A/N: Welcome to the first chapter of (Eclipse of Darkness) there will be some facts about this universe at the end of the chapter.


It had been a week since Spyro sacrificed himself to save the world. Inferno and Cynder where looking for some books to read in the library. "Hey you find anything that sounds good Cynder?" asked Inferno as he turned his head to find that Cynder had a large pile of books. "All of these." Cynder said. "Wow." Inferno said as Volteer walked in. "What are you two doing in here?" Volteer asked. "We are only looking for some books to read while we are here in Warfang." Inferno said, barely able to hide his anger. "Volteer what is with you and darkness dragons?" Cyril asked as he walked in. "Their element is darkness so they must be evil." Volteer said angrily. "Not all darkness dragons are evil and there are even some tainted darkness dragons that are good." Cyril said, he had been defending darkness dragons since he became a guardian. "Well since you two are just wanting some books and Volteer isn't treating you the way he should, Volteer will be the one to pay for those books." Cyril said. "I don't take orders from you." Volteer said. "But you take them from me and Cyril is right." Terrador said as he walked in. "Fine." Volteer said angrily.

A few minutes later, Cynder and Inferno where siting in their room when Ember and Flame ran in. "What is it Ember and Flame?" asked Inferno, he and Cynder had had trouble finding good friends, but Ember and Flame had asked them to be friends and so they accepted. "Its... Sparx." Ember said as she panted. "Oh no not again." Cynder said as they all ran to Sparx' room, since Spyro's sacrifice Sparx had been attempting suicide. Inferno didn't stop to knock on the door as he just rammed it open. "Oh no." Inferno said as he stared at Sparx's lifeless body, a large needle sticking out of his heart. "He finally succeeded." Ember said. "What is going on her- Oh no." Terrador said as he ran into the room and saw Sparx dead. "This is a sad day for us." Cyril said as he also walked in. "Yea, but I think that the best thing we could do is give him a proper funeral." Inferno said, he had just started to like Sparx a bit. "Wow the darkness dragons actually have a heart." Volteer said. Inferno wasn't taking anymore taunting from Volteer, and quickly attacked Volteer. "Inferno stop." Cynder said. Inferno stopped as he needed to keep Cynder happy or at least distracted. "We will have the funeral tomorrow." Terrador said.

The next day everyone was present for the funeral. Inferno and Cynder cautiously stepped up to the podium to speak, fearing that every dragon there would nearly kill them. "While neither of us really ever liked Sparx, he did help us through our adventures and always was able to provide some relief from the tense battles that we had gone through." Inferno and Cynder said, alternating between each other every now and then. The rest of the funeral wasn't very interesting as not many knew Sparx. After the funeral, Inferno and Cynder where walking down a dark alleyway, to avoid the crowds, when a healing dragon attacked them. "You will pay for what you did." the dragon said angrily. "We already have paid, the only dragon our age that had ever even remotely considered us friends, until Ember and Flame, died only a week ago and yet you attack us still." Inferno said. "I don't care, you two where born from evil and fought for it. Now you have the nerve to show your selves in public." the dragon said. "Leave them alone." Ember said as she and Flame landed. Ember started focusing, drawing on the power that she was born with for combat. The world around her changed to a black void with a motionless form of the dragon that she was about to attack in front of her. Ember clawed and bit the dragon for only a few seconds before releasing the energy she had built up. A pink ball with what appeared to be scars formed in Ember's maw as she fired it with deadly accuracy. When the orb hit the healing dragon, all the scars that she had given him in her mind became reality, as a healing dragoness Ember was born with a secondary ability that allowed her to do harm to a dragon from any range with the cost of most of her elemental energy.

"You're not the only healing dragon." the dragon said as he healed his wounds. "I think it's time to show off my power." Flame said as he breathed white flames that radiated with spiritual energy. The flames made contact and burned the dragon badly. "Fool." the dragon said as he used his healing energy to heal the burn, but he still felt the burn. "Sorry, but I'm no ordinary fire dragon, I'm the soulfire dragon." Flames said, A soulfire dragon was rare, but there fire energy was deadly and burned not only the physical form of their victims, but also their victim's soul. "Only spirit gems can heal that burn." Inferno said. The dragon ran off. "Thanks again for saving us." Cynder said, it wasn't the first time they had been saved by Flame and Ember. "That's what friends are for." Ember said. "Yea and we'll always be here to help." Flame said. "Ok, but tomorrow I think that we will talk to the guardians about either moving into the old temple or finding a better home so that we no longer have to worry about getting killed." Inferno said. "Fine by us and if you do then we'll come to." Ember said.

That night Ember and Flame walked into Inferno and Cynder's room to find them starring out the window. "What is it?" asked Ember. "The eclipse is drawing near." Inferno and Cynder said happily. "What eclipse?" asked Flame. "Follow us to the balcony." Cynder said. Ember and Flame followed them to the balcony and saw that the moons seemed a lot closer than they should. "The Eclipse of Darkness is drawing near." Inferno said. "What is that?" asked Ember. "The eclipse of darkness begins when the celestial moons eclipse each other, but also eclipse the sun. It is an eclipse feared by all dragons except darkness dragons. When the eclipse begins all darkness dragons are temporarily infused with the lunar energy of the moons, allowing the darkness dragons to fight with greater power. All darkness dragons hope to one day see the eclipse." Cynder said. "So you two will be able to do so." Ember said. "Yes we will and we can't wait." Inferno and Cynder said in unison.


A/N: I hope that you enjoy the story.

AU facts.

1) This AU is not related in any way to TLoI

2) Spyro dies trying to save the world

3) Flame is a very rare kind of fire dragon (Soulfire dragon)

4) Ember is a healing dragoness

5) All healing dragons are born with another power that is to help them battle (Harming for Ember)

6) Ember and Flame's parents are dead.