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Chapter One: What are You

Two weeks since the fall of the Dark Master, and two weeks since the two heroes of the world had gone missing. Dragons, Moles and Cheetahs alike worked on rebuilding their homes that the minions of Malefor destroyed. The Cheetahs working on remaking their huts to a more real home like way. The Moles with the help of the dragon of Warfang worked almost around the clock to fix the towers and buildings caused by the Golem summoned by Malefor before the call of the Destroyer. If not the help of a black dragoness named Cynder and the legendry purple dragon Spyro, this world with its' inhabits; wouldn't be alive.

With the asking of the Guardians, the Cheetahs had agreed to help search for their heroes who vanished after the world was closed to the brink of death; with no luck of finding them yet. But somewhere in a forest only a three day flight from Warfang, a black dragoness wearing a tail and neck brace with green eyes and many white horns behind her head, red underbelly and wings; walked slowly though the trees looking around in look of someone. It was noon by now, the sun at its highest in the sky and hottest for this time of year of the summer. She closed her eyes and stopped for a brief moment just to feel the wind hit her wings as she let out a sigh of air.

"Where are you?" she asked herself, as if getting the answer if she did. After defeating the Dark Master, Spyro and Cynder were somehow pulled from the crystal where they did battle; when she awoken, he was gone. This both worried and freighted her. Before the light surrounded them both, she uttered only three words; thinking that at that moment it would be the end for them. She still meant those words to the deepest part of her heart. Because of Spyro she was free from Malefor evil grip, showed Cynder that just because of her past that anyone could change if they really wished to; even if mostly everyone put her down because of said past. She dropped her head as she thought what happened to Spyro, did he make it to Warfang already, or was he hurt? These thought hunted her dreams at night as she wondered; but not as much as what Spyro would say when they saw each other again. "Does he feel the same about me?" she asked herself as she started to walk again. "True we had been though a lot, I mean with the necklace that chained up and forcing us to fight in a whole new way; then when I was corrupted as the 'Terror of the Skies'. Did he save me then because we were so much alike and because he knew it was right; or was it somthign more?" she gave a slight sigh again as she moved though a few more trees, only to hear a grunt of a foe she knew only all too well. Her body straightened when she heard the grunt again as she followed as quietly as she could, making sure to keep to the shadows of the trees; which was easy when she used her shadow element. When she poked her head away from the tree, she saw three large apes, holding ugly mean sword, craved and twisted just like their minds. She bared her fang and hissed quietly then stopped herself when she saw one of them move their head to where she was.

"Whitefang," asked the largest of the group, no doubt the leader. "What is it?" the ape turned to its leader and shook his head.

"I'm not sure Alpha," he answered looking down then kicked something lightly. "So, what do you make of this creature. It looks almost like an ape, but is small and skinny; and almost no fur at all!" Alpha just shrugged as he moved from his spot so Cynder could get a better look at this ape but not an ape.

The unknown creature laid on its face with its arms spread out on its side; legs outward. It wore weird clothing to Cynder were very weird; somthign she never seen before. Its top looked like a blue chest vest with long black sleeves covering up to its wrist. Cynder using her dragon eyes could see that it had fingers just like the apes so she knew it was somehow maybe related to the apes. Its hands didn't have fur, but a tan color with small nails on the tips of its fingers. Black fur could be seen on its head but pushed outward like if it was shock by Volteer lightening blot; with a little tip of yellow showing on the tips. The same black fur went down the side of its face and toward the chin. As she looked downward she saw that it wore somthign on its legs that was black, and somthign white on its feet. The apes started to grunt to each other until Cynder saw that the creature stir as it started to awake. The apes pointed their sword to the creature as it groaned and pushed it self up with its arms then blinked its green eyes as the fur above his eyes twitched and pushed in face wrinkled.

"Oh...ow..." it rubbed its head without even knowing where it was until he then looked up; fear on its face. Alpha moved closer to it as the third Ape grabbed the creature and lifted it by its neck as it cried out in pain. "Ugh!" it cried to get its capture off its neck, as the ape just gripped its paw tighter causing it to become silent. Cynder was about to spring into action to help the male...thing, knowing it was male from its voice. But thought that she should wait until she knew if the unknown was a threat or not.

"What are you creature?" asked Alpha as the male eyes grew wide.

"Holy crap!" both Cynder and the apes seemed confused by the words he said as he looked around. "You can talk?" Whitefang seemed almost about to punch the male but Alpha only glared at the smaller ape as he backed away.

"Yes we can," answered Alpha. It confused Cynder how calm the apes were around this male, maybe it was because he was almost like them; but they were rude to themselves as well...so why were they nice to him? "Now tell us," Alpha went on. "Who and what are you?" the male seemed confused this time.

"You never seen a human before?" all the apes turned to each other with confused looks of their own as Cynder moved closer to hear.

"No," answered the ape. "We can't say we have, but since we know _what _you are; how about _who _now?" the human nodded as it brought its head up. "On second thought," the ape smiled then looked toward his followers as they smiled. A growl was heard from within their guts which caused the human to look down a little worried. "We have been walking for almost three days, and we have yet to find any food at all." He gave the human a wicked smiled as the human male eyes widened as he started to struggle. The ape holding him laughed and slammed him down on the ground hard as he gasped out as the breath left him. Even though Cynder didn't know who the human was, she still had to help him. Using her shadow elements her body started to glow as she lower into the ground until she was gone.

The human thrashed even more as Alpha took his sword to the human neck and aimed right at the center.

"Now hold still," order the ape. "And this won't hurt at all!" he brought the blade up high as the human shut his eyes and waited for his fate; until the sound of flesh being cut was heard. Alpha roared and howled in pain as the other apes jumped from the scream as their leader paw flew past them. The human opened only on eye to see Cynder standing almost over him in a defense like stance, baring her fangs as Whitefang and the other ape pulled their blades toward her as Alpha glared while shaking. "Who...," he gasped his breath raspy; as he backed away from the black dragon. "Who ever brings me that traitor head...will be my new second in command!" he turned and ran leaving his sword behind as the two other apes smiled. Cynder just glared and hissed causing the human to back away out of fear. She turned her head just enough to watch both him and the apes.

"Are you alright?" she asked as the human blinked. He was going to say how she could talk, but after seeing a group of apes talk and about to behead him; he only nodded his head slowly. She gave him only a slight nod as she turned back fully to the apes as Whitefang smiled.

"So you're Cynder?" he started to chuckle as Cynder only growled. "I thought I would meet 'The Terror of the Skies', but all I see is a small hatchling!" the other ape started to laugh as well as the human started to slowly crawl away from Cynder without anyone else knowing.

"I'll give you one chance to turn and run!" she just hissed though her sharp teethes as the apes' just laugh as they started to circle her. Cynder looked back only once to see the human male gone then turned back to see him with Alpha sword in his hands as he stood tall. He stood about only six feet, while the apes only seven as they held their back to him. The blade in his hand stood to about forty-one inches. The handle twisted backward to cover his hands if he was attack. Cynder knew what he was going to do, but saw his face. This might be his first kill and he looked like he couldn't do it. Cynder titled her head to the right pointing to the unnamed ape. The human gave a slight nod as she got ready for Whitefang.

"And if we don't run," asked Whitefang. "What are you going to do?" the human edged closer to the right ape pointing the blade to the back of the ape with it on his arm as Cynder smiled.

"Not me," she corrected. "But him, now do it now!" As soon as she gave him the word, he thrashed the blade to the back of the ape as he howled in pain spinning around then landed on his back; causing the sword to push though his gut, making him bleed out faster. Whitefang span around giving Cynder a chance to attack. She jumped on his back and dug her claws into his shoulders biting his neck with full force. Blood pouring from around her muzzle as Whitefang screamed in pain. The human turned to see that he was about to bring his paws to grab her neck to throw her off. Acting on the adrenalin he had pulsing though his veins, he ran to the ape he killed, took the blade that was still grapes around his paw and swung the sword in the chest of Whitefang, slicing Cynder leg in the process. They both screamed but the ape was cut short as Cynder broke his neck as she fell off his back holding her leg. The human dropped the sword he was using and ran to her side seeing the wound was not as bad that it would kill her, but if not treated; could be infected. Looking around as the dragon sucked in air, he ran off and came back soon after with a blue bag and opened it and brought out a white small box with a red cross on the middle.

"Hold still," he told her, his voice was shaking as well as his hands as he took out a small white bottle. Cynder seem confused but listened, both of their nose wrinkled as the top was opened and he poured a bit on her leg and spread it around; it burned.

She roared as the human backed away for a second then moved back and rubbed more on then pour water from another bottle on as she started to relaxed,

"What did you do?" she demanded in a horse voice. The human rubbed the water over her leg to wash the blood away then brought out a white cloth.

"I disinfected it," he answered. "Trust me, if I didn't do that, you might have lost a leg; or worse." She remained quite as he went back to work wrapping her leg with the cloth. Her leg twitched from the sting from time to time, but not enough to ruin to the clothing. "Um...thanks." Cynder looked up from her leg to see the human still working without looking at her. "For saving me I mean; thanks." She gave a warm smile as she nodded her head as he stopped. She tried to stand up, but fell forward as the human caught her. "Easy there," he told her gentle. "Don't need you hurting yourself even more now." He gave it some thought then nodded to himself as he turned his back to her and knelt down. "Here," he pointed to his back. "Climb up." She gave him a look then knowing she had no choice of the matter; climbed up. He stood up holding her lower back with his hands, keeping his hands away from her rear. "So where to?" Cynder pointed with her claw to the north as he nodded and began the walk slowly to where she pointed. After about a few moment of silent walking Cynder broke the ice.

"What's your name?" the human looked forward for a bit then answered.

"Brandon." Cynder nodded her head then brought her head down on his right shoulder and closed her eyes for a bit.

"So what are you Brandon?" she asked turning her head toward him. "Not to sound rude, but I never seen a creature like you before."

"And not to sound rude myself," Brandon answered with a smirk. "I never heard or seen a dragon before in my life." Cynder chuckled then frown.

"If you never seen a dragon before," she asked. "Then how do you know what I am?"

"Stories, that and I think dragons are awesome!" they both chuckled and walked for a bit more. "But to answer your question, I'm a human." She nodded again as she went silent. They haven't spoken until the sun started to set; Brandon looked around as the shadows from the trees started to grow more, as the black dragon on his back was asleep. He didn't know how long ago she fell asleep, but he knew that at night it would get colder; and he was tired. At last he found a small cave and made his way in. taking Cynder off his back and setting her by a wall, he made a small fire and slowly drifted to sleep; with someone calling out both of their names.