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Deep in a cave on a distant planet, three dragons walked on the slick stone, ducking and dodging the various rock features that dotted the cavern. They each emanated a glow, but it only pierced a few feet of darkness in front of them. Dark magic seemed to emanate from every direction. They entered a strange open area; small red cores were spread everywhere. Aura broke the eerie silence.

"I've never seen this many fear cores at once before." She stated

"This master specializes in fear magic, I have even detected some eldritch magic at work here" Michael replied.

"This place looks worse than the Abyssal trench." Trice said, then groaned "Ugh, I still have to go back there, all signs say that there is a void core in there. But it's filled with stuff, finding one specific core is really annoying."

"If you can't find it within a good amount of time, I'll have it cleaned out" Michael told her

Trice nodded "Oh and Junior still hasn't found those ethereal shards, the last place they had formed has been depleted, but he's looking in the Andara galaxy"

Michael rolled his eyes "He purposely choose the hardest ingredient he could just so he could explore"

He snapped his fingers, and the fear cores vanished, transferred to his vault.

Trice snickered "He's going to be so pissed, the cursed army needs those"

They walked over to the other side of the cavern, and made their way deeper through the cave system. Strange whispers echoed through the walls, basic fear magic that had no effect on the dragons. Michael had given Aura immunity to most forms of magic right after she hatched. The deeper they got, the louder the whispers became, and the more powerful the magic became. Finally, they reached another chamber, a red dragon laid sleeping in the center. Michael tapped his claws on the stone floor, rousing the dark dragon from his slumber. The dark master sat up and looked at him with a calm expression.

"So, we meet again." He spoke in a deep voice

"Hello Canthos" Michael replied "You knew this was coming"

Canthos sighed "Yeah, I did"

"I give you credit though, not even the other masters knew where you were" Michael told him

He chuckled "I never choose this; I was born a boosted fear dragon."

"I never held that against you, I know what your father did. But I killed the one who you were bounded too" Michael said

Canthos looked up "I'm free?"

"Yes, its time to remove your connections with the Dark Authority, and get you out of this dimension" Michael answered

Canthos smiled "finally, what took you so long?"

"He was hard to find, and even harder to kill. Then you were hard to find." Michael explained

The dragon got up and stretched. "I finally get to spend my immortality doing what I want"

Michael snapped his fingers, and a portal formed. "This will take you to a facility that can remove the effects that have been left on you"

The dragon nodded, and stepped through, the portal closing shut behind him.

"Four down six to go" Michael stated

"We still have the big two left, don't we?" Trice asked

"Yeah, I suspect they haven't left the capital, while the other four are constantly moving around." Michael answered.

They started walking back out of the cave, it took many hours to navigate back to the entrance of the caves. Once they emerged from the hole in the ground, it took a few minutes for them to get used to the light. Michael cast a spell to clear all magic from the caverns, and turned back to his daughters.

"We'll, that took a long time." Michael stated.

"Three days, right" Aura asked

"Yeah, way too long" Trice replied

"Were not done yet, there is an old magicarium nearby, we need to see if there are any ingrediants inside of it." Michael told them

They took off, Michael led them north, they had a long flight ahead of them.

Cynder woke up on the couch, Spyro was next to her, still asleep. The early morning light shining through their front windows. Cynder looked around and realized that they never went to bed, they must have fallen asleep suddenly. Cynder turned her head to Spyro and nudged him gently, he slowly opened his eyes, and looked over at her. He yawned, and kissed her cheek.

"We never went to bed" Cynder stated

"I know, I tried to move us but you were asleep and wouldn't let me go" Spyro replied

Cynder smiled, and got up, she stretched her wings out, and walked into the kitchen. Spyro tried to get up and fell over.

"I think your death grip made my back legs fall asleep." He yelled at her.

She popped her head out of the door, and laughed at him. She cooked up a quick meal, and they sat down to eat.

"Maybe we can get our peace today?" Cynder asked rhetorically.

"I'll make sure of it" Spyro returned "But I can't promise tomorrow though, Sparx warned me that they are going to come here for a visit tomorrow."

Cynder rolled her eyes "Great, more time with the loudmouth."

"Hey, he's softened up to you" Spyro replied

"I know, but he still loves to poke fun" Cynder told him

They finished their meal, Spyro sat back and looked outside.

"The sun looks nice today, want to relax out in the square?" He asked her

"Sure" Cynder replied

They stepped outside, and found a nice spot in the sun to relax in. Spyro curled around Cynder and closed his eyes, not falling asleep, but enjoying their time together. Cynder opened a book and read peacefully for a few hours. At some point, Amber had walked out and started napping in the sun. The entire district was silent, Cynder hadn't heard a noise the whole time. The only sounds were Spyro's breathing and the turning of her pages. Cynder enjoyed the peace, now that she didn't have the strange feeling, she knew nothing was going to happen. They sat like this most of the day, enjoying the fall sun on their faces. They chatted every once in a while, and occasionally they would see another dragon flying by. When the afternoon sun began to fall, Lumi came out and walked up to Amber. She groaned when he woke her, and got up. They walked into their house. Cynder finished her book and set it down, she looked over at Spyro and watched him, the fight with the dark masters had drained his energy, and she noticed that he had many cuts and bruises from his fall down the hill. She nudged hus muzzle with hers, and he opened his eyes.

"Let's get you a healing crystal" She told him "Your bruises look bad"

"Nah" Spyro replied, flipping onto his back and stretching, exposing his gold belly.

"Yes, you did it to me in Warfang, I'm gonna do it to you." Cynder told him

"You had three arrows in you, and an inch deep slash on your side" Spyro mumbled, enjoying the warmth on his stomach.

Cynder snorted, he called her bluff. She looked at his goofy upside-down look, then pounced on him. Spyro laughed and grabbed her.

"You dare call my bluff?" Cynder roared

"You dare have a bluff?" Spyro retorted

Cynder pinned him down, and nuzzled his neck. He smiled up at her, and suddenly flipped her over. With a yelp Cynder went down, and Spyro was on top of her. He laughed and booped his nose against hers. He got up and helped her, she stood up and bumped his shoulder. They laughed for a minute, then went inside. After they ate their dinner, the sun had set and they had crawled into bed. Spyro curled around Cynder as usual, and sighed in happiness.

"Good day?" She asked

"Definitely, a day without violence or fighting, or social interaction, only me and my mate, doing absolutely nothing all day. Best day ever" He sighed again

"We have quite the opposite planned for tomorrow" Cynder told him

He lifted his head "Violence? Fighting?"

"If Sparx is his usual self, expect plenty of it" Cynder replied

Spyro laughed "Nina and June should keep him in line, hopefully"

Cynder laid her head down, closing her eyes and relaxing her body.

"It's Sparx, Michael's whole army couldn't keep him in line." She spoke

Another laugh from Spyro "True"

They fell asleep together.

Cynder woke to some voices out in the square, familiar voices, she slowly extended her tail to open the window a small amount. The small voices could barely be heard.

"Let's not wake them up, have you seen Cynder in the mornings?" Sparx asked

"Sparx, be nice. She's just not a morning person" June told him

Cynder snorted quietly, this was true, the only person she's nice to in the mornings was Spyro.

"Besides, they're not expecting us, we should wait" Flash stated

"I agree" Nina replied.

Cyner yawned, it was too early for this, the sun wasn't even up yet.

"Wait, that window up there is open." Sparx noted

Cynder froze

"That leads to their bedroom, if you wake up Cynder at this hour, she will likely murder you." Jane told him

Cynder snorted again in agreement

"Let's not tempt death" Sparx said

Cynder curled up again, and fell back asleep. She felt Spyro curl tighter around her. When she woke again the sun had risen and Spyro was no longer next to her. She looked around, then heard his voice in the living room. She slowly got up, stretched, and sighed, she never liked interactions in the morning. She stumbled out of the room and went into the kitchen, she grabbed something to eat and walked into the dining area.

"Look who finally awoke from her eternal slumber" Sparx called

Spyro shot him a glance, and smiled. "Morning"

Cynder grumbled at Sparx "Back to your old self I see."

"I was always myself; I just was too happy that you guys were still alive to be quippy." He told her

"Spyro, how is your wound healing" Nina cut in

"It's fine, it still feels sore if I move around too much, but it's completely healed." Spyro answered

"That's good, I was worried when we were here last and you couldn't even move without flinching" Nina replied

They sat in silence for a moment, then Sparx coughed.

"So, more scary stories about the terror of the skies have been spread around" Sparx broke the silence

"Sparx" Nina hissed "Leave your brother's mate alone."

"What? It's true" Sparx replied

Cynder sighed "I guess they still don't like me there"

"I think it's getting worse; we should do something about it. People are starting to complain about how their hero is mated with the enemy. They aren't happy about the whole situation." Flash told them

Cynder looked down, a sad look on her face. Spyro was furious.

"What can we do?" He asked

"Warfang wants to have a celebration, they want to have a parade and they want you in it, if you both show up together, it will show them that you are together, even if they are mad at it. Also, maybe we can get some of the magazines that have been going around here and spread them around Warfang." Flash told them

"I really don't want to go somewhere I'm hated" Cynder said

Spyro looked at her, and smiled, then back to Flash "Tell whoever's running the parade I'm not coming if Cynder isn't welcome"

"They already know, she's been invited of course. They keep talking about the court of public opinion, something about petitioning for her title of queen to be stripped." Flash warned them

"That's not happening" Spyro growled "Were going, and anybody who messes with my mate, will get their face ripped off. When's the parade?"

"In two days" Nina told him "Flame and Ember are going to be in it as well"

They talked for a while, Spyro was happy his family was around, but Cynder looked distant. She was still sad about being hated by the people of Genrir. Spyro noticed Cynder's discomfort, and stayed close to her. After a while, they had stopped talking, and ate lunch. Then they went outside to enjoy the weather. Mary and her kids were running around the square, playing.

Cynder looked over at Sparx "Oh, that reminds me, while we were at the market district, we came across some kids roleplaying as us. There was a dragon painted yellow, and he was playing as you, the problem was that he actually sounded kind of smart, so I fixed that. I told them all about the real you"

Sparx gave her a dirty look. "Did you tell them about you?"

Spyro shot him a glance, and Sparx knew he had gone too far. He looked down and changed the subject.

"So, did you figure out your fanmail problem yet?" He asked

"You get fanmail?" Cynder replied, raising her eyebrows

"Of course, I'm a hero too" Sparx answered

Cynder snorted "We just sort out the good stuff from the... weird stuff, and are sending the treasures to the royal vault and storing the art and letters in a special book."

"It took me like two weeks to sort through mine." Sparx replied "The letters are always so big"

A strange horn sounded in the distance, and the group turned toward it. Jake ran out of his house and looked in the direction of the noise. He turned back to the group.

"That's a royal procession of the Triad court. What are they doing here?"

Suddenly six elaborately armored dragons with another dragon in the middle landed appeared in view.

"That's the prince" Jake replied, dumbfounded "Asher"

The prince was a very dark red dragon, mixed with some lighter shades. His horns and claws were black, and his belly was dark grey. He landed with his procession and regarded the group, his gaze glancing over everyone in order of right to left.

"It's customary to bow to the heir of a kingdom." He spoke with a calm tone.

Mary snarled "Not for a princess, or a king for that manner"

Asher regarded her with a cool gaze, then nodded. He turned to Spyro.

"So, you're the famous Spyro that I've heard about." He stated

Spyro said nothing, giving the prince a blank expression.

"I guess your all wondering why I'm here? I heard about the celebration of Malefor's defeat, and I convinced my father to let me attend." Asher told them.

Lumi stepped out of his house and stared blankly at the prince. Asher smiled and approached the blue dragon.

"Uncle, I was hoping you would be here" He stated

Spyro looked shocked, then accepted the fact that every one of his and his parent's friends are royalty. Lumi stared for a moment then huffed at the prince, and returned to his house. Asher lost his composer for a moment, looking hurt. But he quickly regained his calm façade and looked back at the rest of the group.

"I was under the assumption that I would be welcome to stay here." He told them "And my guards as well"

"Now who would give you that idea?" Cynder asked

"My father" Asher answered

Mary laughed "Wow, I never thought I would see the day. The king of triad making assumptions about the elemental king."

Asher blushed slightly then turned to one of his guards, who pulled out a sack of gemstones and crystals and threw it towards them. Mary saw the sack and lost all control of herself, she burst out laughing.

"You think your treasures mean anything here, we have the resources of the ML supporting us. This is nothing" she told him when she regained her breath.

Asher looked around "Where's Michael?"

"Unreachable at the moment" Spyro told him

Another guard landed next to the prince and whispered something into his ear.

"This city was attacked recently?" He gasped "Why didn't you tell us?"

"I'm not in charge of the city, I didn't tell them to not tell you" Spyro recoiled

They were interrupted by Amber as she walked out of her house, completely ignoring the rest of them, and took her usual spot in the sun. Asher's eyes bugged out of his head when he saw her swollen belly. The lead guard looked stunned, then turned to Spyro.

"The lack of communication between this city and its superiors is rather insulting"

"Like I said, I don't do anything, Lumi chose not to tell you, that's his choice." Spyro replied

"It is demanded that all royal matings and pregnancies are to be reported to the king of the territory." The captain informed Spyro

"Well, it didn't happen, what are you going to do about it" Cynder replied

The captain was taken aback, looking between Spyro and Cynder.

"How did you come to find out about our mating? Or the one between Flame and Ember?" Cynder asked

"Nobody told us for a long time, then word reached us through one of those newsletters devoted too you" The captain answered.

Asher warily approached Amber; she was watching him with focused eyes. Once he reached her, he greeted her.

"Hi" he said carefully

Amber said nothing, she only stared at him.

"I'm overjoyed to see that you are pregnant, I very much look forward to meeting my cousins." He told her

She watched him squirm at the awkwardness of the situation. Still not saying a word. She glanced at Cynder, then back to the dragon in front of her. Cynder knew this was a call for help, and stepped forward.

"Hey, I can't speak for the guards, but you can stay in one of the guest houses." She told Asher

He nodded and turned to the guards "Go to the dock and stay in the barracks, I will meet you there in two days."

They nodded and flew off.