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Chapter 2: Practicing attacks.

Flame had whacked Hypter hard in the head, so he didn't awake before the midday the day after Flame attacked him.

_Hmm...I wonder, this must be Boltwire's apartment. I just wonder what it was that struck me yesterday...bet it was Flame, he seems to have some anger issues. But never mind that now; I rather go find someone to talk with._Hypter thought as he slowly wagged out of the room he had been sleeping in.

It was a rather small apartment he was in, not much bigger then his own. Sure it had two bedrooms, one other room (where he had been sleeping) and a living room and a kitchen. But the rooms weren't that big, just enough space to a bed and a cupboard and some space to move on.

When ha made his way out from the room, he began to look for someone, he found a black dragoness sitting in the kitchen. He made a small cough and made the dragoness turn around. He assumed it was Boltwire's mom. "Good to see that you are awake, how are you feeling?" She asked. "Not too bad, a little headache but nothing else." Hypter replied shortly.

"Bolty told me what happened, horrible kid that Flame. Oh I'm sorry, I'm Boltwire's mom Zaphire, Bolty told me your name is Hypter." Zaphire said.

"Indeed I am, I guess you might heard of the rumours about me and what I've done. If you feel uncomfortable with calling me Hypter you can use my other name; Winter." Hypter said. Zaphire pretended she didn't know what Hypter meant when he talked about the rumours. "Bolty told me that you got into this mess when you stood up against Flame and protected him. Thank you Hypter, oh and I have talked with Cyril about why you aren't in school today so if you want you can go back to bed. And don't worry Bolty's friends are always welcome." She said with a smile. "Thanks for the offer but I better get back to school, I don't want Flame to get too proud about getting an opening when he sneaked up behind my back." Hypter replied. "Thanks for the hospitality but as I said I rather be going." He continued.

"You do as you please Hypter, you are welcome back anytime, and maybe next time under better circumstances." Zaphire replied.

On not so steady wings, Hypter flew to the school. He was just in time for the dinner, he didn't think much about it, and he took a place in the long line. Without noticing Flame came and stood behind him. "So, you are mocking me? Even after that hit I gave you last night" Flame said and grinned. "I know, was a good hit you got there, maybe next time you can confront me so I know that you are there." Hypter said and all heads turned around and faced Flame. "Oh, didn't you tell your friends you snuck up behind my back? Ops, this must feel embarrassing for you." Hypter said with a short laugh.

"It's not true! He is lying!" Flame almost yelled but from the stares he knew they didn't believe him. "Why would I lie? I don't care about being popular so if you hade beaten me fair, why would I lie?" Hypter asked.

"Maybe to drag me in the mud!" Flame replied angry, trying to come up with a better reason. "Wait, you were undefeated in the fighting score during the war, right? Then maybe you want to cover up a loss." Flame continued, thinking that this was a reason Hypter couldn't counter.

"Indeed I am undefeated but why would I lie losing a fight? It wouldn't be enough to get me from the top. Not even ten fights would get me from the top. And besides, since I am undefeated, why would I lose against someone that I have a upper paw against?" Hypter asked. Flame saw that this reason didn't work either, so the only way he could get away from this was to fight Hypter and win. Suddenly Flame launched a huge fireball against Hypter but Hypter didn't dodge it, he took it dead on.

There was a huge cloud of smoke when the fireball hit Hypter. "Mm, Flame...did you cook during the war? Because that attack was, not that effective." Hypter said with a grin.

"But how? That attack usually destroys the dummy completely." Flame said, he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that Hypter wasn't even scratched. "Dummy? Do you compare me with a dummy? You must be kidding. The reason I wasn't hurt is because I constantly leaks cold air, it builds up a barrier of ice on my scales, too a maximum of a layer of one claws thickness. Such a simple attack only melts the barrier a little but it's not enough to penetrate it." Hypter explained.

"But, that's cheating!" Flame yelled, he wasn't pleased with the explanation.

"No it's not, since I can't control the cold air from leaking from my body." Hypter replied.

Flame noticed that all eyes where still locked on him and Hypter. He still could save this without losing all his honour and popularity. "Ok, we'll call it even then, you stand in front of me in the line today and I won't go all out on you." Flame said.

"Ok, that sounds reasonable." Hypter agreed.

The rest of the day went on as nothing had happened; it was quite in the school...maybe even a little bit too quiet...

"Shoop da whoop!" Flame yelled as he came flying towards Hyper while he fired his LAZER!!!

No! This isn't some kind of Pokémon of Dragonball! And it's no Austin power movie with some damn "Lazer" and Flame is not Dr. Evil. And here is no; firing da LAZER!!! here and definitely no; Shoop da whooping!

Ok, there will be a fight but not like this. So just like...ignore this. Sorry for interrupting but I just had too. Anyway...back to the story.

When the school had ended Hypter decided to go home and pack his things and get to Spyro and Cynder's house, where he had been invited to stay. He didn't have much to pack because he liked to keep it simple and clean. But even though, he had two big bags and a backpack full of stuff. Most of it was kitchen stuff but also some books and a few plants and a sleeping bag. After a while of getting everything down in the bags and the backpack on his back and the two bags in his front paws and the sleeping bag on his tail, he took of.

On the way there, he met Flame, who wasn't in the best mood ever. "Hypter, you're going down!" He yelled.

"I sure am, can I put down the things first? I don't want to freeze the herbs I have in the bag." Hypter replied. "Ehm...eh, sure." Flame replied, he was taken of guard by the little stupid question. "So, you said something about me going down." Hypter said.

"Ye, you are so dead!" Flame yelled.

"Oh, I know." Hypter sighed as Flame started to breath fire on Hypter. And as last time Hypter just stood there, and took the attack dead on. "Eh, very interesting, can I have a go or shall I wait for you to make another move?" Hypter asked, completely untouched by the fire.

"Sure, go on, attack me!" Flame yelled.

"As you wish." Hypter said, he hold his right paw to his face, a green flame began to cover it and ice was started to build up around Hypter's face. Making a mask of ice with one green claw mark over each eye. "What's that? It's not hallows eve yet Hypter." Flame said as he began to laugh. But he stopped laughing when he got a punch in the stomach from nowhere, bending double. Then he was hit again, in his back, sending him plummeting to the ground. He was caught in a puddle of water a few feet from the ground. "Now, if you excuse I have to go, I don't want to be late." Hypter said.

"Ugh...what was it that punched me?" Flame answered, still lying in the floating puddle with water. "It was ice that I conjured, since there is water in the air I can simply pull it together and use it to attack. Same goes for the puddle of water you are lying in now." Anyway, I hope I didn't hurt you. But next time you try to attack anyone of my friends, I will." Hypter said in a cold voice, letting Flame fall down of the puddle of water that was holding him a few feet from the ground. "Ouch." Flame said as he hit the ground, only to get the water over himself. He didn't say anything more; he just got up and flew away. Leaving Hypter to grab all his things and continue.

_Annoying kid, that Flame...I just hope he doesn't go for Boltwire, because I don't think he has complete control over his powers yet. But it could be fun to see Flame get toasted. But it would get Boltwire into trouble, and I don't want that._Hypter thought as closed up to his destination.

When Hypter came closer to the house, he saw a black lightning shoot up from the backside. He decided to pick up speed... as he normally didn't stress with anything, always keeping his cool. "Hey, what's happening?" Hypter asked, as he descended in the garden behind Spyro and Cynder's house. "Oh, Boltwire is just practicing on his aim. It goes good so far since it's his first time using his powers." Spyro said with a smile. "Oh, and nice that you are here, I think Cynder is inside, she can show you to your room." Spyro said, as he returned to watch Boltwire, who charged his antenna like whiskers. The air around the whiskers began to crackle, and there was some small lightning visible and the tip of the whiskers began to glow bright. Then Boltwire released a black lightning when he connected the whiskers to the tail-blade, and there was a loud crackling sound when it hit the target dummy. "Good aim you got there, Boltwire." Spyro said as the target dummy was destroyed; it was cut on the middle and took fire, black fire.

"Thanks, it's getting easier now when I've done it a few times." Boltwire replied with a smile, as he started the process over again.

Meanwhile Hypter had walked into the house, he was astonished how big it was. He had entered at the back door, so he walked right into their living room. They had taken down the wall between the living room and the kitchen so you could see all the way to the other wall of the house. "Hi Cynder, are you making dinner?" Hypter asked when he saw Cynder in the kitchen. "I'm trying to at least." Cynder said with a short laugh.

"Wait a sec, let me wash my paws and I'll help you." Hypter said as he washed his paw with some water and made ice shape around his claws, making sharp, knife looking blades. "Let me cut the vegetables...no wait, let me do the rest too, its such a beautiful kitchen. I just have to try it out." Hypter chuckled.

"Ok Hypter...I'll be in the garden then." Cynder said as she walked towards the back door, she only got some mumbling sound in reply. Hypter really enjoyed the kitchen; it was completely new, as everything else in the house, as he should soon notice. Soon Hypter began to whistle on a melody, he didn't know where he had heard it but he whistled it every time he cooked.

After some time the dinner was ready. "I hope it is worth chewing." Hypter said with a smile.

"I'm sure it will be." Spyro replied as he sniffed in the air. "Smells nice, can we dig in now?" Spyro continued. "Sure, Cynder had already started cooking it so she should have the credit...lets see here is herring in a mustard sauce, meatballs, fried potatoes and potato salad." Hypter said.

"Wow, real Easter dinner then." Spyro said.

"Indeed, at least from where I'm from." Hypter said.

After the dinner Hypter decided to go out and practice with Boltwire.

"You better watch out Hypter, I have learned how to aim this attack pretty well." Boltwire said as he launched a ball of black lightning, the target dummy split in two as the bolt hit it.

"Not bad, you are right, you have good aim with that but how precise can you make it hit?" Hypter asked, a little curious if Boltwire maybe could compete with him. "For now, that is the most precise I can make it." Boltwire answered.

"Ok, maybe with some practice you can get as precise as this." Hypter said, as he...did nothing. "Ehm...is something about to happen Hypter?" Boltwire asked.

"Wait for it..." Hypter said with a small grin. After some seconds the target dummy began to freeze, the ice spread from the middle and then over the target dummy. "Wow...what was that Hypter?" Boltwire asked.

"If it would have been a living target, this attack would start from inside the body. Starting from the heart and expanding outwards, stopping the heart immediately and then freezing the blood and the limbs. You would be awake when it gets to the brain and kills you, from what I know the victims doesn't feel any particular pain but the tend to feel a little cold..." Hypter explained. "That sounds...actually a little like a good death if you don't feel any pain." Boltwire said. "Indeed but of course I can make it painful since I can control where it shall start and what speed it shall expand with. So if I would like to hurt you, I would start at your feet, then brake them of when they are frozen and then do the same with the rest of your body." Hypter said coldly.

"And there is sounds like a horrible death again..." Boltwire said ironically.

"Indeed but I don't think I would put you through pain...unless you pissed me of. It takes a long time for me to get angry but when I'm angry it takes a long time for me to calm down" Hypter replied. "Thanks, could be good to know that pissing you of is a bad idea." Boltwire said with a short, insecure laugh. Then he started to charge up again, and when the tip of his whiskers began to glow Boltwire brought his tail up and let it connect with his whiskers and he fired another black lightning. It hit the target and as the first time it began to burn with black flames. "Nice, you are getting good at it." Hypter said, as he threw six ice needles on a dummy, one in the head, one on each shoulder and one on each leg. "But what if you had to be silent or precise, what if a claws difference will differ between life...and death?" Hypter asked. "I don't know, I guess I have to work with the ability I got for now...and work from there. But the war is over and hopefully I only have to use my abilities for fun." Boltwire answered. "...Fun...that was a long time since I heard that word, last time I used it was ...wait for it...when I slowly froze the body of an enemy. Oh he screamed, he even begged me for mercy...and I laughed, psychotic, right in his face, even at the end when just his head was not frozen. He had such fear in his eyes...and I enjoyed it, that is what I used to call; fun." Hypter said, as he laughed a little.

Boltwire said nothing; he just stood and stared at Hypter. "But that was a long time ago...and since the war is over I don't get any more fun, I have to enjoy the little things. You know, cooking, being with friends, keeping my skills alive etc." Hypter said, as he smiled.

"So...I guess you are a little psycho then?" Boltwire asked with a short laugh. That made Hypter think, "I wonder if he ever is serious." Then Hypter answered Bolwire's question "I guess I am but I'm concealing it the best I can."

"Why are you concealing your true you?" Boltwire asked as he made a different attack this time. He did the same procedure but this time, the bolt was split in his tail-blade and it resulted in many smaller lightnings, shooting everywhere, one hit Hypter. "Oh I'm so sorry Hypter, are you okay? I didn't mean to hit you." Boltwire said as he rushed over to his friend.

"Of course I'm fine, that hardly felt anything, I was a general in the war for a reason you know. Sure I was general for the medic team because of my skill in medicine and because I could use my ice element to stop bleedings. But I also often engaged in combat to get to the wounded." Hypter answered with a smile.

"That's so cool, not that you engaged in combat but that you were a general." Boltwire said.

"I became general mainly because I am good at making up strategies and that because my cold personality could take hard decisions. For example I could leave someone that would die anyway to rescue someone else. Because of that, most of my subordinates called me; Coldheart. Of course they didn't call me that when I heard it but...rumours spreads and I snapped it up one day when I was out on the field, I wasn't surprised though." Hypter said.

"Coldheart huh? Sounds cool...well except that it gives a bad after tone." Boltwire said with a smile. "Indeed...but it's getting late, shouldn't you be on your way home?" Hypter asked, as he was concerned about that Flame would try to attack Boltwire. "Nope, Spyro asked if I wanted to sleep over here since you also are going to stay." Boltwire answered, with a smile.

"Awesome, I hope they have more than one extra bedroom, because I hate to share room. And besides I tend to leak cold air during the night, so there would be a risk for you getting a cold." Hypter said with a grin.

"Spyro...are you absolutely certain this is ok with you and Cynder?" Hypter asked when he and Spyro walked towards the room in which Hypter should be sleeping in. "For the tenth time, yes Hypter." Spyro replied.

"Are you absolutely suuuuuuure? No I'm just puling you tail." Hypter said with a laugh.

"I'll see you tomorrow morning Hypter, if it is anything at all Cynder and I are sleeping upstairs." Spyro said as he turned around and made his way upstairs...