I'm going to warn you right now, this chapter is mostly filler. This takes place one day before Ember first meets Nala.

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Sparx hovered above the tallest building in Warfang, enjoying the view and taking deep breaths of fresh air. "There's nothing better than a cloudless midnight," he said.

"I'll say." A young green female dragonfly came from behind him and held his hand.

Sparx looked at the green dragonfly in surprise. "Nala? Is that you?" She nodded in response to his question. In sheer excitement, Sparx gave Nala a big friendly hug, surprising her. "Wow! It's been almost four years! How have you been? When did you get here?"

Nala giggled and hugged him back. "Good to see you too, Sparx. I've doing good, mostly thinking about you..."

"About me? Wow. I didn't..." Sparx looked away and blushed.

"To answer your other question, I got here two hours ago. Your parents wanted me to give you this." She gave Sparx a rolled-up piece of paper.

Sparx opened it and read, "Dear Sparx, we're just writing to make sure you are doing well. We hope you and your brother are having a great time at the temple. We love you both and wish you the best of luck. Love, mom and dad. PS, you remember Nala, don't you?"Sparx smiled at the fact that his parents were thinking about him, but it made him feel sorry that Spyro never met his own family. He rolled up the paper and looked back at Nala. "So uh, do you have a..."

"Have a what?" Nala asked.

"A boyfriend?" The golden butterfly turned bright red from asking.

She smiled at the handsome golden dragonfly. "I did two years ago, but it turned out he was after one thing."

"Wow, that, uhhh... that really sucks, you know? I hate guys like that. What's his name? I'll teach that guy a lesson!" Sparx's confidence started pretty weak at the first sentence, but he brought it back up to impress her.

"Oh, really? You're going to teach Bumbus a lesson?" Nala teased.

Sparx's throat choked up when he heard the name. "Did you say Bumbus!"

Sparx was just a five year-old larva playing in the swamp with Spyro and Nala as a larva. Spyro rolled a mud ball to Sparx and the latter bumped it to Nala. "Heads up!"

Nala tried to catch the ball but wound up getting stuck and rolling along with it! "EEEEEEEH! Help me!"

"Nala!" Sparx crawled as fast as he could, surprisingly keeping up with Spyro, both of them chased the ball in attempt to save her. The ball landed in a small pond with Nala sitting on top. "Nala, don't move!" said Sparx. He crawled onto a long blade of grass that seemed sturdy. "Spyro, help me out here!"

"Sure thing!" Spyro picked up the blade of grass with his teeth and leaned in close to Nala.

"Nala, grab on!" said Sparx.

Nala crawled over and got on the grass with Sparx. "Thanks, Spa- whoa!" They both fell off and landed in the pond, which turned out to be shallow, out of surprise as a bumble swooped by. He laughed hysterically on the other side of the pond. "Bumbus? You again?"

"Of course, Bumbus had to do that!" said Sparx.

Bumbus laughed at all three of them. "Haha, losers! I told you not to come near my hive! That's what you get!"

"But your hive is five trees away!" said Spyro.

"Wrong again, losers! The hive fell out of the tree yesterday after my buddies and I got into a fight on the tree branch, so now it's right behind that bush over there."

Sparx caughed out some water. "And how were we supposed to know that?"

"Well, you know now! See ya suckas! Don't let me catch you near my hive!"

"You dated Bumbus?" Sparx asked in disgust.

"Well, yeah..." Nala admitted. "But I thought he became sweet after maturing, he sure acted like it."

"Nala, Bumbus? Seriously! The same Bumbus who provoked a bear into plugging up the river? That Bumbus? !" Sparx's mouth got louder with every word. "Just how is he a-"

"Sparx, do you want to argue or do you want to make out?" she asked impatiently.

The golden dragonfly instantly calmed down. "Make out please!"

"Good." Nala pulled Sparx toward her and they both made out.

'Wow,' Sparx thought. 'If you don't include that time in Warfang Mardi Gras, which is still cloudy to me, this is my first kiss! Score!'

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By the way, dragonflies really do remain as larva for five years.