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Chapter 8: Never alone, always alone

It was the day before Hypter would receive the answer if the guardians let him move back to the dragon temple or if he was permanently banned. In the cave the mood amongst the dragons where a bit at tense because of that and of course what happened in the evening the day before.

"Well, I guess this is the last day we are sitting here together." Hypter finally spoke up and breaking the silence around the dinner table. "I guess it is." Spyro replied, "It was nice with a little vacation though." He ended.

"Even if it's not much to do in the dragon temple, it's all those do's and don'ts. Volteer and Terrador is quite ok but Cyril is quite strict with the rules for some reason, "don't fly here, you can't stay in the same room, don't run in here, don't yell in the class, sit still and you must be in bed before sunset and so on" Flame copied Cyril's voice almost exactly making the other dragons laugh except Hypter of course. "Well, since he brakes some rules himself he can't make a hard punishment instead he is keeping strict rules and act cold so he doesn't have to punish anyone." Hypter said, as he had noticed Cyril's small midnight games.

"Wait, are you saying that the most strict guardian is braking his own rules?" Spyro asked in disbelief. "Indeed, that's exactly what I'm saying." Hypter replied.

"Talking about Cyril breaking rules, I visited him yesterday and asked him about the decision about Hypter and he said that most of them had agreed to taking Hypter back." Cynder said.

"Most of them? They are only three guardians left to decide about it, which means that one vote can decide if he is allowed back or not." Spyro said, as he was a little bit uneasy with the thought of that Hypter might actually get banned. "Now, now Spyro, I'm sure that whatever they decide is what's best for those living in the dragon temple." Hypter said with a smile.

"I can't understand how you can be so calm about this." Flame said as he himself was being worked up with the idea of Hypter getting banned. "Well, the reason is that it's probably Cyril and Volteer that wants me back, Cyril because he can't stand Volteer's cooking and unending babbling. And Volteer probably wants me back because I have taken over some of his duties, which allows him to do more research and experiments about stupid things. Terrador is probably against me because he is afraid of what my ability can do, since it's an ability that he hasn't encountered before. Hopefully Cyril and Volteer trust me enough to allow me back." Hypter said. "Hmm...that's probably how it is." Ember said, giggling a little as she leant close to Flame. "Hypter, how about a spare between you and I when we finished the breakfast?" Flame asked, making Spyro laugh. "Hey, what's so funny Spyro?!" Flame said with a raised voice. "Dude, he is an ice dragon, he would soo kick your red scaly butt all the way to the meadow." Spyro said, as he knew Flame wouldn't take such a comment.

"Oh yea? We'll see about that." Flame said as he left the table mumbling angrily to himself.

"Spyro, was that a good idea to make Flame so angry, I don't even want to spare against him." Hypter said as he started to pick the leftovers away from the stone table.

"Well, I wanted to see you two spare against each other, and now you don't have much of a choice since Flame wont take a no when he is worked up like that." Spyro said with a grin. Cynder patted Spyro on the head. "I didn't know you had such a mischievous side in you." She said with making a small grin and kissed Spyro on the cheek. "Well, I can when I want to." Spyro said as he kissed her back.

"Oh I can't take more of that, I'll go find my chilli and see if he is up for some cheer up snuggle before his spare." Ember said and left the table. Spyro and Cynder could barely keep their mouth's shut when they heard what Ember called Flame.

In the afternoon when the sun shone the brightest the five dragons went outside, Hypter and Flame should spare against each other and the three other dragons was there to watch.

"Flame, don't be afraid to attack, I have some crystals with me if someone would get hurt." Hypter said as he and Flame walked away a bit from the three other dragons. "Oh don't worry, I won't hold back." Flame replied.

"Good, now lets get this party started!" Hypter said as he changed colour and put his ice mask on. Cold air started to leak out from his body and Flame shivered as the air turned colder in an instant.

"Starting to shiver already? But I haven't even begun yet!" Hypter said as ice covered the ground like a raging fire. Flame dodged it but the ice seemed to follow him, so he took of into air but the ice still followed him, reaching up several meters from the ground. He had to counter it with a flame breath. "Heads up Flame." Hypter said as multiple ice shards flew through the air against Flame. He used his flame breath to melt them as well. "You won't beat me if you just defend all the time, come on, I even let you attack me one time to get something out of this, I promise not to attack you or defend while you attack me. Now come on and lend a attack on me!" Hypter said, making Flame's jaw drop.

"Hypter...are you ok man?" Flame asked.

"Yes I'm just fine, come on and attack me now for ancestors sake!" Hypter yelled.

"Well, ok here I come!" Flame yelled as he launched a rain of small fireballs followed by a huge one and then a fire breath. When the combination of attacks hit Hypter it started to steam and Hypter was clouded in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared the three dragons that watched and Flame was stunned. Hypter was hovering without a single scratch like nothing had happened. "I thought you said you wouldn't defend yourself." Flame said.

"I didn't my natural cold makes ice build up on my scales as a protective shield. It is noting I'm having control over, and the longer it is between your attacks the more ice is built on my scales and the harder it is to penetrate." Hypter explained.

"So you are saying if I not keep on attacking constantly I will never be able to hurt you?" Flame asked. "Exactly." Hypter said. Then Flame began to launch another attack. This time he knew what defence Hypter had so now he could use his attacks in a more precise combo to make as much damage as possible. He started with using a breath of fire to try to melt the layer of ice the he shot some small fireballs at the same place and then to huge fireballs.

"Oh, come on Flame, do you think that would work? Sure the combo was quite convincing to at least harm another dragon severely but I mean, come on. It's not some hatchling you're fighting against, use some real attacks." Hypter said, making Flame angry.

"Well, then I'll start using my real powers." Flame said annoyed.

"Finally, you couldn't have decided that a little earlier?" Hypter asked ironically. And that made Flame really angry. "Yeah, try to defend yourself against this then!" He yelled as he breathed fire while flapping repeatedly with his wings, crating a firestorm. Hypter was taken by surprise and countered with a cone of ice to extinguish the firestorm.

After some time watching the fight, Spyro began to laugh for no reason. "Hey Flame, do you call that fighting? You pussy! With those attacks you couldn't even hurt a sitting duck!" Spyro yelled to Flame, who was taken completely by surprise from the insult and just hovered with his jaw wide open. No one seemed to notice but Spyro's scales began to change from purple to an almost black colour. "Spyro, why are saying something like that to Flame?" Both Cynder and Ember asked very angry and surprised Spyro had said something like that. "Oh, shut up bitches!" Spyro yelled as he used his ice element to make to cuffs around both dragonesses' mouths and freeze them to the ground. "Hey! Don't call Ember a bitch!" Flame yelled to Spyro.

"Yeah? And what shall you do about it? Throw a fruit at me? Oh right, I forgot you are too weak to do that!" Spyro yelled in reply.

"That's enough!" Flame yelled as he charged towards Spyro but when he closed in he was interrupted when someone grabbed his tail and forced him to halt. It was Hypter who had been quiet the whole time. "Flame its better if I fight Spyro, you go and help Cynder and Ember out." Hypter said, getting a nod from Flame. "So...I suppose you are the evil side of Spyro." Hypter said as he landed on the ground.

"I'm not the 'evil side' of anyone, I'm me and this body belongs to me not that doormat Spyro!" The dark Spyro yelled.

"Then you don't mind if I brake into your head, since Spyro is gone I can't hurt you, right?" Hypter asked with a grin, since he knew the answer. The answer was none, the dark Spyro just stood there, and then he started to charge against Hypter. "Bad idea..." Hypter said as he froze the ground under Spyro's feet and then the ice crawled up his legs and soon it was only his head that wasn't completely frozen. As the dark Spyro tried with all his strength to break away from the ice Hypter slowly walked closer. "That isn't going to..." Hypter was cut out when the dark Spyro breathed a wave of convexity. In the last second Hypter dodged it but he was hit lightly at his wing. "Hmm, that wasn't so nice of you, and I that was going to push you out of Spyro's head nice and easy...well I guess I'll have to do it the hard way then." Hypter said as he walked behind the dark Spyro as his front paws began to get covered in green flames. "Now lets see what you are thinking about, shall we?" Hypter said with an almost evil smile as he put his front paws on the dark Spyro's head.

Inside the dark Spyro's mind Spyro was chained to a wall, more he didn't know because it was total darkness around him. Then he heard a voice from afar that sounded familiar but he couldn't put his claw on to whom it belonged to because of the echo. When it came closer he saw a silhouette that was going in front of a blinding light. "Yo Spyro, what are you doing down here dude, do you know how damn boring it was to get down here." It was Hypter's voice, and it was Hypter that was coming towards Spyro. "Hypter, thanks ancestors that you are here, help me to get these damn chains of off me." Spyro said as he tried to brake free himself. "Easy there Spyro, I can't just go and brake them, it's your mind after all. You have to brake them yourself." Hypter said.

"It's no good time for jokes now Hypter! Now help me with the chains!" Spyro commanded.

"I'm sorry Spyro but it's no joke, I can't brake them, you have to do it yourself." Hypter replied. "And how am I supposed to do that then?" Spyro asked while he was getting more and more frustrated. "Find something that is worth fighting for, or maybe I should say someone? While you were here and slacked the evil part of you hurt both Cynder and Ember and it was about to hurt Flame to if I hadn't stopped it. Right now I'm having problems to fight it myself so I suggest you get those chains away. I can help you a little bit, here is the key, I'm putting it right here." Hypter said as he put the key far enough from Spyro so that he couldn't reach it with his tale or his legs. "Wow, that was very helpful, come on and just give me the key!" Spyro said, he was now very irritated on Hypter.

"I can't do that I'm afraid, you can reach it yourself, you just need a reason to take it." Hypter said as he was walking away. "But it's to far away!" Spyro yelled.

"You just need a reason to take it." Hypter's voice echoed.

"Well, that was helpful, what did he mean by that anyway? I can't reach it from here unless I..." Spyro was cut of when a horrible though went through his mind. "He sure can't mean that I'm supposed to..." Spyro thought loudly. Then he heard something, a voice that was screaming and it was getting louder. When Spyro listened carefully and closed his eyes he heard that it was he that was yelling but with a darker more demonic tone. "Oh, shut up bitches!" Spyro couldn't believe his ears, when he opened his eyes he saw himself breath ice against Cynder and Ember, binding them to the ground and covering their muzzles with an ice cuffs. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, without thinking he reached out and grabbed the key, and then he noticed that the chains were gone. "Good, seems like you found a reason to grab the key, for a minute I was doubting a little. I guess that the images helped you." Hypter said as he patted Spyro on the shoulder. "Where did you come from?" Spyro asked when he saw it was Hypter. "I never left, anyway, when you are ready to fight the evil side of you just tell me. But you must be absolute certain that you know why you want to beat him or you will loose and it will take over. If it does I will have to kill it, including your body and I don't think Cynder could handle that." Hypter said as he sat down.

"Then why are you sitting down? We are loosing time every moment, right?" Spyro asked.

"Well...yes, since I can't keep it at bay for much longer." Hypter answered.

"Then let's go and kick its ass! I don't want it to hurt my friends, especially not Cynder." Spyro said as he grabbed Hypter's tail and started to drag him behind him. "You don't know where you are going do you?" Hypter asked.

"Ehm...actually no." Spyro said as he made a childish grin.

"Hold on to me and make sure you don't lose your grip." Hypter said as Spyro grabbed Hypter's tail hard. Then a light eradiated from Hypter and both dragons heard a plagued scream from the evil Spyro.

"How dare you two come here and challenge me, I have already won, you cant beat me!" The evil Spyro yelled. "But there you have wrong." Hypter said. "Spyro isn't beaten yet and besides I won't let you take this body if I so have to destroy it in the process." Hypter continued. "You, destroy me? Hahaha, don't make me laugh! You can't defeat me if you so had an army!" The evil Spyro yelled.

"And who said we don't have an army?" Hypter asked. The light faded and Spyro saw that they were on a field. The grass was green and the sky was blue and the sun shone bright. Beside him was everyone he knew, Cynder, Ember, Flame, Hypter Cyril, Terrador, Volteer and even Ignitus was there and Sparx where hiding behind a tree of course. And on the other side stood a dark figure, darkness leaked out of him and he had two beaming white eyes and a wide grin. "Is this what you call an army? Pathetic!" He yelled.

"Go on Spyro, we are here to back you up if you need any help but since all others are memories they can't interfere with your fight but I will do my best to help you." Hypter said.

"No, I have to do it alone, in case I lose I want you to kill it at once." Spyro said as he prepared to charge the evil Spyro. "Sure thing Spyro but I would never let him kill you." Hypter replied.

Both Spyro's started to charge at each other and in the middle of the field they clashed together. They clawed and bite at each other, and then Spyro used his hind legs to push the evil Spyro away and as he did he used his tail to make a deep cut on the evil Spyro's stomach making blood run like a river out from the wound. The evil Spyro roared in pain. "Why have you become so strong you fucking wuss?! Argh, it doesn't matter, I will kill you anyway!" The evil Spyro yelled as he charged at Spyro.

"I don't think so, not as long as I have my friends with me." Spyro said with a smile. Spyro used his ice powers to freeze the ground, like Hypter had done so many times. The evil Spyro countered with a breath of convexity. "Ooh, so you have learned a new trick, impressive. But you can't beat me, I'm your superior, I am your worst nightmare, I am you...Spyro." The evil Spyro said with a cold voice as everything turned dark and the grass was set afire. Spyro saw with fear in his purple eyes when all his friends disappeared one after one. "Spyro, I can't hold on much longer, I'm sorry I can't be here and watch you win this battle. But I'm beside you, find the reason you had to fight last time, use it...use it...use it......" Hypter said as he faded away in a bright light. And when the light disappeared everything went completely black.

"It's only you and me now it seems." Spyro said as he tried to localise his enemy.

"No...Spyro...it's only me." The darkness replied as Spyro screamed out in pain as he was being attacked from nowhere. He got several bleeding wounds from the attack but still stood up. "Finally that ancestors cursed dragon is gone. Do you know how irritating he was? Helping you with all the hints, giving you false hope but now I have you for myself and I'm going to tare you apart, piece for piece." The darkness laughed as memories started to flash before Spyro. The first one was when he got to know that Sparx wasn't his real brother and that Sparx's parents weren't his parents. Then, when he got to know what happened to all the other dragons. Then when Cynder left the dragon temple, followed by Ignitus' death and it ended with his memory of Cynder turning evil. By now Spyro had already screamed out in pain for seeing all these painful memories. "Please stop it! I can't take anymore! Please just make it stop." Spyro yelled as he curled up to a bull and started to sob as the memories where repeated over and over again. "Hahaha, is this all what the legendary purple dragon can take? Is the one that forced me to submit really this weak?" The darkness asked with a superior tone. The Spyro remember what Hypter said, "find the reason you had to fight last time, use it" and that was exactly what he was going to do. He forced the memories of him and Cynder into his mind.

The first one when he saved the world and Cynder told him she loved him, then when he confessed his feelings for her. And the first time he and Cynder kissed, and when they made the 69 and the last memory of them that meant much to him was when they had mated. Now those where the memories that was repeated over and over again. Soon the darkness disappeared and the grass stopped burning and the sun shone brightly once again. "Nooo, you shouldn't been able to do that! Wh-what is happening to me?! What have you done you weak wuss?!" The evil Spyro yelled as he began to melt.

"I did what Hypter told me to, I found something worth fighting for. My mate is everything I live for and I would gladly sacrifice myself for her but since the only way of defending her was to defeat you...well, you probably know what I had to do since you are melting away. But if your brain isn't working I'll explain it to you: I had to get rid of you." Spyro said calmly as he walked over to the melting black dragon. "No! You can get rid of me! I'm you, you can't simply throw me away!" The now almost completely melted dragon yelled, only its head was still in its solid form. "Just watch me." Spyro said coldly as he stomped on the black head turning it to slime, then he burned it up with his fire breath, leaving nothing behind.

Spyro's body slowly began to shift colours again, back to its former bright purple colour. Cynder burst forward to him and lay down beside him. "Spyro? Are you ok honey?" Cynder asked with a fast and worried voice. Hypter retracted the ice from Spyro's body and spoke calmly. "He is ok Cynder, he just need to rest for a while. Do you want me to carry him to the cave or the dragon temple?" Hypter asked.

"Wha, I don't know, you're the dr." Cynder replied.

"Yes but as closest relative it's your choice." Hypter said.

"Maybe it's best if we carry him back to the dragon temple then." Cynder said, as she still hadn't made up her mind. "Are you sure it wont be to much trouble?" Cynder asked.

"Of course not, it will go much faster if you let me carry him alone." Hypter said as he began to cover himself with water, freezing it as it increased his size. "Put him on my back and I will fly back to the dragon temple with him as fast as I can." Hypter said as he lay down beside Spyro, now being double the size as the purple dragon. The three dragons just stood there, watching as Hypter had doubled his size and turned sky blue because of the ice covering his deep blue scales. "Hey, he wont jump up on my back himself when he is unconscious you know." Hypter said, making the three dragons react and they carefully lifted Spyro up on Hypter's now broad back. When Hypter was sure that Spyro wouldn't fall of he stood up and with a cloud of dust he took to the sky. Flying faster because of the size of his wings.

When Hypter arrived at the dragon temple he flew directly to Spyro's room and laid him down on the bed. Then he left the room to search for any of the guardians. Many of the younger dragons watched Hypter as he walked through the corridors on his way to Cyril because he was in the size of a guardian. "Cyril, good I found you so fast, could you follow me, I'll explain while we are walking." Hypter said to Cyril when he found him in a corridor.

"Sure" Cyril said shortly as he followed Hypter.

"It started when Flame and I where sparring against each other. Spyro's dark side took over but he defeated it this time. Anyway it left him completely exhausted so I asked Cynder if I should take him here or to the cave and she suggested I should take him here. So I flew here and left him in his room where he is know asleep." Hypter said as he was walking towards Spyro's room. "That was very kind of you but who are you?" Cyril asked since he didn't recognise Hypter under all the ice. "Oh, I have forgotten to take the ice off." Hypter said as the ice shattered and left him in his normal size. "I'm sorry to be bursting in like this a day before the decision is about to be taken. But this was a little bit of emergency." Hypter said, Cyril said nothing; he just stood there and stared at Hypter. "What is it?" Hypter asked.

"Oh, it's nothing, you just took me of guard when you scattered the ice." Cyril replied. "Normally I would change my opinion and ban you for breaking in here but since you had good reason I could only thank you." Cyril continued.

"No problem, I will take my leave as soon as I have checked to Spyro, I guessed you wanted to be there too since I'm considered banned and shouldn't be the one to check his health." Hypter said as he opened the door to Spyro's room.

Spyro was barely awake and his mind was fuzz, he noticed he was in his old room. And he saw it was Hypter and Cyril that was beside him but more he couldn't tell, then he heard Hypter's voice in a distant. "How are you feeling?"

It took some time for Spyro to register the words but after a minute he answered, "Have been better" and smiled.

"I'll get you some medicine against the headache, then the only thing I can recommend is rest but I also suggest that Volteer take a look at you." Hypter said, and then walked out of the room and walked to his room to fetch the herbs needed.

Cyril was still in the room with Spyro, he was a bit unfocused because of the news. "Spyro..." Cyril tried to come up with something to say but there was to many questions.

"Cyril, you don't have to act surprised, you knew I had this dark side and I bet the other guardians too. But if you were planning to ban Hypter how come you haven't banned me? He seems to have more control over his powers than I have over my darker side. Is it just because I'm the dragon of legend?" Spyro asked when he recovered from his unconsciousness. "It was lucky he was there when my darker side took over, if he hadn't helped me at least one of my friends wood have died before they would been able to take me down. Even if I had been here the damage I would have caused would have been tremendous before one of you guardians would have been able to stop me. His powers are perfect for keeping my dark part under control." Spyro said.

"Indeed, almost too perfect don't you think?" Cyril asked making Spyro look at him with a questioning look. "What do you mean?" Spyro asked.

"Well, he just seem so perfect, he was a general during the war and probably saved many lives, he has an exceptional skill in medicine and he has the power to control minds. He has become your friend and held classes in sex education much better than Volteer would ever bee able to. And from what you say, his ability to control minds has helped you at least one time. It just seems to good to be true, and besides he is really cooking good food." Cyril said, making Spyro think deep about it. "I'm sure it's only coincident." Spyro said after a while.

"I hope so too Spyro but just in case, keep his friendship at bay for the time being." Cyril said, Spyro didn't get the chance to argue because Hypter came in with a small bottle of medicine. "Here you go Spyro, it should help against the headache." Hypter said with a smile. Spyro knew from the smell it wouldn't taste good so he tried to swallow it down in one gulp. He coughed a little when he had swallowed the fluid.

"So, Hypter, what did you use for herbs?" Cyril asked, trying to ask the question without making it sound like he didn't trust Hypter. "Well if you want to know, it's: lemon grass, eucalyptus, liquorice and fennel. It's good against any form of pain. Are you afraid I would give Spyro something that would hurt him?" Hypter asked.

"I...eh, just wanted to know." Cyril tried to lie.

"Excellent lie if I hadn't overheard your conversation before, anyhow I would never hurt Spyro and I agree with you about all that I have done seem a little bit too good. And if you want me to stop with it I wont argue but you guys will get more work if I do. I bet the food will taste good when Volteer have to do it right after the sex education, that is his only open spot in his scheme for what I know." Hypter said as he laughed and walked out of the room.

"Well, he does actually have a point with the food..."Cyril said after a while. "I'll go and get Volteer so that he can take a look at you, just stay here and rest for the moment." Cyril continued.

When Cyril came back with Volteer, Spyro had fallen asleep so they decided to let him sleep.