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Here is the sixth part of the story. It is longer than the others i have posted.

I have also changed all the tagging of the previous stories.

I do not own The Legend of Spyro trilogy characters. Nor the plot. However, this story's plot and new characters are mine. Any resemblance is purely coincidental,

Enjoy.

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The Legend of Spyro: Origins_Chapter 6

"AAAHHHHH!!!" a sudden scream rips trough Spyro's sleep, causing him to become completely awake in matter of moments and jumping from where he was resting. He head also Cynder scream. He thought that she was hurt and turned to find her. His fear for Cynder caused him to scream, making even more noise.

He found her, and one of the strange creatures, a few centimeters apart, both shouting at their top of their lungs. Surely, someone would have heard this entire racket. The other unconscious creature also awoke, and upon seeing Cynder and Spyro, he froze on his bed.

Finally, the shouts of screams were faded away, leaving a sudden empty silence. Cynder walked back a little bit from the stranger he was staring at.

" Cynder, are you all right? Why did you scream?" Spyro asked concern plain in his voice.

"Yes... yes, I'm all right"

"What happened?"

"I was just looking at him when he woke up. He then started screaming like crazy when he saw me".

"Holy shit... that thing is talking" the other one said, the one who was not staring at Cynder.

"Of course I can talk. Why shouldn't I?" He asked to the newcomer as Spyro turned to look at him. He saw how he fumbled for something in his leg, snatching at it, and then pointed with it at Spyro. It was a little piece of metal, from what Spyro could see; and by the way he held it, a weapon. It´s design was very strange and Spyro could not identify it. It was a weapon to be sure. but a weapon of what sort, Spyro could not fathom.

"We man no harm" he said to the one pointing the weapon at him.

"Ramirez... are you ok?" he asked to the one that had shouted "What happened?"

"Desperte y lo primero que veo es una pinche cara a unos pocos..." he started as he too took out the same looking weapon.

"English, Ramirez". He said as he stood up from the bed, still pointing his weapon at Spyro.

"How do you expect me not to scream, when I woke up and the first thing I see is its fucking face just right in front of me, looking at me... with those... green, bright, predatory eyes? It was almost touching me, man, looking at me like is it was going to eat me!" He finished, and Cynder just huffed at the remark of eating. Spyro couldn't keep away the memory of Sparx saying that same thing at Cynder.

"So... you ok?"

"Yes, Lieutenant" he responded, while he too got up from the bed.

"What kind of species are you, then?" Spyro said, trying to bring a friendly conversation in this hostility zone. "I have never seen your kind before. Are you a member of the alliance?" He also made a fast comparison in height. His head seemed to be a little lower that the strangers chest.

"Alliance?" the one called Lieutenant said, looking in disbelief. He still was pointing that strange looking weapon toward Spyro.

"We mean no harm, and yes, the alliance against Malefor. "

"Never heard of him" he said in a voice that conveyed no emotion.

Spyro's eye popped out, this time it was his turn to be amazed. "You have never heard of Malefor before? How could you not have heard of him? Where do you guys have been if you have not heard of him?"Both strangers looked at each other for a moment; as if something was passing between them that the dragons couldn't understand.

"Where are we? And where are the other two men I was with?" Lieutenant asked, still holding his weapon high.

"You are in the city of Warfang. Your machine was shot down by the besiegers when you were over the city, and then, you crashed. One of your companions was dead before we had time to help him; the other is in a hospital not far away from here. He had internal injuries from what I heard; and perhaps broken bones."

Ramirez and Lieutenant lowered their eyes, regretting the loss of their friend who had died in the crash. Spyro hurried to comfort them. "I can inquire about how the one we left at the hospital is faring" he offered. They didn't answer.

"Never mind" Spyro said ignoring his earlier offer. "So, who are you? And what exactly are you, if you don't mind my asking?" This seemed to snap out of their own self pity.

"I'm Lieutenant Parker; and this is Private Ramirez" he indicated the other one. "And we are humans. And if I am correct, then you are dragons, are you not?"

"Yes. I'm Spyro, and she is Cynder" he introduced them both. This exchange of greeting seemed to calm both humans enough to lower their weapons, but they still had wariness in their eyes. Spyro gave a sigh of relief; it was good not to be pointed with a weapon, albeit unknown of how it worked. "I have never heard of the humans. Where do you come from?"

"I thought dragons were myths, Lieutenant" Ramirez said with wonder in his voice.

Myths? Somehow, Spyro felt insulted with that comment. He had grown up believe he was a dragonfly, and now that he knew that he was a dragon, it was difficult to think that these people considered dragons a myth. "You know, now I am really wondering where you guys come from, and not just courtesy I ask. Everyone in the Dragon Realms knows that dragons are real. Or you could have been like me: living isolated and not knowing the rest of the world".

"You could say that" Ramirez said, his tone suggesting that there was more, but not really wanting to discuss it.

"So, where are you from?"

"Earth" Parker said.

"Earth? We all live above the earth, yes; and it is an element. But doesn't your place you come from have a name?" Cynder asked this time.

"That's the name of the place where we come from"

"Oh!" Cynder didn't know what to make of that. They spent a few moments staring at each other, waiting for the other to make... say something.

"How long were we unconscious?" Parker asked, as he put his hand to his head, massaging his temples.

"Some of hours" Cynder said to everyone. "It's is almost night, Spyro. You suddenly fell asleep where you were and I didn't want to wake you to make you go to your own room".

"Oh! Thanks!" He answered. Spyro didn't even remember when he had gotten to sleep.

"Terrador came by earlier" Cynder informed. "He wanted to see if our guest were doing fine".

"Does he know anything about these humans?" He then turned to the humans, who were now whispering to each other and keeping a vigilant eye on both of them.

"No. He have never seen nor heard of this species earlier. He was shocked when he saw that strange flying machine of theirs. He thought the dark army had managed to do something new". She giggled a bit, making both humans look at her.

"Yeah. I imagined that was quite a shock for everybody" he lauged a little bit himself at that thought. "But at least Volteer would be having a great time 'revealing its mysteries', as he usually says".

"Already is. Terrador said that he could NOT be keep away from the crash site"

"Well, that would keep his mind occupied for a while" then Spyro addressed the humans. "So, what was that thing of yours, the machine that flew?"

"It was a helicopter, or chopper for short" Ramirez stated, interrupting the conversation both humans had been having. "It is a machine that enables us to fly"

"How does it work?" Spyro asked with enthusiasm.

"That's classified" Parker interrupted.

"Oh!" That was rude Spyro thought "Well then... Lieutenant is your name, it has the sound of a title of some kind?"

"Military rank" he said coldly.

"Military? Then what are you doing here?"

"We are in an exploration team" this time Ramirez said.

"Explore what, exactly?"

"We wouldn't explore if we already knew, would we?" Ramirez said in a sarcastic voice as Parker rolled his eyes.

Spyro now had a better chance to watch them now that they were awake. They looked incredibly similar to the apes Spyro fought earlier in his youth, or at least, how they stood up. They were slim, and they reminded him to the cheetahs, minus facial hair. They did not have fur or scales... only that strange soft pink flesh of theirs. They had hair over their heads, dark brown for both of them. These are strange creatures indeed.

They wore the clothes that Spyro identified earlier, green with brown and black with no pattern. Also Spyro noticed that they their clothes and a lot of pockets, pouches, bags and it seemed to be full of something.

"I want to see the other survivor of my team" Parker stated with a firm voice.

"Sure" Cynder said. "I will take you to him"

Cynder turned to leave and Spyro joined her. The humans were walking a little distance away, still holding their strange looking weapon in their hands.

***

Parker didn´t know what to think. From one side, these dragons were friendly enough and they had taken care of them. For another part, it could all be a ruse, waiting find out where the expedition post was and strike when no one expected it.

Still, Parker had a tough time believe they had just seen a real dragon. And what's more... they had spoken in perfect English. Such things do not happen every day. Was there any relation to Earth's dragons?

He still thought of those first moments after waking up. The dragons and then they spoke. He remembered fumbling for his pistol and aiming at them. Why hadn't he fired?

They exited the building which they were in and Parker, as Ramirez, opened their eyes wide. Before them, stood a proud and beautiful city, mostly made out of stone. Beautiful towers stood tall and high, and houses filled the streets with flowers on the windows. Plazas were common place, and statues of dragons were abundant. Every detail of these was perfect.

"Aquí hay algo digno de verse". Ramirez said again in spanish.

"Huh?" Parker could only guess.

"Here is an eye opener...I think I could retire here one day" Ramirez said in a voice of wonder. Parker could only agree with him.

"What is this place?" he asked his two guides. The purple dragon called Spyro answered him. Stanger color... purple. He would have expected another color for a dragon, like Cynder's black or red, or blue, or green. But not purpule.

"This is Warfang... the dragon city" Spyro answered with what Parker could identify, proud in his voice. "The moles built this city in honor to their friendship with dragons long ago".

"Moles? Dragon city? Are there more of you?"

"Yes. This city is inhabited mostly by moles. There are a few cheetahs also. Unfortunately, dragons had a bad time these lasts years... making our number dwindle. Currently, there should be about thirty or forty dragons in this city. If there are more out there, we do not know where they are" Spyro said with sadness in his voice, making Parker look at him, but he didn't respond to that comment.

They went down the street toward the hospital. The first mole that crossed their path, made both humans stare. He could not believe his eyes... here was a mole, walking on two legs and carrying equipment and very similar to the moles back on Earth.

"Spyro" said a new voice. Parker turned to look and did not felt his mouth hung agape. A cheetah, also walking it two legs, carrying as bow and wearing leather armor and a cape, was coming toward them. He resembled also a lot of Earth's cheetah, like the mole.

"I feel like Alice in Wonderland" Ramirez muttered to Parker.

"I see our two friends have woken up" the cheetah said.

"Yes, uhm... Hunter, this is Parker and Ramirez, and they are humans. Guys, this is Hunter, a friend" he introduce both parties.

"It´s good to see you are alive and well" Hunter said to the two dumbstruck humans.

"UUhhh... yeah. Thanks" Parker told him.

With the introduction made, they continued their journey toward the hospital. Parker saw many moles, and a few cheetahs, through the streets of the city, and when they saw them, they stared. Both humans felt uncomfortable with everyone looking at them, as if they were waiting to pounce on them.

"Do not mind them. They haven't seen a human before... none of us has for that matter" Spyro tried to calm them down. Nevertheless, both humans kept their pistols in hand.

They arrived at the hospital, and a nurse was there. They were allowed to enter and were lead to where his friend was resting. During the journey, the travelers could feel the aura of death in this place. They continued and the nurse opened a room and found the injured human in a bed, still unconscious. Parker and Ramirez slowly walked past his companions and went to the side of the bed.

"Oh... shit. Sanders..." Ramirez said in a low voice. "He looks to be in a bad shape".

Parker examined the unconscious body and found, much to his dismay that the pilot was in a very bad shape.

"Some ribs broken... internal injuries... possibly hemorrhage. He won't survive without medical surgery" Parker said as he explored the injured sustained by the body.

"We can at least delay it. I have a first aid kit" Ramirez said as he took something out of his pockets.

***

They, then began to treat they pilot as the rest of the company watched with fascination. They took out an ugly looking cylinder with a long steel needle at the end. They put some liquid in it and proceeded to put that in the unconscious human. Who knows what else these humans had in store.

"Is he going to be all right?" Cynder asked the humans.

"He is in a bad shape. Without proper medical attention, he will die" Parker said. As the nurse mole who had been listening, huffed at listening at the 'proper medical attention'.

"I´m sorry. I wish I could help" Cynder said again.

"Maybe you can" Ramirez said, his voice full of hope.

"Ramirez?" Parker looked suspicious.

"Sir... we could contact the team form the choppers radio". Cynder looked at them with confusion in her eyes. Radio? What the hell is that?

"You are right. Ok, Ramirez, stay here and keep a vigil. I will go and see if we can request a pick-up" ¨Parker said with hope in his voice. "Cynder, could you take me to where we crashed".

"Uh... yeah. Come on" she said, still confused by what was going on.

Cynder left the hospital in a hurry, followed closely by the human. In no time, they arrived at the crash site. Cynder smiled when she found Volteer standing nearby the crash site, talking at full speed toward some moles who were taking notes. The electric guardian noticed them and his face lit up.

"Ah... the mysterious gust has arrived. I have been trying to find out how this complex machine of yours works. Very intriguing this it is! I have never seen such a thing in all of my travels throughout the dragon realms. Perhaps you could explain to it us?"

Parker did not even acknowledge him. He just ran as fast as he could into the chopper.

"Hump. That was rude from his part. I was just trying to make some friendly conversation with a new creature I have never seen before. What is he doing?"

They saw him seat himself through some kind of broken crystal. Then, he fumbled with something and they heard him talk with no one.

"I don´t know..." Cynder said truthfully.

Parker went into the chopper and tried to make his way inside the crashed vehicle. He arrived to the front and sat down in the pilot's seat. He found radio, turned it on and put it in the frequency the expedition used.

"This is 'Recon Group' to any Expedition member, please respond" he said into the radio. There was no response. He change frequency and tried again.

"Mayday, Mayday this is 'Recon Group' requesting medical assistance, over". Static was only heard.

Damn... it was out of broken. The crash must have damaged the equipment. He was no repair man... he was a soldier. He could never have the radio working again.

He slowly got up from his seat and went to the rear part to get out. He was having his eyes on the ground, dismayed at the fact that his man could die. Suddenly, his eyes fell on something. His M4A1 carbine. He had lost it when they came down and crashed. He looked around and sure enough, there was Ramirez weapon too. He picked them up and went out of the chopper.

Cynder watched as the human emerged, looking downcast.

"What is it? Something wrong?" she asked, worried about him.

"Couldn't contact my team... we have to return on foot in order to help Sanders".

***

They returned to the hospital and entered the room where the unconscious human called Sanders rested. Parker went to talk with Ramirez while Cynder talked with Spyro about what had happened.

"I hope they manage to make it in time in order to save their friend" Spyro said honestly.

"Me too".

They looked at both humans as they were talking to each other. Parker gave Ramirez a strange looking thing. It looked similar to the strange looking weapon they held earlier, a barrel stood out front. A sudden commotion outside the room caught everyone's attention. A nurse came in running and said in a weary voice.

"The guardians are outside. They wish to meet with the strangers". The two humans looked at each other, Ramirez raising an eyebrow.

Parker asked "Who are the guardians?"

"The leaders of the dragons. And currently, defenders of this city" Spyro explained to them.

The group left the room and went to the front door, where the three dragon guardians sat at their haunches. Terrador looking at them with suspicion, Volteer with fascination, and Cyril couldn't care less. Sparx came to Spyro and floated beside him.

Behind the guardians, several Warfang soldiers stood at the ready.

"Big" Ramirez said in a low voice as he watched the guardians.

"Terrador?" Spyro asked his mentor, confusion written in his voice.

"Be silent, Spyro" he informed, and then looked back at the humans who looked uneasy at the sight of many armed soldiers. "Now that you are both awake and well, we would like to ask a few questions"

"Such as?" Parker said, holding the strange long looking weapon closer to him with both hands.

"It would be better if we discuss such things indoors. This way" he said when he lifted a wing, pointing with it in one direction.

"I think that's not possible" Parker stated as he moved something with his strange looking weapon. "We have a friend here who is dying and if we do not get him out of here and get him to where the rest of us are... he will die".

"We require to you to answer a few question" Volteer said, his voice sounding more careful than ever. " Who are you and what is your species? Where do you come from? And, what are you doing here?"

"I have already answered those questions to the purple one" Parker indicated Spyro with his hand. "Let us go, and I promise I will return and answer your questions if I can. Plus, I will give a good point toward you with my commander".

"You can't leave" Terrador simply said, surprising Spyro and Cynder.

"What? Why?" Spyro said, confusion now emanating from him. He hadn't expected Terrador or the guardians to keep these humans here.

"Sooo... are we prisoners then?" Parker said, his eyes closing a little as he inspected the guardians and guard behind them.

"It would be better if you consider yourselves as guest". Cyril said, his tone also carried wariness.

"Guest that can't leave? Then that would make you a very bad host if that's what you are" Ramirez said as he got a better grip on his weapon.

"Will you come?" Terrador said, this time getting angrier himself. The guards behind the guardians started to move forward.

"No" Parker said. Spyro could only feel that this was going to end badly... it was time to intervene. He positioned himself between the two struggling parties.

"Terrador, why do you prevent them from leaving? What is wrong?" The earth guardian looked at him.

"Can't you see?" he said with sadness in his voice.

"See what?" Spyro asked, half wanting to know the answer, the other half didn't.

"They. Are. Apes". Terrador finished, pronouncing each word very slowly. Spyro turned to look back at the humans, which looked ready to bolt out at any moment's notice.

"They look very much like them, surely, but they are different" Spyro tried to defend the humans.

"Maybe...maybe not. We will decide that, once we have questioned them. Seize them". Terrador ordered. But before anyone knew what was happening, the two humans had run toward the hospital as fast as their two legs could carry them. "You see? They run because they know they have been found out" he said as the guard followed the two humans inside. Hunter and Cynder stayed by Spyro.

"Why do you say they are apes?" Spyro wanted to know.

"Hey... look at them" Sparx, who was floating next to Spyro intruded. "Look at how they move, how they look and how they runned after being discovered. They must be apes"

"They look very much like them" Terrador confirmed". And, after Malefore's defeat, the curse he placed on the apes faded. All of the apes have returned to their normal state they were in. We have received confirmed reports that the apes are assembling back again. These may be a rare kind of ape".

Spyro was much in dismay. He could not believe these humans... if that what they were, had tricked him. He had offered friendship, and they had only taken it to satisfy their ends... but what these ends were? Are they really apes?

Something... something very deep inside him told him they weren't. "I do not believe such a thing. Maybe you just scared them" he said firmly.

"Do not be a fool young dragon" The earth guardian admonished.

"Was I a fool when I accepted Cynder after her release?" he shot back. Everyone fell silent, except for one.

"Spyro, come on buddy, think. This is not the time to save some evil guy like you did with Cynder. Besides, we do not know if she was truly worth all the work we did to save her" Sparx said.

At that moment, the mole captain came out from the building. "Sir... the apes have entered their comrade's room and have barricade the entrance. I have archers posted on the door and outside the windows if they choose to escape from there. They are trapped".

"Very good captain. We shall try to reason with them to surrender" He then turned to Spyro. "What are you going to do then?"

Spyro tried to think fast. "Let me talk to them Maybe they will come peacefully if they see a friendly face". He said. At least this way, he could make sure there were not any deaths.

"Very well" Terrador said as he entered the hospital.

Cynder and Hunter followed Spyro as Sparx mumbled something about no one listening to him. They made their way into the hospital and to the room the humans were in. Several guard were in front of the door, their sword were unsheathed and poised at the ready.

He told them to move away, to give him some room. Spyro cleared his throat before speaking. "Parker? Ramirez? Are you there?"

"Spyro? What do you want?" came the voice of Parker form the other side of the door.

"We do not want any deaths, come out peacefully. Do not resist, you could avoid bloodshed. Let the guardians question you, and, if you pose no threat, you will be released".

"And let Sanders to die while we argue? I don't think so. Besides, these guardians have already their mind made up".

"Sanders will be taken care of" Spyro grabbed that opportunity.

"Like you have been doing? If this is the best you can do, then he will die. If we get him to my people, he might still live". Parker shot back.

"I promise you that you will be treated well, and that Sanders will be given the best attention we could give". Spyro tired one more time. This time, there was a long silence from the other end. "Parker?"

"I thought you were different from the others, Spyro, you and your race" Parker said in a sad voice. "The way you treated us, Ramirez and me, when we woke up after the crash gave me hope. I thought we could trust you. Now you have shown me that you are indeed the same as the others. You have broken the hope I had".

Spyro was confused by this, and what more, hurt. He had never know that he had being tested by the humans, and that he have failed. Worse, he had crushed their hopes. But hopes for what? But he continued one more time. "We could regain your trust. But this is not the way".

"Indeed... this is not the way. Let us go, peacefully, and you will regain our trust. Otherwise, I think that we are too far now".

Spyro tuned to look at Terrador who shook his head in denial to their offer. Spyro could not continue; he just stood silent. Terrador took his place in the negotiations

"The way I see it, you have only two options of getting out of there. One is you surrendering and coming with us. Two is getting killed by either the archers in the windows or from the troops getting to the room. Your choice. Which is going to be?"

"I choose the third option". Parker said, and Spyro could hear some hurried murmurs behind the door.

"Which is...?" Terrador asked, amused by the situation.

"My way. I will leave and you will let me go".

"How, pray tell us, will you make such a thing happen?"

"Like this" Then, the door opened a small faction, and out of it, came a small cylinder. Spyro stood there, just looking at it as it rolled down the floor as the door closed again. Then, a sudden brilliant light made him loose his sight of everything except the color white and a huge sound explosion made him listen to a very annoying ringing.

He was holding his head with his paws, he felt as if his head was going to blow. He wished to make the sense of disorientation go away when a sudden tackle made him fall to the floor. He tried to get up, but a cold thing was placed behind his head, pinning him to the ground.

Very slowly, the ringing stooped and the whiteness in his vision disappeared. He saw everyone with their paws or hand on their heads, moving without any coordination. The swords of the guards were on the floor. Slowly, everyone else began to regain their balance and began to look around. Spyro watched as Cynder turned to look around, regaining her senses, and when she saw Spyro, she made the most audible gasp of everyone. She then, proceeded to make a slow and menacing growl.

"Let him go" She hissed. Terrador had also regained his senses and turned to look, his eyes popping from his sockets.

"This is where we have arrived. Now what's it going to be?" Parker said from behind Spyro. Suddenly, he understood. That explosion of light and sound gave the opportunity to get the two humans a hostage to bargain to get out. He had been the closest to the door, do the graved him. And that cold thing behind his head was a weapon.

"Let him go" Terrador ordered as the troops began to take their weapons form the floor and stand ready.

"For what? So you can have a clear shot?" Ramirez said.

Cynder was seething. They were having Spyro hostage. Parker was having with a hand pinning Spyros head to the ground and that small weapon in one hand; while Ramirez was having the long one pointed toward them The situation was delicate; one wrong move, and they would kill Spyro.. "What do you want?" she asked the humans, venom in her voice.

"You already know".

Terrador interrupted their conversation "Not a chance. Either you surrender or we kill you".

"Fine. Attack us. Let everyone in here die. We will kill as much as we can before falling" Ramirez stated with a little sarcasm in his voice.

"You have until I count ten to release him or I will kill you personally"

"Well, he only has three" Parker said as he pressed his weapon more firmly against Spyro's head.

"ONE" Terrador grave voice resounded in the halls.

"One" Parker said after Terrador has finished the number.

"TWO" Terrador said more forcibly this time.

"Two" Parker repeated the action. Cynder looked at Spyro, who was shaking out of control, unable to do anything.

"TERRADOR, TOP THAT!" Cynder shouted to the earth guardian. "Can't you see that he is counting every time you do? If you had reached three, they would have killed him." She turned back to the humans. "What will you do to Spyro?"

"We will take him with us and once we are far away, we will let him go. That is if he behaves during the journey" Parker stated coldly.

"How can I trust you that you will keep your word?"

"I do not have any reason for you to trust me except my word".

She was boiling from the inside. She could not attack without risking Spyro in the process. These humans had the situation completely under their control. If she made a move, they would kill Spyro, if she complied they may kill Spyro. She would have to play their game and hope everything will be fine. One way or another, she was getting Spyro back.

"All right. EVERYONE, MOVE AWAY FROM THEM!" she shouted with a voice of authority that voice broke no argument. Everyone watched her as the troopers did as she said and exited the building. Volteer and Cyril were there also, looking dumbstruck with the situation. Hunter was fidgeting, expecting to get an opportunity to put an arrow on the human's neck.

Cynder watched as Parker exited holding Spyro by the neck in a death grip and his weapon still aiming at his skull. Then, Ramirez followed, carrying in his shoulders the other unconscious human.

"Where is the exit of this city?" Parker asked, wanting to leave this damn place.

"Currently, the city is under siege, as you no doubt know. We will lead you to the front door". Cynder told him what he wanted to know.

"Nope. Isn't there another exit? I don't want a public display".

"Why? Out the front door is your friendly army"

"Just for the record... that is not our army. We do not know who they are or what they are doing here. They are just as likely to kill us when we exit. Sooo.... Please, the rear door".

Cynder hissed and turned around to lead them toward the ruins of the old city, where she and Spyro had passed to intercept the Destroyer.

They arrived at the entrance to the tunnels. A big crowd was following them, waiting to see what happened. Cynder noticed that Incendio was hanging around on the background looking enraged and confused at the same time.

"This is it" Cynder informed, with fire in her eyes. "This road will lead you underground for quite a while; enough to get you out of the city".

That's when it happened. Both humans had their attention on the entrance of the tunnel, when Incendio made him move. He roared and charged the humans with hopes of scaring them enough to paralyze. That would give him enough time to rescue Spyro.

But he didn't count on the human's reaction. Parker looked back toward the charging dragon and lifted his weapon. Cynder heard a loud CRACK as he saw a small cylinder fly from the human weapon. Astounding thing is that Incednio tumbled to the floor, shouting in pain. No knew knew what happened, and everyone was paralyzed by the fact that a dragon fell with just 'sound'.

"Anyone else foolish thought to try something like that" Ramirez asked the crowd. No one answered. "good, because the next one we will aim for the head instead of the leg".

"Okay then, were off. Do not follow or we will kill him" Parker indicated Spyro and both humans started to walk to the tunnel.

But before they entered, Cynder delivered her final message. "if you kill him... I will hunt you down wherever you are and make you suffer" she finished with his most threatening voice she had, which came naturally. All of the spectators gulped at such a treat.

The humans said nothing, just retreated to the tunnel. Some dragons and moles went to help Incendio. Once the humans were out of sight, she collapsed to the floor and started crying.

***

Spyro couldn't believe what had happened. The humans had just felled a young dragon, in his prime, with only a loud CRACK. He saw the look of surprise in Incendio's face, how he took a few more steps, carried by momentum, and how he collapsed on the floor. He remember couldn't see anything that left the humans weapons, just a small brass cylinder, that fell to the floor. He saw it going roward the ground slowly, as if time had slowed itself. It impacted on the ground, sending a clear 'ting' sound, and some smoke coming out of it. Some kind of magic?

He remembered Cynder eyes of fury when she was watching and talking with the humans. Why had she let them go? She had risked the security of the city by allowing the humans to leave.

A sudden tug on his neck brought him back to reality. He was still a hostage and he was sacred shitless. Parker still was having the weapons pressed in his skull, and whatever it did to Incednio in the leg, he didn't want it to happen to him; much less in the head. Oh... how he wished he had his powers back.

"Why are you doing this?" he asked, hoping to gain an insight of the humans plan.

"To get away safely. They would not have let us leaved in time to get Sanders to our people" Parker told him.

"So, you did all this to get him to safety?" he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Yes" came the simple answer.

He didn't know what to believe. Were they the evil Apes everybody thought them to be? Or where they something else? They walked in silence for what Spyro thought to be an eternity, walking the same path he had taken a few days ago. Soon enough, they reached the end of the tunnel and emerged back to the setting sun.

"Finally, free air" Ramirez said with relief. He was still carrying the unconscious one called Sanders,

"Now what?" Spyro asked, dreading one answer that crossed his mind. He watched Parker looked toward the horizon, the same as Ramirez. They were pondering the question.

A sudden movement and glow caught his attention. Parker put his hand to his eye, shouting in pain.

"Spyro, RUN!" a floating glowing rob shouted. Sparx. The dragonfly had punched him in the eye when he didn't expect it; giving time to Spyro to escape.

Spyro tried to look for a place to run, but that precious time cost him. Ramirez had dropped his burden and pointed his weapon at Spyro. Sparx, seeing this, tried to charge at him and punch him in the eye; but Ramirez was fast, he caught the dragonfly in his hand.

"Come on... get someone your own size" Sparx complained.

"Sparx!" Spyro shouted. Parker was groaning, with his hand still in his eye. Spyro looked in horror as he walked slowly toward him with is weapon raised, murder in his eyes.

This is it then?

Lieutenant Parker came closer still, until he was a few breaths away. Spyo closed his eyes, waiting for what he was sure to come. He felt the cold metal be put in his head. Spyro was trembling, not wanting to die. He saw his life flash before his eyes, and one thing predominated above all others. Cynder...

"Cynder... I'm sorry" he whispered, hoping that she somehow hear it. He began to cry, hoping that he could have spent more time with her.

But the loud Crack never came. He opened his eye and looked at Parker thought the tears streaking out of his face. They looked at each other in the eyes, as if they could decipher the other souls thought them. Then, Parker surprised him.

"Ramirez... let's go" he said as he removed the weapon from Spyro's face.

"Sir?"

"Spyro has completed his end of the bargain, without counting the mosquito´s interference" he stated.

"HEY! Who are you calling mosquito? Come on and say it in my face" Sparx shouted annoyed.

"We will hold our end of the bargain" Parker continued as if he was not interrupted.

"Are you sure Lieutenant?" Ramirez asked, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"I hope so" Parker said wavering.

Ramirez let Sparx go, who promptly went back to float next to Spyro.

"I... I... I thought that... you would..." Spyro stammered.

"Kill you?" Parker finished his sentence. Spyro only nodded. "I am a man of my word. I will let you go". With that, he turned around to leave.

"But... why? I was so sure that you would kill me?" Spyro asked once more.

"Do not argue with the guy and let's get out of here while we still can" Sparx said as he tugged Spryo's horn to pull him away.

"Something about you. I just... think... feel... I don't know what". Spyro could only just cock his head, confused. "It's as if I want you trust me. That little stunt we did... with you being held hostage... like kind of redemption" he said as he looked at Spyro. "Forget it. Ramirez let's go" Both humans left through the trees and disappeared.

Spyro stayed in place for a while, as Sparx just floated beside him.

"That was weird" the dragonfly just said. "I mean; first they threaten you and then they want your forgiveness?"

"Yeah" Spyro answered as he turned back and began the journey. "Why did you follow me?"

"Come on, how I could let my favorite brother come to any harm? Did you not see??? I went 'WHAM' and 'POW' that guy in the eye. I sent him screaming, scared to death at my ability"

"Yes Sparx, you are a real savior"

"Of course I am, thank you everyone" he said in his smug voice, as if he was receiving praise form a huge crowd. "I really don't know what you would do without me?"

***

Cynder was sniffing, still waiting for Spyro to return, hoping against hope that he will return unharmed. She was still in the place she had collapsed when Spyro disappeared through the tunnel.

"What is it Cynder?" asked a new voice. She turned to look and saw Incendio, who was limping in three legs. His right front leg was held close.

"Nothing" she hurried to lie. Of course something was wrong. Spyro, that's what was wrong. Apparently, Incendio saw through Cynder lie.

"He will be fine" he tried to comfort her. Deciding it was futile to lie again, Cynder just went along.

"How do you know?"

"He is the purple dragon, he can manage everything".

"I sure hope he can. I don't know what those humans will do to him. How is your leg? Should you be resting?" she asked, trying to change subject.

"Just a superficial wound. It caught me in the side of my leg. My scales were pierced by whatever it was, and the flesh torn apart. My bone is still intact .Nothing to worry about, it will heal fast enough."

"You screamed like it hurt a lot".

"It did. It felt like my flesh was on fire. But... I guess the thing that really stopped me was the fact that I didn't even see it coming before I was wounded. I was such a fool to think that I could do something".

"Everybody was tense. I..." she fought back a sob.

"You did the right thing, you know. It could have ended very bad indeed."

"Thanks" she said as she turned back to the tunnels to wait for Spyro. She saw a small glow coming from the tunnel. At first, she thought it was her imagination playing tricks with her.

"Cynder" Incendio whispered fast. She turned to look what it was, but saw Incednio looking at the tunnel. She turned back to look and saw Spyro emerge from the shadows.

Cynder leapt from the joy of seeing him again. Tears welled in her eyes as she ran up to meet him. When he was beside her, she began to nuzzle him in her happiness of seeing him alive and well.

"Spyro, you are alive!" she said in joy.

"I´m fine Cynder, thanks" he nuzzled her back. Incendio was coming behind Cynder.

"What happened? Are you all right?" he inquired.

"Yes... yes, I'm fine. It's good to see you are fine also. The humans let me go after they we were far away".

"What? They did?" Cynder almost shouted in surprise. She had not believe they would do it.

"Yes. They did" Spyro answered her back

"Why would they do that?"

"I don't know. But... I think there is much more to them... that meet the eye".

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There it was. Chapter six.

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