Author's Note: Here's the sequel to my first Spyro story, The Forgotten Realms, if you have read the first, then I suggest you read it before you read this story. Anyway, this story is almost based on the Eternal Night game, however, it will be different. If you hadn't played the game, this story will contain spoilers.

Disclaimer: I do not own Spyro and other characters from the Spyro the Dragon and the Legend of Spyro series. Also, this chapter's fight scene is based off the official trailer of the The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night game from Sierra.

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A week ago after the dragons won the War of Survival, the dragons were living in perfect harmony along with the elders of the temple. Spyro, the purple dragon of legend, used up his fire powers during the war and is now feeling weak after draining it for his friends' existence.

The day after the War of Survival, three dragons suddenly appeared in Artisans and approached the temple by flight. To Cosmos, Ignitus, and everyone's relief and suprise, the dragons revealed to be Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador; other survivors of the Dragon Temple. The young dragons started asking them questions about where they were and how they escaped. The three Elders responded that they have been in hiding after that dreadful day and awaited their chance to try and find any survivors. The young dragons began to take classes with the four Elders, including Cosmos, practicing their fighting skills, and taking flying lessons. It was like being in the Dragon Temple again for them all.

A few weeks later, two of the dragons, Rikki and Ruby, discovered a little creature near the temple; a yellow dragonfly. The dragonfly called himself Sparx and he says that he's been traveling to find a new place to find. Though the other dragons were a bit uneasy about the presence of a dragonfly, including Flame, but when they heard that Sparx was alone and couldn't find his family, Spyro felt sorry for him.

It was then the purple dragon did the unthinkable: adopting Sparx as his brother.

At first, the other dragons were shocked and confused about Spyro adopting Sparx as his brother, but soon, they accepted it.

Sparx felt happy and somewhat tearful when he heard this, saying that he always wanted a brother and a little sister. Spyro didn't know whether he was crying or...just happy.

Soon, the purple dragon and the yellow dragonfly began to form a bond as if they were really brothers. Ami was including the sibling trio, also forming a quick bond with Sparx as another older brother.

However, it started to become a little complicated when Sparx saw Cynder and somehow recognized her as the monster she was before while under the Dark Master's control. Spyro reassured him that she was good, but Sparx didn't trust Cynder much and even talked about her behind her back to Spyro.

Over the weeks, everything was quite ordinary. There were a few sightings of carnivores since the dragons won the war and it seemed like a bright future for the dragons until one fateful day...

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The Forgotten Realms: Night of Eternal Darkness

Chapter 1: The Vision

"You see, young dragons, rain plays a role in the hydrologic cycle in which moisture from the oceans evaporates, condenses into drops, falls from the sky, and eventually returns to the ocean with rivers and streams to repeat the cycle again. The water vapor from plant respiration also contributes to the moisture in the atmosphere..." Volteer spoke, as he continued his lesson to an audience of young dragons sitting down in front of him. Some of the dragons were struggling to stay awake for the lesson period, however, they slowly drooped into a nap while listening to Volteer's speedy lesson. Flame, Ember and Grayson were amongst the mist of dragon, trying to stay awake to avoid getting attention.

Flame's eyes started to droop as he continued to listen to Volteer's lesson. He yawned softly, then looked over to Ember and Grayson and moaned softly, "Does he ever stop talking? I can hardly understand a word he says."

"You know how Volteer gets." Ember giggled quietly, before she looked around for someone, then turned back to Flame and Grayson, "You guys seen Spyro, Ami, Sparx, and Cynder?"

Grayson replied softly, rolling his eyes, "I'm sure they're somewhere in the temple, away from this annoying chattering."

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"Come on, here it is!" Cynder announced, as she walked into an empty training room on the other side of the Artisan Temple which contained another statue of a proud dragon in the very center. She was followed closely by Spyro, Sparx, and Ami.

Sparx, moaned sarcastically and worriedly, "Wonderful! We get to spend the entire inside the creepy dragon room of doom." He sighed, flying high above the three dragons "Ugh, I need new friends..." The yellow dragonfly turned only to come face-to-face with the glowing eyes of the dragon statue as he yelled out in terror and flew away.

Spyro was gently nudging Ami towards the dragon statue, knowing how uneasy his little sister now about training to breathe fire in a room they never found before.

Ami muttered, "I don't know, you guys, maybe we should go back to the public training room."

The dragon statue spinned around and descended into the floor below before the floor closed it up above for the training, leaving a wide, circular room.

Cynder reassured, "Relax, Ami, it'll be fun. Besides you said you wanted to learn to breathe flame without any looking." A swirl of light appeared in the center of the room and a humanoid dummy appeared, "All you have to do is stand outside the circle and whatever you think of appears inside the circle." Cynder turned to Ami, "Try it."

Ami shook her head, still uncertain, "Uh uh."

Spyro urged, "Come on, Ami, all you have to do is take a deep breath and exhale." He took a deep breath and blew out smoke, but suddenly a stream of fire gushed out from his mouth. The purple dragon smiled, but still felt weak from his power.

Ami responded, "Okay, here it goes." The little Artisan leapt at the humanoid constructed dummy and paced in front of it for a moment, then tried to breathe out fire a few times, but instead puffs of smoke came out from her mouth.

Cynder reassured, "It's okay, keep trying."

Ami tried again, but she breathed out a long stream of smoke at the dummy and leaned back, panting to catch her breath.

"Nothing." Sparx said, buzzing beside Ami, smirking, "Heh, you called that a flame? I've seen better."

Spyro urged, "You can do it, Ami."

Giving a determination look, Ami breathed out puffs of smoke a few more times before a sudden blast of fire finally erupted from her mouth and scorched the humanoid dummy to nothingness. The little Artisan smiled happily as Sparx cheered a little beside her, "Wow! I did it!"

"See? All you needed was practice." Cynder replied, walking up to Ami.

Ami smirked, walking by Cynder to the other side of the training room, "Give me something a little more challenging."

"Yeah, Cynder, what are you thinking?" Sparx asked, floating beside the black dragoness, "Give the little artist some challenge."

Cynder laughed playfully, "Alright, try this one." She closed her eyes, but before the black dragoness could think of what she was going to use for the training, the swirling light activated on its own as a low, dark chuckle made itself known.

The light created a huge, bipedial figure, and to Cynder'a horror, a massive ape-like creature appeared in front of her, wielding two large swords and wearing heavy armor and a horned helmet. An emerald-stone glowed from the ape's head that served as its right eye.

Ami became terrified by the seemingly practice creature and whimpered, stepping back, "Uh, Cynder??"

"That's..." Cynder breathed in horror.

The armored ape growled evilly, raising his right sword over his head poising directly at Cynder, "Cynder..."

Seeing the incoming danger, Cynder quickly scurried away, but Spyro leapt in front the massive ape to prevent him for harming the black dragoness and stood beside Ami. The massive, armored ape turned his attention to Spyro and his little sister, raised his sword. The purple dragon quickly grabbed Ami by the scuff of her neck with his mouth as he leapt out of the way before the sword's blade pierced the ground where they last stood.

The ape pulled his sword out of the floor and turned to Cynder, taking one step towards her. The black dragoness trembled with fear as she stepped away from the massive ape.

"Cynder, end it the training!" Spyro shouted, jumping in front of Cynder and stood between her and the ape, "Make him go away!"

"I...I can't!" Cynder stuttered in fear.

Spyro tried blowing out fire at the massive ape, but a puff of smoke came out instead as his fire powers died down again. The purple dragon widened his eyes. "Oh no, not again!" He moaned, right before the ape knocked him aside with the blade of his sword, sending Spyro sprawling across the wall and into the wall, momentarily knocking him senseless.

"Cynder..." The massive ape growled again, he turned his attention back to Cynder as the black dragoness began to run away.

Sparx shouted desperately, "Spyro, do something!"

Spyro quickly snapped back to normal and rose up from his dazed state, seeing Cynder desperately trying to avoid the swiping blade of the ape's swords. However, as she ran, one of the ape's swords narrowly pierced the floor behind her, causing Cynder to stumble forward and painfully sprawl against the floor.

The purple dragon stood back to his paws and looked at the armored ape who was determined to harm Cynder, and at that moment, an unknown feeling flowed through him.

Cynder shook her head and looked over to Spyro, but in petrified horror, she looked up to the massive ape as he raised his sword high over his head, ready to kill the black dragoness. Before he could fulfill his deed, the massive ape looked back to see Spyro leap into the air, a faint light coated him as a mysterious power flowed through him.

The purple dragon suddenly lunged at the massive ape before he started lashing powerfully at the seemingly practice monster with his tail and horns. With a mighty thrust of Spyro horns against the monster's head, the massive ape vanished upon defeat leaving Spyro to fall back down to the floor, exhausted.

"Spyro..." Cynder said, walking over to the purple dragon, as Spyro stood back up and looked to the black dragoness, "H-How did you do that?"

Spyro arched one eyebrow to Cynder, "I've always known how to do it. Are you all right?"

"Yes, thanks to you." Cynder smiled, then turned away to look to Ami only to see the little Artisan trembling and shuddering on the other side of the training dojo after moving from a distance.

Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx quickly went over to Ami to see if she was all right. However, the little Artisan was shuddering violently, her eyes glazed over and her legs twitched. After a few seconds later, Ami shook her and held her head with her left paw, still trembling.

"Whoa, that was creepy." Sparx shuddered, buzzing beside Ami.

Spyro asked concerned, "Ami, was it a vision?"

"I don't know what it was." Ami replied, trembling a bit, "But...it had something to do with that huge ape. It's so evil..." She shuddered, almost terrified.

Cynder walked over to Ami and nuzzled her dearly, trying her best to calm her down.

Spyro looked away slightly and sighed, "I guess there's going to be more trouble coming..."

Wait, more trouble??" Sparx asked, flying in front of Spyro, "What do you mean by that?"

"It's a long story, Sparx." Spyro replied, "Ami's...sorta gifted."

The yellow dragonfly repeated, "Gifted? Oh! You mean...seeing the futuuurre." He waved his arms in a ghostly like fashion.

"Yeah, kinda like that." Spyro responded, "We have to tell Ignitus about this later. Whatever Ami's vision was, it seemed like a really bad one..." He looked over to Cynder still comforting Ami; the little Artisan was still trembling, her paws quivering and her wings nearly wrapped around her body.