Love at first sight?
CHAPTER 1- FIRST ENCOUNTER
Spyro walked into dragon village from his cave outside it with his best friend Flame to go see Ignitus for the training all young dragons are required to go through.
On arrival at the temple, they were hurried into the main room with the rest of their classmates.
"Hi guys!" Ember whispered as the two of them walked past her toward their cushions on the floor.
Ignitus began his lesson for today and Spyro noticed someone who caught his eye. A female someone named Amber. She was the most beautiful dragoness Spyro had ever laid eyes on. Her scales where as white as the finest freshly fallen snow, and her belly was that of polished gold, as were her horns and her eyes, which shined as though the sun itself was in them.
"Spyro are you paying attention?" Ignitus asked as Spyro whipped his head around, embarrassed.
"Sorry Ignitus." He said
"Nice one bro." Flame whispered
Spyro glared briefly at him then broke it when Flame asked him
"What were you looking at?"
"That girl back there...have you seen her?"
"Who Amber? Yes I've seen her, and I know her too."
"You have to introduce me!" Spyro whispered a little louder than intended.
"Since when do you have trouble introducing yourself to girls?" Flame whispered back.
"Since I've never seen one like this before! Now are you gonna do it or not?" he answered sharply but quietly.
"Ok, ok I'll introduce you after school. Now stop talking before you get me into trouble with you."
The rest of the day seemed to drag on extra slow, until Ignitus finally dismissed them.
"Amber wait up!" Flame called after her as he ran down his steps of the temple with Spyro in tow.
"Hey Flame. Who's your friend?" she asked.
"This is my boy Spyro." Flame said
Spyro tried to use his usual charm, but for some reason, he couldn't think of anything to say or do. He froze completely. All he could do was get lost in her beauty. It was safe to say that he had never felt like this about another female before.
"Spyro this is Amber. Spyro? You in there?"
"Hi Amber." He managed to say, his voice cracked rather obviously, causing him to blush.
"Well it was nice meeting you Spyro. See you later Flame." She said as she turned to walk home.
Spyro watched her walk away until she was out of sight, only then did he regain his wits.
"What was wrong with you?" Flame asked as they walked home.
"I don't know...I froze up, I couldn't think of anything to say...ugh I bet I blew my chances with her already..." Spyro sighed
"No you didn't. She has a boyfriend already, so if it makes you feel any better, you didn't really have a chance to start with." Flame looked at his friend, but saw that this didn't lighten his mood.
"Hey guys!" Ember said running up behind them.
"Whats wrong Spyro?" she asked innocently.
He didn't answer, so Flame did it for him
"He has a crush on Amber."
"The new girl? You know she has a boyfriend right?"
"I do now." He said as the three of them walked into town.
They went back to their respective houses, and Spyro was alone in his, since he had no parents to speak of. He lay awake, not being able to sleep, because the mental image of Amber kept him up.
'What is wrong with me? I've always been able to talk to girls...why is she so different?' he thought as he tossed and turned trying to find a comfortable position.
'I don't know why I'm even worried about her, she has a boyfriend anyway...' the very thought of her with someone else put a weight in his stomach.
'That's it...tomorrow, I'm gonna talk to her...find out all I can...and see if I can pull this off...'
The sun rose the next morning and they all went to the temple just like any other day. It was only afterward that Spyro caught up with her.
"Hey Amber."
"Hi Spyro. Decided to talk today?" she said innocently
"Yeah...sorry about yesterday...anyways, how are you?"
They talked about various things until Spyro decided to take the conversation in a personal direction.
Although everyone had told him she had a boyfriend, he wanted to hear it out of her mouth, just to make sure.
"So...do you have a boyfriend?" Normally, Spyro wouldn't give much thought to such a question, but with this girl, it took him a good ten minutes to summon the courage to do so.
"Yes I do. His name is Deo." Although he should have been discouraged, he was actually encouraged to pursue her.
"Really? That's nice...guess I'll be seeing you around."
"Wait. Take this." She handed him a clear crystal.
"A communication crystal? Why di-"
"Incase there is anything else you want to talk about later." She smiled and left, leaving Spyro a little confused.
"She has a boyfriend, but she gives me her crystal?"
He found Flame and Ember sitting under a tree as he walked up to them.
"What ya got there bro?" Flame asked
"Amber's comm. crystal." He said proudly
"You kidding me? Why did she give you her crystal?"
"She said so she could talk to me whenever she wanted to." He said grinning at the fact that he might actually have a chance with the dragoness of his dreams.
The next few days passed without incident. Spyro and Flame talked to Amber, although Flame seemed to get more laughs than Spyro, which didn't bother him at first, but when he realized that Flame was getting more of her attention, it started to bother him.
"Bye guys!" Amber said as she hugged both of them and left.
The walk home was unusually quiet, until Flame spoke up.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Spyro answered slowly.
"Bull. Whats the matter with you?"
"You wouldn't do anything with Amber would you?" Spyro asked bluntly. The very idea kind of took Flame aback.
"Dude! That is messed up! Of course I wouldn't! What brought that up?"
"I don't know...I guess you were just getting more of her attention than I was and..."
"You were jealous?" Flame completed.
"Kinda..." Spyro said slowly.
"Don't worry Spyro, I'm not gonna try to 'steal' her from you. I'm just a flirty guy. That's all." Flames words reassured Spyro as he arrived at his cave.
"See you later Flame."
"See ya Spyro."
Spyro got settled in for the night, when the crystal Amber gave him began to glow.
When he saw this, his heart skipped a beat.
'Uh oh...it's her.'