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Cynder woke up in their bed, and sighed. She was happy to be back, if only for a short time. Spyro was curled up tighter than usual. She turned and frowned when she saw a scared expression on his face, he was having a bad dream. He twitched a little, and Cynder rubbed her tail against his. He murmured a little, and his eyelids flashed back and forth. Cynder moved her head so it was right next to his. He felt her cheek and softened; his twitching stopped. He kept himself tightly curled around her. Cynder enjoyed the quiet until the sun rose, then she watched as the square came alive once again with black dragons. Cynder felt overjoyed to be among her kind, this was her family, a bunch of them were related to her by blood in one way or another. Spyro opened his eyes and yawned, then smiled at her.

"It's busy here now" He stated

"Yeah" Cynder replied "I like it"

He got up and walked to the kitchen, Cynder laid for a moment, before getting up and stretching. She yawned and looked out the window and saw Star and Mark looking around at some of the houses in the square. They were confused, talking with each other as they looked at each house. Cynder smiled and walked to the front door. She opened it and called to them, inviting them inside. They stepped into the house with amazement and wonder on their faces. They looked around the room and eventually settled at the table. Spyro walked out of the kitchen and saw the guests, then smiled and retreated back to the kitchen. He quickly walked back out with four plates.

"How are you guys enjoying the city?" Spyro asked.

"It's great, they have everything we would ever need" Star replied

"Like, a great place for a ceremony." Mark added

Star blushed and shouldered him.

"So, you two are engaged?" Cynder asked

"Much to the surprise of everybody else, only Darian and Liam knew about us. Were planning on having an exclusive ceremony today, just the four of us and Michael, we don't want it to be public because Mark isn't a royal and somebody might object." Star told them.

"Well, congrats." Cynder replied

They talked for a while, then Star and Mark left to go prepare for their ceremony. Cynder flew off to the palace to unload the books in the archive, and Spyro left to go find out what happened with Onyx. He walked down the same alley that they had gone earlier, he looked around and found that had a sign on it that was a mix of black and green. Spyro knocked on the door, and a green dragon answered.

"Hello, how are you doing?" The green dragon asked, confused.

"Is Onyx here?" Spyro asked

The green dragon gasped "Oh, your Spyro right? Hi, I'm Effie, he's here."

Spyro walked into the house and spotted the all-black dragon sitting on a couch, he was reading from a book and holding an empty core. When he spotted Spyro he looked up.

"Well, if it isn't the king." Onyx spoke

Effie shot him a withering look, which silenced him, then she turned back to Spyro.

"How can we help you?" She asked

"I was just wondering how you were doing. Trice dragged Onyx off quickly." Spyro asked

She shot him another look, flicking her tailblade impatiently, causing Onyx to pale.

"He had to come wake me up, and he now has a job to do." She told him.

He sighed and returned to his book. After a bit of reading, he sighed and set the two items down.

"I haven't made a shadow core before, it's weird." He told them

"You better figure it out." Effie replied

"Hey, Spyro, how about you try to make an aether core." He tossed Spyro the empty core

"Hey, no messing around, Michael spent thousands of years and hundreds of pounds of gold trying to find you, and the only thing he asked in return is eight cores." Effie told him

"Relax, there are more cores, and this is something that he can do by himself." Onyx replied

Spyro held the core, and focused, he charged his aether element and let it flow through him into the sphere. Suddenly, the core flickered, and turned white, and started emanated light.

"Nice job!" Effie told him

Onyx closed his eyes and held another core. His body blurred and faded in and out of this realm. The core started to darken, then turned black, absorbing all light.

"One down, three to go." Effie stated "Chop chop"

Spyro smiled, put the aether core in his inventory, and walked out of the house. He smiled in amusement, and turned to walk home. He was interrupted by Nebula and the immortal he met on sundance.

"Hello again, purple one." The grey dragon spoke

"Hi, good to see you, not black with ash." Spyro replied

"Spyro, this is Ethan, Ethan, Spyro" Nebula introduced them

Ethan nodded "Thanks for destroying the Dark Authority"

"I didn't do that Michael did." Spyro replied

"You helped, that is enough." Ethan told him. "Where's that little black mate of yours?"

"Cynder left to go put the books we collected in the palace archives; she also is trying to get a connection with it so she can summon any book whenever she wants." Spyro answered

Ethan nodded "Nice"

"How's your sister?" Spyro asked

Ethan laughed "She's very angry, we got back together and had our mating ceremony so fast, but we still can't find her mate."

"Your already mated?" Spyro replied

"First thing we did" Nebula laughed "Michael had to call in a special form just to officiate."

"Are the hunters looking for your sisters' mate?" Spyro looked back to Ethan

"We diverted all the ones that were looking for Onyx to join the ones looking for him." Nebula answered

Spyro nodded. Then another grey dragon ran up to them.

"Hey, I think they found him." She yelled

Ethan looked back to Spyro "Nice meeting you, but we have to go"

The dragons ran off, and Spyro returned to the main square, he watched as a phoenix landed in the center and spotted Spyro.

"Hey, your back." He yelled

"Hi Torch, long time no see." Spyro replied "How is everybody?"

"Were good, we did a little traveling while you were gone. We went to Genrir and flew about for a while, checking out Warfang." Torch answered

"How did you like it?" Spyro asked

"Flicker loved it; I thought the moles were interesting. Charlotte seemed weirded out by them."

"Yeah, they can be a bit odd at times."

"Six of them asked for some of our feathers. Why would they do that?"

"They can be lit on fire indefinitely, so they probably want them for a permanent candle or something."

Torch nodded "I feel like it's a bit rude though, like what if someone asked for some of your scales?"

"They have, like a billion times."

Torch looked stunned. "Really?"

"Yeah, the guardians did, and pretty much every scientist I came across did as well." Spyro rolled his eyes

"Well, I guess that means they don't care if it's rude."

Spyro sighed and shook his head, Cynder landed beside him and greeted Torch. They talked for a minute then Torch left to cook dinner. They went inside and Spyro updated Cynder on what he did. Then she told him about how she got her connection with the archive. She demonstrated by snapping her claws and a book appeared above her paw. She flicked her wrist and the book vanished. Spyro walked into the kitchen to cook dinner, but Cynder stopped him and made him go back to the couch. She cooked dinner and they ate a meal together, then they went to bed. Spyro curled around Cynder and sighed.

"You had a nightmare last night." Cynder told him

"I was dreaming that you had gone corrupted again, it's a nightmare I have had before, this time was worse because I couldn't save you." Spyro shuddered

"Don't worry, I won't be corrupted again, Michael has given me protections against it." Cynder replied

"Malefor had protections, what if they try to corrupt you in the same way?" Spyro looked at her

"I know how they would do it, and I can stop it." Cynder replied "Don't worry, you won't have to fight me again."

He lowered his head and nuzzled her, then he set his head down and covered her with his wing. She snuggled up against him and sighed.

Spyro woke up and looked around, the sun was shining through their window, Cynder sighed in her sleep and curled her tail around his. He looked up and noticed a letter above his head, he was able to read it and noticed that it had a date on it, and Cynder was written next to it. Spyro gasped a little when he realized that it was her hatchday. Her hatchday was only sixteen days after his. He was going to throw her a party. He breathed a small puff of fire and the flame vanished without a sound. Spyro smiled, wondering what he would get her, he found a shop that sold custom made chokers and bracelets. He was going to get her a set that had her mother's family sigil, but also keep the same design as her original set, which had gotten worn over our last adventures. Cynder groaned when Spyro disentangled himself from her and got up, he nuzzled her and told her to go back to sleep. She mumbled and did just that. Spyro stepped out and enjoyed the morning air, he spotted Flame walking out of his house.

"Hey" Spyro called

"What's up?" Flame asked

"I found out Cynder's hatchday, it isn't today, but I still want to throw a party. Do you think Ember can handle distracting Cynder while I get her a present and Trice handles the planning?" Spyro replied

"Sure, she loved planning yours, I can get the word out while Trice gets the house ready." Flame told him

"Thanks" Spyro replied "We have to do them for your guy's hatchdays as well."

"Nope" Flame cut him off "Ember's mother throws her a massive party every year, and now she doesn't really want any, and I don't tell anybody my hatchday, only Ember knows."

Spyro gave him a confused look, then shook his head.

"Alright then, when Cynder wakes we need her out of the house for the day, so we can get it ready and the people together."

Flame nodded, and Spyro took off, flying towards the jewelry district. He landed in the middle of a bustling square, a few dragons cheered at him, but left him alone otherwise. He walked into the shop he had found earlier. He talked with a brown earth dragoness for a minute, showing her the designs for the bracelets. Then she started working, it only took her a few hours to finish the set. Spyro marveled at how the set looked almost exactly the same as it did when he rescued her, except a sigil has been added to the center. This time the set has been made of ethereal gold, which was forged in a way to have the same color as the old set did. He put the set into his inventory, paid the shop owner, and left. He landed back in the square to find Michael using his magic to set decorations up in the square, everybody had already arrived, and were talking and relaxing all around. Spyro helped and talked to a bunch of people for a while, then the sun set and Michael turned off all the lights. Spyro watched Cynder and Ember land in the square, and start walking towards the house. Michael flicked on the lights and everybody yelled.

"SURPRISE!"

Cynder jumped about three feet in the air, then shot Spyro a cold look.

"You found out my hatchday, didn't you?" Cynder asked

"We need to make up for all the ones you didn't have." Spyro told her

Cynder walked around and talked with everybody, Sarah nuzzled her in her usual affectionate way and congratulated her. Her eyes kept glancing towards the statues. After Cynder had acknowledged all of the partygoers, she danced and partied late into the night. Spyro danced with her, allowing the music to control his movements. Aura dragged Sam into the square, he had a confused look on his face, and no idea what he was doing. The music played late into the night, but eventually Spyro dragged Cynder into the house.

"I have something for you" He nuzzled her neck.

"Oh yeah, what could you possibly have gotten me?" Cynder nuzzled back.

Spyro pulled out the choker and bracelets, Cynder gasped when she saw them, and started crying. She started nuzzling him harder.

"Hey, I can't put these on if you're moving." Spyro told her.

Cynder stopped, and let Spyro take off her jewelry and put the new set on. She kept crying as she admired the beauty of her new jewelry.

"Hey, you okay?" Spyro asked her

"Yeah, I'm just... These are so beautiful." She answered "Thank you."

"You're welcome, I love you Cynder, happy hatchday." Spyro returned to his nuzzling

Cynder laughed, and dragged Spyro into the bedroom.

Michael laughed as he watched Aura teach her mate how to dance. Trice was helping her, but they were not doing a great job. Nebula and Onyx stood by him.

"I'm happy Cynder finally got a party." Nebula spoke

"Yeah, she deserves it." Onyx agreed

"Spyro is definitely the best for her" Michael chuckled "I'm glad she is able to be happy."

"Corruption is the purest of evils." Onyx sighed

"Nobody, not even the worst of beings, deserve such treatment." Michael replied

"Let's not think of such things now, if Effie overhears you talking about corruption, she will petrify you." Nebula laughed

Onyx chuckled "I missed the old immortal crew. When was Juniper supposed to return again?"

"Who knows, she's studying all of the subdimensions connected with this one." Michael answered

"Did she find anything interesting?" Nebula asked

"She found that some of these subdimensions have different species with the same people. But a more interesting discovery she found was that in ninety percent of all the dimensions where Spyro and Cynder exist, they are together, so it seems like that is a key event." Michael explained

"That's a universal medium?" Nebula replied, stunned

"It seems so, every dimension otherwise has been found infected with dark magic, and pure evil." Michael shrugged "One of many mediums she has found."

Onyx looked at the party. "I guess things are a little more set than we think."

"Maybe not, that one thing is, but dark forces are coming. We don't know when, where, or how, but they are coming." Michael sighed "Watching such events over and over again, it gets quite annoying."

"How can we stop it?" Nebula asked

"We have to let it come, such is the way of fate, and I cannot be the one to inflict the final blow. A mortal must learn the way to defeat this evil, and they must travel to Providence to do so." Michael answered

"I remember when I became an ethereal being, you told me that you could beat fate." Nebula replied

"There are consequences for breaking the rule of fate, it could cause the destruction of the dimension." Michael explained "Fate must only be broken in the most necessary of times."

They both nodded.

"Your son is still in this dimension." Nebula stated

"He's wandering around, collecting some ingredients for the resurrection. Speaking of which, I still need to find the other three souls." Michael thought for a moment, then froze. "I wonder if the souls weren't sent to random places, but specific places instead. I will have to go through Silver and Fury's old things."

Onyx nodded "That would make more sense, I'm still struggling with the shadow cores, but once I get those done the void cores will be easy to make. Why are they needed anyway?"

"The spell requires all five forms of magic, in many different aspects, because I can create the body easily, and have the soul, I need the ingredients to unbind the soul from the item, reverse Malefor's spell, then his corruption, and clear his memories of it. Then I will return the souls to their bodies." Michael told them

"They will be the same age, won't they?" Nebula chuckled

"Yes, and it's going to be extremely awkward, they will only be a few years older than their children, and they will definitely want more of their own. Having children at the same time as your parents isn't that special, since they usually live for thousands of years, but having them be the same age is going to be interesting." Michael rolled his eyes "Great, more drama."