The Four Brave Dragons: A Spyro Reignited Story

by Theodore the poet

A retelling of the classic Ps1 trilogy and the reignited trilogy. Except what if Spyro wasn't alone with Sparx on his journey through the dragon realms, as well as the other realms? Instead, what if he also had three other dragons near his age alongside him as they also fight against Gnasty and any other villain that threatens their realm, and the other worlds? (Rated T for safety)

17. Zephyr and Breeze Harbor

Here's a brief Q and A for this chapter in a while.

Galcian and sonicflash78: Well, we're gonna have to wait and see, now won't we.

UltraNova1225: I know. Poor Hunter IV.

storyreader21: Thank you for the list of spells for Ember, and Cynder. And could Spyro be able to cast dark spells as well?

We're gonna have to wait and see.

Finally, Disclaimer: The following is only a non profit fan based what if story. Spyro the dragon is created by Insomniac games, and is currently owned by Activision, and Toys for Bob. Please support the official releases.

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Chapter 17: I don't need no 'Land Blubber & Breeze Builder' war.

"Wow! Who is that dragonfly?" Flame asked with Ember looking on in curiosity.

"His name is Sternenlicht. Or Stern for short. And we're not kidding you when we say that it's Elora's dragonfly." Cynder responded.

Much to Ember, and Flame's shock, as well as Starr, and Sira's. "WHAT?! But I thought that only us dragons could bond with a Dragonfly!" Ember said.

"Well… I think I proved you wrong then, didn't I?" She said humorously as Stern kept on hovering around her. She still felt as confused as the dragons were, though.

The dragons, and Faun, reunited in Autumn Plains, preparing to go into Breeze Harbor, and Zephyr, when both dragons, ended up noticing Stern near Elora, which was surprising to see one in Avalar, since they usually see the dragonflies in their worlds. So why was Stern in Avalar?

And of course, why was Stern bonded to Elora?

That was the most interesting, and surprising question, that none of them could answer. Stern just bonded with her, for unknown reasons.

Even though a part of them thought to themselves, that either Elora could've been a dragon at some point, before getting turned into a Faun by a spell, and losing her memories of being a dragon, or maybe dragon blood flows through her veins, and she might've had a dragon for a great great grandfather. They didn't know which theory was true.

Either way, they felt that it could explain a portion of the answer as to why Elora was different from the other Fauns, as she said.

For now though, the dragons, and Faun was preparing for their journey through Zephyr, and Breeze Harbor.

Where they would end up meeting the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders, both of whom were at war with each other in the Realms, with each side trying to gain an edge on each other, and trying to vassalize and subjugate each other.

Which could make their impending journey through their realms a bit hard, but neither side should be out for their heads, since they should be just passing through those Realms. Even though Elora was a bit worried that both sides could think that they're one of either side since they could be helping the Land blubbers, or the Breeze Builders.

And she hoped that they won't get blown to bits in the crossfire as they look for the Talismans.

For now though, the team of duos remained the same, with Spyro, and Cynder, going to Breeze Harbor, while Ember, and Flame, went to Zephyr. While Elora decided to remain with Spyro, and Cynder.

Which means it is only Flame, and Ember, that would be going to Zephyr. And Elora felt worried for them both, since they could be running through a battlefield in Zephyr, should the Breeze Builders be fighting there. And she could be unable to help them in any way since she's with Spyro, and Cynder. The former of which, was doing some experimental waving of his wand around, practicing his own spellcasting with Cynder's verbal help.

This looked like a dangerous Idea to split into duo's for these two worlds, especially since only two dragons would be in a battlefield. If only she could split into two Elora's. (Which, could be possible with Magic.)

In fact, she feels that Cynder, or Ember could be able to cast such a spell. "Wait! Before we split up into two again, can either you, or Ember cast a spell on me? I need to split into two to look out for Ember, and Flame, while I follow you both into Breeze Harbor." Elora said to Cynder, as they prepared to go.

Before they could respond though, "No need. I could be of assistance to you, perhaps?" A new voice said, as they felt someone landing not too far from them.

They then saw a cheetah warrior that was close to them, whom was Hunter III. And he looked quite different, yet similar to a certain Cheetah archer that they know, and… dislike at best, in their eyes.

"Woah! Hunter?! Have you exorcised, and suddenly got a bit more buff, and more badass than last time?!" Spyro asked in surprise when he saw Hunter III

Whom, ended up making a small chuckle at that. "You are half correct. Spyro, is it? My name is Hunter, yes, but the one you're thinking of, is my nephew. I am his uncle, Hunter III." Hunter III said.

"Really? Are you from the village that he told me about?!" Elora asked, surprised at seeing another cheetah warrior that appeared, and happened to be an uncle to her best friend. (Regardless of the times he drove her crazy.)

"Correct. I was back in the village, when Ripto arrived in Avalar. And I investigated on why he was there, when we learned of my nephew's mistake when I overheard a conversation about him. As for why I am here, it's cause I intend to be of service to the heroes that saved Summer Forest from that tyrant. If only, to repay them for the save, and to make up for my nephew's lack of support for you all." He said.

The Quartet was surprised at the fact that unlike his Nephew, Hunter III was more supportive of their efforts in saving Avalar from Ripto, and coming back to the Dragon Worlds. And it seemed that they were about to gain a new member of their little crew that seems to be in the making at this time.

All while Elora was accepting of the gesture, as she was willing to take his help, especially since he would protect both Flame, and Ember too. She just wondered what the Quartet would think of his willingness to join.

They couldn't decline any help that was being handed to them. Even if it's from a Cheetah warrior who was related to Hunter. After all, he has to be more helpful than Hunter is, considering his exploitation of them for the Orbs. "Okay, you wanna be part of this team? Well, so be it. Welcome aboard." Spyro said, accepting Hunter III to the team.

Whom made a bow towards them, in thanks. "Thank you for the response. I endeavor not to disappoint in my assistance." He then said, happy at their acceptance of his proposal.

Now, after recruiting Hunter III, and some introductions, the Quartet, Elora, and Hunter III proceeded to enter the Portals, with Elora following Spyro, and Cynder, to Breeze Harbor, while Hunter III followed Ember, and Flame to Zephyr, preparing themselves for their impending journey through the warzone.

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Coming to Zephyr, before Flame, Ember, and Hunter's arrival, the battle was taking place as a Land Blubber, whom looked like warty worm-like slugs, crossed with maggots, and the Breeze Builders, whom were a variety of birds.

And they were in the middle of the battle, with one of the Breeze Builders being a nuisance to one of the Land Blubbers, whom was on a cannon, trying to blast the one of the little Birds out of the sky, only for the Bird to dodge each and every shot, much to his dismay.

Then suddenly, he turned around after something tapped him on the shoulder, to then see a bigger Breeze Builder behind him, whom had a round spherical bomb in one of his wings, which he ended up force-feeding into the Land Blubber's mouth while using his other one to force his jaws open, before running away.

*BOOOM*

The explosion of the bomb was unable to blow the Land Blubber to pieces as he was still held together. Before burping out a dark cloud from the explosion. Feeling relieved that he didn't end up getting blown to bits.

Then the dragons, and Cheetah warrior arrived in Zephyr, close to a line of Land Blubber soldiers.

"What is this? It looks like a pleasant Grassland here in Zephyr, and yet its in a middle of a battle." Ember said, seeing what Zephyr looks like. Having a pair of fortresses that happened to be trees, that looked like their bottom section was carved out, while also having a couple rocky huts that had a couple of thatch roofs, all of which looked like they were surrounded by piles of rocks, likely fortifying their position in Zephyr to help protect them from the Breeze Builders.

So far however, it didn't seem to work that well, since there was still some Breeze Builders that was also all over the place, that the Land Blubbers were going to fight against.

Which was much to Ember's dismay, since she admires beauty when she sees it, and she doesn't like it when a battle ends up ruining it.

Which was echoed by both Flame, and Hunter III, the latter feeling that this war that the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders, is going on long enough. And was not helping Avalar's matters any, in terms of Ripto's presence.

"It's a shame that the Breeze Builders, and the Land Blubbers are battling each other. They may be a proud sort of folk, but they aren't always like this." Hunter III said.

"You mean that they were buddies before?" Flame asked.

"Yes. There were times where they were friends, and had an alliance before. Now they're back to fighting, and I fear that Ripto might've played a part in it. And no one seems to know." Hunter III said.

Before they could wonder what they could do to stop this, a loud voice bellowed. "ALRIGHT YOU MAGGOTS! FALL IN LINE!"

All of the Land Blubbers obeyed, and made a straight line. With Flame inadvertently joining with them out of reflective fear, alongside Ember. Which had Hunter III facepalming at that.

Then one of the Land Blubbers, whom was a Sergeant, if his hat, and his ribbon wasn't a clue, was now crawling in front of the line of Land Blubbers, while another Land Blubber, who was a General, was watching the display. "Alright you yellow bellies, listen up! I'm Sergeant Tub! When all of you're not in my presence, you may call me anything, that your juvenile minds may desire, assuming that your two brain cells can string together a couple curses. But when you're all near me, you shall address me as 'Sir yes sir!' Do I make myself clear?" The Land Blubber, known as Blub said.

A beat ended up passing.

"I said, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!?"

"SIR YES SIR!" The regiment of Land Blubber soldiers said, alongside Flame. While Ember merely stood silent when she realized that the line couldn't have included herself, Flame, and Hunter III.

"That's better. Now, General Blub there, has asked me to deliver the welcome oration of the Liberation Regiment of Zephyr. He also seems to have informed me, that the line that I might be addressing, may be Hardcore enough, Strong enough, and Crazy enough, to be the best of the best in terms of taking down those dang Breeze Builders, that are currently loitering our land." He said, referring to the birds to his left.

"BUT APPARENTLY, I FEEL MISINFORMED!" He then bellowed out. Making the line of Land Blubbers shiver nervously, alongside Flame.

"I'm supposed to see, that a bunch of you could be the ones, to repel this invasion force?! I was expecting a room full of badasses, and yet some of you might have a hard time in putting on your pants, let alone beating back a full scale assault, on your own kind!" He then said.

Flame tried not to chuckle at the pants insult. After all, none of them seems to wear pants.

"But since you're all here, and ready to beat those flying bastards back, let me give you a quick lesson, when it comes to saving your, and your battle brother's own butts." Tub then said.

Then they had a little bird, wearing a military vest, and a red hand band, walking out to next to them, looking like he was covered. And not in a good way. Ember couldn't help but find that bird adorable looking.

"Notice those wide green eyes, the size of its head, and those bright feathers. Now I know what you might be thinking, 'how cute, I just wanna pet him.' and all that jazz." Tub said, putting a sarcastic tone in the emphasized part of his sentence.

"BUT DO NOT BE CONFUSED!" He suddenly shouted, making the line, and Flame flinch. "These little chicks, my be adorable looking, but they definitely don't mess around in fighting, especially, when they get fed bombs by those Falcons that are flying overhead!" He then said, referring to the flying falcons that flew in circles around the tree fortresses.

"So don't hesitate to screw them up, or by the sun, THEY'LL SCREW Y'ALL UP!" He then shouted. "Thanks for the help." He then casually said to the Breeze Builder.

"No problem." The bird said, before walking away, before getting blown up by a cannonball, much to Ember's sad dismay. But Flame was able to cheer her up before she could cry about it. All while Hunter III was looking down at the ground in dismay.

"Now my fellow Land Blubbers, from here on out, we shall fight hard for the land of Zephyr, and we shall make those birds, fly back to their base, as 'soar' losers! Haha, get it? Soar, Losers!" Tub then said.

All while the line of Land Blubbers that he was addressing, tried not to giggle at that, with Flame, and Ember, being among them.

"So without further ado, we shall begin our planning. We charge those guys, with support from my tank, and we shall take this area of Zephyr back, then we're going to distract the rest of the Breeze Builders, while the volunteers shall blow up their munitions building over on the other end of Zephyr!"

One of the soldiers ended up raising his hand. "Yes, Private Romeo?"

"C-Could'st th're already beest somebody yond hast Volunteer'd already?" The Land Blubber known as Romeo asked, speaking in a certain accent, that both dragons has recognized as something that they heard before in the plays back in the Artisans World.

"That remains to be seen, sadly. But mark my words, once there is, then you must fight hard, and make sure that their way to the Munitions compound isn't going to be impossible." Sergeant Tub said, putting his hand on Romeo's shoulder. "And once their Munitions are blown to smithereens, then we counterattack those Breeze Builders, once we're back at full strength, by sending the battle back to their Realm! Which should be easy, since due to some help from some sorcerer, we were able to infest their lands with some of our troops, and as we speak, they should be weakened in defenses, making our counter invasion against them, easier than expected! And once we win, then we'll bring peace back to our Realms in Avalar, and prove to the leaders that we're the superb force! Now who's with me?!" Tub asked the line.

The line, regardless of their nervousness, ended up yelling, and hollering, as their answer, that Tub took as a yes. "Good! Now, all you idiots, LET'S MOVE OUT!" He then shouted, leading the line in his tank that he entered, before charging ahead with them, blasting a lot of the Breeze Builders that was in their way.

Which left Flame, Ember, and Hunter III alone in the middle of the field. Causing the General to crawl towards both dragons, much to Flame's nervousness as he suddenly got looked in the eye by the General.

He felt that he had to find an excuse to say, to tell the General why he isn't with the line. Then he had one dumb idea. "Hehe, there s-sure w-was a lot of 'em, eh G-General?" Flame asked. Referring to the line.

Which, after a tense moment, had the General making a small laugh at that. "Heh, that was a good one." General Blub said, smiling at him.

"Thanks, I usually try." Flame said, feeling his tension fade.

"So, you both must be the dragons that we've heard about. As my fellow sergeant said, my name is Blub, and I'm a General of this army of Land Blubbers, that is currently fighting those damn Breeze Builder soldiers. And it looks like we've got a bit of a situation here." The Land Blubber known as Blub said.

"What could be the problem?" Hunter III asked.

"The Breeze Builders has gotten us pinned down, and we're in need of the Volunteer to blow up their Munitions Building to turn the tide. Looks like you're all it." Blub said.

Before the dragons could reply, the General continued. "Now don't go worrying about how difficult it is, we'll be able to help escorting y'all to that place, and blowing them up to kingdom come! But there might still be some opposition in your way, that might only go for you guys. So I recommend treading with caution." General Blub said.

"Sir!" Flame said, saluting him, being familiar with the way to address somebody, from the Peace Keeper dragons.

But there was something that Ember had to say. "Permission to speak!" Ember said.

"Granted, for now. What do ya want?" Blub asked.

"Could this end the battle against the Breeze Builders? There could be worse problems to face off against. In fact, it's bigger than the Breeze Builders." Ember said.

"What made you ask that?" He asked.

"An evil wizard named Ripto, is causing trouble in Avalar. And he plans to conquer the whole world of Avalar, which could include you, and the Breeze Builders." Ember said.

"WHAT?! Are you sure that this fool is gonna do that to us?! Even though he gave some of our troops a way into Breeze Harbor to weaken their defenses, making it easy to invade?!" He asked.

"They're definitely sure. Ripto is planning to conquer all of this place later on. I've learned about it among the other Avalari natives in Winter Tundra." Hunter III said after asking permission to speak himself.

After some skeptical thought, Blub ended up frowning at that thought. "That Ripto fellow thinks he can conquer this place, despite our impending victory that would defeat those birds, and prove ourselves as the superior army of Avalar with his help?! Well if he thinks he's bold enough for that, then he's thought wrong! So be it, you have our support against Ripto, once you're all able to end this invasion in our victory, by blowin up their Munitions Depot, and send their tail feathers soarin out of Zephyr. But only, once they're gone, and once we're able to counter attack them with a blitzkrieg on their home Realm! But we'll make sure to demand for their surrender first, just to save us the trouble of battling them on their turf, and have it end in peace like the leaders want it to. Am I clear on that?"

"Crystal!" They called back.

"Good! Now, let's move out!" He then said.

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"This dang tank cannon just ain't working for me! I knew that I should've been cleaning the barrel out!" Sergeant Tub said as he continued to miss one of the Breeze Builders, that danced around the shots, making a fool out of him. Much to his chagrin.

"Just give me at least three seconds, then I'll wipe that stupid look right off of your face! Then I'll gouge out your eyes, and- Oh, hey there!" Sergeant Tub said after the dragons came up to him. Both of whom, had blue dragonflies when the falcon Breeze builders bombed them. "You must be the new volunteers that is undertaking the Munitions job!"

"That's us alright!" Flame said.

"Thank goodness. I was trying to blow that bird outta the sky, but I keep on missing. And I don't wanna blast down the door for my men to go through, if that thing's gonna launch its bombs at us if we get close enough. Perhaps you could help take that thing down? Here, jump in there, and give it a try!" Tub said, letting Flame get on the cannon.

Which had him grinning at how he's going to be blasting down the door, and the bird, with the cannon that he was now going in. He just had to aim and do some experimental shots with the cannon of the tank that Tub was using.

Which he took at least five experimental shots to get used to the arc of the shots that he was using, before shooting at the bird, expecting to hit it.

Or he could've, if Hunter hadn't decided to shoot down the bird for him with his arrows, much to Tub's delight, and Flame's dismay. But he wasn't complaining since he felt that he could miss.

"Fantastic! You deserve a medal once this battle is over!" Tub said. "As for you, feel free to blast that door down, along with the other door, and those other bird brains! Just be sure to give that cannon back to me once you're done."

Flame did just that, as he blasted the door down on the cave that was in front of him, and behind him, knowing that there are some Gems that he, and Ember are going to collect together. While also blasting the falcon Breeze Builders out of revenge for bombing them both, making their dragonflies turn blue.

At least for those that didn't get a spell casted on them by Ember out of revenge for their bombing run, causing them to get confused, and then attack each other when they thought they were foes, causing them to blow each other up.

Then once he was done, he quickly gave the cannon back to the Sergeant, before running with Ember to grab the Gems with their dragonflies, before roaming onwards with Hunter III to the later section of Zephyr, through the cave path.

Where they were assaulted by the large, fat, parrot Breeze Builders, whom were rolling a bunch of TNT barrels at them, sorta like the Gnorcs in Gnorc Cove. Only without the metallic barrels that they could launch at them.

But like the Gnorc Cove barrel throwers, they could be easily taken down by the dragons as they got electrocuted by Flame, and Ember. Much to Hunter III surprise.

"By the stars. You're both quite the fascinating sort of creatures that I've seen. I thought that dragons are limited to only one element to breathe." Hunter III said.

"Well, all four of us became the exception after our adventures in the Beast Makers." Ember said, smiling at him. Still thankful that she has nothing to do back there.

"As for how we got the ability to breathe more than one element, well we don't really know. All we know is that we've fought a hard battle in our first journey before this one. Long story." Flame said. "Mind if we tell you more about it once we're done here?"

"As you wish. Let's just be careful here. This battle is dangerous for us thanks to those birds." Hunter III said.

"Right!" They both said, as they confidently strolled through the cave, ready to fight against the Breeze Builders, and destroy them with their breaths, and their Dragon Kata, and Ember's spells.

Like for the chick Breeze Builder that they met in a underground room full of water streams, that quickly proved to Ember, that indeed, although it's adorable looking, it proved to be a capable fighter that slapped Flame silly, turning his dragonfly green.

Ember, in revenge, casted a confusion spell, which caused the Chick to get confused, and end up slapping itself silly, much to her, and Flame's amusement, before it then got obliterated by Flame in return while it was slapping itself.

While the caterpillar that it chased when they entered the room, ended up thanking them, only to get obliterated by Flame's charge, having it fall apart into three pieces before vanishing, and letting out a butterfly. Which Sira ate to turn back to blue.

As for the next Breeze Builder chick, Hunter III shot it with his arrow before it could spit out a bomb at them. Showing them that he is quite a crack shot with his bow and arrows, like Elora could be.

After praising him for his shot, and after some more running, they saw that they were in what could be a path to the Munitions depot, which looked like it was in another tall tree Fortress. And considering that there was some more parrot Breeze Builders in their path, guarding it, and some circling falcons, it looked like their objective was there, and they were gonna have to fight their way to it.

Thankfully, there wasn't a large number of them, as the rest of the Breeze Builders were still distracted with the Land Blubbers. Not only that, but none of them were offering any aid for the lone Breeze Builders that was guarding the Munitions Depot. Which meant that their objective wasn't going to get any harder than that.

Especially since after they blasted down a door that blocked their path on an open tree Fortress that lead them to their objective, Ember casted a Mirage spell on the barrel throwing parrots, making them believe that they were chucking their TNT barrels towards a close wall, making them turn their throwing toward a different direction, only for him to make the path easier to roam on for the dragons, as they both clobbered the parrot with their Dragon Kata, after running to him.

However, it wasn't an easy ordeal either, when the falcon Breeze Builders did some bombing runs at the dragon duo. Causing them to dodge their bombs alongside Hunter III, whom shot back against them with his arrows when he has the chance.

Which, he was able to do that to one of them before he could drop his own bomb after the first one did on its second time. Leaving only one to bomb them, only for Ember to cast her clumsiness spell to make the falcon more clumsy during his flight and during the bombing run.

Which caused it to try to bomb them again after hitting Ember with his bomb, only for him to accidentally toss his bomb in the air during his dive bombing, and for him to hit the floor on the elevated section, right when the bomb landed on him. Much to both Flame's and Ember's amusement.

Which is regardless of her dragonfly turning green from the bomb's explosion. But a pair of butterfly bottle jars that was ahead of them on the path to the cannon was able to help their dragonflies recover.

Now Flame was on a cannon that seems to have been deployed on the elevated path, likely put there for the Fortress that it was aimed at, but wasn't gonna be put to use due to the bombing falcons nearby. With them gone though, they were now shooting the door to the Fortress to see if they can get inside to blow up the ammunition inside.

Only for not only the door to break open, but for them to then see that there was some already lit explosives inside, probably ignited from the blast. Before it then exploded inside, leaving only the bottom section of the Fortress intact. And they also saw a Land Blubber inside, who happened to have quite an ash face from the explosion. And yet he was shockingly okay, even though he was in the Ground Zero section of that blast. Which should've meant that he would be vaporized if reality were to ensue.

But it didn't in his case, luckily for him, as both dragons, and Cheetah got to him. "Are you okay?!" Ember asked.

"Why yes. Thanks for asking. But did you see that?! It's a good thing I kept my helmet on! I'm Corporal Glug by the way." He said.

Neither dragon was an expert on explosives, or physics, but they both felt that the helmet shouldn't be able to protect that Land Blubber from an explosion like that.

"Anyways, the General wanted me to give y'all this Talisman if you were able to get past the Breeze Builder defences, and destroy the Munitions. Good job Soldiers!" Glug then said, giving them a Ruby stone that looked just like a spherical Bomb if it was made out of a Ruby.

Which Ember put in her Guidebook, hoping that this could be a sign that the battle could end soon.

"Now if y'all have the time, I sure could use your help. You see, my best friend, Bo Peep, needs help. She's just down there!" He said, pointing to the curly blonde Land Blubber below the bridge. "Tell her that Glug sent you." He said.

"Okay." Ember said, with her, and Flame going down to meet her with Hunter III not far behind.

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*One annoying side Quest later*

The duo was running to another section of Zephyr, as the battle was wrapping up. The dragons were incredibly annoyed, and relieved that they aren't going to do that side quest again. Even Hunter III was feeling annoyed despite his maturity.

The 'side quest' in question, was helping Bo Peep in escorting the Cowleks, which looked like a mix between cows, and elephants, back to her pen. Which was a redundant task due to the fact that the Cowleks were all over Zephyr, and they had to be pushed to the pen. On their own, they were pretty bad enough. But what made them more annoying, was that they had to be launched across the gaps in between them in one section of Zephyr. Which was the one that was past an unhappy Land Blubber. Whom they intended to help once they were done.

Which they were, and they got a pair of Orbs for their troubles.

So now the dragons, and Cheetah was now speaking to the Land Blubber in question, whom was Private Romeo from the line.

"Are you okay Romeo?" Hunter III asked.

"Oh, salutations fair Cheetah warrior. And physically, I am well enow. But I feeleth so lacking valor as of this hour." Romeo said.

"What's wrong?" Ember asked concerned.

"Oh, what light from yonder window breaks? That window up there, sir dragons." He then said, pointing to the window that had a canary shown to them from the tree Fortress.

The dragons quickly saw that there was a feminine Breeze Builder in the Fortress. And Ember had a feeling of what this could be.

"That beautiful angel up there goes by Juliet. Oh, how she moves, the softness of her feathers, those beautiful eyes, I couldst loseth mineself in those eyes." He said dreamily. "It is too bad that once the hurly burly of this battle winded down, she hath been captured, and she's currently a prisoner up there."

That confirmed it to Ember, he loved this Juliet character. And she couldn't help but find it romantic. Possibly as romantic as her, and Flame together, as she cuddled to him. While Hunter III looked on in pity.

Flame on the other hand, was feeling indifferent, even though he still accepted the cuddle from Ember. But he felt that there could be a benefit to helping him get to Juliet. "What must we do?" He asked.

"The fair Professor hath said that he would help me recieveth a way backeth to Juliet, but I haven't seen him in hours. If you fair dragons, are able to search for him, and find a way to her, I'd be most thankful." Romeo then said, hopeful that they'd say yes to him.

Thankfully for him, they did accept helping him out. "We'll find him. And we'll help you reunite with her." Ember said.

Romeo was happy at the answer that he got from her, as they moved forward through the section of Zephyr.

Where they were able to find the Professor himself, who was near one of the bean-like seeds on the ground.

"Oh, hello there young dragons, I haven't seen you both in a little while. And I see that another warrior from the village is here?" The Professor asked.

"Correct. I am Hunter III, uncle to Hunter IV." Hunter said, introducing himself. "And I'm here to offer my assistance to those dragons, unlike my Nephew."

"Well, it's nice to see that. Anyways, I'm certain that you're all here to help Romeo. Well I've got the thing for him. You see, I have these magic beans- err, seeds. And they can quickly grow once they're in those soils there." He said, pointing to the spots with the dirt. "Why don't you do that, and see what grows?"

Both dragons decided to do just that to see what they could grow for themselves, with Flame taking the seed in his mouth, before spitting it into the soil, causing him to then see it grow into a beanstalk platform that they can stand on in a matter of seconds. Much to their surprise.

It seems that they found a way to get to the fortress that Juliet was at. Now they just needed to find another some more seeds to use to make their way to the fortress. Which was a little time consuming at least for the third seed. But once it was found, they got to the elevated section no problem.

Where they saw the remaining forces of Breeze Builders that tried to stage a rescue attempt of Juliet by trying to take down the dragons with their TNT barrels to demoralize the Land Blubbers. Its too bad that Ember chose that time to cast the confusion spell on one of them to make them fight each other, ending in them blowing each other up. Much to their amusement.

Then they spat out another seed to create another beanstalk platform to jump on to the other side where there was cliffsides to walk on. Then after some more platform jumping with them gliding while Hunter III shows off how flexible he is. Which impressed them at how he is able to keep up.

After some more jumping and gliding, they ended up meeting the Professor on the elevated section that looked like one of the buildings of Zephyr, that was close to the tree Fortress that held Juliet. They didn't wonder how he got there though, since he could've teleported there for all they cared.

"Well done my boy! And girl." He said awkwardly on the last part. "Here are two more seeds that can get you all the rest of the way. Oh, and I found this during your successful attempt to get up here. Do go on, and take it." He said, handing them an Orb.

Then he handed them two more seeds, which they knew, would get them to the Fortress where Juliet is. They both took the seeds, and trotted merrily to the other side of the gap to get to the position to grow those platforms to the Fortress.

*Brief time skip*

The dragons, and Cheetah was now in the room where Juliet was, whom was just as pretty as Romeo described her as. And she looked equally distressed, hoping that she could be able to reunite with Romeo.

Which seemed like a good opportunity, since the Land Blubbers seemed to be somewhere else, possibly partying with their fellows in taking back Zephyr.

And then she spoke. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Juliet spoke…

in a man's deep falsetto voice.

Then she saw Romeo at the mouth of one of the caves after Hunter pointed her there. "Oh, there's Romeo. You all can haveth this. I hath no need for this anymore." She then said, giving the Orb to Ember.

Whom didn't know what to think about her voice sounding so deep, it was funny, like hearing some female characters being played by male dragons back in the Artisans Home world, but Ember felt that she'd die of embarrassment if she'd have that voice when she grows up. (It's one of the reasons why she doesn't eat any food that would make her fat in the future.)

All while Flame was trying not to laugh too hard at what he heard coming out of her mouth, as he rolled on the floor of the fortress. Just hearing that deep English accented voice coming out of a pretty bird like that, was the most hilarious thing that he has ever heard in his opinion, like back in the Artisans with their stage plays. Especially when he saw Gavin on stage, playing a female character, complete with cross dressing as her. Just the slight alone, and being reminded of it, through Juliet's voice, just killed him in the best way possible.

And though Hunter was able to keep a straight face. He too found it to be pretty amusing. But he'd rather keep his laughter to himself.

Afterwards, they proceeded to make conversation with Romeo and Juliet after meeting them both again. "You've reunited me with Juliet! I give you thanks, sir dragons! Now we may take our friends, and elope to Idol Springs for our honeymoon!" Romeo said happily.

After they got the Orb, and spoke the dragons continued to gather the Gems, before going to the exit portal to Autumn Plains.

After they left, a Land Blubber had a box of Birdseed that he poured on the ground before running. Then of course, one of the remaining Breeze Builder parrots ended up seeing the Birdseed pile, and after flying to it, he decided to eat from it, not knowing that a Land Blubber was now aiming his cannon at the Parrot. And by the time the Parrot saw the barrel, the cannon shot all of the feathers off, leaving him naked and featherless. Much to the amusement of the Land Blubbers as they prepared for their counter invasion.

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Meanwhile… During the Zephyr journey

Before the dragons, and Faun arrived in Breeze Harbor, a Pelican Breeze Builder was lighting up a fire on his campfire, before blowing out the torch that ignited the fire. While little did he know, a bucket was near the fire, with a little Land Blubber inside of it. Whom then extinguished the fire by spitting water onto it before hiding in the bucket. Much to the surprise of the Breeze Builder.

Then he noticed the bucket nearby, causing him to pick it up to look inside, to then see the Land Blubber in it, whom proceeded to spit some murky water in the Pelican's face, causing him to drop the bucket, and wipe his eyes in disgust while the Land Blubber hopped away, still in the bucket.

When the dragons, and Elora arrived in Breeze Harbor, they were near a line of Breeze Builders that was prepared for battle against the Land Blubbers as they were being lectured by a leading Pelican Breeze Builder. Whom Elora recognized as Beaky, the General of the Breeze Builders.

"Welcome to our sub committee on our defense of our Home Realm of Breeze Harbor! Which to facilitate the use of jokes, is being held near our flying ship! Which looks like a sub in the sky, I must admit." Beaky said, gesturing to the ship behind him.

Which, after some thought, the line of birds ended up chuckling, and applauding Beaky for the joke that he made. While Spyro, and Cynder was groaning at the use of that pun. While Elora was smiling as she tried not to chuckle herself.

"Unfortunately, the Land Blubbers has made a preemptive strike that sabotaged our machines, and they have our ship shut down, and we can't get it going until someone is able to take then down, and reactivate them all! They did say that they'd fight us on equal ground, and yet they did this! And they call themselves soldiers!" Beaky said.

"I thought they call themselves Land Blubbers." One of the Breeze Builders said.

"EITHER WAY, WE WON'T STAND FOR THIS!" He said angrily. "They shall be stopped here! Then, once our ship is ready, we shall make a counterattack against them, and prove that we're the supreme army of this battle!" Beaky then said.

"So we need someone to take them down, and make them pay for the infestation that they made here! And then we take down the darn 'stool Pidgeon' that made this possible." He then said, before doing a General's lecture to his army.

"And while they sleep like Geese, we shall soar, like Eagles!" The Pelican said to his men, who cheered for him as he finished his lecture. "But first, we must take these invading Land Blubbers down, or we'll never get this ship up and running!" He then said, gesturing to the steam air ship with wings, that was behind him.

Once he was done with his lecturing, he dismissed the line of Breeze Builders, whom went back to their defensive battle in their world. Then he noticed the dragons, and Elora. "Elora?! Didn't expect to see you here. And I see that those are the dragons we've heard about?"

"Indeed. And they're here to save Avalar with me. What's going on here though?" She asked.

"This? Please excuse our mess, dear leader. We just suffered an infestation from those ratty Land Blubbers, who are extinguishing our fires that is giving us steam power, but now they shut down our ship too. Now we could be in danger of any attack from those dang Land Blubbers, if we can't get our ship running." He said.

Elora, and the dragons ended up looking at the ship in the background in concern. On one hand, they could give the Breeze Builders a chance to counter attack the Land Blubbers, and push them off of their high ground to look down upon the Breeze Builders from, but it could probably end up extending the war between the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders, and have the former possibly losing to the latter. On the other hand, if they just ignore their plight, and just persuade the birds into giving the Talisman to them, it could end in them losing, and getting enslaved by the Land Blubbers, and being forced to admit to them that they're inferior.

And that's something that Elora hoped wouldn't happen. Alongside Ripto conquering Avalar, of course.

"We'll help save your ship." Spyro said, with Cynder in agreement. Feeling that this is what Elora wanted. Which was much to her joy.

"Excellent!"

"But we can only do this on one condition." Elora said. "You must put aside your hatred for the Land Blubbers for now."

"What?! B-but why?" He asked, feeling reluctant to obey, but he was just as unwilling to incur her wrath on him. Especially if she could control those dragons. (Which she can't. They're just friends.)

"There's an evil wizard, named Ripto, that's trying to invade Avalar. And I'm certain that he'd invade this place too, once he's got enough power. And I bet you anything, that he might've played a part in causing this battle that you and your people are currently fighting in. That's why we need your Talisman." She said.

The Breeze Builder was surprised at what he was told. "But he gave us a chance to make a strike against those Land Blubbers in Zephyr, and put it under siege! Are you sure about that?"

"Of course I am sure. He plans to conquer all of Avalar, and this Realm is part of this World is it not? So we must gain your Talisman if we're to save Avalar, and this realm. We can help save Breeze Harbor from those Land Blubbers, but you should put aside your pride, and your hatred for them." Elora said.

After a couple moments, the Breeze Builder huffed respectfully to her. "Fine. Our Talisman's yours. And we may bury the hatchet with them, but only after we're able to fight back against them, and show them that we are not the inferior fighters of Avalar, to be mocked! That's when we will end our war, and assist you in any way we can, against that dastardly Ripto. I hope our Talisman my come in handy for you, Elora." Beaky said.

"And we'll accept any help that we can get, as long as Ripto doesn't win." Elora said, smiling at Beaky for the acceptance of giving them their Talismans. "Come on Spyro, Cynder, let's get those Land Blubbers out of this Realm." She said, before moving onwards with both dragons by her side.

Where they ended up finding an immediate obstacle. Being that there was no way up to the ledge that they were told, leads to more of Breeze Harbor. Which had them all wondering how they could get there.

"Try using our whirlwind machine, that could give you all the air you need to get up there. Just turn it on with some fire." Beaky said to them.

The dragons, and Faun did just that as the latter used her fire enhanced arrow to light the campfire to turn on the machinery, that creates the whirlwind that pushes the dragons upward.

Only for a bucket Land Blubber to spit some water on it, and turn off the machinery, much to their chagrin. And the fact that he laughed at that, had them even more annoyed at him.

Which caused Cynder to punish him with her spell of acid, at the Land Blubber, which ended up exploding, to where the spell melted the Breeze Builder inside the zone into goo, before vanishing, and becoming a Spirit Particle, that flew off.

Unfortunately for her, she was a bit close to the zone, which ended up hitting her, and hurt her with not only the burns of the acid on her scales, but also the poison as she felt it pretty hard to breathe, as well as having a bellyache, and she felt like she was weakening due to the poison, much to Spyro and Elora's horror.

Which was purged out by Spryte's magic of healing, which caused him to turn blue, as Cynder regained her strength. "Are you okay Cynder?!" Spyro asked.

"I'll be fine. I just got a bit too close when I casted the spell. And I didn't cast another spell that pairs with it beforehand." She said.

"There's another spell that pairs with that one?" Elora asked, while feeling a little creeped out at the spell that just got casted, and was relieved that she wasn't the one that got hit.

"Two actually. One of which, is the immunity to the acid, and other spells that are poison based." She responded, remembering her studies from the dark spells from the books back in the Magic Crafters World.

"Oh… well thank goodness that there's an immunity spell for that. Cause I don't think we have any antidotes for that. And… cause I don't wanna lose you." Spyro said, nuzzling Cynder, who returned the gesture.

While Elora looked coy of the scene in front of her. While also wishing that she was getting nuzzled too.

Nevertheless, she reignited the campfire, to turn the machine back on, before using the whirlwind to propel them upwards, to give them a way through Breeze Harbor.

Where they quickly saw a few things, being more Land Blubbers, the others of which, looked like fire men that extinguishes fires, another machine, some elevated sections that had a steel box on one of them, and some sort of tracks that looked like a mine cart, or a trolley would move on.

If it was either one, they hoped they can ride it.

For now though, they had to keep on running, with Spyro continuing to breathe his fire on the Land Blubbers, while Elora shot more of them with her arrows, and while Cynder continued to cast her spells.

Like on one of the Land Blubbers, Cynder casted another spell to experiment with, like the nightmare spell, where Cynder would cast it on one of them, and they would hallucinate their worst fear, and have it look like it was right there with them. In this case, the Land Blubber was shown the illusion of a snake. Causing him to scream like a girl, and cower before it.

Then, there was another spell that she casted, that paired up with it, where she summoned the 'fear soldier' that rose out of the foe's shadow, before eating him whole when he tried to get away, before vanishing as he turned into another Spirit Particle.

Spyro looked on in awe at what he saw, finding it to be pretty cool to summon a minion like the aforementioned fear soldier. Now he felt hopeful, and determined to see if he can cast those dark spells alongside Cynder.

He just needed a perfect time to experiment with his spell casting, and see if he can do that too.

For now though, he continued to torch the Land Blubbers with his fire, and electrocute the others with his electric breath. Especially the bucket Land Blubbers with the latter, as he electrocuted them with his electricity while they were in their Metallic buckets, full of Water.

Which wasn't a good enough weapon, to use against the dragons, even though the buckets were fire resistant.

And yet, some of them got lucky, and spat their water at Cynder, hurting her, and turning Spryte into a green color. Much to her confusion.

While the remaining fire fighter Land Blubbers, shot out their water against Spyro. Which had enough pressure to blast him with the water, hurting him, and turning Sparx blue, while knocking him back. Causing Elora to shoot back with her ice arrows against the attacker, in revenge for Spyro, before shattering the now frozen Land Blubber with her kicks.

"Are you okay, Spyro? Cynder?" She asked, concerned, after getting putting the fired arrow back in her quiver. (It looked ready for another use after all.)

"I'll be fine. It's just water after all. Albeit high pressure water, but it didn't hurt that badly as it looked." Spyro said, still thankful for Sparx's magical protection.

All while Cynder told her that she'll be fine too. Even though she was still wondering how it hurts to get spat on by the bucket Land Blubbers. Elora hoped that the battle isn't going to be too hard for both Spyro, and Cynder.

But nevertheless, there was some walking clams that gave them butterflies, which recovered Spryte into the darker blue color. And turn Sparx back into golden yellow colors. Much to Elora's relief.

And they were able to take down the Land Blubbers, regardless of their attacks in using water to hit them, and extinguish the fire that they were igniting under the machinery, that somehow filled the little lake up with more water, giving them a way to swim to the other end of the small lake.

Now they were up the stairs, where they saw that there was a large gap that looked to be quite wide enough to where neither dragon could glide to the other end of it to another section of Breeze Harbor. Much to their dismay.

At least, until they saw a pair of floating boats that looked like they could fly through the sky, and another machinery that they had to light up with the fire, to possibly make those boats move. They just needed to find any Land Blubber that tries to extinguish it, and take them out first.

Which was easy, since the bucket Land Blubbers were both easy to find, and eliminate with Spyro, and Cynder's electric breath, or Elora's magic arrows, or even their charging horns, which they also used against the bucket Land Blubbers, to knock them to their doom of the abyss. (While they screamed on the way down.) They were easy to take down due to how pretty light they were, compared to the fire fighter Land Blubbers.

Once they were able to take down the Bucket Land Blubbers, they ended up turning on the machinery, and boarding the boats that floated them to the other side.

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"How lucky for me that all of you are now here. My machinery is broken, and the gears that I need, to fix it, are scattered all over the track that runs through this Harbor. Can you use this trolley that I'm letting you borrow, and collect them all for me?" A Breeze Builder known as Fisher said, gesturing to the trolley, which looked like a wooden flat bed on wheels, and had a cannon on its front.

Which had the dragons, and Faun curious about it. "Have you put that cannon on there, just in case those Land Blubbers are on the track?" Elora asked.

"You can say that. There's no Land Blubbers that is literally on this track though, thank the stars, but I mainly use it to blast away the crud that blocks the track, and the switches to change tracks to the other lane. Just make sure that you may gather all of my gears while your at it." Fisher said.

Spyro decided to go first, feeling that he has to just collect the gears, blast whatever tries to block the trolley that he's on, and avoid any obstacle that tries to block him. Seems simple enough.

*One disastrous attempt later*

Spyro was able to make his way back to the room with Fisher, Cynder, and Elora, after his wipeout on the trolley, when he hit a gap that he couldn't jump over, just seconds after his trolley ride began. All while he then noticed that there was another trolley waiting for him. Which had him embarrassed about his failure, that he had to admit to himself, was pretty easy to avoid if he asked for a manual to the trolley he rode.

"Trouble with the trolley eh? Well you can turn the trolley with your leaning, and fire out the cannon at the switches, or TNT barrels, and you can press a button with your right paw, to make it jump over explosive boxes, or gaps." Fisher said.

"Gee, thanks." Spyro said sarcastically, still feeling the pain of his wipeout on the Trolley.

"We have a couple more trolleys where that came from, just try to be more careful with your second attempt." Fisher said.

Spyro decided to obey, as he tried to get on, but Cynder stopped him. "Why don't you leave it to me this time. I'm sure I'll do better." She said.

"Okay, be careful though." He said, before Cynder got on, to see how much better than Spyro, that she is at.

*Another disastrous attempt later*

She did better, but she still wiped out when she got to the large blocks just before the ramp that could launch her over a lava pit, and into a cave where more of the gears could be collected. Due to accidentally turning too fast into one of them when she tried to change lanes. Thankfully, she knew that there was only a small amount that is left on the tracks.

And thankfully, she was able to shoot out some metal boxes, knowing that they could have some Gems inside them that they'd need to collect, just in case they meet Moneybags again, and there's nothing that they could do to avoid paying him. But she also started to feel dismayed that she may have to ride it again. Considering that the track that she went through, seems to consist of long loops that she had to ride through, while avoiding the gaps, the explosive boxes that their cannon's shots merely sailed over, and shooting those aforementioned TNT barrels, and switches.

Remember that they said that they wished they could ride on the tracks? Well they just learned that the phrase, 'be careful what you wish for.' Exists for a reason.

"Still some trouble with the trolley, eh? Well I'm sure that you know what to do with the next one. Let's just hope that will be the last one that'll get wrecked." Fisher said.

"I'm hoping so too." Cynder said deadpan, as she was prepped for the third time being the charm as she-

Suddenly, Cynder saw the Faun getting on the trolley, causing it to go forward. Much to Cynder, and Spyro's surprise as they saw Elora riding on the trolley for them, going through with collecting the rest of the gears that they had yet to grab due to their crashes. Even though she was yelling out in distress on how she was probably going to fall off the trolley.

Elora was yelping as she successfully tried to keep her balance on the trolley, and make sure that she was able to control it. Now she was on her butt as she got to work on making sure to control herself on the trolley.

She also used the cannon to blast the TNT barrels, was able to jump the gaps, and even turn to change lanes just as well as Cynder did before. And now she was collecting the gears around the same place where the blocks were, as she went left for the gears, shot the sign to go left again as she went through another loop, all while making sure to keep her balance on the trolley, making sure that she won't end up falling off.

There was several close calls, one of which, had her barely avoiding the TNT barrel by shooting it in the nick of time before she could collide with it, until she finished with the ramp into the cave, where she collected the remaining gears. Thus finishing the side quest, and giving their gears that they all collected together, to Fisher.

"That was great work Elora, I knew that the leaders of Avalar has chosen you for a reason. You'd make a great member of their council." Fisher said, praising Elora.

Whom was flattered at that.

"Here, take this Orb. I got it from one of the fairies, but I don't have room in my toolbox for this thing anymore." He then said, handing them the Orb.

Which was much to their relief, since that track was hard. They were glad that they don't have to ride it again as they were now headed to their new destination.

Which was the air sub-ship with wings, that they were about to go on, using a catapult machine.

Even though they then saw, that there was a couple Land Blubbers that was on it, and they were bracing themselves for a fight against the dragons, and Faun. And despite Elora's attempts, they weren't going to be talked down.

So the trio was forced to brace themselves for a fight, as they had to think up a way to get onto the ship, and take them down. Sure she could use her arrows, but she could risk damaging the ship, which the Breeze Builders could resent. And there was no time for fixing that mistake right now.

Spyro though, had an idea. He could make them come down from the ship, and have them fight face to face with some insulting jokes. Or he could make them laugh.

"Hey maggots! What's the soldiers least favorite month?! March!" Spyro said.

Which had the Land Blubbers chuckling at that, finding it to be surprisingly pretty funny, and shockingly relatable.

"Have you guys got a slice of cheesecake, and an ice cream cone to join the army?! Only for them to run away?! Guess they could be wanted for 'Dessertion,' eh?!" He then called out.

They got the pun. And unlike the ice wizards, they thought that was also funny too.

"What do you call a High Rank soldier who hates to recycle?! General Waste!" "Where does a Bunny learn to fly? At the hare force!" Was among the jokes, that both Spyro, then Cynder, and later Elora had to do in order to make the Land Blubbers laugh hard enough for them to not notice that Spyro was now about to cast one of the spells that Cynder already casted.

The one being the acid spell. Which, since they were pretty far from the ship, he didn't have to worry about the range of the spell exploding as he was able to prep himself for casting it, hoping that he could cast dark spells too.

Sure he could use the catapult, and get onto the ship that way, and clobber all of the Land Blubbers in return, but he felt that this could be the safer option as he attempted to cast the spell.

Much to even his own surprise, he actually executed the spell, and launched it at the Land Blubbers, enveloping enough of them in the spell, causing them to melt into goo, before becoming Spirit Particles.

He was stunned for a bit as he stood on the ground, alongside both Elora, and Cynder, as they also looked on in surprise.

Before he then started to jump around in celebration, like a puppy on a sugar rush. "Yeah-hea! WOO-HOO! Did you see that?! I knew I was an awesome dragon!" He said.

Cynder couldn't really disagree, as she was convinced that being a purple dragon might've played a part in why he's also able to cast those spells, but he could indeed have Magic Crafter blood in his veins too.

Either way, she was also proud of him, alongside Elora, for pulling it off.

They were able to get onto the ship, with the catapult. Where after they were on, they clobbered out the Land blubbers that remained unaffected by the spell that Spyro casted on them.

After they took down the remaining Land Blubbers, there was only one left, and she cowered before them in surrender. Showing that she was a female Land Blubber. "Please, don't hurt me! I was just came along for the ride! I swear." He said.

"Are you sure?" Spyro asked, feeling tempted to cast another spell on her, just in case he was lying.

"H-H-Honest! I knew that this was a bad idea. But I came here for a different reason!" He said. "I have a boyfriend here! And I wanted to elope with him! That's all!"

Elora knew that she could be telling the truth, so she had both Spyro, and Cynder relaxing, and standing down. "You have a boyfriend here? Was he captured?" Elora asked.

The Land Blubber shook her head. "No. Let's just say, that he-"

"Bianca?! Is that you?" A voice said, which belonged to a Breeze Builder, who was by her side in a second when he saw her speaking to Elora. Whom had her bow out. All while the dragons were surprised at the sight of them together, not expecting that a Breeze Builder, and a Land Blubber could be lovers.

"Lucentio! Oh my darling Lucentio!" The Land Blubber, known as Bianca said as she hugged him, which he ended up returning. "I've missed you so!"

"As have I. But why did you come here? My battle brothers could be mad that you're here, if you get caught. And I'd rather not think about their reactions to our love. Let alone your sister's." The Breeze Builder known as Lucentio, said.

"I don't care. I've come to get you. You see, Romeo, Juliet, and their friends are planning to elope out of their worlds to get out of this war between us. And I came to this place, hoping to come and get you." Bianca said.

"Wait! You mean you're planning to leave both Zephyr, and Breeze Harbor for greener pastures?!" Elora asked.

Bianca nodded in response. "Indeed." She said.

"I don't know. What if they try looking for us somewhere in Avalar? They would be worried sick after all." Lucentio said.

"Don't worry. They could be too distracted with their pointless battle to notice us. And we'll be back there, once the war blows over." Bianca said.

"Even if what you say is true, what if they call a truce, simply to look for us? And then resume the fighting when they see us together, once they realize what we are, and would disapprove?" He responded.

"They can't. They have to realize that not all Land Blubbers, or Breeze Builders hates each other. They have to see, that there could be those that don't wanna fight each other, and realize that they can be friends too." Elora said. "I know it can be difficult, but they shouldn't be impossible to convince otherwise." She then said.

It took some thoughts, as well as some wondering if she could be correct, before Lucentio asked. "You think you can stop this battle from getting worse?" He asked.

"Worth a shot." Elora responded. "Just be sure to tell Romeo that once he plans to make the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders, make peace, we'll be behind him, and you guys, whenever you're ready to attempt this. It should let them know how pointless this fighting is." Elora said.

"If you say so." Lucentio said.

"Oh, by the way, take this Orb." Bianca said, handing Elora the Orb. Which looked slick, like it was covered in some sort of liquid. "I found it in a clam when I got here. Sorry if there's still juice on it."

Regardless of Elora's disgust, she took the Orb without complaint, feeling happy that she could help the dragons find their way back to their home.

After that, they were able to hide the lovers, while speaking to the other Breeze Builder that was on the platform that was next to the now raised air ship that they were able to make ascend to show that it was operational.

"Thank you all for getting our ship fired up. Now we can proceed with our counterattack on Zephyr. Now don't worry, we'll make sure to end the battle quickly, and make them surrender before we invade them back. Otherwise, it's on them. For now though, please take this Talisman as a token of our gratitude." The Breeze Builder known as Squawks, said, giving them a golden Anchor talisman.

All while the lovers, snuck behind them to the exit portal while Elora distracted Squawks, making sure that they're able to escape from Breeze Harbor without trouble. Before they later got out of Breeze Harbor after them.

Shortly after they left, the Breeze builders decided to do some target practice with their cannon. The targets were the remaining Land Blubbers that got beaten, and was now getting blasted by the Breeze Builders, who were also using the bucket Land Blubbers as ammo against them, beginning with the one on the middle getting hit, then after choosing which distressed Land Blubber to shoot as they kept on pointing to each other, like they were saying, "Shoot him first!" in hopes of not getting shot, the one on the right was the next to go.

And that was before they were now prepped with their counterattack.

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After returning to the Autumn Plains together, the dragon Quartet, Elora, and Hunter III were speaking of their adventures through Breeze Harbor, and Zephyr. About the side quests that they went through, (Particularly the Cowlek side quest, and the Trolley tracks, that each dragon felt was the most annoying ones that they've been through.) and the characters that they met in each world.

Particularly the more amusing Land Blubber, and Breeze Builder that they know.

"So… what you're saying, is that… she had a ridiculously deep voice?!" Spyro asked, trying not to laugh alongside Flame, and Cynder.

"Y-You know it! Just l-like those characters back in the Artisan's stage plays, that Nils, and Alban played." Flame responded, also trying not to laugh.

All while Elora was face palming at that, as she too did find the voice of Juliet's to be funny. But she felt that it'd be rude to laugh at the voice. "Nevertheless, we have the Orbs, and the Talismans?"

"Yes." "Uh-huh." The dragons said in unison.

"And I'm guessing that we were able to help them both? And that the journey wasn't dangerous?" Hunter III asked.

The dragons shook their heads on the latter question, while nodding at the former.

"Then are we gonna be able to put this battle to an end? Are we able to make them listen to us?" Elora asked.

She was told though, that they were told that they would be receiving their support against Ripto, particularly with their Talismans that they were given, after they help them. And that they said that they would bury their hatchet against each other, once they end the battle in a swift fashion.

With the Land Blubbers prepared to invade, and blitzkrieg the Breeze Builders with their soldiers, and tanks, now that the invasion force is out of Zephyr. And they intended to demand for their surrender before they do, just so that they can end the battle in peace, expecting that the Breeze Builders would be weakened from the infestation.

While the Breeze Builders were prepared with their own counter attack with their large air battleship, (That looked like a sub.) that they just raised back up near the end of their journey through Breeze Harbor. And they also said that they'd demand for the Land Blubbers to surrender, to end the battle in peace, expecting them to be unprepared for their battleship's use against them.

Which on quick reflection, had them all realizing that they helped both sides fix their problems, and had them getting stronger from their helping hand, which meant that they were strong enough to refuse to accept the surrender demands, and continue their battle against each other.

In other words, they inadvertently helped both sides of the factions in getting stronger to where they were equal in strength. And that would mean that they wouldn't be willing to surrender to each other. And that left Elora feeling shocked, and distraught.

"Oh no! We might've gotten the Talismans, but they're still fighting each other. I should've been more strict on them, and told them to make a peace deal." Elora said sadly.

As was Hunter III, who was cheering her up. While the Quartet was also in dismay. After all, they made both sides stronger by solving their problems back in their Realms, and they didn't know that they just put the domino pieces in place for the battle that was probably going to be long, and destructive.

Especially since in helping each side, they technically fought each other, and they didn't know it until now.

"I can't believe it. We became mavericks who played both sides. And each other." Cynder said, feeling dismayed about the situation that they put each other, and both of the factions in.

"I know. I didn't dream that we would end up fighting each other. And yet… here we are." Ember said. "And do you know what's worse?"

"Wha- oh, yes. I know what's worse." Cynder said.

"WE DIDN'T EVEN FIGHT OVER SPYRO!" They both said in unison.

After all, there was some talk among their friends that knew of their friendship, as well as Ember's love for Spyro back to the time when the war against Gnasty just ended, that Cynder could someday win over Spyro, which would cause Ember to get envious of her success, and they would end up hating each other, and becoming rivals that would try to win Spyro's affections. (Not knowing of Spyro, and Cynder hooking up, while Flame hooked up with Ember, at the time.)

They even read some of the books that seems to have been inspired by those rumors, finding some of them to be cringeworthy, and melodramatic, while some of them were dramatic in a good way, while the others even had some resolutions, that was similar to theirs. Where Spyro, and Cynder's characters would hook up, while Flame's character would end up confessing his love to Ember's character, causing them to hook up. While the female characters would remain friends.

Those books with those resolutions were interesting, especially when the chemistry between those characters are good, it was just that they were a bit overshadowed by the other ones with the melodrama, that they viewed as unnecessary, and cringy. (Especially with the fights between Cynder, and Ember's characters.)

And it seemed that they just became those characters that fought each other, even if it was indirectly. Despite the fact that they already have their boyfriends at this time.

What a crazy coincidence.

All while Elora, and Hunter III stared in confusion at what they said. While Flame, and Spyro was also dumbfounded at what they said, having also read those books with their girlfriends, on their off days of beating their Flight Realm records.

But nevertheless, they also knew that they had to do something to end this battle, before it could get any worse.

Especially Elora, whom was trying to search for a way to make the leaders of those factions find peace with each other, and end the battle right then and there. She just hoped her leading skills could help with that. But how? How could she make them listen to reason for just long enough if they aren't going to be intimidated by her dragon friends? Oh how the pressure of leading could be getting to her at this point.

At least, until she had an idea. "Guys! Remember those lovers back in Zephyr, and Breeze Harbor? The ones that loved each other, despite being on opposite sides, like with Romeo, and Juliet?" She asked.

The dragon Quartet didn't need to be told twice as they could still remember Romeo, and Juliet from Zephyr like it was just seconds ago. (Especially with the way Juliet spoke.) So they nodded.

"Can you guys get them to come to Zephyr? I think we might need their help with this." Elora said, feeling that they could play a part in ending the battle once and for all.

Hopefully for the 'once and for all' part.

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The two armies of Zephyr, and Breeze Harbor was now in Zephyr, as they both were in one of the caves, with both at a ceasefire agreement due to Elora's demand.

Now the leaders, were speaking with Elora herself as they were gonna be at each other's throats in a second once the pin drops, with the room in a very tense atmosphere that it felt suffocating for Elora. It was tense enough, to where she could pierce the air with her arrows, it was so intense. She just hoped that it wouldn't end in them fighting.

All while the Quartet was going to Idol Springs to find Romeo, Juliet, and their friends over there, alongside Bianca, and Lucentio, knowing that they could be there as they speak. Which left only Hunter III, and Stern, next to her as she began their negotiations. Especially since she could need both their protection if the negotiation goes south.

"I gather you both here, to humbly request for a ceasefire agreement." Elora said. "It's been generations since the last peace conference between the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders. And they have made peace with each other since then. And I hope to make history repeat itself, and have you both end this war."

"With all due respect, dear leader, do you know that they invaded us first?" General Blub the Land Blubber said.

"You've made a pre-emptive strike against us, and infested our Realm with your soldiers!" General Beaky the Breeze Builder said.

"I don't care who started this conflict first!" Elora called out. "The only thing that matters, is if we're going to finish it, and peacefully end it!" She said.

"Yes ma'am! I agree!" General Blub said. "We should indeed finish this!"

"So be it then." Beaky the Breeze Builder said. "Let us show who is the superb army, and end this war between us in victory! Our victory!"

"No, OURS!" Blub said.

"THERE CAN BE NO VICTORS IN THIS FIGHT!" Elora yelled out. Which had both Generals looking at her in shock, and slight fear.

After all, she was known as a nice, and friendly member of the leaders of Avalar. As well as a sole acting leader in times of danger to Avalar. (Like now.) And there was only moments of Elora getting angry, enraged, or hammy, and loud, that they could count on one hand. (Or in the Breeze Builder's case, one wing.)

And all of those cases has shown them, that Elora shouldn't be messed with, once she gets provoked into such a mood.

"There is a worse evil in Avalar, as you both squabble! As we might've told you, Ripto is here in Avalar, and he plans to take it over, and make himself King! He even would take your Realms, and put them under his iron fisted rule! And this battle that you're both under isn't helping our matters any! In fact, he might be benefitting from this battle himself, and using it as a way to put Avalar in his grip! So what, if you both made preemptive strikes, so what, if you were at each other's throats, way before I became one of the leaders of Avalar, and so what, if your prides as the armies of Avalar could be at stake, if Ripto succeeds in taking it over, then it'd only end in tears, and make this battle pointless! Because you all would be forced to serve him! And he might not even care about which one of you are the superior army, because he'd only treat you all like his minions! And being his minions, basically means that he's going to treat you all poorly!" Elora said.

"And trust her when she says this, being the superior force of Avalar, is going to be the least of your worries, when that happens!" Hunter III said, joining in on the speech. "Just think about it! The world would be shrouded in darkness! The sun is blocked out, and unable to illuminate our world, alongside the moon! The inhabitants of Avalar would be enslaved by that sorcerer, alongside his Riptocs! And that would include both of you, and your people! Which would beg the question. What made that dark world possible?" He then asked.

That question did surprise both the leaders of the armies, as they both felt that the question could be implying that their battle against each other, might be unhelpful in the long run, considering that they were fighting each other, instead of helping their heroes of Avalar out. Which would include the Faun that they were speaking with. Which, meant that it could be their fault that Ripto was able to conquer Avalar into his twisted grip.

And they all thought that he was trying to help them win, and become part of his army as his thanks. But now it seems that he was tricking them all this time. And he was taking the profits, and running back to his hideout.

"Besides, have you both cared enough of your units?" Elora asked.

"Of course we do! My squadron knows of the risk, and yet we went with it anyway!" Another Land Blubber, who was female, and was known as Katherina, said. "We were going to charge against those birds, once the battle started, and the shots were fired, when you came and took us here."

"I care for my units too! Even private Romeo, my friend's son, has my protection! Now if only he was here." General Blub said. "Romeo! Front and Center!"

He got no response. Which had him getting both annoyed, and worried. "ROMEO! FRONT AND CENTER!" He shouted.

Which reminded Beaky. "Lucentio! Juliet! Front and Center!" He then said.

Again, no response.

Which had them both nervous about where they could be at. "Oh dear! Where'd they go!"

"We lost them! What happened to make them leave?" Blub then said.

Which had Elora nervous, hoping they'd arrive soon, or they'd probably point fingers at each other, and resume their fight, with more intensity than before. Which would be horrible news for Avalar if Ripto was going to take advantage of it, and profit from it more than he already might've.

"We art here, Sir General!" Romeo's voice then sounded, showing himself, alongside the dragon Quartet, and their dragonflies, along with his friend, Bianca, as well as her friends, along with Juliet, and Lucentio, and their own friends.

Which was much to their surprise. Especially Katherina, whom was the sister of Bianca. And she was fuming at the fact that Bianca happened to be with a Breeze Builder.

"Private Romeo! Where've you been?! I thought you were joining up with our attack force!" General Blub said.

"We don't wanna fight anymore Sir General Blub! Especially if I'm gonna fighteth my love, Juliet!" Romeo said.

"And I likewise, would never fight against my dear Romeo. This fight needs to stop!" Juliet said to Beaky.

What they said had both Generals of their armies at a loss of words. After all, they were sure that even their more reluctant members of their army would be ready to fight against their enemies in the Land Blubbers, and Breeze Builders.

"How could a Land Blubber ever love a Breeze Builder?! It's never happened before!" Katherina said.

"Well, we art the first ones then. And we would die for each other." Bianca said, putting her arms around Lucentio, who returned the gesture. Which both Romeo, and Juliet did too.

After some more pauses of surprise from the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders, they seemed like they wanted to protest against their love, and proclaim to them that they're loving the enemy, which is against their rules.

But then Elora piped in. "See? They're living proof, that not all Land Blubbers, and Breeze Builders, are enemies! In fact, they can be lovers too! So do this for me, and the other leaders of Avalar! Don't make this bond a sacrilege to what you both stand for! Let them be happy with each other, and let them be an example of how not all Land Blubbers, and Breeze Builders, should be enemies! Otherwise, you'll disgrace Avalar, in its impending days of darkness! Otherwise, mine, and the Quartet's risk would be for nothing, and Ripto would be too powerful for us to take on! And all of this, would be nothing but a memory!" She then said.

Whatever words of resistance, and disapproval that both sides of the armies could've said, was silenced at what Elora said. They did feel ashamed when they realized that Elora was correct about Ripto, and how he was going to stab them in the back. And that the battle that they were having, thanks to his cunning, was goign to make things worse. Not only that, but they saw that Private Romeo, and Juliet, along with their friends, Bianca, and Lucentio, didn't share their goals with the rest of the army of the Land Blubbers, and Breeze Builders. Which also proved Elora right in the fact that if they would become lovers instead of foes, then so could they, too.

Especially with Katherina, who noticed the romantic gaze of one of the Breeze Builders, being Lucentio's friend, Petruchio. And even though she was frowning at him for that look, she did start to hiddenly reciprocate the gesture.

As a result, after a tense few moments. The armies made a decision that left Elora, and the Quartet, smiling.

They made peace. It was an uneasy peace, but it was peace nonetheless. And they didn't show any signs that it could fall apart at any moment during the rest of their journey through Avalar.

Elora just hoped, that this would be the end of their fight, for years to come at worst, or for plenty of generations to come at best, as they decided to broker a peace conference with each other, thank the Quartet for their help in their time of need, and let them keep the Talismans, and the Orbs, feeling that they would need those more than they do.

Now, from here on out, it was only the matter of getting rid of Ripto, and his remaining dinosaur minion, that was the most important goal of their journey through Avalar.

And it was a goal, that Elora hoped, that they would accomplish.

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And done.

This was one heck of a chapter for me to write, considering that there was some fleshing out to do for both sides. Not only that, but I have hopes, that I have enough military puns to put in for the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders. Especially with the shout outs to Halo with the Land Blubber's lecture in Zephyr. And to Sheep and the Big City, for the lecture near the flying sub ship, that the Breeze Builders were near, in Breeze Harbor.

Also, shout out to CalvinFujii for the idea of their so called 'friend' indirectly making the war happen.

Also, Romeo, and Juliet, are obviously characters that happen to be based off of the Shakespeare play, but I also added in some other characters from another Shakespeare play, 'the Taming of the Shrew' with Bianca, and Lucentio, and Katherina, and Petruchio. (Whom makes a brief appearance in this.) Just thought that it'd flesh out the Land Blubbers, and the Breeze Builders more, and another shout out goes to CalvinFujii, the idea, of giving Romeo, and Juliet, some friends of theirs.

Also, what could be the punishment, that Hunter IV could be going through. Stay tuned for the next chapter, when I have the Quartet, and Elora, and Hunter III take on Metro Speedway.

And as for the title of this chapter, the Guns N' Roses fans will get the joke.

Finally, one more thing.

hope that you enjoyed the chapter,

please give constructive criticism, just don't be rude,

do not forget to read and review,

and once again, Spyro the Dragon is created by Insomniac games, and is currently owned by Activision, and toys for bob. Please support the official releases.

Theodore the Poet signing off.