My words made Ignitus stare at me with understanding. "I thought you would say that. Nevertheless, you must look at it from our view. In all of recorded history, no dragon has been able to choose an element. You are the first so it's understandable that no one will be able to easily accept you." Ignitus sombrely spoke as he looked at me. I was starting to see why he did what he did. "I am starting to understand; it does not mean however, that you can let the village turn on one of its own. For that matter, your title is guardian is it not. Have you forgotten what that term meant?" I argued back. He simply nodded in response. I was starting to get frustrated with the fire guardian.

"You must realize that if we did calm them down. It might have turned the town against us. Rebellions would spring up. We couldn't risk it." He said in a desperate voice. "I get it, the needs of the many over the needs of the few, or the one. It was not that hard of a decision. However, maybe you should have gotten rid of me. I was a street dweller until I was taken in." I said in a defensive voice. I sighed realizing that I had told him more about my past. "You have lived a life no one deserves." Ignitus whispered, barely audible for me to hear and understand. "I learnt to deal with it. Those were actually the good years. At least people could understand my namesake. They actually treated me like one of their own. Then when my elemental ability was discovered it all went to hell."

My voice was shaky near the end as the memories resurfaced; I quickly pushed them back to the back of my mind so that I did not appear weak. "Leo. Do not talk anymore. We here at the temple are always willing to accommodate someone in need. And if you need a little help we are always here to help you." He said with a sympathetic smile making me crack a small genuine smile in reply. I started to walk out of the temple with Cynder following me, still eyeing me suspiciously, as we walked down the stairs. "You know you don't have to accompany me everywhere." I told her as she stopped by my side. "I know that. However, I also know that you are not all what you say you are. I saw your exam results."

That comment made me snap my head to stare at her with my stance lowering slightly. "What did you read of them?" I asked her, my back popping at the stance I was in. "It surpasses all of the others; it is on par with me or Spyro. I am surprised you are on our level with only hand-to-hand combat." She said making me shake my head slowly with a dark chuckle. "Then train harder, if I can be on a legends level with only close quarters then you need to train more. The main threat may be over, but internal demons are a lot harder to defeat." I told her; I began feeling uneasy and nauseous as my vision started to fade in and out of focus. I felt a tail wrap around my side and drag me back towards the temple as I lost conscious.

Unconscious scene.

I was again in the bi pedal form; the surrounding trees looked strangely familiar. "I see that you have returned. Have you figured it out yet?" The voice of Tenebris asked behind me making me whip around to stare into his blood red eyes. "No I haven't, but I don't see what I was meant to figure out exactly." I replied seeing him smirk, fangs showing; "I can only say that you were once this form, a human." He said smirking as I shook my head. "There is no way that is possible; the species and anatomy difference is too different." I reply, my voice carrying my obvious denial. "Think about it Leo, your favourite colour combination is red and green. Your favourite element is fire. Does that sound like you Leo?" he asked making my eyes widen at what he said. I stepped back away from him, looking into his eyes as I shook my head. My eyes never left his as I was hit in the neck again.

End Scene

I awoke with a start, my eyes scanning the immediate area seeing that I was dragged back into the temple when I was out. "Leo?" I heard the voice of Ignitus ask me from my left. "What is it Ignitus?" I asked him seeing him come into my view with a serious look on his face. "What did you see?" He asked me making me sigh as I retold him the events of the encounters with Tenebris. "So you are him." Ignitus whispered, I guessed he did not want me to hear it. "So you do know about him. Who is he? What happened to me?" I asked him with anger boiling over in my voice. "Leo calm down. I do not know who he is exactly or what happened to you. All I know is that he is the remains of an enemy I had to face."

His words shocked me. (An enemy Ignitus himself had to face. It could be anyone then, all throughout history the guardians are prime targets for assassins. Every time though the only targets are Ignitus and Spyro. Recently though the assassins have targeted the recruits that came into the temple.) I thought with a scowl forming on my face. "So you know who he is to some extent, do you know what might have carried over?" I asked him seeing him look like he was in deep thought before answering. "He definitely has his attitude and deceiving words. His motives however seem to have changed so his malicious intent could be a part of his youthful naïve."

The explanation seemed to send a cold chill down my spine, a sense of foreboding filled the air. "So you figured it out?" A dark voice whispered, though we were the only ones in the room; "Not really just trying to wrap my head around the news." I said seeing a shadow appear in the middle of the room, the familiar dark red eyes filled with malicious intent. "Then let me help you figure it out." He laughed before he disappeared. I felt Ignitus stand closer to me. "Leo, get going." He said before I felt a sharp pain in my head forcing me to drop to the ground holding my head in my paws. ''Do not fight this, just let it happen'' a dark voice echoed in my head making me grunt in agony as I continued to resist.

I felt a cold pierce my heart making my eyes widen as sharp pain flared through my nerves. "Leo?" Ignitus asked me, his voice sounding as if he was at the far end of a tunnel. The pain worsened making it impossible to speak. "Stop resisting, I can help you." The voice whispered temptingly into my mind making me shake my head. "Leo, don't give in." Ignitus urge his words made my head throb in pain as a maniacal laughter filled my head. "Can you really trust the ones that want to hurt you Leo?" The voice in my head asked making me shiver, as the cold in my heart felt like it was a replacement of steel. "Leave, me, be." I managed to grunt out through the agony seeing Ignitus look at me with shock.

"Why do you want me to leave you be Leo, can you really be alone again?" The voice in my head taunted making my wings stiffen as I felt my resistance build as I pushed the voice slowly into the darkest depths of my mind. "I will get you eventually Leo, and the ones you care about will suffer." The voice vowed, before becoming completely silent leaving a migraine in its wake. "Leo are you alright?" Ignitus asked me making me nod my head as I shakily stood up. "I think so." I whispered, almost falling over as I stood up straight. "That took a lot out of you if you can't stand. I will get a medic to look at you. And they won't insult you like the rest of the village."

His words made me look at him with disbelief. "I doubt that, they would have to be like me in order for them to not." I said seeing him smile at me before he turned to leave. "Or be someone who knows who you are already." He said making me sigh as I looked around the room as I waited. The idea of being treated as an equal was as farfetched as a cheetah hunting a dragon. I waited for around about two minutes before the door opened and Cynder walked in. "Ignitus thought that with my experience that I would be best to try and understand what happened. So can you explain it Leo?" She asked carefully making me nod my head as she laid down in front of me to look into my eyes.

"I had another dream with this Tenebris, he decided to stop playing around with me and told me that I wasn't always a dragon, when I awoke I told Ignitus and then a voice in my head began to speak, it took all I had to resist its invasion into my mind. I tried to push it deep into my mind so that I won't have to hear it again but knowing my luck it won't happen like that." I said seeing Cynder stare at me with shock before she nodded. "It was almost the same with me when I was still known as the terror of the skies. The only difference is that when the voice started I let it in because I wanted to be treated equally and everyone that didn't see me as an equal were my enemies."

Cynder's words shocked me making me sigh as I looked at her. "Then we are more alike than we both first imagined it would seem. I guess I need to rest in order to recover from this?" I asked her seeing her look shocked at what I said. "Cynder are you alright?" I asked her seeing her look at me without moving. I finally moved slightly which caused her to speak. "Don't move, you need to rest. And yes it would seem that way." She said, with what I could swear was a slight blush on her face, she stood up and walked out of the room. "Time to get some rest then I guess." I said seeing, as I was alone again. I closed my eyes, curling into a ball with my tail near my face as I began to drift off to sleep.

I was almost asleep when I heard the door creak open, I looked up to see Inferno standing there with anxiety in her eyes. "Leo are you alright?" She asked me making me smile as I nodded. "Yeah, just a bit tired Inferno." I replied seeing her breathe a sigh of relief as she walked in and lay down next to me, doing the same thing so that we were almost pressed against each other. "I hope you can fight this Leo." She whispered in a shaky voice making me look at her with shock as she said that. "I hope so too Inferno, I hope so too." I replied nervously seeing her smile slightly. "I hope you know that I will be there for you Leo, always." She whispered, half asleep, making me blush slightly at her words.

"I know you will be there for me, I don't doubt you for a second." I said seeing her crack a smile as she pressed her side against mine before quickly returning to where it rested before. "I'm sorry Leo." Inferno whispered embarrassed making me chuckle lightly at her antics. "You've done it before Inferno, and we're friends. I trust you." I said closing my eyes. I felt her side gently touch my own as her wing draped across my back as she touched her head against mine for a second before shivering. I felt the calling of sleep take me as I lay there, a feeling of being normal embedded into my mind as I slowly tried to find the final piece before I fell asleep, it took me seconds to realize that I was at peace.

I awoke to hear someone lightly walking towards me. I cracked my eye open to see a cheetah with a knife in his hand. "If you live, then the master cannot be returned. You must die." He said as if recited. I quickly stood up, waking Inferno in the process. "What's going on?" she asked and I did not answer, only putting a single talon against her lips. I slowly advanced towards the cheetah. "What is your name before I end your pitiful existence." I snarled seeing him look up at me, the full moon showing me his eyes were glossed over. "I have no name, I am only a servant. And you must die." He responded in a monotone voice lunging forward with the knife.

I quickly sidestepped him and whipped him across the room. He hit the opposite wall with a sickening sound as he began to cough up blood from the wound. I picked up the knife he dropped in my tail, walking over to him and raising my tail into the air like a scorpion prepared to strike, as I asked him again. "What is your name?" I asked him seeing him laugh as he only repeated the same thing, albeit with a bit of a pause every now and then because of his wounds, sighing I brought the knife down across his torso effectively cutting him open. I sighed as the door opened again. I turned my head to look at Spyro with a look of confusion on his face. "What happened here?"

His question would have to wait as the cheetah began to laugh lightly. "If you could wait a second spyro this cheetah needs to regain his bearings before answering your question." I said before I grabbed the cheetah in my jaws and threw the almost lifeless cheetah to Spyro's feet. "Now to answer your question Spyro we were nearly assassinated." I told him bluntly seeing him look at me disbelievingly. "Why?" He asked and I sighed in frustration. "Something about 'if I live the master cannot be returned' or something like that." I said seeing him look at me shocked before he shook his head slowly. "I apologize for dragging you into this." He said making me look at him with a mix of anger and curiosity.

I slowly looked away from him to stare at the full moon outside. "If you were sorry for dragging us into this, then you should have arrived quicker, had I not been trained the hard way in my life, we would both be dead. I owe it to my training that she and I are still alive." I said motioning to Inferno with my tail. "I know but I was asleep until you threw this cheetah into the wall which is both of our walls. I hope that you know that Ignitus will want to hear it from you as to why there is a dead cheetah in your bed chambers." He said making me sigh. "These aren't my bed chambers, I am merely staying here until I have the strength to walk back to my home."

My words made Inferno look between Spyro and I with fear at the energy rising between us. "I apologize for waking you." I said, not wanting to wake up the whole temple with our fight. "It's alright, it was a life or death situation so I can forgive that. Also, these are your bedchambers if you decide to join us. Ignitus will send word to the local smiths to make a plaque with your name on it to nail onto the door. If you join us as a defender of the realms." He said making me laugh darkly. "Just like Ignitus to do that. He is a planner after all." I said seeing Spyro look at me confused as I slowly turned to Inferno. "I'm going for a walk, I'll be back." I said with a reassuring smile before walking out of the room.

I exited the temple to stare at the night sky before spreading my wings and taking flight. My body raising higher and higher until I was almost the size of a dragonfly from dragons on the ground. I took off towards the forest near Warfang. A sinister smile making its way onto my lips as I flew over the forest. 'Why am I flying this way?' I thought to myself before I felt that I could no longer control my body. I watched helplessly as I landed near a ruined castle; the walls were heavily destroyed with a single purple scale lying in front of where I landed. I saw myself pick it up before pain exploded from my mind, the suddenness of it making me fall unconscious from the pain.

Again only 3k words and I apologize but in all honesty, I had little time to actually write this. The last 2k+ were written in the same day. So if it seems rushed I apologize, I am working on doing a Christmas or holiday update-a-thon. Where I upload a new chapter for the holidays. My gift to you guys who have stuck with me through all of the trouble. One down, two to go.

I apologize for not updating in a while as well but as I said I had little time to write this, I stayed up one night until 4:30am the next day to write this chapter. Also, a guy has approached me and asked if he can do an Audiobook of this story. I have agreed to let him do that. So if you want to do anything involving my stories I would ask that you please contact me beforehand. I would do the same to you so I ask that you show some form of honour in asking for permission if you do.

Until next time guys. Hopefully this does not turn out to be my one update every six month thing. (And I just jinxed myself.)