're pretty injured too," Spyro gave her a confident nod and she slowly climbed on top of him and lowered herself, resting her head in between his horns once again as he slowly and painfully stood back up.
Thorin had his doubts but took hold of his bow and quietly led Spyro and Cynder through the dying fire and after a while disappeared through the thick line of trees.
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Hey guys...sorry for taking nearly two months to submit this chapter but, well I just got new video games and, well kinda lost track of time. Also what with school frying my brain I couldn't really think of what to write, and when I did write after school I ended up running into concrete walls, which caused me to go back and re-write large parts of the story.
But, like I said I'm still submitting and I'll keep submitting chapters until this story is over...so you know, you have no reason to worry about me suddenly stopping and never finishing the story. Anyways, I always had problems with fighting and well if you have any complaints and or hints about those parts then feel free to tell me, be it in a private message or in the reviews.
Also are those things on Spyro's back called frills...I tried looking it up in the internet but couldn't find anything...if you know what they're called then tell me and if I got it right then...good for me.
Well I'll try to submit the next chapter a little sooner but...can't promise anything...sorry. Anyway ahh, yeah – peace.