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.

17. Chapter 17: The Deadly Disease

Chapter 17: The Deadly Disease

Think about names... Names names names... Throughout all of the night, Ersa's mind was once again everywhere when it came to almost everything, especially when it has come to the past couple of days, My mind has never been to some many places before. Back then it was just, survive survive survive, but now it's... It's all about forming this... family. Since she wasn't going back to bed anytime soon, she gave into her thoughts and woke up, opening her eyes as she did, but even though she had woken up, the rest of her body hadn't, so she wasn't really able to move at all. First it was everyone I was afraid of, then Spyro and his strength, Malefor, the other females but... Slowly and surely... It hasn't been fears but... Excitement. Nuzzling her head a little forward to look out to the window on her left, she was surprised to see it was still dark outside, and even for her, she grumbled, But now the problem I'm facing is learning when to calm down. Feeling the cold air around the room touch her face, she shivered with slightly widened eyes and nuzzled her head back underneath her mate's. Is it really that cold? Using her wing, she pushed up Volteer's wing only a little before the cold air went underneath the now exposed area, once again making her shiver and letting his wing come back down over her body while she pulled her wing back. Well, great. I'm cold and awake, and I know Volteer's probably pretty tired so... I don't want to wake him. She had trailed off from what she was originally thinking about, and it didn't take long for her to remember what she was thinking about. Oh yeah... the excitement. Now that she was back on track, her body let out a chill as she tried to contain herself, That was only a few of the hundreds that I wanted to test. I might run low on minerals here soon but... Maybe I can get Spyro to fetch them for me, then I can work even more on the things I want to. But the question is, would he help me? It was another thought that made her go two ways as to what could happen, whether it be a yes or a no from him. I guess if he said yes then, done deal, and if he said no then... Maybe Cynder would help me out by convincing him herself. Her paws started to move a little on their own, moving up and down as if they wanted to move so badly, and even her back paws started to do the same. And now I really want to work, and even while I'm working, I have to think of names for me and Volteer's future Hatchling. Like, what if we had a boy or a girl, what if we had two boys or, two girls. Trying to whisper in her gasp as her eyes grew slightly wide, she then growled in a low tone while trying to look at what she could of Volteer as she realized, They're not going to have energy he said. Everyone's asleep but we still can't do it he said. This is such a simple fix! Taking her paws up and underneath her mate's head, she pushed against the underneath of his jaw while backing her own head up. With her head out the way and from out of his paws, she lowered his head down onto his own paws, and once she was done, she eased her paws out from underneath him and put them in front of herself. Spyro pointed out that gem room, so clearly they could just use that if they run out of power... Shivering as she had forgotten the cold, she tried to ignore it even as her neck and face started to feel cold. Damn this temperature... Just, try and ignore it and get back on track. I know that I can mess with the gems and melt them down but, what about combining them, or fussing them in a way? Looking over at her work bench, her body moved forward on it's own once again, so she had to stop herself and growl lowly once again. Looking to her left side, she gave a sad sigh and she also called him out for his other words, I have months to figure out what our Hatchling names could be... I don't think I can handle another no from him, especially since I still keep also thinking about the day he trained with Spyro... Moving her head down to his face, she smiled to see him doing the same as he rested, and she whispered to him even while he slept, "You'd make a great dad... You know that, Volteer?"

Taking her head back away from him, she wanted to shed a tear as she now had hundreds of thoughts of what it would look like when they did have a Hatchling, but she stopped herself as she shuck her head, now knowing exactly what she was going to do. Let's make this easy, Volteer. I'm going to figure out a way to improve upon the green gems, so that way, I will give it to the four, they will all be fine, and then we can just tell everyone that we are tired from trying to make this improvement and go back to bed. Having the plan in her mind, she smiled and went to stand up. Just as her body left from Volteer's side, and his wing slid down her back and off of her, her body froze in place as she had forgotten how cold it was once again. Trying... not to think about it... Worked a little... too well. Shivering and letting out a sigh, she could even see her breath which made it even worse for her as she didn't realize just how bad it was until now. I would have all the body heat in the world if only Volteer would lay on top of me... Blushing hard, she had to slap both sides of her face to keep herself on track of what she wanted to do. Remember the plan, remember the plan! Making her way off the bed was a little difficult as she knew what it being night time really meant for her, The worse part, no one would even be awake this early either. Making it onto the ground, she looked behind herself before looking straight and knowing if she looked back one last time, it would be over, Don't look back... Just, don't look back. Making her way over to the door, she reached it, and grabbing the door knob, she opened the door. As the door opened, she looked to her left, then her right to make sure no one was out and about, and to her luck, no one was. Taking a couple of steps into the hallway, she shut the door behind herself, and hearing the door shut behind her, she turned to her right and growled as she walked up to the house, Why do you have to be too nice, Volteer! You know what, it's, it's fine, it's fine. Maybe I just scared him when I said he wouldn't be able to walk... Or maybe he is just teasing me for some sick reason. But it's fine. My plan is going to work one way or another, and I would love to see him try and get out of this one. Walking up the steps, she stood at the door and waited for it to open, but for some reason, the door didn't open for her. That's a little... weird. The door opened the last time we all approached it. Taking a couple of steps up to the door, she put a single paw on it and tried to push it open, but nothing happened. Putting her other paw on the door, she pushed as hard as she could, but once again, nothing. Now turning around and pushing with her back, she growled as she tried with all her power, "Open you... Son of a bitch!"

Sliding down the door on her back, she gave up as she didn't know why the door wasn't opening. Why won't this door... open? "Because it was only built for the others in the Building." A voice told her in her thoughts, and she immediately knew whose voice that was and asked what that meant, What does that mean, Ignitus? "When the door was built, Volteer was smart of course and was able to program the door in short so that everyone at that time would be able to access it. That being the Guardians, Spyro and Cynder. Along with a hole above the door for a dragon fly named Sparks." He... programmed it? "I would have to wake the others up for you..." Putting two fingers over her lips, she kissed them, and then turned her fingers to place them on the door. For a second, nothing happened, but then the doors had suddenly opened up inward into the house, and she giggled as she heard Ignitus in her thoughts, "Wh... How... How did you do that?!" The door recognises Volteer, so, my lips have his lips slathered all over mine. "That's... disgusting... I'm never touching that door... But how did you know?" Walking into the hallway, she was confused as she asked him, Aren't you supposed to know all? I made this idea to Volteer way back then to hope we would have privacy if we even wanted to kiss, and when he asked why, I lied and said it would be cool as a reinforced door idea. "You both surprise... and disgust me." Don't you have a lover you're supposed to be making out with? "I'm the Ignitus from the White Isles... I didn't know if you needed help or not." Do you ever get lonely over there? Ersa asked in her thoughts while still continuing the conversation while she made her way to the Training Room. "Not really. Ignitus rotates clones since even we can get bored after a while." Walking up to the training room door, she grabbed the door knob and opened it, and walking inside, she giggled as she asked, Is your time almost up or something cause you're really chatty. Not being rude in saying. "No no no, you're right. It actually is almost time for me to leave anyway. I will let you get back to uh... Your plan." Standing in front of the gem room and looking at all the gems, she growled at him as she wasn't too happy he knew about that, It's kinda hard to keep what I want to do a secret if someone like you knows. "Don't worry. Another clone is working on that as well." Walking into the room, she smiled at all the green gems in the room, along with the red ones, but she wasn't focused on those. "I will let you get back to what you were doing." Thanks for at least trying to help, Ersa thanked in her thoughts, and now with the two done talking, she rubbed her paws together and asked herself, "So, how many should I grab? They will only last around six hours when they are broken from their source, so, let's grab at least a paw full."

Walking up to a gem patch, she ripped gem after gem off of the patches and started to tuck them underneath her wing to carry them. Walking over to another gem patch, she picked more gems off the patch and tucked them underneath her wing. Alright, how many is that? Ten, eleven, twelve... Yeah, I guess that should be enough. I only messed up a couple of times when I was making the first advancement for the green gems so, hopefully this will work. With the gems underneath her wings, she turned to the door and walked out of it. Making her way to the front of the Training Room, she looked around a good bit to see it had all been repaired, I wonder if Ignitus was also the one who repairs destroyed areas, or, the Chronicler for that matter. Walking out of the room, she shut the door behind herself and gave a pleased sigh that everything was going so well. Now to get back...

"Spyro! It's me, it's, it's Cynder! Don't do this!"

Hearing what sounded like cries coming from the room behind her, Ersa's heart skipped a beat as she knew who's room that was, What the hell was that?! Running up to the door, she quickly grabbed the door knob and threw the door open. As the door flung open, she dropped all the green gems at the door, got into a fighting stance with a sped up pace in breaths, and saw that Spyro was in his dark form on the left side of the bed, while Cynder was cowering in fear on the right side of the bed away from him. Seeing that it really did seem like something had happen, Ersa started to shake, especially with the fact that he seemed to be wanting to attack his lover. No... No no no. You're not about to screw this up now. Seeing her take a step, Spyro's darkness disappeared suddenly and quickly as it went into his body, and he backed up as he cried, "Wait wait wait! Ersa, it's not what it looks like! Me and Cynder were just messing around," Ersa looked over at Cynder for confirmation, and the fear on Cynder's face went away while she nodded at her, and this only angered Ersa a little more while Spyro still feared, "No need for the pressure point, please."

The fear was definitely still there as she was shaking for what she had heard and saw, and she yelled at him, taking another step forward to scare him even more, "What the hell is wrong with you!" Putting both his wings up, he backed up against the wall, but realising that wouldn't work, he ran over to his lover as quickly as he could and hid behind her, but that still didn't stop her from taking another step forward with killer intent, "Everything is fine and nothing is happening, and all the sudden, I hear, 'Don't do this'! What the hell happened?!"

Poking his head over Cynder's back and chuckling, he apologized as he realized how bad it sounded, "Me and Cynder were having a little fun and... I guess we didn't realize how much fun we were having. Sorry that we, scared you," Ersa's teeth clenched before letting out a huge sigh, even putting a paw over her chest as she could feel her heart pounding away at her chest, "We didn't expect to even have a visitor up here in the first place. Wait a minute, how did you get passed our main door?"

"Oh, that... I used Volteer."

"You did?" Moving from behind Cynder, he walked to the front of her and looked around Ersa to see where he was, but he didn't see him, "All I see are green gems behind you, which, why do you have those as well?"

"I couldn't sleep so, I thought I would mess around and see if I couldn't improve upon them. As to what I mean when it comes to me using Volteer well... Hehe, you are going to find this gross but, let's just say I kissed my fingers and put my fingers on the door for it to open, and that's how I... used Volteer."

Both Spyro and Cynder looked at one another, wondering what exactly she meant, and unfortunately, their minds clicked both at the same time as they realized what she had meant when she said that, and they both blushed hard. Ersa giggled as she did feel a little embarrassed about telling the two, but Cynder got everyone's mind off of it as she was a little surprised she wasn't with Volteer for real, "You know, your smarts are definitely amazing but, why aren't you really with Volteer?"

Blushing a little as she walked back to the front of the door to grab all the dropped green gems, she giggled as it was another embarrassing thing she would have to talk about, "Well, that's uh... That's another story that's a little... revealing." Picking up the gems from off of the ground and tucking them underneath her wing, she turned around to face her female friend and made another long story made short, "Let's just say that he keeps... stalling and I'm... Not smiling because of it, that's for sure."

"What does that mean?" Spyro asked, a little confused.

But to make sure he didn't say anything to embarrass her, Cynder threw her paw up and covered her lover's mouth, while also assuring Ersa, "Don't worry, he will man up sooner or later. Just, I don't know how you would do it but, if you're for sure then uh, just, maybe warn so none of us interrupt, okay?" Hearing her lover grumble from behind her paw that covered her mouth, she looked at him and saw the sadness in his eyes for some reason, and she could tell he was already wanting to go back and have some alone time, "No way you are enjoying the time we are having more then me." Seeing him raise a brow while just barely able to see his smile at the corner of her paw, she growled at him with a smile, "Oh game on, my love." Looking back at her friend, she gave her some words of advice, "You told him you loved him basically, and told him to be your mate. I don't see what's wrong in doing the same. Maybe Volteer's just as hopeful but doesn't show it cause he's scared."

"Yeah..." Ersa only agreed as she didn't know what else to think or say, she just knew she was going to find out sooner or later and decided to not let it bother her the best she could, "Well, I didn't mean to interrupt the two of you. Just wanted to make sure nothing was actually happening... Threatening wise I mean."

"Hehe, don't worry, everything is fine," Nodding at her friend's words, she smiled a little as she turned to the door and walked out of the room, and with her shutting the door, Cynder took her paw off her lover's mouth and asked him as she looked at her paw, "You're really going to lick my paw? I'm surprised you can even do that after how much we kissed."

"Hehe, yeah, well, you know your lover is prepared for anything."

"And how is you licking my paw going to accomplish anything?"

"You took your paw off my mouth, didn't you? Anyway, now with her gone, do you want to continue? We could always jump to the you saving me part."

"You just want my wings around you when we kiss, don't you," Seeing him smile, it easily confirmed her theory, and all she could do was roll her eyes with a smile herself, "Goodness you're desperate. But, then again, so am I. When ever you're ready."

Standing outside of their door, Ersa shuck her head as she tried not to think about what she had seen, So those two really do mess with the darkness aspect... That's definitely... different. Walking away from the door, she got back onto track as she made her way over to the main doors, Alright, going back to what I was doing, I have the gems and...

"No... Malefor, please! It's me, Carith!

Son of a bitch, Malefor, I swear to everything! I will kill you! Ersa yelled in her thoughts from frustration as she heard the cry coming from the other room, and while she wanted to leave it alone, she knew she would have to check to at least make sure, Maybe something is going on, but if it's not... I'm hurting someone. Turning her attention away from the main door, she looked to her right and walked to the door. Grabbing the door knob with a tensed paw from both frustration and a little fear, she opened the door. As the door opened, she let out a sigh as she knew that she was right. Malefor stood on the left side of the bed, similar to Spyro, while Carith stood on the other side, and now Ersa thought she had walked into the same room. The two lover's looked at her with slightly widened eyes, not expecting a visitor, and while they didn't know what to say, Ersa did, shaking her head as she did, "Let me guess, you two are just messing around and there isn't a threat?" While the two chuckled, she on the other paw tensed up a little from frustration before looking at Malefor and letting her anger out on him, "Malefor, come here."

"What?! Why?" Malefor cried, backing up a little as he was already afraid of her, and she didn't exactly disapprove his point.

"Because I'm going to show you what happens when I put all my pressure into that pressure point of yours."

"But I didn't do anything!"

"You scared the hell out of me!" Putting two fingers in between the top of her nose, Ersa tried to calm herself down, and she couldn't believe the two were doing the same thing, "First Spyro and his lover are yelling out, and Cynder is begging to not be attacked, and now you two are doing the same thing?"

"Hehe, I mean, we have nothing else to do... Wait, Spyro's awake?"

"How are you awake? I thought you would've passed out from the amount of power you would've had to use?"

"Well, me and Carith are kinda doing this thing here where we play around so I can gain my power back. I'm definitely tired but, I'm having fun."

"Sorry he scared you, Ersa," Carith stepped in a she could see that Ersa was still a little shaken up, and it was easy for her to tell why, "Me and Malefor were just playing around, so you have no need to fear about anything that has to do with the Dark Master," Hearing it from her friend, she did trust her which it helped her calm down a little more, but seeing the green gems she held underneath her wings, Carith smiled with a blush as she asked, "Whoa, Ersa. What are the green gems for? Is Volteer already down for the count that quickly?"

"Wh...?!" Ersa blushed hard, and Carith giggled to see her reaction.

"I'm just messing with you," Carith assured her, but that still didn't get rid of the blush that turned her face from yellow to red, "Anyway, if it's okay with you, I want to continue my time with Malefor before the day really starts. We haven't gotten that much sleep really and... It was definitely my fault," Ersa gave another sigh as she couldn't believe how much was already happening in just the couple of minutes she was awake, but she nodded at her friend for a yes, "Sorry again, Ersa. And a word of advice as you probably already know this but, you should definitely spend time with Volteer before everyone wakes up."

Yeah... I really do. Turning away from the two, Ersa walked out of the room and shut the door behind herself with her tail blade. Standing outside the door, she looked down at the floor for a little bit as she didn't understand why her mind was still going crazy even with the plan she had, First Cynder's words, and now Carith's and... Why is it making me think twice, and what is it making me think? Is it more of a yes, or a no?

"But... I can't let you turn to the dark side because... I love you, Malefor, please!"

Alright, I need to get out of here, Ersa thought, walking away from the door and over towards the main doors, I may not know what is going on with me, but I know I don't want to be here. Pulling up two fingers, she kissed the two, and then placed them on the door. As she did, the doors took a second before opening up, and with the doors opening, she put her paw back to the ground and thought about it, I guess I'm getting frustrated because... I'm jealous of the others. They are having all this fun and yet, the fun I want, keeps getting shut down. Walking forward and out of the house, she made her way down the steps and back over to her room, and on her way, she continued her rant as to what she should do, Great, even with my previous plan, I don't even know if I should go through with it today.. But then again, what should I fear? Knowing the names of our Hatchlings? I have thousands of names I can think of, millions if I really thought for more then an hour on it! Now that she was feeling more towards a yes, she agreed with herself, Yeah, I have nothing to worry about... But, one thing I do wonder is, why is Volteer trying to dodge it so badly? Making it over to her door, she went to reach for the door knob, but the door flung open, and she moved her head back with wide eyes to see it was Volteer. He was sweating fiercely, and his breathing was hard enough to make his whole body go up and down. With her now being right in front of him, he put a paw on his chest and sighed hugely, "You scared me, my love."

"What do you have to be afraid of?" Ersa asked him with a slight smirk and raised brow as she walked forward and he backed away for her to enter their room, but she was surprised the books had been scattered, and she giggled as she saw that, "What, did you think I had possibly suffocated in our mountain of books?"

"Hehe, no I just, didn't know where you had gone," Watching as she put the green gems from underneath her wing down on the floor beside her as she sat down at her work table, he gave a frown as he walked up to her, "Hey, my love," Standing next to her, she looked at him, wondering why he was frowning, but he tried to brighten up as he asked her, "Do you think we could just go back to bed together? For all the nights you've been here, you've always been hard at work and, we never really have the time to spend with one another, at night of course."

She did stop what she was doing for a second, and saw his smile get a little bigger to see she was stopping, but she shuck her head and went back to work, "Sorry, Volteer but, not tonight. I have a lot of work to get done today. You told me you were scared those two wouldn't have energy so," Grabbing one of the gems from the floor, she smashed it into two pieces, putting one in a bottle while putting the other one on the ground, "I'm just going to have to work my hardest to make sure those four have the energy to make it through the day," Picking up a red looking gem, she placed it in the bottle along with another blue looking gem, and the two melted in the bottle fairly quickly, "Then you can tell me the truth as to why you keep avoiding what I want," He frowned some as he watched her work and work, almost like she was ignoring him, so he turned away from her with a frown and walked back over to his bed with his tail dragging on the floor.

Ersa saw this at the corner of her eye and sighed as she watched him jump up onto the bed and lay down in a curved motion. Stopping what she was doing, she was looking at the work she was doing and did realise that her work was messing with what she could be doing. Placing her work on the table, she looked down at the ground before looking over at her mate and seeing him lay there. She couldn't even tell how he really looked as his head curved like his head as he laid it a little side ways on his paws, and he had even closed his eyes as if he was going back to bed. Me being this pushy I guess could be a good reason, Ersa thought, knowing she should do something, and walked over to her mate. Making it to the front of the bed, she sat down and placed her head at the edge of the bed and whispered to him to get his attention, "Volteer... I'm... I'm sorry." He had opened his eyes back up, and he had even turned his head to look at her as she spoke, but he still kept his frown, and she tried her best to apologize, "I guess it really doesn't help that I'm being very pushy, and I haven't even kissed you at all today. I've been so far into my work that... I've been putting it before you."

He smiled a little to see that she was seeing what he was seeing, and he even apologized himself as he gave her the truth as to why he wanted to wait, "I'm sorry too. I've been, putting off this whole thing because..." Giving a sigh, she made sure she listened as closely as possible to understand what it was and what needed to be changed, "I didn't know if you'd be able to handle all these emotions so much and so quickly. I wanted to wait for you to be in good health, to not be all over the place because... I don't think jumping up and down, sliding back and forth trying to make potions would be good for the Hatchling." Now that he was saying it out loud, it did make sense to her, and she did feel horrible now as she thought more and more about it.

"I was always waking up so early, barely getting any sleep, working with some chemicals I shouldn't inhale, while also being all over the place and not resting or controlling my own emotions," Volteer didn't even have to say anything as she was able to nail exactly what his worries were, and her eyes grew wide as she was now surprised at how well of a dad he would actually make, "You saw all of this and yet... I didn't... And now that I'm thinking about it... Maybe... Maybe I'm not meant to be a mother."

"Ersa..." Volteer whispered to her, "I definitely should've just said something sooner, I just, didn't know how since you were all over the place. I'm not saying to stop the things that you're doing but, it's okay to slow down. You're like Spyro right now; scared, and jumping at the chance to protect everyone, but we're fine," He could see her body was starting to rest now as her chin sunk into the bed, and he chuckled, "If work needs to be done, then I should be the one to do it. But that's of course if we do have a Hatchling. And I guess the question is now is, now that you know the truth, what will you do?"

Thinking about what she was going to do now that she understood what she needed to do, she looked at him with a smile and giggled, "Alright, I have a plan," He chuckled and had high hopes that her plan wouldn't involve too much work, "I do need to work on this real quick because those four I'm sure didn't get much sleep, and then I will come to bed and make sure to... Breath," He smiled to see she was taking a small breath in, and a small breath out as she tried to calm herself, but she was still a little confused about one thing, "So you didn't know when else to tell me? How about when you were talking all that time last night about why we shouldn't?"

"Oh... Hehe... I got a little carried away as I was... Really wanting to, so, I just tried to make up excuses that you'd be able to easily look past."

"So... If I do change then..."

Nodding at her, he pushed a little as he was now pretty excited, "Now with that out in the open and you know, I wouldn't really mind. I mean, I will even roll over right now," She immediately picked up her head from the bed as her tail wagged with excitement, but just as she was smiling, he destroyed all hope of it happening, "But, you have to work, and the chemicals you put in there have to be attended to so, if you didn't start working and just came in here then..." Moving his head closer to hers, he smirked at her as she teased her, "It would've been a yes."

She growled at him, but seeing him so close to her with his smirk, she knew should could still have her way. Pushing her lips against his, she let out a slight moan along with her mate as it felt like they hadn't kissed in forever, and they both closed their eyes to enjoy the moment. He's right... and I didn't see it... I need to change, I need to separate myself with my war self. Dragging her lips away from his lips, she watched as his body shivered, and she giggled at him as he asked, "Please tell me you won't take long."

"I promise... You showed me what I was wrong in doing, but just know that, if I'm seeing what's wrong in me, you better do the same," He wondered what she meant by that, and she giggled at this, "Telling someone like me no is a very bad idea, so when I change and ask again, I expect a yes," She wondered what he would say to that, but all he did was smile and wink at her for a sure fire yes to her, but with that, she growled at herself, "Damn it!" His eyes grew wide to see her anger had taken over, and she stormed over to her work table and started to growl at herself, "It could've happened! We could be having fun right now, but no, you had to work! You just couldn't let things be as they are!"

"Hey, my love," Volteer knew he had to say something as to not make her too upset, and as she looked at him, he smiled at her as he said, "You know, I'm pretty sure those potions aren't going to take all day to make... so... I didn't say it wouldn't happen today."

"Oh!" Ersa had completely forgotten, and she had to grab back her composure as she knew her anger wasn't good either for her, "Being this frustrated isn't going to be good for the Hatchling either. I know you're right, and you're protecting me and our Hatchling, so I will, change," Just the same as when she was over by the bed, she took a small breath in, and then out, which helped compose herself, and felt good as she now knew things were changing for the better, "You are right, my love. I need to take my time, and slow down. I need to focus on safety equipment for my work so if I do work, just a little, then the Hatchling would be fine..." Looking at Volteer, she asked to make sure she was right in her thinking, "Right?"

"Ersa, I'm not saying for you to change who you are. I just want you to be cautious, that's all."

His words were helpful each and every time she needed them to be, and she wanted to know what she could do for his help, "Volteer... You really are an amazing dragon... And, I want to know what I can do to make that up to you," He only smiled and winked at her once again which made her giggle and growl at herself once again, only a little smoother as she remembered what not to do, "Of course you're all for it now when I can't... Just you wait, Volteer... But at least you know your place and said you'd roll on your back so."

"Oh no no no, that's going to be a battle for sure."

"I look forward to it," Ersa smiled, looking back to her work and dropping a single bit of liquid from one bottle to another.

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"Now, my love, hear me out on this," Now hearing that Spyro was awake, Malefor wanted to talk with him some more, but he knew his lover wouldn't be too happy with him leaving her, so he needed to think of something, "I know you want to stay in bed and all, and I would as well, but just like the past, it's a win win. I get to talk with Spyro, and you get to talk with Cynder, which then leads us down into the Chambers," Seeing his lover lay down and just listen to him made him feel like it was a no, but she wasn't saying anything so he was confused as to what she was thinking, "Maybe we could, rock paper scissors it to see what we would do? Or, maybe I can make it up to you..." Once again, she said nothing, and now he shivered, "Carith... You're not giving me much to work with here. If you hate me then say it," Ducking his head down in shame, he frowned as he said, "I would understand."

Putting her elbow on the bed to her right, she rested her face on her paw and rolled her eyes with a smile as she watched him try and gilt trip her, and he even looked up from time to time to see if it was working, but it wasn't, not that he needed to gilt trip her as she finally spoke to him, "I'm not stopping you, am I?" Now that she had spoken to him, he picked his head up and wondered what she meant, "Malefor, do you remember when we first came to our room and you almost chocked on your water because of all the elements you were using."

"Hehe, yeah, that was... That was bad."

"Exactly, but you tried your best, and after awhile, you were getting better and better at it, because you cared, and you really did want to try," Putting her paw back down in front of her and supporting her own head once again, she smiled at him the entire time she had talked, and she was impressed with what he had done, "I was very surprised to see you do that, so... As a reward for almost making you choke on water, and... Giving me a wonderful night once you had nearly mastered using the three elements at once... I'm going to let you do what ever you want, for the time being at least."

"Really?" Malefor asked, a little surprised that she was letting him off so easily, and even though she did tell him why, it was still a surprise to him, "I... I don't know what to say."

"You know I'm going to want the same night tonight though to make up for it. Well, more of you kissing me, less of you almost dying."

"Please, a little water wouldn't stop me... Then again, it depends on how cold it is and..."

"You going to analyze what I said like Volteer, or are you going to go talk to him."

"Oh, right."

Turning his attention away from his lover and towards the door, he walked off the bed, and as his four paws touched down on the ground, he started to sneak for some reason. Carith watched as his body was close to the ground along with his tail, but nothing touched the floor, and even as he approached the door, he reached up instead of just standing up and opening the door. As he opened the door, he looked to his right, then his left before slithering out the door and over to his left. I'm definitely in love with Malefor, that's for sure, Carith shuck her head with a giggle before following behind. Getting off the bed and onto the floor, she made her way over to the door normally compared to her lover. Exiting out of the room and looking to her left, she looked at him with a raised brow as now she didn't understand what he was doing. His back was against the right side of the other's door with his wings spread out and standing up on two paws. Carith couldn't help but blush to see his body in all it's glory, and while she was checking him out, Malefor looked to his lover and made some paw signals. Having one paw out, he used his other paw and placed two claws in his other paw. Watching him play out what he was going to do in paw form made her shake her head as she wondered, Why does someone with such an amazing body have to be so weird. Hearing a whistling sound, she watched as his paw slowly came down to his other paw, and just as it hit, he made an explosion sound, and then came back down to his four paws and stood at the front of the door. Looking over his shoulder to see if she would follow, he nudged his head at the door before looking back straight at the door and waiting for her. Walking up to him and next to his left side, she saw the smile on his face, and while she looked at him, he looked at her as well and asked her, "You ready?"

Then again... Him being weird is so much fun, Carith giggled, and looking at the door with his lover, she was honest, "No idea what you were doing but, I'm pretty sure it's not going to work."

"Malefor, would you just open the door," A voice called behind the door, and hearing what sounded like a manly voice, they knew it was Spyro. Reaching over and grabbing the door knob, he pushed open the door and entered into the room with his lover. As they entered the room, the two other lover's were sitting in the middle of the bed together, and while Malefor chuckled as he looked at his friend, Carith raised a brow at Cynder to see that she was a little shinier around her neck and mouth, which meant water was reflecting off her body. Oh ho ho ho, Cynder, you aren't going to like me when I tell the girls about this. Just as Malefor opened his mouth to ask, Spyro cut him off and chuckled as he said how he knew, "You do know you aren't exactly... skinny. When you slammed your body against our wall, you weren't exactly easy when you did so."

"Ohhhhh... Yeah... I guess that makes sense."

"And you also making a threat to bomb me... You got something to say it, then say it."

"No no no, that was a joke! That was a joke."

"Hey, Spyro, while you are talking with Malefor for this time being, can I have a little talk with Cynder," The way she had phrased it made it seem like something had happened, and to Cynder, this meant something happened between her and her lover, so she was interested, "Don't worry, it's nothing bad. Just wanted to ask her something real quick."

"Oh do I wonder," Getting off the bed and following Carith to the hallway as they walked out, Spyro and Malefor continued to talk about what was on their mind.

"Speaking of Cynder, which leads into me talking about Ersa, crazy how she knew how to get up here, right?"

"Malefor, how, I mean... How do you expect me to respond to that? She already said why she was up here and how so, where is this conversation going?"

"I don't know... I just don't know what to talk about... Do you want to go train in the Training Room?"

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Standing in the middle of the hallway, Carith turned herself around to face straight, and just as she had done that, Cynder was already sitting down in front of her, and she was the first to speak, "So, what's up?"

"Hehe, you know what this is about," Carith said to her, hoping she would know what this was about, but Cynder only looked at her with confusion, so she knew she would have to explain, "Oh, come on, Cynder, it's pretty obvious the minute I walked into your room," Now she was having fun with the fact that Cynder didn't know, so she just tried to hint a little here and there for her to find out herself, "You've been looking a little shinier when we walked in, did you know that. It's like you washed you body, but mainly your lips... And apparently your neck as well," Now that she knew what her friend was talking about, she watched as Cynder's face went red as she didn't realize there was still water to be shown, "Hehe, seems like you had a good time."

Wiping off her neck and lips, Cynder growled at her for pointing that out, but a playful one, "How dare you call me out on what me and Spyro were doing. The water on my neck, unfortunately, is just because the water went down my neck, if you should know," Now that she was talking about it, she noticed her lips were also shinier, so she called her out on her lover as well, "And how you going to embarrass me if you and Malefor were doing the exact same thing?"

"Hehe, you got me there. And, funny story about that, he almost choked while he was trying to kiss at one point."

"What?!"

"Yeah, that's a story for another time. Or at least when we are with the other females."

"Damn, I'm interested too."

Hearing the other guys walk out from the room, they looked over to see they were opening the Training Room door, and immediately, both of the two females said no, "Whoa whoa whoa," Both Cynder and Carith said in unison, and both of them stopped at the door, looking at their lovers with slightly opened eyes, and Cynder was the first one to speak, "And what do you think you're going? After how much power you just used with me, you're not serious that you're going to train?"

"Especially you, Malefor. You used a lot of power and we got barely any sleep. Are you sure you're even up to be training?" Carith asked, hoping that the answer would've been a no, but she knew it would've been too good to be true, "I know I said you're free and we could have a nice night tonight but..."

"Carith, don't worry, I'm fine," Malefor assured her, and she gave a sigh as she knew that meant he was going to go through with the training, "Since hopefully nothing will happen today, me and Spyro can train up without a problem, and although those green gems can't help with sleep, when you're running out of power, they still help a good bit, so I'll be fine," Since it seemed like Carith was agreeing now, she gave another sigh and decided to back down, and now all that's left, was Cynder, and Malefor nudged him in the shoulder as he said, "Now it's your turn, Spyro."

"Malefor, shut up," Cynder threatened him, and while he shut his mouth, she pointed a claw at her lover as she said, "Nothing serious, understand? No dark power training, and neither of you need to be fighting one another, is that understood by the both of you?" Both swallowed hard and nodded at her words, and she gave a sigh as well as she wasn't exactly pleased with them training, but she was thankful for the night she had with Spyro, and she told him that, "You're lucky, my love, that you gave me such a good night. Keep that up... And you can believe I'm on my way to only smiling."

"Hehe, well, I also know with a nice body when I grow up to an adult, then I'd be fine. Kinda like how your body is very smooth, curved, and perfectly fine. Which makes me wonder how both of us will look as adults," Realising he was getting of track and seeing his lover blush with a slight smile, he chuckled as he got back on track, "But, I promise we will obey your wishes my love. You have nothing to worry about."

Giving a sigh, she waved a paw to tell them to leave, and so they did. Both Malefor and Spyro looked at one another as they chuckled, then they turned to the Training Room and ran into it. As Spyro ran in, he stopped a little in front of the door as he realized something wasn't right. While Malefor ran into the room and made it to the middle, he was ready to train, and turning around to Spyro, he called out at him as he was ready to train, "Come on Spyro! What we waiting for?"

"Hold up... I'll... I'll be right back," Turning around and running out of the Training Room, he quickly looked to his left to see the girls were standing by the door, watching as it opened, "Cynder, wait!" Running over to her, the two girls looked at him, wondering why he came from out of the room, and as he stood in front of her, he explained, "While I do trust Ignitus to tell us if something happens with us not near you two, I... I wanted to know if you... Trust me."

Both the girls were confused about what he meant, and Cynder giggled as she viewed it as a obvious question, "Of course I trust you. Now my question is, why do you ask?"

"Because, I've been thinking about the past while we were in our room and, it got me thinking, how else could I protect you and keep the good time rolling," Picking up his paw, it started to radiate with dark power, and he explained further, "Back then, we were able to synchronize with our dark power to control and use it, but now that's it's been so long since we have, you're dark power has weakened, which is a good thing for sure. And, I know this sounds crazy but... Is it okay if I... Put some of the darkness I have in your body."

Once again, the girls looked at him with wide eyes, now completely confusing both of the girls, especially his lover as now Cynder didn't understand what he was doing, "You want to, infect me, with your darkness? Alright, Spyro, now you're confusing me."

"With this darkness inside your body, since it's mine, I will know when something is wrong, or at least, that's the hope. I wasn't able to really test it since you kissing me destroyers me using the darkness but, my hope is that, if anything is wrong, we can synchronize as we did before. If you put some of your darkness in me and I do the same to you, then we will be able to call upon each other as such if something happens and I'm not near you, like a warning sign for me."

"Are... Are you sure, about this... I trust you, Spyro, I don't trust the darkness."

"Don't worry, my love, I won't let anything happen to you, I just need to know if you honestly do trust me," She was a little hesitant at first as she wasn't sure, and his next words made it even more of a reason to think about it then just jumping up and saying yes, "I'm asking because, you're putting your life in my paws. With this darkness I give, when you use your dark power, mine will react, which will then react to mine, like how we did back then. Only... I can control the darkness I give you. Which means that, this darkness I control, will be near your heart."

"So what... You're going to kill me if I say something wrong?" Cynder murmured, and she knew this wasn't true, but wanted confirmation from her lover, "I know you'd never do that but, you're saying that, you could kill me with the darkness if you wanted to, couldn't you."

He gave a frown as she was right in saying, "That's why... I wondered if you really did trust me that close to your heart. It could help in case anything happens, and since I can control it, I would be able to know if your heart is beating smoothly or if it's sped up, but you'll also have your darkness near my heart as well," She had to sit down even after how long of an explanation this was turning out to be, but she understood how everything was sounding, and it did scare her, "I... Wanted to make sure with you, of course. You would have to focus on using your dark power a little though to activate my darkness for a warning which... I definitely don't agree to..." Everyone went quiet for a second as both of them were thinking about it, and with Spyro's realization, he didn't want to take this risk as he thought about it quick, "Actually, forget I even said anything... I..."

"I'll do it," Cynder growled as her body teased up for a second before easing up a couple of seconds after.

"No, Cynder, it's..."

"You really think I don't trust you with my life?" Cynder asked him, and hearing her say that, his eyes grew a little wide, even smiling a little to hear her say that, "This... Will just show me that I can trust you even further," Taking a step closer to him so they stood nearly face to face, she smiled at him and was honest, "This really would help us. Compared to back then when I needed you and I couldn't reach you, this will help. Like if you're almost dying, I can know... After we had fought the Dark Master, and the first day we woke up after the Volcano... I wanted to give up.. but with this, I will know, and I can act faster, and feel even safer then before."

Just as a tear went down his lover's eye, Spyro also shed a tear for how she trusted him, and he smiled with thanks, "Thank you... Cynder. And, you are definitely right. When I was dying on the floor, I wondered if you were dead too... And... I cried for a while... That's just one of many times it would've been helpful to know," Both smiled at one another, shedding another tear as they were both happy to see how much one another trusted the other, and raising a paw up, he asked, "Are you..."

"Sure?" Before he could even ask, she had already put her paw over his paw, and moving her fingers between his to hold his paw, she nodded her head and whispered, "I trust you."

I will not mess this up, Spyro said to himself in his thoughts, and he made sure to talk with her the entire time so she didn't scare herself, "Alright, first, I'm going to transfer my darkness over to you," She waited a couple of seconds once he had said this, and she shivered as she could feel the darkness only slightly going down from her paw, into her arm and to her chest before finally going away, "To make this easier for you, I'm just going to take a little bit of your darkness so you don't have to do anything just yet," Once again she braced herself, and just as before, she felt the darkness go in reverse from her chest, to her arm, and to her paw before it finally disappeared, "Okay... Now, we should be good. The only thing left to test out is if it actually worked."

"Can... Can we just... Test me first," Cynder pleaded as she was shaking from everything that had happened, even if it did go well, she had no idea aside from how she felt, "And... please keep holding my paw."

"Don't worry, I'm not letting go, I promise," Spyro assured her in a low tone to help sooth her, "So for this, just simple think about the darkness to bring it out. You don't have to worry about a balance or anything like that since it's just a small amount. Once your darkness starts going, mine will react, so I should start radiating darkness as well."

"But, wait, wouldn't that mean that, when you use your dark form then, my darkness will also react?"

"I'm able to control the darkness inside my body whether it's mine or not, especially since you gave me a small amount of your dark power, I can easily control it so it's not used. If I ever did use your darkness, I would have to get more from you, at least, that makes the most sense on how things would work, since only I can regenerate my own dark power," Seeing her start to sweat as she knew she was going to have to use her dark power, he once again gave her the chance to back out, "Cynder... You've already done a lot for me... Especially trusting me the way you did. You don't have to do this."

Shaking her head as she tried to ignore the no in her head, she still wanted to go through with it, "It's now or never," Preparing herself, she closed her eyes and sat straight up, but opening one eye back up to look at her lover, she needed to know he was there, "If anything goes wrong... You'll help me... Right...?"

"Won't even hesitate to save you. I can cancel out your darkness if I have to by absorbing more, like how I did with Malefor."

Shedding a tear, she closed her eyes and whispered, "I trust you."

Now, all the three could do is hold there breaths and wait, but no one even knew that Malefor had also poked his head out from the Training Room to watch as well, and his eyes were looked to Cynder, waiting to see if she would actually go through with it, Hopefully she can easily call upon it, and not control it... Definitely two different difficulties when it come to the two. It took a couple of seconds of silence, and unfortunately, that silence started to get to Cynder. It was bad enough she was already sweating and shaking, but now having to think about the darkness and what it did, whilst the room was quiet, she tightened her hold on Spyro's paw, and he knew he should break the silence, "It's okay, Cynder, I'm still here, I haven't left, and you're still okay. Everything is okay."

Now hearing his voice again, she eased up her grip on his paw and went back to thinking about the darkness. It was strange to her as she understood what he meant, but couldn't understand why there were two feelings to the darkness, It feels like there is a hot and cold to the darkness in my body... It's like, the hot is my darkness, and the cold is his, like it's... calming my darkness... It is also controlled though. Focusing on the cold side of the dark power, darkness slowly came out from all around her body, and just as hers went off, so did Spyro's, and both of the lover's gasped with wide eyes. Both Carith and Malefor feared that something had happened, but they didn't seem to be changing, they only stood there, looking at one another. Spyro was the first one to speak as he was the one who wasn't as stressed as his lover was, "Is... Is that you're... Heartbeat?"

"What?" Both Malefor and Carith asked in unison.

"I... I feel your heartbeat too," Cynder said in awe, completely surprised at the sudden realisation, and she giggled with a smile as she didn't know how to react, "This... This is... Insane!" Smiling wide as she knew what that meant, she looked at herself, and then her lover, and kept her wide smile as she said, "That means I did it! I... I didn't know it would've been that easy I..." Putting her other paw on her chest and sighing hugely, she put her paw back to the ground and knew it was all because of her lover's help, "Then again... I definitely wouldn't have been able to do this without you."

Blushing to see her smile, and hearing how soft her tone of voice was when she spoke to him, he chuckled, "Oh, yeah well... It's just my kind of thing..."

She couldn't help it anymore as the fear did still swirl around in her mind, so pulling his paw down suddenly, it caused him to jerk forward and land his lips right on his lover's. Taking her paw out from Spyro's, she placed it over his right cheek before closing her eyes along with him to enjoy the kiss. And lucky for her, the kiss took away the darkness as it went back to her body, now concealing itself near her heart. Hearing how helpful there plan actually was, Malefor thought about it when it came to his lover as well, If that's... really how that works then... What if I put some of my darkness with Carith... But... Then again, Cynder already has darkness within her which means, if I did do the same to Carith then... There's a possibility it could infect her... and then... I would never be able to live with myself. With a small smack from one another's lips as they pulled away, Cynder gave a sigh as she now felt better then she did before, and Spyro warned her ahead of time so she didn't have to fear, "Just to make sure everything did work out, I am going to be using your side of the darkness. But don't worry, nothing will happen. All you have to do is sit there, that's it."

She made sure not to move as she was still scared of the darkness and only watched. His body radiated the darkness that she had given him, and just as the same with her, the darkness her lover had given her started to come out from her body, and once again, the two were able to hear one another's heartbeat, while also some how being able to almost feel one another's heart. Coming out from the darkness, Spyro had an idea as to what that might be for what their feeling, "I... I guess because the darkness is so close to our hearts, we are able to hear it, and feel it since... We are controlling that darkness, and... I did say that... we hold each other's lives now..."

It was still scary for her to hear him say it, and while he gave a small frown, she smiled at him and made him feel better instead of the other way around, "You try and kill me, you lose out on this body you were talking so much about," Giving a giggle to her own words, it also made him chuckle as he was glad to hear she was making light of how serious this was, "I said I trusted you, and... I wouldn't have done this if it wasn't for all you've done for me... This is just another time where... I know I should trust you," He gave off a small blush and finally smiled at her as he could feel his heart racing, and using the power he had given her, she giggled to feel how fast his heart was racing, "What's with the fast heartbeat my love?"

Giving off a sigh with his blush still very visible, he smiled, "Now we will now each other's heartbeats, and... since you know mine... I now just want to go back to our room and kiss the day away... Especially since your words were... I... I don't know what to say, Cynder... Thank you."

"As much as I would love for that to happen, I do need you to recharge your energy with those gems either way. And it's best to just do as we said we would because, if I did go through all this just to go back to bed... Not going to be super happy."

"Definitely don't go back to bed, got it."

"Hehe, you better not, especially not without me later tonight. So, go have fun training and I will hang out with the girls. We will treat this like a normal day."

"As you wish."

Nodding at his lover as he gave off his last words, he slowly backed away from her and same as her, kept the smile on his face even as they were separating. Turning himself around and walking to the training room door, he passed by Malefor and slapped him on the chest with his backpaw as he entered the room, "Let's get this done," Malefor looked at him, surprised, more surprised then he ever thought he would be in his life, and making sure everything was okay, he looked at Cynder, then back at Spyro, wondering what just happened, and as Spyro sat in the middle of the training room waiting for him, he asked, "Well, are we going to train or not?" Malefor swallowed hard a little as he didn't know what to think, but shut the door to the Training Room anyway as he walked over to him, knowing they were going to train either way, but the confusion was still very much on his face, and Spyro saw this, "You doing okay? You seem confused."

It took Malefor a couple of seconds to respond even after he had sat down in front of him, "I... I just... That was... definitely not something I thought I've would've ever seen... Like," Shedding a couple of tears as he put a paw to his chest, he pretended like he was sad after seeing what had happened, "First Ignitus, then Volteer, and now you... You're all growing up so fast... Won't be long before you ask her to be your mate I'm assuming?"

"How about you shut your damn mouth about that," Spyro growled, hearing him bring up something that he didn't want his lover to hear even though she wasn't in the room, "Like I said, I remembered a lot when me and Cynder were together, so I knew this was just something I could do in case we ever split."

"Well... If you were to split... You'd be dead."

"Not that kind of split... Just, don't worry about it. At least now, this way, she can warn me when ever she needs me. So, let's train up some," Pausing for a second, the Training Room filled with dark enemies, and as Malefor looked around, he looked back at Spyro to see he had also turned dark to prepare for the training, "Man you're lucky Cynder said I couldn't hurt you but, Oh well... But then again," The dark enemies suddenly exploded into darkness once again, and Malefor swallowed hard once again as he realized what that could've meant, and Spyro just confirmed his suspicion, "I can't hurt you... but they can. So I'm going to put them on the same level as me, and not your level."

"Then... Shouldn't we at least work together?"

"I don't know... Not really feeling like teamwork is going to help."

"If we're going to save the world together, we should know how each other moves so we can properly react to one another."

"Pretty smart in you saying, Malefor. Almost like your trying to use this as an advantage to kill me later on."

"No, I..."

"Relax!" Slapping a paw down on his shoulder, Spyro smiled devilishly as it did seem that his idea was a good one, "I agree with you. This also works out for the bloody side of my darkness. The more we kill, the better, and if we do synchronise, that means we can also get it done faster and realize what we need to fix," Taking his paw off of his shoulder, he also assured him of something else before they got started, "Plus, I know you take training very serious because of what you have to protect," Seeing a small smile go across his face, Spyro smiled back, and walking to his side as he got into a fighting stance, Malefor did the same thing, and each other's heads were just across the back of one another's neck, making the two laugh as they both realized it, "I know we talk about this a lot but... Never thought I'd be standing side by side with you when training."

"Hehe, yeah, no kidding. But... I'm not complaining. I like it this way."

"Then you ready to battle."

"Ready when you are, friend."

"Hehe, not just yet."

"Damn."

---

Making their way to the Chambers, Cynder, very similar to Carith, stayed a little quiet as they were both in shock of what had just happened. For Cynder, it was crazy for her take such a huge step when it came to their relationship and trust, everything Spyro had said... he really did pay a lot of attention to detail... And... Picking up her right paw, she looked at it as she walked and couldn't stop thinking about the feeling, The way he held my paw... If he didn't, I... I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to do what I did. Carith saw this, watching as she put her paw back down to the ground, even looking more to the ground then straight, and she knew it was bothering her, so she wanted to say something about what had happened to break the silence, "So... About what happened back there... Do you want to..."

"Why am I shaking even after what had happened?" Cynder asked her straight out, and Carith was a little confused by the question as she didn't really understand anything beyond what she had said, so she clarified, "For some reason, it feels like I have two sides to me, and not the light and dark kind. I have this, doubt, but also this feeling of hope, and I can't understand why. When I think of the doubt, I feel terrible for even doubting him, but then the doubt also makes me think I should be worried in case of something, especially since it has to do with my heart. And then the same goes for hope, and I split off into more and more as to what is and isn't good!" Taking a breather as she realized she had dumped so much information on Carith, she shuck her head, even shivering as she apologized, "Sorry, I just... I'm so shaken up... And now I'm thinking, should I have waited? But if I did, then I would've made him feel bad, and..."

"Whoa, Cynder, calm down. Take another breath," Taking a nice breath with her friend, Carith now took over so Cynder wouldn't scare herself anymore then she already had, "I will admit that, I was on the wall about what was happening as well and, if I'm telling you the truth... I don't know what I would've done either, and I would probably be in the same situation as you," Thinking about what she could do, she thought of an idea as to what she could do, "Maybe you can just tell him that you're having second thoughts or something, any way to just get the darkness out of you."

"Yeah but," Putting a paw on her chest, she sighed as this was something she was stuck on, "If I do that, he knows I don't trust him, and he'd feel bad... No matter what I think to do, there's always two sides as to what I should do," Seeing as the Chambers were to their right, they turned into the room, and at the back were the Guardians and Claire, aside from Volteer and Ersa, but while they entered, Cynder didn't notice as she just walked over to the wall to her left and sat down, and to her surprise, Carith sat down next to her in support, "Thank you, Carith."

"What's going on?" Claire asked, seeing that something had happened and wondered accurately, "Does this have something to do with your lover's?"

The two stayed a little quiet as they didn't know who should be the one to speak up, but Cynder knew she should just out right say what had happened to get it out in the open and hope for help, "Spyro put some of his darkness inside of me, and could kill me at any point if he wanted to."

"What?!" Everyone cried out in unison aside from Carith as she already knew.

"Okay, whoa whoa whoa, time out," Cyril said, looking over at Ignitus as he believed he had realized something, "So that's why we got such good sleep, because we never woke up and you just put us into a dream. No way Spyro would do something like that."

"Cyril does have a pretty big point, especially since Cynder said Spyro could kill her. If you're going to give us nightmares, be a little better at it," Terrador also agreed as nothing about what she had said seemed right, and even for someone such as himself, he was a little scared to hear Cynder say such a thing.

"This isn't a dream," Cynder spoke on behalf of Ignitus before he could even say anything, and everyone looked over to her as they were desperate to know more about what had happened, "Spyro and Malefor wanted to train, and we wanted to come down here and talk with Ersa and you, Claire. But since the guys weren't with us, Spyro had the idea to... put some of his darkness in me. Long story short, the darkness rest near my heart and he can control and kill me if he wanted to, and even though I can do the same, it's supposed to act as a warning beacon," Everyone once again was surprised to hear what had happened but looked back at her as she had once again put a paw to her chest as her heart hurt every time she thought about, "I was... Scared... Very scared at the idea. And even after I said yes, I keep doubting myself. So, another long story made short, I can't figure out if I should've said yes or no, if I should or shouldn't keep this darkness he gave me, and it's just..." Giving a huge sigh as she didn't even want to think about, it still came back to her as she knew she had to do something about what had happened and hoped anyone would have an answer, "So... What do you all think I should've done?"

The men didn't know how to answer as they didn't know if what they would say would've helped, but Claire had a very clever idea as she smiled just at the thought, "Why don't we, me, you, and Carith, go into Volteer's room, kick him out, and we can all discuss what had happened amongst all of us. I'm sure the guys don't know what to say, and since Ersa is very smart, she will know exactly what we should do." Carith was immediately aboard as she smiled quickly, and now the two girls wondered if Cynder would join, and it took a little more convincing, "I know you're struggling to even think about it, the emotions are eating at you and you can't stop thinking about it. Am I right?" Cynder's eyes grew a little wide as she was surprised that she was able to easily understand what was happening with her without much effort, "Being an assassin has its perks. And since you know what's going on, I'm sure Ersa has something to help calm you down."

Cynder giggled as she was a little happy that was true, "I never thought I would say this... But I'm glad you were an assassin, especially on days like these."

"I was piecing it together... slowly," Carith frowned as she wasn't able to help and felt bad for it.

"You listened to me rant all about what I was feeling which was nice."

"Thanks, Cynder," Carith gave a smile to her friend's words.

Kissing her lover on the lips, Ignitus was surprised by Claire's kiss which made it feel even better for her, but to his dismay, she didn't kiss him for long. Sliding her lips off his, he tried to move his head more forward to keep the kiss going, but she had pulled too far back. Pulling his head back and sighing, Ignitus saw the smile on her face and he chuckled, "I never knew I would like the cold so much in my life."

"And I never knew I'd even be able to kiss my lover before in my life so, life is strange," Giving a giggle, he gave her a chuckle, and smiling as she was happy that her lover was happy, she walked away from him and looked at the girls as she waved a paw over to her, "Alright, come on girls. Let's go figure out the mysterious of life, starring, Cynder," The two girls got up and followed after her, and since they didn't have to walk far, Claire was already sitting at the door that the two were staying, and as the other two females approached, Claire was honest with Cynder, "You know, that was pretty brave of you, and I do understand why you feel the way you do. That was definitely a huge step, and if Ignitus had dark powers and said what Spyro said to you... I..."

"Would've had to think about it." Carith finshed her sentence for her, and all the girls frowned, "Yeah... I said the same thing about Malefor."

"Well, we all have our reasons. Me, I would've had to think about it because of what's happened with my other... Dragon. When it comes to you, Carith, I'm assuming it's because you know that darkness has no mercy, and if Malefor doesn't control it right, he could kill you on accident, or even on purpose," Carith frowned as she knew that was one of the possibilities that Claire had brought up, "And I'm guessing with you, Cynder, it could also be similar. It's hard not to think about when one second, you could be laughing with Spyro, but then... Your life goes dark... So, I understand."

"But then I know... Spyro would never do something that would put me in danger... He never would," Cynder said to herself as she didn't want to believe it, and there was silence amongst the girls as they didn't know what to say, but she broke the silence as she walked up to the door, "Let's just see what Ersa has to say."

"Told you it would be a battle," Volteer chuckled, standing over Ersa as she laid down on her back on the bed, and she was unable to do anything as her wings had been sprawled out on the bed, but his paws were over his wings, and she couldn't use her tail as his tail wrapped around hers, so there wasn't much for her to do, "Even with your paws, you're not strong enough to throw me off, and if you think I'm going to pass out from some kind of surprise kiss, you're going to be surprised when I don't."

---

Damn him, Ersa growled in her thoughts, biting down on her lip a little as she loved everything about what he was doing. His smirk, his body, his gentleness even when he held her down, but she had to think of something, No way I'm going to be on bottom... I had to wait a while to finish my work, and during that time, I read some things that could help me. Looking at underneath his body, she looked at his chest and his right arm before looking at his arm and remembered what she had read, so there should be a special little spot I can hit to get him off. Reaching a claw up, he prepared for her to go for the shoulder, but she didn't, instead, she started to grope his arm, and he was a little confused as to why. Moving down to his elbow, she apologized in advance, "Sorry, my love, but I'm not staying bottom," Pushing two claws into his elbow in a sweat spot, his arm completely gave out and he feel to his right, and because of this, she was able to get her wing out, wrap it around his back, and threw him over and onto his back, "Got you!" Rolling over her left, she jumped up on the bed and quickly jumped over and on top of her mate, and he growled with a chuckle as he couldn't believe she had done something like that, "Sorry, who's going to be on bottom again?"

"Hehe," Volteer chuckled, sweating a little as they had been playing around for a while now as she had never done something like that before, "When did you learn to do that?"

"I was reading up some when I was working about self defense tactics, pressure points, and books on... How to pleasure," Her voice was low, very low and teasing, and immediately, Volteer's smile went wide, but his face also burned with a fierce red blush, and now he didn't know what to do, "I know you're going to like what comes next."

Moving back a little as to tease him, she feel down onto his chest as she had lost balance, and even as he tried to catch her, it surprised him as he asked, a little concerned, "Whoa... Ersa, are you okay?"

"Yeah... Yeah, I'm... I'm fine," Trying to act like it was nothing, she struggled to get to her balance, but once again, she feel down onto his chest, and she growled, "No... No Damn it... Not now."

Putting his wings around her back and holding her close to his chest, he was careful as he rolled her over, and now as they were before, she laid on her back while he stood above her. His face turned to fear as he saw her face starting to sweat, and she had even started to breath more rapidly. Putting a paw on her chest, her heart was beating rapidly, and even for her, she had to put a paw over her head and growl as she started to feel sick. Seeing how bad she was getting, Volteer started to feel his heart speed up as he didn't understand why she was feeling and looking so bad, "Ersa! What's... What's wrong?"

"No... Nothing... Please... I want to... continue," Ersa fought as hard as she could but didn't even have the strength to really move all that much.

"Ersa... If you really are sick, and we are trying to have a Hatchling, you know we can't," Volteer cried, shaking his head and clenching his eyes as he let a couple of tears go down his eyes as he watched her getting worse, "Please. We need to figure out what's wrong with you before we continue you."

"You're... Right..."

Seeing as the door had started to open, Volteer got of his lover and quickly tried to make it over to the work bench to try and figure out what was going on. The girls saw him jump off the bed and over to the bench so they were wondering if something had happened, but they could tell something didn't seem right. As they walked in, they watched as Ersa struggled to turn herself around to face straight and was only barely able to turn her body on the bed so she laid on her right as she faced straight, and her back facing the right of the wall. She smiled to see the girls had entered and walked over to her, but she saw the frowns on their faces, and she had hoped the others wouldn't know what was going on, but they still asked either way.

"Please tell us that your looking like this because you and Volteer... Did it," Carith asked, and even as it was an open question, they were all fearing to see her look so drained of energy.

She didn't respond, but her smile disappearing only proved their point. Giving out a sigh, Ersa was honest with the girls as she wasn't feeling great at all, and couldn't even yell as she started to speak, "We... We were going to... But, for some reason... I started to feel, sick, and sluggish, falling on his chest a couple of times and... That was it..." The girls all looked at one another, wondering how they would be able to help, and it seemed serious as she talked about it more, "Hehe... I pretty much have, all the symptoms: Headache, sweat, increased heart rate, irregular breathing... It looks bad but, I can help Volteer..." Moving her paw to try and push herself, Volteer stopped his work and watched as she struggled to stand, and everything she tried to do was pointless as she wasn't even able to get off the bed and fell right back down, and while everyone feared, she giggled even as scared as she was now, "Well that's... that's definitely not good."

"Radiation," Volteer murmured in fear, and all the girls looked over to see he started to pick up the pace on his work.

"Radiation?" Claire asked, and now that she had said it, it clicked for Ersa.

"Well... That's... Most certainly not good," Ersa giggled, but a couple of tears started to roll down her eyes as she knew it was probably more serious.

"From all the work she's been doing, most, if not all of our work, has some kind of radiation to it, and we were working on safety equipment before the Temple was attacked," Running to another table, he moved a bunch of paper and books trying to find what he needed, and seeing a flower like plant, he grabbed it, ran back over to the other table, and explained more as he kept working, "It doesn't help that, combined with Radiation, and fatigue, Ersa's body was easily able to be attacked, and with what she was working on, if the mixture is rushed, the chemicals could work in the opposite way, making it toxic. These toxic chemicals work in a way that, once breathed in, they work fast, like a cancer, and even once they are detected by our white blood cells, the toxic chemicals already become a strong enough virus to fight off anything the body throws at it."

"Hehe..." Hearing Ersa giggle once again, the girls feared for her as well as they heard his explanation, and she knew this never would've happened if she had taken a break, "All this rushing... Making and planning... When I should've spent with Volteer... I still have my life at risk for my own mistakes... Cynder... Carith... Claire... I'm not going to lie to you all... This is... Very serious... And I don't know if... if I will even live through this."

"You'll live!" Volteer cried out, clenching his paws as he looked at a page in a book with a glass bottle of liquid next to him.

The girls looked at him when he had yelled, and now their hearts were racing as it seemed everything was happening so fast, and they didn't know what to do, what to say, but Ersa was the one who kept talking, and they looked back at her as they did, and she made sure to speak lowly this time, "I've read about this before... No dragon has ever been able to... cure or save anyone who... has what I have... And I tried my best... through the years to make sure it didn't happen to me... But... I got relaxed being here... I wasn't careful... and now... Hehe... I might even die for my mistakes."

"No... No no no, this... This isn't right," Cynder cried as her, along with the other girls who started to tear up, "This... This has to be a nightmare... This can't be real... First, Spyro and the darkness, and now... You're telling us that you're going to die..." Clenching her paws, the other girls tried to think of anything, something, that they could do, and Cynder cried, "That won't happen!" Ersa smiled to see she had the support of those around her, and Cynder's kind words helped her as well, "You're stronger then this, you have a smart and supporting mate! You can't let this virus take away the family that you deserve to have... You deserve it... After what you went through..."

Shedding more tears, it now made Ersa frown even more as she didn't want to die, and she feared about what could happen more then ever as everything started to flash in her mind of what she could lose. Friends... family... my mate and Hatchling... I just got back on my paws, everything was going good and now... I'm about to lose it all... And there's nothing I can do, Ersa cried in her thoughts, so for now, the best she could do was try and get her mind off of what was happening with Cynder, "For now... All I can do is hope that... Volteer can do something... But to get our minds off of it... What happened with Spyro...?"

She understood what she was trying to do, and Cynder did have hopes that it would help her, so she explained, "I will try to shorten the explanation as I have before but... Spyro gave me his darkness and I gave him mine. He could kill me at any point and I can do the same. It was... so scary... and I don't know if I should've or shouldn't have done what I did... And even thinking about it, I feel bad. And as Claire described... What if the darkness just kills me without control. What if, one day I wake up, but I really don't... and it turned out, I was dead."

"Wow... That is pretty serious."

"He did it because he wanted to protect me, and he remembered our past when we use to use our darkness together. And since he wanted to train with Malefor, he wanted to use this as a warning signal... And I even had to use his darkness at one point and..." Pausing, she put her paw on her chest once again as she knew the pain was going to come back, and it did, "Every time I think back, to me holding his paw... How protective and supportive he was... What should I think, Ersa? I'm so confused if what I said or did was the right thing."

"Cynder... You remember when I first got here, and I was so scared of Spyro and his strength?" Cynder nodded at Ersa's words, as so, she continued, "I made sure he wasn't who I thought he was, and he proved me that... I should've just trusted him... It was you all who convinced me to trust him and Malefor... I've seen it... Spyro loves and cares for you... And if I can see that even in his eyes... Why shouldn't you trust him?" Cynder gasped a little as she had never asked herself that question before, and Ersa giggled as she knew she hadn't, "I said the same thing to myself with Volteer. Why shouldn't I trust him? He cared for me, protected me, saved me, and so much more, and because of this, he's never given me a reason not to trust him. It's what helped me when I thought he had moved on to that other dragon. I knew I could trust him even when part of me said no..."

"Like how part of me saying no but... I should trust him because... He's never done wrong by me before," Cynder started to slowly realize herself more and more now as she had thought about it, and now with how she was feeling, it made it a lot easier for her to agree on something, "My heart does hurt, and not because of him, but it really is because of my doubts! He trusts me enough for my, unstable darkness to be near his heart! He gave me his darkness which had been controlled and tamed so I would be safe!" The girls all smiled to hear her realisation, along with how big of a smile she gave as she realized it, "He... He... Damn it," Cynder giggled, as now she needed help with something else, "Well, Ersa... Hehe... One problem down... but here's another one; Why do I deserve someone like Spyro?"

"Hehe... I may know the meaning of life... But knowing why our lovers choose us out of hundreds will always be a mystery," Seeing Volteer still work as quickly as possible as he could, it made her smile, and looking back at the girls, she giggled, crying more as she thought about it, "Right now, Volteer could just leave me for dead... Rather then trying to help, and cure... A virus that has killed thousands of... the smartest minds... But I will never understand why... even if he told me..."

"Because then you'll always have more questions," All three of the girls said in unison, and the four all giggled as they had all been there before

"Damn it!" Hearing Volteer yell out as he cursed once again, everyone looked over at him, but they didn't have to look far as he ran up beside the girls and asked his mate, "Ersa, didn't we have an Esper Plant?"

"I used it... when I was working... why...?"

Seeing him freeze stiff as he gasped, he eyes went cold, and more tears started to rain out of his eyes as his chest went up and down faster and faster as if he was about to have a heart attack, "No... No no no...! I... I need that plant! Do we have any other location other then all the way over at the Dragon Temple?! Any that you saw around Warfang?! I... I know it could be one of the biggest deciding ingredients no one has done before, and it all makes sense why! It all makes sense why it didn't work before!" Seeing her frown as she tried to shake her head, Volteer's eyes once again went cold as he fell onto his butt, not knowing what to do now, "I'm not fast enough to make it over there and back in time."

Sitting there for a bit, everyone wondered what they were going to do now, especially Ersa as she knew there was nothing that could be done, "Volteer... You tired your best... I don't want you to suffer through this virus as well and then we both die..."

"I would rather kill myself to save you then to sit by and watch you die!" Volteer cried, and everyone was surprised to hear his passion, and it only made it more emotional for everyone, "If trading my life means I can save you... so be it...! I've have a good life, but yours was ruined, and it's my fault... This is all... my fault."

"Volteer..." Ersa cried, and he watched as she shivered violently, and everyone felt shivers as she cried in a soft whisper, "I don't want to die... I don't want to leave you..."

His eyes went wide, and he clenched his teeth tight along with his eyes as his body struggled to even stand with what he was feeling, but he had to think of something. Seeing as no one had an idea, Cynder tried to think of something on her own, but every time she did, she kept thinking of Spyro and his smile. But with the smile came a realisation as she gasped, and everyone looked at her as they wondered what she knew, "Volteer, how long do you have?"

"We only have... another hour at max," Volteer grumbled as he was feeling drained with what was going on, and taking it much worse then everyone thought he would, "And once again... I'm not strong enough to save her..."

"You aren't, but Spyro is," Cynder suggested, and Volteer picked his head up and listened to her as she explained, "Spyro's speed is unreal. Yes, it's true he is getting the things to save her, but! You are the one making it, you are the one making something that's never been made before to cure something that's never been cured before. So in all aspects except one, you are saving your mate," Her words was enough to make him pick back up his head and smile as he realized she was right about everything.

"I, I need to quickly run up and get Spyro then! He... He can...!"

"Wait!" Cynder cried out, stopping him just as he turned, and he didn't want to wait, but she was able to speak quickly, "I... I want to try this..."

"You're not talking about," The three girls asked as they realized what it was she was going to do rather quickly.

"I... I trust him," Looking at Ersa, they smiled at one another as Cynder said, "After all... He's never given me a reason not to trust him," Looking away from her and closing her eyes as she looked to the floor, she admitted, "I'm definitely... scared. But if I remember what he told me, and trust him as I did... I will be safe, and I will have nothing to fear... I know I won't," The girls and Volteer made sure to stay quiet, and it took a couple of seconds before something happened, but as it did, her body started to have darkness radiate from it, and dripping tears from her eyes, she whispered to herself, "Please work... Please... Spyro..." Hearing his heartbeat, she gasped as her eyes shot open, and she almost fell back as she came to.

"Cynder!" Everyone cried.

"I'm fine... I'm fine," Shaking her head, the darkness went away, and she looked at her paw to see it was true, "Now..." Putting her paw down to the ground, she sat down with her friends in a row in front of Ersa and whispered, "We hope... And put our trust into Spyro that he got the warning."

---

Spinning on the ground into a ball of fire, Spyro took out most of the dark enemies around him, but as he came out from the fire, he had to get his balance. This was an opening for a dark creature to attack. Rushing quickly with his sword, Spyro saw him at the corner of his eye, but was still regaining his balance. To his luck, Malefor dashed to her right, took out the creature, and went back to the air. Smiling from his help, he was glad he did it this way, Malefor attacks in the air because of his wind power, and I attack the ground because of my strengh in fire. You're not as dumb as you think, Malefor. Looking in front of him, another army of enemies had spawned which Spyro smiled, and smacking a fist into his other paw as he sat there, he yelled at them, "Who's next?!" His eyes grew wide as his body shot stiff, hearing the heartbeat from his lover, and the feeling of her darkness being active, "Cynder...! Malefor! Something's wrong! We need to go!" All the dark enemies quickly disappeared as Spyro ran to the door, and Malefor quickly followed behind as he flew out the sky and to the ground, and as they exited the Training Room and made it over to the main doors, Spyro explained as Malefor stood next to him, "Cynder activated her darkness."

"You don't think," Malefor wondered as he was still trying to catch his breath, along with Spyro.

"I don't know," As the doors opened, he kicked off the ground and ran down as quick as he could with Malefor at his side, "Listen, if there is anything, quickly get everyone rounded up and I will take care of the enemies. Once everyone is safe, join in on the battle, understood," Seeing him nod, they both knew how serious this was, and with the speed they were running, they were able to make it to th Chambers in no time flat.

---

Please... Spyro... We need you, As everyone sat and waited, everyone heard what sounded like claws hitting the ground, but much louder then normal claws. As they looked to the door, all they saw was two purple blurs before they disappeared, and the speed of how fast they were going filled the room with a cool breeze that flew into the room, making papers fly all over the place, and causing books to flip through pages. Everyone looked at one another for only a second before hearing the sounds of claws once again, and in a second, they were running into the room. Both Malefor and Spyro stood at the ready, looking around to see if there was a threat, but everything seemed normal. Walking up to her slowly, Spyro looked around to make sure there wasn't someone around holding them hostage and asked "We got here as quickly as I could... I got your signal that..."

To his surprise, as he stood in front of her, his lips were sealed by his lover's, and Spyro's eyes grew wide while she closed hers. Getting a little too into the kiss, everyone blushed a little as they heard the smacking of their lips against one another's. But Cynder knew she couldn't let it get to her and pulled away from the kiss very suddenly, and he didn't know what was going on, and she knew this, "We need to talk when this is over, but right now, Volteer needs your help."

"Hehe, again, Volteer? I thought..."

"Spyro," Hearing the seriousness in her voice, Spyro looked as she moved out of his way, and looking on the bed to see Ersa looking like she was going to visit death soon, he gasped, "He needs you to help get some things to save her... If you can't... she will die..."

"Hehe... Spyro... It's okay if you don't... I... I know what I've done... What I was going to do... to kill you... And..."

"What do I need," Spyro asked with a serious tone and face as he turned away from Ersa and to Volteer, trying to ignore her and get that idea out her mind.

"There's two things I need. A red looking flower with some black dots on it called an Esper Flower. Another thing I need is a special gem in the Lithosphere, or, technically the first layer in the earth," Seeing the confusion on his face, Volteer explained a little better, "There is a dig near the Temple in the front. If you head straight for a little, then look right, there is a dig where me and Ersa got our gems. Go there and get a gem that looks purple and blue. As for the flower, it should grow nearest to the Temple, somewhere around it."

"A red flower with black dots, and a purple and blue gem," Making a note as to where it was and where he needed to be, he turned to Malefor and said, "Change of plans. Watch after everyone here. I'm going to be a good ways away so I'm trusting you to keep everyone safe while I'm so far out," Walking up to Malefor, he needed his word as this was the first time he's ever trusted him with something like this, "The furthest I went was outside the walls during the attack, but I will be miles away, so I need your word, as my future friend."

Putting a paw on his chest, sitting down, and raising his other paw up in the air, he gave him his word, "You have my word, friend. I was going to do the tail blade thing but, I don't know how much time you have."

"About forty minutes," Volteer shivered to say as he realized how much time was left.

"Forty minutes? I can be back in ten," Spyro happily said, making everyone smile at his words, and running to the door, he ran out into the hallway and said, "Time me if you have to!" Dashing as quickly as he could, he made it to the stairs in no time flat, and the same as when he ran to the main doors, "Hehe... I, am, speed... Or wait, maybe... Gotta go fast," Chuckling as he made it to the door, he busted the doors open and made it outside, "Now then," Looking over the surrounding area to see that clouds were starting to roll in and cover up the sun, he knew he needed to be quick, "Let's put my speed to the test then," Looking to the top of the building, he opened his wings and flew up to the top of the Guardians Building, and as he landed down on top of it, he looked straight and shuck his entire body, "Alright," Grabbing onto the ledge, the stone cracked, even breaking as pieces fell down onto Warfang, and using his back paw, he kicked himself off the building.

While everyone still felt downed even with the good news, no one really knew what to talk about, but Malefor knew he should be the one to make the mood a little better. Walking over to the girls, they looked at him as he sat down in front of them and he opened his mouth to say something. Just as he opened his mouth, a crack and explosion was heard outside, and it was loud enough to make everyone jump, especially since the force was enough to shake the whole building.

---

"What the hell was that?!" Malefor asked, looking to Volteer and seeing him chuckle.

"That was Spyro breaking the sound barrier," Volteer smiled as he chuckled again, and everyone looked at him with wide eyes, "What a guy... And that probably wasn't even his top speed."

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Damn it... I kicked off the building wrong, and my wings weren't even fully ready for take off, Spyro growled at himself for his failure, and knew he needed to make up lost time for his failure. He said forty minutes, but that at most is an estimate. Flapping his wings as much and as fast as he could, the wind was hitting against his body at such speed that it felt like he was being whipped from here and there. I just need to remember what he said, get there, and leave, and hope I don't run into any issues. Looking at where he was at, he knew he was getting close already, but knew he should pick up the pace. Damn, going full speed got me here in seconds... But I need to get there now, so... Using his dark power, the darkness started to consume his wings in darkness, and with this, he hoped it would help his speed. Alright, let's try this. Taking his wings up, he stopped flying, and flew down to the ground at tremendous speed. Just before reaching the ground, he snapped his wings forward with the power of his darkness just above the trees. The sheer power of his wings hitting close to the ground cracked the ground around the trees, while also knocking and slashing some other trees around him. Unable to stay in the air for long after that, he sent his body through the trees and fell to the ground. OH HELL! Hitting down on the ground below and unable to stop his speed, he slammed to the ground hard enough to make him skip off the ground. Bouncing off the ground for the second time, his back slammed against a tree, causing him to spin out and hit another tree, breaking both of the trees before finally hitting back on the ground once again. Sliding in the dirt for a couple of feet, steam hissed from out of his body as he laid there. The darkness from his wings had disappeared as he growled to stand to his paws. Damn... That hurt like a bitch. Standing up and looking behind himself to see the path of destruction he had made, he hissed through his teeth as he tried to look at his back. I don't know who to feel more bad for; My back, or the trees. Getting back on track, he opened his wings, looked up and flew up to the sky. Stopping in the air, he looked around, and just as he turned to his right, the Dragon Temple and all of it's glory was right in front of him. Hehe, damn... that was quick. Flying over to the building, he went back in his mind as to what he needed. An Esper Flower around the Temple, and a Purple and Blue gem near a dig site. Landing down around the Temple, he looked all around the area to hope in his search of the flower. Seeing a flower sticking out from the dirt around the building, he ran up and picked it. inspecting the flower, it looked red with black dots on it, and he cried out loud to have found it, "Nice! Now, for the next thing on my shopping list."

Putting the flower side ways in his mouth, he lightly bit down on the flowers stem and once again looked up to the sky, opened his wings, and took off to the air. Hovering just above the Temple, he looked around and remembered what Volteer had said to him about the location of the next item, Near the front of the Temple. Flying over to the patio of the outside, he then once again thought back to himself, Head straight a little. Flying a couple of feet away from the Temple, he looked to his right and said to himself one last time, Then look right. Flying down to the ground, he made it passed the trees, and just as he did, the dig site was right in front of him to his luck. Wow... Volteer sure knows what he's talking about. Jumping into the small crater, he slid down the dirt and made it into the site. Looking around the area, he had to do a little digging of his own to find what he was looking for. As he dug through the dirt on the sides of the site, his claws tapped something, and knowing what it could be, he dug as much as he could. Seeing the gem more clearly as he dug, he used both his paws to pull it from the dirt. Yanking it out from the dirt, he almost fell down onto his back, but got his balance. Looking at the gem that was nearly the size of his paw, it shined a purple and black color, exactly what he was looking for. Nice. Now to get back to Volteer. Climbing up the dig site with the gem in his paw, he made it to the top of the dirt and chuckled at himself while trying to keep the flower in his mouth, "I wonder how many points Volteer will give me, and then tell Cynder..."

His smile as his chuckling quickly disappeared as he turned serious. Something didn't feel right to him, and even his own darkness started to feel as though it sensed something around him too. Looking to his left, his teeth started to show as he saw what looked like a dark creature watching him from behind a tree. Taking a step towards it, it backed up and disappeared in the darkness of the trees. With his teeth still showing, he tried to shake it off as he wanted to believe it was nothing. No... I'm... I'm probably just seeing things.

"Spyro?" Hearing a voice talk from behind him, Spyro jumped forward and spun around, getting into an attacking position, but his eyes grew a little wide as he saw who it was.

"Sparks?" Saying his name, his brother smiled at him as he flew in front of his face.

"I was wondering what that sound was so I came out here to investigate. Hehe, and what are the odds that it's you causing the destruction," Seeing a single tear be shed, Sparks chuckled and knew he had missed him as much as he missed him, but knew he should keep it chill, "Missed you too man. But, hey, things are going great at home and... Hehe... I think I might have a chance with this girl I met."

"You, with a girl? Hehe, yeah, okay man."

"I'm serious. And since we are on the subject of girls," Seeing the flower in his mouth and the gem, Sparks smiled as he was surprised things had been going so well since he left, "Wow, Spyro. It hasn't even been a couple of weeks since I left and you and Cynder and becoming mates?" Spyro was a little confused in him saying this, and since his brother saw his confusion, it made him a little confused, but he still tired to call him out for it, "Oh, come on. A flower in the mouth is the smoothest move for a women. And a gem to propose to her. Maybe you should wait a couple more years before you do something like... you know..."

"That's right!" Spyro said to himself, and taking the flower out of his mouth with his other paw, he told his brother what was happening, "This isn't for Cynder. You don't know her, but Volteer's long lost Mate is in trouble and about to die."

"What?! Volteer has a mate? When and how?"

"I can't tell you everything. Listen, I don't trust being out here. I'm going to help you safely get home and just can't stay for long, then I have to head back as quickly as possible."

"I guess that would help us catch up just a little."

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With Ersa still laying on the bed, still in a dangerous state, everyone stayed quiet, even Malefor as he had forgotten what he was going to say. Volteer couldn't stay just sitting there and doing nothing though, and tapping his claws in a row on the ground wasn't going to help anything, so he knew he needed to keep working on something, anything to help ease his mate's pain. Turning away from his mate and going back to his work table, he sat in front of it and looked at all the notes and paper that laid across the table. Seeing a piece of paper that he didn't believe he had seen before, he slid a book off of it and moved some of the papers off of it as well. Picking up the paper and looking at it, he shed a tear as he read what it was, 'My plans with Volteer: Simple list now that I'm with him; Become his lover, prove that I deserve to be his mate, have tons of friends, and be the best parent I can be for my and Volteer's future Hatchling. What could get in the way? Losing it all is all I can think of. But I can push through. After all, I've made it this far so... Hopefully nothing can stop me now'. Putting the sheet of paper back down on the table, his body teased as he put his paw back to the ground. Think... Think! What else can you do? His mind went everywhere as to what he could do, so much in fact that he started to get a massive headache from how much he was trying to over work his brain. Growling and putting a paw on his head, the others looked over to see him struggling for what to do. With the girls being with Ersa, Malefor knew it would be best to go over and comfort his friend. Walking behind the girls and over to Volteer, he sat down beside him, and for a second, the two just sat there, but Volteer chuckled sadly as he looked to the ground, "Ignitus says that the world works in mysterious ways... But it's for a reason. After what I went through, after what Ersa's, gone through... Why... Why does this, need, to happen...?"

Malefor himself didn't even know the answer to his question either as he had wondered the same thing as well, "Kinda like with what happened with me and Carith... Why did I have to kill millions before finally coming back... Why didn't certain things play out how they should've rather then being lied to..." Looking back at Ersa and seeing she was getting worse, he looked back over at his friend and was honest with him as he thought about it, "The only thing I can say that came from the War that was... good... Was that we made it... And, if it wasn't for the War, a lot of the things that happened wouldn't have changed us to learn from it... But... It's hard to learn from a mistake if you're dead..." The two went quiet once again as he mentioned death, but Malefor had high hopes he would be able to save her, and putting a paw on his shoulder, he assured him, "But the smartest mind in the world has never been brought down. You know what you need, you know you can trust Spyro, so the only thing we can do is just hope she gets better soon. So, for the time being, maybe you should, talk to her more rather then not."

As his friend took his paw off his shoulder, Malefor backed away from him, turned his body, and walked over to the right side of the girls over near the bed. Volteer sat there for a little while longer, and knew one thing was for sure, Malefor was right. We need to keep her awake and active as much as possible. If she closes her eyes, her body will follow and... Shivers went down his spine and he didn't dare think about it. Ignoring those thoughts, he turned away from the table and walked over to the other girls, sitting down on the left of them as he made it over to her. Seeing her condition already made it difficult for him to even say anything. She was pale, barley breathing with any strengh, and her eyes wanted to close so badly. The girls backed away from the bed along with Malefor to give Volteer some space, and he used the space to stand up and walk right in front of her. Sitting down and watching her try to give a weak smile, he tried his best to smile back, and said to her as he wanted to give himself hope as well, "Don't worry, my love... Spyro will be back soon... He... He will make it... You... Will make it."

I need to make sure everything is going okay, and... Hope that Spyro gets my warning, Cynder thought to herself, and she closed her eyes to concentrate. Focusing on his darkness, her body slowly showed the darkness, and the girls along with Malefor shivered a little as they didn't know for a second what she was doing. Hearing his heartbeat for a couple of beats, she took a deep sigh out, opening her eyes and coming out from her darkness. Looking straight at the two mates over by the bed, Cynder said to the others as she had hopes, "Spyro should know that he needs to hurry. His heartbeat is a little sped up but, he is pushing himself to hurry... I just hope... that he does hurry."

"Hehe..." Hearing a weak chuckle from his mate, Volteer picked his head up and shed tears as he listened to her trying her hardest to speak, "You... Want to know something funny...? I actually for saw something like this... way back then. I knew that... because of how much I worked... I was going to get this virus... And the only way I was saved... was by you..." Watching as her mate dug his head into the bed, crying as he heard her talk, she once again gave a weak chuckle as she continued, "I had countless dreams about it... Even though it was still scary... Seeing you there... the way you spoke... Everything about that nightmare... turned into a dream..."

"I'm... Trying... I swear on my life, I'm trying everything I can," Volteer cried, picking up his head and looking into his lover's eyes.

"I know... I know, Volteer... And, speaking of trying... You remember how you told me to... Think of names for our Hatchling...? It's crazy that, some one as smart as me... Can't figure out a name. I know thousands, millions of names... yet... I can't find one that fits for our little one... One I thought of was... if it was a girl, name her Erva after me... And if it was a boy... I would let you decide... But, who knows, maybe you'll just have to decide... With someone else."

"No..." His voice cracked a little as he begged and pleaded for her words of dead to not be true.

"Volteer!" Hearing his name yelled behind him, he spun around, and his eyes grew wide with a smile to see Spyro had returned sooner then he thought, "I have the Flower and the gem," Running over to his purple friend, Volteer grabbed the flower steam from the side of his mouth, and Spyro gave over the gem, "Sorry it took me a little longer then I thought," Watching as Volteer ran over to his work table and started to make the cure as quickly as he could, he explained a little more, "It was easy for me to find but... I thought I saw a dark creature out and about," Malefor let out a small gasp with wide eyes, but tried to hide it, and even the girls were a little scared to hear he almost encounter a dark creature, "Sparks saw me crash land and I had to help him get home safely. I was going to just crash through your window but... Ersa was on the bed so, i knew getting glass on your mate wouldn't exactly be... Helpful."

Volteer didn't respond as he was too into his work, but Spyro understood and let him do his work. Turning away from him and going to walk to the others, Volteer cried out, "Spyro, wait!" Immediately, Spyro stopped, turned around, and wondered what he needed, "I need the power of your blue flames," Once again confusing him, Volteer shivered more and more as he thought about it, but grabbing the glass bottle he was working on, he ran over to Spyro and as he stood in front of him, he explained, "Your blue flames gave me the idea and I figured out many reasons as to why the previous scientist haven't figure this out! It's because you're the only one who's ever had the blue fire before and been able to control it! The melting point for everything in here needs to be super heated as everything mixed together would just give a solid, destroying the cure inside of it. I need you to heat this up by Ten thousand degrees."

"What..." Ersa weakly said, and even she knew that was next to impossible, "Volteer... That's hotter then... The surface of the sun depending on the area... And even hotter... Then the core in the earth."

"What?!" The girls and Malefor now cried as her words gave them clarity as to how hot it needed to be.

"Spyro, please, it's the only way," Volteer begged him, but it didn't have to take much to convince him.

"I'm able to use my power and you think I'm going to say no?" Spyro's words made everyone smile as he was already on bored, but he did have a little hope for something, "But, hey, do you think you could, you know, talk to Cynder about how great of a help I was?"

Both his lover and Volteer laughed a little, and immediately after, he agreed, "Absolutely."

"Alright then, let me see the bottle," Giving the bottle of to him, Spyro held it over his head and looked up at it from underneath the bottle, "So, ten thousand degrees?" Turning into his dark form as it quickly surrounded his body, he prepared himself as he took a sigh, and prepared for the heat, "Thank goodness for the blue fire. Now, make sure to back up a bit Volteer."

Doing as he was told, Volteer already knew he needed to back up, but still went off his words. As he backed away, Spyro controlled his blue flames and burned the bottom of the bottle as much as he could. While he was burning the bottom of the bottle, he watched as it started to bubble rather quickly which was a good thing to see, and he explained some more to make sure this wasn't a failure, "You're going to need to use as much of your air as you can! Keep blowing out fire until I say stop. Cynder, be prepared to give him air as I'm sure he might pass out," Running over to his work bench, he picked up what looked like a glove and put it on his paw, "Thank you Ersa for safety ideas." Running back a little in front of Spyro, he could see that he was running out of air, but the bottle was just about to turn the color he needed it to, "The liquid should turn from a mixed to a single pink color if everything works. At least, that's the hope." His face started to turn purple as he couldn't breath anymore blue flames, and just as he was about to fall with the bottle, Volteer grabbed it from his paw and saw that it had turned pink, "It worked!"

Running over to his table, Cynder ran over to her lover just as he fell to the ground. Putting his lips over his, she gave him air, and as much as she could, knowing he had passed out from lack there of. While Cynder helped Spyro, Volteer snapped the purple and blue gem he was given in half by slamming it against the side of the table, and he put the gem inside of the bottle. The pink color of chemicals hissed loudly as the bottle color itself went from a steamy red to a cool blue. The liquid inside the bottle turned from pink to a dim blue, and with this, he put the bottle down on the table, took the glove off, picked the bottle back up, and ran over to his mate. As he made it towards the bed, he smiled at her as he believed it had done it, "Ersa... You're, you're going to be okay... I... I promise. I just need for you to lay on your back so I can give this to you." She was a little weak to do so, and they both knew this, but he was able to help her roll on her back with the help of his wings, "There we go," Using his other paw, he slid it underneath his mate's head, and very carefully picked her head up just a little, "It's probably going to taste a little... abnormal but, I did try my best to also make it with your bubble gum flavor." She smiled to see he was trying to make sure everything was as it should be, and seeing him move the bottle in front of her lips, she put her lips on the bottle, and he, little by little, poured the liquid into her mouth, "Almost done," Watching as she drank the liquid, and seeing the last drop of it go into her mouth, he took the bottle away from her as she swallowed the last of the hopeful cure, "But now comes the worse part... We have to hope... And wait for it to work."

Helping Spyro up, Cynder used her wing as support, and now with the two back on their paws and him having air, they all looked to see Volteer sitting at the front of the bed, watching, and hoping everything would be okay. He placed the bottle down beside himself, and using his wings, he rolled her back into her left side. Laying his head down in front of hers, he laid both his wings over her back, and neither of them said anything. The others knew there was nothing else they could do, so Spyro turned at the others and whispered, "Let's... Leave them be."

They all nodded, and Claire was the first one to turn and walk to the door. As she left, so did the other two girls, then Malefor, and finally, Spyro and Cynder. While they all walked to the Chambers, Spyro stopped at the door with his lover, grabbed the door knob, and very carefully shut the door behind himself. As the door shut, Spyro sighed, and seeing the worry on his lover's face, he shuck his head as he didn't know what to say, "We just have to hope that Volteer's smarts will pull through."

Walking with his lover over to the Chambers, they entered and saw everyone was still as they should be, and with Malefor and Carith sitting by there right wall, Spyro and Cynder went over to where they normally sat, which was over on the other wall. Claire sat down beside her lover and faced straight with everyone else. Nuzzling the side of his neck, she rested her head on his shoulder, scared, just as everyone else was as to what was going to happen. Knowing he was going to get in trouble, it didn't matter to Ignitus as he knew he had to do something, "Do not worry, everyone," Breaking the silence for everyone, they all looked at him, wondering what he had to say, "If worse comes to worse and he... didn't do it... I will use my power to make sure she makes it... Ugh!" Putting a paw on his head, everyone gave worried looks, and he apologized, "Sorry... The Ancestors aren't agreeing with me but... I don't care... I really don't."

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Laying at the front of the bed and in silence, Volteer waited for any sign of her getting better, and it felt like he had sat there for hours, waiting and waiting for something, anything to happen. Since it was so silent, he was able to keep track of how her breathing was and monitor if there was something he should keep an eye out for. He was ready to do anything he could to save her life no matter the cost, and he begged the Ancestors for that chance, If I have to trade my life for hers... Just say how... Ancestors... please... Don't take her. The silence was broken as he thought about it, and he started to sniffle, shedding more tears as his mind was thinking of a life without her once again. Closing his eyes, he begged once again, Please... don't do this. Feeling something warm on his face, he opened his eyes and gasped to see it was Ersa's. She was finally able to move her paw, and Volteer smiled wide, not knowing what to say. Nuzzling his cheek with one claw, she smiled at him to see his smile as well, and it was surprising to the both of them that she was even able to move. Giggling now, it made him chuckle to see she was able to move, and she whispered to him, now feeling a little better then she had before, "I'm not feeling... A hundred percent yet, but... I am feeling better... Just... I want to go to bed with you so... Tell everyone I'm fine, come back and... let's sleep... okay."

Taking her paw from away from his cheek, she watched as he nodded at her, keeping his smile to see it was working, just slowly.

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Volteer can do it... I know he wouldn't let her die, and I know... I know him... And the worst part, it feels like I've known Ersa for so long now and... I don't want her to die... No one should have to, Spyro thought to himself in silent as with how things had been going so far, no one wanted to speak as they didn't know what to say to brighten things up. They didn't have to wait too long for the news though as they heard what sounded like a door opening. After hearing the door opening, they all looked at the entrance as they heard someone walking over. As Volteer walked into the entrance and stood there with a smile, everyone gave small smiles as well, hoping that meant something good, and to there joy, it did, "She's... she's gonna make it..." Everyone cried happily and cheered to hear the good news, and with the good news, he wanted to thank everyone for their help, "Thank you... all of you."

"Hehe, what? What the hell did Terrador and Cyril do?" Malefor laughed, making the two growl at him.

"Shut up, Malefor," Both Terrador and Cyril growled at him in unison.

"The point is, they would be here for moral support, Malefor," Ignitus clarified what he was saying.

"Don't you have to like, do something though and not just sit there? Know what, never mind. Neither of you two were of any use and I did everything."

"Can I kill him?" Terrador asked Ignitus as he looked at him.

"No no no. That's a bad Terrador."

"Let me jump in here before something happens," Volteer chuckled as he could see Terrador was ready to kill Malefor.

"You said you'd jump in here... But you're still standing there." Malefor said, a little confused about his words, and now Volteer wanted to hurt him.

"Shut up, Malefor," Shaking his head at how stupid his friend was, but Malefor chuckled as he knew he had to make the joke, "Anyway, going back... thank you. Thank you girls for keeping her company, and even though I hate you, thank you... Malefor... For talking to me," Now Malefor's funny behavior turned a little more nice as he nodded at him, understanding how important that was to him, and now Volteer had one other dragon to thank, and looking at Spyro, he chuckled and actually looked away from him and at his lover, "Cynder... Most importantly of all. If it wasn't for Spyro and his help, I... Surely wouldn't have been able to do this. So... make sure he gets a nice reward please."

"Hehe, oh, you definitely don't have to tell me twice," Cynder giggled before licking her lips and seeing her lover blush with a chuckle.

"Ersa is feeling, a little better, but she does obviously need time to recover so, she's asked that everyone please leave us be for the night. She's still very weak and tired so... I hope you all understand." Everyone nodded at his words, and he smiled at everyone, thanking them once again, "Thank you, everyone. And... Tomorrow, can we make sure something doesn't go crazy and happen because..."

"Something happens every other day? Yeah, trust me, I know," Malefor chuckled as he knew how the cycle for them works, "Me and Spyro will take care of what ever it is, if there is something. But high hopes there isn't."

"But mainly I will take care of everything cause Malefor's weak," Spyro chuckled, taking a jab at Malefor as he said that.

"Do you want to test that theory?!" Malefor growled at him with a smile, getting into a fighting stance.

"It's not called a theory if it's a fact!" Spyro growled at him, smiling as he got into a fighting stance

"Hehe," Letting out a chuckle, Volteer was happy to see the two were still the same, and things could go back to how they were, and seeing the two's lover's, he once again chuckled as he warned them, "You two better be careful though. Malefor, I'm sure Carith needs you to save your stamina for her, and Spyro, same goes for Cynder," As he said that, they both backed down and saw that their lover's were looking at them with raised brow, and the two guys chuckled as they knew he was right, "Yeah, better be careful. But, I'm off to bed for now."

"Good night, Volteer," Almost everyone said, but just as he turned to leave, Ignitus said something, "Volteer, wait," He stopped his yellow friend, and he turned to see what he had to say, "You impressed the Ancestors with your skill. Between Spyro's power and your smarts, both of you really exceeded their expectations. And since things have calmed down, I can tell you that, they did originally intended for her to die, but... You outsmarted them."

Clapping his paws, Malefor was surprised, especially Volteer himself, "Wow, Volteer. That's pretty crazy."

"They... Intended for her to die... Even after what had happened, what she went through, they were just going to take it all away from her!" Volteer yelled out in anger as he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"If you did fail, I was going to use my power to save her, so just know, I am on your side," It still didn't change what he had heard, and Ignitus tried to help him move past it a little more so he could sleep, "Trust me, everything would've been fine, and Ersa is safe. You deserve to get some rest after all the stress you just went through today. You've barely been together for a week and you almost lost her," Hearing him say it now, he did frown as he was right, and he had barely spent that much time with her, "Please... Go rest."

Giving out a sigh, he nodded and did as he was told, also knowing that it would be best if he did. Walking away from the entrance and over to his door, he walked to the front of the entrance to his room and walked into it. Making his way into his room and shutting the door behind himself with his tail, he walking over to his bed. As the door shut, he took his tail away from the door and continued his walk. Making it over to the bed, he looked up to see his lover had moved to her belly as she laid down, and her paws laid out in front of her with her head resting over them. This was a very good sign for him as he knew what this meant, She's able to move her body... Thank Ances... Realising how it sounded and after he was told, he shuck his head and corrected himself, Thank Spyro. Smiling now, he agreed with himself on who did it and jumped up onto the bed. Circling around and laying down on his stomach while facing the door, he gave a huge sigh for how the day's been When I woke up, I didn't expect for such a thing to even happen today. Hehe, and we were even hoping that everything would've been fine the next day too so we wouldn't have to do anything... And of course, something did. With Volteer laying beside her, she opened her eyes to see that the door had been shut, and it seemed like no one else was in the room. Shifting her head on her paws and looking to her left, Volteer saw her move her head and she asked him, "Did you... Tell them what I told you to tell them?"

Nodding his head, he gave himself a chuckle as he thought about it, "Your words were a little strange for me as you said to be completely left alone. If you need some space to recover, I could always... Lay on the ground or something so you don't feel cramped." Seeing her stand up to her paws, he stood up on the bed as well and worried for her safety, "Whoa whoa whoa. Ersa, it's way too early for you to stand," Draping his wing over his mate's back, he put a little pressure down on her back to try and get her to lay down, but she fought against it, and now he was really confused, "Ersa, if there is something you need to tell me, then please do so."

She was a little hesitant at first, like she was taking time to process what she was thinking about, and he let up the pressure he had on her back to see what she had to say. Giving a sigh, her face turned red with a blush as she knew telling him the truth would be better then hiding it, "From day one, since I met you, I always had a sense of love towards you. No matter what it came to, my highs or lows, I could only think of you, and what you've done for me, Volteer," He didn't understand what she was getting at, and wondered if he should say something, but she didn't give him a chance, "Hehe... And... You even saved my life again. A debt that I am forever in when it comes to you. Time after time... It's always been you who's kept my life safe... And I... I want to repay that," Turning away from him as she was a little afraid to say it, she let out a sigh and didn't dare try and back out of it now, so, turning back to him, she put a paw on his chest and was honest, "I want to reward you, for all you've done. The right, reward."

Giving a small frown, he put his paw over hers as he didn't want this to be a reward for him, "Ersa, you know what I'd say to that," Turning his body to face her, he put his paw over hers that rested on his chest, and he once again declined the idea out of fear for her health, "I'm glad, very, very glad you're doing fine. But I don't want us to do something that could maybe negate the effects of what was given to you."

"You know that's not how that would work," Ersa called him out for his lie, even giving a sigh to hear he was dodging it once again, but she wasn't going to allow it, "Volteer, look at me, okay," Looking into one another's eyes with passion, he could tell she was desperate, and it made him feel a little bad for saying no even now, "If you think me rewarding you would change my view of you, don't. This reward is... something I've also dreamed about," Seeing her giggle with a blush once again, her paw slid off his chest and back onto the bed as she now faced straight towards him and told the truth, "I've... Always dreamed of you saving me and... I would... reward you for your help. And being honest, with how much you are against the whole reward thing... I could care less," Her words were getting to him as she could tell he was thinking twice about his decision now, and she pushed more for it, hoping she could get him on her side, "I remember everything you've said. For the sake of my life, your life, and most importantly, our Hatchling's, I will take things slow... But only after we... speed things up a little towards the end..." He couldn't take it anymore, and feeling his wings go around her back, he gently pushed her chest with a paw, and since his wings were to her back, she willingly fell to the bed, "Oh..." A little surprised by his actions, he now stood above her, breathing a little heavier then normal, and seeing that he was still struggling just a little, she put her arms around the back of his head, and as they looked at each other, she smirked with a joke, "You're lucky though. For the time being, I will let you be on top so I can regain my strengh. But don't get too comfy."

With Volteer giving a chuckle and smile to her words, she also giggled to see his smile, and to hear his laugh once again. Now standing above her, ready to go through with what they've been looking forward to for a while, he did make sure there were precautions in case something happened, "If at any point, something happens, just... Stop me, or, I will stop myself. Maybe even a safe word...?" His lips were sealed suddenly as his eyes grew wide for a second before closing, and just as they had, she pulled away from the kiss, and chuckling as he opened his eyes, he wondered why she kissed him, "And what was that for?"

"Gotta get you excited, don't I? And trust me, if something happens, I have my ways of getting you to stop, but... It's not going to happen," He gave a chuckle from her words, and giggling back at him, the two gave a sigh, and she prepared herself as she was ready, "Thank you... Volteer... For everything. And, depending on how well things go tonight, I'm sure you won't have to worry about my, disobedience ever again."

"Guess I will just have to give you something to fear towards then?"

"Or look forward to. Now, show me what the might of a Guardian holds... and has."

---

Popping his back as he stretched his body, everyone looked to Spyro as he did so, and they knew what his next words were going to be, "Well then, since my job is done, what do you all say we get some sleep now?" Seeing them all nod at his words, he looked over to Malefor and waved a paw as he stood up, "Walk and talk with me, Malefor," As he walked to the entrance, Malefor stood up and followed with him, and with the guys getting up, so did the two's lover's as they followed behind them, making their way to their room, "I guess I should give credit where credit is due and, just wanted to say... Thanks. For taking care of everyone while I was out and about."

"Hehe, what, didn't trust Master Malefor?" Malefor chuckled as he brought up his other name.

"Obviously I trusted you. Just... Nice to know I have someone to watch my back rather then my lover. Hehe, you getting hurt in the process even makes up for the switch as well," The two chuckled with one another, glad to be sharing a laugh, "But, I actually wanted to go back and ask a, serious question. I wanted to make the, atmosphere around us nice as what I'm asking you might upset you but... Did I see a dark creature out there, or was it my imagination?"

Malefor gave a frown as he knew the truth of what was really happening, but didn't want to say anything to prove his theory. He also knew he couldn't think about it for long as the silence would also give it away, but he gave a little bit of the truth in a way to see what he would say, "And what if there is? Maybe some were left over even after what's happened, and if there are, we just take care of them as we have before. And by before, I mean like how we fought together in the Training Room. I won't say there isn't anymore dark creatures as I don't know for sure but, if there was... What would you do?"

It did make Spyro think, and even the girls in the back stopped their conversation as they were curious as well to hear what he would say. Giving a chuckle, Spyro gave a punch to his shoulder and growled at him with a smile, "I will just have to take care of them, and then, I'm gonna kick your ass just to make sure you aren't lying to me. Those flying ones are a pain in the ass, so, I take out the ground troops..."

"And I take out the air..." Malefor finshed his sentence for him, a little stumped by his words as he couldn't believe what he was hearing and seeing as Spyro even gave a small smirk, "But then it wouldn't be a challenge," Giving a laugh, he was glad to be able to have some fun with this conversation, and seeing Spyro chuckle, he chuckled once again as well, "You scared of a little cuts. I bet you, if there was still dark creatures out there, I could kill the rest of them before you could."

"Hehe, Oh, is that so? Now I kinda hope there are some so I can prove you wrong," While their conversation was still going, they had made it to the main door, and as it opened for them, they walked inside their house and made it to the middle of the hallway before continuing, "But, I'm not actually going to hope as I don't want to put anyone at risk if those things are still out there. But if they are," Pulling a paw up and balling it into a fist, Malefor smiled wide as he knew what he was doing, "We will be ready, won't we?"

Keeping his smile wide, the girls watched from behind Malefor with wide eyes to see them fist bunt one another, and as his fist made contact with Spyro's, he agreed, "Your Damn right. Ready for anything that'll hurt the ones we love," Taking his fist back along with Spyro, Malefor thanked him once again for today and wanted to end things off good, "Well, I would say that, saving a life today made today good. And... With how close I am to being your friend, I don't want to ruin anything. So, I'm gonna head off to bed to keep things between us good."

"Hehe, alright. Later Malefor," Spyro said to him, and as he did, Malefor saluted him before turning and nudging his lover to follow him to his room, but he saw Carith took a second to move, and seeing her look at him, he asked, "Alright, I will be honest. I did hurt him a little bit while we were training. Hehe, but if I'm being honest, he asked for it."

"So you went against my promise?" Cynder asked him, and he immediately corrected himself.

"Hehe, never mind. That's was just a joke. Don't believe me, ask your lover."

Carith giggled, but instead of really saying anything, she looked over to Spyro as she mouthed her words to him, "Thank you," Spyro smiled and nodded at her as he was able to understand what she was saying, and to help him out some more, she looked to Cynder and helped him out, "You know, I already know Volteer gave him points for his help but, uh, do you think you could reward him kindly for being such a big help with Malefor?"

"Oh man. Two points from two different dragons, and I'm sure Ersa is very thankful as well so, that makes three," Looking at Spyro, he swallowed hard to see her tongue go around her lips before saying, "Someone better have overcharged on those green gems, that's for sure," With Spyro giving a nervous chuckle to his lover, Cynder giggled before looking back to her friend Carith and saying, "Well, I guess we should make sure both our lover's are rewarded kindly, shouldn't we?"

"Oh, a competition? Bet I can make Malefor feel better then you can make Spyro."

"So this is why they call you little miss cutie blue. Spyro, my love, get in the room, right now if you'd please," Cynder commanded him, and he quickly did as he was told, turning around and running to their room, and with him in the room, she gave a sigh as she didn't know if she would win, "But first, I do have to... talk to him about that... darkness he gave me. I... I need to get this feeling off my chest. I know the truth and I need to tell him that."

"Then I won't keep you," Carith said, understanding how important this was to her, "Goodnight, Cynder."

"Goodnight, Carith," Cynder said back to her.

---

This is bad... This is so bad, Spyro frantically thought to himself as he paced himself back and forth on the bed, making his lips as wet as he could, smacking his lips from time to time as he tried his best. I have to make sure I don't mess up as I need to keep the night as good as it was before, but maybe even better. Seeing the door open, he stood near the left of the bed, standing straight up as he saw it was his lover, and he waved a paw at her as she shut the door with her tail, "Hehe... Hey my love," She saw as he smacked his lips, and even for him, he had to lick his lips a little as there was too much water spilling from his mouth, "Oh, hell, sorry," Feeling as he had already messed up, he laid down on the bed in a curved position as she got onto the bed, and laying in a sexy position for her, she blushed as he even tried his best on his words, "Welcome to my Chambers, Cynder. You may stay as long as you like, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to leave," Sitting down and giggling at how he was acting, she later gave a frown, and he worried for her, so getting himself on his stomach and sitting back up, he scooted next to his lover and asked her, "You, okay, my love?" Draping his wing over her back, he could tell she didn't really want to talk about it, and he assured her she didn't have to, "If you don't want to..."

"I didn't trust you..." It was a surprise for him to hear out of his lover's mouth, but shedding a tear, she couldn't handle holding the truth back from him any longer, "For a while, after you had given me the darkness. I was so scared, shaken up from what had happened. I fought with myself for a while because, I... I wanted to trust you... But... I still didn't... And I wanted the darkness... gone... But I didn't want to tell you cause of what's happened and I... I talked with Ersa about what's happened and..."

"Cynder," His soft voice caught her attention, and even as she feared now for what he would say, he proved her wrong once again without even knowing he had, "You thought I would be upset if you didn't trust me? You thought that, by coming to me and asking for the darkness to be taken out that I would've been upset and disappointed in you?" Hearing him say it, it only made her feel worse, but as he continued, she felt better and better by the second, "Hehe, Well, I can tell you right now that's not how things would've turned out," With those words, she picked up her head and looked him in the eyes as he spoke more about it, "In all honesty, you were technically trusting a stranger. We've known each other for more then a month, and that's really it. And for me to ask if I can hold your life and heart in my paw is... A very big thing for me to ask of you. And being scared of something like that doesn't mean you're wrong in thinking," While she shed more tears of both joy and confusion of his words, he picked up his paw, and placing it over her chest, he smiled at her as he assured her, "If you're scared, and you're not sure, I don't want you to fear. So, by your command, I will take the darkness from you so you..."

Holding his paw on her chest, she threw her head forward and kissed her lover on the lips, moaning a little as she closed her eyes. His eyes grew wide from the sudden kiss, and even he let out a small groan from the sudden feeling, along with the pleasure that shot through his body. Before he could close his eyes fully to enjoy it as well, she pulled away, and opening her eyes, he somewhat did the same, and asked her as he didn't understand what was happening, "Hehe... You... Want the darkness out that bad?"

Shaking her head with tears and a smile, she said something that surprised him, "I would trust you to put more darkness in me if you wanted to," His eyes grew wide, and even she giggled when she realized what she had said, but she didn't care, and she trusted him, "I told you I talked with Ersa, but I also talked with the other girls as well. They helped me... A lot. And Ersa said something I never thought about before, but when I did... She was right," Cynder paused for a moment as to build suspense as to what it would be, and once she had given a sigh, she whispered, "You've never given me a reason not to trust you."

"I... I haven't?" Spyro said to himself, both surprised and happy to hear, and hearing his lover giggle, he corrected himself, "I mean, of course I have... But... Have I ever... Given you a reason not to trust me?"

"You've kept your promises to me... And, you've always been there for me when I needed you the most. Hehe which is, always," Cynder giggled to see that he was realizing the same thing she was, and seeing him smile wide, she took her paw off his and put a claw on his chest, circling it as she wanted to thank him now for what's he's done, "I'm also going to give you points for everything you've done for me. The darkness you gave me... It was one of the greatest decisions I've made in my life... But, then again... Anything with you, I always smile for."

"You... you really do trust the darkness I gave you? You really trust me?" Taking his paw off her chest, he smiled more as he was happy to hear she really did trust him a lot more then even he knew.

"I think we are going to have to use that wish Ignitus gave you cause... I feel like having fun all night to reward you for what you've done. And being honest," Sitting down in front of him, she put her paws around the back of his neck and teased him as she really was excited, "I wouldn't mind playing around with this Chamber idea. Just know, I will break free of those chains, and you'll have to stop me."

Giving a nice sigh, he needed to whisper this to her as he smiled, "I love you... so much. I... I really hope you now that."

"I love you too... Hehe... Now, show me this supposed love."

"Grrrr," Giving a playful growl to her, she giggled at him and even he chuckled at himself, "Being the villain is more of Malefor's thing."