Two years have past since Spyro and Cynder had defeated the Dark Lord Shadow, the world was healing from Shadows tight grip, every tribe in the dragon realm was regrowing their numbers best they can. Within the temple, the young mates sat on their balcony stargazing, Cynder leaning on her mates shoulder she gave a soft sigh. "It's beautiful isn't it?" Spyro leaned his head on Cynder's before saying, "It sure is." Cynder gave a smile and slide from Spyro's embrace and jumped onto the railing and into the sky.

"Will you coming?"

Spyro knew what Cynder was wanting and he quickly took to the air to join her on a midnight flight. "Hey where are we going?" Spyro asked and all he got was a seductive smile from the dark blue dragoness before him. 'the river' Spyro thought to himself, the river is the first place the young dragons first mated and have been mating there ever since, no-one knows its location except them making it a perfect get way place. It was a full moon tonight and its light was reflecting off Cynder's dark blue scales, giving her a beautiful shine that Spyro loved every time he saw it. Just as they were closing in on their destination a storm started brewing their way, unsettling the young dragons. "Lets head back." Cynder said but it was too late. The storm closed the distance faster then expected and it's winds started to pull in the dragons.

The storm was relentless and fast. Spyro and Cynder struggled against the howling winds, the pounding rain stinging their eyes as it drummed against their scales. The dragons had to duck and weave while lightning flashed above them and thunder hammered the evening sky. They were still stunned by how quickly it rolled in, having thought there would be more then enough time to get to the safety of the temple. Now through narrowed eyes, they struggled against the winds as it whipped about their wings, making flying very difficult.

"Spyrooooooo! I think we should laaaaaand! These winds are too much! We'll injure ourselves if we don't descend below!" Cynder called out over the shrieking winds.

"We're almost there Cynder! Just hold on and don't loose sight of me no matter what!" the dragon shouted back.

It was hard to see against this downpour. Spyro was beginning to think they had been blown off course. If that was true, then there really was no way of getting back. He had to land below and seek shelter under the trees or in a cave or a hole even. This storm was a nasty one and it was playing hard ball. Spyro banked a hard left and began his landing. Their wings were tiring from having to battle the winds too much and they knew if they kept this up, it was a lost cause. Opening his eyes wider, he strained to make out some open spot among the forest that he could drop down into.

As he was scanning the winds suddenly changed on him. Spyro grunted and tried to adjust only to be knocked around by some foreseen force. Cynder wasn't far behind her voice was lost in the howling gusts. The dragons were out of control, the constant change and shift was too much to be able to adjust. Then they felt like some invisible hand or rope or some thing grab their tails. Before they could react, the dragons were hurled into the storm. Spinning, tumbling, the two found themselves being drawn into the storm.
"Spyro!"

"Cynder!"

"Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. . . . ." they shouted in unison.

The voices were lost as they vanished within the center of the storm as it closed in on itself. As the pair tumbled through the dark clouds, the clapping thunder, flashing lightning, pounding rain and winds, both felt a queasy feeling in the pit of their stomachs. The pressure was building up all over their bodies become intense around the skulls, like they were being twisted and stretched painfully. Just when it felt like they were going to be crushed like egg shells, the two were hurled through a sort of light and found themselves free falling.

"Too bad Shining didn't want to stay up and watch the Northern lights with me."

Princess Cadance was sitting on her balcony watching the Northern Lights dance across the night sky that Luna has decorated with her stars, making sure that every consolation was in place. As the princess of love enjoyed the show, she soon noticed that they started fading and a sharp wind picked up. Summoning her magic, she cast a force field around herself and thought, "The weather ponies said nothing about a storm tonight, what gives?" Wanting to know what's happening Cadance watched as the clouds above started opening and two creatures flew out, heading for the open fields outside her empire. As soon as the creatures flew out the storm died, Cadance lowered her shield and rushed to find her night guards.

Once she did she told them of what she saw and they headed out to the crash sight expecting a meteor of some sort, but once they got to the sight they were stunned at what they saw. Two dragons lay unconscious before their hooves, a purple and gold dragon with fins running from his head to his tail, two golden curved horns on his head and large orange wings, wings that could put any pegasus to shame. And a dark blue and magenta pink dragon, six horns on her head, two on top, sides and cheeks. but what scared them were the menacing scythe like blades on her tail and wings. "Lieutenant go tell the Princess, we'll set up a barrier around them."

"Yes sir." The lieutenant gave a quick salute before running towards the empire. Making his way to the throne room where Cadance was he then told her what was there. "My lady two dragons were at the crash site, unconscious. One was a purple and gold looked like a male and the other was a dark blue with dark pink female. The captain is setting up a barrier until you decide what to do."

Cadence had no words for what she was hearing, dragons on her property, thoughts were going through her mind. Were they dangerous? where did they come from? how powerful were they? Shaking her head and taking a calming breath Cadence replied. "Thank you lieutenant we'll deal with them in the morning now go back to help your comrades."

"Yes your highness."

Morning and things were off to a rough start, Shining Armour having heard the tales of what a dragon can do to pony villages, he decided to attack them before they could recover and cause damage to his home greatly underestimating at their recovery speed and soon found himself against a very pissed off purple dragon, who was defending his still unconscious mate. As a guard moved from the side closing in, Spyro slammed his paw and the earth itself punched the guard in the gut, knocking the wind out of his lungs dropping him to the floor. Another tried to rush him from the sky but was blown away by Spyro's wind breath sending the armored pegasus crashing down. Huffing, puffing and sore from the storm from last night Spyro was determined to protect his mate no matter the pain he was in. Six now enclosed the dragon, bad call as Spyro used his ice tail to send them flying away, armor damaged and covered in thick ice

Having enough of his men falling to one dragon, Shining summoned his magic and Spyro saw this and knew he needed an ace, like now. "Please tell me I can still use it." closing his eyes shut, he focused on a power he has never used in a long time and as the white unicorn blasted his magic, time seemed to slow to a crawl. Smiling at his triumph, Spyro created an ice figure of himself, (like subzero in mortal combat) and headed around it and attacked his opponent, unleashing a flurry of melee attacks then knocking the unicorn away just as time came back to normal. "Aaarrrggghhh!!!" Shining shouted as he fell back to the ground and grunted from all the pain he was now in, looking up, he saw that Spyro was crouching low to the ground and his men closing the distance between them. But Spyro flared up with an almighty roar unleashing his fire fury sending every pony around him far away from him, decimating their armor and knocking them out cold.

Spyro's legs shaking beneath him, treating to give way as he continued to stand despite the strain his body has taken. "What in Tartarus is going on here?!" came a females voice, looking up Spyro saw another winged pony and readied for another round. Upon closer inspection this one had a pink coat, her mane and tail had three colors, pale yellow, pink, and purple, she wore golden shoes, necklace and a crown upon her head behind her horn. Her wings were purple at the tip, a crystal heart on her flank and her purple eyes shined with anger, not at Spyro but at the white unicorn.

"I said wait till morning to talk to them NOT attack them!" she yelled to no one in particular.

"But Cadance their dragons, their dangerous." the white unicorn said, flattening his ears as she glared at him.

"I don't see that, I see a dragon that is protecting his friend from possible threats to her safety. Take your men and get healed I'll talk with him alone."

"Yes dear." The white unicorn round up his men, those who could stand carried those out cold and they left and it was only Cadence and a very weary Spyro.

"Please lay down before you fall down I promise I won't hurt you." her voice suddenly became calm and soft. Spyro laid down, keeping his eyes on this new creature. " Sorry about Shining Armor, he's not normally like that, I'm Princess Cadence, ruler of the Crystal Empire...and you are....?"

"Spyro and this is Cynder, my mate..." Spyro grunted and took a rugged breath threatening to collapse.

"Here let me help." Cadance's horn started to glow a light blue and before long Spyro was glowing the same color and as quickly as she summoned her magic it vanished and Spyro felt better. "Feel better?"

"Much thank you."

"No problem know please tell about yourself and where you come from."

Spyro started to tell Cadance about himself, about how he was orphaned as an egg and was adopted by dragonflies, how he met Ignitus who's name brought a tear fall from his eye. That he was normally an outcast because of his color due to what the previous purple dragon had done and that a purple dragon is born once every ten generations, five hundred years in dragon years, that alone shocked Cadance, Spyro kept out Cynder's past figured that it be best if Cynder told Cadance that herself. He also told her that he can wield more then one element unlike all the other dragons in his realm. He told her of the war against the first purple dragon, Malefor and the first Dark Lord, Shadow, a traitor to the first generation of guardians, who are protectors of the dragon realm their home. At first there were plenty to protect the realm but when Shadow betrayed them and started a war a number of them died. Then the war against Malefor some thousands years later left only four left. Fire, ice, earth, and lightning or electricity

And in return Cadance told Spyro about the empire's history and the inhabitants. From the time it was ruled by King Sombra, a unicorn that was powerful in the dark arts of magic, how he was defeated by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and that the entire kingdom vanished after his defeat. It then reappeared a thousand years later and so did he and was defeated by the power of love that filled the crystal heart and that power blew him into the un-none but defeated for good none the less.

"Lets take her inside." Cadance pointed to Cynder. Spyro got Cynder on his back and he followed Cadance through the city, getting strange glances, parents hiding their young from sight. "Attention citizens of the crystal empire these dragons mean us no harm so please do not fear them and try to make friends with them....please."

Everypony looked nervous and remained where there were. As an old dragon once said, "Even the smallest amount of courage could turn the tides of war." or in this case everyone's perspective on dragons as a small light orange unicorn slipped from her mother's grip and ran up to the dragons.

"Hi I'm Lindsey whats your name?"

"Spyro."

"You're cool looking can I ride you?"

Spyro smiled at the young unicorns question before scooping her up and placed her on top of his head, since Cynder was on his back. "Want to see the castle?" he asked and the filly squealed in delight and Spyro took that as a yes and off they went. Inside the palace Cynder was on a massive bed that Cadance made using her magic. The bed was big enough for both dragons to sleep on, in fact the room itself was now bigger to accommodate its new hosts for the time being. Lindsey sat by Spyro while her mom sat beside Cadance, who was checking for any damage on the dragoness from her fall, still uneasy about the dragon beside the princess.

"S-so um Mr. Dragon...."

"Please Spyro."

"Sorry Spyro is she your special somepony?"

Spyro had to think about the question till he realized that she asked if Cynder was his mate. "Yes she is." Before anypony could say anything a creature with a moose head with an added horn, purple eyes, colorful body and large wings came through the door, Spyro reacting on instinct went into a fighting stance protecting his mate and the filly, but Cadance was more surprised.

"Thorax?! whats wrong?"

"You want to see that for yourself." Worry as clear in his voice and the princess and dragon followed the King of the changelings. Coming to the balcony they saw a sea of crimson red in the sky. "What are they?"

Author's Note

all my little pony characters belong to hasbro
Spyro, cynder belong to sierra
Shadow to me