The now trio of dragons moved to enter the food hall, although two were heavily confused. As they set about getting food and heading towards the only empty table- 'Same one from before the mission', Cynder noted mentally- the entire room fell silent as not only Cynder walked into the room, alive and well, but another black dragon. The room exploded into not-so-quiet whispers. Spyro seemed to be used to this and ignored it while Calemvir did not care at all, just following the two dragons. Cynder easily caught some of the whispers passing around though.

'…The Terrors back?! When?'

'There's two of them now…'

'Why does that one look like Spyro?'

'Black magic…'

"Well, can we have some answers now?" Spyro's voice dragged Cynder's attention away from the chatters of the students and towards the two males she was seated with.

"Sure. What do you want to know?"

Spyro looked at Calemvir weirdly before speaking, "Maybe about why you are a dragon now?"

"I thought that would be obvious. Just under a decade ago you were at war with another species. What do you think would happen if a new species, that happens to be a relative of the apes, showed up out of no-where? Pandemonium. I thought you would ask how."

"The 'how' doesn't really matter. It's probably something I won't remember or understand."

Calemvir smirked. "Well at least you understand where you are".

It was at this moment that a large gong rang out over the temple. Seeing Calemvir's confused face, Cynder decided to clarify what the bell meant.

"It's just how the guardians let us know that the first classes will be starting. We have about five minutes until the classes start."

"I'll show you two the way", Spyro spoke up. "Cynder, you haven't been here for a while and our classes have changed over the years and you haven't been in this building at all Calemvir."

"No need to worry about me," Calemvir said, standing to leave the table. "I don't have any classes here, I'm just here to keep up the appearance of a student. Have fun!"

Calemvir then walked out of the lunchroom, causing the rest of the students to give him a wide berth.

"We should probably head off to. We don't want you to be late to the first class you've had in years."

Spyro stood up from his seat, causing Cynder to follow him through the crowd of students rushing to get to classes. "So, before we get there, you should know something," Spyro began. "Because of the… feelings towards us by nearly the entirety of the temple the guardians thought it would be a better idea for us to be mentored by them directly for the rest of our time here."

"Really?" Cynder asked, surprised. "About time!"

Spyro raised a brow confusedly.

"Well, its not like we were learning anything new in those classes. Most of that stuff we learned for ourselves during our time in the war. The only thing we can really learn from the temple is how to get stronger for when the next bad guy comes along."

"And even then, it probably won't be nearly as bad as Malefor."

Cynder nodded. If another dragon decided to go rogue and do things that Malefor was doing, Malefor was a purple dragon. He had full control of all elements and was able to control Convexity to a higher extent to anything that had been seen before, creating shields as well as rays. Nothing could show the dragon race a bigger challenge than that. Even if Spyro went rogue, he wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a danger as Malefor was. He had power only shown once in generations.

"Still though," Spyro continued. "It pays to be prepared."

The two friends continued walking in comfortable silence just enjoying having the other around again. Eventually, Spyro stopped outside of a large door, pushing it open with his wing. "Ladies first."

Cynder snorted, before walking in. "I'm the least Ladylike dragoness in this temple Spyro."

"If you're done conversing." A voice called out from the room, drawing Cynder's and Spyro's attention. Flare was standing at the centre of the room, waiting patiently for the two younger dragons. "We do have work to do. I'm starting to think Calemvir had a point when he brought you two up."

"QUIET FLARE!" Spyro cried, indignantly.

"There's enough of that going around with Calemvir around. He doesn't need help Flare," Cynder said.

"Yes, yes." Flare said, dismissively. "I have a few things I want to get through today, although most of it involves you Cynder."

Flare then turned her attention towards Spyro. "Spyro, dear, would you mind taking a seat towards the side, you won't be needed for right now."

"Sure, Flare." Spyro muttered, still a little embarrassed. Spyro walked over to the side and lay down, though ready to move at any time.

"Cynder, we are going to have a spar. Come at me with all you have. We're going to see if you have gotten rusty over the years."

Cynder quickly shifted into a combat position, flaring her winds up, ready to move at a second's notice. Flare simply stood there, waiting. "Whenever you're ready Cynder."

Cynder charged towards the Fire Guardian, closing the space between them quickly. Cynder attempted to claw Flare, only for Flare to move her wing into the claw's path, blocking the blow with a little pressure. Cynder then moved into Shadow, removing herself from Flare's vision. Flare now readied herself to begin moving. A few seconds passed with Cynder still missing. Flare then noticed a small movement behind her, throwing herself forward to avoid the black dragonesses attempt to claw her from behind. A fireball was sent from the Guardians mouth aimed at her chest. Cynder attempted to move away from this attack but tripped on her wing causing her to take the flame full on her front.

"I see." Flare relaxed again, moving over to help Cynder up. "Calemvir thought this would be a problem. According to the Guardians, you could defeat one of them on their own. You don't make mistakes like that. You, Cynder, are not used to your new size."

At this point Spyro had reached the pair, worried over Cynder. The fireball hadn't caused any problem, her black scales being much harder than the average dragon. "Spyro, it looks like you'll be training on your own for now. I have to get Cynder up to speed on how to fight again."

A/N Thank you KaousuShin for favouriting.

Been a minute for this story. I just had a bit of a hard time with this chapter specifically. It should be easier in the future. Or not. I dunno. We'll see.