The legend of spyro: world's crossing

High noon Spyro and Applebloom were on their way to Twilight's castle, Applebloom was still glowing from last night. "Spyro, last night was a blast. I hope we..." She was interrupted as Spyro put a finger on her lips as he picked up a faint sent. Taking deeper breaths, he tried to find the source once he did his eyes widen and took off like a bat out of hell. Giving chase Applebloom ran after him, coming to the area they couldn't believe their eyes. Three alicorns laying on the ground wounded. Walking up to each on, Spyro checked their breathing all three were alive.

"Who's could do this and why?" Applebloom asked

"Cynder did this....but why? It makes no sense to attack her friends." Spyro scanned the area for clues and hopefully answers but nothing showed. Groaning in frustration, Spyro hit the ground and as he did a flash appeared behind him. "Oh hello Applebloom what brings yoooouuuu...." Discord was shocked by the scene before him.

"Can you heal them?" The farm pony asked and with a snap of his fingers all three got up and their injuries were healed.

"What happen!?" Spyro half demanded

"We were doing some training routines she normally dose then she froze then attacked." Twilight said.

"Something had control of her, her eyes were white, like pure white." That caught Spyro's attention as did something else.

"Get behind me." Everyone looked at him as he looked off in the distance and not long after rather large black and dark purple dragon landed in front of them. Everyone but Spyro were paralyzed with fear. The dragon was massive in size, his yellow/orange eyes looking down at the group, his scorpion like tail blade swaying side to side wanting to draw blood.

"I must say she did an amazing job of wiping the floor with you three." He smiled a toothy grin and that did it for Spyro. Unleashing a torrent of fire balls each hitting their mark on the dragon, before he could react, Spyro took to the air and fired several earth missiles upon Shadow. Getting up after the bombardment he got, he was going to unleash his dark fire breath but Spyro beat him to it and unleashed his signature breath, his aether breath. Shadow saw it coming but was too slow to react and the blast hurled him away from the group. Spyro didn't relent and fired it once more only this time, not wanting face a pissed off purple dragon, Shadow vanished. Sitting down Spyro took several deep breaths to calm himself down, then a pink hoof touched his shoulder.

"Are you OK?" Cadence asked, concerned for her friend.

"I need to find her, where did she go too?"

"Everfree forest last we saw before sub coming to our injuries."

Spyro nodded and was about to take off when he felt armor strap itself on him. Looking over to the dragconiques and he smiled. "Don't worry its light and durable to with stand fire." The armor covered his head, openings for his fins and horns, neck, chest, legs, sides, back, underbelly and tail. Moving his right arm, the armor didn't restrict any movement, small openings for flexibility. The armor was decorated with light blue patterns on it.

"Thank you." Spyro said before taking off in the direction Cynder went, everyone else headed inside the castle. Scanning the forest ground Spyro was looking for any sign of Cynder, but with the trees being so close together made it difficult to see anything let alone find anything. After a few minutes of flying a castle, what's left of one came into view, "She's gotta be in there." Spyro said to himself. Coming to the castle he landed outside the main doors, cautiously walked into the old castle, something told him that it was about 6-7 hundred years old. Old tapestry hanged on the walls, they had Celestia and Luna on them.

"So this must be their old castle." Amazed at how much was still intact, the purple dragon walked down the main hall. "You should have stayed away." Came Cynder's voice behind the thrones and on the balcony. She was sitting there, her eyes red from crying.

"I'm here to help you, no matter what."

Her eyes turned white and with no warning fired a fire ball at Spyro, sending him back into the great hall. Coming down to slam him into the ground, Cynder had her tail aimed for his chest. Rolling away, Spyro blasted Cynder with water, not wanting to hurt her and to put some distance between her bladed. "Cynder listen to me Shadow is using you, you have to fight him." Cynder growled, doing what she can to fight off the force manipulating her while Spyro continued to remind her who she is. "Your no longer Lady Cynder, no longer the serpent that served Malefor you are my best friend, my partner and my mate. You are a hero to millions please don't turn against them...don't turn against me."

Shaking her head, Cynder did her best but the force was too strong to handle alone. Launching at Spyro the two wrestled trying to gain the upper hand, Spyro being stronger and heavier pinned his mate down. Thrashing and squirming, Cynder tried to free herself but to no avail. Leaning in Spyro rested his forehead against hers, summoning his light ability he poured it to her hoping it will break Shadow's hold on her. Not wanting to give her up, Shadow forced Cynder to move her leg under the purple dragon and kicked the underside of his right hind leg cutting deep into it. Winching at the kick but Spyro remained where he was, pushing more light into Cynder. She kicked a few more times but he didn't move, realizing kicking wasn't working, she then moved her tail under him and brought it out and trusted it deep into his left side, piercing through armor and scales.

Holding back a howl of pain, Spyro placed both hands on her head and poured everything he had into her. Howling in pain like a tsunami slammed into him and then slammed him into the mountain side, Shadow lost control over Cynder. Cynder's eyes turned back to normal, her tail pulled out of his side and she blacked out. Moving off of his mate, Spyro laid down beside his partner, holding his wounded side. Something flashed before him, looking up Spyro saw the dragconiques.

"Take Cynder back to the castle." Was all he could say before passing out.

At Twilight's castle things weren't going over easily as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were at the castle and Celestia wasn't happy with what Twilight had to say with what happen with Cynder. Though the dragons are resting, recovering from their wounds both physically and mentally, Celestia has ordered court against the dragoness in question. Many have taken different sides on this, Cadence, her family, Luna, the apple sisters, even Twilight's husband Zephyr. On the other end of the table was Celestia, and the remaining elements of harmony. On one side Celestia wants to maintain and keep Cynder locked up until they can find and detain Shadow, however Cadance disagrees with that and wants the dragons to return with her back to the empire.

"Why go against them Twilight, you made friends with them, you saw her eyes they weren't her own." Cadence said glaring at her sister in law.

"Because if Cynder can be control and we lost that fight, 3 against 1 then how are we supposed to win against a dragon who literally rebuilt his home world. He powers surpass Celestia's by a long shot. Even the elements of harmony."

"Do you honestly think that they expected to be brain washed Twilight like Princess Cadence said no one saw this coming, not even Cynder." Applejack said

"It's a threat we can't chance and have it happen again." Twilight remarked

The bantering went back and forth for hours, Spike made his way out of the room and headed down the hall to the guest rooms. Coming to one room with two bat ponies, part of Luna's republic guards, Spike made his way by them and into the room where the young dragons were fast asleep. Walking up to the bed, Spike shook Spyro gently, but he grunted in return. Shaking the dragon a little harder got him the same results, not giving up Spike continued to shake his purple friend until he turned and glared at Spike, a rather scary glare at that.

"Sorry for waking you but you need to defend Cynder, things aren't going smoothly in the throne room."

Crawling out of bed, groaning in pain, Spyro followed Spike to where the meeting was being held. Coming in range of the throne room voices carried out into the hall and it sounded like war was going on in there. Bursting through the doors Spyro let loose and earth shattering roar that made everypony drop to the ground like frighten cats.

"What the devil is going on here?" Spyro demanded.

Rising back up to their hooves, Celestia addressed Spyro's question. "After the incident with Cynder we believe that she should be at Canterlot for safer keeping."

"You mean in the dungeon." Cadence hissed.

Spyro glared at the sun goddess and her head hanged low, indicating that was what she was going to do. "Yes that is true, for her own safety so she won't hurt others and we can hunt down Shadow."

"Do you even know where to start looking?" Spyro half demanded, not impressed with the Princesses decision. The room was quiet for a while speaking for itself. "What is the other operation?"

"I take you two back to the Crystal Empire and let things cool down, and we do what we can to hunt down your foe." Cadence spoke up.

"We'll take opponent two, I'm not going to let you take Cynder away to a dungeon where she will be useless as to being very useful in hunting down that devil."

Celestia nodded. "Very well, Cadence they are under your care, their actions will be on you if they go rouge or damage property then you clean up after them and capture them. You may take them away."

Cadence nodded and her group left the room, Luna offered to get Cynder, Spyro nodded and the night princess went to get the dragoness and levitated her to the station. The crystal train was waiting for the royal family, they and the dragons got into the caboose while Zephyr got into the cart before it, the apple sisters left for home. The trip was mostly quiet as Cynder cuddled into the purple dragon and fell back asleep as he curled around her and the others whispered to each other. The main question was how will they find a shadow dragon, if he didn't want to be found there was no stopping him from hiding. Cadence asked if she could redo Twilight's work on dragons, Spyro accepted her request.

Spyro and Shining were discussing armor for the crystal guards that could withstand heavy attacks, and with Discord's help, though Shining didn't like the idea of the draconequus fooling around with his men's armor, it could give them a stronger chance to survive. The train whistled, signaling the approach to the empire. Coming to a complete stop, guards opened the door of the caboose, letting the ponies and dragons out. Making their way though the city, many ponies that befriended Spyro had asked if he was OK, once they saw his bandaged side and leg, he assured them it was nothing he couldn't handle

"I'm glade you made friends here." Cadence smiled

"I'm more glade they don't know what happen with Cynder." Spyro said, looking back to Zefiroth with Cynder on his back.

Coming to the palace the first thing Spyro did when they entered was head to their room and hit the bed, Zefiroth placed Cynder next to her mate, she cuddled right into him and he left the room leaving the young couple rest and heal up.