Chapter 3

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"This cave is huge!" Cynder marveled as she looked around the cavern.

"Heh, if you think this is big wait till you see the actual area where we've been living." Aquarella chuckled.

"It's bigger than this?" Spyro asked.

"You'll see," Aquarella replied cryptically as she walked toward a tunnel at the other end of the cave. Spyro and Cynder started after her when Spyro realized he didn't see Sparx.

"Sparx! Where are you?" Spyro called.

"Over here!" was the muffled reply. Spyro walked back over to the water and looked down. Sparx was repeatedly flying his bubble to the surface of the water but was repelled each time. "What the heck is wrong with this bubble?' Sparx demanded to know.

"I told you earlier that it's a stronger bubble." Aquarella called from the other side of the cave.

"Can we leave him here?" Cynder asked.

"Probably shouldn't," Aquarella answered. "The bubble will pop eventually." Spyro stuck his front foot in the water, under Sparx's bubble, and fished him out of the water. The bubbled popped as it touched the cave air drenching Sparx in water.

"Blargh!" Sparx sputtered as he shook himself and buzzed his wings hard to dry off. "Don't ever do that again!" Sparx yelled as he flew up into the air.

"Let's go, I don't like being away from the eggs for so long." Aquarella called. As Spyro and Sparx caught up to her and Cynder, she headed down the tunnel.

"How many are there?" Cynder asked.

"Twenty eggs in all." Aquarella answered. "Ten boys, ten girls, four earth dragons, four fire dragons, two air dragons, four ice dragons, and six electricity dragons."

"Wow! It's so hard to believe there are so many!" Spyro said.

I find it harder to believe that only the two of you survived. Aquarella thought as she glanced down at Spyro. She turned back and brightened at the light at the end of the tunnel. "We're here!" She said eagerly as she quickened her pace. Cynder glanced down at the crushed rock she was walking on.

This ground is like sand, it doesn't appear to bother Aquarellla at all. She thought as she dragged her foot through it as she walked. She glanced back up as they exited the tunnel.

"Whoa!" Cynder, Sparx, and Spyro breathed in awe.

"Welcome to my home." Aquarella smiled as they gaped at the vast underground terrarium.

"You live here?"Spyro exclaimed as he looked over the grand view he had from the cliff.

"Yes, we do." Aquarella replied as she headed down the rock path leading down to the meadow beneath them. Spyro and Cynder followed her quietly but Sparx did not have the ability to be quiet.

"You could fit the entire Dragon City down here! It's bigger than my home swamp!" Sparx flew erratically around the three dragons.

"Please do be quiet, Sparx." Aquarella growled as she kept an eye on the meadow below them.

"What's wrong, Aquarella?" Cynder asked as she looked up from examining the sandy rock path. "You look uneasy."

"I don't hear my eggs." Aquarella replied as she sped up. "They should be in the meadow right now, but I don't see them, and I don't hear them." Aquarella raised her wings and increased her speed again. She raced down to a bend in the path and dove off the end. She stiffened her wings and glided toward the meadow.

"Hey wait for us!" Spyro called as he and Cynder quickly followed suit. Aquarella sailed straight at the meadow and crashed right into the middle of it. Aquarella staggered to her feet and flapped her wings back to her sides as Cynder and Spyro landed neatly beside her.

"Wow, you are a horrid flyer. What's wrong with you?" Sparx asked. Aquarella ignored him and headed toward a cave on the far side of the meadow.

"Aquarella!" a male voice yelled and a dark gray shape blurred out of the cave. "You're back!" The shape crashed into Aquarella and knocked her onto her back. "She's back everybody!" The dark gray dragon yelled from where he was sprawled out on Aquarella's belly. Cynder and Spyro stared in awe as several more dragons poured out of the cave and jumped on or surrounded Aquarella.

"Yes, yes my eggs! I'm back," Aquarella laughed as she tried and failed to roll to her feet. Too many dragons were sprawled out on her. "Get off! You're going to squash me!" The dragons laughed and jumped off of her then helped her roll over.

"Did you get the medicine?" asked a dark green male dragon. The playful mood dissipated and Aquarella faced the little dragon.

"I couldn't bring down the medicine, Hargen. They didn't have the flowers needed to make the medicine at hand." Aquarella answered.

"Then why didn't you stay till they did?" Hargen demanded to know.

"Because we're leaving, I'm taking Aurora to the medicine. By the time we get there they've have the medicine made." She replied.

"How? The exit is guarded by those Grublins!" the dark gray dragon pointed out.

"It's ok, Zephyr, I've brought friends who'll get us out." Aquarella said as she turned toward Spyro and Cynder. "My eggs, meet the saviors of Avalar, Spyro and Cynder."

"I wouldn't go that far," Cynder murmured as she shifted uncomfortably under all the eyes on them.

"But they're not any older than us!" a female ice dragon exclaimed.

"Wait, that's the legendary purple dragon you told us about!" a male fire dragon yelped as he raced to stand in front of Spyro. "Hi! I'm Flame!" Spyro blinked at the red dragon in front of him. Flame looked similar to himself, but his horns were straight, he had a rounder, longer snout, a lower body, and he was a little smaller than him too.

"Hello, I'm Spyro." Spyro returned the greeting uncertainly. A female pink dragon peeked at them from behind Aquarella.

"What a pretty color." She said to Aquarella.

"Where is Puff, Ember?" Aquarella asked the pink dragon.

"In the cave with Aurora," Ember replied. Aquarella moved toward the cave.

"Everyone, introduce yourselves to Spyro and Cynder please." She called as she entered the cave. "Ember, keep your ears open!"

"Ok!" Ember called back as she walked over to Spyro. "Hi, I'm Ember," She purred to him as she shifted to stand very close to him.

"Um, hi," Spyro said uncomfortably as he shifted closer to Cynder who was giving Ember a death glare.

"Come on, Ember, back up a little." The dark gray male said to her. "I'm Zephyr by the way!" He said with a wink at Cynder.

"I am Hargen," Said the dark green male as he walked toward the cave. One by one the other dragons introduced themselves.


"That's everyone but my sister, Puff, and Aurora." Zephyr said as the other dragons played about the meadow. Spyro, Cynder, Zephyr, Ember, and Flame sprawled themselves out on some moss covered rocks.

"You're sister?" Cynder asked.

"Yeah, she's in the cave, she's really shy so don't be offended if she doesn't talk to you or anything." Zephyr said.

"Shy? Try timid. She's scared of everything, and I do mean everything." Flame said. "You could show her this glowy bug of yours and she'd run away."

"Hey! I'm a Dragonfly! Not a glowy bug." Sparx protested from where he was lounging on Spyro's head.

"You're still a glowing bug, Sparx." Cynder pointed out.

"Shut up!" Sparx grumbled.

"What is Aquarella doing anyway?" Spyro asked as he glanced at the cave.

"She's trying to stabilize Aurora's temperature." Zephyr answered. "Aurora's temperature is too high for an ice dragoness. She's coughing a lot too, so Aquarella probably won't move her until Aurora can breathe easier."

"Do Puff and Hargen help her out then?" Spyro inquired.

"My sister is Aurora's best friend, and Hargen has a thing for Puff." Zephyr growled the last part.

"You don't sound approving." Cynder grinned at him.

"I like Hargen! I really do he's my friend but I can't seem to not growl about it. Puff and I are the only real siblings out of all our brothers and sisters." Zephyr said sheepishly.

"Really?" Spyro asked.

"Yeah," Flame cut in. "Aquarella said our parents were all kind of small dragons, so they didn't have as many eggs as the other dragons. She said our parents were lucky, Puff and I were their first clutch."

"I can't wait to leave and meet my parents!" Ember piped up. "Don't get me wrong, I love Aquarella, but I want to meet my family." Flame and Zephyr nodded.

"Family." Spyro mumbled and stared at the ground. I haven't even thought about my mom and dad since I left the swamp. The thought of my dragon parents never even crossed my mind. Nina and Flash raised me; I don't know how to even think of anyone else as my parents. He glanced at Cynder who was looking speculative as well. Cynder hasn't thought about her parents either.

"We need to go back to the swamp." Sparx said as he flew off Spyro's head. "Mom and Dad have to be worried sick about us."

"Huh?" Flame tilted his head in confusion.

"I was raised by Dragonflies." Spyro told him. "Until Malefor's army came to the swamp and attacked me and Sparx I thought I was just a really strange Dragonfly. I didn't even know what a Dragon was."

"Weird," Zephyr said. Spyro just smiled, and a very dark blue male called to Zephyr. "Yeah, Sinaaq I'm coming." Zephyr jumped off his rock and raced over to the ice dragon.

"Sinaaq is the strongest male here." Ember said as she looked at a tunnel at the other end of the meadow. "Well until you showed up Spyro." She added with a flutter of her eyes.

"Yeah," Flame rolled his eyes. "He and Zephyr are good friends, but Zephyr's sister is the strongest female here."

"Really, I thought you said she was timid." Cynder pointed out.

"Timid does not equal weak. Trust me under the right circumstances she's a powerful dragoness." Flame said proudly.

"Yeah, but it's a one shot deal." Ember pointed out. "Oh, if you ever hear us yell 'Typhoon' drop to the ground and hold on tight." She said to Cynder and Spyro. "She has no control over her wind breath."

"We're leaving!" Hargen called as he exited the cave, a small, light gray female followed him out, with Aquarella trailing along behind them. Aquarella was carrying a white dragon in her mouth.

"That dragoness is as big as me!" Cynder said in awe as she watched Aquarella carry the dragon with apparent ease.

"Aquarella is really strong, but Aurora has lost weight while she was sick too." Flame said as he jumped off his rock and glided down to Aquarella.

"I'm so excited! We'll finally see the world!" Ember exclaimed as she jumped up and flew down to the group with Cynder, Spyro, and Sparx following her. But when she landed, she turned sharply toward the tunnel.

"What is it, Ember?" Flame asked as he too faced the tunnel.

"Grublins! They're coming!" Ember wailed.