Well here I am back again, and I am glad that people are enjoying this fanfic, and yes, I will be doing a continuing story across 3 books although the third book when I get to it will take me awhile to complete since it is already very similar to what I had planned. But we will cross that bridge when it comes to it and this story schedule, I might change so instead of every Thursday I might update it every Wednesday.
The Legend of Spyro and Cynder
Chapter 3 – The truth
"How far away is your home anyway Spyro? Cynder asked, they had been walking for awhile since neither of them are able to fly yet. "Not much longer Cyn," Cynder looked at Spyro upon hearing him call her Cyn and asked "why did you just call me Cyn" Spyro's face goes a slight shade of red realising what he just said "Oh I am sorry I thought it would be quicker to just call you Cyn I will stop if you want me to." Cynder let a small smile creep on her face and said, "No it is fine I was just a bit surprised that is all."
The little situation was filled with an awkward silence shortly after they had finished talking. After a few more minutes They found themselves at the start of the Swamp, unfortunately some more apes ended up falling from the giant mushrooms above the trio, Sparx immediately went and hid in some nearby bushes but Spyro and Cynder got into battle positions Cynder got her combat experience from the time she had been corrupted by the dark master, while Spyro had learned very quickly and had his own Battle position which utilised his body features.
Spyro smiled at Cynder and said, "Ready to take these walking rugs on?" Cynder smiled back and said with newfound confidence thanks to Spyro "let's kick them out of here." With that they jumped at the monkeys, Cynder using her sleek body for easily dodging then retaliating with her wing blades as week as her tailblade. While Spyro on the other hand was using his golden horns and leaf shaped blade to hit the monkeys back before they could hit him (since he couldn't dodge like Cynder since he was bulkier.)
Somehow one of the monkeys managed to find Sparx and was about to crush him when Cynder screamed "NO!" which got the monkeys attention as well as Spyro, but then she opened her own maw wide as the back of her throat started to glow green, then with a spit Cynder shot a glob of green poison out of her mouth which hit the unfortunate monkey who died moments later exploding into gems.
Upon seeing this the smaller monkeys retreated with a much smaller group since many had been cut down by the joint attacks of Spyro and Cynder and a further number of monkeys meeting a fiery demise thanks to Spyro's new flame breath. Spyro looked at Cynder with his jaw practically hitting the ground, "What was that?" Spyro asked hoping Cynder knew the answer. Cynder looked at Spyro suddenly feeling very scared tears started to form in her eyes, as she was about to run off thinking that Spyro was now scared of her. However she found herself unable to move as Spyro had already ran to her side thinking that she was injured and put a wing over her saying "did they manage to hurt you" as he looked over her body he felt his heart flutter and face heat up realising that she actually looked pretty now he had a closer look.
He was snapped out of his stupor by Cynder who replied with little tears starting to go down her ebony scales "No, but your scared of me, after the way you saw me dispatch of that monkey." Spyro just started to laugh and said, "why on earth would you think that?" but then he looked saddened and then said, "you have never had a friend before have you?" She shakes her head sadly letting some tears drop to the floor.
Spyro just moved in front of her and wrapped both his wing round her small body and said "Stop worrying Cynder about what I think I will never leave you on your own, not after seeing your reaction the first time of bumping into me and secondly you seem really scared to be left on your own, so I am not going to leave you and I already consider you my best friend, yeah I have some dragonfly friends but I have not once had a single best friend" With that speech Cynder just lay her small head into one of Spyro's wings and smiled saying "No I have not had any friends that is true, and after meeting you I do not want to lose the only friend I have ever had as you make me feel safe Spyro."
Spyro just smiled and went back to Cynder's side but was interrupted by Sparx who said, "Point number one what on earth did you just do Spyro with your wings and second of all why do both of you have strange stuff that comes out of your mouths, because a dragonfly like me can definitely not do that." Spyro just looked at Sparx and said rolling his eyes "the first thing I did is called hugging I was hugging Cynder since she was very upset and point number 2, I have no idea how me or Cynder did the stuff we did." Sparx just said "well thanks anyway Cynder, you didn't nearly incinerate me into a pile of ash like my brother did here." Spyro said simply "anyway let's get back to Mum and Dad maybe they might know."
Once they arrived at a certain tall mushroom tree Sparx yelled "Mum, Dad we are home and we have a new person and they are female from what I can tell, and I think Spyro loves them. "Spyro's purple scales suddenly changed to a that of a red dragon's when Sparx said that "NO I DON'T" Spyro yelled at Sparx then smacked him into a nearby tree. Flash and Nina came out and said, "don't worry son we know that Sparx is trying to get under your scales" Yet little did they know Spyro was starting to develop feelings for Cynder and Cynder was most likely doing the same for Spyro.
"Where is she?" Nina said, "I am here" a small shaky voice said from behind Spyro wing, Nina flew around Spyro's wing and saw Cynder and said in a soft voice "do not fear us, we are Spyro's adoptive parents we will not hurt you." With that Cynder move to the side of Spyro still a bit nervous about meeting new creatures. Nina then asked in her normal voice "what is your name?" Cynder replied "Cynder." Spyro move closer to Cynder to give her a bit of comfort since he remembered how she reacted upon first seeing him. "That's a nice name" Flash said, "I am Flash, and my wife here is Nina "It's nice to meet you and Sparx is right you do look a bit like our son here.
Sparx who finally picked himself off the tree said "Mom, Dad Spyro did something really strange before, he breathed fire out of his mouth.!" Spyro and Sparx then went on to describe what happened while Spyro described how he met Cynder and how scared she was when she first met him. "Sparx I am disappointed in you" Flash said, "we told you not to go beyond that skull, yet you still did, your lucky your brother cares for your safety."
However, Nina and Flash sadly looked at Spyro and said, "We knew a day like this would come" Spyro looked at them strangely and said, "what do you mean?" Flash looked at Spyro "It's time we told you the truth." Nina continued looking sad and continued "you're not a dragonfly" Spyro looked shocked and cried "what do you mean?" Nina replied, "You came from a distant land, one where war rages on and on and the Innocent always seem to pay the price."
Flash then started to speak "you see we found your egg on the silver river around the same time that Sparx was about to hatch and you had already started to hatch, and as we assumed that your actual parents had a high chance of perishing in the distant land we decided to adopt you as one of our own to give you a good life and we were going to give the truth to you as soon as you where ready which you now are." Spyro started to tear up realising what they were saying, Cynder saw this and tried to comfort him by putting one of her small crimson wings over Spyro the same way that he had done to her so many times before to cheer her up, and it seemed to work.
After Spyro had calmed down Cynder kept her small wing over him and he did not seem to mind, "me and Cynder will leave soon to find out where we truly came from and what we are, I would like Sparx to stay here in his actual home" Spyro said sadly.
Sparx immediately went in front of his face and said "So that is it huh? Leaving Sparx behind at the old homestead, not a care in the world" Spyro replied and said "this is your home Sparx but I just found out that my home is out there somewhere and I got to find it, besides I'm not leaving you behind I'm just leaving you where you belong" Sparx then said sounding slightly angrier "Well I thought I belonged with you, because I am always with you, but I guess I was wrong, you know what maybe a I am wrong about a lot of things, yeah I'm wrong" and with that Sparx flew off angrily. Spyro looked even more upset, Cynder saw this and put her small tail around Spyro's, luckily Nina and Flash didn't see that it made Spyro smile a little knowing that he would not be alone on this journey.
Flash saw what Sparx said and replied "Don't worry about him Spyro, you know how hot-headed he can get sometimes, you'll see him when you get back" Spyro looked a little sad but not entirely since Cynder was with him and always would be with him, Flash saw that he was still a little sad and said "now now son keep your head up, your nose clean and use that breathe of yours wisely, all gifts come with a price."
Nina saw that did not help Spyro's mood and comforted him "Ignore your fathers preaching's Spyro just be yourself it's all anyone of us can do and Cynder?" Cynder looked at Nina "keep Spyro safe, because I know he will keep you safe, it's in his nature" Cynder smiled saying "I promise I will try to keep him safe" Spyro looked at Cynder and smiled and replied "I am glad I met you before those Monkeys did Cynder, your really kind" Cynder beamed at hearing this and blushed slightly, but it was not noticeable under her ebony scales.
With that the duo turned around but not before Cynder removed her tail from Spyro's to not arouse suspicion to his parents as they headed towards the exit to the swamp. Just as they were about to leave the swamp though Sparx flew at Spyro and said "me and the old man had a chat and we agreed that I should come with you as moral support I guess," Spyro and Cynder said in unison "at least we have someone to boost our spirits if we are down," with that they headed towards the exit of the swamp.
Once they left the swamp, they heard a screech that was ear splitting, Cynder looked at Spyro visibly shaking, Spyro just stared for a moment seemingly frozen as a statue and Sparx had hid behind one of Cynder's horns and said with fear in his voice "W-What w-was t-that?" Hearing this snapped Spyro out of his stupor and he yelled "RUN! We need to get to the cover of those trees on the other side of that opening." With that they ran as fast as their small paws could carry them while Sparx was desperately clinging on to one of Cynders horns.
When they got to the other side, they Cynder and Spyro collapsed panting which threw on unfortunate Sparx off Cynder's head and onto the floor. Cynder thinks back while she is recovering to the tower, she found herself in not hours ago.
Flashback begins
"I said Run!" She tried to take off but realised that her small wings couldn't carry her, and she had seemed to forget how to fly. "I can't" Cynder! Cried with that the mysterious black dragon shot convexity beam with what little control he had left and opened a Portal, and seconds after he started to grow to monstrous size seeming to have lost his willpower, with that Cynder dived through the portal and glided down to the forest where she fell asleep for a few hours.
Flashback Ends
"I know who that screech was" Cynder said with tears in her eyes, Spyro looked at her and put a wing over her to comfort her and said, "who was it Cynder, a member of your family?" Cynder shook her head slowly "I don't know but they were a black dragon like me same age as your Spyro, but he was Black with a Silver chest and underbelly, I think he destroyed the dark master's corruption which made me grow to monstrous sizes and commit atrocities that I do not even remember doing."
Cynder said the last sentence as if it pained her as she cried a little more, "Spyro do you still want me to be your friend now you know my history" Cynder said with fear in her eyes as she looked at Spyro not wanting him to hate her, Spyro just smiled and said "Cynder that wasn't your fault, you are still my best friend and always will be no matter what happens."
Upon hearing that Cynder smiled at Spyro and got up now that they had recovered their breath. However, Sparx piped up and said, "so what your saying is the dragon that saved you is right now hunting all three of us down, Because of you?" Spyro glared at Sparx and muttered to him "no they aren't by the sounds of things they are now corrupted from saving Cynder and they are not hunting us down or they would have already attacked us," This silenced Sparx at once.
After some walking and some more monkey ambushes (they didn't last long with the combined forces of Cynder and Spyro while Sparx just hid) They encountered a cave. "Spyro should we enter the cave?" Cynder said slightly unnerved by caves, Spyro looked around and saw no other way forward and said to Cynder "unfortunately yes but we will not be surrounded by darkness due to my brother being a flying lantern." Sparx just looked at him and said, "I hate you when you call me that you know," Spyro just chuckled as they advanced further in.
Once they got further in, they saw a large red creature who seemed to be staring intently at them, studying them when Sparx said out loud "and I thought you was a big one" That was when they finally spoke up wide eyed and said "Y-your alive, but it's too late, too late" Spyro then started ask a million question and said "too late for what?, do you know me?, what are you?, what are we?" The red creature looked confused for a moment and said, "what do you mean what are we?" Upon hearing that Cynder came from behind Spyro and looked at the red creature who stared at her, eyes as wide as saucers as he said "y-your back to normal? No longer the terror of the skies?"
Cynder looked hurt when they said Terror of the Skies, this made Spyro stare at the red creature angrily as he said "why did you have to bring her past up? She obviously is trying to forget it so can you not bring it up?" The red creature said, "I am sorry but that means if she is normal then another dragon has taken up her place in the dark masters army" Spyro looked confused when he said the word "dragon" and he said, "what is a dragon." The red creature just said shocked, "in answer to your first question I am Ignitus, the fire guardian, and secondly I am a dragon and so are you and Cynder, however as Cynder is female we call her a Dragoness which is what we call all female dragons."
"Their use to be more guardians other than me as their was 4 of us 1 of each element, but I fear what has happened to the other 3, Terrador the earth guardian, Cyril the ice guardian and Volteer the Electricity guardian" he continued "it was our job to protect all the eggs at the temple and guide them once they hatch in the ways of their element, but I fear that you Spyro and Cynder are the only dragons that survived the attack, all the others were destroyed by apes" Spyro looked wide eyed and asked "how did me and Cynder survive the attack didn't you say all the eggs were destroyed."
Ignitus looked sad and said "because Spyro I took your egg and sent it down the river so they didn't destroy you as purple dragons like yourself only hatch once ever ten generations, and Cynder survived because the apes stole her egg as the dark master was torn as he needed a dragon born in the Year of the Dragon to release him so he corrupted her, but it seems another dragon saved Cynder but alas was corrupted themselves."
Spyro asked "can we see this temple? It is only fair we knew where we came from" Ignitus just sadly shook his head and said, "No the temple has been abandoned for years, who knows what forces reside there" Spyro just smiled and said, "me and Cynder can handle whatever resides their we just took on apes who stopped us from getting here."
Ignitus smiled and replied "you young dragons have gave me hope for a better future, I am sorry we could not protect you Cynder but it seems you have Spyro doing a better job at that than we ever did, but we will reclaim it in the morning you young dragons looked as if you hadn't slept in days especially you Cynder."
With that Spyro and Cynder went further into Ignitus's cave and lay down. Cynder went to one side of the cave while Spyro went to the other. Spyro fell asleep rather quickly while Sparx lay on his head behind his brilliant golden horns, but Cynder couldn't sleep she had too much on her mind and she felt very cold, she looked at Spyro and thought "I hope he doesn't mind me lying next to him as I am very cold and he looks warm" Cynder got up and slowly moved over to Spyro and lay next to him and closed her eyes feeling warmer.
However her eyes shot quickly open when she felt and additional weight go over her, she looked up a small amount and saw what it was, it was one of Spyro's small orange wings, Cynder blushed upon seeing his wing over her as it made that strange feeling inside her come back like she liked him more than just a friend but she pushed those thought aside feeling safer and very cosy, although she unconsciously wrapped her small tail around Spyro's and went to sleep.
Ok that chapter was much longer than I thought it was but no matter it still turned out almighty fine, so Spyro and Cynder now know what they truly are (and Sparx is still his annoying self.) They have finally met Ignitus and the strange feeling they keep getting in their hearts when they are close together seems to be creeping up more and more oh, I can only wonder what those feeling could be. Anyway, until next time catch you later.!