A/N: Hay guys Flare here, I'm Back! XD. Seriously though this chapter is like a curse. Since I started writing it my computer has turned off four fucking times, It's not even funny ... XD it is funny. But aside from that a lot of...well, everything has been happening to me lately. But that's not important, sooo... IF, I ever finish this curse, Then I can say, allot about to start happening. Well, Why don't you just read it instead, I mean you have been waiting patiently, 'by the way thanks for not getting too mad.'

Chapter IV: Training Day

'Darkness; it really is quite soothing sometimes. Ironically you fear it, but without it you are nothing. In all things there is a ballance of light and dark, no one has none of one or the other, that's why no one can be truly evil or, truly good. You have people like Solfie, where good is all they know, and people like Malefor, where they know what they do is wrong, but they feel very little pity. Then you have the people like me, who...unfortunately, are stranded in between the two, and can't stray too far to one side without the other Ripping Them Back.' This is what happens when you have free time, you begin to think; and floating endlessly through darkness definitely puts some time on your hands. But during this ramble of thoughts, I was interrupted by a voice I could never forget.

"Flare?" The faint whisper asked.

I open my eyes slowly to the soothing voice and reply back. "Solfie?"

"Flare." The voice now louder and more clear but seemed to come from all directions.

"Sol, where are you?" I asked as a room began to form around me. It first showed the outline of randomly placed stones then an arch like window, followed by several more, it was one of the hallways inside the temple.

Finally she answers back, "Flare." this time the voice was drowsy and tired, like she hardly had the energy to speak, however it was still clear, and it came from right at my feet.

I look down to see Sol lying there with a painful look on her face. "Sol are you ok?" I asked, but as I tried to come to her side I realized that I couldn't move.

"Flare, I-I'm sorry." She says.

"What? What are you talking about?" I ask. Unfortunately right after I asked Sol began to cry out a blood curdling scream. She begins to clutch her chest as blood seeps out around her claws and her back creating a pool of blood beneath her.

"SOLFIE!" All I could do was yell out her name in disbelief, I still couldn't move.

"No...Solfie." I cried. I couldn't believe it; the only thing I truly care about in this god forsaken life I have, and it was being taken away right before my eyes, and I couldn't do a damn thing about it.

Then I suddenly heard laughing, I look up to see a dark dragon standing before me, at first I thought he represented my dark side, but this wasn't possible, because, even shadow Flare has his own gray version of the lightning bolts on my legs. This dragon had nothing, He was pure black, had a dark red underbelly, a tailblade split in two, to look like fangs and an occasional spike protruding from his back. His facial features were obscured. I've never seen him before yet now he's laughing at a situation like this.

"What's so damn funny?" I asked angrily.

"Heh he heh, you really care for her don't you, too bad she got in the way. she was such a cute young dragoness." The dragon says venomously.

"Did you do this?" I asked.

He simply smiles. "You Bastard!" I scream as darkness begins to form around me.

"Ah, ah, ah." He says shaking his claw at me like a person would there finger. "Don't lose that temper; killing me and avenging her may be bitter sweet."

"I'll kill you." I say through clenched teeth.

"Besides," He says as he circles around me. "She wasn't even worth your time."

"I Will kill you."

"She was a distraction, she was holding you back."

"I Swear I Will Kill You!"

He smiles at this "If I were you; I'd forget all about that bitch."

At that I lost all control, I break free of whatever was holding me back, and as dark fire and electricity surrounded me, I charged at the dragon with all my might.

I wake up breathing heavily. 'Just a dream.' I look around and realize I'm not home yet, I was in some type of weird library. "Am I still dreaming?" I ask myself.

"Not quite." an echoing voice calls.

I drop into a defensive position watching all sides as I answer back. "Where are you? Show yourself."

"Calm yourself young dragon I don't wish to cause you harm." The voice says as the dragon appears through a doorway in the library.

I change my stance to face the white dragon. "Says you, Who the hell are you, and where am I?"

"So Hostile, please Flare, I..."

"How do you know me?" I interrupt.

The large dragon sighs "I, Flare, am the Chronicler," he says "my name is Ignitus and If you calm down I will answer all your questions."

I nod and drop my guard, sitting on my haunches, "Well, Where am I?" I ask as I wave my paw, growing slightly impatient.

"This, is White isle Flare, and I've called you here to speak to you about rather important matters, considering what is going on tomorrow."

"Ok, but what does my training have to do with you?"

"Flare, answer me this; do you or don't you want to control the darkness inside of you?" Ignitus asks staring at me intently.

"W-what?"

"Do you or don't you?"

"I- I do but, what does that have to do with tomorrow?"

"Listen carefully Flare, you see those lightning bolts on your legs?" I nod "They represent more than just a strange look. Flare, you can control the element of electricity, you will need this elements strength if you wish to control the darkness that dwells inside your soul."

"Ok but, how is that possible, I thought only the purple dragon could control more than one element."

"This is true, In fact these books you see, they have information on every type of dragon. I have searched these books, but no matter how hard I look there is no dragon before you with this ability."

"So I'm a one of a kind; sweet." I laugh

"Yes," He smiles. "However this means that only the purple dragon can train you, because both elements must be learned and mastered, side by side."

"Already taken care of, just tell Spyro to teach me how to use it and I'm on my way."

"Lets only hope it's that easy."

"What does that mean?"

"It's hard to say, your the first of your sub-species, anything could happen. Just be careful and don't lose your temper, that thing is stronger than you know."

"Shadow Flare, that's what I'm calling it, and don't worry I won't let him take control; under any circumstances."

He nods, "Just be careful Flare."

I smile, "I always am." Then the room fades to black and I here Ignitus say "And be safe."

I wake up and find myself finally in my own room. As I look to my side I see Sol, sleeping like a little, white angel. Even though I knew it was only a dream I just had to be sure, I looked over her shoulder, and upon seeing her chest I saw that there was nothing to worry about.

I lay my head back on the pillow and begin to think. 'What was that dream all about? Who was that in my dream, If I've never saw him before, why was he there? And that Chronicler. Everything he said made sense, but was he telling the truth? Uhhhgg, my head hurts, maybe Spyro will know what's going on.' I think to myself as I try to fall back to sleep.

Then I heard walking in the hall, my eyes shot open and I listened carefully. They were headed this way, 'two of them, but three voices; strange' I silently climb off the bed and creep slowly towards the door, I unlock it and stand back slowly.

The three stop in front of my door and it slowly opens, I walk over into the shadows and await there entrance.

Suddenly a bright floating light comes through the door, and I pounce.

"Hay Flare old buddahhhhhh!" Was all I heard as I caught the bug in my mouth.

"Sparx?" I say through clenched teeth.

"No, NONONONONO Don't Eat Me, I Taste Like Frog Weed!" The muffled voice of Sparx cries out.

"Heh he actually you taste like chicken." I say as I let him out.

"SPYROOOO!"

"Shut up." I yell out

Spyro walks in followed by Cynder. "Spyro, Spyro Help Me!"

"Shut the hell up."

"Spyro!"

Spyro walks in and Sparx hides behind him "I told you he was evil, but you didn't listen, he's almost as bad as her."

"Grrr" Cynder growls.

"Heh, not that you're evil or anything, right Cyn?" Cynder tries to chomp down on the annoying bug but he was able to narrowly escape and hide behind his brother again. "Ahh! Why is it that you are drawn to these evil dragons?" Spyro shrugs and smiles.

"I look back at Sol who was still sleeping peacefully. 'How can she sleep through that?' I think to myself.

"What's wrong flare?" Spyro asked.

"Err nothing."

"Alright well you ready?"

"Ready? Oh right, I have to talk to you about that. Hang on let me wake Sol."

I walk over to the bed and try to wake her up. "Hay Sol. Sol wake up."

"Uhggg, Fife, mor minits mommy." She says and rolls over. I hear Spyro burst out laughing from across the room. I just shake my head, "I guess I'm your mom now, huh Sol?" I sigh. "Sleep tight." I say as I pat her on the shoulder and leave the room with Spyro.

"So what was it you wanted to talk about?" Spyro asked.

I look at Spyro who was looking back at me. "Have you ever heard of the Chronicler?" I ask.

"Uhm, yeah but, how do you know about him?"

"He visited me in a dream last night, and he said something I'm still not sure I believe."

"What was it?" He asked.

"Well, He said that I can take control of Electricity as well as Fire, and it would be best if you could teach me both simultaneously." I tell him expecting him to not believe me.

"Alright, than we have a slight change of plans, instead of teaching you the basics to Fire, we have to teach you how to use Electricity."

"Wait, you believe me so easily?"

"Well you can't be making it up because the Chronicler is somewhat of a secret, you know a legend, so no one could have told you he was real and I'm sure your imagination isn't that good."

"So you trust him."

"He has helped me in more ways than one, so yeah, I trust him. Now common, lets get to the training room before someone steals it from us."

"Right." I nod and continue on.

We finally make it to the training room and as we enter the ground opens up around the giant statue in the middle and the statue begins to sink. Almost as if it knew our intentions.

"So this is the training room." I say.

"Pretty cool, huh." Spyro laughs.

"So what are we going to dogh,..." I was interrupted by a black dragon walking by, "Watch where you're going asshole." He says as he walks by, towards the middle of the room.

I waited for him to start, something about this guy made me want to slit his throat; but I wanted to see how he was in a fight before I lost my temper.

Three dummies appear in front of him, he smiles and drops to an offensive position. His tailblade, Slit into two short fang like spikes on the edge of his tail, began smoking a green ooze. 'Is that poison?' I think to myself observing his stance and fighting style. He quickly charges the dummies head on with incredible agility, he quickly stabbed the first dummy with his tailblade, and shot a glob of poison, almost at the same time, towards the second. The poison melted the second dummies flesh away as he screamed in pain, the poison ate a hole through him, melting away flesh and bone alike. The dragon withdrew his tail from the first dummies chest and quickly thrust it into its head. Both dummies fell to the ground leaving the final cowering in the corner of the floor. The dragon smiles and reaches his tail to the dummies chest and says, I think I'll let you die slowly."

He stabs the dummy with his poison infused tailblade in the chest, the dummy clutches his chest and the dragon withdraws the blade slowly. The dummy falls to the ground writhing in pain, as blood oozes from his chest and the exit wound on his back. The dummy cries out as the poison spreads through his blood eating away at every inch of his body from the inside. The dragon smiles in amusement as he watches the dummy cry out for anyones help. After several agonizing minutes of this the dummy finally stops squirming and disappears.

"Hm, not even worth the time."

'This guy is completely heartless.'

As he walks back towards me he stares me down and I do the same. He was a dark black dragon with a dark red underbelly a strange fang like tailblade, and a few spikes on his back. "The floor's all yours, Flare." He says venomously as he walks by and leaves the room.

"Who was that?"

"Viper, He has a, bit of a past. Lets get started before anything else weird happens, shall we?"

"Yeah good Idea."

""""KABOOOOOM""""

"AHHHH!" I scream as the explosion throws against the training room wall.

I smash into the wall hard then fall to the floor in pain. "Damn It!" I say as I struggle to stand again. I walk back in front of the stationary target and get ready to try again.

"Flare," Cynder says. "Your going to kill yourself if you keep this up." She says worried.

"I'll be fine I've felt way worse, I have to figure this out."

"Spyro, he's being hardheaded, tell him to stop, or take a break, or something."

"Let him keep at it, If he believes then I believe. Besides I want to see how long he can keep at it." He smiles.

Cynder shakes her head as she looks away.

I look strait at my target, never have I had such a struggle to learn something; this made me more determined. 'I will get it this time' I think to myself as I stare down the target, and concentrate my energy as Electricity begins to scatter around me. I let it build as I concentrate it into my breath. But once again, right as I do this I begin to lose all control and the stored energy begins to meltdown and explode.

""""KABOOOOOM""""

Once more the blast had scattered around and came back at me like a boomerang, stiking me with enough force to throw me off my feet and into the wall.

"Spyro." Cynder says.

"Alright, alright." He says as he walks up to me.

"Uhhgg." I groan as I pick my head up to look at the blurry figure of the purple dragon.

"You're concentrating your energy into something you can't control, Electricity is a flowing element, similar to water, You have to keep it evenly spread throughout your body as well as keeping a steady flow, otherwise it will brake free and explode. Honestly how much energy you're storing I'm surprised you haven't died yet."

My head was spinning, I understood what he said and it made sense, I never tried to spread the energy out before. Maybe It will work next time. My head finally drops to the floor as the spinning room slowly comes to a halt. I slowly stand and sit on my haunches, "Heh, is anyone else hungry?" I ask rubbing the back of my head.

Spyro hangs his head as Cynder starts laughing.

"Ah whatever, If you all are coming I'll meet you in the cafe', I gotta do something real fast." I say as I run off towards me and Sols room.

Cynder walks up to Spyro smiling, he picks his head up slightly to look at her and smiles. "I worry about him sometimes." Cynder says.

"Ah, he'll be fine, I'm sure he's been through worse."

"So he says." Spyro smiles.

"Common, I'm kinda hungry too."

"You're always hungry." She teases.

"Hay, I resent that." He says smiling.

She smiles evilly as she walks by, seductively wagging her tail, she rubs Spyros face with the blunt of her tail and runs off. Spyro smiles back and follows her to there room.

I run to our room and unlock the door with a dark purple light. As I enter the room I hear the shower running, I close the door loud so she knows I'm there.

"Flare, is that you?"

"Yeah, mom's home." I tease.

"That's not funny I was sleeping." She complains.

"Hahaha, It's still pretty funny."

I imagine she was shaking her head, "Are you done with training?" She asked changing the subject.

"Well no not yet, we're taking a break. I came up to see if you wanted to join us for breakfast."

"Sure, I'd love to, just give me a second."

"Alright." I say, I didn't realize that to girls, a second can range from a couple minutes, to long, long hours. After a few minutes I hear the shower turn off and I thought I was done waiting, but when she didn't come out I knew I would be there a while so I laid down and waited some more.

When she finally comes out I was spread out on the bed upside down sleeping.

She clears her throat to wake me. "Huh" I open my eyes to see a beautiful dragon with sparkling white scales standing upside down in front of me.

I roll over to get a better look, She lifts her right paw slightly and poses, batting her eyes. "Well, how do I look"

I watch her with a mesmerized stare "Beautiful, er... Amazing, I mean," I sigh and smile, "You look gorgeous Sol."

She laughs. "I knew you would like it, I tried out that scale shiner, do you think it works?" She asked

"Oh, it worked, you look like a beautiful star in the night sky."

She smiles and nuzzles me softly. "Thank you, Flare."

I smile "It's my pleasure." She looks me in the eyes and I smile.

She quickly reaches in and kisses me softly on the lips. This caught me completely off guard. She brakes the kiss and looks at my shocked expression. Her smile immediately drops. "I-I'm sorry." She says as she turns away and tries to run away.

"Sol wait." I say as I jump off the bed. She looks back at me tears forming in her eyes. "Please don't cry." I say, wiping the tears out of her eyes, she stares into my eyes as I stare back. Then we both lean in for a second much longer, more passionate kiss. this time, I brake the kiss. "I love you Sol." She began to smile as more tears began to form, only this time they were of pure joy. She hugs me tightly, her head tucked into my chest. I smile and place my head on top of hers."

"How long, Flare?"

"Huh?"

"How long have you felt this way."

"Sol, I've always felt this way."

She smiles. "I'm so stupid."

"What do you mean?"

"We could have been like this a long time ago." She says sadly.

"Hay," I say lifting her head to face me. "We're here together now, and that's all that matters."

She smiles and kisses me once more. She brakes the kiss and asks, "You ready?"

"Huh, oh, duh, yeah lets go." I laugh as we exit the room.

As we enter the cafe', we look all over for any trace of Spyro or Cynder, however neither were present.

"I thought you said they were waiting?" Solfie asked.

"Maybe they got in line without us."

So we grab our food and go to sit at our usual spot. "Not here either. Where are they?"

"Maybe they're still at the training room."

"Ya, maybe, oh well that just means I get to spend more time with you." I say as I nuzzle her and she blushes.

We sit down and enjoy each others company.

After we finished we decided to go back to the training room, where Spyro and Cynder were still nowhere to be found.

"Seriously? They aren't here neither." I say aggravated.

"I guess we wait then." Sol says.

I sigh, "Yeah, I'm not supposed to do anything without Spyro here anyways."

So we walk into the pool of visions room just outside the training room and wait.

Spyro and Cynder come in with their tails intertwined and smiling widely.

"I hope you two had fun with whatever you were doing. You sure took your good ol' time." I say annoyed from the rather long wait.

"Hay, If your ready to blow yourself up again than by all means lets go."

"That won't happen this time." I argue.

"We'll see." He teases.

We all enter the training room and Spyro once again makes the stationary dummy appear.

"Now remember Flare, Electricity is a flowing element." He reminds me.

"Right, I've got this."

I close my eyes and once more I begin to gather energy, only this time, instead of just collecting it, I control it. As I feel the energy flow through my veins, I slowly concentrate it into my breath. concentrating now on the dummy before me I open my mouth and allow the energy to flow free strait at the dummy, shocking him and making him disappear.

I smile out of sheer accomplishment.

"Good job Flare, that's enough for today we will pick back up in two days."

"What, why not tomorrow?"

"Flare, I have allot going on right now I have to plan a bunch of important things for the festival in a few days."

"What festival?" I ask.

"The festival to celebrate Malefors defeat. It's coming up in a few days and we don't have any plans for it."

"We could help." Sol says.

"Yeah, why not, it aught to be fun."

"Well, I guess we could use the extra help." Spyro agrees.

"Alright!" I cheer.

"Hay I was thinking, the cafe' is getting a little old. Why don't we go someplace a little, I don't know." Sol says.

"Better." I finish her sentence.

"Yeah."

"Well there is that place Spyro took me after we got back from our adventure, remember it was the grand opening."

"Oh yeah that's right."

"Common Solfie, I'll show you where it's at."

"Ok." She says as she walks away with Cynder. As she walks she waves her tail back and forth in a swaying motion, I couldn't help but stare as she turned and smiled, before turning the corner and disappearing from view. I smile widely as she leaves.

"Common lover boy we're finally alone again so lets go." I shake my head at my nickname, but decide not to argue.

"Where are we going?"

"To pick up that gift, and this time don't you dare leave me alone with that blacksmith."

"Hahahah, I guess you didn't have fun with her then." I tease.

"Don't even start."

"Alright fine. Lets go then."

A/N: Hay, I actually finished, XD. seriously this chapter was going to be longer but I decided it was long enough. Now, I'm not really sure if I want to add any type of "detailed romance" To this story or not, so I decided to skip that scene, I mean it's rated M and all but I'm still not sure. Anyways you were right Sol and Flare are allot closer then just good friends. If that wasn't obvious enough. XD. Well I guess that's it, I hope it was worth the wait, Until next time:

Flare