Ch. 4: Double Dragon

The figure was starting to increase in speed. They then noticed that it was a dragoness. A pink dragoness. Flame started to get a bit nervous.

"Aw come on! Did she really come all the way here?" Flame started to look a bit upset.

"What's wrong, Flame?" asked Spyro.

"She's probably gonna tell me that I'm in trouble" replied Flame.

"Flame, what are you doing all the way out here? You've been gone for hours and… oh. Spyro…" the pink dragoness started to sway a little.

"Are you okay?" asked Spyro.

"You…you…talked…to…ahhh." The pink dragoness fainted right there on the ground.

"Does she have some sort of medical problem?" asked Cynder.

"No. But she has fantasized about meeting you, Spyro. I guess it was just too much for her to handle" said Flame.

"Oh great. Now I have another unconscious dragon" said Cynder.

Spyro looked at the pink dragon. She wore a necklace that had a large red heart on it. "Well, what are we going to do with her now?" asked Spyro.

"Well we could just leave her here" said Blink.

"Blink! Don't be so rude. Maybe we can splash some water on her face to wake her up" said Flame.

"And how are we going to bring the water over to her? With our mouths?" questioned Cynder.

"I'm sure Spyro can carry her over to the ocean. Right, Spyro?" said Flame.

"Was saving the entire Earth not good enough for you? In case you didn't notice, I am extremely sore and tired." said Spyro.

"Alright, alright, geesh. I'll do it" said Flame. He then picked up the limp dragoness and started flying over to the ocean.

"So, what's her name?" questioned Spyro. Cynder glanced at Spyro for a moment, and then looked away.

"Her name's Ember" said Flame. The 4 dragons finally got to a little shoreline that bordered the ocean. Spyro looked around to the Northeast and to the Southeast. All he saw was blue, as far as he could see.

"How big is this ocean?" asked Spyro.

"You'll have to ask the village leader that question" replied Flame.

Flame put Ember down on the shoreline where the waves reached during the high tide. Flame stretched out his paw and clawed at the water, spraying some on Ember's face. He kept doing this for well over a minute.

"Why did she have to come?" cried Flame.

Ember started to cough and finally woke up.

"Geesh. That took long enough" said Flame.

"Is…is he still here?" asked Ember.

"Oh no. Come on Spyro, let's leave" said Cynder. Cynder then pushed Spyro away from Ember so she couldn't see him.

"Ember, just calm down" said Flame, with the hope that she wouldn't faint again from seeing him.

"Spyro, did you hear what I said to you after we defeated Malefor?" asked Cynder when they were further away from Flame and Ember.

"What? When you said that you'd be with me?" asked Spyro.

'Did he not hear me? Or does he really not remember?'

A loud clap of thunder came from the distance to the East. Dark clouds started to appear from the horizon. A breeze suddenly started to blow.

"Oh no. Ember, can you promise me that you won't faint if you see Spyro?" asked Flame.

"Well, I don't know. I'll try" said Ember.

"Ok, because we have to go. Now" said Flame.

"Blink!" screamed Flame to the ground. A few seconds later the mole popped out of the ground.

"What's going on, Flame?" asked Cynder.

"It's a hurricane" said Flame.

"A hurricane?" asked Spyro.

"Oh come on. Don't tell me you don't have any oceans nearby in the dragon realms."

"Well, we do. But we never get any really bad storms like that" said Cynder, pointing out to the distance.

"Well, if we don't get to shelter soon, we're going to be in big trouble" said Flame.

"How long do we have until it gets here?" asked Cynder.

"By the looks of it, we don't even have an hour" said Flame.

"How long does it take to get to Stone Hill?" asked Spyro.

"Even if we flew as fast as we could, it would still take at least a couple of hours" said Flame.

"What are we going to do, Flame?" cried Ember.

Flame thought for a few moments. An idea then popped into his head. "We could go under the Earth where the crystals are. There are plenty of endless caves down there and we'll be safe from the storm" said Flame. "Well, what do you guys think?"

"I guess we could go see the crystals" said Cynder. Spyro looked at her with confusion. "There are lots of crystals down there Spyro. I've already seen what Blink has brought from down there. There probably are plenty of caves down there now from when the Earth split apart" said Cynder.

"Alright. Just make sure that Ember doesn't get to close to me" said Spyro. Ember blushed from the comment despite how mean it sounded.

The 4 dragons walked over to the hole that Blink made earlier. Blink popped his head out. "Well, I'll be waiting for you guys down here in the cave" said Blink.

"How are we supposed to fit in that hole?" asked Ember.

"Don't worry, Ember. Spyro has mastered the earth element. He could just dig one out large enough for us" said Flame.

"Heh. Yeah right." Spyro then jumped up in the air, started to roll around and became an Earth ball. He continued to spin as he hit the Earth. Dirt started flying out. Then there was some clinking noise. Spyro started to run into some crystals on his way down. Crystal shards started to fly into the air. Ember looked in amazement.

"We should wait for a while" said Flame. Spyro continued his way down for a while until he reached a massive cave. A few minutes later, Cynder, Flame and Ember came down into the cave.

"Wow. I've never seen so many crystals" said Ember. All around the walls of the massive cave were crystals of red, green and light blue colors.

Spyro started to absorb a few of the health crystals that were just lying on the floor of the cave. Cynder looked around the cave. The only light that came into the cave was from the hole that Spyro had made.

"So we're probably going to spend the night in this cave?" asked Cynder.

"By the looks of it, yeah." replied Flame.

"Well, we should get a fire started, because it's going to get dark in here" said Spyro. The sound of wind gusting could be heard now in the cave. Another loud clap of thunder struck. A flash of lightning briefly lit up the cave and the ground shook a little.

"How bad is this storm going to be?" asked Cynder. She sounded a bit worried.

"I don't know" Flame said with a bit of irritation in his voice because of how many times he didn't know the answer.

"Well, we don't have any wood to burn. And I don't see anything that looks like it'd burn easily in here" said Cynder.

"Well, what else could we burn?" asked Spyro. Water started to pour down from Spyro's hole and started to create a stream.

"I don't know, but even if we did get a fire going, the water might just put it out" said Flame. Spyro doubted that the water would cause any problems for them, because the cave was easily the size of the entire temple. The waves started to crash down closer and closer to their hole, unknowingly to the 4 dragons. Another clap of thunder and lightning struck.

Cynder lied down on the floor and the others followed suit, seeing that they didn't have anything else to do. Spyro was the first one to fall asleep, despite all the noise coming from the hole in the cave. Cynder and Ember didn't go to sleep quite as easily.

A few hours later, Ember started to get up very slowly. She started to creep very quietly towards Spyro. Cynder was still awake and heard her footsteps. Ember continued to get closer to Spyro until she was face to face with him. 'I've been waiting for this moment for my entire life' thought Ember. She tried very hard not to breathe too hard on him. She then started to extend her lips towards Spyro's lips until they started touching. 'Oh, they're so soft' thought Ember. Ember started to kiss Spyro very passionately, but while she was doing this, Cynder started to get up very slowly. Ember started to extend her tongue out, trying to open Spyro's mouth. Cynder started to prepare herself while Spyro slowly started to wake up.