The dragons around Cynder came closer to her, as they continued to ask her more and more questions. Her breath soon become quick and short, as the group continue to bombard her with questions. She closed her eyes for a second trying to calm herself down, but when she opened them she reeled back slightly in fear for some reason.
Cynder closed her eyes and shook her head, and when she opened them again, she began to backed up, as she listened to the dragons ask her more questions, until she felt something behind her. Looking behind her, she saw that she backed up into a stand. When she looked back at the group in front of her, Cynder started to panic even more, and tried to look for a way to get away from them. Soon some of them noticed that Cynder seem to be in a panic, but they ignored it. Fear was coursing inside of her. She wasn't sure what to do.
"Don't let them take me back," Cynder mumbles to herself, hoping Spyro would come and save her. "I don't want to go back. STAY AWAY FROM ME," shouted Cynder as she swiped at the dragons in front of her. She didn't hit any of them, but each of the dragons backed away from her, fearing Cynder would hurt them. They heard her mumble something, but they were unsure on what she was saying. One of them asked "Are you alight, Cynder?"
Cynder began to quiver in fear, and closes her eyes trying to block out the sounds of something. Her heart beat and breath quicken even faster. She opens her eyes only to panic even more. As the civilian's continued to just watch Cynder or offer he help, a fire red dragon was walking by. Seeing the group surrounding something, he decided to investigate and approached them.
He squeezed through the crowd and saw Cynder clawing at everyone as they tried to approach her trying to help. When the red dragon tried to help Cynder, she cut into his arm, leaving a deep. The red dragon winced, and backed away from Cynder.
Cynder then fell to the floor, and stared at the red dragon. Much to his surprised, Cynder looked up at him and mumbled "Ignitus?" before passing out. The red dragon was rather shocked to be called this, but soon put such thoughts aside, as he said "Alright everyone, just go back home, or to whatever you were doing. I will take care of her."
The dragon group wasn't too sure if they should leave Cynder alone with this fire dragon, however they could see the pure desire to help in his eyes, so they left him be. The fire dragon took a deep breath before scooping up Cynder onto his back, before caring her off to get treated.
Back at the swamps that following morning, Spyro lazily awoke from the feeling of the morning sunlight's flashing on his sleeping form. He slowly opened his eye's only to close them as the light stung them. Blinking a couple of times, he soon adjusted to the light. He then stood up, and stretched his limbs, until a satisfying popping sound was heard. While doing so he let out a loud yawn.
Once he finished, his father called him into the house, making Spyro flinch slightly by the sudden request from Flash. Spyro did as he was told, and opened the door and stuck his head inside. He saw his mother and father siting in chairs around a table.
"Oh im sorry did I wake you two up?" asked Spyro.
"No we have been up for a while now," said Nina. "We were actually waiting for you to wake up."
Spyro gave them a confused look. "Is everything alright?"
"We want to know what happened to you," said Flash getting right to the point.
"I don't understand, what are you talking about?" said Spyro still confused.
"Yesterday, just after you fell asleep, your father and I saw all of the scars and stuff all across your body," said Nina.
"It nearly gave your mother a heart attack to see you nearly covered head to toe with wounds. We just want to know how you got them," said Flash.
Spyro couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he heard this. "Im sorry, I didn't mean to make you worry," said Spyro. Then a thought dawned upon him. "Wait, didnt Sparx tell you guys what happened while we were away?"
Nina shook her head. "Ever since he got home, he has been distant from everyone. He basically just came home, said hello and told us you were dead. Other than that he hasn't said much."
"Oh." Spyro's depression worsened as he felt bad for almost leaving Sparx like he did. "Where is Sparx anyway?" asked Spyro as he looked around the lower level, hoping to show him that he wasn't dead.
"He is over there," said Flash pointed to the white couch where Sparx slept. "He must have come down stairs sometime in the middle of the night."
Spyro did his best to nod his head, without breaking anything, before drawing his attention back to his parents. He knew that they still wanted an answer to their question so he said "I've been through so much fighting. I had to take down Malefor, another purple dragon like me, and two of his generals. During that time, I had to fight off his solders. Not only that, but I was also put through some difficult training by the guardians. That is how I got all of my wounds," said Spyro in a quiet tone. He watched as his parents remained silent, probably thinking things over in their heads.
Before any of them could say anything, they heard a yawn coming from the living room. Glancing over, Spyro saw Sparx beginning to wake up. Sparx rose from the couch and stretched his arms, yawning loudly as he did so. Sparx immediately felt the hang over from the last night, which left him feeling groggy and tired. Slowly he flew over to the kitchen. "Good morning mom, dad, Spyro," said Sparx unaware of what he said.
"I made you a drink to help you with that hang over of yours Sparx," said Flash earning a thank you from Sparx.
Sparx picked up the glass with a pink liquid inside it and swiftly drank some of it. He shivered slightly as the sour taste liquid slid down his throat. He then placed the glass down and began to rub his bruise on his face. "Ugh, what happened last night? My face is killing me," said Sparx.
In response Spyro blew some ice towards Sparx, which froze part of the flooring, and cabinets in front of Sparx. In the corner of Spyro's eye he could see his mother glaring at him for covering part of their home in ice, to which Spryo gave he an innocent, toothy grin. Sprax still wasn't paying much attention, as he pulled a small chunk of ice off one of the cabinets and placed it on his eye. "Thanks Spryo."
The four of them sat there in an awkward silence, as Spryo, Nina, and Flash waited for Sparx to acknowledge Spyro's existence. Sparx then picked up his glass again and began to drink more of it. It took a few more seconds before Sparx's eye went wide, and he glanced up to see Spyro's head in the door way. In sudden realization of Spyro's existence, Sparx spat out the liquid content in his mouth. "Wait, Spyro?" said Sparx still not completely sure if what he was seeing was true.
"Yea that's me alright," said Spyro. Sparx just stood still in shock. "Look Sparx I would just like to say that…" Spyro was interrupted however as Sparx quickly flew up to Spyro and punched his snout.
"OW!" screamed Sparx as his hand was throbbing with pain as the punch hurt him more the Spyro.
"Are you alright?" asked Nina.
Ignoring her question, Sparx said to Spyro "were the hell have you been?" Spyro opened his mouth to respond to this but Sparx interrupted him and said "Ive been worried sick about you?" Spyro tried to say something only for Sparx to interrupted him again saying "Dude for a whole week I thought it was my fault that you died, do you know what it's like to have that burden. That kind of shit can make anyone crazy."
Spyro waited for a moment for Sparx to calm down so he could explain himself. He opened his mouth only to be interrupted for a third time by Sparx. "Do you have any idea how long of thinking your dead can cause to a brother?
Spyro gave him a slight irritated look at Sparx, however the more Spyro stared at Sparx he noticed that instead of an angry face he had a scared looked on his face. Once again Spyro felt rather bad for his absence. For another few moments the room was quite. It stayed quite until Sparx said "Still it's good to see you bro." Sparx then began to pat Spyro's snout.
"Look Sparx, Im sorry for making you worry so much. I should have come right back here as soon as I woke up. I know there is nothing that I could say to make it up to you," said Spyro in a glum tone of voice.
Sparx sighed before saying "look, I forgive you. Just promise me you won't do it again. Ok? Or else I will personally make sure that you wish you were dead."
Spyro couldn't help but smile, at his brother's antics. He watched as Sparx then flew over to his parents and sat down in one of the vacant chairs.
Once Sparx was in the chair Nina asked "So is the war over?"
"Come again?" asked Spyro wondering where this question came from.
"You said that you had to defeat this Malefor character. Have you?" said Flash.
"Yea, he is gone now. He won't be able to hurt anyone ever again. The war is over," said Spyro.
"Good Im glad to hear that, but I have to ask you, what now?" asked Nina.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Sparx "With the war over he could do whatever he wants."
"Yea I know that, but I mean specifically what does he plan on doing?" said Nina.
Spyro sat still for a moment thinking it over. "Sparx is right. After several years of training, and fighting, I am finally able to do whatever I want. And over this time you would think that I would have come up with some goals that I would want to achieve when the war ended. The thing is though, I don't… I don't know what I'm going to do now."
Spyro then began to ponder the question some more in his head, what was he to do? All he ever thought about was to further his fighting ability's, so that he could fulfill the prophesy set upon him. He never really had time to just sit back and think about what he wanted to do. The only thing that he ever thought of was what was best for others, and at that time the best thing he could do was to stop Malefor. So what now? What was his purpose in life now? What was he to do?
"What about a girl?" asked Flash, breaking Spyro out of his thoughts?
"Say again?" asked Spyro.
"Why not try and find some nice girl to love and have a family with?" suggested Flash.
Spyro remained quiet for a moment. He never really had time to think about females, nor did he ever think about having a family. However two questions lingered in his mind. "How would I find this someone and who will I know that there the right one?"
"Getting a girl shouldn't be all that hard, you're the purple dragon after all. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if nearly half of the females from Warfang rush up to you wanting a mini Spyro inside of them by the end of the month," said Sparx making Spyro blush.
"SPARX!" yelled both Spyro and his parents.
"What? Im just trying to help, besides he is the savior of the realms. A lot of girls would find that to be very admirable in a male," said Sparx.
"Still you didn't need to be so blunt about it," said Flash only for Sparx to roll his eyes.
"Look Spyro, ignore your brother. Just be yourself. Whoever your other half may be you will know in your heart that they are the one. Besides, you don't have to go searching for them now. I mean you've done so much for everyone. I do think you deserve a break of some sort," said Nina.
"Yea I guess," said Spyro. "I don't know, I don't think I'm ready to find a mate just yet."
"And that is perfectly fine; there is no need to rush love. However you need to find what you are going to do with your life. You will not be just sitting around doing nothing all day for the rest of your life," said Nina.
"Yes mom," said Spyro in a teasing way.
"Well do you have any plans on what you are going to do?" asked Flash?
"No not really," said Spyro.
"Then what are you still doing here for, get going and find something to do," said Nina.
Spyro gave his mother a confused look. "Are you sure, I mean I haven't even been hear a single day."
"Yea I know, but no matter how hard I wish it, you're no longer a child. You're coming to the age were you are to make a living of your own. Now we will still be here for you if things are to go wrong for you, but you are a wonderful person, and I have no doubt in my mind that you will achieve great things. You just need to find what these things are," said Nina with a large smile on her face.
Spyro couldn't help but have a smile on his face. Truly he was blessed with great loving parents. Even if he was only adopted, they still loved him as if he really was their real son.
"Thank you. Mom, Dad, I don't know what I would do without you guys," said Spyro as his eyes began to water from joy.
"Come now, no need for tears. You're going to make your mother cry," said Flash with a smile on his face.
Spyro removed his head from the door way and back out in the open so he could properly clear his eyes with his paws. Following closely behind him, was his parents and Sparx. "I guess I should get going then, shouldn't I?" asked Spyro earning a nod from his parents. Both Nina and Flash then hugged Spyro's snout, and Spyro gently covered them with one of his wings.
When they broke apart, Flash said "Don't worry though, you won't be alone. Sparx is of that age as well so he will be going with you."
Spyro was about to object to this when Sparx flew up to him and says in a stern voice, "don't even think about trying to get rid of my, you owe me for disappearing like that,"
Spyro looked at Sparx and could see the determined look on his face. He sighed knowing that there was no way out of this. "Alright then, but we should get going then,"
Sparx nodded, before turning around to hug his parents. Both Flash and Nina watched as their sons walked off into the distance. Then something dawned upon Nina. At the top of her lungs, she shouted "don't forget to come back and visit every once in a while." Flash couldn't help but laugh at his wife's antics.
Meanwhile, Cynder was just beginning to wake up. She slowly opened her eyes letting out a groan as she did, only to see that the world around her was spinning. She quickly shut them waiting for things to quite spinning. Suddenly she heard a voice.
"It's good to see that you're awake now," said the voice.
Cyder's eyes shot open and looked in the direction that the voice came from. She felt her stomach turn as she did, and she nearly puked, as the things still spun in her eyes. Despite the motion of things she could still make out that the person next to her was in fact a red dragon. Cynder suddenly felt fear erupt from her heart as the first thought that came to her mind was that the dragon next to her is Ignitus. Her mind began to panic at the thought of her being dead.
Not wanting to believe it, Cynder closed her eyes and shook her head. When she reopened them things stopped spinning, and she no longer saw Ignitus in front of her, but instead she saw a red dragon with a darkish yellow underbelly, wings, horns, and tail blade.
Cynder began to examine the rest of the dragon's body and saw that he had red eyes, orange wing membranes, and four horns. His tail blade is shaped like a yellow spearhead. From the top of his head to the base of his tail, he has dark red scales around the fins that run down his back. He wore a brown bandana around his neck that had a flame symbol on it. She then noticed that he had a bandage around his left arm.
The more she looked at the dragon, the more he kind of reminded her of Spyro, only slightly more muscular. The red dragon, must have noticed the panicked look on Cynder's face as he asked
"Hey are you alright?"
"Yea, I'm fine," said Cynder hastily slightly embarrassed by that happened. Cynder's eyes then began to wonder around the room she was in. "Were am I, and how did I get her?
"You're in the hospital, I'm the one who brought you here. I saw you pass out last night, so I carried you here," said the red dragon.
"Oh… well thank you," said Cynder embarrassed again, at the thought of someone carrying her around the city.
"Oh where are my manners," said the red dragon. "The name is Flame."
"I'm Cynder, thank you for helping me."
"You are quite welcome. Now if you will excuse me, I must be going," said Flame as he jumped down from the seat he was sitting in, and walked towards the door. She watched as he made his way towards the door, all the while a single question was buzzing through her head.
"Wait!" shouted Cynder before Flame could leave. Flame the turned around and face Cynder. "Why did you help me? I mean, I'm sure you've heard of who I am, and what I've done, so why did you help me?"
Cynder watched Flame, as he stayed silent, probably thinking what to say.
"Well despite the things, that you have done, I'm sure that you regret doing all of it, so I for one can forgive you seeing as you fought against your former master. As for why I helped you, to be honest, I saw a dragoness who seemed to be in need of some help, so I decided to help," said Flame.
"Oh, well thank you Flame," said Cynder.
Flame gave Cynder a slight bow, before saying, "Anytime. Now if you will excuse me, I must be going. I will tell the doctor that you're awake now."
Cynder watched Flame leave the room, and just as he said a few seconds later Cynder saw Canneta, quickly running inside the room with a worried look on her face.
Before Cynder could ask her what was wrong, Canneta said "I am terribly sorry Cynder. If I had known that your mental illness was severe enough for you to pass out from it, I would have made sure you gotten therapy sooner. Please forgive me."
Cynder stayed quiet for a moment, surprised to hear this from the elderly dragon. "No its fine, there was no way you could of known, so there is no need to apologies."
"But I must, I mean I am supposed to be helping people. It's the reason why I became a doctor, and I just sent someone off, without giving them the proper help they needed. I'm ashamed of myself," said Canneta
Cynder watched as Canneta just lower head sadly. She wanted to help her, and just then a sudden thought crossed her mind.
"Can't you help me now?"
Canneta's face seemed to quickly brighten up when she heard this. "As a matter of fact, yes I can. Come, with me. You are going to start your therapy right now." Canneta then walked out of the room. Cynder quickly jumped down from her bed, and followed. After a short while Cynder found herself back in the same hallway that led to Aditsan's room.
Canneta then told Cynder to stay put for a while. She left, and knocked on the same door that led to Aditsan's room. After a short moment, the door opened and Canneta went inside. After a few minutes, Canneta walked out of the room.
"How did it go," asked Cynder.
"Well he was in the middle of a meeting, so it was a little awkward, but I managed to get him to schedule you in, seeing as it's urgent," said Canneta. "Just wait about an hour, and he will be ready."
"But he told me that he was booked for the next three days? How did you get him to make room for me?" asked, Cynder concerned that she was taking some one else's time with Aditsan.
"I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you Cynder. We managed to find a time that was open. But in the meantime, I need to return to the hospital wing, good luck in therapy Cynder," said Canneta before walking off.
Cynder sighed to herself, before sitting down on the floor. 'I guess I just wait then,' she thought. About fifty minutes later Cynder was beginning to fall asleep, from boredom. She already counted the number of bricks on the ceiling in her line of sight, and despite the fact that it did kill some time, she wasn't really in the mood to count all 264 bricks again. Just as she began to close her eye's she heard a door open and close. She quickly looked towards Aditsan's door, only to see that it was still closed, however only two doors down, she saw Flame closing the door behind him.
"You take therapy sessions?" asked Cynder as Flame walked by.
Flame stopped walking and faced Cynder and sadly said "Yea,"
Cynder immediately felt guilty for asking after hearing the sadness in his voice. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to ask I just didn't know, In fact I'm waiting for my own therapist to be done with another client of his. I just didn't expect to see you here is all," said Cynder.
Just then Aditsan's door opened and out walked a young mole. Seeing that it was now her turn, Cynder said to Flame, "Well its now my turn. I guess I might see you around then."
"Take care," said Flame before he walked off.
Cynder watched as Flame rounded a corner before disappearing from sight. Then turning her attention to Aditsan's door, she walked up to it and knocked. On the other side of it she heard Aditsan say "Come in."
She did as asked and opened the door and walked inside. The room itself looked exactly the same way; she saw it last time, though she didn't figure that things would be different.
"I'm sorry if I'm intruding on your free time," said Cynder still slightly worried.
"Oh its fine, don't worry about it," said Aditsan. Suddenly his stomach began to growl. "Sorry about that, I haven't eaten in a while."
Cynder quickly felt rather bad for taking up what she is assuming supposed to be his lunch break.
"So what is this emergence that I've been told about?" asked Aditsan.
Cynder took a deep breath, trying to remover her nervousness. It helped a little as she said "Well yesterday at night, I was walking around town. Since I got my own home, I decided to walk around in search of anything to throw into my new home. While doing so I ran into a group of dragons. I don't really remember what exactly happened, but they started to ask me a lot of questions, and suddenly I felt as if I was back in Malefor's possession. I began to see apes everywhere. The next thing I know I passed out and I wake up in the infirmary,"
Aditsan listened to everything that Cynder had said, and nodded every once and a while.
"Well it seems like your illness is still the same. Now then here is how you might be able to stop yourself from panicking," said Aditsan.
Back over with Spyro, Spyro was soaring in the sky, while Sparx was sitting on Spyro's back rubbing his black eye.
"So tell me again, how I got this?" Sparx asked Spyro.
"You were flirting with a girl. She then punched you, when you said you wanted to bang her," said Spyro.
Sparx went quiet after that for a short while. Then Sparx was reminded of something. "You know Spyro that kind of reminds me of when we were young."
"How so?" asked Spyro wondering as to what he meant.
"You don't remember?" asked Sparx. "We were only ten at the time, but we made a bet on who would get a girl first."
Spyro turns his head and looks over his shoulder to look at Sparx. "How does getting punched in the face remind you of that?"
"Well I guess you could say that, Im now winning that bet, as I technically kissed a girl," said Sparx with a smug look.
"If you're going to follow that logic, then I have already won. I mean I was chained to one for several days now Sparx," said Spyro.
"No, that doesn't count," said Sparx.
Spyro only rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to what was in front of him. "Whatever, you say Sparx."
They continued to fly for several more minutes, before a village came into view.
"Is that the Dragon Village you mentioned earlier?" asked Sparx.
"Yep that is correct. We are going to Dragon Village to look for some form of job," said Spyro.
"Now why is it called that?" asked Sparx. "Dragon Village, what a strange name, shouldn't it be the Dragon Village?"
"That I cannot tell you Sparx, all I can tell you, is that it is called Dragon Village," said Spyro.
"Yea well remind me to go ask someone when we land."
Sparx would not have to wait long before he got his wish, as Spyro quickly began to descend towards the village.
As Spyro lands, Sparx jumped off his back. The two gazed around the village from the entrance. It was a small Eastern European looking village in the hills, filled with white homes, all with golden roofing. They also noticed that all of the windows were shaped like triangles. They then began to walk around the village, taking in the sites. They passed several tall building, and even a few shops. All the while the people of the village whispered to one another as they saw Spyro walk by. Spyro noticed this, though did his best to ignore it. A few times a couple of civilians would walk up to Spyro and begin to ask him a few questions, most of which revolved around his adventures. Spyro was a little nervous by their questions as he never had people really ask him such questions out of the blue. He was rather glad that Sparx was with him, as he would fly up to these people and begin answering there questions. Naturally Sparx would brag a little about what happened and make them sound a little out there compared to what really happen. Though much to Spyro's surprised most people actually believed him.
They continued to walk around a bit more before; they noticed an elderly mole wearing a small white lab coat and glasses, strolling up towards them.
"Well if it isn't Spyro, the dragon. Mind if I have a word with you for a moment?" asked the mole.
"But of course, you can just ask away," asked Sparx as he flew up to the mole.
The mole squinted his eyes, as the light coming from Sparx hurt his eyes a little. The mole then began to wave his arms around trying to get rid of Sparx. "Be gone you firefly, I don't wish to speak with you."
Sparx was just about to say a few choice words to the elderly mole, but before he could Spyro stepped up, and said "What can I do for you?"
A smile formed on the moles face, before he said "That is exactly what I wanted to hear. Come with me if you will." The mole then began to turn around and walk off.
Both Spyro and Sparx stood still, not sure what to do. They then looked at each other with confused looks.
"Should we follow him?" asked Sparx.
"Well he seems to want my help with something so I guess I should. Whatever it is, you don't need to come if you don't want to, he doesn't seem like he needs your help," said Spyro.
"Alright then, but don't be gone too long," said Sparx before flying off. Spyro looked towards the direction the elderly mole was walking in and saw that he was several feet ahead of him, so he quickly sprinted towards him.
Soon Spyro was walking right beside the elderly mole. "Hey I never got your name," said Spyro to the mole.
"Oh yes, in my haste, I must of forgotten. The name is Ammon; however you can call me the Professor,"
"Alright then Professor, where are we going?"
"We are heading back to my lab. I need some assistance with a project of mine, and I need your help," said the Professor.
"And what is this project exactly?" asked Spyro.
"You will just have to wait and see," said the Professor with a grin.