The Legend of Spyro: Ripto's Wrath
By: Valentine McDaniel

Disclaimer: I do not in any way own any of the names of characters/places/objects/etc in this story. They belong to their respected owners.

A/N: DO NOT read if you haven't beaten the games The Legend of Spyro: A New beginning and The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night. This WILL spoil them!! Another note, I put what the character is thinking in italics.

Chapter 6
The Future Guardian Dragons

Spyro yawned and stretched his wings. He smiled as he realized that Cynder was still laying on top of him. He wrapped his wings around her again and sighed. The warm sunlight coming through their window had woken him. He cracked his eyes open a little to let them adjust to the morning light. When they finally adjusted he was met with a pair of bright green eyes, looking into his.

Cynder smiled down at him and leaned forward, kissing him on the forehead. "Hey there sleepyhead. Dawn was about half an hour ago."

He smiled and brought a paw up to her cheek. He ran his claw across her cheek and down her neck. "God your beautiful." He leaned forward and started to kiss the nape of her neck.

She smiled and started to purr quietly. She closed her eyes and took his right horn into her mouth, bitting down on it.

He smiled and laughed. "Hey! Let go!" He continued to laugh as he gave his head a few soft shakes.

She grinned and started to giggle. "No way." Her voice was muffled slightly. She continued to stay locked on his horn tightly.

"Fine!" He wrapped his forelegs around her and started to roll over.

She hung onto his horn as they rolled across the floor. She continued to giggle as she stopped his rolling by putting one of her back paws down. She was now sitting on his chest with her teeth still sunk deep into his horn. Both of her back paws were set firmly on either side of him, to prevent him from rolling again. "Give up?"

Spyro sighed and smiled. "Fine, you win."

She let go of his horn, leaving behind deep scrapes and holes from her teeth. She giggled. I wonder how he's going to explain that to Ignitus. Note to self: be there when it happens. She looked down at him. "Now, what do I win?" She smiled seductively, laying her head down on his chest.

He smiled and leaned forward, closing his eyes and pressing his lips against hers.

"Ahem!"

They both jumped and scrambled to get up. In their doorway, leaning against the door frame was Flame. He looked at the two dragons in front of him and smiled as they blushed. "Sorry to break up the moment, but the Guardians have called all Apprentices to the castle yard. I was told to get you on my way there."

Spyro nodded and laughed nervously. "Thanks."

Flame smiled. "Don't worry. I saw nothing." He winked to get his point across.

Cynder, still blushing, looked at Flame. "Who are the other Guardian Apprentices?"

Flame sighed as the sun came out from behind a cloud letting the warm sunlight hit his wings. He stretched them. "I am apprenticed to Ignitus, but you knew from last night. I'm afraid I'm not allowed to say any more."

Spyro cocked his eyebrow. "Why?"

Flame just shrugged. "They told me not to. You'll have to ask Ignitus and the other Guardians yourself." He turned and walked out of the hut. "Come, I don't want to be late and get another lecture from Cyril on punctuality." He had changed his voice to sound like Cyril's when he said the word punctuality.

Spyro chuckled as he and Cynder ran to catch up with him. They walked beside him with Spyro in the middle as Flame led them toward the castle.

Spyro smiled as he looked at Flame. "You do that really well."

Cynder giggled. "Probably because he hears that speech from Cyril all the time."

Flame put a mock hurt expression on his face and looked at her. "That hurt doll, that really hurt."

Cynder's face grew serious and her eyes flashed with anger. "You will be hurting if you ever call me doll again." She waved the blade from her tail in front of her.

Flame shivered as he saw the danger in her eyes. He thought she was being serious until he saw Spyro stifling a laugh. Cynder started to laugh to, unable to keep a strait face. "Oh, I wish you could see your face. I can't believe you thought I was being serious."

Flame just shook his head. "That wasn't funny, dude, not cool." He smiled and joined them in there laughter.

Spyro started to look around the at all the huts. He had just noticed that the whole village was starting to wake up. As he continued to look more and more dragons started to appear. They were walking out of their huts or looking out windows. There where dragons of all colors and sizes, all the way from the same size as the Guardians to little hatchlings.

The adults bowed their heads slightly as Spyro and the others passed. Spyro blushed, embarrassed from the attention. He could hear whispers all over and he kept hearing his name repeated.

What made it worse was when they passed a group of girl dragons about Spyro's age. They giggled and a pink dragon with blue eyes even winked at him and said. "Hey there."

Cynder immediately growled and hissed at the dragoness, earning herself a dirty look. Cynder walked closer to Spyro and wrapped her tail around Spyro's. She stuck her tongue out at the group of girls, then turned her head back to her front.

Spyro nudged her shoulder gently with his. He looked into the green eyes that turned to look in his. He whispered. "Thanks." He had been uncomfortable with all the attention and her tail in his had calmed him down some.

She smiled and nodded. She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and unwrapped her tail from his as they reached a giant white stone door that led to the castle yard.

The door slid slowly open and Ignitus appeared from behind the door. He smiled down at the dragons. "Thank you Flame for doing this. You have saved an old dragon from a weary walk." He looked to Spyro and Cynder. "Come young dragons, there is a matter we need to discuss."

Spyro nodded and stepped into the yard with the others. In front of them was a giant stone circle that was inlaid into the ground. The other three Guardians where there, sitting down in front of white dragon, who had it's back to them.

Flame walked up and sat next to the dragon. Spyro and Cynder followed suit, siting down in front of the Guardians as Ignitus sat down in front of them next to Terrador.

Cyril was the first to speak. "Spyro, Cynder, I must say it is fabulous to see that you came out unharmed in the fight with Gual."

"Thank you Cyril." Spyro looked to Terrador. "Where you able to free Sparx?" It had been the Earth Guardian Spyro had entrusted his brother too in hopes of freeing him.

Terrador closed his eyes and lowered his head. "I'm sorry Spyro, but the Stone of Ages is not meant for dragonflies." He opened his eyes and looked up to meet Spyro's eyes. "I have scanned every bit of knowledge I know about the Stone, but I've come up with nothing as of late."

Spyro lowered his head and sighed.

Terrador smiled sadly. "Do not give up hope Spyro, I will confront the Chronicler on the matter. He may yet provide an answer."

Spyro smiled back. "Thank you Terrador, for everything."

Terrador nodded. "Now, that aside, I think it's time we got to the heart of the matter. Ignitus."

Ignitus looked down at the four dragons. "As you four know, we Guardians are no longer as young as we once were. Therefore, a few months ago we decided to take on apprentices, to train those who would one day replace us."

"What!?" Spyro couldn't contain himself. "Ignitus, has something happened?"

Terrador smiled. "Calm yourself Spyro." He chuckled. "We have many years in front of us, but I'm afraid our days of fighting have finally come to a close. We simply do this so that there will be dragons to replace us when we decide to step down."

Ignitus smiled. "You have already met Flame, he is my apprentice."

Volteer stepped forward. "The white dragon is Amber. She has decided to master electricity."

"Spyro," Terrador lowered his head so it was level with Spyro's. "We will begin our training early tomorrow morning."

"As will we, Cynder." Cyril said as he looked at her tail. "but, I must say, I am interested in the mark you have on your tail."

Cynder looked confused then turned her head back looking at her tail. She gasped as she spotted the pure white circle at the base of her tail. She turned her body so that it was visible to the others.

Ignitus frowned and looked to Spyro. "Spyro, show me your tail."

Spyro cocked an eyebrow and turned his body. He looked back and his eyes widened as they locked onto the very same circle on his tail. It was in the same spot as Cynder's.

Ignitus sighed. "I should have seen the signs and known not to put you two together."

Spyro looked at Ignitus. "What is this Ignitus?"

A/N: Well, hoped you liked it. Don't really have any more to say so, later. READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!!