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Chapter 1

Birth of Spyro

It was morning and the purple egg was still resting on the mushroom cap moving slowly with the current of the Silver River. Eventually, the egg came to rest in a distant swamp where a race of Glowing Dragonflies lived. A blue male Glowing Dragonfly named Flash and his wife named Nina, a pink Glowing Dragonfly, found the egg on the mushroom cap floating on the water. They were all wondering what magnificent creature could possibly live inside. They did not have to wonder for long. The egg began to hatch. A baby male Purple Dragon broke the egg into pieces and began to cry. The sight of the baby Purple Dragon frightened the Glowing Dragonflies at first, but finally amazed and astonished them. They decided to adopt and raise him as one of their own. They named him Spyro and he grew up to be a young Dragon alongside Sparx, the young yellow Glowing Dragonfly who was born on the same day. In fact, the two of them were almost like brothers. And a more oddly-matched, yet compatible pair of brothers the world had never seen. As for Spyro, he, like all of us, accepted the world into which he was born believing he was one of the Glowing Dragonflies, a big purple one of them true but one of them nonetheless.


Spyro is somewhere in the swamp with patches of grass, green ponds, and mushrooms playing hide-and-seek with Sparx. He has purple scales, a yellow underbelly, yellow horns on his head, yellow fins aligned on his spine, and a yellow fin on the tip of his tail. He covers his face with his yellow wings while counting in front of a tree.

"…seven…eight…nine…ten," he counts and then turns around opening his purple eyes and looks around. "Ready or not, here I come!"

He searches for Sparx in the bushes, then the trees. When Spyro walks past another tree, Sparx sneaks up from behind. He glows bright yellow. He slaps Spyro with his three-fingered hand on the tail. Spyro yelps and turns around to see him.

"Hey," Spyro laughs.

"Never catch me this time, purple boy!" Sparx shouts triumphantly, flapping his dragonfly-like wings rapidly to get away.

Spyro chases after him through the swamp. He loses sight of him again when Sparx makes a zigzag move in the air and darts to the right. Spyro looks around the trees if he had hidden in one of them. He gazes at a spot on the branches. A shadow is shown behind the leaves, light shining around it. Spyro knows perfectly who that could be.

"I see you, my glowing friend," Spyro says playfully, narrowing his eyes at the glowing speck while smirking.

Sparx comes out of hiding arms crossed and says, "Seeing and catching are two different things, big boy." He flies away again.

"Yeah, you better run!" Spyro hollers chasing after his brother.

This time for sure, he believes, he will get him. But he thought wrong when Sparx flies through a ring of branches and ascends in the air until he stops ten feet high. He looks down at Spyro.

"What's the matter, little Spyro?" he calls playfully. "You can't fly? Ahh, that's right. You walk everywhere. Hmm, that's too bad."

Spyro chuckles, "You're toast when I catch you!"

Sparx resumes flying away and Spyro chases him. It is true the Purple Dragon walks everywhere in the swamp. For all his life, he has never flown. His wings do not move like the Glowing Dragonflies' wings do. The other young Glowing Dragonflies bully him for that and other stuff about not glowing. Spyro's parents told him he was born different and it was nothing to be ashamed of. They keep reminding him to be himself. Sparx was the only one to make fun of him in a gentle way like all brothers do.

Spyro finds Sparx again in a clearing with a big tree in the center. Sparx has his arms behind his head inhaling the air through his nose. "Aaah, must be tough to lose all the time, Sp-"

Suddenly, a plant-like creature, with a stem that seems like a fat body, four crab-like arms, and a wide mouth rises from the ground behind Sparx, cutting him off. These creatures are called Frogweeds and they live in swamps that catch insects with their tongues and eat them slowly. The Glowing Dragonflies stay alert at all times if any of them dares to pop out. Spyro, on the other claw, can take care of these foul creatures just fine with his trusted horns.

The Frogweed shoots a long tongue out and it strikes Sparx on the back. It yanks it back to its mouth swallowing him whole.

"Alright," Sparx hollers loud, his voice muffles inside the Frogweed's stomach, "let me outta here, you overgrown fungus! Spyro, seriously, lend me a hand, will ya, brother?"

"Gee, Sparx, I dunno," Spyro shrugs, smirking. "Frogweed's gotta eat, too."

"Spyro, whack it!" the yellow Glowing Dragonfly irritably yells at his brother. "Do something! I'm your buddy! My wings are getting moldy!"

"Okay, okay, just a minute."

Spyro trains his eyes on the Frogweed. He dashes forward with his horns lowered. He crashes into the creature's belly and walks backwards away from it. The Frogweed makes rumble and gurgling noise before spitting Sparx out. Sparx flies out and sticks to Spyro's chest. The Frogweed shrinks back down in the ground croaking uncomfortably. Sparx gradually peels off of Spyro's chest and falls to the ground covered in olive-green slime.

"Ugghhh," Sparx groans in front of Spyro, wiping his face. "Now I smell as bad as you do." He hovers in the air and chuckles, "Oooh, and that's pretty bad. See ya later, sucker!" He resumes flying away from his brother, the game still on.

"So much for gratitude," Spyro says to himself with a frown.

He resumes chasing him. He slides down a hill slope to help him go faster. Spyro finds Sparx again. The Glowing Dragonfly is hovering below a dark cave.

"Hey, that's cheating!" Spyro says irritating. "We're not allowed in there! It's forbidden."

"Ah, pffft," Sparx scoffs, "excuses, excuses. Catch up or give up, chunky."

Sparx flies inside the cave without hesitation.

"Sparx, come back here!" Spyro calls. He rolls his eyes with a groan, "oh, brother."

Spyro enters the forbidden cave to look for his brother before they both get into big trouble. Spyro has always been pedantic about rules but Sparx does not care about them and takes things too lightly. That frustrates the Purple Dragon sometimes.

Inside the cave, everywhere is dark. The sound of the wind echoes through it. Spyro walks slowly being very careful watching his every step for whatever could be in here. He glances around for any signs of glowing light from Sparx hoping to find him quickly.

"Where did that glowing bug go?" he wonders. He starts calling, "Sparx?"

There is no response from his best friend. He moves on searching until, he hears a scream of fright. That scream he knew came from Sparx.

"Sparx!" Spyro exclaims fearfully.

Spyro runs through the rest of the cave and to his relief, he is out of the cave into the open. A hill with a ledge stands in front of him. On the ledge, three menacing, hunch-back, sharp-tooth, monkey-like creatures look down at Spyro with their full black eyes. Their long faces are covered with white paint. Their noses are painted red, their mouths are painted blue, and on their cheeks are lines of yellow and blue colors. They have gray beards and sideburns, a ring of gray fur around the shoulders, green pimples on their olive-green skin, and long tails with gray fur at the tip. They are both wearing purple colored gauntlets and boots. The big one in the middle wears a purple colored helmet with a metal beak shielding his eyes. Sparx is in a small cage held by the big monkey creature. The big creature stares at Spyro in disbelief.

"I thought all youz guys was gone!" the big creature grunts.

"Excuse me?" Spyro asks bewildered.

"You miserable coward," Sparx yells at the big creature, while grasping the cage's bars. "Let me go!"

"Shut up," the big monkey-like creature yells, holding Sparx close to his drooling face. He glances back at the Purple Dragon and tells his comrades, "Let's get that little one too!"

The three of them jump off the ledge to land in front of Spyro. The big creature's comrades point the dreadful claw-shaped blades of their spears at him as they come closer to him. Spyro walks backwards, feeling frightened.

"Let me outta here and fight like a…thing…whatever you are, you pathetic wretch!" Sparx threatens the big monkey creature.

The big monkey creature growls in frustration and tells his comrades to stop for a moment. "I've had about enough of you," he shouts at Sparx. He throws the cage to the ground. "Allow me to squash you like a berry!"

The big creature takes out a mace with spikes from his back.

"No!" Spyro pleads him. "Don't hurt him!"

"Or what?" the creature growls, "you can't make me!"

He raises his mace over his head ready to strike Sparx. Spyro feels really angry at him for trying and do this.

"NO!" he screams.

Suddenly, a stream of fire comes out of his mouth as he screams. It hits the ground in front of the Apes and Sparx. The Apes screech in fright and back away from the fire.

"Whoa!" exclaims Sparx, "was that fire, dude?"

Spyro was too stunned to answer. He has no idea how that happened.

"I should've known better!" the big creature growls. He turns to his comrades who are trying to hide behind him from the fire while he put his mace back where he got it out from. "Let's get out of here!"

All of them run away from Spyro and out of the swamp hooting wildly leaving the imprisoned Sparx behind.

"Get me outta here, Spyro," Sparx shouts, pulling on the cage bars. "I think my wings are singed!"

Spyro removes the lock on the door and opens the cage. He is glad his brother is not hurt and can still fly.

"You okay?" he asks.

"'Okay'?" Sparx shouts in panic."You almost torched me, dude! That was very strange."

Without wasting more time, Spyro and Sparx run back through the cave to where their mother and father live. The Purple Dragon still could not believe he shot fire out of his mouth.

"What is happening to me?" he wonders in his head.