(Ember and Flame are evil! For most of you, that's a good thing and/or your suspicions confirmed. But, unfortunately, neither of them are behind this. You all know who it is, you just might not realize it yet.)

Hunter had arrived with a toolbox, and he and Spyro were almost done building whatever it was they were working on. "Tighten that screw." Spyro instructed as he fastened the batteries into place. "There!" Hunter said, stepping back. Together, they had built a small device that looked like a remote control attached to a speaker with an antenna sticking out of it.

"Is that a static electricity generator?" asked Sabina. Hunter shook his head. "Nah, only part of it is. Let's see if it works."

"You go first." said Spyro. Hunter took a few paces back and stood with his arms out. Spyro pointed the speaker towards him and turned a dial on the gadget. It began to hum softly. Spyro then flipped a switch and the device shot out a yellow light at Hunter. After a few seconds, the light went off and the device went silent. Several small disks fell from Hunter's body.

"It worked!" Spyro exclaimed. "Now do me!"

Hunter turned the device on Spyro, and several disks fell from the dragon's body as well. "What are those?" Akiro asked, picking up one of the disks.

"Trackers." said Spyro. "The gadget not only made them let go of us, but it also confused them."

"How?"

"They still send out signals as to where we are, but that's not really where we are." he explained. "We'll be one place, and the signal will come from another." Spyro picked up all the little trackers, walked out the door, and threw them in the river. "Now come on you three, let's go to the storm shelter."

"Yes!" Hunter pumped his fist in the air.

Akiro and Sabina looked at each other. "Okay, but why do you want us to come with you?" asked Akiro.

"Because you know too much." Hunter replied. He laughed at their worried looks. "No, it's not anything like that! We just don't want you guys getting caught by the wrong people."

"Ah..."

"Okay, now we're going to have to split up and get there in intervals." Spyro said. "We may not be tracked, but they could still be watching. I'll go first, Akiro will follow, and then Hunter will come followed by Sabina."

Spyro took off. "What's this storm shelter we're going to?"

"It's a place made by the Dragon Elders for everyone to go in case some huge storm hits." He said. "Spyro and I think that it's the only place in the Dragon Worlds that wasn't affected by the change."

"What was the change?" asked Akiro.

"I'll tell you later. You better follow Spyro before he gets too far away."

Akiro looked out and saw that Spyro was turning a corner. He waved to the others and started walking. "See ya in a few!"

Ember sat in a chair in Red's old lab. Ever since the dragon had been defeated, she and the others had moved into the place. It was a lot roomier than their old hideout, and much more technologically advanced. She sat in front of a wall of computer monitors and TV screens, watching the world. The pink dragon pressed a few buttons on the computer and entered in a password.

The biggest screen switched from a view of the bridge to a green tracking screen. There were little yellow dots all over the screen, but two red ones in different parts of the worlds stuck out the most. The dots representing Spyro and Hunter.

Suddenly, Ember heard a whooshing noise. The doors to the room were opening. "Hello, Flame." she said, not taking her gaze from the screen. Flame walked into the room and sat down at the chair beside hers. "Have you heard anything about two visitors to the realms?"

"No, not really. What do they look like?"

"Imagine a wolf's upper body and a lion's lower body." Flame described. "One of them was green and the other was white."

Ember paused. "Yes...I saw them. They wanted to know where Spyro was!"

"Really? did they say anything else?" the red dragon was eager to know. Ember thought for a while.

"No, not much else. They looked like tourists. Probably wanted a photo or an autograph."

"Ember, there haven't been tourists here in two years! Those two have obviously been called in to..."

Ember huffed and went back to working at the computer. " No, you're wrong. Look, I've got Spyro and Hunter on the radar right now!" she pointed a claw at the two red dots. "See? We've still got them."

"Turn on the cameras."

Ember growled at Flame, and then pulled up the views on two cameras. One in the Cloudy Domain, and one in the Ice Citadel. "Ha! There's nothing there!"

"They could just be out of frame."

"Spyro just went from the Cloudy Domain to Crocovile Swamp. There's no way he could have gotten there that fast!" Flame sat back in the chair and smirked. Ember gaped at the radar, then back at the cameras, them back at the radar. Her eyes glowed yellow and she glared at the screen. "Why, that little..." she growled. Ember stood up in her chair, made a fist, and punched one of the camera screens as hard as she could. Flame gasped and ducked as a shower of broken glass and sparks came his way.

"You idiot! You've just destroyed the monitor watching the bridge in the Dragon Kingdom! We've got to replace that thing before the boss notices!"

Ember brushed some glass and blood off her claws. "Sorry." she muttered. "I think the boss will care less about the broken screen when he finds out that those two have awakened!"

"It needs a little work, but it'll do." Spyro said as they stood in the main room of the storm shelter. It was a large, open space, with many other doorways in it. Lining the walls were various candles and torches, all unlit. Several large light fixtures hung from the ceiling as well. Above, tree roots protruded from the roof. Scattered in clusters about the room were lots of crates of different shapes and sizes. A good layer of dust covered everything. Hunter sneezed, creating a little cloud of dust.

"A little work? We'll be cleaning up for months!"

"Calm down, Hunter." Spyro said. He turned to the twins. "Sorry about all this, guys. I guess we're kinda ruining your vacation time."

"Nah, it's okay." Akiro replied. "Besides, I think we're better off with you guys anyway. So, will you at least tell us what's going on?"

Spyro walked around the room, lighting a few torches. "Well, okay. You're already in this now. First let's find a place a little further from the door." he led them all through the closest doorway. They were now standing in what looked like a kitchen. Hunter sat down at the table. "So, here's how it went."

They waited for him to continue.

"Well?" asked Sabina.

"Uh...actually I thought Spyro was going to continue that sentence."

Spyro grinned and shook his head. "Hunter, I can't tell you how much I've missed the old you. So guys, do you know about the Year of the Dragon ceremony?" Akiro and Sabina nodded, and Spyro went on. "Well, it was two years ago. I had just defeated the Sorceress and we were all having a great time and everything, and then he showed up."

"Who's he?" asked Sabina.

"Ugh. He's a jerk, a maniac, a completely psychotic...ugh. Unfortunately, he was also very powerful. He just took over like that," Spyro snapped his fingers." and the worst part was that there was nothing anyone could do about it. Things really went downhill from there. First, he went and 'redecorated' the Dragon Worlds."

"Who was his inspiration, Dr. Seuss?" Akiro muttered. Sabina though for a second.

"Um, if he redecorated the worlds, then how come this storm shelter hasn't been changed?"

"Oh," Hunter explained, "The Elders cast so many kinds of protective spells on this thing that it remained hidden and...what's the word...invulnerable to attacks."

"Then he got really controlling." Spyro continued. "I mean really controlling. He hypnotized all he could into thinking that everything was fine. Those he couldn't, he imprisoned until he could. A few of our friends couldn't be hypnotized. Elora was one of them." Spyro sat down.

Sabina joined him at the table. "Aw, I'm sorry."

"Thanks. Well, the rest of us got the full effect of it. But something happened during that, and I don't know if he planned this or not, but we were aware that we were hypnotized. We did whatever he told us, but we were aware of exactly what was going on. It was awful. Nothing felt right! It was even worse when Ripto stole all of the dragonflies. He did something to Ripto's spell that made the dragonflies just scatter everywhere! Then, I think he messed up their little minds, because they kept running away from me."

Akiro pulled up a chair himself. "But if the dragonflies are companions to the dragons, why would they run away. Spyro shrugged and continued.

"I don't know. At least it didn't take too long to get that solved. After that, things went from bad to worse. About a year later, Bianca came out of her 'trance'. She then made a big mistake by celebrating and trying to free the rest of us. They caught her and took her away too. Hunter and I couldn't do anything because we were still powerless and Red had attacked. Several of the Dragon Elders had been released, but I have no idea what kind of spell they were under. Their looks had been changed drastically, and they acted stranger than anyone. Then, two people were put here to make sure everyone else was still under their control."

"Ember and Flame!" Sabina exclaimed.

"Exactly!" Spyro nodded. "That's why we were acting funny when you met us. Man, things got worse then. Nothing made any sense! Everything just felt all wrong, and I just kept messing up. I'd charge into something that I was intending to flame and vice versa. Right after I had defeated Red, Hunter and I were 'freed'. Sure, we were thrilled, but we could only continue to pretend that we were still hypnotized. Now, thanks to you guys, we can finally put this plan we've been working on into action."

Akiro stood up. "Great! What's the plan?"

"We're going to break into the dungeons tonight and free a few friends!"

Sabina smiled. "We'd be happy to help! Wait, you never mentioned this guy's name."

"Oh, yeah. It's Vokrath Uragyth." Hunter said. Sabina stared at him.

"You're joking, right?" she asked. "Because that's an awfully weird name."

Spyro was rummaging around in the drawers in the kitchen now, and he found a pencil and a piece of paper. "Okay, here's what we'll do."

Flame walked down the corridor. The gnorcs could tell that he wasn't in a very good mood, and were staying well out of his way.

"Stupid intruders." he muttered. "Where's that guy in charge of Transportation? He said he'd destroyed all the portals!" Flame counted off doors as he stormed down the hallway. "Eleven...twelve...thirteen!" He head-butted the door open. In the room were a row of file cabinets, several computers, and a shrimpy-looking gnorc who was wielding a bow and arrow. He was using the arrows to play darts.

"You!" Flame snapped, pointing at the gnorc. "You said you destroyed all of the portals!"

"B-but I did!" the gnorc replied shakily. Flame slapped him hard across the face, leaving three long, deep scratches.

"Liar! You left one in the Dragon Kingdom, and two outsiders have gotten in!" the dragon grabbed the gnorc by his shirt. "Go take care of it, now!" he hissed menacingly. Flame pushed the gnorc to the ground and let go of him.

"W-what about t-the outsiders?"

"Worry about what will happen to you if that portal isn't gone within the hour."

Well, I'm sure that by now some of you have figured out the significance of the name Vokrath Uragyth. But, I'm sure there are some that don't get it at all. So if you know, please don't blurt it in a review.

Also, important message to those of you who hate Ember: Thanks for your support.