Chapter 1

Tonight was a dark and very stormy night in the Skylands (an odd cliche, but okay), there was a group of Mabus that had just left a local convince store, however, they seemed to be masked.

"Ha! I can't believe how easy it was to rob that place!" One of the thugs laughed as the other opened a large bag.

"Look at this cash, we'll be rich" another thug laughed.

"Yeah, But I will admit, that was surprisingly easy, and conscience stores don't have that much money"

"That's because it wasn't meant for you" the thugs turned back to see a large dragon covered in shadow.

"Oh yeah? And what if we feel like coming back?" The thug threatened as the dragon let his face reveal itself from the shadows.

"You won't...because you'll be dead!" He sneered as he used his tail to grab him and squeeze him up, the others tried to attack, but the dragon dealt with them, one of them he slit their throat with ease due to his massive claw, then he consumed one whole, and finally, he burnt the last one to a pile of ash, then he looked at the one that his tail gripped.

"Now, you fool, this is where it really ends" He cackled as he used his tail to crush his lungs, and snap his neck as he watched him fall to the ground, then he saw a picture on the side of the wall, it showed the purple dragon, and his lover doing some sort of action pose, the dragon snarled and grabbed the part with the purple and ripped it off as he held it in his grasp, and crushed it.

"We shall meet very soon..." he let the shadows consume him once more as he let the corpses lay there, rain pouring on them.

The next day

Spyro awoke to a bright morning, he wasn't surprised at all, with all his recent misfortunes lately, he was just glad to be alive, he noticed Cynder wasn't present in the tree house anywhere, so he figured he'd go and find her.

"What am I going to do with her?" He chuckled to himself as he spread his wings and took off to find her, first person he'd ask would be Rhea, despite her seemingly being the one who "killed" him, they'd grown closer, it was almost like they were cut from the same cloth (well, they kinda literally are since Rhea used to be Cynder's dark persona), when he found her, she was organizing the other Skylanders and was prepping them for missions, thankfully she seemed to have finished when he arrived.

"Hello Rhea" Spyro greeted as she turned to face him.

"Oh hi Spyro, is there something I can do for you?" Rhea asked as Spyro explained.

"Do you know where Cynder is?" Spyro asked as Rhea shrugged.

"Well, I don't know where she's at, but, I'm here..." Rhea's hand slid down Spyro's chest, making him shiver a little, soon enough though, Rhea stopped herself.

"Sorry, I didn't mean that, I used to be a part of Cynder, you know" Rhea looked away in shame.

"Hey, think nothing of it Rhea, I understand, being part of Cynder means you have natural feelings for me, I mean, who can resist this face?" Spyro joked as Rhea laughed.

"Well, you might want to ask Volteer, he might know" Rhea suggested as Spyro thanked her and flew off, Spyro pondered what just happened.

"I feel bad for her, she was part of Cynder, but now, she's her own individual, and she has to watch me and Cynder be together all the time, while she herself can't share her feelings with me, I can't help but think that she'll always have those feelings, even if she finds someone else" Spyro thought to himself as he took notice of Volteer as he roamed through the fields.

"Volteer, there you are" Spyro announced as he landed.

"Ah Spyro, what may I do for you on this fine day?" Volteer asked as Spyro said he was looking for Cynder.

"Ah yes, Cynder, last I saw her, she was at the shoreside" Volteer explained as I thanked him, and went to find her, eventually I saw her, he was standing pretty idle as I landed.

"Cyn? I've been looking everywhere for you" Spyro walked up to her as she turned to face him.

"Well, here I am" Cynder replied and smiled as Spyro raised an eyebrow.

"Are you okay? You seem a little off" Spyro asked.

"Oh it's nothing, Spy, it's just that I was thinking about things, I usually come here to ponder" Cynder shifted a little as she walked over to him, and nuzzled him.

"Now, is there any reason you came here to find me, other than just so you could see me?" Cynder asked as Spyro smiled.

"Well, that actually was kinda just it, I didn't really know where you were, but there is one thing that concerns me..." Spyro looked into her blue eyes.

"Let me guess, it's about Rhea?" She asked as Spyro nodded.

"Yeah, you didn't happen to use your physique abilities, did you?" Spyro asked as Cynder chuckled.

"No, I've noticed it too" Cynder replied as Spyro sighed.

"I think she's probably in a lot of pain, she needs someone, earlier today she had to stop herself from making a move on me, I'm worried about her" Spyro held Cynder in her embrace.

"...and I think we're the cause" Spyro continued.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but whenever we're together, I can always see her out of the corner of my eye, watching, probably longing for that feeling" Spyro explained as Cynder looked up at her.

"While, as her friends, we need to help her" Cynder told him as he nodded, suddenly they saw Flame rushing towards them.

"Guys! You need to come with me, now!" Flame exclaimed as Spyro grew curious.

"Why?" Spyro asked as Flame explained.

"There's been a murder at a local convenience store, and the killer might be a dragon, the others suggested I bring you with to help examine the crime scene" as soon as Flame said this, three of them flew after him to figure out just what the flipping heck happened, but little did they know, this was exactly what he wanted...

(Well that's chapter one and already we've got a shady situation going on here)