Spyro: The Hero of Dragons

Gnasty Gnorc arc Episode nine: Flame's Brother

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Rock music played and a male voice was heard singing the main theme of the story, Spyro, with Spyro and his friends shown one by one with each guitar string, and the guitar played harder with Spyro facing off against the dark figure. "Spyro! He's a kid and he wants to have fun, (Flame is shown scorching an egg thief and laughing at it as it runs off screaming) and when you need an awesome hero, he gets the job done. (Sparx is shown going lightning fast and making an enemy dizzy) Spyro! With power from his head to his tail, (Ember is shown trying to face a silhouetted enemy despite being scared) he'll be there and evil won't prevail."

A dark purple dragon was shown taking down a bunch of elite gnorcs in a desert with Spyro and the others noticing her skill as the song continued. "When evil's breaking pace, he gets right in it's face, Spyro. (Spyro is shown dodging Gnasty Gnorc's staff blasts in his dungeon) When trouble comes for shock, (Spyro flies up at Gnasty) it's time; let's rock, (Spyro punches Gnasty and makes the screen change to him and his friends standing with each other as Spyro: The Hero of Dragons is shown with Spyro standing confidentelly in front of it, Sparx laying right on top of him, Flame on the O at the end of Spyro, Ember standing next to Spyro with a smile, and the dark purple dragon flying in next to the word 'Hero' and ready for battle) Spyro!"

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Spyro and the others were getting ready to head out with Cleetus hoping they would make it out okay out there. When Ember saw how concerned her father was, she walked up to him and hugged him for good luck, allowing him to wrap his arms around her. Ember then pulled her father away, assuring him that everything would be alright. "We'll be fine out there dad. We've handled stuff like this in the past week. We should be safe."

Cleetus nodded and was now confident that Spyro would be able to protect the others as Flame noticed the pendant on Spyro's neck. "Hey Spyro, where'd you get that cool pendant?" Spyro flinched and looked down at the pendant, giving Flame a bit of suspicion. "Hey, I've never seen you wear it before, so I gotta comment on the thing. (Gets worried) You didn't steal it, did you?"

"No, of course not." Spyro replied, finding it ridiculous that Flame would ever assume something like that. "I found it back in that crazy speedway place and I don't know what it could lead to." Flame nodded in understanding as Spyro put the pendant away, not feeling up for going into detail about it at the moment. "I'm holding onto it for now, and we can talk about it after this mission."

"Sounds good to me." Flame wondered what was in the pendant, having a feeling it was something Spyro didn't want anyone to know about. Flame snickered and gave Spyro suspicion as his adoptive brother then spoke up. "Is this pendant holding that picture of you making a-"

Spyro covered Flame's mouth with Cynder and Ember both ready as the two walked up to the brothers with Spyro ready for their departure. "You guys ready for this? Whatever Sawyer has up his sleeve for us back there, I doubt it's gonna be candy. (Licks his lips) Oh boy, now I want candy."

"We all want candy Spyro." Cynder snarked, and then the group headed off with Cleetus watching and hoping they would make it back okay. He decided he needed something to calm his worries so he decided to head off to find some of the dragons Spyro saved and hang out.

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Spyro and the others were arriving in the location Sawyer's video took place in as they all landed safely, hoping to get this done without anyone getting hurt. Spyro was excited for whatever Sawyer had in store for him, while at the same time, he was determined to put a stop to whatever potential threat he could presend. As he and the others were walking around the place, taking out the enemies there one by one, some of which Spyro burned up, they came across a dragon statue and walked up to it with Spyro tapping it and freeing the dragon.

The dragon was revealed to be a dragon with bright purple skin with a yellow underbelly and lower jaw. He also had four horns, brownish wings, gold spots on his scales, a staff with a bird skull, and a necklace with a slightly closed eyeball. Spyro took a liking to the dragon's necklace as the dragon introduced himself. "Greetings young ones. I'm Sadiki. Metalhead's in that room over there. If you wanna go ahead and face him, he's all yours. I'd do it myself but Sawyer would kill me."

Spyro nodded and fist bumped Sadiki, understanding why he wanted to leave, and let him fly off and allowed Spyro and the others to continue. As they did though, a sudden wave of electricity came up with Spyro and the others being blinded. Flame, Ember, and Cynder all vanished and Spyro became enraged with Sawyer appearing in front of him. "Where are my friends Sawyer? You'd better not have hurt them!"

Sawyer gave a devilish chuckle to Spyro as he walked up to him and placed his palm under Spyro's chin and stroked it, making Spyro uncomfortable. "They're safe. For now anyway. If you lose to Metalhead, I'll kill them all."

"You'd better not even think about it!" Spyro went to bite Sawyer, who held his mouth open and blasted some kind of black orb into it, making it explode near Spyro's stomach. Spyro suddenly released a loud and bassy ten second death fart, letting out a black cloud behind him (PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT). The fart hurt Spyro's butt quite a bit and he took a liking to it. "Well. (Sawyer wafts the fart away) That's a keeper."

"Keep it to yourself next time why don't you." Sawyer walked off, looking back at Spyro and knowing he would love the show. "He's up ahead. Good luck." Sawyer vanished with Spyro running on ahead, knowing he just had to save his friends no matter what.

Spyro arrived in the room Metalhead was in as the robot looked down at him and greeted him with a robotic voice. "Greetings Spyro. Prepare to die." Metalhead punched the ground and Spyro jumped up as soon as the ground started shaking, flying up and going up to Metalhead, who was ready to destroy Spyro. "You may think you can defeat every opponent you meet, but I can assure you, that's not the case. Now brace yourself, as I destroy you. Heh. I was kind of hoping for a bigger one. This is a dissapointing catch if I've ever seen one."

Spyro scoffed and flew right up to Metalhead's face, smirking as he looked into his eyes. "I bet you could compensate for that (Knocks on Metalhead's face) big size of yours." Metalhead tried to swat Spyro away, only for Spyro to fly back over to him and shake his butt right in his face with Metalhead's point of view being shown. "Cmon, come at me." Spyro suddenly cut a three second death fart, letting out a black cloud onto Metalhead (phhhhht). "Whoa. Guess I still got some gas in me."

Metalhead swatted at Spyro again, only for Spyro to grab his finger and throw him into one of the energy poles, making Metalhead get a tad bit weaker. Spyro caught onto the way he could defeat Metalhead and descended to the ground, charging into one of the poles, only for it to go off as soon as he did so. Spyro got electrocuted and Sparx turned purple, making Spyro question that. "Hey, how come you've never done that before?" Sparx didn't know how to answer that as Spyro got up. "Ah well. At lest we know how to kick this guy's shiny butt."

Metalhead charged at Spyro, who went underneath him and breathed fire on his rear end, which didn't do anything. Metalhead turned around to punch Spyro, only for Spyro to pick up a pole and smash it into Metalhead's stomach. Metalhead aimed another punch at Spyro, who grabbed his fist and threw him straight towards the water, sending him right in as he then flew over to him. Spyro rammed his head into Metalhead, denting him a bit as Spyro then moonwalked away.

"Cmon now. All these fights have been boring so far. Don't tell me you're gonna be the same." Metalhead took out the pole and walked up to Spyro, who was about to get excited. "Guess not." Metalhead went to punch Spyro, only for Spyro to fly up and smack him in the face with his tail, making him fall onto the last pole head first. Spyro landed on top of Metalhead as he raised one of his palms. "This robot, has been (Gives a thumbs down) discharged." Spyro ran off to save his friends, hoping Sawyer didn't do anything to them.

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Sawyer was watching Flame, Ember, and Cynder in the next room, looking at Flame as he tried to bite his way out. "You know you're never going to breka out of there with your teeth, right? You'd have to have razor sharp teeth to escape, and even then you'd most likely have to be a crocodile."

"And you'd have to shut up!" Flame shouted back, biting onto the cage and aiming a punch at the bar. "Why won't this stupid thing break (Punches the bar) off!? (Holds his claw in pain) Ow!"

Sawyer chuckled devilishly as he floated over to Flame, grabbing onto the cage and making it melt with his dark magic. Flame was creeped out when he saw Sawyers devilish grin, catching onto just how sinister he could be. "Oh, don't fret. I haven't even hurt you yet." Sawyer popped out a poetry book and read a line that gave Flame even more chills than before. "I felt a funeral, in my brain, and mourners to and fro. (Looks into Flame's fearful eyes) Keep treading-treading-till it seemed that sense was breaking through."

Cynder zapped Sawyer with some kind of lightning bolt, having him turn around and face Cynder as he spawned a darkness orb. Just then, Spyro showed up in the nick of time and called up to Sawyer. "Hey dirtbag!" Sawyer looked down at Spyro and saw that he and Sparx were in near perfect condition while also noticing that Sparx was a different color. "That giant piece of scrap metal is gone now. Let go of my friends before I rip your chest open!"

Sawyer felt he didn't have much of a choice and snapped his fingers, releasing the others, who ran over to Spyro. "You're lucky I'm one of my word Spyro." Spyro and the others looked up at Sawyer, who was grinning evilly down at them. "Just note that Flame might not be ready to talk about that picture yet. Just like you and the pendant."

Sawyer vanished with Flame taking out the photo, wondering how Sawyer knew about it. "The dude never said anything about having X-ray vision." Spyro looked at the photo and found that it might be able to help him, ready to open up about the pendant. "So are you ready to talk about that pendant?" Spyro nodded, knowing he could trust Flame, even if he didn't show him that picture he found right away.

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Spyro and the others were back at Cleetus's house as the two of them discussed the picture and the pendant. Flame started talking about the photo first, since he was the first of the two brothers to find his item. "I found this back in the Peace Keepers world. It felt like Ignitus was right there standing before me, but I couldn't know for sure so I didn't want to bring it up yet." Spyro nodded in understanding as Flame showed Spyro the photo. "He does looks like someone who'd be your dad though. At least considering how much power you have."

Spyro opened up the pendant and showed Flame Ignitus and Lyna, much to Flame's amazement as Spyrp responded to his words. "I think we're getting somewhere." Spyro put the pendant away and hoped he would be able to find Ignitus soon, wanting to meet his father more than anything at the moment. "Let's hope Ignitus didn't end up leaving the Dragon Realms. Then our adventure will have all been pointless. (Looks at Flame) You know what I mean, right?"

Flame started to worry about what Spyro would do once he met Ignitus, but put on a smile and looked at him. "Yeah, I do. (Puts his palm on Spyro's shoulder) We'll find him. I just know it."

Spyro smiled and nodded, giving Flame a fist bump as he walked off and started to wonder what he would do if he met Ignitus. 'How should I greet him? I can't just tell him 'Hey dude; I'm your son.', cause that'd like be super awkward. Maybe I should start off slow, make sure he remembers me.' Spyro saw Flame looking down on the bed and walked up to him, hoping he wasn't upset about something. "You okay Flame?"

Flame flinched and looked at Spyro, nodding and lying about how he felt. "Yep, perfectly fine. Not like I'm having abandonement issues that just popped up or anything like that. No siree." Spyro sensed that Flame was lying and shrugged, walking off and leaving Flame be due to not wanting to upset him. Sparx flew over to Flame, who looked at the young dragonfly. "What should I do Sparx? If I tell Spyro how worried I am, will I just come off as a jerkwad?" Sparx landed on Flame's shoulder and hoped he would be able to be honest with Spyro.

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Spyro and the others were getting ready to head to the next Dragon Realm with Ember and Cleetus bidding each other farewell for now. Cleetus was sad to see his daughter leaving so soon, but he knew how badly she wanted to help Spyro, so he wasn't one to want to stop her. "Now you listen Ember. (Kneels down to Ember) I don't know when we'll see each other again, and when we do, there's a chance I could be different. (Rubs Ember's head) But I want you to stay strong. You have Spyro with you. He'll be there for you, under every circumstance."

Ember smiled and nodded before she hugged her father with a smile, being grateful for the time they've spent together. "Dad, if I could, I would leave mom and come live with you. (Pulls Cleetus away) But Spyro needs me as much as I need him. He may not show it, but we both need each other in our lives."

Cleetus shed a tear and wiped his eye, proud of the bravery and strong will Ember was showing. Ember was about to start crying herself, but she held it back to let Cleetus say what he had to say. "You and I will always be together, even when we're apart. If there was ever a moment in my life I wasn't there for you, like your last birthday or Christmas, I'll make it up to you in more ways than one. (Leans in and whispers) Also, I think your mom burnt the presents I sent you."

Ember found those words to make a lot of sense, but didn't want to make much of them, so she ignored them for now. "I'm gonna miss you dad. (Looks up to Cleetus and smiles) We'll talk as much as we can. And I'll even visit you from time to time. Once I learn how to fly I'll come with Spyro and we'll all have a blast. And we'll even have more father daughter moments if we want." Cleetus took a liking to that idea, allowing Ember to finish saying whatever she had to say. "I'll always love you. And I won't ever regret saying anything like that."

Cleetus allowed Ember to walk away as she backed away slowly, but then turned around and walked onto the balloon with Cleetus still smiling. Spyro took a liking to the sight of Cleetus and Ember's relationship and Flame rubbed his arm, making Spyro wonder what was up. "You're looking down again. You wanna talk about it?"

"No, not now. But thanks." Flame replied, and then the balloon took off with Spyro and the others waving goodbye to Cleetus, who waved back and smiled as he saw the group head off in the balloon tearfully.

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Flame was still thinking about what Spyro's decision would be if he ended up meeting Ignitus with Cynder taking notice. "You sure you're okay?" Flame looked at Cynder, who looked concerned for Flame. "I overheard your conversation with Spyro; obviously, since we always travel in the same balloon. When you declined his offer to talk, I felt, why not just speed up the inevitable? Whatever you have to say most likely won't kill him." Flame thought for a bit as Cynder finished up her words. "Words can hurt, but they don't kill."

Flame smiled upon hearing Cynder's advice and looked at her, grateful for her sudden help with his problem. "Thanks Cynder. Even though you brought that up out of nowhere, I'm glad you brought it up at all."

"Hey. I hate to see my friends down." Cynder replied, chuckling a bit as she lied down. "Even if I just made my first ones that were around my age a couple days ago, and one of them I have almost no attatchment to." Flame chuckled a bit himself, lying down next to Cynder as she then smirked to her. "But I'm not kissing you."

"Oh please. Spyro's all yours." Flame snarked with a grin on his face as he looked at Cynder, knowing quite well they would never get together.

Ember was thinking about Cleetus as Spyro walked up to her and looked over the balloon with her. "I know it's hard to leave someone after leaving them for so long." Ember looked at Spyro, who wasn't going to hide how he felt about the situation. "Of course, I've never experienced it myself, but being seperated from someone close to you, your parent no less, is obviously a painful spot to be in." Ember nodded in response and looked over the balloon again. "But if you ever feel like crying, it's totally okay. You can't control your emotions, but you CAN control how you use them."

Ember took Spyro's words to heart and let a couple tears come out, wiping them away with Spyro smiling with proudness. He was glad to see Ember being so strong about this scenario, feeling that she's already grown quite a bit. He then heard Ember speak. "Hey Spyro." Spyro looked at Ember, who was shown to be more confident than when the story started. "When we arrive in the Dream Weavers world, I wanna try again. I think I can nail it this time." Spyro nodded in response, feeling the confidence in Ember's heart.

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Spyro and the others arrived in the Dream Weavers world as they all got off with Sparx taking a liking to the place. Spyro allowed him to look around on his own with a nod, knowing Sparx would come back if he got too far, and then Spyro headed off to train with Ember. Before that however, Flame stopped him and signalled him to come with him, having Spyro signal Ember to go on ahead and she nodded, walking off to wait for Spyro. As soon as Spyro and Flame started walking together, Flame got straight to the point. "What will you do when you meet Ignitus?"

Spyro was surprised to hear that question with Flame continuing to speak, not wanting Spyro to leave him forever. "It's just...you've been the closest friend I've had ever since I was born, and I don't know how I'd feel if I just let you leave my life. At least not without some sort of closure that you'll return." Spyro saw the concern in Flame's eyes as Flame looked down at a chain and put it on. "But whatever choice you make, I won't force you to change your mind. I just want to know what it is."

Spyro chuckled softly, surprising Flame a bit as Spyro then gave him the news on what the status of his decision was. "I don't know myself yet. I started thinking about it as soon as our conversation ended." Flame thought about what just went down with Spyro putting a palm on his shoulder. "Anyway, I gotta go help Ember with her flying practice, but take my advice. If you wanna get your mind off something bothering you, do something with your life, and focus on it." Spyro ran off with Flame taking Spyro's advice to heart, finding it to be quite helpful.

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Spyro and Ember were getting ready for Ember's flying practice as Spyro set a ladder onto a building for Ember's starting point. Ember climbed up, being as ready as can be with Spyro watching as she got up to the starting point. Ember thought to herself as she remembered the rules of flying while also doing what she said in her mind. 'Keep my wings straight. Focus on flight instead of fall. Be relieved of all stress or grief.' Ember looked down at Spyro, who nodded up to her as she looked back over the land. 'I've got this.'

Ember started her flight, taking off at a relatively decent pace, and was even able to succeed and recover from a quick stumble. When Ember saw that she was flying properly, she was amazed and cheered as she flew around Spyro, who called over to Ember. "That's what I'm talkin about Ember! You fly like a boss and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!" Ember closed her eyes and enjoyed the feel of the wind, only to crash into a dragon statue.

Ember fell to her back with Spyro running over to her to see if she was okay as she rubbed her head. "Ow. Guess I forgot the always keep your eyes open step."

A dragon with a deep shade of blue ski, along with two pieces of some kind of red cloth around his neck and waist trimmed with a gold, a gold necklace with tassles, and a rope belt. He also had ears, which was rare for some dragons, feathered wings, and was balancing on his tail with a small pot of pink rocks. As he looked down at Spyro and Ember, he greeted them with kindness. "Welcome to the Dream Weavers young ones. While chasing Gnasty's minions in this world, you must expect the unexpected and prepare for what is not there."

Spyro and Ember nodded in understanding as the dragon then introduced himself. "I am Lateef, leader of these lands, and I proudly-" Lateef saw a gnorc running with an artifact and chased after him. "Welcome you to this land with all humbleness!" Spyro and Ember laughed a bit, liking the way Lateef delivered that line.

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Flame was looking around the Dream Weavers music shop, seeing a cool looking guitar and grabbing it to see if it played well. When he started playing it, he found the sound of it to fit perfectly and just had to play some more, which was exactly what he did. While playing, he played even harder and got up onto his tail to rock even harder. The feel of playing the guitar was amazing to him, and he felt like he was soaring through the skies. Flame got down from his tail and walked up to the counter to see that no one was at the counter.

Flame shrugged and took out some money after seeing the price tag on the guitar, leaving the money to pay for it. "Not surprising anyone, there's no one here." Flame walked off and looked at his guitar, knowing he would make a good impact with it. He put it on his pack, since it was too big to fit inside of it, and walked off to meet up with the others. As he continued to think about the guitar, he wondered what he would be able to do if he got famous.

Flame started to think about becoming famous with his guitar and saw himself standing over a bunch of grown dragons worshipping him. He started to picture a bunch of money and fame surrounding him around every corner, and it was a feeling he couldn't help but love having. When he was shown in the real world again, he was walking on thin air and flinched as he looked down. He flew over to the cloud and decided he should show this guitar to the others and ran off to do just that. "Can't wait to let the others see this."

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Ember was flying in the air as she did a loop-de-loop, landing perfectly and loving the feel of doing flying tricks. She got a sense of life that she never got before, even with the fact that she hangs out with Spyro all the time in mind. Spyro walked up to her as she exclaimed how proud of herself she was. "I'm getting better by the minute! Even if I still have to nail getting it on the first try."

A few broken objects were shown with Ember then revealing a bandage on her forehead, which Spyro put there himself. "Who masters something on the first try anyway?" Spyro's stomach growled and looked at Ember to see if she wanted to take a break. "Mind if I add lunch to the training session?"

"Lunch?" Ember laughed a bit as she and Spyro walked off, finding it funny that Spyro had his meal times mixed up. "We haven't even had breakfast yet."

"Then let's find a diner. Every Dragon Realm has one." Spyro and Ember walked off as Spyro started to think about all the food he'd put onto his plate. "I can see it now Ember. Bacon, eggs, sausage, and maybe even one of those banana oatmeal smoothies I heard about."

Ember giggled a bit upon hearing Spyro's food selection, having expected it from his enormous appetite. "I probably won't get a breakfast as big as you."

"Well duh. I'm practically an eating machine by this point. If I don't eat huge then I'll go hungry." Spyro responded as he patted his stomach with some kind of camera watching them from above. Spyro got the feeling he and Ember were being watched but decided not to do anything with it and felt like he could eat even more. "Maybe we can sneak a little something extra, since the dragons that work there are most likely frozen in stone." Ember rolled her eyes while smiling, having stolen enough stuff for a while.

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Spyro and Ember were at some kind of diner with Ember cooking up some food for them in the kitchen. Luckily there was a book full of recipe's for her to do it there and not with the microwave, otherwise she most likely would've burned the place down. Spyro then entered the room and got a whiff of what Ember was making, taking a liking to it as he closed the door behind him. He then jumped up to the counter and breathed a small fire blast on the eggs to help Ember speed it up. "Thanks Spyro. If anyone knows about eggs it's you, and in more ways than one."

Spyro snickered at Ember's joke there and looked at all the food she was preparing, having a feeling he was going to be living one heck of a life. "Ya know Ember, if I ever get married I wanna make sure my wife is as good of a chef as you." Ember smiled and blushed at Spyro's words as Spyro then rubbed his chin with a question in mind. "You think Cynder could learn to cook like that?"

"Anyone could. They just have to put time into it." Ember replied, not being bothered by Spyro blatantly asking about Cynder being a good chef, since she knew he wasn't trying to hurt him. "You two seem pretty close after you helped her and her mother get back on track."

"What can I say? Just a friendship that was bound to happen. Kind of like my friendship with you." Ember found Spyro's words touching as Spyro then wondered how much of this he would be able to eat before he threw up. He then decided not to test it out, not wanting to make Ember feel grossed out or uncomfortable. Instead he took out his phone to let the others know about the buffet. "Hey, I'm gonna tell the others about the breakfast buffet."

"You do that." Ember responded as Spyro left the room, leaving Ember to think to herself about how she feels about him. 'Okay Ember. He clearly likes Cynder, but that's perfectly okay. You love him. You don't lust after him. You want him to be happy.' Ember turned the stove off and looked at the omelette, smiling as she put it onto one of the plates.

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Spyro and his friends were happily eating together as Flame pulled out his guitar and put it out on the table. The others were a bit surprised by Flame's sudden reveal on the guitar with Spyro taking a liking to the design. "That's one way to show us your new set of gear. I hope you didn't have to do any vandalism to get it."

"Actually it was right out in the open for anyone to take." Flame replied, not blaming Spyro for thinking he would've taken it without permission. After all, he wasn't as good willed or morally correct as Spyro, even though he wasn't completely wrong in either of them either. "I left some cash for it, so when we save the one who owns the shop, it'll be like I was an average everyday customer."

Spyro nodded with approval and grabbed a stack of pancakes, eating it whole with Ember giggling as she watched. As Spyro put some bacon into his mouth, Ember couldn't help but joke about his insane appetite. "Better be careful there Cleetus J.r. You might blow a gasket."

Spyro rolled his eyes while smiling and continued eating with Cynder making a comment on Ember's little joke there. "So you don't mind joking about your dad I see. Well, no relationship's perfect." Ember nodded in agreement and looked at Spyro dreamily, making Cynder smirk as she looked at him too. Spyro didn't notice either of them and let out a loud burp, laughing about it as he then continued eating as Cynder then whispered to Ember. "Ya know Ember, I almost WANT you to take Spyro. He's a bit of a pig."

"Yeah, but I think you've been friends with him long enough to see his other traits." Ember whispered back with Cynder nodding and feeling something in Spyro that she never felt in anyone before. It was kind of hard for her to explain.

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Spyro and the others were in the hotel room with Spyro heard to be grunting from the bathroom with splash sounds being made. Ember's bed was right next to the bathroom and she turned on the fan to keep the scent from getting out. "There's another thing Spyro will bring as a fun little challenge. (Looks oever at Cynder) Always letting out a huge meal." Ember and Cynder snicker to each other with Ember continuing her statement. "If he chooses you, good luck."

Spyro exited the bathroom after washing his claws and relieved as he made his response to what Ember was saying. "Hey Ember, if you wanna wish good luck to someone behind my back then make sure you know for sure I'll pick them." Spyro laughed to himself a bit and Ember snickered at how silly he could be. "But no matter. You two do girl stuff, I'm gonna go save dragons." Spyro walked off and looked back as he opened the door, winking to the two of them before heading off and making the both of them smile at him.

Spyro left the room and left Ember and Cynder to just talk, which let Cynder to start a conversation. "Let's be real here Ember. We both know Spyro's gonna be a hard one to take, and that you've known him a lot longer than I have. What's some stuff I should know for when fans start calling it forced if we get together."

"Just try to ignore it I guess." Ember advised, not really knowing what to do about it. "I know what that feeling's like too. I think some fans find my addition being earlier than A Hero's Tail to be forced." Cynder nodded in understanding, glad she knows someone like Ember to talk to.

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Sawyer was sending one of his minions off as Gnasty kicked his door open, furious at how he let Spyro and his friends go. "You let the purple dragon brat and his friends live!?" Sawyer didn't have any reaction to Gnasty bursting in, showing his level of patience as Gnasty stomped over to him. "This is the second time Sawyer! You'd better give me a good reason for why you let them live! We have to kill them or else they'll save the dragons and-"

Sawyer used his powers to choke Gnasty again, bringing him over to him and looking at him with a devilish grin on his face. "Dear Gnasty, so, so, stupid. The answer is quite simple. (Looks lover the balcony of his room) I wish to toy with them for as long as possible. And to just kill them would spoil the fun. (Looks at Gnasty with a blunt expression) I think I told you about those intentions once before." Gnasty nodded with Sawyer glaring into his eyes with a vicious aura. "Don't question my methods again, or you will die on the spot."

Sawyer sent Gnasty over to a chair so fast that he flipped over it and crashed his head into a wall. Luckily he was wearing a helmet, or that would've hurt him a lot more than it did. Gnasty looked in fear as Sawyer raised his palm at him again, giving him a hint at what he demanded from him, which Gnaty got in an instant and obliged to without hesitation. "Right, of course Sawyer!"

"Thank you." Sawyer walked out onto the balcony and looked up to the sky, knowing for a fact he would be able to defeat Spyro once they had their first battle. "Besides. The dragon won't know anything about my powers when we meet. He will die one day." Sawyer spawned a dark orb and looked into it, giving off this chilling line in the process. "No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates."

To be continued.

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An instrumental version of the main theme played during the credits with Spyro's adventures being shown.