Cynders Color Free Day 3

  "What’s taking them so long?" I groaned pacing around the training room. It was almost noon and neither Sparx nor Spyro had shown up yet. Did they forget?

  "Hey Cynder, sorry we’re late." Spyro said from behind me, making me jump. "I was experimenting on Sparx to see if I could remove the paint so we wouldn’t have to travel all the way to Warfang, but no go."

  "Yeah see." Sparx said holding out his left hand. It was still white.

  "Oh well, thanks for trying." I sighed. Can we go now?"

  "I thought you wanted to take a bath first." Spyro said.

  "I already did, actually I took three, and I’m still as white as ever." I sighed leaning against Spyro’s shoulder. "Which reminds me, I can’t believe you removed my cuffs in my sleep!" I growled glaring at Sparx.

  "I can’t believe you wear your cuffs in your sleep." He countered. "Besides I just wanted to do a thorough job."

"SPARX!" Spyro exclaimed. I looked up at his face and he looked shocked, but also like he was thinking something else.

  "What?" He asked a big smile on his face.

  "Can we please leave?" I asked. I really just wanted the paint off so I could be normal again.

  "Okay let’s go." Spyro said. "Oh and Sparx isn’t coming." I looked over at Sparx confused, I thought he’d jump at the chance to go anywhere with us.

  "Yeah you know the whole traveling thing was never my style." Sparx said. The words didn’t exactly sound true, but if he wanted to stay I wasn’t going to try to talk him out of it.

  "Well then see ya later Sparx." I said walking towards the temple exit. Spyro was walking right beside me.

  "I’ll see you two later. Sparx said. The tone he used seemed unsettling so I looked back. He was waving goodbye with his right hand, which from here looked yellow.

   Before I could get a better look Spyro dashed off ahead of me. "Come on Cynder!" He called as he ran out the doorway.

   "Wait for me!" I called after him. I ran out the doorway and bumped right into his chest. He wrapped his wings around me and kissed the top of my head.

  "I love you." He whispered pulling me as he walked under the shade of some trees.

  "I love you too." I whispered back. "But could you please let me go?"

  "In a minute." He mumbled still holding me tightly between his wings.

  "Okay Spyro, we really need to get moving if we want to get to Warfang by tomorrow afternoon." I said starting to feel a little awkward.

  "Okay, fine." He mumbled pulling his wings off me.

  "Now let’s get moving." I said stretching out my wings and flapping them. Suddenly a great weight was dropped on my back knocking me off my feet. I looked behind me to see Spyro on me back. "Ah, Spyro what are you doing?" I groaned trying to push him off me. It was no use he was to heavy for me to move.

  "Uh, um…" He stalled. "I-it’s just that I feel that should walk during the day as to conserve energy so we can fly at night. It’ll make it easier to see in the dark, and there’s less of a chance of us bumping into things that way."

  "Fine whatever, just get off me." I groaned. What he said didn’t really make sense, I just agreed to get him to get up; I was feeling really weird with his warm body pressed against mine. "Please I added when he showed no signs of moving.

   He sighed as he stood up and backed away from me. "You didn’t have to jump on me to say that." I mumbled shaking myself as I got to my feet.

  "Um… let’s take the forest route." Spyro suggested turning away from me, but not before I saw him blush. "It’ll get us to the Cheetah village faster than the path."

  "What, I thought that we were trying to avoid dark." I groaned. He was really starting to confuse me.

  "And I thought we were trying to get there as fast as possible." He countered smiling at me. Okay now he was just being plain annoying me.

  "Fine whatever, we’ll go through the forest." I grumbled walking past him and farther under the trees. "Let’s get moving before you try anything else."

  "Oh, come on Cynder don’t be like that." Spyro said walking up next to me. "It’s just the two of us for the next four days."

  "Yeah well I’m starting to think that might not be such a good idea." I sighed not looking at him.

   Spyro stopped walking when I said that. "Are you saying that you don’t want me to come?" he asked sounding hurt.

   I kept walking, and still didn’t look at him as I said. "We’ve barely left from the temple and your already acting really weird."

  "Okay Cynder, I’ll leave." That got me to turn around. He was already walking back towards the temple head hanging down, tail dragging in the dirt.

  "Wait, Spyro that’s not what I meant." I said running up beside him. He didn’t look up, so I stepped in front of him. That got him to look up, but not till after he bumped into me knocking me onto my back. I hated how he could so easily overpower me.

  "Oh Cynder, I’m sorry." Spyro apologized as I got to my feet.

  "I’m starting to think you like seeing me lying down more than standing up." I joked trying to lighten the mood.

  "Maybe just a little." Obviously it worked.

  "Look Spyro I didn’t mean I don’t want you coming with me, I just feel you need to calm down." I said flipping onto my feet.

  "What does that mean?" Spyro asked tilting his head.

  "I mean, you’ve been kind of creeping me out since we left." I explained.

  "Okay Cynder, no more weird." Spyro said with a sincere face. "I promise."

  "Alright than let’s get moving." I said giving him a slight shove.

   Suddenly he gave me this devious little smile. "So Cynder, you want to play tag do you." He growled teasingly flinging his wings out to grab me. I jumped out of his reach and ran deeper onto the forest to get away from him.

  "You’re to slow to catch me!" I called over my shoulder.

  "You wonna bet." He said running after me. Now this is the fun loving Spyro I wanted to bring with me. I just hope he stays.