Yes, I am back for the moment. Why? People won’t shut up and keep begging me to come back, and since this little story does take place in the Spyro universe, I decided to post it here. I did this from June 11th, 2008 to January 16th, 2009. Then, I magically got better at writing after this ended. However, also after this ended, I severed it from the Spyro universe and am editing it to be original. So yeah, the sequel to this and the other series I am working on will NOT be posted here. If you want it, click on my deviantart account linked on my profile.

To those wondering…no, I will NOT update Memories. Ever. Don’t bug me about it.

This takes place before Malefor’s birth, though he and a few other Spyro characters/areas are in this. Mostly original though. Bare with me through the hellish writing that I did back last year…gah…too lazy to really edit it….

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It was dawn.

What seemed like pink claws groped at the sky as the sun rose. The city that was once blanked in darkness began to stir with life.

The city was…large. The entire hillside that it was on was covered in towers and houses, in a way that seemed futuristic for the era that they were in. There were even citizens with mechanical limbs, lost in war or accidents.

However, in one house, a female dragoness crept into a dark room, her golden eyes shining in the darkness. She had red scales and black horns, and was very sleek. Careful not to make any noise, she crept over to a sleeping dragon in the corner.

The dragon looked exactly like her…except that it was male and bigger in appearance, mostly due to the fact he was a male. The dragon didn’t wake up as she approached, not even when she bent her face right next to his.

“GET UP YOU LAZY BUM!” She yelled, and the dragon instantly jolted awake and nearly hit his head with hers.

“What the hell, Aura!?” The dragon yelled back as he rubbed the side of his head, her yelling still making his head hurt.

“You were out late again, weren’t you? Dad told you NOT to stay out after the two moons shone!” Aura, the dragoness, hissed back at him.

“He can’t expect me to come back on time! I’m 16, I have a life!” The dragon hissed back, standing on all fours now.

“Aurgal, he worries about you, as any parent should.” Aura responded, “You shouldn’t worry him too much, since he is already worried over Mom!” She continued, glaring at him.

“Yeah, that’s what we need in this house, another child.” Aurgal said sarcastically as he pushed by her and exited his room.

Ignoring her protests, he walked through the house and found himself outside, near the forest the surrounded the city. And since he just got up…he was starving.

Spreading his blood-red wings, he took off in search for something to eat. When he reached the height that he was comfortable at, he saw a pillar in the middle of the city, and he knew what it stood for.

According to his father, the city was attacked about 50 years ago. He didn’t say who did it, since he shuddered every time he tried, but the city was almost reduced to ashes from it.

Only a few buildings remained and more than ninety five percent of the citizens had perished, Aurgal’s grandparents included. The pillar was erected as a tribute to everyone who died and fought off the attackers.

The city was considerably reduced from the attack, since it used to spread over the hill it was on and into the valley below. Those who survived the attack were scared for life, since what they had witnessed still burned in their mind.

“There you are…” Aurgal whispered as he spied what he was going to have for breakfast.

It appeared as a large…sheep, except the wool was a silvery color except for white. And it was all alone, which Aurgal thought was a foolish move. There was nothing around to defend it…

Aurgal stopped beating his wings and plummeted towards his prey, which was set in his unblinking eyes. However, just as he was about to kill it, something slammed into his chest, sending him flying over it and into a tree.

As soon as he hit the tree, he went through it and slid a bit on the ground, tearing away a few scales on his front right leg. “God damn it!” he cursed as he picked himself up, rubbing where the scales were torn off.

He looked over to what hit him and groaned. It was another sheep-like thing except for the fact that it had curled horns on its head, which meant that it was a male. They were dangerous if provoked…in which Aurgal probably already did.

He got back up and walked over to where the sheep-like thing was, and growled. “Look, you stupid sheep, I’m not in the mood for these games! Just hurry up and get the hell out of my way!” He yelled at it.

The sheep just stared at him blankly.

That was the final straw for Aurgal. “I gave you a warning, but you wouldn’t listen!” He yelled as he let of a jet of flame, cooking the male sheep alive. “Not so tough, are you!?” He taunted over the dead body.

Ignoring the female sheep, who was now making a ‘baah’ type noise; he bit into the male sheep’s neck and started to eat it. After about ten minutes, all that was left of the sheep was charred flesh and bones.

After wiping the blood off of his mouth, he took off once more, leaving the sheep to continue making the annoying noise it was making, thinking what to do next. He could stay out here longer or go back to the city and find something to do.

But, if he went back, he would have to deal with Aura, who was his twin sister, or his parents. His father would probably yell at him for being out late, but Aurgal probably wouldn’t listen. Still, it would waste some time….

Sighing, Aurgal started to fly back to the city and landed at the entrance, ignoring the guards. He didn’t feel like heading home just yet, especially when he was near a certain area that he wanted to check in on.

He walked a bit before seeing a semi-large building that dragons flew in and out of, and he flew up to the third floor, where a green dragoness was trying to put books in order on a shelf-like object. The room was small, and it was only a few feet about Aurgal’s head in height.

“What are you doing?” Aurgal asked as the green dragoness froze in her tracks and dropped the stack of books she was balancing on her tail and turned towards him with shock in her eyes.

“Aurgal! What…how did….?” The dragoness sputtered as she began to back into a shelf full of books.

“Still as clumsy as ever…” Aurgal muttered as she hit the shelf, making all the books fall on her body, knocking her down to her stomach and pinning her there. “How in the world did you get this job, Emerald?” He wondered out loud in a mocking way as he approached her.

“You…just surprised me, that’s all.” Emerald replied in an embarrassed tone as she attempted to get up, but the remainder of the books fell on her head. “Aurgal…can you help me get up?” She whimpered as she held her head.

Aurgal sighed before walking over and started to clear out the books. Aurgal wondered how there was so many books, since there was no way he knew of that could copy them. Dragons wrote with their tail, since their claws were too big, or in some cases, too small.

“How in the world do they have so many of these…things?!” Aurgal exclaimed as he finally unburied Emerald from the pile.

“I don’t know…I think they just have people copy them when they read the words.” Emerald replied as Aurgal began to leave. “Umm…Aurgal?” She asked in a shy voice, causing him to stop.

“What now?” Aurgal sighed.

“Can you…help me with this?” Emerald responded as she indicated towards the pile of books, to which Aurgal groaned.

“Whatever…It’ll waste some time and I have nothing better to do…” He said as he approached the pile and started to put them on the shelf.

An hour passed, and Emerald finally placed the last book on the shelf. Aurgal was tired already from the labor he did, and it wasn’t like he was gonna get paid for it anyway… “Are we done now?” Aurgal asked tiredly. If there was so much as one more book….

“That’s all of them.” Emerald responded as Aurgal instantly turned to leave. “Aurgal…?” She said in a timid voice.

“What!?”

“…Thank you.”

Aurgal’s expression softened for a second, before his normal cockiness clicked back in. “Yeah, whatever.” He responded as he lifted his left wing in a wave of goodbye. He didn’t get far, however, since a female image of himself landed directly in front of him with a frantic look in her eyes.

“Aurgal, I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” Aura panted as both he and Emerald looked at her, “Its Mom! She’s about to give birth!”