History FanFic / TheLegendOfSpyroANewDawn

After their arrival, they discover that not only is Cynder a natural black dragon, a second one has been laid. Its parents unable to care for it, it was put up for adoption, saved for Spyro and Cynder. Not planning to have their own children this year, the duo decide to adopt it as their own child, Cynder bonding with it quickly. However, another new suprise also awaits them, a pink dragoness named Ember who survived their Year of the Dragon genocide by being taken into the wilderness and raised by her mother. Due to being the only Fire dragon left from her year, Ember was appointed and is being trained as the new Fire Guardian. While she has a crush on Spyro, her and Cynder still manage to become friends.

* AGodIAm: Empress Tyrania carried out three genocides so she'd have a race of beings willing to worship herself as a God. Evidentally, in the eons she's been worshipped, she came to see herself as one as well.

** Cynder towards the childish Ember. She even refers to Ember being like "an annoying little sister" who she still cares about reguardless. This becomes rather obvious when [[spoiler:Cyros gets Ember kidnapped is enough to trigger Cynder going SuperpoweredEvilSide and totally [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge obliterating everything in her path in an attempt to save her]].]]
** Seems to also be extended to Demi due to her shyness. Suprisingly, ''Ember'' has also kind of done this to Demi, due to Demi's shyness over becoming the new Earth Guardian.

** The Gargoyles, suprisingly. Despite being giant, demonic stone creatures, ''only'' Tyrania and her creations were evil, the rest of them were heroic guardians for the Phoenixes until Tyrania wiped them out.

* DeathGlare: Blaze shoots one at the Warden [[spoiler:when he's free from the curse that's been preventing him from touching the Warden before this.]] It's actually described as being so hatefilled that you could practically hear him saying "I'm going to kill you".

* TheDreaded: Drake is discribed as being someone even the Gargoyles are afraid of, and the Naga who came to help them seem to at least be unnerved about facing him. [[spoiler:Turns out, while they have very good reason to fear him, he's actually the ''least'' menicing Ape the group has ever met and a really nice guy. Not a subversion, however, because the Gargoyles and Naga still have a valid reason to be absolutely terrified of him.]]

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Apparently, Ember gets her inability to tell someone isn't intrested in her not only from her upbringing, but from her mother. Turns out Ember's mother had a one-sided crush for Cyril...

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Suprisingly for the ''BigBad'', Deadlock tries to invoke the ''good'' version with Nina and Flash, pointing out that as parents, they're not too different from her in her primary motivation, to avenge the harm done to her children and mate, in an attempt to find someone that could understand how she feels. They agree that if anything happened to their children, they'd probably [[MamaBear go]] [[PapaWolf berserk]], but that she needs to stop the CycleOfRevenge now while she still has a chance. Deadlock honestly wishes she could believe them...]]

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Demi is nowhere near full grown, but she's capable of doing feets of strength which some ''adult'' dragons couldn't do!

* ScarsAreForever: Spyro and Pyrus both have scars from rather severe wounds they sustained. In Spyro's case, it's on his shoulder where [[spoiler:he got deeply stabbed by Cynder when she was in her SuperpoweredEvilSide]] and had the wound reopenned in the fight with Tyrania. In Pyrus' case, it's a deep cut wound on his back from Kaze's SwordCane. Both were unusually deep wounds and Delilah even pointed out that Pyrus' would scar and didn't have any gems to heal it quickly anyway.

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:One possible fate for Venti and Tyrania. When the crystal containing their stolen power is shattered, a black smoke manifests and takes on their forms before vanishing. WordOfGod states a valid interetation of this is the destruction of their spirits.]]

** [[spoiler:It's outright said that General Grendel has become so consumed by his thirst for revenge, forgiveness and mercy are things he's incapable of understanding.]]

* FriendToAllChildren: Suprisingly, Cynder has a big soft spot for children. This showed with how quickly she came to care for the egg she adopted and when some Phoenixes let her babysit for them. [[MamaBear Heaven help you if you try to harm one though...]] Deadlock herself was a nursery dragoness and was loved by the children under her watch.

** Delilah shows up at the therapist's office in chapter one, citing a fear of {{Cupcakes.}}

* NoOntologicalInertia: Destroying Tyrania resulted in her gargoyles perishing with her and the phoenixes coming back to life. Justified as she was the CosmicKeystone for her gargoyles and her magic interfered with the conditions needed for phoenixes' resurrection ritual.

** Ember, despite being a normal dragoness with only a fire element paired with the two dragons who between them can use eight, is able to keep up with Spyro and Cynder and kick just as much tail as them. Though she eventually becomes a BadassAbnormal.

* BadassAbnormal: Ember becomes this after obtaining Phoenix powers.

** In the final chapter, she came back from a three day party celebrating the defeat of Discord.

* WickedWeasel: Boss Kaze and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad are all weasels. [[spoiler:Though Kaze is actually a {{Youkai}} called a Kamatachi, which was foreshadowed by his SuperSpeed.]]

It's been nine years sense Malefor's defeat and peace has finally been restored to the Dragon Realms. Spyro and Cynder return to the rebuilt Dragon Temple to help the remaining Guardians protect the new eggs laid on the Year of The Dragon. However, Cynder's been having nightmares of her past recently, and is uncertain as to whether or not it's a bad omen of things to come or simply nightmares.

* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome:After giving up her life to save Blaze, Siria passes on happy to know her race has been reborn and that she can finally be reunited with her beloved king. Sparx, of course, lampshades it.]]

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Sparx and Delilah have a small conversation about how Spyro defeating Cynder released her from Malefor's control Delilah surmises that it was because due to his imprisonment, Malefor's power was weaker than Spyro's at the time. She then mentions that she's seen this happen [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants eleven times as a matter of fact]].

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Sparx and Delilah have a small conversation about how Spyro defeating Cynder released her from Malefor's control Delilah surmises that it was because due to his imprisonment, Malefor's power was weaker than Spyro's at the time. She then mentions that she's seen this happen [[SpongBobSquarePants eleven times as a matter of fact]].

* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome:After giving up her life to save Blaze, Sira passes on happy to know her race has been reborn and that she can finally be reunited with her beloved king. Sparx, of course, lampshades it.]]

** [[spoiler:Ember ends up in this after Cyros manipulates them and breaks her heart, as well as reveals to her she'd been hitting on someone whose basically married. However, it's mainly because she blaims herself rather than get upset at Spyro and Cynder over it. It takes a talk with Siria the Phoenix Queen in order to get over it.]]

* BorrowedCatchphrase: Just before [[spoiler:the FinalBattle with General Grendel]], Delilah barrows [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rarity's]] [[ThisMeansWar "It-Is-On!"]]. Counts here instead of as a ShoutOut due to the fact that she actually [[DimensionalTraveller knows Rarity personally.]]

** Cynder's [[CastingAShadow Shadow]] element allows her to store items in shadows, normally using the one her wing casts for this perpose.

* EvillyAffable[=/=]AffablyEvil:
** Deadlock's electric head is pretty kind and friendly, and overall, Deadlock is a very good mother and a BenevolentBoss; when she captures Hunter and Spyro's parents, she ensures that they are treated well and kept comfortable. But during other scenes, the electric head's happy dialog becomes pretty creepy when she's talking about murder and revenge.
** Empress Tyrania is outright EvillyAffable. When considering what she'll do with Spyro and Cynder if she captures them before Deadlock comes to claim them, she decides to torture them. She then states that she hopes their ''screams are blood curdling'' because those are her favorite. All in a happy voice that's rather creepy.
** Boss Kaze is very polite, even if he's holding a sword to your throat. It's not really been show which of these tropes he really is yet though. Then again, he is a ShoutOut to [[TheGreatMouseDetective Ratigan]] after all.

''The Legend Of Spyro: A New Dawn'' is a ''TheLegendOfSpyro'' fanfiction written by Kendell. It can be read [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6835233/1/The_Legend_Of_Spyro_A_New_Dawn here]].

* EvilIsNotAToy: A major theme of the story is how using black magic [[spoiler:or absorbing the drained power of an [[CompleteMonster truly evil being]]]] has ''nasty'' effects on the user. [[spoiler:Commander Gaia and Cyros both suffer SanitySlippage and ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil from using black magic and absorbing the power of Commander Venti and Tyrania respectively. While Cyros' case was reversable, it still left her with [[TheAtoner a great amount of guilt]].]]

** Empress Tyrania to Deadlock. Where Deadlock is an AntiVillain whose background is tragic and who is a truly good queen for the Naga, Empress Tyrania is a sadistic CompleteMonster (confirmed by WordOfGod) who performed genocide on three different races so she could [[AGodIAm be seen as a god]] and is a BadBoss to the Gargoyles.

* HiveQueen: Empress Tyrania is this to the Gargoyles, as they're all rock animated by a piece of her soul. As such, they're all bond to her will and moral values (or [[CompleteMonster lack of them]]) and killing her takes them with her.

** Spyro [[spoiler:gives one to the incarnation of his fears in the form of Malefor after realizing everything Malefor used to justify himself was all an excuse to hide the fact he [[CompleteMonster loves to kill people]]. Bonus points for turning it into a KirkSummation in the process.]]

** Spyro, Cynder, and Ember get this after the Guardians explain Deadlock's past. Turns out she's not [[CompleteMonster pure evil]] like their previous foes, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds she was driven insane from grief due to the loss of her beloved mate and unborn children the night of the raid]]. This is further driven in when a later chapter shows her having flashbacks to her mate, Andreas' death the night of the raid, which she then cries in mourning over.

* LookAtWhatICanDoNow: Cyros does this to Loki after a month of TrainingFromHell with Cyril for their race, making a fool out of him, invoking this trope by hiding just ''how much' she's improved in that time.

* WhatKeptYou: Spyro and company break into the Gargoyle mines to rescue Ember, sendings Sparx ahead to let her know they're on the way. Ember had already TookALevelInBadass and was waiting for word they were coming, revealing she could've escaped the cage at anytime thanks to Siria, but wanted to wait for them to be coming just incase her plan failed. [[spoiler:When Spyro and Cynder get there, they're greeted to Tyrania's {{Dragon}} being blasted through a wall before Ember finishes him off, Sparx and Ember having already freed the slaves themselves.]]