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Life's hell right now so my writing is temporarily on standstill, much to my immesne frustration. I swear, I'm gonna explode or something...oh well. Here's Chapter 3.

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-- Chapter 3 --

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Ignitus and Volteer were the first to arrive the next morning, and by the look on Ignitus' face Volteer's electric mouth had been going non-stop the whole flight. In fact he was still babbling on even as Ignitus left him. Things were quiet, but Ignitus felt that something was going on in Spyro and Cynder's room. Not wanting to intrude on anything he stayed around the corner and asked "May I come in?", and Cynder screamed in surprise.

"SSHH!!" Solar hissed, "don't wake him up! Last thing he needs is to go comatose!"

"Come in, Ignitus," Spyro said. They were all gathered around a strange green figure lying on the bed. Ignitus came up behind Solar, looking over his wing. Solar looked back and then at Flare.

"Oh, Ignitus. While we're all here, this is my mate, Flare." She was standing next to Solar and she looked at Ignitus with a greeting nod. He nodded back and turned to the figure on the bed.

"Oddest dragon I've ever seen," he said.

"Is he even a dragon?" Spyro asked. "I mean, look, his clothes are all torn around his limbs...did something happen to him? I don't think those clothes were made for his form."

"And his tail kinda ripped through the fabric," Flare said.

Volteer came in and caught sight of the stranger. "Astonishing! What nomenclature of dragon is this?"

The green newcomer groaned and shifted on the bed.

"Can you hear or see us?" Solar asked.

"No...oooooooohhhhh my head..."

Solar put his white paw on their guest's head and put the fingers of his other paw over the newcomer's eyes. The newcomer opened his eyes and shouted in surprise as he saw Solar's claws mere centimeters from his face. Solar gently but forcefully clamped his mouth shut.

"Don't expend your energy, you might knock yourself into a coma."

"If you don't mind, who are you?" Ignitus asked. The guest forced Solar's paw off his mouth and slowly sat up.

"Alex...Alex Lorman."

"And what kind of dragon are you, Alex?" Volteer asked.

Alex looked at him oddly. "What? Dragon? I'm not a dragon."

"Oh really? You sure look like one...a bit oddly-built but definitely a dragon."

"I'm a human being!" Alex shouted, frustrated and confused, and as his head suddenly throbbed again he lifted his hand to his head and stopped. He stared at his hand--it was covered in green scales, his shortened fingers tipped with claws, and on his palm and below each finger were tough fleshy pads. He looked at his arm, and suddenly began running his hands over himself. He gasped in shock as he realized he had a tail, scaled in green and tipped with a jagged bolt-like fin. He reached into his shirt and his jaw dropped as he felt wings folded against his back.

"I think you might want this," Solar said, and breathed ice on the floor, creating a perfect mirror. He held it up and Alex's eyes nearly popped from his skull. Instead of the typical 18-almost-19 teenage human boy he half-expected to see, Alex saw a green-scaled humanoid dragon sitting on the bed where he was! He ran his paws over his draconic face, feeling his spiraling orange-yellow horns and shocking-yellow jagged fin-scales along his head and neck.

"Wha...how..." Alex gasped. "How could this be?"

"So you're not really a dragon normally?" Spyro asked, and Alex shook his head.

"I don't get it...I've dimension-jumped before, but this..." He continued studying himself in the mirror in total disbelief. "This is impossible..."

Solar put the mirror down, his eyes full of interest. "Did you say you've travelled between dimensions before?"

"Yeah..." Alex said nervously. "Only my girlfriend and I can do it though...on our last trip she and I were attacked in the dimensional rift, and even though we fought, we got separated. We were trying to keep it from going to another realm..." He shivered. "Our battle has been raging for months..."

"What have you been fighting?" Cynder asked.

"A powerful shadow that seems to control the plagues of every dimension and parallel world," Alex replied, standing up and stretching his legs. "Oh man this shirt is killing me..." He took off his shirt, accidentally ripping it with his horns, and he sighed as he stretched his new wings and felt new muscles at work. He stared at his wings briefly before continuing. "The evil that Christine and I have been fighting is incredibly powerful...somehow we've withstood it but..." He walked over to the window and looked out. "Are...are those...mushrooms?"

"Yes," Ignitus said, walking over to the window, followed by Spyro and Cynder. "I assume this world is far different than yours?"

"By far...where I live, dragons are mere fairy-tales..." He stood back and looked at himself again. "But this...I must be dreaming or something, this is too unreal."

Alex stood at the window, scanning everything in sight before he breathed deeply and turned around with confusion hovering around him. "I don't know what I'm to do here, though. Christine and I were fighting the shadow and got flung apart...and there's something blocking me, I don't think I can easily jump home from here..." His face suddenly changed and he snarled. "Why the hell am I telling any of you any of this?!" he shouted, and they all backed away. "How do I know I can even trust you scalies? I'm leaving!" With that he stepped towards the window and pulled himself through, but he suddenly shook violently and fell back into the room, panting as if from a struggle.

"What was that?" Solar asked.

Alex slowly stood up in shock and confusion. "I...what just...I..." He stood up and leaned against the wall, steadying himself before he looked back at them. "I'm sorry...I don't know what that was..." He clutched his head and clenched his teeth as a sudden high-pitched whine shot through his mind. "Noo...not again...no...STOP!!!"

Solar rushed to him, stood on his hind legs, and placed his paws on Alex's head, searching. There was a sudden blast of light that surrounded Alex, and the green dragon slumped to the floor, exhausted. Solar stood back, his eyes closed as his mind raced.

"Solar?" Flare asked, walking up next to him. Solar opened his eyes and looked at Alex, who just lay there, panting and staring straight ahead with unfocused eyes.

"Alex...I sense a dangerous struggle within you...something has a tight grip on you."

Alex struggled to sit up. "I don't wanna talk about it." He sat there, propping his arms against his knees and his head against his arms. "Christine...we failed the last one..." he mumbled, obviously very upset.

Solar studied him a bit longer, then with a shrug he turned and walked out of the room, thinking. Flare followed him, and Spyro looked at Alex as the dragon-human sat against the wall, still reeling slightly.

"Let's leave him alone for now," he said, and Cynder nodded and Volteer and Ignitus followed them out of the room. Alex heard them leave and let a tear fall from his eye. That final struggle had been so painful...so horribly long and painful...and now he'd found out that his suffering hadn't done what it was supposed to have accomplished. Somehow, he knew he could trust these dragons with his problem, but he couldn't draw them into it. Even if his foes were advancing on the Temple, he couldn't let these creatures suffer because of him. He slowly stood up as he made his mind...somehow he knew his dimensional jumping ability was barricaded, and as such his foes would surely hunt him down. He'd have to protect not only himself but these dragons that he barely knew yet had taken him in. Alex flexed his wings and looked them over, running his paw along the wingskin and feeling the smooth but still scaly texture. He went into a rapid series of punches and kicks, and found he still had his fighting skills even as an anthropomorphic dragon. Getting an idea he whipped his tail around, and yelled as the fin at the end caught him in the back.

"Boy, that was dumb," he said to himself, rubbing himself where he'd been lashed.

That night, Spyro and Cynder were out by the river, enjoying the blue-tinted silver sheen of the moonlight on their surroundings. Spyro was sprawled out on his belly, his limbs splayed out on the ground...he hadn't moved after flopping on the ground to rest after an intense game of chase. Cynder licked the water from her lips and stretched her forelegs out, touching the river as she stood by it. She turned around and looked over Spyro. In the moonlight, everything was turned a silver-blue, but Spyro somehow still shone purple and gold, almost as if he had some kind of subconscious power that prevented him from being affected by natural elements. He didn't see her proud smile--his eyes were still closed.

I swear, I'm mated to THE hottest dragon in the universe, she thought to herself, her eyes looking him over. Damn, Cynder, life treats you well when you're not evil. Everything about him was so perfect in her sight--every edge, every scale...his horns didn't curve too much or too little, the fins along his head weren't too tall, too short, or too wide...

Spyro sensed a proud happiness from her and looked up sharply. She was too late...he'd seen her looking at him, and she looked at the ground shyly.

"You checkin' me out, Cynder?" he asked with a laugh, stretching as he stood up.

She sidled up to him and brushed her entire length along his side like a cat, from her nose all the way to the tip of the bladed fin ending her tail, angling her head so the spikes on the backs of her cheek-bones didn't scuff him. She wrapped tightly around behind him, brushing along his other side, and licked his cheek as she came back up to his face.

"Can't help myself...you're just so..." Her mind went blank, but she just nuzzled against him.

"Hot? Sexy? Attractive?" Spyro laughed, and she looked at him a bit wide-eyed.

"Of anyone I'd expect that from Sparx, not you!" she giggled.

Spyro shook his head playfully. "Nah, he'd be more 'Fat...overweight...scaly...'"

They both laughed, and their laughter slowly died off as they lost themselves in each others' eyes. Five minutes later they snapped back to reality to find their mouths clamped together as their stomachs growled.

"I fell like...frozen berries," Cynder whispered as she broke away from the kiss.

"I feel like...freezing berries," he replied with a warm smile, and they walked off into the woods. As they slowly walked, looking at the way the moonlight shone between the mushrooms, Cynder sighed and Spyro looked at her. "Something wrong?"

"I was thinking...about Alex. We don't know anything about him other than he's not really a dragon and that something's wrong with him."

Spyro nodded. "Yeah...but...something about him...I dunno but I think we can trust him."

Cynder was still skeptical. "How do we know, though? For all we know he could've been sent by some evil force or something..."

Spyro rubbed his cheek against hers. "Hey, don't worry so much...it's not like you."

Cynder nodded, and realized that she was worrying more than she usually did. Why, though? She shook the thoughts from her head as they neared the fruit tree, and she smiled as she watched Spyro pick berries and freeze them just the way she liked.

Back at the temple, Flare was sitting on the balcony and gazing at the stars--not only was it her favorite pasttime, but she was also thinking back to when she and Solar would sneak out and star-gaze back in Paralos. Solar and Alex were chatting in the dojo. Finally, Solar healed Alex's headache and came outside. He slumped down by Flare with a groan, and she giggled and leaned against him.

"You sound tired."

Solar snorted. "I'm frustrated...Alex doesn't seem to want to give me straight answers, but in order to give him proper attention I need to know more about what's plaguing him. I might not be able to fully heal him, but without more knowledge I can't relieve any of his pain for long."

Flare giggled again and lay down next to him. "Oh Solar...you don't need to keep healing everyone every time they're in discomfort. You'll wear yourself out."

He half-smiled and kissed her. "Flare, how do you stand me?"

"Easily. It's a little thing called 'love', I know you know of it."

"Oh do I," he said with a grin, putting his arm around her. "How's my dragoness doing?"

She knew what he was really asking. "I hope she and her ice monster have gotten lucky at last." She nuzzled against him and lay down with a yawn, and Solar put his long neck over hers and she murred under his weight, turning a bit to her side so she could put her arm around him. They gradually drifted off to sleep.

In the dojo, Alex couldn't sleep. He'd slept in harder places for three years, but for some reason his mind just wouldn't shut down as he lay there on the plants that lined the edges of the floor by the walls. With a frustrated groan he yawned, stretched, and quietly wandered the temple, eventually ambling out into the underground tunnels leading outside. He didn't go very far, though--he wanted to make sure he had a place to run to if something happened. He came to a tall chamber with stone pillars that had been knocked down, and looked around. A few years ago, Spyro had first seen Ignitus fight here, and the air still seemed to have a bit of the old dragon's Fire Fury energy hovering in it. Alex looked at the ceiling and figured he had enough room to try flying in here, but as he flapped his wings he swiftly grew exhausted.

"Crap...new muscles..." he groaned to himself, remembering the same soreness when he was training in martial arts. As he leaned against the wall and rested, he began remembering Christine...where could she be now? She was definitely out there...he heard her calling to him, but where was she?

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Cynder woke up early the next morning to find herself draped across Spyro as he lay on his back, his head almost slipping off the pillow he was resting on. She grinned sleepily as she felt his heartbeat and breathing under her jaw, and she nuzzled against his chest, feeling his scales against hers. As her mind slowly wound up, she became aware of a strange but not uncomfortable feeling in her abdomen. As she woke up even further, her eyes snapped open in a slight panic--she knew what it was she was feeling. She'd felt it once before but back then, she and Spyro hadn't been ready. Now, as she looked over her sleeping lover beneath her, her mind blazed--were they ready now? It wasn't too late, she could easily end the process right now and wait a bit longer...

Spyro groaned, feeling a sense of fear and indecision from her, and opened his eyes to look at her. She saw his eyes open and tried to cover up her outward appearance but failed.

"Something wrong, Cynder?" he asked groggily.

Oh no, what do I tell him?! she thought hurriedly to herself. She faked a low groan and rubbed her stomach. "Think a few of those berries last night are getting to me..."

"Aawww," Spyro said sympathetically, and hugged her. "Well, I'm here for good so far as I know...you just take it easy if you're not feeling well."

She nodded and slipped off him as he got up. "I think I'll sleep a bit longer."

"You want anything?"

She pretended to think. Spyro sensed something was up, but she was blocking him from feeling her emotions. "Nah...maybe some food later...although some water might be nice."

He grinned and nodded. "I'll go get some. Cold?"

"Icy."

He walked off to get her some water, and she snuggled under the covers, watching him. The way he walked...how his tail and wings swayed as he moved...she just couldn't take her eyes off him until he disappeared around the doorway. Now that she was alone with her thoughts she picked up where she'd left off...but this time she knew, deep down, that they were ready. She relaxed her lower body and lay her head on the pillow with a secretive smile, but the smile faded...should she keep up the sickness scam and rest so she didn't accidentally stop the process at work in her, or should she tell Spyro?

On the balcony, Solar yawned and resisted the urge to stretch as Flare slept on his side. He smiled and ran his paw along her neck, and she smiled in her sleep and nestled against him.

"You're so cute when you sleep," he whispered. As he stared off at the sky as the sun rose higher, Flare groaned and yawned, and he felt her muscles vibrate as she stretched against him. He turned to her and she smiled sleepily at him, her eyes still half-closed. "Get a good sleep?"

"Very," she said, and yawned again. Solar saw a strange glance come over her face and her paw absently went to her midsection. An excitement took hold of him and he looked back up at her as realization spread across her face.

"Something's new with you, I can see that," he said.

She grinned happily. "Solar, I think we've finally done it..." She was so excited that she pushed him over to the floor as she hugged him. "Oh Solar...all our waiting is paying off..."

"Well, take it easy today," he said, wrapping his arms and wings around her, "don't want you accidentally ruining it."

Spyro came out to find Solar stretching and getting ready to take off. "Morning Solar. You going?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna get Flare some breakfast. Where're you off to?"

"Getting water for Cynder. She's not feeling well...thinks some of the berries last night were bad or something."

To his curiosity Solar raised his eyebrow at him but shrugged. "Tell ya what...if you bring back some water for Flare too, I'll get Cynder some breakfast as well."

"Sounds good to me," Spyro said, but in the back of his mind he was trying to figure out how to bring back waer for two dragonesses. The two males took off, Spyro heading for the river and Solar heading for the forest. As he flew, Spyro's head was racing--how would he do this? He didn't want to do more than one run right now... With an undecided groan he landed by the river and stared at the water, wracking his mind. Before he could react he suddenly sneezed, spitting ice breath. "Oh geez...that hurt," he said, scratching his nose. He stopped as he saw ice floating away... "THAT'S IT!!" he shouted excitedly. Using his ice breath he froze a large chunk of the river and using his tail-strike he slammed hard on the center of the ice. As he'd calculated, the ice broke into two large slabs on either side of him. His victory was only for that spilt-second cracking, though--the split he'd made dumped him right into the water below and he came back up gasping for breath and coughing. Grumbling to himself he grabbed the nearest slab of ice before it could float away, carved it up so it'd be easier to carry, and hauled it off to the temple. The melting wasn't all that significant, with his flight speed and the temperature he'd frozen the water to, but by the time he got back to the temple he couldn't feel his paws. Flare looked at him curiously when he put the ice-slab by her.

"Ice?"

"Just wait," he said a bit breathlessly, and rushed off, coming back with a mushroom cap. He halved the ice and put a piece on the cap, and melted it with his firebreath as Solar returned.

"Hey, not a bad idea!" Solar said, impressed. "Wow, I don't think I'd've ever thought of that."

"And you're the smartest dragon around!" Flare said to Solar with a playful grin. She noticed Spyro and quickly added "Well, y'know, with that enhanced database of a mind he's got..."

Spyro smirked and rolled his eyes before taking the other piece of ice to Cynder. There was a large bowl in their room that Ignitus had carved for either food or water transportation, and he took off a large chunk of ice and melted it into the bowl before taking it to Cynder. Remembering her request he quickly breathed ice on it, chilling it almost to freezing point and creating a few ice pieces that floated on the surface. He dragged it along the floor to the bedside, and paused with a smile as he looked at her sleeping form almost falling off the bed; she'd rolled in her sleep and was right on the edge of the mattress. He gently pushed her back onto the bed and she stirred, mumbling something that caught his attention.

"Say that again?" he whispered. She was in a state of sleep where she could hear him but wasn't aware of herself, and as she dreamed he heard her talking to him, but he had to lean in almost to her mouth to hear what she was saying.

"I'm...carrying...little ones..." she muttered softly, and continued talking but said nothing determinable.

Those four words paralyzed Spyro. His mind froze with shock and excitement--was she really with clutch?! His eyes went unfocused as his mind reeled in anxiety and excitement. This was too much at once! Did they really have a family on the way?!

Snapping out of his trance he looked at her with a proud grin. Before he could say or do anything else he heard a loud scream from Flare, and raced off to see what was wrong. She and Solar were in the tunnel just outside the entrance to the temple, and Alex and Ignitus were both out cold on the ground. Ignitus just looked like he was asleep, but Alex was badly beaten and cut. Black cloaks lay shattered everywhere, and Alex had shreds of the black cloth on his claws and horns. Solar was gauging their life-signs, and shook his head.

"They're both out cold, barely in there. What the Fire Fury happened here really took them by surprise."

"Can you heal them?" Flare asked, worried. Solar's brow furrowed as he stood back from Ignitus, his tail quivering as he stood hunched over on his hind legs, thinking.

"I honestly don't know if my light energy is powerful enough..."

A memory came to Spyro's mind and he raced up to Ignitus. "Uh, Solar...Cynder and I never told you before, but we both have healing light in addition to lightbreath."

Solar's eyes opened and he looked relieved. "Then there's no time to lose, we need to do what we can for them."

They both lay their paws on Ignitus. Solar's paws began glowing brilliantly with yellow light, but Spyro grunted, trying to reawaken his healing powers. After some trying he finally succeeded, and small, gentle tendrils of light flowed from his paws and forelegs into Ignitus. Spyro didn't see the odd look Solar was giving him, but let up when Solar moved away from the fire guardian. He followed his icy friend over to Alex, and after a draining ten minutes Solar finally deemed him healed and stood back, panting a bit from the strain. When Spyro stopped he suddenly reeled as if someone had hit him over the head with a club--the energy loss hit him all at once and knocked him stupid for a few seconds.

"Spyro? You okay?" Flare asked.

"Yeah...yeah I'm fine..."

When he was able to walk straight he excused himself and ambled back into his room, feeling heavy and tired. He hadn't used his light powers in a while and it was showing--he was drained. As he neared the bed he heard Cynder yawn, waking up, and he smiled and hopped up onto the bed beside her. She felt the mattress depress under his weight and smiled, rolling over right into his arms.

"Hey you," she yawned. "Something happen? You look tired."

"I'll tell you later," he said, and she saw that something else was at the front of his mind. He smirked at her. "So...how're the 'berries' treating you?"

She looked confused, and he chuckled as her eyes widened in realization, and she blushed in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, Spyro...I should've told you...but I was afraid we weren't ready."

"Hey, you decided you're ready," he said softly, "and I'm ready with you."

She pulled him into a tight, happy hug. "Oh Spyro, I'm so excited...but...how'd you find out?"

"You talk too easily in your sleep."

She turned red again. "Oh, that reminds me...did you get me some water by any chance?"

"Solar got you some food as well," he said, slipping back off the bed to get her food. "I'll go get it. Oh wait." He doubled back and breathed ice on the water again before going off to get her breakfast. She smiled happily as she watched him leave the room, and stretched with a huge yawn and felt her midsection. She couldn't feel anything from outside, but inside she definitely felt something. A strange excitement filled her, one she couldn't quite place, but at the same time she was overjoyed--she and Spyro were going to be parents!

Spyro came back in to find her finishing the water in the large stone bowl, and she looked up and smiled again as she saw him pushing the mushroom cap with her breakfast. He sat back and watched her eat, and was surprised by how much she consumed.

"Need more water?" he asked as she stood back, and she nodded.

"If it's not too much trouble..."

Only then did she notice the slab of ice, and he carved out another piece, refroze what was left with his ice-breath, and placed the chunk in the stone bowl. She watched as he melted it and then almost froze it again.

"Just the way you like it," he said with a grin.

She pressed herself against him and licked him on the cheek. "You take such good care of me," she whispered happily. "Thank you."

He wrapped his wing around her and kissed her, and after a little bit she moved away and drank the entire bowl. She then sat back down by him and leaned against him.

"I bet you're wondering what happened earlier?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow at her.

"Well, you caught my interest earlier...why do you look so drained?"

"We don't know what happened, but Alex and Ignitus got knocked out. I had to help Solar heal them, but Alex was so badly beaten it sapped a lot of my strength."

She stood back a bit. "And you came in here all happy with my food?"

He shrugged. "Hey, what else can I do? We did all we can for them, they just gotta wake up now. What'm I gonna do, sit there by them crying my eyes out and saying 'Please get up'?"

Her face softened again. "Well, that is true..."

They stayed with each other for a while, just quietly rubbing each other with their wings, before Cynder stood up and stretched her limbs.

"Should we tell the elders?" she asked, and when he looked at her quizzically she gave a slight glance to her belly and his eyes widened.

"Oh...well, let's just hope you don't do anything to stop it today. From what Ignitus told us a while ago I think you'll be safe by tomorrow."

"Spyro, we mated over a day ago, in just a few more hours I'll be safe. This morning I wasn't but I'm pretty sure I will be before night falls."

"Still, let's hold off on it," Spyro said softly, kissing her. "We'll tell them tomorrow to alleviate any guesses."

"You win," she said with a happy smile. "Now c'mon, I need to stretch my legs."

"Shouldn't you take it easy?" he asked, concerned, following her.

She laughed and turned her head to look at him. "No! Just 'cuz I'm carrying doesn't mean I hafta be lazy! I wanna stay in shape as much as possible."

He sidled up to her, looking her over and smirking. "Your shape's already perfect."

"Suck-up," she said, but gave him a quick lick on the nose before walking out of the room. He rolled his eyes and grunted humorously before following her into the main room. Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador had returned from wherever they'd gone to and were questioning Solar and Flare about what had happened. As Spyro and Cynder entered the room, Ignitus and Alex both groggily sat up, reeling a bit and looking around confusedly.

"What exactly happened here?" Solar asked.

"I don't know," Ignitus groaned, struggling to sit up but having to fall back to the floor. "Something knocked me out before I had a chance to see..." His face contorted and he looked like something nasty was in his mouth. "Ugh, what's that awful taste?"

"I know what it is," Alex groaned, sitting up on his knees and rubbing his head.

"Mind explaining for us?" Terrador asked, obviously wanting to get to the bottom of this.

"Alright...I should've told you earlier but I didn't want to..." Alex painfully stood up, holding up a black cloak. "These are the cloaks of my 'followers'--cultists that believe Christine and I hold some kind of ancient power. They've got it stuck in their heads that if they sacrifice both of us, we'll become immortal and unstoppable, and they themselves will, in short, become demigods alongside us."

"Is that even possible?" Cyril asked.

Alex shrugged. "Normally I'd say no, but seeing how we seem to have inherited some kind of unknown powers...I mean, no, if we're sacrificed, we're dead, and they're murderers, but they don't get it. I have no clue how the heck they hunted me here though, unless they were transported by the shadow."

"But what happened here?" Terrador asked.

"They somehow warped into the temple as Ignitus and I were talking, and took us by surprise. Ignitus was gagged with chloroform--that's a chemical that when inhaled basically knocks you out, but they added poison to keep him out--and they tried it with me but as usual they weren't prepared for me."

"But if you triumphed, why were you so badly beaten?"

"I was getting bashed left and right, but I finally killed the last one before my strength gave out. I'm still not used to this new form..." Alex stretched out his arm and gave a few claw-swipes. "My claws came in handy but everything else...I need to acclimatize to my new ranges and abilities."

"A little more time with training ought to assist your dilemna," Volteer said.

"Maybe later..."

The day slowly wore on, and as the sun set Spyro and Cynder were once again by the river. This time, though, Solar and Flare were with them.

"So you and Cynder became mates here?" Flare asked, her head against Solar in much the same way Cynder was leaning against Spyro.

"Yep." Spyro nudged Cynder with a grin. "I still remember how happy she was when I asked her..."

"And that happiness still hasn't gone," Cynder replied, nestling against him. He chuckled and draped his wing over her.

"This is definitely a special spot," Flare said, looking at the river as it flowed by. "There's a lot of good feeling here."

Spyro and Cynder eyed each other slyly, thinking of how the "good feeling" applied in more than one way...

Solar sighed. "Well, it's nicer than where Flare and I became one...outside of a small cave in the ground under the open night sky..."

Flare looked at him. "Don't say that! You know I love a starry sky. You second-guessing us on me?"

He laughed and wrapped his arm around her. "Why would I do something like that? You're what got me through my down-time two years ago. Without you I'd go insane sooner or later."

Spyro and Cynder laughed to themselves with a roll of their eyes, they remembered that all too well.

Flare yawned as she leaned against Solar, and he nudged her. "You okay?"

"Yeah...I could use some rest, though."

Something about her tone didn't convince him, but he slowly stood up, stretching his legs with a yawn. "I think Flare and I'll head back...you two staying here?"

"Maybe a little longer," Spyro said, and Cynder nodded.

Flare and Solar took off, leaving the purple and black dragons by the riverside. As they flew back to the Temple, the full moon shining brightly and giving them more than enough light to see clearly by, Solar looked at Flare. "Okay, what's on your mind? You're not tired, are you?"

She gave him a sly side-glance and licked him on the cheek. "Been itchin' for some more action with my ice monster," she whispered in his ear, and he smirked.

She dove off to the side and swept through the forest, with him close behind. Solar landed next to her and she ran her tongue along his neck up to his cheek, and he closed his eyes with a grin, turning his head and catching her mouth with his. She giggled as she watched through the corner of her eye as his silvery member slowly stiffened out of its sheath. They sat back on their haunches, sucking on each others' tongues and rubbing their tails together. Solar's eyes shot open as he felt her warm yellow paw wrap around his cock, which was now fully erect and twitching with each pulse of his heart. She smirked against his mouth and slowly began running her paw up and down his length, eliciting a groan of pleasure from him. She broke away from his mouth and grinned lustfully as his pre-cum slowly came forth and washed down to her paws, lubricating him for her. She slowly, very slowly sped up, watching him moan and shudder with the ecstasy.

"Oh, Flare...Oh that feels so goooood...oooh..." he groaned, and she pumped him even faster, feeling her own arousal swiftly increasing. She felt his cock twitch a few times in her paw and a few streams of his pre shot forth, and she moaned excitedly--she absolutely loved watching him release.

She leaned up to his ear and whispered "I wanna see how far you can release" before licking his cheek again and rubbing him as fast as she could. He shuddered as his climax swiftly rose, and threw his head and chest back with a loud roar as his dragonhood finally exploded with the pent-up pleasure. Flare gasped with a small orgasm of her own as she watched him shoot his cum quite a distance, still pumping his silver organ with her paw. He eventually groaned as he slowed and stopped, his seed still slowly flowing from the tip of his member onto Flare's paw. She licked her paw clean as he caught his breath, and kissed him again. She gasped as he pushed her over onto her back and looked up at him in surprise.

"Now to make YOU release," he said, and she grinned as he pulled back and began caressing her entrance with his long tongue. She squealed and jerked slightly as he probed her, burying his muzzle against her and sucking slightly on her lips as his tongue worked its way into her. He grinned as he heard her breath speed up excitedly, and she bucked her hips slightly against his muzzle. She growled as he stopped, and looked down herself to see his silver meat just inches away from her opening. She looked up at him and pulled his head to hers in a passionate kiss, and he took the plunge. She groaned into his mouth as he penetrated her, the slickness of his cum on his cock and saliva in her warm tunnel helping him glide swiftly into her. He paused, passionately kissing her back, and she growled and looked into his eyes.

"Go for it," she whispered desperately, and threw her head back with a loud yell of pleasure as he began thrusting hard into her.

----meanwhile----

Not long after Solar and Flare had left, Spyro sensed Cynder growing aroused again and he laughed.

"So you've been waiting for them to leave now, have you?" he asked, wrapping his arm and wing around her and giving her a playful shake.

"What is this? Suddenly YOU know what I'M thinking instead of the usual vice-versa?"

"You sense my thoughts, I sense your emotions," he replied, "and right now I know you're wanting some fun."

"Fun sounds really good coming from you," she said enticingly, and leaned up and kissed him. "What's on your mind? I know you've got an idea."

He pulled away and looked a little nervous. "Well...you...you wanna try mating while...flying?"

She looked at him in surprise. The idea turned her on but...flying? "How do you propose we do that?"

He gently laid her on her back and stood over her. "Grab hold of me," he said, and she wrapped her forelegs around his neck and her hindlegs around his waist and held on tight. He shoved off the ground, and as soon as they were airborne he wrapped his arms around her. She felt a rush of adrenaline as he stretched his wings and glided above the mushroom caps, flying off to the south where he knew no creatures were around.

"Don't drop me!" she said, looking down.

"Don't worry, I won't," he said, but in the back of his mind he kept repeating "I damn well better not!" As they relaxed and acclimatized to this arrangement, Cynder giggled as she felt his dragonhood slowly creeping out of his sheath and pushing its way between their bellies. She quickly pulled herself forward and he pulled his hips back and entered her, and let out a long sigh of pleasure as she scooted back on his solid cock. Something about being in the air instead of on the ground made both of them more excited than usual, and the slight movement of him inside her from him flapping his wings was close enough to making her climax. She screamed as pleasure rocketed through her as he began thrusting with his hips, holding her tight as he used the motion of his wings to give himself more leverage. Spyro moaned loudly...they had never felt anything like this before. It wasn't completely shadowing their previous experiences, but the new stimulation was incredible. As if his body had a mind of its own he continued flying as he thrust in and out of her wonderfully warm depths, and she groaned and yelled with each shove as he buried himself in her. Being in the air gave them a slightly different position that was giving her a different orgasmic build than usual and it wracked her body with the extreme pleasure.

"SPYROOO!!!" she screamed as she was unexpectedly hurtled into a mind-blowing climax, holding him even tighter as her insides spasmed and drenched his whole underside with her warm love-juices.

"Oh my gosh," Spyro grunted, almost losing himself as the added sensation of her climax nearly made him fold his wings. This felt so unbelievably good... Sensing his own orgasm inevitably drawing nearer, he looped around and Cynder gasped as the adrenaline rush added to her ecstasy. She pumped her hips against him but couldn't get enough leverage in her position, and as Spyro straightened his course he began pounding into her with increased vigor, his member hitting her right where she wanted it and sending waves of pleasure coursing through both of them. Cynder screamed and again climaxed, but this time he anticipated it and thrust even harder into her, angling his flight upwards, and with a loud roar he went over the edge and they fell. Cynder was coming down from her orgasmic high when she was suddenly shot into an even more intense one as Spyro's hot dragon seed gushed forcefully into her and filled her as they suddenly fell from the air. As Spyro felt his hard cock pulsing his thick white juice into her he straightened his wings the best he could and pulled out of the dive, the adrenaline rush increasing the euphoria for both of them and they half-groaned, half-screamed with how good it felt. It was all Spyro could do to keep aloft, but all he could think of was Cynder as she clung to him in their hazy afterglow. He pulled his dragonhood out of her and she moaned, feeling his unneeded cum spill out of her and his meat still flowing onto her tail in the breeze. Spyro landed in the first open area they passed over, and Cynder rolled out of his arms onto the ground as he came to a stop. He crawled over to her and they lay there, breathless and thoroughly satisfied.

"That...was...amazing..." Cynder panted, giving him a lick on the cheek. "Did you...know it'd be...like that?"

Spyro slowly caught his breath and kissed her lovingly. "No...I figured something new would be good." She wrapped her arms around him.

"We're all sticky now," she giggled.

"But it was well worth it."

"Definitely." She closed her eyes and smiled, and giggled again as she felt him licking her and cleaning her off. "Still can't get enough of me, huh?" she asked.

"Of course not...how can I ever get enough of something as sweet as you?" he asked.

"Well don't stop...it feels good."

He grinned and slowly worked his way down, finally cleaning his own seed from her tail. She yawned and slowly sat up with a huge, warm smile.

"I take it you liked that?" he asked.

"Of course, why wouldn't I? You take such good care of me..."

"I'm still a mess, though," he said, looking down at himself.

"Well, nothing against you but I prefer the river," she said, standing up.

"Why, exactly?"

"I dunno," she said as he followed her, "I just...I guess I like feeling those strong muscles and knowing I'm keeping them good and clean..."

He kissed her on the cheek as he caught up to her. "Well then, let's go and get these muscles washed." Cynder laughed and leaned against him as they walked.

Solar and Flare were already at the river, and as Spyro and Cynder approached all four of them caught sight of each other and blushed, taking a pretty good guess as to why they were all there.

"Well, we're done here anyway," Flare said, and she and Solar hurriedly flew into the air. Spyro and Cynder looked at each other with nervous laughs before Spyro stepped into the water. Cynder followed him and took her time as she gently cleaned him off. They loved this little ritual but all too soon she was done and they were flying back to the Temple to rest. They snuggled together in bed, wrapped around each other.

"That was the most fun I've had in a while," Cynder whispered, and yawned.

"But it was pretty tiring, huh?"

"I hardly did anything and I'm more exhausted than you are!" she said, tucking her head between his chin and chest. "I don't think that's fair, you did all the work and I did nothing..."

"I gave you that experience, I don't need repayment," he said softly in her ear. "You just keep on being your cute little loving self."

She giggled sleepily and closed her eyes, and they both fell asleep in mere seconds.

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The next chapter may take a while, this series won't be as long as RoD at this rate. But oh well, sequels don't HAVE to be longer than the originals. Just better :P