Chapter 1: It Begins

"Spyro, I'm sorry.  I'm so sorry." said Cynder.
"Don't be.  It's over now."  replied Spyro.
"So this is it?"
Ignitus' spirit is then seen over Spyro, with Cynder looking in wonder.  "Spyro, when a dragon dies, he does not truly leave this world.  His spirit lives on, binding itself with nature."

"I know what I need to do.  Just get out of here Cynder."
"No Spyro.  You don't have to do anything.  Let's just go." pleaded Cynder.
"Where Cynder?  There'll be nothing left.  The world is breaking apart.  But I think I can stop it.  I think I'm meant to."

"Then I'm with you."
Spyro then gathered all of the magic and strength in his body to bring the world back together again in a big flash of bright light.

"I love you." whispered Cynder.

In a different place:

"Every time I try to change it I keep getting this same result!" yelled a dark black dragon with a red belly and wings.

A puny ape squeaked "Perhaps you need to change the part where Malefor was b-"
"Shut up!  I will never do that!  You know what would happen to me if I altered someone's…" screamed the black dragon.  "Uggh.  Why do I even need you."

The space around the ape started to bend.  His eyes widened and enlarged when the dragon disappeared.  The apes pupils started to enlarge and he started to tremble.  A tear started to form in the apes eyes.  Then the ape was no more.

"Ash!  Come here!" yelled the dark dragon.
A puny small fire dragon came to the dark dragon crying with tears.  He was not even a quarter of the dark dragon's size, but shared the same shade of red that the dark dragon had.  Ash was unique in that he had 3 "fingers" that came from his wings, unlike any other dragon.  He also emitted flames in the line down the center of his head and back.  His tail end was also a continuous flame.  Ash had odd markings over his face that seemed to show a cycle.

"He is the key.  He is somehow able to change it all without the consequences.  But I need to figure out where he gets these powers." the dark dragon whispered to himself.

"Wha…what do you need, muh-master?" cried out Ash.
"I need you to fill another crystal, Ash.  I promise that I won't ask you to fill another one for a week." said the dark dragon with a deep grin on his face.

"That's what you said last time!  But then you needed another one the next day!  How can I trust you!" cried out Ash, but this time with more confidence.

"Do you want to know what I will do to you if you don't give it to me?" questioned the dark dragon.

"Oh-okay." said Ash, with a sense of defeat.
The dark black dragon opened up a chest in the corner of the dark room.  The room was rather empty, with some stairs leading to the dark dragon's chair and 2 pillars that had 4 chains on them.  The only light that came in to the room was from the door, if there was any.  He pulled out what appeared to be a fine piece of quartz.  It was the size of his hand and didn't have any distortions to its shape.  Its shape was a rectangular prism with a pyramid at the end.  There was a slight hint of blue all over the crystal, almost glowing from inside it.

"All right, Ash.  Are you ready for this?" said the black dragon in a calmer tone.
"I guess so" replied Ash.
"Ok.  Let's start."
The dark dragon's red eyes started to glow and emanated rays to poor Ash.  Ash started to shake.  Tears were pouring down from his eyes.  All that could be heard was the sobs and cries of Ash.  Ash started to shake more violently.  He was shaking so much that he was having difficulty just standing up.  Then he started to scream.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!  Why! Why! Owwwww! Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" screamed out Ash.  While he was screaming, a rainbow colored substance started to flow out of his body and started to fill the crystal.

"Why, Flare, Whyyyyyyy!" were the words that came out of Ash's mouth, interrupted with more screams.  The rainbow colored substance was slowly starting to fill the crystal.
'Flare?  Why is he crying out that name?' thought the dark dragon in his mind.

Ash's pain started to get worse and worse.  More tears started to come from his eyes.  He fell and was lying on the floor, continuing to scream in agony.

"Please!  Please!  Make it stop, Evren!" pleaded Ash, with all of his strength.
"All right.  I'll stop" replied Evren.  His eyes slowly started to return back to normal, and Ash's pain started to slowly go away.  As the last of the rainbow colored substance came into the crystal, it filled up the crystal just slightly more than halfway.

"Wow!  This is the most that you've given me so far, Ash.  Great job!" said Evren, in a quite happy tone. "So, who is this…Flare?" questioned Evren.

"She is my mom" said Ash.  Tears started to flow from his eyes again.  "I wish she was here with me."

Evren appeared to know what Ash was talking about and didn't question him any further.
Ash was very weak after the drainage.  He was still lying on the floor and couldn't get up.  Evren saw this and then picked him up and carried him.  He went through the door to come into a black corridor with some flames lighting up the way.  He passed many doors on the right of him, and then opened one of them.  Inside was a somewhat small room, just big enough that Evren could stand in it.  He put Ash down on his bed in the center of the room.  Unlike the rest of the castle that they were in, which was mostly black, Ash's room was a bright red with some green and blue.  Evren looked around and noticed how empty it was, seeing that this was the first time that he was actually in Ash's room.  He noticed a necklace lying on the floor.  It was golden with more of the symbols that were on Ash's head.  He took the necklace and gently lifted Ash's head.  He put the necklace on Ash very slowly.  He then started to turn around to exit Ash's room.

"Thank you" whispered Ash very quietly.
This caught Evren off-guard, but he then continued on his way.
Without a moments waste, Evren tapped the crystal three times, concentrating very hard, and vanished.

In the center of the Earth:

Spyro began to slow down time to exit through a substantially large opening in the Earth before he was trapped in the Earth's core.  He was holding Cynder's paw.  Cynder looked around in awe as everything that she saw started to slow down.

"Wow.  This is amazing!" screamed Cynder.  "I wish I could do this!"
Spyro was too busy trying to get out of there alive to reply to Cynder.   He started to feel weak after half a minute of slowing down time and stopped.  One side of the Earth had already come together while Spyro slowed down the other side's progress to get through.  Spyro and Cynder were flying in the Earth for a few minutes, but it seemed like hours to Spyro.  They started to get closer to the surface and Spyro could see light.  He started to stare at it with a blank expression on his face.  As they got closer to the surface, Spyro started to bring back the other parts of the Earth.

A few more minutes and they were already out of the Earth and on the surface.  Spyro started to feel dizzy and started wobbling.  He then threw up and passed out on the ground unconscious.

"Spyro!" screamed Cynder.  She came to his side very quickly, worried about what might have happened to him from saving the entire Earth.