Cynder had spent three, long eternities (hours) blankly gazing at the two eggs. She finally laid down, and imagined what their family would be like in what shouldn't be long, now.

Galaxy playfully wrestles with his or her bro or sis, Galactus. Spyro suddenly jumps in. How the struggle is real! Galaxy's tugging on Spyro's horns, while Galactus is teething on his tail. He's constantly being tossed this way, and that, and at another point, he playfully pins 'em down, and torture's them with—

"Cynder!" Spyro called.

Dang it. Another good daydream destroyed.

Cynder slightly winced, and turned around toward him. "What? I was in the middle of a good daydream! This better be good!"

"We have a visitor, Cynder. Calm yourself." Spyro whipped the porch's gate with his tail, and it opened, revealing a shadowy silhouette.

"Gah!" Cynder scrambled to her fours, and leaped behind the nest, only to find herself hanging onto the ledge behind it. "Who's that?" She yelled. One of her claws grew tired, and slipped. But she was still latched on.

"C'mon up, and you'll find out." Replied Spyro.

"Um, hello?" Cynder glanced down, and widened her eyes. Boy, is that a long way down! She felt that chilling adrenaline run down her scales. "Hanging off the edge of a ledge, here?!"

The figure made a mighty leap towards the ledge, and started towering over Cynder. "Here, grab my bow!" It exclaimed.

As he lowered it, he ended up poking her in the eye. "Ow—hey watch it!" She bellowed. She bit onto the bow, and soon she's heaved back onto the surface, beside the nest.

Cynder dusted herself off, looked up at the figure, and blinked. "But seriously, who is that?"

"Oh, that's Hunter." Replied Spyro.

As soon as he said that, the light revealed that it in fact was Hunter.

"Wha—? I don't get how Hunter was masked in the shadows in broad daylight." Cynder shaked her head. "Seriously, Hunter, what's up with you 'n' the shadow thing?"

"Uh, I dunno." Hunter shrugged. "The shadows like me…?"

"Good enough."

Hunter shrugged once again. "Now, the reason why I'm here is because I wanted to see the lil' guys."

Spyro and Cynder sighed.

"…Was it something I said?" Hunter raised an eyebrow.

"Nah," said Spyro. "it's been several days since Cynder had laid those eggs, and absolutely nothing had happened…I sure hope they aren't duds."

"Oh, I'm sorry, br—" Hunter couldn't complete his sentence, for there was a slight crackling sound that lasted approximately 2.7 seconds.

Everyone froze.

The sound emanated again…

Spyro placed a claw on his mouth. "Shhh…" He tip-toed over to the nest, which was now just static.

Annnnd, it sounded again.

"OH MEH GAWD!" Spyro roared with joy. "IT'S, IT'S—" His face quickly shifted into a poker face, when he discovered that he was stepping on a twig. "…It's a twig."

"Congratulations, Cynder!" Hunter shouted. "It's a twig! Wait-what?"

Cynder gave herself the ultimate face claw, and just laid down again. She curled up into a ball of scales. "If ya need me," she sniffled, "I'll just be sulking here for a day… or five…"

Hunter sighed, sat down next to Cynder, and patted her back. "There, there…"

Spyro picked the twig up, and started gently poking the eggs around with it. And then, it actually, finally happened. One of the eggs shook a bit, and little hairline fractures started to appear around it.

Spyro widened his eyes. "CYNDEEERRR!" He leapt up 'n' down.

Cynder slowly lifted her head up, to discover a cute little claw had found its way outta the egg. "OH MEH GAWD!" She suddenly scrambled up, nearly knocking Hunter down, and dashed to the nest. She poked her snout in.

Now an arm was poking out, and then a tail, two little horns, and soon, the little hatchling had broken out of his, or her, little tiny prison.

"Oh, you're so adorable!" Cynder remarked. "… Almost. Lemmie clean you off, first." She grabbed the hatchling, and licked it to death with her forked tongue.

"Okay, now." She placed the hatchling down, in front of Spyro. It finally opened its big, purple eyes, and looked at him. It squeaked softly.

"I promised myself I wouldn't cry…" Spyro sniffed.

Hunter just chuckled.