Hey guys, I'm sorry for not updating for so long but I'm trying to fix that. This summer I will be doing a lot more writing. This story has slowly been gaining popularity and I hope that it will become more popular the more I write. To that means, here is the chapter.

Chapter 2

It was great to finally have flame back, but he had been in the war so long that a lot of things had changed. I think he had always suspected something between me and ember, but he was still surprised when we told him. As for when cynder told him about being my slave, if you could even call it that with how I treated her, especially since she was being so mean to ember. I mean before we started dating she and ember were friends… ill talk about that later, now as I was saying, when flame found out about Cynder's position, he was about ready to charge up to the guardians and take them all on by himself. Ever since he got back he has been very protective of cynder. Maybe he thinks she needs some more attention since I'm spending most of my time with ember. In fact, that's what's going on right now, so why does that make me so sad.

We are going to meet up in the morning to eat and give Flame a tour of everything that's happened since he was gone. I'll have to see but I think being with flame will be good for her, she had been becoming more silent and brooding recently. His confidence might rub off on her, and then I hope she will at least tell me what's wrong. I started to think about possibilities on what would be bothering her but my thoughts were interrupted by ember stirring. We had gone right to bed after talking with flame for awhile, much to embers dislike. "Spyro," she said sleepily realizing I was still awake. "Why aren't you asleep, I thought you said you were tired?" She did have me there, "I am, I'm just thinking," I replied truthfully. She then smiled her beautiful smile and asked, "About what?" I sighed and shook my head, "nothing" I replied, knowing how mad she would be if I told the truth.

I soon drifted off to sleep, but I wasn't able to get very much because ember woke me up. She never sleeps late, she says it's because she is not tired enough when she goes to bed. I got up reluctantly and told her that I was going to go fly around for awhile would see her when we met up later. She wanted to go with me but I needed to collect my thoughts so I told him that I wanted to go alone. She pouted and her response was the same as it always was when something like this came up, "you owe me." I nodded halfheartedly and leapt out through the window trying to collect my thoughts while I was flying. However my mind kept going back to one thing and that was flame and cynder. It was great that flame was back, and it was great that cynder had found a friend to spend time with, it's just that... I mean I'm her friend to and she doesn't spend time with me, at least not really. And that's what was really bothering me.

I pondered this for awhile before I just gave up and decided to head back to the room. When I got there I sat down on the bed. Ember came up to me and asked "Are your thoughts still bothering you." I nodded, and before I could say anything she kissed me passionately, "I know something that might fix that." She said as she tried unsuccessfully to crawl on top of me, "not right now ember." I replied, causing her to make a pouting face then lighten up, "It must be a difficult thought if it is bothering you so much, maybe I can help you figure it out." I doubted it but sighed, finally giving in to her desires. "I'm just trying to figure out why cynder gets along with flame so well." The look an embers face was almost angry, but she hid it in her voice, "You know you don't have to care right, I'm sure she is in good hands with flame."

This bothered me more then it should have but I shook it off. "She is my friend ember," I replied causing her to laugh. "No spyro, she is your slave; however I'm your girlfriend so why don't you treat the both of us how you are supposed to." As she said this she leaned in to kiss me but I backed away and yelled, "Ember, I said not right now!" She flinched back at my tone which had been angrier then I had meant it to be. At first I didn't know why then it dawned on me, and it was the answer to the question that had been bothering me. Ember was why cynder wasn't my friend; the way that she treated cynder had driven her away. We had saved the world together and now she probably hated me because of my girlfriend. This angered me more then anything, and a new question came to my mind.

Ember and cynder used to be friends, yet they had started fighting merciless since ember and I started dating. Their confrontations had even become violent a few times and I wanted to know why. So I went over to ember, who was still recoiling from when I yelled at her, and asked "Why can't you and cynder get along?" She looked up at me and sighed, responding "you really don't know do you." She guessed I didn't from the confused look on my face, "It's because she is always trying to take you from me." Her answer stunned me yet seemed to make sense. We had spent a lot of time together when we were in the war; I had even had feelings for her for awhile. Yet even with all that it just didn't seem right.

She had always been so outgoing and courageous, if she had feelings for me she would tell me, and that is the story I knew was true. I turned to ember angrily, "why are you making up excuses, she is my friend and you drove her away just because you were jealous!" Now she stood up from where she was sitting on the bed and turned to me, anger now as clear on her face as it was on mine. "How dare you say that, it's the truth and you need to choose who you are going to believe, your girlfriend or your slave." She said the last word with so much malice and hate that I was at a loss for words. But only for a moment because the next thing I felt was a fiery anger. For some reason hearing cynder referred to like that made me angrier then I had ever been.

I went to yell at ember again only to hear the door slam behind me signaling her exit. I went to follow her and decided against it, opting to let her cool down, another reason being that I needed to do the same. I didn't know why but that last thing she said was still stuck in my mind, almost as if it was haunting me. Also, since when did I chose cynder over ember? Something was happening that I couldn't explain and I knew that I needed help from someone outside of my normal group, so I decided to go find flame. But after I started to think clearly another thought came to my mind. I realized that the entire temple probably knew of the fight between me and ember and most hopeful dragonesses would think I was now available, so it would be a bad idea for me to go outside my room for awhile.

~Flame~

Ember and spyro didn't show up for our tour, not that I'm surprised with the argument they had earlier. Anyway, that only left cynder to show me around, not that I really minded. Cynder and I had always been friends during the war but since I had gotten back I had felt something other then friendship for cynder. She had been walking beside me but I had fallen back to get the best vantage point to admire her form. I had never noticed before but cynder was quite beautiful. And lately I had been spending every moment I could confirm that. Scanning every one of her curves, and tracing her every scale with my eyes, wishing for something more then to observe.

But I knew that it would never happen, she spent too much time thinking about spyro to notice, let alone return, my feelings for her. That was the thought going through my head when I slammed into cynder, who had stopped to explain something. I had been so lost in my fantasies that I hadn't been paying attention to what was going on. As I started paying attention again I heard her laughing. She smacked my nose with her tail saying, "Are you even paying attention to what I'm saying." I shook my head and sighed, "Sorry, I've just got some things on my mind," I replied, embarrassed. She then motioned for me to sit down and asked. "Wanna tell me what it is that's so important that you can't pay attention to your personal tour?"

I looked around, panicked, trying to find something to give me an idea to make an excuse with. Finding nothing I looked back at her and started trying to explain myself, "look, I... it's just that... well, you see-" My mutterings were then interrupted by a loud laugh from cynder. "Well when you figure it out you let me know, ok," she commented. I sighed in relief and thanked her, opting against my will to leave her so I would be able to gather my thoughts. I knew that something was wrong with me, I never thought like I had back there. To be honest it kinda creeped me out. I angled myself towards Spyros room then, he and ember had a good relationship (minus what had happened earlier) so he probably knew what was going on.

As I approached Spyros room I saw multiple dragonesses outside his door calling for him. I assumed that they thought he was available now, though I knew he wasn't. "Everyone leave him alone will you, every couple has fights that doesn't mean that they broke up," I yelled. Some of the dragonesses left with sad looks on there faces, others ignored me and kept doing what they were doing. The later groups were the ones I focused on, I muscled through them to Spyros door. I knocked and announced myself; he opened the door slightly to prove it was me, and then allowed me to squeeze in. Once I was inside I stopped spyro from closing the door and turned to face the people outside, shouting "I am only going to say this once more, you will leave and forget any ideas you have about being with spyro!"

After shutting the door I turned back to spyro, who then lightened the mood with one of our old jokes. "Thanks, one of the downsides to being the purple dragon is that every dragoness wants to be your mate." We both laughed, "Yeah, your life is soooooooo hard," I joked. I then switched to a more serious tone, "anyway spyro, I came here because I wanted to talk to you about cynder." Looking surprised, he said, "really, because I wanted to talk to you to." There was silence after this, it was an uncomfortable subject for both of us, so we were both nervous. Spyro was the first to speak, "why don't you go first, I owe you for back there." I could tell he just wanted to get out of going first, but I decided it wasn't worth fighting with him on it.

There was silence again as I searched for the right words, once I found them however, it was easier then I thought it would be. Before I knew it I had started explaining that had happened with me and cynder since I had gotten back to the temple. He listened patiently, but there were emotions going through him that he was having trouble hiding. I could see them flicker across his face every so often, but never for long enough for me to identify them. As I finished talking I asked one final question, "spyro I need to know, what I'm feeling, is it love?" There was silence for awhile, emotions still flickering across his face, until finally he slowly nodded his head. "Yeah I think so, I felt the same kind of thing for ember, I mean-" Whatever he was about to say was interrupted by a loud crash from below us.

~Cynder~

After about an hour it finally dawned on me that despite how different everyone thought I was, I was doing the same thing as probably every dragoness in the temple was, thinking about the argument between spyro and ember. It had given me hope for awhile, but now it was finally setting in that they would make up soon and she would go back to trying to mate with him and he would go back to being totally oblivious. I sighed, I wanted spyro so badly, and ever since I tried to tell him how I felt after defeating malefor. It was a thought I had multiple times before. It scared me knowing how much my life revolved around the one person, but at the same time it filled me with best feeling I've ever felt... love. And yet, you can only love someone for so long before it devours your entire being.

I knew this, and yet there was nothing I could do against it, to everyone else I'm just the "Terror of the Sky's." So even if I did manage to fall in love again they would not accept me... right. My mind was suddenly brought back to flame and how he was acting this morning. It was almost as if he liked me, but it couldn't be, could it. I would have taken the time to consider this more but my train of thought was disrupted by a knock on the door. Hoping that whoever was there would distract me from my thoughts I got up from my bed and opened the door. As soon as I opened it I knew that I would be getting a break from my thoughts, but not in the way that I would have liked. Because standing in my doorway was my least favorite dragon in the world, ember.

"What do you want?" I asked, making no attempt to hide the anger in my voice. She smiled at me fakely, "aren't you going to invite me in, slave," she taunted, knowing full well that I had to do as she said. It went against every fiber of my being to do anything she told me to, but I moved aside none the less, knowing the consequences of not listening to her. She waltzed inside like she owned the place, "as for what I want, well its simple, its same thing I have wanted since me and spyro started dating." She said some more but I didn't hear it, I knew what she was going to say. It was her same usual speech about how she wanted me to back of spyro.

I started listening again in time to hear the word "-spyro." Hearing his name reminded me of what I was thinking about earlier, including my thoughts on flame. They were both her friends and I used to be as well, and for the first time I tried to figure out why. Ember was still talking but I had zoned her out by now, so I started going over what I knew about the both of them. Then I remembered the conversation I had with flame and why it had been so weird. Courage was the one thought that went through my mind. They were able to stand up to her, I used to be too until I was made a slave. I realized that when that happened I had lost almost all of my faith in myself.

As soon as that thought became clear I knew exactly how the argument would end. I lifted my head to look at her, "why," I said, interrupting her. She looked at me like I was crazy asking, "Excuse me?" "Why," I said again, smiling, "why do you care about me and spyro, is your seduction that weak that one dragoness can ruin it?" Now I thought I was crazy, and yet for some reason, I didn't care. Her response showed that she did, "what do you mean why do I care, he is my boyfriend and I don't want some slave taking him from me." I almost laughed, and while I usually would have kept the reason hidden I decided to voice it this time, "But you don't love him." I said it so matter of factly that even ember went silent, but what surprised me the most was how right it felt.

It was like it could be said over and over again and never loses any of its power. When she finally stuttered back into speechfullness her only response was, "yes I do, and what would you know about it anyway." She knew the answer, yet always refused to accept it, so I said it once again hoping she would finally understand. "You can lie to yourself all you want, you don't love him, I do. There is a difference between wanting him to be your mate and wanting him to mate with you. Slut." The last comment felt amazing to finally say, I had wanted to use it for awhile and now I finally had the courage to. I could tell that had gotten to her when she lunged at me like she wanted me dead, which she probably did.

Ha-ha, cliffhangers are awesome. Anyway, I think I changed my writing style a bit for this book and I may add some more changes as this story progresses. Also, I'm noticing I may be getting things wrong, I have to say that I have never played a spyro game. Everything I know about spyro I learned from fanfiction, please don't stop reading because of it, I just wanted you to know so that. Stay Tuned!