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.

27. Chapter 27: An Innocent Thanks

Chapter 27: An Innocent Thanks

"I can make you a promise, one that I wish for you to know that I'll keep till I die, or, even after death, I shall keep to you. No matter what has happened, I will never leave your side, and I shall always trust you no matter what happens, no matter what you say has happened in your past," Trying to ease his words, hoping they would get to her, it seemed like they were, and so, Cyril took a step to her, almost nose to nose with her, "Trust me... please... I will not do wrong by you, and this will just be between you and me. No matter what you say or do, I promise not to tell anyone as to keep you happy and safe so you know you can trust me."

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Hearing his words, Flair saw his smile, and for her, she had to smile as well, "So, you promise to not say anything, no matter what I say, or do?"

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Nodding his head, he still kept his smile, "I have hopes that... You can trust me, and I will never take that trust and throw it-UGH!"

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With her thoughts being rather too strong for her to handle, Flair was unable to sleep any longer. Her body came back in a shock, shaking even the bed from her sudden awareness to her surroundings. Opening her eyes, even as exhausted she still was, the only thing that had woken her was the very faint orange and yellow that started to shine into her room from the window above the bed, signifying it was morning. Knowing with what this meant for her, this she had to take full advantage of, remembering back to what she promised herself, Get up, and kill that bastard Cyril! Now having this anger back to her body, she closed her eyes once again before stretching her body out wide and letting out a huge yawn that opened her mouth all the way up. Her mouth came back down, her body eased, and now back to herself, she opened her eyes, ready for the slaughter to happen. Once I kill him, I'll kill Ignitus for being a witness of what happened last night. Even though he didn't see, I'm now on his watch list. And if he tells anyone else, I'm surely gone. For the time being now, she made her way off the bed, to the floor, and started making her way over to the door.

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"Cyril... Did Flair do this to you?" Ignitus asked in worry. "What? No. Absolutely not." Cyril responded to his words rather quickly.

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Her thoughts that lingered infected her mind, unable to back out of anything that she was thinking about. Back off! Her words did little to calm her thoughts as, the more she pushed them away, the more she thought about them. Having reached the door, she grabbed the door knob, twisted it, and opened it, seeing to the hallway as the door opened. Before she exited her room, she was easy about it, looking to her left and right, raising her tail blade and sharpening it, wondering if anyone would've shown that she didn't see or hear. Giving somewhat of wide eyes, no one was seen in the hallway. Focusing to the ground, she followed with her eyes to the Chamber to see the blood really had been taken care of, but this posed a problem. With this blood trail that was left last night, Ignitus will know where this all started; Right in front of my door. With this now being know, she couldn't let this continue any longer. So I really do have to kill him then. Turned to her right, she closed her door, and same with what she did with her eyes, she walked to the Chambers. Still sharpened with her tail blade, she made sure her fins were the same in case someone tried to attack her. Now taking a left into the Chambers, Flair's eyes went wide, gasping to see someone was already in the Chambers, waiting for her it would seem. Unknowing to her, the fins on her body and tail all eased, like they didn't wish to harm. The Dragon in the back of the Chambers, a little further away from the door than normal from where the Guardians sat, Cyril looked up to her, smiling, and even raising a paw up to greet her, "Good rather early morning, Flair."

Her teeth immediately showed, and having felt her body eased, she flexed it out, sharpening her fins on her back and tail as she once had done before. Walking up to him, even with how threatening she looked, he didn't seem all too worried, only sitting there close to the right wall, facing forward, as this was where he normally sat. Now nearly a couple paw steps away from him, her anger was enough to make a vein show from the top of her head, and rather then seeing his smile, even after putting his paw down, Flair yelled at him while still trying to keep quiet and not wake anyone else, "What the hell do you think you're doing up so early?! Why are you acting so nonchalant after what happened last night, after what I did to you?! Stop acting like everything is alright when it's not!"

"Whoa, Flair, it's okay. I was waking up early cause..."

"You knew I'd come by and slit your throat?! Because you knew of my plan after what I said to you?!" Flair interrupted Cyril, trying to fill in the blanks for herself.

"Because... I wished to talk with you some more."

"Then why wait in the Chambers?!"

"Because I knew you'd come by, wanting to kill your witnesses."

"WH... How! How did you know that?!"

"Volteer has taught me a thing or two, and while I didn't listen to him much back then, I've learned to change, like how I've also learned to change those around me," Closing the gap that separated the two, he continued to speak even being so close to her, knowing what she could do, but he didn't seem effected by this at all, "Last night, it only proved my points that, you've been betrayed as you even said; 'How we'd all turn our backs on you'. Even before knowing that, I didn't wish for that to happen. Now knowing my theory is a fact... I don't wish for you to be hurt any longer."

"Is that why you didn't hurt me when I was trying to kill you?!"

"Hurting you like what's happened in the past won't change anything, and it sure won't help you. Also, if I'm here to help you, why would I hurt you? Why would you trust me if all I do is hurt you?" The more he talked, the more her teeth grinded, the more her tail curled as she wished to swing it, to use it in an instant to slit his throat, "Last night has also taught me that, you, as everyone else, has a heart. Yours has been damage though, so... I hope that I can be the one to repair the void left from what ever happened in your past."

"Cyril... Remember what you said last night, about not telling anyone about what I say or do?"

Already having an idea of what she was to do, he gave a slight frown, sighing even, "Flair... Please don't."

She didn't wish to hear his words, but instead, wished to hear his death. Using her fist first, she punched him in the chest, making him lift with a growl. Up to the air only slightly, she grabbed his neck with her paw, and using her tail blade, she reached around his back two paws, yanked her tail forward, and made him slip forward. His body hovered in the air for a second before crashing down to the ground on his back with the help of Flair's paw on his neck. Now to his back once again, she jumped over him, stabbing him through the chest as she once had before, only, unlike before, she did it with enough force to almost send it out his back. Letting out a cry of pain, blood was sent up to the air before coming back down to his face. Taking her paw off his neck and placing it over his mouth, what happened last night, she didn't wish to repeat, "I'm going to change what I failed to do last night! To hell with your words, your help, your... Lies!" Trying to take her blade out, this only proved more painful for him as she wiggled the blade from within his body, which she rather appreciated, "Well this is rather nice, isn't it," Struggling to breath through his nose as the pain was too much for him, she enjoyed hearing his deep inhale and exhale as this was only causing him more pain, "This is much better when my paw isn't around your neck. Makes for the suffering a whole lot more fun to hear."

Now with her tail blade moving from within his body, she yanked it out as hard as she could, making Cyril duck his head back and let out a painful cry. The blood that was pulled from within his chest splashed upwards, getting blood on her body, tail, and neck. For Cyril, blood spilled once again from his chest as last night, only worse as she had done more damage to one area then she had done last time. His cry was rather loud, so to shut him up, she did as she had before, putting her paw over his mouth and yanking his head forward to force him to look her in the eyes, "Shut up! Shut that mouth of yours! If you want to help me, you'll die without alerting anyone of what I'm doing, understand!"

While she wished for him to retaliate, he only pissed her off more without even knowing it. Trying to control his breathing, he closed his eyes, shedding a tear which dripped down off the side of his face. Seeing as he was accepting his death, her fins once again shot upwards in anger, causing her own voice to show the same, "What are you doing?! Get up! Wake your ass up! Hit me! Attack me! Your life is on the line you dumb ass!" He didn't say anything to her, not like he could as her paw was over his mouth, which she changed by taking her paw off his mouth, yanking it away from him hard enough to make his head look to the side for a second, "I said..." Lashing out with her tail blade now, she pushed it to his neck, but she eased it so it couldn't be used as a weapon, "Fight back!" Still, he didn't do anything, only looking to her with fear and worry, and in order to insight this fear, she groped his neck by moving her tail blade from the left and right side of his neck, pushing them close to a near instant death, "You feel that? All I would need to do is sharpen my fins, and, pop... You'd choke on your own blood for a while, to the point where your death would be as slow, and as painful as it needs. As it deserves, to be."

"Flair... please... listen to me."

"I won't!"

"Flair... last night, after what had happened, I asked Ignitus to heal my wounds, and when he asked what happened, I covered for you, and not because you didn't kill me, but because, as I said... I'd never betray you," Once again, his words stuck to her mind, making her growl even more, wishing she could only flex out her tail blade now more then ever and end what needed to happen, "Hehe, and, I mean, if you did kill me last night, will then, I guess I wouldn't have had to. But same as before, even after this, death or not, I don't want anything to happen to you. So, now by living, I will still continue to help you the best I can."

"You'll fail!"

"The only things you fail at are the things you don't try... Even if I do try and fail, I'd rather know that I tried rather then becoming a full on failure. This failure would follow me to my death, knowing I could've done something, knowing that, what if by failing, it actually helped my life, or someone else's, and that, in a way, isn't a failure. So, if by you killing me means I failed to live, but helped you in living a happy life afterwards... Then... I never really failed, did I?"

"Shut... up... please..."

"This is how parents feel. They'd do anything to protect their family, and while their death means they failed to live, keeping their Hatchlings or other family members safe from what ever the threat was isn't a failure. Because of those actions, it's... nice... to know that their actions others can smile on, knowing what they did, knowing they saved lives. My death, I hope, will save a life. And so... I will die knowing I'm not a failure."

"And what about your friends!"

"My family...? Well, you're trying to kill them, and me, so, by you killing me and saving your life, you wouldn't hurt anyone afterwards. And so, just as I said; Saving the lives of those around you in exchange for your life is just something that a parent, or hopefully, anyone else would do."

His words made everything all the more worse for her, unable to handle anything that he was saying. Having brought such a topic up, this made a stab to her heart as it revealed some of her past that she never knew she would've ever brought up, but the pain was too much for her to hold onto, "Bull Shit! If that's true, then I'm a failure of my own! Because of my actions, I couldn't protect my mother! And because of this, I lost everything! My life, my love, my family... even my father... So that means, I'm nothing but a damn failure... And I'm not living with your lies!"

Seeing her raise her tail blade backwards, Cyril could only give a sigh, saddened by what he was seeing, even what he was hearing. Since she was already swinging her blade to his neck, there wasn't anything he could do aside from accept what was to happen to him. As the fins went across his neck, he clenched his eyes shut, gave a hard swallow, tensed his neck muscles, and readied for the blood to splash from his neck. But when the fin came across, nothing. Instead, a painful and rather loud growl was let out from him. But it wasn't pain he felt from his neck, but rather, his chest. Opening his eyes as he eased himself, his eyes went wide to see the pain was from Flair who had fallen to his chest, crying over his body as her neck rested sideways to his neck. This made him give a frown to see her in such a condition, and even her soft cries she gave off as her fins dropped down to her body from her sadness, he wished to help her out. Taking up his paw, he began to pet the back of her neck, going from the top from where her horns were to down by her shoulder. Her fins felt smooth to the touch compared to what he felt before, which made him think, She feels so nice and smooth... Compared to the feeling of her tail blade, and her fins, not being sharpened feels rather... comforting in a way. Trying her best to threaten him with all she could, her voice wasn't much, but she hoped it would be enough, "Get your... paw off me before I... sharpen my fins, and they cut straight through you..."

Doing as he was told, backing his paw off her, Cyril gave a nice smile, even chuckling as he thanked her, "Thank you for the warning, Flair. I... don't want to upset you by continuing either."

Once again, his words frustrated her to no end, but she didn't even wish to stand, so instead, she let out a small, short cry, "Shut... Up..."

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It's really hard to get some sleep after what all had happened, Spyro spoke to himself in his thoughts, head picked up from the top of his lover's and looking to the front of the door. We... I... can't handle anymore stress around here... Having Malefor as my frenemy is rather... comforting. He is no longer a worry which is a huge sigh of relief for me, but... even still... Now we have someone else who wants us dead, and apparently, there might be another Dark Master out there somewhere. Hearing what sounded like a cry of pain, Spyro's head stood straight up, fearing for what that could've been. While short, he made out who the voice could've been. Cyril?! Bursting into his dark purple form, the wind he kicked up was enough to wake up the others around him. Malefor was the first to notice the sense of darkness and shot up on the bed, kicking into gear with his own pitch black form, "What's happening...?!" Unfortunately to him, the way he jumped up, his paw slid forward and off the bed, making him slip to the ground and hit his face straight down on the ground, "Ouuuuccccch..."

Bringing out his clones, they both stood from in front of Spyro and awaited for what they needed to do. First looking to his left, before his right, he called their names, "Xvar! Kettu! Keep these three safe."

"Spyro...?! What's happening...?" Cynder was barely able to even speak before watching as his body disappeared in a skid of smoke, but knowing she could get some information, she asked the two, "Xvar... and... Kettu... was it...? What's going on?"

"Spyro heard a cry of pain from what sounded like Cyril, and so, he's inspecting what it could be," Kettu answered.

"What?!" Carith cried, having the same reaction as Cynder, "You don't think it's... Flair, do you?!"

"I have no idea, but," Malefor paused for a second before getting back to his paws, and once he did, he looked to his left at the two dark dragons and growled at them, "Sup, Bitches!" Standing up to his back two paws and lighting his right paw on fire with a black and red aura, he was ready to attack, "Time for round two!" Seeing as the dragons weren't even fazed by his threat, Malefor growled at them as he called them out for something false, "Hehe, Damn. I know I'm great and all, but come on, you can tell me. Y'all are shivering in fear from my display of power."

"Shivering?" Kettu chuckled.

"More like laughing," Xvar chuckled along with his friend.

"And also, if Spyro didn't say to protect you three, we would've killed you by now."

"And after what you called us yesterday, we are half tempted to snap your neck right now."

"Don't!" Both Cynder and Carith cried in unison, and since Cynder knew her voice would be heard more, she knew how to get them to back down, "You wish to protect me, so please, don't kill him."

"Your wish is our command, Cynder," Kettu and Xvar agreed in unison.

"I wish for you to suicide," Malefor spoke in a Cynder like voice.

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Making his way to the hallway, Spyro's body was like a ghost, appearing in one place before appearing in another, with the only thing being shown was a black cloud of smoke. Making it over to the front of the Chambers by simply looking over to the entrance, he turned to his left and saw that two bodies had laid in the Chambers, one above the other. Letting out a gasp in fear, what he had seen made his heart slam to his chest. Above him was a crying Flair, laid down on Cyril's body and over his neck. Underneath her was what looked like the lifeless body of Cyril with blood spilled down to the floor, both around his body and next to his head. The darkness and anger he felt erupted outwards, cracking the entirety of the Chambers and the hallway around him. This destruction shook the entire building like an earthquake, making Flair pick up her head now as she, and even Cyril, didn't know what had happened, and he asked her, "Dumb question but... what the hell was that?"

"FLAIR!"

Spyro's voice boomed enough to once again shake the entirety of the Building, and since his voice was next to demonic, both Cyril and Flair's body stood up on end. Oh no... Cyril thought to himself. Getting from off the top of Cyril's body, Flair had turned around to see Spyro, along with what he had done with the surrounding area. His voice was enough to grab the attention of everyone else as well. Looking from behind her near the Sleeping Chambers, Ignitus, Claire, and even Terrador ran into the back of the Chambers. To Spyro's right came running both Volteer and Ersa. And now to his left was Malefor, Carith, and Cynder, along with Kettu and Xvar staying close behind her. The sight was enough to make everyone turn against her; Cyril on his back, hole in his chest with blood spilled to the floor. On her chest shined his blood, and to her tail blade, a drop of blood went off of it and to the floor. Now with everyone surrounding her, Flair's breathing kicked up as she heard gasps before seeing the guys raise their tail blades. Backing up some as Spyro started to walk towards her, she stood next to Cyril in pure fear. Even after seeing his display of power, she raised her blade and cried at him, "Back off!"

Seeing the tears starting to go down her face as Spyro slowly approached her with his shined yellow eyes and intimidating look, Cyril knew he had to step in to stop all that was happening, "WAIT!" This cry got everyone's attention, even making Spyro stop himself, "This... wasn't her fault!" Rolling to his side, she didn't do enough damage for him to feel that much pain, so it was rather easy for him to stand to his paws, "She was coming back to the Chambers after a nightmare she had... When she turned to look behind herself as she was half way to the Chambers, feeling as though someone was following her, I exited the Sleeping Chambers. As she turned, I accidentally startled her. Her blade sharpened out and she stabbed me in my chest... And it was my fault. This wasn't hers," Even still, Spyro took a step forward, still seeming rather frustrated for what he had seen, but with this step, Cyril raised his left wing in front of Flair, blocking him from doing anything and defending her once again, "I said... It, was, my, fault."

"Cyril, why are you protecting her?" Ignitus asked, somewhat in a growl, getting everyone's attention, "Last night, you had stab wounds all down your chest to your stomach. Now you're saying Flair had a nightmare when, my clone just informed me, she hadn't, nor was this how this went down," Now being put in a rather difficult situation, his words only made it worse for him, and especially her, "She's tried to kill you two times now, and last thing we need is for the third time to be the charm... Unlike Claire, she didn't hurt anyone."

"SHE HURT YOU!" Cyril yelled at him, turning his back and facing him, "Flair's suffering the same as anyone else! Who gives a shit about what's happened?! It happened to me which means I get to have the say in what happens," It was a rather breath holding moment for Flair as she still wasn't so sure as to what was to happen, and while she did see the guys bring their tail blades up, the girls on the other paw just seemed worried, confused in a way, "She's staying if she wants to! You got pissy with us when we rejected Claire being with you, which means, you can't be a hypocrite about your words!"

"I don't care what you are saying, Cyril," Spyro growled, sending shivers down everyone's spines as they still hadn't got use to his new dark voice, and his voice got Cyril to turn back around to look at him, "One, you're not pulling a Volteer and turning your back on us because of something that happened. Second, what I say and what I decide is final, no matter what you have to say. And finally, what I have seen and now what I'm learning about, she really was truthful about what she said about killing us. I can't keep dealing with this stress, and so, she needs to go."

Knowing there wasn't anything she could say, she was already ready to get up and leave, but to her surprise, Cyril still defend her, "Spyro, I've always trusted you. I trust your decision, I trusted your words. Please, I'm asking now after so long that you trust me on this," Unfortunately, Spyro couldn't say anything to this as he was right about such a thing, "I know things seem bad, but I swear, there is good inside of everyone. You know this from Malefor, and you especially know this from Cynder, your lover... And you know this from Claire."

Waiting for his decision, no-one knew what would be said from Spyro himself, and same as Flair, everyone waited for him to give his answer. It took him some time to think on it, even giving a sigh after some time which made Cyril rather worried to what his response would be, but now having the time he needed, Spyro spoke, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but... Flair... if you wish to stay... you can..." Some gave gasps while the girls themselves gave sighs as they were rather relieved to hear such a decision was made, but this most importantly surprised Flair, "I don't know what you said to Cyril, Flair, but I'm going to give you a chance for you to show that your heart beats the same as everyone else's. But, Cyril, if anything happens to anyone because you kept her here, don't you ever come back to ask for anything else ever again."

"I won't let you down! I swear!" Cyril happily cried, thankful he gave him this chance.

"It's not you that I'm worried about," Spyro snarled as he looked to Flair, but something came to mind of which he wished to try to end this all together, "Actually, tell you what, Flair. I'll give you two options," From this sudden change, Cyril, same as the others, were rather worried as they watched Spyro pick up two claws, "Option one; You stay with Cyril and get this second chance to correct your mistakes, or... You try and kill me."

"WHAT?!" Everyone cried in unison, but for Flair, this seemed like a rather interesting option.

"You kill me, then you're free to go. You'll get your kill, and you'll leave everyone alone. But if you fail, you'll leave immediately without any chance of returning to here, or even Warfang. You try such thing, and I shall have Ignitus erase your memory all together. Sound like a deal?"

"No... No no no no!" Cynder growled to her lover, "You just went through hell, and you're already trying to kill yourself?! The only one touching you is going to be me, so there is no second option."

"Cynder, trust what Spyro is to do," Kettu spoke in a soft voice.

"He's already learned his lesson when it comes to failing his promises to you," Xvar spoke, and same as his other, in a low tone.

Cynder didn't trust this whatsoever, not understanding what it could be that he was really planning. For Flair, this made her smirk now as this was a rather amazing option, one of which she couldn't turn down. But to make sure nothing would happen to her, she had some more questions for him, "The second option sounds rather... Intriguing... Just making sure though, if I kill you, no one will come after me? And I'm also wondering; Will you attack back, or can I just have this chance all to myself."

"No one will come for you, and for me, no, I shall not attack you."

"Spyro! Dude! What the hell are you doing?!" Malefor cried out now.

"No one will interfere if I attacked you right now?" Flair licked her lips as her fins started to sharpen.

"My clones shall make sure no one interferes."

"To hell they will!" Malefor and Cynder both had similar words to what he was saying.

With her readying on the attack, Cyril didn't what this to happen after what he had seen from her, after what he's already know about her, "Flair... please don't do this," To her right, he put on paw on her left shoulder, hoping that his words would get to her, "I can help you, I really can... I know... You didn't mean to tell me of what has happened, but... This gives me something to work off of, something to help you," Her fins eased down as she looked to her right, listening along with everyone else for what he had to say, "You're not a failure... I know this, and you should know this... So... please... just let me talk to you some more... Let me be there for you..."

It went quiet for a bit as they all had wondered if his words had gotten to her, but this didn't prove to be the case. Shrugging her arm upwards, Cyril sighed as his paw slid off the back of her shoulder, now knowing what she was about to do. Her fins sharper out to their max, standing perfectly straight up and sharpening themselves, now making her look rather deadly. If I kill him, Cynder will surely kill everyone else for me, and as that dragon told me, Flint was doing this for Cynder, so... He gets what he wants, I get what I want. She wasn't that far from Spyro, which she rather liked. Having been so close, her attacks she made sure were quick and effective. Jumping forward to him, her first instinct was to use her tail blade. Doing as she did with Cyril, she grabbed Spyro's neck, used her tail to kick from underneath his back two paws and send him to his back. This worked as his body fell backwards before hitting the floor. Stabbing him four times, one to his tail, another in his stomach, then to his chest before finally making it to his neck. The force was enough to make his body kick upwards some, only fueling the fear in everyone as they saw this blood spill upwards, especially from his neck. Yanking her tail blade out to cause as most damage as possible, this made the back of Spyro's neck rise from the ground. For Cynder, this was in rather slow motion. Watching as the blood erupted from his neck was a sight she never wished to have seen. Taking a step forward, she yelled in her show of aggression, "Flair! Spyro! Stop!"

Flair didn't listen to these words both rather continued her attacks with increasing ferocity. Grabbing his neck from where she made the hole, she picked him up from the ground, standing up to her back two paws and letting his blood spill all down his body. Looking to her right, she took his body back some before throwing him to the wall. Spyro's body hit like a rag doll, almost as if he was already dead to begin with, and he didn't show any signs of life, aside from having his yellow eyes. His body started to slid down the back of the wall, which Flair wouldn't allow. Rushing up to him as she got down on all fours, she made it over in no time. Grabbing him by the neck again, she stood up to her back two paws, dragging him up once again. Now, to finish this. With her left paw over his neck, she backed up her right paw in an attack. Swinging it forward, her claws went through the left side of Spyro's chest with ease, ripping through his scales and out of his back. Everyone's body went numb as they saw what was in her paw; Spyro's heart. Having ripped it from his body and out his other side, his body slide down her arm some, giving everyone clear view to his dead body, and to his still beating heart.

"SPYRO!" Malefor yelled, erupting into his dark form and kicking off the ground to help.

Even as he tried though, Kettu appeared in front of him, easily stopping him from a simple attack. His paw raised, and in a gust of wind, Malefor's body went backwards, making him do back flips before hitting the back wall in the hallway. Growling from this sudden pain, Malefor saw that Kettu had now disappeared, going back to Cynder as he had sat behind her. Shit! Malefor cursed. While he was able to get himself up, he still needed to try again. Running back up to where he was before, he got further then he did before, but stopped dead in his tracks as everyone watched in horror of what was to happen. In Flair's right paw, she squished Spyro's heart right inside of her paw with a loud squishing sound before blood splashed all around the back wall in all different directions. Now with the job down, she pulled her paw back from out of Spyro's chest, smiling as she spoke out loud of what she had done, "Hehe... Guess I should say, fatality?"

Turning and throwing his body to the middle of the Chambers for all to see, they all watched as his body hit the ground a couple of times before finally stopping dead on the ground. While Flair was enjoying herself, smiling down on his now dead, and lifeless body, everyone could only let out loud, painful, and constant breaths to what they had seen. Now with everything being over as it would seem, Cynder took one step forward, then another, before finally running over to him. Soon, those around followed, surrounding him in a circle. Cynder reached a paw around her lover's body, rolled him up, and now made him lay to his back, revealing all the damage Flair had done.

"No... Spyro... Spyro!" Even as pointless as it was, she used her dark power to get him to get up, or even to hear his heartbeat, but sadly, nothing, "SPYRO!"

"Let me heal him!" Ignitus cried, tapping a claw on his side, but an hour glass didn't appear, only making him gasp, shedding a tear as one had already starting forming as he had watched all that happened, "I... I... can't... heal him..."

Everyone's heart's nearly stopped to hear this, all looking dead down on his body. Even now after the battle, his eyes had closed shut, now even making this take away from the fact that he could be alive. Flair brought up a paw and started to lick the blood from off her paw, knowing that her job here was done, "So, he was all bark, no bite. Well, oh well. I guess now that he's dead, I will see you bitches all..."

"YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

Now not from Spyro, Cynder's darkness exploded outwards, sending the area into a near pitch black lighting. Her body was different then that of the others, and even different then that of her standard dark transformation. Her tears dripped from her eyes as she kneeled down on her lover's body, her teeth grinded, and her wings extended up and outwards, showing off the anger and darkness that now she had taken over of. Almost to her adult form from before, her color was similar to that of her terror form, only more contained and similar to the color of Spyro's darkened form scale color. While everyone else cried around in a circle around their friend, Flair tried to ease her escape. But once again, everyone's hearts stopped as they heard a voice talk, and even for Flair, she took in a huge gasp as she looked in the group in the middle of the Chambers, "You really are, a monster."

This voice she knew of, similar to a voice that she had heard before, but she couldn't understand how she was hearing it, No... No... Taking his head from off of the ground, Spyro opened his eyes, now showing that he was truly alive, having been so since the very beginning. This sent shivers and gasps through everyone, but most importantly to him, he saw smiles. For Cynder, her eyes grew wide, shedding more tears to see he was really still alive. Reaching up a paw to her cheek, he rubbed her cheek with a claw, trying to sooth her as he did so. As this was happening, his body started to heal itself, building itself new scales, and even a new heart. Resting her head against her lover's paw, Cynder felt as his paw started to let off a cool aura, making her close her eyes to let these tears in her eyes just fall. This comfort was enough to make her come down from her dark form and reveal her blackish and grey scales once again, along with her red and white colors. Now with her being calmed, his body having been healed, absent of blood and wounds, he took his paw down from Cynder's cheek, making her open her eyes and support her own head. Watching as he rolled back to his stomach, they backed up and watched as he came from out his darkened form. Now showing back to his purple, orange, and gold colors, everyone watched with smiles to see him flex out his body, extending out his wings and showing his body in all its health and alive, glory. Now with everyone having backed up some from him, they all looked to see Flair's reaction of what was to have happened. Her, as everyone else was before as he was getting killed, has now turned to pure fear of what she had just seen. Sitting down, Spyro wasn't happy with what he had seen, and was rather disgusted by her actions, "So you really went for the kill? Even Claire wouldn't have done such a thing back in the day which mean, you're nothing. There's nothing we can do to help you, and nor do you deserve it. You're a heartless monster; killing those around you without emotion. In case you did go for the kill, I made a second heart to the right of my chest, which I didn't know I would've had to use. But it's a good thing because, now that you lost, get your bitch ass out of my home."

Flair had nothing to say to him as this was all too much of a surprise, and his words were similar to that of what she's heard of even in the past. Even for Cyril, he didn't know if he could defend her after what she had done, so for now, he could only duck his head. Now shedding her own tears, Flair's breath kicked up as Spyro's words went through her mind, sticking once again to what she's heard before. 'You really are a monster'. 'We can't help you, nor do you deserve it'. 'You're a heartless... Monster'. These thoughts made her change in a way, which, unlike the others, Cyril had seen once he took a peak over to her. While she was about to have a panic attack, Spyro looked away from her and to Cynder, which, she never let her eyes off him. Giving a frown, he apologised for what he had done, "I'm... in a lot of trouble for what I did... Which I'm... sorry that I let you see that."

"Hehe, oh yeah, you're definitely going to do exactly as I say for the reminder of the day," Cynder cried in a soft giggle as she tried to forget what she had seen.

"I... didn't know how else to get her to show this other side of her."

"Well, you sure made me show my other side, and now that I'm pretty pissed off..." Positioning herself right in front of her lover, she put her tail blade up to his neck, threatening him as she wished to do, "You're going to do exactly as I say. You make one wrong move, and I shall not hesitate to poison you," Giving a smile, he pushed his neck more against her tail blade, seeing this as a challenge, "You really want to try me? Hehe, well, that's okay, because after I'm done with you, you won't even know which way up is."

"Hehe, yes I will. Unlike you, I won't be on my back and already looking to the sky anyway. I'll be looking down on you, as I always do when i make out with you.

Giving a sigh, blushing even as she didn't expect him to say something so romantic, she had to give off a soft cry, backing off from her fake aggression, "Please don't ever leave me."

"For one, you'd surely kill me. And for the second one... What do you say we get a room and I make sure I pay back what I had done?"

"And how will you do that?"

"I, 'Attack you', with this new darkened form, and you'll be hopeless as I force you to make out with you."

"Really!"

"Hehe... You excited?"

"Having you over me always gets me excited."

"Can I say something about what you just said?" Malefor heard in on the conversation.

"Sounds like something I say to Volteer," Ersa giggled.

"Uuuggghhhh... Well, at least I know we all are back to normal," Ignitus chuckled as everyone was acting as their normal selves.

Now that things appeared to have calmed down, and with what seemed like Spyro having things under control, Terrador turned away from the group and went back to the Sleeping Chambers, thinking to himself as he did, Heh... I remember when I wanted to say such things to those that I wanted to love... Ugh, just, get over yourself. Now with Terrador gone, Malefor looked over to see that Kettu and Xvar had also disappeared as well, making him look back to Spyro and growl to what they had done, "I really didn't appreciate feeling powerless to help and stop what we believed to be your death. Don't know which one knocked my ass back, but I'm gonna knock his teeth in if he tries something like that again."

"Hehe, that was Kettu. I didn't wish for any of you to get caught in the cross fire. And, I watched to show you, Cyril, that she's just a monster. Unlike Malefor; she doesn't have a heart."

"It's not a heart she doesn't have, but rather, friends," Cyril growled as he remembered she had said.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll... talk about it later."

With everyone going back to where they normally sat, Spyro and Cynder had to wait as Flair was right to where they were to sit. She looked to the two still with fear, sadness, not understanding what she had just seen, what she had heard. Waiting for her to move, she was talking longer then he would've liked as she wasn't moving at all, so, Spyro had to say something, "A deal is a deal. Now, I have no problem taking you out myself, but I'm giving you another choice; You walk out yourself, or I make you, breaking some bones in the process," Flair looked to Cynder, wondering if she had anything to say to her, but she looked away from her after what she had done to her lover, "So I'm guessing this means bone breaking."

Taking one step towards her, Flair didn't even bother to move as once again, it only took one day for her to lose it all. So then... they... did... lie to me... But after what I did... do I blame them...? Am I... really what my dad said I was... Am I just, a monster? With Spyro taking another step towards her, Cyril couldn't let this happen after what he heard, after knowing this wasn't who she wanted to be, "Spyro! Wait!" Running up to Flair, he turned himself around, pulled up his right wing, and defended her, "Look, I know what you said but, this isn't right. We don't know what has happened to her; countless times we've said this. Maybe now after what she's done, she won't ever hurt anyone ever again. Maybe she got all her anger out and now we should..."

"Cyril, a deal, was a deal. She took her option, then she tried to take my life."

"Cause you gave her the choice."

"Which showed who she was."

"Which showed who she wasn't."

"Cyril, stop pulling a Volteer and back off of her."

"She's not my lover, so I'm not acting like Volteer!"

"Man, they are slamming you, Volteer. They calling you a bitch for acting out with your feelings," Malefor chuckled.

"Yeah. So glad I was struggling during that time," Volteer sighed.

"Cyril, stop acting like you know her, like you know what she wants when you barely know her. Unlike how Ignitus was with Claire, he laid with her, cared for her, and had a reason to understand what she was going through. But for you, all Flair has done is hurt you. Twice now she stabbed you, and as Ignitus said, what if the third time is the charm and I have to end up killing her for what she did to you?"

"Then that's on me!"

"It's on my because I said I would protect everyone. So by you doing, I would fail, and I've already done that enough."

"Either way, I'd definitely pull a Volteer and chase after her, even without knowing where she is!" Cyril wasn't backing down from what he was saying, nor was he on what he believed, only make this more difficult for Spyro on what to do, "You gave me the chance to help her, and I will. You gave her the choice of her own, and she chose her own. But even after what has happened, you said that you'd give her a chance to show her heart beats, and I still have that chance! I said I wouldn't let you down, and I won't, but you interfering and making things worse will not help her," Seeing as Spyro was giving in by him giving a sigh, he just needed that one last push for him to understand, "Unless Flair says that I can, I can't tell you what she says or does, as I promised her, as she trusted in me, to keep."

"Alright, alright, fine," Spyro once again gave another sigh as he couldn't believe he was going along with this, "But I'm going to give her one more choice, and what she chooses, will be final, understand?" Cyril swallowed hard as he didn't know what it was going to be, but he trusted that he would give her that chance, "Flair, one, last, time. You have two choices, again. So, you can either leave, or, you can take me up on my first option I ever gave you, and stay with Cyril. You don't have to be cuddled with him or anything, nor do you have to sleep in the same room as him, but you will become his responsibility."

For the first couple seconds, Flair didn't know what to say, even ducking her head down from everyone's view and giving off a sigh to comfort herself. Something helped her out of which she wished to growl of, but, feeling as a wing draped over her back and cool her, she knew who it was, as well as why he was doing it. Trying once again to process everything that had happened, she thought to herself about all that had happened, Why... why when I... laid down on Cyril's chest, I felt so... calm... for the first time in my life... Why is my past coming back to haunt me? Showing her teeth for only a second, she controlled herself. Just kill Cyril, and leave, just kill him, and leave. Which means... Picking her head up some, she was finally able to speak on what she wanted, "I would, like to choose right this time and... stay here... with Cyril."

Now with this having been chosen, Spyro had to agree with this, "Alright then. Please, Cyril, take her over to the group so she may sit," Doing as he was told, Cyril helped her, putting his other wing around her chest and helping her over to the left end of the group from where he faced, making it to the right side of Volteer, "Now then," Making it to the wall of which the two had been, Spyro was now able to sit back down with his lover to where they normally sat, "Now that things have calmed down, can we just... Breath... Once I know things are good here, I'd like to spend some time with my lover, if that's okay with everyone else," Hearing what sounded like a knock at the left side of the Chambers, everyone picked their heads up and looked at one another, wondering who could've been knocking, "Uh... you may enter?"

With someone having walked into the Chambers, it was a dragon, but no one seemed to know who it was. The only thing they could make it for the time being with that she was a green female. Cyril himself though found something rather familiar when it came to this green female of which he had seen before. First focusing her top, she had two horns as most normal dragons; One to the top left of her head and another to the top right, both curved down slightly to the back tips. Her eyes gave off a slightly darkened red shine to them, and underneath each sides of her back cheeks were a couple of small fins. Looking down her body, her fins all connected together from the top of her head down to the tip of her tail. Her chest, underbelly, and wing flaps were the same as her eyes, giving off a red color, while the wings themselves were green. Looking down to her tail, the fins to the back right and left curved inwards, looking almost like a half circle, but they didn't connect. Just as similar to all the females as well, her body was a nice, perfectly slim form that gave off this sense of comfort and ease to her. Giving wide eyes and a smile, Cyril knew exactly who this was, "Wait a minute, I know you! You were the female flirting with Terrador during the attack on Warfang."

"Flirting?!" Malefor smiled wide, already knowing exactly what he was to say.

"Malefor," Ignitus called to him, getting his attention as he waved a paw across his neck in a way of saying no, "Just... Remember what I said yesterday about this, okay."

"So, what brings you by?" Cyril asked her.

"I... missed coming by yesterday as I promised him I would but... I... couldn't for, reasons. Hehe, he said you all were a rather happy family, but..." Looking all around at the blood from all around the Chambers and the body of Flair while also having seen how cracked and nearly destroyed the Chambers, she giggled, "Never would I have ever expected to see something like this, hehe, that's for sure."

"Oh yeah, let me get rid of all this," Ignitus spoke, bringing up and snapping his fingers.

Once he had, a white light went from out of his fingers and went throughout the Chambers, repairing it, the outside, and taking all the blood off of anything that it had stained. Already, she was with questions that she wanted answered, but the first thing she wished to know is of the whereabouts of whom she was to speak to, "I... Already have so many questions. But, for the first and main question I would, like to ask if I, could, would be... Do you all know where the green Guardian, Terrador, is?"

"Uh... He's in the... back room. He's not doing too good."

"What happened to him?!"

"Oh, well, he uh... He was rather, looking forward to talking to you yesterday, and when you didn't show... He... got a little bummed."

"So... Already... My first impression has broken one of the Guardians hearts."

"I'm sure he'd still want to talk to you."

"Would he?"

"Would you like me to get him for you?"

"That would be... very helpful."

"I'll be right back."

With Ignitus turning his back and making his way to the Sleeping Chambers, she sat down near the entrance of the Chambers, sweating all down her body as she couldn't handle all the stress she was under already. The legendary purple dragons, The Guardians, The other girls that Terrador had spoken of, this is... All too much if I'm being honest. I don't know if I could handle all this stress! Looking to Claire as she was already facing that direction, Claire raised a paw up and smiled to her in a way of greeting herself, "Hehe, well, if you are interested in this family, there's a lot of names to keep track of."

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Ignitus was right in knowing Terrador had gone back to bed, but he had high hopes this would change his spirit. Up to the front of his bed, he looked as Terrador laid on his bed in a ball, but lucky enough, his back was to the windows, while his front was facing him. Making sure to keep a smile the entire time, he hoped this would help, "Hey, Terrador, I was wondering if you could wake up for me real quick," Giving a grumble, he did as he was told, opening his eyes and looking to his friend, "Sorry to wake you. I wanted to think of a way to cheer you up but, since we can't do anything, I was hoping a dragoness can?"

"I'm not looking for fun, Ignitus," Terrador grumbled, already wishing to go back to bed.

"Well, she's looking for you. Something about wanting to apologize for not showing up yesterday."

"What are you... Wait..." Now picking up his head, his eyes grew wide as he looked to Ignitus, wondering if he meant what he was saying, "She's out there?! Like, right now right now?!" Giving his smile once again, Terrador jumped up from his bed, smiling wide on his own, "Then what are we doing back here, Ignitus?! You should've woken me up sooner! Why did I even come back here?!"

This got Ignitus to chuckle, glad to see such a change in mood, such a big smile, "You better hurry. She might leave soon or something."

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"So, let's see if I can get everyone's name down. I of course know of all the Guardians, the purple dragons; Malefor and Spyro. Then Cynder, and as I've just learned, your name being Claire; the lover of Ignitus. So now, I just need to know, or... Sorry... I'm not being, nice about this at all, or... that's what it seems when I say what I do," The green female felt rather terrible as no matter how she wished to use her words, it would seem that she'd come off as rude, "May I please... know the names of the others, or... Ugh... I should've just asked you all rather then from just one."

"Hehe, it's okay. I was stressed out this bad when I first met Malefor too," Carith giggled, remembering her time of the past, "First the Guardians, then having the legendary purple dragon talking to me, it was a lot, so don't feel bad if you mess something up, which, I promise you right now, you haven't, so don't be so hard on yourself," Her words were already helpful enough for her to ease off of her fears, making this already so calming for her, "My name is Carith, lover of that of the purple dragon Malefor."

"Malefor had a lover? I thought he was only pure evil."

"That's... going to take some explaining," Malefor murmured, knowing that he was probably the cause of something else that's happened in someone else's life.

In almost a blink of an eye, she looked straight to see Terrador standing in the row of Guardians, smiling over towards her while breathing with some sped up paces. She blushed to see him once again, and before she could even say something to apologize, he did to her surprise, "I'm so sorry for not being out here to greet you as I should've," Taking a couple steps up to her, he tried to control his breathing as he wished to talk with her in a more soothing tone, "I'm not mad at all in the slightest but, how come you showed up today and not yesterday? Which! Like I said, not mad, rather, really, really happy to see that you came by."

"Oh... yeah... I had a dispute with my... boyfriend yesterday," She murmured, bringing up what had happened.

"What... happened?"

"Well... After what happened two days ago, I wanted to break up with him, which... he didn't take too well... He, threatened that if I did, I'd regret it," This already turned the mood around rather quickly as the joy from the surrounding area had been turned to misery, "Like I said... I... I just, can't live that life anymore. I was having so much fun after such a short amount of time here then all the time combined out there... But even as I come up here... I'm... scared... because I know he'll look for me, and... after talking about wanting to meet you, he... He... I... shouldn't be here."

"What?! Why not?"

"Because he knows where I would want to go. I told him of how happy I was when I met you, and this upset him. If I'm up here, he'll think I'm trying to leave him which will then cause more problems and I... I don't know what he'd do...! I tried my best to calm him down last night but, he just wouldn't listen. He yelled at me all day... and night... He even growled in his sleep towards me from time to time... I was so scared he would wake up and do something that I... didn't... sleep much..."

"Why were you ever with him?"

"He wasn't like this... Well... Not this bad. Once this happened and I said I was looking for fun elsewhere, he just... snapped."

"You think he'd hurt you?"

"He's shown aggressive episodes before..."

"What do you mean?"

Looking to her right wing, everyone else did the same. Taking it from her side and showing the scales of the bottom of the wing, they all gasped to see what had happened. The bottom, closest to her back of which her wing connected to had a massive slash across it, almost making its way to the top of her wing. This gash was deep enough to have left a rather painful looking scare that made everyone shiver, "He... Got upset that I was having fun being away from him, and so... I... brought up my wing to help him, and he... Got his blade... dug it into the top part of my wing and... went straight down with it," Even for Flair, she herself had to growl at such a sight, to hear such a thing, and everyone had the same reaction, "Similar incidents have happened before, but luckily, I was able to get to some red gems to heal myself."

"Did he ever apologize?!"

"When he wanted to, yes. But you couldn't bring this up or else he'd... he'd make another mark of where the first one was to show that he didn't care."

"Why were you with him?!"

"Because I had hopes he could change... He was sweet, he had a side to him I loved, but... Something wasn't right with him, which I wish I could've fixed, but... Every time I tried... I'd get attacked for it..." Now that this had all been revealed, Terrador felt like he was held responsible for what had happened as he could've stopped her yesterday, to find her, but he didn't, "All I've wanted for a while was just... to be with someone I loved... to have friends to talk to, to not have to... wake up and wonder... What will happen to me...? Will I even smile...? Will I make it through the day without pain...?"

"How long has this been going in for?" Cynder stepped in to help get more information.

"About a... mouth... and in that time frame, I lost... everything..."

"Even your parents?" Malefor murmured.

"No, they're fine. And before anyone says something, I kept all this a secret from them so... they never knew... which proved to be a mistake."

"What happened to your friends?" Carith asked.

"They... all left... Once they found men they loved... they just, stopped talking with one another and went their separate ways... I didn't wish to do the same, but... They didn't seem to care at all... They just... left..."

"Do you want him dead!" Flair growled, starting to sharpen out her fins which made Cyril fear for his wing.

"Surprisingly enough, I have to agree with Flair," Spyro agreed with her which had actually surprised her, "If he needs to be dealt with, we will gladly help."

"I... I don't know... I don't want to be apart of such things anymore. All I want to do is smile, all I want to do is laugh... I... haven't done such a thing in so long that... I don't know what it feels like..." Seeing Terrador struggle with her words as his body had tensed in rage, she wanted to ease him by giving a smile to change up the mood, "But then I met you, Terrador... And that... changed," Her words were enough to make him ease his body, now trading with wide eyes, even a blush as she blushed just the same, "Hehe, this family already seems like a lot of fun, and I was hoping that... you'd forgive me for what I did... yesterday for missing our... time..."

"If I was him, would he yell at you for such a thing? Is that why you're so scared?" Terrador murmured, knowing why she'd feel so afraid.

"He doesn't like apologies... He is one of those, if you apologize for it, then you know what you did, and you shouldn't have done it."

"That's not what an apology us!" Terrador growled with rather intense anger, making her shiver, which he noticed and eased off, "I'm... I'm so sorry for scaring you."

"No no no, it's rather nice to hear that... You understand it the same."

The two smiled to one another, blushing even as they only looked to one another in their eyes, but what also made the others hold their breaths was the smiles that stood out across their faces. No one dared say a word, and even surprisingly, Malefor didn't either, especially after what he had heard. Not even knowing how quiet it was, he was easy with his voice, a voice of which they never heard from such a booming voice that Terrador normally had, "I wish to greet you properly as I haven't even gotten your name. May I please?"

"Hehe, since you asked so nicely, my name is Trish."

"It's a pleasure to have the company of an Ancestor, Trish."

"Hehe, Oh, is that so?"

"Have you not see your beauty?"

"Is that all you notice about me?" Trish raised a brow, wondering what he would say.

"Hehe, well, while other may look to your body as a classic male, for me... It's your eyes... and your beautiful smile that I notice the most."

"Oh, stop it," Trish giggled, making even Terrador chuckle.

Now that the two had gone quiet once again, they blushed to have been looking at one another for some time, so to help out with the silence, he moved to the side some and asked, "If you would like to, I'd like to show you how we normally act around her. So, if you'd like, would you, sit next to me with the other Guardians?" Seeing as her eyes went wide, even swallowing hard as this seemed like such an honor, he gave her this sort voice once again, "We are just normal dragons. We welcome you, and we wish to make you feel comfortable around here."

Shivering, Trish needed to ready herself before doing such a thing, but once she was done, she watched as Terrador had walked away from her and over to the line up. As he made it to the line up, he turned to face straight, and since they new she was to come over, the other four moved down the line some as to give space. Now with space between both Volteer, and Terrador, she watched as he tapped a paw to the open space next to him which gave her another blush. Taking one step, she took another, but trying to feel comfortable, she walked normally over to the line up. Once having reached them, she turned, and doing as Terrador did, she faced straight, and just as she had sat, so did he. Now with her in the line up, she gave off a sigh as things did seem rather soothing as of right now. Knowing this might be too much to ask for, Trish looked to her left, asking him in a rather lone tone, "Terrador... this is... inappropriate for me to ask but..." Malefor opened his mouth wide, but making sure he didn't say anything, Carith grabbed him by the tongue, "May I... Have your..." This now made Malefor whimper as he wished to say something, anything at all, "Wing over my back?"

This was a rather simple for him, but Terrador understood why she could be feeling such a way. Taking up his right wing, she got a little closer to him, almost touching scales. Now with his wing draped over her back, Trish gave a pleased sigh, and hearing this, seeing she was already having such a peaceful time, he wished to help her out more, "You know, there's about three dragons in here that can help get rid of that scar all together so you can hopefully forget about such a traumatic event."

"What?!" Trish changed from calm to surprise in a matter of seconds.

"Hehe, well, this family is definitely a bunch, that's for sure. We have an Ancestor in a way here, two very talented and extremely smart scientist, along with a next level being that could heal his heart after having been ripped out from him and squished."

"Wh... I... Is this like, an every day thing or something?"

"Hehehe, it's going to take some time to explain the craziness that goes on around here, but at least, we as a family, smile and laugh with one another."

Now with those two having been done with what they were saying, Carith let go of Malefor's tongue, letting him close his mouth finally and wet the tip of his tongue. Gasping out loud, she didn't realize how loud she was with it, getting everyone's attention, "Wait, Malefor, let me see your tongue. I think something was on it."

"Um... okay..."

Doing as he was told, he opened his mouth and let his tongue hang out the front just a little. Getting close, she used her own tongue and licked across his, making him give wide eyes as he shut his mouth and looked to her. Watching as she closed her mouth, shivering in pleasure for what she had done, he blushed to see this side of her, which he rather enjoyed. Seeing this blush, she got close to him once again and teased, "Well, what ever it was, I got it now... But, tell you want; you want more of that, just go into that dark form and watch me take your power, and your mouth, with my tongue," Not hearing anything, it was rather weird to her, but once seeing how red he got, she turned away from him, seeing as everyone else was looking to her, blushing just as hard as Malefor was, "I thought you all were talking with Trish!"

"Hehe, and I thought you wouldn't be talking at all after the promise you just made to Malefor," Ersa giggled.

"Oh no, Carith, you are about to get attacked by all the girls," Claire giggled as she knew the others would say something.

"Hehe, while we might attack her with our words, it's gonna be Malefor attacking Carith with his own, 'attacks'," Cynder giggled, making the two blush together, and now the only other two girls left were those that she didn't expect to say something, "Well, Trish, Flair, you got any words to make a jab at the two to mess with them? While having three bullets fire is nice, having two more to make five would be rather satisfying."

"Please, Carith's after pleasure, not disappointment," Flair growled, trying to sound pissed off, but everyone was surprised by this as it was perfect.

"Damn! Malefor! She roasted your ass!" Cyril laughed, and even for the others, they had to laugh some as well as this was rather a surprise to the others.

"Now, what about you, Trish?" Cynder asked her.

"Me...? I... I don't know, I just... met everyone," Trish was against it as this was the first time she's ever been here.

"You got this!" Ersa supported her as well

"Just one more," Claire spoke with joy, hoping their words would help.

"I... guess..." Taking a second to figure out how she should word this, the perfect idea came to mind, "Um... I... I bet the five bullets we are to fire will be more satisfying then anything Carith could do to Malefor," Everyone went quiet for a second, and while she tried to smile, seeing everyone look to her with wide eyes made her duck her head, apologising even, "Sorry... I... didn't mean..."

To her surprise, the silence was interrupted by everyone laughing at what she had said, even Malefor and Carith as she was able to get off a jab rather quickly with so little that she had to work off of. Seeing everyone laughing and smiling, Trish picked her head back up and laughed along with the others, making her feel at ease as this is what she wished to have felt since she got in here. Giving a slight growl to all that had teased him and his lover, Malefor growled to each of them, "Alright, here's the problem..."

"Haha! Trish is right about Carith, and you're upset about it now?" Cyril laughed.

"Wait, I... I didn't wish to start a fight," Trish murmured, but no one heard her.

"Do you want to die, Cyril?" Malefor growled.

"Cyril is my prey to kill!" Flair growled back at him.

"Then kill him, right here and now."

"While everyone is watching?"

"I will make sure nothing happens to you."

"Well, unlike with Spyro, I have to ask; Does anyone around here care if I killed Cyril right here and now."

No one said anything to her words, all staying completely quiet, making Cyril yell out in frustration, "Wooooooow... WOW! What the hell?!"

"Well, I mean... we didn't help on the Training Room floor when you were dying for a reason," Ignitus chuckled, making it even more tough for him as he was the main one of the group that had such an impact on the say.

"Flair... I'll take that blade to the chest if you'd please."

"Don't, tempt me," Flair growled, but to his surprise, she didn't do anything, so he gave a smile and a sigh.

"I guess it doesn't really matter who else I talk about, because, well, we've been here plenty of times before, but being honest, let's see who all would kill me. We got Spyro, Cynder, Claire, and now Flair. That's a lot of enemies, and yeah, I know, it's my fault and all, but I mean, come on... Technically speaking, it was the first Ancestor who made more dragons. He, or she, is at fault, not me," Malefor spoke his mind on things.

"You're blaming the beginning of time for all of the worlds problems?" Spyro chuckled.

"He's... Actually not wrong," Volteer backed him up on that.

"Malefor isn't wrong about something? That's a first."

"Uuuggghhh... I always get so excited every time you almost die, Spyro, and then I get a big F you instead," Malefor sighed.

"Hehe, Damn, another thing you aren't wrong about," Spyro chuckled.

Since nothing really happened, and with everyone going back, talking amongst one another while smiling and laughing, this was a surprise for Trish as nothing seemed to have changed at all from what's happened. She couldn't say much, but instead, watched, looked around at everyone else as they had a good old time with one another. Having her shoulder slightly bumped, she looked to her left to see it had been Terrador, and now with her attention, he spoke to her, "I did say that everyone here is just as normal as anyone else, didn't I?"

"Yeah, but... I... What I said, I thought... Someone would've been upset or something but... Why... why weren't they?" Trish asked in awe, rather surprised, but also happy in a way.

"We all have fun around here. Some things we do avoid, such as what's happened with deaths in the past and what not, but, hehe, as you saw right then, joking about something as simple as love doesn't hurt nobody. Well, unless you're Malefor, you will get hit left right and then some, but he can take it. He's a very odd dragon, but we all love him the same."

"Speaking of Malefor, apparently he had some kind of story to his past I didn't know about."

"You should ask the girls when you can. Carith will give the run down as she has before. Malefor will always live with what the darkness did to him, but he tries to stay strong, and to help when ever or wherever he could... Even though he doesn't really leave this building but... He did help against the attack on Warfang for the tenth time."

"So then... It's rather... safe up here, isn't it."

"You should've seen Spyro's display of power before you even came up here. Having him is already comforting as it can get. But, you know, even as powerful as he is, I'm sure just having me around should be enough to show you, I got the muscle."

"Hehe, yeah you do."

Not noticing it as it was rather instinctive for her, having such ease made her rest her head down over his shoulder, closing her eyes even as to enjoy this time. Having this comfort, hearing everyone talk, the calming atmosphere around her was unlike anything she ever felt before, and to get as much of a feel for it as she could, she listened to everyone as they spoke about things here and there. I... Would... love to get use to this. Feeling safe, hearing happy voices, those who laugh... It's... very relaxing. Unfortunately for her, this sense of ease and comfort wasn't to last long. Those who had been talking looked to the entrance of the Chambers to see a red dragon standing in the middle, looking straight to the back and yelling over to one of them, "Hey!" The sudden yell made Trish shoot her head back up, opening her eyes and looking straight, gasping even as she saw who it was, "The hell do you think you're doing?!" Without words to say, she could only stand there, looking at him with fear, increasing her breaths as her anxiety started to get the best of her, "I'm so sorry, Guardian Terrador. I tried to tell her not to come up here and bother any of you, but once again, she doesn't listen," Taking some steps into the Chambers, he snapped a claw over to him, commanding for her to follow, "Get over here right now. We are leaving."

Immediately, everyone knew who this was which made them all growl to him, remembering what Trish had said about this dragon. Shaking off her fear, she tried to calm him down, taking a couple steps towards him as her voice wasn't as high as she had hoped it to be, "Ivan... Please... I... I said I couldn't live that life anymore. I don't want to be with you, or, anywhere that reminds me of that home. With how I was living, what I was going through, and trying to get help from you when I needed it... You didn't care at all... And... a home is a word that's supposed to cause comfort... not panic."

While her words frustrated him, being around those he knew he couldn't take on, Ivan took things easy for the time being, "Alright... Look... I've talked with some around me, friends who have helped me look past such things, and I'd... Love to start over. I know a new house we can move in which I've asked the moles to make for us. This I had done a month ago as I had hopes of starting over as well. So, please, if you come back with me, I will make things right."

"If that was true, and you went through all that, how would me dying when you left me make your words true?"

"You should know, at the end of the day, my life is more important then yours," Ivan growled to her, and now with these words, everyone was ready to turn against him, "I've already told you this. When it comes down to a male and a female, a male can do more for a population then a female. So even if you were to die, I can still live on and help populate this world," At this point, Trish knew he wasn't to change, so, she didn't move, but he still pushed it, "Now, get over here! We are leaving before you put these dragon through the same pain that you've put me through."

"The same pain...? The same pain!" Now snapping on him, this was something she's never down before, but now having enough, she shot back at him, "The amount of shit you put me through! The amount of times you slashed me, making me bleed so I had to fly out of Warfang, risk my life, and to heal myself, all while you didn't even help me!" Walking up to him now, she stood in front of him, yelling in front of his face, "It happened so often, I was able to get a layout of all of the front and sides of Warfang. The blood I spilled on those streets and you never batted an eye any time you hurt me!"

"I didn't kill you, did I?"

"You left me to get crushed under a building! You made a scar so bad in my wing that I couldn't even heal it! What if you did something else that I'm not quick enough to do about? I can't trust you, I can't live with you, and I don't even love you anymore!" Swinging her paw around, she slapped him across the face, making him skid back a couple of steps as he wasn't expecting it, "I've always wished for your death, and if I had the chance, you know what, I would've left your ass too! And now that I have this chance, I will, and I am."

"Hehe... Hehehe..." Bringing his head back around, he knew why she was doing this, and he even called her out on it, "You're only doing this because you think you've found a new family to take care of you, even though you just met them... You probably gave a sad sob story so they would all feel pitty for you so they'd accept you. You're trying to fit in so everyone would enjoy having you around. Am I right?" No one said anything, and to Flair, she did see this, and was willing to say something, but decided against it, "Sad... But... It'd be funny if they abandoned you after leaving me so you can die alone. And in case that doesn't happen... Let's make sure something does happen that you'll always remember me by."

Just as she did the same to him, it was rather instant, but unlike a slap, he did much worse. Slashing across her eye, three claw marks dug deep into her eye, going clean from one side to the next, making blood splash out of her eye and across her face. Letting out a painful cry, her eye closed shut, now unable to be used from the damage he had done to her. Falling down onto her back, she held a paw over her eye, crying in pain on the ground in front of everyone. Malefor, as well as Spyro, erupted to their strongest dark forms, ready to take action, but they weren't able to do anything as Terrador rushed in. About to stand over her body, Ivan brought his blade around, but didn't get his chance. Spinning himself around, Terrador made sure his spikes on his tail faced Ivan. This was successful as the spike slammed to his chest, forcing Ivan backwards and to his own back side as he hit the ground to the entrance of the Chambers. Now on his back, Terrador kept up his attack. Running past Trish, he jumped over Ivan's body, brought his tail blade around again, and swung it around to the side of Ivan's head. The spike wasn't there, instead, the full force of the boulder from his tail. His tail blade slammed to the side of Ivan's head, knocking him out was a rather loud smack, and even what sounded like a bone cracking from his head. Now with him knocked out, almost dead looking, Terrador turned to Trish, running over to her and crying, "Trish!"

While she still cried on the ground from her pain, she was able to see Terrador at the corner of her other eye, "Damnit! I knew his was a crazy bastard but... Ugh... I didn't know he'd do this..." Seeing what had happened even after the pain she had endured, she thanked him, "Thanks for the help, Terrador... I wish I was able to do the same to him."

"We around here protect our family, remember?"

"Hehe... Yeah... You're... You're right... Can you, help me to a gem patch... please."

"Not needed," Spyro spoke to her, walking up to her and later sitting down to her right side, "I'm going to deal with your wounds, and that scar of yours," Already being to her right side, he was near the scar on her wing and asked, "May I please have your wing," Nodding to him, he grabbed her wing, and while doing that, he used his dark aura as he had done before, turning the surrounding area around him black for a couple of seconds before dying down, "Your wound and blood should be gone now. You can take you paw down from your eye,"

Doing as she was told, she took her paw down from her eye, opened it, and let out a gasp, not knowing how he did such a thing, "How... How did you do such a thing?!"

"Just something I picked up on my travels," Running a couple of fingers across her wound, it healed as his paws past her scar, "This is a lot more of a difficult wound, so I need my darkness to go down on a much more molecular level," As he got to the end of the scar, it had been completely healed, and she looked to her wing, once again raising a brow at this sight, "There you go, your wing is completely healed."

Smiling to see this, she stood up to her paws with the help of the two. Backing up from her, the two, along with the others, watched as she stretched out her wing completely. Smiling wide now, she spun around with her wings, feeling better than she has ever felt before, "I... I feel amazing! My wing and body has never felt better!" Tucking her wings back down, she looked to Spyro first, "Thank you so much, Spyro," Now looking back to Terrador, she thanked him once again, "And thank you once again, Terrador. Hehe, seeing his head get slammed into was rather satisfying."

"Hehe, you're very much welcome," Terrador smiled, glad she was able to see what he had done.

Now that things seem to be fine, Malefor came out his dark form along with Spyro. With Terrador at her side, the two went back to their spots. Before Spyro went back to his spot, he looked to his father and asked for a favor, "Can you erase his memory of this all together. Maybe even erase his memory of Trish all together so we never have to worry about him ever again."

"I can alter his memory, but i can't erase it," Ignitus gave his way of doing things, "I can't do such a thing to him as the Ancestors do have plans for him."

"If it has to do with harming any of us, I'm going to kill him," Flair growled after seeing what this dragon had done, "How about I just finish the job right now, get his unless ass life over with now rather than later."

"Thank you, Flair for the protection, but, he deserves to have a second chance, even after what he did," Spyro defended him for the time being, "But if he tries something again, you can... Maybe, kill him away from all of us."

"Something we can finally agree on."

"Wait! WTF, Spyro!" While Malefor was yelling to him, Ignitus got rid of the body by shinning a white light on him, making him disappear and putting him back to his own home, "He gets off with a slap on the wrist, but for me, when the Dark Master did something like that, it's taken this long for you to even be my frenemy! You even wanted to kill me, but for him, it's like a, 'Oh, we will deal with him later'."

"I said Flair would kill him if he tried something again," Walking back to where he normally sat, Spyro cleared things up for him, "And same with you, you try something again, I will be the one to kill you."

"But...! Oh... I guess that makes sense."

"But instead of us deciding his fate, that should be up to you, Trish."

"Choose his fate?" Trish questioned.

"You can either choose for him to still live out in this world. Or, Flair can gut him like a fish. While I don't like the idea of someone dying, after seeing what he just did to you, and what he could to others, maybe no one would miss him either way."

"Make the right decision here, Trish," Flair growled, already hopeful of a death.

Having such power got her to think, especially after all that he had done to her. It didn't take too long for her to come to a decision as she didn't wish for anything else to happen to anyone, "While I... Do wish for him to die... I don't want to start anything else with anyone. I just want to move on from that life, but not kill it. For this, I'll just, take it as a learning experience and move on," Flair growled to hear she couldn't kill anyone, but she didn't say anything about it, "Hehe, and, after seeing what Terrador had done to him, that was... definitely satisfying after so long of dealing with him."

"Hehe, yeah, Damn Terrador. You swung that boulder if yours around, and then, I heard a smack, then a crack, and I was like, Damn Son!" Malefor laughed as that was something that happened so quickly but was very enjoyable to see, "But, hey, now that things have been brought back down, again, can I please discuss something that's been bothering me?" The others were silent, raising brows as they didn't know what could've possibly bother someone such as himself, "Flair..."

"What?!" Already getting defensive, Flair growled to him.

"Fatality... Really? That was the most cringy thing I've ever heard in my life. I could already hear the deep voice announcer being like, 'Fatality... Flair, Wins'. Do you see why that was... Hehehe... It was pretty embarrassing, don't you think?"

"How about for my next fatality, I slit your jaw off and cut both of your arms off from your shoulders?!"

"Uhhhhhhh... Well, that depends; can you put in the correct button combination? Cause that's pretty difficult."

"Why has no one killed your annoying ass yet."

"You just hate facts."

"I hate Idiots!"

"Why would you hate yourself? That's not nice."

"You're dead!"

"Alright, alright, calm down you two," Cyril stepped in to stop the two before they did anything, "Malefor, Flair, as you've seen, really will kill you if you don't watch your tongue. And as for you, Flair," Just as he had looked to her, she showed her teeth to him, wanting for him to say something so she could kill him, "Hehe, just the same as with Ivan; If you wish to kill him, just do it where none of us will find the body."

"Whoa! Cyril! The hell man?!" Malefor cried to him, not understanding this logic.

Changing her attitude up a bit, she was rather surprised by his words, but knew they weren't true, "Yeah right. I kill him and die for it. You just want to give me an excuse to do your dirty work and die for it rather then you yourself!" Looking away from him, already having this idea of what he was to do, even as wrong as it was, she stood by it, "And I'm not after his life, for now. It's yours that pisses me off every time you take a breath."

"Flair... I was only joking," Cyril murmured as he didn't want to make things worse.

"Did it sound like I was?"

Now with her upset at Cyril for what he had said, the two stayed quiet as each of the two didn't want to say anything further. To cheer everyone up, Malefor had an idea come to mind as he was now ready to tell his story that he's wanted to for so long, "Wait! I have a perfect idea to change the mood! I can finally tell my mate abuse story."

"Uh... What?!" Trish asked, feeling uncomfortable by him saying.

"No no no, trust me, nothing bad really happens."

"He's just going to say it either way, so... It's best for him to shut up now sooner than later," Terrador sighed.

"Hehehe... Hahaha! Alright, alright alright alright. So, there were these two dragons whom had met that wanted to get things on, right? Well, as they get to the house, they get to the bed and things start kicking off. As they were making out, sitting next to one another, she pulls away from the kiss and says hit me, in a loving way, so he slaps her. He slapped her too hard, so she slapped him back, then he slapped her. After that... HAHAHA! The two... the two got up... Hehehe... They got up... and left... HAHAHA!" Malefor's laugh was loud, but it was also contagious as those around him started to give off chuckles and giggles as well to his story, "I mean, could you imagine?! That's the funniest shit I've ever heard in my life!"

"Hehe... But, why, would he want her to slap him?" Cynder asked.

"Some kind of fetish."

"That sounds horrible."

"Hehehe, I could... Haha! I could see you doing the same with Spyro. That would be hilarious!"

"You are the definition of horrible," Spyro sighed at this.

"So, what I'm hearing is, because it's so funny, you'd slap Carith just to have that funny moment?" Ersa asked.

"Hell no. I'm big brain, not small brain. How do words good in that way any way."

"The hell did you just say?" Volteer asked as he was beyond confused.

"Only an intellect of two hundred IQ would understand."

"My IQ is beyond anything you can count to."

"Haha! I'm pretty sure I know how to count to five, Volteer."

"Five, times about a thousand or so."

"How about, negative five times negative a thousand or so."

"You, do know a negative times a negative is a positive, right?"

"You, do know that, nothing you learn in math will ever save your life. Numbers are useless."

"Malefor, do you think you could survive in space?"

"Hehe, hell yeah I could."

"Oh, so you could survive negative two hundred and seventy degrees Celsius, or, about four hundred fifty four Fahrenheit, rounded up to four hundred fifty five cause of the point eight?"

"Dude... Neeeeeerrrrrrdddddd! How, you being the biggest nerd in the entire world ever got you laid. I thought you'd be the last dragon to ever get a girlfriend."

"You should know, nerds are delicious," Ersa licked her lips.

"What the hell?! Oh, Wait... Hehe, I see what you did there. The nerd candy."

"What is candy?" Cynder asked.

"It's what Volteer is, that's for sure," Ersa purred.

"It is a sweet treat!" Malefor interrupted the two mates, and while they chuckled to one another, he explained, "In books, there is talks about sweet treats, such as chocolate, cake, and ice cream, but no one has ever made anything such before. And even if they did, we don't even need to eat since there's no need, aside from a good taste. So, what would even happen if we did?"

"Well, we could eat, and our stomach would digest it, giving us enegry. But eating too much to what our body can't transfer, would be thrown up," Volteer explained, making some shiver at just the thought, but he had some good news to divert the thoughts, "But, speaking of sweet treats, me and Ersa thought about making such things in the past to help make everyone feel better after losing you, Malefor. So, now that we have the time, and if needed, would any one around here like to try such a sweet treat?"

"No way you could actually make anything of the sort."

"But if I could, which, me and Ersa totally can, would you like to try it?"

"Hum... Can I, make an order then?"

"Hehe, I, guess so."

"Awesome! If you need such ingredients, I shall fetch them if you don't have it as I wish to get this for Carith. But I was reading one book that spoke of a brownie with a ice cream center in the middle of it. So every bite you take, you get a chocolate and vanilla tasting to it. Apparently this is also rather delicious since, with the brownie being nice and warm, having that perfect blend between the two would be amazing!"

"Have you been thinking about this for a while or something?"

"I mean, kinda. You bringing it up reminds me of it. But, I haven't thought much about it as the taste from Carith's lips holds me over till my life is over."

"Hehe, don't you mean tongue," Claire snickered, just to mess with him.

"Jealous?" Carith smirked as she looked to her.

"Of who?"

"Never done such a thing with Ignitus, and you wish you could."

"WH...! I do what ever I wish with Ignitus, and doing such a thing is beneath me."

"What would you rather be beneath you; Doing such a thing with Ignitus, or, Ignitus himself," Cynder smirked, getting Claire to blush hard from her words.

"Hehe, remember when this was happening to Carith? Seems like she's getting her revenge on you, Claire," Ersa giggled.

"Well, neither of those are correct as, Claire will always be beneath me," Ignitus smirked, getting the girls, and especially Claire to gaps at his words, "For an assassin, she's not very strong. All it takes are my words, and next thing I know, she's on her back, begging for me."

"How dare you!" Claire growled to him, seeing this as a challenge, "How about we see who'd really win right here an now?!"

"Hehe, please, Claire, you'll just embarrass yourself."

"Ignitus... You are pushing your luck!"

"Instead of pushing my luck, can I push my lips, against yours?"

"No... I think we are done."

"What!"

"Tell them the truth, tell them who really controls this relationship, or else."

"Or... Or else what?" Ignitus let off a nervous voice.

"If I tell you, I'd will happen."

Swallowing hard, they saw he had been put in his place, and to make sure he didn't make things worse, Ignitus corrected himself, "What I... Meant was... Claire is far beyond more powerful then me, and what ever she says I shall do."

"If she says anything, you'll do?" Malefor chuckled.

"If you're truly an assassin, you'll tell him to kill himself, Claire. You have him where you want him," Flair looked over to the two, growling, and hoping this would do some good, but of course, it didn't.

"True. I am an assassin, but I choose my target. And since my target was a good boy, it's not his life I'll take, but something much more," Claire smiled, looking to Ignitus was lustful eyes.

"Hey, Volteer, you remember about that, real men never lose conversation? You think that's what is about to happen to Ignitus?" Malefor laughed, and unfortunately, Volteer knew exactly what he was talking about.

"If you say anything about that to him, Claire might really kill you. Last time you said that shit to me, that volleyball made a sure nice red mark on your face," Volteer growled to him, trying to get him to shut his mouth.

Luckily for the two, no one said anything to embarrass the two, so they were able to enjoy their moment. Wrapping her arms around the back of Ignitus's neck, the two closed their eyes and embraced into a passionate kiss. Seeing as those two were now kissing, Spyro heard what sounded like whimpering. Having looked away from the two and to Cynder, he saw as her lips started quivering. Giving a chuckle, he knew exactly what this meant, "Oh yeah, I still have to have some fun with you, don't I?" Nodding her head slowly and sadly, he looked away from her, to the others, and then back to her as no one was looking to them, "Do you want to head up to our room and have some fun, or just get one of these rooms down here?"

"That... is a good question. I'm sure we still have plenty of day light left to do something or another," Cynder's attitude now changed as she did wonder what they were to do for the time being, "I can handle going all night with you for sure but... Having Trish around now, I do, wish to talk with her some more, get to know her and what not. Now having a full squad of girls around here, it's rather nice to see this family only growing more and more."

"Do you really want to call Flair family?" Flair was able to hear what Spyro had said, making her show her teeth to him, but he didn't see.

"I... need to talk with Flair about this. After what she did to you, I... I didn't want to say anything as I didn't want to hurt her."

"So you're still going to try and help her?"

"You never gave up on me even though I was evil. I don't want to do the same to her either."

"If you do talk with her somewhere else though..."

"I will have my darkness ready."

"But... after what she did to me... What if she did the same to you. I... don't wish to kill, but my darkness will take control and kill her. Kettu and Xvar will take over, and I might as well let them."

"That won't happen. As scary as it is to think about, I trust her. When I find out what's wrong, me, and all the other girls, will do everything in our power to help her."

"Alright..." Giving her a kiss to her lips, she was able to kiss back, and now feeling comfortable, he backed from the kiss, "Stay safe."

"Will you stay handsome?"

"Hehe, I shall."

"Then I shall to your words as well," Looking to the other girls in the room, Cynder wanted them all to follow her as she stood up, "Hey, girls, since Trish is now here, what do you say we all head back to your room, Ersa, and talk some as we had done before to do another reintroduction of sorts?"

"Oh yeah, I'm down for that. Trish, would you like to come and talk with us girls?" Ersa asked, looking over to the green female.

"Oh... Of course," Trish was already onboard.

Since all the other girls knew they'd be ready as well, the first to make their way out of the Chambers was Cynder, then Carith, Ersa, Claire, and Trish. While the girls made their way to Ersa's room, Flair took a little bit more time as she was still sitting down beside Cyril to which he saw. Showing her teeth to him, she now looked to him, threatening even to what she had accidentally let be known, "You tell anyone what I said to you," Sharpening her fins on her back to poke at his wings, he shivered, swallowed hard, and then nodded as he understood, "I'm... Trusting you... To not say anything, understand?"

"Hehe, well, I know I won't let you down so, I have nothing to be afraid of, do I?" Cyril smiled to her, and he couldn't tell if it was his words or not, but she eased her fins down, softening them out.

Trusting you? Heh, yeah right. Soon as he says some shit about what I said, I'll for sure kill him, Flair promised herself, finally making it out from under his wing and making her way over to the entrance. This is going to be a funny talk. At the entrance, she turned to her left before making her way over to Ersa's room, and with the door already having stayed opened from the other girls entering, Flair turned to her right once in front of it. Similar as before, the girls sat in two lines with Ersa being at the back middle nearest to the bed. To the left was Cynder, and Carith. To the right was Claire and Trish. Shutting the door herself as she walked in, she listened as Trish had spoken first to the surprise of the others, "I've... never seen a family like this before. Hehe, and, I've seen quite a lot in my days, but nothing like this."

"Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?" Carith asked with a raised brow.

"Oh, a very good thing I assure you. Hehe, even first coming by, it was rather... Ahem... Surprising, to see a nearly destroyed Chambers with blood all over the place. Which, if you all don't mind me asking, what was that all about?"

"I tried to kill Spyro before you got here," Flair was open and honest about it as she sat in the front of the line nearest to the door, "He gave me a choice, so I ripped his heart out and destroyed it. He didn't die, as you saw, but as I've learned, don't get attached to anyone you ever meet. They'll turn their backs on you no matter what you say. They only care about what you do, or should I say, what you fail, to do."

"What... do you mean?"

"The girls here supposedly wanted to help me, but as soon as I did something they didn't like, they turned their backs on me real quick, even ignoring me. So, just as everyone else in this world, try not to make a mistake or else you'll be hated for it for the rest of your life."

"Flair, we don't hate you," Ersa stepped in first.

"For me, I couldn't say anything cause... I almost lost Spyro just a couple days ago, and to see what had happened... I needed to... I didn't want to say something wrong and hurt you," Cynder defended herself for what she had done.

"And if I did kill Spyro?" Flair asked, sitting down and crossing her arms.

"Then clearly I couldn't forgive you. If I killed someone you loved, you'd never forgive me either."

"I'm not like you."

"Then enlighten us, Flair," Carith spoke, getting a little aggressive towards her, "What happened to your parents? Or even a sibling, maybe friends?"

"None of your business!"

"The terror of the skies killed them, didn't she?"

"Shut up!" Getting back up to all fours, Flair sharpened her fins all throughout her body, "What's happened in my past is none of your damn businesses!"

"Don't get defensive about something you don't care to do something about. We are trying to help you. If you aren't going to help yourself, and you won't let others help you, then this clearly isn't a problem."

"Tell me, Carith! How's your parents?!"

"My parents are dead," Carith growled back to her, now getting Flair to back down as she gave wide eyes, not expecting to hear this, "They were killed by the Dark Master to prevent Malefor from having emotions and breaking free of his control. Even after hearing that, you think I hold what happened against him? No, I don't, and I've made it every clear that I didn't. So as we've said before, if someone was taken from you, it wasn't him, nor was it Cynder, but the darkness. So if it's revenge you're after, go find it elsewhere. No one here has done anything to you."

"So even after Malefor took everything from you, you'd still love him?!"

"If he took everything from me, then what is this family that I have now...? And to clarify, it was the Dark Master, not, my love, Malefor."

"And if it was, Malefor?"

"HA! Malefor knows not to piss me off."

"You'd betray him."

"Does this have to do with your past, Flair? Is there something you aren't telling us that's eating at you?"

"Yeah, it's this bull shit act you all put on even though you'd turn your backs on one another in a heart beat."

"Have we turned our backs on you?"

"After I almost killed Spyro!"

"Then why are you still here?"

"Because I choose to be!"

"And if we told you to leave?" Flair didn't respond to what Carith had to say this time as this only made her struggle more to keep calm, but seeing as she was going too far, this was a perfect time for her to say what she needed to, "That was a trick question, Flair. We wouldn't tell you to leave because you're family to us, understand. We've all had our ups and downs, and after what happened to Spyro, we want you to know we weren't upset with you about it, just scared."

"Others have said the same thing, about being family... But they all ended up leaving me anyway, so why should your words matter at all to me?" Flair murmured, ducking down off her anger.

"Flair..." Trish stepped in as she had experience such a thing from her past, "Ivan, said the same thing to me, about being my family, and how he wouldn't leave me... While I'm new around here, I have to admit to something... And that's... Unfortunately, for me, while I barley know anyone here, when they give a promise to me, I hold onto it because... I want, to be apart of something... Don't get me wrong, I'm scared of being betrayed again, or even lied to, but... I have hopes this is the second chance at life that I can have. And so, rather then making little of it, I wish to start strong, and make the most of it."

"And then when you do, it'll only hurt that much more to know you were lied to..."

"But if that doesn't happen, it'll only feel that much better to know I was cared for... It's... A leap of faith on what could happen... But I'd rather take a leap then a step to grow more from my experience."

"And what happens when that leap ends up making you trip, and you fall flat on your face from failure and betrayal?"

"Then I get back up and look back at what I have."

"And what do you have now?"

"She has us," Ersa smiled, getting Flair's attention to her words, "If something happened the same to you, Flair... We will be there the same as well," Now staying quiet, Flair didn't say anything to her words, and lucky enough even, she seemed to have been calming down from her and Trish's words, so, she knew all that was left was to close things off, "From what we've gathered, you've lost, everything. You were betrayed and either you, or someone else, failed to do something or another. We don't wish to push this issue any longer as we know it frustrates you. But remember, we, will always be here to support you."

"Hehe, and if we aren't, seems like you've been getting a lot closer to Cyril," Cynder teased Flair, making her blush red and shiver from the sudden brought up of his name.

"What?!" Flair cried, picking her head up and sitting straight up.

"Hehe, oh yeah... Flair, if you wanted Cyril's heart so bad, just ask him for it, don't take it," Carith was the next to tease her.

"I don't feel anything for that dragon!"

"I don't know. You seemed rather comfortable under that wing of his," Ersa smirked.

"I will walk right out here and kill him right now if I so please!"

"But why would you kill him if he wishes to help you?" Trish asked which only made Flair growl more as this brought up what he's done for her.

"As I said, he's my prey. I will kill him one day, and not he, nor any of you, will stop me from that. And the shit that he says to me just, frustrates me to no end! When he protected me after almost killing him yesterday, when he protected me after I tried to kill him today, and even after what I did to Spyro, he keeps trying to protect me!" The girls looked at one another as she was revealing more and more of what has happened without them even asking, so, they kept quiet in hopes she would reveal something, "Why does that dragon keep protecting me?! Even after I stabbed him, told him to fight back, he never did! He wouldn't fight back! I was attacking him, I could've killed him!"

"Flair... I did the same to Spyro," Cynder murmured, now speaking up as this was something she had experienced, "When I was in my dark form, the Dark Master forced me to attack Spyro. Out of frustration, I asked, 'Why won't you fight back'... His response... Because you've left me nothing to fight for..."

"Awwwwwwwww," The girls all teased her in unison, aside from Flair.

"Hehe, yeah yeah, I know... But, Flair, maybe that's the same as how Cyril feels to you."

"He... Said to me... 'Why would you trust me if all I did was hurt you'..." While Flair was focused on her frustration, she didn't see the wide eyes the girls had given her to what Cyril had said to her, "I want him to hurt me, I want him to show me he's nothing but a liar, and I will make sure of it! But how can I?! I've nearly killed him twice now, but he keeps saying I have a heart, that he understands, and he wishes to help... And the shit he said to me afterwards makes me what to snap his neck!"

"What... did he say to you?" Ersa asked in suspicion.

"He talked about being a failure... About how, he wouldn't blink an eye if, by giving his life, he would save another... And that's how parents are to their Hatchlings; They jump in front of danger without thinking twice to save those they care for, and even if their life ends, they can die without regret knowing they saved a life..." Even with the frustration and sadness showing in her eyes, a tear went down the side of her cheek, which she had felt, only making her anger show more, "He thinks that, if he lets me kill him, he'd save my life, and all yours as I'd leave you all alone..."

"Would... killing him help you?" Carith was hesitant to ask.

"Yes...! Maybe... I... I don't know! Even waking up, I was so sure of what I wanted to do, but I failed! Again! I ended up laying on his chest, crying over him as I... Why did he comfort me after what I did! Why did he pet my fins to soothe me?! Why was he so easy with his voice, Why didn't he yell at me, Why..." Now having enough with all these thoughts, she made up her mind now as she couldn't handle them, "No! I'm done being here! I'm going out there, slitting his throat, and leaving!"

"Would you want him to fight back?" Trish asked, already knowing of what she would've said.

"He will! Once I slit his throat, Spyro will just heal him, which Cyril will then turn on me as he knows I really will kill him!"

"But if you've already tried twice now, what would make you think he'd change his mind on you?" Cynder asked, feeling a little terrible as she's felt this way before, "I've tried to kill Spyro plenty of times before, and even if they were because of my dark form, his opinion of me never changed. Hell, we even play with that idea now, and mainly because, we know it'd never happen."

"Well I'm not messing around."

"Oh man... Flair, there's still so much we have to discuss that you and Trish don't even know yet. Like: Spyro's healing powers, The Chronicler, our pasts once again, the darkness, and anything else that needs to be known," Ersa brought up as she hoped this would get her mind off of things so they could focus on so much more, "Please... Let's just all sit down and talk for the time being, and once we are done... Just... think some more about whether you want to kill Cyril or not. He's just trying to help, as are we."

"And he pisses me off because he knows he will fail, but he keeps trying," Flair snarled.

"Do you think that would stop him from helping you?"

"His death will."

---

"Alrighty men! And Volteer," Malefor chuckled, already making Volteer growl to him, and to better position himself, he walked to the middle of the room before continuing, "We are all going to practice on something that I feel like needs to be done, and that is, singing."

"Signing?" Spyro asked.

"Yes! The best kind too."

"Never been a fan of musicals," Terrador grumbled.

"Hehe, cause your voice is definitely not what someone wants to hear when they want to be soothed."

"Already starting shit with me I see."

"Now now, that doesn't mean you doing ASMR would be a failure. Hell, I'd listen to it."

"You'd like Terrador to get real close and whisper to you, softly, comforting, and..."

"Never mind!" Malefor rejected Volteer's words rather quickly, "Not the point. Point is, we can all get together and show off our vocal cords. As for you, Cyril, you shouldn't need to as I'm sure Flair would just rip them out herself so, you don't have to sing."

"Who even said I wanted to sing?" Cyril grumbled.

"Look, you guys gotta have my back in this, alright. Trust me."

"And what is it that we're singing?" Ignitus asked.

"Hehe... I want it that way, aka, Ain't nothing but a heartache."

"No," The Guardians all rejected.

"Oh come on! It's what the boys do at three in the morning on a Saturday night."

"I could join in on this then," Spyro finally spoke up, surprising the others.

"Yes! Spyro, my man!"

"Though I... don't know what to say."

"It's alright, you'll get the easiest part. As for the Guardians..."

"We aren't singing," Terrador growled at him.

"And what if the girls hear?" Cyril blushed, not wanting anyone to hear his voice at such a different level.

"So what? You scared Flair's gonna get pissed or something and kill you?" Malefor smirked.

"No, I'm scared of pushing others away from my voice."

"Haha! That would suck, but don't worry, we will get this down, I swear. Plus, if the girls have their own way of doing things, us guys deserve our own way of doing things."

"Will you shut up if we do sing?" Terrador sighed.

"He does have to explain what we are doing," Volteer spoke for Malefor.

"Look, since you guys don't want to do that much work, I will be the main focus on the signing. You guys will focus on one line, then me and Spyro will rotate between each of the other lines afterwards," Giving a demonstration, he first pointed to the Guardians, "So first, I will be the one to sing, then you four come in with the heartbreak. After that, I'll sing, back to you all, then Spyro, then you all, then back to me," It was a little confusing for some while others already understood such a Volteer, and seeing this confusion, he knew he'd be able to help them, "I'm one, you all are two, and Spyro's three. So it goes one, two, three, then two, then one, then two."

"We could be doing something productive with our lives, and you want us to sing?" Terrador growled, still against the idea.

"Look, I'm trying to help by spicing up those vocal cords of yours. Which would you rather have Trish hear: 'Hey! Hot stuff!' Or, 'Hey, hot stuff'."

"You acting romantic always makes me want to throw up."

"You acting anger always makes me want to smile, knowing your life sucks."

"Malefor!"

"Just sing you big bastard!"

"Muscular, bastard," Volteer corrected

"Weak, bastard," Malefor chuckled as he looked to Volteer.

"Annoying, bastard," Volteer growled back to him.

"Look, as much as I hate to admit it, doing something rather then nothing is usually a much better option. So... Unfortunately, I do have to agree with Malefor," Ignitus sighed, wanting to do something that didn't involve just sitting there, "Now without Claire, I'm not comfortable. Signing is only going to make things worse, but... Ugh... What the hell. When ever you're ready, Malefor, so am I. And to make things easier, I'll just give the lines to the others so we don't have to learn the whole damn song."

"Haha! This is going to be great," Malefor happily smiled.

"We pulled the short straw, didn't we?" Terrador sighed to the other Guardians.

"Not like we could've gotten ridden of him. We were unlucky, and Malefor came to us for help," Volteer chuckled, understanding what his friend was sighing for.

"What the hell guys? I'm trying to have fun, and because of that, you're trying to disown me..." Malefor whimpered, hearing what they had been talking about.

"Yeah, that's pretty harsh, even for you two," Spyro chuckled, joining in just to get them into more trouble.

Giving off another sigh, Terrador apologized in his own way, "Look, we are going to sing, aren't we? That means we care about you, alright."

"Sweet," Malefor smiled.

---

"So that's why, long story made short, Malefor was never evil, just forced to be," Carith got done with her explanation of her own part of the story she needed to tell, making Trish give wide eyes to something so unknown, "The stories were put in place so no one would feel bad for him once they knew the truth of what happened, and the best way to do that; Make him look like the bad guy."

"I'm... so sorry you ever had to go through such a thing... All of you," Trish gave a frown, now having heard what's happened to almost all of them.

"So now that just leaves Spyro, The Chronicler, and you, Flair."

"I'm not going," Flair growled in rejection.

"Then I would gladly talk about my sexy ass dragon then," Claire stepped in.

"I was going to say that for Spyro," Cynder grumbled.

"Don't worry, we will get to him later, promise."

"So you're admitting he's sexy?" Ersa smirked.

"No, Cynder is. I'm admitting Ignitus is sexy."

"Hehe, and plus, if you become mates with Ignitus, that would make Spyro your adopted son," Carith giggled.

"Oh... Yeah... It would," Claire was rather surprised by this realisation, and now with these thoughts, she started to talk out loud about them, "Yeah but I mean, Spyro wouldn't let me be his mother, especially since I'm not even trained in being a parent whatsoever and so I'd fail."

"You act like Ignitus hasn't done the same thing as well. He's a new parent as well."

"Wait, so, Spyro is Ignitus's son?" Trish asked.

"Adopted," The girls all corrected at the same time, aside from Flair.

"Look, Flair, it's alright to be scared. Hell, if anything, this would be an amazing opportunity if it happened," Ersa spoke up, helping her friend look to the bright side of things in hopes of helping, "Compared to me and Volteer, we know almost everything there is to know about such a thing when it comes to Hatchlings, but even still, learning something without paws on experience is difficult. Reading how to fly may sound easy, but executing such things is rather difficult. So, by having this experience now, it will be easier in the future."

"So... By practicing with Spyro being my son, it would help me be a better parent to a future Hatchling of mine?" Claire finshed up what Ersa was explaining.

"Exactly."

"That... makes sense actually... But, what do I do if I'm scared to fail now and even then?"

"No one is perfect, Claire. What matters is that you pay attention, learn, and while you grow, so does your Hatchling. While there is so much more to it, it's just something you have to go through, but, not alone. I'm sure Ignitus would be right there for you, helping, and teaching you from what he's learned," Seeing Claire give a rather pleased sigh, even putting a paw to her chest as she blushed, this was easy fire for Ersa to burn as she knew exactly what she was thinking about, "What are you thinking about over there, Claire? Snuggling up to Ignitus with a Hatchling at your paws."

"Oh, shut it, you. I know you have the same hopes with Volteer," Claire smiled as she growled to her friend, making the other girls giggle to her.

"Are we going to learn about the Chronicler or not?" Flair was straight to the point, breaking up the fun the others were having.

"Oh... Yeah, sorry... Ahem," Putting her paw back down to the ground, she now went back to what she wanted to talk about before, "Short Answer; He's an Ancestor. But long answer; He has powers beyond that of any normal dragon. He can teleport, clone himself, pull others into lucid dreams, force dreams onto others, destroy mountains with a wave of a paw, move at lightning speed, heal, fix, and repair anything that ever happens to someone or something during a battle and just... So much more... So, much more."

"Wait wait wait... So, you all live, with the Guardians, an all powerful mini Ancestor, and two purple dragons?" Trish now had to correct herself as to all she saw.

"Buff, and sexy, Ancestor," Claire corrected.

"To answer, yes, that is who we all live with," Ersa answered for her.

"So then... This is like... The safeties place on earth, isn't it," Trish smiled a little as it seemed that way.

"Was," Flair growled, "I'm making sure it doesn't stay that way."

"What? But why? What did these dragons ever do to you?"

"I have my own life goals, alright. If you're lucky, I'll just take Cyril, then I'll leave."

"Take him out on a date?" Carith smirked.

"Take him by the tail?" Ersa smirked, joining in on the fun.

"Hehe, or will you just, take him?" Claire was the last to say something.

"It's all fun in games until I leave his heart on the floor next to his body," Flair growled to the other girls.

"Is this where you'd say, 'He doesn't need his heart cause he has mine'?" Trish hoped that this was something romantic she would say.

"Trish, don't ever put your trust into anyone, understand. Put your trust in Terrador, you mess up and get someone killed, it'll be on you. You have a fight with that someone, they know your weaknesses. You gave them a sob story of your fears, your past, what you've done, they will use that. With that scar that was on your wing, if you messed something up, he'd hold you to the ground and threaten to put it back if you do something wrong, do you understand?"

"He... He wouldn't do that."

"You barely know him, so how would you know?"

"Because I trust him."

"Someone you met just today?"

"I met him during the battle, not in the Chambers."

"But is that really him, or an act that he's putting on to fool you, to get you close."

"Flair, stand down," Ersa warned her, seeing where this was already leading.

"I'm just here to live a happy life, that's it. I don't want to fight, and I'm sure everyone else here what's the same thing, so what is your problem with such a thing?" Trish asked, getting a little more defensive about what she was saying.

"You lean on comfort, and then you lose it, what do you have? You put your heart and soul with someone you love, once you lose that, what do you have?" Flair growled, making Trish back down some as she could see what she was getting at, "Trust. Love. Mates. You think this brings comfort to anyone? You girls all act like you have a happy life with such a man, yet, when you mess up, what do you think would happen? They will make sure, if their life is going down, they will take you with them... Just watch. Their anger to protect you may seem comforting, but just wait until they turn that against you."

"You know what, Flair... You're right... Volteer does use my past against me to get to my emotions," Ersa sighed as she looked to her side, showing sadness at first to make Flair believe she was telling the truth, but once she picked her head back up, blushing and smiling, Flair now growled to what she had to say, "I mean, hell, I told him about how I had that scar on my right eye. Because he used what happened against me, he twisted my emotions. So now, I'm forced to remember that, he protected me against that dragon, healed me, and then, mated with me."

"That's not my point!" Flair yelled out at her.

"But you said they'd use our past against us?"

"Their anger!"

"Hehe, I mean, that bite mark on Ersa's neck yesterday looked like anger, did it not?" Carith giggled, making Ersa blush.

"I can't believe he would do such a thing to me, even though he knew how much I loved it," Ersa gave a fake cry.

"After I kill Cyril, I'm coming after your mate next, Ersa!" Flair threatened, sharpening her fins all down her back and blade.

"Flair... I killed, Spyro's parents," Cynder murmured, breaking the anger that she was feeling for the time and brining things down just a bit, "After something like that, do you have a reason as to why he didn't leave me?" Giving off a growl, Flair looked away from her, but Cynder smiled to see she was easing her fins back down, "If there's anyone you want to talk to about trust and love, it's mainly me and Spyro. He still loves me after his parents deaths, he put his darkness around my heart while taking mine which was unstable and could've killed him. He slept peacefully next to me even after he had seen what I could do, how easily I could kill him. Hehe, I mean, hell, you've seen my tail blade. He trust me enough to poison him, paralyze him, and even bring my blade close to his body, even though I'm threatening him."

"Because you're just messing around..."

"And how would he know such a thing? For all he knows, I could take that trust, slit his throat and fly away. He wouldn't even expect it. And if I wanted to, I could kill one of the Guardians and blame it on you, but I don't."

"Why not. Getting the pain out of the way now is better then not."

"Because, while losing someone is painful, the memories you create, and the feelings you get from them are just that much more powerful."

"But then those memories haunt you... as powerful as they are to remember, they are that much more when you think back on what you've lost."

"Flair, think of your future right now... When you die, where will you be? Who will you be with."

"I'll be on my bed, dying by myself as I should've years ago."

"How do you see yourself when that happens? Are you smiling? Are you happy? Did you deal with any regret you may have?"

"I don't need anyone else!"

"Just... Listen... please... Don't take this the wrong way but, imagine being with Cyril..."

"I'M...!"

"FLAIR!" Cynder growled, yelling above her voice to get her attention, and since it was a surprise to everyone, the girls all looked to her with wide eyes, not saying anything, "Just... Close your eyes, and imagine it..." Even though she didn't wish to, she still did as she was told, shutting her eyes, but sharpening her fins in case they were to try something else, "Instead of being alone, you're here, in this very building. Everyone's heading off to bed in the Chambers and you walk back to a room all by yourself. You laid down, and fall asleep, all by yourself. No noise, no emotions, nothing to help you feel alive. How do you feel right now."

"Pissed off since Cyril still isn't dead even after this day. Emotionless, as I've always been. Yet, some way, happy, knowing I'll get another chance to kill him tomorrow."

"Now instead, imagine walking into your room and shutting the door, but hearing it stop, you look behind yourself and see Cyril, smiling at you..."

"So I slam the door on his face."

"Aww," Ersa cried in a sad, low tone.

"Hehe, yeah, even for me, I'd have to rub Cyril's back after that," Carith giggled, feeling bad if that did happen.

"Fine! I'll let him in," Flair growled through her teeth.

"Now that you two are on the bed, he snuggles up to you, and you do the same to him. You put your head to his chest, and he lays his head over yours. As he drapes a wing over your back, you feel his cool, blue body, you listen to his heart beat while hearing him give off small, controlled breaths..." Pausing for a second, Cynder could see Flair taking in the sight as her fins started to ease, but only very slightly which surprised the other girls, "He whispers to you, comforting you on everything, giving you the sense that everything's to be alright. He trusts you; closing his eyes, and even putting his tail over yours. Feeling his body, his comfort, his cold yet warm body, what do you do... Do you wait till he's asleep and kill him... Or do you enjoy this night, and let him be there to comfort you?"

"I... I, get up and just kill him now," Flair was hesitant with her response, but she still knew what she wanted.

"Then... Once you take your head back from his, you push him over to his back, jump on top of him and bring your blade to his neck. Now above him, he looks to you, with a frown, but it changes to a smile."

"Why would he be smiling?!"

"Because... He brings a paw up to your cheek, and once rested to the side of your face, he whispers to you, warmly, even for an ice dragon such as himself, 'I trust you not to'," The girls gave off small gaps to see a single tear had dripped down from Flair's eye, and even the fins down her body had eased down, softening as they normally did, "Now that he trusts you, even as he always has... What will you do? Do you die alone for your last day alive, or... Do you snuggle back up to him, and live your last day with him?"

Flair didn't say anything for a good little bit of time, and while she was still thinking about what to say, Ersa gave Cynder props for what she had said, "Wow, Cynder. Did expect you to be such a well done psychologist."

"Hehe, well, after all the easy whispering Spyro does to me to comfort me, I picked up a thing or two."

"Neither..." Flair growled, now giving her a response, but this confused the others as they didn't understand what this meant, "I'm going out there and killing him right in front of everyone just to prove my point!"

"What?!" The girls all cried in unison, and with her turning around to the door, they all knew she was serious, "Flair! Don't!"

Running up to the door now so she wouldn't be stopped, she grabbed the door knob, twisted it, and shoved it outwards. Making it to the hallway, she turned to her left and ran to the Chambers. Following close behind was the other girls and they were near steps behind. Once she had made it to the Chambers entrance, she stopped, stood there, and looked into the Chambers with wide eyes. The girls were confused as to why she did this, but making their way to her right, they all stood at the Chamber entrance and looked in to see what was happening. Now with all looking into the Chambers, the girls all gave wide eyes, looking to one another for a second before looking back into the open area.

"Ain't nothin' but a heartache!" Malefor sang in the middle of the room as he stood up on his back two paws.

"Tell me why!" The four Guardians in the back sung with big smiles.

"Ain't nothin' but a mistake!" Spyro sung as he got up on his back back paws, making his way to the middle.

"Tell me why!"

"I never want to hear you say!" Both Malefor and Spyro sung together as they stood back to back in the middle of the Chambers.

"I want it that way!" The Guardians all happily sung.

Now with Spyro dancing his way back to the Chambers, he laughed out loud before looking to the entrance of the Chambers. His soul sunk as he saw all the girls looking at them. Now seeing this, he eased himself back to his four paws, got back to his wall, and wrapped his wings around his face to hide his embarrassment. Malefor continued as he danced his way back over to his wall, and not having seen the girls, he wasn't done, but instead was ready to continue. Now having clear view of the back, the girls all saw all the Guardians had one arm around each others back neck, smiling as they sung into the air and enjoying their time, "Tell me why!"

"Ain't nothin' but a heartache!" Malefor continued to sing.

"Ain't nothin' but a mistake!"

Now with the four looking down, they all gasped at the same time once they had seen the girls all looking at them. Quickly taking their paws off of one others back necks, they all closed their wings around their faces to hide their embarrassments, same as how Spyro had done. Now with just Malefor left, he didn't know he was all alone until a little after he continued singing, "Tell me why...!" Waiting for the others to say something, he didn't hear anything, "Guys... Guardians, you're next!" Looking over to them now, he got back on his fours and looked to see they had put their wings around their heads for some reason, "Guys! What happened!" Shrugging his shoulders as he didn't get a response from them, he continued to sing, even as he moved his head and looked to the entrance of the Chambers, "I never want to hear you-CARITH!" Now seeing who it was, Malefor cried out loud, blushing hard to see all the girls were now looking at him, "Hehehe... Hehehe... Damn... This is awkward as hell..."

Now with him being the last one, he got back to where he normally sat and did so. Now at his wall, he put his wings around his head, shivering some even as he was the last to be both embarrassed, and scared. Now with complete silence, the girls all looked to the guys one by one, seeing them each shiver rather intensely. Now seeing this all as a game to themselves, the girls looked to one another, wondering what they should say or do just to make them fear ever more for what they had done. While the other girls were trying to have fun with what they had seen, Flair focused solely on Cyril, still wishing to do what she said she would do. Carith giggled as she now had a fun idea of how to get to the others, "Should we go down the line one by one and see who's going to be sleeping alone tonight?"

"I mean, we could, but then again, who ever started this should be the one to go down for it," Cynder suggested which immediately made Malefor's scales stand up on end as he knew he was the one, "So, Guys, if you all could tell us who that was, you all might, be able to get off free."

"It was Malefor!" The Guardians and Spyro all cried as they ducked their wings back down and pointed over to Malefor.

"Snitching Bitches!" Malefor growled as he took his wings down and looked to all the other guys, "Role the dices you tree eaters, I'll make sure one of you is next,"

"I don't know, Carith, Malefor has been very rude to you as well," Ersa giggled, making Malefor turn his anger to fear.

"Yeah, did he say, 'I never want to hear you Carith'," Claire smirked, only making things worse for him.

"And he said this was awkward as hell, almost as if, you looking to him makes him feel awkward," Trish was the last to make a jab at him.

"So then that means, Malefor's going to be sleeping by himself tonig..."

"Wait!" Malefor cried, now no longer able to hear the girls say anything else as he knew it would spell certain doom for him, "That's part of the song! Not, you, Carith, you just surprised me. But this is how the song goes as he says, 'I never want to hear you say, I want it that way'..." She still didn't seem convinced, nor were the other girls, so he tried his best to make something up to change the subject, "Ahem, so, uh, by the way, while you all were talking, a bunch of dark creatures came in here and I wrecked house. The Guardians and Spyro were totally cowering in fear from my power."

"And what would Xvar and Kettu have to say to this?" Cynder questioned.

"They would praise my greatness."

"Well then, Spyro, would you be so kind as to bring them out and..."

"Don't! Knowing them, they be the dark problem and start one as well."

"Uh-huh. Well, I don't know about you girls but, I would say that Spyro is safe for now," Cynder agreed with herself as she made it over to her lover.

"Seems as though the Guardians don't wish for us to be with them since we have no space to sit next to them," Ersa pointed out, seeing as the guys had all sat right next to one another without any way of either Ersa or Trish to sit next to who they wished to.

"Cyril! Move over!" Volteer growled over to him, making Cyril quickly shift to the side, enough so that the girls would all be able to sit where they wanted.

"Wow, Ersa, your lover seems pretty aggressive," Claire giggled, catching the attention of her, Flair, and especially Volteer, "Remember what Flair talked about? About how the guys will turn that anger against us? Looks like that is already happening."

"What?! No no no, I wasn't being aggressive, I just...!"

"Was being forceful?" Ersa giggled, "Trust me. That bite you put on my neck, I've seen this side of you before."

"Hehehe, Ewwwww dude, That's gross," Malefor chuckled, trying to keep a smile.

"You think I'm a dude? Hehe, Volteer can surely back me up on that being false."

"We don't need to know that!"

"But I really could," Volteer chuckled.

"Volteer! Not a need for an input!"

Now with space for all the girls to move to where they wanted to be, Flair still waited near the front of the Chamber entrance, same as Carith. Before anything else was said, the other four girls sat down where they normally did; Cynder sat next to Spyro's left, Ersa sat next to Volteer's left, Trish sat to Terrador's right, and Claire sat next to Ignitus's left. Since Carith still hadn't moved, Malefor focused to her, picking up his left wing and waiting for her to come by, but she only smirked, raising a brow even. Thinking of what he could say, an idea quickly popped into his mind which he knew she wouldn't be able to resist, "Carith... Will I be able to make it up to you if I... Transform into my dark form so you may save me?"

"You'll pretend to be evil?" Carith was already on board, taking some steps forward.

"Hehe. I'll make sure you'll have no choice but to kiss me if you wish to live."

This was enough for her to bolt over to Malefor, snuggling up to his side real quick. Moving her scales all throughout his side, she made her way up to his head before nuzzling her head underneath his, making him look up some and purr. Now all that was left was Flair, still sitting from the entrance and looking to the others as they all smiled to their females. The last one without a female sat Cyril, which he looked to her, picking up his own right wing and giving a slight smile as he hoped he would join her. After seeing the joy everyone was experiencing, Flair finally took a stand against all this in hopes that something would come from what she was to say, "Alright, ENOUGH!" Her yell got everyone's attention, and immediately, with this yell, Spyro put a wing in front of Cynder and turned serious, "You're all fakes! Liars! None of this will last, and I will take the stand since none of you have the guts to do so!" Her first target of who she wished to focus to was Spyro as she knew he would be the easiest target, "Spyro, why are you even with Cynder?! Do you not understand what is out there, what you can have? Every time I walk out of my house, it was always Spyro this or, Spyro that. Yeah, you have this family, but you could have so much more out there then you ever could being in here! You could have anyone as a mate, any one! But you chose Cynder?!"

"Cynder's not my mate," Spyro corrected her, and even though he was trying to correct her, he said it rather quickly, making Cynder give off a slight frown.

"Exactly! You still have a chance to back out, have a better life, and have someone else who could love you better then she ever could!"

"You really think so?"

"Spyro!" Some of the other cried.

"Yes! Of course! Plus, why go through love when you can just get the good stuff and move on to the next? And I'm sure the girls you'll get with would be more then happy to just be there to satisfy you, so it's a win win for both parties. Love doesn't matter, feelings for someone never saved anyone, so why not..."

"My feelings for Spyro saved me from killing myself!" Cynder yelled out against Flair.

"My feelings for Ignitus saved me from killing him or anyone else," Claire also stepped in.

"Volteer's love for me kept me from dying throughout my journey," Ersa was the last to step in.

"That's from your own will! Not from something that doesn't exist!" Flair yelled at the girls who fought against her.

"So, I can be a mate with anyone out there, and they wouldn't even care?" Spyro thought to himself out loud, making everyone gasp while making Flair gave off an evil smile, "I could just go from one to the next and it wouldn't matter at all, would it...?" Rather then fearing for what he was to say, Cynder made sure to let it know she was there, bringing her tail blade up slowly but surely as she inched it to his neck, "Hehe... Hahaha...!" His sudden laughter confused those around him as they couldn't tell which side he was on, but just to make sure, Cynder was able to get her blade to Spyro's neck, making him let off a small shiver, "Hehe, don't worry, my love... Hehe... Flair, you know, I'm sure I've heard this somewhere before. Actually, fun fact, this was Cynder's fear."

"Why do you think this is funny?! She is threatening you! Stand up for yourself, you have the power!"

"Hehe, yeah, no no no, that's not how this works. You see, even if I wished to be with someone else, which I don't, Cynder would kill this other female and tie me down for the rest of my life with her poison. Not to mention, Xvar and Kettu would probably kill me, I'd disappoint my father, including all my friends and that's just, that's not something I'm going to be doing... ever, no matter what I get out of it."

"What if you were able to get your parents back?" Flair smirked as she viewed this as a weapon she could use, and she even saw as Cynder shivered from her brining this up, "You can have your parents back, but you have to give up Cynder, would you do it? You can keep your friends and what not, but you could never love Cynder ever again. And to make it better, Cynder will also get her parents back," Surprisingly to the others, Spyro didn't respond to this as though he was on the fence about it, "Tempting, is it not?"

"That's like saying, would you trade one life to save thousands," Malefor growled to her, "Spyro's already shown he would trade his life to save the world, and after what he's been through, he would deserve a better option."

"Tell me, Malefor. If you could save either Spyro, or Carith, who would you save?"

"I'd save both!"

"So who would you go for first when you save both then?"

Malefor could only growl to her as he didn't wish to say who he would choose, and this silence was only helping Flair more and more as she was getting to the others, and she knew it. Moving on from the others, she focused to Ersa as she was her next target, "Ersa, after all you've been through, do you really think Volteer would be the best choice for you? I mean, maybe getting with that red dragon would've been better. After all, if Volteer did love you, he would've searched for you, but he didn't."

"He did," Ersa growled to her as she still hadn't revealed this part of the story yet, "After the war, he searched for me, but believed I was died. And you should've been in Warfang when you heard everyone asking around for someone named Ersa after Volteer was trying to find me," Flair growled as she had forgotten about this, and now that Ersa had control over this argument, she made sure to end it off her way, "It was because of me that we didn't end up together sooner. I thought he mated with someone else and moved on, but he didn't. We are mates, we are already prepared and ready for our future of having a Hatchling and everything, so nothing you say will change that."

"Do you, approve of this, Volteer?"

"Hehe, oh yeah I do," Volteer gave a pleased sigh.

"What ever," Flair snarled, and now with that being a failure, her next target was Ignitus, "So, Ignitus, Claire told me your mighty powerful; An Ancestor, basically. So tell me, why someone as powerful as you and all knowing, why bother with someone like her when you know someone else out there who deserves you?"

"Hehe," Ignitus chuckling to begin what he had to say reminded her of what Spyro was doing, "Flair. Nothing you say will change my mind. You're at a lost when it comes to me and her. But if you want one of millions of reasons; she would kill me if I ever did such a thing. I would go through the run down of how and why I love her, but it seems to me that you don't understand the definition of what love means."

"Can't wait for her to die then so you can understand what you never had," Flair's words to Ignitus made Claire growl against her, but paying no attention to her, her last target was Malefor as she asked him, "You once had the world in the palm of your paws. Why do you bother with Carith when you yourself could have anything in the world that you've ever wanted."

"You want the truth?" Malefor chuckled, making the others wonder as to what he would have to say about his lover, "Hehe, because I'm one of the laziest dragon on the planet. Going after world domination again would be way, too much," Seeing as his lover gave a sigh as she took her head from underneath his head, he knew why she was sad, and had a perfect idea on how to cheer her up, "And plus," Nuzzling closer to her side, Carith looked to see his smile, and his whisper sent shivers down her spine, "I already have what means the world to mean under my wing," His words were enough to make Carith's heart skip a beat as she had to blush from his words, and making sure she didn't think different about what he had said, he stepped in to say one last thing, "And no, that doesn't mean I'm calling you fat... Your slick and slim body always gets to me."

"Hehe, hey Malefor, you gonna, dominate, that world of yours? That way you can still have world domination?" Cyril laughed, making everyone blush as they knew what he was talking about.

"Holy shit, Cyril, I actually think I'm going to kill you dude. Like, no joke," Malefor growled over to him.

"Hey, Volteer, aren't I your world?" Ersa whispered to him, but it wasn't as quiet as she hoped.

"Hehe, since you are, that would mean I've already dominated my world," Volteer chuckled which got Ersa to giggle as she was glad he went along with it.

"Ersa," Trish whispered in a blush, getting the attention of her, "I'm right here."

"Oh yeah, hehe, sorry, Trish," Ersa apologized in a smile.

"Do you want to swap spots?" Terrador suggested.

"Hehe, no, it's fine. Much rather hear something like that then... What my previous lover use to talk about," Trish sighed as she had to remember back to what's happened to her.

"What... happened?"

"He... would usually talk about me behind my back. Or it would be about how they were going to go beat up someone for what they had done... It just... It was never anything to laugh or smile about."

"I... I'm sorry."

"Then... could you do something for me?"

"Of course."

Nuzzling up to his side some more, the two blushed equally, and Trish even apologised for what she was asking, "Sorry... I just... Could you keep me protected."

Giving her a warm smile, Terrador whispered to her, "Your wish is my command."

"You thinking about leaving me?" Claire asked Ignitus with a raised brow, brining up her tail blade some just to intimidate him, which wasn't needed.

"When we get back to our bed, you want to play around with the idea?" Ignitus asked with a raised brow of his own, and while he saw she gave off a small smile, he knew this wasn't what she wanted to hear, so he assured her in a different way, "I love you, Claire, and I'd never leave you. Your support, your love, your comfort during all that I've been going through has meant the world to me, and I feel like, I haven't done enough to show my appreciation. As so..." Bringing up his right wing to the block the two, she smiled more, even blushing as she knew what he was doing, "Your lips are looking a little dry. Let me help you with that."

Flair's frustration grew as it seemed all her work was all for nothing, and it felt now more then ever that she was just wasting breath to what she was saying. Looking down the line backwards now, she watched as Malefor kissed his lover, then looking to Ignitus, he was kissing his lover, and then looking over to Volteer, he was doing the same as the other two and kissing his own lover. I had to have gotten to one of them at least! Looking over to her left, she saw as there seemed to be at least one dragon she had gotten to. Cynder was frowning, head slightly ducked down as she tried to look to Spyro who still hadn't responded to Flair's question. There we go. Moving her blade away from Spyro's neck, it woke him up to where he lifted his head and looked to Cynder, completely changing attitudes for some reason, "Why did you do that? Hehe, your blade was helping me think."

"I... Thought you'd want privacy to think about what Flair had asked you," Cynder murmured, but surprising her and Flair, that wasn't the case at all.

"Oh, that? Cynder, if I gave you up, and I could never fell your scales, or, talk to you, love you, or even snuggle with you, it'd make my parents worry, and they'd feel like it was their fault for coming back. And, I'm, sure, or at least, I hope, you'd feel the same way about not being able to do the same with me."

"Is that really a question, or even a worry? You've seen what happens when I almost lose you."

"Yeah... That's my bad."

"My love, don't worry about it, okay. But what were you thinking about?"

"Oh, hehe, well, I was just thinking about what fun we could have tonight, and unfortunately, I guess I looked a little frustrated since I was using my dark power around my mind to talk with the other two."

"Talking to them about what?"

"Just wondering what else this form can do for me. And good news; you're going to have your paws full dealing with a dark threat unlike you've ever seen before."

"Oh?" Cynder shivered with a smile, "Then shall we head to our room?"

"Not, just yet," Now having eased his lover, everything Flair had done was for nothing, which, once Spyro looked to see her in awe, he could only chuckle at her, "Was that supposed to be some way of breaking us up? You know, you aren't the first dragon who's tried to break me and Cynder up: Flint, The Dark Master, Blitz, Celia, and I'm sure more are to come. If this is all you are here to do, I would appreciate it if you left already."

"Spyro," Cyril murmured as he ran over to Flair to help her out, and once he stood in front of her, he wished to help out, "Let me handle this," Easing his paw up and over Flair's, she gave off a shiver to feel the cold yet warm sudden feeling of his paw, "Flair... As of many times before, if you need to talk to me, I can and will help you in any way I can... And, hey, maybe, to make you feel better, I can talk about some of my past first to help ease you, and to make you feel more comfortable around me," She still hadn't said anything, only looking into his eyes with slightly kicked up breathes, so, he continued to speak, "And, just remember what I've said to you... It will be okay... I promise... I swear, to you."

Now having heard his last bit of words, she finally snapped. Taking her paw out from underneath his, her fins all sharpened in an instant. As soon as they all sharpened, Flair spun her body around, going in to slash at his neck. But she hadn't planned for her vision to be distorted by a couple of tear the grew in her eyes. Instead of hitting the middle of his neck, she slashed at his right neck, making Cyril let out a growl as the blood splashed outwards. After regaining control, she jumped back, now outside of the entrance and still battle ready. While Spyro stood up to do something, Cyril extended a wing, stopping him from doing anything. Covering the cut on his neck, Cyril gave a sad gasp, seeing the state that she was in. While her body was ready for battle, she was ducked down some, shaking, shedding tears down her eyes, almost as if she was experiencing too many emotions, or even too strong of ones.

"Flair..." Cyril gave off a soft, almost weak sounding voice.

"If you ever die before I kill you, I will kill myself, find you in the afterlife, and kill you there then!" Flair cried, trying to hide her sadness by giving off a little more of a growl.

Giving off a slight smile, Cyril tried to make things a little better, or at least, he hoped it would've, "It's... comforting to hear that, I'll still be able to see you even in the afterlife."

Giving wide eyes and a soft gasp, she clenched her teeth shut before opening her mouth wide and yelling, "SHUT UP!"

Watching as she turned to her left, kicked off of one paw and ran down the hallway, Cyril took his paw off his neck, ran a couple steps forward, and tried to call out to her, "Flair! Wait!" Seeing at the side of his eye a purple figure coming up to him, he looked only slightly to see it was Spyro, putting a paw on the side of his shoulder, "Please... Please tell me you saw it then? How she felt, and she acted, how she... suffered... And it was from my words... My actions... But why? What could've happened to her back then to make her feel this way, why... Spyro, she's hurting."

"Cyril, I have nothing to go off of, so unfortunately, there isn't much I can say in this," Lighting Cyril's body in darkness for a second, the blood on his paw and neck were now gone, along with his wound, "This is the third time she has hurt you. We've tried, or, you've tried, again, and again, and still, she hasn't given us any way to help her, even though she's made it very clear she doesn't wish to be helped. I really wish there was something I can do, but if I see one more wound on your body from her, she's gone. I don't care what you say, understand?" Cyril didn't respond to him, only giving a sad frown, looking somewhat to the ground even as he wished he could think of something to do, "I'm sorry if what I'm doing will hurt you... But... I can't sit around and possibly have her do the same to you that she did to me," Now that he had taken his paw back down to the ground, Spyro looked back to the other Guardians and wished them a goodnight, "If she tries anything to any of you, report it. But for now, I shall be off to bed."

Getting nods from most and smiles from others, Spyro smiled back to them. Turning his head around and giving a jester towards the doorway with his head to his lover, Cynder understood and ran up to his side, following along his right side as they made their way from out of the Chambers. As normal, Malefor and Carith were to follow soon later once the two had stood up. Now with the two making their way past Cyril's left and out to the hallway, they turned to their left and sped up some to catch up to the other two. Listening in as talking was heard from behind him, Cyril turned his head around to see that the other Guardians were slowly making their way to the back, into the Sleeping Chambers. As for Ersa and Volteer, they had just passed his right once he had turned to see the others as they made their way back to their room. Not sure of what he wanted to do, he turned his head to the left to face the right side of the hallway, wondering if he should go after her or not. I'm not giving up on you, Flair. As long as I live and breath. Making himself a promise, he now turned his body around, walking to the back room along with the others. Having walked past Terrador and Trish, he heard some of the conversation before making it out of hearing range.

"This was a rather, eventful day, but, I promise, things will only get better," Terrador promised her, "I'm, hoping you'll stay around?"

"Hehe, well I mean, obviously. I... also don't have a home anymore so, this... is kinda the only place I can live now," Trish gave off a slight giggle, even though he could hear the still sadness being present, "Then again, this is your building, so if you, wish me to leave..."

"No no no!" He quickly rejected, making her give wide eyes, "I mean... Ahem... I would never do such a thing to anyone. I'm rather excited to talk with you some more tomorrow, but so you can get some sleep, may I show you to a room so you may sleep?"

"Oh, yeah, uh... about... that..."

"Are, you okay?"

"Well, it's just, I... Ugh..."

"Trish, it's okay, you can talk to me about what ever it is."

"It's... just... well, after today, I'm rather... scared."

"I'm... sorry to hear."

"No no no, it's nothing you did. It's just... With my ex, Flair, and what ever else might come, I'm rather... scared to... sleep alone."

"If it would make you feel better, I'd be more then happy to keep you company tonight."

"You... Really would?"

"That's... up to you though... I don't want..."

"I would love to!" Trish quickly agreed before he could have any thought against her staying with him tonight.

"Hehe, well then, shall I, show you the way?"

"Yes... please."

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"Goodnight, Malefor, Carith," Cynder waved a paw to the two from the entrance way of her and Spyro's room, and seeing as the other two waved at her before shutting their door, she now did the same, giving off a slight sigh as she did, "What a day..." Feeling her body shiver from a sudden feeling lightning up her body in a pleasuring way, she raised her head before licking her lips, knowing of what was to come, "So soon I see," Turning around to face the bed in the back of the room, Spyro sat down in the middle of it, turned into his darkened purple form and wings sprawled out with his chest puffed out, "You think your form, intimidates me?"

"Intimidate? No. But does it satisfy you? Yes," Giving off his low growl in an already different, deep, and evil voice made Cynder shiver in delight for what was to come.

"And how do you know that?" Cynder questioned as she tested him, making it over to the bed on his left side.

"Because I don't even need to use my dark powers to force you over to me."

"Oh?" Now making it up and onto the bed, Cynder now wished to see what challenges she had to face, "Well it doesn't matter what such things my body does, you'll never make me turn against my friends. They've entrusted me to stop your madness before it's too late."

"Hehe, is that the story you wish to take?"

"You gonna go along with it?" She smiled.

"Hum... Well, the only way for you to stop the destruction of this world, is if you become my lover. If not..." His words made Cynder remember back to what Flint had threatened, which he had no idea of, but he immediately stopped his words as she gasped, backing away from him and looking in his eyes with fear, "Whoa, Cynder, are you okay?" Even though she could feel herself calming her own self down, he made it much easier for her, taking a couple of steps to her before putting his wings around her back and soothing her, "What's wrong, my love... Do I need to come out from my dark form?"

"No... No that's... It's just... Your words reminded me of a threat in that dream that I had, that's all..."

"What, threat was it?"

"Remember what I told you, before the attack?"

"You told me a lot."

"Hehe, yeah, sorry, that... wasn't very helpful... It was about how a dragon got a hold of the darkness. If I would've given myself up to him, he would've never attacked. I guess, hearing you say the same thing is just... brining back some bad memories."

"Oh... Sorry, my love... I didn't wish to do that."

"With the amount that you've had to deal with over this week, it's okay. Plus, I was the one who brought it up."

"So then, shall we go back to the original plan?"

Giving off a smile, Cynder got back into character for their little story, "I'll never love you!"

"You think your words would stop me?" Since his wings were already on her back, he moved his wing down, pushed at her back side, and willingly, Cynder eased herself down onto her back, allowing for Spyro to now move up and stand over her, "I've seen it in your eyes; your lust for me. I could give you this love if you just stop fighting this fact," Taking his wings from her back, she only showed her teeth as she growled up to him, not admitting anything to him, "That's fine," Moving his head down to her lips, he gave an evil smirk to her before warming up his breath some to make her lips quiver, "You'll understand soon just how much you need me."

To help with the mood some, he moved his mouth down to the top of her neck. With his tongue, this let slip a shiver of pleasure as he licked across the top side of her neck from underneath her head. Biting her lip while already submitting to him, Spyro made sure to keep up what he was doing. Now making it up to her left cheek, doing as he did with her neck, he gave her a small lick compared to before, but enough to make her body shiver in delight. Having backed his head off while he licked his lips, smiling to see she was trying to fight against it, Spyro knew she couldn't resist any longer, "Tasty one you are."

"Do. Your. Worst," Cynder growled, but even for herself, she couldn't help but smile up to him.

"You'll be tasting my lips for the rest of your life then."

"Yes! I mean! You evil dragon you."

"Hehe, excited I see?"

"Having you over me always gets me excited, remember?"

"Let me make sure to keep the excitement."

Doing as he's wanted to since the day started, he was finally able to move his lips down to her. Once pressed together with hers, the two shared the small kiss, closing eyes and enjoying themselves. But after only a couple of seconds, the small peck turned into more as they opened their mouths before closing them on one another's lips to get more of what they wished to have. With each slide off of one another's lips let slip another pleased moan or groan from one or the other. This satisfying feeling Spyro wished to treasure, same as her, but for a second, he had to stop, which she didn't understand why, but he made sure to keep his talk short, "You've been waiting for this just as long as I have, haven't you."

"Ever since we didn't have privacy in the room last night, I've begged for this..."

"Am I... disappointing so far..."

"Keep those lips on mine, do as you were, and I just think, you'll make me understand just how much I need you... Even as much as I already know that."

"I... Love you, so much, Cynder."

"I love you too, Spyro."