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And the last one for now, this one's short but it's good!

If you're under 18...well, this one's nice, but you still shouldn;'t be here.

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• CHAPTER 14 -

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Spyro woke up later when he felt himself being laid on a rock floor; Solar had carried him back to the swamp cave. "Why're we back here?" he groaned, and Cynder landed behind him and fell against him, worn out.

"Solar...Flare...and I...blasted everyone...with Furies...owwww..."

"Is there still something in the temple?" he asked, wrapping his arms around Cynder.

Solar sighed. "Yes and no...I went in, and felt like there was something lurking there...Spyro, I think something slipped in from the other-world during the collapse. That sense I had a few years ago for seeing dark enemies and presences? It was going nuts in there, but wasn't before."

Spyro's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "OH FUCK!!!"

They all looked at him and Cynder laughed. "I have NEVER heard you say that before!"

The panic on his face drained the humor instantly. "Oh no, no no no!! I shouldn't've transitioned us to the otherworld!! That and the magic outbreak...oh shit, oh shit..."

"The elders were already on their way to the temple," Flare said.

Spyro jumped up as Christine flew Alex in. "Please tell me he's okay..." But before Christine could answer, Cynder and Flare had her pinned against the ground. Alex groaned and tried to move, but he couldn't, and Spyro rushed over and put his paws on him, healing him while he watched the females.

"You damn traitor," Flare growled.

"Guys, wait!!" Christine yelled. "Let Alex explain before you decide on anything!!"

Spyro helped Alex sit up and stood in front of him defensively as Flare and Cynder turned to him. "Guys...I'm really, really sorry we had to do that...but it was necessary. I had to put on a show and get you pissed off at me to make it believable." He carefully took out one of Flare's and one of Cynder's eggs. "The stone copies Christine made are what the shadow now has. I swapped them over on him."

"Why the hell would you do that?!" Cynder half-screamed in confusion and anger.

"Please, just listen!! I know I upset you really badly, and if needed you guys can beat me up later. But Christine and I were protecting not just the eggs, but all of you. Had I not ticked you off like that, or taken the eggs, you would have been ambushed by a band of rogue mages rebelling against the shadow and trying to take matters into their own hands."

Christine slowly stood up, shaking off her shirt and flexing her wings. "As for why we did it this way instead of just asking...your anger and vengeance, those negative emotions helped you slip past the tower's magic security."

"We also needed to make it look like I was really in league with the shadow so I could get into that room and shatter those gems." He walked over to the mushroom caps and placed their eggs on them. "Again, I'm very sorry for all that, but at least trouble is gone for the time being while they regroup."

"How do we know these aren't the stone copies?" Flare asked angrily, still eyeing him as she walked over to her brood. Christine came over and picked up and egg, tapping lightly on it with her fingers.

"Awww...here." She handed Flare the egg and tapped on it again. There was a small movement inside and a small kick. "I think they're coming close to hatching..."

Cynder and Spyro picked up their eggs, and felt the little dragons inside moving around. Cynder took both eggs and lay down with them, wrapping herself protectively around them. Spyro laughed and she glared at him, shutting him up. "It's not funny, Spyro...I'm not moving from them until they hatch."

True to her word, Cynder did not move from her clutch if she could help it. If she did leave, she forced Spyro to stay like a statue with them, and she was rarely gone more than five minutes maximum. Flare was a little less tense, but any sudden movements from those nearby resulted in a growl from her. To add to it, Flare and Cynder both pressured Spyro, Solar, and the guardians to make sure Alex and Christine never strayed far from the cave. A week and a half passed like this, until finally one night Alex and Christine picked up an odd energy signal and went to investigate it. Spyro, too, felt it, and for most of the day he felt dizzy, but he wouldn't leave Cynder or the eggs. Mid-afternoon, Solar dragged in two large mushroom caps, and smirked when he saw the confused glances.

"For the eggs when they hatch. Better than a cold stone floor."

"Think they'll hatch soon?" Spyro asked, and Cynder looked down with a grin as the larger egg moved against her.

"Yep, pretty soon here." Spyro nuzzled her and she murred, running her tongue along his neck. He sat down by her.

"Hey, you haven't moved all day or even last night, go hunt or something."

"No."

"Hey, don't you 'no' me; you stay in shape or you won't be able to protect them properly."

"Damn you." She stretched and yawned, giving him a quick kiss. "Be right back."

"Take your time! C'mon, I wanna be with them too."

"Oh all right...if something happens, I'm at the river." She walked out of sight, and Spyro glanced down at the eggs, then groaned and held his head.

"Something wrong?" Solar asked.

"Something's pushing at the dimensional barriers...Solar, what happened in Paralos? After we shut down those areas?"

Solar sighed and sat down by a sleeping Flare. "Honestly, I have no clue. Though I hope they don't mobilize and try to pass through the portals...the gateways were shut down when we took the light crystals, and I don't think they have an alternative power source there to keep their side open."

"Wait, if their gates need power, how were the ones here open?"

"Natural energy. Another thing Paralos lacks. But who knows, the Dark Master may have a way to bring them here...I sure hope not. That troll's dimensional transportation device was rare; I doubt the scientists would try to build more."

"Unless my parents had them do it," Flare grumbled, and she slowly sat up and yawned. "I wouldn't be surprised if they came after me."

"I doubt we could take on the whole Paralosin army if they did find a way to come here..."

Spyro groaned again and buried his face in his forelegs. "Whatever it is it's trying harder and harder..."

"Could it be...that presence Solar felt when the palace blew up?" Flare asked, and Spyro shrugged.

"Possibly...could be Paralos, could be the spirit world, could be anything..."

Cynder came back an hour later to find Spyro fast asleep, curled around the eggs and kicking slightly as he dreamed. Solar was lying down with his brood and tracing things into the floor while Flare took an exercise break. Cynder walked over to Spyro and kissed him lightly on the nose, and he batted at her and groaned, getting a giggle from her that woke him up. She pressed her nose against his with a grin. "Dreaming again?"

"It was a dream? Where'd Sparx go?"

She laughed and lay down on the other side of the eggs as he straightened out and stretched. "Lemme guess...he called you fat again."

"Yeah, then I called him a lantern...again...and he called me a purple suicidal."

"Ouch."

"He was gonna be ouch...so close that time..." He yawned again and looked down at the eggs, putting his paw on the larger one. "Aww, someone's kicking in there."

Cynder felt the egg and grinned when she felt little feet strike the shell. "So close Spyro...soooo close..."

That night, Ignitus and the other guardians came back to find Cynder and Flare returning with mouthfuls of soft materials and Spyro and Solar guarding the eggs. Cynder and Flare placed the soft materials on the upturned mushroom caps.

"Preparing for the new arrivals?" Volteer asked, and Cynder nodded excitedly as she sat down by Spyro. Spyro and Solar gave way and the two females lay down with their clutches, cuddling them tight against their sides in excitement.

"They're moving around so much today...I can't wait I can't wait!" Flare squealed.

"Have you named them yet?" Ignitus asked, cocking an eyebrow with a grin.

"Yeah, we've decided on names."

Spyro smirked at Cynder. "Spyro and Cynder Jr."

"Oh come on, enough already!" Cynder laughed, punching him in the shoulder. They all laughed, but suddenly Cynder and Flare gasped and looked down sharply at their eggs, jumping up. The eggs were rocking back and forth! "Oh my gosh!!!" She and Flare quickly put their eggs on the two large mushroom caps and everyone gathered around, excited and anxious. There was a small squeak from one of Flare's eggs, then a small cracking sound, and a jagged seam appeared down the side. Flare gently poked the seam with a claw, opening a small hole in the side, and a small paw poked out through the hole and kicked a bit. All at once the egg fell apart, and Solar lifted the top of the shell to reveal a small white-scaled dragonling, curled up in the lower part of the egg and meagerly batting at the air.

"It's a girl," Cyril said quietly, and Solar and Flare looked at each other proudly.

"Aurora," they both said, Solar wrapping his wing over Flare.

Almost as soon as they'd said that, the smaller of Cynder's two eggs rocked violently, a small spider-web fracture appearing along the side. The fracture pushed out a few times, and then a little leg broke through. Cynder giggled and gently opened the egg a bit more, and soon enough, out fell a little yellow-scaled dragon with pure-white limbs and muzzle. Everyone stared curiously at him as he stretched and yawned, a cute squeak coming from his mouth. "What element is he?" Cynder asked, gently running the top of her claw along her son's side. Solar's eyes widened and he gasped.

"He has wind as an element! Only wind dragons have that kind of scale-shape! But the head-shape indicates electric...he's a bi-elemental!"

"How about Aleron?" Ignitus suggested as Cynder tenderly picked up the little dragon. She and Spyro looked at each other and nodded with happy grins.

"Aleron it is."

Flare picked Aurora up gently, and the little dragoness curled up sleepily in her mom's relatively huge paws. There was another small cracking noise, and they watched as the remaining two eggs of Flare's clutch rocked and fractured. At the same time Cynder's twin-egg started moving. Flare's eggs suddenly bashed together pretty hard, and they all laughed as the eggs fell apart and two sets of hind legs kicked through. One was green with light-brown splotches, the other was a light red color with some pale orange. The green-brown dragonling flopped out of his egg and rolled onto his back, still kicking out a bit, and Solar picked him up gently.

"A little earth dragon," Terrador said, and Solar nodded with a small grin and Flare lightly nuzzled the little one with her nose.

"Colnasis, was it?" she asked, and Solar nodded again. They looked down as they heard another little yawn, and saw the last dragonling stretching. The eggshell fell apart and they laughed again as they thought they heard a little "Oof" from her as she fell onto her side. "Inigena," Flare said, holding the little red dragoness.

Spyro and Cynder turned anxiously to the twin-egg as it continued to roll and occasionally jerk. Cynder looked at Ignitus anxiously. "Should we help them?"

Ignitus shook his head with a small grin. "No, they'll be fine. If they don't hatch tonight, it'll probably be--" He cut off as a crack formed in the side of the egg. Spyro gently tapped the fracture, knocking off a few chips, and a small orange head pushed through. "Okay, help it before the eggshell injures its neck!"

"It?" Cynder asked incredulously as Spyro gently broke the shell away from the little one's neck.

"We don't know its gender," Volteer said.

"We do now," Spyro said as the little dragon fell onto his paw, followed by the other as they both kicked at once and forced the eggshell apart. "A boy and a girl..."

"What elements?" Cynder asked, carefully picking up the little ice-blue one as Spyro held the orange one.

"He's fire, she's ice," Ignitus said softly as he looked closely at the two little ones. Cynder grinned.

"They look so much alike..."

"They're twins," Flare said, slowly rocking all three of her children as she held them.

"Flash and Kira," Spyro said, and Cynder nuzzled him affectionately. Solar kissed Flare and cleared his throat.

"I hate to leave but I'm gonna go and get them some food."

Cynder licked Spyro on the cheek. "You go with him, 'daddy', you've been cooped up here for too long." Spyro laughed to himself, nuzzling the little fire dragon in his paws, and he delicately handed him to Cynder and followed Solar to get the food.

Cynder smiled to herself as she slowly ran her paw along Aleron's back, feeling the soft, tiny scales as the little dragon napped against her. She ran her claw lightly along Aleron's wing, getting a slight flick from the tiny, undeveloped limb. None of the kids had opened their eyes yet, but had thus far surprised the guardians by how calm they were. That first night there was a lot of crying, but now, four days later, they'd been on a "good streak" as Flare coined it, only occasionally whining but otherwise being pretty good. Something moved against Cynder's side and she lifted her tail a bit...nope, Flash and Kira were still sound asleep. Even though they hadn't opened their eyes, Kira and Flash would whine if they were separated, and Aleron seemed to like his mommy's forelegs better than her side. Cynder glanced up and grinned when she saw Spyro return with another goose in his jaws. He set it down, spat out the feathers and picked them off his tongue, then quietly came over to Cynder, treading lightly on the bedding she was lying on. He murred to her as she nuzzled him.

"How're they doing?"

"Still quiet..."

"You go hunt and get some exercise, I'll take them now."

She glanced down at Aleron as he yawned and nestled against her. "Nah...I'm good."

"You had them all night and most of the morning, and yesterday!"

Cynder giggled. "What, you really wanna stay with them?"

He glanced down at Aleron, running a finger over the little one's back. "They're so cute...but how's a mom supposed to stay in shape if she's in here all day?"

"I guess you're right, I need to get some motion in me..." She slowly stood up, and Flash and Kira stretched and complained with their high voices.

"Oh sh sh!" Spyro whispered soothingly, quickly but gently lying down with them. "Daddy's here, it's okay...it's okay...shhhh...there you go, it's okay..." He draped his wing over them, cuddling Aleron against his chest and covering him with his free paw as the little dragon lay in the crook of his dad's elbow. He looked up at Cynder. "Go on! I'll be fine with them; I think I'll take a small nap."

Cynder kissed him and walked out, looking over her shoulder to see him gazing at Flash and Kira under his wing. Up against the wall, by a small fire, Flare was sound asleep, with her three children curled up by her belly, encircled by her limbs as she lay on her side. Cynder shook her head with an amused chuckle and stepped outside, squinting as cold air blasted her face. Solar appeared from some bushes nearby, chewing on berries. "Hey...got kicked out?"

"Pretty much."

They both laughed and Solar stretched, lashing the air with his tail. "Well..."

"Solar, where've you been these past few days? You're not in there with Flare as often since the hatching!"

His face fell and he sat back on his hanches, his wings sagging as he looked at the cave. "I...I can't talk about it."

"Don't give me that. Flare's worried about you."

He sighed heavily...the look on his face showed that memories were playing through his head rapidly. "I can't say."

Without warning Cynder pushed him to the side and stood on him. "I may not be evil, but I'm gonna get you to say what it is whether you like it or not 'cuz internalized truths hurt longer the more they're held inside. Now spill the beans, I don't wanna see you or Flare moping from depression!"

He shoved her off himself and snorted. "I'm not telling you."

"Flare said you worry too much; I can see now that she's right."

He paused, and glared at her. "Dammit...okay, fine. Remember that day I blew up? How I punched through solid rock and all that?" He looked away, knowing he'd scared her badly that day. A look of understanding crossed her face.

"Your anger issues..."

He looked back at the cave, a tear falling from his eye. "I'm so scared...if the little ones annoy me too much...I don't wanna hurt them! But you saw that day! I can't control myself! What if...what if...no! I can't think about it!" He fell to the ground, shivering. Cynder just watched with a pensive expression...this was a problem indeed. Solar had mangled reinforced metal, knocked two large holes in a rock wall, and broken down a security door that day as his anger finally let loose, all without any personal injury to himself...and he'd also carved out half the previous cave they'd been in with just his forelegs. There was no possible way his babies could endure an anger episode with him!

"Solar...I don't know what to say..."

"That's what's not helping," he sniffled. "I don't know what to do! Neither does Flare or even Ignitus! All my life I've wanted to have a family, but I can't be with them because I might kill them!"

"But you didn't kill us, or the scientists..."

He glanced up at her. "Wha?"

"Remember? Even when given the chance, you kept yourself from killing us or even the researchers that had hurt you so badly. Spyro kept pushing at you, and you punched the wall instead of him. That researcher...you could've killed him right there, but you let him go. Solar, you care too much to kill others. We're your friends and you restrained yourself...they're your children, your own flesh and blood, how can you harm them if you couldn't hurt someone not even related to you?"

He looked back at the cave, mulling it over. "But I'm so scared...they're so cute..."

"It's that fear among other things that'll keep you from hurting them," Cynder said, rubbing his neck. "Haven't you wanted to strike Flare?"

"No!"

"You lie."

He sighed. "Yes...yes I have, but I can't. She means too much...to me..." Realization dawned on him and Cynder rolled her eyes.

Finally, he gets it... "You see? They're your world, how can you hurt them?"

"But what if my anger gets too overpowering?"

"Simple. Remove yourself, let it out somewhere or let it boil down."

"But what if I'm alone with them and Flare's off somewhere?"

"Oh stop it! I can't think of everything for you, Mr. Databass or whatever it is Flare calls you. You'll have to figure it out for yourself; I have a feeling that's part of being a parent. Now get in there and be with your kids!" She shoved him lightly and he hesitantly wandered into the cave. "Wonder if being a mom means doing everyone's thinking for them?"

In the cave, Spyro grinned as he stared at Kira. She and Flash were so similar to Cynder it was a bit scary...Kira had almost the exact same build, though she was rounder and bigger proportionally with soft baby-fat. She and her brother looked like they had the same horn-set their mother had, though Flash's muzzle was a bit broader than his sister's, like Spyro's. The little fins on their tails looked sharp, but they weren't metallic like Cynder's. Shaking his head with amusement he looked down at Aleron curling up against his chest and grinned again...Aleron looked like his daddy. Though he had a very faint pattern on his lower back that looked related to the one on Cynder's back.

"You guys are so cute," he whispered, nuzzling his son, and Aleron squeaked as he yawned and batted at Spyro's nose. "You gonna open your eyes today?" In reply Aleron's face scrunched and he started whining. Flare woke up as Spyro tried to console the little dragon before the others woke up.

"Why're you torturing him?" she joked.

"Toughen him up like his daddy," Spyro said, and Flare laughed to herself.

"He's hungry, Spyro."

"Oh...see, this is why I don't like Cynder being the only one with them; I have no clue what they want cuz she doesn't let me stay long enough."

"You'll hafta talk that out with her. There's a cap of berry juice near you; just feed him off your claw with that."

Solar walked in as Spyro used his tail to bring the mushroom cap closer. Spyro glanced up at the ice dragon. "Yo, Solar...where you been, fool?"

"What's with the accent?"

"I dunno, off the top of my head."

"Sounded like the downtown dragons back in Paralos." Solar shook his head with a humorous grunt and came over to Flare.

"I'll ask it again; where've you been?" she asked, and he looked at the floor.

"Flare...I'm so sorry I walked out these last few days..."

"You should be."

"In my defense, though...I was scared. Remember my anger outbreak three years ago? In the lab?"

"Yes..."

"I just...I'm nervous. I don't wanna blow up like that around the kids...and I'm just afraid that, well, if they annoy me too much...and if I can't control myself..."

"You smell like Cynder."

Spyro looked up sharply and Solar snorted. "Yeah...she tackled me outside and forced answers from me 'cuz I was going all emo about this. Sorry..."

"Nothing happened?"

Solar gaped at her. "Hell no! If it did I'd have a purple dragon on my tail from here to Ingristnor! Not to mention the fury I've seen from you this last month...losing your love would taking all meaning from my life."

"You pathetic suck-up," Flare said, licking him on the nose. "Nice to see you're so scared of someone who really knows nothing about combat."

"Mother dragons are even scarier than Malefor, and that's saying something!" Spyro said, carefully putting his juice-covered clawtip in Aleron's mouth. "They're so small...Cynder was so big when she was pregnant with them, how does that work out?"

"Dragon eggs give the young more room inside than with other creatures," Solar explained, running his fingers along Colnasis's back. "Awww...no one really knows how they hatch, though, because other species have the shell to brace against when hatching. It's theorized that there's a special energy release that baby dragons unleash when it's time to hatch, which weakens the shell on contact and makes it fracture."

"Don't overfeed him!" Flare said, and Spyro stopped in mid-motion. "How many claws has he had?"

"Maybe three?"

"Oh, okay. Seven should be enough. That's how many Cynder gives them."

Spyro watched with a small smile as Aleron's tiny tongue licked the berry juice off his claw, and after his sixth the little dragon yawned and stretched, falling asleep again. Flash and Kira were starting to wake up, but as Spyro tried to figure out how to do this to avoid either of them complaining at the other's absence, Cynder came into the cave. "Spyro, I'm so sorry, it's their feeding time!"

"I know, I just got done with Aleron. How do you feed Flash and Kira without them whining?"

Cynder chuckled and sighed. "It's hard...here, let me." Spyro stood up, still cuddling Aleron against his chest with one foreleg, and Cynder took his place and tenderly picked up Flash and Kira. She carefully placed them on her foreleg, holding it at an odd angle so they were both comfortable, with Kira's head on Flash's belly, and she used her first and third fingers on her free paw to feed them simultaneously. It was a bit of a stretch for her smaller paw, but the two little ones ate rather quickly. Flare just watched with an admiring grin.

"Cynder...you're a genius, you know that? Every problem with them, you find a solution."

"How'dya mean?"

"The carrying armor, keeping them warm, feeding them..."

Cynder smirked and sideglanced at Spyro. "Been hanging around him too long." They all laughed, and Flare rolled onto her back and placed Colnasis, Aurora, and Inigena on her chest as they woke up. She glanced up at Solar with a grin.

"C'mon, you can help feed them. It won't kill you...or them."

Solar eyed them hesitantly, then dipped a law into the cap of berry juice by Flare.

"Flare, Flare!" Cynder hissed, and Flare looked up sharply. "C'mon, you gotta see this!"

"See what?" Flare got up and followed Cynder to an open spot in the mushrooms, and they both hid behind a fallen cap.

"Isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen?"

"Oh my..." They both giggled as they looked at the little scene. Spyro was sleeping flat on the ground, with Flash on his head between his horns, Kira cuddled between his wings, and Aleron curled up by his side under the fin on his tail. Solar was curled up on the ground, with Colnasis partially hidden under his wing, Aurora comfortably positioned between his crest-scale and left horn on his head, and Inigena cuddled in the crook of his elbow by his head. Flare and Cynder just sat there admiring their mates and children. To top it off, Spyro and Solar had small grins on their faces.

"This is just so cute..."

"And just think, Solar was nervous about being a dad..."

"I know...I don't think he could hurt them if he wanted to." They both walked off a ways, still glancing over their shoulders and giggling. "Ignitus is worried, though...none of them have opened their eyes and it's been a whole week since hatching."

"I know...it should happen soon though if it hasn't already."

"Huh?"

"I mean, they might've open their eyes when we didn't notice, but then again they'd probably keep their eyes open if they did finally decide to look around..."

"Wait..." Cynder sat back on her haunches, thinking hard. "Something strikes me as unusual...I thought it was two months minimum for pregnancy? We delivered a few days early..."

"Nothing wrong with that."

"True, but they hatched almost a week early now that I think about it...if it is really two months between birth and hatching, then they shouldn't have opened their eyes yet until sometime around now."

"That is true, but still, they've been out in the open long enough that they could've opened their eyes..."

Cynder giggled. "I wanna see if Kira has green eyes..."

"Not purple?"

Cynder sighed. "Well...yeah, I wanna see some purple, 'cuz Aleron has my markings and Flash and Kira resemble me, but then again Aleron looks so much like Spyro...I'm kinda hoping one of them has bright blue eyes though."

"Blue's a nice color...I kinda want Inigena to have blue eyes like Solar's. Or Aurora."

"Aurora's so adorable...such a pretty white color... and Inigena's and Colnasis's colorings are so cool..."

They heard a faint yawn and went back to find Solar waking up. He carefully picked Aurora off his head and looked closely at her, smiling a bit as he gazed at her white scales. Flare came up behind him and he sideglanced at her and chuckled to himself. "She's so cute..."

Aurora yawned and her face scrunched a bit as she stretched, and Flare gasped as the tiny ice dragoness opened her eyes a tiny bit. "Awww, she's opening her eyes!" Aurora's eyelids slowly lifted and two bright ice-blue jewels studied her parents with an intent look. "Awww...hi baby..." Flare said, reaching out and stroking Aurora's cheek lightly with her claw. She gently took Aurora from Solar as he looked down at Colnasis, and he carefully picked up the little earth dragon as Flare stared back at Aurora lovingly. Those huge eyes just studied her mom intently, rarely moving. Flare looked up as Solar cooed softly to his son.

"Aw...we've got a little brown-eyes baby here," he said, looking back at Colnasis as the little one just stared at him. "Hey...scary sight huh?" He and Flare both laughed and glanced down at Inigena as she yawned and stretched, but she continued her nap as she buried her face against her daddy's chest.

Cynder and Spyro cuddled their children in a warm hug, waiting for them to wake up from their nap. Spyro chuckled softly. "They were up for a while last night weren't they?"

"Yeah...oh!" Aleron yawned and stretched, and slowly opened his eyes and looked around before staring at Spyro. "Oh how cute! Such a pretty shade of blue!"

"It's kind of a blue-green color," Spyro said, staring back at his son with a silly grin. "Hey little guy...'bout time you looked around!"

Cynder picked up Flash and Kira while Spyro had a staring contest with Aleron, and she nuzzled them with a grin as they slept. "C'mon...time to wake up, sleepies." Responding to her voice they stirred and tried to roll over on her paws, and slowly opened their eyes, blinking back the sun and then curling up to continue their nap. "They are soooooo cute..."

Spyro looked around sharply and the others turned to him. "Spyro?"

"We gotta get outta here," he said, holding Aleron against his chest. They didn't question him, and took all the kids back to the cave. Along the way Cynder glanced down as she held Flash and Kira, and she squealed softly when she saw two sets of identical green eyes looking up at her.

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Everyone together now... "AWWWW!!" :P

THE LONG WAIT IS OVER!!!