Chapter 2: Crossing paths

"Could it be, no it could not possibly be him." Cynder told herself as she looked at the armored dragon.

She shook the thought from her head and went to her own cushion to sleep. Try as she might she had trouble getting sleep to come, her mind was a blaze of thoughts. She lay there desperately trying to push them all away. Finally sleep came.

She found herself standing in a white void across from her was the armored dragon but his helmet was removed, and it was Spyro who was there he gave her a pleasant smile and walked closer to her. Until his armored chest met Cynder's chest and their muzzles met.

"Hello my darling Cynder." Spyro said in his kind voice.

"Spyro." Cynder said but was interrupted before she could say anymore by Spyro pulling her into a passionate kiss.

Cynders closed her eyes and the kiss stopped slowly.

"Spyro." she said as she opened her eyes finding he was nowhere to be seen.

Cynder sighed and fell to the "ground" of the white void.

Cynder awoke feeling empty. She left the hut and headed for the hunters lodge to get some food. When she returned to Chi's hut she found that Chi was up and tending to the armored dragon who was still asleep.

"I brought you some food." Cynder said balancing the plate of food on top of her head so she could walk properly. Chi turned and grabbed it.

"What about you?" she asked before politely eating.

"I have already had my meal." Cynder said.

Cynder turned to the armored dragon.

"Should I have brought food for him?" Cynder asked.

Chi shook her head.

"Let him wake up first." Chi answered.

Cynder left the hut again and walked along the forest. She closed her eyes and began to hum a tune. The hum turned into a song and Then Cynder was singing.

Down in the darkness I sit her alone

With no one to comfort me and no one who knows.

My savior disappeared, he faded away.

So now I'm all alone but I'd rather he'd stayed.

Oh I was such a fool, I turned him away.

So he has left me and faded away.

The nearby Forest Worms had stopped and Listened to her. The forest was silent as she repeated the words. She finished and everything seemed to resume as if her voice alone had made time stop to listen to her. She continued to walk down the forest path hoping to clear her head.

Chi was busy looking over the armored dragon. She was rearranging him hoping to make him more comfortable. She gently moved his front paw which brushed against the crystal on the armor. The armor began to glow and it disappeared. Chi was staring now at a dragon, she gasped when she realized who it was.

Cynder had walked the perimeter of the forest and found a burnt wyvern carcase and another one that was almost more of a pile of burnt flesh and bones.

"disgusting." she muttered as she used her shadow flames to disintegrate it.

She turned to head back. Walking along the forest she took her time admiring the forest and everything around her, she felt oddly peaceful now as if that song had helped her remove years of guilt that weighed her down. She approached the village and noticed Chi waiting for her, her expression was quite serious.

"Something happen?" Cynder asked with concern.

Chi shook her head.

"You have to see this." Chi stated as she turned and ran to her hut.

Cynder quickly followed after her. They stepped inside the hut and Cynder eyes fell upon the dragon sleeping on the cushion where the armored dragon once was. His scales were a royal purple, his chest and belly scales were a radiant gold. At the base of his neck was a golden collar with a blue crystal on it. She stood there for a moment in awe. There was no doubt anymore. This was the dragon she followed to the center of the earth, the dragon that saved her from darkness twice. This was the one dragon she truly loved, Spyro the legendary purple dragon.

Cynder could not believe her eyes.

"How is it possible?" Cynder asked nobody in particular.

Spyro seemed to move at the sound of Cynders voice.

"He looks just like you have described him just older." Chi said in a happy tone.

Cynder decided sit down nearby watching over the purple dragon. She found herself sitting there for a while; with nothing to do she began to drift off.

"Cynder." Spyro whispered in his sleep.

Cynder shot up to see Spyro with an almost dominant smile on his face. He gave a quick dominant growl and Cynder realized what he was dreaming, her black scales hid her blush.

"Is he really still into me?" She wondered.

His dominant growling continued, and Cynder just sat there. He stopped and just lay there breathing peacefully. Cynder noticed that the joint where he had been stung by the wyvern had been bandaged. She gasped when his eyes slowly opened and he picked his head up off the cushion.

Spyro looked around to get a grasp on his surroundings. He was in a hut, and there was a dragoness in front of him he looked up and let his purple eyes meet the dragonesses emerald eyes. He immediately realised who he was looking at.

"Cynder." He said his voice was one of sorrow.

"Spyro?" Cynder asked with concern.

Spyro got up and stretched; he then walked past Cynder and looked around. Chi walked in and squeaked when she saw Spyro up and about.

"If I had known you were awake I would have brought you something to eat." Chi said.

"There's no need I'm not really that hungry right now." Spyro said as he turned to the door, Chi stopped him.

"it would be best if you stay in here for now, I have to go alert the village leader that you are awake." Chi said earning a nod from Spyro as she left.

Cynder walked up to Spyro.

"You are not happy with me are you Spyro?" Cynder asked.

"You left me when I wanted to be with you." Spyro answered. "I had just banished the darkness inside me and I wanted to close the distance between us."

"That's where you went the year we returned?" Cynder asked.

"The white isle, I went to seek the chroniclers help to remove the darkness inside me." Spyro answered then he sat down and explained what happened to her in a short summary. "I went there and found Ignitus had replaced the chronicler, he helped me learn to fight my darkness, in the end I fought a Physical manifestation of myself that was my darkness, I destroyed it."

"So you no longer can control convexity." Cynder said lowering her head.

"No I just removed that poisonous little voice in my head that made me doubt everything and fear my true power." Spyro stated then he smiled. "With Dark Spyro gone I can tap into convexity with no risk of corruption."

He then looked at her.

"It's more tiring then using other elements though." He said with a laugh.

Cynder snickered.

"I want to rekindle our relationship, Spyro I just thought that you were moving on and I could not bare being around you but not being with you." Cynder said hanging her head.

"Give me some time to think Cynder and maybe we will rekindle, I just have to get over the feelings of sorrow and betrayal that this meeting has stirred up." Spyro said in a sorrowful voice.

Cynder looked away and sighed.

"Alright Spyro." She said getting up and waling over to sit on her cushion.

Tixir then walked in with Chi behind him. He turned to Spyro, his expression one of accusation and mistrust. He approached Spyro and looked him in the eye. Spyros purple eyes met his brown eyes.

"What is your purpose here?" Tixir demanded.

"I was tracking a group of wyverns that attacked the cheetah tribe in the valley of Avalar." Spyro answered calmly.

Tixir was not buying it.

"Where did you come from?" Tixir asked.

"Warfang." Spyro said.

Tixir glared at him.

"The dragon capital, I should have known they would send spies to find our kind." Tixir accused.

"You think I am a spy, I didn't even know there was a village out here." Spyro said getting up and glaring into the adult dragons eyes, un-intimidated by the size difference.

Tixir broke off eye contact.

"Fine, I will let it be for now but if you try anything, I will have you taken care of." Tixir said as he walked out of the hut.

Spyro snorted in annoyance and began to move over to take a spot by Cynder on her large cushion but caught himself and went over to the one he was sleeping on. He sat on it.

Chi looked at both Spyro and Cynder and how they were distant.

"Why the hell aren't you to passionately kissing." She voice before covering her mouth with a paw realizing she just voiced that thought.

Both looked at Chi as she blushed.

"I-I-I, sorry." She stammered and hanged her head in shame.

"We will probably be there soon we just have to sort out things first." Spyro said with a smirk.

Cynder looked at him and smiled. She had fear that there would be no relationship to salvage but there was hope. She just had to wait and do her part.

Tixir walked out of the hut and muttered to himself as he walked back to his hut. He walked past Venik who just glanced at him. He walked past the maroon and lime green dragon who noticed him and began whispering to themselves.

"I guess that guest really got to him, eh Shake." The maroon dragon said to the lime green dragon.

"Indeed Shudder." Shake said in response to the maroon dragon.

Both Shudder and Shake watch him enter his hut then they slunk off.

"So the prime dragons think they can take this place away from us." Shudder said.

"I don't think so." Shake said.

"Then come on we must prepare." Shudder said as he ran ahead of Shake.

Venik watched as Shudder and Shake slunk away. He disliked those two; they always caused trouble in the surrounding area and even for the other dragons of the village. Shudder the Maroon fear dragon was infamous for being able to cohere others. While the poison dragon Shake was infamous for the trouble he always caused. Both were like brothers. Venik just snorted and lay his head back down.

Chi and Cynder led Spyro out of the hut. His appearance was met by the stares of the village inhabitants. Some of them held mistrust but the kind face Spyro made attracted more curious looks. They went to the hunting cabin to gather some food for Spyro. The lead hunter a poison dragon gave Spyro a quick bow which he returned, the three dragons then found themselves eating lunch with the village's hunters. Spyro was quickly able to earn their trust listening to their stories and telling his own; he treated each with respect and seemed to treat everyone around him as equals to himself.

"For a dragon of your status you would think that would give you a large ego yet you are so modest." The lead Hunter said, the rest of the hunters nodded in agreement.

"I was raised that way and have had many good teachers and friends in my life." Spyro stated.

"You are the first prime dragon to set foot in here since ever." One of the hunters said as he finished eating.

"Prime dragons, you mean primary element dragons?" Spyro asked.

The hunter nodded.

"Prime is just short for primary dragons, much like how we're referred to as secondary element dragons." Chi said.

Spyro nodded in understanding. Cynder glanced at him.

"You have grown up." Cynder said. "Your are less naive but you are still the very pure hearted individual that you were before."

"Yeah." Spyro said. "I just do what my heart tells me."

"I've heard that before." Cynder giggled.

Spyro blushed. Without thinking both dragons edged closer to each other. Spyro looked over at Cynder and smiled, Cynder returned the smile then they both turned their attention back to the group and joined in the conversation.

Author's note

The golden armored dragon is Spyro not a surprise there. And yes that crystal on the collar Spyro is wearing is the armor, I will explain that later. Oh and of course Spyro and Cynder did not just jump back into a relationship i find that kind of cheesy so i went for something more cliche. Anyways thats it and maybe the next chapter will be out this week or next week. There will only be long waits if I am interrupted by events or if ideas are changed or run dry.

Peacekeeper Ferideen