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When Hunter woke up, a bolt of fear rushed through himself…when there was really nothing to be afraid of. He turned around and saw that he was alone in the room, and for some reason he was really scared…very spooked out. A bird chirped outside in it's beautiful song, but it was so sudden that it startled Hunter and caused the cat to hiss at it.

When he realized that it was just a bird, he calmed down slightly. Aphrodite was right; he was jittery and for some reason…scared.

Spyro, Cynder, and Aphrodite walked in through the door into Hunter's room. Hunter hissed at them, sending them what looked like a death glare.

"Whoa, geez! Calm down, Hunter!" Sparx said and hovered near the cat. Hunter swiped at him with his paw and hissed.

"Ahh!" Sparx screamed as the force hit him and knocked him to the ground. "What'd you do that for?!" Sparx said and raced back to Spyro, hiding behind the dragon.

"Aphrodite…may I speak to you, please?" Zeus said. Aphrodite left the room and closed the door.

"Something you want?"

"Did you inject him with your blood?" Zeus asked.

"Yes, and the gave him the medication." Aphrodite answered, listening to Zeus sigh with relief.

"Good. I've never seen a creature like him before…half cheetah, half dragon." There was a silence for a while. "Very well. His blood should mix with yours, and then he'll start acting a little more like a dragon. I wonder what the outcome will be."

"Probably a frightened kitten with dragon wings and dragon feet." Aphrodite said with a small smile. "He'll be fine. Each step that we take will bring him to be more like a dragon."

"Alright, Aphrodite. You should probably go speak to all them." Zeus said.

"Okay." Aphrodte went back into the room and was surprised to see Hunter cradling Spyro in his arms (quite a feat because Spyro barely even fits in his arms) and Cynder was laying down on him.

Fuyuko was just rolling her eyes at their silliness. She got her staff back, and she was now leaning against the wall with it.

"Until the end of time, you're always going to cradle these two dragons, aren't you, Hunter?" Fuyuko said as a joke.

"Yes. I love them." Hunter said, listening to Cynder's giggle.

Aphrodite just raised an eyebrow at them with her mouth slightly open. She shook her head and walked in a little more, closing the door behind her with her tail.

"Look, I know that this reunion is very 'touching' and all, but Fuyuko was telling us that you guys had traveled here not only to discuss the entire freaking 'Golem' issue, but also that you must meet this one person." Aphrodite said, letting her arms droop down. Her feathers on her arms only went down to about her wrists, so it looked like she was wearing some sort of coat on her arms since her hands were nearly barren.

"Yes…who is it that I must see?" Hunter said, letting Spyro jump off of him.

"Hunter…" Fuyuko began, stepping up to him. "…when your family was slain, not everyone perished. There was a survivor, and I'm sure you know her."

Hunter's eyes lit up immediately. Thoughts started racing through his mind as he thought of his older sister, Seema.

"Who is it?! Can I…" Hunter closed his eyes and slowed down his breathing, calming himself down. "…May I see her?"

Fuyuko smiled.

"Let me get her first." Aphrodite said, then left the room.

Spyro's heart was fluttering along with Hunter's, both wanting to desperately see who it is.

After a little while, Aphrodite came back in, but her wing was covering who the person. Before she removed her wing, she said,

"Hunter, you have to promise me a couple things. First of all, promise me that you won't faint or have a heart attack. Secondly, promise me that you'll cry tears of joy because you two have been separated for well over ten years. Ready?" Hunter nodded his head to Aphrodite's words.

Slowly, but gently, Aphrodite lifted her wing. There stood a cheetah with long, black-flowing hair that reached down to just above her tail. Her neck was long, her chest was nearly flat, she was wearing a black dress with no shoes. She was extremely thin and looked as if she swam a lot, but her muscularity wasn't nearly enough to show through her skin.

"Hi Hunter." She said, not even a smile on her face.

"Seema?" Hunter whispered.

There was just silence. Seema just stood there in her black dress and let her black claws dangle on her arms that had what looked like nets on them, tracing back up to the sleeves of the dress that ended at her elbows. She appeared to gave been dressed gothic.

After a while, the two stepped closer to each other, and then once they were close enough, they both held a hand up to each other's faces. Tears started forming in their eyes, but neither wanted to cry.

All of the dragons in the room were startled when they embraced each other and started sobbing loudly over each other's shoulder.

"I thought you were dead…" Hunter said to his older sister. He remembers her being a lot taller, and now he's taller than her. In fact, he has slouch down slightly to hug her correctly.

"I thought that you were killed, Hunter." Seema said, still hanging onto her brother's fur, not letting go. Hunter said something loudly into her shoulder, but it was muffled because his entire face was buried into her.

"Whoop-de-freaking-doo, now we're all together." Sparx said. "So your sister is miss oh-gothica?"

"Sparx!" Spyro yelled at him.

Hunter mumbled something again but no one could understand what it was.

"Sheesh…you reek of perfume." Sparx said. "And your wearing fishing nets. You must listen to heavy metal?"

"Celtic, opera-symphonic-European-metal…." Seema said.

"Symphonic metal? What, is that like hardcore violin?" Sparx shot back in a sarcastic tone.

"Hunter, look…I'm sorry…I'm just so sorry…" Seema said, breaking their embrace. She was facing him now, with her head hanging low. "…I'm your older sister…I'm the one who should've gotten you. I'm just so sorry…"

"Don't be. It's not your fault. It never was your fault. But tell me…how did you escape?" Hunter asked.

"I…I ran. I kicked one of the invaders off of their horse and I stole the horse. I was going to go back to get you, but when things came too close, I knew that I had to go. I had seen them capture you, and I remember you screaming. You were just a little boy, Hunter…you were so small…your voice was much high-pitch back then…and now you're taller than me…and your voice is just so…so…deep." Seema put her head on his chest and just leaned up against him.

"Seema, I never blamed you for what happened."

"But what did they do to you?" Seema asked.

"They had captured me…enslaved and tortured me, but then I escaped after a few years."

"When everyone else died, I got so depressed that a friend of mine…who's a dragon…literally rammed my front door down and actually grabbed onto my feet, pulled me out of my room and out of the house before I could get up, and out into open public. He then roughly grabbed me on the shoulders and held me midair while he stood on his hind legs. Now everyone was watching this depressed, crying cheetah being held up in the air by a dragon. He roared at me so loud that I bet the entire city could hear him. What he said was, "If you cry anymore, I'm going to skin you, turn you into a fur pelt, and feed your meat to a hungry bear! If you continue being depressed, then I'm going to swipe you with the sharp tip of my tail every morning 'til you stop!" I never cried again."

Hunter thought about those words.

"Wait…which dragon was this?" Spyro said.

"My friend, Craytos. He's a black dragon…looks quite frightening, actually. He's the guy who taught me to be tougher and how to be wiser. He taught me to never trust anyone but him, Zeus, Aphrodite, and whoever else my heart belongs to. He humiliated me to the world to teach me lessons about life. He made me work to the point where I would collapse on the ground and then he would slap me whenever I refused to get up, all just to get me to understand that not everything will happen the way I want it to, and that my life could be a lot more miserable than what it already was. He's very strict, but he's loving, and every time he hurts me, later one he curls up with me in his arms…and he kisses me."

"He…hurt you?" Spyro wondered, walking up to her. He was about half of her size, which made him wonder if she ever grew after the night they were separated.

"Yeah…and he did it a lot, but I love him. He saved me from killing myself many times, and he gave me something to live for. After years, he came to me one day and apologized for everything, but he told me that he was teaching me valuable lessons. I believe him, and I thank him every day."

"Well, is he still here?" Cynder asked.

"No…the last thing he did to me was tuck me in bed, kiss me on the forehead, said, "I love you. You're like the daughter I never had." and then he walked away and closed the door. But before he left, he looked back at me. His eyes looked very dark, and yet very wet, as if he was about to cry. Then he turned back around and closed the door. When I woke up the next morning, he was gone. He left behind a note that said, "I leave your life in yours hands now. I've taught you what I've known, and now you have no need of me anymore. Goodbye, Seema." That was when I knew that he had left me so that I could carry on my life. He left me the house and everything that was with it. Throughout everything that he's taught me, one of the important things was that crying never brings things back. So I didn't cry. I just threw the note away, applied for a job at a restaurant, and went to bed without anyone to tuck me in. It was as if I never knew him…but yet he was always in my thoughts."

Seema's words were very emotional, and she looked like she was about to cry.

"You miss Craytos, don't you?" Spyro said.

"I do…but we wouldn't be proud of me if I cried when I found out that he was gone. He would be disappointed, so from then on I never cried ever again…until now…but that's because I'm happy. He said that tears of joy and happiness are alright, but tears of sadness or sorrow are never allowed. Tears of anger? If he ever saw tears of anger from me then he would have locked me up in the cellar of my house. That's why I never cried." Seema looked back down to the ground.

"But don't you miss him?" Cynder asked.

"More than you can imagine." Seema said, looking over at the small black dragon. "Anyway, since I came here I actually started to go by a different name. Craytos had begun calling me Athena, so I started to go by that name. But still though…I kept Seema…and all of those days that I dreamt to see by younger brother again finally came true. But you're…half-dragon."

"Athena…" Spyro whispered. "…isn't that the goddess of wisdom?"

"Yes." Seema said. "But now I'm with my brother…and I don't want to leave you ever again, Hunter…." She hugged him again tightly, not letting go.

:`) So emotional!

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