Escape into the forest, understanding the dragon culture, starting bond of the black dragons, captured by the cheetahs, proving to be an ally, and running towards the dragon city.

As the 5 heroes run towards the exit of the cave, they notice a dense forest at the end of the waterfall. It was also midnight. The dragons and dragonfly decided to glide downwards to the bottom while hunter jumps from rock to rock to get to the bottom. Ash lands at the side of the waterfall and notices an enemy with a mask. He encountered one of the elite enemies back in the catacombs and, by looking at the mask, found his weakness. He launches an ice shard and destroys the mask, then blasts him with a focus blast. After destroying the elite, he finds a chest come out of the ground. He opens it and finds a piece of armor, a platinum helmet. He puts it on and finds it was his size. He also found out about how the helmet actually affects him. It starts to glow and he was regenerating his health and mana. He is using his mana for powerful attack combos and counters against large groups of enemies. After the shock, he sets of to rejoin with his siblings.

After finding all their armor and upgrades for their magic and health, the 5 heroes meet up at a wall with a few vines. Ash's body glows green and all the vines begin to bunch up in a path for them to climb up on. Ash was the first, then Cynder, then Spyro, and finally, Hunter. After reaching up to the top and finding the remaining upgrades in the area, they set up camp near the cliff side. Spyro lights the fire, Cynder watches for remaining enemies, Hunter sends a message to Ignitus, Sparx flies up into the air to look for trouble, and Ash focuses his psychic abilities to scan for enemies while gathering food for them to eat. After 30 minutes, they were all looking at a volcano.

Ash heard Spyro say, "The Dark Master. He has returned, hasn't he?" Hunter replied, "Yes, he has. These are dark times." Back at camp, Ash asks, "Who is the dark master?" Cynder replies, "He is a dark creature that brings evil into these lands. He controls the army of monsters we are fighting now. I used to be under his control until Spyro saved me." Spyro continues, "He is also responsible enough to give us our dark forms. Filled with dark magic that we will lose our will and go on a destructive rampage." Ash shivers, "Damn. So why is that volcano erupting?" Hunter replies, "That was indicating his release. He was freed years ago. We are on our way to the dragon city to meet up with the dragon elders." Ash nods and looks at his siblings. Then he came up with an idea and said, "Spyro, Cynder. Come over here for a sec. I am going to see something about this 'dark magic'." As the two siblings moves over to see what Ash has in plan, he glows black and grabs the two, going into the recesses of their minds. With that, they faint.

In Spyro's mind, Ash notices a realm of black energy and walks over towards it. He also notices a dark Spyro standing in the middle. The dark version of his brother attacks, but Ash does a side roll and counters with dark pulse. The attack was super effective enough to destroy the dark spirit with one attack and Dark Spyro disappears from existence forever. After checking for trouble in his brother's mind, he moves towards his sister's mind. She was in the same condition. After finding her dark self, he charges in with pursuit and collides with Cynder's dark self. Dark Cynder disappears as well, leaving no trace of her or the remaining black magic behind, like Spyro. After doing another check, he leaves their minds, his job done.

When the three dragons wake up, they were at a cheetah village. Hunter says, "They came while you were knocked out. We were taken here and tied up because they think you are threats." Spyro says, "Ash. Get down their and talk some sense into them. Got it?" Ash nods and uses his ghost abilities to phase through. He finds the leader and uses his psychic abilities to grab him. All the other cheetahs came with their weapons drawn but Ash says, "Try to do so, and I will put him in a coma." They back down. Ash asks, "Why are we viewed as a threat, clan leader?" The clan leader spoke, "We have a distrust against dragons. When we saw you asleep we decided to have you restrained." Ash's anger flared as he says, "I am dangerous when I am mad and you are about to piss me off. Release the other two right now or I will launch a massive flamethrower right this instant." The other cheetahs released Sparx, Spyro, and Cynder, but Hunter still remains tied up. Ash knew that if he and the siblings find one of their missing people, he would be freed. Ash then notices the dark forces and was battle ready by putting the cheetah somewhere else and charges head first into the group. Spyro launches a lightning ray and zaps them into dust while Cynder launches fear-inducing screeches that paralyzed enemies in fear. Ash decided to end the battle and uses a roar of time, destroying their bodies into dust with the help of time. After the enemies are taken care of, the dragonfly and the dragons set off to find the lost clan member.

When they got to the exit of the village, Ash spoke, "We better look for supplies, upgrades, and armor pieces to use for later on, got it?" Both Spyro and Cynder nod and the three siblings spread out to look for upgrades and other supplies to use, and kill any enemy that stands in their path for extra experience. After searching the entire valley for 2 hours, along with battling an elite enemy standing in their way, they head over towards the base of the waterfall. Ash already checked the top so they head inside the mouth of the cave. Later, they went into a room with a bunch of enemies in the center. They were also guarding the lost member as a prisoner. Ash charges in with a substitute in front of him and takes the enemy by surprise. Spyro and Cynder comes up from behind and aids him in the fight. After taking care of the guards, the cheetah was free. After finding a leg wound and healing it, Ash finds out he is still not well enough to walk. He then decides to talk to the old hermit at the other waterfall and he and his siblings head there.

After finding the hermit and grabbing the key, along with finding another armor piece in the hermit's place, the three dragons heads towards a storage room with crystal orbs that are used to unlock things. Ash uses Bulk Up to increase his strength and grabs two of the crystals and moves along the river bank. Spyro and Cynder kept his back guarded as he flies towards the raft. After freeing the raft, he grabs it and launches two vines after changing his type to grass. Both Spyro and Cynder grabs the vines and begins to pull Ash upstream with him holding onto the raft, opening gates to clear the path upstream. After loading the clan member on board, they take him back to his clan. After that was done, Hunter was released and the five heroes heads towards the dragon city.

After stopping for the night in the cave towards the dragon city, Ash talks to Cynder, "Ever found a mate during your time here?" She shakes her head blushing, "No not really. Same with you?" He nods sheepishly, "Yes. I was so focused on my goals and helping out my friends for so long that I have no clue about it." She giggles, "Same with me. I was stuck serving the enemy for a long time and ever since Spyro rescued me, my emotions came back. I thought I was in love with him until we understood we were siblings. I am having the same problem with you due to your heroic deeds." He blushes and says, "Wow. Incest love with another sibling eh?" She blushes, "Yes." He nods, "I understand. Once we got time to find out what these feelings are, I will be with you." She smiles lovingly, "Thank you." And right before he expects it, she licks him on the cheek. And before something else would happen, thankfully the others were away at the time; Ash captures her lips for a kiss. She was shocked at first, but decided to go with it. She closes her eyes and moans deeply into the kiss. After a while, they break apart with a trail of saliva trailing from their maws. Ash realizes what he has done and blushes furiously, again thankful for his black scales, and says goodnight to Cynder before going to sleep. She looks at him and smiles. She gets right against Ash under his wing and falls asleep on his side. When the others got back, they were smirking at the sight. Spyro thought, 'No wonder that incest love is taking an affect on them. Better help them with their relationship. Dragons can do so, since I learned all that after saving her from the dark master.' He along with Sparx and Hunter falls asleep later on, waiting for the next day to arrive.

Back in Ash's world, Max took care of Ash's Pokémon like he has promised and has waited for 1 month for him to return, but to no avail. Max thought, 'He is really keeping his promise. I hope he is ok after all this trauma. I will continue to wait and take care of his Pokémon until he returns.' And falls asleep after training both sets of Pokémon within the night, dreaming of his future with seeing his mentor again.