When they went to the room, Flame was actually very happy with such an opportunity. "Wow! By the ancestors! I am in the room of the loyal heart and the queen of the skies! It can only be a dream! Just awesome!"

"Hey, Flame! Calm down or you'll end up having a heart attack!" Cynder was amused by the red dragon's euphoria.

"Flame... I wanted to ask you... Are you related to Ignitus?"

Flame gets surprised when he hears that. -With Ignitus? THE Lord Ignitus?! What an honor, but no. Why the question?"

"You remind me a lot of him... Their fighting style, color, appearance... Everything!"

"My mother always said that to me..."

"You have a good chance of becoming the new guardian, Flame! You fight very well! But being a guardian isn't just about Fighting. So we will continue to evaluate you in training. But the fight, it's eleven out of ten! Really awesome!"

"It's an immense honor to receive such praise from you, Spyro! Thank you very much indeed! But... I hurted you!"

"This?" Cynder begins to lick Spyro's wounds with a greenish liquid coming out of her tongue. "This' nothing! Look at this! She points to Spyro's chest, where he had a huge scar. "I'm the one who did this, when i was being controlled. I remember it very well."

"But we don't need to keep remembering the past now that the present is so good!" Spyro comments, not even showing much discomfort from the licking of his recent wound.

"You're right!" Cynder kisses him, forgetting that Flame was there for a second.

The red dragon watches the two kiss and smiles. Then he sits and watches them.

Spyro then cuts off the kiss and licks her on the tip of her muzzle, turning to Flame. "Liking what you see, huh? I saw you're pretty naughty! I saw you staring at Ember!"

Upon hearing this name, Cynder snorts and turns to the door. "I'll leave you two alone. I can see that you're going to have a bit of a conversation... You know!"

Flame looks at her, as does Spyro. "A... Alright, Cynder!"

Cynder leaves the room knowing exactly what she's going to do: Make amends with this intruder, Ember.

Cynder searches for the pink dragoness everywhere in the city, determined to find her. Minutes pass until she finally finds her, in the wing of the rooms, going to her room, to her misfortune, near the place she left, so minutes of searching went for nothing.

Cynder approaches her than. "Ember!"

She turns to Cynder, a slightly mocking look. "Yes?"

"By what right do you come here all pompous and waving your hips for MY Spyro?"

"YOUR Spyro? Ahhh... I'm sorry, but I didn't know he was a puppy to have an owner!"

"Besides being a snob, you're also stupid? What I said was...

"I know what you meant! What is it? YOUR Spyro?! Don't make me laugh! He only wanted you because you were the only female available to him! He just wanted to continue his lineage! But now he can choose!

"Stop talking nonsense! You are really very offered! Keep presenting yourself for all the males to look at your rear! Ridiculous!"

"Ridiculous? Me? HAH! Look who's talking, terror of the skies! Yes! TERROR OF THE SKIE! Do you really think Spyro would love you?! Come on! Get real! Why would he stay with the terror of the skies, the one that almost killed him, who freed Malefor, killed a lot of other dragons, killed Ignitus, if you can stay with me uh? A true dragoness who fought to protect others. I guarantee you: You're the least likely to want him around him!

Cynder is flabbergasted, paralyzed by what Ember was saying. She felt an immense pain in his heart and his eyes began to shine. "He said that..."

"Did he loves you? Really? Didn't he just tell you that to have a child with you? Well, that's what he wanted with you! He would never want you! So pathetic! I don't know why you continue to live, being a burden to everyone who looks at you, because they remember that they lost family members because of you! Now do you want to live happily with him? The one you took everything from? HAHA! Don't make me laugh!" Ember turns and continues walking to his room. "Oh, and another thing: He looked at my rear, okay?!"

Cynder was petrified, looking down, showing no emotion. Until she starts running towards the exit of Warfang, leaving a trail of tears on the ground, and sobbing a lot. "She's right! Why would anyone love me? I, the terror of the skies... That did so much harm! Spyro... He would never love me!" She thought as she ran, crying a lot.

Running down the hallway, she walks through the door of her room without even realizing it, where Spyro and Flame were talking. Spyro hears Cynder's sobs and sees her running down the hallway quickly.

"Cynder?" He gets up and goes to the door. He sees her running. "What happened to her? Flame! You're dispensed!" He starts running following her from afar.

Cynder kept running with Ember's voice disturbing her mind: 'Why would he love you?', 'Killed Ignitus.', 'Why are you still alive?' ... 'Still alive...'

Cynder starts flying as she leaves the lodge, heading towards the lake they swam in the day before. Spyro followed her, trying to get to her, though she was faster and more agile than he was, as well as lighter. Upon landing on the lake, she collapses to the ground, crying a lot out of pure sadness. Her crying could be heard by Spyro which made him very worried, as he had never seen her cry like that before, so he knew that something serious had happened. Spyro lands a bit behind her.

"Cynder?" Spyro practically whispers, approaching from behind the dragoness.

"GET OUT OF HERE! I don't want you looking at me anymore! Never again!"

"What are you talking about, Cynder?!" Spyro moves closer and notices the small puddle of tears on the ground.

"You don't love me! Nobody does! No one has ever loved me or will love me! Never!"

"Cynder! Stop talking nonsense! I love you more than anything in this world!"

"Stop lying! She's absolutely right! Why would anyone like me, the terror of the skies?"

At the same moment, Spyro frowns, staring at her. –... She...?

"There's no reason!" Cynder wouldn't stop crying a second. "Go to her Spyro! Be happy! I only bring sadness to you! It was my fault Ignitus died! IT WAS ALL MY FAULT!"

"Wh... Stop talking nonsense, Cynder! Nothing was your fault! Who told you these nonsenses?! Who is this "she"?!" Spyro looks deep into her eyes, holding his beloved's face with his wings gently."

"Ember!"

"THE EMBER! Did she do all this to you?!" Spyro gets angry. "I'm going to kill her! Tear the skin off her flesh! The flesh of her bones! Break her bones in my mouth and..."

"No! Don't hurt her, please!"

He looks at Cynder, taking a deep breath as he felt his energy starting to overwhelm her emotions. After calming down again, he looks at her fondly and lies down in front of her, his muzzle very close to hers. "Cynder... I've already told you that none of this was your fault! I love you, and that's how happy I feel..." He brings his muzzle closer. "By my side! I love you more than anything! I would give my life for you without a second thought!"

Cynder looks at him, tears streaming down her eyes. "T... Truth?"

"Of course, you silly! I will always love you, no matter what! You are the reason for my living! If you didn't exist, I'd fall into depression and kill myself! All because I wouldn't have you day in and day out! Nothing will make my love for you end! And if she's saying all that, she'll bitterly regret it! Come on Cyn... I want you to be with me when I go to talk to her, which it will be now!"

Cynder looks at him, still crying. "Spyro... You can only be a blessing!" She gets up and kisses him. Then separates from the kiss after some seconds. "Thanks!"

"Thank you, Cyn! Thank you for telling me this, because I would never accept losing you! It would go crazy! Completely crazy!"

"Spyro... I love you so much!"

"I love you too, Cyn! Now let's go..."

Just then, Helen flies in, looking relieved to find them. "Spyro! Cynder! Thanks the ancestors I found you! You've got to go back to the city now!"

"What's wrong?" Spyro asks.

"Its Flame!"

Spyro and Cynder stare at each other, not understanding anything. Then they start flying with Helen to Warfang.

Once there, Helen takes them to the bedroom wing, more precisely to the front of their bedroom. When they get there, they see Flame lying on the ground, roaring from what appeared to be pain.

"FLAME!" Spyro rushes to help him. There wasn't a wound all over his body, so Spyro deduced it was some fractured bone, but he was mistaken. "Flame, listen to me! Look at me and stop..."

Flame turns to face Spyro, growling in pain, causing Spyro to fall silent. In his eye was a three-clawed wound that had cut through the fragile skin around Flame's eyes, the middle one running through his eyelid. The wounds were bleeding profusely, and the floor was very dirty with blood.

"By the ancestors, Flame! What happened?!" Cynder walks over and touches the cut from above, causing it to growl louder due to the healing fluid rinsing the wound.

Flame had his eyes closed, Spyro was afraid he would go blind due to the cuts. "E... Ember!"

Those words acted like an arrow on Spyro and Cynder. "What do you mean 'Ember'?" Spyro asks.

Flame tried to speak, but the pain wouldn't let him. Cynder steps forward and smears anesthetic acid over Flame's nostrils, causing him to inhale it and ease the pain he felt.

"When Cynder ran past and you followed her, I immediately knew who and what made her cry. When I left your room, Ember was coming here. I told her to stop trying to win you over to her, that you loved Cynder, and the next thing I knew, she attacked me in my eyes!" Flame said, breathing fast and clawing at the ground as he felt pain. "Spyro... Tell the truth... Will I go blind?"

Spyro was furious, but he looks at Cynder, who says no, nodding his head.

"I don't think so, Flame. Now calm down. Helen, can you take him to the infirmary? Let Cyril know about it! He'll know what to do!" She said, showing that she had some control of the situation and removing her paw from the scratched eye.

"Of course, Cynder! I'll do it right now!"

Helen begins to guide Flame to the infirmary after he slowly rises.

Spyro was clearly annoyed. "Cynder... Let's go! And stop me if I mess up please!" Spyro starts walking to Ember's room, followed by Cynder."

When he gets there, Spyro walks in without saying a word and sees Ember lying on the bed.

"Ember!" Calls him.

Ember lifts her head and looks at the purple dragon, not noticing his angry countenance. "Oh! Spyro! I was..."

"Shut your damn mouth before I rip it off!"

Ember is surprised to hear those words, so she sees Cynder behind Spyro.

"Were you the one who did that in Flame?"

"He was getting into my busi..."

"BY WHAT RIGHT DID YOU ATTACK HIM?!" Spyro roars, exploding with rage. "YOU ALMOST MADE HIM BLIND!"

Ember crouches down, looking down. "I..."

"SHUT UP! AND WHY DID YOU DID THAT?! BECAUSE HE WAS TELLING YOU TO STOP MISTREATING CYNDER?!" Spyro raises his voice.

Ember looks at Cynder as if asking for help. Cynder looks at her and moves her mouth, 'Why?'

"BY WHAT RIGHT DO YOU COME HERE AND SHOW YOURSELF TO ME AND ALL THE OTHER MALES?! AND HE STILL KEEPS OFFENDING CYNDER IN SUCH A WAY THAT SHE WAS WANTING TO KILL HERSELF!" Spyro takes two steps forward, getting very close to Ember, but stops when he feels Cynder holding his tail. "I SWEAR TO YOU I'D KILL YOU RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, BUT GUESS WHY I WON'T!"

Ember was scared of Spyro, not getting her gaze and keeping his eyes closed trembling.

"Because Cynder asked me not to hurt you."

These words touched Ember's heart like a burning iron. She looks at Cynder who was looking at her with a disappointed face. "What did I do?!" She thought.

"Consider your life saved by her... For today! And that I don't see you showing yourself to any male! NONE, DID YOU HEAR ME RIGHT?!"

Ember was trembling with fear and felt his throat burn. She nods her head positively quickly.

"And even less by talking to Cynder in such a way! I don't want you! Not now, not later, not ever! You're only alive now because of her! Not mine! Only hers! She's the one I love, not you! I don't even know you yet, your... Bitch!"

Ember feels bad about being called that, and Spyro notices.

"What? Didn't like being called that?" Ember's eyes fill with tears. "I thought you liked being called that! After all, you really like to curse others or rub their mistakes in their faces, right?" Cynder looks down, feeling the words Ember had spoken to her. Tears begin to come out of Ember's eyes. "You made Cynder do something I've NEVER seen her do before!" Ember looks at Cynder and notices a tear fall from his right eye. "You made her Cry! Do you REALLY think she liked being controlled to fucking do all that?!" Ember looks down again and closes his eyes. "Do you think she's not sorry? Don't you think she hasn't suffered enough in her life?!" Ember notices a tear fall from Spyro's eyes and watches her fall. "You keep offering yourself to the other males like that! You can't even be compared to manure, because it serves at least as fertilizer! And you? Tell me... What are you good for? To give to the males? To tear them away from their families? IS THAT WHAT YOU DO, YOU BITCH!?"

"Spyro..." Cynder warns. "Less... She... Don't need to hear that kind of thing. Please."

Spyro runs his paw over his face and takes a deep breath. "Did you hear that? Her saving you again? After you've said all that..." Spyro turns and leaves the room. Ember is petrified when she hears that. "Are you coming Cyn?"

"I'll stay here for a while, Spyro... I'll go in a second!

"I'll be in the room. I need to lie down for a while... CAUSE MY HEAD IS HURTING! WHY WOULD IT BE, RIGHT EMBER?!" He then keeps walking.

Ember was looking down at his own paws, tears kept streaming down her eyes.

Cynder approaches her. "Ember?"

Ember looks at her with a look of sadness.

"Why did you did that?! Why do you do this? You knew that Spyro and I were companions. Why did you kept getting his attention that way?"

Ember looks her in the eye and whispers. "I do not know! It's just... Who... I am..."

"How don't you know! You're mad at me, aren't you?" She sighs. "Who was it?"

"What?"

"Who was it?" Cynder insists.

"M... My mother..."

Cynder sighs. "Please, Ember. Forgive me for that! You have to forgive me! I didn't do all that! It was Malefor! I was being controlled! Why would I want to kill anyone?! I was like a puppet..."

Ember feels very sorry for saying such things about Cynder, who was now being kind to her.

"I know you're not... A bitch, Ember! I know you never did... Sex... Before. You know the smell is different."

"Yeah... I know. I... I'm sorry!" Ember's voice was very low.

Cynder sighs. "Would you forgive me if you were in my place, Ember? Put yourself in my place! Imagine what it's like to be controlled to commit atrocities? He made me kill... So many families. And I always dreamed of what it was like... To be loved by someone..." These words took Ember by surprise. "Do you think I meant to kill someone? Do you think I wanted to kill any dragon other than the damn one that controlled me?!"

"Cynder... I didn't know! I swear! Forgive me! Please!"

Cynder looks at her. "I've always wanted to have a friend... But it looks like I'll never have..." Cynder turns to leave the room.

Ember feels an incredible pain in his heart when he hears that. "Cynder!"

The black dragoness looks at her.

"I'll be honored to be your friend!"

"You're lying... I know you hate me. There's no hiding it!" Cynder starts crying and leans her head against the wall. "Everyone except Spyro, Cyril, Terrador, and Volteer hates me! Just like I hate being me! I can feel the looks. Everything you said, I already knew. The stares of people I've killed family and friends of. But I never WANTED to!"

Ember gets up and walks over to Cynder, slowly. "Please, Cynder! Stop crying! I swear to my life that I don't hold any grudges against you anymore! At least... I don't want to keep it anymore. I... I feel horrible about it."

"Okay..." Cynder wipes away tears. "I guess you have to apologize to two dragons!"

"I think you're right... Friend!" One smiles at the other, slightly.

"It won't be easy..." The black dragoness says, accompanying the rose.

The two of them start to go towards Spyro and Cynder's room, not talking because of the things that happened. When the door can be seen, Ember swallows.

"Do you really think he was going to kill me?"

"I don't doubt anything! In fact, he was likely!"

Ember gets even more tense. Cynder enters the first room. "Spyro? Are you awake?"

"Yes! You can come here!" He was lying down.

"Before, someone here came to see you!"

Spyro lifts his head and looks at Ember from outside the room. "Ember."

"H... Hi S... Sp... Spyr... Ro. C... Ca... Can I enter?" Ember was still afraid of Spyro.

"As you wish. But I recommend being on your guard, because if you annoys me more, not even Cynder will be able to hold me back!"

Ember swallows hard and begins to enter, even more afraid. "I... I've come to... Apologise!"

"APOLOGYZE?!" Spyro gets up suddenly, which makes Ember very scared. "DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT IF YOU APOLOGIZE EVERYTHING WILL GO BACK TO NORMAL?!"

"Spyro... Calm down..." Cynder said, approaching him and holding him.

"N... No... I..."

"I'll never forgive you for what you did to Cynder! You were the first dragon to make her cry, I won't forgive that! Never!"

"Spyro! We talked and she's really sorry! I trust her now." Cynder says, turning the purple dragon's face to look at her. "Please."

Spyro looks at Ember again and begins to growl. He then climbs down of bed still growling and gets very close to Ember, making her close her eyes expecting something. "That's what you wanted, isn't it? That I was very close to you!" He says, huffing angrily at her. But then moving the face away again. "I forgive you this time! But if there's a next one, I'll get so close to you, my teeth will be crushing your neck!" Ember gulps and breathes a sigh of relief when Spyro walks up to Cynder and rubs up against her.

"Thank you, Spyro! Thank you very much! And... I won't disappoint you!"

"I wish as well" Spyro says in a threatening tone.

"Spyro. I'm going to take her to apologize to the Flame, okay?"

"As you wish, Cyn!"

Cynder goes to the door and starts walking. "Let's go, Ember!"

Ember looks at Spyro one last time and follows Cynder. Spyro then decides to take a nice hot bath to relax a bit, but he than decides to wait for Cynder to come back to do it together and, who knows, try again.

When they arrived at the infirmary, Flame was in a room, on top of a doolie, with white bands in his eyes, stained with blood.

"F... Flame?" Ember approaches.

Flame was awake and when he heard Ember's voice he almost had a heart attack. "LEAVE! GET OUT OF HERE, YOU MONSTER! What do you want? Kill me?! Finish with the service?"

"Flame... I've come to apologize..."

"Apologyze? Why? Spyro went to talk to you, didn't he? Because that's the only way for you to have common sense!" He sighs. "You never even noticed me. We are from the same city! I've always liked you! But you never even noticed me..."

Ember is paralyzed by the sudden revelation.

"I loved you... I REALLY LOVED IT! But you only had eyes for Spyro to realize that! And when I get the courage to talk to you, what do you do? Makes me blind for a day! Plus this scar on my face that will never go away!"

"Forgive me, Flame! I had no idea of that!"

"Of course not! Why would you notice me while Spyro was there, wouldn't you?"

"Actually, Flame... I... I do like you! I... Just... Didn't... Uh..." She scratches the back of her neck, clearing her throat. "I think... You noticef that I... Uh... I like... Attention..."

Flame is silent for a few seconds. "Serious? So... You... Did you notice me?"

"Why would I lie? And... Sorry about that... I... I really... I don't know what happened to me to hurt you... I... I let my emotions get the better of me and... I... Wanted... Get Spyro's attention and..." She sat down, looking down. "Forgive me..."

"Mhhh... Well... This is definitely a very strange day... First I knew and am praised by my idol. Then I see Cynder crying for the first time. So the dragoness I love almost blinds me and now she says she likes me?!" Flame said, sort of to himself, thoughtful and giggling lightly and mockingly. "At least I'll have material for stories for my future grandchildren when I'm gramps. Hahahaha!"

Ember approaches him unbeknownst to him because he is in these thoughts of his own and licks his lips slowly. "You are strong and beautiful. I bet it's caring and loving too. What more could I want?"

"Good in bed, perhaps?" Attacks Cynder.

"All fire dragons are." Ember says, lashing back and winking at Cynder."

Flame licks the top of Ember's snout, as if he knows exactly where he was licking. "I've always loved you, ever since I saw you in our city!"

"Flame... I..." Ember was going to say something but Flame interrupts her, kissing her.

She's not surprised by that. She has been waiting for this to happen. Then she kisses him back, reciprocating with her tongue intertwining with his'.

"I'm going to... Leave the two of you alone, hehehe..." Cynder smiles and goes to her room finally, relatively lighter with what had happened. When she enter, you see everything decorated with rose petals on the floor. She smiles. "Spyyyrooooo..." She hums.

Upon fully entering, Spyro, who was behind the door, closes and locks it. "I thought we'd go take a shower... I want to... Show you how much I love you, huh? What do you say, my queen?"

"Certainly, my dear!" She throws herself at him kissing him. Spyro holds her in the air with his wings, though he finds her a bit too heavy due to her recent injuries hurting a bit.

"This time... I swear! You'll lay a nice and healthy egg!" Spyro kisses her again and enters the giant square tub, holding her together.