TLoS: World at War Ch. 36

"Are you sure?" asked Takeo.  Zoidius nodded.  A little while ago, Dempsey and Nikolai had told Richtofen, Takeo and Sparx what they planned to do with the Dreadwing.  Richtofen stared at them in shock.  He was still trying to understand how this is the best course of action.  After some time, he realizes that Zoidius and Spyro would never be able to support all of their weight and accepted this turn of events, albeit reluctantly.  Sparx was adamant not to do it as the Dreadwings frightened him.

"You're all crazy! There is no way that I'm going to follow you guys on this thing!" Sparx exclaimed.  "What if something goes wrong? What if it gets hungry and decides to eat me? What are you going to do then huh? What are..."

"SHUT UP!!!" yelled the entire group.  Sparx was stunned.  Zoidius and Dempsey looked furious with him while Nikolai and Takeo looked annoyed.  Richtofen, Sparx's second best friend, Spyro was his first, even looked frustrated with him.  Sparx tried to find some words to speak, but Dempsey held his knife up, blade shining.

"Not another fucking word from you, do you understand?" threatened Dempsey.  "If you aren't quiet for at least ten miniutes then I will rip your wings off and force feed them to you!"  

Sparx gulped and nodded.  Richtofen was the next to speak.  "Herr Sparx, I understand this isn't the best idea, but understand this: Your constant shouting and complaining are not helping."

Zoidius shook his head and turned his attention to Dempsey.  "Well done", he chuckled.  "Someone finally shuts the firefly up.  At least for now."  Dempsey smiled and chuckled too.  Sparx was flushed, if a small amount of red that is barely visible on the dragonfly's face could be considered flushed, flew to Richtofen and rested sat on the doctor's shoulder.  

Nikolai was feeling less and less stable.  Sure, he had taken sips of his vodka bottle here and there, and three long droughts after Richtofen and Takeo came back, but it might have been too much.  His vision was getting blurry and the deck beneath his feet felt rickety.  Takeo was the only one to notice it and said, "Your disgusting poison will get you killed one day Nikolai."

Nikolai replied with a boisterous laugh.  "Maybe comrade.  But not today! Right now I feel *hic* alive *hic* and...and..." He stumbled to the Dreadwing and pointed at it.  "What is that big ugly horse?  It is stealing the potatoes."

Dempsey sighed and shook his head.  "You're wasted Russian."

Nikolai turned back and tried to focus on Dempsey, who looked blurry.  "Shut up...you...you...rat...*Hic*"

"Vhat do ve do now? Do ve try to find Spyro?" asked Richtofen, changing the topic.

"I can watch him through my mind crystal." replied Zoidius.  Suddenly, he thought of an idea.  He told this idea to the four humans.  Three of them nodded in approval, while Nikolai slurred his answer.  

"Okay, brace yourselves"  said Zoidius.  His idea was to unite his mind with the humans.  With his mind crystal, he would be able to see into the minds of many, as long as they weren't too powerful.  He united his mind with the humans, although he had some trouble with the drunk Russian.  Together, they searched the entire ship until they found Spyro's mind.  Zoidius could tell from the emotions being emitted that Spyro was in the middle of a battle.  Focusing, Zoidius was able to then see the events from Spyro's eyes, with his human friends able to watch as well.

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Spyro panted and crouched a little from exhaustion.  Skabb gave him a ferocious stare.  

"Sucka, you just don't know when to quit!  You're worse than a cockroach!" said Sniff, fluttering his wings in anger.  "It'll be fun when we kill you!"

Spyro growled back, "No you won't."

"Hush now, I'm trying to think of ways to mutilate you" said Scratch.  Skabb grunted.  "Ahh yes, I believe I found the perfect one!"  As if on cue, a chest on Skabb's back opened up and fired the mini cannon inside.  Spyro ducked and the cannonball overshot into the empty void behind him.  Skabb then charged at Spyro.  Spyro charged back.  When they both collided, Spyro was knocked to the ground and almost off of the platfrom, but pulled himself back up from the edge.  Skabb had stumbled a little, but was still on his feet.  However, the charge did cause a bag to rip open and release a bunch of red and green crystals.  The crystals floated into the air rushed to into Spyro.   Spyro no longer felt tired and his bruises and wounds healed.  

"Oh, that felt good." he said, smiling.  Skabb growled as he lost his treasure.  Spyro then unleased a Fury Attack of fire onto the platform.  Fire balls fell from the sky and a huge blast of heat had scorched Skabb.  Skabb stumbled back even more and fell off the edge.  The great Pirate leader was screaming as he fell into the void.  Scratch and Sniff however, survived and landed on the platform.

"That ain't nothin'! We don't need him to take out this punk! I pity the fool that messes with us! Time for a world of hurt!" shouted Sniff.  Spyro then walked up to Sniff and smacked him with his tail.  Sniff spun around a few times before collapsing, unconscious.  Scratch looked at Spyro, then opened his wings and started flapping.  Spyro watched as Scratch flew away into the sunset.  With his newfound energy, Spyro opened his wings and headed back to the prison ship.  After ten miniutes of flight, Spyro saw the balcony where the others were waiting.  Initially, he was surprised that there was Dreadwing sitting there, but it wasn't doing anything, so Spyro decided not to kill it, at least not yet.

"Spyro!" the group shouted.  As soon as he landed, they flocked him and voiced there relief to see him alive.  

"Well, it wasn't easy.  I had to..." he began.

"Kill Skabb? We saw." interrupted Zoidius.

Spyro looked at the plasma dragon, confused.  "How did you...?" Then he remembered Zoidius's mind crystal.  "Nevermind."

Dempsey was laughing.  "Oh boy! My favorite part is when you knocked the living shit out of the purple bird!"

"About time too.  I hated that guy." said Sparx.  

"You fight with such skill and prowess Spyro.  It is an honor to be working with you." said Takeo, bowing in respect.  

"It's nothing..." said Spyro modestly.  Takeo merely chuckled.  

"I vish you could have mutilated the body.  It would have been most amusing to see." commented Richtofen.

"Uhh...sorry.  Mutilation isn't really my style." said Spyro, nervously.  

"I understand.  I'll have to show you one day." said Richtofen, smiling.

This made Spyro even more uncomfortable and he turned to Nikolai, he had sobered a little, but was still pretty drunk.

"I was too drunk to see all of the good stuff comrade.  The giant sheep was certainly a demon needing putting down.  It was a good fight, yes?" slurred Nikolai.  

"Uhh, it was a pirate" corrected Spyro, laughing a little.  

Nikolai opened his mouth as to say, "oh", but instead laughed with him.