Chapter 22- The Choker
"What's all of this?" asked Spyro once he was up to them.
"We're seeing what fits Cynder!" responded Ember in an uplifted tone.
Cynder stood still, looking at all the things hanging on her, shining brightly, varying from gold, to ruby gems. All of this excited her slightly, rings, necklaces, bracelets, a joy of treasures. Sparx quickly noticed that Spyro had found Cynder and flew to them "Jeez, thanks for telling me you found her," said Sparx sarcastically.
Spyro first looked at Cynder, and them at the stuff in the merchants table. "We were looking for you guys. We thought we lost you," said Spyro as he searched deeply through the table.
"Well, you told us we could look around," said Ember "So we did!"
"We didn't know you guys were going to enter a crazy market," said Sparx
"Why do you care?" said Cynder
"Man, when I try to be nice, you flick me off," said Sparx
Ember ignored Sparx's and Cynder's argument and walked up to Spyro "Hey Spyro," she said "What do you think looks good on your girl?"
Spyro turned and then took a look deeply. Spyro truly did not care if Cynder wore anything or not, he loved her the way she was, but he guesses there was no purpose in telling that to Ember. He looked and really saw nothing good; he turned back to the merchant's table and searched for an object that caught his attention when investigating before. He then found it. In the pile, in between a silver chain and a sword sheath, laid a chocker with an onyx gem. This beautiful choker was black, engraved with fluent designs, all leading to the onyx gem. The onyx gem, black their for matching the chocker, had a beautiful symmetrical figure, despite it being a dark color, it shined like the sun reflecting off a still lake. It reminded Spyro of Cynder in an inanimate object, the design on the choker, beautiful yet dark and riddling expresses Cynder's mind, her way of being, flowing in its questioning twists and turns leading to the gem. The gem, perfect in every way represented Cynder's soul, Mysterious for its shining darkness, but beautiful above all things.
Spyro smiled and grabbed it. He then turned to ember and presented her to it "I think this would look great on her," said Spyro
Ember put her paws on it and looked. She saw its greatness as well, she walked to Cynder's side and looked at it right next to her neck "Onyx, matches her… It looks great!" she said.
Cynder then took off all of the other jewelry and put the chocker on, looking at it from a dusty mirror; she also saw its beauty. "Wow," said amazed "It looks beautiful,"
"Here, I'll pay for it," said Ember
Ember then took the attention of the merchant off another couple buyers to herself.
"Excuse me?" said Ember
The merchant, a green dragon wearing a farmers hat, turned and looked at the group "Yes miss?" he asked
"Hey, we wanted to buy a choker, the one my friend is wearing," said Ember
The merchant then took a deeper look at the group, especially at Spyro. He quickly, after noticing his color, recognized him "Wait… you're Spyro!" he said excitingly
This made Spyro jolt, he never knew he had fame, he always saw himself as normal "well yes I am," said Spyro
A crowd began surrounding them, the largeness of it made them feel uncomfortable. "We have heard so much about you, without you, we wouldn't be here!" he said "It's an honor to be at your presence,"
"Yeah, thanks… I guess," said Spyro "Could we buy this chocker?"
The merchant looked at Cynder and then smiled "Oh, a gift for your lad friend," he said while raising his eye brows "It's completely free, a gift from me,"
They all looked at him with surprise, Spyro never thought his work would get him free stuff "Well thank you," said Spyro
"The pleasure was mine, farewell to you, brave hero," said the merchant
Spyro and the group left the merchant and went to a food court like area, and then they all sat, still baffled from the event "That was odd," said Cynder
"Yeah, I never knew I had a fame," said Spyro filled with pride
"Yeah, wired," said Sparx
Cynder then held her chocker once more and went to embrace Spyro "Thanks for the gift Spyro," she said.