The Dragon Nurseries was based in the castle within the Artisans Homeworld, an area where the Artisans used for events and meetings. The palace grounds was filled with dragon hatchlings and children of all families, a jumbled mess of fun that Ms. Kimberly was happily watching over. She was a large, stout pink dragon with a beautiful curved set of golden horns on her head-along with a nice set of glasses over her tiny snout. Ms. Kimberly huffed when she saw one of the children rushing back toward where she was-just at the French doors of the Nursery.

"Ms. Kimberly! Spotlight and Blackout came back!" the dragonling and human said-a blue-green chameleon dragon and a human with the same colours-as they came up toward the stoutly dragon excitedly. While two Dragon-years older than the rest of the children, Spotlight and Blackout were the most popular volunteers of the Dragon Nurseries. The both of them were Dream Weavers-meaning that they had the ability to create dreams and give them to the children while they were sleeping. It made getting the young ones to sleep through the entire night much easier, and Ms. Kimberly enjoyed having them around as help. Their riders themselves were also enjoyable for the children, so the Nursery Owner herself never bothered to say no to their offer of help. It made Jenna's-Ms. Kimberly's partner- life a bit easier now that she didn't need to run around without her dragon.

Not that humans and dragons couldn't run around without their dragons-sometimes humans preferred to be without their dragons for a while and vice versa. But the magic within either human and dragon diminishes like never before, making both dragon and human completely sick to the stomach and unable to move about too much until both are reunited. As the entire society of the Dragon Realms was built around the relationship between human and dragon, the very idea of either a human or a dragon on their own indicated that something was wrong with either dragon or human. As such, not a lot of the children/dragonlets ever bothered with being near Spyro-even if the only thing they thought about him was 'the fun dragon'.

Not that they could think of avoiding Spyro now. "Spyro's with them as well!" Ms. Kimberly stopped surging forward when she heard that bit. While most young children had no built-in prejudices, adults were-and Ms. Kimberly and Jenna weren't too different. The two adults knew about Spyro's current predicament, just like any other beings living within the Artisans. They were worried about how Spyro and his 'partner' would be an influence on the children. Wasting no time, the stout Nanny lifted herself off of the ground, landing quickly to pick her rider before flying off to intercept her two students quickly.


It was odd for Spyro to see the two Dream Weavers up close. Heck, he never even heard of the two before he met the two of them right now! But there he was; staring at the four beings right in front of him, and Spyro never felt so awed before.

The two dragons were monochrome coloured-which was odd, as The Dragon Realms dragons had at least two colours on their bodies. The female was a brilliant metallic pearl colour that, when the light hit her scales just right, made her angelic and otherworldly in spite of her brightly glowing eyes. Her rider was similarly coloured-her yellow-brown eyes showcasing a mischievous but understanding look toward Spyro and Rex. The two's counterpart was as black as night, the light showcasing hints of turquoise green. Like his counterpart, the menacing gargoyle-like figure of the male dragon had the same voidless eyes of the female dragon. The gargoyle dragon's rider was covered in menacing tattoos, giving Spyro the impression that the man had been dabbling in dark magic. Nevertheless, the male human's eyes were just as visible as the female human's-only the purpleish-pink eyes held a glare of disinterest toward the two.

"Seriously, Queen Fae?" the tattooed man asked Helena, who had been standing in between the gargoyle-dragon and Dainty herself. "Why do we need to bring these two to the Nursery? We don't need-"

"They're still children, Helios." Helena cut off the dark-affiliated man, getting a huff out of him for that. "And in spite of what's happened, they need interaction with other children. They're ten years of age, and they don't have any friends their age!" she yelled at Helios, making both him and his dragon step back with a shudder.

"Look, Queen Fae." The black dragon tried to speak, before stopping and changing the conversation. "Do you think Mrs. Kimberly will mind?" He asked the other monochrome dragon beside him, with Helios saying "Blackout!" at him.

"It's alright Helios." the woman beside Helios stated, putting her hand onto the dark-magic man's shoulder. Helios' eyes lit up at the woman's response, then backed away when he realised how futile it was to fight her. When Helios did that, the bright woman pulled her hand from his shoulder and spoke to Helena with a noticeable frown. "We'll try to get Ms. Kimberly see your argument, but after what Spyro had nearly destroyed the towers-"

Rex started laughing at that. "Oh Great Stardust! I can't believe that this idiot did something wrong!" He said in between breaths for air, making Spyro blush a bit in embarrassment.

"...But if it's from your own voice, I think we can let them back into the Nursery." the woman finished when Rex's laughter was dying down, his voice getting hoarse before delving into a fit. "If you want-we can bring you to where-"

"No, I think this will be enough Selene." Helena quickly kissed the back of Selene's hand, causing a powerful purple flame to appear over her hand. "This will let both Ms. Kimberly and Jenna know that the kids were my idea." Helena said happily, before leaving with Dainty to return back to her castle. The new group watched them go, before Helios coughed to bring the attention of the two youngsters.

"We need to get going you two." Helios stated, getting on Blackout as Selene did the same with her dragon. Blackout took a gander at Spyro's wingspan as Rex got onto the young dragon's back, snorting a bit before speaking.

"There's no way Spyro could fly with Rex on his back. His wingspan can't support the two of them." Blackout stated, causing the purple dragon to glare at him.

"Dude, can you not?" Spyro said, puffing out a small amount of smoke. Selene and the angelic dragon looked at the two younglings, noticing that Rex looked uncomfortable with the looks.

"Blackout, would it be alright if you follow us in the air? I think we can walk with Spyro and Rex." the dragoness said, causing the group to look at the dragoness in shock.

"Spotlight…" Blackout stated, his tone crossing venomous territory. Before Helios had a chance to speak out, Selene raised her hand to silence the two.

"It's alright you two." Selene said, "Spyro and Rex need the company, anyways. I find it funny that the both of you are jealous of these two kids, here." she teased as she got off of Spotlight, just as Spyro and Rex started walking toward the Artisan Castle. Both Blackout and Helios looked at the four's retreating backs, before angrily joining the small group of beings with a few simple strides.


"Of course Helena would get you guys roped into this." Ms. Kimberly stated, sighing at the group. Both Spotlight and Selene looked rather sheepish as they finished explaining to their employer. Helios and Blackout had kept their faces stony, which was rather impressive considering that both Spyro and Rex looked ready to murder her.

"...It's the Queen's wish, Lulu." Jenna said calmly, her face just as stony as she walked back to the Nursery. "We need to introduce the two to the other dragonlings. We've already taken too long." she stated as they started walking. It didn't take them long, as Ms. Kimberly and Jenna didn't get a chance to leave for the Stone Hill portal when her four volunteers and the two children came into the scene. As soon as they got the chance to introduce Rex to the rest of the children (as all of them knew who Spyro himself was) before they went back to work taking care of them. Once introductions were over, Spyro and Rex moved into the courtyard where the rest of the dragonlings were. A merman/gillman hybrid was the first to come up to the two, light pink eyes sparkling in the sunlight as he and his dragon-dark blue with a light blue underbelly and shark-fin wings-instantly struck a conversation with Spyro and Rex.

"HIYAH!" the amphibious being yelled out, startling the two from their thoughts. "I'm Sparky! And this-" the kid pointed to his dragon partner-who had eye-rolled at the kid's antics. "Is my partner, Zap! I would like to be your friend!"

"Erm…" both Spyro and Rex started, but couldn't finish when Sparky started up again.

"Oh-oh, I know! You two should come and meet my other friends! Zap, do you want to come too?" Zap didn't even bother attempting a response as Sparky grabbed the newcomers by the chain, only to stop and realize what he just grabbed. "OHMYGOSHI'MSOSORRY!" he hyperactive child said once he recognized what he did. "I-I didn't mean-"

"Woah, Sparkster! It's alright!" Rex stated, quickly grabbing the frantic child's shoulders so that Sparky could calm down faster. "I'm not mad, and I don't think Spyro is as well. Right, Gnorc-Breath?" Spyro glared at Rex for the nickname, but changed it to a smile when he noticed the near-leaky eyes of Sparky.

"It's alright, buddy. I'm not harmed, am I?" Spyro's comment made Sparky relax, then grab the two of them again. Quickly and surely, Sparky weaved through the small crowd expertly, until he came upon 6 humans and dragons in a remote part of the castle grounds. The two that were closest to Sparky and Zap were dark purple in colouring, with silver horns/hair. The human had punk clothing, and both dragon and human had the exact same face piercings on their face, save for a few piercings on the human's ear as the dragon didn't have any. The next ones closest to the punk duo where the oddest of the bunch-the dragon had blue fur and feathers in place of scales, which showed on the human as a much darker skin tone. The dragon seemed to be half unicorn half dragon, with it having a single light blue horn coming out of it's forehead. They turned when Sparky announced his presence.

"Hey, Shock-stack, decided to bring Spyro and Rex with you?" the punk female human asked, her face emitting a smirk as she looked at how excited Sparky was.

"Hey, Jade, Cynder." Zap stated, as Sparky quickly hugged the two beings. "Is Flame and Casey coming in today? I haven't seen those two yet."

"Nope, haven't seen them." Cynder-the punk dragon-stated, her interest in Spyro increasing as Sparky tried showing him off to another set of partners-this time, a rock-like dino-dragon and his dark skinned partner, and the plant-like dragon and the floral loving guy. "Though, I've heard that they're planning on besting their current time in Sunny Flight. Casey also said something about 'the adults finally getting rid of the rings' or something…"

"Well, I'm not surprised." Zap said as Sparky brought the two other partners-along with a half-bird half dragon duo and an mostly mechanical wearing duo-toward Rex when Spyro couldn't move further. "Wasn't Flame having trouble with the rings because of his wingspan?" Zap finished before a crash sounded behind him. He turned to find Sparky trying to calm down an green and brown scaled dragon, whose face was covered in an blue and yellow helmet with their back and wings covered in a similar metal. The dragon was about to attack Rex for something, along with a human that had similarly coloured overalls and helmet on them.

"D-Drobot! Wait!" the helmeted child exclaimed, pulling on Drobot's tail as he kept on trying to bite Rex continuously. "Rex hasn't hurt me at all! You should back down!"

"Negative! This human stole a dragon egg from the Machinists! He must be obliterated!" Drobot's lenses started to flare as he kept snapping at Rex. When the dragon stated that, Rex looked at him confused.

"W-what? I never went to the Machinists' Homeworld!" Rex stated, which threw the others off guard at the response. "What? You didn't believe what your parents say about me?"

"Actually…" Cynder started, looking away from Rex and Spyro quickly.

"We kind of thought you'd be…" Jade stated, also looking away from Rex and Spyro.

"...Taller." the rocky dragon finished for the both of them, not bothering to look away when the punk duo looked at him.

"Bash, I wanted to say that." the dark-skinned human stated, turning over a leathery-almost rock-like-wing as he moved toward the Artisan duo. Unlike most of the others, he wore a gigantic rock-plated shell on his back, which once Drobot released the charge in his lenses caused the laser to be absorbed into the shield. "Try not to attack again before getting proper information, Drobot." the human held out his hand for Rex to take, since he had landed on his butt when Drobot's lasers fired. "The name's Tiberius. The human who's trying to get Drobot to back off is named Gears-the both of them are usually kinder than this, but your history made them suspicious."

When Tiberius said that, everyone backed away from the trio, before Sparky instantly got in front of Tiberius.

"Woah, woah, woah! I haven't introduced you to the others yet!" Sparky stated, bringing Rex and Spyro towards the odd partners first. "These two are Whirlwind and Miko; Whirlwind's our best storm caster, and Miko's dances bring out the rain and sunshine!" both Whirlwind and Miko bowed calmly, Whirlwind's horn touched the chain of the two-She knitted her brows, but said nothing about it. Sparky then turned toward the dragon with feathers and a beak and his rider. "The beaky guy here is Sunburn, and the guy with fire for hair is named Lucky!"

"A pleasure to meet you Spyro, and Rex as well." Sunburn said, smiling as best as he could with the beak he has. He bowed similarly to Whirlwind and Miko, but his partner-Lucky-waved his hands in exasperation.

"I don't have fire for hair… My hair is from both my parents-my Mom was actually born in the year of the Rooster, so her partner's a Phoenix instead." Lucky huffed out, before turning to Rex. "Anyways, as Sparky said, I'm Lucky, and Sunburn and I love to prank others with our teleportation abilities." Rex made a note of that, whistling impressively. Spyro looked at him cautiously, before Sparky moved on to the plant-like Dragon and his floral wearing partner.

"The spiky one's Camo: he loves to make fruits and veggies explode! Kelso is his partner, and he uses Chi to move the plants around so the little beasts can eat them!" Sparky stated, causing Kelso to look harshly at him. He immediately looked at Rex and Spyro cheerfully, making them a bit unsure of the plant duo.

Camo's leaf-like wings twittered at that comment. "Hehe! If you want a party, I'll bring the best fruit PUNCH you'll ever see!" The thorny dragon danced a bit while Kelso moved toward the two.

"Don't mind Camo, he loves a passion-fruit party." the other humans and dragons groaned at that pun, leaving the Artisan duo to blink owlishly at him. "N-nevermind. We both love to make fruit and veggie related puns, so if you want to groan at puns, we're the perfect apples to do that!" Spyro huffed at the second attempt, but Rex looked at him like he grew a second head. "Well, I guess you win some, you lose some…" Kelso sighed at the two's reactions, before Sparky pulled both Spyro and Rex away from them-and to some other dragons that weren't with the group at that particular moment.

"Over that way, there's Ember and Lilly," Sparky pointed to the pink dragon and her rider. "Then there's the chameleon-like Aurora and Emerald. She likes to show her love to her partner." he then pointed to the chameleon like dragon and her rider near Spotlight and Blackout, chatting with the both of them. Before Spyro and Rex had the chance to leave Sparky and Zap before the former could drag them around the Nursery, he grabbed the two and started introducing them. "And then there's…" Sparky continued, looking at Rex and Spyro look to each other in agony. It was going to be a long day for the both of them…