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Chapter 1: death

"I love you," a whisper, flowed out of her mouth.

Spyro was suspended in the air, eyes tightly shut in concentration. A blue wave of power came from him. Cynder took a staggered back from the power that was to save the world. The world started to spin in front of her as her vision blurred. She had neglected to leave when he had asked her to save herself and thus told him her true feelings. The air around them was uncomfortably hot and steam rose into the air. The whole earth shuddered and the ground began to shake. Magma started to rise up from below. As the earth reverted back to normal and Spyro gently came to rest on the ground, Cynder's vision blacked out.

Her head pounded. Lifting herself of the ground, she looked around. They were still in the center of the now fixed world. Spyro lay on the ground a few metres away, his chest rising and falling rhythmically. She crawled over to him. The heat was burning her scales and making her light headed. She pushed him with a paw. Spyro groaned and his eyes opened.

"We need to get out of here!" Cynder said frantically.

Spyro slowly got to his feet. There were a few updrafts leading to the rim of the volcano. Cynder bullied Spyro towards one as his tired mind tried to process everything. A rock, bigger than both the dragons, fell from the sky to strike the ground and shatter into rubble.

Spyro shook his head and looked at Cynder, "what's happening?"

"The earth," she said through gasps of breath, "it's fixed but now we're in it."

They reached the updraft. Spyro flew up first, his tired wings spread out. Cynder followed as lava started rising rapidly. Rocks rained from the sky.

They were a quarter way up when Spyro asked, "did you really mean it?"

"What?"

"Did you mean it when you said those three words, 'I love you'."

"Yes" Cynder replied, "I would go through all that we have so that I could spend more time with you."

A contented sigh came from Spyro and he flapped his wings a few times. They were halfway up. A rock, the size of one of their heads, fell down.

"Watch out!" Spyro called, dodging to the side as the stone just missed him.

Cynder rolled to the side, barely avoiding the rock. More dropped from the sky and Spyro called out, "there's so many rocks."

Suddenly, Spyro heard Cynder cry out from below. Looking down he saw Cynder spiraling down slowly, one wing outstretched the other hanging limply beside her. Spyro folded his wings over his back and dropped down to save her. As he neared, Cynder raised her tail so he might grab it. Spyro's claws clamped over her tail and stopped her fall. Spyro pulled desperately but to no avail. No matter how hard he tried, he didn't have the strength to pull him and Cynder up the volcano. They were just too heavy. Cynder came to the same conclusion as well.

"Drop me," she said, "save yourself."

Spyros heart missed a beat. Drop her? No he couldn't. That would be like dropping his heart.

"I won't drop you," Spyro replied through gritted teeth, "without you, I wouldn't want to live."

Cynder's eyes began to tear. Spyro grabbed hold of Cynder's foreleg and pulled her up to him, ceasing his effort to fly. The wind whizzed past them as the two plummeted back down. Magma bubbles beneath them. The two dragons stared at each other.

"I could never leave you Cynder," Spyro whispered to her, "I would rather die than lose you."

With a resigned look, Cynder replied, "and would not want to live in a world where you aren't in."

The couple dropped, Spyro's wings wrapped around her protectively. They had done well, they had saved the world and all their friends. As the dragons hit the magma, they remained silent. The pain so intense that they passed out. The chain around their necks appeared again. It had never been taken off after Malefor had put it back on. It melted away but the green magic binding them didn't fade.

As the green light faded into the lava, the hero's were no more.

I feel terrible killing Spyro and Cynder but I hope you can forgive me and continue reading this story.