This is the second fanfic I ever wrote in my life - the last one I wrote before discovering that fanfiction was actually a thing. As such, I wrote it in a way that I intended to be translatable into a game, and I…don't really feel like rewriting the whole thing to undo that, so it is as it is. Being my second piece of writing ever, it's VERY rough around the edges - it lacks a lot of subtlety and finesse that I just can't figure out how to work into it for the most part. Basically, it's an extremely cheesy story, lots of drama and TONS of BS-for-convenience's-sake plot devices, as well as potentially nauseating amounts of Spynder. If anyone reading this has read my Thor fanfic, "Loki", and cringed at some points in the conversations between Loki and Darcy, you probably shouldn't read this.
In spite of all that, I feel like this is a story worth sharing, simply as a tribute to my love for the original series and my respect for the first reboot series's epicness. The canon for this story is all of the Playstation versions of the Spyro games where applicable - all except in the case of Shadow Legacy, which was only a Nintendo DS game. If you don't know one or the other of the stories, they will be told in this one sooner or later - people from one age need to learn about the story of the other, and vice versa. I also filled in ALL the plot holes, even the tiniest ones, and I even took the liberty of making use of some stuff that got lost in the first series's progression from the original Spyro the Dragon game - I give EVERYTHING an explanation and a conclusion. Be warned, this DOES lead to some rather drawn-out bits; still, I feel that they're a necessary part of the story.
Please appreciate this for what it is: A means of tying the first and second Spyro serieses together into one grand, epic story, and a conclusion to the tale of Spyro and Cynder. If you don't like it, I fully understand - this is FAR from my best work, and I take no offense. If even ONE person DOES happen to like it, then publishing this will have been worth it.
Thank you.