The Legend Of Spyro: Love And War Book 2

by Spyro and Cynder lover

Continuation Of Book One! With Malefor returned to normal, Spyro and Cynder in love, and everyone now back to their normal lives, another threat; Flint, the new Dark Master, will put everyone and friendships to the test, mixing lies and threats against one another. Death is around every corner, lives at risk, and sometimes, not even being dead means you're forgotten.

16. Chapter 16: Mixed Up And Made

Chapter 16: Mixed Up And Made

"Mister... Sir," A small, scared sounding voice broke Flint from his thoughts as he sat down on his bed, looking at the cave walls, still resting in his own room.

Turning his body around to see a frightened blue dragon, not even close to his twenties, stood at his doorway. Snarling a little from him being frighten by the blue dragon, Flint waved a paw and growled, "Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you, that's not what I'm here for." Even with his words that were supposed to be helpful to him, the dragon still seemed frightened which already made his anger grow, "Alright, I'm not here to comfort you on your problems of fear against me. Tell me what you came in here to tell me and get out."

"Y...Yes... Sir," The blue dragon stuttered, steeping a little closer, near the middle of the room to talk in a lower voice since he wouldn't have to talk too loudly, "I just came in here to tell you that, The Destroyer is almost completely dug up..." Seeing the smile on Flint's face, he could see that he was already planning what he would want to do, but something didn't feel right to him, "But..." Hearing somewhat of a doubtful voice from the blue dragon, Flint looked at him with a raised brow, wondering what he could've meant by that, "Is this really worth the trouble?"

His teeth showed from his doubts against his plan and stood in an almost attacking position as he asked, "Are you saying that you think what I'm doing is wrong?"

"What?! No no no, I just... To go through all this trouble, I mean... We all know of your plan and are ready to act but, we've lost several dragons in the volcano, and even with some darkness you've given to help us move it a little here to here, is calling all the Dark forces to help really a good thing while the apes hold the line out there?" Now with the dragon ranting off about his plan, he did start to doubt him, and Flint could see this, and he knew he would probably have to do something, "With the dragons we've lost, all the Dark forces that have been lost by doing this, we could've easily been able to defeat Spyro and Malefor," As he was talking, he made sure never to make eye contact with him, which proved to be his mistake.

While he spoke, Flint had carefully moved off his smoothed out rock bed and made his way up to the dragon. Still hearing the blue dragon go on about what they should be doing, he snarled and nearly snapped, pulling his tail blade to his side and wanting to finish his life now. As he stood in front of him, he grabbed the dragons neck, causing him to let out a violet cough as his paw was held tightly around his neck. Pulling the dragon up off the ground while he struggled to breath, Flint stood to his back two paws and made his point clear while putting the fear of everything into him as he looked in his eyes, "You really don't understand, do you! Taking them on now wouldn't do anything!" Throwing his body to the floor, the dragon gasped for air and coughed on the ground while he tried to stand, and standing back on four paws, Flint continued, "The power they have is unimaginable, and walking in there with mindless, Creatures! It wouldn't do anything. Just the four Guardians alone were able to hold off the army when they were attacked, and even with all our forces, Spyro would win with Malefor, we'd lose, and lose our trump card if we fail, and that's where the Destroyer comes into play," Chuckling at himself as he could see the future now, he then smiled as he spoke, "I can threaten Ignitus, and if he doesn't tell Spyro to give Cynder up to me," Snapping his fingers with an evil grin, the blue dragon shivered as he understood what he meant, "Classic way to go out. If I can't have her... No one can."

I only came here because I was told I could get revenge on Malefor for what he's done as the Dark Master... Not to destroy the entire planet... I... I can't do this... I... I can't! Seeing Flint take a step towards him, he quickly got to his paws and backed away from him, knowing he could kill him at any point if he wanted to. Instead, and to his luck, Flint waved a paw and growled at him, "Now leave! I need to gain as much dark power as I can to make sure I can control the behemoth. Just get back to work and wait for the show to start, okay?" He watched as the blue dragon nodded before turning around and bolting out the door as quickly as he could, "Scared little one, aren't you." A couple of dark creatures appeared from within the shadows of his room, and he smiled as he gave the order, "Make sure he doesn't reach sanctuary... He's become a... Liability." The Dark Creatures laughed before running towards the door in search of the blue dragon, "Run while you still can. You'll end up like your loved ones real soon." Giving an evil chuckle, he walked over to his bed to lay back down.

Climbing up onto his bed, he circled around it a couple of times before laying down on the bed in a curved ball shaped. We're so close to being to where we need to be. Only a couple more days, and soon, very, very soon, it's either I will have her in this life, or the after life, Grabbing his head with his paw and growling at himself, his voice called out to him in a way, almost like it was telling him the opposite, We shouldn't do this... this isn't what she would've wanted. Slapping the side of his head, he growled at his own thoughts, Shut up! We will die one way or another! Clenching his eyes shut as he laid down, he tried not to think about it to get some rest.

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"What's the matter, my love, you finshed for the night?" Ignitus teasingly asked his new lover as he stood above her on their bed, and with her on her back, head to the side and tongue hanging out of her mouth, he chuckled at her and knew that was probably a yes, "Oh come on my love, we haven't been kissing for that long..."

"Yes! Yes you have!" A voice yelled in the sleeping Chambers, and looking over at the voice, Ignitus saw Terrador looking at him with watery eyes, almost as if he hadn't gotten any sleep at all, " I swear to the Ancestors, if I hear, 'My love', The word kiss, or exhausted one more damn time, I will stab myself in the heart with my own tail blade."

"I thought I used my power to mute the world around me and Claire?"

"You did..." Hearing another voice, he looked to his right and saw Cyril had the same face of tiredness and anger as his paws rested over his head, "The power stopped working half way through the night. All through the night, we heard the smacking of lips, dirty talk, and... Ugh... Dirty talk for you of all dragons and I... I'm up to do the same with Terrador and just end it all."

"Oh it wasn't that bad."

"Oh really? How about the part where you brought up that she was an assassin and if you didn't make out with her, she'd kill you?"

"Well... I..."

"Or how about the part where she pretend to cry and you took advantage of her and made out with her?" Terrador also spoke as to what they heard.

"Ahem... That was..."

"Painful? How about when you roll played that you were the assassin and she was the victim?" Cyril also spoke once again on what they had heard, and each time, Ignitus blushed more and more as he couldn't believe they had heard most of what they were talking about, "And all in one night... You give her, and you, the power to stay up all night without needing sleep, but us... I have envy for Volteer... Knowing him, he probably got the best sleep of his life..." Feeling the anger coming back to him even as he tried to calm him down, he called him out, "How does your power just stop working?! Isn't it supposed to be permanent until you say otherwise?"

"Well... I do kinda have to focus when using some of my powers and..."

"Is this about how Claire's kiss was infecting you with darkness so you couldn't use the Chronicler power?" Terrador grumbled at him as he blushed with his teeth showing, wishing he could've never had to hear him say what he had did.

"Hehe... You're... You're not going to say anything to..."

"Malefor?" Terrador and Cyril both asked in unison, "Oh yeah."

"Come on, guys! You know he will never shut up about what I said!"

"Then do us a favor. Number one, whisper more instead of opening your wings and yelling, 'I am your protector!'" Cyril picked on him some more about his words, and once again, Ignitus blushed now to a point that his face felt hotter then fire, "And second, give us that sleep power thing again. So you better chose who you'd rather deal with, The Ancestors to give us sleep, or Malefor once we tell him everything you've said..."

"Already done," Ignitus spoke with a huge sigh, and the two looked at one another and then back at him as they wondered what he had done, "I already had a talk and they gave me the okay to give you all the sleep you should've gotten. They didn't really expect me to be really into loving Claire as much as I did so... Hehe... No hard feelings?" Looking to his left and then his right, he could see they were still upset with him and he was understanding as he felt bad, "Sorry, guys," Snapping his fingers, both of their eyes grew wide before returning back to normal as they got the sleep power.

"Thank goodness... Now I feel a whole lot better," Cyril smiled as he said, "But now I'm going to need to jump in the ocean and hope that my brain fills up with water and cleans out every memory of what you said to her..." He himself chuckled along with Ignitus as he gave a weak chuckle as well, now feeling a little awkward for standing above Claire, "But I'm serious, do that again, we will snitch to Malefor."

"I won't... Knowing what could happen, I've never been more scared about anything in my life."

"Are you sure about that?" Terrador asked, seeing as Ignitus looked at him, he already knew what he was going to say, "Because another thing you did with Claire is she joked to leave, and then you had to ask if she was telling the truth or not and said the same exact thing when she said no; 'I've never been so scared of anything in my entire life." Ignitus grumbled and didn't even want to say anything anymore, and instead, he just laid down on his lover's stomach while looking down at the side of her face as she laid there, "This is why I'd never find love," He mumbled to himself, looking behind him and covering up his eyes with his paws as he looked outside the glass and saw the sun light, he looked at his friend and asked, "Hey, Cyril, want to get out to the Chambers and wait for everyone else... And also try to forget all that happened last night."

"Hehe, Oh yeah," Cyril agreed, already getting out of bed as he was all for forgetting the night, "But I mean, let's be honest..." Pausing as he walked up next to his friend and towards the door, he elbowed his shoulder gently as he messed with him, "You know you'd do the same with the one you love." Seeing Terrador growl and look away as he had already opened the door and walked out, Cyril called him out as he ran into the Chambers, closing the door behind him we his tail blade, "Don't lie to yourself! Terrador... Look at me!"

Grumbling as he laid down on his lover's chest, he thought with a little bit of anger and embarrassment on his face, I can't believe I lost concentration... Now those two know everything and there's nothing I can do to erase their memories of what I've said. Speaking of saying, Picking his head up off his lover's chest, he looked down at her body, tilting his head as he did as he was a little confused, Claire... Are... Are you asleep? Seeing as her mouth was now closed, and her head rested side ways on the bed, it seemed so as even her breathing had slowed to a steady pace. Using a claw he moved it up and down her neck in a teasing manner to try and wake her. Almost immediately, it worked as her body shivered from the feeling of his claw, and stretching with a smile, she opened one eye to look at him. He chuckled and pulled his claw back, apologizing for waking her, "Sorry, I was just, making sure you were okay. The entire time those two were talking, I thought you would've said something but, you didn't."

Picking her head up to look at him, she opened her other eye and asked, "You really think I'm gonna care about what they heard?" He was surprised at her words, wondering why she wasn't as upset and embarrassed as he was, "I'm an assassin, and your The Chronicler. Let them have their fun and embarrass us, we can hurt them. And if Malefor does find out, I will just have a talk with Carith." He couldn't help but chuckle as she was true in her words, and even for herself, she gave herself credit for the idea, "Came up with that just now too. But..." Stretching out once again, she rolled from her back and onto her right side, and closing her eyes once again, she whispered, "What can you do... And now that they are out there, what's stopping you now?"

He raised a brow, both as she was able to see the bright side of things so quickly and a little confused as to what she meant, "Stopping me from what? What was I stopped from...?" Feeling a little confused as to what it was, it clicked in his mind as he remembered, and she raised a brow as well at him, still eyes closed, "Oh... That... I'm mean, I'm down to role play of course but uh, who's the victim?"

"Well, I am laying here with nothing to do, and," Opening up her eye to look up at him, she gave a smirk as she continued, "I feel pretty powerless down here so... Why don't we start there?" Rolling onto her back and opening up her other eye, she was still a little frightened of their moment being ruined and made sure it wouldn't happen, "But I'm being serious, if someone walks in or jokes about us, their dead. You're going to have to choose between their life or my love."

"Hehe, that's a pretty easy decision... It would be their lives," Hearing her gasp as she put a paw on her chest, he smirked as he lowered his head to her, making his lips line up with hers, "Because there's an easy way for me to change your mind... And also because, you know, I would choose you over them just, not, take their lives..." Hearing her clear her throat, he chuckled and apologized as he realised that wasn't the point, "Oh... Hehe, right... sorry." Clearing his throat as well, he got back into character for his lover, "Seems the darkness that rest inside of your mind still controls your thoughts. I must rid of it, and save you... My love." Just hearing the words that she desperately loved to hear now sent shivers through her spine, and he could tell she was intrigued with the story he was making up, "I won't let it take you... I can save you, I know I will!" With his final words, he locked lips with his lover's, and with the kiss being so well only for the first one, he already forgotten the story and continued to kiss his lover.

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"Carith... Come on... Get up," Malefor grumbled as he stood on his bed, pushing the side of his lover's body as she laid on her belly, "This is probably the only day were I get to be the Master of Darkness without consequence," Hearing that he was going to cause some trouble made her open one eye as to look at him, but hearing her grumble at him, he chuckled and stopped pushing his lover, "Hehe, well, you know, it's not like Spyro will stop me," Seeing her raise a brow, pick up her head, and open her other eye, he forgot he hadn't told her, "Oh yeah, that's right, I didn't tell you. Spyro wants one day to his lover, so, I agreed. He wants no distraction and if anything happened, I'd have to deal with it. So... That basically means I could do what ever I wanted to today without consequence."

"Uh huh... And what exactly are you planning on doing? Because so far, you've been pretty Damn evil," Now seeing him raise a brow, she couldn't help but giggle as she knew he didn't see what happened, "Well, first, you wake up and sit a bit away from me. Then you push and push me awake, and you still haven't kissed me," Hearing him open his mouth and try and say something, she cut him off before he could say something, "A kiss while I sleep isn't a kiss for me! You're already walking on thin ice right now, so before you break that ice and fall, alone, I suggest you fix what you've done."

"Then can I go and mess with everyone?"

"You know if it has anything to do with literally anyone, you're going to die, you know that right?"

"And who would... Ersa would... But what about Ignitus... Oh... But Terrador and Cyril, there's still them. And even still, what could they really do to me that I couldn't walk away from. Plus, I will just use the excuse that I was using my dark power and it corrupted me a little bit and made me crazy, simple."

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"Very simple in fact," Ersa explained to Volteer as she stood by her work table, showing him what she's done while he rested on the bed, still in pain, "So, since I still have trust issues, and after what happened in the hallway yesterday, I prepared for many things, one of such would be your pain," He raised a brow at her, wondering what she meant by that, and looking at her as she grabbed a glass bottle and brought it over to him, she explained, "Simple pain relief without much effort while still giving off the strongest of effects," Handing him the bottle, he grabbed it from her and looked at it, and she could see he wasn't too excited for the color, "Oh, don't worry about the color. The red and black may look like mold and taste like slug, but, I made sure to make it the best flavor possible."

"And what might that have been?" Volteer asked, slightly shaking the bottle around to make sure the liquid would actually move, and he smiled to see that it did as least move around.

"Well, I was trying to think of the flavor as I couldn't exactly get it down, but, I know what I will call the flavor," Clearing her throat, she prepared for the big reveal, and said with passion and she even expanded her paws in the air as she said, "Bubble Gum flavor."

"Bubble Gum?"

"Hehe, Oh yeah. It's amazingly tasty, especially compared to some other stuff out there. Luckily for you, your mate might not know who to treat a wound, but she knows how to make some tasty medicine. As a matter of fact, that's mainly how I survived so well is because of my experience in making stuff to help me when I couldn't get to a red gem patch. So, you still scared to try it or do you want more back story."

"Oh, Hehe... I'm not scared at all to taste it, just wondering what else my mate has for me later on in the day."

"Oh," Giving a blush and a giggle, he chuckled as well, and she teased him a little, "Well, you'll know my lips definitely taste better then that Bubble Gum," Moving a little closer to him, almost with her lips touching his, she teased him a little more, "But I know it's not my lips you're after," Hearing him give a nervous chuckle as he blushed, she giggled at him as she backed away, "You're not the only one who's after some loving. Now, drink up. I got some more stuff I want to show you before we go out there."

Nodding at her, he looked at the glass bottle one last time before giving out a sigh, still a little scared as he didn't know what Bubble Gum flavor tasted like, Well, it sounds good... I trust she wouldn't give me something that would kill me so... Bottoms up! Drinking the liquid in the bottle, he was surprised how easily the liquid was to drink, almost like water. His eyes grew a little wide once he was done with the entire bottle, and pulling it down from his lips, he licked his lips to make sure he drank all of it. Looking at his lover, completely surprised by the taste, she smiled and asked, "Well, how does Bubble Gum taste?" Hearing he was at a lost for words, she giggled at him as she was glad to see he really did enjoy what she made, "Hehe... It did take me a while to make as well, both from what we had and also trying to make such a nice and easy going flavor."

"Ersa... I..." Stretch out his arm, his eyes grew wide once again as what she had given him had already taken affect, "I'm... I'm already healed pretty well! But... How... I looked into medicine a lot but... you... How...?" Hearing her giggle, he was desperate to hear how she was able to do it so well, but he had a better idea, "Actually, before you say anything, what's at the bottom of the glass bottle?" Seeing her raise a brow, he looked in the bottle and continued to lie, "Yeah, look down at the bottom of the bottle." She moved closer and looked down at the bottom of the bottle but didn't see anything, "Do you see it?"

"I see... Glass... Maybe," Picking up her head and looking at her lover wondering if maybe there was something she did wrong, her lips were quickly covered by her mate's, and just as quickly as her eyes grew wide, so did the sudden feeling of pleasure.

Since it was easy for her to tell that he was very happy with what she's done, she couldn't help but she'd a tear and smile as they kissed, getting into the kiss a little more as she started to make out with him. Unfortunately, she knew there was some of her work that she had to get done before something happened, Damn it! I should've moved some of work so I didn't have to worry... Sometimes my work is a curse. Pulling away from the kiss, both had to catch their breaths a little bit, and Volteer was a little sad she pulled away from the kiss, "No, I'm not crazy. I was just trying to get you close enough to kiss you. But, why did you back away?"

Growling at herself, she bit her lip and was honest about her feelings for him, "Because... Would you rather have that, or what you've been wanting?" He once again blushed with a smile and he was glad to hear that she was so open and honest with him, and it made him feel good to hear, "Yeah, Spyro called me out before he left. I was looking at your back, but anyway! Bottle please," He chuckled to see she was feeling a little embarrassed herself and to get her mind off it, he did as he was told and gave her the bottle, "Thank you," She thanked as she grabbed the bottle.

As she was walking over to her work station once again, he asked her as he saw her work," So, how did you do this? The medicine that you gave me... I know a lot about what to mix and what not to, kinda like chemical imbalances, some power works, and deadly works of art but, you... How...?"

"You know creation must come before destruction."

"I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes references."

"I'm glad you actually understood the reference. But going back, some chemicals that react faster to others, it's very simple science to be honest. Like fighting a virus with a virus of the same or weaker so after the main virus is destroyed, our white blood cells can take over and kill the other virus, it's kinda like that."

"Oh, so basically you mix bad chemicals, turn them from destructive to creative with use of other chemicals which makes them safe, which works better and faster then others, and it has a much stronger effect to help you get back on your paws faster?" Her eyes grew slightly wide as she was amazed to hear how well he was able to deduce everything she had said with the little information she had given him, "Hehe, you know me my love, smart minds think alike."

"Then you should know I want to put my work down, walk out there, ask Ignitus, come back and make sure you don't walk tomorrow?"

"Hehe, what's stopping you?"

"Ugh... The fact that you're also hopeful for what's to come makes this even more difficult for me to stand here and not just take you out now!"

"I'm not going to say anything. I don't want to push it as I want you to feel comfortable."

"Which you know I will, Top or Bottom."

Seeing her lover chuckle once again, blushing with his usual smile, she smiled back at him, biting her lip once again and she went back to working, trying to get her mind off of it, but it proved to do no good, Just work... Just keep working... You gotta do what you gotta do... Do... Volteer...? Damn it! He could see her moving quickly for some reason, and Volteer could see she was trying to finish up her work quickly, and he already had an idea as to why, but he wanted to warn her, "Ersa, make sure you're prepared to hurt Malefor though. When he comes down, and since we just told him that Ignitus and Claire are now in love, he will not... I'm not even joking, he will not shut up."

"He's really going to pick on those two? How bad does it get?"

"Well... He might call them out and say what's next, Mate wise or Hatchling and when it gets to that, it all goes down hill from there. So if you do still have some of that stuff left over from what you were going to use on Spyro, you might want to use it on Malefor if he tries anything."

"I wouldn't worry. My claws and pressure points have proven to work just fine. Now, what's next, is up to you," She seemed to be a lot calmer as she turned towards him, and she asked in a teasing manner, "Do we, go out there and let the day go by, or... Do we stay in here together and fulfil the promise I made to you?" She moved her body around a couple of times to show herself off, and she could tell it was working as every time she looked at him, his blush seemed to get more and more red, "What's the matter, Volteer? You seem a bit distracted."

Biting his lip, he made the worst decision of his life, and declined, "I'm... Sorry... Ersa... But I'm going to say... We wait."

"What?!" Ersa gasped, completely dumbfounded that he would decline her offer, especially after what she promised him, "Volteer, you're fine, I know your not ever going to be and never have been like those other males. I'm a hundred and ten percent yes to you all the time..." Gasping once again, she wondered if she had done something, or hadn't done something, "Was there something I should've done yesterday?! You... You tried to wake me up but I was too tired, didn't you?!"

"Ersa, breath, it's still me and your still fine," Standing up on the bed, he walked off of it and over to his mate, assuring her as he made his way to her, "One, I know you're still scared of being watched of course because of Ignitus's power. Second, I know Malefor is coming down to the Chambers, and he isn't really a knocker so, he'd just walk on in. And thirdly," Standing in front of her, he made sure to give her a heart warming smile, and very smooth voice to make sure she knew he was sincere, "Just so you know, I'm not the only one who wrote my feelings about you while you were gone."

"You... You did...?"

"Yeah... I... Had to uh... Burn it..."

"What?"

"Ahem... It was uh... very... specific... So uh... Yeah... Hehe."

"Hehe, well, that's funny... When I got to Warfang for the first time I uh, had plenty of books like that for you as well."

"You did?"

"Oh yeah... I burned my books as well for the same reasons you did."

"I still have the thoughts though."

"I do too."

Standing in front of one another now, they both blushed as they couldn't believe they were sharing this with one another. It became increasingly difficult to say no now as he was looking forward to the future now, and it took Ersa saying something to break them from their thoughts and ignoring the problems, "We should probably go out there before we... ignore what could happen." Hearing him chuckle, he opened his mouth to say something, but once again, she was already able to know exactly what he was going to say, "How do I do it? One, you'll learn later on," She giggled while he chuckled and she was glad he was having as much fun as she was, "And second, I've waited this long. I would rather make sure everything is perfect rather then it be amazing yet be ruined. Because then it would be ruined for us, and... Yeah."

Giving a sigh, he knew she was right, and looking behind her to see the door wasn't open and no one seemed to be coming over, he knew he needed to at least kiss her, "Well, since we probably still have time to at least kiss, do you... um!"

In a matter of seconds, he was on his back, making out with his lover who stood above him. Putting his wings over her back, she started to feel herself laying down on his body, and both could feel their eyes closing, but she fought back, Standing straight up off from his chest and pulling away from his lips. Volteer extended his wings out onto the ground very quickly as he looked at her with wide eyes from her sudden movement, and he made sure he didn't move. Growling now with more anger in her voice, she looked at him and murmured, "I can't even kiss you know without looking towards the future."

"Hehe, don't worry, we will think of something."

"Fast hopefully?"

"Is that what you want in the future of me?"

"Damn you..."

"Hehe, we better get out to the Chambers before something happens though."

"As much as I want to say no... Yeah... We better go."

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"You know what I hate most about waking up in the morning?" Cyril paused for a second as he looked over at Terrador, and both said in unison as they were both thinking the same thing, "Malefor," The two laughed at one another as they agreed, "I mean, I know for a fact, when he comes down here, he's going to do something dumb that I'm going to want to hurt him for."

"And it happens in the morning too when we are just waking up, and yet, he has all the energy in the world to mess with us," Terrador chuckled as he didn't have anything good to say about his purple friend, "You know, maybe training with Spyro some more wouldn't be so bad. If we're stronger then Malefor, do you know how fun it would be to be able to mess with him they way he does with us?" Thinking about it for a second, he saw Cyril raise a brow at him and he knew what he was thinking, "Oh yeah... he lives up by Spyro... And worse come to worse, he would let his darkness take over and kill us... Okay maybe not the best idea, but..."

"You try it, and you're dead," A voice called out the two from the entrance, and both Cyril and Terrador looked to the entrance and saw it was Malefor walking in the Chambers with his lover by his side, "Plus, grow up, it's a simple joke or, a simple prank, there is no need to be butt hurt about it. And it's not like I've ever caused you all pain," Just as he sat down on the side of the wall he normally did, he saw them both look at him with a raised brow, and even as he looked at his lover, she even had a raised brow which made him chuckle, "Alright, Alright, look, going back, grow up. You cry more about your problems then Spyro and Cynder does."

"Hehe, says the one balling his eyes out in the hallways of those two's house when you first came back," Terrador chuckled, but he did feel a little bad as he still knew why that was, and Malefor called him out on it.

"Oh wow, Terrador, that's a pretty deep blow to the gut, especially since that was a reason to be sad. Thinking back, I should've gone for your heart instead of Volteer's for being such an ass as you are now."

"You're Damn right you should've," Volteer said as everyone saw him walking into the Chambers with his mate, "Do you know how painful that was?" Walking over to where he usually sits by the other Guardians, he sat down with Ersa and draped his wing over her back, "But I mean, let's be honest, if anyone should've been attacked, it should've been Ignitus since he sat and watched everything that happened, and didn't even help. I mean, can you believe he would do such a thing?"

"Shut up, Volteer," Ignitus spoke, and as everyone now look over to him, he had just sat down with his lover next to him, "Number one, grow up, Alright. Second, if you wanted the world to end rather then you take a couple of hits, you could just have said something."

"How would he have known?" Cyril asked.

"Exactly, he didn't, so get over it, Volteer."

"To be honest, it was probably a good thing it happened," Ersa agreed, and everyone looked at her with wide eyes, especially her mate as he was most confused out of all of them, "Well, just think about it, he almost took your life, so that means I can almost do the same for you as revenge," Seeing Malefor open his mouth, she shut him up quick, "Say a word when I'm talking, Malefor, and I will make sure, the next pressure point I hit, will cancel out your abilities," Swallowing hard, he shut up quick and was now wanting to be cautious on what he said.

"But... You wouldn't, would you?" Carith stepped in as she was a little scared that something would actually happen.

"Don't worry, Carith. After that girls night out we had, I hold all of the females here as a true friend of mine," Looking at the two other girls, she smiled to see they had smiled at her, "Malefor I just hate and always will, and as for Spyro... Well, he is definitely a strange one... Speaking about him now, where is he? I would love to talk more with him about his views on his lover and all, mainly to still see if he's trust worthy."

"He is to not be disturbed," Malefor answered for her, "After what your mate pulled, Cynder wasn't too happy that he was woken up and taken from her, and I don't even have to have seen it all to know that much. So, for the entire day, those two are to be with themselves, and because of that," Chuckling with an evil grin, he rubbed his paws together in an evil manner as he said, "He's left all of your lives in my paws, and with that, Master Malefor is going to make his first day known. So who will be the first to go?"

"Go?" Terrador asked, somewhat already knowing the answer.

"You mean kill?" Volteer asked, and seeing Malefor smirk, everyone then looked over at Cyril as they knew he would be the first to die.

Looking at everyone form left to right, he grew angry and growled at everyone, "Oh screw off! If anyone would be first to go, it would be Ignitus. And when I say Ignitus, I mean him himself, not him as a Chronicler," Everyone still wasn't convinced that he was telling the truth, and he growled once again before sighing, "I wish Spyro was here... He definitely would've agreed. If anything, he knows more about our power then any of us know about ourselves."

"But you know he would just call himself better then everyone," Malefor said as he tried to turn everyone against him, and it failed.

"He's cocky, but can you blame him? If he's going to say something, he's going to have a way to back it up."

"Well, let's learn some more about Spyro then," Ersa said, and everyone was a little confused as to why she wanted to know, and she explained, "Let's get one thing straight, I'm Volteer's mate. Spyro is just, intriguing to me in a science kind of manner. The way he acts, the way he speaks, his dark power, and how well he treats his lover... To be honest, I even have a lot of potions I've been making for him to try out as I know his body would be able to handle sorts of transformations."

"Transformations?" Everyone asked in unison.

"Simple of course. Transformations such as making his body rubber, solid, and or make him float without having to move. I've also made more when it comes to combat, whether it be health, strength, stamina, increase in power, speed, vision upgrades such as night vision, solar protection so if you fight, you would be able to look up at the sun and not be blinded, as well as..."

"Whoa whoa whoa, Ersa, calm down... Have you even gotten any sleep?" Malefor asked, having to call a time out as she was talking so fast.

"Of course I have... Well... Maybe only a couple of hours... I usually bury myself into my work to keep... certain thoughts out of my mind..."

"Thoughts? Like what?"

"Don't ask," Ignitus warned, but it proved to make Malefor's interest peak even more.

"No no no, we need to finish what we are talking about before we move on," Slapping a paw on his face, Ignitus growled at him for not listening once again, and because of this, Malefor continued to ask, "It's okay, Ersa, we are all friends here, you can tell us."

"You really, really don't want to know," Ersa declined to tell him.

"I'm asking, aren't I... Is it about... Volteer?" Seeing her swallow hard and blush, his eyes grew slightly wide as he knew exactly what it must've been, "Oh, My, Goodness... Volteer, brother, I've got to congrats you for making it this far."

"Malefor, shut the hell up, or we're going to have a problem," Volteer threatened him, and even for Malefor, he backed up pretty quickly from it, "None of your business, alright. She's already talked to me, and no, nothing has happened, and even if it did, why you are asking makes you more of a creep then Ignitus with his powers." Before Ignitus had a chance to defend himself, Volteer looked at him and asked, "By the way, Ignitus, can you give Ersa the memories or tell her that if something does happen, we are free to do what ever."

"So you can say it out loud but I can't."

"Because she's my lover, my mate!"

"You're growing up too fast!"

"To answer your question!" Ignitus broke the two up from them yelling at each other and answered, "No, Ersa, I can't see such things. The Ancestors are the ones that write that down and if you're still afraid of that, their dead so, it really doesn't matter, nor does it matter to them."

Giving a sigh of relief, she was happy to hear that she really would be safe in the comfort of their room. Feeling a little bad for being so aggressive to his friend, Volteer sighed as he looked at Malefor and apologized, "Look... Sorry I yelled, alright. I remember what you told me in the Training Room but, even if I do go the extra step, I'm not changing and I'm not going anywhere. I will always be me, as you will always be you." Seeing Malefor frown at his words, he then picked his head up and smiled, opening his mouth to thank him, but Volteer cut him off as he was serious with his warning, "But I'm serious, keep joking about love or mate stuff, and I will make sure Ersa makes something that'll kick your ass for weeks."

"So... You're gonna call Spyro on me?" Seeing Volteer open his mouth to say something, he raised a paw up as well, but realised he was right and closed his mouth while putting his paw back to the ground, "Don't worry. I know I just need to cut back on some of the stuff I do, especially if I want to completely make up for what I've done... I still do apologize even after how long it's been... Especially once again of an apology to you, Ersa... The darkness will never return..."

"Help!" A voice yelled from the hallway, and everyone shivered to hear the cry.

Raising his wing up in front of his lover, Malefor walked in the middle of the Chamber and whispered, "Carith, go stand with the others, quickly." Doing as she was told, she ran over to the other Guardians and stood right beside Claire as she was the furthest down the line of all the others, and while she sat there, Malefor took a step forward and heard someone running towards them, so he called out, "Who's there?" A couple of seconds later, a blue dragon ran into the Chambers, slipping and falling onto his side, cut up and bleeding from his wounds, "What the hell?!"

Trying to stand up, the blue dragon looked up and starred in shock to see Malefor was standing right in front of him, but looking down the hallway, he saw he was still being perused and took his chances. Standing up from the ground and running behind Malefor, he cried out as he still took a couple of steps back, "There... There coming for me! They... They want me dead!"

"What? Who's they?" Malefor asked before looking to the entrance and locking up in fear.

Now standing in front of him were a couple of dark creatures, but with the two that stood at the entrance, two more ran up and stood with the other two. Everyone was at a lost for words, unable to understand why there were dark creatures in Warfang, and it scared Ersa almost as much as Malefor as she thought, But... No... No, he... Because Spyro's not down here, he wouldn't...She couldn't tell who's side he was on, all she could gather was what his body did, the way it shivered and sweat. You're... You're supposed to be gone! Malefor growled in his thoughts, clenching his paws in anger, now ready to fight more then ever, "You're all supposed to be gone! Now leave!" The Dark Creatures ignored his command which gave Ersa hope that maybe he wasn't the Dark Master, but as the creatures walked forward, they ignored him all together, walking around him as if he were an ally.

Turning around and watching as the four creatures now stood behind him, it didn't look good for him, especially with the way he was. Everyone could see it aside from him as Malefor stood behind the dark creatures, and with the face of fear aside, everyone felt horrible memories flooding back into the heads, and it was especially traumatic for Ersa as she took a couple of steps back, now fearing for her life. Putting a wing up to cover his lover, Volteer growled as he knew it wasn't true, "He's on our side, Ersa," Looking at her lover, she still didn't know if she should trust it or not, but she was given a good amount of information, "We know there's a Dark Master out there, somewhere, controlling these things. Malefor isn't the Dark Master."

Jumping in front of the blue dragon to protect it, Terrador spread his wings out, ready for a fight. Unfortunately, Malefor wasn't himself upon seeing the Dark Creatures and couldn't barely bring himself to move. Raising a paw forward to touch one of the creatures, a swoosh of wind went right past his face. Tears started to form in Malefor's eyes as he heard the grunt of his green friend, followed by a small slash, and blood going down his check. Turning his head quickly behind him, he saw it was another dark creatures with a bow, and just as before, the creatures ran in front of Malefor, ignoring him completely and already charging up another arrow to shoot. Now with his friend caused harm upon, Malefor couldn't stand there and take it any longer. Letting his anger take over, he grabbed the back of the Dark Creatures head and crushed it with as much force as he had. As the creatures head broke in his paw, the other creatures looked back at him, like they were surprised. Dropping the creatures body to the ground, it exploded into a dark cloud, and now the creatures seemed to feel the need to attack. Each was met with a quick end each time they tried to attack. As one jumped forward at him, another jumped to his left, and another went to his right. As they all jumped at him, he slammed his paw into the ground, causing three cement spheres to come out from the ground and stab the three right in the head. The cement went back into the ground and reformed itself perfectly while the Dark Creatures that were stabbed on it fell to the ground and dissipated. Now with one creature left, all it could do was attack head on, and so it did. But just with the first creature, Malefor grabbed his head, but with two paws instead. With one on the right and another on his left, he squeezed his paws together before breaking through it's skull and clapping his paws. Breathing a little heavier then normal, he looked down at the ground to see the creatures body fall and disappear. Looking at his paws, he started to shiver from his act of violence, and even for the others, they were hesitant to say something. Now looking up at the others, he watched as Terrador put his wings back to his sides, but from everyone's reactions, he knew they were scared of him. I... I can't... Trust myself... Taking one step back, Carith took a step forward and yelled at him for that, "Malefor!" Even with her voice, he couldn't step forward, but from her voice, he know he shouldn't dare take a step back, "You're fine, my love, everything's okay... Everything is okay..." Taking careful steps towards him, she could tell what he was thinking and cut him off before he could do or say anything, "I'm not walking towards you carefully because I'm afraid of you... I know you're scared, and I don't want to frighten you." Making it in front of her lover, she put a paw over his, and she could tell that he wanted to take his paw back from fear, but she held on tight to his paw and dared him, "Malefor... You need to talk to us. Talking to us well help us understand better... But I dare you to take one more step away from me." Giving a smirk as to show she wasn't really upset at him and just trying to calm him down, it was working, so she tried some more to keep him from making a mistake, "We know there's another Dark Master out there, and you know that the darkness is tricky. They easily could've moved around you just to mess with us... But you're you, okay... You should know that best of all..." Feeling his paw ease up, she knew how to get him to smile by making a joke, "And you know it wasn't you because..."

"Hehe, I would've gone for the head?" Malefor chuckled with his reference, and she shuck her head with a smile as she didn't know that one, "But... Carith..." Looking past her head, he looked back at Terrador who had moved back to his spot, and Carith did the same as she looked at him as well, "Terrador... I... I never wanted you... Any of you, to be hurt by the darkness ever again and yet..."

"Grow up, you Hatchling," Everyone was surprised by his words, especially Malefor himself as he didn't understand why he would say that, "So I took a cut, big Damn deal. I've gotten so many of these over the years that I've lost count." Terrador chuckled, trying to brighten him up a bit after what's happened, "Look, you got scared, alright. We're your friends, and not even the Dark Master could break us up. This just confirmed our theory and already known knowledge that there is another Dark Master out there... So now the question is, who?"

"I... It's a... Red Dragon," The blue dragon answered him, causing everyone to immediately look at him as he stood up, "I... I don't know his name, he, he keeps it a secret for some reason. Because I was there helping him, he... started talking about how he views the world and what he wants to do but I... I... I didn't want to be there to kill I just... I don't know... I just wanted revenge against Malefor for what he did to my loved ones," The blue dragon looked at Malefor, and once again, he frowned as his past was brought up, but he was surprised at the blue dragon's words, "But you aren't like him... You're not the Malefor I know, the one everyone in the world knows... Why would you defend a life... Why... Why do you seem to... have a heart?"

Chuckling at himself as the dragon asked that question, Malefor still frowned as he knew he could never get over what happened to him and what he did, "Well... Long long story made very short, my friend betrayed me, caused my lover to die and... I lost all my friends... I even lost my parents before all that and... I was corrupted by the darkness at a young age..." Giving a sigh as he felt the feelings back then almost like he was reliving it, he shuck his head slightly before looking back at the dragon and apologising, "I'm sorry about your loved ones... I was..."

"You were corrupted, the same way he is," The blue dragon asked with widened eyes, and Malefor picked up his head a little from hearing what the dragon said, "So... The stories were a lie... Before, the red dragon that has been commanding us to do things was pretty... well, he wasn't nice. But now, it's like, after the last couple of days, he's changed into something he wasn't, changing his mind and ideas on the things he wants to do."

"And what is it that he wants to do?" Terrador asked him, but Ignitus had to cut him off before the blue dragon could answer.

"Don't answer that!" Ignitus yelled, scaring everyone from the sudden outburst, and he knew he would have to make up an excuse for the others, "You don't need to know about what the Dark Master is planning or doing... Might as well give them the real reason..." Walking over to the blue dragon, he explained, "You shouldn't know of the future," Standing in front of the blue dragon, he placed a paw on top of his head, closing his eyes and gathering all the information he could while still explaining, "If you know what he's planning and it's bad, you'll want to stop him immediately."

"That's kinda the whole point! Know what's he's doing so we can stop it," Malefor growled at him, and Carith moved over to his side as to not be in the way of the two.

"That's the problem!" Ignitus growled, taking his paw off the blue dragon's head and focusing his attention to Malefor, "When Spyro came to me for the first time, he wanted nothing more then to kill you quick, no matter how. He didn't want Cynder involved and he wanted to take you on himself," Everyone could see him shaking which made them all shake as they didn't understand why he was seeming to fear, and Ignitus couldn't hide that fact either, but tried to ignore it, "If you know what he's going to do, you'll want to rush In, unprepared for what's out there. You know the darkness is smart, and will find the weakest leak and kill it, and that's permanent..." Seeing that he was scaring the others, he sighed as he walked back over to his lover summing up what he was trying to say, "This isn't something we can just deal with. I get you are becoming close friends with Spyro, but even for someone like me, I don't know who he will turn on. Will he kill you, or fight by your side... Even with him being my son I... I don't know." Everyone didn't know what to say, nor what to do as everything that would be suggested would be shot down, but Ignitus gave the run down of what was to happen, "Terrador, your cut and blood is gone. Blue Dragon sir, you are free to stay in Warfang of course, and as for me, I need to talk with Spyro while you all stay here."

"What?!" Malefor cried, and he could tell that Ignitus wasn't in the mood but he put his paw down and declined, "Absolutely not! You just bashed me for not being Spyro's friend, I want to give him time to his lover like he wanted, and I'm not going to disappoint him!"

"Malefor, this is bigger then your friendship with Spyro. The whole world is in trouble and already we have to prepare for the worse."

"And what are you going to tell him?!"

"That there is still a threat out there that he should be looking out for."

"So you're going to force him to leave his lover and train some more, forcing him into more stress then he already has," Malefor growled, making a valid point to his argument, and even though Ignitus wanted to say something, he knew it was true, "I know what Spyro's been through because it's my fault. He's never been able to chill out for once in his life, and it doesn't help, sorry for calling out names, that Volteer also pushed him away from his lover."

"What is your... Oh... Well... Okay, yeah, you're not wrong," Volteer chuckled as he realised it was his fault as well.

"Spyro's trained up well enough that me and him can take on almost anything. So what if it's a new Dark Master. Spyro has his new Dark Form, he was able to easily destroy the Dark Master, and even now that he's all trained up and knows how to use it with some power upgrades, what's the problem here?" Hearing and seeing Ignitus sigh, Malefor tried just a little more in hope that he could cheer him up, along with the Guardians, "Just like what happened before, Spyro takes on the Dark Master, The Guardians take on the army, with some help from your boy of course, Malefor, and we will all be fine. We've trained for this, and if you go up there now and tell him he's not strong enough... We just... Can't."

He got silent as he couldn't say anything about what was to come, but could only think about it in his thoughts, And how would we be able to defend against the Destroyer? We didn't win against that thing last time so... What would make a difference...? Malefor is strong, and so is Spyro... Maybe... Maybe this is another headache that I should just... Just forget... And breath... We... we should be... fine. Walking over and to his side, the blue dragon sighed and asked in a murmur for no one else to hear, "If I find love... Will the darkness take that away from me too?"

Taking a paw up and patting him on the shoulder, Malefor assured him, "Of course not. I'm never going back to that, and... I'm sorry for your loss... I hope that your search for love will be successful."

The blue dragon nodded at him and as Malefor took his paw off his shoulder, the dragon walked away and out of the Chambers, dragging his tail across the floor. Now that everything had settled down, Ersa stepped back up to where she was before, and once Volteer took his wing down, she looked at Malefor and chuckled, "That's actually why I didn't really trust you right away when I got back. I saw dark creatures roaming around even after you were defeated so I, didn't know if you could be trusted."

"But... You do trust me... Right...? No pressure point in the shoulder?" Malefor chuckled a little before seeing a smirk form on Ersa's face, and she decided it would be best not to answer, "Ersa... Ersa, please..."

"Yeah, I'm not going to answer that," Hearing him whimper, he really did fear, but she ignored him and looked over at Ignitus as she had an idea, "Well, since the darkness and his friendship for Malefor is still an issue, why don't we go and talk to him," Before she could finish, Malefor opened his mouth wide to say something, but she treated him, "Don't interrupt me or else!" He quickly shut his mouth and backed his head up a bit, never knowing he could be so scared of someone in his life, "Think about it, it works out for everyone including them. You and Malefor get to see how Spyro's friendship is with him, I get to see how Spyro reacts to my tests, and, Cynder gets to know about how Claire and you fell in love, which is something I'm also interested about."

"Hehe, me too," Carith agreed as she was also wanting to know what had happened.

Both Cyril and Terrador chuckled at one another as they had an idea of how it might've happened since they heard most of it, and since those two chuckled, Malefor smiled as he knew they must've heard, "What are you two chuckling for?" They both looked at him, then looked at Ignitus, and everyone saw him wave a paw in front of his neck with a blush and a face of anger, "Oh man... Now I have to know. Come on, Ignitus, tell me..."

"Malefor, zip it," Ignitus growled as he looked at him, and looking away from him, he looked at Ersa and agreed to her plan, "I guess we can try that. Don't think Spyro's going to be too happy but, It would be nice to talk to him and figure it out from there," Seeing Malefor take careful steps towards the two Guardians, he whispered something to Cyril with a smile, and Ignitus was able to hear, so he yelled at him again, "Malefor! Damn it!"

Backing away from Cyril and walking back to the middle of the room, Malefor chuckled, "What? There's nothing wrong with me being curious. Plus, if you are going to know about our past and what we had to do to fall in love with our lover's, I want to know as well so we can all gossip about it," Turning around and facing the door, he didn't see Ignitus raise his tail blade to his side, and it took Claire putting her tail over his to calm him, "Oh yeah, Ersa," Turning his head around, she looked at him as he said, "I'm in no way shape or form apart of this. If he attacks, just say Terrador did it, or, Cyril, he's been close to death before."

"Wow," Cyril said with a sigh.

"Yeah, you're really going to throw us under the house with that?" Ersa giggled, but now she also raised a tail blade up, and it took Volteer's tail to rest over hers to calm her down.

"I said no! I know my friendship with Spyro would be fine, especially if we don't interrupt him, but no one listens to Malefor, because when is he right?" Malefor grumbled as he turned his head and walked out of the Chambers and to the left side, "Malefor is never right! Why would he be..." His voice stopped suddenly and no one knew why until they heard him running back to the Chambers, and poking his head around the corner, he asked, "My love... Are you, coming with me?" She raised a brow as she wondered if he had forgotten about her, and he chuckled with a nervous smile, "I thought you were going to walk with me... Right...?" All she did was turn her body to face him, and he chuckled as he slowly took his head away while saying, "I guess us being alone while we walk up there so we can kiss doesn't mean anything then."

It worked on her as all she could do was growl before running up and chasing after him. As Ersa stood up, she told the others what she'd do, "Alright, I guess while you all head up there, me and Volteer will work on getting what we need up there as well. It won't take us that long," Walking towards the entrance, she was followed close to her side by Volteer, and while she walked, she spoke, "It should only take us about seven minutes, so be up there before we are," Walking out of the Chambers with her lover, they walked over to their door, and could see Volteer raised a brow at her, wondering why she would say things in such an order, "Seven minutes isn't long enough, is it?"

"Don't try that on me," He teased as he knew what she was trying to imply, and as she opened their door and walked inside, he followed behind her, closing the door behind them as they entered, "'Be up there before we are', and, 'It should take us about seven minutes'. Sounds to me like you're trying to rush them," He could tell this were true as he watched her walk back and forth collecting stuff, but now with more and more of a blush, "I guess to answer what you said before, no, Seven minutes isn't that long, and if we need time to ourselves, I think everyone is going to be a little suspicious that we are taking longer then we should."

"I didn't say we'd do anything. I just said I needed time to do stuff, that's it."

"Uh huh. And what is it that you're going to do?"

"You know it's just me collecting my potions, nothing else..." Both paused as they heard steps outside their door, followed by some mumbled voices as they couldn't hear what was being said, and as the mumbling and sound of steps went away, she was now honest on she took a huge sigh, "You know what I want to do. And now that they are gone," Setting down her glass bottles onto the table, she looked at him, and then looked at the bottles, wondering what she should do, "And now that I know we can have some privacy..."

He could tell she was struggling with her options, and all he could do was sit back and wait for her to make the choice, "This is up to you my love, or, sorry, mate," She growled at him as she knew what he was trying to pull, and he chuckled as he apologised for not making it easy, "Sorry, I guess I shouldn't say anything. But everyone is already up there, and, let's be honest... Seven minutes?"

"I know I know... Ugh!" Grabbing a satchel from the left side of the table, she put it around herself, and popping open the the top of the satchel, she continued to grumble as put the glass bottles in her bag, "It's fine, it's fine. I've waited this long, I've waited for years on years, I know what you said, and I know what I said, But!" With everything in her bag, she turned towards him with a slightly puffed out chest as she said, "That doesn't make me saying no anymore easy. And the fact that your so for it, makes it even more frustrating!"

Volteer couldn't help himself but chuckle as she walked over to him, and he assured her as he did feel a little bad, "Ersa... One reason I guess I can say I want to rush it is because... I am scared, and I know you are too, of something to happen to break us up once again," As she stood in front of him, she gave a slight frown as he was right, but he smiled and assured her, "But you saw how Malefor reacted to the darkness. I've been training up as well so... Let's go have some fun!"

Her eyes grew wide and her smile did as well, and with her tail wagging, she cried happily, "Really?! B... But what if... I mean..."

"Oh, Ersa I..." He could tell that she thought he meant something different, so he had to unfortunately tell her the truth behind his words, "When I meant fun, I meant seeing the effects your potions have on Spyro, not.. Me and you..." She took a deep sigh in before releasing all the air she had built up, and he gave a nervous chuckle as now he could tell she was furious, "I... I love you though... I really do," She couldn't respond to him, now all she did was walk past him and towards the door, opening it and walking out it, and Volteer cried as he felt terrible, "Ersa!" Running after her, he cried once again, "There's always tonight!"

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"You know, the more and more I think about it, the more and more I realise, maybe this isn't such a good idea," Cyril declined the idea now more then before, and compared to the others, he sat in the middle of the house's hallway while the others stood a couple of steps away from the door to not be completely heard, "I mean, I know Ersa is smart and, getting Cynder on her good side would make Spyro still smile as well but... maybe we should just back out now while we still can."

"We can't, Cyril," Ignitus declined, and everyone could already tell that something was on his mind about what's happened, and he tried to be honest with everyone, "To be honest, being the Chronicler is nothing more then a chore. I'm always worrying or, seeing others for what they aren't and... it's messing with me trying to be the father for Spyro that I should be."

"What do you mean?"

"Because of what's been happening, my mind is clouded by how I think or know on how someone should act. I don't go off of feelings or ideas as much anymore, mainly because I can read minds. I'm not... myself... I'm not like how I should be. And... I guess that why I love my relationship with Claire so much because it isn't ruined by me reading her thoughts or past to just instantly know something... I need to just know what I did before, about you all, rather then knowing everything and not feeling... as bad..." They all tried their best to understand where he was coming from as they didn't really understand exactly what he was going through, and Ignitus started to feel worse as he thought about it, letting his head look down at the ground, "I feel like Malefor knows how Spyro would react better then I would... And..."

"Cheer up, man," Malefor said, throwing his arm around the back of his friend's neck and over his shoulder, "This is another good thing we can talk to Spyro about. And maybe you can find a way to shut off your powers from here to here. Spyro's your son, and that will never change. Don't believe me, ask him yourself. But you know, deep down, you already know the truth, and it doesn't take the power of the Chronicler to know he will always love you."

Everyone's eyes grew wide to hear what Malefor had just said, and everyone believed he was just joking, and they were waiting for him to jab at Ignitus for something. Malefor didn't see anyone's reaction as he was looking at Ignitus's frown slowly turn into a smile as his words were very helpful to his friend. Carith was especially surprised to see the help he gave to his friend, and made sure to reward him later on, If he doesn't make a joke, I will give him a little kiss. Picking his head up as Ignitus felt a lot better from his words, he looked over at Malefor and went to thank him, but he chuckled as he knew there was some kind of joke he was holding back, "Alright... Why so helpful all the sudden?"

"Because your feeling... down?"

"Exactly. Normally you'd make someone feel better, and then make a joke to get them to cheer up... Well, that's your plan anyway. So why no joke now?"

"Well, when you put it like that I sound like an ass. There's no joke to my words," Taking his arm off from his friend, he was honest with him, "Just felt like you need some cheering up. And with Spyro usually being the one to cheer everyone up, he entrusted your lives with me, so, I'm not going to let him down."

Okay... maybe a full on make out session when he's done, Carith promised herself, biting her lip as she looked at him. While everyone else was on board, somewhat hopeful that he wouldn't say anything else and things would stay the way they are, Terrador called him out on it as well, "Yeah, Malefor, what ever your pulling, it ain't working." Looking over at his green friend, Malefor gave a raised brow as he wondered what he meant as well, "Just before in the Chamber, you were attacking both Ignitus and Ersa, and now your being a... friend? You just don't want to get your ass beat because of what you said."

"I mean, if you want me to make a joke I..."

"No!" Everyone cried in unison, and this time, Ignitus looked at Terrador and told him the same thing he told Malefor, "Zip it."

"What are you all yelling for?" Volteer asked as he walked into the Chambers with his lover by his side.

"Don't ask. You'll get yelled at for it," Terrador grumbled, but he could understand the reason behind it, "I wouldn't be surprised if those two knew we were all in there house for sure now."

"That's where the girls come into play," Claire said, turning around and facing the door, "Like Ersa said, if Cynder sees the girls, all we have to do is make sure she's happy, and then Spyro will follow as well. So, guys, make sure you are out of view while we talk to her, as to not get her suspicions up," Everyone did as they were told, and while the guys backed up towards the entrance door, the girls all got together in front of the door of Spyro and Cynder's room, "You girls all ready?"

"Ready to have another girls night," Ersa grumbled and the other girls looked at her, wondering why she had said that, "Don't worry, nothing bad happened between me and Volteer... I'm just... Forget it."

"No no no, it's completely fine, Ersa. What happened?" Carith asked as now the girls all wondered.

"I... Let's just, get Cynder first and then I will... probably... talk about it."

"Hehe, sweet. Something else to look forward to today."

Walking up to the door, Claire gave light knocks and said, "Cynder? Are you in there?" She didn't hear a response, and didn't even know if the two were in the room, so she made sure by opening the door and saying again, "Cynder, it's the girls. Are you..."

As the door opened, the girls all gasped and looked with wide eyes. On the right side of the bed was Cynder, on her back with wings sprawled out and looking straight. On the left side of the bed was Spyro, standing up and in an attack position, almost like he was ready to jump on her and attack. Both of the lovers stood where they were, looking at one another with wide eyes as they didn't expect to be interrupted. As the girls all carefully walked into the room, Spyro was the first one to react from the sudden walk in. Puffing out his chest, closing his eyes and inhaling deeply with anger clearly showing on his face, Carith quickly defended her lover, "This wasn't Malefor's idea!" Opening one eye to look at her, he held in his breath while still keeping a puffed out chest, "Malefor warned us constantly, afraid that you'd be angry at him. He tried his best, I swear, but... We really, really wanted to talk with Cynder."

Letting out all the air in his body to finally breath, he gave out a huge sigh as he un-puffed his chest. Since the girls were looking for her, Cynder looked at them and asked as she wondered, "What do you all need me for?"

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to know how me and Ignitus fell in love?" Claire asked and almost instantly, she was able to get a reaction out of Cynder.

"I'm listening."

"Well I can't tell you in here, girls only stuff. Also, sometimes happened with Ersa so, more stuff for us to talk about," Already, Cynder had rolled onto her belly and made sure her body was facing straight as she was intrigued by what the girls were saying, "And Ersa also has some potions for Spyro to try, which I'm assuming should be nothing bad so, you won't have to worry about him being in pain or anything like that, so it works out for the both of you."

Cynder was already on board with everything the girls were saying, and as all the girls looked over to Spyro to hear what he had to say, they were all shocked, "I'm sorry but... It's going to be a no," All the girls gasped as they thought this would've been the perfect idea for all of them to have fun with, and he had his reasons, "I promised Cynder we aren't going to leave this bed today no matter what," Taking a couple of steps before laying down on his belly next to his lover, he made sure he kept his promise, "I promised her this day was for her. Malefor can be the test dummy for you Ersa, and Cynder will have all the time to talk tomorrow. I'm sorry but... Maybe tomorrow."

Now the girls didn't know what to do as they really did have high hopes to talk with Cynder, and Ersa had hopes to test out her potions. All the girls frowned knowing that there wasn't anything they could do, but Cynder stepped in to their surprise, "Now hold on just a minute, girls," Everyone looked at her, wondering what she was going to say, especially since Spyro had already said no, they wondered how she would change his mind, "Spyro, you do remember the promise you made to me by exact words, don't you?" He nodded his head, wondering what she meant by that, and she repeated exactly what he had told her yesterday, "'I love you, and I promise, no matter what happens, we will not leave this bed unless you say so'. That you, was me, so if i say we should get up for any reason, we have to," All the girls looked at her with wide eyes, and Spyro gave a slight chuckle as he did remember himself saying that but didn't want to say anything, and she caught onto that, "So why didn't you say anything, my love."

He frowned as he didn't want to admit it, but he hoped by him admitting it, she would stay, "Because I promised you this day... I don't want us to leave this bed because... I want you to know that, no matter what, I will never forget, and make the same mistake I have been in the past couple of days..." Draping a wing over her back and putting his tail over hers, he didn't know if he had done everything he should've and still didn't want her to leave, "There is always tomorrow my love. I want to make sure this day is a day to remember, just like any other... Just like how you wanted it from the past."

"Spyro," Putting a paw over his, he looked at her to see her smile, while also giving off a little blush, "This day has already been as amazing as I'd hope it would've been. So why don't we go and have some fun now? We still have the night, and, this day has also shown that Malefor really did try and keep his promise to you. And be honest, he isn't going to attack the girls, you know that as much as I do."

"Hehe, yeah... that's because of Ersa's pressure point technique."

The two lover's shared a nice laugh, and same for Ersa as she understood as well, and the other girls smiled to see how well they were getting along, which wasn't really a surprise to them. Giving a sigh, he looked at the girls, and then looked back at her lover before asking, "If you go with the girls... Will you promise to have a good time, and make sure to keep a smile?"

"Of course I will. I promise... I've had an amazing time with you, and it's made up for everything that's happened."

Giving a sigh, the girls all waited for what he would say, and with his lover's help, he changed his mind, "Alright..." Taking his wing off her back along with his tail, he felt bad for what he did and apologised for it, "I want you to be happy, and, keeping you here when you don't want to isn't exactly something I should do, I just..."

"Spyro... The girls are right here, and I don't want to get into too much detail about how amazing you making out with me was."

While she giggled, he also chuckled and gave another sigh, knowing that she really was happy with how well things have gone for her. Giving a smile, he agreed, "You can hang out with the girls."

"Really?!" Cynder cried happily while all the other girls smiled wide with wide eyes as well, completely appalled that she was able to convince him, "Thank you, Spyro!"

Wrapping her wings around his back, he chuckled once again at her excitement, and he couldn't get the smile off his face, "Like I said, doesn't sound good when you want to do something and I tried to keep you away from it," As she pulled away from the hug, he explained a little further, still apologising, "I'm sorry... I..."

"Spyro, you wanted to fulfil your promise to me and you did. Everything is fine my love, I swear."

"Hehe, yeah... It really is..." The girls were all looking at him smiling, and he could tell they were all looking at him, and he gave a blush too but tried to change his attitude, "Now where's Malefor so I can kick his ass for not doing his job," Even as he tried to joke, the smile on his face never faded and they all giggled to see that which made him sigh, "Alright, fine... Yes, I'm happy, is that a problem?"

Cynder giggled at him as she stood up on the bed, and while the girls backed away, she made sure to crawl off the bed, making her tail grope along his neck as she did. His head stood up as to give her room for her tail, and as it got to her tail blade, she used the flat top of her tail to go past his neck as well, not causing him harm in the process. With her now off the bed, he looked at her while her back was to him, and turning her head back to look at him, just as Spyro, she kept her smile and thanked, "Thank you... my love."

Giving a pleased sigh, he laid his head down on his paws and watched as she turned her head around and walked with the girls towards the door. Seeing them go to the left, he knew they were headed to the training room, and just as they got out of his field of view, he saw the guys all sitting against the back wall of his house. What the...? Standing up, he jumped off the bed and walked towards his door. Sitting in his doorway, he looked over to see the training room door was cracked open just a little. Looking back ahead, the guys were still all standing there, and he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming. As he did that, he pulled his paws down from his eyes and blinked a couple of times. Once he made sure his vision was clear, the guys were all gone, and he felt like he was tripping out, "Am I dreaming?"

"Absolutely not," A voice called from behind him, and feeling a paw swing around the back of his neck and over his shoulder, he looked to his right and saw Malefor, "What's sup man. Things went really well for you in there, don't you think."

"Malefor?! What the..." Looking around, to his left first, he saw Ignitus and Volteer, and looking to his other side was Malefor, Terrador, and Cyril, "Wh... What are you all doing in my house?"

"Well, I live here," Malefor chuckled.

"And I needed to ask you something," Ignitus was honest, giving a little frown as he said that.

"And I followed because you know I wouldn't leave Ersa," Volteer said, but he realised what happened yesterday and defended himself, "Okay, in my defense, I had Ignitus watch over her so she was fine. And to answer why the other two are here, just like with the last girls day out, they are lonely and don't want to sit down there by themselves." The two opened their mouths to say something, but they knew he was right and both closed their mouths, "So, how's it going, Spyro?"

"Well, first, I'm not buying that bull excuse that it was only the girls who wanted to see us, otherwise you all wouldn't be here," Seeing as everyone opened their mouths to say something, Spyro cut them off before they were able to say anything as he didn't want to hear it, "Nope. Don't care what other excuse it was. You all were in the back out of our view for a reason, which does make me think it could have been one of you guys," Now hearing someone else open their mouth, he knew it was from his right, and could guess well enough as he looked over to know it was Malefor, "Calm down, Malefor, I know it wasn't you." Closing his mouth after sighing, he was glad to hear he was trusted, "Now, going back over to Ignitus, what is it you need to ask me? If it's world ending, give me a break for at least a day. Literally just got done with helping Volteer and Ersa and I just... Ahem... What is it?"

Giving his son a chuckle as he could understand everything he's been going through, he assured him while also trying to answer his question, "Don't worry, Spyro, you're safe from saving the world, for now at least..."

"Uh... What...?"

"Oh, don't worry, you're fine. Apes are everywhere and them attacking from here and here is to be expected, but nothing major," Ignitus chuckled as he didn't mean to say what he had did, and since he made Spyro's suspicions grow, he knew he had to change the subject quick, "But, anyway, going back. I... I wanted to know from you if I was a good... father, to you?" Seeing him raise a brow, Ignitus understood that the question did seem random, so he explained a little more in-depth, "It's just, over that last weeks I... I feel like I haven't been the father I should be to you. Whether it be after Malefor was back or, the whole thing with Ersa and yet, I come to you for help and I... I could've at least talked to you in your mind after you saved Malefor... and I didn't... and..."

"Ignitus," Spyro spoke in a soft tone, making his father feel a sense of calmness to him, and he looked towards his son, angry at himself as he was scared to know what he'd say, but he knew he shouldn't be, "You really think you're a terrible parent because you made mistakes, and, this is your first time even being a father?" Immediately his son's words were able to brighten his face up a bit, and he even chuckled at his joke that he made about Malefor, "Although, you did have to take care of a Hatchling back in the day named Malefor so, I guess you can't use that excuse."

"I was a grown man, Thank you very much," Malefor defend his pride.

"Yeah, such a grown up that, instead of talking out the problem with his lover and her dad, he just went straight to his roam and threw a fit. Total man right there," Spyro raised a brow as he looked at him, and he watched as Malefor scuffed and made a couple of noises, trying to fight back with him, but he just crossed his arms and grumbled, "Anyway," Looking back at his father, he made sure his words did make him smile, "What happened back then was stressful for everyone, and if you would've interrupted me and Cynder when we first fell in love... Probably would've killed you, or I would've let Malefor do it when you first came back, so, it's a good thing you didn't."

"Hehe, yeah, I... I guess you're right... I just, I'm trying to change back to myself and limit my powers. Constantly knowing what everyone is thinking is messing with me and I can't respond with emotion anymore, and that's why my relationship with Claire works out so well, because I don't know her thoughts, I go off emotions... Which I should be doing for you all, especially you since you're my son, and... A father should know how to help."

"I mean, when you put it like that... I would definitely appreciate you stepping up and making a change for the better," Hearing the girls giggle in the Chambers, Spyro stopped for a second and looked to the door, raising a brow as he wondered what they were talking about, and so did Malefor, he just didn't see, "Look, Ignitus," Looking back at his father he assured him one last time, "You'll always be my father. I've made mistakes, and so has everyone else that's lived. I'm glad you've made mistakes with how you've handle things here and here. Some turned out good, and even when things turn bad, you still learn from them and grow. And even now, you want to grow to be a better father to me. That makes you just like any other dragon, so don't ever think you're not someone I care for." He was able to catch a glimpse of his father smiling before looking back at the door and hearing the girls giggle once again, "So, uh... Yeah... I will... Be right back."

Seeing as both Spyro and Malefor walked over towards the door to peak on what the girls were talking about, Volteer shuck his head and told them to come back, "What are you two doing? Give the girls some privacy."

"About Volteer though..."

"What?"

Hearing his name be called, he walked right up towards the door with the other two and now wanted to hear what the girls had to say. The other three Guardians shuck their heads to see him go against his words so quickly, but they decided not to say anything in hopes something would happen, or they'd get caught. Hopefully by them peaking in, one of the girls will get scared and use their abilities, Terrador chuckled lightly to himself with an evil grin.

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"Alright, Alright, fine, I will... Tell you all why I've been feeling down," Letting out a sigh and a blush, she saw all the girls in front of her sit there with anticipation, and since they were on the right side of the wall, close to the door, Ersa's body blocked their view of the guys as they peaked in, "You all know that, I've been... Talking to Volteer about the next step, aside from you of course Cynder since you were asleep."

"Why couldn't you all wake me up? I would've love to see what had happened."

"Because Spyro was there. And since you were sleeping pretty peacefully, I would've felt bad myself just trying to wake you up," Carith answered for Claire as well as neither of them wanted to interrupt her sleep.

"Hehe, yeah, and, plus... There was mainly just crying... A lot... of crying," The girls eyes got wide as they saw Ersa frown, starting to want to shed a tear for some reason, and she was able to catch on fast enough and straighten herself up, "Ahem! Getting back on subject. This is a little hard to say since, none of you girls are to this level yet but... I actually got a little... angry..." All the girls gasped as they thought that was how she felt towards Volteer, and she quickly shut that idea down, "No no no, not towards him, I just..." Letting out a huge sigh, she started to mumble and murmur, feeling a little uncomfortable now talking about it, "It's just... A girl has needs and... It's been years and... Now that he's back I... OH!"

Feeling something touch her left back-end, she shivered as her whole body jumped from the random feeling. Looking to her left, there was no one, so she looked to her right and saw it was Volteer, and he teased her even though the other females were right there, "I said we should stay in the room. I have my ways to seal off a door. Sorry about scaring you, just got a little uh... Excited."

The girls blushed to hear what Volteer said, and Ersa blushed just as hard as the other girls, lightly slapping his chest with her paw with a smile as she heard him laugh. With the other guys walking in, the girls walked to Ersa's left side, and everyone focused their attention to Malefor as he made what seemed like a joke, "We tried to get him to stay but he said, and I quote him, "Got to go grab me my girl by the back end'." No one believed him, so they focused their attention to Spyro, and when he nodded with a blush, the girls all gasped, "Yeah... Dude got issues."

"Well... We are slowly but surely getting there..." Ersa sighed as she lowered her head, once again completely saying stuff out loud rather then in her mind, and picking back up her head she looked to her left and seeing the guys, and the girls, were all looking at her with wide eyes, "Oh... whoops... did I, say that out loud?" Giving off a giggle as she realised she had, she turned back over to Volteer and saw that he had puffed out his chest for some reason to make him more manly, and it was working, "Volteer..." Ersa tried to whisper as best she could, "Calm down or else I won't be able to, understand?"

"So, uh... Ersa... We going to uh... Test out those potions or... do we all need to leave?" Spyro asked as everyone could see the two flirting with one another even though Ersa tried to fight back, and looking back behind him to see the other had entered the roam, he elbowed Malefor gently in his shoulder and got his attention, "I don't like where this is going. Want to go and meet up with the..." Hearing a huge sigh, both the guys looked over at Ersa, and everyone had wide eyes from the sigh, "Oh hell... That's not good."

"I'll make a promise to make it up to you. It's going to happen tomorrow, I promise. And unlike Malefor, you, can definitely quote me on that," She had closed her eyes and listened to him talk about his promise, and opening one eye to look at him, he smiled at her and knew she couldn't resist, "Now matter what. And like I said, I could always seal the door off with some of my expert skills in chemical mixing."

"Volteer," Hearing her growl, he watched as she looked at him and opened her other eye, threatening him in ways, "If it doesn't, I have my own ways of making sure it happens, understand?" She could see he was now rethinking his plan for reasons she already understood, "That doesn't mean you should force me to do what I have in mind..." Giving a deep sigh, she controlled her breathing afterwards and did smile as she grateful that he was at least trying, "At least I know you still love me... I would say let's kiss now but... let's just wait till we are back in our rooms." Walking away from her lover, everyone saw Volteer smiling so they knew it must've been good news, and since Ersa seemed to be in a good mood, that was another clear indication, "Alright, Spyro. Let's see what these potions can do."

Running up to her lover, Cynder stood next to him and called out as she did have a little fear, "Can any of these cause any kind of harm to him? I know what you said in our roam but... Just making sure."

"Well... That's the hope is that they, shouldn't, cause harm but uh... They are a test so... Who really knows," Ersa giggled while everyone looked at both Spyro and Cynder's face as now they were both worried.

Putting a wing over her lover, Spyro chuckled as he wondered why she was the one doing that, and he didn't have to ask for an answer, "Okay, now I'm rethinking this idea. Things have been going good so far, and last thing I want is for this day to take a turn for the worse. We could just go back to our room now if you wanted to."

"Cynder, I'll be fine," Spyro assured her, even though he had no idea what was to come from her potion testes, "I will just test these out, then she'll be happy, and so will Volteer, so then we can go back to our room and continue our love story," Seeing her blush a little from him bringing that up, he chuckled and flirted with her as he was still a little upset, "Just sucks because we were getting to the best part. A jump, a struggle, and then a bite."

"What?!" She cried, now sad that they were interrupted, and she bit her lip, a little sad that they weren't able to continue, "What's stopping the bite now?"

"Spyro?! You going to try these out or not?" Ersa called out as she was waiting a little bit back from the middle of the training room near the door with everyone else already by her side and waiting, and while Spyro giggled, Cynder grumbled.

"Hehe, well, I can give you two guesses," He chuckled.

"I guess I can't be mad... I'm really glad Ersa lived through all of what she went through... Just... Please... If you feel anything wrong then just, back out, Okay?"

"I promise," Kissing her forehead, she gave a small frown as she took off her wing from his back and watched him pull away, "Come on, my love, it's me. I've fought through worse," As he started to walk over to the middle, she followed and he joked, "And I'm sure a potion kicking me in the gut wouldn't be nearly as bad as the Dark Master so, I should be fine."

"Should be... More like need to be," As he walked in front of Ersa, he and his lover stopped in front of her, and Cynder warned her just to make sure they were on the right page, "Ersa, we girls here love having you around. Please just... make sure nothing happens."

"Hehe, don't worry, Cynder. I've already tested these a little bit. I just wanted to mess with you," Ersa giggled and knew it would be best to tell her the truth.

"Well... Hehe... At least you're honest."

Walking away from her lover, Spyro could see her tail dragging on the floor, and knew he needed to cheer her up, "Ersa, give me one sec," As she sat next to Carith at the far end of the crowd, Spyro called out to her name, "Hey, Cynder," She picked up her head and blushed rather quickly to see him flexing his muscles, "Didn't get these muscles cause they were given to me, just my usual work out to keep you safe."

"Alright Mister Flexer, chill out before those muscles pop," Malefor chuckled, and Cynder giggled as well.

"Alright then, let's get this party started!" Ersa happily called out while clapping her paws, and everyone smiled to see how excited she was, "Now, the question is..." Looking down to her right side and opening her satchel, she moved bottles around with small clanking noises as one bottle hit another one, "Which one should you try first?" Grabbing one of the bottles and taking it out of her bag, she inspected it as the color turned from green, then blue, and back to green, "Let's see what this one does," Giving the bottle over to Spyro, he grabbed it from her paws and she explained, "Now, you can either drink it, or, you can just break the glass and let the liquid go into your scales. The glass is special in a way where it won't pierce your body, and it holds up against the stuff I work on so, your choice."

Inspecting the bottle for himself, Spyro backed his head away for a second as the bottle once again turned from green, then blue, and back to green. Chuckling as he was a little afraid, he decided to go with the safer option, "Yeah... I think I will just drink it..." Taking the cork off the top of the bottle, he hesitated for a second and didn't even dare try and smell the bottle, "Well... Bottoms up!" Drinking the liquid as quick as he could, he swallowed all of the bottle and let out a sigh of relief, not having tasted the liquid at all, "Weird..." Pulling the bottle away from his lips, he put the cork back on the bottles and gave it back to her, "Was there supposed to be a taste to it? Then again, I did drink the whole bottle but..." As he had given her the bottle, he started to feel weird, and everything started to get further away, and he was able to see everyone looking at him with wide eyes from up above, "Um... Ersa...? Am I... AH!" Looking down underneath him, he realised he was floating towards the ceiling and away from everyone, and trying to use his wings, it was like there was no gravity at all, no wind for him to go against and move, "Ersa! Help!" Looking behind him, his back hit the top of the ceiling while everyone continued to stare in amazement, but Spyro wasn't having a good time, and he rolled onto his paws, now standing upside down on the ceiling, shivering as he asked, "Um, Ersa... How long will this take to... Stop working?"

"Hey... Ignitus," Malefor whispered over to his red friend and was able to get his attention, "I won't mess with you, your lover, or any of the other Guardians for a whole week if you open the roof and let Spyro fly out."

"No! Don't do that! Malefor!" Spyro yelled out at him as Malefor wasn't quiet when he had asked him, and it only made it more scary for him as he could see his father thinking about it, and he cried out, "Ignitus! Dad! You said you would be a better parent to me, did you not?! Don't do this to me," Seeing his dad smile at him, and giving him a nod, Spyro had a huge sigh of relief as he put a paw on his chest, and now his anger was directed towards Malefor, "When I get down there, I swear to everything that you stand for, Malefor."

"I wasn't actually going to do it... Maybe..."

"So, how long will it take to wear off?" Volteer asked his lover as he was standing right next to her.

"Well, the type of gem that I've used for most of my creations don't last that long, so he should be coming down in... It's been a couple of minutes or so... I would say a couple more seconds," Everyone heard her words and waited the couple of seconds, and she was right in her words as he started to slowly descend off the ceiling and back down to the ground, "Hey, Spyro, you should be fine now to use your wings..." Just as she had said that, he turned his body back over and whipped his wings, sending him flying towards the ground, and as he made it, he laid on the ground, claws dug into it and still shaking, "Hehe, Sorry, I will, try and make sure I don't have anything else like that in here... Anyway, next up."

"Already?" Spyro cried, not wanting to even move his claws from the ground.

"Oh don't worry. That was probably the only one that could've ended badly..." Looking over to her lover, Ersa put a paw beside her mouth and told her lover, "I'm very surprised how well that worked out. Worst comes to worse, the wind would've crushed him and became too power, or the gravity would've so... Success." His eyes grew wide as he didn't know that was one of the side effects, and seeing how wide his eyes got, Spyro got suspicious, and she didn't want that to happen, "So, next up on the list is going to be one that I'm hoping I packed," Putting the glass bottle from her paw back into the back, she searched for the next bottled, "There you are," Picking up a bottle from her bag, the liquid inside was pink, and it seemed pretty smooth as she shuck it around, "Alright, Spyro, this one right here should be nothing of a problem."

Spyro grumbled slightly as he didn't really trust in her words, but he knew he had to get it over with, and seeing as Cynder was watching him coward in fear, he had to stand up. I can't let my fear show in front of Cynder, he thought, giving a sigh as he took his claws from the ground. Standing up and once again grabbing another bottle from her paw, he took the cork off the top and instantly smelt something he had never smelt before. Instantly his body started to sweat, and he couldn't figure out why, but he shrugged it off and got it over with. Once again drinking the liquid, he swallowed it all and was pleased with the taste. At least it has taste compared to the other one. Taking the bottle from his lips and putting the cork back over it, he gave it back to Ersa and asked, "So what's this one?"

She first put the bottle back in the bag before turning back to face him and answering, "Well, technically, it actually wasn't anything. I just really wanted you to try out this new bubble gum flavor medicine I've been working on, so you should be feeling pretty good right now." Seeing him sweat, something was off, and he started to blush, shaking his head as if he couldn't get thoughts off his mind, and he even started to growl at himself, and with Ersa getting worried, so did everyone else, "Spyro... Are you... Okay?"

"No..." He growled back, and turning to his lover, his voice changed to something smoother, "But I can be..." Walking over to Cynder, she didn't understand what was happening, and neither did Ersa and she tried to get an idea of what she had given him to make him act this way, "Cynder..." Standing in front of her, she opened her mouth to ask something, but her lips were sealed with his, and even with the other right there, he started to make out with his lover, and even she knew something was off and pushed him away, even backing away as she did, "Cynder, my love, what's wrong."

"Oh hell," Ersa growled as she started to dig back in her bag, "I really hope I brought something for this."

"Spyro, I'm all down for kissing and all but, you weren't exactly easy when you kissed me," Cynder was honest, and it didn't seem to faze him at all from her words.

"You know we can't be easy when it's fun, Cynder," Now everyone knew something was wrong with him, and even with them knowing that, hearing him flirt in such a way made everyone else feel uncomfortable, "You didn't even let me get to the best part. Come on, let's go back to our rooms and then I can show you fun..." Taking another step towards her, he grinned as he teased, "Just lay back and I will do all the work."

"Alright, Carith, we are just going to switch places real quick," Moving from the right of Carith to her left, Malefor squeezed in between his lover and Terrador, giving a sigh of relief and apologizing as well, "Sorry, my love but... I don't know what I can do to help."

Here we go! This should work perfectly, Ersa thought,pulling out a bottle with black and green coloring inside of it, It's a shame I only brought two but... I didn't expect to bring this potion anyway, and now I will have to make another. Walking over towards Spyro, she could still hear him trying to flirt with her, and before she could even get to his side, Cynder yelled out at him as to why she wasn't having how he was acting, "Maybe if I lie, it will calm him down? You hurt me, Spyro!"

Nearly automatically, it had effect on him as Spyro's face turned to fear, and he took his paws back away from her. Ersa saw this as a perfect opportunity to get him to drink the antidote as she ran up to his side. Standing beside him, she showed the bottle in front of his face and said, "Spyro, drink this. This well help get rid of all of the effects."

It took him a bit to even respond, but clenching his eyes shut and letting a couple of tears go down his eyes, he grabbed the bottle, popped off the cork, and drank as much of the weird liquid as he could. Swallowing all of the liquid, his head looked down at the ground with his paws hitting the ground, trying to catch his breath as he didn't feel right at all, but he could feel himself coming back. Ersa apologized for everything that had happened and explained, "Sorry for the mix up, Spyro... That was meant for... Volteer..."

"Me?" Volteer asked, and seeing her lover blush slightly, she sighed as she turned her head to look at him.

"Look, I said if you weren't going to go for it, I had to ways to make you," She saw his blush, and he even gave a little smirk from her words, and then explained a little further for everyone else, "Lets just say it makes you more... Ahem... Sexually attracted to your lover so... I guess I need to do some more work. I didn't know it would make the love for someone aggressive enough to hurt them."

"It didn't," Cynder said, walking up to Spyro and sitting down in front of him, she assured him, "I only lied about that to get my lover under control of what he was going through," She couldn't really tell if she was making progress or not because his head was still ducked, so she knew she had to keep trying, "I know my Spyro... and he knows I'm the one that takes the lead," The girls couldn't help but giggle, and it seemed to work for Spyro as well as she could see his smile even as he tried to fight it, "Well, that is a pretty big lie but... My point is..." Putting her paw over his left paw, she assured him as she ducked her head down to see him, "Just like the neck bite thing, I'm not hurt."

Giving out a sigh of sadness, Spyro put the cork on the bottle and handed it over to Ersa. Ersa grabbed the bottle from his paw and as she put it back into her bag, she backed away and let the two talk it out. He was still afraid to face her after what he had done, but knew it was better then trying anything else. Picking up his head to say something, his lips were sealed with hers pretty quickly and suddenly. But unlike last time, she enjoyed every second of how smooth and nice he was with his lips against hers. Gently taking her lips away from his, she smiled, and it seemed to work as he even smiled back, "That's way better," He chuckled as he definitely agreed, but as his frown was slowly coming back from what happened, she wasn't going to allow it, "Spyro... I already told you that you didn't hurt me, and I'm fine. So the only reason you should be frowning is because you just want another kiss." Almost immediately, he frowned as much as he could, and she giggled at him, "I don't mind remembering how smooth and easy you are."

With the two kissing lovingly after what had happened, Ersa went through her satchel and made sure she had everything that she needed while she stood next to her lover, "Okay, so, I got that one, got that one... What's this one...? Oh yeah," While digging through her satchel, she felt something touch her left back side, and her head focused away from the bag and to her left, seeing that what touched her back end was Volteer's, "What?"

"What do you mean what? When did you make that potion?"

"Oh..." Giving off a giggle and a blush, she was honest with him even as embarrassing as it was, "Well, I technically made two different versions. One messes with memory so you'd think that your lover is really me. I was going to use that one against you in case you were with someone else another then me... Which... Sounds terrible when I say it out loud but... If you were with someone else, you would... I won't go into deep detail but, who ever you were with would've broken up with you."

"Damn... So why do I deserve someone as sexy as you?"

"Uh huh? And how do you now that?"

"Been checking you out if course."

"What are you after?"

Hitting his back side against hers once again, she giggled while blushing along with him as he teased her, "Oh you know what I'm after."

Now catching their breaths from their kissing, Spyro felt much better to continue on with the day now, and Cynder made sure if it, "You even fought against it, despite how powerful it was," Rolling a claw on his chest, he chuckled while she flirted, "I think we can have a little, adventure, with that story," Seeing everyone look over at them with blushes, she growled and had to call it for now, "Now go back and have some fun... I guess you're not having fun but, you know."

Chuckling at her, he nodded and made sure he nuzzled underneath her neck for how understanding she was. Taking his head back from her neck, he gave a very quick sigh as he felt a whole lot better, "Thank you, my love... And... Are you sure I didn't hurt you...?"

"Spyro..." Cynder gave a raised brow at him, and he immediately dropped what he was saying and chuckled before turning and running back to Ersa, "You handsome dragon you..." Giving a pleased sigh herself, she proceeded to walk back to where she was sitting as well, and as she sat down, she realized she was sitting next to Carith, and asked her friend, "Wait, Carith, why did Malefor move? I mean, not complaining, I much prefer it this way."

"I definitely don't," Terrador growled as he looked at Malefor, and even though he was growling, his friend just tried to chuckle even with him balling up a fist.

"It's better this way," Carith whispered as she looked at Cynder, "Now we can have girl talk without my lover in the way." Both the girls giggled, and Carith was the first to ask even though it was on Cynder's mind as well, "You think we can get all the girls over here, like Claire, and then have Ersa just sit where I'm sitting so Volteer can sit next to her and we can sit in a row?"

"I was thinking the same thing."

With everyone else talking and getting into position with all girls on the right and the guys on the left, Spyro stood in front of Ersa as she was now prepared him for what was next, "Alright, next up is going to be a little bit... Difficult," Seeing him already take a step back, she assured him and thought it could be fun, "Don't worry, not like that. What I mean is..." Reaching into her bag, she pulled out a bottle of green liquid, and she explained, "So, this is from a green gem patch actually, melted down and mixed with a couple other chemicals such as flavored enhancements to get rid of the bad taste, while keeping the purpose of what it's suppose to do, but now, here's the fun part for you... You're going to need to get rid of all of your energy."

"Even my dark form?"

"All of your energy," She could see him smile a little, and even his tail started to wag a bit from her saying what she did, "I think I found a way to give more energy then a normal green gem, and it'll give you the power of an entire patch. So, I need to see by how much or how little..." Unable to finish her sentence, he already exploded into his dark form, not knowing it darkened up the entire training room for a second as a wave of darkness washed over the area, "Oh... Well, I guess your ready. Just remember, use all of your power, don't hold back."

"Hehe, Now this is something I can definitely do! Saving the best for last I see, Ersa," Turning away from her, he turned his body away from everyone and faced straight at the other wall, "I can finally let loss, and for an experimental reason," Tuning his head around, he first spoke to his lover as he looked over his right shoulder, "Don't worry, my love, I won't kill myself trying," She smiled at him a little weakly as she was still scared, and now looking over his left shoulder, he looked to his dad and asked, "Hey, Ignitus, in case something does happen, are you able to uh... make sure everyone is safe?"

"I can definitely try. What I will do is reinforce the wall in front of you with my power, and I will protect everyone else from back here," Ignitus told him.

"Sweet. Thanks."

Turning his head back around and facing the wall, he stretched out his body, extending his wings, stretching out his arms and legs while also popping his neck from one side to the next. With his body all loosened up, he jumped up a couple of times before concentrating as hard as he could. Hehe, this is gonna be sweet. Spyro thought. Ducking his head back while charging up as much fire in his mouth as he could, everyone could see from his mouth the fire that formed from how hot it was. The fire went slow before spending up, swirling and being consumed by blue fire and spinning at and unbelievable speed. Closing his mouth, picking his head up, then taking his head back, the blue fired showed from his scales as it lit up from in his body, showing through the darkness. The fire traveled from his stomach, to his neck, and then his mouth. With all the fire built up, he released all the fire from his mouth as he opened it. The blue fire shot out his mouth with enough force to push him back, cracking the ground at his paws, so he had to dig his paws into the ground to hold his ground. With the blue flames hitting the wall, the entire back wall was engulfed in blue fire, almost like a tsunami of fire hitting the wall. Everyone watched in awe as the blue fire lit up the room in a calming and peaceful feel of both warmth and color. Ersa almost dropped her bottle as she saw the fire, and how powerful it was. Even as amazing as it was to everyone, Spyro wanted to try harder. Damn... It...! Only... Blue...! Not... Good enough...! Shutting his mouth, everyone thought it was over even with the blue fire still igniting the wall in front of everyone. But they saw he wasn't done. Taking his front right paw from the ground, he slammed it down in front of him, exploded into a darker form from the looks, letting his eyes go white and flexing his muscles too as far as they could go. Even with the intensity of the first blue fire, he shot the blue fire from his mouth with even more force, amazing everyone once again from the sight and power. Ignitus was even surprised himself as he could see sparks of purple fire in the blue fire, and he was stunned, Purple fire already?! Then again, he hasn't mastered it, and it will drain his power very quickly... And it was the first power his ever used so... I guess it makes sense but... Looking at his son melting the wall, he chuckled to himself, You truly are amazing, young one. Feeling himself running out of power, his darkness slowly started to fade away, starting from his back and making it's way to the front of his mouth. With the fire dying down, so did the darkness as it made it's way to his mouth and disappeared. The wall was completely melted away with blue and some purple flames still remaining on and around the burned and scorched wall. With the fire now gone, everyone looked over to Spyro, and just in time as he collapsed onto his side.

"Spyro!" Cynder cried, running over to his side while Ersa also did the same, and making it over his body, he seemed to have passed out completely, not responding to anything she was saying, "Spyro...? Spyro, wake up."

"Don't worry yourself too much, Cynder, " Ersa assured her as she sat down in front of his face, picking his head up and moving the bottle down to his mouth, "What you should be worried about is who ever is on the wrong side of Spyro's power," Taking the cork off the bottle with her claw and carefully pouring the liquid down his mouth, he was at least able to drink the liquid which was a good thing, "His power is... Unreal... It's unlike anything I've ever seen before in my life... You sure are lucky Cynder," Couching off to his side away from where the girls were sitting, she patted Cynder on the back and said, "Try not to take too long with him. Still have one more thing I want him to try." Putting the cork back on the bottle, she walked over to her lover while putting the bottle back in her bag, and as she made it over to her lover, she giggled at Volteer, "Oh yeah, I think it's going to be a little before Cynder gets back over here, well, Spyro for the matter."

"Why?" Volteer asked, a little confused as to why, but he saw her raise a brow and he already pieced two and two together, "Oh... You think if I get that strong..."

"You're never going to leave our room, and I would make every male in the world jealous."

"Hehe, Damn. Gives me something to look forward to when I am done."

After coughing off to his side, Spyro rolled his body onto his back and looked up at his lover. Seeing her give a sigh as she shuck her head, he chuckled with a small blush and apologised, "So... Hehe... Did you like the... UM!" He wasn't even able to finish his sentence before she pushed her lips against his, and unfortunately, it wasn't a long kiss as she pulled away, and he grumbled, "Damn... It's because I pushed myself too far that that kiss was short?" Seeing her nod before placing her head on his chest and closing her eyes, he chuckled as he put a paw over the back of her head and apologised, Sorry, my love. The good news though, the green gem liquid did actually work, and I feel pretty good..." Seeing her open one eye to look at him, almost in a disappointed manner, his eyes grew slightly wide and he made sure to shut up about what happened, "That was stupid of me and I deserve punishment."

"You're Damn right," Picking her head up off his chest and kissing him once again, it was just as short as the first one, and as she pulled her head away, she growled at herself with a blush as she was a little honest, "That doesn't mean your show of strength and power wasn't... the..." Whispering the last part, she didn't really want him to her, "Sexiest thing in the world..." Seeing him raise a brow at her as her blush got bigger, she growled and said, "Look, when this is over, promise me we will only spend time in our bed again, okay."

"Hehe, Oh yeah, I can definitely promise you that."

"Alright then," Cynder sighed, "Go back to Ersa and finish your last test."

"Alright," As he stood up, Cynder's eyes grew wide as his body was still flexed out and everything about him she couldn't look away from, "Hopefully it's nothing..." Once again, it was a very quick kiss to the lips before she pulled away and gave a huge sigh, and he chuckled as he wondered what the kiss was for, "I didn't even do anything..." Seeing her blush as she looked a little away from him, he chuckled and said, "Awwww..." Moving his head to the side of her head, he whispered as he teased her, "Does someone want me all to themselves?" She could only growl as her blush got bigger, and he chuckled at that, "I love you, you know that..." She didn't respond and instead, walked away from him and back over to the end of the row of girls, "Oh, come on, Cynder."

Sitting down next to Carith, she nudged Cynder in the shoulder as she saw her looking straight with a blush, "So, uh... What was that all about?"

"He's teasing me and he knows it..." Watching as Spyro walked back to the front of Ersa, the two looked at one another and both smiled, but her smile was a little more evil, "He knows I want to make out with him and he's avoiding it. But don't worry, I will get him sooner or later."

"Oh, and how will you do that?"

"Well, even after this, he's going to be trapped in our room for the entire night for sure. But once he's done with Ersa's last bottle of whatever, I'm going to take him by the horn, and he's coming with me back to our room."

"Whoa, Cynder. Are you sure you weren't affected by that one potion that Spyro was affected by because you seem a little... Loving towards him, and a lot more then usual."

"We were having the best time by ourselves, and I'm still wanting to get back to what we were doing. And plus, that wasn't how Spyro acts at all. There's a difference between just a kiss, and a reason behind the kiss that makes it so much better."

"Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about," Carith giggled as she looked down the line to see Malefor sitting straight and watching to see what could happen next, "Me and Malefor are the same way." Looking back to Cynder, she did want her to feel better and assured her, "But don't worry, after this is over, I'm sure we will all be taking our lovers back to our rooms."

"I'm glad you all can," Claire sighed, and the other girls looked over at her, wondering what she meant, "The other males in the room, Cyril and Terrador, Me and Ignitus were having the best time of our lives with our, story kisses and... We accidentally kept the other two awake the entire night..."

"Did Ignitus not use a power to help like, keeping you all quiet or something?" Cynder asked.

"We did but... Ignitus wasn't able to concentrate so..."

"Ah... Makes scenes."

"So, hey, Ignitus," Spyro called out to his father as he sat down in front of Ersa, so he had to move his head a little to the side to see his son as he spoke, "I thought you said you reinforced the wall with your powers, or did you just make the power weak so it would make me feel better when I melted it?"

"Of course not," Ignitus declined the thought, "You really went beyond my expectations on this one. I was very surprised at how much power you really had and I guess this will be a lesson learned for me," Reaching up a paw and snapping his fingers, the wall behind his son started to glow a white color, and sounds of rock and rubble moving all around filled the room as it fixed itself, "It definitely brings a smile on my face to know you're this strong."

As his father smiled at him, Spyro smiled back and went to talking with Ersa about what was next. And while they were having an adult conversation, Malefor let out a huge sigh, confusing everyone, but he let them all know as he even chuckled, "You know, Ignitus, you scare the hell out of me when you do that. Every time you snap your fingers, I think that half of all life would disappear."

"Really...? You're really going to make that joke and that reference?"

"Oh come on, it's a hilarious reference."

"How does half of all life going away seem funny to... You're the Dark Master aren't you."

"Hehe, yeah, no. I'm new and improved baby. Name's Master Malefor. Careful because, these looks and this body, all the girls are after me."

"Call me baby again, I will break your neck. Second, 'all the girls', and yet you only have one."

"One is enough. And it's a joke. Obviously my heart belongs to Carith."

"Then why don't you do us all a favor and rip that heart out and give it to her since you said that?" Terrador growled at him as he wanted to hear what the other two were talking about, but Malefor wouldn't shut up.

"It's call grumpy cat, not grumpy dragon. Keep your chin up little one. Okay... Grumpy dragon? Who's a grumpy little dragon?"

"I can't wait till you go to sleep tonight. Me and my tail blade are going to have fun with your neck."

"I have to injury myself?" Spyro asked as he listened to what Ersa was saying while the other two continued to complain in the back, "Hehe, yeah, I don't know if I can. Cynder's pretty upset with me when it came to me using my power, and I also stressed her out with that love potion of yours. And now if I have to cut myself..."

"Oh yeah... I guess she would be pretty upset to see you bleed," Putting a claw on her chin as she thought of an idea, she had the perfect idea with many more if need be, "I got it. I have a total of eight possible ways we can try and use this potion without her being upset," Seeing Spyro's eyes grew wide, she giggled as she already knew why, "My head hurts from how big my brain is sometimes. Anyway, what we should try and do is say that this potion is really a metal scale potion."

"Metal scale?"

"Yes... Now that I'm thinking about it, something for me to look forward to in future research. But basically we will say that you have to be attacked, only, with the potion, you'll take nearly no damage once you drink the bottle," Seeing him open his mouth to ask, she had an idea already as to what it could be, "I will bring up an empty bottle and say you already drank it so she will think we've used it," He closed his mouth and was impressed at how well she was able to figure out what he was going to say before he could say it, "Now, the real question is, are you going to go along with it? We can stop for the day if you want, I just..."

"No," Spyro interrupted her, and she saw he was a little serious, and he even gave out a sigh while he looked to the ground, and looking back up at her, he knew this was for the best, "If this works just like the green gem liquid you gave me, then this could work and help so much in the future in case anything happens to us and we aren't near gems or, worse, I don't have the power to heal. We have to know if this works," Looking over to the other door on the right side of the training room, she looked over as well and gasped as she never noticed it before, "The Guardians put gems in there in case something happened while training. So we have an endless supply if you ever need to get more."

"Fascinating!" Both Ersa and Volteer said in unison, and she looked away from the door and over to him as he gave a chuckle, "Are you surprised?" She bit her lip seeing him, and he knew that they would have to get to there room sooner rather then later, "Hey, Spyro, if you don't want Cynder to be suspicious or anything, I could always just cut my arm or something to see if it works," Seeing as Spyro gave Volteer a raised brow for the sudden suggestion, he explained, "Well, Me and Ersa are getting a little... Loving since we haven't been able to kiss at all since we've been here, and..."

"Ah... Say no more, Volteer... Honestly, say no more because you'll gross me out," He made the couple chuckle with his joke, and this gave him an idea on something he's been wanting to test out for a little bit, "You know what, this could actually work though. Four or five days ago, I was trying to help Malefor train to control his dark power. I was able to help after he helped me because I went over board trying to control mine, and at that time, I was able to make a ball of my power, and I wonder if I can do it again, only smaller." As he started to think about it, he also remembered how destructive it looked from afar and started to mumble to himself, "Then again, the size of the explosion especially in here would level all of Warfang and probably kill us all."

"Uhhhhhh... What?" Both Volteer and Ersa asked, looking at one another with fear before looking back at Spyro.

Seeing and hearing their reactions, he chuckled at them, "Hehe, don't worry, there is only a slight chance of that happening, so let's try it!" Walking past the two, they looked at one another again with wide eyes, unable to tell if he was joking or not, and while they were trying to figure it out, Spyro stood in front of Malefor and asked him, "How would you like to destroy the Training Room again?" Same as the other two mate's, everyone looked at him with wide eyes, scared as they didn't know what he was talking about, "Hehe, don't worry, we aren't actually going to. Are last test involves making my scales steel, so we should see if it really does work."

"Uh huh... And, what exactly do you want me to do?" Malefor asked, a little scared as to what he would want him to do.

"Well, not to bring up bad memories but, do you remember when I was helping you train to control your dark power and I wasn't exactly smart?" Seeing him already frown, he knew he should quickly move on as to not bring up any other bad memories, "Point is, I was able to make this, ball of darkness, somewhat in a way combining all of my elements together along with my darkness."

"You want me to hit you with that?! I didn't see much of it but, you threw it so far and we still felt the shock wave from miles!"

"He's not joking," Ersa fearfully said to herself, and now that it really did seem like Spyro was all for it, she turned her body to look at him and declined the idea now, "On second thought, Spyro, maybe we should just, hold off on this for another day."

"What's a better time then now?" Spyro said with a big smile as he was already getting excited, and now no one knew if they could stop him, "All I have to do is remember that feeling, channel it to as small of a ball as I can, and then we can see what kind of power it will hold! And plus..." Looking at his lover, it pained him to have to lie, but he didn't want her to worry, "I'm already pretty strong, and making my scales feel like steel, while also making the ball of elements as small as I can to reduce recoil... What could go wrong?" Everyone looked at one another as they weren't sure, and most even looked at Ignitus as he seemed a little scared, and as his son looked at him, Spyro smiled, "Just make sure to protect everyone if something does happen."

"Then I'm going to call this off now," Cynder declined as she wasn't liking what was happening one bit, "I saw what the power was, and I get that you want to control it but... Not at a risk. Ersa said we could just call it and... I want to agree with her," Spyro smiled at his lover, stepping closer and closer to her with a loving intent and she didn't want to fall for it, "Don't try me! I said no." Standing in front of her, he sat down and raised a brow at her, and she shuck her head at him, "There's nothing you can say or do that will make me change my mind."

"I can't?" Spyro asked, and everyone looked with wide eyes to see Cynder raise a brow as he said that, and looking at his father, he asked, "Hey, Ignitus, do you think you can do that muscle thing you did for Volteer?" Ignitus sighed as he knew what he was talking about, but he was curious about how he could control his power and agreed with a nod, "Let's see where my training would put me," As he said that his muscles flexed and showed as if he was in his dark form, and immediately, his lover blushed to see he had even grow a little bit taller to adjust to his muscle gain.

Backing away from her, he looked all around his body to see how smoothed out his body looked with his muscles, along with his slight height gain. Everyone was surprised as well to see how his body looked, and seeing his lover bite her lip, she looked away from him, and he chuckled at her, "It's alright, Cynder, I guess I shouldn't train for this body."

"I guess I should bring this up, Cynder," Ignitus grumbled as he said as he knew he shouldn't say it, but he was curious more and more about Spyro's power, "That's still his body in a teen form, and adjusted to him being a teen. That's not even it adjusting to his adult form with adult looks, so for all we know, Spyro could actually look even more better then he does now."

Everyone saw her body jump for some reason, but they could tell what was being said and seen was getting to her. As his body smoothed back out to his normal body, making his muscles go back down along with a little bit of his height. Walking up and sitting down in front of his lover, she growled as she turned her head around to face him. Putting a claw on his chest, she threatened him, "If you get yourself injured and we have to heal you with the time power..." Giving out a sigh, she couldn't even really joke about leaving him, so instead, she took her claw off his chest and put her paw over his, "Please don't do anything scary."

Raising his wing over to their right to block everyone's view, he kissed her lips which was sudden, but soothing to her as she knew he had good intent. To her surprise, he pulled away and kissed her lips a couple more times which was a little of a scary sign for her. Now pulling away from the kiss, he backed his head up, put his wing back to his side and joked, "The funny thing though is, if I do get hurt, it's Malefor's fault like back then," While he chuckled, it was now confirmed for her that he was going to get hurt in some way, and he apologized for the joke, "Sorry, that wasn't what I should've said..." Reaching a paw up and placing it on her cheek, she laid her head on his paw and he promised, "I will be fine. No hourglass will be needed."

She gave a sigh as she didn't want this to happen, and taking her head off his paw, she made him promise, "No training or anything of the sort for the rest of the day afterwards and the day after, understood?"

"Yes," Spyro celebrated, and seeing her raised brow, he chuckled, "What I meant was, yes, my love, I promise." Turning his body and running to the middle of the room, he stopped and then ran over towards Ersa as he had forgotten to get the fake bottle.

Cynder sighed as she walked back over to the other girls and later sat down next to Carith once again. Seeing how sacred she was of what was about to happen, Carith tried to make her feel better, "Spyro's strong, Cynder, I don't have to tell you that. And to get your mind off of it, think of what will happen when you get out of the training room. What will you and Spyro do and..."

"That's the problem," Cynder interrupted her, and she even giggled a little as she blushed, "I already have a really good idea of what we're going to do," Her blush went away as she then growled a little as she was thinking how the day has gone so far, "I am a little upset though. Me and Spyro were supposed to stay in bed all day today and now, all this has happened and... I won't say it's not romantic but... Ugh..."

"So you didn't like spending time with us girls for the little bit of time?"

"Are you kidding me? The morning and talking with you all was the best, it was just Spyro having to go through stuff that made me a little sad for toady."

"You could talk to Ersa about this."

"It's just one more potion, and then we are done. Or, at least, Spyro is."

"Alright, you all ready to go, Spyro?" Ersa asked as she put an empty bottle back in her satchel.

"Oh yeah," Spyro happily smiled as he shuck his body up and prepared himself, and while he did that, he warned the two, "But in case something does happen, go stand by Ignitus. I don't know what will happen when I try or when it's used so..." The two didn't say anything and chuckled as they backed away and did as they were told, and with the two turning and walking to Ignitus, Spyro asked his father, "Are we all set?"

"Be careful, son," Ignitus pleaded as he was a little scared and wanted to stop what could happen, but he trusted everything would be okay.

"I've trained my life on concentration, and I'm not going to fail," Standing in the middle of the room, he raised a paw up to chest level and said to Malefor while still looking at his paw, "Malefor, be ready. If this works, I'm going to give the power over to you," He swallowed hard as he was afraid along with everyone else, and they once again looked at one another, especially Malefor as they could see the fear on his face, "Hehe, alright, Let's do this."

Almost immediately, the air that surrounded the training room grew heavy. Spyro's body grew a little dark as he used his power, and his face turned serious. Even without anything showing in his paw yet, his arm flexed as his body prepared to control the power. One ability after another grew into a medium sized sphere in his paw, each rotating in a different degree angle. First was fire, then lightning, earth, and finally ice. He started to struggle and even sweat, with his breathing getting a little intense as he tried to gasp for air as using all the power started to put strain on his whole body. Cynder will... kill me if I... Knock myself out... I... I have to do this! Yelling at himself in his head to push forward, he did, and proceeded to use his dark power now. The darkness around his paw circled inward like a tornado funneling in on its self. The darkness circled around all the elements, trying to push them down to something smaller. The ground beneath him cracked from the pressure of the elements being sustained, and the same feeling went for his body. Almost... Got... It...! Everyone watched in amazement as the darkness slowly went away from his body and into the dark sphere that still spun at a high rate of speed. With all the darkness leavening his body, he coughed and nearly messed up, staggering to his side and making the black sphere bigger.

"Spyro!" Everyone cried out.

"I'm fine...!" Spyro yelled out, coughing up blood as he did.

Damn it... It feels like... My lungs and... Body are being... Crushed! Clenching his paw as hard as he could, the dark sphere slowly grew smaller and smaller, now making it's size smaller then the tip of his claw. He was successful in keeping the power suppressed, but nearly at the cost of his entire body. Looking down at the ground and coughing as he tried to breath, everyone wondered if he had done it. He could hear that no one was saying anything, and he couldn't hold the truth as he picked up his head, "Not gonna lie... I'm... In a lot of pain right now." He chuckled at himself while everyone else saw that as a bad sigh, and he knew with how the power was, and what it takes to control it, he knew Malefor wouldn't be able to handle it, "Malefor... Looks like you're safe... There's... Too much for you to control... It's even a little too much for me... So... I'm going to use it on myself."

"Or you could just stop!" Malefor suggested, scared with how this might turn out for him.

"I need to know what this power will do, and now... Now is the best time."

"Just use it on something else rather then yourself then! You can still use the power!"

"I can't...! I won't know how powerful this is unless I... Understand what it's capable of..."

"Spyro..." Cynder cried softly, taking a step forward and immediately, Spyro saw this.

"Don't worry, Cynder, I'll be fine... And I will keep my promise to you... I swear," She couldn't tell what she should do as even with his promise, she was scared he didn't even know, but Spyro was still determined to find out and looked over at Ignitus as he asked, "Is everyone protected by your power, Ignitus...?" Seeing his father give a hesitant nod, Spyro chuckled as he knew that definitely wasn't a good sign, "Alright then... If even Ignitus is scared then... I could be in for some right trouble... Then it's time to commit!"

Swinging his paw around the front of him and hitting his chest with the darkened ball, everything went white for a second. No sound, no vision, nothing. The crack of an explosion, the training room being the same, and the force of the explosion whipping air throughout the entire training room caused everyone to dig there claws to the ground to keep themselves from flying back. While everyone else was protected, Spyro's body hit the back upper wall, breaking deep into it and making an imprint with his body. His back dug into the wall along with his wings, head, arms, and legs. His eyes went wide and nearly lost color, but he clenched his eyes shut and coughed up blood. Spyro! Ignitus cried in his thoughts, slapping his paw to the ground, causing wind of his own to fight against the power of the other wind, and the two canceled each other out. Everyone was now able to see, and they all first looked for Spyro, and we're all in shock as they saw him in the wall, lifeless, and looking down at the ground. Before anyone could say anything, his body peeled itself off the wall from the angle and weight. With his body making it's way to the ground, everyone tried their best to make it over there before he fell, but they failed. As he hit the ground, he came back to his senses which proved to be a bad thing. As everyone stood in front of him, they were all in fear as they watched him struggling to both breath and stand. Every time he tried to stand, he would fall back down over as his other paw was over his chest, grasping and grabbing at his chest as he couldn't breath. Hearing his violent breaths getting worse as he took deep inhale and exhaled violently, Cynder cried out to Ignitus as she hoped he would know what to do, "Ignitus! Are you able to use your hour glass?!"

"I... I can't," Ignitus stuttered to say as his paw was on his head as he was thinking of something to do, "There's... There's nothing an hour glass can do because he isn't injured and..."

"Less explaining! More help!"

"Cynder, come here!" Ersa cried out as she ran over towards Spyro, and hearing her name be called, she quickly followed as she hoped her friend would have an answer, "Okay..." Putting a paw over the top of Spyro as he was gasping for air on his side, Cynder ran up and stood next to her and in front of her lover, and Ersa explained quickly, "Long story short, the wind was knocked out of him and I will explain more later, but right now, only you can help him," As quickly as she was going to ask how, Ersa was already ready to answer as she looked down on Spyro's body, "Wind dragons like you have much more advanced lungs. Long story short again, focus on breathing into his mouth as much as you can and give him air. Make sure to use your wind power at all times as to access that secondary set of lungs you have. No matter what you're doing, you'll only breath in and out oxygen."

"How did you know..." Shaking her head as she knew that wasn't important, she moved over to the front of her lover and did as she was told, and picking up his head as she placed her paw on his left cheek, she whispered, "Don't worry my love, it'll be over soon."

Pushing her lips against his, she did as she was told and focused on using her wind power. To her surprise, she could feel as if there was a secondary set of lungs working in her body. This feel... Crazy! I'm able to breath out oxygen while also breathing in oxygen! And, yet, it feels like I'm still breathing normally. She could tell it was working as he eased his lips up on her and started to very smoothly and gently kiss his lover's lips. Even after he had all the oxygen he needed, she moved over his body and started to make out with him, not even realizing it, and Ersa backed up with a blush and a giggle. Turning her head around to face everyone, she sighed hugely and she saw everyone was looking at her with wide eyes, and she didn't understand why, "What?"

"H... How did you know what to do?" Ignitus asked as even he was surprised.

"And how did you know Cynder had the power of wind? I'm... Pretty sure we've never talked about that before," Malefor also asked as he was in awe, "I know I said I had wind to you before but..."

"Hehe, well, Volteer's such a nice dragon when it comes to me asking about strength, weaknesses, and abilities," Seeing everyone look at Volteer with anger, he chuckled with a nervous look as he knew they weren't happy, but she tried to defend him as she explained, "We woke up pretty early in the morning and, I asked him so many questions, with a reward of course."

"You're such a sucker for love, Volteer, and it's sad," Malefor grumbled, slowly shaking his head as he couldn't believe his friend.

"Oh Malefor, if only you knew."

"Uh... What the hell does that mean... WAIT!"

"Calm down, I meant me and Ersa kissing," Volteer said to him before he got the wrong idea

"Anyway," Ersa said, getting everyone's attention to get back on track, and she continued, "I've learned a lot on all dragons of course, and one of which is wind dragons. While they don't actually have a secondary set of lungs, they work differently compared to our lungs. While we breath in and out as we have to, Wind dragons have both slightly bigger lungs, and a sort of storage in there bodies to keep harmful gases, like carbon dioxide of course."

"What?" Everyone asked in unison aside from Volteer as he chuckled at the others.

"Elementary," Both Ersa and Volteer said at the same time, and while the two laughed with one another, the others grumbled with small blushes, and Ersa continued her explanation, "With this storage in there lungs, it holds the gas, and could only be used when the user is using there wind power. While the user is also using there wind power, air goes into their scales, through the body and into the lungs."

"But wouldn't that mean you would have to have a hole in your lungs for the air to get in?" Cyril asked.

"And where does the Carbon Dioxide go?" Terrador asked as well.

"Let the lady finish," Volteer said to the two, trying to calm them down.

"You better, Volteer," Everyone was quick to blush on Ersa's words and Malefor nearly threw up as he covered his mouth, and she quickly got back onto subject, "Anyway, the air that travels into the body makes it's way to the mouth, where it then goes back down the lungs, refueling the air. Once the wind dragon is done using all the air, there body then works normally and lets out more carbon dioxide then normal. Which, funny thing, is why some of us yawn, to balance out our Carbon dioxide intake and Oxygen intake so there isn't more of one or the other." She giggled at herself as she went more and more into detail, "It's just one of many theories of course as no one knows for sure why we yawn, but wind dragon's scales are fascinating in the way they work."

"UM!" Hearing a loud moan, mainly for attention, everyone looked over to the two who had been still kissing the entire time, and Cynder pulled her head away as she asked her, "Is there some way we could make our kisses last longer then? I mean, this... Knowing I can kiss for almost forever until my power runs out is amazing! And I thank you so much for it."

"You're very welcome."

"But after a while, our lips get dry and we have to wait so... What do we do about that?" Looking away from her and seeing Spyro lay his head down on the ground with his tongue hanging out, she pointed a claw at him and growled, "Me and you aren't done."

"Well... Volteer did tell me that your lover knows how to use water so, if he, I'm assuming, melts his ice at the right temperature with his fire to make the water, then that would fix the dry mouth problem."

Gasping at the realisation, she spoke out loud, "So, with my wind power, Me and Spyro basically have unlimited air, and if he uses his power to keep our lips wet the entire time we kiss then... We could kiss forever!"

With this realisation as well now that his lover spoke, he picked up his head and looked at his lover once he pulled in his tongue, and as she looked at him, he asked with a chuckle, "Will I be able to make it up to you then? Me and you, for the rest of the day, go back to our room and we kiss the night away? I was stupid today and I..." Before he could finish, she had already bolted off of his body, running past everyone and over to the training room door, and rolling onto his side and standing up, he ran beside Carith, and as he reached her side, he asked, "Cynder, is, everything okay?"

"I will forgive everything if you get your purple butt into our room right now and make this kiss happen!" Cynder agreed to what he was going to say as she called out at the training room door, and once she was done talking, she ran past and out the door of the training room.

"Hehehe, well, I'm going to have a good time... Not as good of a time as Cynder is going to have though," He forget he was talking out loud and saw everyone was looking past Carith's back and looking at him with raised brows, "Damn... Think to yourself more." Racing to the door, he made it to the door before stopping, turning around, and asking his father who was already looking at him, "You think you could fix up the training room for me?"

"I always have to clean up after you destroy the world."

"Wasn't me the first time, that was Malefor. Speaking of which," With his name being spoken about, Malefor turned his body around and faced him, and seeing Spyro growl, he knew it was something good, "Malefor... Smile and... I'll be happy for you but... I just... Wanted to thank you for, watching after everyone while I was with Cynder. I... I enjoyed our time together, and with you watching everyone for me... Thanks."

Nodding his head, he only gave a small smirk as to not let his true smile show, "Anytime. We are supposed to work together as friends in the future anyway so, got to start somewhere." Seeing Spyro smile at him, he then watched as he walked out the door and to his room, and now with him out of sight, he yelled out, "YES!" Getting slapped in the back of the head, Malefor's joy turned to anger as he looked to see it was Terrador who slapped him, and he growled at him for doing that, "The hell is your problem!"

"How about you screaming while you are right next to me!" Terrador growled at him, turning to face him as he was wondering if he would've wanted to fight.

"Ladies, please, let's breath," Ersa tried to calm the two down, and as the two looked at her, she wanted to explain a little bit about what happened to hope it would get their minds off of them fighting, "Ignitus wanted to know why Spyro was nearly killing himself to breath without really being injured. Simple answer, the wind was knocked out of him. Long answer, he had a diaphragm spasm that occurs when sudden force is applied to the abdomen which puts pressure on the solar plexus, which results in a temporary paralysis of the diaphragm that makes it difficult to breathe."

"So all I have to do is punch Terrador so hard in his chest to make his diaphragm spas so I can kick him while he's paralyzed on the ground," Malefor growled at him, puffing out his chest a little as he was prepared for a fight as well.

"I would love to see you try," Terrador smirked as he puffed out his chest as well, now wanting to actually fight him.

"Malefor, you have bigger problems to handle," Carith said, making Malefor turn his attention away from his friend and over to his lover, "We aren't going to kiss anymore from here on out."

"What?!" Malefor cried, now focused on his lover entirely as he ran over to her, and as he made it to the front of her body, he already had tears forming, "But... I... I don't understand... My love...?" She looked away from him with a face of disappointment and immediately, he got desperate to know what he could do, or maybe something he had missed, "Is it because I yelled? Because I smiled? Or maybe I should be doing something else..." Putting a paw over hers, he begged for an answer, "Carith, please... I have to to know..."

As she turned her head back to look at him, a tear went down his face, and she growled a little as she knew what he was doing, and it was working, "Alright, stop with the tears. I was hoping you would've figured out yourself but..." Giving a sigh, she blushed while Malefor's sad tactic went away from her request, and now he was curious as to what she was thinking, "I don't want Cynder to one up me with her lover, so... I want to one up her with you, and by that, I mean... Well, you have the wind power, and the power of fire and ice so..."

"That would mean I would be able to do the same with you as the other two are," Malefor finshed her sentence for her, and while she blushed a little more and had hope on her face, he felt terrible as he didn't know if he would be able to manage so much, "Carith, that would take a lot of energy. I have to have my wind power going almost at all time and my other two abilities, making three abilities used at once and I would run out of energy pretty quickly, and what if we are attacked and I don't have enough stamina to..." He didn't want her to frown, but she knew what he was saying true, and he apologized for it, "Sorry... Carith... But, maybe, if you want to, I could still learn how to make water?" She picked her head up a little from his words and heard what he had to say, "We can't stay in the kiss, but we can at least kiss for a long time. Ersa did already tell me how to make water with my abilities so... I will definitely try for you if you want me to?"

"I... Wouldn't mind..."

"Then... I will try..." Malefor tried to concentrate and remember back to what Ersa had said, but he chuckled as he looked over at her knowing he forgot, "Ersa... Hehe... what did you say again?"

"Oh Ancestors..." Everyone sighed.

"Well, to make it simple, use your ice, hold the ice in your mouth, then melt it with fire. You just have to make sure the ice is cold enough so when you do melt it, the water isn't boiling hot, and make sure you don't fill your mouth with nothing but steam," Ersa explained, and she was at least a little happy to see that he was taking her words to heart, and he really was trying.

"Thank you," Malefor thanked, now looking back at his lover and wanted to attempt it before he tried to kiss his lover, "Just to make sure I don't mess up while kissing you, I'm gonna attempt this."

She smiled and nodded that he said that, and everyone watched as he attempted it. But it was weird for everyone as he just stood there, mouth closed, and looking so seriously at his lover. After a couple of seconds went by, water started falling out his mouth, but he wasn't opening his mouth, and everyone looked at him with confusion. His cheeks puffed up while more water started to spill from his lips, and he couldn't hold in the water any longer. Turning his head, moving his body a bit away from his lover, and covering his head with his wing, he hoped no one could see him throwing up all the water on the ground. But the sound of him gurgling up the water and coughing on the ground still filled the room and made everyone shiver. Coughing a little bit more to get some more water from his lungs, he chuckled as he looked back at his lover, "I didn't know how big or small the ice needed to be so... when I melted it... My mouth was... Hehe, filled with water. But I think I have the idea of what I need to do, so, what do you say?"

"You're not going to drown my lungs in water, are you?" Carith asked as she was a little hesitant, especially with how bad he was coughing and the amount of water he coughed up.

"Wouldn't be asking if I wasn't sure."

"You're not wrong..." Carith sighed.

Pulling up his right wing to block everyone's view, they knew they were going to be there for a while if this did work. And while the two kissed from behind Malefor's wing, Ersa gave a sigh as she still wasn't able to try out her health potion, and looked at her arm as she wondered if she should do it herself, "Well, I got plenty of results today, and, unfortunately, I still need to do one more, so," Picking up her arm and reaching her tail blade around to cut herself, another yellow paw was placed over her arm, and looking over, she giggled as she knew what he was doing, "I'm not going to hurt you. So it's either me, or Malefor."

"Well, since you said his name," Volteer chuckled while his lover giggled, and raising his tail blade over and around to his paw, he couldn't let his lover be the one to do it, "You know I can't have you bleeding. I would fail at my job to protect you. So, I will be the one to do it."

"But then I will feel bad because my work got you hurt... Ancestors knows my work has done enough to stress you out."

"But this work will save many of us if anything happens in the future. I have no trouble causing a slight cut in my arm."

"Of for the love of!" Terrador growled at the two, watching as they were moving there heads closer to kiss, and from his sudden outburst, everyone looked at him, "I will do it," Pulling up his arm, he used a claw from his other paw and stabbed himself in the arm, clenching his eyes and growling as he did so, but with the wound there, he pulled his claw out from his arm and said, "There... Now what exactly am I supposed to do again after this?"

"Well, this one, we have to break over you," Ersa explained as she reached into her satchel, grabbing out the red bottle and explaining, "To make sure this works and since it is faster, just break the bottle onto your body, and it should act like a red gem patch and heal your wounds. And as I explained with Spyro, you'll be fine to break the glass over you as this isn't normal glass so you shouldn't even feel any pain."

As she was going to give him the bottle, Malefor heard the conversation and immediately took his wing down and backed away from his kiss with his lover. Running over to Ersa as quickly as he could, the two looked over to see he was already right in front of them. Snatching the bottle from her paw, Malefor looked at Terrador with a big smile. Raising the glass bottle over his head, he slammed it down on the back of his friend's head. The force of the hit was strong enough to make Terrador's head duck down. The glass shattered all onto the ground, and a piece even went down the back of Terrador. The liquid became a group of solid gems, and each, one by one, bounced off the ground and into Terrador's wound, even cleaning the blood from his claw and arm. Malefor smiled and said, "That's what you get for smacking me in the back of the head. Your lucky it didn't hurt as bad as you hit me."

"Uh... Malefor," Ersa whispered over to him, wanting to back up as she saw Terrador's teeth showing as he growled, "It doesn't require that much outside force to break. If you hit someone with a rock at a small speed, it's not going to do much, but if you put more force into it, it's either going to kill you, or knock you out so... Imagine that glass as a rock, and imagine how much momentum you had when you hit him."

"Hehehe... Hehe..." Malefor realized his mistake and started to take small steps away from his friend as he realized he did mess up, "Now come on, Terrador, we are all gentlemen here. I use that because we are supposed to be..." Slamming his paw down the ground and looking at Malefor with killer intent, he cried out and immediately apologized, "Terrador, I'm sorry!" Putting his wings in front of him with his head sticking out the top of both his wings, and he was a little confused about something and called him out for it, "Is this about those dark creatures we saw? Because ever since that happened, you've been nothing but grumpy... You don't trust me, do you?"

"I didn't say that," Terrador growled, but he knew if he didn't ease up, then his friend would make up accusations to find what the truth was, "I'm just... Keeping you in check from doing something stupid... I'm being difficult for a reason, and I don't want a mistake from you put us back to where we were."

"What mistake? My mistakes never caused a war, that was the Chronicler."

"That's not my point..." Giving a sigh as he knew he probably wouldn't understand even if he tried, he gave up, and turning towards the door, he walked away, "I'm going to bed..."

"He doesn't want you to change, Malefor," Ignitus spoke for him, and with his words, Terrador stopped, still looking straight while the explanation continued, "Terrador isn't one to be mushy, but he's being more... Aggressive towards you because that's how he was back then. He enjoys the time now, he enjoyed the time then, but not the time in the middle."

"So... You're being difficult with me because you're trying to teach me a lesson in a way that only you know how?" Malefor asked Terrador as he looked over at him, and since he still wasn't moving or saying anything, he smiled as he knew he had gotten it right, "Well now would you look at me," While he said that, he was also walking over to his friend to help him out, and making it over to him, he rested his arm on his shoulder and assured him, "Well, I won't be mushy with you either, I'll just tell you straight up. We're fine, and I'm not going to mess up. So, the only reason you should be mad is because that dark creature hurt you and no one else which... I... Shouldn't have let happen."

"You let your fear lock you up..." Terrador finally spoke as this was what he was referring to, "How would you feel if there was more, and Spyro turned against you, would you lock up then? Would you let us die before you were to attack?" His words were getting to him, and Malefor even took his arm off his shoulder as knew he wasn't all that happy, "I know it isn't easy to look past mistakes, especially difficult ones, but... If you let that mistake control you, it will only drag you down more, and it'll destroy the life you could be living... That's why I... try to look past all mine... even as they haunt me," Realising he could feel a sharp pain in his gut, he tried to move past it and joked a little to him, "But, I guess you can say I'm a little pissed I was hurt and not Cyril," Chuckling at his own joke, Malefor gave a weak chuckle, but a chuckle nonetheless, "Just remember who your friends are, okay?"

Giving a sigh from the lesson he was just given, he joked with him, "Well, you wanted it to be like that past and here we are, you lecturing me again," Terrador chuckled from his words which made Malefor now give a better chuckle himself, and to make sure he didn't end things off bad, he agreed, "I know who my friends are..." Gasping as he put his two paws over his cheeks, Volteer slapped a paw on his face as he knew what he was going to say before he did it, "Okay, Terrador, wait wait wait, this is something that will probably only happen once... Ahem..." He changed his voice to a deep, menacing growl as he spoke in a spooky tone, "I know who my friends are, and you are not one of them," Changing back to his normal voice, he looked over at Volteer and asked, "Get it! Remember from the..."

"Yes, Malefor, and you deserve to die for it," Volteer shuck his head as he called back at him.

"What was the reference?" Cyril asked.

"I'm not answering."

"So now can I go to bed?" Terrador asked his friend.

"Are you still upset?" Malefor asked him back.

"Guess you'll know tomorrow if you are able to open your eyes or not."

"Please, you're too lazy to wake up, walk all the way up here, open our door, kill me, walk out..."

"Alright alright, I get it... And also if I did, Carith would be upset, and then so would all the other girls so... You're lucky. Don't blow this chance at breaking the cycle of death."

"Well, since I'm good now, and Cynder is also good, and the ape king being dead... I'm sure me and Spyro can handle things."

"I hope."

With their conversation now done with, Terrador smiled a little as he walked away, very hopeful for the future. Now with him walking out the Training Room and to the Chambers, all the other Guardians knew they should do the same, and Ignitus was the first one to say something as he sighed, "Great... Now I have to repair this entire training room again while everyone sleeps... Which means I have to make two clones tonight."

"Two clones?" Claire asked, "What for?"

"Well, of course, one to repair this place, and the other one to concentrate on keeping a sound barrier around us so me and Claire can kiss without being interrupted."

"Are you... Able to do that as soon as we get down there?"

"I already have both clones ready."

"Race you down there!" Claire excitedly said, running to the front door as fast as she could to get to the Chambers.

"Hehe, if you say so," Ignitus agreed to the race, quickly catching up to her as the two ran out the Training Room.

"Yeah, I'm going to go too. Last thing I want is to almost die in here again," Cyril said, a little lonely as he walked to the exit by himself.

With everyone exiting the room, Malefor walked by over to his lover and waited for the other two mates to leave the training room. It didn't take long as the two were up on there paws and talking to one another as they made there way out of the training room, slowly but surely. Now that everyone was gone, he chuckled as he sat down in front of his lover and joked, "Hehe, you know..." Seeing her sitting down as well, arms crossed and tapping a claw on her arm, his stomach felt like it had just twisted as he knew what he had done, "Carith... I..."

"So you stop kissing me, so you can run off and break a bottle over someone's head?" Carith asked her lover, and while he chuckled, she sucked her teeth as she continued, "You better hope you have a lot of energy in that body of yours because if you pass out while we kiss before I do, I'm going to be very, very... Disappointed."

An evil grin appeared across his face as he viewed this as a challenge, a fun challenge especially for how bad he messed up, "Challenge accepted my love... But don't come crying to me when your lips beg for more even after you pass out. After all, your body still remembered the warm feeling of my body, and that's one of many reasons you couldn't stay away," Blushing already as he knew her all too well, it once again became easy for him to get what he wanted while she was as well, "And a gentleman like me always makes sure the female is satisfied first."

His face was close enough to hers so she could fell the air coming from his nose, along with the evil grin and close look up on both his eyes and teeth. Carith sighed with a smile, unable to do anything, and she had high hopes for the night, "I like the evil in you some days... But let's see if, Master Malefor can hold up his title."

"Hehe... Oh, I think he can."

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"I would say that was a pretty successful day," Volteer happily said out loud as he entered his room with his lover, stretching out his body as he walked in, "Well, aside from the dark creature attack but, we already knew there was still dark creatures and a Dark Master, and while that's a bad thing, I know those two can take on anything," Jumping up onto the bed, his mate closed the door behind the two while he was talking, and she placed her satchel on the table to the left of the room once she had walked over and reached the it while her mate continued to talk on and on, "Now I kinda wish I had more power to me, more abilities. Of course, I am training to protect you so, I will get my training in slowly but surely, and then I can fight on the front line with the others no problem. But now..."

"Volteer..." Ersa murmured, catching his attention even though her voice was really low, and even after she called his name, she didn't say anything for a bit as she was taking the empty glass bottles from her satchel and placing them on the table, "What are my chances now?" He was a little confused on what she had meant, but now with all the bottles placed back on the table, she turned to look at him, and with the blush on her face, he knew what she was referring to before she even explained, "I now know we are safe to do what ever, and since this was a, better day for sure, why not... end it off even better?"

"Hehe... Well, I mean... We could. The thing is, I can't say no because your more near the door and could run out at any point, but I also can't say yes because... Well, there isn't really a reason for me not to," Volteer hinted a little to her as he laid down on his belly facing her, and with his words, he had gotten her hopes up as she smiled a bit, taking a couple of steps towards him, "The only problem is, with those three using their abilities, Malefor, Spyro, and Cynder might be down for the count if something happens, and... Knowing how Malefor is with his lover, Carith might also be so... I have to be ready," Now that he was leaning more towards a no, she took her steps back, and he chuckled as he knew what she was doing, "Come on my love, I'm trying my best... I mean... I'm sure Spyro should be ready to go at some point so... We... Could...?" Her face once again lit up with a smile as she took a couple of steps towards him, and he chuckled again as he didn't really know what to do, "Ersa... It's really up to you. I'm sure we won't be bothered but..."

"Volteer... You're killing me," Ersa sighed, feeling tired anyway so she made her way over towards the bed, and as she jumped up on it, she twirled herself around to face forward, "We are all alone and without worry," Laying down a little bit away from his right, she curved her body a little so he could see all of her as she raised a brow, "You're telling me that you would hesitate the minute I walk up to you and ask for the... tail?"

"Hehe, Well, I have my own tail so..."

"You know what I mean!"

"Like I said, Ersa, it's all up to you. I know how much this does mean to you and, it means a lot to me. I just don't want to rush if we're not sure."

"I know, I know, I just... I have a bad feeling that, something will happen... And... I'm scared."

Shuffling his way over to her side, he pushed the side of his body against hers, and while draping a wing over her back, she laid her head down on her paws with a sad, fearful look on her face. He felt bad for her, and understood where she was coming from with her fears, "We don't, have to make our first time special if you don't want to. It's just, Well, now if we were, you would have fear on your mind. And after seeing how powerful Spyro was, the way he burned the wall and nearly destroyed the Training Room and himself with a fraction of his power... Why do you fear?"

"I... I guess it's because, part of me will always be afraid. Spyro's strength was an amazingly, and comforting site to see that we are pretty safe but..." Picking her head up and moving it onto her mate's paws, he looked down at her as she continued, "I keep thinking back to when we waited to tell each other that we loved one another. And then we finally did and, now we're mates but... Ignitus trained a lot, Terrador, trained a lot, and yet... We all still lost... What if Spyro's training, even with Malefor, isn't enough? What if we're just... destined to fail in life?"

How soft her voice was when she spoke, and how sad and scared she sounded as she spoke, he felt cold on the inside to know he could've prevented her from ever feeling this way. Wondering how he could help better sooth her, he remembered what he came up with while he was away from her, but first tried the normal approach, "You could always roll over right now and let me take the lead?" She giggled for a second, but he was surprised that she didn't move, and instead snuggled up to him more, so with that out of the way, he went with his second approach, "I can tell you a joke? One I know is, there are three guys, each with a brink, and they wondered who could throw a brink in the air the highest..."

"Is this about the bird having the last brink from the three guys?"

He went silent for a second before later chuckling as she had already caught on, "Well, there goes my second attempt," All though it was a failed attempt, he still got her to giggle, which was a good sign for him, so he tried one last time in hopes that he would be able to cheer her up, "I guess all that's left for me to do is, get you excited for the future," Moving his head down and around to hers, she looked at him with one eye while her left one was closed, "Tell you what. If you know the names of our future Hatchlings right now, then I'm all for it."

"Look at you getting me all excited for the future."

"Hehe, that was my hope."

"Let's just wait till tomorrow. Hopefully we can just lay in bed all day and get as much energy together as we can."

"You're the one saying to wait, not me, so.."

She silenced him with a kiss, knowing what he was going to say, and both closed their eyes as they kissed, but what Volteer had said to her, it got her thinking, What would our future Hatchlings be called, and how many would we have? One or two, boy or girl... I... Never really thought this far ahead... I... never knew I would make it this far. Thinking about it more in-depth, along with her lover's warmth from both the kiss and his body, she let a tear go down her eye, and just as they were pulling away from the kiss, Volteer saw the tear drip off her chin and onto the bed. Seeing the sadness on his face as he looked at her, she smiled at him as she was actually happy, "I'm, fine, Volteer... I just... You're right... I should know the names and I..." Snuggling her head underneath his neck, she let another tear go out her other eye, and laying her head on his paws again, only this time, with the side of her head against his chest, she thanked him, "Thank you... Volteer... And I know you know me well enough to know that... I am fine... I just... I will never get over the fact that I made it here... Thanks to you in my mind."

"Hehe, yeah, Well... I couldn't stop thinking about you either..."

Yawning with a big open mouth, Ersa closed her other eye, and with her mouth coming back down, she closed it and went into her thoughts as she slept, thinking of the future. Moving his head over his lover's and laying it down on top of hers, he closed his eyes as he also had thoughts about what he said, What would we name our Hatchlings? Chuckling at himself, he knew he should stop stalling for the right moment as he thought about it, I feel bad, as if she thinks I don't want to take the extra step with her... I guess only time will tell... But I should just say yes next time it's brought up.