The Legend Of Spyro: Love And War Book 2

by Spyro and Cynder lover

Continuation Of Book One! With Malefor returned to normal, Spyro and Cynder in love, and everyone now back to their normal lives, another threat; Flint, the new Dark Master, will put everyone and friendships to the test, mixing lies and threats against one another. Death is around every corner, lives at risk, and sometimes, not even being dead means you're forgotten.

2. Chapter 2: Girls Day Out

Chapter 2: Girls Day Out

"I have control over your body, Claire. No matter what you do, I will still be able to kill Ignitus! The cycle continues, and I will kill your lover! Just like before how those dark forces did, and now it's my turn to do so, and you need to accept that fact!" Flint growled in her head, "I'm going to enjoy watching the other Guardians cry over his death, especially Spyro, and that... No! What happened!" Opening his eyes, his teeth clenched and as he slammed his fist on the ground, he growled in his thoughts, What happened?! Why can't I control her anymore? I was so close to killing the Guardians, I was so close! Thinking about what could've happened, he came to a realisation, What if she was captured?! What if she spills the information on what we are doing?! Damn it, I shouldn't have trusted that Bitch! Tuning his head from a rock wall, he walked out of a door way with no door. Looking around the cave, he saw all the dark forces, apes, and dragons working and shaping the inside of the cave. Who would be the best to take her out? He thought to himself, seeing both a red and a green Dragon. Snapping his fingers it echoed throughout the whole cave, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and look at him. As the two dragons he wanted looked at him, he pointed at them, and commanded, "Both of you, in my Chambers, Now! The rest of you, get back to work!"

The two dragons shivered, hoping that they didn't do anything wrong in making him upset. Stopping what they were doing, the two ran over to his Chamber, as they knew walking would make him wait, and they knew he didn't like being kept waiting. Walking in the Chamber doors, the two dragons looked at Flint as he sat down on a royal looking bed that was made from earth. The two dragons had never been in his Chamber, but looking around, there wasn't much but his bed. Snapping his fingers once again, the two dragons quickly snapped their head back over to look at him. They both sat down, puffing their chest out as they both asked, "What do you need sir?!"

"Enough with the sir. Listen, there is someone at Warfang I need you to take care of. A simple task, for strong dragons; sounds easy. I sent an assassin to take care of the Guardians, but it seems she is sucking up to the red Guardian: Ignitus. Your job is to find this blue dragoness named Claire. If you say her name is Winter, she will know I sent you. Or be brutal about it, I would love to watch. Just make sure you kill her before she has a chance to release any information about our whereabouts," Flint explained the mission, hoping that this plan wouldn't go as terrible as the one before.

Both the dragons nodded and almost said yes sir again, but they quickly shut their mouths. Flint smiled to see that the two didn't have any questions, "It's good to see you two have a strong sense of what to do. Play your cards right, and I will make sure that you get to dig your claws into Malefor's dying body."

The two dragons smiled, knowing that they didn't want to miss such an opportunity to get their revenge against him. Feeling as if that motivation got them more excited, he knew he could use that to his advantage, "Now, tomorrow morning, I want the two of you up bright and early to finish the job. You better be awake before I am. Go get some rest before you have to kill her, because so help me, if the two of you fail...! I will make sure you won't ever fail again."

The two dragons swallowed hard from his words. They turned away from him and took the opportunity to get as much sleep as they could. Walking out of his Chamber, Flint's body tensed as he felt him taking control over Claire's body once again. Come on, Claire! You want what's best, let me kill those damn Guardians so everything will turn out better! Trying to take control, he was once again blocked out. The anger he felt made him slam his fist into his rocky bed, cracking it a little from the bottom. He sighed, and told himself, "They will do it. They will succeed. If not, I have another plans. So many plans, so few amount of time. I just need to think what plan and which plan is the best. I will save him for when I really feel like destroying things."

Laying down on his bed, he laid his head down on his paws that laid in front of him. What to do next. I know I need to kill the Guardians, but how? Killing them could result in a break down from one of them, I know it. But how will I be able to kill them? I might have to do it myself, but, I believe I will find someone strong enough, hopefully smart enough, to kill the Guardians, Flint thought, as his eyes had widened from information that he received from looking through his thoughts, What the hell?! How... where did these memories come from?! His chuckles soon turn to an evil laugh as he started to gain more and more of the memories that Malefor once had when he was the dark master. Oh, this is fantastic. This Dark power can store memories from previous dark master! This should give me information on why I can't control Claire anymore! This should give me so much more information! Digging deeper into his thoughts, he learned more and more that was once learned by the old dark master.

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Rising over the horizon, the sun shined down on the citizens of Warfang once again. The sun slowly crept up in the sky more and more, brightening the once dark sky. The sunlight made its way into a window, shining right into the eyes of Spyro. Feeling the burning sensation of the sun's rays, he grumbled as he thought, I seriously need to stop sleeping in this spot. Pulling up his head, he stretched out his body, wondering if he should just go back to sleep, Should I just go back to bed? Probably not, I have Malefor to deal with. Need to make sure he stays in line. Which probably will never happen. Seeing the sun now beat down on Cynder's eyes, she grumbled slightly, quickly grabbing Spyro's attention. Pulling his wing up, he blocked the sun from her eyes. The sun had already woken her up, but she was happy to see Spyro was there with her.

"Good morning Spyro," Cynder whispered with a smile, opening one eye that looked at him.

He looked at her and smiled. Pulling his head down, he nuzzled her cheek, and whispered, "Good morning Cynder. I hope you slept well?"

"I woke up better then I slept. Last time the sun was in my eyes, you weren't there to help me," Cynder teased, seeing Spyro pull his head away and seeing the sadness on his face, "But being here now will make up for it, Well, there is still one thing left for you to do to make up for it completely."

Spyro raised a brow, wondering what that something could be. Pulling her head up, she moved her face right in front of his with a smile as she whispered with the warm feeling of her breath on his lips, "I want a good morning kiss from you. I didn't get to have that either yesterday, so you're going to make up for a lot of what I missed."

He smiled with a chuckle, pushing his lips onto Cynder's, he quickly tried to figure out what he did wrong so he could make up for it. Pulling away from the soft kiss, she opened her mouth to say what else he missed, but Spyro quickly interjected, "I yelled how the two were going to have Hatchlings which was inappropriate of me in a attempt to embarrass Malefor."

Cynder raised a brow, wondering what else he could come up with, "And?"

"And I should've stayed and comforted you after I knew you were afraid that I had killed Malefor. And if I would've stayed, we would've had more time to kiss, and we also would've been able to defuse the situation faster."

"And?"

Spyro chuckled at her, wondering what else he could be missing, "I didn't kiss you every minute because I spent to much time looking after Malefor even though I should've just spent that time tackling you to the ground and giving you the best kiss you've ever felt at almost every minute."

Cynder giggled with a smile and a blush. Pulling her claw up and placing the tip of her claw underneath Spyro's chin, she whispered with some hope in her voice, "The day isn't over for you to do something like that. If you want to kiss me, I don't care when, you better kiss me more then you did yesterday. Understood?"

"Understood... my love," Spyro purred with a smile, seeing the smile on her face as well as she pulled her claw back down onto the bed.

"Very good. Now, what do you say we go and see what the Guardians are up to. I'm really interested in seeing if that dragoness, I believe her name was Winter, is still with Ignitus. It seemed like she was just here to be here, but if you look at it right, you know she has something for him," Cynder suggested, wondering what could've happened during the night.

"Please tell me we don't have to invite Malefor. If he keeps going on about that third base stuff again, I really will have to kill him," Spyro grumbled with a smile, remembering just how embarrassing it was for him and everyone else to hear.

"I don't think that will be necessary. Malefor will always have the same weakness as you; Disappointing their lover. All I have to do is tell Carith that if he says something like that again, something bad will happen, and I know Carith would never let that happen."

"Sounds pretty evil."

"Evil indeed. And it's funny to see Malefor so eager to say something, but he knows if he tries, he's going to get yelled out for it... or, you know, have to sleep on the floor. Which for Carith, that was pretty cold. Ice dragoness or not, that was still colder then her ice."

"Would I ever have to sleep on the floor?"

"That depends, what did you do?"

"I... I... um, I guess I didn't kiss you more then I did yesterday, and instead I kissed you even less then I did yesterday. What kind of punishment would I have to go through?"

Cynder pulled her tail blade up to Spyro's neck, and placed the tip of her tail blade onto his chin. Looking at him, she warned with a smile, "You'll under go the worst punishment of them all. I will constantly be disappointed at you for the entire day, and every single day, I will remind you of how disappointed you made me."

"No," Spyro cried.

Pulling her tail blade back to her body, she kissed him slightly on the cheek. Pulling away, she looked at him and joked, "So don't be to late in giving me that kiss, or else I will be to early in getting disappointed. But don't worry, you've got time. Now move your purple butt and lets see what Ignitus and Winter are doing."

Standing up, and walking off the bed, she looked back at Spyro and asked, "What's the matter? Did I put that much fear into you?"

Spyro chuckled as he stood up and walked off the bed. Standing next to his lover, and draping a wing over her, he admitted, "Just a little. After all, disappointing you is as big of a fear as losing you; Neither of which I want to happen."

Cynder giggled at him, and snuggling up to him, she whispered, "Well, neither you will ever have to worry about. You don't have to kiss me, I'm only teasing. But I better at least get more then yesterday's, Okay?"

"Deal," Spyro chuckled with a smile.

Walking up to the door, Spyro reached up his paw, grabbed the door knob, and twisted it. Pushing open the door, he walked out of their room with his lover. Shutting the door behind himself with his tail, he walked just halfway through the hallway before being stopped by a voice, "Ah ha!"

Looking to his side, he saw Sparks was awake.

"I slept most of yesterday, but now, I'm back, and better then ever! So tell me my dude, what shall we do today on our day off? We could always play the game from before. You know, see who can crush who's tail first. I love that game, because I always won," Sparks frantically asked, hoping that they would finally be able to do something together.

"Crush one another's tail? Ow, and how? Sparks doesn't really even have a tail, so wouldn't he always win?" Cynder asked, watching Sparks fly up and land on Spyro's head.

"Precisely, and that is what makes the game so much fun," Sparks said.

Putting her paw on her forehead and sighing, she pulled her paw back to the ground, and looked at her lover with a raised brow, wondering what he could've possible be thinking. He chuckled knowing what she was thinking, and he tried to explain himself, "We were bored, and when Sparks came up with the idea, we were like six years old. He crushed my tail, and our home, so either way, it was a lose-win situation."

"Oh yeah, I did crush our home. Good thing our parents weren't there at the time."

"And do you remember what happened when they came back?"

"Yeah, they made sure my tail was the one being crushed as they made me rebuild the entire place. And all they did was lay with you, yelling at me for what I had done wrong. I know what I did, by six years old, what was that about? At six, you were bigger then me, why couldn't you do it?"

"Because I wasn't the idiot who crushed our home with boulders. And why are you whining? The only job you really had to do was pick up small wood pieces that I cut off from trees with my claw. What was so bad about that?"

"Small pieces?! Those wood pieces had more pieces of wood sticking out of it then any tree should have! I had splinter all over my arms, and my chest. And since you didn't have your powers, I had to lay in that hot water, hoping they would fall out at some point. Then all you did was get your claws, and you took them out. Which was a pain in the every loving dragon fly!"

"You do know that our parents cried thinking they were terrible when they saw you like that, right? They felt terrible for making you do that work."

"Yeah, Well, at least I now know that if I have a splinter, I can just come to you. Still stung when you pulled those things out though. And those things were huge compared to my small little body!"

"Small as a child, and small as an adult."

"Not this again."

Hearing another door open as well as a voice, the three looked over at the door in front of them to see Malefor and Carith waking out of the room with his wing draped over her. Shutting their door behind themselves, they looked over to see the other three were already awake. Malefor smiled at him and asked, "No tail blade to the neck this time?"

"Day isn't over," Spyro joked, feeling as if today was going to be a lot more then he thought it would be.

"So, why did you two wake up? Are you both after the same thing we are after?" Cynder asked.

"If you mean by seeing what Ignitus and Winter are up to after last night, you would be completely correct," Carith responded, seeing Cynder raise a brow with a smile, knowing she got it right, "I mean, it's Ignitus. Seeing him try and get a girl is like a once in a life opportunity... Literally. So, what do you think they are doing?"

"Cough, Each other, Cough!" Malefor coughed, trying to hide his words, but everyone still heard, blushing hard at what he said, but he tried to cover it up, "Man, I am coughing something furious... Why are you blushing my love? Is my coughing embarrassing to you."

"You know what you said," Spyro said.

"What are you talking about? Cynder, are you going to let me take this kind of harassment once again in the morning?" Malefor asked, seeing her raise a brow with a grumpy looking face, she also raised her paw, "Okay, yeah, I'm just going to take what he said. But come on, those two were all over one another."

"So were you and Carith."

"It's called cuddling."

"So what do you call what Ignitus and Winter were up to?"

"Hahaha, third base," Malefor laughed, looking at his lover to see her trying not to smile while she shuck her head, "I'm sorry, I had to. But if I think about it for real, they are probably still laying with one another. Do you know what that means?! Ignitus is with Winter, Winter is with Ignitus, both of them are cuddling, cuddling means affection, affection leads to love, love leads to marriage, marriage leads to Hatchlings! Proven and dated!"

"You just had to fined the worlds greatest discovery, and I just can't even fight with you on logic. What I was trying to get you to understand, which failed miserably, was the fact that they could still be asleep with one another. Maybe, if we catch them, we can pick on him all day. Especially if he had a smile on his face at the time," Spyro suggested, Shaking his head that something so simple turned into the world's greatest discovery.

"That makes sense as well, but my idea was still better."

Tuning his head towards the door, Spyro looked back at the other two, and asked, "Are we standing here because we want to, or because the thought of seeing Ignitus on a bed with someone else is so mind boggling to all of us?"

"The second one," The three responded in unison, slightly different then the others words.

Turning and walking with Cynder, he said, "Well I'm not going to miss out on this, so we need to hurry it up. If we have woken up, the Guardians and maybe even Winter is bound to wake up. Ignitus might not be asleep, but knowing the gentleman he is, he won't move until she wakes up."

After finishing his sentence, he gave the door enough time to open before walking out of the house with his lover, along with Malefor and Carith following behind. As they walked down the stairs, Carith looked to see Malefor wasn't smiling as much as she thought he would be about this situation. Slowing down her pace, Malefor slowed down with her, and looking at her, he asked, "Are you okay?"

"Just need to be out of the hearing distance from those two so you can say what you want," Carith explained with a smile, "Now tell me, what's wrong? You don't seem nearly as happy as before. And by before, I mean years ago. I thought going to see Ignitus cuddled with a girl that we think he likes would be a perfect time for you to smile... Okay, not like that, but you know what I mean."

Malefor chuckled seeing Carith's small blush from her words, "It's just, going back to this makes me afraid. The last time Ignitus tried to get a girlfriend, it didn't work out as I was hoping. One thing lead to another... and I'm afraid that history will like to repeat itself again during our situation."

"Do you trust Spyro?"

"Yes... A bit, but why do you ask?"

"Do you trust me, and Cynder?"

"Not sure where you are going, but of course I trust you two."

"Then quit trying to make such a memorable situation so less memorable. If something ever happened, you know Spyro would be on protecting everyone. Then he has you, the Guardians, and you even have us: Cynder and me. I know you two would never let me or her fight, but we are still there to help."

"What if a thousand apes attacked Warfang? Or even at some point where Spyro is separated from Cynder?"

"Have you seen those two? Getting one another away from each other is like trying to split the earth in half with your claw."

"Weird way to put it but I'm listening."

"Just breath. Trust in Spyro, and trust in yourself that everything will be okay. I mean, After all, Ignitus still hasn't given us that one warning he promised us, which means we are still in the clear. Ignitus isn't like the old Chronicler, we both know he won't go back on his word."

Malefor raised a brow, wondering why Carith was helping him so much, "Why are you trying to help me? I know you would always help me through a difficult time, but I know you well, and for some reason, I have this feeling that you want something. Tell me the truth, what do you want?"

"What, I, how could you..." Carith mumbled, blushing, as she didn't know Malefor would catch on so easily.

Raising a brow once again, she blushed, and seeing his smile, she admitted, "Alright, Alright, I will tell you the truth... Seeing you so excited from before, and getting, getting that kiss from you, that, that kiss was worth every single second of that day. And I was hoping, by getting you excited for the day once again, it might happen, once again."

"Guys!" A voice yelled.

The two turned around to see Spyro sticking his head out of the Guardians Chambers.

"You passed it," He said.

The two chuckled as they turned back around. Nuzzling his head softly on Carith, he stopped, and putting his cheek next to hers he whispered, "If the day goes good, and you were right about everything, I will make sure your lips will be satisfied for the rest of the night, even in your sleep."

"Sounds good to me," Carith purred with a shiver.

"You better believe it's going to be good," Malefor purred back, pulling up his head to see that they were in the Guardians Chambers, but as he realised that, he saw the two standing next to one another, looking at him with blushes.

"What?" He asked.

Shaking his head, Spyro sighed hugely, knowing he would have to go through this again, but he tried to get him to understand, "You came into this room, with a smile, and without knowing the full conversation, all we heard was how it's going to feel good. Leaving it at that, and here's to hoping that Ignitus can erase memories."

Malefor and Carith both blushed with wide eyes, not looking at one another as they knew what they were thinking. Grabbing his courage, Malefor opened his mouth to defend himself, but Spyro quickly stopped him, because he knew he would make it worse, "Shut your face. I just wanted to embarrass you two sooner then later. Plus Cynder told me to do it."

Cynder gasped, putting her paw on her chest, looking at Spyro in disbelief. He chuckled seeing her reaction, and whispered, "You know you were thinking about just like how I was. Plus, agree with me, and I could give you another kiss."

Putting her paw back to the ground, she sighed with a smile, and looking at him, she agreed, "Okay... But if you're lying to me."

Putting her lips in front of Spyro's, she teased, "I'm going to make sure you kiss me enough times to make up for that kiss... which you better not be lying about."

Pulling her head back, Spyro quickly thought to himself, I need to talk to Ignitus! He should know everything on how to kiss a girl even better! Chuckling at her words, Spyro turned with her towards the back door, and said, "Well, I'm hoping I'm not lying when it comes to those two sleeping."

"Don't you find it weird that our journey today is to hopefully see Ignitus laying in bed with a girl?" Malefor asked, earning grunts and grumbles from everyone, but they could help but keep a smile, knowing it was him.

Looking to see Carith's face, he knew what her face was saying while she raised her brow, and tapped her lips with her claw. He chuckled with a smile, and apologized, "Okay, I'm sorry, I won't do it again. Just please don't take away our kissing time."

Pulling her claw down from her lips, she decided to let this one pass, "One more chance is all you get."

Malefor sighed, looking to see the two were walking up to the door in the back. Carith and Malefor looked at one another, wondering if Ignitus was still sleeping with that girl from the before. Looking back at the door, the two walked behind the other two. Watching as Spyro raised his paw up to the door, their hearts were beating so fast, they could feel as if their hearts were in their ears. They started to sweat as Spyro grabbed the door knob. As he twisted it, they held their breaths. Opening the door, they all let out a huge sigh to see, they were still in bed together. Ignitus laid there with a smile, Winter too.

"We're so going to have to pick on Ignitus about this," Spyro whispered to his lover, earning a smile and a nod.

Malefor chuckled as he was about to say something, but a tail blade launched up in front of his face. He dripped a tear of sweat as he looked and saw the tail was green, and as he looked to see who the tail belonged to, he found out it was Terrador's, but his voice gave it away anyway, "Don't you dare ruin this."

Pulling his tail blade down, Malefor saw that Cyril and Volteer were sitting next to one another while Volteer sat to Terrador's side. Malefor chuckled as he asked, "Why is everyone such a creep? The dude is with some girl he met on the streets. I know other dragons who have done that in an hour."

"Maybe of you stopped joking, you understand what this really meant," Terrador grumbled, see as if Malefor already started to understand, even though he didn't say anything, "Ignitus is with someone, and seeing this, it gives us hope that maybe Ignitus was successful in finding someone he cares about, maybe even loves. After all, look at them: They are both smiling as they are cuddling with one another."

Malefor nodded as he finally understand what the fuss was really about. A snore escaped Ignitus as they watched him move his head down off of Winter's. They all tried to stay perfectly still, trying not to get spotted by him, as they knew they couldn't even leave the room now. Opening his eyes and looking down at Winter, he moved his head down and nuzzled his head on the side of hers. Pulling his head away, she opened one eye and looked at him.

"Good morning," Ignitus whispered with a light smile.

She giggled softly at his words, and pulling her head up and opening her other eye, she whispered back, "Good morning... To be honest, the good morning isn't wrong. So far, this has been a pretty good morning, and the day has just started off."

"Well, I try everything in my power to make sure that you feel welcomed in Warfang. So, tell me, did you sleep with any trouble? Did you have any nightmares?"

"Aside from what happened last night, after you comforted me, I slept amazing. I haven't slept that good in a long time. And what was crazy was the fact that I knew I was sleeping so close to where Malefor was, and yet, I felt safe. After the talk last night, I feel better, knowing the full story. I just wish he didn't have to kill my lover."

"I'm glad that you are starting to trust him a little more, and I still feel terrible about what has happened to your lover, but I assure you; None of that will ever happen again. With Carith around, the most damage Malefor can do is with his words. Anything other then that and Spyro would be stabbing his tail faster into Malefor then a lightning bolt striking the ground."

"Why do you think he doesn't trust him? I know his family was killed by him, but do you think Spyro still has hate towards him? I'm only asking because I wonder what I should feel about Malefor. Should I trust him or should I not. So far, I've just gone off of what you and everyone else has said. But what do you think Spyro's relationship with Malefor is, seems how he called Malefor his punching bag."

"I don't think Spyro really has that much hate towards him. He is scared, that's all. He doesn't want to lose anyone else to any one, and as much as he tries to tell himself to trust Malefor, he keeps coming back to what has happened to Cynder. But at least he hasn't killed him, and because of that, he has someone to beat up rather then us, because screw trying to one arm fight Spyro."

"You don't have faith you'll beat him?"

"Spyro could beat Terrador in an arm wrestle. And to be honest, he might even be able to beat me, and the other three in an arm wrestle all at the same time if he really wanted to. He would probably do that to impress his lover, which I mean, beating the Guardians in an arm wrestle all in one go is pretty impressive."

"Are you calling yourself weak?"

"What? No. Let's just say that I have my own secret power with in me that I could use. Then I could easily beat Spyro no matter how powerful he becomes. But of course, I wouldn't be able to use that power because Cynder would hate me if Spyro went through even more training just so he could pass me in power, which is possible."

"So technically, you are the strongest out of everyone here."

"Let's just say yes. I definitely don't want to bore you with the details."

Putting her paw on Ignitus's, she whispered with a smile, "I have all the time in the world."

He smiled back at her with a warm smile. Both of them, looking at one another with a warm feeling in their hearts for one another. His eyes adjusted as he looked behind Winter to see that both Volteer and Cyril had disappeared from their beds. If they are gone, then that must mean Terrador is as well... But where could they... I hate every last one of them! I'm going to kill every last one of them! Freezing time, Ignitus looked over at the seven and growled, "What are you all doing in here?!"

"I live here," Volteer defended.

"I do too," Terrador agreed.

"We were watching you act like you don't like Winter, and to be honest, it's quite sad," Spyro said.

"Did you hear everything we said? Everything we talked about?"

"Yep," Volteer said, keeping it nice and simple.

Ignitus shuck his head, looking back at Winter, wondering if he should let her in on the conversation.

"What's the big deal? You were talking to her, she doesn't know we are here, and you froze time. Freezing time means we have enough, time, to get out of here before she noticed we were in here," Malefor explained, chuckling at his time joke, "So why the grumpiness grumpy dragon."

"I'm not grumpy, I'm just going through something, and it's hard to try and figure out what happened. But since time is frozen, I need to ask you a quick question Cyril, because it has bugged me ever since it happened," Taking a deep breath in, and then out, Ignitus calmed himself, and asked, "Did you wake up at any point last night? Tell me the truth. Even if you don't, I can still look back, but I need to hear it from you. Were you awake last night?"

"No," Cyril answered honestly, "As soon as I was out, I was out. And I had the perfect dream too. I don't remember it, but I know it was a good dream."

"Why the question?" Terrador asked.

"No reason. Well, of course there is a reason behind it, but nothing to be worried about. I'm sorry if I growled at you all. It's just... I honestly thought... I thought... Spyro, Malefor, take your lover's out the room. I want you two to leave as well. Me and the Guardians need to have a little chat. Well, actually... Malefor. You and your lover need to stay. Spyro, take Cynder where ever," Ignitus explained, completely confusing everyone with the way he was acting, but they decided to obey his words.

Walking out of the room, Spyro opened the door, and as he walked out with his lover, he shut it with his tail blade. Looking at Cynder, he asked, "Do you know what that was about?"

"Maybe it was destiny? Maybe destiny knows you haven't kissed me in a while, so it's giving us this time to kiss all we want without having to worry about a single thing?" Cynder hinted, pecking the side of Spyro's cheek with a smile before pulling away and still looking at him with her smile.

He chuckled, and agreed, "Well then, I guess I will be able to make up for what I couldn't yesterday. What do you say we grab a room?"

"But where? How do we know who does or doesn't own the room? Now that I ask, how do they keep track of the rooms that dragons stay in?" Cynder asked, drifting off into even more questions.

Turning around, they heard the door open behind them. Malefor poked out his head, and said as if he were confused, "Ignitus told me to tell you that the four rooms in front are vacated for the Guardians just in case you need to use them. Two doors to the left and two doors to the right. And he said something about moles keeping track of the rooms dragons stay in. I'm guessing you asked, and he told?"

"He better not do that..."

"He said he won't read your mind while you two are kissing," Malefor interrupted, remembering how he felt when he wanted to kiss Carith the day he got back.

"Why do you think Ignitus is acting this way? He seems to want us gone so badly. He's even answering our questions before we even get to ask them," Spyro wondered, as his wonder made him think of what was really going on.

"I wouldn't think about it to much. After all, the more they talk, the longer we can kiss," Cynder said, seeing Spyro's confusion slowly disappear as he smiled, but she knew he was just as curious as he was.

Malefor watched as the two turned back around, and walked up to the door in the very front of the Guardians Chambers. Watching them open the door, he saw them walk in. Seeing them walk into the room, he saw something yellow and glowing heading towards him. Sparks flew past Malefor's face, and grumbled on his way past him, "No way am I staying in there."

Spyro shut the door with his tail, and so did Malefor, as he looked back at everyone, wondering what was happening, as he was more confused then ever.

"Before I say anything important, what is said in this room stays in this room. Some of the things I say Spyro and Cynder can never hear about. Understood?" Ignitus said, earning a nod from everyone, "Okay, let me get this out of the way first. Malefor, Carith, I don't want you to fear, but there are still dark creatures, which means there is a dark master."

"What?!" The two cried.

"It isn't you, so do not fear. Do not tell Spyro this as he will suspect you, Malefor. I already told the Guardians that your friendship is a pretty thin line, and if word that you were a dark master got out, Spyro might come very close to killing you."

"But... But why tell us this? You know the fears I have of becoming the dark master, and now that I know there is another dark master, how, how will I know if he won't try to, resurrect the dark master inside of me?!" Malefor cried, shivering in fear that a dark master could make him the dark master once again with his or her power.

"I don't want you to fear, Malefor. You've been stripped of your dark power almost down to the bone. No one really knows of Spyro's dark power, so this new dark master won't try to do anything to him. Unless Spyro goes into his dark mode, then will we be more at a risk. Activating and using your dark power from before might be a good idea. Spyro has some good control over his dark power, but you have none. You should train with Spyro to use that power, so if anyone ever tried to control that dark power, you should be fine."

"Ignitus, I, I, I can't go back to using my dark powers. What if the whole point of this was for me to use my dark powers just to end up being controlled? What if I turn once again? Then Spyro will have no choice but to kill me, and then I will lose Carith, and my life!"

"That's why you need to talk to Spyro. Losing control when he isn't around is one thing. But when he is there, training you, helping you, and if you lose control then, Spyro is right there to help you, instead of killing you. I will put in my word so he will understand where you are coming from with this. Maybe this will be a good thing."

"But, what does this have to do with your anger, your confusion? Is it because your confused on what to do with me, and that is makes you angry? Or is it because you are anger for what I have to do, and it makes you confused?"

"No, no, no, none of that. I was angry, because I was confused. Confused and... sad."

"What?" They asked in unison.

"Cyril, the reason I asked you that question is because I woke up last night with ice over my mouth. I almost died from lack of oxygen. When I asked you, and you said no, I thought it could be Malefor, or Spyro, but then I knew they would never wake up in the middle of the night and leave their lovers, just to pull a prank on me. But then I realized, there was only one other dragon... dragoness, who has that ice power... Winter," Ignitus murmured as his sentence moved on.

Looking at Winter, he didn't want to believe it could be her. Seeing her smile, looking at her paw on his, it stabbed at his heart thinking it could be her.

"Winter? Ignitus, if it really was her, you do realize what we would have to do in order to keep you safe, right?" Cyril asked, seeing Ignitus's body clench.

"I know," He growled.

"You've only know her for a day, maybe even half a day, Ignitus. This is the hard part about a relationship: Finding out that the one you cared about isn't the one for you. If Winter is really trying to kill you, that must me she was trying to kill us as well. You'll find another dragoness later. But right now, maybe, maybe we should just tell her the bad news."

"But what about her past? How would she feel if she lost it all again? That's not what we do. How are we supposed to help if we don't even understand what really happened. For all we know, it could've just been someone else that iced over my mouth. All because she was awake and joked it was you, doesn't mean it was her."

"Ignitus, that story could've been a lie just to get with you."

"The way she acted wasn't a lie. When those dark creatures started appearing all around us, she held onto me, begging for us to leave. Her story isn't a lie... I'm angry, because I don't know if what happened was true, and even if I saw the truth, which I could, I know it would anger me more. And seeing it would confuse me just as much as not hearing the truth... I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do."

Seeing everyone so bummed out about everything that was going on, an idea sparked in Carith's head, "Wait a minute! I have a fantastic idea!"

Everyone looked at Carith as she continued, "Since you all don't know what to do, I can give you time to think by taking Winter off your paws! Me, Cynder, and Winter, can have a girls day out! While we walk around and talk, you all can do the same. Of course we won't talk about boring stuff like this, but stuff that girls talk about. Which I'm sure none of us know, but it would be a fantastic idea!"

"How are you going to get Spyro to agree with that? He would never let his lover walk around Warfang with you two. Not that he doesn't trust you, he just doesn't trust anyone around Warfang. Especially after the whole incident with that one red dragon," Ignitus asked, wondering if that would give him enough time to think about what to do.

"I will find a way. Us dragoness aren't as weak as you make us out to be. And since there is three of us, we should do just fine. And I might be a little rusty on my fighting, but I've learned from my lover, so I should be fine. And Cynder was a born fighter with her tail blade. Plus, if we tell that Cynder is with Spyro for dragons they don't know, I'm sure they will back off. After all, if anyone touched a claw on her or me, we have are purple protectors that we can run to, which will be fun to watch when they get themselves throw through a building."

The Guardians looked at one another, wondering if this would be the best course of action to help with the situation. Terrador shuck his head and declined the idea, "I don't think it's a good idea."

"What?" Everyone asked in unison.

"I'm sorry, Ignitus, but if this is how Winter makes you feel at points, maybe being in love isn't the greatest idea. And if Carith and the other two have a day out, they will only grow more of a friendship with Winter. Maybe having her around isn't the best idea. Seeing you grumble in the morning, I don't think it would be good to keep her around."

Ignitus sighed, knowing that Terrador was probably right about what he said. But then he went back to his conversation from before, "But then I go back to the part where her lover died. And thinking about how we would have to banish her after everything she has already gone through... It just doesn't feel right to me."

"Stop trying to think about it so hard. Do what you usually do, and think about what to do."

Ignitus went through his thoughts, wondering what would be the best action he could take to make everyone happy, and every time he thought about it, he thought about what Spyro would do. Looking back at the Guardians and the other two, Ignitus commanded them, "Don't tell Spyro anything about the dark master, or what we talked about. I will talk to him. Now I need you all to close your eyes."

They wondered what he was talking about, but they did as they were instructed. Ignitus watched as they all closed their eyes. Looking away from them, he pulled up his paw that wasn't underneath Winter's, and snapped his fingers towards a bed.

"Open your eyes," Ignitus said.

Opening their eyes, they looked over towards Volteer bed to see Spyro on top of Cynder, and the two were locked in a kiss. Opening his eyes, Spyro saw he was in the Guardians Sleeping Chambers.

"Not my bed," Volteer cried, knowing he would have to get a new one.

Cynder opened her eyes, and looking over at Ignitus, she growled, "You better have a good reason for this."

Getting off Cynder, Spyro jumped off the bed, and waited for his lover. Cynder rolled onto her belly before standing up and jumping off the bed. Standing next to his lover, he draped his wing over her, and listed to Ignitus words, "Spyro, I need to know what you would do in this situation. Something happened, and I believe Winter did it, and Carith thinks it would best if your lover, her, and Winter all had a girls day out to help me think about what to do, as well as get information on her. But I don't want your lover and Malefor's to gain a friendship as well, as I... I also have feelings for Winter... And I'd admit that. But if I found out this something was true, I would have to banish her... even after her past... even after she already lost everything... I don't know what to do."

Spyro sighed, and asked, "Why didn't you ask Volteer?"

"Because I'm smart in a lot of things. Relationship stuff, not so much," Volteer admitted.

"Wait, weren't you the one who was talking about how he could get a girl before any of us because he knew how to kiss a girl better with your powers?" Malefor looked at him as he asked, seeing him chuckle with a smile, remembering that situation, and conversation, "Yeah, that's what I thought."

Kiss a girl better with your powers? I need to ask Volteer what he means, Spyro thought, holding it in his mind when he had the time so he could ask Volteer later. Getting back on track, Spyro decided what was best, "Well then it can't be helped. If she did something you didn't like, then banish her, then you won't have to worry about a thing, especially now that she is gone."

"But Spyro, I don't want to abandon her. She seems so nice, and I don't want to believe it was her, and..."

"Then don't banish her," Spyro interrupted Ignitus, "You said you had feelings for her. You said you shouldn't get attached. But from how I see it, you want Winter to stay, and what ever she did you don't want to believe, so then don't. Instead of going through the day bummed out and grumpy, you need to look to the brighter side of things and just forget about it. Let's have a good day and not go back to being all sad and grumpy all the time."

"But..." Ignitus murmured, knowing that Spyro was true about what he said.

"Ignitus... Dad, you know you like her. Your paw was on hers when she put her paw on yours, how much more proof do you need to tell yourself that she is the right one? But if you're thinking about it this much, then banishing her would be the best option now wouldn't it. This is just my opinion, but it's up to you for what happens," Spyro explained, wondering what his father would do with his words.

Looking down and seeing his paw on hers, and her paw on his, he looked back up to see her smiling, and it stabbed at him thinking about how she could've done something like that. Shaking his head, he told himself not to believe it, and agreed with Spyro, "Yeah, your right!"

"Well, I think she should be banished if she is making my father grumpy in the morning," Spyro suggested with a nod.

"No, it wasn't that. Another reason I was grumpy was because I was having a special moment with her, and I knew that one of you would screw it up. That's another reason why I froze time: So she wouldn't be able to tell you all were here, and I would be able tell you all to leave before she noticed," Ignitus explained, feeling bad that he growled at them, and apologized, "I am sorry. But, Spyro, you have to admit, you know the feeling where Sparks would interrupt you and tell you to kiss Cynder even though you weren't in love yet; That's the feeling I get. The feeling of being embarrassed or interrupted in a special moment."

"Fair enough... But now that we know that this is just going to be a normal day, what now?" Spyro asked.

"You all leave so I can... talk, with Winter. Once we leave the room, you three can have your girls day out. Sounds good?"

They all nodded at Ignitus words, and turned to the door. Spyro walked with Cynder up to the door as Volteer opened it. Everyone walked out, followed by Cynder, but Spyro stopped, and turning his head around, Ignitus looked at him as he said, "You know just as much as I do that you like her. When ever something happened with me and Cynder, we always talked about it. And look at us now. Maybe talking to her about it would be better then you think."

Ignitus held onto his son's words as he watched him walk out of the room, shutting the door behind himself with his tail. He sighed, wondering if what his son said would be true as he looked back at Winter. Returning time back to normal, he once again was able to hear the small, peaceful breaths that escaped from Winter's nose. He smiled at her, and asked, "Winter, how would you feel if you, Cynder, and Carith, all had a girls day out?"

"Where did this come from?" She asked.

"Well, I was thinking, you've never had the best of friends, and I know that you would get along well with Cynder and Carith. Understand how they feel about their lovers, or talking about what ever you want to talk about, I feel like it would be good for you to bond with them. Then once you come back, you won't have to worry about being abandoned or shunned, or anything like that."

"Alright, what are you playing at? You promise me a tour of Warfang, but now, your promising one of the best days of my life. Where did this come from?"

Ignitus sighed with a frown, not wanting to reveal the truth behind his actions. Seeing his frown, she couldn't help but try and cheer him up, "You don't have to tell me, Ignitus. I honestly am thankful that you would put so much effort into making sure I was happy. Taking a walk around Warfang with some other girls sounds like fun. Especially since I know that they would make me laugh with some story's about their lovers. And I kinda wonder what stories Carith has about her lover."

Ignitus's eyes widened a little, hearing her words, he asked, "Malefor? But, I thought you hated him."

Winter giggled with a small sigh as she admitted, "I do, and I might always will, but... I think I'm starting to see the good from everything that has happened in my life so far... You're right, about seeing the good. Seeing Malefor with his lover for a little time, seeing him joke, it really made me wonder if, if maybe I was wrong about him... I still wish my lover didn't have to die. But, I'm seeing the good, and it's not so bad."

Ignitus chuckled with a smile, and joked, "Just wait until Malefor really starts getting into his jokes, then you'll see just how bad and embarrassing he can be."

"Sounds like he is going to be a paw full," Winter giggled, "But it's a good thing I won't have to worry about him today, since you were so kind as to give me a day with the girls. I've honestly never had a day out before with other girls, so I'm actually pretty excited about today. Thank you for doing this for me Ignitus, but I have to ask, did the other two agree to this?"

"Funny thing, Carith suggested it."

"When? I was with you the whole time. Unless you woke up before I did, how were you able to talk to her?"

"I woke up at one point during the morning, and Carith walked in a told me about the idea. Cynder's on board as well I'm sure because she has never had a day out either, and I'm sure Carith hasn't either, so this is basically a new adventure for all three of you. I know you will have a great time."

"Well, I've never had a girls day out before, so I guess I will join along. What will you do while I'm gone?"

"Probably cry in my bed knowing that you left."

"Aw, Ignitus. Don't worry, I will be back. We can stay and talk for a bit more in the Chambers and then I will go on this adventure with those two. It will be nice to know that I at least don't have to worry about Malefor destroying everything while I'm taking a walk... I mean, the dark master."

Ignitus smiled at Winter as she said those words, and she smiled back seeing his smile.

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"You think he is talking to her about what happened?" Spyro asked.

"Probably not. He doesn't have the guts to do something like that," Malefor answered.

"So what exactly happened that he is flipping out about? Was he like, bashed in the head with a shard of ice or something?"

"Hahaha, I wish. But no, it was something else. It's nothing really to be worried about."

"And yet he said he would have to banish her for it."

"Tomato, banana."

"You're not going to tell me are you."

"You'll know when you know okay. Ignitus will tell you, but for right now, I believe keeping it to ourselves, Well, myself, would be best."

"This better not be a third base thing."

"Why would you think that?"

"Don't ask me to get into details or else I will vomit."

"You know, if Ignitus ever did get a girlfriend, and they hit it off pretty well, Wait! That gave me an idea, wired, and disgusting, but Terrador, and other two. If Ignitus was with a girl, and they were, I don't know, kissing it up on their beds, won't you hear ever single kiss since it basically echoes back their."

The three blushed, but they knew he was right in his assumption.

"Well, that is true, but at that point, we would probably have to make different rooms back their for each to sleep in if we did get lovers because their is no way I would be able to sleep if I heard that, and them whispering to each other about how they love one another," Terrador explained, shivering from the thought with disgust, and fear.

"What? That's like the best part about going to sleep. You three will literally, never understand," Malefor joked with a smile, and the three grumbled at him knowing what he meant.

"Malefor, I'm sure that if you can get a girl, so can the Guardians. After all, I read your past. You got so happy when Carith kissed you on the cheek that you flew into a wall like a smart one you are. Oh yeah, Carith, I didn't tell you, but I think Cyril was actually hitting on you," Spyro said, earning wide eyes from both Malefor and Cyril.

"Beg your pardon?" Malefor and Cyril asked in unison with different tones of voice.

"Oh, Cyril. I didn't know you liked me?" Carith joked with a giggle earning a small blush from him and a grumpy embarrassed face.

"So, Spyro, care to, elaborate?" Malefor asked, looking at Cyril.

"Well, when I was reading, Cyril said that you sure know how to pick the pretty one's. I completely forget about that, and now that I can say it, I wonder, what do you have to say to this?" Spyro asked, seeing Malefor looking at him with an intense stare.

Cyril chuckled as he thought, I'm going to kill you Spyro. Looking at Malefor he tried to explain, "I wasn't hitting on her, I was just saying how you chose well, that's all. As your mentor, I had to make sure you were making the right move, and when you said she was with you, I was surprised, that's all."

"Are you jealous that I found her before you?" Malefor asked with a raised brow.

"Alright, calm down."

"Huh, Malefor, you know what that means, Cyril was looking at Carith without your permission. Are you going to let him do that?" Spyro asked with a chuckle.

"Spyro! I swear to the Ancestors," Cyril growled with a blush.

"What is going on out here?" A voice called out.

Everyone looked over to see Ignitus had emerged from the door with Winter to his side and his wing draped over her. Sitting down next to Terrador with Winter doing the same, he listed to what Spyro had to say, "You remember when you had me read those books to look into Malefor's past? At one point, when Malefor and Carith walked into a room, Cyril said how Malefor knew how to pick the pretty one's."

"So that's how you've been finding out about my past, because you read a book on my past?! How much about my past did you learn about?! Because back then, you asked how long me and Carith kiss, you creep," Malefor growled with a blush, remembering about how he also learned about the whole hatching thing as well.

"I learned a little more then I know Ignitus wanted me. He was smart enough to shut the books to keep me from reading, but once he, fell asleep, I should say, I woke up and read some more on what had happened throughout your past and your time with Carith, and I have to say, Malefor, a lot surprised me, but mainly your thoughts about..."

"Spyro! Damn you! Maybe I should've killed you when I had the chance."

Winter was scared to her his words, as well as his growl, and back up a tad bit with her paw from her fear. Ignitus put his paw on hers, and she looked at him. He smiled at her, and watch the two once again. She trusted him, and took the step forward, wondering why he was so calm about something like this.

"Then do it. You said Ignitus don't have guts, but I think it was you who don't got the guts."

"I do have the guts."

"Then what's stopping you? Poor little hatchling scared to lose his lover."

"Okay, and? So are you."

"Cynder would never leave me."

"And Carith would never leave me."

"Well..." Carith whispered, quickly causing Malefor to look at her with wide eyes.

"Well for me as well," Cynder giggled with a whisper, causing Spyro to quickly look at his lover with wide eyes.

"Carith..." Malefor Cried.

"Cynder..." Spyro Cried.

"While you two were fighting, me and Cynder came up with a secret agreement," Carith said, looking over to Cynder, wondering how she would follow up with it.

"You two have to make nice, and we won't leave," Cynder said, earning a smile from Carith, glad she was think what she was thinking.

The two growled as they looked over at one another, knowing they would have to obey. The two just smiled with sighs, and put their tail blades on one another's chest. Pulling their tail blades back down, they looked at their lovers to see if they did good, and with a nod and a smile, they knew they did. Winter was completely dumbfounded by what had happened, as she believed the two were actually going to fight it out. She had to know why they didn't fight, "But I don't understand. I know Malefor has a lover, I know he has heart, but why didn't you kill him? You two were fighting, you said you wanted to kill him, so why didn't you? Why not take the chance to kill the source of the dark master?"

Spyro blushed a little, not wanting to really tell, but Malefor looked to his lover with a small frown. Sighing as he looked at Malefor, he looked over to Winter, and explained, "Well... It's a little bit of a complicated, relationship, I guess. I would never kill Malefor, I would probably try don't get me wrong, especially if we were in a training room for what he did to my lover, but the reason I don't kill him, is because I know he didn't want to do so, I know he had a difficult life, and I know he doesn't want to lose it all once again. I'm scared, I am, that one day he would turn again, but like I said, he knows he will lose it all again if he does, and he will lose his lover as well, so their is nothing really I have to worry about. I only realised this thanks to Cynder... I still hold my words to what I also said to you before as well."

Malefor smiled at Spyro's words, glad to hear that he would never kill even, but he wondered what would happen if he ever did turn again, would he help, or kill him on the spot. He didn't have to wait long as Winter asked that same question, "But what if he ever did turn again? What if, what if Carith... died, and he turned. I'm sorry to say something like that, but what if it happened. What would you do then?"

"Well, Malefor, I know he would never let something like that ever happen again with that whole other incident. But, if he ever did turn again... I would try, I would try to help. But the moment he tries to kill someone close to me, I don't know after that. But that's why I train so much, so even if their was an event like that, which their won't be, Malefor, I will be prepared for the worst. I don't like the form I take when I go into that mode of mine, because when I think back, I know I got that form because the dark master severely hurt Cynder to near death. I want to find a new form so I won't ever have to use that one ever again."

"But..."

"Winter, it's fine. Malefor is a little bastard, I agree with you on that. But he's also very helpless without his lover. Malefor isn't weak, so if he fights, he can call me, call us, and we are all good, and no one dies. Malefor, I know, from what happened before, would protect Carith no matter what. Malefor would never turn with Carith around, trust me, as mad as I get, even during points with the whole Malefor being alive, I had my lover, and everything was fine, after a good couple of kisses and helpful words from her and my lover."

"Little bastard? Okay, calm down... you... other little bastard," Malefor whispered, somewhat smiling from his words.

"How... how is Malefor's relationship with Ignitus?"

"Why do you ask?"

"I just... I just want to know."

"Well, everyone has a good relationship with Ignitus, he's not that hard to get along with. Malefor has never really gotten mad at Ignitus, no one has, except for that one day, but that doesn't count, and it was understand. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, something happened to Carith, and they thought she was dead, but she wasn't, and I will tell you all of it later, but going back, Malefor isn't going to kill anyone if that is what you are asking."

After hearing everything that Spyro said, she decided she would trust him in his words. She trusted that she would not have to worry about Malefor turning, and she trusted that she wouldn't have to worry about Ignitus's death either. Nuzzling her head underneath Ignitus's with a smile she thanked Spyro, "Thank you Spyro, I believe your words. And, I'm sorry Malefor, I shouldn't be so hateful towards you... It's... it's what happened with my lover."

"No hard feelings, I promise," Malefor said with a small smile.

She smiled, and laying her head against Ignitus's neck from nuzzling him, she closed her eyes, and eased up her body, feeling as if she could trust her life around Malefor with everyone around. Ignitus smiled, laying his head over hers, he closed his eyes as well. Everyone watched for a couple of seconds, surprised by the way the two were acting with one another. Walking up and nudging the side of Spyro's shoulder with his elbow, he looked at him as Malefor said, "I have an idea. Let's see how much she trust me by making it seem like we are about to fight it out once again."

"What will this accomplish?" Spyro asked.

"I want her to trust me more, and by doing this, I feel like maybe she will."

"And if she doesn't trust you."

"Progress alright. Slow and easy progress. Kinda like our friendship."

"We aren't friends."

"Not yet. But like I said, slow and easy progress."

"Alright, fine, I will join along."

"Okay," Malefor said, clearing his throat as he started to growl a little with his voice, "So what? What are you going to do about it? I could easily change and attack Cynder right now and you wouldn't be able to do anything, kinda like in the past."

"Malefor..." Spyro growled softly.

"Well I have to make it believable," He defended in a whisper as he continued to growl, "What's the matter, can't do anything like before? You've never been strong enough to save her, and now, I feel like I should put your strength to the test."

Spyro sighed, wishing he didn't agree to this, but he tried to join along, "Last time that happened, I nearly killed you, and I'm afraid if you put my strength to the test, I might kill you, like I should've in the past."

The Guardians, as well as their lovers shuck their heads a little, as they knew what they were doing. Mainly because Malefor wasn't very quite when he made up his plan. Malefor picked his tail blade up to his side, and growled, "I should've done the same to you, or maybe Cynder, then we will see your true strength."

Putting his tail blade on his side, Spyro growled back, "I think maybe you should put your tail blade back down before I put it in your heart."

"I tried to do the same to you, but maybe my chances will be better against your lover."

"Malefor!"

"What's the matter, you know I'm right?"

"Dial it back a bit."

Looking over at Winter and Ignitus, he saw that the two haven't even moved yet, and Winter didn't seem to be shaking at all from his words. Malefor looked back to Spyro and apologized in a whisper, "Sorry, you know I didn't really mean anything I said. I just knew that saying something like that would get a rise out of you."

"You remember when you said slow and easy progress? My tail blade is going to make slow and easy progress on your gut if you try something like that again," Spyro promised with a slight smile, as he knew Malefor didn't really mean it, but he gave him a warning.

Spyro sighed as he looked away from Malefor, and over to Cynder. Cynder giggled with a smile as she teased, "Aw, you wanted to protect me."

He sighed once again with a smile. Cynder kissed him on the cheek, only furthering his smile. Malefor sat back down next to his lover as she said, "Doing something like that was pretty bold. You know she already seemed to trust you right."

"Well, it was also to get Spyro to trust me even a little bit more. Even if my idea was a... Little farfetched," Malefor said, kissing his lover on the cheek.

Carith smiled at him as he pulled away, and he smiled back. Slightly nuzzling Ignitus's neck, he moved his head up and opened his eyes. Pulling her head back up, Winter giggled as she said, "Malefor, you do realise you aren't the best when it comes to whispering right? I heard you from way back here."

"Hehe... whoops," Malefor chuckled with a smile.

"Oh yeah, and Carith, before I fall asleep, Ignitus told me that you wanted to have a day out with just us girls? I've never been on one, and apparently you and Cynder haven't either, so I thought it would be fun if I joined along, if you're still okay with me joining along of course."

"Really?! Yes, of course you can still join along. I was actually planning on telling you after Malefor was done with his little act. But are you sure you want to come along? You look a little... comfortable, with Ignitus," Winter asked, seeing her and Ignitus blush as they looked at one another with smiles.

"I don't know, can I join along?" Winter asked Ignitus.

Ignitus chuckled, "Of course you can, as long as you stay safe."

The two nuzzled their cheeks together, and taking his wing off of Winter, she whispered, "I will, Thank you."

Walking over towards the entrance of the Chambers, Winter looked back and asked the other two, "Well, are we going to get going or not? We don't have all day."

Carith jumped for joy as she quickly pecked Malefor on his cheek before running over to Winter's side. Cynder giggled at her reaction, but she was excited too. Pecking Spyro on the side of his cheek, she went to join, but was stopped by Spyro's tail that he quickly wrapped around hers. She looked at him as he said, "Please be safe. We didn't have the best experience last time. Are you sure you don't want me to come along just in case something happens?"

She smiled at him being worried, and assured her lover, "Spyro, don't worry, I will be fine. I'm not the weakest one here, and me and your adventures have giving me more strength then I've had before. I will be fine, I promise. And if anything happens, I will make sure to come to you, because I know you'll protect me."

"Okay," Spyro whispered with a frown, taking his tail off of Cynder's.

Walking back up to him, she pecked on the lips slightly, and with her lips still near his, she whispered, "Don't worry, I will be fine. And for letting me go out, I will give you a nice kiss when I get back. Okay?"

"Okay," Spyro agreed, seeing her smile as she walked over to the other girls.

"Yes! I've never really done this before, but I know we will have so much fun! So come on, it's just us girls. Let's go have fun!" Carith happily and cheerful said, as she walked with the other two away from everyone else and to the main doors of the building.

As Everyone watched the girls leave their sights, Ignitus frowned as he went back to thinking, Winter couldn't have done something to kill me... no, I don't believe it to be true, and I don't want to know if it was true... But, will I have to look back and see... And what if it was her... What do I do? The Guardians were surprised to see that Malefor had taken everything so calmly and let Carith run off on her own with everyone, even Spyro, but that quickly changed as he started to freak out from her going with those two, "No! What have I done! She was so happy, but I promised I would never let her run off and... What if the same thing happens from before? What if... No, I have to go after her, I shouldn't have agreed!"

"Malefor, relax. If you turn..."

"Am I not allowed to be afraid for my lover's life?!" Malefor growled, interrupting Spyro.

"Malefor, breath. She's going to be fine. If anything were to happen, Ignitus would tell you, okay. And even if something were to happen, Cynder isn't weak, neither is your lover. Both have been through a lot. I trust Cynder, but if she isn't back in at least an hour, or maybe even a couple of seconds, then I will go make sure everything is okay. We need to give them some space. Always being with your lover is great, but it's nice to do other things as well."

"But..."

"Just give it some time. And look, we can all have this time together. Just me, you, and the Guardians, so we can talk about what ever we want."

"How are you so calm about this."

"Well freaking out and possibly changing isn't going to help. And like I said, Cynder has never been with other girls before, so this is new for her. I want her to be happy, and I know this will make her happy. You were the strongest in the world, but now I am, and who could possibly be stronger then you or me? Cynder is probably next in line, so there isn't much to worry about."

Ignitus laid down with a frown while the two went on about their lovers. Terrador noticed and asked, "You okay?"

Ignitus shuck his head and asked, "Do you think Winter could've done such a thing? Do you think she tried to kill me?"

"Can't you always just look back and find out? You are the Chronicler after all, so don't you know all?"

"I'm scared to look back. Because if I saw it was her, I wouldn't know what to do."

"But she seemed so happy with you. I don't believe it was her."

"Which makes it even more painful if it was her who did it."

"Then what do you want to do? I will stand by your decision."

"For once, I don't really know."

"Then wouldn't it be best if she left then?"

"No. I don't want her to leave."

"Because you like her?"

"Well... yes. Everything that has happened is what will make it so difficult for me to look back and see if it was her."

"I don't believe it was her Ignitus. For all we know, it could've been I prank from someone, and they chose you as their victim because they knew you would survive from it."

"But Winter was awake during that time and blamed it on Cyril."

"What are you guys talking about?" A voice called.

Terrador and Ignitus looked up to see it was Sparks looking at the two with raised brows, "Is this about that dark master..."

Quickly placing a paw on Sparks's mouth, Terrador growled softly at him, "Sparks, you're not supposed to say something like that so freely, especially around Spyro. You were there, so you should know that Ignitus said something like that would never leave the room."

Slapping his paw off, which felt like nothing to Terrador, Sparks grumbled, "Okay okay,"

"Hey, Ignitus, are you okay?" Spyro asked, as Ignitus looked to see Malefor looking at him as well.

Sighing as he knew he couldn't tell the truth, he tried to play it off with a lie, "Yeah, sorry, it's just, since Winter left I've been feeling pretty lonely that's all. Kinda like you two."

"And everyone wonders why I don't want a lover, because of all this, oh I love you, and, oh no, my lover left me. And no Spyro, it's not because I would never get one," Sparks grumbled, already seeing Spyro open his mouth to say something, but he shut his mouth after that comment.

Stretching out his body, Sparks sat back down on Spyro's head and said, "I can't believe I keep feeling this tired, I've barely been able to say anything all day."

"No wonder everything was so fun," Spyro joked.

"You wanna fight?"

"Maybe later. I at least need to find a twig to be a fair fight against you."

"Okay, calm down."

Ignitus needed to talk to Terrador, so he needed to get those two, or at least Spyro, distracted. Ignitus remembered from Spyro's thought, and said as he looked towards Volteer, "Hey, Volteer, I have a mission for you."

"A mission of what sorts?" Volteer asked.

Standing up and looking over at Spyro, he suggested, "Spyro said he wanted to know how to kiss his lover better, and apparently you know how to do something like that. Can you show him how to do something like that?"

"Um... No... no I think I'm good," Volteer blushed, causing Ignitus to shake his head with a sigh.

"You ever heard of an explanation Mr vocab?"

"Oh yeah, right, sorry."

"Ignitus! Why do you always have to read my thoughts?! I'm afraid I'm going to think about how beautiful, and slick, Cynder's body is, and you're just going to tell everyone!" Spyro growled with a blush, feeling completely embarrassed that Ignitus would tell Volteer and everyone else that he was thinking that.

"Well, everyone knows now, dummy," Malefor joked, laughing at Spyro's embarrassment.

Spyro looked at him, and Malefor quickly shut his mouth as he knew that Spyro had the hatchling thought from the past books.

"Spyro, don't worry, this isn't a bad thing. Because now, when Cynder gets back, you'll know how to give her an even better kiss," Volteer said, showing the positive in Ignitus giving out what Spyro had said.

Walking up and past the two, he said, "Come on, I will just tell you."

"Oh, I want to see as well!" Malefor said, running up and joining.

Spyro shuck his head as he walked with the two around the corner of the Chambers. Ignitus looked up at Terrador and asked, "Any suggestions?"

"Well, do you have any powers that can help you learn from what happened?" Terrador suggested.

"Maybe. But what kind of powers are you suggesting?"

"I don't know... maybe something that also benefit you and the other two. After all, Malefor is also scared about his lover and so is Spyro. Maybe you can get those two to follow the others and try to get information without getting spotted."

"Get information... without getting spotted... I think I might have the power for something like that."

"And how is that?"

"I will explain when Volteer is done showing those two his kiss tactic."

"Now I know why Spyro felt embarrassed."

---

"I guess I didn't really have to show you, but it's simple. When you kiss your lover, make sure to shoot a small, not very powerful, jolt of electricity in your lover's mouth. The jolt will basically make it more enjoyable as the electricity would shock nerves in the body to make to kiss feel Immensely more pleasurable," Volteer explained with a smile, earning a blush form the both of them.

"Why am I even here? I was already there for this grossness," Sparks grumbled, putting his hands on the side of his head.

"This is pretty embarrassing, I'm not going to lie, but it's good to know. Right?" Malefor asked, seeing the blush on Spyro's face.

"Well, thank you for the... information, Volteer. But why did we need to come over here just for you to tell us that?" Spyro asked, thankful that he now learned of a way to kiss his lover better.

"Because the last time I said this, I got harassed by the others as well as Terrador. But just remember, kissing someone you love is an amazing thing, and their is nothing wrong with it. Making a kiss feel even better makes for a better relationship..." Volteer paused as two girls walked past him with giggles and blushes, making him blush hard at what he said, "Why... why me... Just, don't worry about it. Let's just go back before I embarrass myself again."

Terrador watched as the three walked back into the room and he wondered why Volteer was blushing, "What, did you finally see how embarrassing it was to talk about something like that."

Volteer sat next to Cyril not saying a word as he was to embarrassed to.

"While Volteer was explaining, two girls walked by and giggled at him while hearing that kissing someone you love isn't a terrible thing, and he went into some more details," Spyro explained, earning a slight chuckle from Cyril and Terrador, but they quickly shut their mouths, feeling kinda bad as they knew his chances were over.

"Spyro, Malefor, I actually have a mission for you," Ignitus quickly said, not wanting to waste time.

"This better not be another thing that you all were supposed to do and you're just making me do it," Spyro said.

"No no, it's actually going to benefit us all. I'm going to, cloak, you, as to say. I need you all to follow your lover's and to keep a close eye on Winter as well. Tell me if anything happens, please," Ignitus explained, seeing Malefor smile big, just as much as Spyro.

Malefor looked at Spyro and asked, "I thought you said you wanted to give your lover some space?"

"I am... But just not as much as I thought I would. Now that you talk more about it, and the more seconds that pass, I'm starting to feel more and more fear boil up inside me. Me and Cynder haven't been away from each other for this long since... since the dragon temple incident," Spyro murmured as he continued, bringing back some terrible memories.

"Now you see how I feel? I haven't seen my lover in years, and now I get her back, and who knows, I could lose her again."

"Then why are we still talking when we could be leaving and helping?"

The two looked at Ignitus, wondering what he was waiting on. He chuckled slightly at the two, as he was also afraid the same would happen because of those dark creatures that were running around at night. Pulling up his paw and snapping his fingers, nothing happened.

"Are we, cloaked, as you said?" Malefor asked.

"No, I can still see you," Cyril said.

"I made it so you can't be seen by only your lover's, so you should be glad Cyril can still see you," Ignitus chuckled a little as he continued, "When you see them, be careful, as when you want yourself to be seen, you can't undo it. Only be seen when it is completely necessary, because as I said, once you come out of it, you won't be able to go back without my help. Understand?"

The two nodded. Turning and running out the Chambers, they quickly ran after their lovers. Sparks jumped off Spyro's head right as they made their way to the steps to go down to the main doors. Brushing himself off, he thought, I could've stayed with them, but it seems like the Guardians have way more interesting stuff going on. Flying towards the Chambers, he wondered if he should've stayed with Spyro or not, but he thought it be best if he didn't.

Terrador looked at Ignitus and asked, "You did this because of those dark creatures, didn't you?"

"Why do you think Malefor is so scared? We did tell him about the dark creatures, and that's why he's so much more scared then Spyro. I need to make sure everyone is okay, and I can't do that without those two. I can see through Cynder and Carith's thoughts, but Winter's, I don't see anything. No light, no darkness, it's all just empty... And I don't know why I can't see why," Ignitus murmured, wishing he could understand why he can't sense her thoughts, and why he can't find her past.

"What's up my dudes!" Sparks said as he flew into the room.

Looking at Ignitus and how bummed he was, Sparks suggested, "Why so bummed man? If it's about those, dragons, you know they'll be fine. I meant what's going to happen, someone is going to beat Malefor and Spyro? And then we are all doomed? Yeah right... But if I screwed us over by saying that, you can kill me later, but come on, lighten up. You are bright and red after all."

Ignitus chuckled a little as he said, "Sparks, you are both extremely helpful, and extremely unhelpful."

"I try to be."

---

"I've never really done something like this before, and now that I have the pleasure to do so, with both of you, it feels amazing to finally get out and have some fresh air with just us girls," Carith excitedly said to the two as they walked around Warfang next to one another.

"Some one sounds pretty excited that they aren't with their lover. What, did you finally find out that he is terrible, and you're going to give Spyro the okay to kill him, is that what I'm hearing?" Cynder joked with a raised brow.

"What?! No. I'm not like you Cynder, I would never do such a thing. All I'm saying is, it's nice to get out with others aside from the Guardians or even Malefor. I've missed them, I truly have, and I have all the time in the world to make it up, but I want to spend time with you all as well and I want to get to know you all. I mean, even Spyro would be nice to hang around with. I haven't really talked with him either."

"First Terrador, and now my lover, would you just choose already."

"I already chose, and I chose right. Terrador is definitely not my type, I like the Dragon I do, but not in a relationship type. And Spyro, well, I might kinda like him a little bit. But only because of how strong he is, I mean, I know Malefor is strong and all but Spyro really knows how to protect someone."

"Are you telling me this because you want me to tell Malefor?"

"What, no. We are just being girls and talking about what we want without having to worry about the guys. I will always love Malefor, I truly will. I'm just saying that if my lover could find a way to be as strong as Spyro, then oh yeah I would be all over his lips in a heartbeat. Seeing his muscles, and his handsome face, and his flexed out wings... Oh... now I know how you feel when you talk about Spyro like that."

"And how do you know I talk about Spyro like that?"

"Cynder... It is not that hard to tell."

"Why's that?"

"Watch, guarantee, when Spyro flexes out his muscles and wings when he is about to fight, you won't even be able to take your eyes off him. And plus, while the Guardians are talking, I see you touching his muscles and chest."

"Okay... And?"

Cynder, it's okay, I'm only teasing, you don't have to blush. I'm just saying that, I know you feel highly about Spyro, and I feel highly about Malefor. But the real question we should be asking is, how highly does Winter feel about Ignitus?"

The two looked over at Winter. She had a smirk and a raised brow, and Cynder looked at her with a wondering face as well. Winter blushed a little as she tried to act like she had no idea what they were talking about, "What do you mean by highly?"

"You know exactly what we mean. How does he make you feel? What kind of standards makes you like him?" Carith asked.

"I don't... like Ignitus. He is just going to show me around some more and then I will be gone. I'm not going to stay for long."

"You slept with him by your side in his bed. In the morning, you couldn't even get your head off his chest. That tells me that someone enjoys both him, and his heart. And everyone knows that when you snuggle and cuddle with someone, you like them... Or... Do you love Ignitus?"

"What?! I never said I loved Ignitus."

"Then say you don't and I will believe you. You said you didn't like him, and you paused when you said that as if to make sure that you didn't say you loved him."

Winter grumbled with a blush as she knew she couldn't say it. She wanted to, but thinking back to what Carith was talking about, she really did enjoy the time she was spending with Ignitus, she just didn't want to admit it.

"You know you can tell us, right? Everything we say we will keep to just us girls. So come on, don't leave us hanging. How does he make you feel? What do you like about him?"

"It wouldn't matter how I felt, I know nothing would happen either way. Not that that is a bad thing but... it's not the best thing either."

"Winter, more then ten years later, I was able to fall in love with Malefor, Malefor, once again, even after everything, and I thought it would never happen. I even made the mistake of trying to push him away, and yet we still happened to fall in love once again. And Cynder, what was your story?"

"My story is a very long and dark one. I'm sure you already know I was corrupted, saved by Spyro, and we stopped the destroyer and Malefor. Well, you don't know what happened on the way back. Spyro was in a terrible condition, and not even he knew if he would make it, and I thought I would lose him, but I helped him. Later on when we were returning to Warfang, Spyro was stabbed by an arrow, almost died, but I helped him. Then, I thought I had hurt him, and I ran away thinking I would never be with him. He helped me, and we were still together. So much has happened and I always believed we would never be, and it scared me. But now, we love each other, and I never knew I would make it this far. But with Spyro, I did."

Winter took in everything Cynder had said, seeming to make her frown as she thought more about it, and thinking about Ignitus only made it worse. Giggling a little, Cynder continued, "Spyro was always so funny. Winter, all I'm saying is, if you do like Ignitus, or even if you love him and you don't want to tell us, never tell your self it won't happen, because it won't if you do. But if you try, and convince yourself it will, then it will."

"But, you convinced yourself it would never happen and yet it did."

"That's because I had someone who loved me look after me. Ignitus is the same. He might love you, and he might like you, and that's why he is looking after you. Why else would he let you sleep next to him on his bed, when he could've just let you sleep somewhere else."

"Yeah... he let me sleep with him because I told him I might have nightmares because of my pass, and when I did, I didn't have those nightmares, and I felt so safe next to him."

"And guess who went through the same thing? I was having bad nightmares, but for some reason, when ever I was with Spyro, they all seemed to disappear. And I know this sounds crazy but, when ever I do have nightmares, Spyro appears in them and pulls me out. I could never find out why."

Flying over Warfang, Spyro and Malefor had finally spotted their lovers. Flying down and on top of a building, the two looked down on the three and were glad to see they were all okay. Spyro looked to his side and said, "See, I told you they were okay... But I'm still glad we checked. Coming back down here doesn't bring back the best of memories."

"Day's not over. I will feel better when they are back in the in the Guardians Building."

Following from above and jumping form building to keep up, the two listened to the girls as they started to talk about their lover's.

"Well, getting off topic and to something a little more fun, we should talk about our lover's," Carith suggested with a smile and a blush.

"Why do that? The only thing I would say is how he is handsome and strong. Could go into more detail, but it's better to say something like that in front of him so I get a good kiss," Cynder said.

"Exactly, you talk good about him, but why don't we talk bad about him?"

"What?"

"Come on, you know it's an impossible challenge, so why don't we try it?"

"If you know it's impossible, then why try?"

"You thought being in love with Spyro would be impossible and it still happened, so why not try to make something else possible."

"Alright, fair enough. But since you suggested it, you go first. What do you hate about Malefor?"

Malefor listened closely, scared to know what his lover would say about him.

"Let's see I feel like..."

Malefor forgot to jump from another building as he listened, and fell down in between to buildings and landing on a pile of bricks with a loud crack. The girls stopped and looked over to see what had happened, and they shuck a little to see a dust cloud with cracked bricks, but no one was there. Looking at one another, they shrugged, and continued to walk. Spyro jumped down from his building and ran over to Malefor, who laid on his back, groaning in pain.

"Would you suck it up. We have to catch up to them," Spyro commanded.

"I hope I turn one day and throw your back into a pile of bricks, and then we will see if you could get back up so easily," Malefor growled, slowly pulling himself off the bricks and back to his paws.

Spyro used his wings and flew up to the top of the building, soon followed by Malefor. Landing on the top of the building, the two jumped from roof top to roof top and caught back up with them.

"You don't think Carith was going to say something bad about me, do you?"

"Please, we all talk bad about you."

"Now I hope I turn."

"Alright, calm down and listen, then maybe you'll find out."

"So, going back, what was that? Something bad about Malefor that I was about to hear?" Cynder asked.

"Right, um, I feel like... Maybe he has something bad to him..."

"Aside from the fact he is the dark master..." Winter interrupted Carith.

"Winter..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm still trying to forgive him for what has happened."

"But you know he didn't do it, right?"

"Sort of. The only reason I'm not watching him for a reason to kill him is because I think Spyro has already got me covered on that one."

"Winter, there is something bad about Malefor, but it's not because he is the dark master, it's because of how bad he gets when me and him kiss some days. Like that day in the hallway, oh, he was so evil then, and I liked every second of that. And then Spyro totally blocked that kiss by yelling out, 'Not in my hallway'."

"Hahaha, I remember that. But Spyro was right. If you think about it, it was also kinda wired seeing who we thought was the dark master kiss and love someone. I never thought I would see something like that." Cynder remembered with a laugh.

"I thought Malefor was actually in love with Cynder because you two were working together. That's why it surprised me he was with someone else aside from you." Winter said honestly, earning a blush from the both of them.

"No, no, no. He was controlling me to work for him, he never controlled me to love him. Even in his dark form before he was captured, the only thing he would say from time to time was Carith. I couldn't quite make it out until now, but now that I just realised it, it makes sense to me. I just wish Malefor never would've revealed what had happened when I was with him,," Cynder sighed with a frown, remembering back to that moment as well.

"Oh my gosh, don't tell me he forced you to kiss him or something like that!"

"What! No!" Cynder quickly rejected with a blush, and a shake of her head thinking about it, "He forced me to kill my parents and Spyro's. Malefor was evil, but even for him he wasn't that evil, or twisted, or what ever you would call it. I still had some control over my body, very, very little, and if I saw him trying to kiss me, he would lose his lips before he tried."

Spyro looked at Malefor, squinting his eyes slightly, he asked with a growl, "Did you ever try something like that?"

"What?! No. Spyro, come on, like she said, I was evil, but I wasn't twisted. Not as twisted as my spine was back on those bricks, but like Cynder, I still had some control. I was always thinking about Carith at the time," Malefor quickly shot down any thoughts he might have.

"Alright, I will believe you for now, but I'm asking Ignitus later."

"I have no problem with that, as like as it gets you to trust me some more."

"Thank the Ancestors you didn't tear his lips off... I need to feel his lips on mine," Carith purred.

"So why won't you just let Spyro kill Malefor? If it wasn't for him, he would've never forced you to kill your parents, and they would still be alive, so much would still be alive, and you could have your revenge if he was dead, so why not let his death happen?"

"Because killing him won't heal what has happened. Killing him will deprive him from Carith, and I know how she would feel, as I can't live without Spyro. He forced me to kill my parents and Spyro's, but I don't keep him against that. And even when I do, I know what good came from it. That day, when the dark master revealed what happened, I learned just how perfect, how amazing of a Dragon Spyro could be. After he said what happened, Spyro tried to forget about it, and even said he didn't care as long as I loved him. He looked like he was leaving me to join Malefor when I took a Step back, but it was all a ploy to get me to jump on him, and he wrapped his wings around me, and I learned that day that no matter what's happened, he would always love me."

"Anything? What if you kissed another guy?"

"He would forgive me if I was controlled into doing something else."

"What if you were controlled into kissing another guy, or even worse... And I can't believe I'm saying this, and I will so dumb Malefor if he ever said this word again but... third base, with another Dragon?"

"Well, since Spyro would never let me turn, I don't think I have to worry about that. Plus, even if I was controlled, I would still have enough power to use my claws, and when I'm in that state, I can only think about blood, so it would be a really, really bad day for someone who would force me to do anything."

"Spyro forces you to kiss him."

"Yeah well... He can control me when ever he likes."

The two girls covered their mouths as they both gasped at what she had said. Spyro smiled with a big blush hearing her words, and he tried to think of a romantic way to give Cynder a kiss from her words.

"Cynder, what has gotten into you?" Carith asked.

"Look, I've been away from Spyro for a while, and after kissing him, I haven't been able to stay away from him for long," Cynder defended herself and her actions as the two girls giggled at her, "And how can you talk, Carith? I already know you have thoughts about your lover."

"What... no I..."

"Be honest, we all know it's true. I know Winter knows it as well, and she has barely been here for that long."

"Okay, fine, but do not, and I repeat, do not, tell Malefor...!" The two nodded their heads, smiling at one another as Carith continued with a blush, "I was actually thinking about how Malefor was, controlling me, into kissing him, and laying with him... It just seems so romantic to me, okay."

"Wow, and you said I have problems."

"There is nothing wrong with getting into something more romantic as your relationship grows alright."

"I agree, I agree. But what I wonder is, what do you think Winter is thinking about Ignitus?"

"What?!" Winter cried, "I told you all, my lover died, and I've never found anyone after that."

"Winter, calm down, I'm only teasing. I mean, you seemed like you were stuck to Ignitus when we were talking in the Guardians Chambers. Your head almost never left his chest, and you sat next to him, snuggled up with a smile, and you were the same when you were sleeping."

"But... How do you know about... the sleeping part?"

"Well, we were making sure you were okay, and we happened to see you smiling while you laid with him."

"Yeah, she's right, you seemed pretty happy," Carith agreed.

"That's... that's because... I haven't felt like that in a long time: Someone by my side, someone to snuggle up to, someone who helped me, who listened to me as I needed them to. Ignitus just made me feel so calm and peaceful, even around Malefor. And as I learn more about how you all are, how you all joke... It's scary," Winter murmured with a frown thinking about losing it all.

"Why?"

"Because... everything that could happen..."

"Winter, not to give my lover a lot of credit, but I will: He is as strong as they come, probably the strongest in the world, then you have Malefor to assist him, and the Guardians, then me and Carith as a last line of defense since our lover's would never let us fight. If your worried of losing Ignitus... well, let's just say he is a lot stronger then he looks. Spyro and Malefor would never let anything happen. Spyro will never give up on anyone he cares and love's, and Malefor doesn't want to lose anything ever again, I can see it. So why are you afraid?"

"Because... because... I don't want to lose Ignitus..."

"So you do love Ignitus!" The two cried in unison.

Winter looked at the two, and after everything they had talked about and joked about, she responded, "I... I... He wouldn't care about me after what happened last night."

"Last night?! Wait, Winter, was that..."

"Winter? You are still using that name even after what happened?" A voice emerged from an alleyway, cutting off Carith before she could ask.

A red Dragon and a green Dragon both came from out of the alleyway and stood in front of the two with smirks.

"You must be really desperate to be with someone. After all, we heard that you had lost your lover, and now you are so sad and so scared to lose another that you can't stand to leave. Life's tough, now get over it, and get over here before we have to force you," The red Dragon growled with a command.

Cynder and Carith jumped in front of Winter to defend her. Malefor took a step forward, ready to help, but Spyro put a paw on his shoulder and shuck his head, "Not just yet. If something happens we will step in, but remember, we aren't supposed to be here, and as soon as we help, we will be seen again. Just wait for a second."

Malefor growled, looking back at Spyro, and then looking back to the dragons.

"What do you want with her?" Carith asked.

"Look, we aren't looking for much of a fight, we just need Winter to come back to her rightful owner, that's all. But if you won't move, then we will have to take her from you," The red Dragon threatened, taking a step forward and looking at Cynder, "Oh, he was right, you do look pretty. Maybe after we are done, me and you could go out. He won't have to know."

"Not another one of these guys," Spyro and Cynder growled under their breath in unison.

"Then I guess a fight is something your just going to have to have," Carith growled.

"No! Carith, Cynder, this is my fault, you shouldn't be protecting me. I should just leave before..."

"Winter, If Ignitus finds out that you were taken by a couple of dragons to who knows where, he would never forgive us. Just don't worry about... you don't want to lose everything again, do you?" Cynder asked with a smile as she looked back at her.

Her eyes were a little wide from her words as she had nothing to say, she couldn't decline, nor could she accept, but she didn't know want to do.

"He's going to hate me for this, but the sooner we get her back, the easier it will be on all of us, especially him," The red Dragon growled, walking up to the two, "You stay back, I can handle a couple of ladies, even one such as the terror of the skies."

Cynder growled hearing that name, "Carith, stay with Winter, he's mine to deal with."

Walking up to one another, the red dragon threw his fist around Cynder's head. She ducked and hit her fist into his chest before turning around and slashing at him in his cheek with her tail blade. He growled as he put his paw on the cut. Pulling his paw back down, He threw his punch under this time. Dodging to the left of him before he could hit, she spun around and kicked him in the side, knocking him over on the ground with a loud thud. Spyro smiled seeing Cynder was able to hold her own against this dragon. Standing back up, he threw his fist to the side as he growled, "Enough!"

Shooting fire at her, she dodged to the left of him, then the right as she avoided his fire. Ducking underneath his head, she swung her fist up and slammed it up under his chin. He growled as he tried to force himself to take the pain, which worked. Grabbing her arm, he burned her with his fire on her wrist. With a loud cry, he threw her against the side of the wall he was on. With a loud smash against the wall, Spyro's heart skipped a beat as he saw her in pain from what the dragon had done. Growling from the burn, Cynder put her other paw on her head, and growled even more. Looking at her paw as she pulled it down, she found blood was on her paw. Damn, I haven't fought for a couple of days and I'm already so weak... What do I do? Cynder thought, feeling light headed from the hit she took. The red Dragon stood in front of her and spat, "Could've been so simple!"

"Don't kill her, he will kill you if you do!" His green friend yelled.

"Shut the hell up!" He growled, looking back over at Cynder, he chuckled, "I can do more when she's... paralyzed."

"Cynder!" Carith cried, about to help Cynder, but the green Dragon shot a sharp rock into the side of Carith arm.

She growled from the pain, and looking over at him, she knew she wouldn't be able to react fast enough to help her even if she wanted to. Damn it, Damn it! I've only been back for two days and I'm already about to die... No... No... how can I get my lover to show... Malefor... Carith cried, thinking about what could happen to Cynder, Winter, and her. Reaching his claw up, he went to slice at Cynder's chest. She closed her eyes and backed her head waiting for the pain. A growl was heard, along with a smack. Slowly opening her eyes and looking forward, she saw the back of a purple dragon, and she quickly knew who it was, "Spyro!"

Spyro had grabbed the dragon's claws by digging his claws into the top of his paw. She looked over to see the green Dragon had a sharp rock stabbed into his arm as well. Looking over and passed Spyro, she saw Malefor was standing in front of his lover with anger towards the green Dragon. The red dragon chuckled, "Damn that hurts. And I was this close to getting to have my very own girl."

With his words, Spyro bend his paw more down, cracking the bones in the red dragon's paw, causing him to kneel and growl in pain. He continued to chuckle even from the mass amount of pain, "Sorry, what I meant to say was, my very own girlfriend!"

The red Dragon used his other paw to swing at Spyro's cheek, which he saw, and quickly twisted and popped the red dragon's paw bone out of place with a loud snap. He cried in pain and dropped his other paw to the ground. Grabbing his neck, Spyro dug his claws into his neck, causing him to bleed from different parts of his neck before throwing him on the ground and over to his friend. Looking over at Cynder, his face quickly turned to fear as he asked, "Are you okay?"

Tapping a claw on her chest, an hour glass appeared. Twisting the hour glass, he pushed it back into her body, completely healing her wounds. Lightly grabbing her paw and pulling it up to his mouth, he shot water at her paw, and washed all the blood off, along with any other blood that was on her. Malefor watched as the red Dragon started to get back up, and popping his bone back into place, he growled, "Ugh, I'm going to kill that bastard!"

"Spyro!" Malefor growled.

Before being able to go over and help, Cynder put her paws on both side of his face and pushed her lips against his. She enjoyed the quick kiss and wished it had been longer, same for Spyro. Pulling away, she whispered, "Thank you... There is more where that came from I swear."

He smiled, and as she put her paws back down, he helped her up. Walking back to the others, Spyro looked at the sharp rock spear that had stabbed into Carith's arm.

"Carith, this will hurt for about a second. Malefor, I need you to quickly pull it out while I get the healing ready. If I heal it now the rock will rip in half and that rock fragment will float around in her body and kill her. I need you to do that for me," Spyro quickly explained, scaring Malefor as he looked at her not wanting to hurt her.

She giggled at him, "Rather be alive then dead, am I right... Malefor... It's going to be okay, thanks to you and Spyro, I promise."

He growled as he put his paws on the spear, "You better be as ready as you've ever been."

Tapping a claw on the side of her arm near the spear, he twisted the hour glass and said, "Alright... go!"

With a quick pull and a cry from pain, Spyro quickly pushed the hour glass into her body, quickly sealing up the wound. Washing off the blood from the side of her arm, he looked back over to see the green Dragon had done the same with Malefor's rock spear that he had shot into him. But he wasn't able to heal it up. Putting her claws to the side of his cheek, she pushed her lips against his, enjoying the embrace of their lips, she constantly moved her lips all around Malefor's as she had feared for the worst would happen. In between breaths, Malefor begged, "Spyro... Can you... while I..."

Spyro chuckled a little and agreed, "Alright, fine. But you owe me for not letting me having my time with Cynder. I can handle these guys."

Looking over at Winter, he asked, "Are you okay as well, Winter? Ignitus was scared that you would be hurt, and we were all afraid of our lover's being hurt so it was a win win when we came along. Will I be able to make Ignitus happy by telling him you are you?"

"Ignitus... sent you... to make sure I was okay?" Winter asked with disbelief.

"What, you think Ignitus doesn't care about you?" Spyro asked with a smile, looking back at the dragon's, earning a big smile from Winter as she thought about his words.

Snuggling up to Spyro's side, Cynder whispered, "Always coming to help at the right time. So tell me, how long have you been following us?"

"Are you mad?"

"Mad at Malefor for not letting us kiss, but you, never."

Spyro smiled, nuzzling the side of her cheek with a smile.

"What do we do? We can't take them on?" The green dragon asked, "I think it would best if we just retreat."

"No! I have a better idea. Just before we left, I asked if he could give us a little fall back plan which should still help us win, or at least get us to help in the retrieval of Claire... And I'm talking about some dark energy... He disagreed to it, remember. That's why I needed your help to dig up those dark energy spots that that red dragon had talked about for last resorts. He then said we should never use them but who gives a damn."

Using some of the dark energy, it flowed out of his body, causing Spyro's eyes to go wide as he felt the dark energy, and looking at the Dragon, he had a flash of the dark master, before coming back to the red dragon. Taking a Step forward, everyone looked to see the darkness that Spyro was seeing. As the two stopped kissing, Malefor cried, "Oh no... Cynder, he's going to think I'm still the dark master, what do I do?!"

"I... I don't know..."

The red dragon chuckle as he saw the fear in Spyro's eyes and his body language.

"Hahaha, I knew you would be scared. Now, hand her over now, or else..."

"Not again, we are not going to go through this again!" Spyro growled as his scales turned dark along with a dark black aura that formed around his body.

Flashes of red, green, blue, and yellow showed from the dark aura that came up from his body. The red Dragon feared more for his life now, but he tried not to let it get to him, "What ever. So you have a dark power as well, but lets see how it stands to mine."

Walking up towards one another, he quickly, and in the blink of an eye, threw the first punch. Spyro quickly ducked as his anger took over, thinking back to when he fought the dark master, and what had happened to Cynder. Slamming his fist into his chest, he pulled his head up and slammed the back of his head on the bottom of the red dragon's chin. Before he could recover, Spyro grabbed him by his neck again, and threw him backwards into the ground, still holding onto his neck. His green friend ran over to help, but Spyro put rock over his red friend's neck before disappearing. The green Dragon stopped, and heard wind whip behind him. After the wind, a loud crack was heard as he hit the green dragon's side with his fist, cracking his ribs, and slamming him to the wall. Disappearing and reappearing in front of the green Dragon, he grabbed him by the neck before he disappeared and reappeared in front of the red dragon. Slamming him to the ground, he put rock over his neck to keep him down, and he growled, "Where did you get this darkness from! Who!"

The red Dragon chuckled as he knew how to get a rise out of Spyro, "Long live our dark master... Master... Malefor."

Spyro's eyes widened, as he looked over at Malefor, and growled, "Damn it! I knew I couldn't trust you!

Walking up to Malefor, he backed away and cried," Spyro, it wasn't me, I swear! You know I wouldn't!"

"Then who else could it be?! You are the only one with the darkness in you who could do something like this! And he just said it was you. You couldn't even hire dragon's good enough to keep their mouths shut! And now you get to pay the price for it," Spyro growled, but Cynder grabbed his tail and tried to get him to stop before he did anything else.

"Spyro, if it was me, why would I have them hurt my lover?"

"You wanted to come out here so badly, not because you were scared for your lover's life, but because you wanted to make sure that they did the job right! The red one attacked and killed my lover while the green one only slightly hurt your lover, but she still lived! Then you would've easily took me out from how depressed I would've been!"

"Spyro, please, clam down."

Trying to keep her tail wrapped on his, Cynder walked to Spyro's front. Standing in front of him, she put her paw on the side of his face, and begged in a whisper, "Spyro... please, everything will be okay, I promise. Just breath, and let him explain."

"But..."

Taking her paw down, she wrapped her wings around his back and put her head over his shoulder. Slightly nuzzling his neck, she stopped, and the whispered, "Spyro, please... Everything has been going good so far. Yes, what is happening right now isn't the best, but lets get this over with with no one dead, not like the past."

Taking a deep sigh, and calming himself down, he turned back to his normal self. Pulling her head back, she smiled at him and whispered, "There's the Spyro I know."

Looking at Malefor, he growled, "Don't tell me after what has happened you are still the same."

"No... I'm trying to remember how there could still be darkness... I remember! In case I had ever lost the darkness, or if I had ever took back control over my body, the dark master had little patches of dark energy stored at locations just in case for any reason or emergency! They must've found one and blamed me because they know of my past. Spyro, please, after everything that happened that day, after what we all went through, don't tell me you still don't even have a little trust for me... Please..."

Winter felt terrible as she already knew the answer, but she knew if she gave up the answer, something else terrible could happen. Pulling her wings off of Spyro, she put her body against the side of his, and looking at him, she whispered, "Spyro?"

Shaking his tail a little, she knew he wanted her to let go. Unwrapping her tail from his, Spyro quickly ran up and punching him in the side of his face he grabbed Malefor's neck and growled, "I better be making the right decision! And I better not regret it."

"Spyro... why won't you... trust me."

Taking his paw off his neck, Spyro backed away from Malefor, and as he looked away, he growled, "Because one day, I might trust you to much, and when that day happens, you could kill everyone I know and love, everyone I care about, and I can't let that happen. I only trust you now because I trust what Cynder's said. I will never trust you... You should just be glad you are even alive."

Walking away and over to the other Dragon, Malefor frowned, hating the fact that he was stupid enough to have caused everything that had ever happened to everyone. Standing in between the two, the red dragon chuckled as he said, "You know he is lying, don't you? He said he was scared we would tell you, but still he trusted us. We only wanted to tell you because we thought you should know... Know that he's still a..."

With a quick punch to the side of his head, Spyro knocked the red dragon out cold. Looking over at the green Dragon he shivered, and admitted, "It wasn't Malefor, it was someone else, but I don't know his name. He just looks like a dark dragon, that's all I know! Please don't don't hurt me..."

"Carry your friend home, and if I ever see anything that has to do with the darkness around here ever again, I will be sure to kill you all very, very quickly."

Breaking the rock around both their necks, Spyro backed away and watched as the green dragon picked up his red friend in his arms, and quickly flew away. Turning back around and walking back towards everyone Spyro stopped in front of Malefor with anger. Malefor smiled in hopes he would as well. Bringing his tail blade up, he lightly put it on his chest. Shaking his head, he pushed his tail blade off his chest, and walked away from him. Everyone frowned from what had happened, and Cynder quickly ran up to catch up with Spyro. Standing in front of him, he stopped, and looking at her, she said, "Spyro... You know it wasn't Malefor. How come your giving him a hard time?"

He sighed sadly as he said, "Because if I wasn't here, you would've been taken from me. And because of something he did so long ago, all this would've never happened if he just would've done the right thing. And I'm scared, one day, he will do the wrong thing once again and we will all be back to where we were before, and I'm afraid that some of us won't be there when it happens. There is still some darkness out there that could cause another Hell on earth event and I might not be able to stop it."

"But Malefor has grown, we all have. In the past, he's never really had someone to look up to, someone he could talk to, as a friend. The Guardians definitely weren't the best at being friends back then, and he had his lover, but his only friend was the Chronicler back then. He steered him in the wrong direction... So maybe, you'll be able to do better by him then the Chronicler did."

"I'm just... I'm scared Cynder. I'm strong, and I know it, but I'm scared I won't be."

Pecking him on the cheek, she pulled back, and whispered with a warm smile, "That's why you'll have Malefor by your side to take care of some of that fear. You'll have Malefor when you feel angry and you need to punch something, he will be right there for you."

The two shared a small laugh. Looking into one another eyes, Spyro couldn't hold back any longer. Blushing a little, Cynder opened her mouth to say something, but she was quickly tackled to the ground with her lips locked with Spyro's as the two pushed into their kiss. Malefor looked at Carith and murmured, "Does that mean I've lost my trust to Spyro?"

"Malefor, it's going to be okay, I promise. He's scared, we all know it. Cynder will calm him down," Carith assured her lover, and looking over at Winter, she asked, "But what I wonder is, why did they want you, Winter? They said you needed to come back to your rightful owner. What were they talking about?"

Winter felt anger for what she had done boil up inside of her as she had wished she never would've stayed, but she tried to hide that anger as she responded, "I was talking to the wrong guys at the wrong time, and I guess one of them got mad and found some of that darkness that Malefor was talking about. I'm so sorry for causing you all this trouble."

"Don't worry about it. No one died, and everyone is still here. Ignitus will be glad you are okay."

Seeing the sadness on Malefor's face, she felt as she needed to help as it was her fault. After what he has done, I shouldn't, he doesn't deserve my help... But after what he's done, I was able to meet Ignitus... I was able... this better not bite me in the butt, Winter thought as she walked up and sat down next to Malefor. He looked at her and sighed, "Life does loop doesn't it. Just a day or two ago, I was yelling at who I thought was the Chronicler. Then Spyro helped me even though I thought he hated me. But this time, your talking to me because you hate me, and you agree I am still the dark master."

"If you want me to do that I can," Winter joked with a small smile, seeing him look at her, she continued, "Look, I'm not, I'm not completely good with what has happened, but I have tried to look to the good of everything, and every time I do, I think of Ignitus. Maybe he is the one for me, maybe he isn't, but I trust that you aren't the dark master. I've seen what you've done first paw, and I know you aren't like him. But... Will you ever be like him again?"

"I try not to be."

"Then keep trying, because once you give up, it just might happen. It seems like Cynder believes in you, and so does your lover. I will believe in you if it helps, and maybe even soon, Spyro will believe in you. I know it seems like you lost a lot of progress to being friends with Spyro, but look for the good in what has happened: Everyone is alive, Spyro hasn't killed you yet which means he still trusts you, and you can still live your life with your lover."

Malefor's eyes got slightly wide as he smiled from her words, "Thank you, for your kind words. But, why are you helping me? I thought you hated me."

"Just like how Ignitus taught me, look for the good things. I lost my lover, but I've found some good things in what has happened. Which doesn't mean I'm glad it happened, it's just good to love and hope again... And even cuddle with someone who cares about me."

"So... you do care about Ignitus?"

"Once we get back, and I see him again, I will know for sure. A lot has happened, and I don't really remember his face from how little we've spent time together. And even when I do, I remember the time we cuddle in that room, and then the back room of theirs... I really do hope he feels the same."

"Go for it Winter. You believe in me, and I believe in you."

"Thank you Malefor."

Finally pulling away and looking at one another, they breathed heavily as they smiled, glad to finally be able to kiss one another once again. Standing back off Cynder, he helped her back up and thanked, "Sorry Cynder, I just, I really needed that. Thank you for that."

"Says the one who basically forced me to do it," Cynder joked, standing back to his side after she was helped up by Spyro.

"Oh come on, you know you liked the kiss."

"You could've done better."

"Wow. Alright, don't worry, tonight, I actually already have a plan to make a kiss feel better, just you wait."

"I will be the judge of that."

Turning back and walking over to the three, Malefor looked at Spyro as he walked towards him. Watching Spyro sit down in front of him, Malefor lifted his his tail to his side with a slight smile, wondering if he was still trusted by him. Sighing from his motion, Spyro shuck his head and admitted, "Just like with that whole you and Cynder happening, I'm going to ask Ignitus if you are lying to me to be sure."

"Spyro, you know if you asked Ignitus, he would just cover up what happened to keep me alive. And even then, you still wouldn't believe the truth, and then you would try to kill me again because of something I wasn't in control of. Like just now, I wasn't apart of this nor was I in control of it, and you still blame me for what happened," Malefor defended himself, putting his tail back to the ground.

"Who else am I supposed to blame? You are the only one who has ever had dark powers, and it just so happens that when they leave, they almost die."

"I already told you about the darkness left over. How does this make me the bad guy again?"

"You've always been the bad guy, ever since the beginning."

"I'm the bad guy because of what the dark master did to your lover? How is that fair to me?"

"Because it was your fault any of this ever happened!"

"I wasn't the one who took myself away from my lover to go train, the Chronicler was!"

"And yet even with all that training, look what happened. You've failed to do anything right and that's what makes me so different from you."

"You're right, we are different. And you want to know another difference between me and you? I actually give a damn about someone even after something I've heard about in their past."

"You think this is so easy don't you?! You think everything is simple because you're not the one who has to worry about some bastard Turing into a dark force that could kill everyone you know and love! Not like you would care about someone you loved, as you killed her parents, because you're such a good lover to her!"

Malefor's teeth clenched from his words, thinking back to how that was one of the hardest time for him. Quickly punching Spyro on his cheek, he cried, "You think I enjoyed that?! You think I felt good about myself when I killed her parents! I tried to control myself, I tried, and the only thing it did was make their deaths slower and more painful! How do you think that felt to me?!"

Quickly doing the same and punching Malefor's cheek, Spyro growled back, "Maybe I should do the same to you and ask you later when you're on your way down to hell!"

"Spyro," Cynder whispered, putting her paw over his shoulder, while Carith did the same to her lover.

Coming back to what had happened, and the two took a breath, Spyro continued, "I don't even know why I bothered to let you stay. Even now if you weren't here, I wouldn't have had to deal with this. Cynder never would've came out here, she never would've gotten burnt, and she never would've gotten hurt, and it's all because of you."

"Why do you always look to the bad of what I do when you never look for the good?" Malefor murmured.

"Because there isn't anything good you've ever done to make me think good of you. I think back and see our fight, after that, nothing but us talking, and you yelling at Ignitus because you thought he was the old Chronicler. I only helped you because I thought you could change, but I'm not sure after what's happened."

"You act like I would put my lover's life in danger to ever hurt you. Didn't you see? If it wasn't for her, I would've never came back, Spyro. Because of her, I was finally able to break free. You see that I'm not him, I don't look like him, I don't sound like him... Why do you still think I am?"

"Because I don't look or sound like my darkened self, that is, until I transform into that state. That's all I can think about is how one day, you will turn and everything we would've worked for would've been for nothing. And worse comes to worse, someone dies, and no one will ever be the same after that day."

"So then why don't you just kill me now if you think that way? I know it must be so easy for you to kill me, so why don't you just do it?"

Sighing, he frowned as he said, "It's because it won't be easy for me."

"What... What do you mean?"

"Look, I don't, I sort of hate you, but I try not to. I know what has happened wasn't your fault, and I know you tried to fight back, i believe you on that. I'm just scared. Fighting the darkness for so long and to think that at one point someone could be lost is just scary to me. Having you as help isn't so bad. You fought the green dragon while I fought the red one, and for some reason, I trusted you, and everything worked out... And I wish that would be the same for anything that happens in the future, because I could be weak some day, and you would be able to help..."

"Spyro..."

Growling, he turned and walked a Step away from Malefor, trying not to make it seem like they were friends.

"Don't think this means I trust you. I never will. I trust you even less now, that I know there is still some darkness out there, but... I still do trust you. I could never forget what you did for Cynder when I was unconscious. Even though you caused it, you made up for it," Turning his body back around, Spyro looked at Malefor, and walking back up to him, he continued, "Don't ever be like him again, or else I will put you in that coma next time instead of Carith."

"I promise."

Pulling his tail blade up, Malefor was surprised to see that Spyro had rested his tail blade on his chest. Malefor smiled slightly, and pulling his tail blade up, he put it on Spyro's chest as well. The girls both sighed, glad to see they were able to still be friends. Winter giggled a little, and everyone looked at her, wondering why she had. She explained herself, "You're probably going to hate me for this, but Malefor is right."

Pulling their tail blades back down, Spyro asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, that dragon actually did obtain one of those dark spot you were talking about. I only know because I was there when he had done it. He saw me as a witness and that's why he wanted me so bad, because he was afraid I would tell someone else and release that information."

"Ha! In your face! Oh, what's that, you want to apologize to me? Oh well, if you insist," Malefor joked and teased Spyro about what he had done.

"Alright, calm done. So, why didn't you say something sooner? And how come they said you were using a fake name?"

I feel like telling them about that dark master I was talking to would be a bad idea. After how he feels about the darkness, he could kill him and Malefor, and I don't want to be the reason for everyone's pain. And since Spyro is Ignitus's son, I don't want him to know his son would end up a murderer, Winter thought as she tried to make a cover story, "Well, since the darkness is such a powerful thing, I'm guessing they said that to try and make it so you would believe them and hand me over to them. And I didn't say something sooner because... I wanted to know if Malefor was who he said he was. And since no one did die, I'm slowly gaining his trust. I'd still kill him if he were weak and lying on the ground, but not kill him when I see him so... It's a Step up."

"Damn, that's harsh even for you. High five," Spyro joked.

"Don't encourage this!" Malefor cried.

Pecking his lover on the cheek, she pulled away, and as she looked at him with a smile, he smiled back as Cynder said, "I'm proud of you."

Spyro chuckled with a small smile and a blush as he said, "Yeah well, it was mainly thanks to that kiss."

"Oh, the kiss is what did it?"

"I said mainly, I didn't say completely. Kinda like how I haven't completely been able to love you today, and that part of my heart has been burning hotter then fire."

"Sounds like someone wants another kiss. But I think you don't deserve one today."

Walking around his lover, he stopped as he put his nose on hers and teased, "Then I guess I will just have to control you in to doing so."

"What?! You were listing about that... I didn't really mean to say that, I was just caught up in the movement and I didn't know that..."

Pulling his tail blade up to her lips, he whispered with his lips up against his tail blade to tease her about the kiss, "You didn't know i had control over you? Sounds like I need to show you just how powerful I really am. I'm going to make sure you always want to be controlled by me... to kiss me."

"Spyro, there are Hatchlings here," Malefor said, as everyone watched as a family walked by with the parents having huge red blushes on their faces.

Spyro growled with embarrassment as he pulled his tail blade down from Cynder's face, turned, and yelled at Malefor, "Why didn't you say something?!"

"They came out of nowhere, how was I suppose to know?!"

"By paying attention to something else other then us you creepy bastard."

"I'm not the one talking about this creepy stuff out in public!"

"That's it, I'm going to kill you. You've lived for to long."

"I'm not the one who invented the public, why kill me?"

"Because... I hope that brick ate your back!"

"Well good for you, because it did!"

"Wait... So when we heard those bricks break, that was Malefor?" Carith asked, as the three looked at the two, wondering if they have been following them ever since.

Malefor and Spyro chuckled with blushes as they tried to explain themselves.

"Well, you were talking about how there was something bad about me and I wanted to know. I wasn't paying attention and... fell off the roof top of a building," Malefor explained, seeing the blush on her face as she knew that he must've heard every thing she said about him after that, but all the girls giggled a little at the embarrassment on their faces.

"So, you heard everything up until that point... even..."

"Even me controlling you into kissing me and to lay with me... Yeah, I heard that part too."

Carith blushed as she had hoped one day it would've just happened and she wouldn't have had to tell him about it, but since it was out in the open, she had wondered what he thought of the idea, "Well... What do you think?"

"Well, it sounds like someone missed me... But it also sounds like there is something for you to look forward to in the future."

The two smiled at one another, ready to go in for the kiss, but Spyro prevented them as he said, "Come on, we have to get back to the Guardians. It's getting dark and I'm not exactly the best when it comes to the darkness."

"What?! No! You get to have your chance now I want mine..."

Putting her tail blade against her lover's lips, Carith agreed with Spyro, "Malefor, it's okay. I would way rather you tackle me to the floor with a kiss then on concrete. Plus, there will be no witnesses like those parents. But if you want to we can, but it won't last very long."

Pulling her tail blade back down, he sighed and agreed, "Okay..."

Turning towards the Guardians Building, Spyro and Cynder walked side by side with his wing draped over her, and same went for Malefor and Carith as they walked beside the other two. Winter joined along as she walked next to Cynder. Wondering why they had shown up, Winter asked, "So, how come you all followed? Or, when did you follow? I'm not complaining on the outcome but I thought you two wanted your lovers to have some free time."

"Well, I had to, Spyro wouldn't quit crying about how he missed Cynder or how he thought she was going to get hurt. I wasn't as scared, I know my lover is strong, but I still came because I couldn't stand not seeing her," Malefor lied, earning Spyro a kiss from Cynder, which he then realised his plan back fired.

"Yeah, that so happened. We were both very scared about you three going out on your own, but apparently, Ignitus was probably even more scared and depressed then we were. After you had left, he went from the biggest smile in the world, to the biggest depression in the world. Ignitus was desperate to know if you were okay so he cloaked us for a while so you couldn't see us. So we actually came because we all wanted to make sure you all were okay, and even Ignitus wanted to know if you were okay," Spyro told the truth, earning wide eyes from Winter as she didn't know Ignitus was that protective of her.

"Aw, someone likes you," Cynder joked, earning a blush and a smile from Winter as she sighed.

"Spyro, you are Ignitus son, and, I was wondering if you know more about him, like how he feels and stuff?" Winter asked.

"I guess you can say that. Why do you ask?"

"Well, I was wondering, and this has nothing to do with my feelings or if I do or don't like him but... I was wondering if you knew if he does or doesn't like me? Yeah he told you all to make sure I was okay as well, but anyone could do that and not really care about that dragon. So, do you think he likes me?"

"Let's see... A hundred percent is as high as I can go so I guess I should say, um, a hundred and ten percent."

"What! Really?!"

"Someone's excited."

"I mean, uh, that's cool. But what makes you think that he thinks so highly?!"

"Like I said, he was super depressed, and ever since you left he has been nothing but that. I feel like he is just in the need for someone to care for him because of his slowly ageing behind."

"That's why am confused if he does or doesn't like me. We've only really been together, somewhat, for a day, so I don't even know if he does or doesn't like me. Yeah we laid in bed together, and yeah it was... very enjoyable, but I just don't know if his smile was real, even though it felt real."

"Trust me, he likes you," Cynder said.

"Why do you think so?"

"Because Ignitus is acting like how Spyro was when he first saved me. We were only together for a couple of hours before going to sleep together. I slept out of the Dragon Temple because I knew I didn't deserve to be in there were everyone was still scared I was a monster. I cried, wondering what my life would be like now that Spyro had saved me, and I thought my life was saved because I was meant to feel the burden of what I had done. Hehe, but then someone came from out of the doors to check on me. He made me feel so good that day, and even when I believe I had lost everything... He helped me gain everything."

"It was Spyro wasn't it."

"Who else," Spyro smiled.

"Even on that day, he didn't even know if he liked me, but apparently he did. Maybe the same thing is happening to you. I would say to trust it, trust Ignitus, because who knows, maybe he is the right one for you. And if you really didn't believe Ignitus liked you, then why would you walk back with us when you know you'll see Ignitus again?"

"Because... I want to see when Spyro kills Malefor."

"What is with you all?" Malefor grumbled.

"We all want to see that, but we all also know that it took a while for you to come up with an excuse."

"Alright, when something happens I will be sure to tell, but not right now."

"Fair enough, I can respect that."

"And yet you can't respect me," Malefor grumbled once again.

"Why do I need to do that?"

"Because... Even I have a heart..."

"Not a very good one."

"And how would you know? The only heart you've technically seen was Spyro's."

"What?!" Winter cried.

"Long story made short, Malefor reached into my chest and grabbed my heart, but that was like, one, maybe two, or three days ago."

"Wha... how..."

"I know right, he isn't dead because why?"

"That was when he was in his dark form. He got that form somehow. I know after I was injured badly, I woke up to see Spyro in that form. Wait, were you in that form when your heart was grabbed by the dark master?" Cynder asked Spyro.

"I don't really remember, oh that was Hell, i know that much. No wait, I wasn't in that form because then I helped Sparks and it took almost all the power I had away from me. Bad times, bad times."

"And I ask again, no offence to Malefor, sort of, but you haven't killed him because?" Winter asked, wondering why Malefor wasn't dead, especially after hearing this.

"Because even after everything that had happened, it was actually... Malefor... Who saved both me and my lover's life. While I was near death for like the third time in a month, Malefor had come back to himself and helped Cynder heal and save me, and the while he could've easily turned, killed me and Cynder, along with the Guardians. But he pulled through, and... I do thank him for that. It's the only memory that I have that keeps me from killing him. That and, if I have to go through the whole, 'Carith is dead, I'm going to destroy the planet to join her' bull again, I'm going to slap him, or have Cynder do it."

"You would've done the same thing." Malefor defended himself.

"I wouldn't have cried about it."

"What?! Please, you cry about everything little thing. Oh no, Cynder, don't hate me, or, oh, Cynder likes someone else, I will never be with her. Or even that time when you thought you had burned and killed Cynder with your fire fury. You cry more then a new born Hatchling."

"How do you know about that?!"

"Please, I wasn't stupid when the dark master broke free of that crystal. He watched almost every move you made ever since then. You cried like what, three times in one day when you were heading to the Chronicler's place. Or I think that was Cynder, either way is the same."

"Says the guy who was crying because I was going to kick him from Warfang so he could never see his lover again."

"That was a real reason to cry!"

"And me thinking I had killed Cynder isn't?"

"She clearly can go through any object with her abilities, how did you not put two and two together?"

"How am I supposed to do that when I clearly saw a burn Mark of Cynder, Malefor!"

"You look for her, not that hard."

"You have been very snappy as if you are testing my passions. Maybe I should show you who is still the boss around here."

"Malefor, he is right," Carith joined in.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"There isn't anything wrong with tears. After we joined back together, you cried that night, and the day after, glad everything had worked out and I was alive. Stop picking on Spyro, after all, Cynder is the only one really holding Spyro back, and if you slip up and make her mad, then I can't help you, nor will I probably ever see you again."

"You sounded so calm about that."

"Well, I know things have been tough, but I know Spyro just wants peace and safety for everyone. With you alive and happy, I feel like Spyro can be the same, because he knows he doesn't have to worry about you, and everyone wins. And soon, someone else might join in on the peace and fun pack. Winter and Ignitus would make a very cute couple."

Winter smiled along with everyone else, glad to hear that the world was at peace. Thinking about Ignitus as they walked back, she thought of what he would say to her once they returned, Back with my other lover, when ever I went somewhere, he waited for me, and when I returned, he asked if I was okay, and when I said I was, he said he was okay as well. It might not have been as romantic, but I still loved him. I... I want to know how Ignitus will react.

"Even though I've gone through hell and back, apparently now I have some dark spots to deal with." Spyro grumbled, wishing he could just get a break.

"Hey, Spyro, you're not in this alone. I know you might not trust me, but I will have your back any time you need me. I don't work as the dark master any more. For now on, I want to work with you, and to help fix what I've done. If you need help, I will. You don't have to do this alone," Malefor suggest with a smile, seeing a small smile form on Spyro's face.

"Yeah yeah, what ever... but, thank you. I just might take you up on that offer."

"Thank you, Spyro."

Approaching the building, Spyro and Malefor were talking back and forth about how he did most of the work then the other. Looking over at Winter, Cynder was surprised she was smiling, but she had wondered why and decided to ask, "So tell me Winter, why are you really coming back with us? Is it because of what Spyro said about how Ignitus was hoping you would be okay?"

Looking at Cynder, she agreed, "Yeah... sort of. I'm also just excited to see Ignitus again, and I don't understand why."

"Come on, you know you like him."

"Which is wired because I feel... I feel more."

"What? You don't mean... Love, do you?"

"I haven't confirmed anything."

"Please, I can already see it. You two are going to cuddle up tonight, and you won't be able to restrain yourself from kissing him on the cheek."

"And how do you know that?!"

"Some girls just show it better then others, and you are very easy to tell."

"And what if that does happen?!"

"Then somebody is going to have one amazing life choosing Ignitus."

"You... you really think so?"

"Oh yeah. But not as amazing as the life I have with Spyro of course. That actually reminds me, you think we should tell Spyro about what Carith said about him?"

"What did she say about me?" Spyro asked, scaring the two half to death as they quickly looked over at him.

Carith dripped a sweat of fear as she knew quickly what they were talking about. The two looked at Carith as she kept waving her paw underneath her chin and near her neck, trying to tell them not to say anything. Looking back at Spyro, now even Malefor was interested, "And what might have Carith said about Spyro. It's already out in the open, and if you tell a lie, Spyro already has questions for Ignitus so why don't we find another."

Cynder and Winter were backed up against a wall on what to do, but trying to make an excuse, Cynder failed, "Well, she was talking about this rock, a red, no, purple rock, she had found in a volcano..."

"Your lover is a terrible liar." Malefor said.

"Alright, Cynder... let me, explain what happened..." Carith sighed, knowing this was going to be brought up sooner or later.

As Everyone looked at her, she explained, "Malefor, I love you, I really, really do. But while we were talking, and Spyro was brought up, I, I was talking about how I have a... little, little, very tiny crush on him."

"What?!" Malefor cried, and looking over at Spyro, he growled, "I guess I might as well turn now since you are taking my lover!"

"I haven't even done anything!" Spyro defended himself.

"Wait, Malefor, hear me out," Carith cut in, causing Malefor to look back at her with a frown, "I only have this small crush on Spyro because of him strong he is, that's it. When ever he flexes out his muscles, and his wings, and all that power he has it, it's just something that I can't look away from."

"First Terrador and now Spyro." Malefor whimpered.

"I said the same thing," Cynder giggled.

"So after all this time, you really don't care about me anymore... then I guess I should find someone else who does..."

The four gasped at what Malefor had said, causing Carith to stop before they were just about to reach the entrance to the building. Carith looked at him, and as he looked back, he looked to the ground and frowned.

"Maybe we should go," Spyro whispered to the other two girls, and they both nodded their heads and quickly pushed opened the door and walked into the building.

Taking his wing off her back, he turned, walked away from her and looked over Warfang. Sitting down, he slightly sniffling from his sadness. Walking up to his side, she looked at him once again, and he looked away, trying not to show his smile. Feeling her paw on his chest, he went to put his paw on hers, but he was surprised as she pushed him back completely, causing him to fall backwards and nearly hit the back of his head. But luckily, Carith's wing was right behind his body, and she gently put him on th ground. With his wings sprawled out on the ground, he tried to roll himself back up using his wings, but his lover lightly step on them, keeping him from rolling back over. I have no idea what is going on, but I like it... Malefor thought to himself. As Carith looked at him, he tried to look away with his frown, but she grabbed the to sides of his cheeks with her paw and made him face her. Looking at him, she had a commanding voice which sent a chill of joy through his body, "You listen to me. I own you, do you understand. I don't love anyone else and I never will. If you ever try to find someone else..."

Licking her lips, she continued, "You can say goodbye to my lips."

Pulling her paw off his face, she placed her paw back on his wing, and he was still so surprised at her actions. Taking her paws off his wings and putting them on the ground, she growled, "I don't love Spyro, but you, you are the full package that I want."

Malefor quickly took this opportunity to take advantage of his lover. Quickly wrapping his wings around her, he rolled her over onto her back as now he stood above her and she laid on her back on the ground. Turning his frown into anger, he growled, "Don't tell me if I can't leave you, I control you, and I tell you want I can or can not do, and you just have to comply. Now, kiss m...!"

Quickly pushing her head up and locking lips with him before he could continue, he closed his eyes and pushed into the kiss, causing her head to slowly come back to the ground as she closed her eyes and enjoined the kiss she had waited so long for. After kissing for a good while, Malefor had slowly pulled away, and the two rested their foreheads on one another. Breathing heavily, Malefor said, "You... can't like... or love... any one else... but me... do you understand?"

"Yes sir... Master Malefor..." Carith purred, nuzzling the side of Malefor face with joy.

Walking back, he reached out his paw and helped up his lover. Grabbing onto his paw, he pulled her up, and the to stood looking at one another. Putting her paw on the side of his face, she thanked, "Thank you Malefor... But, I'm... I was wondering if... if you were serious about what you said, about leaving?"

Putting his paw over hers, he smiled, "Of course not. Even for me, I have to admit that Spyro is quite muscular and powerful. But now the real question is, do you still have that slight crush on him or not."

"Not any more."

"Good, but tonight, I need to make sure. My powers to control you seem to be weakening, and I need to fix that."

Hearing his words, Carith shivered with joy and a smile. With a small drip of a tear, she hugged him with her wings over his back and her head on his shoulder, she whispered, "I love you."

Malefor smiled as he felt her head rest on his shoulders. He put his wings around her back as well, resting his head on her shoulders, he whispered with a slight tear, "I love you too."

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Coming up on the corner of the Guardians Chambers, Winter ran up, stood in front of the two, and cried, "Wait!"

The two quickly stopped, surprised by her sudden out burst.

"What's the matter? I thought you wanted to see Ignitus," Spyro asked.

"I do, I really do but, what do I say to him, what will he say to me? Is it okay if I tell him what happened, should I just tell him everything went okay and disregard everything that has happened?! What if I make the wrong move which ultimately will make him think less of me!"

"Winter, Winter, calm down. Everything is going to be fine. You don't need to worry so much. You remind me of how I thought when I'm with Cynder: always worrying about what if this happens or, what if that happens. Just be yourself and you will be fine. I will tell Ignitus what happened. No offense but I will be able to explain it better without having Ignitus freak about what has happened."

Winter didn't know what to think, but she trusted Spyro. Walking a little further with the two near the corner, she peaked her head slightly around the corner to see Ignitus with all the other Guardians. Ignitus had chuckled at something Sparks had said, which made her blush slightly as seeing him smile made her remember how handsome he was. Turning back around and looking at Spyro, he waved her on, trying to convince her to go after him. With a huge sigh, she thought to herself, He's right, everything will be alright. He will see me, and ask if I was okay and everything will turn out okay... okay... okay yeah, I got this. Nodding with a smile, she turned her head back around and walked into the Chambers with the other two. As she walked in, Ignitus quickly looked over to See Winter walking into the Chambers.

"Winter?" Ignitus asked, standing up and putting a paw out in front of him, ready to run up and hug her.

Winter smiled as she sat down and waved her paw, "Hey, Ignitus. I'm back."

Quickly running up and hugging Winter, she was surprised as she didn't know he had missed her this much. Draping his wings over her back and putting his head over her shoulder, he closed his eyes and smiled, happy to see she had returned. The Guardians all smiled, glad to see he was reunited with her. Sparks sighed as he flew over to Spyro and said, "Great, you two, Malefor and Carith, and now Ignitus and Winter... Why can't things just be one and one, not two."

"You jealous?" Spyro joked.

"Yes, I am very jealous. And that's why I'm not getting a girlfriend. Mainly because it would be to easy for me, but what ever."

"I'm not so sure about that. Cynder would back me up on that as well."

"She always backs you up."

"Because she loves me."

"Unfortunately."

With her eyes wide from Ignitus hug, she went to hug back with her wings, but Ignitus pulled his head back and asked, "Are you okay?"

Not knowing what to say, Spyro decided to help her as he explained, "Well, you sending us out there was a big help. Apparently there are some dark spots I have to worry about, some dragons attacked the three, but we were there to stop them, nothing me and Malefor couldn't handle."

"Attacked?!"

"Don't you write history or something, how do you not know about this?"

"I do but, I haven't really seen anything. After you two found Winter and the others, my vision has dissipated. I haven't been able to see through your thoughts or see anything that has to do with you all. Please tell me that Winter wasn't hurt. Were you hurt?"

Smiling at his concern, she assured him with a smile, "No, I wasn't hurt. Cynder and Carith helped protect me from some of their attacks. They were the one's that got hurt. Spyro and Malefor jumped in to help save us and we were fine from there on out. And... I... they told me that you sent them after us to make sure I was okay. Is that true?"

"Well... Yes. I just haven't really been feeling like my self lately, and because I haven't been able to see where you were, I wanted to make sure you were safe."

"See where I was?"

"Long story, but don't worry about it, dudes old," Sparks said.

Ignitus smiled, putting his paw on the side of her face. She smiled from the warm feeling of his paw, and as she gently rested her head on his paw, she put her paw on his. Putting his paw down, he walked to her side, taking one wing off with his other still draped over her back. The two walked back over towards the Guardians and sat back down where they once did. Looking at one another, their faces seemed to be moving to one another's. Running into the Guardians Chambers, Malefor yelled, "In your face...!"

Winter cried as her head shot over to him and she quickly shot ice right at Malefor's head. He cried and quickly ducked his head as the ice shard slammed against the wall.

"So close. So very close!" Spyro joked, seeing Malefor grumble.

"Sorry, Sorry, still trying to use to the fact that your alive and not a killer," Winter apologized, feeling terrible that she had almost killed him.

Carith walked around the corner and asked Winter with a smile, "Did you just try to kill my lover?"

"Who doesn't," Spyro said.

"I'm sorry, I was, I wasn't really thinking and he just came from out of nowhere," Winter apologized once again.

Sitting down next to her lover, Carith giggled as she said, "Winter, it's okay, Malefor's fast enough to dodge. I'm just messing with you."

Winter smiled as she put a paw on her chest and sighed hugely, thinking she had made a mistake which made her think that Ignitus thought less of her. Looking at Ignitus, she apologized to him as well, "Sorry. I'm not use to the way things work around here."

Ignitus chuckled, causing her to smile a little, "Winter, you don't need to be sorry. Trust me, Spyro tries to kill Malefor on a daily basis, it's nothing new. I know you didn't mean to do that, but even if you did, it's fine. We joke around here mostly, other times Spyro or Malefor is probably crying about how their lover hates them or how their lover is going to leave them."

"What?! No, that's Spyro," Malefor heard and interrupted Ignitus.

"How is that me?!" Spyro growled.

"I just told you as we walked up here! You never pay attention do you?!"

"Just yesterday you were crying about how you thought Carith was going to leave you because I slipped up and embarrassed you. I haven't even cried about Cynder leaving me today."

"Yeah, yesterday, let's go back to the past and count how many times you have cried about Cynder, and she's cried about you! Oh wait, that number doesn't exist!"

"What's the matter, can't count to three?"

Walking up and standing in front of Spyro, he put his claw on his chest and growled, "I counted to three just before I stabbed your heart."

Throwing his tail blade at Malefor's neck, Spyro growled, "I didn't count when I was about to send you back to Hell!"

Winter couldn't tell if they were joking or not, especially since now the two were basically ready to kill one another. But looking at the smiles on everyone's faces, and the warm feeling she got when she looked at Ignitus smile, the warmth from his wing, she knew they had to be joking. Pulling his tail blade up to Spyro's neck, he pulled his paw back down to the ground and growled, "You know you couldn't have killed me, you were just as weak as you'll ever be! After all, being pushed around by your lover to keep me here is pretty sad."

Walking up to the Guardians, Cynder and Carith both yawned. Looking at Ignitus, Cynder said, "Well, we are off to bed. It was pretty fun night, thanks to you Winter. I hope we can do this again."

Winter smiled as she hoped another day like this would come.

"And Ignitus, you're fine, trust us. And Winter, speaking of what Cynder was saying, maybe we should do another girls day out when one of the other Guardians bring a girl along," Carith suggested, earning a smile, and a blush to both Ignitus and Winter as they knew what they meant.

"So never then," Winter joked, earning a chuckle and giggles from both the girls and Ignitus.

The Guardians all sighed as they rolled their eyes with smiles. As they turned and walked away, Cynder turned back around and whispered, even though she knew Ignitus could hear her talking to Winter, "Thank you for today. Just remember what we talked about. You two would make a great couple."

Winter and Ignitus had blushed, but she nodded at Cynder's words, and watched with a smile as the two walked out of the Chambers. Looking at Ignitus, he had looked back, and she thought, They are right. Maybe... maybe it's time I move on. I will never forget my previous lover, but looking for the future, I believe, I want to be with everyone here. Including Ignitus... and somehow... Including Malefor. Looking back to the two still fighting, she had wondered a way to see if she could find out if they were joking for sure.

"Says the one who needed his lover to convince me not to kill you when you couldn't even do that yourself!"

"Um, guys?" Winter said.

The two looked over at Winter, wondering what she had to say. Pointing a claw behind them, they looked to see their lovers were gone. Malefor and Spyro quickly pulled their tail blades down. Panicking, Spyro cried, "Ugh! I got caught up with fighting with you that I wasn't watching after my lover! I'm so stupid, this is all my fault!"

"No, this is all my fault! I shouldn't have started this stupid fight! I'm sorry," Malefor cried.

"Guys, they just left. They said they were going to bed," Winter giggled, glad to see they weren't actually fighting.

"Quickly, to our lovers!" Malefor cried.

Quickly running to the entrance, they stopped, looked at the Guardians, and said, "Goodnight guys!"

Turning back, they ran and hurried after their lovers. Sparks grumbled as he flew to catch up with them, "Remember everyone else but don't remember me why don't you."

Stretching out his body, Terrador agreed, "Will, I guess that means we should be getting to bed as well. Not much happens in a somewhat world of peace."

Walking to the back of the room and opening the door, Volteer followed as he agreed, "Yeah. Now all we do is just sit around and talk. Sounds pretty boring."

Lastly, Cyril followed the two and said, "You ask and you'll receive. So for the love of everything, do not ask for something to do."

Before walking into the room, Cyril turned back and faced Ignitus as he asked, "You going to bed or what?"

Looking over at Cyril, he said, "Yeah, just uh, give me a minute real quick."

Cyril shrugged and decided to let him be as he walked over to his respective bed with the other two Guardians. Turning back and facing Winter, he had wondered what she was thinking about, "So, how have things been? I haven't seen you all day basically and I was hoping you were doing alright?"

Winter giggled, glad that he was concerned about her, "I'm fine, I truly am. The walk was nice up until we were attacked and honestly, I felt weak, and it scared me. Carith was hurt, Cynder was burned on her arm..."

"That Dragon isn't alive is he, the one that burned Cynder and hurt Carith."

"I was as surprised as you. But there were two, a red and green Dragon. I was just so glad that Spyro and Malefor had shown up when they did. It was scary not being able to help, and Cynder was almost killed today."

"Spyro would never let that happen. Even if I didn't tell them to follow you, they still would've. I just thought it be more... nice, if I told them to follow you as well. I would've joined along and helped but, I would've just gotten in their way. Even though I am more powerful then them, I don't think I would've been much help."

"More powerful? How?"

"I will explain it tomorrow, or some time in the future. I can't tell any girl I meet I'm the Chronicler, but, maybe, maybe I should. I have to make sure that... that she is the one Im looking for. I know she is but... That night... With the ice... But you shouldn't worry. To be honest, I was surprised you didn't interrupt those two while they were fighting. You know, since they had their tail blades at each other's neck and all."

"I really would've but, after today, and in the morning, I trusted them. Plus, I know that their lover's would've interfered if something really was about to happen. I was still scared, but... when I looked at you, smiling... with your wing draped over me I... I guess I just felt safe. Because you weren't scared, I wasn't either... Thank you. I know you weren't trying but, you were a big help."

"Of course, anything to help."

Hearing his words, she didn't understand why, why was he so helpful to her, she had to know, "Ignitus, ever since you first found me, or, you know, I found you, you've been nothing but a big help. And I'm not talking about a help as a tour guide, but... a help as, someone who cares. You helped me in that room, you, cuddled with me and kept me protected through the night. And even now, because of you, I was able to be brave enough to stand by you and watch as Malefor and Spyro fought. And if it wasn't for you, I would've jumped in and killed him, but now... I don't want to. Why help me so much if you could easily give me a tour of Warfang and have me go my own way?"

Ignitus frowned, as her talking about him liking her was very much true, but the fact that she brought up that she was thinking about just leaving saddened him, "If that's really how you feel Winter, I can give you the tour tomorrow so you won't have to be with us anymore..."

"No!" Winter cried, causing Ignitus to get wide eyes from her cry, "That's not what I want. I want to know why you're helping me. I don't want to leave all of this, this, family. I don't understand why you haven't just took me around Warfang and told me to leave. Please tell me."

Ignitus smiled slightly, glad to hear that she wanted to stay with everyone, and he knew she wouldn't say if she loved him or liked him, so instead, he took a nicer, softer, approach, "Because if I give you the tour, then there will be no reason for you to stay with me. As long as I don't give you the tour, you'll just have to be stuck with me until then. I'm sorry things have to be this way."

Nuzzling the side of his face, Winter let a small tear drip down her face as she begged, "Ignitus... Don't ever give me the tour of Warfang. Even if you do I... I will want another! I want... I want to continue waking up like this, with Spyro and Malefor fighting, everyone laughing, and you, smiling. I haven't had this feeling in so very long and to lose it again I... Ignitus..."

Ignitus was surprised by what she had said, and the cold tears that dripped from her eyes made it seem so real, and to him, he felt as though she was scared. Wiping away a tear with his claw, she pulled her head away and looked up at him. He smiled as she did, "It's going to be okay. And I will tell you what, once you go to sleep, tomorrow will be just how you want things and I promise, you will never have to worry about losing someone else ever again."

Winter nodded with her cute smile and tears as she thanked, "Thank you, Ignitus! But, I was wondering... Could I... could I sleep with you again? I mean lay next to you!"

Ignitus chuckled as he remembered making the same mistake from before, "And here you picked on me about it."

Winter giggled, "Alright, Alright, you know what I mean."

"Well, what ever you want. You can lay with me, or you can choose one of those rooms. Which one would you prefer."

"That depends, where are you going go sleep?"

"Probably the floor, right here sounds good."

"Then I guess we can sleep on the floor tonight."

Ignitus smiled as he knew what she was doing, and it made him feel good inside as he felt as though she really was the one for him. Shaking his head, he decided to tell the truth, "I would never do that to you, you deserve the best. Let's go and sleep on my bed. After all, I'm sure the Guardians are already asleep. I know Terrador seemed very tired so I'm sure he went to bed."

"Sounds amazing."

Walking into the back room with one another, Ignitus grabbed the door knob with his tail and shut it behind him. Soft snoring filled the silent room as the two walked over to the bed. Standing next to the bed, they hopped up on it. Laying down together, Winter looked outside to see the beautiful full moon shining in from the glass windows. Feeling the warmth and comfort from Ignitus, she felt as if this would be the best sleep she's ever had in her life. Looking back over at him, she was surprised to see he hadn't laid his head down yet. Taking this opportunity, she laid her head down on his paws. He smiled as he laid his head down softly over her head and whispered, "I was hoping you would do that."

Wrapping his tail around Ignitus, he chuckled with a smile that was the same as Winter's, "And I was hoping you would do that as well."

Nuzzling her head towards his chest, she felt small tears form in her eyes as listening to his heartbeat reminded her back to the past, and she thought that one day, she might never get to hear his heart beat, and she would have to move on, but she couldn't. With a soft voice from Ignitus, she felt everything in her body shiver with hope, "It's going to be okay, Winter. It will be okay. Just think about how, in the morning, you'll see everyone laughing, and smiling. Even Malefor. You're safe, I promise."

Hearing his words gave her hope that he was right, especially after seeing those two fight. When Cynder and Carith were wounded, I knew I would have to go with them, and that's why I've been trying to suppress my... my feeling for Ignitus. But after seeing Spyro, and Malefor, protect us, seeing how good everything can be, even after everything that happened, everything somehow turned out okay. And even when those two were fighting, all it took was me telling them their lovers were gone for them to be friends again. I have to tell Ignitus, I have to tell him that... that I really do like him! Winter thought to herself, motivating herself to tell the truth about everything that has happened.

"Goodnight Winter," Ignitus whispered, closing his eyes and falling asleep.

"Goodnight, Ignitus," Winter whispered back, closing her eyes and telling herself she could do it as she looked forward to tomorrow.

---

"We thought we had lost you all!" Malefor cried, as the doors to the house shut behind them, "I'm surprised you two were even up here. After we ran to find you, and we didn't see you in the hallway, we, we actually panicked for a good second. How did you two get up here so fast?"

"It's purposely because we ran," Cynder joked.

"Man, after that, now I'm pretty tired. Well, I got nothing better to do. We can talk more in the morning about yesterday, because Ancestors only knows that nothing really happens much any more. Aside from what happened today which I really really hope never happens again, but still, we will have more to talk about in the morning."

"Why off to bed so soon?" Carith asked.

"Well... I want some privacy when we are making out. Because last time, we tried to do that in Spyro's hallway and got yelled at."

"You make a fair point."

Walking over to his room, and opening the door, Malefor stopped, and turning around, he thanked, "Hey, Spyro. I wanted to, uh, Thank you, for back there. I know hearing those dragons say long live the dark master wasn't exactly what you wanted to hear, especially since our... partner ship isn't the best. But you didn't kill me, and I thank you for trusting me."

"Yeah yeah, I still don't trust you as much as before though. But... I do trust you somewhat. And that's why I didn't ask Ignitus about those things I wanted to ask him about. Just, keep being yourself, don't screw up like in the past, and I know it wasn't completely your fault but... You have dragons who care about you, and ones who even loves you, don't lose that," Spyro said, surprising everyone that he was being so helpful to him.

"Thank you, Spyro."

Walking into his room, he ran up and jumped up on his bed with a big smile on his face as he thought, Does this mean Spyro really does trust me?! Please, Ancestors! Looking at Spyro, Carith thanked him as well, "Spyro, I, I don't know how to thank you. I really thought you would've killed him, but because you didn't, we had one of the best moments we've ever had in a long minute. And because of you, I was able to have that moment, with Malefor. I... I can't even imagine what life would be like with out him."

"Alright alright, I'm not going to kill him. Sheesh... Well, as long as he keeps behaving... you have nothing to worry about."

"Thank you Spyro... Goodnight to you two."

Walking over to her room, the two said to her, "Goodnight."

Shutting the door behind her, Cynder raised a brow at Spyro and asked, "Alright, what are you playing at?"

Spyro chuckled with a grin, "What do you mean?"

"You only did this because you knew you would make me proud and I would give you a proud kiss for it."

"Well, I was telling the truth, I just realised half way that I was making you proud. So, did it work?"

Licking her lips, she whispered, "You better believe it worked. But just like them, a bed is better then a hallway."

"Sounds fair to me," Spyro chuckled.

The two walked over to the door, but as Spyro went up to reach for the door knob, Cynder put her paw on his shoulder and suggested, "You know, it takes away from the fun if we have to open and close a door every time we want to kiss one another so quickly. So I have a better idea."

"Better idea...?"

Pulling Spyro underneath the ground, she appeared back above ground and into their room without even needing to use the door. Spyro shuck his head a little as he said, "Man, going down into that, dark, shadowy void always gets to me. But it's so worth it."

---

Flying into the hole above the main door, Sparks looked around and thought to himself, Lets see, in their room kissing, and Spyro, in their room kissing. Well water fall, it's just me and you again. Flying over to the forest room, he flew through the hole above the door, and landed down on the ground. Closing his eyes and before falling asleep, he thought to himself, Why have I been so tired? Maybe I should visit my parents some time and see what's up... Ugh! Yawn!

---

"Did you hear what he said?!" Malefor asked with excitement as he jumped up and down on the bed, watching as Carith hopped up on the bed with him, "I honestly thought I was as dead as I could get, but he trusted me, even after I sent those dragons to take care of Spyro's lover... Oops..."

"Wait, What?!" Claire cried, looking at him as he they both sat down together, he chuckled with a smile.

"I didn't mean for you to get involved Carith, I just knew what would happen if Cynder was gone. Then they ratted me out and I knew I had to think of something."

"I wasn't born yesterday, and I definitely didn't come back yesterday. You're joking, right?"

"Probably, but that's what I'm wonder. Do you think I would've done something like that?"

"Knowing you, absolutely. You are just the kind of monster I know you are."

Putting his paw over his chest, he felt betrayed as he fell down onto his back. Pretending as if he was dying, he murmured, "How could you do this to me?"

Giggling, Carith walked up to him and stood above him as she joked, "How could you do this to me? Trying to scare me like that? You already tried that when trying to fake your death mister. It won't work this time."

"I've never been very convincing, but I have been very powerful. Now, I suggest you go back and lay down, or else."

"Or else what?"

"Or else, this!" Malefor joked, as his wings quickly wrapped around Carith's back, and he rolled her over onto her back with him now on top.

The two shared a laugh as they rolled over, and looked at one another, they shared a smile.

"You know I have control over you," Malefor whispered, teasing Carith as he slight kissed her lips.

"Keep telling yourself that. Last I checked, one word about me leaving you and you can't even keep yourself together."

"Can you blame me? I can't risk losing your beauty."

"As that all you care about?" Carith murmured with a slight sigh.

"Oh my gush no."

Climbing off of Carith, he laid down and watched as she rolled to her side and looked at him. Patting a paw next to him, she rolled her eyes with a smile, and standing up to lay next to him, she joked, "Making me walk all over the place."

He chuckled as she laid down next to him. Draping his wing over her, she wrapped her tail around Malefor's and laid her head down on his paws. Laying his head down over hers, he closed his eyes as she did the same, and asked, "Do you really believe Spyro trusted me though? Even I could've said something like that to make everyone else feel more at ease. Plus, Cynder was watching, so he could've planned for it."

"He seemed like it. I was kinda skeptical on what he said, but, I choose to hope and believe he is right. If he is right, then who knows what this could mean for the future. If he was faking, well, I could always ask Cynder and make sure, but I believe he was telling the truth..." Carith hoped, yawning as she closed her eyes and continued, "Don't worry so much about it. Spyro won't kill you unless you turn, so as long as you don't, your fine. Well, along with not hurting his lover, you'll still be fine."

"Yeah but, knowing him, he will pin something on me that I didn't do. Like with those dragons," Malefor murmured with a frown.

"Don't think about it like that. He was stressed out. Think how you would feel if the darkness you thought you had destroyed came back and caused a risk of your lover dying. Cynder almost did take a pretty serious injury, and if you two weren't there, Cynder wouldn't been knocked out and taken."

"But why would they? If they wanted Winter, why take Cynder too?"

"Hopefully we won't have to find out, but let's rest knowing things went well."

"Yeah, I guess your right."

With another yawn, Carith whispered, "Goodnight Malefor."

"Goodnight, Carith."

As they went to bed, Malefor couldn't shake the feeling that Spyro was just acting, and he couldn't know for sure. He said he trusted me, and it seemed true, but just two days ago, he couldn't stand me, let alone look at me. It took his lover and mine just to talk him down, but does that mean it worked? I'm not dead so maybe it did. I really hope it did, Malefor thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep with that one thought in mind.

---

"Come on, tell the truth, were you telling the truth or were you just trying to make Malefor feel better because he was going through a hard time?" Cynder asked as she laid down next to Spyro, and draping his wing over her back as he laid, even he wasn't completely sure to himself.

"Well, maybe a little bit of both. It was a stressful moment and I was, not exactly happy that you were hurt, and I knew Malefor wasn't happy his lover was hurt either. And even if those guys were with Malefor, when would he have the time to get away from his lover? The last time we were away from you guys, you woke up minutes later, and I'm sure Carith has done that during nights just to make sure he is still there. So I think I can trust him from what happened today," Spyro answered honestly, but feeling as if he was giving him to much praise, he growled, "But still, I can use that to probably kill him later."

Cynder giggled knowing he was embarrassed to give Malefor some much praise, "It's okay to be nice to him. I'm not mad at him for what happened. But I will agree that if he ever turned, then yes, we can hurt him very very badly, come close to kill, but not kill. I like having Carith around to talk to as she is the only girl, aside from Winter, and if Malefor leaves or worse, dies, then I know I will never be able to see or speak to her ever again."

"Huh, fair enough. I guess close to kill is almost as painful as kill so, I can go with it. But if he ever turned and hurt you, then I wouldn't be as nice as I was to those damn dragons who hurt you. I should've let that red Dragon stay longer so I could've shown him what happens if he ever tried something like that again."

"Well, you did pop his bone out of place, along with slamming your head up at his chin. You basically humiliated that dragon, which was pretty amazing to see."

"Which brings back memories of that one dragon, what was that Bastards name... Flint!"

"Spyro, it's okay."

"I what to know what happened to him. After what had happened, he said something, he was talking about something, I saw his lips move, but what was it? Maybe I should ask Ignitus."

"Why worry about that guy so much?"

"I don't know it's just, I want to know what happened to him. Just like Malefor, or, the dark master, after the first fight we had, he came back. And I can't help but feel as if the first fight I had with Flint, he would want to come back... But, I could be wrong. I just want to know, and make sure, that I won't have to worry about him coming back."

"With hope, he probably just found someone else to love aside from me."

"Someone, loving him? Hahaha, sorry, sorry..."

"You know, I said the same thing about you."

Spyro frowned at her words, and laid his head down in his paws. Cynder giggled and teased him as she put her lips just barely touching Spyro's, "Come on, I know you're not mad at me. You just trying to get me like you did last time. If it makes you feel any better, for one, I was joking, and two... I thought no one would love me, but you proved me wrong. Don't think I don't ever love you, because, well, you know I do, and I always will..."

Cutting her off, he quickly pushed his lips against hers and sent a small jolt of electricity through her mouth, making her eyes wide from pleasure before slowly closing them to enjoy the kiss that felt amazing to her. Spyro pulled away from the kiss, causing Cynder to go mad as she opened her eyes and cried, "No! Why did you stop?! And what was that?! Why did that kiss feel so good?!"

"Just a little special trick I picked up from some help. Volteer told me of a trick to make the kiss feel better, so I decided I would go ahead and see how it felt. And as amazing as it felt to kiss you, I knew you were having a better feeling then me, so I stopped on purpose."

"How dare you! Why would you do such a thing?!"

"Because, a kiss like that needs to be saved for a special occasion. I love you, and I will give you a kiss like that again, but lets keep that kind of a kiss for special occasions."

Sighing with a slight smile, she laid her head down on Spyro's paws once he moved his head up. Laying his head down over her, she whispered, "Sounds fair to me. A kiss like that does seems like only a special occasion kind of kiss... especially with how good it felt. But what occasion could possibly be more special then us going to sleep together at night?"

"I will probably make up ones, but there are, other, real occasions that I can give you the kiss on," Spyro hinted with a smile.

"Wait, what do you mean by that?!"

Spyro chuckled as he closed his eyes and whispered, "You'll find out... in the future... Goodnight Cynder."

"Good... Goodnight Spyro," Cynder whispered, with her eyes still wide open.

What could he have been talking about? He wouldn't... No... Ugh, you always know how to mess with my mind... But what if... Cynder thought about it through the night, wondering what her lover meant by it, but closing her eyes, she smiled, and as she dozed off with Spyro, she thought once more, I will find out one way or another... But I hope that... I already have.