About damn time I uploaded a new spyro chapter, I apologise for this taking so long but I have not been in a stable mind set as of late so this chapter may mark a new side of the main character. I apologise to those that like the way the story started out as it is going to take a dark turn for the moment. Of course it won't be too dark as I am still somewhat my old self but that will change with time. So until I become either the old me or the new me, the stories on here will reflect my transition.

They left shortly after. The figure remaining stationary as I continued to watch it, my senses beginning to tell me to go and help it I began to slowly advance, my tail curved around to the front of myself in a defensive posture. I never took my eyes off the figure as I advanced. "Are you conscious?" I cautiously asked as I came to a stop at the beings side. Seeing it was a moonlight grey dragon, it stirred as I approached. "W-what?" The being replied, disclosing that it was a female. "I simply asked if you are conscious, we need to get you to safety." I said seeing her look up at me with her amber eyes before beginning to shake. "D-don't e-eat m-me." She pleaded making me look at her with confusion. "Why would you think I would eat you?"

My response clearly unnerved her as she began to tremble. "Y-you're a-a d-d-dragon." She stated, still trembling. "Yes I am, but I don't understand why I would eat you." I replied, my voice soft so as not to frighten her any more with my tail slowly going behind me. "Are you alright?" I asked her receiving only a nod; "Can you stand?" I asked with a slight amount of concern. She slowly stood, before attempting to stand on her hind legs. "What are you doing miss?" I asked. Seeing her look at me with confusion. "How are you my height?" She asked. I simply smiled slightly. "Look at yourself miss. That will answer quite a lot of questions." I told her seeing her look at her front legs and gasp in both shock and fear.

"H-how?" She asked her breathing increasing in a blind panic. I slowly inched forward. "It's okay, you are safe." I reassured her, lying down to seem as passive as possible. "W-what happened to me?" She asked and I widened my eyes. "Miss, can I ask what you last remember?" I asked her seeing her close her eyes. "I was with a group of friends, we were heading to school, one of my friends said something about the boy that used to go to our school." I listened closely. Before being bolder with my next question. "Were you and your friends bipedal?" I asked her seeing her open her eyes and look at me with shock. "How did you know?" She asked. "I will tell you later, right now, we need to regroup with a few friends of mine. We can continue to talk there." I said, my eyes finally looking away from her to scan the surroundings before I stood back up.

A smile forming on her face as I stood up, "Has anyone ever said that you aren't all that bad looking?" She asked me making me look at her in mild shock. "No, I never really got along with the rest of the kind. Because I was found abandoned at the entrance of the city I was treated as an outcast. As such, no one looked at me twice, and those that did were treated like me. Therefore, in the end I stopped trying for friends. I guess it never really was meant to be." I told, my voice becoming cold at the end. "That's rough." She stated; I merely rolled my eyes. "Tell me about it. Not a very pleasant childhood." I stated with anger hidden in my voice. "Well, you aren't that bad. You helped someone you didn't know, you didn't have to." She stated making me smile slightly.

"Thanks, do you have a name?" I asked her seeing her smile. "Sapphire." She replied, my eyes turning to the sound of incoming footfalls. "Who's there?" I asked; stepping in front of sapphire with my wings slightly flared. "Leo there you are." The voice of inferno stated with relief as I saw her emerge from the bushes. "Leo? Why does that name sound familiar?" Sapphire whispered making me sigh. "I will explain later, we need to go, anywhere away from Warfang. You know that I can't return Inferno." I stated seeing Inferno nod her head sadly. "I know; you need to understand that you will be allowed to visit." She said making me sigh as I slowly shook my head.

"You can try Inferno, but it may be a while before that happens. But if it does, you know how to contact me." I stretch lightly, feeling the joints in my wings pop lightly as well as the joints in my back. "You look like a cat." Sapphire stated making Inferno and I chuckle. "While I do know that a cat is a feline, the only feline's here are the cheetahs. And they don't stretch like that." I stated seeing Sapphire stare at me shocked. "How is this even possible?" She asked making me look at her with a serious expression. "I don't know, but whatever happened had to have happened for a reason." I stated seeing Sapphire look at me with shock. "You remind me of someone, though I can't place where I knew someone with that ideology of 'everything happens for a reason'."

I chuckled and shook my head lightly. "Beings that think like that are rare; we tend to keep to ourselves normally." I stated seeing her chuckle as Inferno looked at me. "What will happen to her? She doesn't seem to know the first thing about being a dragon." Inferno stated making me look at Sapphire to see that she was right. Sapphire had her wings hanging limply down by her side and her tail motionless behind her. "I'll teach her the same way that I taught you. Though getting her used to the new muscles may be difficult." I stated seeing them both look at me. "What do you mean 'new muscles' Leo?" Inferno asked making me sigh. "It would take too long to explain."

My words made her look at me with confusion before she shook her head. "I'm not buying that excuse Leo. What are you hiding from me?" she asked making me sigh as I looked at her. "Don't worry about it, I was thinking out loud." I reassured seeing her sigh. "Just tell me when you feel like it." Inferno whispered concerned and I chuckled lightly. "I was just thinking out loud Inferno, don't worry." I reassured her again seeing her shake her head slightly before Sapphire spoke up. "What are you both on about?" She asked. I looked at her and smiled lightly. "Just about teaching you a few things, you look exhausted. Therefore, we will take you to someplace safe where you can rest."

My words made her look at me as she smiled and nodded. "Okay, can I get some help? I don't think I'll be able to walk my way over there." She explained and I nodded. Lifting her wing and placing it over me. "Just lean lightly on me, until you can get used to your new weight." I whisper to her as we began to hobble towards a nearby cave. "This style of walking feels unnatural." She stated making me sigh and shake my head lightly. "You'll get better at it eventually. Time offers chances to adapt, it is up to us to accept it or not." I responded hearing her chuckle. "That sounds so familiar." She says making me sigh as I shook my head. "Phrases like that are common amongst philosophical people, sort of second nature to us."

Sapphire chuckled lightly. "Leo the philosopher, a fitting title." She stated making me chuckle at her remark. "Better than what I am known amongst the others." I laughed quietly before walking inside the cave and setting her down near the back of the cave. "That should keep you safe until the morning. When you can get used to your new muscles I'll train you in close quarters." I said softly seeing her look at me with a small smile. "You definitely are taking more precautions than necessary." Sapphire stated with a light chuckle as I shook my head. "Outside the city, it's kill or be killed. So it's not unnecessary precautions, it's all more along the lines of playing it safe."

My words made Sapphire look at me, "You sound like you've expected everything. Are you the one that did this to me?" She asked, trying to stand up. I shook my head. "If I brought you here what reason would I have, I have nothing to gain from teaching you anything." I responded calmly while watching her stand shakily. "I can think of one reason, you want my body as payment for teaching me." She said with anger. "If I wanted your body, I wouldn't teach you how to defend yourself before that. Moreover, I do not do that. I have standards that I live by." I chuckled seeing her look at me suspiciously. "I guess you have a point but you haven't explained to me why we don't return to this city you and Inferno mentioned."

I sighed. "The city is where I grew up, a lot of things having happened to me in there because I have no family there. They will treat you worse than me because of our different genders. You will find that unlike me they do not really care about other beings emotions and opinions. They only care about themselves." I state with anger beginning to creep into my voice. "What's to say that you aren't manipulating me to believe you?" She asked making me laugh lightly. "I guess your concerns are valid, but until you can learn how to be a dragon you are easy prey for anything. Even a cheetah could kill you at this rate so for now you need to learn what you can do in this new form."

My words made her look at me with both shock and surprise. "So you state that I cannot defend myself?" She asked making me nod. "At least in this for you can't, you can try but whatever methods you may know they won't work with your new form." I state and smirk. Sapphire looked at me with a small amount of fear showing in her eyes. "What are you smirking about?" She asked making me chuckle lightly. "Alright, whoever you are you can come out, there is no point in hiding." I stated while turning around to face the entrance of the cave to see a green dragon hatchling walk inside, trembling lightly. I stared at it. "Parents dead little one?" I ask it warily seeing it collapse in the entrance.

"We have to help it." Sapphire stated, I shook my head. "A hatchling that walked from the city to here wouldn't have survived, it's a three day walk where you have to fight for most of it. I do not think that this is just a random hatchling. Something wants to keep an eye on either of us." I stated seeing Sapphire shake her head. "What if its parents lived out here and it got lost?" She asked and I shook my head slowly. "Then the parents know the risk of letting it out of their sight, I wouldn't be surprised if they already think that it's dead." I sigh and walk over to it slowly. Seeing it still shiver from the loss of body heat. "Why aren't you going to help it? If you lived like this surely you don't want it to happen to anyone else."

Sapphire's words made me sigh as I look at her. "You are right. However, if this young one grows up its whole life living under us, it will see us as it's parents which only makes it worse if we find it's real parents somewhere. Now what you need to understand is that you are new, you do not understand the rules of the wild here. But it's the best thing if we leave it alone." I state sadly, as I nudge it out of the entrance of the cave. Seeing it slowly open its emerald green eye open and look at me with hurt. "Little one you know the rules of the wild. What you thought when you began to walk in the open as young as you are is a mystery to me but I cannot help you. My apologies young one. However if you are determined to reach the city you can head that way and the city should be visible in the coming days if you start now."

My words seemed to upset the hatchling as it stayed where it was and refused to move. I chuckled at its stubbornness. "You're a stubborn little bastard." I stated seeing the hatchling give off a small smirk as Sapphire tried to push me to the side. "You really are heartless you know that?" She nearly screamed at me as I sighed. "I've got one hatchling to deal with already I don't need another. Moreover, if this hatchling did enter our care we would raise a warrior. To top it off it looks like it is not even old enough to hunt for itself so I would have to hunt for three rather than two, which is already on my nerves." I stated trying to remain calm as the corners of my vision turned a light red.

"It doesn't matter, that just means that it had more will power to find someone that would raise it. It is exhausted and we can both see that. Why don't you swallow that stubborn pride of yours and help someone who needs it?" Sapphire screamed causing me to shake my head lightly to rid my ears of the light ringing. "I can see that. If it had the determination to walk out of the city, through an area that even I do not travel and make it here, it has guts if nothing else. However, I still do not like the idea of raising it; you have your memories that are clouding your moral judgement here in a practical sense. I understand that females of all species have a motherly instinct. I have gotten on the bad side of a few occasions. However, it does not change the fact that while it may have guts it does not have much else going for it. It would grow up overconfident in its abilities which would only get it killed."

Again, I apologise for both the long wait and the character turn at the end of it. I also would like to know your opinion on this story, no matter how negative, positive or apathetic you people want it to be. Anyway, I should get started on the next chapter immediately as I am three days late on that already. I hope to have the next Champion update up in sync with this one.