Hello everyone. Here is the next chapter to this story. I would like to thank Troygroomes for all of his help in this chapter, and I would also like to thank my co-author gr4n1t3 th3 dr4gon. I wouldn't have been able to finish this chapter if it wasn't for the both of you.

It took some time but after a few hours of constant flight, Spyro and Cynder landed in front of the Swamp.

"Why did we come here?" asked Cynder as she started to question Spyro's sanity.

"Remember when I told you that I was raised by dragonflies?" asked Spyro as he placed their egg in between his paws. After getting a nod from Cynder, he continued "well, this is where I lived, my foster parents should still live here."

"How do you know that they will take care of our egg?"

"Well they took care of me, so I don't see why they wouldn't." said Spyro "Before we go into the Swamp, I need you to place our egg in-between my wings and on my back.

"Why?" asked Cynder.

"Because." he simply stated. "Swamp is too dense for us to fly through, and it's too dangerous to carry it in our paws".

Cynder then walked over to Spyro and put their egg on his back. Spyro then held onto the egg as best as he could with the back side of his wings. The two dragons then proceeded to walk into the swamp. As soon as they entered the swamp, Cynder felt sick from the smell of the place. It was beyond anything she had ever smelt in her life. She looked over to Spyro to see how he was doing in the smell. To her surprise Spyro seemed unfazed by the stench.

"He must have gotten us to it." thought Cynder.

As they walked deeper and deeper into the swamp Cynder started to shake with fear. She was always terrified of swamps, even when she was corrupted. If any dragon, cheetah, or mole would ever run into a swamp, she would have a group of apes go in and find them. What scared her the most about the place was that no matter where you were, whether it be inside or near by the Swamp, it always felt like she was being watched.

Spyro noticed the state Cynder was in and asked, "First time in a Swamp?"

"Yeah. I always had this phobia of Swamps. I always feel like I'm being...watched." said Cynder.

"Yeah, I know how you feel, but as long as you stay out of their territory THEY won't attack you" said Spyro

"W-what are you talking about, w-when you mention THEY?" asked Cynder as her heart rate started to rise.

"I mean the Merfolk that live in the waters, they are very protective to there territory, and don't like strangers near it, so they have hundreds of them spread though out the place watching to see if anyone gets to close to there territory. In fact there is one over there." said Spyro as he pointed to a pale looking creature that had white eye's and long black hair, as it had half of its head sticking out of the water.

Cynder thought her heart was about to burst at the rate it was beating as she started to shake with fear.

"Don't worry about them." said Spyro. "They have extremely sensitive eyes, so all you have to do is create some form of light, watch". Spyro then blow out a tiny fire towards the Merfolk. The flame came no were near it but the Merfolk covered its eyes from the light with its webbed hands before diving back under water.

This calmed down Cynder a little bit, but a question has been pestering Cynder ever since they entered the Swamp and now was a good time to ask it. "Spyro, what other dangers live in this Swamp"?

"Well the only dangers for you and me are the Merfolk, the poisonous snakes, and the quick sand. Everything else is dangerous only to dragonflies" said Spyro.

The two of them stayed quiet for several minutes until Spyro said "Hey Cynder do you see those lights up ahead"?

"Yeah."

"Well that is the town I grow up in, and also our destination." As they neared the village, Cynder saw that it had a wall with a gate in it surrounding it that came up to a fully grown dragon's chest. She also saw a sign that said "Welcome to DragonflyVillage".

When they reached the gate two dragonflies wearing leafs and carried a sharpened twig approached them. "State your business here…oh sorry Spyro. I didn't know it was you." said one of the guards.

"What brings you back here?" asked the other.

"Hello there Hawker, hello Chaser. We are here to see my parents." said Spyro.

"Ok then, just be careful were you step." said Hawker

"Yeah, we don't won't you or your friend to be stepping on any homes." said Chaser.

"We will be careful." said Spyro as he and Cynder walked though the gate.

When they entered the town Cynder started to look around, and saw that the homes were made from mud, large twigs, and rocks. She also noticed that the streets were lined with glowing stones that lit up the town. That is when a question popped into her head. "Spyro why are there guards her, and why are they wearing leafs?" asked Cynder.

"There are guards here because birds will swoop down and try to eat one of the dragonflies, or a frog might come by and try to find a meal. As for why they wear leafs, is because they rub rotten fruits on them so that predators don't eat them.".

"Okay...strange, but functional." said Cynder.

After a few minutes of walking, they are confronted by a dragonfly. "My is that you Spyro? You have grown so much since the last time I saw you." said an old white dragonfly.

"Oh hey there Willow." said Spyro

"How many times do I have to tell you to call me Mr. Wisp! I would of thought that being gone for several years would teach you to respect your elders, but I guess not." said Mr. Wisp.

Rolling his eyes, Spyro said, "Cynder this is Mr. Wisp, he is the town's searcher, or at least was until he failed at his job".

"Hey those were not my fault they didn't listen to my warnings." said Mr. Wisp.

"What's a searcher?" asked Cynder.

"Every now and then some animal will walk into the Swamp and get lost in here which is a very bad thing. A searcher, is some one who would leave the village and look for anyone who is lost and help them find there way out." said Mr. Wisp.

"And tell me what was your success rate?" asked Spyro.

Mr. Wisp mumbled a few words but Spyro and Cynder didn't hear him.

"What was that, we didn't hear you?" said Spyro.

"Three out of thirty-five!" he shouted, "Now if you two are done pestering me, I have to be somewhere." Said the old white dragonfly, flying past them.

"Goodbye Willow!" shouted Spyro.

Spyro and Cynder then continued their walk through town, until they came to a regular dragonfly home with a much larger house that was able to fit a young dragon in next to it. Spyro then approached the dragonfly home.

"Hello, is anybody home?" asked Spyro.

No more then a seconded after Spyro said that did a pink dragon fly burst out the front door and flew towards Spyro and hugged his snout. The pink dragonfly then said, "I'm so happy that you came back."

With a small chuckle Spyro said, "It's good to see you too mom." A blue and yellow dragonfly then came rushing from the inside of the house.

"Dear stop smothering him." said the blue dragonfly. "He is not a child any more."

The pink dragonfly then let go of Spyro's snout, turned to face the blue dragonfly, and said, "Do you have to ruin all of my fun?" The blue dragonfly couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Chuckling a bit more Spyro said "Cynder, this is Flash and Nina. Mom, Dad this is Cynder."

"So this is Cynder." Flash says, who started flying around her. "Sparx told us a lot about you.".

"Um, like what?" asked Cynder.

"He said that you are very kind, generous, and a very beautiful dragoness?" said Nina, clearly lying through her teeth.

"Ahh, that's so sweet…now what did he actually say." said Cynder who was now eyeing the yellow dragonfly.

With a look of defeat on her face Nina said "He told us you were a horrible monster, but over time you became quite nice."

"That sounds more like Sparx," said Spyro. "What else did he tell you"?

"I told them every thing that happened on our adventure, from when we left to when I got back home." said Sparx.

"Speaking of home, what brings you and your friend here?" asked Flash.

"Well you see we gotten ourselves into some trouble and we need some help. So we were hoping you could help us." said Spyro.

"You couldn't even last a few weeks before getting into more trouble, could you Spyro?" asked Sparx.

"This is a little different Sparx." said Cynder in a rather sad tone.

"Why what happened?" asked Flash with concern.

"Well long story short, we are being hunted by the guardian's and most if not all of the dragon race."

"That is awful," said Nina. "Well you can certainly stay here and hide."

"And put all of you at risk, I don't think so, but there is someone we were hoping you could take care of in our absence." said Spyro. "Cynder could you grab It." said Spyro while he pointed at the egg.

After Cynder put the egg on the ground Flash said "Now were did you find this little guy"?

"Well um, you see…" said Spyro nervously.

"Wait wait wait," said Sparx. "Are you guys telling me that that's…and that you…and you are…" he couldn't finish speaking before fainting.

"You don't have to be so dramatic about It." said Cynder as her face started to turn a lighter shade of black.

"Well congratulations." said Flash.

"No you can't have a child already, it's too soon." said Nina surprising every one.

"Why do you say that honey?" asked Flash confused.

"Because that would mean that we're… we're…" started Nina while trying to hold back tears.

"We're what?" asked Flash.

"OLD!" shouted Nina bursting into tears, and ran back inside.

Flash let out a sigh before saying "I'm sorry for what Nina did, she has this phobia of being old or something like that." Spyro and Cynder couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Anyway, why can't you guys take the egg with you? From what Sparx has told me you two seem to be very strong." said Flash.

"We tried to do that before, and we were with a friend, but the ones who are hunting us found us. They easily out numbered us and we could only take down half of them before they captured our egg and Cynder. Our friend was able to free our egg and Cynder, but she told us to run away while she held them off. That was the last time we saw her. We don't know if she is ok or not." said Spyro.

"Well I'm terribly sorry to hear about your friend, and I do wish her the best of luck. I'm sure once Nina calms down she would gladly look over our egg." said Flash.

"Thanks dad."

"Well how about you two love birds stay a while, you can put your egg over there in Spyro's old home." said Flash as he pointed to the larger building next to their house. "I am going to bring Sparx inside and see if I can calm down Nina.

Over the next few hours after Nina calmed down, and Sparx woke up, the five of them started to talk about what it was like in the swamp. Then after they finished dinner they started to talk about what it was like raising Spyro, and what he was like when he thought he was a dragonfly.

After a few good laughs about back then, Flash showed Spyro and Cynder outside for them to sleep next to their egg. They lied down on their backs and their heads to the stars and there was a long pause before anyone spoke.

"Spyro?" asked Cynder

"Yes?" he replied.

"I don't know if we can do this?" tears starting to fall from her eyes. "All of Warfang is after us, I...I don't know if I can handle it."

"Hey, it's alright." Spyro said, using his paw to wipe the tears from her eyes. He then planted a light kiss on her snout. "We'll get through this, together." A warm smile spread across Cynder's face. "Better?".

"You didn't have to do what you just did." Said Cynder, blushing a little.

"I know, I needed to." Spyro says with a slight grin. The night wore on for the two dragons with Cynder cuddled next to Spyro, the two holding each others paws, and their one free paw both wrapped around their egg.


The next morning after everyone ate breakfast, Flash and Nina started to talk about what Spyro and Cynder were planning to do.

"So Spyro and Cynder, what do you to plan on doing once you leave?" asked Nina.

"We don't know where we are going to go, but I think it would be best if we were to hide somewhere that is large and heavily fortified." said Spyro.

"How about we go to the Concurrent Skies?" suggested Cynder.

"Where's that?" Sparx asked. Ignoring Sparx's question, he asked Cynder.

"Are you sure, that place is bound to bring back bad memories?" said Spyro.

"Of what?" Asked Sparx, looking for an answer.

"Sparx, remember how we had to fight Cynder back then in her adult form?"

"Yeah, and..."

"And do you know how she transformed into her adult form without even maturing to that adult age?"

"No. Could you cut to the chase and tell me what that place has to do with..."

"IT'S!" Spyro started but then realized he yelled. He stopped to look at Cynder who looked perfectly fine, no crying, no tears, just calm. He took a deep breath, controlled his voice, and thought about picking the right words. "It's where her egg was taken before she hatched. She was tormented, corrupted, almost to death. She was forced to take orders from the Dark Master, didn't even have a chance to defend herself." He glanced at Cynder, who still looked calm and gave him a smirk, then back at Sparx. "I just wanted her to feel safe there."

"I will be fine, but thank you for thinking about me." Cynder then pulled Spyro into a passionate hug, causing Flash and Nina to smile at the two lovers, while Sparx felt like throwing up.

"Well you two should probably get going before it gets to late in the afternoon." said Nina, "And don't worry about your egg, we'll take good care of it."

"One more thing before we leave," started Cynder. "Me and Spyro talked about it last night and we decided that we don't want our child to know who its real parents are."

"Why is that?" asked Sparx.

"Because we know that eventual our child will go to Warfang, and if he or she were to tell someone who his or her parents are then there is a chance that the guardian's will found out and use our child as bait." said Spyro.

"Then what do you want us to tell them if he or she were to start asking whose there real parents?" asked Flash.

"Tell them that we died, and you found our egg." said Spyro.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" asked Nina.

"No, we don't want to do this, but we have no other choice other then to surrender." said Cynder.

"Okay, if you say so. We wish you the best of luck." said Nina.

And with that Spyro and Cynder took of towards the Concurrent Skies.

VERY IMPORTANT. So I need everyone's help with the next chapter. In the next chapter I need something bad to happen to either Spyro or Cynder. I wont tell you the reason behind this, but do know that if know one can help me with this then the next chapter will contain a torture scene. Do know that if I like your idea and decide to use it then I will give you full credit. Also do know that there is a chance that we wont use your idea.

So what did you guys think of the chapter. Please tell me in the review. Also I will be starting school some what soon so I don't know when the next chapter will be posted, but I will post it as soon as possible.