Day broke.
Spyro and Ember woke about the same moment, both with the sunlight blinding their eyes. They took a few moments to could see again. First thing Spyro saw was Cynder lying in front of him asleep, he stared at her a second smiling to himself, listening her breath.
"Cynderr..."He purred, breaking the silence "...Wake up..." He said softly.
She moved a bit and twitched her eyelids, but didn't wake. Then he tried something that he knows that would work. He lifted himself off the pillows a little to reach her cheeks, and started licking it. She began to move more, until she opened her eyes and giggled.
"Good morning Cynder." He said softly.
"Good morning." She replied just as softly looking back to him. They got up and stretched themselves, like usual. And headed to the mess hall.
Ember was daydreaming, she had given up in thinking how she could get Spyro, but she was far from giving up on him. In fact, she had one thing in mind, but she could not let herself do this, yet.
Hearing her stomach growling made her snap back of her daydream. She got up and headed to the mess hall too.
Amphars was starting to wake. "Crap!" He said trying to get the sunrays' off his face with his paw.
He turned his back to the sun and lay on the pillows once again, but after a few moments he was just too hungry to stay there. Then he got up and headed to the mess hall, but he turned his way to Flame's room. Once there he poked his head into the room, and saw Flame still sleeping. He approached silently and put his paws on Flame's eyes.
"Guess who?" He said softly trying to imitate a girl's voice and to no laugh.
"Ember?" Flame asked.
"No idiot, it's me! Now get up before I shock you once again!" He said with his normal voice and laughed at the end, removing his paws from Flame.
"You are so funny Amphars, that you deserve the Funny of the Year trophy." He said with an annoyed voice.
"Thank you very much! I would like to dedicate this trophy to my friend who after so many years loving a girl can't just say to her that he loves her!" He said, and the bursted laughing.
"At least I have someone I like!" Flame provoked.
Amphars stopped almost instantly his laugh and looked at Flame narrowing his eyes.
"That's a low kick." Amphars laughed. "I spent my life alone until now. I don't mind dying this way!" He said, trying to not look haggard.
"But you surely mind dying a virgin!" Flame laughed.
It took a few seconds to Amphars to reply, his mouth was hung open, trying to think on an answer while Flame just laughed almost losing his breath.
"I hate you so much!" Amphars said somewhat giggling.
"I hate you too!" Flame laughed.
"I will keep the trophy either way. Thanks." He sarcastically said.
"As you wish!" Flame said yet laughing.
Amphars turned and exited the room going to the mess hall, Flame followed him.
"He who laughs last laughs best" Flame said to Amphars, who was just ahead of him.
"How about you…you know, go f**k yourself?" He replied without looking back.
"You go first!" Flame laughed.
"I should just have electrocuted you again." He sighed. "With a higher voltage this time!"
"Yeah, go on." Flame laughed.
When they reached the mess hall, Spyro, Cynder and Ember were already eating.
Amphars and Flame took their food from the kitchen moles and sat near the others. They greeted everyone and they nodded their heads back.
Amphars didn't make any jokes, so the breakfast was a very silent and tranquil one.
"You are so quiet today Amp." Ember said looking at him, and Flame started to laugh a little.
"I... just don't have anything in mind. It's just it." He replied.
"I see." She looked at Flame who was trying to muffle his laugh and raised an eyebrow.
"What?" He asked already defensively.
She just giggled and turned her look back to her meal. And he did the same.
About one hour later they were already walking to the class. Today Cyril was going to be the professor.
They entered the class and take their seats as usual. Cyril introduced himself and began the lecture. He had told Amphars of an ice dragoness, that was his best pupil, in the previous day while Amphars was training with Volteer. Amphars found what looked to be an ice dragoness sat few steps away from him. She had light blue scales and a snow-white chest and belly. Her wing membranes, crest and all other details of her body were snow-white too, and she had light icy-blue eyes. The rest of her body was normal to an ice dragoness, just like a female, younger version of Cyril. She was a little smaller than Amphars, but had about the same age, maybe older, and looked very cute, shy, and beautiful. He stared at her a little, but she suddenly changed her gaze, and looked at him, and he turned his head hard to do not be caught.
"Must be her." He thought to himself. Then he resumed listening to Cyril, glancing at her sometimes.
When the class finished, everyone exited the chamber, but Cyril called for Spyro and Cynder before they exit.
"Spyro, Cynder. Come with me, we have to talk about one thing."
The two nodded their heads and followed Cyril to a chamber where were all the guardians.
"What is it Cyril? Something is wrong?" Cynder asked with a worried face.
"No Cynder, it isn't anything bad." Terrador said.
"Then what is it?" Spyro asked tilting his head.
"First: As you know the dragons must be trained by someone who mastered its element. And we don't have a Fire guardian at this moment. So you could be training the fire dragons until we have one. More specifically, Flame and Ember."
"It's fine… I think" Spyro uncertainly replied.
"We will talk about a new fire guardian with you soon. We do not know what to do now." Terrador said. "And Volteer will be explaining something to you two. Isn't that Volteer?" He said with a smile and looked to Volteer.
Volteer just sighed.
"I will take that as a YES." Terrador said looking back to Spyro and Cynder.
"Come on now you two, to the library." Volteer said and walked his way to the library with Spyro and Cynder following, confused.
Once there he searched for a book, and took it. He then sat in front of the two young dragons.
"Ignitus should be the one who was talk about it, so why me?" He said to himself.
Spyro and Cynder just looked at each other, then back at Volteer.
He breathed deeply and began. "Now, I will speak to you about…"
"Dragons!" A shout was heard, and everyone turned their heads to see Hunter standing on the library's doorstep.
"The dragons arrived Volteer, Sykes and his village." Hunter said.
"Thank the Ancestors!" Volteer said in his mind.
"I see, I will be helping them to get used to the city." Volteer pretended to sigh. "Spyro, Cynder, I will talk to you tomorrow."
The dragons nodded their heads, now even more confused. They walked off the library, and sat on the room's corridor.
"What you think is with Cynder?" Spyro asked.
"I don't know too." She replied. In fact she had a suspicion, she wasn't as naive as Spyro was.
"Well, let's see these dragons then." He said, and she nodded her head agreed.
Outside the temple, the dragons were waiting to receive words from the guardians.
There Ember found and walked to her parents, and hung them. They nuzzled and licked her back. Same to Flame and his parents, but Amphars and his parents were not so affective.
Amphars, Flame and Ember told their parents about the last days. Sykes knew about Flame's crush on Ember, and laughed when Amphars told him about her running after Spyro.
"And you Amphars? Finally interested in someone?" His father smiled.
"He could even be, but I really doubt that some dragoness would be interested in him at all." His mother said.
"Thanks mother, you are so sweet, what would be of me without you?" He said sarcastically with an annoyed face and tone of voice.
"If you depended of your father, surely you would starve to death, or die by disease." She replied.
"What a beautiful family's talk!" His father said sarcastically just as Amphars. "Amphars..." He called. "Look, when you find a dragoness, just don't make the same mistake I did."
She looked at him with an annoyed face.
"My family is so beautiful indeed." Amphars sighed. His mother raised an eyebrow.
"When we receive our new place, I want you to go there sometime." She said.
"Why? What is that?" He surprisedly asked.
"You will help me cleaning it." She replied.
"Damnit!" Amphars splat.
Spyro and Cynder reached the area where the dragons were. The guardians were guiding them to their new houses. The city was still being restored by the moles, but was almost empty of dragons, and having some of them on the city could accelerate the reconstruction.
Some dragons that saw Spyro and Cynder immediately recognized them, and then smiled and bowed their heads in respect. Some even shouted things like "Thank You!"
The dragons then started dispersing to their new houses. The sun was starting to set when them all already were gone.
"Hey, I haven't seen Sparx all yet today." Spyro said.
"And that's just good." Cynder teased both laughed.
Then, Ember and Amphars reached the place where Spyro and Cynder were.
"So Spyro, how about a walk today?" She said smiling, ignoring Cynder.
"You can go with…" He looked at his sides but didn't find Flame. "Amphars." He finished.
"Yeah." Amphars agreed without thinking. "Wait! Me?" He snapped.
"Better you than me." Spyro whispered to Amphars.
Ember was confused by the boys' actions, and raised an eyebrow while gazing at them.
"I'm a little tired Ember, why you don't ask to Flame?" He pretended to yawn.
"Why do you two like to dump me at Flame?" She asked naively with an eyebrow rose.
They gulped in surprise and Cynder tried to do not laugh.
"What? We are not doing this. Spyro and me, we are just tired, so you should ask Flame, just it." Amphars said.
"Then forget about it." Ember replied, annoyed.
"Uh…ok then. I will go to my room, and read something." He said and ran to his room.
"Why is he running?" Spyro asked looking at the dragon.
"He always run, he can't just walk normally." She said and they laughed.
Just then Flame approached them.
"Hey there, what's going on?" Flame asked.
"I asked to have a walk to Spyro but, he passed at Amphars, who passed back to you. And you wasn't even here." Ember said.
"And you do want to walk?" Flame asked.
"Sorry Flame, we already walked a lot yesterday. I just wanted to it with…someone else." She replied.
"I see." Flame sighed.
She noticed his saddened sigh, but said nothing, just took a mental note of it.
"Well, the sun is setting, so let's have dinner." Spyro said and turned to enter the temple, and Cynder followed. Flame and Ember followed too, right behind.
When they reached the mess hall, Amphars was already there, sat in the wooden bench, gnawing a bone.
"I hate bones, why the cookers just don't remove it?" He said to himself.
The dragons gathered their foods and sat around Amphars, and began to eat. Amphars, who was already finishing his meal, waited for the others to finish their too.
"I think my food is a little cold." Flame said with a bone in his mouth.
"You are a fire dragon! Are you really complaining about cold food?" Amphars said, the others laughed.
"If I split fire on it, it will toast." Flame said.
"Ok sure, then let me help you" Amphars laughed and stoke a paw on Flame's back, releasing energy on him. Flame shivered a little, but the meat started steaming.
"See? It worked!" He laughed.
"Yeah, thank you, I guess." Flame replied, and the others just laughed again.
"You can always ask! Well, I'm heading to my room, so good night friends."
"Good night Amphars." They replied.
Amphars entered his room and the first thing he noticed was the silence, what remembered him loneliness. The second one was the wind blowing from his balcony, so he walked to it. The wind was blowing softly and the sun almost down. He thought that could be a nice time to fly a little, and took off from it and flew over Warfang, feeling the breeze in his body.
In the mess hall, everyone finished their meals, parted and then headed for their rooms.
Ember was thinking in her room. She noticed that nothing that she was doing, was actually working on Spyro, and he just shoved her off all times. She was getting annoyed with this. Some time ago, she felt guilty on trying herself on a dragon already compromised. That ashamed her. But now she was not caring anymore. Her hormones spoke louder than her conscience.
Spyro and Cynder were in their room too, laying together in their pillows, and the two were enjoying their times with each other, gazing at the sky and stars through the balcony.
After all Amphars returned to his room, and after a small while, everyone fell asleep.