TLoS Beginnings Ch. 11

  Cynder moved towards Xynder slowly, as if he was a ghost had returned from the grave. She started sniffing him curiously, “Xynder? Where did you go? W-What happened to you?”

  Xynder gave her a fairly awkward look. “Uh…Stuff.”

“Mm. Hmm.” Cynder acknowledged his statement with interest.

  As Cynder was about to question him again the air around them began to shimmer and take on a blue hue. A maniacal, evil laugh shattered everything around them and they found themselves in a large, dark room with two huge doors on the sides. One of the doors led to the exit, that they knew, but the other one they didn’t know. It interested them, though, that a small, silver dragon lay guarding the door.

  Aner’s eyes were closed, but he opened them and spoke in a soft, velvety voice. “Welcome, Spyro, Xynder…” His eyes narrowed dangerously. “Cynder.” His eyes then took on a more pleasant touch. “Now then, I’ve brought you here for two very specific reasons. One, Malefor wanted me to capture you three, and two,” His eyes grew mournful and depressed. “I have a question for you: Where is she?”

  Spyro stood up to Aner determinedly. “Who do you mean by ‘she’? ‘She’ can mean any female in the realm.”

  Aner’s face and eyes twisted into rage. “You know exactly who I mean!”

  A laughing, playful voice rang out to them all. “Aner, they don’t know about me. I’m still a little surprised at this point, that you remember me that is. Those apes took you away after that little incident. In fact, until just now I was arguing with myself if you still lived.” A pure white dragon with feathery wings and a strange symbol on its forehead fell from the darkness above them.

Aner yelled out in a pained voice, “Qrystal! You… You’re… alive.” The last word came out in more of a sigh than an actual word.

The white dragon, Qrystal, smiled. “Of course, my dear Aner. You expected me to die?” Her voice was still playful and happy. She turned back to the three dragon on-lookers. “You can leave little ones,” She turned back to Aner. “The adults need to talk.”

  Spyro, Xynder, and Cynder took that as their chance to leave and gladly took it. Even as they left, they could hear the sounds of a battle ringing out.