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In this meantime I took to make this chapter I also revised all previous chapters. Spelling errors were corrected, and the some dialogues or phases improved grammatically.

Chap 3 and 4 are now just one chapter, so the fanfic has now one less chapter, and the reviews got bugged. (Chap 21 is now chap 20 but its reviews still on chap 21.)

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The following day...

Spyro woke up feeling rested, but he felt that his magic powers hadn't returned yet. He noticed that Cynder was still sleeping, but when he made a little move ended waking her up.

"Spyro?" She sleepily asked, opening her eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't want to wake you up." He replied with a low voice.

"How do you feel?" She worriedly asked gazing back to him.

"Better already, but I'm still without my powers." He sadly replied.

"Don't worry about that now Spyro, what's important is that you are here and well again." She gave him a small smile.

He just smiled, and nuzzled her nose with his. "Good morning." He said while did this.

"Good morning." She smiled back. "Are you ready to go back Spyro?" Cynder asked him.

"I guess I'm now Cynder. When are we going?"

"As soon as possible. We need to get that book Grace found with you to the guardians, and talk with then about your powers and what should we do."

"So what are we waiting for? Even that new dragoness is waiting for us." Spyro pointed.

"What?" Cynder asked and looked forward, sighting Liz and her brother, both lay down on the grass, but Liz was awake already.

"Oh good... We can go then." Cynder said and started to get up. Spyro also got up.

"I'll talk to her, wake up the others, will you?" She yawned while stretched herself.

"Sure Cyn." He smiled. She just smiled back and took some steps to Liz. Spyro gazed at Amphars and Grace, who where close to him. Soon when he approached a little more, Grace sleepily opened her eyes.

"Good morning you two, we are going back soon." Spyro said with a low tone.

"Okay Spyro." Grace said twitching her eyes, and then yawned, unconsciously showing her teeth and fangs to him. Grace then moved a little, and noticed that Amphars was still sleeping, embracing her. Suddenly she got a little ashamed of Spyro seeing that. He noticed, and just giggled. "It's okay."

Grace just gave him a half embarrassed smile and gazed at Amphars at her back.

"Amp, are you awake?" She asked. He just moved a bit and to her surprise he pulled her a little more against him.

She just gave a shy chuckle before continuing. "Spyro is here, time to get up and go back to Warfang."

Amphars then opened an eye, and when saw Spyro gazing at them. He felt embarrassed too, and a little bad for keeping him waiting.

"Oh sorry Spyro..." He sleepily said.

"Not a problem." Spyro raised a paw and smiled. "No need to be rushy, I'll give you some time to get up."

"Thanks." They said together. Spyro only nodded his head and headed to Ember.

Soon when he left, Grace looked behind again.

"Good morning, Amphy." She affectionately said.

"Morning Grace. Slept well?" He smiled and asked.

"Of course I did!" She smiled.

"I can say the same." He replied.

Grace then just gave him a small caress under the chin with her nose, getting another smile from him, and a caress over her ribs.

Grace enjoyed every second she passed alongside Amphars, so much that sometimes she even forget the problems they were passing through, and why they were at that camp. She wanted very much to tell him what she was feeling for him, but she knew that the situation was not the best. Didn't pass through her mind that he was thinking exactly the same.

Meanwhile, Cynder went to talk to Liz, and her still sleeping brother.

"Hi... err..." She started to greet but forgot Cynder's name.

"...Cynder." Cynder completed.

"Yes, sorry, I forgot." She giggled. "Well, my brother and I, mainly I, decided to go with you to the dragon city you said. We are all ready to go."

"Good, it's a little far from here but we can make it still today, with no rush."

"You are sure we can live there, aren't you?" She asked.

"Yes, of course. Since Warfang was nearly destroyed, we don't have much dragons there, and the guardians want many new dragons to come as possible. And don't worry, the city is being rebuilt already. It's a good city for us to live in."

"Okay then." She nodded her head.

Spyro didn't had any problems waking Ember up, them headed to Cynder. She and Liz had finished their talk already, and waiting for the others to get up.

"So, is she coming with us?" He asked.

"Yes, she's. I think she may live in the temple with us, like the others when they arrived there." Cynder replied.

"Good. The guardians will be pleased." He said and looked to Liz. She just replied with a small smile.

Liz gazed and analyzed the dragons she just met. She didn't know Spyro or Cynder, but she knew that Spyro was somewhat strong because of his color. Ember made her curious, since she never had seen a dragoness with such a different scale coloring. Amphars also got her attention, for his different tone of yellow, but mainly for his silver belly. Still, she could guess that he were an electric dragon like her, but she didn't have the slightest idea of what kind of dragoness Ember was.

Amphars and Grace had just get up, and Ember was still getting up. By seeing her getting up Liz snapped back of her thoughts, and poked the brother twice.

"Time to go, get up Flake!"

A small while later, they finally departed. Spyro looked much better than the last day already, but while in flight Cynder noticed that he was still tired. To restore the days he passed in that pitiful situation, he would need much more than a day of rest.

But a problem was still existing for them. When they turned from the desert to the forest they lost the way to Warfang.

"Spyro..." Cynder called him. He was flying at her side.

"Yes?" He gazed at her.

"Do you know the way?" She asked.

"Er... I was just following you." He confusedly replied.

"I'm the one following you!" She gasped.

"Great!" Spyro laughed.

"What do we do now?" Cynder worriedly asked.

"Well...we can go back to where you found me, then do the reverse way."

"That's the problem, I can't see the direction of it." She said while gazing around. Spyro also gazed around. The only things in sight were trees, and small clearings. The volcano at the center of the continent also could be seen.

"Well, we know that volcano is the center of the continent." Spyro pointed. "Maybe if we go to it, we can recognize some area in the distance, like Avalar, or maybe Warfang itself."

"That our best bet." She replied. Spyro just smiled.

Night had been called by her master, to his chambers. Soon she entered it, saw her master and Flame. She didn't know that Flame would be there too, and now she suspected that her master had discovered something. That gave her a freeze in the spine.

After talking with Night in the last day, Flame started to think about his last days. He noticed that the dark magic was confusing him, don't letting him think about it, trying to control what he was thinking, and he started to get mad and fight it. After a long fight against himself, Flame could get his own mind back. He noticed how much Ember was still meaning for him, and he felt an idiot when remembered that he had fled from her, two times. Why was him obeying that ape? Why was him working against himself?

The dark magic began to get weaker and weaker on him, and his mind even more clearer. The more he thought, the more he regretted everything he had done.

But their master noticed this, and he just got mad.

Night approached him, sat right in front of, aside Flame, and bowed her head in respect.

The ape gazed at her, while she did this, and soon he locked his unsatisfied gaze at Flame. Both Flame and Night were frightened now.

"Flame, what's wrong with you? I gave you all this power and you are giving it away now?" He angrily said, looking very unhappy.

Flame looked up to him, and cleared this throat. "They brought me nothing good, nothing I wanted. I just wanted to be with Ember, and now I'm more distant than ever from her." He sadly said.

"Night!" He shouted, and she almost jumped in fear. Seeing that, he got even more angry and continued. "What did you do to him? What did you say?" He questioned her, shouting.

"I did nothing!" She stammered, and took a step backwards.

The ape didn't take the lie, and coldly got her by her neck, lifting her from the ground. Night just grunted and struggled to breathe, her eyes got wet from sadness and despair.

"I know that's your fault... You'll pay for betraying me!" He shouted to her.

"Leave her!" Flame shouted, angrily.

The ape just looked to Flame, enraged. Flame also was getting mad, and the dark energy could be seen getting stronger again.

The ape then released Night, and she fell to the ground again. She groaned when hit the ground, and took some steps behind, fearfully.

"You don't deserve you dark powers any longer..." He said, gazing at Flame. Flame just hung his head.

The ape extended his hand to Flame, and began to suck the dark magic from him, for himself. Flame just grunted for a small while, while he did this, and soon he was back at his normal form.

"And for that disappointment, you will punish him Night, or I'll do it myself!" He shouted to her. Night just hung her head too, and them looked to Flame. He looked totally frightened.

"Now!" The ape shouted.

Night knew that she had no better choice than fighting Flame, so she did it. He took some steps back, away from her, but she ran for him, leaped on him, and started beating him, with everything she had.

The ape just watched she beating him, while he did almost nothing to defend himself.

At last, Flame felt to the ground, with several wounds, gashes, and claw marks, all over his body. Part of him just wanted to pass away now, and leave everything he did wrongly behind.

"Stop now, I don't need him dead." The master said. "Don't disappoint me again, or you will be the next!" He menaced shouting to her.

Night just hang her head, submissively.

"Get him locked, now!" The ape ordered.

Night walked to Flame, then pulled him by his tail, and shackled his paws, to the stone wall.

The ape just watched while she did this.

When she finished, looked back to him. He said nothing, just left the hall.

Seeing that, Night gazed to Flame again, looking his wounds that she had just caused.

"Flame...I'm sorry..." She said, hanging her had sadly. "I didn't want this to happen."

"Night, you saw what he did to you...He's a monster! You don't have to obey him forever!" Flame said, panting, and groaning a little from pain.

Night only raised her gaze at Flame. Her eyes were wet again.

"Go to Warfang, and talk to the guardians, that's our only chance... We can stop this, Night! Please!"

Spyro and the others flew a long distance, for what seemed hours. They were silent all the way, sometimes fighting against the wind.

Finally, they sighted Warfang in the distance.

"We can see the city! Lets go!" Spyro said to the others, and they started to beat their wings faster.

With a little more time, they reached the city's temple, and landed. Without losing time, Spyro and Cynder guided them through the temple, to the guardians' place.

When approaching the guardians chamber, Spyro and Cynder heard a voice, coming from there. This voice was familiar, but they didn't know who was talking.

Once they entered it, they gasped in total surprise.

"Night!" Spyro shouted, surprised.

Without losing any time, Cynder ran towards her, ready to fight her. Ember followed Cynder quickly. Amphars and Grace got in combat instance and waited her to make a move. Liz and her brother didn't know what to do, so Liz got ahead of him, protecting him, also ready to fight if necessary.

Night quickly gazed at them, and froze in place with fear.

"Stop!" Terrador shouted, and got in Cynder and Ember's way. His deep shout reverberated in the room.

"Terrador!" Cynder shouted. "She's one of them!"

"She kidnapped Flame!" Ember shouted too. "I'll kill her!"

"Let me talk!" Terrador shouted again, and stroke a paw over the ground. Everyone gone quiet.

"This dragoness is asking for help, and giving up her master. We know who is her and what she did already."

"How can we know if she saying the truth?!" Cynder exclaimed.

"We don't know, but we have to hear her."

"We can't trust her at any way!" Ember exclaimed.

"Calm down..." Terrador said. "She told us about her master, and she wants to help you to find Flame, and defeating her master."

Before Cynder could say something, Terrador raised a paw and continued.

"I know that it could looks like a trap or something like that, but it's everything we have now. Or do you trust her, or go to find him without her help."

Night them took a step towards Cynder. Cynder was in combat position, and narrowed her eyes angrily.

"I know everything I done, and I regret everything. I should have left him before, but now he has Flame locked. That's my fault, and you all have the right to hate me." She said in a sad voice and look.

"And why should we trust you?" Cynder growled.

"Because I know the way, because my master is a monster, and because he has the purple dragon's power and Flame." She replied. Cynder didn't like the answer.

Night then gazed to the others, and saw her diary on Grace's paws.

"You brought my diary!" She gasped gazing at Grace.

Grace looked to the book on her paws, then looked back to Night.

"This book? I found it with Spyro, in the desert."

"Yes, I left it with him." Night replied and took some steps to Grace, cautiously.

"And why?" She curiously asked.

"Because I wanted him to read, and understand my reasons."

"Your reasons? You work for them!" Ember sharply replied.

Night said nothing, and took the book from Grace. She gave the book to Terrador then.

"It's my diary, you will found there everything I said to you, and more." She said.

Terrador picked the book and gave it to Cyril, who started reading.

"Look, we don't have much time. If we delay to stop him, he will use the purple dragon's power to some of dark ritual."

"And where's Flame?" Ember asked.

"My master has him locked. He's wounded, but he will survive." She said, somewhat sadly.

"Oh my dear ancestors!" Ember gasped.

"And where is the place?" Cynder asked.

"It's on my book. I have to go, before he notices that I fled." She replied.

"Yes, it's everything here." Cyril said, closing the book.

"What? Wont you go with us?" Ember asked.

"There's no time! I have to go back now..." Night replied, and disappeared in shadows.

"I can't believe this! Ember growled.

"Calm down Ember..." Terrador calmly said.

"Cyril, did you found the place on the book?" Terrador asked.

"Yes, I did." He replied.

"Good." Terrador said and gazed to the youngsters then. "Now, I'll live it up to you trust her or not."

"I really don't like this. Spyro isn't even ready to fight again!" Cynder said.

"But we have to be fast Cynder. They have Spyro's powers, and Flame." Ember said.

"It's true, Spyro's magic can't fall on wrong hands, or the world will be doomed again." Terrador finished.

"So, what do we do? Trust her and take the risk of walking into a trap?" Cynder asked him.

"That's the best we have now Cynder...That or you can stay and wait." He replied.

Cynder just gave a loud sigh. "Where's the place?"