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Chapter 7: The stories continues.

The morning slowly arrived; the sun was about to set and the thick fog cling in the air as a memory of the cold night that had been, everything was silent, almost to silent. When the first rays of sunlight pierced the fog, two voices echoed in the dragon temple.

"Spyroo, where are you?" Both Ember and Sparx yelled at the same time, wakening the temple from the silent slumber. "Ugh...why are you two making such noise in the morning?" Volteer asked when he met the two on his round. "We are looking for Spyro, we can't find him anywhere, oh and we can't find Cynder either." Ember said as she halted before the large, yellow guardian.

"That's not strange, they are with Hypter. What I know Spyro is with him because he doesn't want Hypter to be alone and Cynder did it to demonstrate against our decision to ban Hypter." Volteer said without thinking. "What! Have you banned Hypter? Why?" Ember outburst.

"Apparently he, like Cynder, has the shadow element and also another element that he can't control." Volteer answered.

"Well, I think it's nice both Hypter and Miss Terror is away from here but why did Spyro have to go with them?" Sparx said as he laid his arms across.

"Well, I don't like that Hypter is banned, so I'm going to stay with him too and I think Flame will join me. Besides I don't stand the so called food that you are cooking for dinner every day." Ember said. "Anyway, where is Hypter staying?" Ember asked Volteer.

"What I know he is staying near the mountain close to the pond, that is all I know." Volteer answered.

"Fine, well I believe Flame and I can find him ourselves." Ember said as she turned around to go back to her room. "Hmph...women." Both Sparx and Volteer sighed as Ember was out of sight.

"Flame, start to pack our bags, we are leaving." Ember said as she returned to her room.

"What, why?" Flame said as he stretched and yawned sleepily.

"Apparently the guardians have banned Hypter because of one of his elements." Ember answered.

"You mean he have more than one element?" Flame asked.

"Yes, apparently he have trouble with controlling one of them and that is why he is banned, what I know Spyro and Cynder shall be with him so I thought we could stay with him too." Ember replied.

"Where can they be when you are so sure that we can stay there too?" Flame asked as he took two bags up from their cupboard. "Apparently they are staying in a cave near the mountain." Ember replied. "Can't we at least wait until midday before going there? I mean, maybe they are not awake yet." Flame said and yawned sleepily.

"Well, I guess you have right my little dwaggy, so...do my little dwaggy wanna cuddle a little, hmm?" Ember said and giggled as she saw Flame's annoyed face expression.

"Ember you know I don't like it when you call me names." Flame said but he couldn't help to smile when Ember crept down in the bed beside him and cuddled with him, licking him two times on the cheek. "Oh, I'm sowwy, it wont happen again my little dwaggy." Ember said with her most childish voice. She knew Flame couldn't be mad at her when she used that tone.

Meanwhile in the cave...

Spyro began to wake up from his restless sleep, he yawned and stretched a little as he did every morning. But he soon noticed that he didn't feel so good. "Ah, I see you are finally awake." Hypter said with a smile, he was sitting beside Spyro's bed and had been all night.

"Finally? How long have I been sleeping?" Spyro asked a little concerned as he tried to get up but Hypter gently pushed him down. "That is a bad idea Spyro, and I think that you feel it too." Hypter said and he met little resistance from Spyro since he had a hang over. "It is midday, you are probably hungry but it's best to wait with the food for some hours. If you wait here I will fetch something to drink." Hypter said as he walked towards the door path.

"I think I can get that myself." Spyro said as he tried to get up from the bed but as he put his paws on the ground he felt his legs giving in and he fell. But there wasn't any pain, after a few seconds Spyro opened his eyes the he clenched shut as he prepared for the pain. "I told you to stay in the bed didn't I?" Hypter asked ironically as he had caught Spyro witha floating puddle of water. "Sorry, I didn't realise I had so little energy." Spyro said as the puddle of water lifted him up on the bed again and when he was just inches above the bed the water slowly ran away and down into the bowl Hypter had beside the bed to wet the towels. "It's ok Spyro but I have been awake all night long so I'm a little bit tired. So please try to listen to what I say." Hypter said as he once again left the room.

After a short while Hypter returned with a bowel of hot chocolate. "Drink it slowly, it's hot." Hypter said as Spyro sat up in the bed and took the bowl in his front paws. "Uhm...Hypter, it's cold, did you forget to keep the cold air away?" Spyro asked with a grin.

"Uh, maybe, here let me warm it for you." Hypter said as he concealed his right front paw with black flames. When the chocolate began to fume Hypter retracted his paw and sat down beside the bed in which Spyro laid. "So, you have been up the whole night but why?" Spyro asked, after he had sipped a little on the hot chocolate. "Well, yesterday you took the wrong bottle, and that resulted in you getting drunk." Hypter replied.

"What is 'drunk' and why have not been affected you and where is Cynder?" Spyro asked, taking another sip on the hot chocolate. "Well, getting drunk is when you drink to much of something that contains alcohol. Alcohol is something that affects your body, when you drink much of it or is unused to it. It often affects your talking, vision and body control. And the reason that I wasn't affected was because I did not drink anything and that is why I didn't notice it was the wrong bottle until you started to talk weird. And Cynder is in the dragon temple, she said she wanted to check how the discussion about me is progressing" Hypter answered. "It's nothing to worry about but your balance may not be so good and you can probably feel drained on energy but as long as you rest today you should be fine tomorrow."

Hypter continued, as he was about to leave the room he turned around and said. "Oh and you might feel a little nausea so if there is anything you want just call, and for ancestors sake don't try to walk." He turned around again, and was about to leave the room when Spyro called. "Hypter wait, could you maybe...stay in the room until Cynder is back?" Spyro asked.

"Well...I guess" Hypter said as he turned around once again, and walked to the carpet and sat down. "Do you have any suggestion on what we can do until Cynder returns?" Hypter asked.

"Hmm...well I bet you have some cool story to tell." Spyro answered with a grin.

"I guess I can tell you about when I came up with the mask I use." Hypter replied with a smile.

Outside it was a wonderful weather though it was a little bit cold, the sun was shining and the cold wind was rustling in the trees. Cynder didn't appreciate the cold wind so she hurried to get to the dragon temple. When she had come halfway to the dragon temple she sighted to figures that was coming against her, more she couldn't tell because she got the sun in her eyes. "Hey Cynder" Ember shouted and smiled as she saw Cynder coming towards her and Flame. Cynder recognised that voice and smiled a little to herself. "Hi Ember, Flame, what are you two doing out here with all that packing?" She asked.

"We heard about what happened with Hypter, so we decided to stay with him too." Ember replied. "Where exactly is that cave Volteer mentioned?" Ember asked Cynder while hovering in the air. "If you fly to the end of the pound and then straight forward to the mountain you should see and opening in the mountain, that's the cave entrance." Cynder answered. "Thanks Cynder, well we better get going then." Ember said as she began to fly forward against the pond with Flame close behind her, and Cynder continued towards the dragon temple.

When Flame and Ember arrived at the cave entrance they could hear that Spyro was laughing from inside, so they both entered to try and find the source. It didn't take long since Spyro and Hypter was in the first room to the right. When Ember and Flame walked closer to the room they heard that Hypter was in there too.

"Hiya Hypter, are you in there?" Ember asked as she and Flame closed to the first room.

"Ember, is that you?" Hypter asked as he was walking out of Spyro's room. "It is you Ember, and Flame too, what are you two doing here? And with all that package." Hypter asked while he was staring at them both.

"Volteer told me you was banned so I decided that I and Flame should come here and demonstrate against it." Ember said, almost sounding a little angry.

"Oh, well I guess I can't leave you two standing there, follow me and I will show you to your room." Hypter said as he started to walk down the corridor. "Here, this is good enough I hope." Hypter said as he gestured with his arm into the second room to the left.

"Here is a lack of daylight...but otherwise it's quite nice." Ember said as she and Flame walked into the room. "As you might have noticed there is no door, the thought was that those who lived here should use their powers to create doors but since you both are fire dragons you can ask me or Spyro to make a door for you. I will make it of ice so that you just can melt it when you want out." Hypter explained.

"That makes unnecessary much trouble but I think we can live with that, right Ember?" Flame said. "Well I guess we have to." Ember sighed, in reply.

"Well, then I will leave you so that you can unpack your things. You can take this room as your own, and you can come and go as you please, I will be in Spyro's room and continue my story. You two are welcome to join later if you want." Hypter said as he left Ember and Flame and walked to Spyro's room to continue his story. Flame and Ember decided not to join Hypter and Spyro since they was tired from the events of the day, so they just went out and found a place to relax on.

Meanwhile Cynder had arrived at the dragon temple. She was looking for Cyril since he was the best one to talk with, Volteer was to babbly to get a simple answer from and Terrador was to stubborn to say anything and Cynder knew this. She found Cyril in a herd of other dragons, it seemed like one of his lessons had ended.

"Cyril, can I talk with you?" Cynder asked when she managed to get close enough to Cyril.

"Sure, we can go into the classroom, there we can talk." Cyril replied as he turned around, making the other dragons around him move to the side, allowing the large dragon to turn around with ease even in the small corridor. "So, what was it you wanted to talk about?" Cyril asked when he and Cynder had gotten into the empty classroom. "I wanted to ask how the decision about whether or not Hypter can stay here." Cynder answered.

"Cynder, you know I can't discuss that with you." Cyril replied with a sigh.

"Oh come on Cyril, Spyro and I have helped you guardians so much, can't you oversee this, just this time?" Cynder asked.

"Ugh...I guess...it goes against the rules but what rules would there be if Spyro and you hadn't saved the world. Our decision is that Hypter can come back but it isn't confirmed yet, in two days time we shall make a final decision. So if you return then I can tell you more precise what you want to know. But know I must prepare for the next class, so I bid you farewell for now." Cyril said with a smile as he walked out from the classroom with a high tempo. And with the question more or less answered Cynder began to fly back to the cave as her thoughts returned to if Spyro was feeling better.

When Cynder returned to the cave it was late afternoon she could smell that Hypter was cooking. When she arrived at the living room everyone was already there, Spyro, Hypter, Flame and Ember, they were all sitting at the dinner table, except Hypter, he was standing near the other stone table he used for cook the dinner. "Hi Cynder." Spyro said and kissed her lightly as she sat down beside him. "Hi Spyro." She said and returned the kiss.

"You arrive just in time Cynder, the spareribs and the raw fried potatoes are just done. Come and take something to eat everyone and I'll go and fetch some elderberry juice to drink." Hypter said as he went into the left room and picked the elderberry juice bottle. Then he returned to the dinner table where everyone now was seated. "So, I hope you all will enjoy the dinner." Hypter said with a smile.

"Shall we talk about something while we eat?" Flame suggested since he was bored with the silence.

"Hypter, you didn't tell us when you found the crystal." Cynder said in complain since she enjoyed listening to Hypter's story about his life. "Ah yes, it was the day after you two had defeated the dark master." Hypter said and pointed on Spyro and Cynder. "I received orders to immediately go back to Warfang. On my way back I saw a small group with fiends carrying something, so I went to investigate. Somehow they discovered me and quickly surrounded me. Of course that was a big mistake since I was a general for a reason but they didn't know that of course. So, after I killed them I investigated the content of the box they where carrying. It was a black crystal in the box, so I decided to take it with me to Warfang, I was planning to show it to Ignitus since he was the one I trusted would destroy it immediately. But when I arrived at Warfang I found out that he was dead and decided to keep the crystal a secret."

Hypter paused as he noticed that Spyro felt upset about hearing Ignitus' name again. "Chin up Spyro, Ignitus isn't dead, he lives on, right here." Hypter said as he put his paw on Spyro's chest. "Thanks Hypter, and sorry for interrupting." Spyro said, as he felt a little better. "No problem Spyro, now where was I...oh right, I decided to keep the crystal a secret since I knew that Volteer wouldn't keep his paw of it if he knew and Terrador would probably try to use it as a training dummy or something which probably wouldn't have been so smart. After a week I decided to try to destroy it myself...the results wasn't promising. It almost seemed as I powered it with each attempt to destroy it...after a while it started to glow dark blue, as my scales and I decided I had to destroy it once and for all. So, in my foolhardiness I attacked it with all my power...luckily I was in a cave since the result of that attack resulted in the cave being almost completely covered in ice. If I had been outside I would probably had frozen an area as big as Warfang...if not bigger. Anyway, when my attack hit the crystal it was absorbed and the energy that my attack generated was reflected and hit me, the result was my colour change and that I got the ability to use the shadow element. It seemed like nothing could destroy the crystal, so I decided to be the guardian of it...and after some time of being exposed of the radiation, the complete control I had over my hypnosis ability faded." Hypter told the now four dragons that were sitting at the table in the middle of the living room.

"Hypter, when I was in your room and fetched the towels yesterday, I saw a drawing of two eggs. One seemed to be hatched and the other one was cracked open. Whose eggs where that?" Cynder asked. Hypter didn't answer, he didn't say anything at all, he just sat and stared down on the ground. Then everything turned ice cold and the torches extinguished. Hypter's eyes began to pulse with energy as ice crept from him and soon covered the entire floor in the dinner room. "Hypter stop it know, you are scaring me" Ember said as she hid herself behind Flame's back. "Hypter, you are scaring Ember, stop it now!" Flame said as he bared his teeth and growled lightly. "I...it's...the hatched egg is mine...the cracked one, is my brother's." Hypter answered after a long while.

Spyro, Cynder, Ember and Flame were all shocked at the answer. "Oh I'm so sorry Hypter, I didn't know." Was all Cynder could say. And after a minute Hypter calmed down and retracted the cold air to himself, much to the others relief. "It's fine, I just don't talk about it very often, he is dead and there is nothing more to it." Hypter said. "I am sorry for the way I acted, and I apologise if I frightened you Ember, it wasn't my intension." Hypter continued. "It's just that, I don't know anything about what happened, I just know what the tribe people told me; they found two eggs, my brother's and mine but that is just an assumption but it would fit in since it's frost dragon eggs. But enough with bad memories, I think I will go to bed early today, goodnight everyone." Hypter said as he walked into his room and sealed it with a massive wall of ice, completely solid, it almost looked like it would be impossible to melt if someone would try. "I actually think I will do like Hypter and go to bed early today." Ember said as she was standing up and started to walk towards her room. "And I'll join her." Flame said quickly and followed her.

"Well, it seems like it's only you and me left honey." Cynder said as she leaned close to Spyro. Spyro whispered so that Hypter shouldn't hear what he said, "I kind of feel sorry for Hypter, I see why he was considered cold in the war, he showed a side of him I never noticed before." Cynder whispered too when she replied "Yeah but who can blame him, he lost his brother and was orphan, then he found a family but was forced away because of his abilities and he was forced into war." When Cynder and Spyro was passing Flame's and Ember's bedroom Flame came and out from the room. "Uhm, Spyro could you maybe use your ice ability to put something in front of the opening?" Flame asked.

"Sure, go back in and I freeze the opening shut." Spyro answered with a smile. So Flame went inside again and so Spyro concentrated and began to freeze the opening shut. When he was done he walked into his and Cynder's room and did the same thing at their door. All dragons went to sleep, except Hypter; he had melted his big ice mirror he had on the wall in his room. When the ice was gone a small corridor was revealed, he stepped forward and then brought the ice up again. The corridor wasn't especially long and it ended in a small room, when Hypter entered the small room he lit a torch that was on the wall with his black fire, the dim light revealed a small library. In the middle was a big book resting on a pedestal, on the black cover was written in red My evil plan. He took a feather pen that was lying beside the book and dipped it carefully in the ink holder that also was on the pedestal. Then he checked for one of the sentences written in one of the pages, it stood: Trick the two foolish dragon couples to the cave. Then he let out a psychotic laugh, it died down to chuckles and after a half minute he stopped laughing completely. Then he closed the book and went to bed.