“Cynder! What did I tell you!”

 She had a cristal between her teeth when she heard his yelling. And when she recognized the voice, she ran faster.

 “I TOLD YOU TO NOT TOUCHING IT! COME HERE, LITTLE GIRL!”

 She arrived in a furnished room and tried to hide quickly.

 Then was a long long silence as her heart was beating faster. Her body was completely shaking, especialy her legs. And, because of this fear, she had an urge need to...

 “Boo!” said Gaul as his head suddenly appeared in her vision. “Here you are!”

 … pee... She had an urge need to pee. Had. Because, now, it was leaking.

 “Don't punish me, dad...” she said with her two years old voice, changed with the cristal she had in mouth.

 So he sighed and took that last one before holding Cynder by the neck.

 “It's alright. You're gonna have a bath and we'll talk about that.”

 Gaul gave the cristal to one of his minion and, by a gesture of the hand, ordered to clean the place and saying:

 “Prepare the bath.”

 “Yes, King.”

 The water was still warm when Gaul broke the silence that the two years old light grey dragoness was keeping, embarassed.

 “Listen, Cynder”, he began while continuing to brush her scales, “I told you for the cristal. You are not allowed to touch it because it's an important object, something that I am working with others on it since you were born. And we prepare it for you.”

 “Sorry dad...” she answered after a moment of silence. “But was curious... All shiny.”

 “Yes, I know. But if you destroy it by accident, you can put all of us in extreme dangers.”

 “Sorry...”

 “Don't be. You didn't damaged it. Just stop trying to take it again and it will be alright”, he said while kissing her forehead. “You won't be punished here. But, next time you do it... Understood?”

 She nodded.

 “Good girl. Now, don't move and close your eyes because I'm cleaning your head.”

 He closed the door after saying good night to her. She was sleeping in her room, a big room. They prepared it for the right time, which would be a very close future at that moment.

 Then, he came back to his throne because he was called : a traitor had to be juged. And he didn't have to wait for long as the main door opened wide, letting three Apes coming in: two guards and one prisonner between the two. His eyes were proud as he knew what was going to happen to him, facing his destiny.

 Gaul came closer, then, while talking:

 “So... my dear Treaf... It is true : you killed your superior just before the battle began.”

 “Yes. And if it was a thing to do again then I would do it!”

 “Maybe... But why?”

 “You don't know how he acted with his soldiers? It was a real tyranny! He was more dangerous than the Dragons!”

 “But this act made us loose this battle and multiple lives.”

 “They knew their job.”

 “Yes, lots of them knew their job. And you didn't let them do it properly. I am sorry to say that but...”

 He was now right in front of him. The prisonner looked at him in his eyes, standing still and proud.

 “... but you broke my heart by doing that. So let me bring justice to that and do the same.”

 Suddenly, the prisonner felt something weird... and cold. He looked at his chest to see that the blade of a dagger was planted into his heart. He rose his head to look at Gaul, who was doing his action with a terrible coldness, and he felt the taste of blood on his tongue.

 Then, the total drakness went.

 Gaul sighed as he steped right next to the dead body and got out of the room.

 “Throw him into the traitors hole and give my excuses to his family.”

 “Yes Sir!”

 He entered a room, this time really dark. And at the middle of it was an altar on which was floating a lightened purple cristal. He closed the door and went close to it.

 He stood still during one minute before hearing a familiar voice right behind him.

 “You know the cristal is ready, Gaul.”

 A tear appeared on his cheek as he sadly sighed and answered:

 “Yes. I know...”

 “So why don't you use it now?”

 “It's because...”

 “Because?”

 “It's because I love her and I don't want her to get hurt.”

 “Gaul... Gaul... Gaul... You are disapointing me. Is this how your miserable race will die? Because you didn't want to give a dragoness the best gift I could do for her?”

 “Is this what you call a gift, Malefor?! You will control her as a vulgar puppet!”

 “No. I will let her live and make her better, powerful. This is the present I give her. And you can have it too. All you have to do is using this cristal.”

 He turned back to see a black hole covered in purple with, in the middle, two yellow snaky terrifying eyes.

 “But, Master...”

 A dark purple beam suddenly came from the hole and hit Gaul, which pushed him on the ground!

 “Don't force me to kill you, Gaul. Even if I'm stucked into this dimensional prison, I still have some of my powers. And it's enough to murder you in terrible pains! I need her and you need me to survive, you and your entire race, you and even that small child you called Cynder. So use the cristal and the Apes will live on, will survive! Use the cristal and the Apes will win the war against the Dragons! You want this war to have an end, don't you?”

 “Yes... I do...”

 “So use my present on her and on you! And quick! I am rather impatient those last times...”

 “Yes, Master...”

 He kneeled before the Malefor's presence and the hole suddenly disapeared.

 A moment of silence went before Gaul turn back into the cristal and sigh, contractary thoughts in his mind.

 Then he grabed it and got out of the room before going where Cynder was to accomplish a job that he had but didn't want to do.