The dragon realms felt brighter somehow. It was as if the weight of the world had just lightened, if only a little.
In the middle of repairing their balloon to leave Dream Weavers, the balloonists had stared in awe at all of the dragonflies that accumulated in the homeworld. Tens, hundreds of dragonflies old, young and recently orphaned from Gnasty's war buzzed in conversation with one another. Talk lost loved ones and the state of the war itself.
From what the balloonists heard the gnorks were in a panic. Most of them fled from the Dragon Realms, all of their previous bravado gone in an instant.
There was only one reason for such a mass retreat; Their leader was dead.
Relief filled them all for only a minute.
Where was Spyro?
The question itself filled them with dread. Despite the dragon's presumed victory they only expected the worst.
Fortunately their fears were unfounded when the eldest balloonist Hak arrived with the purple dragon in tow.
Physically Spyro wasn't worse for wear but mentally...
After a short talk, the balloonists all decided to go back to Artisans. They set up a base camp in a place absent of crystal dragons as exposing Spyro to the casualties of the Gnasty conflict wasn't even a suggestion.
Hak, guilty he hadn't been much help in the conflict, decided to join Tuco in the search of the dragon eggs. But the search itself started out slow and by ways things are going they wonder if the eggs were still intact. The thought of what might happen or what already happened to them greatly disturbed the two.
Marco, much like Hak and Tuco, went on a search of his own after two dragonflies familiar to him told of the disappearance of Flame and Ember, two young dragons under his care that he sent into hiding not long after the conflict. Marco as well went missing on the occasion, he's responses few and far between but the others knew he was still alive out there somewhere.
Amos and Cray went off to gather up any leftover supplies in the Dragon Realms so they could go on a journey to find survivors in hope not all dragons were crystallized. A pipe dream but they didn't want to give up hope yet. No one really did.
And Gosnald stayed at the base watching over the purple dragon. To say he wasn't worried leaving the dragon alone for even an hour for the first week would be a lie. Maybe that was for the best at the start. Spyro himself would barely eat or drink. He didn't want to leave the house and, heck, even with the offer of going to Dragon Shores, a place he always wanted to go to ever since he was little, he still turned it down. Gosnald joined Sparks in the problem of not knowing what to do about Spyro in general. They just let him grieve while supporting him every step of the way.
They would always be there for him until he got better and even after.
No matter how long it would take.
A/N;
What can I say? It's been a long road but there is still somethings I must address.
This AU has been in my mind for a while laying dormant. A few years ago, I think, I tried to draw some art and a poem of this AU but it didn't really go anywhere. Recently, when I was watching speedruns of Spyro 2 I thought how would it be like live in the many different worlds. Then I thought of a tired Spyro setting down and living among the residence but next I thought why would Spyro do that? Why is he sad and stuff? Then it clicked why not have it part of this AU? And now we're here.
I can't belie we're here. At the end of Spyro 1. By the way I plan to do the all the games in this AU, but it might take awhile.
To answer a question from someone, a review from fanfic but I thought it's important enough to leave here anyway.
Even if they did, I don't think it really matters if the gnorks came back. Sure the dragon realms is a ghost town now mostly inhabited by balloonists and dragonflies but Spyro would still guard it if need be. If Spyro can take Gnasty's army he can take on any other ones too. No worries the realms won't be empty for long. ;)
Also the egg problem will be solved in a later story. But I'll leave you with this; the eggs are okay but they are not in the dragon realms. You could guess where they are though, it's really obvious. :p
Anyway, ha this A/N is almost longer then the final chapter itself, see you in the sequel A Bad Day.