And here is the next chapter. Sorry for the long wait, but the electricity kept going out so I couldn't write. Where's 'em electricity dragons when you need them. :P Anyway, this chapter doesn't have that much action in it or such, but the next should have quite a bit and the plot starts to unfold clearly. Another thing to do is to remember some facts if you want to figure out why this and that is happening...that is if you like to figure stuff out...or you can just go with the flow and read as it comes. Anyway, this chapter is starting to get this story going and you have to read to whole thing if it is too make up sense. Okay, okay..I'll be quiet now and let you read...Enjoy!


Happenings

The specialist seemed unwilling to carry on with the bad news. Cynder was shaking slightly and Spyro's face showed complete uncertainty.

"It is amazing that she has survived so long," he paused and thought quickly.

"Go on," Cynder insisted, her voice started to break in worry.

"She suffered minor damage to her brain that could become critical." At this stage a tear ran down Cynder's face, she had learned to love the little pink dragoness that tried to please her mother whenever possible. Cynder couldn't imagine her world without Blush.

"Is there anything we can do?" Spyro inquired.

"Well, there is a treatment, but it is risky," he paused looking over Spyro and Cynder. The 'treat nurse' was coming back in.

"Can we talk about it tomorrow when your kids are at school?" He asked.

"Yes, okay," Spyro said while he and Cynder nodded their heads.

"Mom, Dad, guess what!" Flash ran past the 'treat nurse' and pounced onto his father's back.

"He has tasted his first toffee!" Frosty exclaimed.

"Yeah, it was..." At this moment Flash halted, deep in thought. "It was indescribable!"

"I'm sure it was, Flash." Spyro reached back and placed Flash onto the floor. Flash grinned, showing his teeth that was smothered in the brown candy. Cynder grimaced, she would have to make sure that he cleaned his teeth well.

"Let us be gone," Spyro motioned his children out the door of the specialist's office.


"See you tomorrow, doctor," Cynder said as she closed the door.

"It is your first day at day school, Flash, Frosty." Cynder pulled the two dragons in front of her. She licked her paw and washed a smudge of dirt off Frosty's face.

"But Mom, I thought that school was fun?" Flash groaned as Cynder handed him an iron, black suit.

"It is!" Cynder explained briefly as she helped him into the school uniform.

"How can it be when we have to wear this?" Flash didn't seem impressed with the suit.

"You have to go in that!" Cynder chided. She was not in the mood for a hatchling rebellious to wear his school uniform.

"Did Dad ever have to go to school?" Frosty asked curiously. Cynder looked at the blue dragoness with a stern face.

"What does that have to do with the price of eggs in Warfang?" Cynder groaned.

"Say what?" Flash made a confused face.

"It is a saying that means she doesn't want to talk about it," said Frosty as she stretched the sleeves on he dress like uniform.

"I think that is suit makes us look smart!" She grinned. Flash just grunted. A week old and already having to go to some day school in the city did not seem appealing.

"Hallo everyone!" A green dragoness with a golden chain around her neck called. Her eyes were bright and looked like polished emeralds. If it was a rainy, stormy day, Flash and Frosty were sure that her kind smile would lighten up the little room. This was their school teacher, Miss Maria, a young adult dragoness that lived to please young hatchlings like Frosty and Flash.

"Maria!" Cynder hugged her friend, they usually only met when shopping, but they were friends none the less.

"Cynder, how is the family and little Blush?" Maria bent down and placed a gentle claw on the pink dragoness' nose. Blush giggled anded clasp the claw between her paws, she didn't seem to want to let go. Maria's smile dropped a bit.

"She's quite strong, what did the specialist say?" Maria asked, her claw still grasped by Blush.

"Nothing much, we're going back today while the kids are here," said Cynder, she bobbed Blush slightly to make her release the claw.

"Ah, thank you." Maria put down her paw and smiled at the Blush.

"I better go, Spyro should almost be there..." Cynder trailed off.

"What's wrong?" Maria interrupted Cynder's thought pattern.

"I just hope Spyro remembered to take the back route first this time," Cynder chuckled slightly.


Spyro peeked from behind the rock and groaned. Before him was a crowd of his 'fans'.

"Who told them about this back route?" He demanded to himself. The trees above him swayed side to side, gently rocking to and fro. The grass was long and thick on the one side of the crowd to the left. If he could manage to go through there….Screams erupted from the group and everyone scattered in all directions, some even flew right over Spyro but in fright didn't see him.

"What in the world?" Spyro stretched his neck up further and looked side to side. Clear land and a few trees was all he could see. Then he heard it, a low growl. Spyro's scales stiffened and his wings spread out a little. Behind him was something. He heard the steps coming closer, he pretended not to hear. He could hear the leaves crunching under the beasts weight he could almost hear its cold heart beat. Spyro was almost sure it was a giant ape, most likely another outcast. He dove into the air did an half somersault and blasted the creature with almost blue hot fire. The creature roared in pain and Spyro's heart skipped a beat. There was a creature that wasn't an ape at all. It was troll like thing that he had to attack at Warfang and the Burned Lands. It was massive, why was it so near the city? Spyro didn't have time to think of the answer before the creature slammed down one of its huge fists. Spyro gasped and rolled out the way sending a 'hallo' in the form of an earth bullet. One on the beast's legs fractured and it sunk to the ground before weakly getting back up. Spyro let out an ice blizzard and the creature stiffened. Spyro smiled, ready to end the fight. He was about to destroy the beast with another earth bullet when yet another creature stepped behind Spyro and tried to smashed the purple dragon. Spyro rolled out the way, shocked. He flew into the air, the only safe place at that moment. The new beast tried to jump at him and he lamely fell back to the ground. He not so cleverly took his attention away from Spyro and looked at his fallen comrade. Spyro flew down behind him and preformed a comet dash and ended the creatures life. A dragon head peeked out from behind the bushes and a few more followed her example.

"Wow!" they all called in unison. Spyro took a step back, all the fans were diving out their hiding places.

"Not again...!" Spyro groaned, he was too tired from the fight to be able to get away from them this time. The group got lager and lager as they surged forward to Spyro. Suddenly the fan leading the group spotted something on the ground.

"Oh! Oh, look Spyro's claw tip broke off! It's mine!" Spyro looked at his claw and noticed that she was right.

"I saw it first so it is mine!" She roared trying to snatch it away from another dragoness that held it.

"I pick it up, so there!" She shouted in response.

"Give it to me and stop fighting!" A third ordered.

"Hey, this belongs in a museum, and since my father owns the biggest museum in Warfang..." Spyro seized his chance to escape the crowd and fly to Warfang. By the time he got there he almost forgot about the creatures that attacked him.

"What took you so long?" Cynder chided as Spyro stepped in the specialist's office. Spyro opened his mouth to explain. He paused, trying to remember what happened. The past events came to him. Spyro reopened his mouth to tell Cynder the exciting news when the door opened.

"Ah, I see you're still here, sorry for being late," said the dragon as he sat down behind his desk.

"You weren't the only one," mumbled Cynder.

"About Blush?" Spyro asked, changing the subject. The specialist looked at Spyro blankly.

"Ah, yes! Blush. Well, as I said yesterday, there is a treatment for her, but it has its risks." Cynder leaned over.

"What risks?" Cynder asked in a hoarse voice.

"Well, it could be fatal," said the specialist; Cynder hugged Blush closer.

"But, while she is young and adaptable and not very weak—thanks to you and Spyro—the treatment should be a success!" He smiled, trying to ease their concern.

"Blush?" Cynder scooped up the dragoness in her arms. The pink hatchling looked into Cynder's face. Blush could tell her mother was trying to tell her something...no wait, ask her something. Her mother's face seemed worried, stressed. Blush did the only thing she could to cheer up Cynder and make her know she was okay. She smiled.

"That settles it then," said the specialist. Cynder looked up, worry buried into her expression.

"Be careful with her!" She ordered. The specialist nodded his head and took the hatchling.

"Would you like to watch?" He seemed determined to make Cynder at ease.

"Okay, come on Spyro," Cynder stood up and motion Spyro to do the same


Flash knew he wasn't listening to the teacher, Miss Maria. But he didn't care…for the moment anyway. His mind was going back to yesterday. He remembered how the crowd was shouting that his father was a hero! What a name to earn! How did his father earn such a title? He remembered how they shouted about Spyro saving the world, everything was getting exciting and he couldn't focus his attention on what Miss Maria was saying. He imagined what his father did.

"Miss Maria!" An ice dragon put up his hand.

"Yes, Icicle?" She responded.

"How come dragons only have one element?" Flash perked up his head at this. One element? He clearly saw his mother with four elements when she was attacking that ape.

"Because our dragon bodies can only harness so much energy of one element," said Maria.

"But my Mom has four!" Frosty interrupted. Everyone in the room scoffed in disbelief.

"It is true!" Flash added. All eyes turned to him. He gulped.

"Really?" Even Maria seemed surprised, she didn't know Cynder had four elements.

"Yeah, and my dad too!" Frosty swelled in pride.

"How many does he have?" A student next to her asked.

"Um..." She paused. "I-I don't know, but more than one…"

"Yes, Frosty, your dad is a purple dragon," Maria answered.

"Your dad is Spyro!" The classroom leaped into surprise.

"Yes, but..." Frosty cringed with the sudden outburst.

"Can I come to your house?" One little girl asked. Immediately four others asked too. Frosty and Flash became very famous in those few seconds, but Maria quieted them down. Soon order was restored and the dragons were quiet. A few hoarse whispers still spread across the room, but nothing extreme like before. Flash once again slipped into his daydream. One day he would be as famous as his dad. For a week old dragon he had some big ambitions. If he fought against the apes and won he would be considered a hero! He smiled at himself, he had his plans set, now to accomplish them.

"What do you think, Flash?" At the mention of his name Flash was drawn out of his nest of thoughts.

"Huh?" He questioned lamely.

"What do you think of the new park being set up?" She restated.

"Where?" He asked, clearly not paying much attention.

"You weren't listening were you?" Maria teased. Flash color up a bit and gave the rest of the learning his full attention.

"Miss Maria?" A young blue dragoness put up her paw and started to shake it vigorously.

"Yes, Avalanche?" Miss Maria smiled.

"Ah, you can call me Ava…why don't we get our element until we're older?" Ava asked, again Maria explained this and that, and Flash now was getting bored, he could wait until noon lunch break.

"Why do we go to school at a young age?" Ava seemed full of witty questions that day, and Maria was getting quite exhausted.

"Because we are dragons and learning at a young age helps when we are older." Just then the bell rang, not only was the students overjoyed, but so was the teacher. The door opened and everyone flooded out. The trees were soon filled with energy bent dragons and screams of excitement, the grass was uprooted by the stampede and hoards of paws running this way and that. The flowers were picked by dozens of young females, and soon the playground was a dust patch. Five minutes past and a quiet zone fell on the rushed children. Now everyone was still and peacefully sitting down. Frosty looked at everyone, Flash seemed to be going away, to where she had no idea, but her attention wasn't on her brother, it was more focused on another male. She bit her lip, she wanted to say hi but she didn't want to seem rude, but he seemed so lonely just sitting there by himself. She got up and stretched, slowly she made her way to him.


Flash grinned to himself, today was the day he would make a name for himself! He would attack the apes and win, become a hero and be like his dad! He chuckled to himself, wouldn't his mom be surprised? He looked up, a trail of weak smoke drifting across the sky, it was outside the wall of Warfang, quite far, if he could climb a tree and glide, it would go a lot faster. Thinking back on how easy it was for his Mom to kill the ape he reasoned he could do it. But he never knew that she used to be under Malefor's control working with the apes therefore knowing the weaknesses of them, and he didn't know that his dad and mom attacked large creatures—he thought that Cynder attacking the ape was a first time. With a determined little mind and a heart full of hopes he set out to accomplish his mission.


Phew..that was long. Hope you didn't find it boring, I tried not to make it drag by adding the same info over and over and over and...you get my point, right? Well I have another *Contest*, if you want to call it that, the first 'ten' to review THIS chapter(I'm making sure everyone gets a chance) will get a mystery chapter that will not be included into the story, because it isn't really needed, but it will help solve mysteries and paint a bigger picture. I think you all understand, just review and tell me if you want it sent via DocX or message...or review then message me...OR you can message me with a review if you don't know how to review. Enjoy the rest of your day/night. Oh, and if I don't contact you straight away, please forgive me, I live all way over here and the time is different so I could be snoozing in bed. :P Well, BYE!

Until I update next,

Star Duster the Dragoness