I'm sorry to keep you waiting for a month for an update but I was just going through one of those 'I'm quitting fanfiction' moments. Well while some people would just move on I'm willing to make up for that mistake so I worked triple time time writing three chapters instead of one and I'm working on chapter 8 right now. Enjoy!

Chapter 5

. . . But Don't Let That Stop You

The open lands were now before the two dragons. They looked at the green grass plains and all the most beautiful trees. A river was flowing in front of them which flowed all across the plains. Birds chirped and the crickets sung to their hearts content.

"Ah, the valley of Avalar, one of the most beautiful places I have come across during my travels. A great place to just sit back and relax",Spyro replied.

Ember stood in awe. Everything she saw was just perfect. From the music the birds made or just the scenery that stood before her.

"I read about this place in books but I didn't realize how close it actually was",Ember softly said.

Spyro looked up into the sky. He guessed it was about 1 pm or so and returned his attention toward Ember. She was laying down on soft green grass with a drained look on her face.

"What's up?",Spyro asked.

Ember responded a few seconds later, "Getting tired. We've been walking for like an hour and we were attacked."

"And I should be escorting you back home. Your dad my be getting worried."

"Who cares about my dad? He can be pushy sometimes and when I'm away, I'm happy."

Spyro watched the river flow for a few seconds then sluggishly made his way over to Ember. "I don't know what to say. I didn't know he was like that. I only seen him a few times in my life and he seemed to be a pretty nice being."

Ember sighed, "Yea, well your wrong. Like a year ago I noticed my room was getting a bit messy so I took about an hour of my time cleaning it. When I finished I told my dad so he could go and look. When he saw just the slightest thing out of place he began yelling at me. Thing was I cleaned it on my own free will he could have at least praised me for it or something but no. He put me on restriction for a month meaning I couldn't go to school for a month."

Spyro grew surprised, "What? He can't do that!"

"He did, I was stuck inside my own home for a month. A place I used to call home I now call a prison."

Spyro thought for a second then replied, "I see why you don't want to go back there right now. I wouldn't want to. Tell you what, as long as I'm here you don't have to go back. It will be your time and your choice."

Ember thought for a second at Spyro's response then said, "Now I don't know what to say but thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am. Hopefully I'll be able to make it up somehow."

"Don't worry about it",Spyro chuckled. "Just me having company is all I want."

Ember stared at the river with a clear smile of gratitude on her face. "I'm just gonna rest here for a few minutes. If I fall asleep, wake me."

Spyro watched the scenery in thought. It was clear that Ember wasn't as fit as he was. He was a bit worried about when she was going to decide to go home. That's if she even decided to go home. Spyro already figured out some things has changed since he left him original hometown.

Spyro looked at Ember and sighed. He held some secrets in his head that Ember needed to know about but he didn't want to tell her any of them anytime soon, especially one of them. Ember was one of Spyro's best friends even though they had been separated for years.

Slowly the sound of the river lulled Ember to sleep like a lullaby. Spyro took notice of her nap but leaved her be. He didn't want to disturb her quite yet so he spent his time in the past.

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Second Day in the Forest Six years ago

Spyro flapped his wings as fast and hard as he could but he just wasn't going anywhere.

"Come back down from there",Ignitus called out into a tree beside the cave he spent the night in. Spyro was on a limb a few yards up.

"But Ignitus",Spyro began.

"No buts get down, now."

Spyro sighed as he began climbing back down the tree like a cat. "You sounded like my dad there",Spyro muttered.

Spyro slowly made his way down having a bee buzz by his head. "Help!", Spyro yelled.

Ignitus sighed, "The bee is not going to hurt you just come down."

"I don't wanna",Spyro remarked.

Ignitus didn't want to bring up the subject but did so anyways, "Need I remind you about your dad?"

Spyro began moving again in defeat. Suddenly his claw seemed to slip out of the tree bark making him fall onto Ignitus's back with a thud. Spyro rubbed his head thanking his horns for breaking his fall. Then he noticed what actually broke his fall.

"Are you alright Spyro?",Ignitus asked seeming unhurt by Spyro's horns.

"Yea but are you?"

Ignitus chuckled, "It will take more than that to hurt me."

"Hey can I ride on your back?",Spyro asked with a smile.

"I'd rather you walk for now Spyro."

"Poo to you too",Spyro said as he jumped down off his back.

Ignitus gave Spyro a weird look then began thinking of the task at hand. Getting to the village. He looked through the bushes and by the few trees and spotted the path. He thoroughly searched for any harmful obstacles in the way such as poisoned leaves and thorns. Spyro closely followed Ignitus until they were safely on the path and heading in the right direction.

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Back to Spyro and Ember

Spyro didn't realize that he too was slowly dozing off. He shook his head of flashbacks and turned to Ember. She seemed peacefully asleep. Spyro didn't want to wake her but boredom was beginning to set in. He didn't want to wake her but he didn't want to leave her for her to wake up to find Spyro was gone. Spyro sighed then curled up in the patch of grass he had been sitting in then closed his eyes to the peaceful sounds of nature.

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Meanwhile

Mrs. Rune sat at her desk scribbling something on a paper while the class just sat reading their books and having their fun. She was teaching fifth grade now which was the class Ember was in and Mrs. Rune began taking attendance. She looked up and realized Ember was gone.

"Has anyone seen Ember?",Mrs. Rune asked the class.

The class looked at one another then one of them answered, "I saw her about an hour ago outside the school."

Then another classmate added in, "Me and my friend was walking by and we heard some noises like someone talking coming from the bush near the front door if that helps."

Mrs. Rune thought about the answers she heard then asked, "Anybody else have any other information?"

It took a couple of seconds to hear an answer but then Mrs. Rune heard, "Now that I think about it I did see something heading off toward the small forest behind the school a while back."

Mrs. Rune seemed to be interested and asked, "What did it look like?"

"Well it was pink and it looked like Ember, but I thought she was just going for a walk with some other dragon."

"Other dragon? Why didn't someone tell me this before? What did this other dragon look like and exactly how long ago did you see them?"

"Erm . . . it was almost an hour and a half ago. During lunch and recess. The other dragon seemed to look a tiny bit bigger than the pink one and he was purple if I recall."

"Purple? Anyone ever seen a purple dragon in this school before?"

"Nope Mrs. Rune",someone responded.

Mrs. Rune seemed to be getting a little worried now, "I'll be right back everyone I gotta go check up on something."

Mrs. Rune left the classroom and headed for the one place she could sort it all out. She headed down the hall and past all of the lockers and walked into a room simply labeled 'records'.

"Something about this seems familiar to me."

Mrs. Rune opened the door revealing a good number of filing cabinets in the room and a small wooden table in the middle of it. It was a pretty plain room with hardly any decorations. Mrs. Rune scanned a few filing cabinets then slid one open to see a bunch of files in alphabetical order. She ran her paws across the files and began doing her research.

Some time passed until she came across a document dated six years back when she was teaching 4K. It was quite a while back for her but all the familiar pictures of that class was bringing back old memories. Then she came across one of Ember. She had a happy look on her face as she sat beside another dragon beside a toy box. Mrs. Rune closely studied that dragon. He was purple. Mrs. Rune flipped the picture over to see some writing on the back. Rune read Ember and Spyro then flipped the picture back over. Spyro had his head in the toybox not giving her a clearer look but she knew it was Spyro.

"Spyro's back?",Mrs Rune thought. She couldn't help but smile at the thought.

She placed the photo back in the folder and placed the folder back in the filing cabinet then left the room. She made her way back down the hall and by another red student dragon seeming to be on his way to the bathroom. Mrs. Rune opened the door to her room and stepped inside making any chatter inside cease. Mrs. Rune closed the door then sat behind her desk as she usually did.

"Did you find out anything Mrs. Rune?",asked a female blue dragon near the front of the classroom.

Mrs. Rune took a second to answer, "I did."

"Are we going to go get Ember back?",another dragon asked.

"No, we should let her be. She's just having a reunion of some sorts."

"What kind of reunion?"

"Someone she hasn't seen in six years. Let's leave it at that",Mrs. Rune said as she shuffled some papers into one pile at the corner of her desk. "Alright class your on your free time now so we are going to take a vote. Those of you who wants to go in the gym to play raise your paw."

Hardly no paws at all were raised toward the vote.

Mrs. Rune continued, "How about the outside playground?"

Immediately pretty much the whole class raised their hands. Twenty plus votes were counted so Mrs. Rune kept to her word and led the class to the back of the school to the playground until the last school bell rung as the symbol for them to go home.