Memories (OLD STORY): New Beginning
Chapter 2 of this Derpfest has arrived! Again, this is a 3 year old story. It's not great.
It has been a week since Draco's attack on Brom and Ignitus, and Cynder still has not stirred. Animals of all kinds ran around, from the annoying Baboons, who were still mercenaries, to the insects. When a beetle crawled on Cynder's nose, she stirred.
Cynder opened her eyes, which were red before changing to a green color. The scales on her underbelly were a bright ruby color and her mark on her head glowed slightly.
"...Where am I?" Cynder asked the wind, thinking out loud. She got up and looked curiously at the circle around her. She stepped towards it and tapped it with her claw, getting a tiny shock.
"Ow!" She exclaimed, pulling her claw back and shaking it. Cynder looked at it for a moment, and then an idea formed in her head. She got as far back as she could in the circle, then ran and jumped over it, landing a few millimeters from the edge. Hastily, she scrambled away.
"Ok...now to figure out where I am...and who I am." Cynder said to herself. She began walking from the area where the circle was and down a path that looked curious to her. As she continued, she came across a faint mewing sound.
Cynder walked towards the sound, the mewing growing louder with every step. Soon, she stepped into a clearing and gasped. In the middle of the clearing, a baby cheetah was being harassed by a group of baboons.
"Hey, leave it alone!" Cynder shouted to the baboons, who looked at her with fear in their eyes. However, a large baboon rose from the rest and walked towards her.
"Cynder, the betrayer. How nice to see you again..." he said with full malice in his voice. The baboon had cracked armor and a large club, which looked like it was about to snap. He has a patch over his right eye and a long scar across his face.
"Good to see you as well....didn't catch your name." Cynder said happily, completely missing the malice. The other baboons looked completely dumbfounded and the leader looked like he just saw the Dark Master angry.
"....I am Goober Scarwolf, leader of this group of monkeys. I have come for revenge for what you and Spyro have done!" the baboon yelled, leaving Cynder confused. (1)
"What have I done? Also, who is Spyro?" Cynder asked innocently. Goober's jaw dropped and he slapped himself to make sure that he wasn't dreaming.
"Spyro! The purple dragon of destiny! Your boyfriend!" Goober raged, loosing his mind.
"He sounds important. What did he look like?" Cynder asked dreamily, think of what this 'Spyro' may look like.
"ARRRGGGHHH! I've had enough of this! DIE!" Goober yelled as he flung his club at Cynder, who jumped back.
"That wasn't nice..." Cynder said as she was attacked again. As she was being attacked, she felt heat rising to her mouth and it burned her tongue slightly. Cynder released the heat, making a searing fire come forth and incinerate Goober.
"Her kill leader, run!" one of them said as they all scattered. (2) The cheetah, who had been curled in a ball in an attempt to escape the baboons, looked up at Cynder, and curled into a tighter ball.
"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you..." Cynder said sweetly, though wondering how the hell she made fire.
The cheetah looked up at her, and then quickly curled up again.
"Those evil things won't harm you anymore, ok? I'll protect you." Cynder assured the kitten. The cheetah uncurled and looked at Cynder with bright blue eyes.
"Mama?" the cheetah said in a tiny voice. Cynder was dumbfounded that he, as she was able to identify, thought that she was her mother. They were not even the same species!
"...Yes. I am your mother." Cynder said after a moment. Better off letting him think you were his parent, since she didn't want him to be frightened and run off to find his mother and get killed.
"Mama, Mama!" the cheetah squeaked as he ran around her. Cynder sighed, but suddenly saw a structure of a dragon nearby. She walked over to it, the kitten behind her.
The statue had a male dragon on it that was standing on a rock. Cynder looked at the statue of the male, and saw that it had an inscription on it. She looked at it and read what it said:
Spyro the Dragon
A great hero and dragon of prophecy.
He fought valiantly against the Dark Master and won...but at a terrible cost.
His lover, Cynder, perished in the final battle, and he committed suicide to be with her.
May his memory live on forever...
-Ignitus
Cynder gasped, unable to believe what she read. Her 'lover' killed himself....to be with her? How could he have not known that she was alive?
The cheetah mewed at her gasp and looked curiously at the statue. Cynder looked down at the kitten and sighed.
"I suppose I should get you to shelter, right?" Cynder asked him, thinking of what she could call him. The kitten turned at her voice and mewed again. Cynder saw something in the background behind the statue and went closer.
On the horizon, a temple stood. It looked fortified and Cynder wondered if they could get in and figure out why so many people know her...but she doesn't. The cheetah mewed again, bringing her back.
"I suppose I should name you...Wind sound good?" Cynder asked him, who mewed again. Cynder cursed at herself, as she was not good at thinking up names. (2)
Wind seemed happy, since he squeaked and ran over to Cynder, rubbing against her legs. Cynder looked at the temple, then back to Wind, and then back once more, making up her mind. She started walking towards the temple determined to find out more about herself and get Wind to safety.
Cynder walked down the path that she found that led to the temple, when something dropped in front of her.
It was a spider, and it looked very hungry. It looked like many of the mushrooms around here, white with a pink symbol on it. Cynder stood a bit taller than it, but its fangs made up for it. Wind ran behind Cynder and squeaked in fright.
Cynder, who knew that this thing was going to try and eat them, felt heat in her maw once more. She released it, sending a wave of flame at the spider, enveloping it completely.
"Ha! That'll te-" Cynder began, but was cut off when the spider shot out of the flames and shot straight at Wind, who was hidden behind a small rock.
Cynder, seeing the danger, flung herself in front of the arachnid and hit it with her tail, which was seared slightly from her flames. The spider died, bursting into the air and disappearing.
"Are you ok, Wind?" Cynder asked as she padded over to him. Wind ran out and clung to Cynder, his claws digging into her scales slightly. She winced in pain for a second, and then picked up Wind with her mouth and placed him on her back.
She then continued down the path, looking around now. The entrance of the temple was now in sight of her, and she walked up to it.
"Hello?" Cynder called at the door. She could hear foot steps approaching, and a large dragon stepped out. He had large, curved horns that looked like bronze and deep green scales. When the dragon looked at her, his jaw dropped.
"Cynder!"
It should be noted that I absolutely suck at names.