The legend of spyro: world's crossing
The past can still haunt you
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs the day progress on the farm, Spyro had offered to help with the apples by flying overhead and blasting them down with his wind breath into the buckets below, making the longest chore they have one of the shortest they had. By the time all the chores were done it was evening, Sweetie belle and Scootaloo headed home while Spyro and the apple family headed inside. The apple sisters made a big dinner for the boys and themselves and as they ate they talked, shared stories and laughs, then Spyro asked, "So who are the mates to the others, I only saw them once but didn't got to truly meet them."
"Will the white and blue one is mine, His name is Hector, he's a blacksmith for the royal army. Rarity married a stallion named fancy pants, an older stallion but he treats her well. Fluttershy married Discord, he was that multi creature at the Galla you saw, he has some powerful magic being the former Lord of chaos but know he's all good. With a weird sense of humour. Pinkie Pie is with Cheese sandwich, both are party ponies so they are always making party plans for any and every pony. Twilight got herself a blue and gold pegasus name Zephyr, a guard from the lunar republic, Luna's personal and hoof picked elite guards. Great, great stallion, and he treats her very will." She blushed at the few times she caught them making out. "And Rainbow Dash married Soarin, a member of the wonderbolts like Dash and they were always challenging each other, so they were a couple before any of the rest got our special ponies. Now tell us about you and Cynder."
"Who's Cynder?" Applebloom asked
"Cynder is my mate and she is a wonderful dragoness, always in a happy mood, but it wasn't always like that, she had a very dark past. I don't want to say too much but to put it simply she was corrupted by the Dark Master, Malefor, the first purple dragon that we know of. He had Cynder captured at the age 12, corrupted her, made her general of his army for 3 years of her life. Three years she has only known anger, fear and terror until I freed her then we went to war a year later to defeat Malefor and after about two years later was the war against Shadow, the first Dark lord of our time and after that she has been the happiest dragoness ever. She is cunning, intelligent, witty, resourceful, brave, spirited, determined, independent, and isn't afraid to speak her mind."
The girls cooed at the last part and felt sorry for all the hard times she went though then something jumped into Applejack's head, "So that one song at the Galla that was literally your story."
Spyro nodded and yawned as the evening was turning to night, and then came a voice from the front door. "Honey I'll meet you in bed."
"OK Hector." Applejack said, then looked at her sister, "Would you be ok if Spyro stayed with you?"
Applebloom tried to hide her excitement when her sister asked that question. "Sure he can sleep with me" She sat up and led Spyro to her room down the hall way. Opening her wooden door Spyro saw that her room was an earth green, olive drab ceiling, dresser with pink heart handles, mirror trim, night stand, with a teal blue lamp, cabinet, a queen size bed, posts and ceiling included, light peach blanket with swirls and apples on it. Same color for the bed ceiling, only with hearts on it, and a window at the far end.
"Wow this is a big room you got." Spyro said amazed by the size of her room
"Thanks glade you like it, I had to move it so Applejack can rebuild hers so she and Hector can sleep together. Please make yourself comfortable."
Making his way to the bed, Spyro climbed onto the bed and laid down onto of the blanket and Applebloom jumped up and cuddled beside him, he didn't flinch nor make any move to push her away instead he draped a wing over her. Once she got comfortable, Applebloom stared to tell Spyro about herself and the adventures that she and her friends did to gain their cutie marks, and what they've been doing after the got them. Naturally curious, Spyro asked what the significance was about the cutie marks.
"They tell us what our destiny is, what we're good at, for example Twilight, she has the magic symbol meaning she is very talented with any form of magic. My sister like everyone else here has an apple cutie mark making her an apple farmer, Rarity got hers when she improved her plays costumes. We normally earn our cutie marks when we are about ten years old if not a little younger." Applebloom yawned and snuggled into Spyro and fell asleep. Smiling he curled himself around her and let sleep consume him.
Morning came around and at the other end of Ponyville Twilight and Cynder were on a hillside not to far from her castle, writing down everything Cynder was telling her about her poison and fear elements, since yesterday she went through her wind, shadow, fire and light abilities. Yesterday Twilight had wonderful day watching and listening to Cynder explain and show her how the elements work, and how they can be manipulated if they are low on energy. Asking about her light element Cynder explained that a friend helped her and Spyro find that power and trained them to harness it. Today were the last two she didn't get to.
"Like my shadow ability these two were given to me when I was corrupted but unlike the other elements these two are a little more harsh on my throat when I use them too often and you'll see why." Cynder said waiting for Twilight's magical dummies to attack her. Commanding her dummies to attack, Twilight readied her quill and scroll. As the dummies advanced towards her, Cynder let loose a poison breath, (like in the ds version of dotd) taking out three in a row. A small group closed in around her and she spat an acid glob on one and it spread to the remaining five around it. The remaining ten surrounded her, taking to the sky, Cynder did quick somersaults, her bladed tail laced with poison slashed through the rest.
Twilight caught every detail on paper and did a few side drawings once Cynder was finished. Taking a small break and drinking some water to soothe her throat. Twilight got another twenty dummies ready for the dark blue dragoness and with little warning she let out her siren scream, and dummy near her fell to the ground like stones. "Normally they would just run away." Looking at the rest she fired ghostly red orbs that circled the dummies. Once they were stunned, the orbs exploded on impact taking them out.
"Wow Cynder that was amazing, no wonder your enemies fear you, your a force to be reckon with." When Twilight said that something snapped in Cynder.
"Fear you....You are the black dragon...Cynder. The terror of the skies. The Queen of terror herself." Voices started talking to her, bringing back her past, then one voice above the rest spoke to her directly.
"Did you really think in that helping defeat Malefor, and mate with the purple dragon, Spyro would clean all the innocent blood you have spilled?" The voice asked. Looking down at her paws, they were covered in blood and oozed up her arms. Looking back the same thing was happening with her tail and wings. "You should have been a dark red instead of blue it really suits you."
"This this isn't the real me!" Cynder screamed.
"Oh no...? Then what is this?" Images began to show up. She stabbing Terrador to weaken him, slamming Cyril into a stone wall, rendering him unconscious. Giving Volteer a small dose of venom to subdue him, her fight with Ignitus before capturing him. Then images of her facing soldiers and killing innocent civilians with no mercy.
"I believe THAT is you my dear. Face it you are a monster always will be no matter what you do, you can't hide from it."
In the real world Twilight was confused by Cynder's sudden change of behavior. "Hey Twi, how are things?" Cadence asked as she and Flurry Heart landed beside her. She then notice Cynder crying. "Um did we miss something?"
"I can't explain it, one moment she was having a blast with the dummies the next she just froze."
Cadence walked up to the distressed dragoness. "Cynder are you alright?"
Looking up she then backed way when she saw the very dragon who brought misery to her life, Malefor. "You...? But your dead how can you be here?" She looked behind him and saw Gaul the ape king,(Twilight) and a corrupted Spyro,(Flurry Heart) "No you are all gone, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" She then rushed at Malefor and tossed him a few distances away then launched at Gaul, only to be blasted by his staff, fazing her.
Flurry heart took the opportunity and tackled Cynder and said, "We are not your...." she stopped when she noticed that her eyes were pure white. Cynder kicked the young alicorn off her and blasted wind at her.
Twilight shot another beam of magic, but Cynder fazed into shadow, seeing this first hand, Twilight moved out of the way of an upper cut, but the blades on Cynder's wings caught her side. Landing on all fours, she then turned and punched Twilight in the ribs, hard. Screaming in agony, Twilight hit the ground holding her ribs. Walking over to where Flurry heart was she lifted her tail, going for the killing blow.
As her tail came down, Cadence tackled from behind and the two wrestled, having the strength and combat advantage, Cynder pinned Cadence but she landed a hard blow to the dragonesses chest. Angered by that, Cynder clamped her jaws down hard on the princesses forearm, breaking the bone like a twig. Screaming as she felt her bone snap, she used her will power to kick the dragoness off, landing a solid kick to her stomach. Getting up from the blow to the gut, Cynder summoned one of her elements and fired a acid ball at Cadence. Thinking on her feet, Cadence created a shield just in time as the acid hit the shield.
While distracted with Cadence, Flurry heart shot Cynder off her mom and pinned the possessed dragoness down. Struggling to free herself, Flurry heart planted a kiss on Cynder's lips, this surprised her and her eyes changed back to normal, breaking away Flurry saw her emeralds looking at her with complete shock in them. But before they could do anything her eyes turned back to white and the force that had Cynder came back more fierce then before. Raising her wings, Cynder stabbed Flurry Heart right where her wing muscles are and tore them, head butting the alicorn off her, Cynder got up and tail whipped her. The force of the impact was enough to send her into her mother.
Twilight came running but Cynder waited, and waited until she was in range, with the Cresent nook in her tail, she caught Twilight's leg and with a swipe pulled out from under the lavender mare and dislocated it.
Backing off Cynder tried to fight the force controlling her, breaking free for a moment she warned them, "Don't follow me for your own safety...I'm so sorry please forgive me." She the took to the sky heading towards the Everfree forest.
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