As the fighting was continuing at the Dragon Village, Cynder was finishing up her meeting with her therapist.
"Well Cynder I am glad to hear that things have been better for you now, but sadly it's time for us to be done for the day," said Aditsan.
"Thank you again Aditsan for your help," said Cynder to her therapist, as she stood up from her seat.
"It's what I'm here for," said Aditsan as Cynder began to leave the room. Upon exiting the room, and the door completely closed behind her, Cynder began to stretch her joins. After sitting for nearly an hour, it felt nice to hear some of her joints pop. She let out a groan in relief as she popped her last join. As she opened her eyes, she saw the familiar red scales that belonged to Flame as he was walking by.
She quickly ran up to him, and called out his name. Flame upon hearing his name turned around, and smiled as Cynder approached him.
"Good afternoon Cynder, how are you doing?" asked Flame.
"I'm doing pretty well; I just finished a session with my therapist, so I'm felling pretty good about myself right now. What are you doing around here?"
Flame's facial expression seemed to lessen as he began to frown, He then remained quiet for a few short moment, not completely sure what to tell her. Cynder noticed this and was about to ask what was wrong when Flame said, "I was just talking to some people about my father's death, that's all,"
Cynder's heart began to beat faster, as a question popped into her mind. "Was I the one who… you know…?" asked Cynder nervously, scared that she had caused Flame pain.
"No Cynder you didn't kill him, he died rather recently anyway, so I wouldn't worry about that. Besides, they just wanted to talk to me about funeral arrangements."
"Oh good, I'm glad to hear that… WAIT I didn't mean it like that, I meant that…" Cynder started only to be stopped as Flame held up his paw.
"I know what you meant Cynder, don't you worry about it," Flame said with a smile, though Cynder felt that Flame still wasn't all that happy, so she decided to change the subject.
Wanting to change the subject himself Flame asked "Hey have you gotten the chance to get familiar with Warfang?"
"Well I have been to a few places, but I haven't really explored around the city much," replied Cynder.
"Then I would be an honor to give the almighty Cynder, a tour of our city," Flame said with a tiny bow.
Cynder rolled her eyes at his antics but agreed to his offer.
Meanwhile back over at the dragon village, Spyro along with the Rhynocs still stared at the mysterious mole figured as he stared down at everything. His face entirely concealed by his gasmask that they can hear him breathe through.
"Bring me that thing's head!" roared the Rhynoc commander.
The Rhynoc soldiers suddenly turn their attention towards the strange mole. Upon charging, the mole readied its wrist crossbows and starts firing at one Rhynoc at a time that gets close to him. However, as soon as one of the arrows hits one Rhynoc, a small explosion occurs killing at least three maybe five Rhynocs after each shot. Each time the mole fires two explosive tip bolts, he quickly reloads another two to quickly fire again.
When a few Rhynocs did reach the building, they tried climbing it. Whenever one came to edge of the top, the mole would either fire his explosive bolts or kick them off the edge, causing the ones that did reach the top to stagger and fall, blowing up, or taking three or two more Rhynocs with him. The mole was able to hold off at least half of the Rhynoc squad before he was unable to keep them from reaching the top of the building. Thinking quickly, he kicks one of the Rynocs into the small group of other Rynocs before throwing a grenade at the Rhynoc, causing him and his group to blow up and give the mole enough time to leap to the top of another close building.
Seeing that the mole could use some help, Spyrocreated an electrical orb around himself as he rams right into the group of Rhynocs. Simultaneously shocking them and sending out electric pulses to stun them. Once they were stunned, Spyro began to quickly slash the Rynocs with his claws and horns before they can recover. When one recovers, Spyro head bashes him up in the air, which he follows and begins slashing at the Rhynoc before doing a front flipping tail slap, hard on his head back to the ground.
When the rest of the Rhynocs recovered, Spyro dashes right to the nearest one and grabbed him by the ankle with his mouth. Using the strength he has, he lifts the Rhynoc up off the ground and spun him around continuously bashing the surrounding Rhynocs trying to swarm him.
When finished, Spyro tossed the Rhynoc at the remaining group, just in time for the mole from the top building to fire an explosive arrow at the Rhynocs and blew up a large amount of them.
Spyro tried to catch his breath, but only to be smacked by the surviving Rhynoc commander. The commander grabs Spyro by the head and was about to knock him out, when suddenly, the earth dragon that was Ember body guard grabbed the commander and threw him hard onto the ground.
This seemed to hurt the commander a little because he quickly got back up, and charged his horn right through the Earth Dragon's leg. The Earth Dragon tried to throw the Rhynoc off him, but the commander refused to budge.
Enraged the dragon grabbed the Rhynoc's arm in his mouth and tore it off. He then formed an earth spike at the end of his tail and stabbed it through the Rhynoc's stomach, the force of which made the commander stumble backwards a bit, removing his horn from the dragons leg. Despite the pain he was in the commander apparently enjoyed it as he shoved himself further through the earth spike and tried to strangle the earth dragon.
The moment he tried, Spyro jumped flip kicked the commander Rhynoc in the head removing himself from the earth spike. Now that the earth dragon had the opportunity, he slapped the Rhynoc with his tail, making him stumble backwards even more, which allow the mole to fire one last explosive arrow at the commander's head, causing it to blow up upon impact.
With their commander gone and no one else to give orders to them, the rest of the Rhynocs began to flee. A few dragons chased after them, though gave up as the Rhynocs reached the forest.
As the villagers were looking at their destroyed village, Spyro was checking to see if the earth dragon was alright.
"Are you alright?" Spyro asked.
The green dragon grunted as he tried to stand. "I will be alright; I have gone through worse,"
Spyro wasn't all that convinced but his focus then turned to the masked mole as he approached Spyro. "Hey thank you for your help back there," Spyro said.
Instead of replying first, the mole removed his mask, and revealed his young face. "Hey no problem, I'm glad to of helped," the mole said with a smile. His smile quickly vanished as he looked around the broken village. "We should probably check to see if everyone else is alright,"
Spyro nodded and joined the mole as they searched the village helping those injured. They soon found Ember who was treating the Professors wounds.
Just as Spyro and the mole reached them, Ember had finished patching up the elderly mole.
"You sure you are going to be alright?" Ember asked concerned.
"Yea I will be fine, ive been better, but I will be fine, I'm just glad that you're alright," replied the Professor.
"Good to see that you're still kicking, you old fart," said the young mole.
"Hey that is no way to talk to your uncle," the Professor said bitterly.
"Uncle?" said Spyro surprised to hear this.
"Oh right, you're not from around here, the name is Blink, and I am the Professor's nephew," said the young mole.
Still slightly shocked, a question formed in Spyro's head. "Wait if you are his nephew, then where were you when the Rhynocs attacked? I mean surely you live close by or something,"
"Well I do live in town, but I help my uncle here gather supplies for his experiments, so I often leave town in search for items he requires. However thanks to Malefor before he was defeated, my uncle had to make me some devices to help me survive. Like this crossbow for instance," said Blink as he showed Spyro the wrist mounted weapon. Spyro was about to ask Blink more questions when he heard someone call his name.
He turned around and saw that the green dragon was calling his name, while being attended by a nurse himself.
When Spyro approached him the green dragon dismissed the nurse.
"Is there something I can help you with?" Spyro asked.
"Actually there is. As you might have heard, Ember is of royal blood, and it was my job to protect her. However as you can see, I'm not in the best of shape to be keeping her safe," said the green dragon.
"Are you asking for me to be her new bodyguard?" Spyro asked.
"Yes, but only for a short amount of time. Just until she gets back to Warfang, as I can't keep her safe, so I need your help. Will you help me?"
Spyro thought about this deeply. He decided that if he did accept it that it would make him spend more time with her, and there for help him remember who she is. "Alright I will do it,"
The green dragon let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you Spyro,"
Spyro then left the dragon in search for Ember. He quickly found her attending to Milal. The small dragon was trembling with fear, scared over the recent events.
"Hey don't worry everything will be alright," said Ember.
"But what if they come back?" Milal asked.
"Don't worry I promise you that they won't be coming back for a long time," said Spyro as he approached them. This seemed to cheer him up a little as a small smile formed on his face. "Hey Ember mind if I talk to you for a moment?" Spyro asked.
Ember looked at Milal and asked him "Do you mind if I leave for a little bit?" to which Milal only shook his head.
The two dragons walked a couple of feet away before Spyro said "I was talking with your old body guard a few moments ago and he said that he can't do his job and protect you in the current state he is in, so he asked me to take his place until you got back to Warfang,"
Ember was silent for a moment, not sure what to say. So Spyro said "I am in no hurry to get back to Warfang so we can leave whenever you want,"
Ember thought this over some more before saying "Alright let me quickly finish up with Milal and then we can head off,"
Spyro watched as Ember walked back over to Milal. "Hey Im going to be leaving soon, but I will be back as soon as possible. Do you think you can be a strong little boy while im gone?" Ember said with a smile.
Milal was rather saddened when he heard this, as he was going to miss her, but he didn't want to let her down, and nodded, though a few tears were forming in his eyes. Ember smiled once more before walking back to Spyro. "Alright Im all set, let's go,"
As Spyro and Ember were flying back to Warfang, Flame and Cynder were just about finished with the tour.
"And last but not least is my personal favorite, the Dragon Temple of Warfang," said Flame as they reached the base of the stairs.
Cynder gave him a confused look. "Why is it your personal favorite?"
"I live here," Flame said sarcastically.
Cynder only rolled her eyes at the comment, but still couldn't help but smile.
"But in all seriousness I find this place to be rather relaxing,"
"How so?"
"Well… just look at it,"
Cynder looked at the large building. It seemed no different than the one she and Spyro stayed at three years ago, from the outside that is.
"It's nice and all but, I don't see what is so special about it,"
"Well why don't we head inside and take a better look then?
Cynder was skeptical at first, as she has walked around the temple several times the past few weeks, but she decided to listen to him anyway. After ascending the steps they found themselves in the entrance of temple.
"So what is it that you wanted to show me?"
Flame didn't say a thing, but instead pointed at the ceiling. Looking up Cynder saw something that she didn't notice before. On the ceiling was a mural of a lone fire dragon sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun shining brightly behind him. Upon the dragons chest was the symbol for fire. Cynder had to admit it was rather pretty.
"Who is that?" Cynder asked.
"That would be Ildred, the founder of Warfang. There are also more murals all around the temple each the image of another cherished dragon. I wouldn't be surprised if both you and Spyro are placed in a mural one day,"
Looking back at Flame Cynder said "You honestly think that?"
"Well yea, I mean you two saved everyone so I don't see why not,"
The mere thought of seeing such a thing humored Cynder. "So is that all that you find interesting about this place?"
"Of course not, come follow me," said Flame as they began to walk from hallway to hallway, and came to several different mural, or decretive fountains, and several beautifully crafted statues, of dragons long since deceased. As they continued to walk Flame told Cynder a little bit of the history of the temple.
"This place was first constructed as a sign of faith; the Dragon Temple was the first building built in what would eventually become the current Warfang. And it is from this temple that the moles were able to come up with the design they needed to build the city. Every building including the main castle has been built based off the look and designs from this one Temple alone. Today it is the biggest Dragon Temple of the world and it hosts some of Warfang's most treasure memories, and a resting place for our most honored dead."
"That is pretty interesting Flame. Now I have a question for you, what is your favorite place in the temple?"
Flame thought about this for a while before saying "well I guess I can't say that I have a favorite spot,"
Cynder gave him a confused look. Noticing the look, Flame continued what he was saying. "You see to me, I enjoy the peacefulness and the look of the temple. Whenever Im ever troubled about anything, I could always just walk around a little inside and feel at peace. I know that sounds silly and all but this place is just magical to me,"
"I don't find that silly, I think that it's kind of charming.
Silence soon fell upon the two young dragons for a short while before Flame said "you know coming here actually helps me with my own problems, as well as helps me battle my own inner demons. Maybe if we can find you a place like this place is to me, it could help you with your own problems,"
"May I ask why? I mean we only just met not too long ago, so why are you being so nice?"
"Well like I have said before, you seemed like a dragon that is in need of some help, and I would like to help. That and also I know that you take therapy lessons, and I know regardless to whatever reason why you have to take it, can be a pain and something like this could help you,"
After considering it for a little bit, Cynder accepted Flames help, before continuing to explore the massive temple.
As Flame showed Cynder more of the temple Spyro and Ember were flying quietly side by side not saying a word. Spyro was still slightly shocked that Ember was a princess, and Ember was still nervous as to what Spyro would think now that he knew her secret. Spyro opened his mouth about to say something, but he just couldn't get the words to form in his throat so he closed his mouth. After several more minutes of silence Spyro finally asked,
"Why didn't you tell anyone that you were royalty?
"I didn't want people to know about my heritage as I didn't want people to not only treating me differently, but I also don't want people to think that I am more superior to them,"
The two fell silent once more. Then another question popped into Spyro's head. "I didn't know that Warfang had a king and queen, I thought the Guardians were always the ones in charge."
"The Dragon Guardians help Govern Warfang, but ultimately everything is decided by the royal family. Think of the Guardians as somewhat like advisors."
"Alright then, but if your royalty, then why did you leave your kingdom?"
Ember remained quiet for a moment. "The thing is that, I always wanted to help people, but when the war started I felt so useless, as I was forced to stay in a bunker until the war finally stopped and I was aloud out. When I was freed from my imprisonment I took one of my guards with me and left. I knew that there were hurt people out there, and I wanted to help. That is how I ended up in the Dragon village. A lot of people there were injured and I wanted to help,"
"That is actually kind of honorable of you to do,"
A blush formed on Ember's face before saying "Thanks, now enough about me, what about you. Where did you go, three years ago Spyro? You just vanished all of a sudden,"
"Well I had just defeated one of Malefor's generals Gaul, when the cave Cynder, Sparx my foster brother and, I, began to collapse. Just before we were crushed to death, I…"
Before Spyro could finish a griffin suddenly flew up to them, and blocked there path, making the two suddenly swerve out of the way as not to hit the griffin.
"If I heard right, your name is Spyro right?" asked the griffin.
"Yea that is me, why do you ask and who are you?" Spyro asked slightly confused by the sudden appearance of the griffin.
"My name is Griff, and I was just wondering what to put on your grave when I kill you," Griff said before charging towards Spyro and tackling him hard.
"Spyro!" Ember screamed in fear.
The force from the tackle took Spyro by surprise and before he could even react. In midair, Griff let Spyro go and kicked him hard in the chest to send him even faster towards the ground. However, Spyro quickly snapped out of his surprised state and by using what Cynder taught him, uses the wind element to help control his fast descent. When he landed on the ground safety he saw the griffin land a couple of feet in front of him. Facing his new opponent Spyro began to examine the griffon, taking into account everything that he had that could be used as a weapon. As a griffon, Griff has the head, wings, talons, and feet of an eagle and the body and tail of a lion with elongated feathered ears that stood upright. Griff is a golden orange griffon with blue eye and his head feathers forming a fringe that hangs ahead of his face.
"So you're the current purple dragon. I've waited a long time for this," said Griff as he stared at Spyro with a look of hatred but sadistic smirk on his face.
"What, what do you want, are you one of Ripto's henchmen, or Malefor's?' Spyro asked him.
Griff did not answer Spyro, instead he simply charged at Spyro and tried to slash him with one of his talon claws. Spyro barely dodged out of the way and counter attacks by blowing a hot stream of fire at Griff. Griff quickly flew out of the way and landed on top of a giant rock.
"I don't have to tell you anything. The only thing I want to do is see you suffer, that's all."
Spyro noticed Ember landing nearby, a look of fear present in her face. With a sigh, Spyro looked back to Griff.
"Fine, if your going to be like that so be it,"
After a small stare down, Spyro soon dashed towards Griff up in the air and tried to slash him. Griff dodged and tried to counter attack with a punch. Spyro quickly stopped Griff's attack by punching his punch. This took Griff by surprise only a little. Never the less, Spyro soon unleashed a series of fast slashes, which Griff blocked. Griff tried to slash Spyro himself which Spyro dodged and kept on trying to slash Griff with his claws. At the end of his combo, Spyro tried a rising uppercut slash which Griff back flipped out of the way and flew backwards away from Spyro. With a growl, Spyro flew right after Griff. Suddenly Griff leaped towards the side of a tree and kick-jump off of it, gliding horizontally towards Spyro. Before Spyro could react, Griff punched Spyro in the face. Sending the purple dragon flying away a little. Spyro quickly regained his balance in the air and looked for Griff, but the griffon was nowhere to be seen.
"Spyro look out!" Ember screamed from below.
Spyro suddenly looked up to see Griff tried to pounce on him from above. Spyro quickly moved away and began unleashing some more fast slashes with his claws which Griff blocked with equal speed. Suddenly Griff countered with a slash of his claws to Spyro's face.
"Gotcha!" said Griff before he started rapidly punching Spyro in the ribs. After a few punches, Griff kicked Spyro in the stomach and raises both of his fists clenched together.
"Try this on!"
Spyro suddenly head butted Griff in the stomach. Taking the griffin by surprise and canceling his attack. Before Griff could recover, Spyro gives a powerful punch to Griff's face sending him flying a little. Spyro flew lower to rise up and try a sneak attack from below Griff while he's stunned. Griff quickly recovers and moves away. Spyro misses Griff but quickly turns towards Griff and kneeing him in the chest. The attack stunned Griff with pain, giving enough time for Spyro to follow up with an elbow strike to Griff's head to send him back on the ground. Griff quickly regained his balance and lands on the ground, just as Spyro lands on the ground as well. Suddenly Spyro charges towards Griff while Griff readies himself. Spyro engulfs himself in Flame and spin dashes at Griff at point blank range. Even though Griff was able to perfectly block the attack, the flames still burned Griff. When Spyro finished the attack, he added fire into his claws and tried to strike Griff again. Only this time much to Spyro's surprise, Griff caught Spyro's claw, his eyes glowing blue and his hand glowing blue with energy.
"What?" Spyro asked in surprised.
Griff quickly began to overpower Spyro and held him in a powerful wrist lock.
"Did you honestly think that the purple dragon was the only gifted type of creature in this world?"
Suddenly Griff threw Spyro away and tries to blast Spyro with a beam of blue energy from his eyes. Spyro quickly used earth powers to cover himself in thick rocks. When the energy beams hit the rock it caused a huge explosion. Happy with the result, Griff's eyes stop glowing blue as he walks over to inspect the results of his attacks. In the meantime, Ember became more nervous and scared by the minute. Griff smirked more as the dust cleared but his smirk soon disappeared when he saw nothing there.
"What the hell?" Griff yelled in anger.
Griff frantically looked around him to where Spyro maybe.
"Where the hell did you go!" Griff yelled again, growing angrier in frustration.
Suddenly Spyro popped out the ground above Griff and froze him in place.
"DAMN IT!" Yelled Griff as Spyro froze him in place.
Griff tried unleashing a shock wave of energy at Spyro with his free wings. Spyro on the other hand blocked it with an electrical energy field and shocks Griff with his electric breath. Making sure Griff stayed in place, Spyro used his earth powers to incase Griff in Earth a little. Giving Spyro enough time to take flight and start charging up a powerful fire ball. Once charged enough, Spyro blew it at Griff, which resulted in an explosion as well. Spyro flew down after the attack to see if the attack did anything. To his shock he sees Griff surrounded by a protective force field of pure energy. Growling in deep anger and his eyes glowing bright blue, Griff opened his beak and let's out a piercing roar as he unlashes a gigantic explosion energy sphere around his body. Spyro was surprised at this and quickly flew over to Ember and quickly gets her out of the way of the explosive energy sphere coming towards them. After a few seconds the attack finally stopped as griff stands where he's at. His eyes and body stop glowing with blue energy as he breathes deeply in exhaustion.
Spyro looks behind him, and sees that Griff is standing is a small crater.
"What was that?" asked Spyro slightly shaken by the recent attack.
"Nothing that you need to know, all you need to understand is that I am more powerful then you in every way," shouted Griff.
"What the hell do you want with us?" asked Ember.
"This is between me and the purple whelp, over there. This doesn't concern you at all. Either leave now, or I will kill you were you stand," snarled Griff.
"I won't let you lay a single paw on her," Spyro shouted back at Griff.
Spyro got into another battle position as Griff readied himself to charge at Spyro, when all of a sudden Sparx flew up to Spyro
"Sparx what, are you doing here, get out of here before you get hurt,"
"Piss off bug," commented Griff.
"Don't worry Spyro, we saw that big explosion, and reinforcements are on their way," said Sparx.
"What?!" shouted Griff as he looked up into the sky and saw several dragons flying quickly towards them. Before Griff could react, an adult dragon swiftly tackled Griff to the ground, and the two rolled from the force of the impact. Just as they stopped rolling, Griff sent a shockwave of energy and threw the dragon off of him.
"Damn it all," said Griff as he saw the other dragons heading his way. Quickly Griff flew off in the opposite direction as some of the dragons chased after him. Just before he was out of site, Spyro faintly heard Griff shout, "You haven't seen the last of me Spyro,"
"Man it's a sure good thing that I got back when I did, isn't it Spryo?" said Sparx.
"Yea thanks for saving me back there, but who are these people?" Spyro asked.
"These are the people you told me to get when you were in the village. Like I said, we saw the explosion and thought that someone was in trouble so we came to help," said Sparx.
No to long after the dragons that were chasing Griff came back empty handed.
"Feathery prick disappeared before we could even catch him," said one of the dragons.
Silence fell upon the group.
"What do we do?" asked another dragon
"What do you think? We're going to have to tell Lord Drake about it because we all could be in really deep shit," said a third dragon.
After much silence between everyone, one dragon eventually came up to Spyro and said "We need you to accompany us to see King Drake and state your case with the griffin attack,"
"Wait you guys have a king and queen?" asked Sparx dumb founded.
"What?!" said Spyro shocked to hear this, while ignoring Sparx's question.
"But what about the attack at the Dragon Village?" asked one of the guards.
"Actually the threat there has already been neutralized. We are sorry for troubling you all," said Ember.
"That is quite alright princess, at least we were some use, and saved the purple dragon from that griffin," said a guard. "Right then shall we be off?"
"Wait you're a princess?" Sparx said.
"Please don't ask," Ember quickly said.
"It's a long story Sparx," said Spyro before they took off towards Warfang.
While they were flying back, Flame and Cynder had finished the tour, and Flame was now walking Cynder home.
"Thank you Flame for the tour I had a lot of fun," said Cynder.
"No worries, anything for someone who saved us all," replied Flame. All of a sudden Cynder felt a sharp pain from her paw. "You alright Cynder?" Flame said noticing Cynder wince in pain.
"Yea im fine, it feels like a small cut, that I most likely got from a sharp rock, nothing to be worried about,"
"Alright if you say so," said Flame just as they reached her home. "Well this is where I bid you far well. Have a good night's rest Cynder,"
"Thank you Flame, I hope you sleep well to," Cynder then walked inside her home. The first thing she did inside was walk to the bathroom, and looked at the cut. She looked at the small cut on the bottom of her paw, and saw a little bit of blood seep through it. Suddenly the image of Cynder's past flashed before her eyes. She remembered when the apes were trying to break her so Malefor could corrupt her, they would take any sharp object they could find and slice and stab her to the point where she would pass out.
She remembered the sound of Guals voice as he helped the other apes from time to time as he would dig his sharp nails into her, and rake them across her body.
"Cynder… …I'm coming for you…" said a somewhat familiar voice.
"What? Who's there?" asked Cynder as a sudden chill ran down her spine.
There was no response. Suddenly Cynder felt her whole body shake as if she was about to have a panic attack. Quickly she tries to calm herself but had difficulty trying to get ahold of herself.
"What's happening to me?" Cynder asked.
Suddenly on the other side of the mirror a fog came out of it, before she saw was two red glowing eyes, appear in the mirror.
"My dear Cynder, don't be afraid,"
To Cynder's absolute horror, Gual slowly reveals himself from the fog, his appearance still the same but with the only difference being both of his eyes being bright red instead of one being green and the other being normal.
"W-what do you want with me?" Cynder began to back up, only to be stopped as she hit the tub with her back legs.
"Has it really been that long? Have you truly forgotten my dear Cynder? You and I have unfinished business, and Malefor won't be there to protect you from me this time."
"N-no, s-stay back!" Cynder screamed scared to the core.
Gual slowly reached his hand out to touch Cynder. When his hand exited the mirror his fleshed rotted off all over the floor until only a black shadowy skeleton hand was left as it grabbed Cynder by the throat. Cynder let out a loud piercing scream as she heard Gaul laughed hysterically at her. Her vision went black as she once again blacked out from the experience.
In the meantime Spyro and Ember along with the other dragons have returned to Warfang. Most of the dragon reinforcements left however one stayed with the two young dragons as they flew towards the castle. When they reached the castle the landed and walked inside, all the way until they found themselves outside the throne room. Standing in front of the grand doors stood two guards.
As Spyro, Ember, and the other dragon approached, one of the guards said "I'm sorry but the king and queen are in a meeting, you two may not enter," the guard said pointing to Spyro and the other dragon. He then noticed Ember and said "Princess Ember it is good to see you back,"
"Thank you," said Ember
The group then waited for a while for the guards to let Spyro and the other dragon in. While they waited Ember noticed that Spyro seemed to be deep in thought. "Is everything alright?"
Snapping Spyro out of his train of thought, Spyro glanced at Ember and said "oh yea I'm fine, I just can't get Griff out of my head,"
"Why is that?" Ember asked.
"Well there are just so many questions left unanswered, like who is he, why he wants me dead, among other things,"
"Don't worry after today, I'm sure we won't have to worry about him ever again," said the other dragon.
Ember then noticed that the other dragon seemed rather nervous. "Nervous to meet my parents?" asked Ember.
"A little yea, this would be my first time talking to them, so I'm a little nervous,"
"Well just relax alright? I know they can be a little scary but don't let them intimidate you," said Ember earning a nod from the dragon.
Not too long after Sparx showed up.
"Were did you head off to?" asked Spyro.
"Oh you know, here and there, just looking at some things," said Sparx as he flew up to one of the guards and was about to touch a potted plant that was hanging on the ceiling, when one of the guards suddenly said, "Don't touch that,"
Sparx grumbled to himself as he flew away from the plant and near Spyro.
Just them the doors began to open and out walked Terrador. Terrador was shocked to see Spyro, and the princess near the throne room and said "Oh I wasn't aware that you had returned. If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing here?"
"A griffin by the name of Griff, attacked me. It wasn't long before I got help, and he ended up fleeing. It was then said that I should report this to the king,"
"A griffin?" Terrador said in complete shock.
"You sound shocked, why is that?" asked Spyro.
Terrador looked Spyro in the eyes, his expression serious.
"Spyro, if you were attacked are you sure it was a griffin?" He asked in a serious tone.
Spyro gave Terrador a confused look but still answered the question. "Yea, im certain that it was. Why is that so important?"
Terrador suddenly looked worried a little and looked at the dragon with them.
"It's true Terrador, we all saw it with our eyes, an actual Griffin attacked Spyro." he said.
Terrador looked at Ember and Sparx who all nodded in agreement. With a sigh, Terrador looked back at Spyro, this time concerned and nervous.
"You need to tell this to Drake, him and Lexie are in the room behind me. And you need to give almost every detail you can. If you what you say is true then he needs to know this."
"Spyro still was confused. "Why's it so important Terrador?"
"Drake or Lexie will answer for you." Terrador said one last time before exiting.
They looked at the door, and saw that the guards have moved aside, waiting for them to enter. Slowly they walked through the doors and saw the king and queen at the far end sitting at their thrones. Spyro, Sparx and even the Dragon with them were amazed at how enormous the throne room was. Big enough for anyone to have plenty of flying exercises. Ember didn't seem all that happy to be home, if anything she looked a little annoyed.
"Ah just in time, sorry for the long wait, we had to meet with Terrador for personal reasons," said the Dragon King known as Drake.
"We thank you for your patience," replied his mate the Dragon Queen known as Lexie.
The two suddenly notice their daughter Ember with them.
"Oh Ember your back early, did something happen are you alright?" her father asked.
"I'm fine daddy," Ember replied sounding slightly annoyed.
"Im glad to know that you are safe sweaty," said Lexie
Ember sighed a little at her mother's response. Drake turned towards the others and still noticed they're still starring all around their thrown room. With a friendly smirk, he got up slowly. Apparently one Drake's legs were wrapped up in a bandage. Carefully he walked up to them and with a simple clear of his throat he got their attention. Now that Spyro snapped back in reality he was able to see the Dragon King and Ember's dad for the first time. Drake is a tall muscular fire dragon with crimson scales and a light brown underbelly. He has Blue eyes, four horns on his head, and his tail ends in a spaded tip. He wore golden armor from his shoulders to his tail, and on top of his head laid a golden crown like helmet. Before Spyro could say anything, Sparx said something first.
"As in gulp are you scary looking?"
There was a brief moment of silence before the dragon next to them grabbed Sparx with his tail in anger.
"Show some respect Mosquito!" snarled the dragon.
"Sorry about that." Drake asked.
Everyone turned to look at Drake.
"I seem to intimidate some people because of my appearance or position. Don't worry, I'm a little laid back once you get to know me," he simply said, earning a surprise look on the Dragon and Sparx.
"W-well I guess what I said was harsh, so I am sorry," said Sparx
"It's alright I get it all the time." He replied.
Drake notices Spyro and smiles happily.
"You must be the purple dragon. Where are my manners, my name is Drake, I'm the King of Warfang."
He uses his tail to point over to Lexie and Ember.
"Over there is my mate Queen Lexie, and my daughter princess Ember. And the entre dragon race owes you a debt for everything. I owe you a debt for saving our race."
"There really is no need for that, I just did what was best for everyone," said Spyro sheepishly
"Still, we are forever grateful for what you've done for us," Drake replied.
Spyro nodded a little.
"Well, it's not everyday that the purple dragon pays a visit to the royal family which I'm guessing this is your first time actually living in Warfang. So what do I owe the honor to?"
"Well I'm not sure if the news is going to be all that good," Spyro answered.
Drake raises an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Only a few hours ago, I was attacked by a griffin. Would the name Griff ring any bells?" asked SPyro hoping to learn more about Griff
Suddenly Lexie gasped in fear from where she's at. Also, Drake looked worried and surprised.
"I've never heard of him before. But Spyro, are you absolutely sure that a Griffin attacked you?"
"He speaks the truth my lord, I can explain everything in private if you like," said the dragon with them.
Drake looked at the dragon a little with worried eyes, and sighs.
"That would be best," he replies.
He looks back at Spyro, Sparx, Lexie, and Ember.
"I'll be back shortly."
Drake and the dragon walk outside the throne room to talk privately. Leaving Spyro a little more confused on the situation.
"Could some one please tell me, what is going on?" said Spyro confused by the situation. He looked at Ember's mother, Lexie. Lexie is an elegant slender dragoness with scarlet red scales and a white underbelly. She had gold eyes, horns and a tail blade similar to Embers. She wears two gold bracelets, a gold necklace, and a crown similar to her mate's only slightly smaller but with a few crystals on it.
Lexie turned to Spyro and said "A long time ago, before we were even born, there was a great war between dragons and griffins. The battles were ferrous, and so many people were killed during that time. It didn't end until a treaty was signed stating that no dragon shall harm a griffin, but in return no griffin shall harm a dragon,"
Spyro remained silent as Lexie continued.
"If what you say is true, and you were attacked by a griffin then that could mean that another war could be coming. And we don't know what's going to happen, because we barely even started recovering from the war with Malefor."
Meanwhile outside at the balcony overlooking all of Warfang, Drake is speaking with the dragon, apparently worried.
"Of all the bad things that had to happen after Malefor, why did this have to happen? 200 years both races have honored the Treaty of Artisan. Why break it after 200 years of peace." Drake asked with deep worry.
"Sir I don't know what this could mean, for all we know they could blame us for Malefor, after all he was a dragon." replied the dragon.
"Yes but they knew very well Malefor has nothing to do with us anymore. Damn it we can not afford another war with them, especially after our last one with the dark armies."
"Sir I just honestly don't know, but they were at war with the dark armies as well so maybe there must be some kind of misunderstanding or something."
Drake sighs.
"I hope so, I'm going to have to speak with their king about this issue. I just hope he'll be in a good mood."
Drake and the dragon then stepped out into the throne room once more
Meanwhile Sparx flies over to a table nearby in the throne room. He eyes a bottle containing special purple colored liquid.
"Hey what kind of drinks do you royalty folks have?" he asked.
"Sparx…" Spyro sighed in annoyance.
"I wouldn't recommend drinking that." Lexie said to Sparx.
"Lady I can handle my own alcohol."
Sparx pops the cork off and sniffs it.
"Wooooo! Smells like some strong stuff."
Sparx starts serving himself some of the drink. Soon after King Drake and the other dragon returned.
"What's he doing?" Drake asked.
"Oh don't mind me, hope you guys don't mind if I have a quick drink." Sparx replied.
"I wouldn't drink that if I was you."
"Why, is it too strong for me or something."
Sparx takes a big sip.
"No it's the medicine Ember made for me for my leg wound."
Sparx eyes open wide as he spits his sip out. Coughing hard as he tries to get the bad taste out of his mouth
Spyro only groaned in annoyance of his brother's antics, however King Drake couldn't help but chuckle. "You are quite the strange fellow, I am growing rather found of him,"
"Yeah I'm sure you are your royalness…" Sparx replied as he continued to cough heavy from accidentally drinking Drake medicine.
"It's Sparx, I'm Spyro's brother and sidekick…" Sparx responded through coughs before flying out the room to get a bester control of himself.
"Sorry about him, he's my step brother," said Spyro.
"I can tell," replied Drake.
Spyro turns to Drake.
"I almost forgot, a small dragon village was attacked not too far from here by a guy named Ripto and his army of Rhynocs."
"I know, we were told of that early this morning. We're very thankful you were able to get Ember out safely." said Lexie.
"I'll have my best generals deal with him personally. But right now I need to make arrangements to meet with the Griffin king about this ordeal. Thank you for bringing this information to us, and if there's anything else, don't hesitate to let us know about it." Drake said to Spyro.
"I will keep that in mind," said Spyro before he began to take his leave.
"Waite uh…Spyro…" Ember asked.
Spyro stopped and turns to Ember. A small blush appeared on Ember's face.
"Um…have a nice night." she said somewhat nervous.
"Thank you Ember, have a wonderful night yourself
And with that said, Spyro exited the throne room.
"Spyro, the purple dragon is a good kid." Said drake.
Ember sighs a little and begins to walk off with her head down.
"Ember what's wrong sweaty?" Lexie asked her daughter.
"I'm going to bed, it's been a long day," Ember replied without so much as looking at her parents.
Drake and Lexie look at each other in worry as Ember quietly walks away to her room. Once there she just simply plops her self onto her large bed. She lays there for a second before grabbing one of her pillows and hugging it tightly to her chest.
"I guess it's better that he doesn't remember," she said in a somewhat sad tone before going to sleep.
Spyro reached the temple not to long after, and opened his room. Inside he found Sparx laying in a tiny hammock.
With a small chuckle, Spyro just walked over to his bed and just plopped down on it. After everything he's been through today, it felt so great just to rest right now.
"Long day bro?" Sparx asked, as he watch Spyro lay in bed
Spyro merely just groans on how tired he is.
"Well hopefully tomorrow will be a better day,"
Spyro didn't pay any attention he just simply laid there unresponsive.
"Well good night Spyro," said Sparx as he closed his eyes
"Night…" Spyro groaned tiredly.
Before Spyro fell asleep, he thought about what happened that day. From the appearance of Ripto, to Griff, and the fact that his actions just might have started another war. Then there was Ember. The name still ringing a bell, but no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't recall any memory's with her. He groaned one more time before falling asleep.