A/N: This isn't going to be one of my best chapters, just putting that out there for you guys.

Chapter Two: Where Love Falls

They were on their way to a place she and Spyro had once hunted. Cynder was behind the entire group. Lt. Rocco suddenly slowed down till he was next to Cynder.

"Hey, Cynder, um.. sorry about the fight we were having. It was completely uncalled for.", stated Lt. Rocco.

"It's okay. Its just that the other dragon's were right. Did you honestly think we, a group of twelve dragons, could fight of creatures that killed an entire army?", questioned Cynder.

"Yeah, okay. I admit it, it wasn't one of the best plans out there.", replied Lt. Rocco. They soon reached a good place to hunt.

"Okay everybody, let's split up and hunt in different places,", said Cynder. "and remember, no eating the food until we get together with the other group. We need to have equal portions no matter what. Be back here in about two hours." At that, the group split up a went to hunt. Cynder was able to find at least a deer. 'I hope everyone else got something better than what I caught.', thought Cynder with a sigh, knowing this wasn't enough to fill up a dragon. But sadly, as they reunited two hours later, she realized that she was at least lucky to have even found a deer. Only four of them had found food, but at least two of them brought two deer.

"What if we eat two of the deer ourselves, and share the other four with the rest of the crowd,", commented a green dragon, "after all, we were the ones who hunted for this food. All the other dragons except Cynder and a sky blue dragon nodded their heads at the unfair portions, mainly because it was them getting the better part.

"No!", growled Cynder with rage, "They are in this like us! What if they keep half of their hunt at lunch and only shared the other half! How would you feel!"

"Well, we would get mad.", replied the green dragon

"But you wouldn't know, would you!"

"They wouldn't know if we ate some of the food!", argued the other dragon.

"They would if I tell them!"

"Then I guess we have to kill you, don't we?", said the green dragon, his claw in an attacking position.

"No!" yelled Cyan, the blue dragon that was on Cynder's side. He jumped in the way of the attack, receiving the blow to his side, landing on the ground in pain. Cynder, seeing Cyan fall to to ground bleeding, started to attack the green dragon, becoming into dark Cynder. She pinned the green dragon on his back, a claw raised to strike his neck.

"Please! Cynder! Don't kill me!" pleaded the green dragon, fear in his eyes. Just as Cynder was about to attack mercilessly, she heard a voice from behind.

"Cynder! What are you doing! This isn't like you!", coughed the blue dragon. At that, Cynder's darkness began to recede, leaving Cynder on the green dragon. She quickly got off and, after muttering sorry, went to tend the blue dragon's wounds.

"It's going to be okay. Elice is a great medic. She'll tend to your wounds better.", said Cynder reassuring the dragon. After bandaging them with a couple of large leaves, she instructed them to leave toward the swamp. They carried what little they had and headed toward the found no one there, which was finally good news, as they knew that there cave hasn't been invaded.

(With Elice)

She was on watch,but was almost done. As she was turned to trade spots with another dragon after her ten minute shift, she saw a hint of black on the bright blue sky.

"They're coming!", Elice announced to the crowd of dragons with her. They all got up at the thought of food, but sighed when they saw that they were only carrying four deer. Elice looked closely and saw that one of them was flying shakily.

She immediately jumped into the air and approached the dragons Studying the dragons wounds, she said, "I'll head out to get herbs. Luckily, we are on an island with lots of useful herbs."

"I'll come with you,Elice.", said Cynder. Elice was glad to have some company.

Spyro walked through the dark hallways that Flame ran through. "Flame! Where are you!", he yelled, walking down the halls.
He started to hear sobbing coming from another hallway from his left. As he neared the end of the hallway, the crying got louder. After ten minutes of walking, Spyro was finally rewarded by a faint glow around the corner.

"Flame? It's me, Spyro.", he said, rounding the corner and finding his friend on the floor, crying into his arms. "Flame, why are you crying?"

"Because of the fact that you came for me, even after I tried to kill you.", sobbed Flame.

"That happened about three weeks ago! Let it go, it's not your fault.", Spyro said in a soothing tone, trying to comfort his friend.

"How is it not my fault! I was the one choking you!"

"But I was the one who left you heartbroken.", replied Spyro. "It's my fault for going back to Cynder, leaving you in hurt."

"What matters is that I almost ended up killing you!", Flame said into his forelegs, choking on his own tears.

"You were consumed by darkness, Flame. You couldn't control yourself.", Spyro said,getting closer to Flame."Flame, you need to try to forget it. Look at me,", said Spyro. Flame lifted his head and look at Spyro, pain in his eyes. "I'm still alive Flame. You need to see that you didn't kill me." Flame's cries were beginning to stop. "I still believe that you love me," Flame looked into Spyro's eyes. "because if you didn't, you would've killed as soon as you could."

Spyro walked up to Flame, giving him a warm, comforting hug as Flame cried even more into Spyro's shoulder. After a while, Flame, stopped crying and looked up at Spyro. "Thank you for helping me settle my worries."

"So, having that out of the way, why don't you come with Volteer and I?"

"Sorry, but I can't trust myself to be around you.", muttered Flame.

"Oh, okay then," ,Spyro said, distraught. "well, I guess this is goodbye then." Spyro leaned in and gave Flame one last hug. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you to."

Cynder was almost done helping Elice with collecting herbs. She felt different at the moment, as if she was new person. "Elice, can I tell you something?"

"Sure, what is it Cynder?", replied Elice.

"I think I may be falling in love with another dragon.", said Cynder, her head down in shame. Hearing this, Elice asked, "Who do you think your falling for?"

"Cyan, the dragon we're getting the herbs for." replied Cynder.

"What makes you think your falling for him?"

"Well, when we were coming back from hunting, another dragon and I were fighting. He threatened to kill me, and attacked. Cyan jumped forward and took the blow. I don't know why, but I just couldn't control myself and turned into darkness.", Cynder said, with a shaky voice. "Just before I killed him, Cyan calmed me down with his voice. I felt the same feeling I felt when Spyro pulled me out of the darkness.", Cynder finished, close to tears.

"It's okay, Cynder. Just calm down. You just have to tell Spyro how you feel at the moment.", said Elice in a soothing voice.

"Thanks Elice. I really needed to tell someone."

"You're welcome. Let's just get these herbs back at once."
While they were flying back, Cynder found two more deer. They quickly killed them and carried them back, bring joy to everyone, seeing as there was at least a little more food to eat.

After it got dark, they started to all go to sleep. The shifts change to half an hour.
Cynder was awaken by Lt. Rocco, mumbling, "Is it my turn already?"

"Yes it is, Cynder. By the way, I-I'm sorry that I didn't stand up for you." replied Lt. Rocco, blushing a little.

"Oh! It's fine," said Cynder. As she took place for her watch, she looked at all the dragons sleeping. 'Spyro, where are you! We really need you.', thought Cynder, looking up at the sky.

A/N: Like I said: not one of my best chapters. Anyways, I might end up changing thing's in the future. Please review, it really helps a lot.