Huge apology to any who liked or followed this story and were expecting a new chapter. This one has been, unfortunately, canceled.

Not worry, will be providing a summary of what would have happened in the rest of the story. Before I do, please note that this story has been retooled into something I think is more engaging, my Kindness of Strangers fanfic is a similar concept and uses many of the ideas I had for this though, but in different ways.

Ok so first off, the summary. It is as follows:

Volteer would have pulled some strings to convince the council to let Cynder and Spyro adopt Claire. Then after that, there were a few chapters of them getting used to taking care of a baby, nothing really crazy. Then, from there, they would eventually be visited by Claire's aunt in the middle of the night. She would reveal to them that Claire's parents, Lilith and Vieren, had conceived her after a secret romance, but were chased after by a group who wanted Lilith, and by extension her daughter, for her unique powers.

The aunt would have revealed that she and Lilith, her sister, were some of the only shadow dragons around at this point because(as most dragons felt the element was inherently evil but they corrupted themselves when they were born without elements to begin with) By the time Lilith and Vieren died, they had been hiding out in the woods, trying to evade the group chasing them. They were supposed to have met up with the aunt at a rallying point but were killed by a predator beforehand.

The aunt spent weeks tracking their whereabouts until finding Spyro and Cynder. She leaves Claire with them because they can offer her a better life (house, school, rich) than the aunt could (living on the run)

After this another two chapters of baby antics while there are brief flashes to the villains.

In the climax, villains sneak into the temple while dressed as guards, Claire gets lost from Cynder and Spyro while on business there but is found by the guard captain.

Villains attack him soon after, but Spyro and Cynder catch wind and aid in the battle, villains are defeated. After that, the leader( who does not have a name) stated they wanted to train Claire, who would turn out to have a really powerful corrupted version of the wind element mixed with shadow, and raise her to be their herald to take over Warfang by force in the future(however that worked out). After that, they are sent to jail, and Spyro and Cynder raise Claire in peace and happily ever after.

That's it. The villains group did not even have a name. And the story was not particularly interesting. Its direction was predictable and it was mostly just fluffed with barely a plot in between.

That's why I canned it. Kindness of Strangers is basically a retool of the story but more interesting, in my opinion.

So yeah, that's about it. Sorry to disappoint but hopefully this gives closure.