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.

5. Chapter 5: A Nice Get Away

Chapter 5: A Nice Get Away

Alright... Just need to turn back time a little more... and... done... Okay, now with the Dragon Temple completely fixed, I can now use the pool of visions to figure out when and how the book was stolen. But more importantly, by who, Ignitus thought to himself as he stood on the patio outside of the Dragon Temple. Turning around and blinking, he reappeared inside of the Chronicler's room on the White Isle. Walking up to the pool of visions, he watched as it swirled and molded into an image of the destroyed Dragon Temple. Okay, so I was two weeks away from the complete repairs of the Temple. So now lets go back and see if the book was there two weeks after the attack. The pool of visions did the same as it swirled and molded into another image of the old and destroyed temple. Looking at it, the brink had been moved, but there was no sign of the book. Okay... Let's try... A week from the attack. Using the pool of visions, it showed him an image. He smiled greatly to see the book was there inside the hole. The brick that protected the book had been moved. Which means, Volteer forgot to put the brick back after the attack... That would explain why, when I went looking for it, the brick had already been moved out of place. Well... let's see who took it then. The image sped up a little as mold and grass formed around the Temple. As the image came close to the second week, Ignitus noticed a dark creature walking over to it. What the hell. He watched as the dark creature picked up the book before looking around, almost as if it sensed something. Turning around, the dark creature walked out with the book before the image of the pool of visions went dark.

"Damn it!" Ignitus cursed, looking away from the pool of visions and wishing it would've been who he thought it was, "All this time it was a dark creature! But why would it have the intelligence, the, the information, any sort of knowledge to go to the Dragon Temple and pick up that book?! It doesn't make any sense! And I can't look any further because he walked into a zone that was once controlled by darkness..."

Walking back and forth towards the door and to the pool of visions, he continued to think, hoping there was some possibility that he could bring her back. The Ancestors would never approve if I, went back to the past and saved her, and with the book destroyed, Volteer has lost almost everything: His research, his notes, his love... everything... Ugh, Damn it all... Even if I were to look for the book, going into this, New dark master territory is going to be risky since I don't even know who he or she is... And as much as I want to look back into her past I'm... I'm scared about what I'd see. I don't even want to look into Malefor's past from what has happened... But... Volteer, I'm doing this for you, Ignitus made up his mind, and walking forward, he blinked and appeared in a huge hallway of books. Looking to his left, he grabbed a book. Walking forward, he blinked again and reappeared back in the pool of visions room. Placing the book on the ground, he skipped all the way over to the attack. Come on, come on, where is it... Yes! Here it is... 'As Ersa tried to fight off the dark creatures, it proved to be to much for her as she was attacked and stabbed in the back by a dark creature. They all started to laugh and with her last words she whispered... I love you, Volteer... I'm sorry I couldn't tell you'... As the dark creatures moved into attack her, she ran into the crowd of dark creatures before meeting her... end...' Reading the last part, Ignitus clutched his paw in anger, knowing that he shouldn't have read about what had happened. Closing the book, he sighed, knowing there was nothing for him to do now. Tapping a claw on the book, it disappeared in a white light. Sitting down on the ground, he thought to himself, What am I going to tell everyone...? Spyro said he would help him find Ersa, and i don't want them to be hurt chasing after... someone who's already died... What am I supposed to say...? It's hard to believe she would've died so easily. She was so smart, maybe even smarter then Volteer... But... numbers beat intelligence... and there was nothing she could do. He knew the Sun had come out which was his queue to get back to his body. Blinking and appearing near his body, he looked down at himself as he sighed. Looking over at Volteer, the wide smile on his face only made it more difficult for him to tell him the bad news. But even for him, he couldn't go through with it. Turning back around and placing his paw on his body, he shined white before disappearing. As Ignitus gained all the information from his clone, he sighed with sadness, "Sorry... Volteer."

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Sun's been out for a while... I haven't heard my door open, and I don't feel his cold ass tail blade on my neck... Which means, Pausing his thoughts, Malefor slowly opened up one eye to see if anyone was in his room. Opening up his other eye, he looked around the room, and with excitement, he whispered to himself, "Yes..."

But now that I think about it, I should ruin his sleep just as he's ruined mine for the last three or four days. He said he trusted me, so let's put that to the test, He thought, moving his paws, tail, and wings gently away from Carith as to not wake her. Hopping off the bed, he walked over to the door, but stopped. Turning around, he looked at his lover and nodded at himself. Running over to his lover, he gave her a small kiss to her lips before pulling away. Running back over towards the door, he opened it. He walked out of the room and over towards the other room, not knowing that he had woken up Carith from his kiss. Only going to give me that little bit? Oh no, mister, you are going to give me the full package, Carith thought, opening her eyes and licking her lips.

Quietly pushing and opening the door, Malefor snuck into the room. Carefully walking over and trying to hide every one of his foot steps, he was successful as he made it to the bed undetected. Raising his tail blade up, he stopped as he thought, Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe he was just going off of what Cynder told him to tell me... he doesn't really trust me, does he...? I mean, by trying this, it will show if he does or doesn't. Moving his tail blade around, he couldn't figure out how he was going to fake attempt at slicing his throat if he couldn't even see it. Well, this is going to be me difficult then I thought. Spyro's neck isn't exposed since he's laying his head over Cynder's, and her head is completely on Spyro's paws... then again, there is a little bit of her neck showing. This is perfect! With her chains gone, I can use that to my advantage. Moving his tail blade against the side of her neck, she shivered a little from the random feeling of a tail blade which scared her a little. But she knew there was only one dragon who would dare attempt such a thing while Spyro was around. Without even opening an eye, Cynder grumbled, "Spyro... Malefor is trying to kill me."

"... Malefor...? Wha... Malefor... is this true?" Spyro grumbled as his eyes were still closed as well.

"And you thought trusting me was a good thing. You move, and she dies."

Spyro sighed as he wish he could've still been asleep, now that he didn't have to worry. But to end this quick, he decided to cheat, "Carith. Malefor is still being the dark master. Can I kill him and you can find someone else?"

"That sounds like a fantastic idea," A voice came from the door.

Malefor looked behind himself to see Carith looking at him with a slight smirk. Taking his tail blade away from Cynder's neck, he explained himself, "Wait wait wait! I can explain..."

"You better. That half ass kiss you gave was nothing more then a tease. You better have a lot more then that little peck. And attempting to kill Cynder right after Spyro said he had trusted you? Spyro, if I were you, I would cut all ties with him and just go with what you had to say before."

"Ugh... fine," Spyro agreed, taking his wing off Cynder's and moving his paws gently away so her head rested on the bed, and while he did that, he stretched out his body as he opened his eyes and continued, "I would've been fine if you tried that trick on me, but my lover, even after everything I said about you. I guess I was wrong all along... Well, let's get this over with. So how do you want to die."

"Wait! Stop!" Malefor said towards Spyro before looking back at his lover and begging for forgiveness, "I'm sorry, I swear. Please, what can I do to not die?!"

"Hold up on killing him Spyro, hopefully I can show him what he's done wrong and lets see if he can correct his, dark, actions," Carith giggled, having fun with messing with her lover, and she knew she had him in a corner, and she wanted that kiss, "First things first, you better give me one really good kiss. If I'm not satisfied, then I have no need for you any longer. Second, apologize to Cynder for attempting to kill her. Do you understand?"

"Yes mama..." He murmured with a smile and did as he was told.

Walking up to Carith, he stood there, and she looked at him with a raised brow, wondering how he would redeem himself for what he has done. Opening up her eyes and stretching out her body, Cynder watched as the two pushed their lips against one another in a heartwarming kiss. Picking her head up, Cynder rolled on her back and teased her lover, "I'm So lonely... even after I was almost killed, I don't even get reassurance?"

Looking at his lover, he chuckled and smiled. Walking over to her and standing next to her side, he moved his head down and gave her a kiss as well. Her body plopped back down into the bed sideways as the kiss felt like he was absorbing her energy. As the other two pulled away from her kiss, Carith saw the other two kissing, and looking back at her lover, she smiled, "It's good to know that Spyro really does trust you. Seeing that made me so happy to see we've finally made it here, together."

"Hehe, yeah... I was surprised he didn't kill me on the spot either. Granted, I know he had fears, and he probably did want to kill me since, I was at his lover's throat but, that's understandable. Now that I'm thinking about it, I was pretty scared that maybe, just maybe, Spyro would've woken up and attack me. But now that I know he won't... I wish me and you were still in bed. It's pretty chilly honestly," Malefor agreed with Carith, but she also agreed with him as it did feel pretty cold in the morning time.

Pulling away from their kiss, the two smiled at one another, and looking over at Malefor, Spyro asked, "Come on, where is the apology?"

"Spyro, Carith, it's fine. Malefor was probably still excited to see that I didn't have my chains on any more. It's definitely new with me having a full neck and all. Just know, Malefor, that, no matter what you do, showing that you act like the dark master but then it ends up being a prank... You aren't proving anything to me by doing that. I know you aren't the dark master, and I know you will never be him ever again. And because I believe that, I took off my chains, and they will forever be off... Just remember that."

Malefor was glad to hear her words, especially since he knew her live was ruined the most by what the dark master had done. Spyro grumbled slight as he chuckled, "Man, I wanted to see what his apology would've looked like. I would've been like, get on your knees and beg for forgiveness."

"I wouldn't have done that," Malefor said.

"You would've if Carith said so."

"Well yeah... also because she probably would've sucked the life out of me when she kissed me."

"She can do that, and I don't have to deal with you?! Carith, do it now."

"Of course you would say something like that."

"And of course, even after I said I trusted you, you tried to kill my lover. Does this mean I should never trust you and never give you my friendship?"

"No! I'm sorry. I just wanted to make sure you truly did trust me. I wasn't exactly able to try it on you because your entire neck was laid out over Cynder's. So the only neck I really saw was a little bit of Cynder's."

"Maybe she should put her chains back on then."

"No no no! It was a joke alright, calm down. You are getting too radical."

"I was joking too so calm yourself down. But now that you talk about it... Cynder sure does look pretty lonely."

Looking at her with a smile, she had a raised brow, wondering what he was thinking about. Looking back at Malefor, he said, "Tell you what, since Cynder forgives you, I will give you another chance if you wait outside for a second and let me and Cynder um... talk, about your uh... oh, what ever, you know what we are going to be doing anyway. So get out, give us a minute and I'll forgive you, okay?"

"Deal," Malefor quickly agreed, turning and walking out of the room with his lover following behind.

Shutting the door behind herself, the two sat in the hallway, and looking at him as he turned and sat down in front of her, she whispered, "I sure hope you have the same Idea I do."

"Conquering the world now that I have Spyro's trust?"

"Well, it depends on how well you kiss me, then I will tell you if I will help you concur the world. But first, you have to concur my lips with yours."

"Oh well... when you put it like that, conquering the world just sounds too difficult. So I should just stick to what I do best."

"Then get to it."

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"You know, I'm actually pretty surprised Malefor isn't dead right now. When I said Malefor was attempting to kill me, I expected you to fly off that bed and end his life right then and there," Cynder said with amazement, rolling back onto her belly with Spyro laying down next to her, and her words made him chuckle.

"You're not wrong, I really wanted to. But... I guess I wasn't as tired as I thought when I said what I did. And, since I trusted him, no one way hurt, and everyone was able to just laugh it off," Spyro admitted to her, but she understood, "Which, now that I think about just laughing everything off, maybe we should all head to the Dragon Temple today so I can help Volteer find his long lost lover, or, mate. It would be good to know that we can laugh off the fact that we thought she was gone when she really wasn't."

"And what if she is?"

"Then, it's going to be pretty difficult for me to tell Volteer, but, you know me; Keeping everyone happy is what I try to achieve in life. Seems like I've made that so for Malefor, and since he doesn't fear me killing him, I know Carith is thankful. Ignitus has someone he loves so he's happy. Terrador and Cyril I have to talk more with as I'm not sure. And then, comes Volteer. I know for a fact if I could find her, I could make him happy, then I just have the other two. I'm so close... so close to achieving what I've wanted to for such a long time."

"I thought you telling me you loved me was your only goal."

"Lucky for me, goal complete, thankfully."

"Hehe, well, now that you talk about Terrador, I don't think he is as happy as could be. I mean, he did have that one girl from before."

"Yeah... which I'm trying to figure out what to do about. Luckily, we don't have to worry about her anymore, but also sadly, if you know what I mean. Trying to find him a lover is going to be difficult. I mean, he has the looks and the strength, all he is missing is the determination. I will talk to them some more about it."

"Then do you want to get down there, or would you like to lay with me some more."

"As much as I would love too, I just want to make sure, one last day, that I can completely, one hundred percent trust him. I know what I said, I do. But if we are going to the Dragon Temple, I really wonder how he'd react. After all, the journey to that Temple is how this all started. Which, makes me afraid but, I'm sure me and Malefor can handle apes. But if anything happens, stay behind me, okay?"

"What, I can't fight?"

"Not at the risk of an injury."

"I've been injured plenty of times in the past. A little punch or kick won't kill me."

"But..."

"Hehe, alright alright, I won't fight. And I guess a bonus to this is I get to watch you fight. With every punch, I get to see those muscles of yours flex."

"I know something you'll like even better then my muscles."

"Oh? And what might that be?"

Gently pushing his lips against hers, he closed his eyes, somewhat needed some relief from what Malefor tried to pull. Closing her eyes, she pushed into the kiss, and even she could feel that he needed it. The two pulled away from the kiss, and opening their eyes, they smiled lovingly at one another. Moving her head underneath Spyro's, she nuzzled him up and down his neck, both smiling from the feeling. Pulling her head back, she whispered to him, "I love you."

"I love you too," He whispered back with a smile.

Standing up on the bed, she put her tail blade against his neck and slowly groped his neck with her blade as she got off the bed. Reaching his chin, she pulled her tail blade back and he purred from every bit of the feeling. She smiled at him, and turning her side towards him for him to see, she teased him some more, "Are you going to join me, or are you going to lose all of this?"

He blushed slightly with a chuckle. Standing up and walking off the bed, he jumped onto the floor and walked next to her as she now faced the door. Putting his body up against hers, he draped his wing over her body and whispered, "Please, you know you belong to me. It doesn't matter how strong the dark master is, I will always be able to control you."

"Yes, Master Spyro," She giggled.

Hearing a door open, Malefor opened his eyes, but he was still in the middle of kissing his lover. Spyro looked at him with a raised brow as he shut the door behind himself with his tail. Carith opened her eyes hearing the door shut and slowly pulled away from the kiss. A small saliva string from Malefor and Carith's mouth made them blush hard as they tried to ignore it, but looking at the two as they blushed, they felt embarrassed to say the least. Wiping off the saliva from both their mouths with their own paws, Spyro watched as he put his paw back on the ground, and looking up at him, he shuck his head, "Great. I now know at some point, I'm going to have to walk there and I'm going to know exactly what I'm stepping in."

"Well it's not our fault," Malefor growled with embarrassment.

"And yet... it was your saliva... hopefully."

"You're gross."

"And you just wiped your saliva on my floor. Thanks dude, really nice."

"Where else... no, never mind. Plus, I wasn't going to wipe it off on my body If that's what you were thinking."

"Look, next time, keep it to yourself, okay?"

"Well I couldn't because it was being stolen by..."

"Stop! Stop what ever you are about to say. If you keep going I will actually throw you out a window."

"Look, you think it's gross now, but wait until you and Cynder start kissing like how we are. Then let's see if you think it's gross."

"You know, I'm not seeing a reward here for keeping you alive you know. I keep you alive, and my lover gets a tail blade to her neck in the morning, and now you wipe your saliva on my floor. Something tells me I should seriously change my mind."

"Look I'm just... I'm just really happy to hear I've gained your trust, so I'm just having some fun now. I know just a day after you trusting me, and I pretended to almost kill your lover doesn't sound like the greatest thing in the world to do, but when you didn't kill me, and you didn't attack me, I was just, really happy to see you actually trusted me."

"Well... when you put it like that... I understand. I will give you a pass for what you did as I said I would if you gave me and Cynder time together. As for the saliva thing, keep it to yourself, understood?"

"I uh... kinda can't."

"Oh for the love of, keep it to yourself or keep it to your lover."

"Hehe."

Trying to forget what happened, Spyro walked over towards the door with Cynder. As the doors opened, Malefor walked over and stood next to his lover. Draping his wing over her, she blushed and whispered, "I thought they were going to talk for a lot longer then I thought, I didn't know we'd get caught. I think Spyro is still trying to work out the whole trust thing so, lets just give him some time and maybe if I talk to Cynder, he will be completely in trust of you."

As the two walked down the stairs, Malefor and Carith followed behind and continued talking, "Yeah but, I thought he said he trusted me? Yeah, It was embarrassing to see what he saw but even still, what do you think is up with him? Even he knows that getting in the way of one another loving each other is extremely frustrating... mainly because I was having fun."

"Hehe, of course you were. Well, go talk to him, see what's up. I will stay back and talk with Cynder."

"Okay."

Taking his wing off of Carith, he walked up to Spyro's side. As he looked at him, Malefor asked, "Hey, Spyro, can I talk to you?"

"What for?" He asked.

"Well, I just wanted to see what's up and talk about guy stuff. And while we are doing that, Carith said she wanted to talk with Cynder."

He sighed, and looking over to see what Cynder had to say, she smiled and nodded as she was looking forward to talking more with her. Taking his wing off her, he whispered, "Just make sure to stay close. Last thing I want is for you to disappear like yesterday. Still gives me a heart attack to this day thinking that you were actually gone."

"Don't worry, I promised I wouldn't ever do that again. I will be right back, I promise."

As Cynder backed away from her lover, she walked next to Carith while the other two talked. Looking at Spyro, he wanted to know what was wrong, so he asked, "Come on, you have to at least tell me what I did. Yeah yeah, I understand you're butt hurt about me playing around, but the thing about me kissing Carith? I thought you would be happy to see I was happy. Or at the very least, you would've said something like, 'at least your not trying to destroy the world, Malefor, keep up the good work'. So what's up?"

"I'm not, butt hurt. I just didn't expect for Cynder to say that you were trying to kill her. I understand you were joking, but my biggest fear was giving you my trust and then you using that to your advantage to destroy the world or, take Cynder from me in my sleep. I slept pretty good knowing I could trust you, and I know you were only joking. Just, give it some more time before you pull a joke like that."

"Wait, wouldn't that make it worse? I mean, if you trusted me say, three days from now, and then I tried to pull a prank like that, wouldn't you flip out even more, and growl as you said, 'I knew he was still the dark master'. In that case, that means you'll never truly trust me from what I'm hearing. Which in the case, also means that I will never be able to become your friend if you always fear what I am the opposite of."

"I know, I know... I know you have tried to show me that you aren't the dark master any more, and I want to trust everyone because I believe they see what I don't see. But in my mind, I feel like they are just saying that because they don't want to lose you again, so I had to go off of mainly what Cynder and I had talked about. I do still trust you from before, that's why I didn't quickly jump off that bed and attack you, because I wanted to see what would happen. And... everything turned out the way I had hoped: Everyone smiling and laughing because we didn't need to worry about the dark master really attacking."

"So... does that mean we are still good?"

"Alright, fine, we are still good. I guess I was also jealous because I was worrying about what you two were doing and I missed out on kissing Cynder some more. And yet, there you were in the hallway enjoying every second with your lover. Tomorrow, I just need to lay in bed with Cynder and kiss her from Sun rise to Sun set."

"Your mouth is going to be pretty dry if you do that."

"Hey, in the end, it will have been totally worth it. But best part, I have my water ability, so I can keep going along with Cynder for as long as I like."

"Wait... I thought you were just complaining about me and Carith and the whole saliva thing. And here you are saying how you'd use your water ability to keep her lips wet as well. That water is still coming out of your mouth meaning it's still going to have your saliva."

"I wasn't complaining, I was jealous, because I wish me and Cynder were doing the same. Secondly, I feel like you're just jealous because you don't know how to make water so you can do the same with your lover."

"I am not!"

"Dude, even I know that you are."

"Okay... fine... I kinda am. Well, do you, trust me enough to teach me one day?"

"Well, I will be honest, I trust you like, ninety five percent after what you pulled. Let's see how today goes, you gain that five percent back, and yes, I will agree to teaching and training you to protect Carith."

"Will this power also help me, you know... protect my Hatchling if I ever had one with Carith?" Malefor whispered very quietly.

"Why else would you want power?"

"Look, I only seek power to protect, not to harm. I'm like you. We've been through enough and I don't want you to be alone in a fight. That way, we can get it done without having to worry about casualties, and we can all go back home, joking about how I was probably punched or you were kicked by what ever we were fighting."

"Alright fine, ninety seven percent I trust you, happy?"

"Honestly? Very."

Walking into the Guardians Chamber, everyone was surprised to see the Guardians hadn't woken up yet. As the four sat down with Cynder and Carith on one side and Malefor and Spyro on the other, they thought it would be best to wait it out and see if they were just getting out of bed. Just as the four sat down, the door in the back had opened, and all the Guardians came out of the room. Cyril was the last to come out of the room, and Ignitus was the first to speak, "How come you all are creeping on us?"

"We always come here in the morning, what are you talking about? And it's not our fault. What took you all so long to get out of bed?" Spyro defended himself and the other three.

As the five sat down in a row, Ignitus explained, "Well, I was up finishing some, late business which is finally done. I don't know what took the others so long to get up. Me and Claire were talking for quite some time, with an, occasional kiss on the cheek from here to here. I'm surprised Volteer didn't wake up three hours before us to read up some more on his books."

"Just been thinking about a lot lately. And even for me, thinking about something else, then reading and having to think about what I'm reading would just give me a headache after awhile," Volteer admitted as his mind was still dead set on how he would be able to find his lover.

Spyro noticed that and knew what was on his mind and asked him about it, "Well, since everyone still seems like they are groggy from waking up, how about me and you go on a little adventure to the Dragon Temple and see what we can find? I told you I would help you find her, so why not do that today?"

"Really?!"

"Yeah, of course. I mean, why don't we all go? We all haven't been there in years, so it would be fun to go back and see where we've used to be."

"Spyro, after that fight, I, along with the others are still in a lot of pain. The reason we couldn't really get out of bed fast enough is because our joints feel like they keep locking up on us. We are nowhere near as powerful as you, and our bodies still need to relax and heal from yesterday's battle," Terrador admitted, still feeling the pain even now.

"We could always go to that hot and refreshing pool of water that me and you use to go to," A voice said from the entrance of the Chambers

Everyone looked over to see it was Sparks, and they all felt like they hadn't seen him in days.

"Hey, Sparks," Spyro chuckled, seeing Sparks fly next to him while he crossed his arms.

"That's it? Hey Sparks? I slept all day yesterday and no one even woke me up, no one even knew I existed! I woke up and found you asleep, again, and you didn't even remember I was alive?! I thought we were brothers man, how could you do this to me?" Sparks cried sadly, not even knowing if they were brothers anymore.

"I was excited, okay. I was finally able to fight everyone, including Ignitus in a fight."

"So a fight is more important then me? I can't even believe you would be like this."

"Come on, Sparks. Look on the bright side, you always said how you wanted sleep and now you had a full days worth of sleep. Now you won't have to complain about not getting enough sleep when you should be well rested... right?"

"You know I will still find a reason to complain, like... uh..." Sparks paused as he looked around the room, wondering what he could point out, and as he looked at Cynder, something seemed different to him, "What in the everything happened to, Cynder...? She's missing something... what is she missing...? She still looks like a demon ready to kill on sight... And unfortunately, she's still with you... Wait! I got this one... the chains! I almost forgot! So, why did she take them off? I thought Cynder deserved to be in Chains."

"Sparks," Cynder growled, raising her tail blade, "You annoying ass little mother..."

"Sparks, you keep it up, and I will let Cynder gut you like a fish," Spyro chuckled, seeing Sparks back up a little and shiver from what she was doing, "She took off the chains because she doesn't fear being controlled by the dark master anymore. And with the chains gone, she enjoys it, Malefor feels great about being trusted, and since everyone is happy, so am I."

"Oh yeah, Malefor is still a thing. Not coming off as hostile, but I'm surprised you're not dead."

"Hehehe, me too," Malefor chuckled.

"Why the change in heart. I thought you were like watching this dude twenty four seven."

"Don't make me get into details, I will make him smile and it creeps me out. Just know that he's good, everyone else is good, so I'm good," Spyro explained, seeing as Sparks looked over to Claire and Ignitus, and for some reason, he felt like he was going to pull something and warned him, "Sparks, I'm telling you man, pick on the Chronicler and he will seriously give you nightmares."

"I know but, come on man, you know me, and right now it just feels so easy for me to say something. And I know the other three will never find someone so this is the only other dragon I can joke about with. Then again, thinking about it, you are all down right rude when it comes to a joke. Ignitus would give me nightmares, Cynder would kill me if I joked about anything for you or her, and Malefor is just one scary ass dude. Like, honestly man."

"I'm not scary... Am I?" Malefor whimpered.

"You are literally, the only thing, that keeps me up at night."

"Same here," Spyro chuckled, "But come on Sparks, it's embarrassing when you talk about me loving Cynder, especially back then when I didn't even know if she loved me."

"Oh yeah, says mister, 'I sure hope she doesn't leave me, what if I did something wrong, I should've done better, I'm going to cry about what happened all night until Cynder helps me but doesn't kiss me because she doesn't love me'. That's literally been you for weeks until she told you."

"Shut up..." Spyro blushed, causing everyone to chuckle, "Besides, it's not like you'd ever know since you'll never find someone."

"Dude, even if I found someone, I usually would blind a lot of girls from how manly I am. You know, because I fought along side you when we fought Cynder, The Destroyer, and even when we fought Malefor that last time. I guarantee you, I could have any girl I wanted, but I choose to be a free man. I mean, look at you now. You always have to have Cynder by your side which is scary enough. Malefor always has Carith which I feel bad for her, and Ignitus has Claire which... I don't know enough about you two to pick on you about."

"Lucky us," Ignitus and Claire laughed slightly.

"If I'm always near Cynder then why am I by Malefor today?"

"One, you became a Volteer and I'm sorry you've fallen this far. Or two, you both have finally broken up and I can enjoy time with just you and me. You know, that bro time we almost never have because you're always face to face with the evil queen over there."

"Spyro, I'm gonna kill him," Cynder growled.

"Bam, blood thirsty, what did I say."

"Stop picking on everyone Sparks. Plus, Volteer once did have a lover even though he wasn't able to tell her, so you can't pick on him about that kind of thing," Spyro defended Volteer, and Sparks had no idea he had a lover, but it only gave him more fuel to burn as he wanted to pick on him next, "Volteer and I wanted to go to the Dragon Temple to hopefully find answers on where his lover could be. Until we know for a hundred percent that she has... passed, I will help him look. So, since you are awake, do you want to come with us? Maybe we can even visit our parents."

"Mom and Dad! I haven't seen them in forever. Hell yeah I'm all for that. Since it's just you and Volteer does that mean we can have some bro time?!"

"Well..."

"Well what? Come on man, don't do this. Don't do that thing where you do a thing and ruin everything!"

"I'm sorry, Sparks, but no matter where I go I have to bring Cynder, I can't leave her here. And I'm going to force Malefor to go because I don't want him to be in Warfang all by himself. I trust him, I truly do , but, I still need a little bit more time before I trust him that much. And I want the Guardians to go because we haven't been there in forever."

"You're bringing everyone?!"

"Why? Am I not allowed to bring everyone?"

"Um, Spyro... I know you don't trust me to stay in Warfang, but, maybe it would be best if me, Carith, Cyril and Terrador stay behind while you all go," Malefor suggested, shaking a little as he didn't want to admit that he didn't want to go because of what happened in the past.

"What? Why, and what's going on?"

"I... I don't want to relive the past, Spyro... what if something happens? What if we are attacked?"

"Then we fight? What, you think apes could kill me? Please. Combined with your power and mine we will be fine. And if you don't want the past to repeat itself, then don't use your time power when someone gets hurt and forget to use the hourglass properly. Oh that's right, you don't have the hour glass, and no one is going to get hurt so, what's the problem?"

"Well... Ignitus, couldn't you just, teleport us there with your powers? Like how you did yesterday?"

"I... I can't," Ignitus murmured.

"What? Why not?"

"The Ancestors won't allow it. Most of my power I can use but, because it's such a long ways away rather then how close we were from yesterday, they won't allow me to use my powers for such a trip."

"Then that just proves my point that something could happen! Spyro, I'm sorry but, there is no way I can go, not after what has happened."

"Then what's the point in me training you if you'll never use your powers to show me that you want to protect Carith?" Spyro asked, understanding where his fears were coming from, but he wanted everyone to come along and he knew trying to convince Malefor was going to be difficult.

"Even when I had trained before with the Guardians, I wasn't powerful back then. What makes you think that one day's worth of training will make me more powerful then when I was before? I haven't trained enough to feel confident enough to go back out into the world. And I'm scared that if we do get over run by apes and ancestors forbid everyone goes down, I'm afraid I will have to use my dark power and summon the dark master again. I can't do that Spyro... I just can't."

"Alright, fine. I guess I will just have to make you an offer you can't refuse."

"Offer?"

"If you come along, along with the Guardians... I will trust you one hundred percent all the time so you will forever have my trust, and, when ever you need training, I will show and help guide you to become as powerful as I am. And, if you want to, I will help you control your dark power so you'll never have to worry about the dark master taking control over you... What do you have to say to my offer?"

Malefor bit his lip as it was the most tempting offer he has ever been given in his life. I will forever have Spyro's trust, he will help me become just as powerful as him, and he will help me control my dark power?! Damn it! I really want to agree but, I don't want to put Carith at risk. What's the point of power if I don't have her to protect? Spyro is powerful and confident in his powers but... Pausing, he looked at Carith, wondering what he should do. She knew he was in a tight spot, and she knew that he really wanted this. Knowing it would help tremendously, she nodded at him with a smile. He sighed, hoping that nothing bad would happen, and looking at Spyro, he agreed, "Alright... fine, I will go. Just, if anything happens..."

"Then I carry the team by taking out anything that gets in our way. You trust me and I trust you."

"But what if I pull a prank again and i lose your trust?"

"I will trust you a hundred percent all the time so you will forever have my trust'. That is what the deal is, right? And I know that as long as Carith lives, I won't have to worry about you. I will probably tell you I was scared but then you would say you were joking and as long as Cynder is okay, or anyone else you prank is okay, then I'm fine with it."

"I thought you were scared of me controlling my dark powers because you thought it would help the dark master and not me?"

"Anything you have to say, I say Carith. It's taken me a while to notice that but, after today, I will cut ties completely with the dark master and you. Then again if the dark master does return, you're dead. And you do somehow survive, it will definitely take time for you to earn my trust back, but since you know as much as I do that would never happen, you have nothing to worry about. And since there aren't any dark creatures from what I've seen, then I know there isn't a dark master so I don't have to worry about killing you."

Almost everyone swallowed hard aside from Cynder and Spyro as they weren't there for the conversation of the new possible dark master, and they all had the same thoughts on the matter. I knew it. Even if Spyro does trust Malefor completely, there is no telling what he would do if he saw dark creatures. And even if we told him, he would just kill Malefor then the next dark master. And I still have to worry about telling Volteer and Spyro that Ersa is dead. If I said it now, Volteer's heart would be crushed, but, if I do tell them, we wouldn't have to go and we wouldn't have to worry about the dark creature problem. If I don't say anything, we risk Spyro finding out about the darkness. Along with the fact that if I also don't say anything, Volteer will still look forward and have hope to find her, and Spyro will trust Malefor enough to train him, which he could use to defend himself if Spyro ever accused him of being the dark master, and maybe everyone would be able to calm him down. But, then again, it would all come down to Cynder and Spyro's trust for Malefor... Even for me, I have little time to figure it out... what should I do? Ignitus thought for as long as possible, hoping he could find an answer before they were one hundred percent on their decision.

"What about me? I almost died," Volteer chuckled.

"Well, I don't need to convince you since I know you are already on board. I guess just, try not to almost die next time?" Spyro chuckled.

"Hehe, yeah, sounds fair enough. Hopefully you can carry me through the fights if we get attacked."

"We will be fine. If anything happens, we can just push Malefor at them and run."

"Good to know you have my back... to push," Malefor grumbled with a smile.

There's no way I could tell Volteer and break his heart. I just have to hope that we don't encounter any dark creatures... Ugh! But it's such a big risk though! Either way it... It won't take us that long to get there, not as long as I think. But everyone is in pain and we might not be able to fly that far... Ignitus continued to fight with what to do and what not to do and it only made it worse on him, causing him to shake slightly. Claire noticed this and while everyone was talking, she looked at him and asked, "Hey, are you okay? Is it about the kiss I gave you? Ignitus, you can tell me the truth."

He sighed as he couldn't keep it from her, and since everyone else was talking to one another, he took the opportunity to tell her, "I don't know what to do. On one paw, if Spyro goes to the Dragon Temple, he will give Malefor his trust as well as his skills and training. And Volteer will still believe Ersa is alive. But if I tell him that she isn't, it would break his heart, and Spyro won't keep that promise because all of us won't go to the Dragon Temple. Along with the fact that if we go, we risk Spyro seeing dark creatures."

"Wait... Ersa's dead?"

"Unfortunately... Just, don't tell anyone about what we are discussing, okay?"

"I don't know. I think if you give me a kiss, I could make it happen."

"Hehe, fair enough."

Giving her a peck on the side of her cheek, she smiled even as he pulled away.

"So, what do you think I should do?" He asked.

"Well... that's a tough one... Um... I would say... we should still go."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, look at it this way. Volteer will still be happy if we go and Spyro will trust Malefor along with helping him train, so we are getting more out of this then we think by that happening. And if Spyro sees a dark creature, it's true he might attack Malefor, but he wouldn't kill us for trying to protect him. Here's what I want to know. When Malefor came back, did he try to kill him?"

"Of course, why?"

"Did he though?"

"No, but, he came very close."

"And who stopped him when that happened?"

"Well, when he came back, he laid in a corner without his lover. Spyro came out of one of his rooms, Terrador said something, and even though he could've killed Malefor, he didn't."

"So then why didn't he kill Malefor when he had the chance?"

"Well... Cynder was alive. Everyone was still alive so, maybe he thought he changed."

"Then did he ever talk to Malefor again after that?"

"After he told Malefor to leave or else he would kill him, he walked back to his room where he told Cynder he loved her. Scared for his life that she would decline his love, she kissed him, and all the anger in his body completely disappeared after that. He walked back out, apologized for what he said and helped him get back with Carith. Then, I guess you can say the rest is just a long story of whether or not Spyro does or doesn't trust him, but with Carith and Cynder's help, he tries."

"Which makes me think. He had the chance, he could've killed him. I mean, now as I look at him, I'm glad he wasn't killed so, what stopped him? Even if Terrador somehow said something about what's happened, why didn't he go through with it?"

"I... I actually couldn't tell you for a hundred percent of why he didn't. Then again a lot had happened and maybe he was just too weak to do so."

"But even I know that wouldn't stop Spyro from killing Malefor."

"Maybe he saw what we've all seen in him and decided not to kill him?"

"We could always just ask him."

"Even if you asked me, I couldn't give you a clear answer," A voice interrupted the two as they both looked over at him with wide eyes seeing it was Spyro, and he explained, "To be honest, I don't know what stopped me from killing him that day. I guess looking at it now, I felt like the monster at that point. Malefor didn't have anyone. He lost his lover, his friends, just about everything that keeps someone sane. I didn't think about it until after as I still thought he was the dark master, but looking at it now, I understood."

"Well Damn, if you know all this, why are you so Hell bent on killing me?" Malefor asked with a slight chuckle.

"I already said I trusted you, Alright."

"Yeah, like, ninety seven percent."

"Hey, that trip is still up for grabs."

"I already said I would go. But now that we are back on the subject of the past, I wanted to apologize again for what happened Cynder. I felt like i used you in getting to talk with the Guardians again. I know I told you this before but, it still gets to me."

"Malefor, it's okay. It's not like it was the first time you ever used me," Cynder giggled, earning wide eyes from everyone aside from Malefor as he hissed through his teeth from that burn.

"Damn... that hurts... that really hurts, Cynder, even for you."

"One of the many reasons I love her," Spyro chuckled.

"Dude, literally, when I first woke up, I thought it was going to be like, the greatest day of my life. But I get proven wrong so easily and so fast."

"That's you fault."

"How?! I haven't... oh yeah..."

"You woke up, and out a tail blade to my lovers throat as a joke after I decided to finally trust you."

"What?!" The Guardians all cried in unison, along with Claire and Sparks.

"Why would you do that?" Cyril asked.

"Look..."

"After everything we've taught you, what in the ever loving Ancestor made you think that was a good idea?!" Terrador asked.

"Would you..."

"Even for you Malefor. I have to agree with the two. Most unexpected," Volteer sighed

"Let me explain! Damn, like, one second is all I need."

"Second... well, what a terrible ass explanation," Spyro joked.

"I should've killed you when I had the chance."

"What happened to your promise, Malefor? Now I don't think I can trust what you said to me, about how the dark master wouldn't hurt Ignitus," Claire giggled, feeling bad that everyone was giving him a hard time about what he did, but she couldn't resist joining in on the fun.

"I think I'm giving up on life now..."

"Look on the bright side. Even after you joked around like that, Spyro didn't kill you," Ignitus chuckled.

"Yeah, but he was super bitchy after what happened and he wouldn't barely talk to me. And he interrupted a kiss I was having with Carith."

"Bitchy? Alright, I will remember that one," Spyro said with a raised brow.

"Will if you tried to kill my lover, I probably would've been the same," Terrador agreed with Spyro and his actions.

"Thank you, Terrador. And plus, if I would've done the same to Carith, you would've either cried about it, or you would've went full on dark master, turned yourself back into yourself after you are done growling at me, and then you'd cry and beg for me not to kill you."

"Alright alright, I won't joke anymore since you all will get butt hurt about what I do. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time you all have complained about what I've done. The Guardians all ways complain about something I didn't do in training, and Spyro is always complaining about something I did when I was the dark master. At least I have the girls on my side... aside from the time Cynder slapped me..."

"Sorry again for that... guess I did go a little overboard," Cynder giggled.

"Malefor, calm down, we are only joking. If you do make a prank like that, and as long as no one is hurt, I'm fine, Alright? Just give me some more time. Even after I trust you completely, I've already told you about my fears. Once we train some and I get to know you some more, then I will be fine with any prank aside from one's on my lover," Spyro explained, as he did trust him a lot more then he did before, but even still, he needed a little more time to get some of that trust back.

"Get to know me? Get to know me?! You read almost all of my past?! You probably already know my birthday and my favorite color, what else do you want?!"

"Please, we all know almost everyone's favorite color. Your favorite color is blue because of Carith, Ignitus's favorite color is blue because of Claire. And mine is..."

"Grey."

"What?"

"Well I mean, when you look at Cynder, she isn't like a, dark, or even a light kinda black. She's more of a, grey kinda color. She's like a, blackish grey. More grey though."

"So... my favourite color would be... blackish grey... but more grey though?"

"I guess... Just say grey."

Ignitus sighed as he was glad to see no one had heard the beginning of their conversation, but even now, he didn't know what to do. Looking at Claire for the answer, she looked back at him and knew exactly what he wanted to know. She nodded at him with a smile and looked back to see Malefor and Spyro talking to one another. Picking his head up, he looked at the two as well and decided it would be best if they went. But even after their conversation, he didn't know what to do about telling Volteer that Ersa was dead, I have some time to tell him and figure out how I will tell him. Unless something major happens and he hurts himself, I will take my time in figuring out how I will tell him. Tapping a claw on his shoulder, Sparks started to grow impatient as he asked, "So, are we going? I mean, if all you do is stand around and talk, that's fine by me, I have a life I don't want to waste."

"Keep your wings on Sparks, we are going to go. I guess we can continue the conversation later. Now, are we all for sure going?" Spyro asked, looking around, still seeing Malefor wasn't completely on board, "Don't worry, we will be fine. If anything happens, I got it. Kicking your ass is no where near as difficult as fighting some apes. And at least this time, I don't have to worry about breaking my arm while fighting one of them... Ignitus..."

"Hehe..." Ignitus chuckled.

"Alright..." Malefor murmured.

"And I know everyone is still in some pain so we will fly until someone gets tired and then we will walk, okay?" Spyro asked, seeing everyone nodded, "Alright, great. Well Sparks, lead the way."

"Finally," Sparks grumbled, flying out of the Guardians Chambers and down towards the main entrance.

Walking out of the room, the two girls were first, followed by Malefor, then the Guardians and Claire. Terrador stopped as Spyro walked past him, and walking up to catch up to him, he walked beside him and asked, "Hey, Spyro, I know this is, a wired thing for me to say but, that promise you made to Malefor, are you serious about keeping it?"

"Why do you ask?" Spyro wondered.

"Well I just, I don't know... I would feel a lot better knowing we won't have to worry about waking up one day and finding out he's dead."

"Oh, so you're on the side of keeping him alive?"

"Of course I am."

"Don't worry, I will keep my promise."

"Thank you, Spyro."

"I got you. So is there anything else you need to talk to me about?"

"Well... the dark creatures thing. Why would you kill Malefor if you saw them? What if maybe they all don't die off until after you've killed them all. And since Malefor is no longer the dark master, hence the reason the dark creatures will stop being made, wouldn't that mean he's still innocent?"

"Well... I can't say for sure on that. I'm scared to think if I did see a dark creature. But if I do... It's gonna take some serious convincing for me to not kill him."

"So... that means, even if you trust him, if you saw one dark creature, everything that you've done with him will all be for nothing?"

"Terrador... I'm trying, I swear. I'm just still scared. Helping him with his dark powers might help me a little more on my fear. But even after what Malefor pulled, it just showed how easily he could've hurt Cynder, but he didn't, even though he could've. Yeah, he had Carith somewhat near him but, what would he have done if Carith wasn't near him?"

"Even if she wasn't there, you two can't sleep without one another."

"True. If Cynder moves, about two seconds later I would jump up and look for her. I wonder if the same is for Malefor and his lover."

"Knowing him, I would definitely say yes."

Seeing as everyone walked out the doors, the two walked out with everyone else and blocked their eyes with their wing from the sudden sunlight. Pulling their wings back down, Spyro walked away from Terrador and over to his lover who sat down by the edge of the walkway. Sitting down next to her, Spyro looked to his side to see Malefor and Carith were sitting next to one another looking over Warfang. Malefor looked at him with a raised brow, and Spyro chuckled, "No. Absolutely not. We just did this yesterday, and I'm not doing it again. I'm not going to make you feel good about yourself."

"Come on, Spyro, admit it, I could've easily destroyed Warfang so many times by now, but because I'm not the dark master, I haven't. I think you're mad because I was right all along about being good. Come on, go ahead and admit it. I like it when I'm right and you're wrong," Malefor teased him, earning chuckles and giggles from everyone.

"Carith, I'm going to kill him."

"Cynder, Spyro is picking on Malefor again," Carith giggled.

"Why you always picking on that poor Dragon. He's been through enough," Cynder giggled.

Spyro sighed with a smile and agreed, "Alright, fine, you're right. But day isn't over."

"Oh yes, because I'm going to go out of my way to go all the way from the Dragon Temple, to come back and destroy Warfang, just to go all the way back so you wouldn't notice I was gone. You are one crazy little purple dragon if you think I have the ability to do something like that," Malefor joked, but even though he joked, it still made perfect sense, and Spyro couldn't complain about it, "Tell you what, when you develop super dragon like powers that make you break the sound barrier..."

"I can already do that," Spyro said.

"Hehe, yeah, I was about to say, Spyro can already do that," Ignitus chuckled.

"Yeah right. Alright, Volteer, how fast do you have to go to break the sound barrier?" Malefor asked.

"Well, it also depends on the temperature but, you can break the sound barrier if you go three hundred and forty three meters per second. Simple terms, it's more like seven hundred and sixty seven miles per hour," Volteer explained.

"Okay, before we go any further, at what point in your life did you think to yourself, man, it would be really convenient to know how fast you would need to go to break the sound barrier? Like, at what point did you think you would need to know something like that? No one would ever ask that kind of a question."

"You just did..."

"What ever. Any way, seeming how Spyro's full of himself breaking the sound barrier, what's after that like, mach one?"

"Well, technically, going mach one would be the same as breaking the sound barrier. But after that, you would keep going as mach two, the top speed is about One thousand five hundred and thirty four miles per hour."

"Can we talk about this while we are flying?!" Sparks grumbled, growing impatient.

"No, you know what. If Spyro can break the sound barrier, do it. If you go that fast then you should be able to reach the location in no time. So show us," Malefor demanded, feeling as if Spyro's speed was a lie, and even though he knew of his power, he didn't believe he could go that fast.

"I can just show you later. Gotta train some more before I show you. And plus, you think I would fly all the way over there and leave my lover?" Spyro declined, causing Malefor to grumble, but he still somewhat understand and decided to let it go for now, "Hehe. Alright Sparks, we are ready... again."

"Finally... again."

Flying up into the air, he flew a bit of ways away and waited for everyone else. Opening up their wings, the four took to the skies as they flew into the air, followed by the Guardians and Claire. Flying over towards Sparks along with everyone else, Spyro asked, "Well, you gonna lead the way or not?"

"What? You don't remember where we live?" Sparks asked, somewhat in a chuckle as if he forgot as well.

"Well... a lot has happened... And I kinda forgot."

"Great... me too."

"Don't worry, I got this," Ignitus said to everyone, transferring the location to Sparks and Spyro's brain, quickly making them remember.

"Oh yeah, right. Okay, I will lead the way I guess," Sparks said, flying off to find his parents house followed by everyone else.

As everyone flew together, they all engaged in their own conversations. With Cynder flying next to her lover, she asked him, somewhat to tease him, "So what's been going on, Spyro? I haven't felt the love at all as of lately."

"Haven't felt the love?" Spyro asked, looking at her and feeling like mentally slapping himself because he already knew the answer before she was able to say it.

"Well I mean, we only kissed like once or twice today. After that, you were hanging around with Malefor and that's it. After Carith and Malefor left our room, it seemed like they were having a lot more fun then we were. Is it the Chains, Spyro? Do I not interest you anymore?"

"Hehe, no. I thought you would want to talk to Carith while I talked to Malefor. Also because me and him did ruin some of your girl time together, and it was also a win because I was able to make sure Malefor stayed out of trouble."

"So you were only staying with him in case he tries to pull something again?"

"Maybe... yes..."

"But after today, we won't have to worry... right?"

"I will try. I did promise him so, lets just see how things go."

"Well, you better decide quick or else I will need to find someone else to kiss me."

"No! I'm sorry, I swear. Just before you had said anything, I realised that, always thinking Malefor is going to turn back to the dark master keeps taking time away from you, which is another reason why I'm trying to forget about the whole dark master thing. I just... One last time, are you sure, one hundred percent you forgive him? Even after everything that has happened?"

Looking away from Spyro and over to her left, she saw Malefor smiling and joking with his lover. The smiles on both their faces as they talked kept her believing that she was right. Looking back at Spyro, she was completely sure of her answer, "I wouldn't have taken my chains off if I didn't forgive him. The Guardians love that he's back, and I know especially that Carith loves having him back. I know you are scared of what might happen, and I understand, but Malefor is just like everyone else. He has a heart. And as long as he has Carith, we will always be fine."

"Alright... I did say I trusted him yesterday so, I guess I should trust him now. But my promise was that I would trust him a hundred percent tomorrow, so for today, I will still be ready to attack at any moment."

The raised brow on Cynder's face made him think differently as he quickly took back what he said before he was attacked, "What I meant to say was, I will just trust him a little now, trust him all tomorrow, but because I trust him, I will spend all of the time I have today with Cynder and only Cynder, I mean my lover. All the time with my lover."

"All the time?"

"I meant... forever?"

"Forever question mark or...?"

"Just forever."

"Good enough."

"Haha, yeah, I was surprised Spyro stayed with me as long as he did. He was probably ready to gut me like a damn fish. But at least I didn't die so, plus maybe?" Malefor laughed as he continued his conversation with his lover, talking about what's happened today, "But it's funny because when ever I tell myself, wow, I haven't died yet, but then I realise, today isn't over."

"You'll be fine, I promise you. I know Spyro's is scared but, he has Cynder to help him. But man, that slam she did on you when we were in the Chambers," Carith giggled, causing Malefor to laugh again with a big smile.

"I know right, she was like, it's not the first time you've ever used me. I was like, damn! I felt like crying at that point. Mainly because I wanted to gain Spyro's trust, not lose it all on one day. I messed up with the whole, waking up and pulling on prank on his lover. I feel like I've gone from a hundred to zero in like a day. But after today, hopefully hopefully hopefully, Spyro will keep the promise he made to me and train me to become stronger."

"Well, as long as the dark master, or even master Malefor, doesn't hurt Cynder or anyone else, I'm sure you're fine."

"Yeah, what a deal. He can hurt me and everyone else in his dumb fight that everyone had, but I can't hurt anyone else."

"Well, you did kick him to the ground and he didn't kill you after that."

"That's only because I couldn't go through with stabbing him. Hopefully, because I didn't go through with it, he was probably like, man, maybe I should trust the greatest purple dragon in the world."

"I would definitely agree if he said something like that."

"Hehe, thanks my love."

"Sweet mother of Ancestors! I'm in so much pain," Volteer growled as it felt like his wings were on fire as he flew.

"No... you want to know... what pisses me off! How the Hell... isn't Ignitus affected by this... when he took the most... amount of damage?!" Terrador growled, struggling to keep in the air as his wings started to feel as if they were locking up on themselves.

"Oh, that... I mean, ow! I'm in so, much pain," Ignitus tried to play it off, but he failed miserably.

"Just tell us so we won't have to worry about this kind of pain ever again," Volteer begged.

"Become I'm the Chronicler I guess. I heal faster then anyone else so a wound that takes mouths to heal for you all takes only a matter of seconds for me."

"Then why the Hell... why didn't you help with... Malefor back then again?!"

"I know it sounds wired, but trust me, me interfering with that fight no matter what I would have done would've killed almost everyone. It's best I didn't and we just smile knowing that everyone made it out. It wasn't easy trying to find out how to save everyone. I had to look and hear about the futures where almost everyone had died. It was usually only one of you three who survived and came to be the Chronicler. It wasn't the easiest time back then."

"Yeah, I remember that time. You had given up hope on... basically everything," Terrador chuckled, still struggling to stay in the air, "Damn. I know Malefor is scared to land because of what happened before but... I'm not feeling all up to flying all the way over there... What about you Cyril, how you feeling?"

"Oh I'm... I'm doing just... just fine," Cyril growled, trying to stay a float in the air.

"As much as I hate to say it... we have to land. We can't keep going like this. Well, actually, Ignitus, how much further are we?"

"Let me check... We are about more then halfway. We don't have much longer to go," Ignitus said.

"Alright, then I guess we should be okay to land. I'm going to fly up and tell Spyro," Terrador said, using the little energy he had left to fly over to Spyro.

Looking over to his right, Spyro saw Terrador struggling to stay next to him, and he asked, "Do we need to land?"

"Yes... please... Ignitus said that we are... more then half way there so... we should hopefully be fine..."

"Alright. I suppose the Guardians already know so I will fly over and tell Malefor and his lover. When ever we go to land just follow behind us. Just hold out for a little longer, okay?"

"I will, try."

Flying up higher into the air, Spyro had more energy then he thought and stopped. He watched as everyone continued to fly. Pulling his wings back, he launched himself forward with a big smile on his face. Flying next to Carith, her and Malefor looked at him, and he gave the bad news, "Alright, The Guardians are at the point of breaking their wings. We are going to have to land. Are you ready?"

Malefor sighed hugely and murmured, "Spyro..."

"Hey, it's going to be okay. And this time, you're right by Carith rather then at the Chronicler's place. Everything will be fine, okay? Trust me trust you, okay?"

"Okay... Alright I... I will try."

"Alright. When I fly down with Cynder, follow me, okay?"

"Okay..."

Flying ahead of the group, he moved over to the left and later slowed himself down and ended back right next to his lover's side from where he was before. Looking over at her, he said, "I know Malefor is scared but, I don't want the Guardians to cause too much pain on themselves. So, are you ready to head down?"

"Sure I guess, when ever you're ready," Cynder agreed.

"Alright. When I fly down with Sparks, follow me."

"Okay."

Flying ahead of the group once again, he flew next to Sparks and as his brother looked at him, he explained, "Hey Sparks, The Guardians are getting pretty tired so we are going to land. Malefor is still scared out his mind but, we should be fine. Apparently we are already more then half way there so we should be fine."

"Alright dude, what ever you say," Sparks agreed.

"Alright, just follow me down."

Flying down to the ground bellow, Sparks followed behind. Seeing that the two were flying down to the ground, everyone followed behind. Spyro landed first with Sparks flying beside him. Cynder then landed, followed by Malefor, Carith, Claire, and then the Guardians. As Cyril went to land, he was unsuccessful and tripped over himself, slamming his chin into the ground. Pulling himself up, he growled in pain, "Son of a... Bitch!"

Draping his wing over Carith and wrapping his tail around hers, he made sure she was safe with him at all times. Spyro did the same with his lover, along with Ignitus doing the same to Claire. Seeing that kinda got Malefor even more frightened as he thought to himself, If Ignitus knows all, why does he need to protect her? I mean, it's understandable to always protect the one you love but... does he know that we will be attacked?! Damn it, I, I shouldn't have come, we... we shouldn't have done this! Feeling him shiver, Carith felt terrible as she wanted to say something, but even the Guardians weren't feeling well about going to adventure off to Warfang again. Spyro saw the fear in almost everyone's eyes, but he was able to keep cool as he said, "Alright, let the journey continue. But if you see anything, let me know. From the looks of it, I'm our only fighter right now."

No one could disagree as they were either too scared to say something, or they weren't allowed to fight. As Spyro continued to walk with his lover, Sparks followed to his right along with everyone following behind him. Cynder looked to see Malefor was shaken up and Carith was trying to help him calm himself down. Looking back to her lover, she asked, "Spyro, Malefor isn't taking it so lightly. And from the looks of it... The Guardians aren't either. It also doesn't help that Ignitus seems to know something is up."

"It will be fine. While we were flying, I was actually having some fun. I don't know why, I just have so much energy. So if we are attacked, I got it. And it's going to feel great to have to fight something again. The only problem is, I can't have as much fun with it as if say, I was in the training room. Mainly because it's an actual attack and not training. But for me, it feels like training," Spyro said, feeling up to fight anything that came near him, and he was confident enough to protect everyone if anything happened.

"Well, be careful. If we are attacked and you get hit by and arrow, our hero will from from hero to zero in a second," Sparks joked with him.

"Don't you dare start this again or I will end you."

"Kinda like how that arrow ended you."

"It hit my heart, Sparks."

"Your fault for getting in the way."

"Is this about Cynder?"

"Everything I say will almost always end with me talking bad about Cynder."

"Why are you picking on her... again?"

"Dude, stop! And because I can. You remember what our parents said: All because you see someone you like, keep your options open because there could be someone out there for you and your first choice won't necessarily be the best. That's kinda how I see Cynder. All because she was your first choice doesn't mean she is the right one."

"Well, my parents don't choose the one I love, I do. And Cynder is the perfect choice for me."

"I want to pick on you so badly right now you have no idea."

"Sparks. Every time we come out here, you are just begging for Cynder to kill you."

"No, but you are begging for me to embarrass the two of you."

"But why? What have I ever done to you?"

"Nothing. It's just funny watching you get embarrassed when ever I say something like..."

"Sparks..."

"Come on Spyro, Cynder's not saying anything."

"Because I'm saving my teeth for when I bite your head off," Cynder growled.

"You know what we should talk about?"

"Sparks!"

"Mates..."

"Spyro!" A voice cried just as Sparks said what he had said, so the two didn't hear what he had said.

Looking over, everyone was backed up into a circle facing every direction. The two quickly saw that they were being surrounded by an army off apes, quite the same as the number that attacked from the past. With everyone shaking, sacred to know what would happen to them, Spyro smiled hugely as he wanted to take this opportunity to show off his powers. Taking his wing and tail off his lover, he whispered, "Stay with everyone else and watch as the roast master does his job."

"Are you sure?" Cynder asked, somewhat wondering why he was feeling up to fighting, "Just promise me you'll be okay."

"Promise given and completed. I will be right back."

She nodded and ran over to the group as they still stood in a circle, ready to attack at any moment. Spyro ran over to Malefor and asked him a real quick question, "You want to help or not? More for me if you don't."

"Spyro, this isn't the time to be joking!" Malefor growled, but quickly apologized as he was just scared, "Sorry, I'm, I'm sorry I'm just... I knew this was going to happen from the start! Why did I think this was a good idea."

"Look, Malefor, simple question, simple answer. Will you help me or won't you? Everyone's Life is at stake right now."

"I... Yeah, yeah, I, I can try! What, what do you need me to... what do you need me to do?"

"Just like before. You watch after everyone while I fight, alright? I would say we both fight but, with everyone being here, it would be best if someone looked after the little guys and gals. Can you do that for me big guy?"

"Um, yeah, yeah, I can do that."

"Alright, now I'm going to go have some fun!"

Spyro exploded into his dark form before disappearing in the woods, ripping through and destroying the army of apes. Malefor was still in the moment, thinking they were going to be attacked so he tried to keep his cool. Taking his wing off his lover along with his tail, he whispered to her, "I... I will protect you this time, I promise."

She nodded at him as she was scared out of her mind as well. Running around in a circle, stopping from time to time, he made sure everyone was safe and secure from every side. As he looked around, he would sometimes see a dark black blur appear before disappearing and then reappearing once again. As he passed by Ignitus, he decided he would try to cheat, and talked to Malefor in his mind, "Malefor... I'm not, technically supposed to do this, but I know you are going through a lot. Stay with Carith and I can protect everyone from the front." Malefor heard his words, and kept checking all sides as they talked, "I thought you couldn't interfere?"

"True, but if anything tries to attack me, I can. So if I put myself in front of a shot or a sword swing, I can retaliate out of self defense. I want to make this easier on you. Right now, everyone is scared aside from Cynder, Sparks, and Claire, but only because they haven't been through that day. If you need me to help, I'm not like the old Chronicler, Malefor, I can help you," Ignitus suggested, feeling bad that Malefor was under so much stress, and it was understandable. "No I... I got this. I don't want you to get into any trouble with the Ancestors, and, I want to show Spyro that he can trust me. I will, I will just keep trying." Malefor declined, desperate to show Spyro that he can trust him rather then seeing the dark master in him. "Alright, but to ease your fears, the apes aren't exactly winning. Hehe, Spyro is having way to much, oh... never mind... Spyro just got stabbed."

"What?!" Malefor cried. "Don't worry, he already pulled it out, he healed up and bloods gone. As long as you keep everyone safe, you'll be fine, which shouldn't be too difficult as they are now all focusing on him now. And it's also a bonus that it's apes and not dark creatures. So just, breath, kiss your lover once or twice when you pass her by, and just, well, breath. If your heart beats any faster, you'll have a heart attack." Ignitus chuckled, somewhat glad that Spyro was this powerful as its made things a lot easier on almost everyone. "Right... okay. I... I will try," Malefor sighed hugely as he continued to make sure everyone was okay. Dashing out the woods, everyone looked over at Spyro as he asked, "Everyone okay?"

"Don't worry, Spyro, everyone is fine," Malefor assured him.

"Ha ha! My man! Alright, I will be right back."

Disappearing back into the woods, he continued to fight off all the apes.

"Did anyone else see that arrow sticking out his back?" Cyril asked.

"I thought you said he pulled that out?" Malefor asked Ignitus as he passed by him.

"Well, I guess he got stabbed again," Ignitus defended.

"Stabbed?! Is he okay at least?" Cynder asked.

"Well, he got stabbed again...Yeah, he's fine."

"Imagine if you had that kind of power, Malefor. Maybe then you wouldn't be scared to fight anything."

"I wish... Seeing it now, controlling your dark power looks like fun. He doesn't fear anything. He fights, makes sure everyone is okay and just keeps at it. And here I am, scared out of my mind that the past might repeat itself because even now, I still feel just as weak as ever."

"Well, since Spyro said he would trust you tomorrow, use that to your advantage and ask him to help you. I'm sure he would do it."

"I hope."

Coming out of the woods, Spyro huffed and puffed as he chuckled with energy, "Man! There were probably a good fifty I had to fight, maybe close to a hundred honestly, but we're all good now. Even now, they can't handle the good old fashion purple dragon beat down. So is everyone okay?"

"One two three four... Um, Spyro..." Malefor paused.

Coming out of his dark form, blood spilled down Spyro's back and he completely oblivious of it, he asked as he walked over to everyone, "What's up?"

"You uh... you got some arrows coming out your back."

"Again?! Damn man, I pulled like three of those out already. How many are there?"

"Um... More then three."

"Well... You want to help me pull them out?"

"What?! No way. You are already completely bloody all down your back! If I pull them out, you'll just bleed even more, along with the fact of the pain."

"Come on man, you're saving me, not hurting me. But now that I say that, I should make someone else do it, that way, you can't come back and be like, well I saved and helped you with those four arrows that were in your back that one day."

"No! Just... Alright, I will pull them out..."

"Alright," Spyro said, turning his back to Malefor and as he reached for the arrows, he continued, "Now you have to commit, alright? As soon as you are going for it, just pull the damn things out. The longer you leave them in the longer I will have to deal with them. So you ready?"

Grabbing a hold of all four with one paw as they were fairly, he nodded, "Alright... Alright, on three. One, two, three!"

Pulling the arrows from out of his back, Spyro growled in pain as he fell to the floor and rolled his back on the grass. Everyone hissed through their teeth as even they could just feel the pain themselves. Throwing the arrows to the ground, Spyro laid on his back and chuckled, confusing everyone. Rolling over on to his side, he jumped up and explained as he healed himself with the hour glass, "Please, you think a couple of arrows are gonna make cry? Haha, hey Sparks, now that I think about it, how many arrows have my blood on them at this point? That one from my heart, the hill one, probably a pile more."

Tapping his chest, he twisted the hourglass completely and pushed it inside of him, healing all his wounds. Looking at his back, he grumbled, "Oh yeah... my back and body is still all bloody."

"Well, I can help with that," Ignitus said, snapping his finger and causing all the blood to turn in to a white light before disappearing.

"Ah, thank Ignitus."

"You're in trouble Mister," Cynder growled playfully as she walked up to him, and he was just as scared as everyone else, "You promised me you'd be okay. Being okay doesn't involve you being stabbed in the back by arrows. Now you're going to make it up to me now or else I will have to force you to do so."

"Is it bad, if I want you to force me?" Spyro chuckled with a small blush.

Putting her paw on Spyro chest, she whispered, "I can force you to do a lot of things."

Gently pushing his chest, he fell over to his back as she stood above him. Just as she went in to kiss him, he put a claw in front of her lips, and she giggled at him, "No way are you going to tease me like this."

He chuckled, but looking away from her, he was actually trying to have some alone time, "Don't worry, we will catch up soon. If you need anything, I will hear Malefor squeal like a new born Hatchling."

"Alright. Even after what I did, you're going to be like this?" Malefor chuckled.

Everyone continued to walk and decided to give the two some time to themselves, and Sparks crossed his arms as he wanted to say something, but he couldn't because he knew he'd die for sure, so he just decided to tag along with everyone else. As he put his head on the ground and watched upside of everyone leaving, he sighed, glad he could have some alone time with his lover. Picking his head up, he had no time to respond as his lips were quickly silenced but his lover's lips. Closing their eyes and pushing into the kiss, she thought to herself, I need more! Pulling away from the kiss and opening their eyes, Spyro chuckled, "Sorry my love. I just got into the moment. If it was a more serious threat, I would've been more careful, but a couple of apes? Please, even in my sleep."

"So you can fight apes in your sleep but not kiss me? Which one do you like more: Me, or fighting? Seems like making sure Malefor isn't the dark master and fighting is your priority over me. If you can't fulfil my needs to kiss you, then I will need to find someone else who will kiss me."

"Well... when you think about it, when ever I kiss you," He paused as he moved his mouth up to hers and whispered, "It always involves you and me, fighting for control over who gets more of the pleasure out of the kiss."

Pulling his head back and laying his head in the grass, he looked at her with a raised brow while she stood there with a big red blush on her face. Taking his paw up, he slowly and gently ran his a single claw up her neck, causing her to shiver with a smile. Pulling his claw away, he said to your with a gentle smile, "Without the chains, it makes me feel good knowing that I can now put my own chains on you. An invincible one where you'll always have to follow me, and you always have to love me. My own personal creation for you to love me."

She giggled at him, and looking away, she tried not to show her blush. Looking back at him, she laid down on top of him with her chest on his. Nuzzling her neck underneath his, the two smiled. Pulling her head back, she giggled about the whole chain idea, "Why would you go through the trouble of making me a chain when everything I want I do now?"

His eyes widened from what she had said. He smiled and before going back in for another kiss, he thanked, "Thank you, Cynder."

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"See that's the kind of power I want. The power to, to take an arrow to the knee and keep on going!" Malefor continued on and on about how he wanted the power that Spyro had, and they all understood completely as having power like that seemed like fun, "I mean, could you image? Getting, stabbed, cut, and slashed just to be able to wipe it off like it's nothing? But even as I think about it, Spyro's scared for me to have that power. Do you think he really would train me to that kind of level? I believe he will train me but, that kind of power is, unimaginable! Maybe even unreachable."

"Unreliable, Unreal, Unrelated, Unrealistic! Oh man, I completely forgot how many vocabulary words start with, 'Un'," Volteer chuckled, having fun as he was able to talk about a bunch of words.

"Hey Volteer, I know you don't want me to, bring this up but, I really do wonder. Please don't take this the wrong way but, it's about... Ersa."

"What about her?"

"You're not... you know... upset?"

"No I... I am frightened to say the least but, I believe and trust Spyro's words. I know she is out there somewhere and I'm going to find her. So you have nothing to worry about. What do you want to know about her?

"Well, what was she like? Did you two get along well? Did you, act the same?"

"Dear Ancestors, yes," Terrador and Cyril agreed, but Ignitus couldn't say anything because of what Volteer had said about his hopes of finding Ersa.

"How?" Malefor asked.

"Imagine hearing a word like, Electrostatic, mainly because they worked with electricity a lot while we were there. Now imagine hearing Electrostatic, along with probably three other words, twice, like an echo yet, they were both entirely too much in sync. It was scary how much the two were similar to one another. We never really knew whether or not the two were related or not. We couldn't exactly talk to The Chronicler as we had never seen him, nor did we know where he lived. We did know those two weren't related because we met both Volteer and Ersa's parents. And now that I talk about The Chronicler, we believed you we lying where you were going because we thought he didn't even really exist," Terrador explained, now kinda feeling bad as he missed those memories, but because of what was happening, they were never able to experience what it was like to hang out with her.

"Yeah, the dude was really secretive about who knew and who didn't know who he was. Which, I was the only one so, he was very secretive. But going back to what you said, Sounds like Volteer had a blast."

"Hehe, I did... I really did... And I can tell you right now, like what Terrador said, we aren't related. I've met her parents once before, really nice too. But... If we find her... when, we find her, the first thing I'm going to do is ask her... to be my mate."

"What?!" Almost everyone cried.

"Look, I'm not going to miss my chances with her again. I went from liking her, to loving her, and I know for a fact I would live my life in eternity with her. And I don't think I can do that thing that other lovers do where they wonder if their lover's love them enough to become their mates, or if they would still find someone else to become their mate. So, as soon as I get the chance, I will ask her."

"Man, Volteer. If that happens, I don't think we can joke about you and other guys," Malefor chuckled.

"Look at that. Quadruple Bonus. I get to see my lover again, I get to ask her to love me and become my mate, I don't have to worry about being picked on, and most importantly, I don't have to worry about the dark master ever taking her from me ever again... right, Malefor?"

Malefor sighed as he chuckled, "Yes yes, of course. Great, now you sound like Claire."

"I asked for a very good reason," She defended herself.

"You did, you did. Still wondering when you will say what you did in that hallway."

"I'm trying... It's one of things where it is super easy but, at the same time, super difficult."

"Trust me, Spyro and I both know."

Ignitus didn't hear what the two were talking about. He was too busy in his thoughts, mentally slapping himself as he had hoped Volteer wouldn't get his hopes so high on finding Ersa. Even with all the brain power in the world, he couldn't find a clear answer, I can't tell anyone about it either. I want to desperately tell Spyro because I know he would have the answer but... he is the main driving source for Volteer. If Spyro tells him the bad news... I don't even know if Volteer will even talk to anyone ever again... I... I have to tell him the bad news, I can't keep it a secret. It will break his heart either way. Knowing how difficult this would be for not only him, but Volteer, he sighed, and apologized, "Volteer..."

"Hey guys! We are back," A voice came from behind them as they saw both Spyro and Cynder running beside one another with smiles on their faces.

Everyone was now back in their normal position with Spyro and Cynder in front along with Malefor, his lover, and Sparks. The Guardians were in the back with Claire walking next to Ignitus. Malefor was glad to see the two were okay and decided to tease them just a little, but he knew he couldn't go too far or else he would never gain Spyro's trust, "So Spyro, you enjoy your time back there?"

"Dude, don't get jealous because I know how to kiss my lover and you don't," Spyro chuckled.

"I know right, he never kisses me the way I want him to anymore. What do you think I should do, Spyro," Carith giggled as she wanted to mess with her lover, and it worked.

"Wait wait wait, we are not doing this again. If we weren't in this death forest, you know I would tackle you to the ground no matter who was watching. I even did it outside, right over all of Warfang, technically, and I didn't care, because I knew you needed a kiss just as much as I needed one. And I know you got dizzy just as much as I did because that kiss felt amazing," Malefor remembered back to that time, and as his lover remembered back, she couldn't agree with Spyro or go along with the joke as it really did feel amazing to her.

"Sorry Spyro, he's got me there."

"That's okay. Plus, if you did leave, Malefor would've been like, it's all your fault. Then he would cry and whine about the true purpose of the purple dragon again, and then he would've gone all dark master on me."

Everyone chuckled at the joke, and Spyro saw that Malefor still felt bad that he thought he was the dark master. It took every bit of power in his body to admit it, but Spyro was thankful to him for his help, "Oh and, thank you, for the help Malefor. I'm glad I was able to trust you with everyone while I fought. But next time, maybe you can help me fight while the Guardians watch everyone. That way we can get things done two times as fast."

"Thank you Spyro but... That power... what if it falls into the dark master's paws? Maybe you're right... maybe I shouldn't get more powerful..."

"So you are admitting the dark master will return?"

"No I'm..."

"Then quit whining. This power is to help protect you and your lover, along with anyone else that comes in your life, correct?"

"Yeah but, why trust me with that power?"

"I just told you why. And you told me why you wanted it so... I want to give it to you, and help you get to where I am."

"You trust me with that kind of power?"

"I trust Carith to make sure the dark master doesn't get that kind of power. But yes, I do trust, Malefor, and only Malefor, with that kind of power. Understand?"

"Of course! I promise, I won't let you down!"

"Great, I made Malefor feel good about himself... How much further Sparks? You know where the Guardians can rest, and we aren't much further from our parents house, so how much further are we from our other destination?" Spyro asked, watching as Sparks turned and stopped right in front of him, causing him, as well as everyone to stop.

"Well actually, we are about right near it. So I will take the whining Guardians and the other three, while you and Cynder go meet our parents. After I'm done showing them where they need to go, I will be right back and join up with you when we meet our parents. Sound like a plan?" Sparks explained, earning a nod from his brother and a glare from the other Guardians, "Alright then, let's get going... I'm getting tired again for some reason."

Everyone went their separate ways with Spyro and Cynder continuing their walk to his parents house and the Guardians along with Malefor, his lover, and Claire all following Sparks to his location. As Spyro neared his parents house, Cynder started to feel a little scared as she didn't know how they would react to seeing her. She had never met or seen his foster parents before, so she couldn't even tell if she should or shouldn't fear for her life. Unable to suppress her fears, she asked her lover, "Spyro, are you sure that, your parents will want to see me?"

"What? Of course. Why do you ask?" Spyro completely agreed as he looked at her, and even as comforting as his smile was when he looked at her, she still wanted to make sure.

"Well, I mean, my past? What if they don't like me like how Sparks doesn't like me? You know Sparks is going to tell them about what I've done, and what I've put you through. What if your parents don't like me for that reason?"

"I will make sure he keeps his mouth shut. And you have nothing to fear, I promise you. Lets just say that, other Cynder, didn't come around here at all so nothing really happened. My parents still live happily, and they only had Sparks so they haven't lost anyone. I'm sure everything will be okay."

"Alright... I will, try. And... Spyro... I know you didn't know, your... real parents... but do you think they would've understood about my past the same way you do? Or do you think they would've been like how Sparks was? I... I'm sorry to bring it up but, I wanted to know."

"It's okay Cynder, I swear. But honestly, I think my parents would've been just as nice to you as I am. I mean, I believe my mother and father were just like me. And now that you talk about it, I wish that, I could've seen my parents, at least once. Just to see who they were and how they were. Maybe I could convince Ignitus to give us just a glimpse of our parents. Maybe we could even read up on their past to see how they use to be."

"Really?"

"Of course. You've never had to chance to see your parents, so, I feel like it would be nice if I could convince Ignitus to let us read about a special day in our parents life. Like, when they first fell in love, when they first met, that kind of thing. Kinda like how it was with Malefor's past."

"If only I didn't do what I had done... you wouldn't have to read of their past... you could still be talking to them today."

"Cynder, if I hated you for what happened, I wouldn't have told you I loved you. And just remember about who really killed them. You didn't have control, the dark master is controlled you. But the good news is that, I still have my foster parents, my brother, you, and my friends. And I'm not saying I don't want to see my parents again but, if they were alive, what would've changed? Would Malefor be dead right now? Would Carith still be in a coma? Would I have never met you? Would we have never fallen in love? There is so much that could've happened that we don't know about. I know my foster parents are just like any other parent; They would do anything, even die, if it meant protecting their young one. And, even though my parents are dead, they succeed in what any parent would've done."

"Even though they died, you still live?"

"Which even means your parents succeeded as well. I'm not going to say that I don't want to see my parents again, and I'm not going to say that I wouldn't jump up on the first chance I could to save either of our parents because I would in a heart beat. All I'm saying is, in the end, more good came before us then harm, and, at least that means something... right?"

"Yeah... I guess I does. And if Ignitus let's us read of our parents past, I don't know... I would feel a little better knowing that they had a good life at least."

"Will it make you happy if you could read of your parents past?"

"Of course. Why do you ask?"

"Nothing just... just wondering."

"What are you planning?"

"Well, you know me. When I can make my lover happy, I have to try everything in my power to make it happen."

"Hehe, thanks Spyro."

"Any time."

As the two approached the house, they saw a dragon fly rolling and pushing a small log towards the house that had a small size hole in the top of it. Walking over to the Dragon fly as he struggled to roll the wood over there, Spyro quickly realized it was his foster father: Flash. Pushing the wood one last time, he stopped and wiped off the sweat from his forehead. Taking his wing off Cynder, Flash watched as a purple dragon picked up the piece of wood for him. He smiled at Flash and asked, "Does someone need help repairing our house?"

Flash's face lit up as he quickly realized who it was, "Honey! Come out here! Spyro's returned!"

"What?!" A voice cried from inside the house.

The three looked over at the house to see another Dragon fly flying from out of the hole in the ceiling of the house. Quickly flying over to her son, Nina cried, "Spyro?! Oh my gosh you, you, you look so much older and handsome. You've even put on a lot of muscle! So how have things been? We haven't seen you in years. And it looks like in those years, you've even found someone I'm assuming? Oh she's a pretty one."

Cynder blushed and thanks for the compliment, "Thank you, ma'am."

"Even good manners, Oh. There is no way she's with you," Nina teased him.

"What do you mean? I have good manners... I hope," Spyro defended himself.

"All I'm saying is, it's surprising to see my little dragon has grown into such a man. You must tell me what has happened over the years, and not to embarrasse the two of you or anything but, are you two like, a thing or, is she just her with you. I'm only asking, not being rude. I just wanted to know if my little Spyro has found someone yet over the years."

"Well, it's actually funny you say that because, well, Mom, Dad, this beautiful dragoness is actually my lover, and her name is, Cynder."

"Cynder?!" The two parents gasped and Nina continued, "You mean the... The Cynder from the past?"

"Mom, it's okay. That's not actually who Cynder was. Long story made short, she was corrupted by darkness by a dark master. I saved her, and we fell in love along the way. And another story made short, the dark master who corrupted her was also corrupted himself because he thought he had lost his lover but his time ability put her in a coma when he tried to heal her. So, through the years, Malefor was saved, Cynder was saved, The Guardians are all saved, And one of them even found a lover, who we saved."

"Wow, sounds like you had your paws full on that one. Wait, then what happened to my Sparks?!"

"I'm here, mom, just had to go and help everyone else out real quick," Sparks said as he flew over to everyone else and next to his mother.

"Sparks?! Even you have grown. And it looks like that deep voice of yours has even come in. Maybe now you should try and get some ladies," Nina joked with her son, causing him to blush a little, but he was lucky his parents were here, as it was almost all the easier to embarrasses both Cynder and Spyro.

"Please, unlike my brother here, I don't need a girl to keep me sane. I'm one hundred percent man."

"You don't need a girl to keep you sane and yet you needed your mother to do so?"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"When ever you had that nightmare, you couldn't sleep at all so you came to us. My poor little Sparks was so scared at that time."

Everyone chuckled at Sparks's misery and Spyro was glad his brother's plan back fired on him. Sparks looked behind himself to see their was a hole in the top of the house, and looking back, he asked what had happened, "Why is their a hole in our house?"

"Lets just say it was pretty windy down here at one point and a tree branch decided it wanted to take our roof with it before it flew into the water. We are slowly making repairs to it but luckily nothing bad had happened. But enough about that, I want to hear what you all have been up to. Where have you been, where do you live now, that kind of stuff."

"Well, now we live in our own home, technically," Spyro explained, "The Guardians built us our own house in Warfang on top of the Guardians Building for us to live in. Funny enough, Malefor and his lover live in that house with us because he has nowhere else to stay, and it's also good because I can keep an eye on him in case he goes dark master again and tries to kill us."

"Wait, but I thought you said Malefor was saved? Does this mean he's still the dark master?"

"It's... confusing..."

"Spyro's butt hurt because Malefor hurt Cynder even though he had no control over it. Even though he has a lover now and he tries to make everything right, he still gives him Hell for everything he's done. Which, Mom, maybe you should teach him a lesson about that. He has been very rude to that dragon and I'm starting to think he needs some help with his anger," Sparks said, causing Spyro to sigh as he shuck his head slightly.

"So, the darkness that corrupted him is or isn't gone?" Nina asked, still confused by the whole situation.

"It's... still there, it just isn't at the point where he could use it," Spyro tried to explain again, as he tried to put it as simple as possible, "Okay, so, basically, the darkness is still in him, but because he has his lover back along with all his friends, its not able to come out and make him take the form of the dark master. So, as long as he has his lover and friends, the dark master won't come back."

"So the dark master and Malefor are two different dragons or are they the same?"

"They are different, but in the same body. Like I said, since Carith, Malefor's lover, is alive along with everyone else, he is Malefor right now. But if anything were to happen to them, then the dark master would take control over his body and attack everyone out of hate or guilt, but then again, he has no control over it so..."

"Well if it's like that, why do you hate him if he attacked Cynder? Of course, I would be upset as well but, if he had no control over it then, wouldn't you be able to forgive him easier? And it's not like he killed her so their is no harm done there. Or, is it one of those things where it's like, you wouldn't understand, kind of things? Because if I'm not understanding then help me do so please."

"No no, you're... you're right."

"So then why do you hate him?"

"I don't know... I'm trying not to hate him it's just... after what he's done to Cynder, I'm just scared to think what might happen again."

"But you said if he had his lover and friends then he would be fine, right? So that means you don't have to worry until something happens with them right? And, let me ask you something, after what he's done, has he tried to make up for it? Has he tried to become your friend?"

"Yeah. Why do you ask?"

"Well, maybe it would be best if you were his friend as well. I mean, the more friends he has along with his lover, the happier he will be. And since hate and loss is what makes this dark master fellow come from within, then maybe keeping him happy is the best way to go. Cynder, after what he did, did you forgive him? Or do you still hate him for what he has done?"

"Well... after a lot that had happened, and after he returned to his normal self, he tried everything to show me he was sorry and that he never wanted for him to have hurt me. I trusted him a little in the beginning, but as the days went on and I saw everything he was going through I, I just felt bad, and I knew it wasn't his fault so, I forgave him for what had happened. I use to have these chains around my neck because I was scared of becoming the dark master's servant again but, with the unknown help of Spyro, and the help of Carith and Malefor, I took them off because, I wasn't scared anymore," Cynder admitted, and unfortunately, the more and more they talked about it, the more Spyro felt bad as if he should've trusted him a long time ago.

"See, Spyro. Everyone has a heart even when you think they don't. For some it takes longer for it to show. Some hide it because they are scared, upset, or because something happened in their life. But in Malefor's case, his heart wasn't showing because he was corrupted. But now the he isn't, and you know he isn't a monster, why not trust him like everyone else? And if he does do something that scares you, or makes you think he is still the dark master, then talk to him. He would feel better if he knew what was up rather then being looked away from and ignored."

"Alright, alright," Spyro sighed, making up his mind on the situation, "I promised I would trust Malefor completely when ever I got back so that's what I'm going to do. Hopefully it won't come back to bite me but, I guess I always have my powers to rely on. But then again, I guess I don't need my powers... all I need is Carith in order to take down the dark master."

"There you go. Everything works out for everyone and no one gets hurt. So now what's up? Is there anything else on your mind?" Nina asked, seeing Spyro shake his head with a smile as he was glad he was able to talk to his mom about what was going on.

"Dude, Cynder's been saying the same thing for days now but it takes our mom for you to finally understand that?" Sparks asked, looking at his brother with a raised brow, "I feel like you just don't listen to her, and maybe it would be best if you two just broke up."

"Sparks, come on man, cut me some slack. If it wasn't for Cynder, Malefor would've already been dead. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have trusted him as much as I did. And even before we left, I said I would trust him completely and that was all because of Cynder. Hearing it from my mom just gives me an other huge boost and shows that I should trust him. Cynder's been the biggest help I could ever ask for," Spyro said, feeling bad about what Sparks had said, but it made him smile as his mother got on to Sparks about it.

"Don't tell those two to break up when you don't even know a single thing about being in a relationship," Nina scolded him about what he had said, "Now apologise to both of them right now."

"Okay okay... sorry... Spyro..."

"And?"

"Sorry... ugh... Sorry... Cynder."

"Thank you. But now, I have a question for you, Spyro," She stopped and flew over next to her son, and even as she tried to whisper it, Cynder could easily hear, "Now, when you mean you and Cynder are in love, do you mean like, tomorrow she is going to be your mate type deal, or, you're already mates, and soon I will see your Hatchlings running around our yard."

Both of their faces went as red as fire. Spyro tried to act as if what ever was said wasn't important, and all he had to do was hope his lover didn't hear, but unfortunately, she did, "No, me and Cynder are just lover's. We have been living a normal and happy life together and that's it, nothing more. I don't know why you would ask if we only cared for each other when I said I loved her, Hehehe, you're so funny, mom."

"But your still going to at least make her your mate, right?"

"Hehehe! Of course, I will make sure to give her a loving kiss when ever I can," Spyro chuckled through his teeth, feeling embarrassed as he dripped sweat.

"I'm only teasing."

As she flew away, Spyro ducked his head and close his eyes. He put both his paws over his eyes, completely embarrassed by what his mom had said to him. Sparks chuckled as he had enjoyed seeing his brother so embarrassed, and this time, because it wasn't him, neither of the two could yell at him because it wasn't his fault. Cynder didn't want to say anything because she thought if she did, she would give away the fact that she had heard what they were talking about. But even if she wanted to, she couldn't find the words to say anything as she was to busy trying to figure out whether or not he would've said yes to any of those questions. Sparks laughed as he said, "I think you broke the two."

"I don't know what you are talking about," Nina acted innocent.

---

"Aw, this is so much more relaxing then I thought," Malefor purred happily as he, along with everyone else, sat in question circle as they rested their bodies in the water with their heads and some of their neck sticking out of the water, "Thanks for the save Terrador. I was about to die while we were flying. I know I didn't want to same much about it but, Damn, was I in pain. It was nice of Spyro to do this for us."

"Please, I wasn't the one struggling as much as Cyril was. I thought his body was going to lock up on himself as he flew," Terrador chuckled as he felt relaxed now that he was able to sit down in the water without worry.

"Oh when we landed, I thought it about did. And Malefor, what do you mean? Spyro wasn't the one who brought up this little spot before we had left," Cyril said, but he wasn't really complaining either way, this water felt to good to him.

"Oh please, he would've brought it up at some point or another. And if it wasn't for him really, we might not have made it here all that easily, or at all for that matter. But even still, thinking back, how was he able to do such a thing with his powers? I mean, even when he fought you Ignitus, what was it like? You know, fighting Spyro and all? What was his reaction when you broke his arm?" Malefor asked, desperate to know if he would be able to get such power for himself to protect everyone the way Spyro does.

"Where to being on that. When Spyro is, in his dark mode, it's quite scary to be honest. While he fought, he was so desperate to win which is understandable. But every time I would punch him, slice at him, or burn him with fire, he would wipe it off, heal so quickly, and then come back for more. I thought he could take a little more of my power, and... I have to admit, I was having a little fun as well. But because of this, when he went to punch me, I took the chance and punched back... and then..."

"And then, snap," Claire hissed through her teeth with a slight chuckle.

"But that's what was wired, he didn't know."

"What?" Malefor asked, even more interested.

"Yeah. He took a step and fell. When he looked to his arm, he found out why. I told him he would win if he promised to call a quits. But, snapping his arm back into place, he... he smiled at me and laughed. He looked at me with the biggest smile on his face and said, 'This is a once and a life time opportunity to spar with my father. Being able to fight you makes me feel, makes me know, that I was successfully able to save everyone'. But, what he says next might surprise you Malefor."

"Spyro saying he will kill Malefor isn't surprising," Carith giggled.

"He thanked you."

"What?!" Malefor cried, "You're joking aren't you? You're just trying to make me feel better after what just happened...? Right..."

"Even I'm not that evil. But after he said about how happy he was because he saved everyone, he kept his smile as he spoke to me, and tears ran down his eyes from joy as he spoke, 'Ignitus, I did it! I was able to save everyone just as I wished I could've! And with Malefor's help, together, me and him can prevent ever having to worry about such a thing as loss ever again!'. And just for you, I asked why he said your name even though he didn't trust you. All I remember is a chuckle, and before he disappeared behind me and attacked me, he said, 'Maybe he isn't so bad after all'."

Malefor's smile grew wide, wide enough to show his teeth. He was so excited to hear that he really did have his trust, it was just Spyro never showed it to him. I have his trust! I really do, but the only problem is, I can't ask about what happened without sounding suspicions. And I don't want to lose his trust when ever I did what I did in the morning, which was stupid of me! Which means, all I need to do is... just keep letting it play out. Hopefully he will trust me fully once again. Feeling great that his friend had smiled from what he had said, Ignitus thought it was now time to pick on him more for old time sake, "I can't believe you, Malefor. You had your chance to set everything right, and yet, when Carith and all of us were in trouble, you just stood there."

He broke from his thoughts hearing these words, and he knew he was trying to pick on him about what happened, "Alright, listen. Last I recall, you four were the one's there from before, which by your standards, that means you should've done something rather then just stand there and doing nothing. I could've even won, I just... needed to watch after everyone while Spyro fought. His words too."

"Oh is that true? Or were you just scared that you wouldn't be able to win so you let Spyro fight? And as for me not fighting well, you already know I can't because I'm the Chronicler, and also because I could've easily obliterated all of those apes with the flick of my finger. So I guess it was better Spyro fought and not you. We wanted a warrior to defend us, not a disappointment."

Malefor growled as he stood up from the water, "Disappointment?! Says the one... where you... I..."

"Yeah, trust us, it's pretty hard to fight with Ignitus. When you think of disappointment, we think of what happened with Claire, but he succeeded so, we can't really think of anything after that," Terrador chuckled, causing the other Guardians to chuckle along with him, and even Malefor had to agree he was right.

"Claire, Ignitus really does have another lover and he's cheating on you!" Malefor cried as a last resort.

"Oh is he now?" Claire asked with a raised brow as she looked at Ignitus, "I don't know who I should trust more, Malefor of all dragons, or the Chronicler, I mean, Ignitus... I still don't even know who the Chronicler. If it's true you've been keeping secrets from me, I wonder, what other secrets do you have that I don't know about?"

"None. Just the fact that I'm the Chronicler. Maybe while everyone is walking around the Dragon Temple, I can explain what the Chronicler is," Ignitus defended himself calmly as he didn't want her to fear if he was or wasn't cheating on her, which he wasn't, "Nice try Malefor, but if you want to bring lover's into this, then why don't I tell Carith the thoughts of the past? Spyro knows, I know, maybe, she should know. And even I know these thoughts are true... because you talked about them with me back then."

"Thoughts? What kind of thoughts?" Carith asked, looking at her lover to see he had a blush.

"You're fighting with fire, Ignitus!" Malefor growled.

"Well, I am a fire dragon. It's what I do," Ignitus chuckled.

Everyone noticed that the water started to warm up a little more then it did before. Everyone looked at one another aside from Malefor and Ignitus as they continued to look at one another, waiting to see what one another would try. Feeling the water warm up even more, every quickly jumped out of the water, leaving Malefor and Ignitus in the water. The water started to boil and steam hissed from the water. Malefor bit his lip as the burning water started to get to him, but he knew he could easily win by trying something else. A small rock structure pushed him just up above the water, and just as his paws left the water, he froze over the water completely, trapping Ignitus inside the now frozen over water.

"Ha ha! What are you going to do now?!" Malefor laughed, feeling as if he won.

"Well, one of two things, I could either use my mouth and burn my way out..."

"Then I could always shut you up."

"Or... I could simply walk out?"

"Come on Ignitus, you think you're so good with your powers. Try getting out without using your fire."

"Oh, okay..."

"You mean like this?" Another voice said as everyone looked over to see Ignitus appear from behind a tree.

Almost everyone was confused as they looked at the clone, then Ignitus, and then the clone again. Walking over to himself, the clone placed a paw over the ice, causing it all to crack before completely breaking. Ignitus climbed out of where the water used to be and chuckled seeing Malefor roll his eyes at him with a smile. As Malefor jumped off his little platform and on to the ground next to his lover, the clone placed his paw on Ignitus's shoulder and disappeared in a white light. As the light faded, everyone looked to see Ignitus chuckling as he said, "You said no powers, so I used a clone instead. Or I could've just broken my way out with my paws which would've worked just fine but, hey, it worked didn't it?"

"Yes! Yes it did! But making a clone means you are using your power which means I win!"

"Alright alright, fair enough."

"Win... Win?! There are no winners! The water is gone?! It's all gone!" Cyril cried as he was enjoying the warm feeling of the water all too well.

"I got it, I got it."

Snapping his fingers, the ice melted quickly. Water quickly filled the hole once again with warm and steaming water, causing everyone to sigh with joy.

"Okay... all is forgiven."

"Not all. I want to know what thoughts you had of me? If Ignitus knows and Spyro knows, then that must mean it's from the past. What kind of secrets are you keeping from me my love?" Carith asked with a raised brow, seeing as the blush came back up from his face which made her know that something was up with what they had talked about, "Tell you what, you tell me, and I could make it worth your while."

As she spoke, she moved her claw up his chest, then his neck, and up to his chin. Taking her claw off, she placed her claw on his lips, and he shivered as he knew he had to say something, but he couldn't take about the Hatchlings thing so freely. As she took her claw off his lips, he was still at a loss for what to do. So instead, he knew of something else that would be embarrassing to say as well, but wouldn't give him away, "Well... It's just... I thought I should also put on some more muscle so that way, when ever I... control you, it would be cute to see you blush and smile as I stand above you."

"Wow... Some one is way to desperate to be loved right now," Terrador teased with a chuckle.

"Nice try, but you weren't the dark master back then so saying you would control me isn't going to work on me. Now, Tell me the truth this time," Carith said with a small smile, causing him to blush even more as he felt trapped, and everything he thought about was either about the Hatchlings or about how he wanted to control her to make her do his bidding.

"Okay okay... when ever you walked down to the Guardians Chambers a couple of days ago, I talked with Spyro... I... In order for him to trust I was me, I talked about how... For now on, the only evil thing I will do, is... suck the life from you every time I kissed you... I'm guessing Ignitus just had to listen in and after that Spyro told me to be quiet. I just thought it's... a little embarrassing to say it in front of everyone but... Do you at least trust me?" Malefor asked with a small chuckle, but as true as it sounded to everyone else, she still knew he was lying, but she didn't want to embarrass him further by asking for the truth.

"Hey Carith, I will vouch for Malefor. What he said wasn't bad or anything about another dragoness, Trust me. It was about how happy he was about your love, nothing else. And because he talked about it, he was able to convince Spyro to trust him so, you're fine. He can't really say it now, but I know for a fact, in the future, he will tell you one day," Ignitus decided to help him out as it was his fault for causing her to think something was up, and she sighed, deciding it would be best to just trust both their words.

"Fine... Just kiss me," Carith commanded, quickly being tackled and locking lips with Malefor, causing everyone to turn away with somewhat chuckles.

---

"So, Spyro, what brings you around here? I know Warfang is such a long ways away, and I know you didn't come all the way out here just to talk to your parents," Nina giggled, trying to get their minds off of what she had said in hopes they wouldn't be too embarrassed to talk.

He sighed as he tried his hardest to forget about what she had said, mainly because he didn't know whether or not Cynder did or didn't hear. Putting his paws back down to the ground, he opened his eyes and picked back up his head and tried to forget about what had happened, "Well, one of the Guardians lost someone. Her name was, Ersa, and, I promised him I would help find her. So we were going to head over to the Dragon Temple in hopes we could find some answers. And along the way, me and Sparks thought it would be a good idea to visit you both since, well, it's been a long while. I also wanted to introduce you both to Cynder."

"Ah, one of those kinds of deals. Well, I agree that Cynder is a keeper. And when ever you go up to that Dragon Temple of yours, I hope that you find answers for your friend."

"Thanks, mom."

"Anytime. Just when you do leave, I better see you again soon. Just do at least visit us no later then that year you took, okay? I also miss my little Sparks."

"Mom..." Sparks grumbled.

"Hehe, will do."

As Spyro stood up, Cynder looked over at him and followed along. As the three turned and started to walk away, Spyro turned his head around and said as they continued to walk away, "Thank you mom and dad! I will hopefully see you all soon!"

"A year isn't very soon now is it?!" Nina joked.

"I promise I will visit before that year!"

"I'm holding on to that promise!"

Walking into the woods to find the others, the three sighed, glad they weren't able to be embarrassed once again in front of one another. Seeing that Cynder was still blushing slightly from what had happened, he knew just the thing to help change her mind about everything that happened, "I'm glad you met my parents. It was nice to see that after so many years that they are still alive and well. Well, hehe, aside from what happened from their roof."

"Yeah... I was surprised to see they actually accepted who I was pretty easily. But, then again, they were never attacked or harmed by the dark master so, I don't think it really counts," Cynder some what agreed and disagreed, but even still, she was glad she didn't cause harm to someone else in Spyro's life, and she openly admitted it, "I'm just glad I didn't hurt your parents. It seems like everyone close to you was always hurt by me in the past."

"What? Cynder..."

"I know, I know, I didn't have control over it and all. I guess coming back around here doesn't really bring back happy memories for me either. The Dragon Temple attack, me capturing all the Guardians. And what happened to Malefor and Carith, along with all the other Guardians... Hehe, but you always seem to make everything better even when I have these thoughts. When you smiled, going into battle and coming back out from it... Even with the arrows in your back, you just kept a smile and laughed. And, I think you really changed how Malefor felt about coming out here, along with everyone else."

"Hehe, sorry. I was is just having so much fun. And because Malefor was watching after everyone, I was able to concentrate completely on fighting the apes. Little Bastards got some good hits off me as I was trying different things to see how well I know my power and what not. I don't know what was more satisfying: Kicking off of trees in a blink of an eye and killing apes, or knowing that killing all these apes will keep everyone safe."

"Let me guess, keeping everyone safe wasn't as satisfying because you protected Malefor?" Cynder giggled.

"Hehe, you know me too well. But, between the two, I was kicking off trees while Malefor was keeping everyone safe. So I guess it worked out for the both of us. But I still did most of the work so I feel like I deserve all the credit. Me and you can both agree that Malefor was just there while I did everything, okay?"

"I don't know, I feel like Malefor was doing more of the protecting then fighting. You killing an army of apes is nothing to you, which means Malefor protecting us was like nothing to him, so either way, I think you both did the same amount of work. And all the while Malefor was working under undesirable amounts of pressure. No doubt everyone was just as scared as those two."

"Yeah... alright, I will give it to him."

Walking from out of the woods and joining up with everyone else, Malefor saw the two, and was scared Spyro was going to say something as he was so into the kiss he was having with his lover right now, and he didn't want it to be ruined. He watched as Spyro looked at him, and everything told him to pull away from the kiss now. But he didn't have to at all. Spyro only smiled at him, and went to talking with the Guardians as they approached them. His eyes went wide, both confused and happy about what had happened. Pulling away from the kiss, Carith opened her eyes and looked at him with a teasing voice, "You weren't as, into the kiss, half way through. What happened? Was I taking too much of your life while I kissed you?"

"Spyro..." Malefor looked at her with confusion, "He saw me kissing you, he, he looked right at us, and yet, he didn't say anything. But... why? Spyro usually always says something, but, he didn't this time around!"

"Looks like he is starting to see you for you maybe. And speaking of maybe, maybe you should ask him."

"Yeah but, it's one of those, if I ask him, will he be cool about it? Or understanding? Or a little in between?! I don't know how I'm supposed to take that. I'm so use to him calling me out as the dark master, and then I would have to tell him I'm not, and then that would be like, the trust type thing we got going on. But, now that it's just like, a kissing thing, rather then a Dark Master thing, what do I say? What can I say correctly?!"

"You'll figure it out, I know you will. Who knows, say the right thing at the right time, you might have his friendship a lot sooner then you thought possible."

"Yeah... yeah, you're right! Alright, I will try!"

Helping his lover up, he heard what sounded like wings flapping into the air before getting quieter and quieter. With the two now standing side by side, Malefor looked over to see the Guardians and Claire were gone aside from Spyro, Cynder, and Sparks. Walking up to them, he asked what had happened, "Where did the Guardians go?"

"I told them to wait for us at the entrance of the temple. Ignitus doesn't want anyone going in until after you see it first so it took a little more convincing from both me and the others," Spyro explained, opening up his wings and continuing, "I decided to wait for you so you didn't feel lonely out here, but now that you're done, what do you say we catch up to the others?"

"Yeah, of course!"

Opening up his wings along with everyone else, they took to the skies with Malefor and Spyro right next to one other which is exactly what Malefor wanted as he was desperate to talk with him about some of the things he's said and done. Trying to figure out how he would word it was the hardest part as he didn't want to come on too strong and completely miss his chances of getting any answers. Instead, he tried a much easier approach to his conversation, "So, hey, Spyro. I wanted to thank you for letting me and Carith have our moment. I know you don't like when I kiss her but, I needed it after what's happened today."

"'Don't like it when you kiss her'? What are you talking about?" Spyro somewhat chuckled as he somewhat already saw through what Malefor was planning, "I don't care if you do or don't kiss your lover. I only care when you kiss and wipe your drool all over my floor. But when it comes to her kissing you, I feel safer when she does. She kisses you, you kiss her, and that means that their is no need for me to worry about whether or not that the dark master will come back or not. Not saying I need to fear, just saying I have the fear."

"So you do still have fears about who I really am?"

"I will always have fears about the dark master, and I will always have my fears on what can or will happen when he returns. My fears about you aren't permanent. I know I shouldn't fear you as I know you are trying. I know Cynder trusts you a lot because she has been through the same thing. But as you can imagine, Cynder is one of those exceptions who I forgave on the spot. And unlike you, she isn't some random dude."

"How did you know Cynder wasn't going to kill you when she woke up?

"Well, after I saved her, I saw who she really was, and that's also similar to you. "

"So then what makes my situation anymore different then Cynder's?"

"The fact that Cynder wasn't the cause of everything, and also because Cynder wasn't the dark master who controlled and tried to conquer everything in sight."

"Dude, the only thing I try to conquer now is..."

"Stop! Stop... I already now what you are going to say."

"Then come on. One good reason, one reason that involves me, and not the dark master. I want to know why you don't trust me."

"I do trust you, and it hasn't taken me all of yesterday for me to trust you... And the only reason I'm still scared is... maybe helping you with your dark powers would make me fill a little better. I know Carith is like an instant dark master off switch, but it will still be nice to have that extra help, you know?"

"Wait, so... You already trust me completely?"

Spyro only smiled at him before seeing that they had almost missed their landing. Flying down to the balcony with everyone else following, the Guardians all looked to the skies to see them coming down. As they landed, coming back here brought back some memories for everyone, and Ignitus picked on Spyro about those such memories, "Hehe, it's funny Spyro. I remember the first time we were here, you couldn't even fly. You never even knew such a thing was possible."

"Hehe, yeah. But it's funny how it took a ten year old, rather then a master of fire to save all the Guardians. What was that all about?" Spyro joked along with Ignitus, earning chuckles and giggles from everyone as the Guardians remembered that time very well.

"I wasn't at my greatest when we first met."

"Trust me, I know. But man, coming back here reminds me a lot of what has happened. It definitely looks a lot nicer then it did before... Wait, how is this... Oh yeah, you gave us all that memory. You know, it never really crossed my mind where we were. It's wired how much memory you gave us when we slept through."

"Well, Malefor was just asking question after question."

"I was curious that's all," Malefor said, "But now that we are all here, somehow, shall we?"

Everyone nodded at him. Malefor walked in front with Carith while everyone else followed behind. Everyone was excited to finally be back at their old home as they never even knew they would see the light of day. Approaching the doors, they worked just as they had done before. They opened slowly inwards, revealing the inside of the new and improved Temple. Walking into the Temple, everyone looked around with smiles and joy to see everything was just as they had hoped it would be. But looking in the middle, everyone stopped, and Malefor shed a tear of joy. Rather then the statue revealing the dark master, it showed Malefor in his original form, and beside him was his lover, Carith. The statue formation showed the two sitting side by side with smiles with his wing draped over her. Ignitus walked up to Malefor's side, and what he said almost made he smile too wide, "I said I was going to fix everything that happened. This was just one step closer to make that dream a reality."

Even though he didn't look at him as he was still amazed by the statue, his smile showed, along with his teeth. Spyro walked around the room with his lover following, and looking over at Malefor, the two looked at one another. He didn't want to ruin such a good time and moment for him, so instead, he made him feel even better which made Malefor shed tears of joy with wide eyes and a smile, "You know, I like it in here as well. Much more realistic then before. Much more... Peaceful."

Seeing how wide he was smiling, Spyro sighed with a smile, and Cynder kissed him gently on her lover's lips for being so supportive of him. Pulling away from the small kiss, the two smiled at one another, and she whispered to him, "What are you after? You keep being this nice to him, and I'm pretty sure the dark master will be completely destroyed from within Malefor from joy. Is that what you are trying to accomplish?"

"Hehe... Maybe... I guess I should've trusted him a long time ago. Maybe we would've had a lot more fun together, pranking the Guardians and what not... I guess I will give him all my trust, and, if he keeps it up, he might just have my friendship if he keeps acting the way he is now."

"Friendship? Spyro, what's gotten into you," She teased.

"You've taught me a lot when it comes to trusting Malefor. And, he didn't hurt you, and you forgave him for what happened in the morning so, I guess, I will trust him. I've always lived with fear and anger for the dark master, but, with Malefor's joy, you're happy, I'm happy, The Guardians are happy, and because of this... why not trust him? I know he was just excited and wanted to see if I did or didn't trust him so, I'm going to ask one more time, are you a hundred percent sure, we will never have to worry about the dark master ever again?"

"I've been sure since the day he became his old self. Everything he did to help you and protect me even though he could've easily killed me, it showed that we were wrong. I love the life we have right now and I don't want to lose it. And honestly, without Malefor, it wouldn't be the same. He really is a great guy, and I understand why Carith cares about him, and loves him so much. And with everyone having his back, along with you, I know for a fact we will never have to worry about the darkness ever again... And without having to worry, we have more time to ourselves."

"Hehe... always here to help aren't you?"

"Says the one who's been helping me ever since he saved me. What I'm doing now is nearly a super small portion of what you've done for me."

"Please, you've done way more for me."

"Who knows, maybe we can have some fun by asking Malefor and Carith who has done more for each other: Me or you?"

"Yeah, knowing him, he would be all for it... Hehe..."

"So... I, and I know everyone else will agree that they just want to keep Malefor safe, and that they all trust him. I want to know if you yourself trust him. You don't have to go off of what I've said to keep me happy. If you're happy, I'm happy as well, same as how you feel. So, tell me the truth. I won't be upset either way, I just what to know your opinion. Will you trust him, or will you think he's the dark master for some more time?"

Spyro looked over to see Malefor hugging Ignitus with a smile and thanking him, along with everyone smiling at them. After the two pulled away from the hug, the two made a joke with one another, causing Volteer to blush and roll his eyes. Seeing everyone laugh and smile, he sighed as he looked back at his lover. She smiled at him, and he couldn't tell himself that he hated him any longer, "Alright... I will trust him, even if he pulls what he did before."

"Yes!" Cynder cried happily.

"Hehe, how come you're excited about that."

"Because, now I can have girl time with Carith and Claire without having to worry about you two at each others throats. And I know Carith would be just as happy as I am, because then soon, Ersa could join in along with us, and we could all have fun! All of us, laughing and joking, me and you kiss and cuddling! Spyro...! It's... it's everything I could ever want...! It's..."

She couldn't hold in how grateful she was and hugged him. Putting her head over his shoulder and wrapping her wings around his back, she thanked, "Thank you Spyro... I remember when you walked out to the balcony... Hehe, you said you weren't scared of me... all you wanted to do was help me. And look where we are now... and it was all thanks to you... And here you were saying I did more for you..."

"You're welcome, Cynder. But now I'm scared. What would've happened if I said I didn't trust him?" Spyro chuckled

Pulling her head and wings back, she placed a claw on his chin and moving her face close to his lips, her breath made him desperate to kiss her, and that's exactly what she wanted to do as well. Before pushing into the kiss with him, she teased him, "If you would've said you didn't trust him, then you wouldn't have earned this."

While the two kissed one another on the other side of the room, the Guardians and everyone else continued their conversations with one another. The only difference was that Volteer had disappeared as he went in search for his book. As the doors to another room shut behind him, he was now in the main hall that had many other doors leading to the pool of visions, training rooms, or to the back of the temple. Running over to a training room, the door opened for him, and he quickly ran inside. Looking all around the ground, he found a brink that had writing on it. The two letters that were carved into the brick were: V and E, signifying for his name and Ersa's. Pulling up the brick from the ground, he frowned to see that the book really had disappeared. She has to have the books their is... their is no other explanation... I told Ignitus to come here and find it but... Wait, if the Dragon Temple was still being reconstructed by Ignitus's powers, then how did he come here in search of the book?! Was he lying to me?

"No, Volteer, I didn't lie to you," A voice came from behind, causing him to jump a little, but as he looked at him, it was only Ignitus, "Don't worry, I'm just a clone of him, not the real deal. But what happened was, when I came back to see if the book was their, I was already repairing the Temple at the time so I had believed the book would've been here. But even after I completely repaired it, the book wasn't here, which leads me to believe someone has it."

"Then it has to be Ersa!" Volteer cried, hoping that it would be his long lost lover.

"It's not Ersa, Volteer, I can tell you that right now."

"And how do you know...?! Wait... did... did you read... about her past? Is she really dead...?!"

"Volteer... I... I didn't read her past, not yet. And know you are desperate to find her but, just don't get yourself killed in the process."

"If you are the all knowing Chronicler, why won't you help me? You understand what it's like to have someone, you understand what it's like to love. I need that back in my life, I need her back. Please, Ignitus, you have to give me something that I can work off of. Just give me a clue, something that you are able to do to help me know where she is, something that will help me know how she's doing okay... please."

The only thing I could say... is how she's dead... And I still haven't figured out how I will tell him because I've been so busy, Ignitus sighed as he thought about what he should say to make him feel better, and he knew telling him what really happened would crush his heart. Now he was back to where he was before, wondering whether or not he should tell him the truth, or if he should continue to lie to him about what really happened. He wasn't able to say much as he saw Spyro walk right past him and ask Volteer, "There you are, Volteer. What happened? I thought you wanted me to help you find Ersa?""

What the?! How is Spyro... Where is Cynder? He wouldn't have left her... oh... okay, she is with me. I was going to be surprised if he trusted her with Malefor... Wait, she was just talking to me, and now... she's talking to Carith?! No way Spyro actually trusts him enough to leave her around Malefor with him not around her?! Ignitus thought with wide eyes, as he looked back to the conversation Spyro had with Cynder before he came here, and all that came up was him telling her to stay safe and to stay around the others. Breaking from his thoughts, he saw Spyro cheered Volteer up which gave him more time to think about what he should do. Turning back around, Volteer went to place the brick back, but there was a small tip of a sheet of paper in the side of another brick. Looking at it with wide eyes, he asked Spyro for some help, "Spyro, you see that little piece of paper? Do you think you can pick the bricks up from on top of it?"

"Pulling bricks that are cemented into the ground with my bare paws? Hehe, sure," Spyro chuckled, grabbing the brick with his paw and easily ripping it from the ground.

Volteer's eyes went wide as it was a sheet of paper from the book. Reaching down and picking up the sheet of paper, it was a project the two were working on with the title at the top being: 'The Darkness Controlled And Powered Ring'. Looking at the sheet of paper, Volteer held the paper to his chest as a couple of tears fell from his eyes. He chuckled slightly as he wiped away his tears and looked back at the paper to see all kinds of words and elements written all over it. The smile on his face made Spyro smile as well, but he asked as he wondered what it was, "What is that?"

"Hehe, it was a, very important project we were working on for quite some time. I wanted to bring Malefor back by using a special powered ring that would take away the dark powers and conceal them inside the ring. The ring had special property's to it. All we would have to do was put the ring on either Malefor's horn or finger, and it would've absorbed all the darkness into the ring itself as long as he wore it."

"What happened to it?"

"A lot of research we lost before the attack because Ersa blew it all up because she accidental mixed two chemicals together. I quickly ran over, threw it all our work, protected Ersa by blocking her with my wings, and bam, all of our work was gone. She blamed her self and apologised. She felt terrible for what happened but, I was actually quite happy that happened."

"Wow, Volteer, you wanted her to blow up that bad?"

"Hehe, no. Most of what we worked on was stuff like weather control, power control, and some time, we tried to work on darkness control, like with the ring. And even though we lost it all, I was glad she was okay. And I felt even better knowing that, even though we lost all of our progress, we were able to do it all over again, together. And I wasn't mad in the slightest. I comforted her, and we back to having fun and making work once again."

"So, the ring was destroyed as well?"

"No. Surprisingly, Ignitus was messing around with it as he trained in the training room. He kept fighting a fake Malefor in the training room so he could figure out how he would be able to fight him before putting the ring on. It was the only thing that survived the blast from the little chemical mix up."

"So you don't know where it is?"

"No... any one could have it. All I know is that I gave it to Ersa while I helped her escape."

"Well... then that means, if we find the ring, we can find Ersa. So you want to go and search for her?"

"Yeah. Let's... let's hurry before something else could happen."

Placing both of the bricks back, Spyro walked over towards the door with Volteer following behind. As Volteer walked past Ignitus, he stopped and looked at him. Reaching out his paw, he gave the paper to Ignitus. Grabbing the paper from his paw, Volteer apologised and asked just for one favor, "I know there are things you can or can't do, because of the rules and stuff and I'm sorry if I lashed out at you. But, could you please, please keep that paper safe. I don't know how but..."

"Hehe, don't worry Volteer, I will place it in a new Book that I will lay on your bed. Of course the couple thousand pages will be blank so you can work on something else, but the very first page, I will put this page in it, okay?" Ignitus smiled, and his words along with his smile made Volteer do the same as he was very thankful to his red friend.

"Thank Ignitus... And, once again, I'm... I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it. Just go with Spyro, and I will promise to have the book ready on our return to Warfang."

He smiled and nodded at him before running over and joining up with Spyro as he was waiting at the door for him. As the two ran out the door and towards the back, Ignitus looked at the paper and sighed, missing the times with Ersa, Ancestors why... Even when Terrador talked about her, with the two saying the same vocabulary words in unison was just... it's honestly what kept us pretty happy through those times... Oh no... if they go back there, they will see her body! The clone of Ignitus disappeared in the blink of an eye, quickly heading to the White Isle to make the book.

---

After the clone was done with what he said he would do, he came back and joined his body with Ignitus's. His eyes went wide as he gained all the information from his clone. Feeling his heart beat faster and faster, he didn't want the two to see her body, and he thought about everything that could happen, Even if they find her body, it's probably bones right about now and that would destroy him to see! He could see all the blood or... or... oh no, Volteer... I'm so sorry... I don't want him to know about her death like that! And I don't know where her body is to move it before he sees, but even doing that, I would have to later tell him what I had done! A paw rested on his shoulder, causing him to shiver from the sudden feeling. Looking up, he saw it was Claire, and she looked scared for his health. He was sweating, his heart was beating so loudly he could hear it from his ears, and his eyes were wide with fear. Everyone looked at him with fear as well.

"Ignitus... what's wrong?" Claire whispered softly.

"Yeah, I know you're probably not supposed to tell us, but if the Chronicler flips out about something, does that mean we are all screwed or..." Malefor chuckled, somewhat scared for his life along with everyone else's as he started to feel as though coming here was turning out to be what he had feared.

It was even more stress on him as he couldn't tell them the truth either, and unfortunately, he had to live with the fact that the two would find out the truth either way. He sighed and calmed himself, and instead of telling them the truth, he lied, which he knew only dug himself into his lies, "Yeah, Yeah, everything is fine. I thought I didn't put a support up in one side of the building while I was remodelling it but, we are all safe now, I promise. I just checked."

"Don't do that to us man..." Malefor sighed.

"Okay, so if she came out from this back way, we have to check four different ways she could've gone. Either she went: Left, right, forward, or she flew over the Temple to escape. You knew her the best so, where did she go?" Spyro asked, looking over to see Volteer started slowly walking to the left back side of Warfang with out even saying anything, which led him to believe that she went this way.

---

Running up to his side, Spyro followed along with him at somewhat of a slow pace as they looked all around for any signs of the lost dragoness. Spyro didn't want to say anything as he knew Volteer was concentrating on trying to find any sign or clue of where she could've gone. Looking at the ground, trees, and surrounding area, he was able to piece together more and more of what could've happened. Walking up towards of the trees, Spyro stopped and watched as Volteer worked his magic in finding out what happened. Putting his paw over a slice in the tree, he thought, The cut goes to the right and not the left, which means... Taking his paw off the tree, the two continued through the woods where he found another cut on the tree. Placing his paw on the cut, he went to his thoughts again, This one goes to the right... So if the fighting started over at the first one which took us right, then this one takes us right again... Taking his paw off the tree, he continued his journey with Spyro. Seeing another cut on the tree, there wasn't just a cut, but blood a little bit of blood on the tree. Seeing this made his eyes go wide as he looked away from the tree and ran to the middle of the field. Looking closely and examining the ground very carefully, he made he way to a tree. Looking at the tree, he focused and saw very faint blood that seemed to have spilled downwards. Spyro couldn't see and of the blood at all, but to Volteer, he was able to see with a simple glance. Apes don't bleed, and neither do dark creatures. Either Malefor was back here for some reason, or there was another Dragon, or... Ersa was back here! Seeing the blood, he was able to see what looked like a trail. Following the blood trail, Spyro followed close behind, even though he was confused on what he was doing. As he followed the blood trail, it stopped right next to a tree, but after that, nothing. What...? Where is the blood?! Where... Running around in circles to find any sign of another trail, he didn't find anything that would help or even lead him towards advancement. As he stopped back at the blood trail, his breathing started to get heavy as even he knew it himself that no one else was over here at the time.

"Volteer, are you okay? Is there something you're seeing that I'm not?" Spyro asked taking a step forward before Volteer freaked out with his explanation.

"Spyro, no one else could've possible been back here! The cuts on the trees lead us more and more into where the right led. There was blood on one of the trees which must mean that a dragon was injured while they fought back here. The blood spilled on the ground for a little bit before they ran over here and... Spyro... Ersa she's... she was the only one back here. Even if there were others around here at that time, they would've ran away before the attack even came back here. There are no red gems around here so who ever was attacked, they would've never been able to heal! Which would result in their... demise," Volteer cried as his body clenched from sadness and anger as he knew their was no other explanation for what had happened or who was back here at the time, "She laid on the floor... before running back here... and ultimately... dying..."

Spyro frowned as he wished it weren't true, and he had wished he could've helped his yellow friend, but something struck him as odd. Walking over to the tree and then walked around the area himself, he didn't spot what he was looking for. Coming back around and standing in front of Volteer, he asked him, "Volteer, it's true that a body can decay, but... this ring you had worked on, to strip the dark master and bring back Malefor, you said you gave it to her, right?"

"It was the only thing we had left after the explosion..."

"Well, unless it was made of flesh, where is the ring?"

Picking up his head, he realized he didn't see the ring either, and Spyro continued, "I looked around as well and I didn't see any ring. But unless someone else somehow came all the way out here, picked it up and is now using it... where else could the ring have gone? So, if you gave the ring to her, she either dropped it, threw it, which isn't something that sounds right, or..."

"She still has it on her! But, where do we look?! The trail just goes cold here, I have nothing to go off of. What do we do?"

"We just have to make a safe assumption that she is out there. Anything could've happened to that ring, but if you were as close as you said you wanted to be to her, maybe she felt the same way to you. And if she did, she would've never wanted anything to happen to that ring. So now the bigger question is; if she is alive, where is the ring now, and how did she get out of here alive?"

"What if she was in Warfang?! What if she's waiting for me?!"

"As much as I wish that were true, it's been some time. How come she hasn't show herself now? She's had all this time, even after the dark master was supposedly defeated. Why didn't she go to you then? And why hasn't she shown herself even after the dark master came back? "

"Maybe... maybe she is just scared to see me, or... maybe she is just... just... with someone else."

"Hey, Volteer, it's okay. We will find her no matter what, alright? Until we have all the answers we need, we can't completely say what has happened to her, okay? Just trust me when I say not to give up hope on her. Don't you miss all those inventions, those creations that you two made, all the fun you shared with her while you two worked with one another?"

"I do... I really do."

"Then keep your chin up. Or else, next time your chin is down, Ersa will be lifting it up with her tail blade, so try not to look down anymore."

"Hehe, sounds easier said then done."

"I never knew I would save Malefor from the dark master, and that was easier said then done, and yet, it happened. So who knows, maybe this will be, easier done then said, especially if we see her walking around the streets of Warfang. But for now, lets be glad we found answers on her whereabouts. Until we find that ring, we won't know for sure if she is or isn't alive."

"Yeah... yeah, you're right!"

"Alright then. Let's get back to the others. It's getting late so we need to head back soon."

"Okay."

---

With everyone chilling out with one another in the main room, The Guardians all spoke with one another while Ignitus and Claire talked some as well. Malefor saw that his lover was talking to Cynder, and even as risky as he knew it would be to approach her while Spyro was away, he still had to try. Walking away from the Guardians, he joined the other two who sat near the middle of the room in front of the large statue. Sitting down next to his lover, the two looked at him as he said, "Hey, Cynder, can I ask you a question?"

"Of course," she replied happily, "What's on your mind?"

"Well, do you know where Spyro went?"

"Yeah, he went out back to help Volteer search for his lover. Why do you ask?"

"So... he isn't near here?"

"Oh no... The dark master has returned to take control over me hasn't he?"

"What? No, of course not."

"I'm only teasing."

"Oh right, sorry."

"So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted help on your abilities?"

"Which one and how?"

"Well, I possess the power of wind, same as you. I wanted to see if I could help you find out something that you never knew how to do with your powers before."

"What for? What are you after?"

"I know that Spyro doesn't have the same powers as you so you probably haven't really learned all that much of your abilities. And since I could help you with one, I was wondering if you wanted me to help you. I'm also hoping that maybe Spyro will see that I don't just want to improve myself, but everyone else around me to keep us all safe."

"Then shouldn't you give Carith lessons on her ice powers?"

"Malefor doesn't want to admit it, but even with how powerful he is, I took some lessons from him and the Guardians so, I would say I'm pretty good when it comes to my power," Carith said, and Cynder quickly understood as it made more sense to her.

"Well, what do you say?" He asked.

"Alright, lets see what you can do that I can't," Cynder smiled, watching as Malefor pulled up a claw and formed a small tornado at his claw tip.

Pulling her claw up, she was able to do the same, and he raised a brow with a smile. Looking over at the wall, he pulled his paw back before throwing it forward. A huge gust of wind exploded from his paw before hitting the wall with a loud smack. She smiled, but just as before, she was able to do the same thing. Performing the same moves as him, the gust of wind hit the wall, but it wasn't as powerful as his. Using his powers once again, a small circle of air form around him which was nearly invincible. Slapping his tail blade to the ground, the circle of air exploded from around him. Even as impressive as it was for Carith to see, Cynder was able to do the same thing. As the air formed around her, she slapped her tail blade to the ground, causing the air around her to explode. But just like before, it was a little weaker then when he used his power. He smiled to see she had learned so much without having a teacher, but he knew there was one move that took him weeks to master and he knew she would never have found this one out. Placing a paw out, a small ball of air formed within his paw. Pulling her paw out, she tried to do the same, but every time she would try, the air would either disappear, or nothing would come to her paw. Placing his paw down, he chuckled, finally finding something she didn't know how to do yet, "I'm impressed to see you have learned so much on your abilities without having someone to teach you, Cynder. This little air ball trick took a while because, well, trying to hold in air on your paw takes a lot more concentration then just making wind swirl around the tip of your claw."

"No kidding. For some reason the air wouldn't stay. Why is that?"

"When ever you try and hold in the air, you have to center the air around your paw as well to make sure the air doesn't go anywhere else aside from your paw. But that's difficult because you have to keep constantly having air around the ball to keep its shape or else it will just disappear into the wind."

"I guess I do still need some training. Is their any other techniques you have with your wind power?"

"Not many others as they are difficult to either control or master. One technique that I wish I could work on some more is being able to use another one of my abilities while using my ball of air so it could turn into say, a ball of fire, a ball of electricity, and you know the others. But it's not the easiest thing in the world to master."

"Well, in a world of peace, we have all the time in the world."

"World of peace? Wonder what Spyro has to say to that, you know, since I'm alive."

"I'm sure you would be pretty surprised."

"Wait, Cynder, how many elements do you possess?" Carith asked, feeling as if she had come up with a theory.

"Fear, poison, wind, and shadow. Why do you ask?"

"Malefor... When ever I was in my coma, tell me the truth, did you ever try anything with a dragoness? And I want the truth."

"What?! No, of course not, I swear. When would I even have time to, you know, mate with another dragoness if I was all around the world killing dragons. Well, the dark master was, I wasn't," Malefor quickly cleared up and defended his name before continuing, "But now I'm with Cynder on this one; Why are you asking?"

"Well, my theory is that Cynder is really your hatchling, and that you've cheated on me with another."

"What?!" Malefor and Cynder cried in unison, looking at one another with blushes, and then looking back at Carith.

"Well, I don't know what Cynder's primary element was before, but if it was wind, and you possess wind as well, wouldn't that mean that her power came from someone else who had the power of wind? And another thing I don't understand, how does Cynder possess all these other elements?"

"When the dark master corrupted me, I gained the other elements," Cynder explained, "But as for Malefor being my father..."

"You would be correct to assume," Ignitus spoke as he startled the three, both with his sudden appearance as he sat down with the three, and with his words in general, "Well, not to scare anyone, but it is actually true that Cynder's first element she had before she was corrupted was wind. But before Carith dumps you because she thinks you cheated on her, which, Carith, I can vouch for him, he didn't."

"But then why does her primary element more look like her shadow ability, or fear? If her primary element was wind then, wouldn't she be white? Similar to how if you're red, you possess fire, along with all the other colors of the rainbow," Carith asked, earning a slight chuckle from Ignitus because of the way she phrased it.

"Well, Cynder was actually just as rare as a purple dragon. Even though being born as a, grayish black as Malefor said, she somehow possessed the power from her mother, but not her father."

"Wait! Ignitus! My mom and dad... who were they?" Cynder quickly cut in, as she remembered Spyro talking before how he could help her find out more on her parents.

"Well... Spyro and Volteer are coming back so, I can't tell you now, but I can still give you some what of a taste when ever you want to read of your parent's past. I heard you and Spyro talking about it and I would be more then happy to comply. But for now, I can tell you this; Your mother was a beautiful white wind dragoness, and your father was a very strong, and very caring for your mother. He was the same color as you, and possessed the power of shadow."

"And what about their names?!"

"Hehe, you'll learn more about them, I swear. And as for how they met well, that's a story in its own."

"I guess I understand, but what do you mean how they met is a story of its own?"

"Wink wink," He teased some more.

"Alright alright, I get it."

"I can't believe you think I cheated on you. Do you really think I'm that bad of a dragon?" Malefor asked his lover, thinking that maybe she does know something that not even he knew, and he wondered if maybe while he was in his dark form, he forgot something, but he knew he remembered everything, "You are my one and only. And how could Cynder be my hatchling if I stole her when I was the Dark Master?"

"Oh yeah... I forgot about the. Sorry, just, making sure," Carith apologized with a slight smile and a giggle.

The sounds of doors opening filled the room as everyone looked over to see Spyro and Volteer had returned from their journey. Ignitus knew they wouldn't be successful in their search, but he was glad that they didn't find her body as he thought they would. But now thinking back about what happened, he remembered how they talked about her body not being there, and how it could be in Warfang. But this doesn't make any sense. Of course a body can be moved, or she could've moved more prior to her death, but how come I don't even know where her body is? It's like it... disappeared... Oh no... when the earth split apart, her body could've fallen into the core of the earth as it came back together! I never thought of that! But... if that were to happen, how would I explain it to Volteer...? Either way, she has dead but... I still have no idea how I will tell him, Ignitus thought more about it, coming to the conclusion that her body must've fallen into the center of the earth during the battle. After the two had talked with the Guardians and Claire, everyone joined back up together as they walked over to the other four. Sitting down with a smile on his face, Volteer said to Ignitus, "Well, we are ready to go when ever you are. Unless you want to stay and spend the night of course."

"Are you sure?" Ignitus tried to play it off as if he didn't know what the two had found, "I'm all for going back. I'm just making sure you are ready to go back as well."

"Yeah. I have about all the answers I'm going to need here. I love this place a lot, and I love what you've done with it but, there are somethings in Warfang that are still left for us to find and help out with. And even though you completely rebuilt the place, hehe, not having a bed would suck so, I would rather sleep back on our beds then on this rocky floor once again."

"We should also leave because last time we stayed here, Cynder went on her little adventure, and then we had to chase after her. And I don't know about you, but I am not about to go through that again," Sparks agreed to go back, earning a small glare from her as she knew why she left, but Sparks still didn't understand, and she knew he never would.

"Alright well, when ever you all want to go, I will teleport us there," Ignitus said.

"Wait a minute," Spyro and Malefor said in unison.

"I thought you couldn't teleport long distances?!" Malefor growled.

"And I'm pretty sure the Temple is the same distance away from Warfang no matter how you look at it," Spyro growled along with Malefor.

"Tell us the trust Ignitus."

"Why did we have to walk and fly when you could've just teleported us?!"

"Hehe... okay, okay, you got me. I can easily teleport when ever I want. That's usually how I can get to the White Isle and what not so quickly as that is pretty far away. The reason I couldn't teleport you all here was because... well... the Ancestors already told me of the attack that would happen and why I couldn't teleport you all."

"I knew it! I call it right out that gate!" Malefor said.

"They wanted to see how powerful Spyro had gotten, and they promised me no one would die so, I had to comply. Nothing would happen if we walked back but, you know, why bother wasting your energy when you could just teleport, am I right?"

"I both hate and respect you. But as long as you don't kill yourself or anyone else by losing your job, I guess we are fine."

"So, are we all set to go?"

Everyone nodded except for Sparks as he said, "Actually... I'm not going to go."

"Sparks? What do you mean you're not going?" Spyro asked, as he looked up at his brother.

"Well, I don't really have much to do when I'm around anymore. I loved the adventures and all but, now that things have settled down, I think I want to as well. I mean, since things have calmed down, the only thing I do is sleep and make fun of someone else about loving someone else when ever possible and that's really all I've done."

"Yeah but, you can still sleep in Warfang. And when ever you wake up and feel like talking you can still do that. You don't have to go Sparks. And where would you go?"

"To our parents house of course. And yeah, that is true and all but, I haven't really spent time with our parents in forever and I just feel a little homesick that's all. I'm not saying that I'm tired of being with you at all but, who knows, maybe in the future after you've dumped Cynder, I will come back, and then me and you can just have nothing but bro time, am I right?"

"We can have bro time any time you want. And as for dumping Cynder..."

"Yeah yeah. The power of sucking faces for one another is just too powerful. But look at it this way, when ever you want to see me, you can teleport over here with Ignitus and his, strangely only relevant when it needs to be teleporting ability. And I won't be gone for long, I hope. Okay, just going to hang out with my parents for a couple of weeks maybe and then I will be right back to the good old Spyro and Sparks duo combo."

"Hehe... The duo combo? But... I'm going to miss you... This is like the first time that we are splitting up."

"First time? You never even saw me for a full day. That was basically a split up right there."

"Oh yeah... I remember that day."

"And while I'm at my parents, I will help them repair their house so it doesn't get flooded when it rains. But just remember, you can always visit me when ever you like. And couldn't you just get here in a matter of seconds when ever you, break the sound barrier?"

"Such a Bitch of a lie," Malefor chuckled.

"I know, right," Sparks agreed.

Spyro sighed after he chuckled, but he knew that his brother wanted to spend some time with his parents and he understood that. He also knew that it wouldn't be forever so he would see him again. With Sparks helping out his parents he would be able to try and get a better understanding about the difference between Malefor and the dark master, which he already had his mind made up on, but at least he could focus on it more. All he could do was hope he would see his brother again, "Alright Sparks, but, before you do go, I want to walk back with you so we can have one more bro time before you go. I won't say last because, when you return, I promise we will talk more, okay?"

"And who are you going to leave Cynder with? The Guardians? Last I checked, she was more powerful then them. And then you got Malefor, which I mean, then again, he could always just control her to make her stay out of trouble so..."

"Even though I'm not the dark master, I wish I would've succeeded when I stabbed you," Malefor grumbled.

"We can only dream," Cynder sighed with a smile, agreeing with Malefor.

"Ignitus can literally tell me what is happening no matter where he is. Or she could walk back with me. But I know if that happens, you'll die before you even reach our parents home," Spyro chuckled.

"Cynder, quick, go with him," Malefor whispered through one side of his mouth to her.

"Don't worry, Spyro, I will watch after Cynder for you until you return," Ignitus said, earning a smile and a nod as Spyro looked at him.

Looking back at Cynder, Spyro asked, "Is it okay if I walk Sparks home?"

"Just be safe, okay? Last thing I want to see is some arrows in your back again," Cynder giggled, earning a smile and a nod from her lover.

Looking back at Sparks, he nudged his head towards the door and the two walked away from everyone. As the main doors opened, the two walked out, talking and joking about everything that has happened in life. As the door closed behind the two, Malefor sighed, somewhat sadly, as he wished that Spyro would've trusted Cynder with him instead of someone whom he already trusted. And in a way, he understood, but he was at least glad to see he trusted him enough to be around her. Ignitus saw this slight frown on his face and wanted to help him with that as the day had been pretty good to him so far, "Malefor, can I ask you a favor?"

"Oh no..." Malefor slightly chuckled, "What could you possibly need me to do?"

"Well, going back and forth uh, takes up a lot of my power, so I was hoping you could help me with something."

"But does it really?"

"Well, no...but let's just say for a moment that it does. Because I'm using up all this power, I don't think I'm going to have enough to protect everyone, so... I was wondering if you could do that for me?"

"What are you getting at?"

"Well, I will tell Spyro I couldn't protect everyone while he was away, and I entrusted Malefor with that job. With you on the job, no one suffered any kind of injury or anything. I'm sure Spyro will see you more and more as a friend to him after he hears what you did. He already trusts you a lot more then he did before, and putting everyone's life in your paws while he is away, you could get some mad points from him if you play this out right."

"You really think so?! But, why help me on this?"

"I'm not like the old Chronicler, Malefor. I want to help you as much as possible for what's happened back then. You could have Spyro's friendship, but you do have his trust. You and him fight along side each other with us at your side... well, the Guardians at your side, and I'm sure no matter what comes our way, you all can take it head on without a problem. This helps everyone, because it also keeps peace in the world as well. Win-win, am I'm right?"

"Sounds like a fantastic idea but... who else aside from Spyro doesn't trust me?"

Looking around, no one said a word. All they did was smile at him as no one really had fears for him anymore aside from Spyro. He smiled back at everyone and thanked, "Thank you all... for believing in me!

"Look, if Cynder can trust you and believes you aren't evil, I think that means your friends should have done the same a long time ago. Well, we already did, but you know what I mean," Cyril smiled.

Looking at Cynder, Malefor asked just to make sure it was okay with her as well, "Well, do you agree with his plan? I know you said you trusted me but... I just want to make sure."

"Hehe, Please, I was alone and I would've easily been killed by you in the past, but you didn't," Cynder giggled as seeing him still scared that she didn't trust him was understandable in a funny way to her, "Hopefully the past doesn't have to repeat itself again on this but, if you do a well enough job, protecting me, then I will put in a good word for you when Spyro gets back. And all I want in return is what I've already received; Reassurance that you won't become the dark master again, so everything works out fine."

"I know I've said it before but, thanks for trusting me so much, Cynder. I will never understand why though."

"It's one of those things where I never understand why Spyro loves me when he could literally have anyone he wanted, and even if he told me, I would be like, tell me again because I don't understand. I would tell you some more of why I trust you but, don't you think it would be better if Spyro was here so maybe he would understand why I see you as someone we all trust as well?"

"Well, I know one reason Spyro probably picked you is because you are a lot smarter then you look."

"Be careful, you keep complementing me, and Carith will keep thinking you're my father."

"What?!" The Guardians cried as they weren't there for that conversation.

"We can talk about this more in Warfang. Ignitus, when ever you are ready."

"I'm just waiting for you all to close your eyes," Ignitus said.

"Why do we have to close our eyes? Why can't we just go there?" Malefor asked.

"Because if you don't, you'll get knocked on your ass with a massive headache. The reason being is because, well, image seeing something going by at a blink of a speed. Your mind just would not be able to process it and you get knocked to the ground by the pain. And their are some other factors like the White light you all usually see when I use my powers."

"Please, I'm sure I can keep my eyes open."

"You know what, go for it. I'm going to enjoy going back and constantly reading how you fell on your ass from nausea."

"You're on. Ready when you are."

"Alright, let's do this. If you all don't want a headache, please just do what we normally do."

Everyone did as they were told, aside for Malefor as he wanted to take the challenge and see what he was fussing so much about. In the blink of an eye, his eyes went wide as he was thrown through the building, then a forest, then all the way into the The Guardians Chambers all in the matter of a millisecond. The pain quickly hit his head as everyone else appeared in the chambers. The Guardian all sat where they usually sat nearly the door in the back of the Chambers. On the left was Malefor and Carith, and on the right was Cynder. Malefor fell to the ground, grabbing his head with his paws and groaning in pain as he rolled to his left, then his right, and then his left again as he groaned in pain. Ignitus chuckled to see he was right, "I don't want to say I told you so, but I did, so, I told you so."

He could barely respond as he was to busy trying to stop himself from spinning. Constantly opening and closing his eyes, he felt like everything around him was spinning and he couldn't stop it. The spinning finally subsidized for the most part, and trying to stand to his paws, he kept one of his paws on his forehead the whole time. His lover was nice enough to help him up, and she couldn't say anything as seeing him in pain was something she most feared. Coming back from the dizziness, Malefor could only laugh it off as he joked, "Alright, I will admit... ugh, Damn, that hurt... How do you... get use to that?"

"I don't. Even for me, I have to blink every time I go somewhere or else I would slam my head into a wall trying something like that. I tried it once before and well... that's where the whole, me slamming my head into a wall thing happened."

"Why didn't you just like, teleport me like that when I was the dark master? I'm sure you would've taken me out for sure."

"Hehe, I find it funny how our protector while Spyro is gone is already down for the count. I guess we are just going to have to say Ignitus did his job well in protecting everyone," Cynder teased him as she giggled, feeling a little bad for him as it did look like it hurt a lot, but she wanted to see what he had to say.

"What?! I'm not down for the count. If I was down, then how am I still standing up?"

"I can help change that for you," Ignitus joked.

"Don't even start. Last I checked, I worked for my power. You simply took power from the other Chronicler which was never yours. How about you work for your power some time?"

"Technically..."

"'Technically, I think that I'm so smart because I stole the smarts from the Chronicler as well'," Malefor mimicked what Ignitus would say before he said it and now that he was having a little fun, the pain subsided, so he put his paw from his forehead back to the ground.

"You know I can control dreams right? You feel like having a nightmare tonight?"

"Oh, a threat! A threat from the red Guardian himself...! But, I'm curious... what kind of nightmare would it be? I'm sure I can endure almost anything."

"The dark master?"

"Old news."

"Spyro?"

"Cynder wouldn't let that happen."

"The Guardians killing you?"

"Hahahahaha, oh man, that's, that's a good one."

"Then I guess I have to pull out the big guns."

"Big guns? You mean the muscle you didn't work for as well?"

"Carith..."

"No. No! I already know what it's going to be."

"You wanted a nightmare didn't you?"

"Hell no. I just said I could endure most nightmares. But any that have to do with Carith? I will be on the floor crying faster then your little jump to hyperspace."

"I wonder if you will be crying faster then Spyro breaking the sound barrier," Carith giggled.

"What is with all you in that? He can't, break, the sound barrier. The only thing he can break is my bones because that's all he does."

"Why don't you believe he can?" Terrador asked.

"One, it's bull. Two, I'm a little upset that he can do that and I can't, even though you all trained me. I guess you all didn't train me very well. And three, the speed for that is way beyond what you all must think it is. I mean, what was the speed you had to go again?"

"Three hundred forty three meters per second," Volteer explained.

"You know, even if I asked, I wouldn't know how fast that was. I was never good with miles per hour and feet per second. Like I just, i couldn't tell you even if I wanted to."

"Well, with that speed, he could easily reach the Dragon Temple and Warfang in a matter of seconds," Cyril pointed out.

"I don't mean to bring up bad memories but, Spyro and his, dark form. If I was successful in killing one of you, which I am extremely glad I didn't! What kind of power would I have witnessed?" Claire asked, feeling kinda scared to ask that question, but no one told her other wise, in fact, they all started talking about it, even joking about it.

"Spyro probably would've made my little forehead tap that I did on him seem like a hatchling trick," Ignitus laughed, making Claire smile as she was glad he wasn't mad at her.

"Yeah, when ever the dark master attacked Cynder, sorry again, I thought I was going to die. Almost every attack I tried to use to hit him, bam, blocked, bam, blocked. I was like, Damn man, at least let me get a hit off. Which I mean, I'm glad I didn't, but even if I were to hit him to the ground, he probably would've just kicked himself off the ground and ended my life," Malefor chuckled, remembering the intense power and fight he had when ever Spyro was at him most powerful moment he had ever been, "I don't think we will ever see that side of him again, or at least, I hope not. If we do, someone's gonna die."

"For your sake, you better hope it's an ape or something that isn't you basically."

"Yeah."

"Oh yeah, since we are here again, what was the whole thing with Malefor being Cynder's Father?" Terrador asked as all the other Guardians were just as curious as he was, "But then again, if that were true, wouldn't Carith have already left you by now? And wouldn't Spyro have like, killed you or something?"

"Yeah, lets give him another reason to kill me because he already has so many... But Carith wanted to know whether or not I ever got, busy, with another dragoness. Ignitus helped me out on that and I can say for one hundred percent that Carith has only ever been my first love."

"And what a wired family and world I woke up to," Carith giggled.

"Wired family? The only other's who are new around here are Spyro and Cynder. And well, Claire, but she's gonna dump Ignitus at some point."

"And what makes you think that? I was the first one who made the move after all," Claire smiled, putting a paw on her chest as she felt good about what she had done, and putting her paw back down on the floor, she smiled and decided to tease him about getting dumped by his lover, "And you can't be talking. Last just checked, the one with the highest chance of getting dumped is you."

"Me?! What about Cynder?"

"Cynder? You are wondering if Spyro, or even Cynder, would ever break up because of one another?"

"Yeah, of course they... well I mean... Alright fine... maybe I should do something about that."

"Oh, and what might that be?" Cynder asked with a raised brow.

"Well, I would tell you, but if I tell ya, I might have to kill ya." Malefor chuckled.

"Well that's something I like hearing when I come back," A voice came from the entrance.

Seeing as it was Spyro, Malefor mentally slapped himself knowing that was just his luck. Sitting down next to his lover, Spyro saw the frown on his face and he already knew why. Draping his wing over his lover's back, she gently poked his tail with hers, and looking at her she looked at Malefor before looking back at him. He sighed, but he obeyed. Looking up at him, Spyro spoke, "Dude, I swear to the Ancestors, you keep moping around like that, and you'll make me think we live back in the old days. Your depression is literally killing me."

"Sorry... I just... I was only joking, Spyro, I swear... You... I know... I will never hurt her ever again," Malefor promised him, but looking at him, Spyro only looked back at him with a raised brow before chuckling.

"Weren't you the one who picked on me about crying too damn much? I knew you were a lot of things, but a hypocrite?"

"Hehe, alright, alright, I'm sorry. But, how did you get here so fast? I thought you would've talked to Sparks some more."

"Oh I did, the truth is, the only reason I got here so fast is because... Hehe, I broke, the sound barrier."

"Nope, I'm going to bed. You think you're funny with that, but now I know how you feel when I do something you want to kill me for, and that sound barrier thing you all keep doing is literally poisoning. Like, stage five poison. And the poison is coming from Cynder."

"Dude, don't be jealous because you don't have this power."

"It's not my fault the Guardians were useless back then."

"Hey," The Guardians all said in unison.

"Sorry, semi-useless."

"Well, you want to train tomorrow and change that?" Spyro asked.

"I really, really feel like I'm going to die tomorrow."

"Don't be like that. Come on, lets talk some more while we walk up to our rooms. I'm getting pretty... tired."

"Alright."

"Talk to you all in the morning, hopefully," Spyro said to all the Guardians, and yawning after he finished his sentence, he caused everyone in the room to yawn.

"Goodnight," The Guardians and Claire all said in their own way.

The five walked into the back room with Volteer opening up the door and entering first, and Terrador entering last as he closed the door behind them. Once they had all gone in their chambers, the four walked with one another back up to their house. As they walked, Spyro and Malefor stood side by side so they could talk, and the first to speak was Malefor as he still wasn't sure that Spyro trusted him enough to help him train with his powers, "Are you sure you want to help me with my powers? The fears and the doubts you must have for me having such powers like yours... why?"

"Look just... just know that I've had some help, and with that help came realisation. Another pretty big turning point for me was just, well, when I ask you to defend everyone while I fought. There were a lot, and I mean a lot, of apes. And, well, the reason I took damage when I shouldn't have taken any damage was because... I was scared you would take this opportunity to take out someone. That's also why I came over and checked on everyone because... I didn't know if I could trust you?"

"Then why bother trusting me now? I know I might never get your friendship, but, your trust is a big step forward for me. I want to know that you are for sure in trust with me. And I'm not saying that to take advantage of that, I'm saying that because I want us to have some more fun around here without you having to fear every day about what could happen while you are off doing something else."

"Well... that fight really was an eye opener for me. You really were scared and, I didn't want to put more pressure on you, not like how I did when you first came back to Warfang. You didn't deserve that, and I am sorry for that. On my way back, Ignitus told me how you were helping Cynder train with her wind powers. What was that all about?"

"Oh, well I was just... You don't have the power of wind so you aren't able to teach her anything about her powers so I wanted to help out. I know she would never get into a fight but, I wanted to see what she's learned and if I could help in any way."

"Ah. Ignitus even told me that while I was gone, you looked after everyone. What was that about?"

"Ignitus, uh, wasn't feeling good so, I took over and watched after everyone."

"Threatening my lover is watching after everyone?"

"Spyro... I'm truly sorry I was just..."

"I was just joking as well. If Cynder was upset, she would've told me. And even when I came back, before I walked in, I saw she was smiling at you even after you said that, so I knew you were both joking."

Approaching the doors, they opened for the four as they walked in. Walking into the hallway and sitting down next to in the middle of the hallway with his lover next to him, Spyro continued, "But we don't have to train tomorrow if you don't want to. Lets all just, sleep in tomorrow and have a good nights rest. I promise I trust you, I really do. I know you joke a lot, which is something I can agree on. Lets just all joke and have fun, alright? If there is anything that needs to be solved, lets get it over with so we can go back to our peaceful times."

"Hehe, alright. If you need my help with anything, wake me, alright?"

"Of course. With you by my side, we can handle any problem."

He nodded at him with a smile, completely filled with joy once again by everything he had said to him. Opening up the door to his room, Malefor walked in to his room, but he couldn't conceal his excitement. Getting halfway into the room, he ran and jumped up on his bed, constantly jumping up and down with excitement, which they all heard. Carith smiled and thanked Spyro for his help with him, "Thanks, Spyro. I know I've said it before but, you've been a big help. I will make sure he doesn't ruin your sleep like he did before."

"You're welcome. And if he does, I know you'll be right there to get on him so, I think we are all fine."

"There is no place I would rather be then by his side. Goodnight you two."

Turning around walking into her room, she closed the door behind herself with her tail. Taking her tail off the door, she walked over to the bed. Jumping up on the bed, Malefor stopped as he looked at her. She looked at him with a raised brow, wondering what he was planning, but before she could even think of what to say, she was attacked by his lips. Pushing into the surprise kiss, she giggled as Malefor rolled her over with his wings and stood over her. Gently pulling away as to tease her some more, he whispered with somewhat of an evil smile, "With Spyro's trust, I can now put my plan into action, but for right now, I have to make sure you don't say a word about it."

"Even your kiss can not silence these lips. I will tell him, and you can't stop me," Carith giggled, playing along with her lover's little game.

"Stop you? I don't have to stop you, I just need to control you."

"I will never fall to your control."

"You will learn soon enough... oh wait! I forgot!"

Carith had wide eyes from his sudden outburst. Quickly wrapping her tail around his, she didn't let go as she thought he was going to leave her to go do something else, so she prevented him just in case. A small white light shined in the room, and putting her head upside on the bed, she was able to make out a red dragon. She already knew who it was, and Malefor's words made it all the more obvious, "Ignitus! Hey, I have a favor to ask! The chains that Cynder had, can you put them up on my shelf for me next to the door knob?"

"Oh, yeah, sure..." Ignitus paused as he moved a couple inches, and as Malefor blinked, he looked over at the bookshelf to see the chains laid there, "Why did you need those?"

"Collection purposes. Next will be Spyro's head! Hahaha! Oh wait, actually, is everyone okay? Did the Guardians make it to bed okay?"

"Hehe, yeah. They all feel asleep relatively fast. Me and Claire talked a little before she and I had fallen asleep. But then you summoned me so I sent a clone."

"And Spyro?"

"He is laying in his bed right now talking to his lover."

"Of course he is."

"Isn't that what you're doing?"

"I'm not talking, I'm flirting, there is a difference."

"Hehe. Do you need anything else from me? I would be happy to help."

"You've helped more then enough. And thanks for telling Spyro about what I did, you know, me helping Cynder with her wind ability and stuff."

"Just trying to keep peace in this world. And helping out a friend is always something I'm happy to do."

"Thanks Ignitus."

"No problem. I will talk to you all some more tomorrow. I'm pretty sure Carith wants to get back to what ever you two were doing."

"Oh yeah, right, sorry."

A bright white shine of light caused the two to look away and close their eyes. As the light died down, the two opened their eyes and saw that Ignitus had disappeared. Looking back down at his lover, she looked up at him with a raised brow, and he was confused for a bit, but then he quickly realized what he was supposed to be doing and got right back to it with a teasing voice, "So you think you are strong enough to resist my control? Hehe, we will see about that."

Putting his mouth over her neck, he nibbled gently down her neck, sending shivers of pleasure all through her body. Putting her paw on his chest, she pushed gently as if she was trying to resist his control, but as he traveled up her neck, see couldn't take it any longer as her body went limp. Pulling back and looking at her as she smiled with a blush, he could tell he had won, and he teased her about it, "What's wrong? I thought you would've been strong enough to resist my control?"

"You're just... too powerful. Please, Master Malefor, I give up... no more... but if you want to keep going, you can."

"Hehe."

Pushing gently into another kiss, the two closed their eyes and enjoyed the loving feeling, but a cold drop of water fell down onto Carith's face. Opening her eyes, Malefor had pulled away and opened his eyes. She saw the tear had came from him, but he was smiling. Understanding why he was like this, she whispered gently to him, "Having Spyro's trust feels good doesn't it? Especially now that even Cynder trust you?"

"Do I... deserve their trust?"

"I always asked myself if I ever deserved you. You snuggle up with me and tell me, 'If you didn't deserve me, then why did we fall in love the first day we laid eyes on one another?' You've been through a lot, Malefor, every one has. We are all healing from what has happened, but I feel after today, the healing is complete. Lets enjoy this time, the time we have together, knowing that, when we wake up, we have nothing to worry about. No war, no fighting just, us, your friends, along with others who trust you."

Moving his body off of his lover, he laid down next to her as she rolled over onto her stomach. Nuzzling her head underneath his neck, she later laid her head down on his paws and whispered, "You remember when we had these times? The times when we had nothing to worry about. Hehe, aside from that one time you became the dark master, but things have changed."

Draping his wing over his lover and laying his head down over hers, he was somewhat scared of that fact.

"Goodnight, my love."

"Goodnight... Carith," Malefor whispered, closing his eyes along with his lover.

This is just like the past, where there isn't any war. But then it all came to an end when Carith was attacked... When will that happen again? When will we be attacked or, when will something happen that will completely change everything that we know...? I'm... sorry, Spyro, I can't wait any longer. I can't let this fear of something happening eat away at me. Please... trust me enough to show me everything you know, Malefor thought as he slept, but even as he tried, the fear that anything could happen at any moment scared him to no end.

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Pulling away from their kiss, Spyro looked down on Cynder's body as he stood above her while she laid on her back, and as he looked at her, she smiled at him. Putting their foreheads against one another's, they closed their eyes and enjoyed one another's company. Opening her eyes and looking at some of her lover's body as he stood over her, she blushed seeing how strong he looked and asked, causing him to chuckle midway through her sentence, "I still don't understand why you chose me."

"It's hard to stray away from my destiny with you," Spyro whispered.

"So you say we were destined to be together?"

"Destined? Yeah, I would say that."

"What if another dragoness was with you through your journey? Wouldn't that mean you would've loved her instead of me?"

"That's probably why you were with me through it all, because we were destined to be together."

Picking his head up and opening his eyes, she smiled at him as he smiled back. Getting off the top of her, he laid down beside her. Rolling over on her belly, Spyro laid down on his stomach as well. Snuggling up to him and laying her head down on his paws, he draped a wing over her back and he put his head over hers. Just as he laid his head down, he asked one last time to make sure he was doing everything right, "Now that I trust Malefor completely, what do you think will be the outcome in the future...? I only ask because, we lay here now but... one thing could change, and we could lose it all... I'm scared of that feeling. I guess I'm just scared of chance in general."

"I've been through the horrors of what the past has to offer us. At any moment, we could've lost someone dear to us. Maybe training Malefor is the best thing to do. With his power, combined with yours, there is nothing you all can't accomplish. Even you alone can take down an army. I know the fears you have, and I'm scared that one day, you could go into a fight and never return. But... with Carith around, I trust Malefor to keep everyone safe, just the same as how you do."

"I will do anything to keep you safe, I promise. When ever Malefor wants to train, I will help him. He could be what brings us to a safer future."

"I believe in you my love. You didn't get those muscles of yours out of pure luck, you did it because you wanted to protect me, and I know Malefor wants just the same."

"Hehe, you always ask why I chose you, when I still can't even figure out why you chose me."

"Calling you amazing is an understatement. All I can say is that... I love you, so much, Spyro. And there is nothing in this world that will change my mind."

"I love you too Cynder... I love you so much..." Spyro murmured, feeling as a tear was forming.

"Uh oh. Be careful. I just might tell Malefor about this and then he will pick on you all day about it."

"Hehe, classic Malefor."

"When ever you wake up in the morning, promise to give me a wake up kiss?"

"Even if you're still sleeping?"

"No matter what."

"The it's a promise... Goodnight, my love."

"Goodnight, Spyro."

Closing their eyes and falling asleep, one thought was on Spyro's mind, and it was similar to that of Malefor's thought, Even with how powerful I am, I can't even fight the Chronicler. What if someone ever gained that power and used it for evil, I alone wouldn't be able to do anything to protect Cynder, or anyone for that matter. With Malefor at my side, with his training and mine, we just might stand a chance. I have to train with Malefor, for his sake and mine. And if I don't... we could lose someone, and there is no way I'm going to make any one go through that past again, especially not Cynder. Drifting off to sleep, his body was eager to train which made it hard for him to sleep, but he knew he needed to rest up so he could train with Malefor tomorrow morning.