"I see you, my little glowing friend." Spyro said to the dragonfly, who is flying behind the tree in front of him.

"Seeing and catching are 2 different things, big boy." Sparx replies, still using his mischievous looking smile.

Then, another purple dragon runs to them. "Guys..." *Pant* *Pant* "I told you to wait up..." *Pant* *Pant*

"Well, look who came." The dragonfly flies to the dragon. "You should've ran faster."

"Easy for you to say." He starts frowning. "I'm the youngest here, unlike you 2."

"At least you finally catched up." Spyro smiles warmly at him as he tries to help him stand back up. "You okay, Malefor?"

"Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks, big bro." He smiles back at him, but then they forgot one thing.

"Back to the chase..." Sparx flies away from them. "You won't catch me this time!"

"Yeah, you better run." The purple dragon chuckles as he watch the dragonfly flying away. "Hey, ready for another one?"

"Another one...?" Malefor lets out a sigh, still exhausted after that last chase. "I think I'm gonna stay here for a while... You guys go first."

"Suit yourself. Just, don't do anything that could harm you, okay?" He nods, telling him that he will. Spyro then leaves him to chase the dragonfly.

Malefor starts laying down, trying to rest his tiredness away. He looks up to the sky, watching the clouds as they slowly move away. He always love to imagine where those clouds will end up. Will they disappear? Will they come back in the other day just to greet him again? Who knows? That's what makes it so fun. The dragon sometimes dreams of himself chasing the clouds wherever they go, and what adventure awaits them. But surely, he can't do that if he can't even catch up with his elder brothers.

"..." The dragon starts closing his eyes, attempting to take a small nap. "...!" Suddenly, he jumps, surprised to what he have seen while closing his eyes. "No... Not those images again..." Although how much he loves the clouds, whenever he closes his eyes while facing them, somehow his mind begins to project such disturbing images. A town with corpse surrounded by a group of apes for example. "Why do I feel like I've been in this world before...? It's just like my life now is a reincarnation of my old life..." He thought to himself.

"Hey, Malefor." Suddenly, a female voice is heard from behind him. "You're not gonna follow your brothers this time?" He turns around to see a female faun, probably with the same age as his brothers.

"Big sis Elora, it's nice to see you here." He smiles at her. "Actually, I'm about to start chasing them again just now."

"Oh, and before you go..." Elora gives him a small handbag made out of leaves, vines, and roots. "My mom made you your favorite roasted swamp fish."

Malefor takes the bag, slowly opening it, revealing his favorite food of all time, just an inch away from him. "Gee, thanks big sis. Tell auntie that I love her." He closes it again and wears it on.

"Sure." She chuckles as the dragon walks away. "Don't get yourself in trouble!"


"Let me outta here and fight me like a... Thing...? Whatever you are, you pathetic wretch!" Sparx shouts at him.

"I've had about enough of you!" The ape jumps down from the cliff, pushing the cage to the ground. He raises his fist, preparing to crush the dragonfly.

"Sparx, look out!" Filled with anger, Spyro breathes out fire from his jaws, burning the apes' feet.

"Whoa... Was that fire, dude?!"

"Take care of 'em!" The leader tries to put off the fire on his feet. "I gotta report to Ember!" He jumps back up to the cliff, leaving the other apes to fight the dragon.

"Big bro...?" Malefor arrives at the scene, surprised to see his brother fighting with 2 apes. "S... Stay away from him!" He rushes to back him up, opening his jaws. Suddenly, a gray beam shoots out from it and transforms to small sharp rocks in the air, hitting the apes.

"What the hell did you 2 just ate?!" Sparx shook his head. "I guess it's not the perfect time to ask that... Beat 'em up!"

Spyro starts breathing out another fire, burning them again. The 2 apes screams hysterically, noticing that their flesh are burned too. With their face still burning, they walk around in a circle, not knowing where to attack. "My turn!" Malefor shoots out more rocks from his mouth, some of them successfully fills the apes' wounds. Feeling that continuing the fight would be useless, the apes desperately tries to jump back up to the cliff, running away from them.

"Get me outta here, you 2! I think my wings are singed." The dragonfly said to them, making them remember his condition.

Spyro headbutts the cage, freeing him. "You 'kay?"

"You almost torched me, dude!" He crosses his arms as he turn around to face the other dragon. "And you, those rocks could've just stabbed me to death!"

...

"Wait..."


"It's true dad. I swear." The purple dragon tries to convince his father that what happened was real. "I just got real mad, opened my mouth, and whoosh! Flame city."

"The same happened with me!" The other one said to him. "Except that it was a rock rain!"

"It's not that, Malefor. I believe the 3 of you." He crosses his arms. "It's just that your mother and I knew this day would come."

"What day?"

"The day when we would have to tell you the truth..."

That was the night when Spyro and Malefor are told that they're not dragonflies after all. But in fact an exike from an unknown distand land. It wasn't long after that night that the both of them decided to venture forth and find their home. Filled with frustration, Sparx flies back to his own home, feeling abandoned by his brothers. So, hard as it was, they left the only family they'd ever known, and journeyed on. Before they left, however, their parents gave them a necklace made out of pearls that can only be found in the swamp as a memento.

"Hey, big bro...?"

"What is it, Malefor?"

"Do you think that... We will find our true family waiting for us, somewhere?"

"I... I hope we will..."

Then, they hear loud footsteps and buzzing from behind them. "Guys! Wait for us!" It is revealed to be Elora and Sparx, who decided to come along with them. "We're going with you!'

"Finally convinced mom and dad to let me go with you 2." Sparx scratches the back of his head.


"You know what? I think I like this if you guys are around." Malefor said to them, smiling warmly.

"Yeah, I feel the same." Elora smiles back at him. "By the way, how's the swamp fish?"

"Oh, yeah! I totally forgot about that!" He takes off his bag and opens it. "You guys wanna join?"

"Sure." Spyro walks to him with Sparx flying next to him.

"I'll pass. I'm a herbivore anyways." The faun sits on a rock, watching them as they eat.

...

"Man, that was the best meal I've ever had!" The dragonfly pats his stomach, feeling satisfied.

Suddenly, he realizes that there is a hand behind him. It quickly holds him and jumps away from the party.

"Sparx...?" The 3 of them looks around, trying to find him. Then, a dagger is pointed at Elora's neck from behind, surprising all of them.

"Elora!"

"Don't." The person's voice is heard, revealing it to be a female. "Move an inch, and I'll slit her throat wide open."

They all stop moving, having fears for the worst. They still don't know who is this girl that's ambushing them. All that they know is that she has a green skin, and she's wearing cape that covers most part of her head, making it hard to know what species she is. She slowly steals the necklace from them, calling it a "rare goody", before running away.

"Who the hell is she?!" Sparx said as he got loose from the girl's hold. "And why did she stole the necklace?!"

"I don't know, but we gotta get it back!" Spyro runs to the route that the girl went, with the others following him.


"Hey, this is mine! You have no permission yo have it!" The girl said to an ape in front of her, now with her cape opened. Her species is revealed to be an elf. She has shining blue eyes and a blue hair, with an annoyed look on her face, probably because of the apes.

"I could tell that you stole it, correct?"

"Yeah, but it's mine now!"

...

"Hey! Stay away from her, you nasty dorks!" Elora shouts at the apes, making all of them, including the elf, to look at her. Next to her are the dragons and the dragonfly, looking prepared for a fight.

Spyro runs to her. "You should back up. These guys are dangerous."

"N - no way! I can fight too!" She said to him. "Besides... Why would you want to help someone that robbed you...?"

"It doesn't even matter anymore!" The dragon shouts at her. "Go back, now!"

"Okay, okay! Fine!" She walks back to hide.

"Great. Now I can go all out."