Spyro groaned as he woke up. He was surprised to find that he was laying upon a pile of hay, which, while not all that comfortable, did provide a little bit of warmth. He tried standing up, but his legs gave out from under him when he tried as he realized how weak his body felt. He opened his eyes and looked around. Not so much to his surprise, he was behind bars. He also noticed that the prison he was in was on a cart. Spyro assumed that this was how they transported their fighters whenever they moved to a new location. He looked around some more, but couldn't really see much. He was under a tent, that much he could tell from the limited sunlight shining down upon the colored fabric. He could also make out a few other cages, most of which contained other people in them, from moles, to apes, and even a few wild animals.
"Feeling alright Spyro?" Terrador asked, making Spyro jump as he only just realized that there were more cages behind him, one of which held his father who was sitting in his cage. He noticed that his father also had something around his neck, something black.
"Oh, well I think so… I feel so weak though."
"That is thanks to that dark gem around your neck."
"The what?" Spyro tilted his head, confused. "What's a dark gem."
"It is like a red and green gem that we use to restore our energy or to heal us, only this steals our energy." Terrador laid down, feeling tired thanks to the dark gem. "They put this on us so that I couldn't fight back until the are ready to make me fight, and to keep you from resisting."
Spyro felt a little nervous after hearing this, as he wondered if Cynder had to wear this sort of thing as well. He only hoped that she and Hunter were ok. He then heard his father scoff.
"Your little bug friend sure is taking his sweet time finding the keys." He said quietly, not sure if there were guards outside the tent.
"How long as I out for?" Spyro asked, as it only now dawned on him that he might have been in there for a while.
"A few hours, I'm not sure exactly how long though. I was rather hoping that we'd be able to get in and out of here quickly. At this rate they might make me fight." Hearing this made Spyro worry even more.
"You are still able to fight right?" Terrador nodded.
"I would be more worried about who I'm fighting." Spyro looked around at the others in the tent with them and none of them seemed to be that strong, but then he realized what his father was getting at.
"If you end up Fighting Cynder or Hunter… you won't hurt them, will you?" Terrador said nothing. "Dad?"
Terrador sighed, "Spyro, you have to understand that if I end up fighting them, I would have no choice but to fight them. Do you honestly think that they will let us go if we decide that we don't want to fight?"
"No, but…" Spyro started to panic, fearing the worse will happen to either his father or his friends. "I'm just worried is all."
"Don't be…" Terrador paused to sigh again. "I'll try not to hurt your friends to badly." He said, showing a lot of restraint. While this didn't make Spyro feel a whole lot better, it helped a little. Moments later a large ape strolled into the tent and grabbed the cage that Terrador was in and began to drag it behind him.
"You fight now." The ape said, making Spyro believe that this ape wasn't the brightest pirate around.
"Please be carful dad." Spyro shouted to his father just as he was pulled out of the tent.
"I wouldn't be worried about him." Said a cheetah as he walked inside and grabbed Spyro's cage. "The boss wants you to watch." The cheetah started to pull Spyro's cage along behind him.
"Why does he want me to watch?" Spyro asked worriedly.
The pirate huffed as he pulled the cage, clearly no were near as strong as the ape from before. "The boss thinks that you might try escaping." He wheezed as he pulled Spyro along. "He wants to remind you what is at stake here."
"What does that mean?" Spyro felt his heart sink as he grew even more worried. The pirate ignored Spyro and dragged him to a large tent. From outside he could hear cheering and laughter. He saw the large ape from before walk over to the cheetah and pushed him aside and picked up the cage Spyro was in easily, taking him inside tent. It was dark inside, but he could hear the sound of pounding feet above him, making Spyro believe that he was under bleachers. The ape took stopped in front a flight of stairs and opened the cage. Before Spyro could even think about escaping, the ape grabbed him and yanked him out. The cheetah from before walked up behind them and tied a rope around Spyro's neck and the ape put him back down.
Spyro felt ashamed by the position they were putting him in, he felt like a pet on a leash, though he supposed that was all that they thought of him as. The ape pulled on the rope, making Spyro fall to the ground face first.
"Come on." The ape grunted before he walked up the stairs. Spyro did his best to keep up with the ape, trying to prevent the ape from dragging him up the stairs. As they ascended, Spyro heard someone start to announce something.
"And the winner goes to Alteris," As soon as he said that name, the crowd began to burst with cheers and boos. Through the noise of the audience, he heard a gate open and close, presumably letting this Alteris character leave the area. "Next up" the announcer continued. "We've got a special fight for all of you. He's new to this place, so I want you all to give a big warm welcome to…" The announcer paused for dramatic effect and just as the ape brought Spyro to the top of the stairs he heard the announcer shout "Terrador!" Spyro's heart skipped a beat when he heard his fathers named being called. The crowd booed, and threw glass bottles, and other trash at Terrador as he walked into a round, crudely made arena, that looked like it was built more to be build and disassembled quickly, than to hold people in.
There were several rows of seats below Spyro for people to watch what Spyro assumed where the fights. Below the audience there was a line of people each with a bow in hand, with quivers on their backs and an arrow in hand, each ready to take measures into their own hands incase the fighters didn't want to cooperate.
The ape tugged on the rope again, though this time Spyro caught himself before he could fall flat on his face. Spyro turned and walked with him a few more steps before he noticed that he was walking towards Skabb and his bird friends.
"Well look who decided to join us." Scratch chuckled when he saw Spyro being dragged along.
"Hush, you" Sniff scolded. "I want to see his reaction."
"Reaction to what?" Spyro asked worriedly. As if on cue, the announcer began to introduce the opponent Terrador would be fighting.
"And his opponent for this evening will be, the mistress of darkness, the terror of the arena, you know her, you've made tons of money from bets on her, iiiiiiittttttssss Cynder!" the gate opened and Cynder walked in. She looked worried and terrified, as she kept her eyes on Terrador, as she was unsure she would be able to beat him. Though she hadn't noticed Spyro yet, he noticed that she was also wearing a black gem around her neck as well.
"Cynder!" Spyro yelled over the crowed, as he tried to run to her, but the rope around his neck kept him from getting far, and only caused him to choke himself. Sniff began to laugh hard, nearly falling off Skabb's shoulder when he saw Spyro do this. Both Terrador and Cynder looked up towards Spyro, both equally shocked to see him there watching them. The announcer spoke before anyone of them could say anything.
"Looks like our purple friend here knows our contestants, how kind of Skabb to arrange this fight between the two." The crowed hollered and whooped, wanting to fight to start soon.
"Please, don't make them do this." Spyro begged Skabb and his birds. Skabb only chuckled.
"And why shouldn't we?" Scratch asked. "You managed to somehow escape from Moneybags, so we need to show you that we aren't messing around. We are going to watch one of your friends die tonight and maybe that will teach you what will happen if you try to escape before we sell you off to the highest bidder."
"Though please do try." Sniff said, still laughing hard. "We'd love to make more of your friends fight to the death. Spyro gulped and looked down at his friends, his heart racing harder than it ever had before, and his body started to shake with fear as he tried to think of something to do.
"Please, you have to help them." Spyro begged his dark half in his head. Dark Spyro only laughed.
"And why should I? You trapped me in this cage, and now you come begging to me asking me to save your friends? Not going to happen Spyro. If you want to save them so badly, go do it yourself." Spyro swore under his breath and tired pulling at the rope again, but the ape had a very firm grip on it. All Spyro could do was watch as his father and his best friend circle one another as the fight started.
Cynder did her best to hide her fear, though this was extremely difficult to do when facing against someone as massive as Terrador in size comparison. "I'm going to enjoy this immensely." Terrador said just loud enough for Cynder to hear, causing her heart to sink to her stomach. Cynder stopped and shook her head, trying to remove all thoughts of doubt and fear from her hea-
Before she realized she was swatted by Terrador's tail and she rolled across the ground and the crowd roared to life.
"CYNDER!" Spyro shouted as she watched her slowly get up. Even though it was just a single swing, her body ached like hell and she could feel a little bit of blood fall down her side.
"You need to pay attention! I'm not going to hold back." Terrador taunted as he went back to circling her.
"Dad, stop!" Spyro shouted at his father, his body consumed by a mixture of fear and anger. Terrador ignored him, to wrapped up in his own revenge. Cynder coughed as she stood back up after getting the wind knocked out of her. Terrador smiled, happy to see that he didn't end the fight too quickly. Cynder ran forwards at Terrador, who just stood still and watched her. Half way to him, she jumped and tried to slash at his neck, but Terrador swatted her out of the air with his paw. Cynder hit the ground again, her body aching. Without her abilities she stood little chance against Terrador and a fight of strength. Spyro tired pulling on the rope again, only for the ape to pull back on the rope, making Spyro fall backwards. "No more of that" the ape grunted.
Cynder looked up at Spyro, and see saw the scared look on his face. She smiled back at him, making Spyro's heart fall as he thought that this would be the last time he got to see her smile. She focused her attention back to Terrador.
"Why are you even here?" She grunted as she stood back up.
Terrador snorted as he and Cynder started to circle each other again. "Spyro thought he had the power to break you and your cheetah friend out of here." Upon hearing this Skabb looked towards Spyro and smirked before laughing. Sniff jumped off Skabb's shoulder and landed on Spyro's snout, digging his claws into his scales. Spyro flinched, and tried shaking the bird off him, but Sniff held on tight.
"So, what is this I hear about you breaking someone out?" Sniff asked Spyro, digging his claws in deeper.
"Please, let go!" Spyro shook as hard as he could, but the ape holding the rope grabbed him and held him still, growing tired of his shaking.
"Let me make this clear, purple boy, you aren't going anywhere till our pockets are filled with money. Now be a good prisoner and don't cause anymore trouble or we'll just kill those two down there." The bird sneered before letting him go, flying back over to Skabb's shoulder. Spyro whimpered and remained still.
"Why didn't you stop him?" Cynder asked as she and Terrador continued to walk in circles, waiting for one of them to make the first move. "That's a terrible plan."
Terrador stopped, growing tired of walking around. "People do stupid things when they are in love, or want revenge." Cynder took a step back, as Terrador came charging at her. She stepped to the side just as he swung at her, nearly dodging the attack. At his side, Cynder jumped upon his back and was about to take a bite out of his neck, before Terrador rolled over, crushing Cynder under his weight. She groaned as she laid on the ground in pain. Terrador walk over to her and stepped on her, putting enough for on her to keep her pinned to the ground. He growled as he leaned in close to her. "You've hurt someone very precious to me once. You hurt Nova and threated to kill her. Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you?"
Cynder didn't bother to look at him. "I don't have any. I was put in here because I abandoned the one of person in this world who felt the same pain that I did." She said, sounding rather sad. She tilted her head to look up at Spyro and she saw the worried look on his face as he stared back down at her. She gave him a soft smile before addressing Terrador again. "Please just take good care of Spyro for me. He has done enough to deserve a happy life. So just make this quick." Terrador smiled with glee and put his claw to Cynder's throat. Spyro looked away, unable to watch anymore. With one swift motion Terrador swiped his claw. Cynder winced and felt a twinge of pain in her neck and could feel blood slow run down her.
The crowd cheered as the fight was over, and gold was moved about to the winners of the bet. Even Skabb clapped his hands together, applauding Terrador for the entertaining fight. Both Scratch was cheering as well before looking down to Spyro who was already crying. The bird looked up to the ape holding Spyro and said, "Take this fool away." The ape nodded and pulled Spyro along, who didn't even bother to fight back.
Terrador leaned down and whispered "Don't move" Cynder was confused by this, but was more confused by the fact not only was she still alive but she felt her energy returning to her. She felt something sliding down her neck, making her realize that Terrador had broken the dark gem that was around her neck, only slightly cutting her deep enough to cause some bleeding and make it look like he had killed her. She played along and did her best to keep still while she heard the gate open up for Terrador to leave. Soon enough she felt someone grab her and drag her along. Cynder held her breath as long as she could, and thankfully they set her down just as she had to take a breath. She could hear them start to dig into the ground, probably preparing her gave. She opened up her eyes just a crack to see if they were paying attention to her. With their backs turned to her, she used what little energy she had regained to use her shadow element. Once the pirates were done digging they turned around to dump Cynder's body in the hole, only to find that she had disappeared.
The ape was basically dragging Spyro back towards his cage, not that he minded. Spyro was light enough as is, and he nearly forgot that he was dragging something with him. Spyro barley cringed every time he was dragged over a rock bump, but nothing compared to the pain that he felt in his heart. In his mind he replayed the scene over and over again. It all seemed like a bad dream and he wished dearly that he would wake up from it. His eyes grew cloudy and his body felt weak. He just wanted to die at that moment. Almost as if his wish was being granted, a bright dazzling light shined in the dark forest and was quickly growing bigger. The ape noticed this to and looked towards where the light was coming from, only to realize that this light was a fireball just as it crashed into him. The ape screamed and ran around in circles trying to put out the fire when he was struck in the head with and ice spear and he fell over dead.
Spyro was jolted back to his sense by this sudden turn of events and he looked towards where the attacks came from. He saw three armored dragons walking towards him along with two moles and a cheetah, each also covered in a small amount of armor. Just from behind them another ball of light popped up and flew towards Spyro.
"Sorry it took so long." Sparx said as he stopped right in front of Spyro. "I would have been here sooner, but I ran into these guys." Sparx pointed towards the group who were already starting to disband, each going in a group of two. A cheetah and one of the dragons were came up to Spyro and Sparx and helped the purpled dragon up, and destroyed the dark gem around his neck.
"What's going on?" Spyro looked at the two confused.
"Wow, you weren't kidding, he really is here." The dragon seemed shocked to find Spyro here. Spyro turned towards Sparx.
"What's going on?" he asked again.
Sparx sighed. "You see, I was just flying around trying to find the keys, when I spotted this group of guys making there way towards the city. I told them that there is a bunch of pirates up ahead and they told me that they were already heading there, so I told them our plan and offered them some help."
"You didn't really help." The cheetah butted in. "You mostly just talked about how great you where and spotted your friend here being dragged around." Sparx chuckled nervously, hoping that Spyro wouldn't believe him. The cheetah then looked towards Spyro and said, "Sorry to do this, but…" The dragon beside them suddenly pinned Spyro down and the cheetah pulled a rope out and began to tie Spyro up.
"What are you doing?!" Sparx shouted.
"We are from Warfang, and once we are done freeing everyone here, we are going to take you back to Warfang. Spyro struggled against the ropes.
"No, I won't go back there!" The cheetah held Spyro down.
"Hold still, or else Spyro." Spyro didn't listen to him and the cheetah struck his head, knocking him out. He picked him up and put him on his partners back. "Take him back to camp, we'll regroup there." The dragon nodded and took Spyro away. Sparx started to chase after the dragon.
"Hey, wait!" the cheetah stepped in front of him
"Hold on."
Sparx stopped inches from the cheetah. "You've got my friend, why shouldn't I go after him?"
"Look, I know this is sudden, but could you help me rescue the others here first? We aren't going to hurt Spyro or anything, I promise."
Sparx rolled his eyes. "Fine I guess." The cheetah smiled and nodded and began to sneak around the place with Sparx close by.
Terrador sat in his cage, hoping that his plan would work. He was expecting Sparx to come darting into the tent with a set of keys. "What took you so long!" Terrador asked out raged at the insect. Sparx just held up his hands in defense.
"Hey, don't get mad at me, I'm just trying to help." The cheetah soon walked in as well and they both started to unlock the cages.
"Who's this?" Terrador asked as they unlocked his cage.
"I'm just here to help get everyone out." The cheetah explained as he started to open other cages and setting the people free.
"They already got Spyro. They said that they are going to take him to Warfang." Sparx whispered to Terrador. "Anything we can do to stop this?"
Terrador shrugged. "Not sure, but if he's apart of the search party that's been looking for Spyro, then it'll be tough."
"How come? I saw you take on half a dozen guards, a few days ago."
"Yes, but these aren't ordinary people. This are train solders from Warfang. Hell, I've probably taught some of them back when I was still a respectable dragon." The cheetah quickly got everyone out of their cages and walked back over to Terrador and Sparx.
"I think that's everyone. Could you guys help me look for more people?"
"Of course, there are still someone else we are looking for ourselves." Terrador said before thanking the Cheetah for freeing them. Before they could leave, the tent suddenly burst into flames and the three of them quickly ran out. Somehow the pirates caught wind of the search party freeing the prisoners and started to fire blazing arrows upon the tents, trying to fry anyone they could hit, while more stormed the area, swords draw with the intent to kill anyone who apposed them. The cheetah cursed and drew his bow, and tried to shoot the other archers. Terrador defended him, striking a small tree and knocking it down, making a wall of cover for them both while also batting away one charging pirate.
"Go find Spyro's other friend." Terrador shouted at Sparx just as he ducked out of the way of an arrow. "We need to leave as soon as possible!" Sparx didn't need to be told twice and flew off.
"We need to get going and quickly!" The cheetah said behind the cover Terrador made. "We'll get over ran quickly." He poked his head over his cover and shot some of the archers firing around them and ducked back down.
"I agree, but I made a promise to my son to help. So, I won't leave till his friends are safe." Terrador said as he crushed another pirate with his tail." He saw another pirate running towards them and he opened his mouth to fire an earth missile, only for nothing to happen. He cursed himself and the dark gem they put on him, and tried to swing his claws at the pirate when he got close enough. The pirate jumped back and dodged the attack, taking a swipe with his sword at Terrador's paw, which missed. The pirate swung again, this time aiming for Terrador's chest, but Terrador got out of the way just in time and bit off the pirate's head.
"Just help me find him and then we can leave." Terrador addressed to the cheetah, but only got a gargled mess of words from him. He turned around and saw Skabb, with Scratch and Sniff on his shoulders, stabbing the cheetah through his chest, killing him instantly. Skabb pulled his sword out and tossed the cheetah aside and face Terrador.
"You aren't getting out of here alive boy!" Scratch yelled, leaping off Skabb's shoulder and flew towards Terrador, with Skabb right behind him. While Skabb was trying to slice Terrador to pieces, both Scratch and Sniff would peck and scratch at him as they flew by. Terrador spun around and tried to hit Skabb with his tail, but the pirate jumped back before it could hit him, and Sniff took a small chunk of his scales out of his back followed by Scratch doing the same thing. Before Terrador could fully recover, Skabb was already attacking him again, swiping at him with his large trusty sword. Terrador braced the hit, taking the blow against his arm. While his scales did absorb some of the damage, the blade still cut deep into his arm. Terrador jumped up and began to fly to try and get away from Skabb, only for Scratch and Sniff to fly back around and tear apart his wings, and though they would heal over time, he couldn't do my flying about.
When Terrador landed, Skabb was on him again, and tried to cut his head off. Terrador did duck under the attack and slammed his head into Skabb's face, causing the pirate to fall to the ground dazed and confused, but before Terrador could finish him off, Scratch and Sniff started to harass him again, clawing and biting him.
Out of the corner of his eye, Terrador saw Sparx flying over, flying as fast as he could. In his moment of distraction, Sniff landed on Terrador's head and was about to scratch out Terrador's eye, when Sparx came in and sucker punched the bird as hard as he could, throwing the bird to the ground, knocking him out cold and before he could even get up, Terrador slammed his tail down, killing the bird instantly. "SNIFF!" Scratch shouted, sad to see his friend get killed. Enraged, He flew at Sparx and was about to eat him, when an arrow punctured him, killing him instantly. Terrador looked over to where the arrow came from, and saw Hunter with the bow and arrow that the cheetah from before had.
"You alright Sparx?" Hunter asked as he faced Terrador, drawing another arrow for the next person to attack them.
"Yeah I'm ok. Thanks for the save."
Hunter looked up at Terrador and gulped. The last time they saw each other, Terrador looked like he was going to kill them. "And what about you? Are you here to help us escape?" Terrador huffed, not appreciating Hunter for not trusting him. Before Terrador could say anything, they heard a groan and saw Skabb get up. He shook his head and looked at the three of them and saw that his birds were both dead. Skabb growled and pulled out a second sword from a dead pirate nearby. He began screaming at the top of his lungs and ran at the three of them. Hunter tried to shoot him with an arrow, but Skabb deflected it. Before Hunter could even draw another one, Skabb was upon him. Hunter was saved at the last moment as Terrador hit Skabb with his tail again.
"Go find Spyro, we'll discuss our next step later!" Terrador yelled at Sparx. Sparx agreed and flew off to find the rest of the search party. Skabb got up quicker this time and twirled his swords around. Hunter stood next to Terrador and notched another arrow.
"Think we can take him?" Hunter asked a little nervous.
"I do, just keep him distracted." Hunter nodded and began to shoot arrow's at Skabb who just blocked them with his swords as he charged forwards. He swiped at Terrador who did his best to dodge each one. Hunter got behind Skabb and jumped onto his back, wrapping his bow around Skabb's neck and chocked him. He struggled to pull Hunter off him, till he managed to grab hold of his arm and threw Hunter off. Just as Hunter landed, Terrador swung his claws at the pirate who stepped to the side and plunged his sword into Terrador's arm. Terrador's body ached and he tried to back away, only to collapse under the burning pain from the wound. Just as Skabb went for the finishing blow, Cynder jumped upon his back, tackling him to the ground and stabbed his side with her tail.
"Cynder!" Hunter said, happy to see his friend alive and well. He ran over to her and helped Terrador up. Cynder looked over to Terrador and scoffed.
"I'd say that we are even now." She said to the older dragon, to which Terrador nodded. The three faced Skabb as he picked himself back up and growled at the three of them. Hunter quickly shot another arrow, hitting him in the shoulder, causing him to drop one of his swords from the pain. Cynder ran at him and ducked under his swipe and fire a shadow blast at his other hand, burning it severely, and causing him to drop his other sword. She then pounced on him and tackled him to the ground before quickly getting off so that Terrador could crushed the pirate with his tail, putting an end to him.
With the fight over, Terrador felt his wounds get to him, and nearly collapsed to the ground again from his arm wound. "Are you alright?" Hunter asked, placing a paw on his side, but Terrador shook him off.
"I'm fine. Lets just fine the rest of the search party and get out of here."
"Search party?" Cynder sounded confused. "You mean like the ones that's been hunting us?"
"Yes, and they currently have Spyro, so unless you want them to take him to Warfang, I suggest you help."
Cynder growled. "Now wait, one moment, why should we trust you? You've done nothing but cause us harm." Terrador turned away from her and started to look around for someone from the search party.
"I let you live, didn't I?" Cynder wanted to say something to appose him more but cursed herself when she couldn't think of anything. Hunter placed a paw on her shoulder to try and help calm her down.
"lets just see where Spyro is and go from there. We can worry about trusting each other another time." Cynder wasn't to happy with this response, but agreed anyways. They did eventually regroup with the search party, where they got healed from the fight and met up with Sparx again who began telling Cynder and Hunter how he single handedly locate the pirate hide out and the events leading up to that point. Terrador looked for whoever was in charge of the search party, and asked him were Spyro was being held, needing to speak with him. After some convincing, he told him where Spyro was.
After Terrador gathered the others with him, they found Spyro near the middle of the camp, still tided up and guarded by two men. Despite the guards, Cynder ran up to Spyro and hugged him the moment she saw him.
"Cynder! Your alive!" Spyro said shocked and over come with joy to see her again.
"Spyro, I'm so sorry for everything that had happened, I shouldn't have ever said those things about you. I-" Spyro cut her off.
"Cynder, I forgive you. Thinking back on it, I wasn't being the most cheerful person around and I shouldn't have been so hard on myself. I deserved everything that you said." The guards, pulled Cynder away before they could continue the conversation, but that still didn't remove the smiles on both of their faces.
"It's good to see that you're alright Spyro… well minus the who being tied up thing." Hunter chimed in. Spyro laughed lightheartedly and agreed that he was happy to see him as well.
"So, what happens now?" Cynder asked the guards.
"From here, we are going to take him to Warfang and it will be up to King Flame to decide what to do." One of the guards explained.
"Why is that?" Hunter asked.
"Because the king believes that Spyro is the key to fixing all the trouble I've caused in Warfang." Terrador answered.
"Trouble?" Spyro tilted his head. "What's going on in Warfang?"
"You mean you haven't heard?" the other guard asked to which Spyro, Cynder, and Hunter all shook their heads.
Terrador let out a sigh as he explained it to the group. "People are hurting each other and dying, all because they think that Spyro is corrupting people and turning each other against one another all the while raising an army to kill them all. It's a mad house in Warfang right now." Spyro was beyond shocked to hear this, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for everyone being affected by him for just existing.
Cynder didn't want to believe it, and Hunter just shook his head with disgust. Sparx on the other hand seemed confused. "I don't get it, Spyro is one of the most pathetic dragons I've seen…. No offense Spyro. Why would they think that he is going to kill them all?"
"I know why." Spyro said, sounding gloomy. "It's because even though I'm weak, I still have the power to kill everyone, and that is what's scaring them."
"Which I why we are taking him back to Warfang." The left guard said. "Right now, he seems to be our only hope. So, he needs to come with us whether he likes it or not."
Cynder growled and arched her back, prepared for a fight. "No, I won't let you take him away from us again!" Both guards raised their weapons at Cynder, but before anything could happen, Spyro stopped her.
"Cynder please, enough fighting!" he shouted at her. Cynder looked at him, worried beyond belief for his safety, but he had a look that told her that he didn't care what happened to him. He stared back at her and sighed. "I know that you only want what is best for me, but people are getting hurt… I don't know what the king plans on doing or what is going to happen, but…. I think it would be best if we go back home."