Reborn as a dragon

(3rd person Spyro's mind 1 minute ago)

After Cynder was consumed by the darkness, she fell onto an invisible floor, she quickly got up, alert to what was going on around her, this was her first time entering someone's mind, hopefully it won't be her last. She looked around to see nothing, all that there was, was the empty void like space.

"What is this place?" She asked, she had no idea where to even start looking for the pieces of Spyro's mind, she had no idea how vast this void was or even what direction they were in, it was just an empty void. She was soon proven wrong when she felt something slash at her side cutting through her scales with ease, tearing through her flash. Cynder screamed in pain as she was mercilessly attacked from all directions, she was in so much pain it felt like it would last forever, again and again she called for help for no one to answer, until finally the attacks stopped, then the pain started to fade away. She took heavy breaths before getting back to her feet to see what could have possibly stopped the ruthless attack. It was a small seed but it glowed so brightly it lit up a large area around it.

(Outside Spyro's mind)

"Finally it stopped." Celestia said breathing heavily, both her, and Luna had been healing Cynder as the wounds appeared only for more to pop up, while Malefor force fed Spyro the seed.

"There now Cynder has everything she needs to proceed." He stated, as he stepped back from Spyro who looked to be in pain but not enough to cause immediate concern.

"He'll be in some discomfort for a while, but this way both him and Cynder will be alright." He added.

"But what else will the seed do?" Applejack asked.

"Hmmm, I think eventually it's light will fade, and the darkness shall consume it harmlessly." Malfore told her. "Now then I must leave, I have things to do, take care of my daughter." Malefor told the princesses before leaving.

(Spyro's mind)

Cynder was lightly holding the seed as she flew through the darkness counting on the seed to keep her safe from the darkness.

"Come on come on where are you?" Cynder said flying through the sea of darkness. She finally picked up a soft sound. She instantly turned that way.

"Finally something." She told herself flying that direction. She landed, before looking around to see someone shrouded, the figure was bipedal and looked lost.

"Hello?" Cynder called out causing the figure to turn.

"No, it can't be." He said softly. He slowly walked towards Cynder as if studying her. "So it was all real." He whispered.

"Um which part of Spyro's mind do you represent?" Cynder asked.

"Nothing that concerns you now how do we figure out what happened?" He asked her, crossing his arms.

"There is one more part of your mind that we need to find, Nightmare already gathered all the rest, the only shards left are you and one other." She explained, the figure rubbed his chin while looking around.

"Ok then I already know where to start looking, this way please." He said before suddenly walking in what seemed to be a random direction. "Not long ago I saw something fly this way, might be who we're looking for." He told her she quickly followed behind. Many questions ran through her mind like who this was and what was he, a figment of Spyro's imagination given form or maybe someone he met in the past she had no idea.

She tried to get a look at its face under its hood, but he stopped her before she could get a look at his face.

"There he is." The figure said pointing at a dragon that looked exactly like Spyro but purple. "That is how Spyro sees himself, I guess you could call him his inner self."

"Ok, but why is he purple, not that I don't like purple." Cynder said, making a quick recovery. The figure pondered this for a bit before shrugging.

"I don't know, the mind is a strange complex thing." He said calmly before looking at the purple dragon. "Yo you up there!" He shouted, catching his attention. The purple dragon looked down at us before landing, not far in front of us.

"Finally I found someone in this place, I've been flying around for hours trying to spot someone." The purple Spyro said looking at the two before taking a closer look.

"Wait, is that you Cynder, how did you get here and who is your…." The purple Spyro's eyes widened when he saw under the hood on the shrouded bipedal figure.

"It's you but how?" He asked, not believing what he was seeing.

"Yes I know it's been a long time since you've seen this face hasn't it?" The figure told him. "I hardly remember it myself." He stated, lifting a hand under its hood before bringing it down to his side.

"So how do we get out of here?" Purple Spyro asked, but suddenly the entire sea of darkness was filled with a violent shreaking that nearly made all three of them deaf.

"What in tartarus was that!?" Shouted purple Spyro.

"I think the darkness doesn't want to let us go." Cynder said, a little scared at what was going to happen. The darkness around them started to thicken, their only protection was the light of the seed, but the light was slowly feeding as the darkness pushed closer.

"We have to get out of here, you two think you can fly me to the surface?" The figure asked as both Cynder, and Spyro looked at each other before nodding, they both clung to one of his shoulders before flying directly up, the darkness closing in on them every second, and the light of the seed faded.

"Come on just a little more." Spyro said they could see the roof of the darkness, they increased their speed so they could ram through, like a whale breaching water they burst through finally free from their prison. Both Cynder, and Spyro breathed heavily from exhaustion, the seed floating away from Cynder before flying up to the orb of light above.

"We're out we're out." Cynder related between breathes.

"I see you succeeded." Nightmare said, stepping towards them, the last two pieces of Spyro's mind turn into small glowing orbs before placing themselves in Spyro's now completely repaired mind.

"Now that Spyro's mind is repaired, he should awake shortly you should return to your body before something else happens." Nightmare suggested, Cynder nodded in understanding before cutting the mental link between her, and Spyro.

(Spyro's POV few minutes later)

'Uhh my head.' I thought as my head throbbed like there was a jackhammer trying to smash my head in. I opened my eyes to see Celestia, Luna, and Applejack looking at me with tears in their eyes. My eyes wandered a bit to see Cynder sleeping.

Then I was hit with a rush of memories, I remembered everything that happened.

"I'm sorry." I said weakly.

"For what?" Asked Celestia.

"For attacking you, and Luna." I said.

"You don't need to worry, that wasn't you, but you might want to brace yourself." She said.

"What for?" I asked.

"Umm while your connection finally stabilized your body went through some changes, me and Luna went through the same thing many many years ago." Celestia explained.

"What changed?" I asked.

"You'll find out when you stand up." She told me, I slowly started getting to my feet, I looked at them but something seemed different. Did they shrink, no did I grow. From what I was seeing I guessed I was a little taller than Big Mac. "Was my height the only thing that changed." I asked, Luna did a quick once over.

"Seems so at least physically." She said then both Torch and his daughter Ember walked in.

"I see the new dragon lord is awake." Torch said but I grinned.

"I think you are looking at the wrong person, the new dragon lord is Ember." I said.

"WHAT!" They both shouted.

"Ember did you forget our deal, that if I won, I would give you the scepter and in return you would strengthen ties with Equestria." I said walking towards her.

"Th...that was you?" She asked, I nodded.

"Now then Torch as the victor of the era for all I use my power as the dragon lord to appoint Ember as the dragon lord. Do you have anything to say?" I asked.

"But you can't!" He said anger slipping into his voice.

"I can and I did. There is no rule saying I can't relinquish my title, then give it to another." I told him he growled before huffing, then walked away.

I looked too Ember. "Go, spend as much time as you can with him, I'll see if I can find anything that can help him. With any luck I can save his life." I told her, then she smiled before running after her father.

After a few seconds I felt Celestia's wing wrap around me. "You did the right thing Spyro, as for saving Torch I don't know if anything can be done, much is unknown about his condition." She told me.

"Never give up hope Celestia, as long as we believe there is always a chance now let's go home, I'm really tired." I said shaking my head lightly.

"Yes you must be exhausted." She told me before both her and Luna teleported the four of us to Ponyville.