Elora gave Spyro some time to unwind, sitting beside him if he needed anything from her or if she could help him in any way possible. "Thank you again Elora." Spyro said after a few moments of silence. Elora smile, nodded, and patted his back before standing back up.
"It's part of my job, and frankly I enjoy it. Is there anything else you wanted to get off your chest?" Spyro shook his head. "Wonderful. If you need to talk about something again, just come find me." Elora got up and left the room, leaving Spyro alone again. While he was alone, he thought more about what she said, thinking if Cynder and Hunter really do deserve his forgiveness.
"On one paw, they've always been there for me before and I guess I never really realized how much of a burden I could be on them… On the other though, it still hurts just thinking about what they said." His head began to hurt from thinking so hard on the topic, making him wish someone could just tell him what he should do and not have to deal with this anymore. He shook his head, hoping that would help, but it only made his headache worse. "Maybe some food will help." He spoke aloud to himself after realizing that there wasn't any reason for him to sit there alone anymore. "Got any more to say?" he asked his dark half who mumbled a few things, and nothing more. Feeling relief from this, Spyro rejoined the girls in the dining room.
Before he knew it, the rest of the day had gone by. Being enclosed inside a glass dome inside of a building made it impossible for Spyro to know what time it was or if it was even dark outside, but he didn't seem to mind to much. While he desired nothing more than to leave this place, he was happy just with the fact that he wasn't alone. As per instructed by Elora, Spyro got his own room while the girls shared their own. It was small, but nothing that he wasn't already use to already. At least he had a bed. That was something he gave Moneybags credit for. Even though he treated them live pets, kept them locked up, and used them for his own personal satisfaction, he at least gave them plenty of food, clean water, and comfortable bedding. Does it make up for what he was doing to them? No, Spyro didn't think so, but it helped him ease into the situation that he was in. If he was going to be trapped in there for the rest of his life, he was happy to be somewhat comfortable and with friends.
It didn't take him very long to fall asleep that night, his mind feeling at ease after his talk with Elora. Just like any other night, he found himself in his own dream scape, standing in a white void. He waited, looking around and wondering where his dark counterpart was or when he was going to show up. After some time passed and still he did not appear, making Spyro wonder if he was going to come at all. As relieving as that thought was, it worried him a little that his other self might be plotting something, hence the reason he wasn't showing up. Worried for what might come, Spyro began to walk around to try and find Dark Spyro.
Despite walking around in an empty void, it was rather difficult finding his other half, not to mention nauseating. He considered creating some sort of landscape to ease his stomach, and after some thought an endless meadow grew from the ground. As far as his eyes could see was a cloudless sky hanging above an ocean of purple, yellow, red, and green flowers. Though the view was pretty enough to just sit down and enjoy, Spyro reluctantly continued his search for the dark being that lurked in his mind.
"Hello?" Spyro called out, hoping for his other half to answer back. "Are you still in here?" There was a groan in the distance.
"Yes, I'm still here." Dark Spyro called back. "What do you want?" He sounded annoyed. Walking a bit faster than before, Spyro found his other half sitting by himself among some smoldering flowers, looking away from him.
"You seem in a sour mood." Spyro wouldn't say it out loud, but he was more than happy to see his other half like this.
Dark Spyro rolled his eyes. "Well it's not like I almost tasted freedom, only to be stopped short thanks to that bitch of a friend of yours. Now answer my question, what do you want?" Dark Spyro moved his head slightly to look back at Spyro. "It's not like you to come searching for me."
"I was just curious where you were. You often like to pop up out of now were and torment me." Spyro said with a shrug. Much to his own and his dark counter part's surprise, Spyro sat down beside him. "What are you looking at?"
Dark Spyro couldn't help but snort. "You do know that we aren't friends, right? Do you no remember what I plan on doing once I get out of here?"
"I know all of that…" Spyro said with a nod. After a second he found himself beginning to chuckle a little. "To be honest, I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. Things have been so confusing the past few days. I just wish to return to the way things were."
Hearing this only made his other half laugh with him. "Now that I can agree with. Back then I had much more control, and I could get out much easier. Now you keep me locked in here."
Spyro gave his other half a questionable look. "You do nothing but threaten to kill the people I care about. Why should I let you out?"
"Because I can also kill those whom aim to harm you."
"And you honestly think that justifies you killing my friends?" Dark Spyro shrugged.
"Maybe not to you, but to me?" Dark Spyro got up and faced his other half. "To me, they are getting what they deserve. Your so-called lover hates your guts and that dumb cat agrees. Your father deserves the most pain death imaginable, and every last living being on this putrid planet shouldn't be allowed to live."
"What about Elora, or Ember, or the Leviathan? What have they done?" Spyro asked, trying to keep himself calm. Dark Spyro shrugged.
"I don't know yet, but I rather seem them dead than have them hurt us anymore." Hearing this, peaked Spyro's interest.
"What do you mean by that?" Dark Spyro sighed.
"Like I said before, I am the evil that you created in your mind based upon what others view you as. They see us as freaks, as monsters, as vile creatures that they must smother with their heels and tread upon less it grows up to devour them." The more Dark Spyro talked the angrier his voice sounded. "The people all over this world have done nothing but hurt us Spyro, don't you understand that?"
"Of course I d-"
"Then why do you forgive them?" Dark Spyro cut off his other half. Slowly, Dark Spyro began to pace around Spyro. Feeling the dread grow inside of him, Spyro followed his other half with his eyes. "Why do you just let people walk all over you? Why do you accept that kind of life?"
Spyro let his head slump down. "Because I don't know any other way of living." Spyro jumped, when he felt his dark half put a paw upon his shoulder.
"Then let me take control, let me show you that we can live in a world where we don't get treated like dirt, a world where we don't have to worry about others taking advantage of us, a world where we don't have to fear for our lives, but instead a world where people fear us."
Spyro had to think about this for a moment. So many things have gone wrong in his life, so many things that he just wished never happened, and there were even more things he wished did happen. He wanted a happy life and he thought he had gained one once he, Cynder, and Hunter left Warfang. He wanted to feel safe without having to worry about some search party finding him. He wanted a world where he could feel free for a change. "Your offer… does sound tempting…"
"Then why are you hesitating?" Dark Spyro walked around and stopped right in front of him, reaching out his paw to his other half. "Take my paw, and I'll make all your pain and troubles go away forever."
Spyro looked down at his dark half's paw, then back up at him. Dark Spyro had a genuine smile upon his face, one that made Spyro feel safe and comfortable, but before Spyro could reach out his paw, he remembered what Elora said to him. Slowly he began to back away from his other half. Dark Spyro began to scowl. "I see, so that's how it's going to be then? Well, then I guess I'll just have to force my way out!" Dark Spyro jumped at his other half, swiping at him with his claws. Spyro managed to move out of the way just in time, but before Spyro could recover his evil half hit his chest with a fireball, causing him to wince and stumble backwards.
Dark Spyro snorted at his good half as he tried to regain his balance. "Just give up now Spyro, don't make this too hard on yourself."
As tempting as the offer was, Spyro still shook his head. "I know you want what you think is best for us, but I can't let you hurt my friends. You've done enough damage already." Thinking back to the little bit of combat training that Cynder and Hunter taught him, Spyro got into a stance, readying himself for whatever his dark half could throw at him. Dark Spyro only smirked.
"Oh, I'm going to enjoy this." Once again, he lunged at his good half, clawing at him, swiping his sharp claws at whatever body part he could hit. Spyro ducked and dodged most of his attacks, backing away from him, looking for an opening. He cringed when some of the attacks landed, but fought back his urge to give up. Dark Spyro's attacks where wild, and often they wouldn't come close to even hitting him. Spyro wasn't sure if his dark half was doing this to intimidate him or if he was just bad at fighting. His thoughts were broken when he felt Dark Spyro's tail blade cut his side.
"AH!" Spyro yelped, jumping backwards. Dark Spyro stopped his attacks and began to pace around Spyro again.
"Just give up already Spyro, you know you can't beat me. I'm everything you lack."
"So, I should just give you my body?"
"That would make things easier." Dark Spyro slowly walked towards him. "Though I must admit, this is a lot more fun." With a quick turn, Dark Spyro struck his good half with his tail, sending the purple dragon to the ground. He groaned as he slowly stood back up, only to be stopped when Dark Spyro stepped on him, putting all of his weight down upon Spyro.
Spyro closed his eyes, knowing that he had lost. Tears started to from in his eyes. He felt pathetic. He had barely put up a fight, and before he knew it, he had lost. He tried to wake up, hoping that it would keep his new friends safe and alive, but his body wouldn't listen to him.
"Don't worry Spyro, I'll make sure their suffering ends quickly." Dark Spyro raised his claws into the air to give the final blow. Spyro closed his eyes, not wanting to see his demise coming, when suddenly the weight atop of him was gone. He heard his dark half grunt as something tackled him to the ground. Opening his eyes Spyro was shocked to see another black figure that looked similar to Spyro, grappling with Dark Spyro, the only factor that differed between Dark Spyro and the stranger was that this new being had glowing red eyes instead of the glowing white one's that Dark Spyro had.
Dark Spyro eventually managed to throw off the stranger and managed to stand back up. "So, you finally decided to show yourself. It's been a long time, hasn't it?" Dark Spyro snarled.
Spyro just looked confused. "Wait, who are you?" Both black versions of Spyro rolled their eyes.
"Come on Spyro, were you really not paying attention?" Dark Spyro called out, growing more annoyed the more he was around his good half. Dark Spyro looked over to the newcomer, expecting him to introduce himself, to which he growled back before explaining.
"I am the second voice in your head Spyro that you've been hearing." The Red Eyed Spyro explain. He pointed over to Dark Spyro. "Much like how he represents how the world sees you, I am a repetition of how you see yourself."
Spyro was beyond confused. "Wait, I don't understand. I was told that you hate me. If that's true, why did you save me?"
"Trust me, I want nothing more than to just kill you myself." Red Eye said with a growl before looking back over to Dark Spyro. "However, I can't let his monster take over your body. He wants to use your body to kill others. I on the other hand, once I have control of you, will merely kill myself, and thus riding you completely."
Hearing this only added onto Spyro confusion. "Wait, I don't get it, why do you want to kill me, or I guess I should say all of us, yourself even?"
"Don't you get it Spyro?" His dark half boasted. "All those things you've said about yourself? Calling yourself stupid, pathetic, a disgrace, all those things manifested themselves into their own person, and now, much like myself, we both want to control your body. The only difference being that I want to use your body to rule this world, while he want to just end your life. With that said, do you really need me to explain further?" Dark Spyro held his glare on Red Eye, making quick glances to Spyro.
"So, it's a battle for my body…" Spyro couldn't help but smirk at the ironic feeling of happiness he was feeling for being wanted, something that was rather rare for him to feel. He shook his head, wanting it to be clear minded and got into another stance. "Fine then, if you both want my body, then you're going to have to defeat me first."
The three of them stared at one another for what felt like hours, before Red eye made the first move, jumping at Dark Spyro and bit into his shoulder. Feeling the stinging pain in his shoulder, Dark Spyro Grabbed onto his red eye'd counterpart and stabbed him in the gut with his tail blade, causing Red eye to let go of him. Before Dark Spyro could recover, Spyro shot and impaled him with several small ice Shards before tackling him to the ground. Feeling slightly dazed from his tackle, Spyro couldn't move out of the way as Red eye furiously clawed his side. Spyro yipped as his side was being shredded, when Dark Spyro swatted away Red eye with a powerful tail attack and before Spyro could stand back up he felt his dark half jump atop of him again and tore a large chunk of his back.
The three of them went back and forth, each gaining a slight advantage over one of them for a fraction of a second before the third one would come in and knock away one of them, leaving the other one easy picking. They had no idea how long their fight really was, and after some time they all were standing still panting heavily, pieces of each other lying upon the ground, blood dripping down their bodies like a dying stream.
"This is getting us nowhere." Spyro spoke aloud to the other two. "Can't we just let this all go?" he pleaded, wanting this all to be over, but they both shook their heads.
"I'm tired of sitting inside of you, waiting for you to let me out." Red eye said, growing impatient. "We are finishing this now!"
"I couldn't agree more." Dark Spyro grinned before making a mad dash at Spyro and knocking him over onto his back and before Spyro could do a thing, he felt claws pierce his chest, and stabbing his heart. This was quickly answered by Red eye tackling Dark Spyro, leaving the original to bleed upon the flowers. As the two fought over his body, Spyro began to laugh again as he felt his body grow weaker and weaker. "I feel so stupid. Here I am fighting over my body against two versions of himself. If he didn't know what stupid meant before, he definitely knew now. All of a sudden it hit him. "Wait, I still control my body, and this is all just a dream, a painful experience, but it was still a dream, where I could do whatever I wanted to."
As Red eye and Dark Spyro continued their fight, a cage suddenly appeared around them and before they knew it, they were both locked up in either own cage. They both tried to bend or destroy the bars, but with no success.
"What is the meaning of this Spyro?" his dark half growled threateningly.
"I'm locking you guys both up." Spyro limped, the holes in his chest still throbbing with pain, even after he fixed the wound.
"Why not just kill us?" Red eye asked, curious himself as to what Spyro had planned.
"I…." Spyro paused for moment, try to figure out why he didn't destroy them. "I don't know, to be honest. However, I worry that if I kill one of you, all the hatred, and anger that you both share inside of you will be transferred to me." Spyro sat down between the two-caged versions of himself. "And to be honest I'm tired of fighting, I'm tired of letting people walk all over me, and I'm tired of just giving up." Spyro explained thinking back to all the things Elora had told him earlier. "You both may get out, you both may try to kill me again. But so long as I live, I'll do everything in my power to keep you both locked away in the deepest part of my brain. I won't let either one of you hurt anyone."
Both of his counter parts just laughed. "Well then I guess it's a date then Spyro" His dark half chuckled. "I just hope that you're ready to never sleep soundly again." Before Spyro could even answer him back, he blacked out, waking up in his bed all of a sudden, with Ember shacking him awake.
"Spyro you got to get up, something is happening." Confused, afraid, and still very tired, Spyor followed Ember outside of the fake cave they lived in. To Spyro's shock and awe, the glass done around them had several large cracks in them, from something smashing into them. Spyro looked around trying to figure out who had chipped the glass, and found Elora calling out something to someone that he could not see.
"Look out behind you!" Elora called to someone beyond the glass. Moments later one of the heavily armored guards was throw across glass dome and into several other displays stands and passing out. Up above, upon a cat walk, Moneybags was freaking out.
"What are you doing! Please stop this at once!" He called out to someone below on the ground. Suddenly, a large earth shot flew across Spyo's field of view and into the catwalk that Moneybags was standing upon, destroying it instantly. The bear fell from high above them, screaming as loud as possible, and hit the ground hard, landing on the stone floor head first. Blood began to pool around him as his body went limp.
Elora quickly came running back inside, pushing both Spyro and Ember back into the fake cave, just before another earth shot hit the dome around them, shattering it completely. All around them razor sharp shards of glass came falling down. Spyro could hardly comprehend what was going on when Elora began to pull the two forwards once the glass had stopped falling. "Come on guys, we need to get out of here.
"What about the Leviathan?" Ember asked, as she and Spyro were pulled away from the large pool of water.
"We'll come back for him later, right now we have to get out of here!"
"Hey, what's going on? Who is saving us?" Spyro was confused, his five senses fighting each other as he tried to figure out what was happening. The air smelled of smoke, from a fire coming from the back of the building, guards were screaming at each other as they tried to fight off the mystery man or woman who had saved them, glass was flying everywhere as Powerful earth bolts came whizzing past them.
"Save your questions for later!" Elora yelled as the three of them ran as fast as they could, trying to find an exit. As they ran around Spyro caught a glimpse of another dragon. He was an adult earth dragon with green scales and a dark green underbelly, with a spiked mace for a tail blade. Spyro's eyes went wide and his jaw dropped.
"Dad?"
Hello guys, sorry this one took so long to post. I'm also sorry if you guys didn't like the reveal of the second voice in Spyro's head that I've been building up to. To be honest I liked the idea when I first came up with it and what I had with the chapter that he first spoke in, but shortly afterwards I began to hate the idea, but it had gotten to the point where I couldn't just forget about him and had to have him show up at some point. If I could, I would have just removed the second voice from the story and would have just left it with just Spyro and his dark counterpart. So again, I do apologies if it didn't turn out how you wanted it to. Regardless of that, I do plan on posting more chapters soon. Like I said before I'm going to finish this story before this year ends. I don't know when I'll be posting the chapters, just expect them to come out soon-ish. Also, sorry if things seemed a little rushed or don't make much sense. It's currently midnight where I am and I'm very tired. I had some time on my hands and I wanted to get this chapter done today. Thanks again guys for reading this story.