Chapter 14: All's Well That Ends Well

Explaining Flame and Ember's disappearance from the village was an awkward conversation to put it nicely, but no harm was done so the village was pretty cool with it, I guess they were just glad we returned them home in one piece. The walk back home was a long one, but I didn't mind, it was nice to actually spend time with Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx without worrying about losing my body for a change.

They wanted to take us back to Warfang first, to let the Guardians know that everything had worked out just fine. Kevin was looking forward to rubbing it in Cyril's face. Because he was petty like that. Some things still didn't make sense to me, like how and why Blazor got into my brain. Or why he felt I was worth helping. But I wasn't complaining, without him I probably would have lost that fight pretty badly.

Kevin looked over to me. "It weird being a human again?" He asked me, noticing how difficult it was for me to keep my balance on two legs.

I turned to him. "Yeah, but I'll get used to it again." I said. I was just glad that I got to keep my soul and Malefor was trapped in a disk in the bottom of the ocean. Where hopefully, he wouldn't be able to bother anyone ever again. Knock on wood.

We soon arrived at Warfang. Of course everyone gave us weird looks like we had three heads, but at least I didn't have to worry about them jumping me anymore.

Later at The Temple...

"So, Zane was able to extract Malefor from his subconscious through sheer force of will? My, how very impressive, fascinating, incredible-" Volteer began, going off on his famous 'how many different words meaning the same thing can I shoot off before someone stops me?' thing.

And sure enough, someone did. "Dude... we get it." Kevin said rolling his eyes. Volteer stopping dead in his tracks. The guardians were quite impressed that a squishy human like me was able to match wills with The Dark Master himself. Especially Terrador, who thought for sure my spirit would break like a kit-kat if Malefor tried hard enough.

To be honest, I even amazed myself on how I was able to get out of that mess. Blazor only helped me realize I had been fueling him with my fear the whole time. The rest was all me, not bad for an 18 year old game store cashier. "So, how do Zane and Kevin plan on returning home?" Terrador asked Spyro.

"The Chronicler is taking care of that, we just need to get them to their home so he can put it back where it belongs." Spyro explained. He seemed kinda sad saying that, like he really didn't want us to go.

Terrador picked up on this almost instantly. "I see you've grown quite close to our human friends young dragon." Terrador commented.

Spyro looked up at me, then back ot Terrador. "Yeah, I have, but... I understand that their place is in their own world." Spyro said.

Terrador nodded in agreement. "Indeed, I'm sure that neither you nor they will be able to forget one another anytime soon." Terrador said with a slight smirk. Understatement of the century, this was an incident I'd never forget. How could I? I got to meet one of my favorite video game characters, AND almost lost my body to Malefor, this was something that'd stay with me for the rest of my life.

Later...

It didn't take too long to find our humorously misplaced apartment, the Chronicler was right there, waiting for us. "It took you five long enough." The Chronicler commented with a smile. Me and Kevin walked over to the front door of our apartment.

However I stopped, and knelt down in front of Spyro. "Thanks Spyro, for everything." I said. Spyro blushed, "It was nothing, just try to stay out of trouble okay?" He said. I nodded and patted him on the head. "You really were the hero I thought you were." I said to him before going to leave.

Spyro gave me a surprised look. But it gave way to a happy smile just as quickly. Me and Kevin waved goodbye to the three before we entered the building, and shut the door on this little adventure of ours. The second the door closed we felt the apartment rumble and shake just like it did when this whole thing began.

Once it stopped me and Kevin stood there for a moment before I chanced a peek out the window, and one look was all I needed to find out we were back home as I saw the street that was supposed to be outside it right were we had left it. "Well, that was surely something that happened." Kevin commented.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing, happy it was all over, sure it was great to meet Spyro the Dragon in the flesh, but I would definitely NOT miss Malefor, at all. I don't think I'll ever be able to touch Dawn of the Dragon again after this. Just seeing him would bring on a tinge in my stomach. "Hey, get dressed, I say we've earned a little trip to that Chinese place down the street, my treat." Kevin said going off to change, you know what? Chinese food sounded really good right now.

I went into my room, noticing my games were still on the floor from me showing them to Spyro when he was here. Truth be told my interest in Spyro had been waning before all this began, but now, now I'd think I'd appreciate the little purple dragon a lot more, I basically owed him my life now. "Hey hedgehog hair! Hurry up!" I heard Kevin call from outside my room. I shook my head as I changed out of Kevin's PJ pants and into my actual clothes.

I guess what I really learned during this whole mess was that I could always depend on friends to be there for me when I need them. If Kevin hadn't literally dragged me to Spyro I probably would have never gotten Malefor out of me. I guess I owed Kevin too come to think of it. He stuck through it with me to the end when most people would just cut their losses and ran. And I'd always appreciate that.

Malefor was wrong about humans and dragons, some were selfish jerks sure, but there were just as many who'd be there for you no matter what. I guess his true downfall was that he only saw the negative aspects of man and dragonkind. He never bothered to see the other side, and it cost him when he had no one to turn to in the end. But I did, I had a lot of people in my corner, friends to stick by me no matter how bad it got.

"Come on Zane, before I'm old and decrepit!" Kevin called out again, I shook my head with a small laugh, yeah, Kevin was one of a kind, that was for sure... I left the room, closing it with a soft click, better than I was before my adventure... and more grateful for all I had...

The End

A/N- And BOOM! Four in a row! I'm on FIRE! I have to be honest, I'm glad I changed my mind on giving this one up, yeah I still liked Remember Me more, but this wasn't too bad either. It may be a while before I start another story, through lack of ideas mostly. I do have a list of story concepts on my profile, if you're curious you can take a gander. Suggestions, while completely optional, would be quite appreciated.

Thanks for bothering to read through my weird story, I know it sounds really corny, but it really means a lot to me that there are people out there that find my work worth reading. Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this.

I should also thank my brother IIBiohazardousII for letting me use his OC Kevin Naton for this story.

Maybe next time I can actually make a story that breaks 14 chapters... knock on wood.

Until then kids, EXCELSIOR! *Hops in a Tardis and vanishes*