Cynder held her head down, was she embarrassed at what had happened, no. instead right now she was shocked, afraid, worried and several other things right now and she didn't know what to do.
Flashback
"Well young dragoness its nothing to worry about." A mole doctor said. "You've simply just been marked."
"Wait as in the mating mark?" Cynder asked with shock. The mole nodded. Cynder groaned and put her claws over her face.
"So do you know much about the mating mark?"
"Not much…but Flarera told me it marked a dragon's mate, that's it though."
"Well let me tell you a bit about it so you aren't surprised by any of its effects." The mole said. "First, it's marks another dragon as a mate as you know. Second it creates a telepathic link between the two, allowing the two to feel each other feelings and thoughts. If there's anything beside those, it's a secret to all but you dragons."
Flash back end
Cynder could only lay there and think of what transpired, but not what to do next. 'This is nothing but a headache; I wonder how Spyro's dealing with this.'
Spyro
'STOP!' Spyro mentally shouted, a feeling of fright washed over him then nothing. It had all went silent.
'What is wrong young dragon?' Malefor questioned.
"Nothing, nothing to do with you anyway." Spyro said.
"that's not going to work this time Spyro, I'm not going to leave unless you talk this time." The Malefor remnant pushed.
Spyro could already tell this wasn't going to vanish, so for once he talked to the fragment. "I'm just hearing a series of unknown voices in my head and they were just beginning to stress me out is all."
"you truly did grow up in a swamp." Malefor said back.
"What?" Spyro questioned not knowing to feel insulted.
"those thoughts are from your marked one Cynder."
"Wait that's what happened last night?!" Spyro shouted, luckily for him no one was around.
"so, are you trying to announce something to the whole world or are you still talking to me?"
"Shut up." Spyro said in his head.
"Well look who's up early." Oh was this was one voice Spyro DIDN"T want to deal with right now. "What do you want flame?"
"Is that anyway addressing an elite Spyro?" Flame said with a crooked smile. "As for what I want, I want every dragoness in Warfang for my own including that evil bitch of yours Cynder."
"Normally killing you should not be required, but as now since your linked to Cynder by being marked, I have to kill you before it becomes permanent."
Spyro took a fighting stance feeling threatened by the fire dragon.
Seeing this fire dragon laughed at the purple dragon. "Now now Spyro, clam down and just make this easy on yourself, you can't take all three of us." The gust from flapping wings could be felt and heard from behind Spyro. "Are you really this greedy Flame?" A voice chastised from a nearby roof, Flame feeling threatened cast his gaze toward the voice. Lying down on the roof was a very familiar dark blue dragon watching the fire dragon with a hardened glare.
"Spawn of Malefor, what you want?!" Flame demanded barring his teeth at Ryuujin.
The dragon jumped down from the roof and landed between Spyro and flame, facing the fire dragon. "You know flame if you have problem right now, it's with me not Spyro." Ryuujin said, a deep almost demonic growl emanated from his maw. Spyro's blood ran cold, and began to slowly back away, from the blue dragon's area.
"And what problem would I have with you!" Flame mocked, "aside from you being alive that is!"
"The problem is you've pissed me off for the last time! I'm tired of you and your arrogance Flame. You keep trying to come between me and Gaia, even though we have already marked each other."
"Why would I try now she's gone!" Flame said, voice filled with a smug accomplishment. Ryuujin began to grind his teeth together.
Both dragons held their stances firmly.
Spyro watched the two dragons with worry, both were strong in their own right, but there was little that Flame could do against the aggressive and clean fighting style that Ryuujin used. So he decided to try to stop it before it could go anywhere.
Ryuujin was about to lunge right at Flame when Spyro threw himself between them, even surprising himself ready to defend flame. "Move it Spyro! Unless you what to go down as well!" even though spyhole didn't know this dragon well, he had talked to Gaia on many occasions some not of his choosing of course. Unlike Spyro, Ryuujin had grown up on the run from his father, the dark master, and the loss of his mother to Malefor. Always around the corner was someone sent by his father to capture him, or even possibly kill him, so he grew up from age one having to kill anything that threaded him? Instead of having the comfort of parents he got a cold cruel and unforgiving world. (I'll dedicate a history of Ryuujin chapter later on, too much to explain here. That and I don't feel like it.) So any attachment he found he held very dear to him, particularly, to his mate Gaia and Azodro and Aulosrin who were basically family to Ryuujin, and would defend them with his life even if it meant killing anyone, ANYONE, who threatened his bonds.
"There has to be a better way to settle this other than clawing each others throats out!" Spyro said.
Flame began to cackle at the edge of insanity. "There is no way out now Spyro, your both in my way. So was Gaia that's way I want her to become mine, I didn't want such beauty to be lost, But she is no longer a problem now as sad as it is it couldn't be avoided."
Ryuujin felt a feeling of dread come over him. "What did you do to her?"
"Link with her and find out." The blue dragon wasted no time, and connected his mind with his mate's, and then out of nowhere a large wave of pain hit the blue dragon. An ethereal howl of pain came from the blue dragons maw; he dropped to the ground holding his claws to his head trying to lessen it, but to no avail. His screams of pain started to become demonic as the fiery pain spread over his body, the dragon continued to howl with demonic intent beginning to take root in his body.
"What did you do Flame!" Spyro Demaned, torrents of anger being directed at the fire dragon.
"Oh, not much, aside from leaving that earth dragoness in a pool of her own blood, and awakening the first Twilight dragon in nearly five-thousand years!"
"Flame!"
"and just because my master commands it,doesn't mean I like it, now with those two down and out your next. And I'm going to enjoy this." Flame started toward Spyro a fiery aura indicating a comet dash was coming. Spyro tried to meet it head on but failed against flames power behind it. Skidding back he was taken off guard at what flame looked like. The fire dragon was surrounded by menacing black mist, sporting dark forbidding dim eyes, on his front legs two serpent like lines coiled around them same with the back legs, on the upper part of his front legs a black crescent moon facing towards the ground with a smaller one facing inward, and finally on his chest a large black V made it self's known.
"Flame what is this?"
"This is the physical from of my hatred for you and those dragons you brought with you to Warfang, this is the form of my vendetta against you, and this is my from that is going to kill you!"
The fire dragon burst forth passing Spyro while wrapping his tail around Spyro's neck. Knocking the purple dragon off his balance, flame came to a fast stop as he slammed spyhole into the target wall. The purple dragon tried to let out a pained roar but flames grip on his neck was tight. Flame drew back his claw and brought it forward gorging a wound across the purple dragons chest blood splattered to the ground as flame continued his brutal assault on the poor dragon. During the attack his claws lit up with a dark energy as he continued.
"you purple dragons have never been of any use to master Arare, Malefor proved that to be true!" he dropped Spyro to the ground, letting Spyro soak in his own blood.
Flame flexed his claws for a moment. "this is it Spyro, no more purple dragons of legend for this era." My master will finally be able to move around the realms without any more interruptions. Goodbye Spyro it was very unpleasant to meet you." Flame brought up his tail blade and shot it toward the purple dragons neck.
"Flame!"
Far off the in the Esricith royal palace sat a ice dragoness, with sky blue scales never tarnished by battle and caring teal eyes and majestic silver horns, around them sat a golden crown fitted for her horns, three golden clasps held to her tail, and four gold bracers sat just above her feet, and a golden clasp held itself around her neck, this ice dragoness was queen Isis. She sat in alone in the Esricith royal palace her mate Eprun was away visiting the dragon emperor Aganeir the IV, along with other high royalty within the dragon realms. She was left here alone for half a month now dealing with various royal duties, which was tiring now don't get her wrong the royal duties were fairly easy to manage, it was dealing with her children that was the most tiring, Bulis and Equnif were such trouble makers, not matter what she did they wouldn't behave. Aro her little girl was the only one who behaved and thankfully stopped her brothers most of the times. The ice dragoness sighed and gazed at the multiple stain glass windows that covered the room. As beautiful as they were, nothing could ever distract her from thinking about her lost children.
Her first child was the only one whose father wasn't Eprun, but Malefor; yes she had fallen in love with the one who soon became known as the dark master. But she had become mates with him before any of this had transpired, before he went insane and before she met Eprun, she could never understand what caused him to turn evil so quickly and take their first son away from her, then vanish. Worst part to her was there was nothing she could do against Malefor taking away Ryuujin from her. When she did try it ended horribly.
Flashback
A horrible sound of claws rendering flesh echo thought-out the halls of one Esricith noble houses, blood spattering and falling onto the floor could be heard throughout the entire house. The source was from Malefor attacking his mate Isis across her chest, after leaving a clear across her chest he beat her across the room with his bladed tail, with the sound of cracking bones accompanying her impact.
"W-Why?" Isis managed to rasp out.
Malefor gave no response as he started at her with evil yellow eyes; the purple dragon of legend had already destroyed and killed anyone who was in the clan house, fires roared throughout the house as support beams fell and crash against the floor spreading embers about.
"Mom?" Isis saw Ryuujin out of the corner of her eye, and began to panic.
He had also brought his father intention toward him as well; he glared at his son as he turned away from Isis.
"Ryuujin Run!" Isis managed to shout with the last of her strength.
Malefor snarled at her and slammed her against the wall once more with his tail. Terrified at the see Ryuujin bolted away from Malefor as his father began after him, into the fiery hell his home had become.
Flash back end
That memory along with the loss of Cynder to Malefor haunted her every day, as much as she tried to cover it up and forget it. Although she couldn't help but think of what it would be like if they were both here. During her thoughts, the royal adviser Shrill approached her, with surprise who but the Esricith ice twins.
"Your highness I caught these two, bothering the smiths again, along with stealing runes, ancient books and uh bo-bot-bothering the dragonesses on their side of the hot springs." Isis almost doubled over at the last one, but kept her regal composer, and a small blush show her anger at her childrens actions.
"Seal away their elements for the rest of the week, and keep them confined to the palace as well." Isis spoke, this having been the 30th time this week Shrill caught them doing this, and she was running out of punishments short of just throwing them in the dungeons forever. She would never do this of course. It was just a tempting very tempting idea sometimes to deal with those two.
She sighed as Shrill dragged them away, both devastated at being grounded, yet again. Many days just went on like this although it was a massive change from Malefor's endless earthen and undead armies. that Malefor was gone most dragons that Malefor was after came out of hiding although. Sadly they were only in the thousands Her former mate had murder more than half of Esricithian dragons, but all was not lost she had gotten a report months ago that all four of Esricith dragon guardians had survived , and had taken in many orphaned dragons and eggs.
She would have visited them by now, if she and Eprun weren't so engrossed by cleaning up Malefor's forces and rebuilding what was destroyed. There were rumors even floating around that the dragon that had defeated Malefor was the new purple dragon of legend and was in Warfang, and had certain dragoness that used to serve Malefor. She pondered whether or not it might be Cynder, but tried to write it off, for some reason she couldn't and had finally come to a decision, and without Eprun's permission.
"Drill!" She called out to one of the royal advisers.
A mole hurried to her attention. "Yes your highness?"
"Prepare the royal escort we're heading for Warfang Now!"
"Flame!" a dark voice called, as Spyro slipped into unconscious.
The fire dragon stopped and turned and the new interloper and barred his teeth, he didn't have the power to deal with her right now. he was beginning to lose his control over his mental state and he knew he couldn't fight the terror of the skies right now!
There you go, Flame is starting to show his true colors, Isis had made her appearance, sorry if my battle scenes are half-baked I'll try to improve. Both Spyro and Gaia are hurt badly by this ordeal, and Ryuujin's out again.(just can't stay awake can he.) so until next time sorry if this chapter feels undercooked, I felt that was as well but I couldn't find anything wrong with it.
Next chapter. The introduction of Flames master and a family reunited.
R&R