First test .
"C'mon buddy we have to get there early. Cyril is having his first gaurdian lesson or something and we have to be there to help Flame and that other chick." Sparx said still groggy himself. The purple dragon yawned and looked out the window. The sun was barley making it past half way over the horizon. He was also secretly angry he had woke him up from such a beautiful dream.
" Its two early." He snapped with sleep still heavy in his voice. " Give it another hour or so." He slured and his head fell back on the pillow. Sparx groaned and went out as the purple dragon lulled himself back to sleep with thoughts of Cynder. Cynder meanwhile was having a dilema of her own. She stared at herself in the long glass mirror contemplating on what to wear. She had lost weight to try and look better what with the competition and had started to shine her horns. She blinked and noticed one of the shelves had a small cylinder of black substance. On it read 'eye dazzle' and there was a picture of a dragoness with her eye lashes coated with the dark substance. She gulped and started to put some on. It was cold and she could feel it drying her lashes. She gasped at the difference. Her eyes were no longer the dull green anymore. The darkness around them made her eyes look like emerald gems and she giggled with satisfaction. She then turned her attention back to her body.
" Have to look better than that little fat-ass runt." She said and took of a purple drape and attached it to the base of her neck and flopped it over her back. She then reached for one of the scents with high anticipations and sprayed it onto one of her talons. The smell over powered her with jasmin and strawberry's.
" This ought to do the trick." She laughed to herself.
" Your only going to breakfast babes." A voice came from the door. The dragoness snapped round to see Sparx hovering there with a smile on his face. He was carrying a bucket of water to through over Spyro in an effort to get him up. " And besides, you look quite sexy as it is." He chuckled a little. Cynder felt the blood run to her face and blushed.
" You think he will like it." she cooed. Sparx pretended to examin her but really he was assessing if she was under weight or not.
" I think he would love it however it might seam a bit to much if you ask me. If there's anything worse than trying to get a chick that doesn't notice you. it's a chick coming onto you relentlessly." He nodded to himself. Cynder's eyes lightened. Emeber had been throughing herself at Spyro so if Sparx was right then the purple dragon mustn't like her.
" So a little less could give a little more then." Cynder pondered and turned back to the mirror. She took of the purple drape and the ringlets on her horns and left herself with a darker set of eyelashes and the smell of jasmin and Strawberrys.
" Perfect. Right you go down cause I need to get the lumbering fool of his bed first." He growled and flew off. The black dragoness chuckeld and headed out the door and for the great hall. She had barly got of her spiral stairs when she looked down the corridor linking hers and Spyro's room together and saw Ember climbing his ones. She scratched the floor to make presence known. Ember jumped at the sound nearly falling and turned and glared at Cynder who returned an evil stare of her own. She laughed as Ember tried to make her sneer more evil because Cynder herself had what seamed like eons of perfecting her glares and evil sneers while under the dark masters control. Her eyes flickered red as she let loose a low grumbling growl and gave a horrific soul cringing gaze.
" P- ha ha." She hollered as Ember shrank back. " Aw goojems getting scared aw. I can see why Spy doesn't like you." She scoffed and headed for the main stairs. Ember growled low and long watching the stairs Cynder descended before turning and heading back down to her room and not bothering with Spyro while she hung her head.
" Gaagh!" Spyro screamed as a shower of ice cold water was flung on him Wetting the whole room. " Sparx you freak of nature. See if I weren't so big id punch you."
" I see that got you up then. Dreaming about Cynder again were you." The purple dragons eyes widened in horrer.
" How d'you know that." He snapped and eyed the dragonfly.
" Hey I didn't do anything. You were the one who woke me up while rumbling Cynder's name, oh and did my eyes decieve me or did I see your lips pucker up or what." He chuckled darkly while raising an eyebrow.
" I…uh..no, you must have been s-seeing things." Spyro stammered as his face went read. He let his eyes look around the room not wanting to look at the dragonfly.
" Heh. Its ok. My lips are sealed my good friend. No pun intended." Said Sparx. Spyro gave a nervouse chuckle and made for the great hall. Cynder was in and flame had made an effort to become friends with her.
" So you took him down like that." Flame gasped in aw.
" Yip. Just like that. And then we had to figure out what to do with the planet as it broke up." Flame stared at the dragoness. He had heard stories of the dark masters down fall but it was completely different from a first person view.
" Spyro. Hey man." Flame yelled up the table. Spyro walked through and his face brightened at the sight of Cynder and Flame.
" morning guys." Said Spyro sitting down next to Cynder across from flame.
" did you hear. We have a training session today with master Terrador in the arena. We apparently have to use what we learn in master Cyril's class just before." Said flame starting to buzz with excitement.
" I'm sure it will be one for the books but do you have any idea where the wheat is." Spyro scanned the buffet table and could only see small rashers of sheep and some apples with helpings of bread. Cynder swallowed her mouthfull of bread and turned to the buffet table.
" They made all the wheat into bread - Yea I know" She quickly said as she spotted Spyro's loathsome expression. " I don't like it in that form either. Between you and me its much better in raw form with some milk and raspberry's." She smiled and finished her last mouthful of bread before pushing the plate away. Spyro noticed the plate was the size a hatchling would have and secretly glanced out of the corner of his eye to see Cynder's underbelly getting shockingly close to her back. He bit his lip knowing she would bite his head of for mentioning it but it was then he noticed the dragoness truly. The eyes and the smell when he leaned closer.
"wow." Was all he could say. Flame who had came round and sat next to him elbowed him.
" you know how to pick em don't you." He sniggered and raveged his sheep.
" HEY!" came a singing voice from the doors. There heads snapped round to see Ember hopping along happily and sitting next to Spyro.
" Morning." Said Spyro sluggishly. Ember took no notice and dived straight into today's calendar.
" So today is our first training day and if I'm being honest, I'm not phazed at'all by it. We get to choose a partner to work with as well." She nudged him. " Partners in training eh." She giggled and Spyro nodded slowly.
" Y-yea whatever..uh..uh..Cynder!" Spyro belted remembering something finally to get him of the partner subject. " Didn't you say to Trog he could stay after we found out what was going on here." He reminded her. She dropped the paper in her hands and gasped
" Oh Crap, I totally forgot. I need to get him now" She said shocked and getting to her feet.
"I'll have to make haste if I want to be back in time."
" Yes you go and get that little creature of yours while I stay here and," She nudged Spyro again. " Huh, huh." Cynder felt her temper rise and glowered at her.
" Infact I might get a mole to run along and retrieve him." She grinned at the pink dragoness. " Saves me leaving hear and getting lonely." Ember lowered her eybrows angrily and Flame hung his head in pain watching the love of his life fight to get someone else.
" Heh-yea well anyhow, we best be off, right Cynder. Cynder!" He repeated to her to try and produce an answer.
" Oh, uh yea we need to tend to some…stuff. Lets go." They both trotted out the hall not glancing back. Flame watched Ember with intent eyes as she gazed after the dragons. He had the odd fealing that this was his chance to get closer with her and grabbed the chance. He sat next to her and patted her back.
" I know how you feel. Trying to get someone but you feel as if your nothing but a glass shell with nothing to offer to them and that you might as well be a puff of smoke for the way that person notices you." Ember's eye twitched a little as she felt Flame was pushing onto a subject she wanted to steer well clear off.
" I need to go. Nice chatting with you." She snapped in a aggravated tone. She shrugged out of his paw and left the hall with Flame feeling hurt and withdrawn from the world.
" morning Cyril." Sparx laughed as he hovered to his side while the dragons all sat looking intrigued at his first class.
" And to you as well Sparx." He said quietly. " And good morning Ember, Flame. Today will be more on history and magic than hands on I'm afraid so claws dipped into the ink please." Flame and Ember both groaned as the did as they were told. " Now title with 'a history of Warfang' and write what I say. Warfang has been one of the largest dragon City's for eons. Housing all kinds of different dragons, moles and many other creature's…" Cyril's lecture dragged on for an hour while Flame and Ember silently wrote down what he said. Every so often Cyril would stop and allow them both a brake to get more ink and would then continue.
" And the city has been at peace ever since." He concluded. " That's it for today so perhaps- by our ancestors look at the sun. its time you be getting of to Terrador for you training." Cyril snapped looking at the sun which was neering noon. Flame was only to happy at this and almost jumped out the chamber while Ember trudged out with her bag loosly draped over her.
" D'you reckon they'll be good at their elements then." Said Spyro as he and Cynder walked onto the training grounds to meet Terrador sitting waiting as well though there was another dragon there with him.
" I think they might be, but who's that sitting there." Sitting next to terrador was a young earth dragon. Same age as Ember and Flame. His light brown horns curved around his head and he had spikes every so often down his back to the large boulder at the end of his tale.
" A Spyro, Cynder. Good you're here." Terrador caught them eyeing the dragon and nodded. " This is Winfill. As you can see he is an earth dragon and he is also a candidate." The earth dragon came around and smiled cautiously at the purple and black dragons.
" Hey. I'm Spyro and this is Cynder." Winfill's eyes lit as he was spoken to nicely.
" H-hello." He stammered. " As you've heard my names Winfil and I come from the eastern city." Spyro nodded while Cynder was watching the doors with rage. She could hear on the other side the singing voice of Ember along with the low grunts of Flame. They both burst through the door and Ember started straight for Spyro. ' oh just great' Cynder thought.
" Hey Spyro. So, we partnering up for the round."
" Em…uh." Spyro slurred. But Terrador stepped in the arena and made a table out of the earth.
" Right. Whats going to happen is that I will separate you into groups. There will be the first group contaning the candidates and then the other containing Spyro and Cynder." Embers eyes grew wide with shock and the black dragoness smiled smugly at her. " The game is capture the flag. the first team to capture their opponents flag and merge it with there own is victorious. Now then. Lets begin." Said Terrador slaming a foot into the ground and the table dissapeard back into the earth. A little rumble came from the ground and a flag appeared from each corner, one with black and purple and the other was green, red and pink. Quickly Spyro and Cynder bounded for their flag and took guard over it growling.
" I have a chance to put Ember in her place now, thank the ancients." Said Cynder happily As the pink dragoness staired her down.
" Ready…..GO!" Terrador shouted. Instantly all the dragons pounced into the air like jets. Spyro Slammed himself into Winfill and Flame to hold them of and Cynder flew and both her and Ember became locked in a stare down.
" Uh guy's. perhaps this would be the right time to sit and watch." Flame said sniggering at himself.
" I second that." Winfill winced while looking at them both. They all lowered onto a large rock and watched intently.
" I would offer pop wheat but I don't have any." Flame Said and got them all laughing. High above thought the two dragoness's where getting ready to rip each other's throught out.
" So You've noticed him big deal, I was the one who stopped the dark one with him. I was the one who got tied to him for nearly a year, I was the one who had to put up with him so my friend, you haven't got a talon on me." Cynder smiled darkly at her.
" So what if you have spent more time with my hubby. He is mine and only mine. No one shall take him from me ever." Amber growled and spat a fireball at Cynder who as well getting angry blew it away with her wind ability.
" You sneaky little bitch." Cynder muttered and her eyes turned red. Suddenly she had barbs coming out of her and blood pouring from her mouth along with bones coming out of every joint and she was emitting a high pitch scream that shook the very bones of Ember.
" Whats happening. Looks like Cynder's just hovering there but Ember's freaking out." Winfil said also asking for Flame.
" looks like she's using fear." Said Spyro but seeing the dragons reaction he quickly had a reason. " She has the power to become the person she's facing's most feared dragon. In this case I reckon she is some sort of zombie dragoness or something."
" But she looks the same." Flame interjected
" Ah, that's cause she is only effecting Ember. See there knowledge in the madness." The fire dragon nodded and watched the scene above.
" S-Stop it." Screamed Ember who was now cowering around her arms still hovering. The black dragoness whirled her wings using her wind element throwing Ember to the ground. Cynder flew back to the jaw dropped boys and giggled.
" Looks like I win." She let her tail brush past Spyro and his face burned red.
" Hey man. I'm with you whoever." Flame said but was cuy short at the sight of Ember on the ground. Ember was struggling to get up and Flame bounded to her side with fear in his eyes.
" Ember, Ember. You ok. Let me help." He said franticlly stretching an arm to her.
" No I'm fine" she said and got up fully. She had a large purpling bruise appearing on her underbelly form the fall and a gouge on her left paw. Flame seeing this put an arm around her and pulled her towards the door.
" Lets get you to the medicals. Take care of that." The fire dragon said pointing with his free hand to the gouge. Spyro watched along with Winfil as they left wincing when Ember maoned in pain.