Chapter 1

It was a warm summer night. It had been exactly 4 years since the death of Malifore and since the new world. In that time spyro had become a dragon teacher. He taught all the elements really. Whenever any of the guardians weren't there at the time; he would step in and substitute for them. But since the death of Ignituse, Flame stood up and took his place. And lastly everything was at peace. Cynder sighed as she twisted her tail with Spyros's and rested her head under his chin; she closed her eyes and hummed with happiness. Spyro smiled and licked the end of his mate's nose. Spyro draped his wing over her and went to say something when a flash of yellow light in the distant sky caught his attention. He narrowed his eyes and looked off in the distance but the shinning object was nowhere to be seen.

"What is it love?" Cynder asked as she moved her head and looked at him with curious eyes.

"I thought I saw something. But evidently it was nothing" spyro responded while shrugging his shoulders.

"What did it look like?" Cynder asked.

Spyro sighed then raised his eyebrow and thought for a moment then spoke "It almost looked exactly like a shooting star. But it had something in it… I don't know what though."

"A meteor maybe; we've been getting them a lot now a days." Cynder suggested.

"No" Spyro shook his head "no. it wasn't round at all. It had its own shape"

"What was it in the shape of?" Cynder asked.

"That's the thing. I don't know. It just looked like some black blob." Spyro said as he looked around in the night sky.

Cynder went to reply when a sudden crash-like sound came out of nowhere and the field was filled with an aurora of light.

"What was that?" Cynder asked looking in the direction of the sound.

"I don't know. And I'm curious at what that light came from. Common lets go and see what it is." Spyro stated as he flapped his bat like wings and flew up in the air.

"But what if it's something bad?" Cynder asked as she joined him in the sky.

"Then we shall do whatever it takes to destroy it so it causes no harm. We did too much to make sure that this world is at peace" spyro sternly stated.

"Agreed" was all that Cynder said as they flew off towards the crash. They continued to fly a few miles until the ground showed the damage of the crash. There was a long pathway like something was being dragged on the ground from impact.

Spyro landed by the small trench and placed his paw on the dirt and a quick bolt of electricity flickered and shot into his paw and exerted through his body. Spyro shivered and looked at the damage and began to see little electric bolts flicker among the dirt, than to his burnt paw. "Whatever made this was electric. Electricity is flowing through the earth. And it's powerful. When the electricity coursed through my veins… it shocked my nerve system and I couldn't move. But now; it's gone."

"What If it is a dragon?" Cynder questioned as she examined the damage. "It could be an electric dragon."

"Then he or she is very powerful" spyro sternly said. He turned and walked alongside the trail, with Cynder walking beside him and followed it until he came to the source as he looked at the object that created the damage and gasped.

"What is it?" Cynder asked as she looked at his face. When he didn't respond she looked in the direction that Spyro was looking in and too noticed the object and gasped and covered her mouth with her paw "it can't be. Where did it come from?"

"I don't know. But at least we now know that the thing that caused the damage is a dragon. And it doesn't look like it could be potential danger to us. Let's wake it up" spyro sternly said as she examined the dragon. It was a sun golden yellow with a lighter yellow undertone on the scales on its chest and belly. On the edge of each foot it had raven black razor claws. Its mouth was a curved shape that had a beak on the end of it. On the top of its head it had two raven black horns that curved backwards into a sharp point. And under them were another set of horns. They were raven black as well but curved upward to a sharp point. It had a row of black spikes that started on the top of her head and down its body to the tip of its tail. On the edge of its tail was a lightning bolt-ish shape bone like design. The skins on the wings were a light yellow and at the tip of each wing was a raven black claw that curved inward. The dragon was covered in little patched of dirt and little sparks of electricity flickered around its body.

"Is it a he or a she?" Cynder asked as she edged toward the dragon getting close.

"I don't know Cynder. All we know is that the thing that caused the damage was this dragon.

"Well maybe we can ask it when it wakes up. It seems to be waking up now" Cynder said as she looked at the dragon.

"What?" spyro questioned. Then he looked at the dragon and noticed that its eyes were starting to open.

Its eyes fully opened, its eyes were too a warm golden yellow color. Cynder got close to it and said in a cheery voice "Why hello there. My name is Cynder and this is my mate Spyro. What's your name?"

Its eyes widened and began to scream high pitch and a lightning bolt shot out of its mouth. Cynder's eyes widened and at the last minute she flapped her wings hard and shot up in the air to dodge the attack. She stayed in the air wide eyed and looked down at spyro. She went to say something to him it shot out another bolt of electricity. Cynder went to dodge it but wasn't fast enough. Spyro then shot a bolt of lightning and destroyed the bolt of lightning. Spyro ran up to the dragon and pressed his paw on its mouth keeping it closed and too the ground. He got close to it and said in a sort of harsh tone "calm down. If you do, I'll release your mouth and let you speak do you understand?" it nodded its head slowly "good" he removed his paw from its mouth and stepped back and Cynder flew down next to spyro. "Now; for starters, are you a boy or a girl?"

"Girl" she silently responded.

"What's your name?" he questioned.

She made a thoughtful face then shook her head than spoke "I don't remember"

"What do you mean you don't remember?" Cynder questioned.

"That's the thing. I don't remember anything. The only thing I remember is waking up to Cynder really close to my face and then I freaked out. And I remember my gender because obviously I'm a girl because spyro is a boy and I don't think he sounds this high pitched." She explained.

"Maybe we can take her to Volteer. He's an electric dragon as well" Cynder suggested,

"Who's Volteer?" she asked.

"One of the elemental guardians, there used to be four. But one of them died 4 years ago. Now there are 3. Even though there's a thing going on throughout dragon city in search of a new fire teacher. For now Flame is the teacher, until they find an elder dragon suitable for the job. But the three are Volteer, guardian of lightning; terrador, guardian of earth; and Cyril, the guardian of ice." Spyro explained.

"How did the fire teacher die?" she asked.

"Ignites." Spyro corrected than said "he died by giving up his life so we could get through the wall of fire."

"Why did you have to go through a wall of fire?" she asked as she tilted her head.

"To get to Malifore and destroy him before the destroyer went back into the volcano and destroyed the planet." Spyro explained.

"Who's Malifore? And what is a Destroyer?" she asked one after another.

"Wow you have a lot of questions….." spyro said as he raised his eyebrow.

"Well I don't remember anything. So I want to jog my memory" she stated.

"Well you can ask Volteer the questions since you keep asking so many of them" spyro stated.

"Where is Volteer anyways?" she asked as she slowly but surely got up and walked next to spyro and Cynder.

"Dragon city; with all the rest of the dragons, it's the safest place for us." Spyro replied.

"Where is it at?" she asked as she followed Cynder and Spyro and they walked towards the big hill.

"Just over these hills" Cynder said over her shoulder as her and Spyro walked next to each other with their tails twisted together. They walked for what seemed to be hours. Finally after they walked over the hill they reached a stone wall that was over twenty feet tall. To it there were a big set of ten foot tall brown wooden doors with weird drawings carved in the wood. Next to the doors were a twin set of dragon statues that sat tall with weird necklaces with ruins on them. Spyro lifted his paw and went to push on the door when the door began to open up.

In the door way stood two dragons that looked like her age. One was male. And the other was female. And fluttering between them was a yellow dragonfly. "Finally you come. I thought you two fell down a cliff or something went down….."

"We didn't mate sparx" Spyro narrowed his eyes at sparx.

"Hey. Hey. Never said you did" sparx said throwing his hands in the air then looking at him smirking. He turned his attention towards the third dragon with them and asked "who's this?"

"Just some dragon, we were sitting down and a flash of light came and something crashed and it ended up being her" spyro explained.

"Just some dragon; ha, make me feel left out and unimportant why don't you" she muttered; but a bit too loud. Causing spyro to look at her and narrow his eyes at her.

"Well it's not my fault I don't know your name." Spyro sneered.

"Well you could say 'her' or 'she' something more polite than 'just some dragon'" she growled.

"You don't have a name?" questioned the male dragon that stood next to sparx. He was about the same height as spyro but not purple. He was more of a dark red, with little orange ember markings all over his body. He had a set of orange horns that curved downward then had a bone like ring around it and the rest of the horn pointed upward. On the second set of horns were the same except both parts of the horn curved upward and same with the third set. On his shoulder blades were a set of three horns curving to the right. And the skins on his wings were an orange-yellow color and on the tip of each wing were jagged horns to make it look like there were three. The scales on his chest and his belly were a bright warm yellow. And he had a set of raven black claws on each foot and on each ankle he had a little horn. And on the edge of his tail were bone –like spikes that seemed to stick together and surrounded the edge of his tail. "My name is Blaze"

She nodded a hello "hello Blaze. Ide tell you my name but I can't seem to remember my name at all, or any of my past really."

"Don't remember eh?" Blaze said as he walked up to her and tilted his head towards her. "We could make up a name for you. Is that ok with you?"

She shrugged then replied "fine by me, as long as it's a good one."

The female dragon that still stood next to sparx snorted loud then Blaze rolled his eyes and said to her "don't mind Nira. She's not the best to get along with" he winked which caused her to blush a bit.

Nira body features were the same as hers. But her body was pitch black like Cynder's, but the scales on her chest and down her belly were a dark orange. She had yellow eyes with cat-like pupils. Instead of horns going from her head down her neck she had orange like hair that started in between her horns and ended at her shoulder blades. She had a set of horns that curved downward than back up. And the second set is the same but smaller. And the third set of horns curve downward. On each her shoulder blades and hind legs are diamond shape marks with little triangle marks next to them. On each foot she too has a set of razor black claws and on each ankle are little claws. The skin on her wings are a dark orange as well and on the tips of her wings were what look like two set of claws instead of horns, and on the edge of her tail are two large spikes that curve into a sharp C and same with the second set on her tail but shorter.

"Hmm. Ok before we figure out a name for you we need to know what element you are. Do you know what element you are" Blaze questioned.

"After I woke up Cynder scared the crap out of me—"she began to say.

"He only asked for your element not some stupid back story." Nira interrupted.

"Nira; hush, I only asked if she knew. Let the poor girl speak this is not the time for you to act this way." Blaze said towards Nira, without turning around to even look at her.

"Fine whatever" Nira said as she rolled her eyes and say down and curling her tail around her body, waiting impatiently.

"Now as you were saying." Blaze spoke.

"Well when they scared the crap out of me a bolt of lightning shot out at my mouth and at Cynder twice, so ide say that my element is electricity." She began saying again.

"Ok. Hm. What about Nila? That's a pretty name." Blaze suggested.

"Well it's not bad. I guess I can go with that name." Nila responded.

"Do you know around dragon city? I can show u around If u would like." Blaze suggested.

"But Blaze she needs to speak with Volteer. " Spyro calmly stated after being left out of the conversation for a while.

"Well Volteer isn't here. So we have loads of time. Volteer won't be back until sometime tonight." Blaze responded as he turned his attention to spyro.

"Why won't he be here?" Spyro questioned.

"Guardian duties; I asked him before he left and all he told me is that he had to go to some place he wouldn't mention. So I asked sparx if he knew where you are, to see if you would know where he had to go. But sparx said you two were on a date. So me and Nira followed him and then that's where we saw you here." Blaze explained.

"Whatever. I'm going to my room I need to think." Spyro stated as he flapped his wings and flew up in the air and flew forward,

"Wait for me spyro" Cynder called out as she flapped her wings and flew after him.

"Well now we have the whole day. I can show you all the best places of dragon city" Blaze excitedly stated.

"May I come with you?" Nira asked as she got up and walked towards them.

"No Nira; just me and Nila. Why don't you go back to your room, alright? We'll see you at dinner." Blaze calmly said to Nira.

"Fine" Nira quickly said as she forcefully flapped her wings and shot up in the air and flew off towards the right.

Blaze sighed than spoke "her sometimes."

"Is she your sister?" Nila asked as they began walking into the city.

"No, just a family friend; She gets jealous easily." Blaze stated while looking forward.

"This place looks nice" Nila said as she looked around at the place before her. There were towers that seemed to be over 20 feet tall and made out of brick. The place seemed to be full of huge buildings; it was like a large city made of stone. On many things there were dragons carved into them. Like the water spout by the little pond, and many different dragon statues that decorated most of the city. At some of the homes were balconies with velvet red drapes. Others only had regular windows.

"The moles created this place; in honor of the dragons." Blaze explained.

"In honor of what?" Nila asked.

"I don't know. Do you really think I pay that much attention in dragon history" he joked.

"Weeell, I thought you'd be at least some help. Some help you are" Nila joked.

"Weeell, excuse me. You're the one who wanted me as your guide missy." Blaze joked as he grinned.

"Technically I never asked you anything. I only went along with what you already suggested to me, and I was only asked questions" Nila said and she grinned playfully.

"Ah. Details, details, who needs them" Blaze carelessly said.

"Smart people" Nila teased.

"What if I don't want to be smart?" Blaze teased back.

"Then that sounds like a personal problem." Nila teased as she stuck his tongue out at him.

Blaze chuckled and looked around and spoke "these buildings serve as homes to all dragons. Even travelers; But many choose to stay here."

Nila looked around and noticed many different dragons all shapes and sizes, either sitting in their window, or walking next to them, or flying above. "There are so many." Nila looked around in wonder.

"Because there's a coronation coming in a few days" Blaze calmly said as he looked around and occasionally nodded his head in a hello way when elder dragons would say hello to them.

"What's a coronation?" Nila asked as they continued to walk along the streets of dragon city.

"It's like a dance; or a get together. Each dragon has a date and dance and eats and drink all night long." Blaze said while smiling.

"Well I guess I can't go then" Nila sadly stated.

"Of course you can." Blaze said as he raised his eyebrows.

"But I don't have a date. I'll be alone I won't have a date like anybody else." Nila states as she looked down at the ground as they continued to walk.

Blaze ran ahead of her and stopped her in her tracks almost causing her to run right into him. He looked her in the eyes with a stern look on his face and then he relaxed his face and said "you can still go. And you won't be alone. I don't have a date either."

"But aren't you going with Nira?" Nila asked as she tilted her head.

Blaze moved away from her and then he looked in front of him than looked at her and said "no. she has asked me. But I did not choose her. Some dragons find their mates here. And I do not like her to even ask her to be my date. She's like a sister to me."

"Oh. Then maybe I can go" Nila said as she tossed a rock back and forth on a marble path as they stood there.

"Look. You see that big building right there? That is our building. Since you have no family or home you stay with us. Young dragons without parents live there and are raised by the guardians." Blaze explained as he pointed at a huge building that had a few balconies and a big set of wooden doors with dragon carvings on the front.

"You don't have a family?" Nila asked.

"No. mine were murdered." Blaze explained as he stared at the large building as they began to walk towards it.

"I'm sorry. If it helps I don't have a clue if I even have any parents." Nila said in a sympathetic kind of tone.

Blaze chuckled "somewhat. It at least means that you are no longer alone. Common let's get inside. It's going to get dark soon." Blaze said as he placed his paw on the door and opened the door and held it open for her.

"Thank you." Nila said as she walked past him. The lightning bolt thing on the edge of her tail accidently lightly hit his ankle which caused him to tense a bit.

There was silence between them for a while, until they passed the kitchen which included a long table with red cloth and empty plates but nobody sitting in the chairs. "Hm. I guess we missed dinner. Are you hungry?" Blaze asked.

"No, I'm not, I'm just tired." Nila said tiredly.

"There's a spare room down the hall and to the left, and on the right. You choose." Blaze said as he began to stuff his face with raw meat on that was left over on the table. Nila rolled her eyes and walked down the wall in which Blaze told her were spare rooms. In the room on the left were both Spyro and Cynder lying next to each other on a red velvet pillow. Their room had shelves that were full of different types of books, of different shapes and colors. At the left of the shelf was a black chest with silver metal carvings and swirls around it. And on the far left of the room was a silver stone fireplace with a small flame flickering. The room on the right door was closed so she didn't know who was in that room. The room next to spyro's and Cynder's seemed the same. But this room did not have a lit fireplace or a black and silver chest. But instead there was a light red pillow empty and a small box next to it. She continued to walk down and saw that the rooms across from that one was empty. Like no one had lived there. There was a small bookshelf, but with not many books in it. Next to it was a small table with a red cloth on it with nothing on top of it. And there was a black pillow on top of a red velvet circle rug, and a non-lit fireplace. She shrugged her shoulders and walked into the empty room and lied down on the pillow and curled up in a ball. Draping her wing over her body and wrapping her tail around herself she closed her eyes and drifted off into a deep sleep. In her dream she was walking along a ground of ashes, piles of lava rock lied in piles as fire had taken over them. She walked along the ashy ground, stepping on spears every now and then. She then came to a cave opening on the right of the field. In the back ground all she could see was a pair of glowing yellow eyes. She stopped head in her heals and stared at the thing that sat in the shadows.

"Don't be afraid." The voice spoke.

"Who are you?" Nila questioned as her tail twitched nervously.

"You could always just call me your mother. But still to be technical. I am not your mother but creator." The voice said in a sadistic kind of tone.

"Creator? What do you mean?" Nila questioned.

"I created you; from a single yellow orb. My master whom many call Malifore helped me create you. He incased this orb with dark magic, so that when you were created this dark magic would course through your veins. And at any given time I could only say a few words and you could be at my command and bend you to my will" the voice replied as she cackled "like so" she than out stretched her claw and dragged it down to the ground. All of a sudden Nila felt as if she had no control over the bones in her body. For her body began to cripple down and slam against the ground. "Hahaha. I told you. You are under my complete control. No matter what you do I shall always control you. You are my puppet; at my command whenever I need." Than the voice cackled and her dream began to get fuzzy and she covered her eyes screaming bloody murder with sweat beating down her face.

"Nila! Nila! Nila! Wake up its Blaze wake up wake up!" Blaze yelled worriedly as she shook her by her shoulders violently.

Nila uncovered her eyes and looked up and saw Blaze right in front of her with his paws against her shoulders with a worried look on his face. She than sighed and rested her head under his and began repeating "thank you Blaze. Thank you."

He got up and scooted towards her and wrapped his wings around her and rested his head on top of hers, and whispered "Shhh. It's ok. No need to be scared. I'm here I'm here."

Nila flexed her claws clawing her pillow and tears streamed down her face and said between sobs "I'm scared. I'm scared Blaze."

"I'm here. What happened?" Blaze said with a concerned tone and he closed his eyes.

"I'm a tool. I was created, and some she-dragon said she can bend me to her will. And she flexed her claw and my body flattened to the ground. I felt like I couldn't control any bone in my body. She told me. That. That. Her and Malifore created an orb and put dark magic into the orb, then made me." Nila responded between sobs.

"Shhh. You're going to be ok its ok." Blaze replied as he wiped her tears with the side of his paw. He then put his paw under her chin and lifted her head so that he could look her in the eyes and said "it's going to be ok. You are not a tool. You are no weapon. You are Nila."

Nila smiled and went to go say something when in the doorway stood Spyro, Cynder, and Nira. Nira's eyes flashed to anger as she saw how Blaze and Nila were sitting. Cynder's eyes were wide in shock as well as sparx. It was spyro who spoke "what happened? Why was there screaming?"

"Nila had a nightmare about some she- dragon saying she was created by a special orb that was incased with dark magic that the she-dragon and malifore built many years ago. And that the she-dragon can control her and bend her to her will. And she controlled Nila's body" Blaze sternly said as he dropped his paw and rested it on Nila's still keeping his wings wrapped around her.

Spyro's eyes widened as he looked at Nila and then to Cynder whom as well was wide eyed. Nira glared at Blaze and in a harsh tone said to him "what are you doing with that thing!?"

Blaze's eyes flicked from calm to angry and he growled and said to her "what did you just call Nila?!"

"A thing. That's what she is isn't she. She clearly stated that she was created. So there you have it. She is a thing, a creation." Nira snarled.

"She is not a thing. She is a dragon just like us." Blaze growled as he stood up and stood in front of Nila as if he was protecting her incase Nira would attack.

"She was created. That she-dragon may as well use her as a tool, because that is how she was created. To become a tool of destruction, and she is evil, you clearly stated that she told you that the she-dragon and malifore incased the orb with dark magic! And yet you protect the very thing that might be ought to kill us!" Nira screamed.

"Everyone has their darkness. It's only a matter of willpower if that person decides to give into the darkness or go towards the light." Spoke a stranger from behind them all.

"Volteer you back." Spyro said as he looked up to Volteer.

"Yes indeed I am. I walked into here and heard an awful shriek and then I heard yelling and decided to come and see what was going on" Volteer stated.

"Nila had a nightmare. And she said that a she-dragon created her from a golden orb, with dark magic, and can control her" Spyro calmly stated.

"Let me see this Nila, ah hello there." Volteer said as he walked between Nira and spyro and into the room, as Blaze lied down behind Nila draping his wing over her. Volteer was as large as all the other adult dragons that roamed the city. He was a bright yellow and had dark blue scales on his chest and down to his lower stomach. He had a set of long blue horns that curved down then back up to a point. And under them he had webbed like blue skin that came out at the corner of his jaw. Under the blue horns he had two yellow spikes that fused together and from the top of his head down his neck and back to the design on the edge of his tail was the same blue skin type like thing, and on the back of each leg as well and on top of both of his shoulders as well. The outer rim of his wings were a dark blue as well and on the edge of each bone-like structure where the wing attached to the skin had a lightning bolt like feature. The skins on his wings were a golden yellow and had a light yellow tint to it to make it look like little lightning bolts. And each foot he had dark blue talons, and on the edge of his tail he had two large shaped blue spikes that were on either side of the tail. Behind those were little blue spikes that circled around the tail.

"Hello" Nila replied.

"So you are the one whom they told about. You look very familiar. You look like a dragoness I knew back then. But she left me, because she became corrupted by malifore's dark magic. She talked of making a golden yellow orb that Malifore had put dark magic into and they were saving it until they knew they needed too. I just didn't know that it would be now. It seems reasonable since Cynder and Spyro destroyed Malifore, maybe she created you to bring back Malifore." Volteer explained.

"But I don't want to raise him. I don't want to be evil. I want to be good." Nila replied.

"And you can young one. Just be careful of where you go. Never be alone, but, I don't think I have to worry about that, I believe Blaze can protect you well enough" Volteer stated.

Nira snorted and rolled her eyes than glared at Nila one last time and turned around and yelled over her shoulder as she walked out the room and to her room "I'm going back to bed."

"Wow." Was all that Cynder had said.

"Wow Volteer you're a lot less hyper than you usually are" Sparx out of nowhere stated.

"Simply because I am very tired, now I will retreat to my room and sleep" Volteer said as he slowly walked out of the room and down the hall.

"Well I'm going to bed. The sun hasn't even thought of coming up yet." Sparx yelled as he flew out of the room and back into Cynder and Spyro's room.

"We might as well go to bed as well" Spyro stated as he turned around and walked out of the room.

As Cynder stood there she looked at Nila and said "out of experience. Be careful. Don't fall for Malifore's ways. Stay strong."

"Thank you Cynder." Nila smiled as she responded to Cynder.

"You're welcome" Cynder replied and turned around and walked out of the room towards her bedroom.

"Don't you have to go to your bedroom?" Nila asked Blaze.

"I can. But I don't want too; I want to stay here so I can protect you and be here for you if what happened earlier happens again, if that is ok with you." Blaze replied as he began to lift his wing from her body.

"No you can stay. I was just making sure you wanted to as well. And thank you." Nila replied.

"For what?" Blaze asked as he draped his wing back over her body.

"For being there for me; for calming me down and for protecting me. No one has ever done that for me before. So I thank you" Nila replied as she turned her head and licked Blaze's cheek causing his face to blush bright red, Nila giggled and layed her head down on the pillow and closed her eyes.

Blaze layed his head down as well but behind hers and whispered to her "you're welcome. Goodnight." And they dozed off into dream land; with him lying with her willing to protect her at any cost.