//------------------------------// // Cynder's Fear // Story: Skylanders Fusionators 3: The Island of Huttsgalor // by Flameboy //------------------------------// Cynder was still in bed within the Magic room. Reason being is that she felt more comfortable with Spyro, Spike, Ember, and Twilight. But, she wasn't sleeping that good, for she was struggling as she was having a nightmare regarding her past, including an evil dragon. "Cynnnnderrrrr," the voice of Malefor rang inside her sleep that it caused her to wake up in tears. Luckily, Spyro was there to keep watch while Sparx was at the arena. Forsooth, the power of sleep has taken ahold of him too until Cynder's cry woke him up. Spyro looked at Cynder as she looked straight up in front of her. Then, he watched her squint her eyes and close them as she lowered her head down and started bawling. He draped his left wing on her back as he brought her in for a comforting hug. He let her cry into his left shoulder as he placed his head on top of her's. Good thing Dragon Scales are indestructible, or Spyro would probably have a sore neck from her silver horns. As soon as she let out her final tears, she started to pull her head back. "Thank you, Spyro," Cynder said with her voice cracked as she wiped her eyes with her left paw. She started with her left eye, of course. "Same dream, huh?" Spyro asked. "You know very darn well that it was no dream. Dreams are to help you sleep and help you wake up strong. This... "dream"... was, and still is, a nightmare. A nightmare that I can't escape. Especially, if that means I have to tell the others about my past. A past that they wouldn't like," Cynder explained. "Cynder, the Skylanders are like our family now. They should be able to understand your pain. Remember that Spike mentioned that he was mind controlled by King Sombra? And after that, Twilight said that he didn't need forgiveness for something that he was forced to do. I think that should work the same way for you-," "But what if it doesn't? What if they learn the dark truth about my past? What if they realize that I was once a bloodthirsty, murderous monster?" She said as she looked up at Spyro. "You... are not a murderer, Cynder. Not even a monster," Spyro said to his girlfriend. "That's because I never told you that Malefor made me killed hundreds of innocent lives!" She shouted and caused her boyfriend to wince a little. "See?! That's the reaction that I know will happen if I told everyone about my past, especially soon-to-be Skylander, Shiny. I don't want everyone to think of me as a monster when I already know that I-," she started to tear up and continued until Spyro used his left paw to bring her head to his chest. More preferably, his heart. "Don't finish that sentence. You are not a monster. If you want, I can continue to keep it a secret, OK?" Spyro asked. "Thank you, Spyro," Cynder said as she started to nuzzle on his chest. Then, they heard Master Eon's voice. "Dragon Skylanders, Unite!" After that, the two looked at each other and then jumped off the bed and ran out of the room and started flying in the hallways. Smaug was sleeping in a giant cave beside the Fire Dorm on the right side of the dorm until he woke up when he heard Master Eon's call. Then, he started walking which was soon followed up with running and then twirled his body as he jumped high into the sky, then fall for a little bit until he pulled out his wings from his sides as he starts flying to where he was needed. Garble stood in the barracks congratulating Patrick for a good battle until he heard Eon calling "all" Dragons. Garble then went to get his little brother from the arena as he saw him fighting SpongeBob... and lost to a mean left boxing hook in his adult dragon form in slow motion with the sponge in his Superhero Form, The Invincibubble. Spike knew that if he wasn't distracted by Eon's voice, then he would've had the upper hand. But, after the battle was over, and SpongeBob and Spike shook hands, the two brothers flew to heed the call from where Eon's location was. Sparx decided to follow the two brothers as well since he's part dargon. Ember and the other dragons of Dragonia started to fly high into the sky as well as they followed Garble, Spike, and Sparx. The four humans/animagi Jonathan Claw, Michael Bakar, Saivon Rey, and Luke Reese, were training Shiny in the ways of the Tribal Werewolf until all five of them used their wereanimal senses to hear Master Eon calling them. The Tribal Werewolf Pirates turned into their bat-like dragon forms, and Shiny just switched back into her Pteranodon form as she received a special message for her only as the four dragons left without her. She picked up her leafy designed purse that Rarity made for her and pressed a button on her golden bostaff and made it shrink to the size of a regular, small wooden stick, and placed it inside her purse as she flew off to where Eon wanted to see her. Shiny, however, managed to get there first due to her small size and speed. She saw Master Eon standing there, and landed in front of him, where he started to whisper into Shiny's left ear. Then, he told her to get behind him and wait until the other Dragon Class Skylanders came.