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Somehow Prowlus managed to turn the entire village against Hunter. All of them except Meadow were now one hundred percent certain that Hunter murdered Prowlus' daughter. The thing that saddened him most, though, was the fact that he loved Cindy. He was just too weak at the moment to actually save her. That's what pained him the most…and the fact that the only ones who actually believed him were his dragons, Spyro and Cynder, Sparx, and Meadow. That was it. Maybe Fuyuko would understand…but she lives north. Far, far to the north. No one has gone to visit her in ages.

Fuyuko is a cheetah who lives in the Snowy Mountains. Her name literally means 'Child of the Winter.' The elevation of where she lives makes it difficult to climb, and the snow only adds to more dangers. She's like the Ice Queen in those mountains. She never leaves and sings songs to the landscape and it's creatures every morning and every dawn. She's been alone for years, but enjoys it that way. Hunter only met her once, and that was because he had been lost. She led him back to his village, but then before he could thank her, she just disappeared. It's almost as if she didn't want to be thanked.

Hunter's mind was snapped out of it's thoughts as he saw Prowlus grab a long, black whip. His hands were untied, but then he was dragged about twelve feet away from Prowlus, into the open. Two of the cheetahs forced him down on his knees and held his arms out. Hunter dared not to fight back. He just stayed there, waiting for the sting of the whip to bring itself upon his back. He had one thing to say…

"Spyro, don't look." He said sternly before there was a loud crack in the air. Hunter jolted and clenched his teeth tight together with a groan as blood started t be drawn from his back. That wasn't so good since he has wings tucked back in there.

He could hear Spyro and Cynder trying to say something, but the fact that they couldn't open their mouths made it practically impossible to speak. Prowlus rose his arm and whipped Hunter again, making the poor cat jolt each time. The thing is, is that Hunter didn't know when he was going to stop. He never said anything about that.

So then it went past ten times…then twenty…then thirty…then forty. It was to the point when Hunter was now drenched in his own blood, screaming and begging for Prowlus to stop. His voice was now raspy, hoarse, and full of pain. Despite how many times his friend screamed and how many times he told him not to look, Spyro still watched, tears streaming down the purple dragon's face.

"I beg of you, please cease this!" That was when it stopped.

Spyro's rage was building within himself, wanting to burn this thing terribly. He wanted to burn Prowlus for doing this to his friend. Cynder wanted to poison him and stab him with her barbed tail, of which would only inject more poison. He would then die painfully of that, although her anger was forcing her poison to begin to drip from their fangs. It started seeping through her mouth, and she had to wipe it off. If just an ounce of that stuff got inside of a cheetah, they would be sick for weeks.

Prowlus dropped the whip and walked up to Hunter, grabbing him roughly by the skin of his neck. "You'll die painfully." He growled into Hunter's ears, his claws digging underneath the skin.

Hunter was shaking in pain and too weak to move himself, so he was dragged by Prowlus over to an end-table size piece of wood. Hunter's head was placed on the block of the wood and he was pinned down. Prowlus grabbed the ax beside him.

Spyro and Cynder were crying Hunter a river. Sparx was saying, "Are you f***ing crazy?!" The Dragonfly began to panic and tried to break out of the glass, but was unsuccessful.

"Hunter!" Spyro screamed in his head, grabbing onto the muzzle as tight as he could and pulled it with all of his strength. There were a couple snaps, and the muzzle came off. He could speak now.

"HUNTER!" He screamed, taking in a breath.

Prowlus put the ax at the base of Hunter's neck, then rose it slowly.

"What the friggin' heck are you doing?! Move you dam cheetah!" Sparx screeched.

Spyro took in a loud breath and shot an icicle with his Ice Breath out straight at Prowlus' chest. It pierced the cat right through the left lung, just barely missing his heart. Prowlus dropped the ax and fell to the ground. Everyone else in the village rushed to his side, and Hunter fell off to the side.

Cynder managed to break the muzzle off of herself and used her shadow power. Turning into dark light, she went right through the bars. Without that power, she would have not been able to go through. She jumped from the ground and turned back into her normal self, that pried the lock off of Spyro's cage. Once she broke it off, the door flung open and Spyro rushed out. Cynder pounced on one of the cheetahs and bit them on the back, injecting them with poison.

Spyro scared them off by breathing fire.

Spyro ceased his fire. Cynder went up next to him, her tail up high in the air like a scorpion's. She was ready to stab anyone with it…anyone who dared to come closer, that is.

"Hunter didn't do anything to your daughter other than try to rescue her, Prowlus." Spyro hissed.

"You have no need to kill him!" Cynder said in a rather high-pitch voice.

"You have no clue, Spyro, about the amount of damage you just cost us." Prowlus said lowly.

Spyro sat down and said, "You only brought it among yourselves. We're taking Hunter with us to Warfang, the Dragon City, and if you even think about following us you'll all be poisoned by Cynder. I know that she would do that."

That was when they all backed off.

"You'll live of your injuries, Prowlus, but you may have just lost two or three members of your village. That poor unfortunate creature was just poisoned by Cynder and you can't save him now, and now Hunter is leaving." There was a pause for a while as Spyro stood up. "Where's Meadow?"

"Sanctus…Espiritus…" Hunter mumbled from where he was lying on the ground. Spyro and Cynder turned to him and went closer to their friend. "…Sanctus…Espiritus…" He said weakly. "Don't go to Warfang…take me to Sanctus Espiritus…"

"Who's that?"

"Fuyuko…up in the Snowy Mountains." Hunter opened his eyes and looked at Spyro. His bright blue eyes almost brought tears to Spyro's own.

"We'll take care of you, Hunter. We promise."

Hunter rolled over onto his stomach and tried to stand up. But the pain in his back was just too great. He remained slouched over in the position and closed his eyes again, breathing deeply. His wings slowly began emerging from his bloodied back. He opened his eyes again once his wings were completely out, and then he gathered enough strength to stand up.

"Hunter? You can't possibly be thinking about trying to fly again, right?" Sparx said while Cynder whacked the lantern with her horn, cause there a hole to appear in the glass. Sparx flew through it, thanking Cynder.

"Only I know the way to Snowy Mountain. Cynder, if you can use your wind ability to help push me up in the air, perhaps it work.

"What? No way on Earth, Hunter. I'm not going to do that. You're in too much of a bad condition. We'll just--"

"Please, Cynder." Hunter's eyes seemed pitiful right now. This was his only chance at escaping the little homicidal maniac that goes by the name 'Prowlus.' Cynder sighed and said,

"Alright. I'll do it." Hunter sighed relief and placed his ears flat on his head again. Not to show fear, sadness, of submission, but instead it was to show that he was relieved.

"Thank you…Cynder." Spyro threw Hunter is shirt (it had been taken off) and his cape and then leapt in the air, flapping his wings a couple times. He hovered vertically for a moment and waited for Hunter.

When he was ready, the cheetah ran with Cynder and leapt in the air, spreading out his silver, silky-skin wings and flapping them a couple times. With the help of Cynder's wind power, they flew away from the village that was now half-destroyed.

"Hey, wait up for me!" Sparx yelled out, trying to keep up with his friends and brother from another mother.

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