Prologue
The story of Spyro began in the Dragon Temple a long time ago. It was the Year of the Dragon, a time every twelve years when new dragon eggs are brought to the Dragon realm. But the dragons' prophecy also tells that once every ten generations, a rare purple dragon will be born, prophesized to direct fate and bring hope to the world. The dragons, however, are at war against the Dark Forces led by the Dark Master, who also knows of the prophecy. The Dragon Temple was then lay sieged by the forces of the Dark Master, who was intent on destroying all the dragon eggs and to prevent the purple dragon's birth.
Only Ignitus, the Guardian of Fire, escaped with the purple dragon's egg, and left it to drift down the Silver River into the Swamp, hoping for the best. The egg was soon discovered by a family of dragonflies. Upon hatching, the young purple dragon (which they named Spyro) was adopted into the family and raised as one of their own alongside Sparx, a young dragonfly who was born the same day. Many years after Spyro's birth, on one fateful day when Spyro and Sparx were playing hide n' seek, a group of Apes attacked the duo and Sparx was captured in the process.
Spyro disposes most of the group when Sparx gives the leader a sarcastic insult. The leader didn't take the insult very well and was about to kill Sparx. Spyro, furious, unconsciously used his Fire breath on the leader, who promptly retreated. Spyro dealt with the remaining Apes and freed Sparx from his "lantern" cage. But Spyro was shocked when he discovered that he can breathe fire. Upon returning to their home and telling them what happened, he then was told by his foster parents, Flash and Nina, that he was not a dragonfly at all, but a stranger from a distant, war-torn land.
Spyro decided to leave the Swamp in search of his true home. Sparx, though reluctant at first, decided to follow along. Spyro was pursued by hostile forces, but eventually came in contact with a distraught Ignitus, who although pleased that Spyro is alive, feared that with the Dragon Temple under occupation by the Apes, led by a large black dragoness named Cynder, their war was already lost. Spyro convinced Ignitus to lead him to the Temple, and was able to drive Cynder's forces out, after which Ignitus told Spyro more about their war against the Dark Armies, offered Spyro some training in the art of fire, and then sent Spyro off the rescue the three other Dragon Guardians from Cynder's forces. One by one, Spyro clashes with Cynder's armies, and rescues the Guardians. First, he flew to Dante's Freezer to find and saved Volteer, the Electric Guardian Dragon.
Then Ignitus sent Spyro to Tall Plains, home of the Attlawa tribe, to find and saved Cyril, the Ice Guardian Dragon. While along the way, Spyro discovered new powers he never had. He discovered the ability of breathing Electricity, Ice, and Earth. Soon Ignitus learned that Cynder is harnessing powers from the Guardians and storing them into crystals to unlock a portal that must never be opened. When Spyro asked of what was behind the portal, Ignitus told that it is nothing for him to be concerned about right now, then he sent Spyro to Munitions Forge to find Terrador, the Earth Guardian Dragon, on top of the volcano, Mt. Boyzitbig. When he saved Terrador and was about to leave with him, Cynder appears and attacks Spyro which Ignitus intervened and was captured in the progress. Spyro knew that it was his fault that Ignitus was captured because of his fear of Cynder, but Terrador said that there is no shame for all warriors feel fear in combat. Terrador gave him training for his Earth power and have him conquered his fear.
Then he sent Spyro to Cynder's lair where she prepares the final crystal to opened the portal to Convexity. Spyro fought his way to her lair and found Ignitus. He was about to destroy the crystal when Cynder appeared and they engaged in an epic combat. But Cynder managed to flee with the crystal. Spyro then knew something about Cynder that seems familiar. Ignitus then told him the truth: The Dark Master was intent in destroying the eggs—except one. He said that he and Cynder shared more than he knows. She originally came from the same brood of eggs as Spyro, meaning that they are siblings. Ignitus also said that only those born in the Year of the Dragon can opened a portal and free the Dark Master from his prison. But when she was taken, she was corrupted by the Dark Master's power and she was controlled by her new master. As the portal to Convexity opens, Spyro refused to give up and went into the portal after Cynder. When he found her, he finds that he was too late, that Cynder succeeded in inserting the final crystal. But even though he knows that he has been defeated, Spyro faces Cynder in a final combat, eventually using all of his power in a final attack at which Cynder was defeated.
As the Dark Master finally loses control of her, she transforms back into her true form, the Cynder that was the same size and age as Spyro. As the Convexity collapses in on itself, Sparx insists on making a quick exit, but Spyro declares that he will not leave Cynder behind. Though barely, Spyro was able to grab Cynder and escaped safely. Back at the Temple, the Guardians apologized to Cynder for failing to protect her during the night of the attack. Though victorious, the battle cost Spyro much of his strength and powers, and both Spyro and Cynder suspects that the Dark Master is still alive somewhere. The war is still not over.
Weeks later, Spyro was dreaming of the final battle against Cynder in Convexity, until he was woken up by Sparx. When Sparx noted that he can finally sleep due to Cynder leaving, Spyro follows after her. Spyro followed Cynder through the mushroom jungle surrounding the Dragon Temple and finally catching up to her. He asked her to stay (while trying to hide his feelings for her when he started to fall in love for her) and stating that no one blames her for what happened. Cynder left saying that she doesn't want to cause pain and suffering to anyone, especially Spyro. She wants to leave to find her own destiny. When Spyro was about to chase Cynder, he suddenly collapsed and found himself in a dream void.
A mysterious voice emitted in his dream and helped Spyro regain his fire element and showed him a vision of a great Spyro woke up, an Ape army attacked the Temple. Once Spyro repelled the attack, Ignitus tried to locate Cynder, but found a vision of Spyro by a base of a great tree. Spyro claimed that he kept seeing visions of a mountain draped in shadow and darkness, beneath the two moons. Terrador realized that is was the Mountain of Malefor. Spyro also claimed that a voice, that called himself the Chronicler, came to his dream and showed him that tree. The Guardians were shocked and Ignitus told Spyro that the Chronicler is an ancient dragon of immeasurable wisdom and was often interwoven with tales of doom.
The Guardians became increasingly worried about the Celestial Moons coming into an eclipse. Ignitus sent Volteer and Cyril to the other realms to learn what news they can get, and sent Terrador to the Shattered Vale to warn everyone living there about the darkness spreading in the mountain, while Ignitus stays behind to search for Cynder. Spyro had been assigned to go to the Ancient Grove to seek out the tree that he saw in his dream. While searching, he was summoned into a dream by the Chronicler again to regain his ice ability and showed Spyro a vision of a terrible king-like Ape, leading a huge army of Apes, going to the Mountain of Malefor, shouting "The Well of Souls!" which was another name for the mountain. After Spyro woke up, he eventually found the great tree, but it later turned to be a monster called Arborick and Spyro defeated it. Afterwards, a group of Pirates led by a captain named Skabb, appeared and wanted Arborick for "entertainment" in a fighting arena, but that changed when the Pirates wanted Spyro to "cooperate", so they knocked him unconscious. Spyro later awoke, finding himself in a cell on the ship of Fellmuth Arena. Battle after battle, Spyro had defeated many challenges that the Pirates threw at him.
Shortly after defeating his first opponent, the Blundertails, Spyro was summoned yet again by the Chronicler to regain his earth powers and told him more about the Well of Souls and the Night of Eternal Darkness, before telling Spyro to find him in the Celestial Caves of the White Isle. After that, Spyro received a message from another prisoner named Hunter of Avalar, saying that he had become Spyro's ally. Later on, Spyro was forced to fight Cynder in a final match, but she told him about her plan for escape, to "fake" the fight, but it was cut short when the Ape army attacked and captured Cynder. With Pirates on their ships in chaos, Spyro managed to defeat Skabb, and escaped. After he escaped from the Pirates, the Chronicler summoned Spyro in his dream again to regain the power of electricity and showed him a vision of Cynder in chains. When he arrived at the White Isle, Spyro overcame tough challenges of his elemental skills and he eventually found the Chronicler, who told him about Gaul, an Ape King who led the raid at the Temple at the night of Spyro's birth and stole Cynder's egg. Spyro insisted the Chronicler on what will happen to Cynder and learned more about her past and where she was taken.
The Chronicler told Spyro about Malefor (who was the Dark Master). According to him, Malefor was the first purple dragon to exist. His raw power allowed him to master practically every elemental power. When his growth failed to stop, he was exiled by the Dragon Elders, but after that, he built an army of Apes and taught them how to use the gems, the dragon's life-force. Malefor's sheer wage of his malice split the earth and created the Well of Souls, where the Apes have established, in effort to revive Malefor at the Night of Eternal Darkness. The Chronicler wanted Spyro to hide from the Apes until a later time, but Spyro insisted on going to Cynder's aid. When he got to the mountain and confronted Gaul, the Ape King zapped Spyro with his staff, rendering him weak and drained him of his elemental powers. He then ordered Cynder to attack the weakened Spyro. When she attacked Gaul instead and tried to take his staff, He knocked her out and challenged Spyro himself. During the fight, the lunar alignment came, and the evil energy it generated was channeled through Spyro, transforming him into Dark Spyro.
Possessed by Malefor's influence, Spyro used his immense power to turn the Ape King into stone and before ultimately killing Gaul, and then leaped back into the beam of evil energy. Cynder awoke and knocked Spyro out of the beam, freeing him from the beam's power and Malefor's influence and returning Spyro into his old self. When the lunar alignment passed, the mountain began crumbling around Spyro, Sparx, and Cynder. Spyro then used Time Fury power and used to create a time-crystal that he, Cynder, and Sparx were protected and encased in and frozen in time as it passes over the years. Three years later, the Time crystal shatters and Spyro and Cynder awoke and find themselves captured and in chains by the Gremlins about to be sacrificed to a Golum in the Catacombs under orders from Malefor. Spyro and Cynder saw that they were chained together by an invisible string generated by their attached collars that they couldn't take off. But they also saw that they have changed over the years (they are now teenagers) Then Spyro and Cynder were attacked by the massive Golum and couldn't fight while being tethered together until Hunter of Avalar appeared and shot an arrow to its eye and the Golum flees with its arm ripped off in the process. Hunter tells them that Malefor has returned and covered the land in shadow, having reclaimed the Dragon Temple and has been at war with the Realms ever since.
After hearing this, Spyro began to blame himself for failing to come back to the others sooner and letting the inhabitants down when Malefor returned, but was reassured by Cynder that some things are beyond his control. Suddenly, they are taken captive by Hunter's tribe, with Chief Prowless, the leader of the cheetahs, who doesn't trust dragons. After saving the village from the Grublin attack, Spyro and Cynder convince Prowless that they aren't evil by saving a villager named Meadow. Hunter then leads them through the Forbidden Passage to the Dragon City of Warfang which it was under seige by Malefor's forces and the Golum. They successfully repelled the attack, killing the Golum in the process. Afterwards, Spyro and Cynder were happily reunited with the Guardians after three long years. That night, Malefor gives the citizens of Warfang a message that he has awakened the Destroyer, a beast that renews the world by bringing about its destruction.
Before this can happen, it has to complete a circle around the world called the Ring of Annihilation which will make the Belt of Fire spread out over the world and burning everything that it crosses over. Once they reached the location where the Destroyer will end its journey, Cynder learns the only way to stall the Destroyer's progress is to destroy the dam to release water to flood the valley. It actually stalled it and Spyro and Cynder managed to make their way inside and destroyed the dark heart. But Malefor uses his dark magic to control the beast and had it activated the Circle.
The rest of the inhabitants headed underground while Ignitus escorts Spyro and Cynder through the Belt of Fire. But Ignitus sacrifices himself in order for Spyro and Cynder to get through. Spyro almost loses himself to the darkness he fell into three years ago and turns himself into Dark Spyro, but Cynder's words pulled him out, and she expresses her condolence by telling that he is not alone and nuzzled him lovingly (meaning that Cynder also developed romantic feelings for Spyro ever since he rescued her from the darkness).
As they traveled through realms, they finally confront Malefor who told Spyro that the destiny of the Purple Dragon is to destroy the world, not save it. But Spyro refused to believe him. Then Malefor tells Cynder that she tricked Spyro and lured him to the Well of Souls to free Malefor. She denies this at first, but gradually becomes more unsure. Malefor taps into the darkness inside Cynder, turning her against Spyro. She tries to kill him but Spyro doesn't strike her back. When Cynder furiously demanded to Spyro "Why won't you fight back?", he reveals to her that she has nothing left for him to fight for. Hearing this, Cynder breaks free from Malefor's control and tells him that there is always something. Enraged, Malefor attacks the two young dragons, but after a long battle he is defeated by Spyro and Cynder and dragged away by five Dragon Spirits at the core of the world. As the planet starts to break apart due to the Destroyer, Spyro then says to Cynder that she should leave him after Ignitus's spirit gives him hope, telling Cynder to flee while he stops the destruction.
But Cynder, who doesn't want to leave Spyro, decides to stay with him. As Spyro unleashes a powerful fury, she whispers "I love you" before Spyro's desperate endeavor recontructs the world. As Sparx, Hunter, and the Guardians resurfaced, they gazed at the stars as they form into a shape of a dragon. And Ignitus became the new Chronicler. Everyone thought Spyro and Cynder were killed in the event. But it turns out they weren't. They survived. Spyro and Cynder then showed their love for each other and started dating. They kept it a secret for almost a year and a few of their friends; Whirlwind, Flame, Ember, and Sparx found out. They promised Spyro and Cynder to keep it a secret until they told the Guardians themselves. Later, Spyro and Cynder told the Guardians and then they had their own wedding. They married each other and then they started to have their own eggs. A couple months later, during the Year of the Dragon, the eggs were stolen by a mysterious thief.
Spyro was in rage and ended up as Dark Spyro. Dark Spyro shot out convexity throughout the swamp causing destruction. Cynder managed to bring back Spyro but they lost their family by this mysterious thief. The dragons then decided to find the eggs and this mysterious thief and save Year of the Dragon. The dragons, along with Hunter and Sparx went through a portal to an unknown realm to find the eggs. They encountered Rhynocs when they reached the unknown realm. The dragons were outnumbered by the Rhynocs and then help came. A group of people with goat legs and pointy ears helped the dragons by defeating most of the Rhynocs.
They were then taken to their town and then they bowed to Spyro for defeating Malefor. The leader of the fawns introduced herself as "Elora" princess of the Forgotten Realm. After explaining everything, Elora helped the dragons reached part of the realm to find the stolen eggs. During the travel, the dragons encountered a giant, two headed eagle that nearly killed most of Elora's men. Spyro, Cynder, and Hunter managed to defeat the eagle that was created by the Sorceress. An evil spell caster that wields a golden wand with a blue, egg looking crystal on top. When the dragons made camp one night, Hunter encountered a woman of his kind. Her name was Bianca, secretly she is the mysterious thief who stole the eggs. She has magical powers that allow her to do spells. Hunter made her be part of the team and then Elora and Bianca had a reunion. The two friends then explained to the dragons, along with Hunter that they use to be friend's way back. The next day, the team went on and they encounterd a swamp. The swamp was filled with thick vines and also huge plants.
The huge plants began to hurt Elora's soldiers and the dragons couldn't defeat them. Spyro then used his Fire Fury to burn the plants and part of the swamp as well. When the group made it out of the swamp, Elora returned to her village and said her goodbyes to the group. The dragons and Hunter and Bianca, continued on. They reached a forest area and encountered a thief with one of the dragon eggs. The gang caught the thief and asked him where he found it. The thief couldn't remember where he got the egg but his boss does. Then the thief took the dragons along with Hunter and Bianca to the thief's hideout and they met their leader, Allah. Allah gave directions to the gang on where to find the Sorceresses castle in the Forgotten Realm. Spyro and the gang thanked Allah and then they left the Den of Thieves to find the Sorceresses castle. One night, Bianca received a call from the Sorceress herself. She sneakily walked away from camp and answered the call. The Sorceress asked Bianca on why it's taking so long to kill the dragons and Hunter.
Bianca just needed more time to end them but then the Sorceress gave her until dawn to kill her friends. Hunter heard the entire thing and then Bianca was shocked to hear it. Bianca apologizes for what she has done, but Hunter already forgives her. Back at camp, Spyro wasn't at the camp anymore and Bianca knows who got him. All the dragons, Hunter, and Bianca went into the woods to look for Spyro. The dragons split up and Hunter managed to find Bianca and Cynder. They were being attacked by Spyro, himself. Hunter managed to shoot down Spyro and then they saw him turning black and melting onto the grass.
Bianca then explains that the Sorceress has created Shadow duplicates of Spyro and Cynder. Back at camp, the dragons couldn't find the fake Cynder who stole Spyro. Cynder felt upset and then Bianca gave her a hug. Hunter promised Cynder they would look for Spyro first thing in the morning. At the Sorceress's castle, she put Spyro in a cage and was happy to have him. Spyro asked the Sorceress where the eggs were and she said that the eggs were right next to her throne. She explained to Spyro that when the dragons hatch, she will turn every one of them into powerful dragons to take over all the realms on earth. Spyro didn't like hearing that at all.
The next day, Cynder and the gang managed to find the Sorceress's castle which was being guarded by lots of Rhynocs. The dragons, along with Hunter and Bianca charged at the Rhynocs and managed to defeat them. The Sorceress looked through her magic mirror and saw the gang defeating all of her Rhynocs. She then went into her cage room and pulled out Spyro. She then used her golden staff and shot out dark energy out of the crystal egg.
Spyro was turning into a huge, dark, Purple dragon like Malefor. When the gang entered the Sorceress's throne room, they saw the Sorceress sitting on her throne. Then behind her throne, came out Spyro. The gang freaked out and then Spyro began attacking the gang with his element powers. The dragons took care of Spyro while Hunter and Bianca took care of the Sorceress. Hunter tried to kill the Sorceress but he was badly injured by the Sorceress. Then Bianca ended the Sorceress by using her magic to disintegrate her. Spyro went back to normal and apologized to the dragons.
They accepted Spyro's apology and then the gang retrieved the eggs and released the captive animals. The gang returned to Elora's village and all of the fawns cheered for Spyro and the gang's success. They then celebrated and thanked Spyro and his team for saving the Forgotten Realm. Then the gang returned home, back at the Dragon Realms. Bianca said her goodbyes to Elora and joined Hunter to go to her new home. Back at the Dragon Realms, the Guardian dragons were happy to see the eggs all better and not a single scratched. A couple days later, Spyro and Cynder's eggs began to hatch and they were happy since they're now a family. Spyro then made a promise to his kids that he would protect his children until his journey was over. And now a new story begins with Spyro, Cynder, and their children.