Copyright: I do not own Spyro or anything Spyro related. It is all owned by Sierra Entertainment and Activision. I do own my original characters in the story.
"What? Why not, Cynder?"
"It's because…"
She was caught off by a dragon that landed next to her. He had light green scales and a light blue underbelly. Spyro saw that the dragon was about the same age as him. His body type was the same as Spyro, except that he was a bit less muscular. Spyro saw that the dragon was built for speed, and not for strength like himself. He had three horns that curved towards the back of his head much like Cynder's. The outer edges of his wings were light green, while the membrane was light blue. The tip of his tail was in the shape of a sharp axe. He stepped over towards Cynder and kissed her on the lips, breaking Spyro's heart in the process.
"Um, Spyro this is Seth. Seth this is Spyro my friend that I've told you about." She said.
"Hello Spyro, I've heard a lot about you from Cynder." He said, smiling at him.
"Um… hello Seth it's nice to meet you." He said, trying to hide his sadness.
"Could you give us a moment Seth, I'll be with you in a moment." She said, kissing the dragon on the lips.
"Sure," he said, opening his wings. "I guess I'll see you later Spyro. It was really nice meeting you." He said, taking off.
"I see that you've found someone." Spyro said, avoiding eye contact with Cynder.
"Yes," she said.
"So you couldn't wait for me? I told you Cynder that when I got back we could finally start our lives together. We would leave this place, and it was just going to be me and you. Why did you move on?"
"Because I lost hope Spyro!" She screamed out. "I waited and waited and waited for you. My life was slipping before me just because of some dragon that never expressed to me how he felt. I knew that you loved me, but I needed more I wanted you to tell me that. I was depressed for a whole year. I didn't know how much longer I could go on, that is until the Guardian's gave me a certain wind dragon to train. That dragon was Seth, we spend so much time together. I would teach him about wind while he would keep me company. When I had finished teaching him everything that I knew, I thought that he would stop hanging out with be, but to my surprise he never stopped. Eventually I told him what I had done under Malefor's control. And you know what he told me Spyro." She said, with tears rolling down her eyes.
"No," he said, fighting back tears.
She cleared the tears from her eyes. "He told me that he knew all of that already. He didn't care what I had done. He just wanted to spend time with me. After that he told me that he loved me, and I told him that I loved him back. Now you see Spyro that at the moment there is no way that we can be together."
"I see," he said, dropping his head in disappointment. "I'm happy for you Cynder. Even though I wish that it was me. At least one of us got what they wanted."
"Hey Spyro and Cynder," Flame said from above. "The Guardians want to see us." He said, flying off towards the Guardians' room.
"Let's go Cynder," Spyro said, opening his wings to take flight, but stopped when he saw that Cynder was not doing the same. "What is it?"
"You go on ahead Spyro. I'll catch up to you."
Spyro did as she told him; he guessed that at the moment she wanted to be apart from him. Even though it hurt him to see her with another dragon he still wanted to be her friend. He hoped that she could at least give him her friendship. Spyro made his way into the temple, and up towards the Guardians' room. Upon entering their room he saw that Flame, Ember, and Blair had already arrived. He also saw that Ignitus, Terrador, Cyril, and Volteer were standing in front of a vision pool.
"Welcome back Spyro," Terrador said.
"It sure is nice seeing you again after all this time." Cyril added.
"I bet that you were surprised to find out that the dragon who was going to train you was Ignitus." Volteer said.
"It's nice seeing all of you again, and yea it was."
"Alright now that Spyro is here we just need those two to arrive." Terrador said.
Spyro made his way over towards Flame and sat down next to him. He wondered who the last two dragons that they were waiting for could be. As if on cue Cynder and Seth entered the room. The two took a seat next to Blair. Cynder looked at the elder dragon in front of her. At first she did not recognize him, but after a while she realized that it was Ignitus.
"Ignitus, you're alive!" She shouted out.
"Yes, Cynder I am. I became chronicler after Malefor had been dealt with." Ignitus responded.
"I guess now would be a good enough time as any to get started." Terrador said, stepping forth. "This dragon next to me used to be the former fire guardian. He has since become the Chronicler. As of this moment you will no longer take orders from me, but from him."
"There is no need to put it like that Terrador. You make it sound like we are part of an army. Hello young dragons, I am Ignitus." He said, presenting himself to them. "I would like all of you to tell me your names so that we can get to know each other better. Spyro and Cynder since I already know you two there is no need for you two to tell me your names."
"Flame,"
"Ember,"
"Blair,"
"Seth,"
"It's nice meeting all of you." He said, smiling at them. "Now I am sure all of you want to know why you have been called. As you can see currently there are three guardians, and even though I used to be one I am not going to be one again. We cannot have students teaching each other about fire. Even though they may be quiet adept at the element they lack the most important thing. Experience, experience is something that none of the students have. This is why I am giving the six of you the task of bringing to me this dragon." He said, pointing at the pool.
The six young dragons stared into the pool. It began to form the image of an orange scaled dragon.
"Who is he?" Spyro asked.
"He is the dragon, whom we believe fits the position of fire guardian the best out of all the current fire dragons." Terrador Replied. "His name is, Coal."
"We have already made contact with this dragon, and he has agreed to accept the position of Guardian. But in order for him to do so we must escort him out of his current location. You see he currently resides in the fire dragon city, located south from here. As you know no city is without its fair share of problems. It appears that there are dragons in this city who believe that they should have been the new fire guardian. Because of this they have made attempts at his life. Even though Coal is a skillful fighter we believe that it is best that we send the seven of you to help him get there. The seven of you will go to the city, meet up with Coal, and then escort him here."
"What will our potential enemies be like?" Flame questioned.
"From the information that our spy has sent us it appears that there are only four real threats. The problem is that they are not working together. This makes it difficult because they can all decide to attack at once, or wait until an opportunity arises." Terrador said.
"Now the reason that we are sending the six of you is because this has the potential to turn into a difficult mission. We have been told that there are four dragons after Cole, but not how strong they are. We believe that since they are aiming at his life that they must be highly skilled. The six of you are currently ranked as masters. These dragons might be ranked on the same level as the six of you. But there is one thing that you can take comfort in, and that is that we believe that none of them are. This is because they failed the test that our spy set up for each of them." Cyril said.
"Wait you said that the six of us are masters?" Spyro asked.
"Yes, that is correct." Cyril replied.
"How is Seth a master? From what I heard from Cynder, he finished his training less than a year ago. I don't believe that it would be enough time for him to develop his skills to that level."
"I can explain that." Seth said, standing up. "I went through the same facing your fears test that all of you went through, and it seems that I finished at the so called perfect time. Not too early, but not too late. After that I began my training to become a master. I actually became one about a month ago."
"On top of that he has helped all of us out a lot." Cynder added.
"Yes, I agree," Volteer said. "Most of the stuff that you used to take care of Spyro, Seth is now doing. He has done a fantastic job with your tasks Spyro."
"Alright then I guess that he does have the qualities of a master." Spyro said, wanting to rid himself of the negative emotions that he held towards the wind dragon.
"Alright now I will explain each of your tasks. Spyro will be the leader since out of the six of you; he is the one with the most experience in these things. Ember from what I have heard you have the ability to heal dragons. You will be the medic, and because of this you above everybody else must be cautious. Seth your responsibility will be to get rid of the obstacles that the team might encounter. By this I mean defeating enemies that you might deem to powerful for the others to defeat. The rest of you will do whatever Spyro tells you to do. Now before you head out, I must tell you that at some point our spy will join you in bringing Coal here. May the Ancestors be with all of you."
The six dragons flew out of the temple, and flew towards the south.
(A/N): It has been over a month since I last updated. I took the time off to map out the story for myself, until I reached a point where I had an idea of where the plot was going. I will once again try to update weekly every Friday.