The Journey of the Dark Crystal: Chapter 9

Story by seraphor12 on SoFurry

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#10 of Journey of the Dark Crystal

The ninth Chapter

Now here Avila shows one of the deadliest forces on the realm.

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Avila and the Dark Sentinels are mine

Cynder and Spyro are copyright of Activision's The Legend of Spyro


Uneasy Death Premonition

After that little 'session' with Yorloka, Jekizira had been trying to find the demon dragon, wanting to at least fuck with him again or become his sub. Somehow, the gray-eyed felt Yorloka was awesome in all senses, and remembering on what his Rider Tarkas said about the place he could find Yorloka, and so he waited at the lake almost everyday, making excuses like he wanted to hunt or taking a bath. This in turn made Tarkas, his rider, a little worried since Jekizira had never had a good history with female dragons.

"Maybe he really tried to return to his mating time again," said Tarkas to Jon when he asked about the elf's dragon. "He's still pretty young, though."

In turn, Avila was even troubled by the dreams for the past three days. The small dragoness always got the same dream every night, about the same dragon got killed by some shadows while she watched. She wasn't sure if the dragon inside her dream was a paranoia or just her wild imagination but she knew that dragon was somehow herself; her consciousness, her life, and her flesh. She felt the pain in the dragon in her dream, like an empathy link, like it's some kind of disjointed soul waiting for its long lost body to return.

And yet, her like as a Dark Sentinel really getting better and better.

Strangely, although she was always teased like she's 'the bad number' or the 'bad luck giver', she was always the one dragon that saved them all. She became one of the best newest members the Dark Sentinel ever had. Alongside Cynder, they became a great asset to the dragons and of course, to the riders, especially.

Every time the small dragon woke up, she always felt uneasy whenever she was near any of the dragons or the riders; even to the part she watched the future one minute after. At first, when she stopped Javoux from walking through a cave opening, and explained that a boulder would hit his tail and he should lash his tail to the right, in which it really happened. As there were many supernatural beings living there (Avila met a werewolf in a full moon and almost though she was a Last Creature), her own clairvoyance power wasn't even a weird symptom. The weirdest thing was, her new symptom somehow got connected with the inversed contrast she got.

For Cynder, she was normal. The dragon was as cheerful as ever, though now Avila knew her past wasn't as bright as she first thought. Somehow, her past was like Avila's, which she got an affair with a dragon that she tried to kill, before he forgave her and became one of the deadliest team their enemy could get.

"As...as he always got my back and I'm his, I felt I'm destined to be with him," said Cynder with a slow and solemn tone. "He...he never even try to make me remember about my dark past, though that small dragonfly always commented and even teased me about my own past. Well, not every being in my world loved me, only Spyro...yes, only him."

"I'm sorry to hear that," replied Avila after a pause, feeling sympathetic. "But, you let him go?"

"After two years trapped here, guess I'm too accustomed with the life here and let my old past go. In fact, it's better here with no suspicious friends, right?"

After Cynder said that, Avila suddenly remembered Yrelka's warning.

"You two can't trust any dragons inside your club anymore, not anyone."

But, what she feared got the best on her. Not only she could see what happened one minute ahead, but her own mental always made her accidentally gave the vision on her comrade's last fate, without her knowing it. Most of them were scared, but then some of them were grateful that she gave them how they would die (especially like Javoux, as he was a vampire dragon and immortal), while some tried to stop Avila as seeing one's future wasn't good.

The death premonition, as many had said, even saved them from impending death, and it made Avila was said to be the savior of the remaining members, both mortals and dragons. When there was another attack from the Light dragons, she managed to save Jon from being mauled by a white dragon, in which she in turn wound the dragon and pluck her eye out with her small claws and let her bleed to death after cutting her throat. Her sadistic trait was getting into her own life, and of course it troubled her more.

By time, those premonitions became more and more troubling than helping, and in turn made Avila uneasy more than soothing. Her role became more and more difficult as her newfound sympathy meant that she wouldn't be able to ignore any dangerous premonition that would happen to any of her comrades.

One night, Avila was lounging near the lake with Yorloka nearby. Somehow after their frequent encounter, Yorloka had been accustomed to Avila's power now, knowing that he himself was also accustomed to death.

While Avila was watching the black blank lake, Yorloka started, "Say, your power had saved many lives, right? Why are you feeling so bad? I mean, why react negatively?"

"It's true that's the thing I wanted so I can at least release the burden of my wrongdoings, but...it's also time I'm thinking of my sanity, too. Cheating death is more dangerous that cheating any living being. I'll be hunted by it, and I will endanger any beings I saved. It means that I started a new mistake."

"Ah...but you saved the realm, right?"

"I only saved dragons. I CAN only save dragons."

Yorloka became silent for a moment, then said, "Look, Avila. You must accept the fact that you have this power, and others don't."

"Then how? How am I supposed to live seeing any dragons around me dying and I'm the one changing the fate to either the better or the worse?"

"Hey, where does that fearless personality you got go? We don't care about other's fate. We just alter things that we want to alter. It's your job, anyway."

"My job? Altering the fate of the dragons? How about if death reclaim their souls again?"

"Hey, like I said, it's your job."

Hearing that, Avila remembered what Yorloka and Yrelka always said to her about her being a death dragon. But, was it real? Was she really a death dragon? Then, she also had the right to take away souls instead of saving it. She had become a god like that.

But then, the black dragoness thought again. That death premonition, the supposed final destination to the dragons she saved, should have also taken her life. But then, was her life the exception, being a death dragon herself?

Thinking too much about fate and life made Avila confused. Surely, this wasn't her way to end the day, though talking with a demon about life and fate was confusing enough.

And the most confusing enough was the sight of the dragon inside her nightmare standing on the lake, staring at her with her evil green eyes, while the scenery around the lake changed into the bloody nightmares she occurred every night.