Here is chapter 3. First off, a big thank you to those of you that have reviewed, followed and/or favourated this story so far. BTW if anyone is wondering, under scale refers to the softer set of scales and bone that cover a dragon's belly and front of the neck

**Chapter 3 A Name and A family**

It was early morning in the southern forests. The sun shone through the trees and reflected off the scales of two young fire dragons that were happily playing amongst the trees, one was a red dragon with green eyes, a yellow underbelly and wings and, the other one was a pink dragoness who had deep blue eyes and also had a yellow underbelly but wings were a lighter shade of pink. The two dragons were busy playing a game of tag.

**Dragoness's point of view**

"give up Ember, you'll never catch me" my friend Flame said as he shot off into the bushes ahead of us. cursing I sped up to try and catch him, I burst through the bushes only to find myself on a ledge with a small drop to the ground and Flame draped over a tree branch in front of me, "hahaha, what was it you said?" I laughed "this isn't funny Ember, get me down from here" Flame shouted, struggling about which made me laugh even harder. I spent some time thinking of a way to get Flame down from the tree, then an idea hit me, he probably wouldn't like it but there is a lot of stuff I do that he doesn't like. carefully I aimed for the branch at the point that it joined the trunk of the tree, taking a deep breath in I shot a fireball out of my mouth. The fireball impacted, burning through the tree and sending the branch crashing to the ground and bringing Flame down with it. I calmly jumped down from the ledge and walked over to him, whilst he was still slightly dazed from the fall and tapped him gently on the head, "I guess you're it then?" I asked. Flame looked around "look Ember it's getting late, I think we should start heading back" I looked up at the sky to see that it was almost sunset, if we didn't get back soon my mum was going to kill me "oh shoot, you're right, we need to be getting back" I exclaimed. we quickly made our way back through the jungle. about halfway back we stumbled into a clearing and found a young drake like us but this drake had dark purple, almost black scales and his horns, underbelly, claws and wings were a silvery-grey colour. The young drake was lying, on his left side, unmoving in a depression in the middle of the clearing. Wasting no time, I ran up to him and checked his breathing to make sure he was still alive. Then I looked him over for any injuries, he had lot of scars on his body, also there was a pool of blood, I started panicking, worrying that this young dragon was seriously hurt but I stopped when closer inspection revealed that the blood was coming from a small cut on the inside of his right foreleg, really nothing more serious than a graze. After checking him over I heard paw steps as Flame came over to me, "what should we do?" he asked, I thought about it for a few seconds then I walked around the clearing, my muzzle close to ground sniffing around, then I stopped "well there is no scent traces anywhere of another dragon so this dragon's mother is nowhere nearby and there are no caves nearby and he isn't from the village" "hmm, strange, according to what my parents said, it is strange for a young dragon alone like this to be away from its mother, even more so outside of a cave or village." Flame said "hmmm, but aren't we away from our mothers?" I asked "yes, but we aren't far from the village and we aren't alone" Flame replied "well let's take him back to the village then" I suggested, knowing full well that we couldn't leave this young drake here as the forests were much more dangerous at night than they were by day as there were things that came out at night that would more than happily take on a young dragon.

Flame nodded his head in agreement and gently I helped place the unconscious dragon on his back as he was the strongest out of us two. After we were sure that the dragon was secure on flame's back, we started off home, we took longer getting back to the village, as Flame kept stumbling due to the added weight of the dragon he was carrying. Eventually we stumbled into the centre of the village, all the dragons stopped what they were doing and turned to face us, Flame gently dropped the young dragon off his back and sat there, panting heavily. "Ember, there you are, what kept you? I was starting to get worried" A familiar voice said from behind. I turned to see my mother pushing her way through the crowd, who parted to let her pass, I couldn't be bothered to explain to her, so I just nodded my head in the direction of the still unconscious dragon. "By the spirits, what happened to him?" my mother asked, "we don't know, maybe we should ask him when he wakes up" Flame suggested, then we heard a groining sound coming from the dragon in question.

**Shadow Dragon's POV**

ouch my head hurt, wait where was I? I slowly opened my eyes, to find myself surrounded by other dragons, all of which were different sizes and colours and all of them were staring at me, wait, how did I know they were dragons? Where was this place?. All these new sights and scents coming at my all at once overwhelmed me and for a few moments I was unable to speak, then I eventually managed to ask a simple question. "Where am I?". One of the larger dragons stepped forward, I could tell from the fact that his scales were much duller than the other dragons and the fact that his wings were torn and battered that this was an old dragon. "Flame and Ember here, found you alone in the forest and brought you back to our village, you are safe here young one." the dragon said, whilst pointing towards a red dragon and a slightly smaller pink dragoness who I guessed must have been Flame and Ember. "Now tell me young one, what is your name and how did you come to be wounded and all alone in the forest?" the old dragon asked. I thought long and hard, I could remember images , stories and songs that a voice sang to me in the egg, I guessed that voice must be my mother, but apart from that, I couldn't remember anything. "I..I can't remember anything, as far as I know, I have no name." I said, the old dragon looked at me with pitying eyes "since you don't have a home, or at least one that you can remember, then you are welcome to stay here" to say was shocked was an understatement, "really?" I asked, the old dragon simply nodded "thank you" I managed. The old dragon then turned and spoke to the assembled dragons, "now this young drake will need somewhere to stay and someone to look after him" he called out, "I'll take him in" The copper coloured dragoness that was sat behind Ember spoke up. Everyone, including me turned to face her. "very well, it is decided, welcome to the village young one" The old dragon said, everyone started getting up and leaving, until eventually it was only: me, Ember and the copper dragoness that were left, "follow us" Ember called.

They led me down one of the paths towards one of the larger stone houses. They stepped through the doorway and headed down a corridor, past several closed doors, before stopping outside the last one. "My name is Jothanna but you can call me mum, this is your room now my son" The copper dragoness said whilst opening the door. Curious, I stepped into the doorway and my mouth dropped open in amazement, the room was quite large, with plenty of room to stretch my wings and walk around, in the middle of the room was a large carpet of fur, there were several chests lined up against the far wall and above those were three shelves, the stone walls were beautifully decorated with intricate carvings, depicting dragons, eggs and a multitude of strange beasts, illumination was came from a rectangular hole in the roof, which was at an angle, so the light shinned directly down onto the carpet of fur . I had never seen anything like it. I stepped into the room, then turned and looked up at my mum and sister "i...is this really all for me I asked" scarcely able to believe my eyes, Jothanna simply nodded. I ran up and stood on my hind legs so I could wrap my forelegs round her scaly neck, she helped me to this end by lowering her head down, resting it on my back, allowing me to bury my head into her softer under scales, "thank you" I managed as I closed my eyes, letting the warmth emanating from her, wash over me. We stayed like that for a few minutes before pulling apart. "now, you shall need a name" Jothanna said, she stayed silent for a few minutes, a few minutes that seemed like a life time. occasionally Jothanna would make to speak before shaking he head, finally she spoke up "I think Spyro would suit you, my mate was called Pyro and you remind me of him in so many ways, so I have decided to name you after him and since you are a shadow dragon I thought it was only fitting to add an S onto it as used to be tradition whenever a shadow dragon was born". "Spyro" I said over and over in my head, getting a feel for it, I liked it. "It is getting late, sleep now Spyro, tomorrow we will show you around the village and the areas around. Goodnight" mum said, before closing the door. I walked over to the fur rug and lay down with my tail curled protectively around me, my eyes drifted up towards the hole, through which I could see the moon shining brightly.

As I lay there, my mind started going over the day's events, I finally had a home, a family and a name, I didn't know much about my life so far, but I knew that this was the first time that I had ever truly been happy, this was I decided, where my life would truly begin.

Well that is chapter 3 all wrapped up, see you guys next chapter. this is xXShadowTheWolfXx Signing off