AN: Sorry this took forever to get out, I'm just busy and tired. I really wanted to do this but never found the right time.
The sun had fully set when the group could see the distant lights from the city of Warfang. The white dragon had regained enough strength to fly by himself, though Spyro stayed near him just in case he faltered.
"Wow, looks big even from here." Spark commented when the city's lights came into view.
"That's just the lights too." Spyro said. "I didn't get to see much of it when I was there, but from what I did see it looked really amazing."
"Can't wait to see a city." Frost said getting a little excited. "Only buildings I've ever seen was my home village."
"You're in for a pleasant surprise then." Cynder told him.
After finishing the last stretch of fly to the great dragon city, the group landed right at the entrance to the front gate. There were 2 dragon guards wearing shiny, silver armor along with 2 moles near them wearing similar armor.
"Who's there?" One of the moles asked. His weapon ready.
"Visitors." Vexx said back, walking into the light. "Along with some VIPs."
"Who?" One of the dragons asked.
The rest of the group walked into the light, causing the guards to gasp upon seeing Spyro and Cynder. "Come with me now." One of the dragons said. He quickly flew into the city.
The group quickly followed, not wanting to lose the guard in the darkness. After a minute of quick flying they made it to the steps of a big building. "The Guardians are going to be ecstatic. We've been looking for you two forever."
"We were lost." Spyro said as they walked into the building. "We found a village of dragons that helped us."
"A village?" The guard asked. "That's also good news."
The guard suddenly then stopped at the top of the steps, 2 more dragons guards were walking over from the entrance of the temple. "They'll take you the rest of the way." The guard said.
"What's your name?" Spyro asked the guard, turning to look at him.
Said guard proceeded to take off his helmet, revealing his shiny yellow scales. "Maverick. Now hurry along." He said, giving a slight bow to Spyro and Cynder before taking to the sky and flying back to the gate.
"Glad to see you back safe and sound Master Spyro." One of the guards said upon seeing Maverick leave. "And you too Mistress Cynder."
"So formal." Spark commented quietly.
"They did save the world." Mark said quietly back to her.
"The Guardians are right this way." The same guard said, taking the lead into the temple. The other guard took up his position behind the group.
As much as Vexx and his siblings wanted to stop and stare at the immense size of some of these statues and banners that hung in the temple as they walked, they were unable to due to the guard behind them ushering them on. They were lead to a long hallway, at the end were a set of double doors. They could hearing raised voices on the other side.
"Are the Guardians arguing?" Spyro asked the guard up front.
"Yes, but not with each other. Emissaries from the other races are present. Everyone seems to be in a huge rush to claim land since Malefor's armies no longer exist to keep it from them." The guard replied with a sigh. "It's rather depressing. The war just ended and we're already at each other's throats…"
Both Spyro and Cynder seemed to sigh a bit at this. They just fought forever to get peace, now everyone was fighting again.
The guard in the back walked up to the front once they reached the door. Each of them then opened one of the two doors leading into the room. In the middle of the circular room was a fire, the smoke went up to a hole in the ceiling. There were various torches around the walls. All the talking stopped when everyone saw Spyro and Cynder in the door.
Vexx gasped when he saw who were inside the room. The Guardians were there, Terrador looking a little annoyed. A little bit near them was Chief Prowlus with 2 other cheetahs by his side. He was most surprised to see 3 gryphons there, one had golden armor and was standing there proudly, on each of his sides was a gryphon wearing plain silver armor. The last race there was a single wyvern, he didn't look like he spoke much.
"Sp-" Volteer was about to say before he was cut off by a sudden earthquake. Everyone In the room had braced themselves during the duration of the rather strong earthquake. After it ended.
"YOU'RE A GRYPHON!" Mark yelled out, looking at the very impressively looking gryphon.
Everyone visibly cringed from the loud yell that came from Mark. "Mark…" Frost said with a sigh.
"Way to introduce us…" Vexx said with a face paw.
Whatever the Guardians were going to say about Spyro and Cynder they didn't get the chance to before the Gryphon started to speak.
"Have you never seen one before?" The gryphon asked.
"None of us have." Spark said to him, she looked at him closely.
The Gryphon walked over to Mark, he was obviously fully grown and aged. "I've been looking for a messenger boy while I stay here. I don't suppose you'd be interested?"
Mark grinned and nodded.
"What? Mark, you don't even know him." Vexx said, though Vexx was curious about the gryphon himself.
"This is a good way to get to know… What's your name?" Mark asked the avian.
"General Tarkus." The gryphon responded. "I think the talks can cease for today, it's getting late." Tarkus flicked his tail and the two guards took up position beside him. "Care to join us?" He asked Mark.
Mark nodded enthusiastically, he joined the group as they walked out.
"Whelp." Vexx said with a sigh. "Mark left."
Cyril gave a weary sigh. "I wish the gryphons actually sent a diplomat, not some soldier."
The wyvern got up and left the room, he gave Spyro and Cynder a glance as he passed.
"General Tarkus is making this much more difficult than it needs to be." Chief Prowlus sighed, he rubbed his forehead. "I guess we'll try against tomorrow." He and his 2 soldiers left.
"I'm relieved to see you ok." Terrador said to Spyro, "you caught us at a bad time."
"I can see that." Spyro said. "Anything I can do to help?"
"Relax, you've done your part. Let us do ours." Cyril said. "Lets all get some sleep."
The Guardians then proceeded to lead the young dragons to a large room, sorta like the one they were just in but it had beds in it. "You can sleep here till we get better sleep accommodations for you." Volteer said to them. "Good night." The Guardians left the room, closing the doors behind them.
"Well, I would've thought they would be more excited to see you two." Frost said to Spyro and Cynder.
"They seemed very stressed, they're probably be happy in the morning." Cynder said, she picked a cushion and lied down.
Spyro sighed and lied down on a cushion next to Cynder. "They didn't even ask about Ignitus…"
"Who?" Spark asked Spyro, not hearing that name before.
"He was the fire guardian, he sacrificed himself for us." Cynder explained, she sounded a bit sad.
Spark nodded in understanding. She looked over at the light dragon. "You can pick a cushion you know." Everyone else had lied down by now.
The dragon looked around and sighed. He lied down on the closest one.
Frost watched him with a slight hum. He picked a cushion on the other side of Cynder.
"What was Mark thinking?" Vexx asked, rolling on his side.
"We can ask him tomorrow." Frost said before shooting a spray of ice at the fire in the middle of the room, putting it out. "Good night."
AN: Super rushed… Gah…