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Spyro woke up to the usual sight of Cynder snuggled against him. He breathed in deeply, enjoying her scent as she slept. Not wanting to wake her he settled back into the blankets and sat there. Not sleeping, but enjoying the peace. After a few hours, Cynder woke up to Spyro watching her. Blushing she began to get up and went over to open the curtain. When she did the noon sun shone right on her, Spyro sat stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"Stop staring at me" Cynder blushed.

"But you're so beautiful" Spyro spoke, almost in a trance

Blushing more, she walked out of the room.

"Wait! I think we need to talk"

Cynder came back, a look of worry on her face "Are you okay" she asked

"I'm fine, I just wanted to talk to you about something"

"Okay" she said sitting back on the bed.

"Ever since we were trapped in that crystal, my mind kept straying to thinking about you. After the siege of Warfang, I've never wanted anything more than to be by your side, luckily the chain helped me with that. But... It all made me realized... that I'm.... I'm in love with you Cynder, I want to be your mate, I want to spend my life with you."

"I... I... I love you too Spyro"

Too stunned to speak, the two dragons stare at each other for a moment, then Spyro leans in and kisses Cynder. After a few minutes of silence, they pull apart, both blushing very heavily. Then Cynder looked back at him.

"I was worried that you would never say that"

"You knew!"

"How would I not know? everybody knew"

"How could you tell?"

"My first sign was when you mumbled my name in your sleep"

"When did I do that?"

"Almost every night, especially if we weren't next to each other. My second sign was when you curled up next to me on are first cold night together while we were chained, and my final sign was when you jumped in front of me when you woke Michael"

"Wow, I didn't know that it was that obvious"

"Painfully, so"

With a parting kiss, and a following blush Spyro left to make breakfast

"You stay right there while I make you some food" He called from the hallway.

Cynder relaxed back into bed, realizing two things; first, she was very tired, and second, she can't remember how she got home.

"Did you carry me home?" she asked

"Yes" Spyro's voice rang from the kitchen

Cheeks burning even hotter, she looked around and saw the armor lying on the floor. 'He must have taken it off' she thought, even more embarrassed. After a couple of minutes, Spyro came back to the room with two hot plates of food.

"Looks good" Cynder says, and digs in

Spyro watched her for a moment, then digs in as well. After the two finished their meals, they wandered outside into the afternoon sun. They stretched for a moment and went next door to see if their neighbors had woken up. After knocking on the door, a very ruffled Ember answers. Blushing a little, she lets them in.

"Congrats on the mateship" Cynder said as they walked in

"Thank you" Ember responds, looking back to Flame with a smile.

"We also have some news" Cynder said, grabbing Spyro's hand

"You finally got together?" Flame blurted out

"Yep" Spyro answered looking over at Cynder, smiling.

"Oooh I can't wait for your ceremony, it's gonna be so cute" Ember squealed

"Whoa, it's a bit early for that" Flame responded, nudging Ember gently.

"I know, I know"

"For now, we just want to enjoy some time together before we make it official" Spyro states, still smiling.

Suddenly a letter bursts into existence with a puff of fire above their heads, startling the four dragons. Spyro grabs it and reads it aloud.

"Spyro, put on your armor and come find me at the dock, come alone. Michael"

"Wonder what that's about?" Cynder states, confused

"I don't know, but I will find out" Spyro replied

Spyro went home, put on his armor, and flew over to the dock. He gasped in surprise as he noticed 3 new fortresses floating high above the dock. Spyro spotted Michael talking with a few other dragons at an intersection.

"Hey, what's going on" He asked

"We've been trying to recover an old magicarium on the planet Solos, but have had some difficulties due to a cursed army embedded in the building." Michael answered "We're going to go flush them out and I wanted you to see what we have to face"

"Okay, let's do this" Spyro responded

Spyro followed Michael up into the closer of the three new fortresses. They entered the control room and Spyro saw that there was a pilot on the interface. Charging the core, the pilot looked over at the starmap projected in front of him. Then with the usual flash of light and small shudder the fortress teleported to Solos. When Spyro looked back at the projection, he saw a single mountain with a massive structure on it. Two loud thumps announced the arrival of the other fortresses.

"The fortress's smaller cannons will eliminate the airborne retaliation, but the rest of the armies will stay embedded in the magicarium so we'll have to take it by force" Michael Informed Spyro.

As if on cue, hundreds of small black dots flew out of the old building and started flying towards them. The smaller cannons started firing, and an army of dragons started walking out of the barracks. Michael takes flight, and calls for the rest to follow. A flock of armored dragons flew towards the magicarium, they passed a large battalion of wolves. Spyro watched them as he passed, none of them moving. They landed in front of the main entrance to the building, almost instantly, 20 or so black shadowy figures burst out of the door and charged. Michael quickly vaporized the first group with raw light energy, making their bipedal forms dissolve. Then, he blasted the door open and tossed a glowing orb through. After a flash of light, the soldiers rushed in. Spyro entered the building and watched as the soldiers split into groups and began sweeping the magicarium. Spyro followed Michael down a spiral staircase, and into a large underground room. The room was so dark Spyro could not see two feet in front of him despite the glow Michael emitted. Then, Michael snapped his fingers, lighting each chandelier one at a time. Spyro gasped as the light exposed nearly a thousand cursed soldiers. Simultaneously, they rushed forward. Spyro grabbed his sword in his jaw and looked over to see Michael had summoned his. Spyro held off his attackers with swift swings of his sword, but they had surrounded him. He glanced worriedly over at Michael, and saw him charging an element blast. Then a bright flash of light blinded Spyro. After a moment of stumbling around, Spyro regained his vision and saw a dragon enter the room. The dragon was covered in black runes, his armor was jagged and broken off in places, a beat-up serrated sword in his jaws. Spyro looked into the eyes of the dragon and saw nothing but darkness.

"Stay back" Michael yelled, charging forward

The two dragons clashed, swords clanging. Michael turned as the dark dragon swung his sword at him and sank his tailsword into his opponent's left haunch. Roaring, the dark dragon stepped back and fired a dark element blast. Michael dodged it and rushed forward and stabbed through the dark dragon's side, piercing his heart. The dark dragon fell with a clank. Michael stepped forward and roared, then pulled the sword out of the dragon.

"What was that?" Spyro asked

"That was a dark dragon, a dragon that, whether willing or not, was corrupted and enslaved by dark magic" Michael answered, still breathing hard from the battle.

The two dragons walked to the back of the room, on the back wall there was a door. There was evidence of attempts to break through the door everywhere, but the door was untouched. Michael reached up and tapped on the door, causing a large rune to appear, the rune cracked and dissolved when Michael tapped again, and the door swung open. Inside the room, there was thousands of crates, filled to the brim with different kinds of cores. Most of the cores were clear, but others were a range of colors.

"This magicarium was used to produce cores, usually charge ones, but sometimes the creators will get bored" Michael explained

"What are the charge cores for?" Spyro asked, looking around the boxes

"They power the element cannons. This should be enough to rebuild an armada for the Triad Homeworld"

Michael walks to the far-right corner of the room and opens a box. After a small bit of rustling he pulled out a bright yellow core.

"A sun core" he explained "Super rare now that sun dragons aren't willing to collect them"

With a snap, all the boxes vanished. Michael put the sun core in his storage.

"Let's get you home, I bet Cynder's getting worried about you"

They left the storage room. Michael sent Spyro ahead while he casted a spell on the dark dragon's corpse. As Spyro reached the top of their staircase, he watched as dozens of wolves enter the main hall and rush into the other rooms. With a bang, a few wolves were launched back against the wall. Another dark dragon burst into the hall, firing a dark pulse at the pair of dragons rushing him. A wolf rushes the dragon and sinks her sword into the dragon's side. Roaring in pain, the dragon swung around to bite the wolf, but Spyro instinctually leapt out and sliced through the dragon's chestplate. The dark dragon jerked forward, slicing Spyro's legs before collapsing. Wincing, Spyro walked over to the wall and slid down.

"You okay" The female wolf asked Spyro, retrieving the swords. She sets his next to him

"I think so" Spyro answered "Just a little cut, it hurts a lot but I think I'll be fine"

"Thank you, you saved my life" She responded, sitting down "I'll stay with you until you get help"

Michael walked up the stairs, looked at Spyro, and rushed to him

"Are you okay" He asked, worried

"I got cut in the back of my legs by that dark dragon's tailblade." Spyro answered

"Here, this should help with the pain and stop the bleeding. Since it was a cursed blade I can't instantly heal the wound, but I can stop any extra effects" He explained while casting a spell on his wounds

"Ah" Spyro yelps, wincing

"Come on, lets get you to the fortress" Michael heaves Spyro up, with the help of the wolfess

The two dragons, and the wolf on Michael's back, flew towards the fortress. As soon as they landed, Spyro was rushed to the infirmary and given some herbs to sooth the pain. After a few minutes a flash of light informed Spyro they had returned to the docks. Michael walked into the room and up to Spyro

"I told Cynder what happened, I kind of regret doing a projection though, because she yelled at me for letting you get hurt" Michael said, rolling his eyes

"It's nobody's fault but mine, I charged the dragon"

"And you saved that soldier's life" He interrupted "Cynder will understand"

"Who was she by the way" Spyro asked

"Um, let me go get her" he said, walking out of the infirmary

After a few minutes, he walked back in with the wolfess behind him

"Hi" she said "I'm glad to see your okay"

"I wanted to meet you, my name is..."

"Spyro, I know, I'm Lune." she said "I wish we could have met under different circumstances. I was at the Valley of Souls by the way"

"You were?" Spyro asked "I didn't see you"

"I was in the back" She replied

Then Cynder's voice can be heard yelling at the guard outside

"Get out the way, I don't care about your procedures, I don't give a damn. Let me see Spyro!"

"You better let her in before she makes you" Michael yelled through the door

Cynder burst through the door, running to Spyro, out of breath. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, only got cut in the back of my rear legs" Spyro answers, nuzzling Cynder's snout

"I was worried about you" she said, rubbing against Spyro's neck.

"He saved my life" Luna told Cynder "if he would have arrived a minute later, I probably wouldn't be here"

Cynder softened a little, but still was feeling the same instincts dragons feel about protecting their mate.

"Next time, I'm coming with you" she told him

"I don't want you seeing what I saw" Spyro said "Especially with what you have gone through"

"But I won't let you go alone" Cynder replied

"I won't be alone; I'll have either Michael or some of his soldiers with me" Spyro looked into Cynder's eyes "I don't want you to experience anything like that ever again"

"Spyro, I can handle it, I know that I've taken it pretty hard since you rescued me, but I can take it"

"I don't want you doing any of what I just did, facing a cursed army alone with you is my worst fear. I know you can handle yourself pretty well, but even Michael was getting a little overwhelmed in there" Spyro replied

"Okay, I won't go into anything without making sure that I can handle it" Cynder nuzzled Spyro's neck again

Spyro shifts over to the side of the bed and motions her to join him. Cynder climbs up and curls up to Spyro, careful not to touch his wounds. Spyro leans back onto the pillow and lets his eyes close.

Back in Faun, Ember's mother had gone to say goodbye to her before she returned to Warfang

"Even though I still disapprove your choice of a mate, I have no choice but to accept it" The queen stated looking over at Flame as he cleaned up the dishes

"Thanks mother" Ember replied

"Don't ever forget that I love you Ember, and I care about you. But I have a kingdom to think about" the queen looked at her daughter "And you will soon"

"I love you too, Mom" Ember replied "and I will take the responsibility when it comes to it"

"You could do what my mother did and allow a prime minister to be elected, but that allows corruption. The person I kicked out was attempting to empty the kingdoms treasure room into his own pockets. All while allowing bribes from crime bosses." The queen explained. "As long as you leave someone trusted to watch over the election, you should be fine. I know you two will want to start a family, and being a queen and a mother is harder than you expect."

Blushing, Ember looked back at Flame "We haven't even talked about that yet"

"You will soon"

Flame came back to the table and sat next to Ember

"We'll, it's time for me to go" the queen got up to leave

"I love you Mom; I promise to visit you soon" Ember hugged her

"I love you too, and I can't wait" the queen took off back towards the fortress.