Flame groaned and thought "great a prison riot, that is just what we need at this hour. Couldn't they of waited till the sun was above the horizon before trying to escape?" As he stared at the prison he began to think about the trial the other day and Spyro. "I wonder if Spyro is the cause for this riot, or maybe all of that is his doing. He is a purple dragon after all, who knows how much power he possesses."

I guess it's a good thing then he is going to be executed later this morning. Now that I think about it though does he deserve to be executed? Every murderer does deserve the death penalty however if someone were to kill someone else in order to protect someone he or she cares for, do they still deserve to be killed?

Flames thoughts were then interrupted as he heard someone banging on this door. "You may enter." Looking to see who was at the door, he saw his adviser open the door and step into the room. His adviser approached Flame and said in a panicked voice "your majesty I bring terrible news. The purple dragon has escaped!"

Flame turned his attention back towards the prison. He thought to himself before saying "Tell the guards to bring Spyro to me, but I don't want a single scale on him harmed. Now if you will excuse me I must go find his mother and father."

Flame was just about to leap off the balcony when his adviser said "sire, wouldn't it be smarter if you told the city guard these orders instead of me, after all you can fly?"

Flame turned back around and glared at the mole. "Are you saying that I, your king I might remind you, is making a stupid choice?"

The mole began to tremble in fear as Flame loomed over him. "N-no your majesty, I wasn't imp-plying that a-at all. I j-just think it would be b-better is all."

"Good, now get to work. You could use the exercise anyway, you getting a little round."

His adviser bowed once more before running off. Once the door closed behind him Flame flew off in search for Spyro's parents, thinking to himself "Man it's good to be king."

As he flew around in search for a clue on who were Spyro's parents he thought "Something about Spyro looks familiar. I can't help but feel like I've seen his parents before, or at least one of them. I think I should ask Terrador and Cyril if they know who is parents are seeing as they are the only remaining guardians that protected his egg from harm back then."

He continued to fly he looked at the city below and thought about Malefor and all the damage he did to this place. Just the thought of him made Flame burn with hate. Then the thought of Spyro came to mind as well. It was nearly laughable comparing the two. While Malefor was this large brutal and evil dragon, Spyro on the other paw seemed frail. How could he blame him though for being that way? From what Spyro told him, anyone might have turned up like he did, maybe even worse. Flame had to admit if he was in Spyro's place, he might have killed someone as well.

Flame erased these thoughts however as he saw Cyril's home come into view. Once he landed he approached the door and knocked.

In a dark alleyway

Spyro and Cynder were finally able to elude the guards, and now they stopped running for a moment to rest.

"Well… that didn't turn out as I had planned." said Cynder in between breaths.

"Yeah well we would have left sooner if you didn't lock yourself in my cell." Spyro teased, trying to brighten her mood.

"If I didn't stay with you, you would be dead in a few hours, now wouldn't you."

"Touché. Well at least one thing good came out of it." said Spyro as he tried to kiss Cynder only for her to place a paw over his muzzle.

"Save it for later lover boy, until after we are far away from Warfang."

The two heard the sound of paws walking across the ground and heading towards them. Moving as quickly and quietly as possible Spyro and Cynder hid behind some boxes and crates. Cynder poked her head out just a tiny bit in order to see who was approaching them. She let out a sigh of relief as she saw the familiar cheetah Hunter.

"Thank the ancestors its only you." said Cynder as she emerged from her hiding spot. "Spyro you can come out, it's only Hunter."

When Spyro moved out of his hiding Spyro he felt Hunter pull him and Cynder into a big hug and said "Thank goodness I found you two. I was starting to worry that I might not ever find you two again. I take it that you two have made amends, Cynder?"

"He did a bit more than that, but yeah he did."

"Good to hear; now I got some good news. I found a way out of Warfang."

"Really, how?!" asked Spyro.

"Well the other day when I was looking for Cynder, I found a passage that leads to the sewers underneath this city. It's a maze down there; however, they have maps scattered all throughout the place for the people who work down there. On the other side of the sewers there is an opening that goes through the wall and stops on the other side. I can only presume it is used to let more air to flow down there."

"That is great news, now we can leave this place for good!" Cynder was excited about this.

"Well what are we waiting here for, show us the way!" said Spyro equally as excited.

The three of them then headed towards the direction of the sewers entrance Hunter talked about. They carefully rounded several corners always checking if the coast is clear and always stayed in the shadows. Just as the turned onto another dark and empty street, they ran into the last dragons Spyro ever wanted to see again, Terrador and Nova.

Spyro was shocked to see them, and even felt a little scared considering their last encounter. If Cynder and Hunter weren't with him, he might have been cowering in fear.

"Well what do you know dear, the little runt survived." Nova said in disbelief.

"We don't want any trouble, we are just simply passing by, so if you will excuse us." Hunter said as Spyro, Cynder, and himself started to walk around them.

Suddenly a large wall of stone sprung up from the ground blocking off the path in from of them. "No I don't think you will. Word travels fast in this city, and I heard that the purple dragon has been caught and is going to be executed this morning," said Terrador. "If you're here then that means that you broke out of jail. Now if we were to turn him into the king, imagine all the money we will be rewarded for doing so sweetie."

A wicked grin appeared on Nova's face as she said "you're right though I doubt that he will willingly come with us."

The ground beneath Spyro, Cynder, and Hunter suddenly flung them into a nearby wall. The next thing that knew, they were pelted by hundreds of earth fragments coming from Terrador's muzzle. The bombardment soon stopped and Terrador said "come with us now Spyro, and we promise that we will only hurt you and your friends a little before turning you in."

Spyro stood up, his body aching in pain and said "no I will never go with you."

He then charged at them only to be hit by Terrador's mace shaped tail blade across his face. Spyro was once again flung into the air and bounded across the ground. "This is your last chance. Now listen to your father and do as you're told!" Nova nearly shouted.

Spyro slowly stood back up, he legs shaking under him and blood dripped from his muzzle. He then weakly said "you're not my parents, your monsters. All my life I've done as you told me, but no more. The only way I'm going with you is when I'm dead."

"That can be arranged." said Nova before launching a large fire ball towards Spyro. Just it made contact however, Spyro felt someone push him out of the way and taking the blast. Turning around Spyro saw smoke rise from Cynder's scales.

"You will not lay a single scale on him!"

"Oh look he went and got himself a girlfriend isn't that just cute?" Terrador mocked.

Nova was just about to attack Cynder when Hunter jumped onto her back and sunk his claws into the back of her neck, though not deep enough to cause any fatal damage. Nova started to thrash around trying to throw him off. Terrador tried to assist his mate when he felt his scales start to sizzle and burn as Cynder began to fire several globs of poison at him.

"Damn you!" shouted Terrador just before creating a column of stone underneath Cynder, which threw her into the air and landed back on the ground with a thud. Nova managed to grab Hunters leg with her mouth and bit down. Hunter grunted him pain and released his grip from her neck just before Nova threw him off of her. While still in midair Terrador shot a large earth bolt, which lodged itself into Hunters gut. He then landed near Spyro and Cynder

Spyro watched in fear as his only friend and the love of his life stood back up, and charged at his parents, only to be thrown aside once more.

"Give up now you two, you don't stand a chance against either of us." said Terrador.

"We will never give up. Spyro is our friend and we won't let you hurt him." Hunter got ready to fight again.

Both Hunter and Cynder tried to attack Terrador and Nova Once more. Nova dodged Hunter's attack and retaliated by engulfing him in flames, while Terrador simply created another pillar of stone underneath Cynder and rammed it into her chest causing her to stop her assault and tumble across the ground. She came to a halt right in from of Terrador who then lifted his paw up and stomped down on to her.

Spyro heard several bone break, and saw Cynder's eyes go wide as they were filled with pain. Hunter wasn't doing any better as Nova used her tail blade and left a large cut across Hunters chest. Hunter then fell to the ground and his body went limp. Spyro's heart sank and terror started to consume him once more. He felt his mind start to cloud before he fell unconscious.

Terrador raised his tail above Cynder's head and was just about to crush her skull when he felt several ice shards collide into his face. He stumbled backwards a bit and looked over to whoever fired at him. He then saw Spyro glaring and baring his teeth at him.

"Well it looks like someone is finally ready to play." said Terrador.

"Shut the fuck up already, you talk just as much as Blast before I killed him. Now come over here so I can kill you too!" Spyro shouted back.

Not wasting any more time, Terrador shot an earth missile at Spyro, while Nova shot fire balls at him as well. Spyro ignored the pain in his body and barely dodged the attacks. He was able to get close to Terrador, and lunged at his face. Terrador roared in pain as Spyro managed to leave claw marks across his left eye.

Nova then comet dashed towards him, but Spyro rolled out of the way. When he stopped rolling he saw Terrador's tail coming towards him. Once again Spyro was able to dodge the attack and even managed to claw at Terrador's body. Terrador grunted in pain as he felt some blood run down the side of his body. Wanting to hurt them some more Spyro fired a current of electricity at Nova. Nova fell to her knees as the electricity flowed through her body, stunning her. Spyro began to grin and created a larger current of electricity and continued to fire it at Nova. She began to scream in pain as it felt like her insides were about to explode. A feeling of bloodlust fell upon Spyro as he started to enjoy watching Nova suffer, however he was not paying attention to Terrador who shot another earth missile which exploded upon impact.

Spyro then landed near Cynder who started to stand back up.

"You ok Spyro? Can you still fight?" asked Cynder.

"Worry about yourself, and don't think for a second that I'm helping you. Once I kill these two, your next!" said Spyro with anger in his voice.

It was at that moment when Cynder realized that this was not the Spyro she loved, but instead was the monster that killed Blast.

Terrador's wounds still stung, but he was more worried about his mate who laid on the ground and slightly twitching as the electrical current made by Spyro still ran through her body. Soon rage filled Terrador's eye's, as he bared his teeth at Spyro and Cynder. "I was going to turn you into the king and let him deal with you however I think it would be better is I just kill you myself!" said Terrador right before shooting a barrage of earth missiles at the two dragons.

Spyro moved out of the way while Cynder used her shadow element and sank into the ground. As the two advanced towards the adult dragon, Terrador slammed his paw against the ground which caused a wave of earth to form in the ground and headed towards Cynder.

Seeing this Cynder jumped out of the ground and tried to jump over the wave of earth only for the back end of the wave to come up and collide into her face. Spyro on the other hand continued his charge towards Terrador. He jumped onto Terrdor's back and pelted the back of his head with small shards of earth.

Terrador managed to shake him off, and formed an earth boulder around himself and charged forwards. Just as Spyro stood back up, he was flattened by Terrador. His entire body ached as he felt Terrador's entire weight, plus the weight of the earth around him push down on his body. Terrador then quickly removed the earth boulder surrounding him and grabbed Spyro's tail. With all his might Terrador swung Spyro into a wall. Still not finished he then threw Spyro's body across the road. His body skipped across the ground three times before he come to a sudden stop as he collided with the wall Terrador created not too long ago.

Terrador approach Spyro's body and saw that he was knock out, but still alive. Wanted to change this he raised his paw above Spyro and was just about to slice him to pieces when he heard Nova yell "Terrador stop!"

Confused Terrador turned to face his mate and what he saw made his heart skip a beat. While Spyro and Cynder were fighting Terrador, Hunter woke back up and moved over to Nova's limp body. He then removed the earth shard in his gut and placed the pointed end against Nova's neck threatening to end her life.

"Unless you want your mate dead you will let Spyro and Cynder go!" demanded Hunter.

Terrador still wanted to kill Spyro, however he would rather die himself then let Nova be killed. He backed away from Spyro and lowered the stone wall. Cynder then quickly ran towards Spyro and placed him on her back. She looked back at Hunter worried that when they left, Hunter would have to deal with the wrath of Terrador.

Seeing Cynder's hesitation he said "Don't worry about me, I will be just fine. You get Spyro out of here."

Cynder still didn't want to leave him behind, but did as she was told and ran towards their destination.

Spyro didn't know how long he was knocked out, but the next thing he knew was that there was a rancid smell. He slowly opened his eye's only to see that the world around him was dark. Confused and disoriented he tried to stand only for pain to shoot through his body, however he felt someone place their paw on his back and pinned him down.

"You're not going anywhere, until you give the real Spyro back to me!" whispered Cynder in a hostile voice.

"Cynder please you have to…" said Spyro before Cynder quickly shushed him.

"You must keep your voice down. I managed to carry you into the sewers, but I attracted the attention of a few guards. They could be anywhere, and just about any noise will echo down here."

"Please Cynder you have to believe me that it's me and not that monster." Spyro whispered back.

"Prove it." whispered Cynder still in a hostile voice.

Spyro though for a second, before he knew how to convince her. He lifted his head off the ground and turned it so that was looking at her. He saw both anger and worry in her eyes. He then leaned forwards and kissed her. As they continued to kiss Spyro felt Cynder remove her paw from off of him.

Cynder knew that this was the real Spyro because his darker half had no feelings for her, and his kiss felt too good to be done by that unloving bastard.

When they finished their kiss Cynder did her best to hug him while he laid on the ground.

Spyro then noticed that Hunter was not with them. "What happened to Hunter?"

Cynder stepped away from him and he noticed that her eyes were filled with sorrow when she said "He managed to threaten Terrador with the life of your mother. In exchange of letting his mate live Terrador had to let us go. Other than that I don't know where he is or what happened to him."

Spyro stayed quiet for some time. He then heard Cynder ask "Do you think you can walk?"

Spyro tried to stand. He felt pain with every muscle that moved, until he was standing up right. He then placed a paw forwards and began to walk. With every step he took came splintering pain. "Yeah I think I can."

The two were just about to head towards the opening Hunter mentioned when Spyro noticed that Cynder was cringing with pain as she began to walk. "Are you ok Cynder?"

"I will be just fine. Now let's get out of here, before we die from this terrible smell."

The two walked around the sewers and would look at every map placed down there to check were they were. However, it became harder and harder to remember were to go as the fumes coming from the river of waste made their heads dizzy, and their injury's from their resent battle didn't help either.

They then came to another map hanging on the wall. It took a second to find were they were and then were the opening was. "If we continue down this path the opening should just be up ahead." said Cynder. It took a minute for what she said to register into their brains, but when it did a look of delight washed over their faces.

Eager to leave the sewers they started to run, not caring if anyone heard the echoing sound of their claws clicking against the ground.

They then came across several large stair cases that spiraled upwards, and run up them. It felt like hours until they reached to top, but all they cared for was that they were about to be free.

Free from everyone who looked down on them. Free from everyone who wants them dead. Free from everything. All that mattered was that they could finally live their lives in peace with one another.

There hopes were extinguished however as they reached the opening Hunter mentioned before. Instead of the giant hole they expected it was instead just a long narrow opening that was just barely big enough to fit both of Spyro's paws. Their hopes dashed, they collapsed in exhausted.

Then an idea dawned upon Spyro. "Hey… Cynder... can you… use your… poison element to… to make the opening… bigger?" he said between breaths.

"I don't know… but … I can try."

She waited for a few moments before standing up and fired several large globs of poison at the stone wall. A loud hissing noise could be heard throughout the sewers. Spyro had no doubt that the guards looking for them could hear it. Soon light broke through the stone wall, and soon there was an exit large enough to fit the two of them. The first thing they saw was a giant shadow created by the wall that wrapped around Warfang as the sun rose higher on the other side of the city.

They were just about to walk out, when once again their hopes were cut short when they saw that they were at least 75 feet above the ground. Spyro felt so stupid that he thought the exit would be closer to the ground. If there were such an opening close to the ground, it would give invaders a clear place to sneak into the city.

"What are we going to do know?" Cynder asked.

Spyro thought for a moment. There was no way they could climb down, and they certainly can't go back the way they came. The only option was to fly down, but with one of Spyro's wings gone, it would be impossible for him to do so. He then said "You will have to carry me down."

"I don't know if I can Spyro. I'm so tired, I can barely keep my eyes open."

"I know Cynder I feel the same way, but it is our only chance."

"I think I hear voices over here, up these stairs." came a voice, which Spyro presumed belonged to one of the guards.

"Come on Cynder we are running out of time."

Still thinking this was a bad idea; Cynder climbed on top of his back and wrapped her arms around his chest and acted as his wings. Spyro then jumped off the ledge. The two soared through the sky in a downward spiral motion as they headed towards the ground. Cynder knew that she couldn't carry him far so the sooner they got to the ground the better.

Even though it was impossible Spyro felt as if he was actually flying, and he had to admit it was one of the best feelings he had ever felt. The only thing better than this was his love for Cynder. He felt the air running over his scales, as well as the wind blowing across his face. His body felt weightless and he felt his body relaxed as they continued to drift downwards.

When they were about 45 feet off the ground, Cynder groaned in pain. "Spyro I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." Her wings were screaming in pain with the extra weight it had to carry, and were about to give up on her.

Several thoughts ran through Spyro's head as he tried to think of a way to get them both to the ground safely, however nothing he thought of would help. That is when a new thought came to his mind. He then began to thrash around trying to escape Cynder's grasp.

"SPYRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" screamed Cynder. "STOP IT, YOUR GOING TO FALL!"

"Cynder I don't have any other choice. Either I fall, or the both of us do. Now let go of me!" Spyro continued to struggle in her grasp

"No way Spyro I won't let go you no matter… NO!" In the middle of her sentence Spyro managed to break free from of her grasp and plummeted towards the ground. Cynder started to dive down after him with her paws stretched out in front of her, but no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't reach him.

Then his world went blank, and Cynder's heart shattered into a million pieces as Spyro hit the ground with a loud thud. Quickly pulling up so she wouldn't meet the same fate as him she landed next to him. She began to cry over his body fearing that he was dead. Suddenly she heard the voices of the guards up on top of the entrance she created. If she didn't move quick, they would be found.

Cynder picked up Spyro's limp body and ran towards the wall. She laid him flat against it and used her shadow element to concealing them in the shadow the wall casted. Soon she saw several dragons fly across the sky in search for them. She stayed as still as possible as see did her best to muffle her crying. After all the dragons disappeared from site, Cynder placed Spyro back onto her back and carried him off into the distance. The only thing fueling her was her need to get Spyro to a safe place.