The Legend of Spyro: A Resurrection of the Mind

Chapter 1: The Awakening

Nothing is the same. The body that I had controlled was no longer responding. Was this death? Was this the end of the line for myself, Spyro the legendary purple dragon in which I would sacrifice my life just to save the remainder of the population who hadn't been slashed and hacked by the dark forces. To prevent everyone to become burnt alive to a crisp. Well it doesn't matter anymore because if I am truly dead, I would not feel anything.

Yet I do. I still have a stronger emotional bond that may only be mental, but whenever I think about it, I feel warmth. Warmth that this one thing can only truly give me. One who I can relate to and one who despite being my foe at the beginning, turned into not just an ally but my closest friend that I have ever known. The one and only Cynder.

Now I started to feel something. As if rays of sunshine and solar warmth were hitting my scales. As if something alive was giving me warmth. Yet the dead can't feel anything physically, but I can. I can feel the alive sun shedding solar rays across the landscape that I must be present in. The small breeze that is cooling my body offering a perfect balance between warmth and coldness. I must be alive, yet my body is still not responding to anything.

No, I am alive. The only thing preventing me from being truly alive is my power drained body, drenched from all its energy after defeating a way stronger and powerful foe who is known as Malefore. Despite the lack of energy, I must regain my strength, I must know what has happened, and I most certainly need to know where Cynder is.

I slowly attempt to open a single eyelid to figure out what has happened and where I am. With one eye open and only having a blurry vision, slowly I open my second eyelid in hope that the landscape will become much clearer and recognisable. Soon enough the blurry vision of my eyesight cleared up, allowing for myself to realise where I really was. The lush green landscape with rock wall faces creating a valley. There is only one valley that I know and considering it looks identical to the one that I had remembered of, it must be the Valley of Avalar.

As I attempted to get up, a sharp pain hit through my body, immobilising myself completely. I surely can't die here. After everything I have done it feels as if my body pure on hates me from making it endure pure hell from not just the final fight, but the entire war. As well as being trapped in that crystal I made for somehow three years. Thinking all hope is lost, a familiar red and green glimmer from over by the river could be seen. The crystals that both healed and allowed for the essential recharge of my elemental energy.

With desperate measures, even though the body refused to move, it was about to get forced to move. With every movement came a sharp pain making the short crawl feel as if it was a full flight constantly getting slashed left, right and centre. Despite this I needed the energy, I needed the surge of energy to flow through my body. One paw after another, slowly getting closer to the crystals as I can start to feel the energy aurora around the crystals.

Eventually, I'm finally within reaching distance, I give my body one last lunge to grab onto the crystals with my left forepaw grabbed onto to the green crystal and the right forepaw gripping onto the red crystal. Finally, a familiar energy surge can be felt inside my body healing up the most severe and threatening wounds. As well as the energy boost that allowed me to finally walk on all four paws.

With all muscles being tight and sore, I gave myself a well needed stretch of my legs and wings, allowing the fresh breeze to finally hit the wings which had been folded up ever since my awakening. With all body parts functioning with still a bit of soreness, I had to think of what to do next. With all the heroic thoughts of seeing everyone becoming a true hero to the entire nation I still had a gut feeling of something. That I was only half of the part done to complete. The missing piece was Cynder.

***Flashback***

Even though Spyro and Cynder were able to defeat Malefore once and for all. The planets core was starting to tear itself part and with it, the planet. This left the heroes to a degree hopeless.

"Spyro, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Cynder spoke to Spyro regretfully.

"Don't be. It's over now" replied Spyro

"So, this is it...?" added Cynder

However even though everything seemed lost, Spyro remembered some key and important words from Ignitus about what happens when a dragon dies and how its spirit continues to live in the world, allowing for a better future to arise. This gave Spyro a motivated spirit and believing he can restore the planet.

"I know what I need to do. Just get out of here, Cynder" commanded Spyro.

However, despite his words Cynder doesn't believe he can restore an entire planet on his own so replies "Spyro no... You don't have to do anything. Let's just go."

This angers Spyro slightly as the world is practically destroyed so he angrily, but also passionately replies saying "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."

Cynder takes her time to fully grasp what Spyro just told her. She takes her time but simply replies "Then I'm with you...". With both Spyro and Cynder standing on the piece of rock, Spyro starts to perform an extremely powerful move to restore the planet, using every bit of energy he has left over after fighting Malefore. With his body starting to glow with the immense amount of energy he is giving off, Cynder simply told Spyro her true feelings that she had for her by whispering "I love you...".

***End of Flashback***

She was there for me the entire time, not even worried about death. She would happily sacrifice her own life just to be with me. I mean, she even said "I love you...". Other than my foster parents and my stepbrother Sparx (which only happened on one occasion) no one has ever said that to me. Why did she wait until that moment? Like, I was focussing hard on making sure that every bit of the planet would be restored to the best form I could make it. I will admit that I didn't really take her words to heart at the moment and time but now... now I do.

I must find her! She is the only one that I care about right now and my main worry is that she may have not made it. Considering that I am the rare purple dragon, of course I would survive but her. I honestly don't know if she could have made it. Especially with the fact that I was completely crippled once I realised that I was not dead.

Flying across the valley, I had my one and only quest that I simply just wanted to complete and that was simply to find the one that I truly love. Looking far and wide trying to find the familiar dark scales that she has after being corrupted by the dark forces. As time passed on impatience started to kick in with myself flapping my wings more powerful and faster than before trying to cover as much ground as possible in hope to find the dragoness. An hour passes and hope is starting to run low as near enough the whole valley had been searched. It was only until the final area where I spotted a familiar figure.

Noticing Cynder, lying on the floor completely dead I slowed down in prep for landing and went to her as quick as I could without potentially moving her with as she could have extreme painful areas as well as broken bones. Once I finally reached her head, I simply said her name "Cynder. Cynder. Cynder!". No response. The biggest worry came over my head, she did not make it. With this thought I sobbed for the first time for a very long time, with my tears landing directly over her head. Trying to regain control of myself, despite still wanting to sob for hours and hours, I had to check if there were any signs of life at all in her. I checked her body temperature first which was way colder than normal, yet she has always had a lower temperature due to the darkness having been inside her for such a prolonged period. Afterwards I checked her breathing, however my previous worries would turn into a sign of relief as she actually was still breathing. Knowing she was still alive I slumped to lie down beside her looking at her face of beauty and courage. With nothing else to do I decided to prepare to say "I love you" to Cynder.

"I love yo-agh... no that doesn't work! That was way to basic and monotone." I murmured. Why is just saying three words now extremely hard. I need to say it lovingly, caring and proud, yet I just cannot do it. Why? What is it about saying the three most important words for couples and mates so hard? I have said it in every way possible! Smug, flirty, passionately and to be honest too many other ways to express three words. What am I missing? Hmm. Wait a minute. Have I tried just doing it in my normal voice? Just plain old Spyro. I don't think I have, and it will probably not work, but an attempt is an attempt. Okay, focus. Right, one, two, three. And, on the three, just with me speaking in my regular voice and personality I said, "I love you Cynder."

Those words said in full seemed to have emitted some form of awakening energy as Cynder started to move and wriggle her body trying to figure out where she was and what had happened. "Cynder! Can you hear me?". She gave a small wriggle. "Cynder?"

"Sp-spyro? Wh-where are we? Are we dead?" Spoke Cynder dazed and confused with the current environment.

"First of all, we are not dead. And secondly, we are in the Valley of Avalar!" I replied. "We did it, we saved the planet."

"Really, you restored the entire planet?" asked Cynder surprised.

"From what I've seen so far yes."

"Wow, I can't believe it."

"Me neither, the war is over"

"Well I'm glad you did it, I mean you look like you are absolutely fine. I just woke up hearing you and I have never felt such pain in my life. Well as my normal self at least."

"Oh, trust me, I was in the exact same shape as you. I've just been awake for a longer period than you."

"Aww, quite weak for a purple dragon" Cynder replying in a sarcastic tone

"Hey! I know I'm purple but I'm still young jeez." I replied annoyingly

"Good to know you still can't take sarcasm well" she chuckled.

"Alright, enough talk. I need to fix you up!" I stated before heading to the nearest crystals which only takes a few steps to reach. Picking up some red and green crystals before running back to the one I need to care for. Placing down a red crystal in one of her paws and the green crystal in the other paw. As the energy surged through her body, she moaned slightly and then became fully relieved that she wasn't crippled like before.

"Oh, that never felt so good compared to previous times." She mentioned

"At least you didn't need to crawl to it." I replied still sickened by the thought of the moment

"So, you had to, ouch."

"Pretty much."

"Well, all that matters now is that we're okay."

"Yeah."

A long pause occurred after I said my last word of acknowledgement. She looked anxious and worried even though everything was fine, and I was finding anxiousness and nervousness had been put on me. I went to face her straight on, and despite the emotions of worry being upon me in case of rejection, I had to simply get it out. "Cynder?"

"Yes Spyro, is something wrong?"

"Well yes and no. Like I know the world is finally restored but I have to say something that's been bugging me."

"You see...", I lost my trail of words trying to stay in control of my mind which was not letting me say the words I've been wanting to say.

"Spyro?" replied Cynder confused, which at this point forced me just to get the words out of my chest. I went in for the hug and finally I said it.

"I love you Cynder."

My body felt warm before, but it had never ever been so warm in my life, even while being right next to molten magma and lava. My own cheeks, even though I couldn't see them, were as red as a rose. Eventually she fully embraced me, putting herself fully under my while saying, "I love you too Spyro."

We snuggled for what felt like forever. Feeling her breaths on my neck gave a weird, but comforting sensation. She was also just as warm as me, maybe even warmer as she was snuggled in real tight. It was a unique feeling that I had never experienced before, even if the fireflies tried to make me feel warm, they could never create the hug moment like I am having right now.

"Spyro?"

"Yes Cynder."

"I'm just wondering did you hear what I said as my last words before you did your thing?"

"I love you if I'm correct."

"So, you did hear me! Oh, thank goodness. I thought you wouldn't have heard me."

"Trust me, I did. I just couldn't respond due to the amount of energy I was releasing at the moment and time."

"Well, I hoped it was for that reason, but still in the back of my head, if we died there and then, would you have heard my confession. Now I know you would have." Cynder said satisfyingly and proudly. "Still I'm just glad we can at least have a break from fighting for once."

"Yeah, it feels as if I've been doing it my entire life."

"Ehm, that's actually me."

"Oh, umm, sorry for bringing it up"

"No, it's fine, I know what you were trying to say but still..." Cynder replied. I knew that she was in a bad state of mind at that specific point, with her dark side still haunting her.

"Well, at least it is over. The darkness has lost." I replied in a sorrow tone.

We went quiet again for a couple of minutes, trying to reflect on what just happened as well as thinking of our next move. Part of me felt that we needed to go back into society to let everyone know that we made it out alive, as most of the population most likely believe that we are dead.

"Hey, we should probably head back to Warfang to meet up with the rest of the guardians." I suggested, but Cynder gave me a look of disapproval.

"I don't want to do that right now. Maybe tomorrow." Cynder replied. "I was thinking that maybe before we become massive icons, we can just be regular teenagers for a couple of days."

"How would we do that?"

"Oh, Spyro. By having fun of course."

By the time I was able to fully register what she had just said, she wacked me over the head with her tail, giggling over my face of confusion and frustration. She then started to fly off in an attempt of escape which I was definitely not letting her get away with. And so, us two are flying around the Valley of Avalar having fun for once ever since we were both suited for war. However, there was still, too many questions still to be answered, about Cynder and the world.

Hey guys! Just a quick word from myself.

This is my first ever attempt on writing a full story so it will definitely will have its flaws here and there.

I'm also a very slow writer so updates will come fairly slow, however considering that I'm currently in lockdown, these updates should come fairly quickly.

Finally any criticism is greatly appreciated as it can help me improve my writing skills and improve on areas that do need worked on.

Last words, thanks for just reading the chapter, it is greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Supaconnor