Chapter 4: Going on an adventure

It was early morning and the sun was just beginning to crest the horizon. In a certain dragon village everyone was asleep, everyone that is except Spyro. The young Dragon had been up for a while now, exploring his room, opening the chests and investigating every nook and cranny. Having explored all the possibilities that his room held, Spyro decided to explore the rest of what was now his home. Carefully, so as to make as little noise as possible he crept across the room and gently nudged open the door. As he walked quietly down the shadowy corridor he heard the sound of a door opening and ducking into the shadows he watched as Ember crawled out of the room, carrying something in her mouth and turned in the direction of Spyro, although she didn't seem to have noticed him yet. An idea popped into Spyro's head. Silently he moved into a darker patch of shadow and waited. When Ember got closer, he suddenly leapt at her out of the shadows, startling Ember and causing her to fall over backwards and drop the bucket of water she was carrying. Ember leapt back up, ready to fry whatever foul thing had just jumped out at her, until she noticed it was her newly adopted brother that had ambushed her. "What did you do that for, you frightened the life out of me, I almost blasted you" Ember said, trying her best to act cross, Spyro stifled a laugh "sorry about that, I just couldn't resist" he apologised with a smirk "by the way what were you doing with that bucket of water?", Ember scratched her head as she tried to think up of an excuse, she had been meaning to give Spyro a welcome to the family he wouldn't forget, but now that plan had been ruined by Spyro, who also seemed to be a prankster, she suspected they would get along just fine. "I was just getting myself some water to drink" Ember lied, "In a big bucket like that one?" Spyro asked, cocking his head to the side, he was sceptical of her excuse but when she didn't reply, he decided not to press it further.

"So what are we doing today?" Spyro asked, before his sister could answer, a door opened and Jothanna stepped out into the hallway, she turned to face the two younger dragons and noticed the bucket on the floor "Good morning, what are you two doing up so early and why is there water on the floor?" She asked. "Erm, I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and decided to explore and see if I could find something to drink and I bumped into Ember who seemed to have had a similar idea and I accidently knocked the bucket of water she was carrying onto the floor. Sorry" Spyro explained. "never mind about the water, it'll dry up. Well since neither of you can get back to sleep and you've woken me up, we might as well go and have an early breakfast, then you can show Spyro around and take him to meet your friends" Jothanna suggested as she led Ember and Spyro down the hallway and turned right through one of the previously closed doors into the dining area. The dining area consisted of a large room with fire pit with cooking pots in the centre, opposite the doorway there were several beautifully carved cupboards and shelves stuffed with many different kinds of food backed up against the wall, to the right of the door were two tables, one larger enough for an adult dragon and the other one was slightly smaller, the perfect size for a young dragon. Ember went over and sat at the smaller table, Spyro not really knowing what to do, copied her. Jothanna walked over to the shelves and picked out two pieces of pink spiky fruit from one of the lower shelves, she brought them over to the table and placed one in front of each of the two young dragons. Ember split hers' open with her tail blade and wasted no time in eating the red flesh inside, "what are these?" Spyro asked, curious as to what Ember was eating, "These are dragon fruit " Jothanna answered "they're nice, try one". Spyro brought his tail up and smashed it down onto the dragon fruit, cutting it in half, cautiously he bit out a small chunk of the flesh inside, it had a sweet taste to it, Spyro kept it in his mouth for a while, savouring it before swallowing it. "How is it" Jothanna asked as Spyro grabbed another chunk out of his dragon fruit, "Delicious" he replied, licking some of the juice from around his mouth" "I'm glad you like them" Jothanna said chuckling quietly "Now Ember how about you take him outside and show him around" "Ok mum, sure. Come on bro let's go outside" Ember replied motioning for Spyro to follow her with her wing.

Ember led Spyro back out into the main hallway and out of the main entrance, the two of them took a moment for their eyes to adjust to the sun's rays shining on them through the trees before Ember led Spyro in-between several houses to the open area at the centre of the village, on the way they passed a couple of other dragons who nodded at the pair before continuing with their daily business. "So this is the centre of the village, we sometimes have important meetings here and over there is Tyron's store, he sells food and other items." Ember said pointing to a building with a large wooden shutter on the side facing them and wooden shelves stacked up outside, "Where does the food come from?" Spyro asked, wanting to know as much about his new home as possible, "most of it is produced inside the village, however sometimes travellers and traders come to the village and some of them bring strange food that cannot be found around here." Ember explained. Ember showed Spyro some other parts of the village including the dragon fruit orchard and the village elder's house.

**Spyro's POV**

Ember had just finished showing me where the old dragon who had welcomed me yesterday lived, she said his name was Astor but everyone simply called him Elder, in fact Ember seemed to quite enjoy telling me everything she knew, all the dragons we had passed had seemed really friendly and they were curious to know everything there was to know about me, which wasn't much as I barely knew anything about me myself. Ember mentioned that part of their curiosity was down to not seeing new dragons too often and especially not any with my scale colour. "Come on, I'll take you to meet my friend" Ember said, snapping me out of my thoughts, I was curious as to who this friend was, we had seen several other young dragons like us when Ember. Ember led me back to the centre of the village which was more busy now, Tyron's store was open and several dragons were crowded around, I could hear them asking for various items, other dragons walked around and went in and out of the paths leading off in between the buildings, on the far side from us a young dragon with red scales, orange wings and two large yellow horns sticking up from his head sat in front of a building kicking something around between his paws, I guessed by the colour of his scales that he was a fire dragon. Ember led me over to the fire dragon who looked up when he heard us coming. "Oh hey Ember, I'm guessing this is the dragon we rescued yesterday?" the dragon asked, "Oh hey Flame, this is Spyro, Spyro, this is Flame" Ember said introducing us to each other. We both greeted each other, then a long period of silence followed which was broken by the dragon I now knew as Flame. "So Ember, do you want to bring Spyro and we can explore that cave we found?". I was immediately curious when he said that they had found a cave and excited to go on a little adventure with my new friends, "where is this cave?" I asked, "follow me and I'll show you" Flame replied, marching off towards the village gates with me and Ember in tow.

Well, there's chapter 4 for you and it's come a lot later than I planned (yea this is kind of a habit with me) but I haven't been spending all that time doing nothing, I have been working on some of the later chapters and sections of the story as well as drawing a new cover picture for the story which is almost done. Anyway I'll see you guys and girls and dragons and whoever or whatever else reads my stories in the next chapter. this is xXShadowTheWolfXx Signing off