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Chapter 1: And so it begins...from the middle.

The war against Malefor had ended and there was peace in the world once again. The dragon temple was restored and all dragons had moved in there, Spyro and Cynder as well, but there was some dragons that still hadn´t moved in there...

It was an ordinary day at the dragon temple, atleast so far. In the middle of the day when it was raining like the skyes had opened an unfamiliar sight was approaching, a dragon no one had seen there before. It was a male dragon, with a red body, a orange underside and with black spikes around his neck. He wore a backpack that probably was brown when it was new but had been sun bleached to a more beige tone. It seemd like there was many things in it becouse it hang down on both sides of the dragon. He approached the gate looking a little bit lost. Spyro was the only one outside at the moment. So the red dragon decided to ask the him for the way. "Hello, purple dude, can u tell me where I can find Cyril?" Spyro was a little surprised being called "purple dude" since he was quite famous. "Well?" the red dragon asked, he was in a little hurry and had no time to wait for an aswer. "Yes, of course, Im not used to be called "purple dude" thats all" Spyro answered.

"How come?" The red dragon asked, the question made Spyro halt.

"Does he not know who I am?" Spyro though to himself. "I am often called "The dragon of legend" and i recently saved the world" Spyro said.

To which the red dragon responded "Nope still not ringing any bells". As the red dragon saw as the purple dragon getting more confused and lost in his thoughts trying to solve the question why the red dragon didnt know who he was. "So what´s your name then?" The red dragon asked.

"Spyro" Spyro answered, as he motioned the red dragon to follow him.

"Oh how rude of me, not to introduce myself" The red dragon said. "My name is Hypter" Hypter said.

"Pleased to meet you" Spyro replied as he guided Hypter to the room where he thought Cyril would be in.

When the young dragons finally arrived to the room where Spyro thought Cyril was in, he knocked on the door to find Cyril answering" I´ll be there in a minute". When Cyril finally opened the door and saw Hypter he said "Ah Hypter, nice to see that you are here already" only to get the answer.

"Well i couldn´t keep you waiting now, could I?". Spyro was surprised that Cyril knew Hypter since Spyro never had seen him before. Cyril turned to Spyro and said "That´ll be all Spyro, you can go and do what you want and thanks for showing Hypter the way here" Then Cyril motioned for Hypter to walk into the room, as he did so Cyril closed the door behind them.

"Thanks for letting me stay here in the dragon temple Cyril" Hypter said to the light blue dragon.

"Well, since there are not many of us left its important to stay together, and the fact that you know so much about medecine you could help some of the dragons who becomes injured during practice" Cyril replied.

"It may seem as an odd request, but I would like to arrange a picnic for all the dragons here in a week. I will make all the food so all you have to do is to announce it and find a good spot to have the picnic on and off course keep an eye on them."

"Sure but I must ask why you would make that since you have just arrived." Cyril said.

"The answer is in your question, just becouse I have arrived and that I´m allowed to stay here. You could say that it's a way for me to thank everyone." Hypter replied.

"That is a great idead Hypter and i think we can arrange it too" Cyril said.

When they were finished with talking, Cyril showed Hypter to his room, it was a room not so far away from Spyro´s, since Spyro often recieved emergency news first, it was good if Hypter also recieved them early so that he could prepear his medical kit.

Hypter started to unpack all he had in the backpack, which mostly contained herbs and jars and a small amount of bottles. The last thing he unpacked was a small black crystal, not much bigger than his paw, he hid it behind one of the old cupboards in his new room, making sure no one would find it.

"Wow, that´s a lot of herbs you have in here Hypter" Spyro said when he entered the room. He didn´t knock since the door was wide open, which made Hypter turn around quickly, just to see Spyro standing in the doorway. "Well it´s needed to my medicines I´m making." Hypter replied.

"Are you making medicine?" Spyro asked surprised.

"Yes, I´m gonna act as the doctor here for a while now becouse of my skill in medecine." Hypter answered Spyro. "Wow, I didn´t know you was educated in that field, anyway it shall be nice to have some pause from Volteer since he always wants to make tests and stuff." Spyro said, finishing with a sneeze.

"Oh is that so? And you were wrong I´m not educated, I have learned myself." Hypter said. "Oh and maybe you should not be in here while I´m unpacking the herbs since they have a strong smell, which you already noticed i think" Hypter added.

"I guess you have right, well thanks for the talk, if you want anything, I´m easy to find since I´m the only purple dragon around here." Spyro said with a short laugh.

From the day after Hypter arrived it had been a lovely weather, clear blue skyes, white fluffy clouds and the sun shone longer each day becouse it was getting closer to summer.

The day before the picnic Hypter started to prepare, checking he had all the ingreadients necessary to make meatball sandwiches and some rhubarb pie to eat and raspberry juice to drink. He made the juice directly since it took time to do. And on the day the picnic was planned Hypter just had to prepared the sandwiches and make the pie, put it into the picnic baskets and then hand them to Cyril.

"Hypter, aren´t you coming with us?" Cyril asked when he noticed that Hypter didnt seem to prepare for the picnic that he had made a lot of food for. "Well I´m not the most social dragon you can find, since I have lived alone my entire life. Just tell them that I hope all of them have a good time." Hypter replied. Cyril let out a sigh and then nodded and walked to the main hall to prepare everyone for leaving.

"Hi there Spyro, what are you doing here?" Spyro turned around slowly becouse of the headache caused by his hay fever. "Oh, hi there, Hypter was it?" Spyro said with a loud sneeze after he completed the sentence. "Yes thats right, oh I see why you are not with the others. Come with me and I´ll make you some soup" Hypter said. "You can cook?" Spyro asked a little bit surprised.

"Yes I can, I have travelled a lot so I have picked up some tasty recepies, hmm, maybe my chicken soup is the best treatment. It helps when you have a cold but I belive that you have mild version of hay fever" Hypter answered as he motioned Spyro to follow him. "Wow you sure know alot about cures and colds." Spyro said. "Well when I was traveling by myself I learned how to take care of myself and others I meet. And it was kinda obvius when you was out in the rain last week without caring about catching a cold. Obviously you felt better then becouse there was not much pollen in the air." Hypter replied.

Spyro followed Hypter to the kitchen where Hypter started to cook the soup. As Spyro started to sneeze repetedly Hypter ordered Spyro to go to bed. Spyro didn´t argue and went to bed as Hypter told him.

After about 30 minutes Hypter arrived to Spyro´s room with the soup. Hypter knocked on the door to hear Spyro saying "come in". When Hypter entered Spyro´s room he saw what a total mess it was in, but didn´t bother to say anything. He put down the bowl with soup on the floor next Spyro´s bed, in which the purple dragon lay.

"Hypter, that soup was really amazing, I feel better already, thanks a lot" Spyro said with a smile after tasting the soup. Happy to feel his head clear a little from the hay fever. "Heh, no problem Spyro" Hypter replied and returned the smile. "But...isn´t cynder with you?" Hypter asked Spyro, since it was obvius that they were in love. "No I said she should enjoy the nice picnic outside" Spyro replied. Hypter let out a sigh, knowing what he had to do. "I think I have something in my room that can help against the hay fever while you are outside, wait here and I´ll go and fetch it", Hypter said. Spyro nodded in reply and continued to lap on the soup.

Though wery cold and calculating, Hypter couldn´t help but to take care of others when they were ill. He had travelled a lot even though he was as old as Spyro, and he had picked up many recepies and cures for all sorts of sicknesses.

"I´m back now Spyro, I found what I was looking for" Hypter said when he entered Spyro´s room, without knocking off course due to his lack of emotions. Spyro was a little startled but relaxed again when he understood it was Hypter. "It's a medicine that helps when you have a runny nose" Hypter explained to Spyro who nodded and made a grimase when he did smell the liquid that was in the bottle. "Heh, I know it doesn´t smell so good Spyro but I guarante that it helps" Hypter said, making Spyro a little bit more confident. Spyro coughed a little after taking the medicine "Where did you find that recipe?" Spyro asked.

"It was when I traveled in the area where the cheetah lives, I belive that you know one of them, Hunter is his name. But it wasn´t him that gave me the recipe, it was an old cheetah living in a cave underneath a waterfall, it was before the war against Malefor and before your mate Cynder was evil. Before dragons was disliked and distrusted." Spyro was offended by how Hypter talked about Cynder. And off course Hypter didnt really care if he hurt Spyro´s feelings becouse he could not feel any emotions himself. But he did notice that Spyro seemed a little down so he corrected himself "Off course I know that Cynder have changed and I respect her for that, and I dont blame her for what she have done in her past." That made Spyro look a little more happy.

"Spyro, it´s a beutiful day outside, why dont you go out there and find Cynder? I know that you love her. The medicine should be working from now and a few more hours."

"How do you know what I feel about her? I haven´t told anyone." Spyro said, sounding a little surprised.

"Oh come on, I know a lot of medicine and how to cure wounds and colds, don´t you think I could see when someone is in love? There are many medical signs. I can say the three that is easy to notice. Number one is that your cheeks turn red when someone talk about her. Number two is that your pupils are widening when you see her. Number three is that you stutter a little and have difficult to find the words when you talk to her."

"Could you see all that? You have only been here for a week." Spyro said.

"Off course I could, anyway, I could give you a recomendation that you can hand to Cyril that you should be left in privacy, off course I can also recommend that Cynder shall be with you becouse there is a small chance of the hay fever returning."

"Even if you can do that, I just can´t go and tell Cynder how I feel about her. She said that she loved me but that was maybe becouse we were so close to die" Spyro said in complain.

Hypter let out a long drawn sigh "Spyro I thought I told you that I can see when someone is in love, she loves you too"

Spyro´s cheeks turned red "she does? She really loves me?" Spyro asked, just to make sure it wasn´t just becouse they almost died when they fought agains Malefor.

"Yes she does, but you must take the first step Spyro, I can´t help you with that...you see when I travelled the world, I thought I was the only dragon alive, so I made a promise to myslelf that if I meet any other dragons I would do anything in my power to help them. And never make myself bound to anyone...I regrett it now once I found a family here but at that moment it seemed as a small sacrifice since I was alone...I am bound to my promise and I will not brake it even if it means I am going to live my life alone..."

Spyro was choked about hearing this, but he figured it best not to say anything more about it.

"Anyway, if you decide to tell Cynder or not how you feel about her, I need to talk to you again later Spyro. And if you fly to the mountain, on the west side of it there is a hidden cave, if you want to talk with Cynder in privacy." Hypter said, recieving a nodd as answer. "Oh and tell Cynder I have to talk to her aswell." Hypter added.

It was afternoon when Spyro went out again to find Cynder near the other dragons and Cyril, it was Cynder who noticed Spyro first. "Hi Spyro, so you are finally out here, how is it going with your sneezings?" Cynder asked.

"It´s fine, Hypter gave me some medicine" Spyro answered. As he handed Hypter´s note to Cyril.

"Hmm...well I guess that you two can go if you don´t want to stay here with the rest of us" Cyril said to Spyro.

"You two?" Cynder said surprised.

"Yes, Hypter didn´t want me to be alone if the effect from the medicin would wear of" Spyro explained as he didn´t want to tell Cynder about what Hypter had told him, for the moment. So Spyro and Cynder left the other dragons. Ember wanted to follow but couldn´t becouse of all the food she had eaten, so she decided a good glare would be enough for the moment.

"Come Cynder I have something to show you." Spyro said to Cynder as he took off, and Cynder followed shortly after. Cynder cought up with Spyro "Spyro aren´t you supposed to be resting?" Spyro didn´t answer since he was busy looking after the hidden cave. When Spyro sighted the camouflage that Hypter had described, he dived almost straight down with Cynder following closely. When Spyro moved the camouflage away and revealed the cave entrance Cynder was astonished. When both dragons was inside the cave Spyro pulled the camouflage back in place. They were amazed how big it was and how the light could seep through the camouflage making the cave duncle but yet bright enough to see everything there was to see, which wasn´t so much, except the two dragons.

"Why did we come here Spyro?" Cynder asked. Spyro sat down on his hind quarters. "Becouse I have something I want to tell you, I have wanted to say it since the day I freed you from Malefor" Spyro answered.

"Then what is it you want to tell me?" Cynder asked, though she knew exactly what it was. They where just inches away from each other, sitting face to face.

"I...I l...I love you Cynder." He finally said, making Cynder kiss him deep, in what to them seemed to be an eternity.

Neither of them said anything, they were just lying there, close to eachother, snuggling and kissing for the rest of that day.