Chapter 1: The End or A Beginning?

Spyro sighed as he limped along the river bank somewhere in he thought was Avalar as he glanced at the water wincing as he shook his head disturbed by both the look on his scared and torn violet scales, and the flash of that 'other' that had taken over just a couple days before hand during the fight with malefor the images flashing across his eyes even as he tried to fight them

~~~flashback~~~

A black and bronze paw closed around the throat of the dark dragon before him as a cold voice sneered out "So…still feeling fierce?

~~~~End Flashback~~~

He gasped and jerked his mind away from the memories as he slowly trudged on trying to find a shelter or hollow of a tree he could use to shield from the wind so he could rest.

Cynder sighed having finally managed to get away from her parents to go on a much needed walk "Dear Ancestors I know they have a reason but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be allowed outside at all"

She wove her way through the trees humming quietly to herself keeping half an eye on the sky to see when it started to get dark when she'd know she'd have to head back or else she'd be grounded for a month…at least"

The black and red dragoness sighed and curled up in the cool shadows beneath a tree letting her emerald eyes sink partly shut enjoying the fresh air.

Spyro grit his teeth as his broken leg flared with pain feeling like he'd dipped it into a pool of molten lava, which he'd done before by accident during a fight, as the pieces of bone shifted under the dented scales as he hissed in pain while limping along working his way between the trees his wings folded up as tight to his sides as he could both of them felt like they'd been scraped raw and doused in salt

He finally let out a low moan of pain as his tail bumped a tree branch that was hanging low down even as he did he heard a small noise up ahead a familiar wild chuckle as he growled moving a little faster as he forgot his pain momentarily at the realization of the familiar sound….apes were on the move…

Cynder blinked and fluttered her eyes open at an odd sound near her as she sat up looking around "hello?" she called softly "anyone there?"

An odd chuckling met her ears as she stiffened at the sight of a tall armor wearing ape tumbled into view from the trees holding a hammer in his hands as he chattered at her "Great…" she sighed "why did you have to show up on my one time outside?"

Even as she spoke she started looking around for a way to get away from it before it attacked only to yell as it lunged towards her hammer raised. The last moment a bolt of yellow lightning caught it in mid leap and threw it to the side.

Blinking the dragoness lowered her wings and looked around for the source of the attack as she blinked at the sight of a purple scaled dragon leaping past her to stand before the ape "Hey furball, why not pick on someone who can fight back?" he asked giving a small sneer

She raised an eyebrow at his wording 'fight back? He can barely stand from the looks of it. He's a mess' She shook her head grateful for the help though as he had a point she didn't even know what her element was yet.

The ape recovered and grunted "You…" it muttered glaring at the purple fighter

He smirked "Yeah me, The one who killed your boss and you're next" he sneered before he lunged forward towards the ape who leaped at the same time hammer swinging

Spyro shot forward tail gaining a blade of ice as he spun to slash at the attacker with his ice blade only to have it deflect the blow with its armored forearm as he danced back with a burst of ice at the ape who smashed through it with his hammer as he grunted and lit a stick of dynamite and threw it at the purple dragon who knocked it back with his horns one of which he remembered feeling it cut through the air, was missing a good inch and a half from the right tip bouncing it back towards the ape who yelped and was blown upwards off his feet.

The dragon lunged forward flipping into a head butt cringing at the jolt through his body throwing the beast back as he charged a fireball in his jaws firing it off as it detonated into a barrage of smaller bombs which blasted the ape several different ways as it groaned and spun around to collapse dead to the ground dissolving into the gems that had powered it, A curse from a non dragon powering itself from the magical gems.

Spyro panted and coughed in pain as the adrenalin bled out of his system leaving his limbs shaky and weaker than he thought possible as he took a few attempted deep breaths to clear his mind as it only made his chest and throat hurt more, the fireball had damaged his already burned throat even worse as he took a half step forward before collapsing to the ground limp as the vision spun around sideways a garbled voice filtering through the haze of pain and tiredness that gripped him before darkness swallowed him completely

"Hey whats wrong with you?" She asked nudging the unconscious figure in front of her with her tail careful of the bladed tip "Wonderful…you save my tail and pass out" She glanced up noticing the sun seeing it was nearly set "ugh…I can't leave him out here to freeze…specially since if more show up he's screwed" the dragoness bent and slowly started to roll him onto her back oofing as she picked him up "Ugh…you're a heavy one aren't you?" she muttered feeling his head atop her's as she slowly worked her way towards home. "hopefully you're enough of a reason for me to be late and not get grounded for a year…"

Author's Note:

Alright a teaser for you there, this is an au story, the twist will become more set up in the next couple chapters but the big change is Cynder's not a former servant of the dark master. And thus has never had any combat training