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.

22. Chapter 22: Another Purple Dragon

Chapter 22: Another Purple Dragon

Taking in all that she had learned, rather then jumping to wake up, Cynder made sure to think carefully in the comfort of her lover's wing, which only made it easier for her to stay calm as she thought, Ignitus is once again giving me a chance to save my love once again, and I can't mess this up as bad as it was before. I just need to think, remember, and understand what he showed me. I couldn't live with the thought, knowing that he would have to make a sacrifice once again when I should be strong too... as I once was before. Having an idea come to mind, she wanted to train and needed a way to get from out of her lover's comfort, and it was rather easy for her to think of an idea without much thought. Nuzzling her head from underneath his and opening her eyes, Spyro grumbled as he felt her move, and only barely opening his eyes, he looked to his left and asked in a mumble, "Cynder...? Wh... What's wrong?"

Watching as he let out a big yawn, she giggled to see he was still so tired while she was up and ready to do stuff, and to make sure she was able to get up, she went with her plan, "No, my love, nothing is wrong. Though, I was hoping I could get up and talk with Carith some in their room," Watching as he laid his head back down, she waited and watched as he closed his eyes, and she hoped he was still listening, "Then once we're done talking, we could come by and wake you up, if you aren't already."

"Something else is wrong with you, my love," Spyro murmured, and she was confused as to why he would think such a thing, and giving a chuckle while opening and showing his purple eyes, he looked to her, "Your muscles, while not severe, are teased, either cause you're scared, or cause you're looking to stretch your body by training," She was surprised he caught on so quick, and seeing her surprise, he once again chuckled as he picked his head up and continued, "I did say you could train, my love. Don't want to hold you back from doing something you love. All I ask is that you don't over do it as I have."

Giving a nod and a smile, she agreed, "Yes sir."

"But may I ask, what brought up this need to train? Did you have a nightmare that I wasn't put into?"

He knows me entirely too well, Licking her lips as she thought about it, it made her smile, And I love it. Now that she was thinking about it, his words changed her plans of what she wanted to do, and she even sighed, blushing in defeat even though he didn't try and change her mind at all, "I should've just up and left. Now that you are talking, I just want to lay here," Giving a chuckle, he did feel a little bad as he wanted to apologize, but she didn't let him speak for the time being as she was the one to talk, "But, hey, I actually have a great idea. How about you help me train then instead? Rather then learning slowly, you apparently know me a lot better then I do, so you could see what I can't."

"Well, your body is amazingly slim, so I'm sure that your strengh would of course be speed," Once again, he didn't mean to sound romantic as for him, he was pointing out her obvious features, and she once again enjoyed it, "The good thing about your wind powers is that, you'll be able to redirect an attack and get the upper paw. I have similar interests in your powers as well, but my biggest fear, and hope, is that you'll use these powers against me," She gave a slight frown as he made it seem like he meant that as an attack, but he smiled and assured her, "I meant like your poison. Giving you too much power means I'm going to be on my back more then you, and that scares me."

"Oh," Now realising what he meant, she did have thoughts about using her powers against him for pleasure, and thinking back to her dream, she smiled as she had some ideas she wished to test, "You don't really have any abilities you can use against me to, neutralize me, but all of my abilities I can use against you," Seeing the evil smirk go across her face, he swallowed hard, even sweating a little as he gave a nervous chuckle, "Now with these ideas, I feel like I should train to see how you handle my poison. Like way back when we pranked Sparks, sure would've been nice if I did poison you. Then I would've had full control as I made out with you."

"You're definitely playing with fire my love," Spyro chuckled, as he had his own way of turning the tides against her, "I don't have to move to use my dark power against you. Just remember, my darkness is far stronger then the darkness inside of you, so now, only I can control you," Using his dark power in show of strength, she looked down at her paws to see her left one crossed over her right one, and looking back at him, seeing his smirk, she playfully showed her teeth to take on anger, "Now, when you play with fire, you get burned, but as I don't wish that to happen, let's just say, if you don't get on your back now, you'll be... forced."

Taking her paw off of her right one, she slapped it back down on the bed, and challenged him, "Well how about, first, you let me kiss you," He wondered what this would accomplish, rather then keeping it a secret, she wanted him to fear her as she told him, "You'll have to kiss me sooner or later. You, nor I, can resist one another. And once you do, same as the taste of my lips, you're also going to get a taste of my poison, and you can't stop that."

"We are enjoying this way too much."

"Fun, is it not?"

"To the victor, it shall be."

The two looked to one another, wondering who would make the first move, and for Cynder, she wished he would make the move after the dream she had, That dream is beyond fake. I can't lose him, i wouldn't be able to live, or function at all. Finally having time with him once again is so... soothing. Feeling the darkness light up in her body, she could feel as he was taking control over her body, and since she wasn't fighting back, it was rather easy for the darkness to spread from head to tail. Moving his head in more, she was forced to the same, but just as their lips were to touch, a knock came from the door, snapping Spyro out from his concentration and control over his lover. Looking to the door and away from her, he asked, "Who in the hell? That didn't sound like a bitch knock, which means it's not Malefor."

"Who ever it is, they're going to deal with the poison from my claws instead," Cynder growled, having been interrupted with her fun.

"Hehe, oh no," Spyro chuckled in fear for who ever may be at the door, so in order to protect who ever this was, he stood up and took lead, "In case it was my father, I don't want him to get hurt, and if it's the girls, I'm sure you wouldn't hurt them," Showing her claws, he saw as a green liquid formed at the tip of her claws, and this made him shiver as he didn't know how strong her poison was, "I can see you are ready though, so, noted. If it's anyone else, they're fair game," Getting off the bed and to the ground, Spyro walked to the door and before he got to the door, he asked from the other side, "Who is it?" Grabbing the door knob and opening the door, the one standing at the door was both Ignitus and Claire, and surprisingly to him, it wasn't just those two, but the whole group in the back looking at him, "Um... What are you all doing in my house?"

"Can I poison one of them," Cynder asked, getting off the bed and following up behind him and seeing all the others as they crowded the hallways, and she had a good idea as to why, "You know we all would've met in the Chambers. You didn't have to come up here so quickly."

"Just wanted to spend some time with you sooner is all. It's been a while since we've talked," Ignitus smiled, but his words only made Spyro more confused.

"We just talked yesterday."

"Yeah, but I mean, you all have been asleep for an extra hour then all of us, so, instead of waiting for you all to come down, we just came up here."

"What's with the rush? Maybe even the desperation?"

"Nothing to worry about, Spyro," Claire stepped in as she could see her lover starting to sweat which was getting Spyro's suspicions even higher then before that something was going on, "Ignitus believed something was to happen, but doing some more in depth research, he founded it to be false. But what he saw still shuck him up. And if you really want to know, it was a possible death for one of us. But once again, it was proven to be false."

Accidentally giving out more information then she would've liked to, it still helped enough to give Ignitus more of something to work off of as he frowned and went off her words, "Claire's right... I needed to tell her of course for her to comfort me but... even still, seeing your death will always scare me. So, I needed to talk with you, and just needed to know you were still breathing."

"Who's the death by? Malefor? That's a pretty funny joke, Dad."

"Ha!" Malefor laughed in the back of the group, "You know it's true."

Raising her claw, Cynder wondered with the poison dripping from her claw if she needed to use it, "You know, my poison is still fired up. Do I need to use it or not?"

"Hehe, not just yet. I want you to save that poison for me of course," Spyro admitted right in front of the two as he looked to his lover, having tunnel vision as he only focused to his lover, "Want to see who has more of a chance at winning our little love battle. Hehe, I mean, of course I can since I have more power, but it's still cute to see you try. Oh wait, I mean, fail."

"You are asking for it," Cynder growled, turning to him and pulling up her tail blade, she put her paw to the ground, and instead of her claws, she let poison now drip from her tail blade, "I've given you too much control, and I'm sure with this amount of poison, you're body should be rendered useless enough to be paralyzed for a while, but you'll still be able to feel pleasure. Though, if you want to keep talking, I could take that away from you as well."

"You wouldn't, cause you like hearing me as I enjoy the kiss."

"Hey, can you two chill the hell out," Malefor grumbled as the two talking was getting everyone to blush, "Just poison him and get it over with."

"Remember when it didn't take us using poison to be parlayed, just are two bodies," Ersa giggled, making Volteer blush hard as Cyril and Terrador were right there.

"Please, don't you two start too," Terrador grumbled.

"It's getting way too hot up in here even for me," Cyril admitted.

Taking his time, Spyro wondered if he should try his lover or not, but for the time being, he decided against it as he wanted to use his own weapon when others weren't around, "Let's wait, my love. Cause for me, I wish to control you as well with my own powers, and for that, we need privacy for what I am to do," Hearing Malefor almost throw up in the back while squealing, Spyro gave a sigh and wanted to do something first, "Before we do go to the Chambers, I need to hurt someone real quick," Moving out of his way, everyone did the same, and since everyone had been blocking Malefor's view, he looked now to see Spyro was right in front of him, so he now shut his mouth, "Come on, say something, I freaking dare you," His mouth stayed closed with wide eyes, even shaking his head as he wished to live, "Know your place, peasant."

Popping his own mouth open, Malefor growled at him now as he didn't want him to be known as such, "I'm no, peasant, unlike the others..."

"Did you just call me a peasant?" Carith asked, making him immediately stop.

Walking up to Spyro, once she had made it to his side, Cynder pulled up her tail blade once again, poison dripping from her tail blade and asking if she heard him right, "Did you just call me a peasant?" Ducking his head back, Malefor wasn't to say anything, but knowing what he could say to save his scales, he tried to speak, but Cynder didn't allow it, "I think you need a signature bitch slapping, and since you pissed off Carith, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't mind."

"When I meant others!" Malefor finally got his words out, "I meant the others out there, outside this building, not here."

"Yet it took you a while to think of an excuse," Cyril spoke, making Malefor growl at him.

"Hey, Cyril, how about you go back in that raining room and actually die this time," Now getting Cyril to growl at him, Malefor once again tried to defend his actions, "Anyway. Last time I tried to speak without thinking, I made Carith's life hell as I did yesterday, so I wanted to make sure I correct without hurting her," It made sense to her as she remembered how bad he felt in the morning, and after what had happened, he made sure to not make the same mistake, "Which means, Cynder, you can't slap me as I've done nothing wrong."

"Uh-huh. Remember how I told you to jump back in the Volcano and die? You still haven't done that," Cynder smiled, raising a brow, but Malefor called her out on that.

"You said I didn't have to!"

"Yeah but, like with Spyro's words; All cause I said that doesn't mean I meant it."

"Hehe, Damn, that's pretty harsh," Spyro chuckled as he knew what she was talking about.

"This is such a hostile work environment. I've been harassed, abused, been name called. It's times like these where I miss my power," Tapping at his mussels as he flexed them, he still believed what he thought back when he came back, "It's because I was the Dark Master that I'm so weak now. When I came back, my mussels were turned to nothing but fat... or so I believed. Then again, no one exactly said anything. You all just watched as Carith made out with me on the ground you damn creeps."

"You just came back after nearly fourteen years!" Terrador growled at him.

"And I was mainly focusing on the fat on your arms, but I didn't want to say anything," Cyril admitted.

"For me, I just wanted you dead," Volteer chuckled, but he had good reason to still be suspicious, "I mean, for Ancestors sake, you had your tail blade at Cynder's neck."

"You had your tail blade at my lover neck?" Spyro growled.

"To help her up! To help her up," Malefor quickly explained, waving his two paws in front of his face as he hoped he wouldn't get the wrong idea, "Cynder had fallen, it was a bad day for her, and even though she had healed, she collapsed on the floor, dropping you. So, I helped her up, but then Volteer tackled me against the wall, ready to kill me, but Cynder stopped him."

"Unfortunately," Cynder sighed.

"Harassment... Harassment!"

"Better watch your ass, Malefor," Spyro warned him, but before he could say all of what he meant, Malefor joked.

"Don't think I can stretch my neck that much."

"Becuase!" Spyro called out, continuing what he was trying to say, "In case you've forgotten, today is the last day till me and you, could, be friends," Realising how important this day was now, Malefor swallowed hard as he knew he needed to be on his best behaviour, but as of now, he already wasn't starting off good, "So if I get any complaints from my lover, I'm going to judge whether or not you're good. I would let the others decided as well, but getting death threats to you won't help me even as helpful as they are."

"They wouldn't give me death threats," Hearing laughs from everyone, and a sinker from his lover, Malefor grumbled, "Why do I bother."

"So, for the time being, I need to talk with you some more. And for you, my love," Looking to his lover, he continued, "Is it okay while I'm up in front talking with Malefor, would you like to spend time with the girls? Or do you need to stay and talk with me some?"

"I can stay with the girls of course. Don't want Malefor to worry too much since I am of course one of the judges to your friendship with Malefor," Cynder giggled, making Malefor let out a short sigh of relief, and to make sure they didn't hear, she made sure to keep quiet, "Just remember; Enjoy that body while you can, cause soon, it'll be mine."

"I said the same thing to you, Volteer," Ersa snicker in a whisper, making Volteer once again blush.

"Why are you so naughty," Volteer asked with a chuckle.

"You're the one who wanted such a thing."

"That was you who wanted me more somehow."

"I know," Ersa smiled, giving a blush.

"Alright, let's go then," Spyro spoke, waving his paw at Malefor for him to follow, and since Cyril was so close to the main door, it stayed open, allow the two to walk out of the house rather easily, "Just need to ask a couple of question," Following behind the two was Carith and Cynder, followed by the other Guardians and their lover's as they followed behind, "To make sure you're paying attention, I'm gonna ask my three questions without spacing them out," Getting a nod from him, Spyro asked his three question, "So then; If you turned to the Dark Master without Carith around, what would you do? If the Destroyer did return, what would you do? And if I didn't really become your friend, what would do?"

It was questions that, each, were rather difficult to answer, each seeming more difficult then the next for him to think about and answer. For Malefor, he needed to think a little more in depth about these questions as he didn't want to give a right or wrong answer, but rather, the answer he felt comfortable with, I don't want to just say what I think he wants to hear, but rather, what I really would do during such a situation. And unfortunately, with the Destroyer out there, his last two questions will become a reality. Giving a sigh, he had an easy answer for the first question as he remembered what he had been taught, "For the Dark Master, I need to think of the saddest thought possible, balancing out my anger and sadness without giving one more control over the other. This can help me use the power, and in case this is a fight, I will need the power to assist you," For his other two questions, he had a good idea of what he needed to say, but for the time being, he gave his answer to his next question, "For the Destroyer, since you broke the Crystals, the only thing to do from memory... I guess you'd just have to use your darkness against it and hold it back."

"Which is a question for me though," Spyro spoke, once again asking a rather difficult question for him to answer, "If I sense the Destroyer and it's darkness, who put the darkness in it, and also, since I did destroy the Crystals powering it, that would mean someone out there is controlling it. So, how would you explain that," His questions were rather difficult to answer, and since each question Malefor had to think about in depth of how he would explain it without making him think he's a villain, and for the time, since Spyro saw the Chambers, he put a holed on the questions, "Well, you have time to think of something. They may be difficult if you're evil, but if you're not, just speak the truth, and I'd be fine with that two. Hearing the truth is what I want."

Turning in the Chambers, Spyro looked into it and stopped, gasping as he saw someone sitting in the middle of the Chambers, looking all around the room. With Malefor looking as well, he did the same as Spyro, and soon followed was everyone else, each having the same reaction as they stood behind each other and saw this dragon. Turning around and facing everyone, the dragon blushed to see them all staring at her, especially Spyro as the dragon saw his body. No way... Malefor thought, looking as the dragon tried to smile, and this didn't seem to be fake, and while everyone else was still in shock, he asked, "Are you... Another purple dragon? A purple... Dragoness?"

She smiled at all the others, and walking up next to Spyro, Cynder raised a brow, and even looked to Spyro to see he was still looking at her. Looking back to the female, she made sure to inspect what seemed like competition to her. The females scales were purple, from her head to tail, including the tops of her wings. Her wing flaps gave a cool, slightly darkened look to them with fins connected together all down to her back like the back of a sea creature. On her head were four horns, two that stuck out as normal horns, and two small ones was each having one resting next to each of her horns. Her eyes were the same as her wings, giving off a cool, darkened blue look, and to her arms were similar to her fins down her back, taking up a small portion of the side of her arms. For her tail blade, it wasn't meant for battle, but rather for comfort as it had a similar look to a fish fin with two splitting from the right and left. Giving a slight growl, unfortunately, even for Cynder, she agreed to herself in her mind, I hate to admit it... But she really isn't that bad looking. Once again, to Cynder's dismay, Spyro walked up to her and spoke, "H... How," Smiling at her, he greeted himself, "In case you don't know, my name is Spyro."

Giving a blush to see his body so up close, she blushed and introduced herself as well, "Nice to meet you, Spyro. The name's Celia."

"Celia? That's a pretty nice name."

"Oh... thank you."

Seeing her blush, everyone looked away from the female and over to Cynder, watching as she growled and walked up and over to the two. Celia watched as Cynder walked up to Spyro's side and making sure this was known very early on, Cynder stood to her lover's side and said, "And in case you needed to know, the name is, Cynder. I'm the, lover, of Spyro, just in case that isn't known."

"Oh, I didn't want to intrude on your love of course," Celia backed up, seeing as Cynder wasn't very happy with her presence.

"Cynder, it's okay, she just wants to talk," Spyro spoke, defending the female to Cynder, making her now back off, "It's alright. I just want to talk with her and maybe see what moves she has," Getting a sigh, Cynder frowned as she turned and backed off, but once she did turn, Spyro didn't see her sadness as he went right back to talking with her, "It's okay, she doesn't bite, just protective as other's out there aren't exactly the kindest in the world."

"Hehe, don't worry, I know that from experience," Celia giggled, making Spyro chuckle as he assured her.

"Hehe, well, don't worry, I can assure you that everyone here is nothing but friendly."

"That's good to hear."

Making it over to the others, Cynder turned and sat down, looking to the ground and listening as the two spoke, and seeing her sadness, everyone wanted to say something, but she picked her own head up and remembered Ersa's words, "He's never given me a reason not to trust him. He said he only wanted to talk to her and that's fine," Growling as she admitted, it was an annoyance to her, "The problem is... she's a pretty nice looking female... unfortunately... And I definitely don't think I'm in her league."

"Cynder, don't you remember what I said when it came to how you looked?" Carith asked, trying to help her out.

"Yeah but... I don't know how true that is. I saw myself in that dream but... even still, I'll never believe that I'm good enough for him."

Laughing once again, Cynder frowned to hear Spyro was having fun with the it her female, on my making things worse. Wanting to get into more detail about who she was, Spyro asked a couple of questions as he wondered, "So, hey, I hope this okay but, may I ask a couple of questions about your life."

"Of course," Celia agreed.

"Great. A couple of questions I have is, how come it took you so long to show up and speak to me? I would've loved to have seen and asked about your powers sooner."

"Well, I'm almost seventeen and I thought, now that I'm coming up on being an adult, I should take a step and meet you all. It took a while to even get to Warfang as, with the War, me and my family lived pretty far away so... I thought now would be a good time. I also wish I could've came here when I learned more elements, but for the time being, I only known ice as my parents were very protective of me."

"I can definitely help train you if needed, and having another purple dragon is definitely a huge surprise. And it's also pretty cool to hear that you're seventeen. Me and Cynder were frozen in a Crystal that made us age up. Instead of being thirteen, we are now sixteen years old. Don't know when our birthdays are coming up, but I believe that here soon, I will also be seventeen."

"Whoa, that's pretty cool."

"Yeah. I look forward to being an adult as I've always wanted to reach for all the power I can."

"Well... Not to be inappropriate but," Looking at his body up and down, blushing to see he was a perfect male, she agreed, "It definitely shows that you are a rather prefect male."

"Hehe, I did it all in order to protect those that I love."

"You know for others, they get stronger just to flex off to other females to get dates. But then when they get what they want, they up and leave."

"Good news, they'll die sooner then those who respect others. The more enemies you make, the more of a chance that will come back to bite them."

"Yeah, they definitely deserve it."

"Well, I don't want to not smile and think of the bad out there, I just wish to make you feel comfortable. So what do you say, would you rather sit here and talk with the others, or do you want to train your abilities?" Thinking of which one she would rather do, he chuckled as he thought that she may be afraid of the others, or even shy, so he gave her the easier option, "If we do go and train, it'll just be me and you, no one else."

Hearing this made everyone's scales stick up on end, especially Cynder as her heart nearly stopped as she believed this meant something else, He's not trying to be alone with her just to kiss her, is he? Or maybe even worse?! Everyone wondered what she would say, and unfortunately, Celia did agree to everyone's fears, "That does sound nice," Hearing small gaps from everyone, she tried not to be called out from hearing them, and instead, just spoke her mind, "I've heard that you're a rather comfortable dragon to be around. There was a time where the yellow Guardian, Volteer, was crying in Warfang, and you were clam, helpful, making everyone respect you for it."

"It's my job to make sure everyone's safe," Turning around and waving a paw, he looked at her and spoke, "Follow me up to my house. There's a training room built into it with a door, so we can easily close it and get some privacy," Walking over to the others, Celia followed behind Spyro, and with everyone moving out of the way, he stopped for a second to see Cynder looking away from everyone and him for some reason, "Cynder, are you okay?" Turning to her and reaching a paw out to rest on her shoulder, he asked once again, only in a smoother voice, "Cynder."

"Hey, Spyro," Celia spoke, getting Spyro to stop his paw and look at her, "I told my parents I wouldn't be gone too long, so if it's okay for me to say, can we hurry to the training."

"Oh... Yeah... sure," Spyro murmured, taking his paw back away from her, and looking to Malefor, he asked him, "Watch after everyone, for me," With Malefor his head, Spyro walked in the middle of everyone since they had moved, and once again continuing his walk, Celia ran up and followed next to him instead of behind him, "So the main thing we can work on is your flexibility to help keep you nimble during battle." Walking down the hall, the two could still hear the two as they spoke for a little longer, "Do you know how to work your body, or do you need help?"

"Oh, I could definitely use your help working my body," Hearing Celia words and giggle, Cynder shot stiff as this wasn't good for her in the slightest.

Everyone stood there in silence for a little while, fearing for their lives as they didn't know what to say, but trying their best to help out, Ersa spoke as she had a similar experience, "Cynder, it's not so bad. I once believed Volteer left me for someone else and had a Hatchling, so this could just be one of those time where we are just mixing a situation out of just emotions," They all watched as she walked from the group and over to where she normally sat; to the left wall from the entrance of the Chambers, and since it seemed everyone was going to where they normally sat, they did, "And if Spyro does try something, you have your poison, I have my pressure points, and Malefor has his own strengh. We can all back you up."

"Yeah but, even still, imagine how you'd feel if you saw your mate kissing someone else," Malefor spoke, sitting next to his lover on the right wall from the entrance, and it did feel like a stab to the gut for the others, "I mean, Ignitus, how would you feel if Claire stabbed you right now and left you for dead even after falling in love. To me which is kinda messed up, that's pretty funny. And I'm sure Carith, after what we've been through, she'd be pretty devastated as well," No one said anything to his words, and for Ignitus, he looked to his lover and smiled, and lucky enough for him, she nuzzled him before kissing him, "But let's not worry about it. I don't see Spyro ever going against your love, Cynder, especially not after what just happened in the morning."

"Ignitus did tell me his dream wasn't very accurate," Cynder sighed, now speaking what was on her mind.

"You really doubt him?"

"I just... I will always be afraid of competition. And with him so quick to talk with her... He never once called me his love during his talk with her... We haven't even kissed at all today," Everyone gave off a slight hiss through their teeth, especially Ignitus and Claire once they had pulled back from their kiss, "Yeah... that doesn't really help... And since he was so quick to answer yes to everything about her, if she says something to trick him into kissing her, like to activate her powers... would he... And then his lips would be tainted by someone else."

"Then take charge, Cynder, show your dominance. Volteer has tried for the past couple of days and failed, but," Hearing everyone grumble while backing their heads up with blushes, Volteer gave a sigh, putting a paw on his face and trying to hide his blush and his smile, "My point, you're the boss, remember that. He may have control over you, but you'll always have the most control. If needed, poison him, go for it. Show who's stronger of the two in your relationship."

"Hehe, Volteer... You're such a bitch dude it's actually funny," Malefor laughed.

"Oh my fu... Malefor, shut your damn mouth!" Volteer growled, slapping his paw back down to the ground.

"How red is your paw there after slapping it to the ground."

"Not as red as your face is going to be when I slap you!"

"Shut up! Both of you," Terrador stepped in, trying to help with Cynder, "We need to help our female friend, not you two girls who won't shut up. Anyway, Cynder, while I'm not really into relationships, this is another reason I don't believe in them. But to help you out, I do have to agree with what Ersa said; Show who's the real boss around here. Purple dragon or not, you've been through hell and back. Show your strengh, put her in her place, don't let her do that to you."

"I would but... Spyro seemed happy with her and... if I did interrupt those two, what if he gets upset at me for interrupting the two. Then I really am out of luck," Cynder murmured, seeing at it as though she was looking at nothing but the bad of the situation.

"Cynder, when it comes to something like that, do what I was going to do," Claire spoke, and wondering what she was talking about, Cynder picked her head up some, "The Guardians tried to keep me away from Ignitus, and in order to be with him, I would've killed each and everyone one of them to be with the one I loved," Hearing nervous chuckles from the others, they were glad that didn't happen, "It was Spyro that saved their lives, and he's always been nothing but helpful. And while I do fear that he can use his statues and body to be with someone else, I just don't see that happening."

"Another part that does pose a problem, we can't piss off the only and most powerful force against what is to come. If something happens or she takes him somewhere else, we are as good as dead. No offense to you, Malefor, but with all that is to happen, you'd die trying to protect and attack everything even with our help," It didn't really help what Cyril was saying, but it made sense which was another reason it wasn't helping, and seeing he was making things worse, he corrected and tried to make things better, "But just, remember back to when we separated you two. The next day, Spyro was pretty pissed at us for what we did. I don't think he likes the idea of you two separating."

"I definitely don't either," Cynder once again murmured, but from their words, she did keep her head up now, and it was a little saddening for the others as they watched her open her wings and look to both sides of her, but Spyro wasn't there.

"If it makes you feel any better, I have a clone watching the two in case something happens, and thankful, nothing so far," Ignitus assured her, and seeing her want to say something, he cut her off, "Nothing so far as in won't happen. I believe in my son's love for you, and as a father, if he does try something, I would gladly smack him across the face for it. But this is something I'm not giving much thought."

"Spyro did try and die to get away from you though," Malefor chuckled, but it was way too soon, and seeing her duck her head, he looked to Carith and saw her shake her head, "Ahem..." Looking back to Cynder, he corrected himself as he felt terrible for saying now, "That was... way too soon of a joke. But Cynder, just remember what I said to you when we were flying back to Warfang after the battle; 'He must really want that kiss'. With all he was doing, he did it to protect you. Even before he passed out, he asked me, even with fear, to protect you."

It gave Cynder a smile as she remembered back to it, and since he changed his words around, she giggled with what everyone was saying, "Man, we sure are having to remember a lot from the past. What's up with that?"

"Well, past experience is what we learn from," Volteer stepped in, being the scientist he was and adding that into what's happening now, "Think of this like a perfect scientific method; For short, we do a hypothesis, experiment, analysis, and conclusion. We hypothesis you and Spyro are a perfect match, are experiment was separating and keeping you two together. Are analysis shows better results when you two are together then not. So our conclusion turns to fact that you two are better together separate then apart. So our hypothesis is correct."

"Why do you know things no one cares about," Malefor asked, putting a paw on his head for a second as his brain hurt before putting it back to the ground.

"Those who do care know he's one sexy ass dragon," Ersa bite her lip, loving how he was able to put two and two together so well, and her words made him smile.

"Then thank goodness I don't care, cause that's a damn lie."

"Hehe... I do thank you all for your help," Cynder thanked, and since they had been remembering so much, she wanted to take a jab at Cyril, "But, going back and remembering something. Cyril, you remember when we played a prank on Sparks and you were up and ready to kill me?" He gave a nervous chuckle as he did remember that time, and she herself gave her own giggle, "That was a fun day for me... I can't believe Spyro went along with it too... That was a time where I wish I could've kissed him right then and there. But then Ignitus would've been like, 'You would've died if you did'."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Ignitus chuckled, still feeling bad to this day about what he had said.

Since everyone had given her so much words of encouragement, she agreed to get up and make a stand, "Well... Since you all were such a big help, I'm going to go and establish my dominance on him."

"You should wait a couple more years before you do that, Cynder," Malefor chuckled.

"Malefor... Shut up."

"Then again, my clone chuckled as he told me something," Ignitus spoke, smiling as he remember something else from the past, "You all remember the day when Ersa sadly went down with that deadly disease?"

"The day? No," Putting a claw on Volteer's chest, she giggled, "But the night..."

"Ersa," Volteer grumbled, trying to act disgusted, but seeing as everyone looked away with blushes, he looked to her and whispered, "You passed out towards the end anyway, so."

"That was your fault you sexy piece of meat you."

"Going back! The stuff that Spyro needed to collect was a flower and a gem. Sparks found him and joked that the stuff he had was a way of proposing to you, Cynder," Ignitus continued, and his words got to her, and he was curious as to what her response was, but she didn't want to show too much interest and get the others suspension too high, "Unfortunately, there were some dark creatures around so he didn't give a response as to what he was going to say."

Giving a sigh, they all noticed, and seeing them all smirk with raised brows, she growled at them as she looked away with a blush, "I'm glad that Spyro made it out safely, okay!" Seeing that everyone still hadn't changed their reactions, she growled, blushing even as she didn't want them twisting her words out of embarrassment, "Why am I even still down here. I said I was going to talk with my lover," Standing up and walking to the Chambers entrance, she spoke to her blue friend, "Carith, if you'd wish to join, I wouldn't be against the company."

"You don't have to ask me twice," Sitting up along with her lover following, Carith walked out of the Chambers with the other two, saying something that everyone was interested in, "I want to see how you'll handle this situation, and instead of stories and lies, I get to see what your dark side really holds," Making it seem as though something we're to happen, Carith assured her, and trusted that Cynder's lover wouldn't do such a thing, "I've seen, Spyro, and he's a rather... emotional dragon."

"Ha!" Malefor laughed behind the two.

"Malefor, hush. Anyway, going back, you've been through a lot with him, so I don't see why he would turn and leave."

"And Cynder, that's how almost all women are. When their man goes somewhere, they'll be like, 'He must be out there cheating with some other bitch'. But then the reality sets in, and it turns out they are jumping around in circles around fire while they chant a secret language for a sacrifice," His words made the two shiver, even making his lover look back at him with a raised brow, but he assured her before she looked back forward, "Not that I would know! You know I have some weird ass thoughts... And in my thoughts as well... it's scary to know some crazy ass dude has done it."

---

"Okay, first off, making sure to keep your body nimble. Need to stretch out your body before you get into a fight as to not cause a charley horse, or any other bone busting nonsense," Sitting down in the middle of the training room with Celia, Spyro continued to explain exactly what they were going to do, and how they were going to prepare themselves to do it, "For me, my darkness can keep my body nimble, so I never need to stretch, but just for you, try just stretching out in anyway you can."

Celia had to look away with a blush, flirting in a way as she spoke of his mentioned, "The way I stretch though, you'll see all of me."

"I'm not here to look at your body, but instead to study how your muscles move. Having known how the body works when it comes to training, I can tell if you haven't stretched a muscle right," Spyro rejected the idea rather quickly as he was more focused to the work out side of things, "For an easy exercise, stretch and reach to your left, then your right. Standing on your back two paws can help as well, stretching out your body from top to bottom. It's like first waking up; just stretch like that if needed."

"I have no problem... Standing on my back two paws."

"Okay. I will see if anything needs to be helped, possible improvements that may be needed."

Stretching out her wings outwards as she let them out, she stood to her back paws and stretched upwards, revealing her entire underside, trying to get Spyro to smile on her body. She even watched as he checked her out from top to bottom as he said he would, and while she blushed, he shuck his head, and getting back to her paws, she asked, "What's wrong."

"Well, I can see you've never really been in a fight before," Once she tucked her wings back, he walked up to her left wing facing him, and grabbing a hold of her wing, he massaged it, "Your wings are completely stiff. Usually during a battle, your wings would be flexible, easy to move and control even with the wind hitting your flaps. But your wings will take longer to hit a target as there's no way to make that quick decision and delivery you need," She frowned as she had hoped it would've been about her body, and not in the way he was making it out to be, "And we can find a way to help even out the ratio between each wing as one wasn't as vertical as the other," Backing off away from her, he saw her frown, and thinking what it could be, he helped her, "Don't worry. This is only your first day. You'll only get better the more you practice."

"Oh... Hehe... Yeah. I guess I just need your help to move my body."

"Of course I can help," Walking around and to her side, she blushed to see how close her side was to his, but he didn't think much of it while he continued his explanation, "Alright, first, let's start with a simple attack before we get into an actual battle," Spawning an adult sized dark dragon in front of them, Celia shiver for a second, but he once again assured her everything was fine, "Don't worry. These are just simple dragon dummies basically. What I think to do, it does. Now," Putting his paw over her left one, she blushed as their paws touched, and as he picked up her paw, she let it happen without much thought, "Now, we need to see what power is behind your elements," Flipping her paw to make her palm face the dragon, Spyro took his paw off hers after lining her up, and doing the same as her, he put his palm forward, near neck level, "Just a simple, non-moving target," Watching as a cool aura formed around his paw, an ice shard formed from within his paw, "Do the same as I do," With a decent sized shard of ice across his palm which hovered in the air, spinning from the air, he shot it right to the dragon.

The shear power of his shot was enough to kick up the air, and as it made it's way to the dark dragon, it's head split into two, killing it nearly instantly. The shard of ice ricocheted from the dragon and went to the ceiling, slamming into the the concrete with enough force to crack a small portion of the surrounding area. Celia was surprised by his show of fire in his power, and looking to see him smirk, she started to sweat, and accidentally let slip as she couldn't hold herself back to not say something, "I love you..."

He wasn't paying attention, and knowing he heard a voice, Spyro looked to her and asked, "Did you say something?"

"What?! Uh! No..." Seeing his suspicions were still there, she looked straight forward and diverted the conversation, "Anyway! I'm ready when you are," He smiled to see she was ready to train, and so, he brought back the dark dragon once again, appearing from the ground like molten lava, "So, do as you did; Line up your shot, build power, and then," Doing as she was saying, she lined up her shot, built her power around her paw, and as she spawned an ice shard, it was more then half the size of Spyro's, "That's it?" Growling and shaking it off, she used her power and shot it forward, but as it traveled, it didn't travel with enough force, and instead, it just simple hit the dragon in his chest before falling to the ground and shattering to pieces, "Damn..." Looking to Spyro, she had to know how he was able to do such a thing, "H... How did you... How did you get such power?"

"Hehe, that's a long story. But to keep it short, let's just say I was done watching those close to me get hurt, so I fought and trained to protect them," Once again, his words made her blush as she wished to say how she felt to him, but he was too focused in training, "Let's start off with something simple," With the dark dragon disappearing, Spyro walked up to where it sat, and turning around, he took back his spot from before, "You're going to go up against me, and it can be your decision if you wish to fight me, or my dark side."

"Uhhhh... Dark, side? As in the villain?"

"Hehe, no, dark side, not darkseid. And in case you have any fears, I'm only going defensive, not offensive. That's your job. Hopefully by getting your body to move while fighting me, you'll unlock one of your other abilities. I can tell you right now, going against my dark side is completely ill advised as we could be here all day and you wouldn't touch me."

"Oh? So, if I get to you, I can touch you and win?"

"Yep," Spyro agreed, not seeing what she meant at all.

"Hehe, Alright then. Since the reward is so high, I wish to go up against your dark form," Sitting down with a smile, she believed to have the power to touch him at least once, "Having you play hard to get is sure going to be fun, and since I believe in my own strengths, I will let you have a head start."

"Hehe. If you say so."

Closing his eyes for a second, she smirked as she believed she could touch him right now, so she snuck up on him, standing up and tip toeing to his position. Making it up to his face, she let out a low snicker and thought, Got you. Waving a paw up, and then down, she went to tap his shoulder, but as she did, his body shivered before disappearing, and she nearly fell as she didn't understand how he moved so quickly. Picking her head up, Celia gasped, backing up as Spyro had been consumed in his darkness with his signature pure white eyes. Seeing his smirk, she viewed this as a challenge, and running up to him, she went in with both her arms and wings, spreading them wide to grab him, but just as before, he teleported away, making her almost fall flat to the ground, but to her luck, Spyro used his wing and tucked it underneath her stomach, holding her up before she fell. Once having gain balance with his help, she swung her paw around to touch him, but he was gone, and in fact, he was all the way over at the front door, even though they were near the back of the Training Room, "How... In the hell," Turning to face him, she called out as she believed him to be a fake, "No way you're really Spyro... That power is... That speed I mean is... Hehe... Tell me, how's your stamina?"

"I can go for days," Spyro smirked, and to her, she blushed hard as she had other ideas behind her words.

"Just make sure to let this girl have some fun too, okay?"

"Bring it then."

Opening to the hallway of the house, Cynder ran inside and took an immediate turn to her right, running over to the Training Room door. It took the other two a couple more seconds to catch up to her, and once they did, they saw she had already opened the door some to peak inside. Once she had, Carith looked over her head, and for Malefor, he had to walk to the left side of the door as the other two took up space on the right, and once he walked to where he needed to be, he peaked inside the room as well. They weren't able to see much as the door only cracked open a little, letting them see the middle and the left side of the Training Room. They watched as a black figure bounced from the floor to the wall, constantly moving at speeds indescribably too fast for them to make out to whom it was, but they all knew once they had seen Celia jumping at the dark dragon, trying to attack him from the looks of it. Once Spyro landed to the ground, he smirked, came from without his dark form to show his purple scales, and once he had, he agreed with himself, "I don't what for you to pass out from exhaustion. So, what do you say we take a break. Once we return, we can have another battle against one another." Feeling defeated, she gave a sigh and walked over to him, admitting defeat, "It's okay. It's taken me going through hell and back to get such power."

Walking up to him, she stood in front of him as he faced her, and giving a smile to her, she smirked at him, making him slightly confused as to why. Jumping up and tackling him, he didn't expect it, and he fell to his back with a loud thud. Growling as she was sudden with her tackle, she stood above him in victory, even pinning his paws down to the ground. Looking from his chest and up to his head, she licked her lips as she was desperate to now get what she wanted, and she even moved her lips closer to his face, teasing him with her cool and easing voice, "Now that I've touched you, I hope it's okay I can get a reward."

Cynder watched in horror, and now feeling as though she had enough, she swung the door open and took a couple steps in, but before she could say anything, she watched as everything went down. With her lips closing in on his, his arm slipped from her grasp, and using his claw, he put it against her lips to stop her. With slightly widened eyes, Celia didn't understand what he was doing, and to her dismay, he told her the truth in a whisper, trying to sooth her as he didn't wish to hurt her, "I already have someone I love, and I'm not going to betray her. I do apologize if you love me... But I don't wish to move on," She gave a defeated sigh, even shedding a tear as she knew she wouldn't have the chance she wanted, but, taking his paw back and to the ground, he smiled as he had an idea, "You know, you are and can be a very sweet Dragoness. I have someone I can introduce you too."

"And who's better then you?" Celia asked.

"Hehe, well, I'm not perfect, but the dragon is named Blitz."

"One of the dragons that helped save Warfang?"

"Yep... And I'm sure he would be happy to meet someone like you."

Giving a blush, she wondered about him as she had seen him before and felt too embarrassed to talk about. Now with her blushing, Spyro smiled, but for Cynder, everything about the situation spelt trouble; Her lover on his back with Celia above him, the two blushing and smiling, and now having had enough, she took a couple more steps forward and yelled, "SPYRO!" Watching as the two shivered from her sudden yell, Spyro immediately tried to get from underneath Celia, and once she backed off him, he opened his mouth to explain, but she cut him off, "Don't! Save it for later!" Pointing at the door, she commanded him, "Get in our room. We are going to discuss our relationship," Seeing him once again try and say something as he stepped forward, she yelled again, "I don't care! Get in our room!" Ducking his head down, he dragged his tail as he walked over to the door, and looking at him with anger as he passed by, she focused away from him and pointed a claw at Celia, "Stay the hell away from my lover."

The two lovers watched as Spyro made his way out from the Training Room, and seeing him nearly depressed as he made his way to the door on his right, and to help, Malefor ran up to the door and opened it for him. With the door opened, Spyro walked inside, making his way into the middle of the room and turning to face forward from where the door was open. The two then watched Cynder as she came from out of the Training Room, pissed off and ready to hurt someone, and passing by Malefor and walking into her room, she growled as she spoke, "Shut the door."

Doing as he was told, Malefor shut the door behind her, and once the door had clicked, Malefor looked to Carith, both sad and scared as to what was about to happen. Backing away from the door, he walked to his lover's side, scared as to what is about to happen, "If that door blows open... Then... I don't know. I kind of want to back up some more as I'm scared to hear them fight," She nodded as she feared the same thing, and he tried to smile as he spoke, but his words only made it worse, "Well, I guess that room was built for when those two were to fight... Which... Now saying it out loud... You don't think one of them would leave out of anger, do you? Wait, then again, if one of them does take over our room, the hell do we sleep at?"

"If needed, I wouldn't see a problem trying to help them out. You spend time with Spyro, and I spend time with Cynder in separate rooms," Carith suggested, but saying this out loud, she already knew this wouldn't work for one main reason.

"Hehe, so, you want me to die? If Spyro's already pissed, his blade will go through my neck so quick. And he'll be like, 'You wanted to help, so let me kick your teeth in'. I thought you loved me."

"Yeah... I realized how bad that sounded just as I said it, so... I guess we'd have to help Cynder while Ignitus and maybe Claire help out Spyro, but for now," Getting up and walking over to the Training Room door, she looked to see Celia whom was sitting in the Chambers, rubbing the side of her shoulder in shame, "I want to get some more information as to what's happened," Looking to her lover, she waved a paw and heavily suggested he followed, "In case to avoid a fight between the two, let's try and help out now by talking to Celia."

"Hehe, it's not going to get this knot of fear in my stomach to go away, but... Hopefully it'll help."

---

With the door shutting behind the two, Cynder sat down near the front of the door, sitting up straight and crossing her arms as she tapped her claws in a row on her arm, and she was wondering how she approach this, Haven't used my dark side in a while, and instead of crying about it, I said I would take charge on this, so I have to do so. Seeing him try and smile while opening his mouth, she shuck her head, immediately crushing all hopes he had of explaining himself. It was quiet for a while as she looked at him, seeing him frowning with his tail and wings still hanging low to the floor, but feeling as though she was being a little too harsh on him, she spoke, though aggressively, "Spyro, I'm going to give you a run down of my day so far," He picked his head up to see what she had to say, but with everything she was saying, it made him duck his head with one by one of her words, "You haven't kissed me today, you never told her I was your lover during the entire conversation you had with her, you ignored me when I was upset, and even now, I saw you on your back, putting up a claw and what looked liked you were teasing her, smirking and smiling with her," Now that his head was ducked pretty low to the ground, she didn't want for him to die of sadness, so she once again tried to ease her aggression, "You know, this happened before, where you put training over me, and you promised you'd never do such a thing again. I can take this as a different scenario where you were putting someone else over me, but you also promised you wouldn't do that after how much you were helping Volteer," Resting her two front paws back to the ground, she backed her head up slightly, feeling as though she over did it with how much she brought up, and feeling terrible for it, she whispered, "Spyro, I'm..."

"Right...?" Spyro murmured, and to his surprise, she didn't stop him, and getting to a more comfortable way by picking his head up, she saw the coldest in his eyes for what he did and what was said, "I... messed up... again... And I don't want to have to become this, pitty party for my actions. So, instead, maybe it... would be better if we... did... you know... split..." Gasping at his words, he waved two paws in front of his face and tried to make the situation a little more calming, "No no no, Cynder, that's not what... I want... But, you admitted all that I've done, just today alone. Which... makes me wonder if there were other times where I disappointed you then too... I can promise you... again, that I'd change... This, I can do, I just... Her being a purple dragon and all, I..."

"Do you love her?" Cynder straight up asked, trying to keep her aggressive act together even as a slight tear tried to shed, which she fought back for the time being.

"Celia? No, of course not."

"Then what were you two doing."

"Cynder," Taking a step towards her, she wondered why, but hearing his words, it made sense later, "I didn't want to kiss her. She tried to kiss me, but before she tried, I stopped her; told her I already loved someone else, and I would never betray her trust in me," Getting closer to her, she knew what he was doing, but it was working, and for her, she found it rather soothing, "This entire purple dragon situation, I should've just... backed off from, yet..." Stopping in front of her, he looked her in her eyes, knowing more as he came to with what he did, "You... just didn't want someone else to take me... And I pushed you away over her."

"So, since you don't feel like a promise will heal what you've done, what will you do then?"

"I... want to leave that up to you, especially after what I did."

"Up to me?"

"Cynder, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry. I should've kept you under my wing, I should've told her to wait, I should've... I shouldn't have... put something like this before you."

Thinking of a way of punishment, she put a claw to her chin, and once she had an idea, she took her claw from her chin and snapped her fingers, "There's a couple of things that I want to be, up to me, for what you've done," She was surprised he didn't shiver or anything of the sort even as she had a threatening glare in her eyes, but once again, it was clear to her why he acted in such a way, "First, I want to ask of two things, third of which I will reveal later. But the first one; break this, and I will leave you, but Spyro Promise that everything that was just said in this room, you will understand and never make such a mistake ever again."

Putting a paw to his chest as he sat down in front of her, he used his other paw and raised it slightly up to head level, "Spyro Promise to understand."

"Second; I'm asking just to make sure, but tell me the truth as I won't be upset either way. Do you even feel any kind of love to Celia?"

"No."

It was a rather quick response, but an idea came to mind of which she needed to act fast on. Activating the darkness around her heart, it activated his, making the two have slightly widened eyes, and for him, he chuckled as he knew what she did. Cynder gave a smirk, but even more of a smile as she was rather glad with what she found out, "You're heart rate is steady, beating as it's always has been when I'm near you. And since you didn't skip a beat, or even show signs of a sweat, I will give that one to you," He nodded his head, smiling as well, making her give a pleased sigh, glad to see she was getting her old Spyro back, "Now, this next one can turn this entire thing around, but... If you don't want to..."

"Of course!" Taking his paws down and over to her two paws, Spyro wanted nothing more then to make up for what he did, "Please... I don't want to see you as you were when we were in the Chambers, and even with how you were when we came to our room. The sadness, the... disappointment... The anger... Please... My love, what do I need to do?"

Giving an evil smirk, she couldn't hide it, but to try and hide it, she went back to her final want, "All you have to do is kiss..."

It was an instant, enough to give her a feeling of ease as he put his lips around hers. Once he had closed his eyes, she did as well, both giving off pleased moans to have finally kiss, but for Spyro, he didn't know what was really to happen. Oh my love, you fell right for my trap, Without him noticing, she eased slight poison in to his mouth one by one, and since he was still far beyond into the kiss, she smirked to see her plan was working. Having him swallow enough poison, Cynder was the one to pull from the kiss, and with her giving a pleased sigh, he chuckled and hoped it was everything she wanted, "I will stay in the room and give you a million more for what I've done, I swear on my life."

"Hehe, you're Damn right you're going to stay in this room," Seeing her evil smirk, he backed up slightly as he didn't know what she was playing at, but he knew she started something, "I'm assuming while you kissed me, you couldn't distinguish my... well... saliva, to my... well," Pausing as to build tension, she gave an evil smile, laughing in a sense as she revealed what she had done, "Poison?" Hearing him let out a loud gasp, she watched as he tried to move back some more, but all he could move was his head as he looked from right to left, before finally looking straight at her in fear, "I'm surprised I haven't killed you yet. You're so gullible, my love," Walking up to him, she was happy with what she had done, and being in front of his face, she placed a claw on his lips, "Got anything to say?"

Giving a chuckle as he started to sweat, Spyro invited the challenge, "Bring it on, Beauty Of The Skies... Hehe, and also, good luck picking up my body and..." To his surprise, he watched as she placed a paw on his shoulder, and in an instant, he went through the ground before reappearing above ground on his back on their bed with Cynder standing above him, "Hehe... Wow... You being evil is the most fun we could ever have. Well, aside from you playing the hopeless female who needs to be rescued. So, which one would you rather play?"

"You'll get your way more if we do it that way, so for now, to change up what's happened for my own experiences, let's start with today," Taking her tail blade and swinging it around to his neck, she pushed it hard enough against his neck to basically have control over where he looked, "Let's see... You tried to talk with Celia, but I didn't appreciate that at all. So my anger took over, I paralyzed you, and now I'm ready to do... something... But what?"

"Cynder, this isn't you! It's me, Spyro!" Spyro cried, playing along with her, but the two couldn't help but smile to one another, "Am I making this more fun?"

Moving her tail blade back, she smirked as she laid down on his chest, using a claw to feel the scales on his faces, making him chuckle, even blushing. Breaking character for a second, her voice changed from flirty to a little concerned as she wanted to assure him, "Hey... Spyro, just real quick, if you get... scared with what I'm doing, just, say something, please," He was confused of her request, and even though he had an idea, he wish he had said something before she got herself more downed, "Well, I mean, I am... in a way, evil. And with you being paralyzed, and me threatening you, I..."

"Cynder..." Spyro whispered, and seeing his smile, she shivered joyfully at his soothing words, "I trust you, my love."

His simple yet touching words were now enough to make her shed a tear, giggling even as she nuzzled her head down under his neck. Resting her head underneath his, she let out a small sigh, glad to hear, glad to know, everything was alright, I knew I should've trusted you... Spyro... my love. Using her head, she eased her way up his neck, moving her head ever so slightly before meeting his lips, and rather then wait on temptation, she had to cover his lips with hers, thankful for what he's said.

---

"Okay, I've done some stupid things in my life, but nothing that would haunt me," Malefor spoke, looking to Celia as they sat in the middle of the Training Room in front of her, and now knowing of what she was doing and said, it was almost something suicidal, "Aside from killing, but, we're not on that. Anyway, you tried to basically threaten the most deadly female to live? You know if you were to take him, she would find where you live real quick, watch... waiting... before finally, killing her prey."

His words were enough to make her shiver fearfully, but to help her out, Carith slapped him on the chest, making him chuckle, "Stop scaring her my love... But, Celia, I do have to admit, you got guts. But I do have to ask; you were talking about how something else about you is a lie that you wanted to admit. If you don't mind me asking, what is it?" Watching as she rubbed her arm, looking to the ground and not wanting to say anything for fears that were known, Carith assured her, "You're not going to be banished or anything like that, and I'm sure Cynder and or Spyro would like an apology of course. But other then that, you're safe."

"Unless Cynder singles you out for the two splitting from their relationship."

"Malefor!"

"But he... is right," Celia spoke, picking back up her head and wanting to tell the truth now, no matter what the outcome was, "I didn't expect their love to be a lot more... in-depth then I realised. Of course, everyone knows of the stories of what they went through, which is why others also know how hard it is to get with one of them. But I wanted to see if I could test my luck, and, well... I'm glad... I fail," Looking at her arm and her body around, they wondered if she was searching for something, but she gave a sigh and they knew she wasn't search, but inspecting, "These... aren't the real color... of my scales."

"What?" Carith cried, but not hearing another cry, she looked to her lover and saw he wasn't surprised, and she asked him, "You aren't surprised... In the slightest?!"

"Me?" Malefor asked as he looked to her, "Of course not, though, now that you've said something," Looking to Celia, he had a serious question of which he was afraid of, "The stuff you used to color your scales; is it called something along the lines of, paint?" Seeing her nod, this sent chills down both his and his lover's spine, and now knowing what he was getting at, it shouldn't have been a surprise, "I don't like how this nightmare is become more of a reality... Celia, you're an ice dragoness, correct?"

Giving a sad sigh, she nodded, "Yes... Sir."

"No no no, don't feel sad. I just needed to know is all. I can wash off the paint from your scales now rather then later. I need to talk with Spyro more about what's he's asked me. But for right now, while I'm washing the paint off, my love, can you get the two?" Malefor asked, and seeing her nod, she turned rather quickly to run and get the two, knowing how dangerous this situation really was, "Celia, is there anyone you can go to for safety, someone strong to protect you?"

"Wh... Why? Is Cynder really going to kill me?" Celia shiver, backing up and ducking her head.

"No no no, forget those two, they'll be fine... I hope. But we have suspicions of a battle that may happen here soon, and last thing we want is for someone to lose their lives."

"All my friends are just females. And while we can fight obviously, we'll probably trip over our paws as we have no fighting experiences. Everyone around us is rather nice."

"Hum..."

"What about that... Blitz, guy?"

---

Getting up to the front of Spyro and Cynder's room, Carith grabbed the door knob rather quickly, twisted it, and swung the door open, "Cynder, don't fight! Spyro's..." Seeing the two were doing nothing but making out, she gave a sigh, smiling as she didn't even know why they worried, "You two..." Seeing as Spyro was on top with Cynder on the bottom, Cynder seemed to have passed out as his lips slipped from hers, making her head go from looking up to laying left on the bed, "I guess you're my best bet, Spyro," Looking up to his standing figure, she knew he wouldn't understand what she was talking about, but tried her best to explain, "I'm sorry if this... upsets you Spyro, but Celia isn't a purple dragon at all. Her scales were covered in purple paint just to get with you."

"Paint?!" Cynder cried, quickly swinging her head around to face her friend, and seeing Carith give a sad nod, this made things worse for her, "No no no, she can't have paint on her!"

"What's paint?" Spyro asked, confused as to what was happening, but seeing Cynder tap his arm, he backed off of her body, and seeing her jump up, he asked again, "What is this paint stuff?"

"I will explain later, but for... Wait! How did you end up on top of me?! I kept putting poison down your throat!"

"Oh, that? Hehe, yeah, well, it was rather easy to find your poison the first time, and once I found it, I destroyed it with my darkness," She gasped once again, rapidly kicking up her breathes as everything was coming full circle, and it was all happening so fast that she had no time to calm things down, "I stopped the poison all together as it went down my throat, and after a while, you stopped, so I took charge and rolled you to your back."

Cynder couldn't believe what she was hearing, and while Spyro was chuckling, she was looking away from him with fear in her eyes, which Carith felt terrible for.

---

"It's okay... Cynder..." Hearing his comforting voice, she looked back at him, trying to calm herself as she watched him try and stand, and everyone gasped as to how, "Now that the poison is slowly but surely being destroyed by my darkness," Reaching a paw up, Spyro asked with a smile, "Can you help me up, Malefor?"

---

No... no no no... Cynder cried in her thoughts, and wanting to know for sure, she kicked off the bed in a panic, enough to make the back of the bed slam to the wall and making Spyro nearly fall off. Hearing Spyro yell something, she couldn't make it out, but instead, she had tunnel vision, running past Carith and immediately looking to her left as she looked in the Training Room. Bolting into the Training Room, Malefor's back was in the way, and he was doing something of which she couldn't see, "Where's Celia?!" Running around him, she froze, seeing her purple scales had now turned to a slightly light cool blue, now showing off her true scales, which now made this true that she in fact been using paint to color herself.

---

Clenching her claws and teasing her body, Cynder used her fear powers to try and control herself, and while it didn't do much, it was enough to calm at least her fears, "Hehe... And then you have dragons out there painting themselves to look like my love just to mess with me... just to get to my body... not even understanding what I've gone through... not understanding what that does..."

---

"Damn it!" Just as Spyro and Carith had entered the room, Cynder walked away from everyone and over close to the gem room, and hearing someone once again say something, she couldn't handle it, "SHUT UP!" Sitting down, remembering what's happened before when she first had been revealed of such a past, she tried her best to think and remember what she was told, even with the throbbing in her head and her sweat dripping from all around her body of which fell to the ground, Ignitus told me to look for hints to help him, but I barley remember anything being said aside from him saying he woke up in a grassy field, but that was three years later... But what else did he say?! Looking to her right and seeing as Spyro rested next to her side, she looked away from him and spoke, looking down at the ground as she did, "Spyro... Hypothetically... If we learned once again of a past in which we fail, what would you do...? Ignitus has next to no knowledge unlike how he had before, and we are the only universe, the only timeline to first experience this... what do we do?"

It was rather a deep and difficult question, and even for him, Spyro had to think about it for a second, I technically failed my first time, promising I wouldn't allow Cynder to get hurt... But it still happened. Giving a slight out from the nose sigh, he wanted to be as calm as he tried to answer, "If something did happen again... I'd be there, as I always have been before."

"But what if it costs your life?!"

"Oh... Well... When it comes to something like that, giving my life to protect millions more is just something that I wouldn't think twice about."

"Even if you know what you're leaving behind?"

Her question unfortunately was enough to make him think twice, and while he could tell she didn't want him to sacrifice his life for anything, he unfortunately had to be honest, "It's either I leave everyone behind, or I lay the weight of what I did for not. Every death, every mother, father, Hatchling... It would all be my fault, and I couldn't handle thinking that everyone, you all, would know it was me, who killed every living thing," After hearing his answer, she didn't wish to accept it, looking away from him as to not show her anger, and not for him, but for what the world has become, "I'm... sorry, my love... It was like that for Volteer, and everyone else. I knew the consequences of all the power I was using that day... The power I used in the Volcano... And if something else comes up that no one else can face, then I will be there, ready to sacrifice my life for those around me."

"And what if you need help," Malefor asked, taking a step forward as he spoke, "Both times you almost died, I was your enemy, but now that I'm not..."

"It wouldn't matter!" Cynder cried, turning around and facing him, calling out for his lie, "Ignitus specifically put what he believed what was to happen, power and all, which means even with you, we'd still lose!" It was rather sudden of an outburst which was correct in what she had said, "The army from the last attack on Warfang is nothing compared to... This!"

"This...? What did Ignitus do?" Spyro asked, as now it seemed her fears were of something, and it seemed he might've found out what it was, "Is this why you were all in my hallway, because Ignitus showed my death or something?" No one answered, all looking away from him as they didn't wish to answer, but this only made his question a rather easy answer for himself, "Come on, guys. What could it possible be that I can't face...? Is this about the Destroyer or something? Is it really going to come back."

"Spyro..." Carith now spoke, walking up to him and continuing what she was saying, "Ignitus gave us specific instructions to not tell you what it is as, before when you wanted to kill Malefor, you wished to do it alone, and with now of what we know, you'll want to fight what's to come all on your own. And also, I'm not going to say if it's the darkness or not, but not only would you be fighting in a war... But even my lover," Thinking of what that might mean, he looked back with a raised brow, but looking to Carith as she stood next to him, she shuck her head, "But he's not your enemy... Malefor... Has never been, your enemy... So you'd be fighting a battle never meant to be fought."

"I don't know. Fighting Malefor has always been a dream of mine," No one said anything to that response, making it seem as though they might still be enemies even when they are attacked, which, seeing them all stay silent, he gave a massive sigh, turning and walking over to Malefor, "Everyone! It's, fine! I said I was going to make Malefor my friend tomorrow anyway, we've already agreed if there's some scrub ass dark army, we can take care of it, so what's the problem?" Standing in front of Malefor now, he put a paw on his shoulder, and shaking his shoulder a couple of times, he swore to him, "As much as I want to, I'm not going to kill you. Severely wound, maybe, but never kill."

"But... Yeah we can take out a dark army, but what if one attacks and hits Cynder? That'd be on me, both from your anger... And because I was the one that created them," Malefor murmured.

"No, the Dark Master created them, but there isn't a Dark Master, is there?" Once again, he was making things worse for the others who knew of what was to come, and at this point, they all wondered what they were to do, "If Cynder did get hurt, I might, might, I should say, slit your throat, but, because I'm such a nice guy, I will be quick and then heal you, okay?"

"That... Doesn't help one bit."

Taking his paw from Malefor's shoulder, Spyro sighed, and getting this feeling of heavy sadness in the air, making him start to feel sad as well, he tried to keep things fine, "And you said I cry a lot. Carith," Looking behind himself, he waved his paw over to him, and she knew what this meant, walking over to him and taking over, "Help little sour patch over here. He's pretty sour, but soon he'll be sweat..."

"And then gone, dib shit, that's how it goes."

"Not my problem," Spyro smiled, waving a paw as he turned away from him and over to his lover, "I'm not going to be the one to kill you, so I can help with your life anytime else."

Growling at him, Malefor spoke under his breath with a growl, and since Carith was there in front of him, she heard him, "Definitely takes that lying side from the Dark Master."

"Cut him some slack, Malefor. He doesn't know how serious this is, and what's to come of this war. For all he knows, we could all just being say this stuff out of fear for what Ignitus said, but he's trying to hide it. Or he believes this all to be a lie... We don't know what is truly to happen... But we all know, if we can't stop that Destroyer... Spyro will have to, and I don't think Cynder could wait three years. She will kill herself or even one of use," With Carith going through all the possibilities, it made sense to him as he knew that Spyro truly didn't understand of what was to happen, nor of what Cynder would face of heartbreak.

"We'd all split from one another, possibly become dull... just as we all once had been... So as of right now, we are in a lose-lose situation."

"Spyro, what will I do if you die?" Cynder asked, still sitting and looking to her left, away from him as he sat to her right, "What if there was something else that could've been done? What if you never had to die, but you did anyway, trying to be a hero that you didn't need to be? The life I'd live without you, if I met someone else and you came back, what would that do to you?"

"You'd leave me if I died?" Spyro whispered, trying to keep the tone up and good.

"Spyro... please..."

"Okay, okay, my love... For, what you've said, hehe, that would definitely suck if I did die when something else could've been done. But in the moment, you only know what to do that you know is right. Like with the Destroyer; waiting wasn't an option, and all I knew at the time was to do what I knew best; protecting you and everyone that I cared for. And by dying a hero, that... means my life is over. Coming back would make a sacrifice a little... pointless as that's the point of a sacrifice. I'd just have to, live my life as how someone dead should; A ghost, whom helps those from the shadows."

"I don't want to be one of these fakes. As far as this world knows... Spyro is dead, and my journey has ended." Walking to the entrance, Spyro stopped a couple of steps and sniffled as he tried to hold back his tears, "Malefor... Everyone... Please... continue to watch over her while I go and... live my life as a ghost from now on."

Sitting there, nearly lifeless, there wasn't anymore she wished to say, as the more she did, the more he would say something that only made her future more sealed then ever. His words weren't enough to make her talk, and unfortunately, Spyro didn't want to lie to her as it would only do the opposite of what he wanted, "Cynder... I'm sorry... It's just... I don't want to lie to you. That would only make my death hurt you more, and that's not what I'd want."

"Then what happened to together forever?! Back when we were helping our Hatch-I mean, Cora? What about all the other promises you made to me? Are those all just turned into lies now?! Then nothing you've ever said to me ever mattered?!"

Feeling as if all this was her fault, Celia took a couple steps to Cynder, wanting to apologise for what she had done, "Cynder... I'm sorry for, what I did."

"I don't give a shit what you did," Cynder growled under her breath before turning to face Celia, nearly with killer intent in her eyes, frustrated and upset beyond what she's felt before, "You wouldn't be the first whore who's tried to take Spyro from me," Celia backed up, even ducking her head at what she had said, and while the other wanted to step up to help, she declined before they could, "Everyone, get out! Me and Spyro are going to fight and none of you need to be here to see this."

"Fight? Cynder, calm down, everything is going to be fine," Carith tried to see if her voice would work, but without luck, it did nothing.

"Get... Out."

"Are you talking about that one book with the dude who goes to the house and the others want his eyes?" Malefor joked, trying to laugh at what he said, but this only proved to piss her off even more, "Hehe... Okay... Never mind... Celia," Waving a paw and turning to walk to the door, he didn't want her to see what was to happen, even though he himself didn't know what was to happen either, "Let's take you back down to the Chambers. We can intrude you to Blitz for the time being."

"I... Don't know if I'd want to anymore, but... I can follow," Celia murmured, knowing all this was her fault, and after what Cynder had said, she felt as though she really was who she said she was.

Spyro turned and watched as everyone made their way off of the room, walking past the doorway and walking out of the room. Once they were all out, Cynder walked to the middle of the room, tensed and ready for a fight, and even as he tried to calm her down, it wasn't working all too well, "Cynder, I've gotten strong to protect all of you. You don't need to worry about my death. As long as I'm strong, I can successfully do as I've wanted," Once she had sat down near the left wall that faced the entrance of the door, he saw her waiting, moving her tail from side to side as she stretched it, "I can correct my words, Cynder. Everything I've said will always stand true, because I'm not going to leave you, ever, my love. No matter what, I'll always try what I can to be with you, while helping keeping everyone alive."

"I can't believe you're lying to me," Cynder growled before snapping her fingers and pointing at the wall across from her, close to the gem room, "Get over there and fight me," His mouth opened as he didn't wish to do this, remembering what he's said every time they were to even attempt a fight, but she was confused, not knowing what else to do, "I know what you've said! But if you're truly strong enough, you'll fight me without hurting me, running out my stamina. And if I hurt you... I'm just going for poison, but not enough to burn, just enough to get through your scales," He gave a sad sigh, doing as he was told and walking over to where he was told to sit, and once he did, she stood up and ready herself for a fight, "This is all about endurance."

"Cynder... I've fought to keep a smile on your face... What could you have seen in the future to turn you around so badly?" Spyro asked, fearing as it seemed this anger and sadness was taking over her body, slowly but surely looking as though it was becoming permanent, "I know it's my death, but how bad is it? What else happened that you're afraid about that I should look out for?" Making her remember something that he had no knowledge of made things worse for her, and from where he was, he couldn't see her tears and continued to speak, "If Ignitus really made you suffer through such a nightmare, do I need to talk with him, or should I do as I always have, and stay with you, keeping you save as I wish to do to the end of the time."

The end of time will happen soon, especially when... if... you die, Cynder cried in her thoughts, disappearing into the ground with her shadow, making her way over to her lover. This was immediately a losing battle, but she knew she needed to try all she could, to try and win, to try and make something happen. Popping out from the ground, Spyro simply jumped to the side, which she anticipated, spitting poison at him while he was still in the air. Using his wings and tucking his body, the poison passed right under him, and watching as he landed perfectly back on the ground with ease, she blushed, but couldn't let this distract herself. Running to him and keeping the pressure on, she used her wind powers to swing her tail blade all around his body, yet he was much more nimble then her, If he losses, this only proves the failure for the future, and if he wins against someone as weak as me, would this not even matter? As I've said about his words, does anything matter without him? Growling at her thoughts, their battle made their way to the middle, and now with more aggression to think about, she had the perfect idea of an attack. Slicing underneath to his paws, Spyro gave a small jump to avoid her attack, but using her wind powers, she twisted her tail blade upwards, blew it upwards and let poison fly out from her tail blade. You lose... My love. Without even using his abilities, he kicked himself backwards with his wings, touched the edge of her tail blade and pushed himself off of it with ease before doing a back flip off of it and landing perfectly back on the ground a couple of steps away from her. Wh... What...? Watching as he sat down, Spyro saw her look at him in awe before watching as the poison splashed back down to the floor and over her tail blade. He didn't smile, but instead, tried once again to help, "My love... Please... Tell me what it is that you saw. This will be on me, and I will deal with my Father, but this... side of you, scares me. Similar to how my darkness is, it scares you, because that isn't me," Brining up once again about what she saw, her tail blade slapped to the ground, and once she pulled it back, he approached her and continued, "You've always been the most loving in this world compared to how others see you, and I know the truth of your love. But what I don't know the truth of, is what happened..."

"You died! Okay?!" Ducking her head down, unable to deal with these feelings any longer, Cynder needed to reveal the truth of what's happened, "You fought someone and didn't come back till three years later. Many fakes using paint tried to impersonate you, and every thing about that dream keeps happening! The paint, my poison that you stopped with your darkness, your ease and effectiveness in attack while keeping everyone safe when they tried to attack you," Picking her head up and now facing him, it seemed as what she was saying now made him understand the severity of the situation, "Because of what happened, I had panic attacks, anxiety attacks and near heart attacks because of... not being with you... And the worst part, that's something that could happen... There's no guarantee you'll even... survive... no guarantee everyone else... Will still be alive."

"Why would my father give you such a nightmare," Spyro growled, letting his darkness show as his anger was focused to what Ignitus had done.

"Ignitus tried to give me the easiest dream possible, that... was the easiest, not the most realistic... So if I lose you, my darkness could set off and I... could kill everyone."

"That's not likely to happen."

"Why's that."

"I made sure to keep that darkness around your heart for many reasons: If anyone else used the darkness to control you, if your darkness tried to take over, or anything else that may bring harm to you, then the darkness will start around your heart. So, even if someone puts darkness in your head, it could still be detected, neutralizing it before it became permanent. It's like a white blood cell."

"So... even if you were to die, you'd still protect me... From others... And myself."

"My darkness that I've given you is finite though. If it's over used and doesn't have enough time to regenerate, it would be gone forever. It doesn't have a source unlike your darkness so it can't make more, nor can it manifest with all of your darkness as I've controlled my darkness to not let such a thing happen. And since it's such a small amount, it wouldn't be able to take over your body either."

---

"And if he's fake, will you be able to keep your darkness in check to not kill him and turn on us?" Malefor murmured, making everyone frown as they remembered that fake, "If that darkness around your heart that Spyro gave you gives out, what then? Without Spyro, I can't train this darkness at all, and with his darkness around your heart attacking as a defense against anything else..."

---

Having another memory flash of the future, Cynder sighed, knowing what might happen is only coming closer and closer, but for now, she only wished to ignore it, "You... really thought the darkness through that you've put in my body, haven't you."

"I... needed to make sure even after that, you were safe... I needed to make sure nothing would happen, and there weren't any drawbacks to doing what I did," Seeing Cynder give a small smile, he gave a small smile back and after what was said, he apologized for what he said, and what he shouldn't have joked about, "I'm sorry for acting as though all your words, and the words from everyone else, were just fear over a nightmare that wouldn't happen. I didn't want you all to fear for such a thing."

"And... it doesn't help that, with us being the first timeline and all now after getting through the first nightmare Ignitus showed us... If we fail... We are, the failed timeline. We have no way to go back and undo what happened... No way to go off of help as Ignitus had once given us once before."

Damnit, Ignitus. Why did you show her the future and not me? I need to keep up my training then for when the day comes when ever that may be, Spyro thought, and going through everything in his mind of what he needed to do before paw, he made sure to first ease and calm Cynder of her anger, shooting forward and kissing her lips. Giving a pleased sigh through her nose, her body was finally able to rest, to feel at ease after so long through the day. Another one... another pleased feeling of pleasure, Unable to think of much more, she kept herself in the moment of the kiss, and the feeling was everything she's wanted since the day had started. Even if it's only been a couple of kisses... They've been... Amazing. In order to make it feel better of a kiss, he made sure to slide his lips off of hers which she appreciated, smiling much more then she had since Celia showed up. Seeing her give a pleased sigh once again as she looked up at him with a smile, he gladly smiled back, "There she is."

"Hey, I can be aggressive when I need to be, alright. I didn't change, I just showed who I really was."

"And which one is that, the aggressive beauty, or the flirty beauty who wished to fight over who's to be on top?"

Give a blush with her sigh, she knew which one it was, and so did he before she even said anything, "Fighting to be on top with these stories... And, since we're talking about it... Can we please go back to our room and have some fun with said stories. Being calmed thanks to you... I don't want to go back to being like that... to who I will be in the future... Me being who I was right there is who I was shaping up to be."

"I'm keeping my promises to you, Cynder," Spyro whispered, taking a step up and being nearly face to face with her, "Unfortunately, I can't... lay with you, not just yet. I need to train to make sure I can successfully protect everyone without having to die for it. And while I could stretch out my muscles with my darkness, I'm pretty sure you don't want to feel my body move and adjust as my darkness works," Seeing her shiver rather uncomfortably, he chuckled knowing even for himself that it was rather gross, "Hehe, yeah, it's not great."

"Well... I won't stop you. I just, need to know you're here, so I'm just gonna go lay down by the door."

"You sure you don't want to train with me?"

"Wh... You'd... allow me?"

"You said you missed it, and I already did agree, and having you as an ally for battle I do miss, so... Why not."

"Hehe, I already have some many stories ideas we can play around with, you don't even know."

"Can I have one of them?"

"Well, one of them is about how I successfully poison you during our battle, and doing as I did before, I will try my best to keep you poisoned for what you said."

"You can try, that's for sure."

"Cocky dragon you are."

"You love it."

"Of course I do. You know you have me trapped under my love for you."

---

"So where does Blitz live, Ignitus?" Malefor asked as he sat in the Chamber near his usual wall with Carith sitting next to him and Celia sitting next to her, "I know it's a weird question, but it's pretty funny when you think about it. One, he'll wonder how we know where he lives. And two, we'll know where he lives. Hehe, which means, if needed, instead of picking on you all, I have another one to mess with."

"Uhhhh... He, lives... Down from the right side of the Chambers," Cyril answered for him.

"That close!"

"After helping save Warfang, we found it only fair that he could live up here."

"Hehe... Hehehe!"

Running around the two who backed against the wall, Malefor made it to the entrance of the Chambers and called out, "Blitz! Blitz! Your death awaits!" Running to the right of the Training Room, they all heard a slam, followed by a voice of which they all looked at one another with wide eyes, "Hereeeeeees, Malefor!" Hearing a crack, followed by claw steps, they heard as he opened another door and yelled in that room, "Blitz!" Once again hearing his claw steps, they started to fade the more and more he ran down the hallway, "Blitz, Damn it, where are you at! I have candy!" Hearing as he shut the door, his claws were now getting louder and louder, and once he made his way back to the Chamber entrance, he looked at the Cyril and asked, "You sure?! Cause I just looked through like three doors."

"Three?" Volteer asked, knowing the lay out of the entirety of the building, "You know there's ten doors down there that they could be in."

"Ten?!"

"You've already been to three. Just go through the other seven."

"Ughhhhhhhhh, that would take so long."

"Seven?!"

"You know, there's something I couldn't find ever since these Chamber were built, and even when we all came here and lived in this building."

"Yeah, and what's that?"

"Where I asked for your opinion!" Malefor laughed, looking to the ceiling and putting a paw on his chest, "Got his bassen ass!"

"Damn dude," Cyril chuckled, "He got you pretty good."

"And here I thought I was the only one who could get a piece of Volteer," Ersa snicker, making Malefor look down and now reject his joke.

"You are! I was making a joke... But wait, if you're getting a piece of him, does that mean he's missing scales?"

"I do focus on his scales here and here as he does for me, but then we..."

"SHUT UP!" Terrador interjected, causing the two mates to snicker, and while they were having a good time, he sure wasn't.

"It's Ignitus's fault. Well, technically Flint's, since we could've had a night, but he had to be another evil halfwit. As if we don't already have to deal with one whose a Hatchling."

"Who do we know like that?" Malefor asked, having to think for a second, but seeing Volteer cross his arms and look at him with a smile, he growled at him, "Damn it, man! I knew killing you would've been a decision I would've never regretted."

"Yes, you really would've," Ersa spoke, and knowing more as if he hadn't already, it made sense to him, "We've been here before, Malefor. You kill him, and I'll make sure my pressure points snap the ligaments in your arm before I use a microscopic virus that'll slowly eat away your entire body. Then, I'll make an antidote once you have half a working body."

Getting wide eyes from everyone, Malefor was the main one to have such fear of her, "What the hell, women. What did I do?"

"You just said you'd kill my mate! Whom of which I wish to have a Hatchling and family with!"

"Speaking of, guess who absolutely got laid last night," Everyone looked to Malefor's right side facing the Chamber's entrance while he looked to his own left side, and seeing who it was, it was the three friends with the one who had spoken being Blitz, "Haha! I'll give you a good hint, it wasn't this guy," Pointing at Malefor, it made him growl, but everyone else laugh, and seeing as though he was about to die, he corrected in his own way, "Hey man, I was going to say myself, but you definitely don't look like someone who would ever get any, that's all I'm saying."

"You wish to die," Looking away from Blitz, Malefor looked to the Guardians and said once again, "This Hatchling wishes to die."

"Blitz, you're such a liar," Carith murmured.

Looking over at the blue female, Celia, Blitz blushed, giving wide eyes to see her beauty, and seeing him look at her, she blushed and looked away, smiling as she did, "Excuse me, Malefor," Moving around Malefor and walking over to Celia, he tried to act like a cool guy as he stood in front of her, trying to put the moves on, "Hey. The name's Blitz. And while I would love to know your name, I wish for you to feel more comfortable with me. Being without a male, I can assure you I can be the man to give you such comfort."

"Whoa! Blitz, dude, what the, H, are you doing," Malefor cried, running up to him and trying to get him to stop.

"Trying to flirt man."

"That is not how you do it. You are going in full force. Like everything, just, take it nice slow and easy."

"Hey, Ersa, remember when you said those words to me?" Volteer whispered to her, making her slap his chest from embarrassment.

"I need a new spot in this line up, I swear I'm going to hurt someone," Terrador grumbled, ducking his head in anger.

"Is that not what I was doing?" Blitz asked, a little confused of what he was meaning.

"Jumping up and telling a female to get under your wing and to snuggle up to your body so quickly is not the way to talk to her. Look, this is what you need to do, alright. Walk up to her, put your paw to her shoulder, look her the eyes, and go... 'Hey'," Malefor suggested, and since he didn't catch on to his reference, he heard Volteer laugh, "My man! Anyway, just, ease up, man. Calm yourself while being yourself. And don't use the fact that you saved Warfang as your back up. They want to see your strengh, not hear about it. They want to be protected, not threatened. While it's nice to talk and all about such things later on, now isn't the time."

"How... I know you have a lover, but how do you know all this?"

"When I started dating Carith, i wanted to make sure I didn't mess up my chances. So I practiced with the Guardians on what I should and shouldn't say to her."

"No way, you did not do that."

"He did," Terrador grumbled, remembering back to such a horrible time, but he smirked as he remembered, "But the good news is, every time he failed, I slapped him so hard across the face, and it was the most fun I've ever had in my life! Just, slap, then thud."

"Meet the Guardians; The biggest shit heads since the beginning of time," Malefor growled.

"What did I say? What did I do?" Ignitus asked, trying to play incident.

"You slammed my head down on your tail!"

"Because you set it on fire!"

"Oh wow, play the blame game."

"Says you!"

"I can't handle such lies."

"Now I'm remembering why we were fine with Spyro and Cynder killing you in the Volcano."

"Yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, Blitz, going back to you, just, simple is better then bigger," Seeing Ersa open her mouth to say something to Volteer, he cut the two off before anything was said, "I don't care and neither does anyone else about your disgusting mate stories!" She looked away from Volteer and growled at him, angry he interrupted her words to her mate, "I can't say anything around her without it being a innuendo or some bad phrasing."

"It's okay, Malefor. Thanks for your help, and I will, try my best to use what you taught me," Blitz thanked, and giving a nod with a smile, Malefor backed away, and seeing Celia pick up her head while looking dead in his eyes, he swallowed hard, shaking and blushing from her beauty, "H-H-Hey... My name is... Blitz... Oh, well, I already said that, and I..."

"Oh, this is so hard to watch," Malefor spoke under his breath, shaking his head along with his uneasiness.

"Ahem!" Correcting himself, he tried once again to fix what he was to say, not wanting to mess up his chances to be with her, "I just wanted to talk with you and, get to know you of course as you seem like a rather nice and gentle dragoness. If you'd like to, I'd love to maybe take you somewhere nice where we can talk or something... But I don't want you to think I'm being a creep or anything, please feel free to say no, but... If you'd like to... I would... love to address you properly as to not be rude when I need to get your attention."

While Celia giggled from his words, Malefor hissed through his teeth and laughed, "Damn dude, she giggled at you attempt."

"Don't listen to him," Celia spoke to Blitz, making her voice shine which only made Blitz sit straight up as to not make a fool of himself, "As to who my name is, I will gladly tell you, it's Celia. It's a pleasure to meet you, Blitz."

"I'm glad I can make you smile. It's a pleasure to know your name, Celia."

"And for your request," Purposely pausing, he held his breath as he wondered what she was going to say, but he's been rejected plenty of times before, so he knew this wouldn't hurt him too bad, "If you're making this out to be as I believe it sounds, I would have to say... Yes, to your date."

Getting a gasp, especially from him, Blitz's tail wagged as he gave a huge smile, and once she giggled, he realised what he was doing and stopped his tail before he made an embarrassment of himself, "Ahem... Sorry, I don't wish to disrespect such an beauty that can stand even with the likes of the Ancestors. If you wish to, I want you to feel comfortable, so do you wish for our date to be today or tomorrow?"

"I need to return to my parents for tonight, but I'd love for us to go tomorrow."

"Then... It's a date?"

"It's a date."

"I won't disappoint you."

Giving a slight frown as she remembered what Cynder had said, Celia looked to Carith and asked as it still got to her, "About what... Cynder said... Is that... true?"

"I don't see why it would be? Your try to get with Spyro was off of what everyone else has said, but feeling of real love and dedication is different. Love who you believe, not who others want," Carith assured her, and hearing that Celia had feelings for Spyro, Blitz gave a slight frown as he knew it was too good to be true.

"Celia... If you love, Spyro... Then try and be with him... I want you to feel happy, and..."

"Blitz," Looking to him, her words were enough to make his head stick back up from his sadness, "The only thing I'm thinking about now and looking forward to, is our date. Please, don't worry about that as I don't either. I want to know you, to see your smile, and know who you are. But if this is how you are, then I will just note it down for the time being."

"No no no! It's not, I swear... I promise, and as with ever other promises that I can make to you, I will make sure never to break any of them."

"Then if you act as yourself, our date will go smoothly. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow."

"You too."

Now with the date set, she sat up, turned left, and walked off from the Chambers, giving a smile on her face as she was rather excited for her date. Now with Blitz the center of attention, both him and Celia cried out joyfully in unison, "Yes!" Malefor heard both while everyone else only heard Blitz as he celebrated, "Wait! But now I have an issue to worry about, and it's all about me! It is me! What do I need to say, what do I need to do, and what about getting prepared! I need to make sure my hair is good!"

"Dragons don't have hair," Malefor pointed out.

"Sesal, Bolt, what do I do?!"

"Blitz, clam down," Ignitus stepped in, and he watched as Blitz spun around and looked at him, "You were such a help in keeping my clone calm that I wish to help and do the same. Just, take a deep breath in, and then out, and just, as she said, be yourself. There's no reason to be afraid. If you do play this right, she really would like to meet someone to be with, so as long as you are yourself, you stay calm, don't make a joke about seeing any females sexy wet body, you'll be fine. And especially don't look at any other female."

"That should be really easy then, especially since she's so beautiful, it won't be that hard to take my eyes off of her."

"Make sure you listening. If you're only after her body, one, that's pretty disrespectful..."

"Which I would never disrespect! Neither her nor your all's view point on me. I need to make sure to listen, keep things slow, and hold off on my jokes till later," Keeping himself calm, he knew the best way to do that was to take half his mind off of it and ask other questions before he did something stupid, "Oh, hey, off topic, what was with the hole in the door? I heard Malefor yelling for us, and I heard the door next to us open, but then he just walked away."

"Oh Kill Me!" Malefor cried in frustration, "One, More, Door."

"If you need us to kill you, we're all ready," Cyril chuckled.

"F-U."

"Your boy would be like, kisses."

"I just need to get some rest and not look like a slug when I meet her," Blitz told himself, keeping himself calm and not wanting to mess this up.

"Dude, you've struck out like, nine times. Maybe your tenth will do it," Bolt brought up.

"You struck out nine times?! Holy shit dude, that sucks so hard!" Malefor snickered, trying his best not to laugh and be rude.

"Hey, Malefor, with your last couple of words, can I say something to Volteer?" Ersa asked with a raised brow.

"Oh my fu... Will you two just go to your room and wait for us to go to bed before doing something? You two are disgusting," Malefor grumbled, and immediately, they agreed, getting up and running behind Blitz before running past Malefor's right and to their room, "Just breath... Just breath."

"You should've seen his first strike out. He walked up to a girl, she looked at him and said, 'Nope', then walked away."

Seeing as Malefor was about to burst from laughter, Carith and the others cried out, "Just Breath, Malefor! Breath!"

"You two are shitters for saying that," Turning and walking over to his friends, once he walked past Malefor, they watched as he fell to the floor, slamming a paw to the ground and trying to stop himself from laughing, "I was going to thank you Malefor, but now... Eh... As for the others, thank you for your help," Waving a paw at his friends, he walked past them and to the right side of the hallway as they went back to their room together, "Come on, guys. I need some help with practicing my talk with the girls. And no, Bolt, you can't slap me if I say something wrong."

Now with the three leaving, Malefor looked to his left and knew he needed to wait just a bit longer before he could proceed. Once he picked up his head and saw as the door closed, he let loose his laughter that he'd been holding in ever since his friend said what had happened, "HAHA! Hahaha! Holy Ancestors, that is friggen hilarious! And not even just that, but nine times, nine, times? Oh my goodness, I need to tell the other two about this one."

"If they aren't fighting anymore," Carith murmured.

"They weren't really fighting though... aside from the fact that she wanted to fight him, but I mean, they wouldn't really fight each other."

"We don't know for sure."

"Then let's get back up there and find out," Waving a paw over for his lover to follow, she walked up to his side, and giving her some more time to walk over and joked with the two, "Hey, in case we need some extra space to sleep, I don't want to sleep in these other rooms as they are cursed for me, so is it okay if we lay in the Sleeping Chambers with you all?"

"I mean... There is always Volteer's bed," Cyril suggested.

"Hehe, hell no. I'm afraid to lay anywhere that him and his mate have slept on. I guess my best bet would be to just pull the mattress across from a room and into the back."

"You'd go through all that effort just to get a bed in the back room."

"It's not that much effort."

"You can't just stick the bed through the door. You have to angle it upwards, avoid the lanterns that light the hallways, and if you were to hit one of those, it could light the bed on fire."

"Now you're making it sound annoying."

"Because it is! That's the whole point!"

"Yeah yeah, what ever. I will find a way. Goodnight,"

"Oh wait! Malefor!" Calling out his name, the two turned back around to face what sounded like Terrador, and seeing as it was him, the two lovers turned to face him, "This is, rather stupid of me to ask, but do you think you could change the Guardians ultimate attack name?" Seeing as Malefor raised a brow, it was a rather simple thing for him to answer even though he wish he didn't have to, "The Elements Of Devastation? I really, really hate that Damn name. I was talking with Ignitus and had hopes you could change it."

"You want me to change the best sounding ultimate name in the entire world?" Malefor asked, and hearing everyone hiss through their teeth, he blew a raspberry at all of them for that, "Alright, fine, I will change it. And since I want to be completely original with my name, Ignitus, I wish for you to judge my ultimate names if you'd be so kind," Getting a nod from him, now all Malefor had to do was figure out what name he was going to make for his new friendlies ultimate attack, "Oh, I got it! Gouken's Ultra!"

"Taken," Ignitus quickly spoke, declining the name.

"No, Taken is a dark corrupted enemy from another book."

"Not a move name and way too long."

"Oh... It's gonna be like that."

"Hehe, Oh yeah. I'm gonna enjoy this."

"Alright... fine. I got another one: Falcon, Punch!"

"Nope."

"Omni Slash?"

"Um... No."

"Get Over Here!"

"Are you trying?"

"I'm trying Damn it! Cut me some slack... Anyway, what about, Shoryuken!"

"That's a fighting move."

"Spirit Bomb!"

"Only requires one user."

"Death's Reaping Rampage?"

"Still no."

"Raiden's Chiropractic Kill?"

"You didn't even take the dudes name out of the attack."

"Deathstroke's Body Blender?"

"Still didn't take his name out."

"Ugh! I'm trying!"

"Not really."

"I'm gonna slit your... freaking... throat!"

"Dumb ass name."

"AAAHAHAHA!"

"Breath Malefor, you can do this, little one."

"YOU...! Wait..." Now finally having calmed down, an idea did come to mind of a complete idea he had for moves that he knew weren't taken, "I have a perfect one. How about; The Four X Elemental Disintegration?" Seeing that they were kinda on the fence about what he had said, for Malefor, he rejected his own idea as it seemed way too long for an ultimate name, "Wait wait wait, that's way too long. I know there's bigger ones out there, but... No one remembers those anyway so, something simple... simple... Oh! What about: Elemental Desolation?" Seeing everyone gives wide eyes as it seemed like a perfect name, short, yet simple, Malefor believed he could do better, "Actually, maybe..."

"No!" The three Guardians cried, making Malefor jump as he didn't expect their voices.

"Elemental Desolation is rather fitting. And since we don't even know how my fire will work now even after the power boost, it could actually have such an effect," Ignitus smiled.

"Yeah. I even have to agree. Great... Job... Malefor... Ehehehe," Shivering in uneasiness, Terrador never knew he'd say such a thing in his life.

"Looks like we're all in agreement then," Cyril also agreed.

"Are you sure? Cause I could do..."

"Go to bed!" The Guardians all cried.

"Alright, Alright... Damn."

Walking with his lover out of the Chambers and to the left of the hallway, Malefor thought of a rather dangerous yet fun little prank he wanted to pull, so, once they got to Volteer and Ersa's room, he whispered for his lover to wait, "Wait wait wait, come here real quick," Grabbing the door knob, Carith eyes grew wide at to what he was going to do, but luckily, it wasn't as bad as she thought his prank was going to be, "I'm gonna scare him by acting that I'm gonna open the door and see what they do," Not wanting to make a sound, she ducked her head back before waving a paw across her neck, hoping he wouldn't, but of course, he did, "Volteer! Oh Volteer!" Shaking the door knob as though he was about to enter, he snickered as he continued, "Volteer, you haven fun in there? I need to ask you a... UGH!"

The door knob electrocuted to the point where he couldn't let go of the door knob, and all of his body tensed up nearly to the point where it felt as though his scales were closing in on themselves. Finally able to let go of the door knob, Malefor fell to his body, still shocking and twitching from here to there before finally getting back to his paws. Coughing up some smoke, Carith shrugged her arms in a smile as she knew this was to happen, but he growled at Volteer for that, "Wow... What an-UGH-Ass munch."

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"This was a lot easier when I was, eh... Actually trained," Cynder spoke, spinning around to avoid two attacks before landing back on the ground, spinning and cutting the legs of two dark creatures, "I'm definitely... running out of... breath," With more attacks coming towards her, she backed off the two who attacked her, sensed another one behind her, and moved to her left by jumping off the ground, but with another dark creature, she used her wing to flip herself upside down, grabbing its chest, twisting it, and slamming him to the ground as she got back to her paws, "May need some... assists here."

Being surrounded by the dark forces, a black blur went around the training room, one by one killing all of the creatures around her as to give her some space to breath. Once there was enough room, Spyro appeared in front of her and raised a brow at her, "Running out of breath so soon?" Getting a raised brow from her, he chuckled as he understood what she was getting at, "Yeah, I know, I've definitely trained way more then you have, but just remember your wind powers to control you air."

"It's definitely becoming more and more difficult as I need to control two elements at once here and there."

"Well, I can be here to support when ever needed. Should we continue the call for support or do a two on a hundred?"

"We can still do a call. Learning how to use this dark power you gave me will help me better control it."

"Alright then, see you later."

Jumping upwards into the air on his back, he spun downwards into the middle of the group of dark forces, and she watched as the entirely of the middle was burned in a blue explosion of fire. Getting her breathing back, she questioned herself when it came to her own strengths, I remember with that chain we had, the strengh I had then, and even when trying to protect Spyro. It's crazy what's happened to me since I haven't trained... I can't even synchronise with our powers to get into our mode from before. Being deep in her thoughts, a dark enemy took the opportunity to take a stab to Cynder's body, and being successful, it came from her side and stabbed her right in the arm. Letting out a painful growl, she swung her paw around, grabbed its neck, and snapped it in two. Dropping his body and looking at the spear in her arm, it looked rather painful as blood spilled from the wound, and she twitched just seeing it, How does Spyro... do this? Grabbing the spear and ripping it from her arm, she let out another painful growl, falling slightly down to her right as the blood still spilled from her wound. I can't let something so simple take me out... So... Just walk it off. Getting back into the battle, she did as before, mainly using her wind powers to keep her body nimble, spinning when in the air, sliding, and dodging attacks from here to here. Feeling herself start to lose her breath again, she took to the ceiling and tried to catch her breath. Once she made it up top, Cynder watched from above as Spyro tore through the battlefield like it was nothing, and no scratch or wound she could see at all. Calm down my love. Giggling at his strength, she looked at the door to see Malefor and what looked to be Carith. The two walked in and waved at her, and waving back at them, she lost track of the battle. Charging its bow, the creature sent it's arrow right to Cynder from a blind spot behind her. With the speed of the arrow, it flew at a speed to go right through the top scales of her wing, digging itself halfway through her wing, "UGH!"

Taking out her left wing, she fell to the ground, and watching in horror at the dark forces bellow ready to kill her, though she wanted to keep going and see what she could do, but that didn't happen. In the blink of an eye, the dark forces beneath her were gone, with the only thing under her now being Spyro. Catching her in his wings, he zipped past all the dark forces, burning them all around and incinerating them from the heat he gave off from his scales both front and back, but making sure he didn't burn her, he kept his wings, chest, and anything near her cool. Making it over to the two, he eased her body off, making her give off a slight growl as she could feel the pain from the arrow still in her wing. Seeing as the dark forces were closing in on them, Malefor got into a fighting stance, calling out to Spyro as he stood ready, "Spyro, they're still here!"

With Cynder eased to the ground on her right side, Spyro turned around and watched as they all stood around them in a half circle, all ready and blood thirsty for a kill. I don't know if this could work, but thinking about it, it could, Spyro thought about what he wished to do, being in a fully consumed dark mode, he knew he needed this power to pull it off. If I could split the darkness from me, could I make a clone of myself? With that clone, could we do the same output of power? Taking a step forward, Spyro saw this from Malefor and put up a wing to block him, getting a confused look from him. Concentrating on his darkness, they watched as it looked like his darkness started to split into two, with it stretching outwards to his left side, manifesting into something more. Being fully flesh out, they gasped to see it was another copy of Spyro, same look, and for Spyro, hopefully the same power, That was much easier then I thought it would be. Raising a paw up, so did his clone, and as he snapped his fingers, so did the clone. Snapping their fingers forwards and pointing at the army, two explosions of blue fire lit up the entire room in all directions in front of them, leaving noting left as the shock wave of fire swept through. With the job done, the clone disappeared back into Spyro's body like a cloud of smoke, becoming one with his darkness once again. Giving a sigh, Spyro came back to his normal form, and with the threat being eliminated, he turned his attention to his lover who laid down on her right side, exposing her bleeding wing and her arm. Seeing him give a sad sigh, Cynder could only smile and hope he would accept his apology, "Sorry, my love... I was doing good till I started to get exhausted. And before you say anything, look on the bright side; A dark creature hurt me, which means you get to hurt Malefor."

"That is the most bull ass thing you've ever said, Cynder. Trying to get me killed is beyond you... Wait, everyone wants me dead around here... I guess that's just normal Cynder then," Malefor whimpered, feeling as though death was around every corner.

Watching Spyro inspect her wound, Cynder was prepared for the worst when it came to the arrow that was still stuck half way through the top of her wing, "Hehe, this is gonna suck, but... I'm ready when ever you are to pull the arrow out from my..."

"I'm not pulling that out," The three had seen that he had been inspecting her body for a while, and it seemed he had an idea that he wanted to try, "My darkness heals my body so I don't have to use my time power. This, combined with you constantly giving me power is what kept me alive during our battle with the Dark Master. Ignitus and I experimented in it by me purposely hurting myself, and now I wonder, does it work for others as well,"

Easing his paw on her arm, his darkness swirled around his paw, and preparing for the pain of his arm touching her opened wound, she looked away, clenched her teeth, even closed her eyes. But after a couple of seconds, she felt his paw touch her arm, but didn't feel any pain. Slowly opening her eyes, she eased up her breathing and looked over to see Spyro taking his paw from her wound, and to her surprise, along with everyone else's, the blood from her arm was gone, along with her wound. Studying his work and taking mental notes, Spyro wanted to study more of this healing aspect, "So, using my darkness further prevents pain. And if it travels around the body, similar to me, it gets rid of the blood," Making it over to her wing, they watched as he did the same think to her wound, only a little different as he placed his claws in between the arrow, "I don't wish for this to cause you pain, so, instead," Hearing a metal piece of something hit the ground, Malefor and Carith saw it to be the metal end of the arrow, and looking away from the metal piece as it disappeared, they once again gasped as the wound and blood was gone, and Spyro held the wooden piece in his paw, "In case anything is in the scales, I can deconstruct it to the point of incineration... I still need to know more of what I can do with my cloning powers, and these... Healing, powers."

"Dude, Spyro," Malefor called his name, breaking his thoughts, and while they spoke with one another, Cynder stood back up on her own, feeling herself out as she was able to once again move with ease, "Ho... How are you doing all this? Did you just think about this right here and now, or is this because of something else that you've done in the past?"

"Well, the healing part, me and Ignitus already tested, just needed to try it on someone else. And for my cloning, it was something I was thinking about during me and Cynder's battle with these dark creatures. So, with us getting swarmed, thought it would be as good of a time as ever," Sitting down and putting a claw to his chin, he started to get right back into his thoughts about these such powers, "And I really want to know more of my cloning powers: Can I split into more, do they work off the same power as me, and if so, would it be risky even making some as it could split my darkness by half."

"Hey, Cynder," Calling her name, she looked back to see it was Carith who called her name, "Does this mean you and Spyro aren't... or, are done, fighting?"

"Oh, no, we weren't fighting. I just... I... told him about how bad the future could be. Once he understood that, he turned around completely with his emotions," Turning to face her friend, she frowned as she was honest with her, "I can't handle what the future has in store for us, and having Spyro understand the danger will just help more... hopefully. But now comes the unfortunate part; When will this attack happen, and will we be prepared for it."

"Will be prepared, Cynder, I promise you," A voice spoke, and turning around to see it was Spyro, she listened to his words, "It seems like this entire problem is revolved around me and Malefor's friendship, and while it could be a dark army attack, if Malefor could answer my questions I gave to him, then I can guarantee that there's going to be no bad blood between the two of us," Looking over to Malefor, he wondered if he had the answers to his questions yet and asked him if he did, "Well, Malefor, do you have your answers yet, or, do you need more time? Maybe you need some kind of easier questions?"

"No no no, I can answer the questions you gave me, I just..." Sitting down and trying to think back to the questions, Malefor had plenty of time to think about what the answers could be, though he didn't use his time wisely, "I can get your answer to one more of your questions, but unfortunately, not one other. With all that's happened, between Celia, your and Cynder's fight, it was rather difficult for me, especially if you two were to break up... I... I was scared to come back up here if I'm being honest."

"Scared? Malefor, we weren't fighting. Cynder was scared, that's all that was happening, she didn't know what to do, especially since she couldn't come to me about what was happening. Once she did, I understood why you all were acting the way you did. Now understanding why you all said what you did... I probably shouldn't have said anything at all as that only made the situation worse on all of you, and I apologies for that."

"Speaking of apologising... Does Celia feel... bad about what I said to her," Cynder asked, feeling rather terrible for what she had said.

"I helped her look past that the best I could," Carith spoke, comforting her friend as to what had happened, "She just wants someone to love, and they heard how devoted Spyro was to his lover, and she wished to have someone like that. Lucky enough for her though, she was able to score a date with one of the friends. The red one, Blitz."

"Blitz? I wonder how she would feel if I told her all the times Blitz looked at me."

"He's gonna fell terrible for that."

"Well, now with him being with someone else, hopefully he won't make that mistake again."

"Oh! Speaking of Blitz, did you know that dude fell out of nine relationships?!" Malefor laughed, remembering back to the most memorable thing that had been said during that conversation, "The funniest thing that was said, is that, the dude walked up to someone, she looked at him, and went, 'Nope', then walked away from him," Laughing once again, Cynder snickered, trying not to laugh at something so bad, but for Spyro, he gave a small laugh as it was pretty funny, "Oh man, now that we are on the topic of lovers, I really wish we were all with the Guardians. There's this funny mate abuse story that I remember."

"That sounds horrible," Carith hissed through her teeth in uneasiness.

"Oh, no no no. They weren't mates, my bad. They were friends with benefits... Or, well, just a one and done kind of thing."

"Is this about someone else you were with?"

"What? Hehe, hell no. I've seen plenty of females in my life, and you've been my one and only. But, hey, Spyro, now that I'm in a better mood, I should be able to answer one of your other questions," Now getting all eyes on him, Spyro wondered what question it was going to be, and for the question he chose, it was rather surprising for Spyro, "If the Destroyer came back because of the darkness, the only thing I could think is that, it might really be me, or someone else who's found and used the Destroyer for themselves. It's not hard to summon the Destroyer. The main thing though is that, the Destroyer needs I running start. Kicking off and having a head start gives more speed then just being right there. The Destroyer needs time to build up speed before flinging itself into the volcano, so we'd have time to destroy it."

"So... We'd have time to destroy it is what you're saying?" Spyro asked, and seeing him give a nod, he had another question he wished to have answered, "What about the wall of fire?"

"Couldn't happen. Only on first summon could such a thing happen as to where it is. It can't be summoned from the ground, but if you have the strength, patience, and willpower, you could find where it was born, put it back, and do this birth of it all over again basically. Lucky for me, I still have the thoughts of the Dark Master, so I know what can and can't happen with the Destroyer."

"That's good to hear... And, what about the friend question?"

"That... would definitely hurt... But, I can understand your uneasiness when it comes to seeing such a thing, so if you'd need more time, I'd understand."

"Which is good to hear of course. I think the main issue right now is, when does my supposed death happen of course. Since we are already on good terms, I would say I should focus more on power building. For tomorrow, I do wish to train more to get myself ready. Putting myself through intense training as I once had done before could help, or..." Seeing Cynder was already against such training ideas, he gave a chuckle as he knew he was going to get such a reaction, "Hehe, yeah, I guess that wouldn't be a good idea. But, hey, Malefor, we could always do your idea. Before becoming friends tomorrow, we can have a spar to get out any other feeling of anger. And while I don't have any towards you, I'd still be a good idea."

"So then, for the time being, do you want to rest up?"

"I have no problem with that."

With everyone whom sat now standing up, they all made their way out the Training Room entrance and out into the hallway. Walking over toward their respective rooms, Cynder was the one to open her door, and for Carith, she opened her door once reaching it. Knowing of the threat to come, Malefor had to make sure one last time, wanting to be at ease before he went to bed, "Hey, Spyro, one last thing," Stopping before entering his room, Spyro looked to him, wondering what he wanted, "I do have fears that the darkness really will return, and I just want you to know that... Well, just remember what I've said before about the darkness; let's see who can rack up the most kills."

"Hehe, easiest challenge anyone has ever given me," Spyro chuckled at such a challenge.

"Yeah yeah, so you say."

Walking into their own rooms, Spyro turned back around, walked into his room, and using his tail, he shut the door behind himself. Seeing as his lover was already on the bed, laid down on her belly with crossed paws, he wanted to be honest with her about this whole situation that he's been in as he made his way to the bed, "I'm going to be honest; I'm rather scared that this really does have to do with the darkness," Hopping up on the bed next to his lover's left, he spun around and laid down on his belly as well, facing the door and putting a paw on the side of his face as he thought more about it, "Everyone keeps telling me that it's not Malefor, he's not my enemy, he's your friend. And then when it came to all the Guardians being up here, that only proves such suspicion."

"Like we've all been saying, and I do want to be a little honest with you... Let's just say that someone has gotten a hold of the darkness and wishes harm upon the world... But... It's technically my fault for what is to happen," Taking his paw down from his cheek, he wondered how this could've been her fault, and already brining it up, she knew she needed to tell him the truth, "Let's just say, this dragon, wants me. By giving myself up, he wouldn't attack us. And while I don't know who this is, Malefor or not, I could easily just give myself up, keep you safe along with everyone else."

"Malefor doesn't care to love you as his devotion to Carith is beyond what I ever expected. And for this dragon, tell him to go to hell. I'd rather die then give you up."

"And that could be what he or she is hoping for."

Giving a sigh, Spyro once again put his paw on his left cheek to support his head, thinking and tapping his paw in a row as he tried to think of something, Who could want to take Cynder from me? Out of all the others in this world, why her? He can't control her cause of my darkness being inside of her, and even if it's someone we know, who could that be? Blowing a raspberry and laying his head down on his paws, he gave an annoyed sigh of what's to happen, "We end a war just to be engulfed in another one... I'm not gonna lie, if Malefor really is my enemy as it turns out... It's really going to hurt.," Looking to his right and seeing her shaking her head, he chuckled, knowing he was worrying for no reason, but he questioned if something else was going on, "I'm starting to think Malefor is just using his darkness to fool both you and Carith."

"That's what you really believe?"

"Just a little suspicion."

"Spyro, I've been what he's been through. Being accused and having an identity that we never wished for, something we didn't have control of. That's why I trusted him so early on when he came back. That and cause of the help he gave when it came to protecting you and healing you."

"I know, I know, he did a lot to prove his innocence."

"Then stop worrying so much. If needed, you could always check me for his darkness."

"Would you, be upset if I did."

"No, because I know this will help ease your mind."

"Thank you, my love."

Using his darkness, her eyes grew slightly wide as she felt him moving his darkness all throughout her body, going up to her brain, then down through the rest of her body before finally moving back to her heart. Feeling the darkness rest back around her heart, it was a rather strange feeling for her having the darkness not around her heart, and she had to be honest with him about that feeling, "It's rather crazy, but... I feel rather alone without your darkness."

"Alone?"

"Well, having your darkness around my heart for such, what feels like, a long time, has made me feel comfortable when I'm both with you and when I'm not. I don't know, maybe it's just me."

"Hehe, no, it's not just you. I've felt the same ever since we traded our darkness."

"I still can't believe you let my unstable darkness near your heart."

"Oh please, I wasn't even afraid. I knew how to calm it, so it's fine. But now knowing you're telling the truth, I will definitely feel better going to sleep."

"Should've trusted me."

"I know..."

"Still love you of course."

"What do you say we kiss the night away then?"

"You won't get any sleep then."

"You'll be out in three minutes."

"Prove it then, Spyro."

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"Ignitus, we need to discuss what is to happen in the future," A voice spoke in Ignitus's mind, waking him from his sleep. Stretching out on his bed, he gave off a yawn, making Claire shift in the bed, moving her head more down his paws as she laid to his right. "We've found out more of what's to come. Flint wasn't lying about his army. There's about fifty to a hundred dragons with more and more joining his hideout. And with his darkness, he really is bringing the Destroyer to the battle." Giving a deep sigh, this was rather upsetting news. Once Ignitus had blinked and looked straight, his clone appeared in front of his bed, and muting out the sound from everyone else, they were freely able to have such a conversation without waking the other three, "We trade a war for another war. Well, in any case, what else information do we have that we can work off of?"

"Well, the Ancestors are not answering any of our questions so we are flying in dark. This is both good and bad, but with Warfang being our territory, you've already said and have been given permission to protect Warfang. So, combine you, the friends, the other Guardians and Claire's assassin works, he have the army to protect Warfang. The biggest problem is, even with Spyro and Malefor, how do we deal with the Destroyer?" The clone spoke more and more of what they could do, what information they could use, and what they have against the Destroyer, "If Spyro used this black ball he once used before, it could hopefully do significant damage, maybe even knocking it out of commission. And while I don't like the idea, Cynder getting hurt could prove to be... rather helpful."

"Unfortunately, that is rather true, but that should only be a last resort if needed. We could always act with some fake blood to act as though she had been wounded."

"I don't know if we have to worry about Spyro and Malefor's friendship splitting the two apart. After hearing of their talk, I'm sure Spyro would never do such a thing to upset and disappoint the others."

"That's good to hear at least."

"Do I need to keep you updated on anything else."

"Do we know when the battle is to happen."

"From the looks of it... It may happen tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?!"

"Yes... He's moving the Destroyer rather far, maybe about ten or twenty miles. One step from the Destroyer can make about about one tenth of a mile. But when the fighting starts, he will make it rather quick," This was rather frustrating news for him to hear, and even for the clone, it did make him shake from the fear of what's to come, "I wish we have more time to prepare, but... I'm guessing he doesn't want Spyro to get any stronger. So with the strengh everyone has now, this is it, the start of a battle of strengths. But for now, me and another clone are trying to figure out what to do if the Destroyer reaches the volcano."

"Making a rock square in the Volcano with a think center to stop it?"

"That's the problem; dealing with the weight. It's a million, maybe billion pounds of force going down into a volcano. It's called the Destroyer for a reason. Nothing can stop such a thing."

"Damnit..." With nothing really to do, the only thing they could lean on, was the strengh hidden within Spyro, "Faking Cynder getting hurt might be our best option. If he could use that ball of elements and darkness, it may put a hole within the Destroyer. And I don't think Spyro would have enough time to take control of it as, with what Flint is doing, he's putting beyond the amount of darkness that he just, wouldn't have enough time, especially since the Destroyer fights back."

"Then for the time being, should I just continue our research?"

"Yeah... We can't end up as a failed timeline. As I feel bad for what's happened to the other failed timelines, we can't end up like that, not after everything we've been through."

"Understood."

Disappearing in a light mist, Ignitus gave a sigh, resting his head back down over Claire, wondering what was to happen, what was to come of this battle, If only Flint was stupid enough to bring the Destroyer into Warfang as the Dark Master once did, but since all the information from the previous Dark Master stays with him as Malefor said, then... He won't make the same mistakes. Taking the Destroyer out will only piss him off more, and hopefully, we can just end this... I can't let my son die from this. Closing his eyes, his body shivered, knowing that, once he opened his eyes, he may be waking up to a fight of his life, And so, history repeats itself.