Reborn as a dragon

(Spyro POV)

I brought Cynder back to the cave, I had the puppets guard the entrance while I looked over her wing again, I crystallized it again after checking it. "It looks like it'll heal pretty quickly, you might be able to fly within the next month." I told her, then looked at her. She was looking into empty space, and looked to be very conflicted.

"Hey, did you hear me?" I asked snapping her out of it.

"Yeah yeah, don't worry about me." She told me, but. Suddenly I heard Spike burp, green flames leaving his mouth before turning into a letter.

'A letter, must be for either me or Spike.' I thought, before taking it before it fell to the ground. It had my name written on the front. I opened it, just from a glance it looked like whoever was writing it was doing it in a hurry, what could be wrong, it can't be that bad.

I started to read it, my eyes widening as I reached the end.

{Half an hour ago 3rd person Ponyville}

All was well in Ponyville the ponies went about their day doing their everyday routine, Applejack was selling her apple products, Spyro's puppets patrolled the town under orders from Spyro they were to repeat everyday, also a well thought out plan should anything big happen.

"Get your apple pies, apples, and more here." Applejack said, this was something she said every time she ran the stand to sell products made by her family, there was a lot less than usual due to Spyro being gone, and his puppets no longer helping around so they have been having to pick up the slack.

Applejack was worried for Spyro, ponies knew very little about dragons, so anything could happen to him is what she thought, as she sold her family's products.

She sold out pretty quickly, due to her low stock, but as she sold the last one she heard the loud flapping of wings and screaming of ponies, the puppets already rushing towards the source. "What in tarnation." Applejack said, looking around to see smoke rising all over town. She finally saw what was happening, dragons, but their bodies were rotten and decaying, meaning they were undead. They breathed out green fire that lit up the houses of ponyville. The puppets' orders were now taking effect, as they changed from attacking the dragons to defending the ponies fleeing to the tunnels, as ponies ran down, puppets that Spyro kept under the town rushed up to help deal with the undead infestation. Once most of the ponies were safe, most of the town was on fire, the puppets switched back to attacking, throwing their spear and shooting arrows to try to bring them down to the ground. Applejack was one of the few who hadn't gotten to safety yet.

She ran down the streets as an undead dragon with only one wing ran after her, its maw wide open ready to devour her should the dragon get close enough to do so. She panted as she ran, the dragon getting closer and closer to her, it ignored the spears and arrows impending it, its only focus was on Applejack at the moment much to her misfortune.

"Come on come on." She muttered trying to find an entrance to one of the many tunnels, Spyro told her many times to memorize where they were but she didn't listen, and now she was paying for it.

The dragon was now close enough, when it snapped at her she jumped to the side to avoid it. Again, and again she repeated trying to stay alive. The dragon had gotten bored of this game of cat and mouse, the tired dragon swiped at her with its claws and she was smashed against a nearby burning building's wall. There were large gashes in her stomach, she was bleeding very badly. At last, the dragon had her where it wanted her, it slowly approached her, a vile substance dripping from its teeth.

As it was inches away from her, Applejack closed her eyes waiting for the end, but all she heard was the pained roar of the dragon. Very few species of undead felt pain or emotions, but undead with emotions was exceptionally powerful making them difficult to create. She opened her eyes to see a puppet on its head stabbing its sword into its left eye, more puppets were on its back, stabbing it, cutting off its remaining wing, and cutting apart it's legs.

Once it was no longer able to move one of the puppets grabbed Applejack before rushing her to the tunnels. It took her to where the other ponies were, many of them gasped at the sight of her being injured, but those with medical expertise rushed towards her trying to stop the bleeding. Upon the surface, the royal guards had arrived fighting alongside the puppets, they finish fighting off the remaining undead, hundreds of Spyro's puppets had been destroyed, the crystal armor vanishing as they were left unable to continue fighting. Celestia and Luna lead the guards that helped bring the beasts down.

The two sisters looked at what was left of Ponyville, over half of the town was razed to the ground, it would take weeks to repair, and that's if Spyro returns soon to order his puppets to help, without them it could take months.

Celestia and Luna ventured into the tunnels seeing how well it was designed, it would take one with good knowledge of them to not go in circles.

It took some time, but they found the inhabitants of Ponyville, along with Applejack who's breathing was very labored. "What happened to her?" Celestia asked the doctor.

"She seemed to have been poisoned, we stopped her bleeding, but the poison is still in her system, we have no idea what kind of poison it is, but what we do know is that dark magic is involved." The doctor told her.

"I see." Celestia said she worried for Applejack, but the only one she thought could save her is Spyro. She took out a blank letter before writing in a hurry before sending it