With Malafor defeated and peace restored to the world, people could at last restore normality to their lives. As the city of Warfang developed and dragons started to move back to their ancestral homes, art and culture flourished and diversified. With the invention of high-capacity audio crystals, music could be marketed and sold more widely, leading to the invention of "popular music", or Pop for short. Music, video and text could all be stored and displayed through crystals.
Like others their age, Spyro and Cynder were caught up in the latest cultural trends made more available to them by new crystal inventions. Spyro had made a full psychological recovery from the battle with Malafor, and he was coming out of his shell more and more every day. Cynder was still troubled by her past, but like Spyro she had recovered. They both now lived in the second dragon temple in Warfang along with other dragons attending Dragon City High School.
Because the multiverse is a strange and wondrous thing, things from one universe can end up in another, especially when a large amount of energy is concentrated in one place in two universes. Such a thing occurred one day when in the temple, Volteer was attempting create a crystal with a higher storage capacity. His experiments required huge amounts of energy, enough to weaken the fabric of the multiverse. He fixed metal rods to several audio crystals submerged in a concentrated crystal-growing solution and ran a powerful electrical current through them.
In another universe, a famous singer was performing live in front of thousands of fans. The collective energy of the obsession, freedom, love, epilepsy and smoke machines was also enough to weaken the multiversal fabric in this location. The portal created was tiny, and was also not singular: hundreds of thousands of portals floated about in the air, with a collective size no bigger than a grain of sand. Hardly any physical matter could pass through them, but energy and information could.
At the same time in the dragon temple, Volteer's experimental crystals were pulsing with energy, as information from another universe was downloaded into them. With a loud, sudden "crack!" the energy flow stopped and the pulsing ended. When the crystals were removed from the solution, they had become disk-shaped and bluish in color. Volteer's experiment was unsuccessful; the storage capacity had not been increased. Disappointed, he threw the crystals into the library garbage bin.
The next day, Cynder was doing research in the magnificent library when she noticed a garbage bin stuffed with unusual looking crystals. She had removed about half of them when Spyro showed up.
"Now who would throw away crystals like this?" Cynder said confused.
"I don't know, but they don't look broken or anything"
"In fact, they still have some information stored on them. It looks like music"
"Well, I guess it wouldn't be wrong to keep them. The last person who had them didn't."
"I wanna ask the librarians about these, but you can keep as many as you want."
At the same time in another universe, dozens of people called Interscope records to complain about the CDs they bought at a Lady Gaga concert. All of them explained that the disks were blank.