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 surprise 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, she and Cynder still manage to become friends.

* SleeperHit: From the writer's perspective. The writer was actually worried the story wouldn't do well, as it was his first attempt at a full length Spyro story. It became his first story to reach triple digit reviews, all positive, and is by far his most popular story to date. Because of this, he's showed interest in making it into a trilogy.

* {{Dracolich}}: Desputier, being a skeletal undead dragon.

** 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 [[Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective Ratigan]] after all.

** Kaze and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad are a shout out to the Weasels from ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride''. Kaze is also a partial ShoutOut to Ratigan from ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''.

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

** 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 sadist (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.

** Empress Tyrania is this in a nutshell, but ''far'' more so than the others. She carried out multiple genocides just so she could have a race of beings who would [[AGodIAm worship her as a deity]] and carry out her every whim.

** [[spoiler:[[TheDragon The Warden]] tries this when he finds himself at the mercy of his former slaves. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sparx slams the door in his face.]]]] Seeing a [[SubvertedTrope theme]] here?

** In her first chapter, Cyros responds to Pyrus calling her cruel by saying "I'm not cruel, just... morally challenged" in a ShoutOut to Belladonna from ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''.

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

* DimensionalTraveller: Delilah the Kitsune is capable of this, though apparently it's difficult. She's stated having met the Original SpyroTheDragon, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]], and witnessed the fight with [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]]. Oh, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking apparently Pinkie Pie threw a party for her]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} in her typical fashion.]]

* BiggerBad: Malefor. Despite being defeated for good and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away in the core of the world]], his raid on the temple and war with the dragons are what [[DrivenToMadness drove Deadlock insane]] and he was the one who defeated the Naga centuries ago, leaving them thirsty for revenge on the Dragons. The main plot only happened because of him, even if he's met his end.

* BadBoss: Subverted with Deadlock, whose actually a really good boss. Played straight with Empress Tyrania, who nonchalantly kills her minions on a whim.

A SpinOff story has been posted called [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7469845/1/ A New Dawn Side Story: Broken Wings]] staring [[spoiler:Cyros]], a villainess from the original fic who is now TheAtoner on RedemptionQuest that leads her into a fight with a group of raiders. Warning, this story contains spoilers for the original story, as does its trope listing!

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 surprise 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.

The verse has been on hold for years due to the writer having WritersBlock on it, but they do want to some day finish it.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the games, the Naga was a boss only in the Gameboy Advanced version of ''The Legend Of Spyro: The Eternal Night'', and not even canon at that. Here they're an ancient warrior race who nearly conquered the entire Dragon Realms eons ago.

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

* AlasPoorVillain: Commander Gaia. [[spoiler:She was only working with Grendel because she truly loved him...and then he goes and stabs her in the gut, telling her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]]. She dies a sobbing, broken wreck muttering that she loved him.]]

** [[spoiler:Cyros]] after her HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler:Despite being forgiven by the main group (except Sparx and Demi, who refuse to do so until she's earned it), still refuses to forgive herself and shows desire to make up for everything she did. This causes her to nearly die TakingTheBullet for Spyro and Cynder the next chapter.]]

* BackFromTheDead: If a Phoenix dies and the proper rituals are followed, they're capable of doing this. A great many Phoenixes do this after Tyrania's demise. [[spoiler:Siria sacrifices her ability to come back by giving her new life to Blaze after he's killed by Empress Tyrania, allowing him to come BackFromTheDead himself at the cost of being KilledOffForReal herself.]]

* BattleCouple: Spyro and Cynders have been mates for several years and love one another, but can still kick butt when they need to.

** [[spoiler:General Grendel turned out to be the ManBehindTheMan to Tyrania and Kaze, having manipulated them to work with his plans for revenge on the Dragons and getting Pyrus out of the picture. To some extant, he's manipulating Deadlock, but it's mainly permitting her plan so she stays out of his way. He's now proceeded along his own plot for revenge against the Dragons. In the end, after Deadlock is defeated and makes a HeelFaceTurn, Grendel becomes the TrueFinalBoss by performing a ritual giving him the power of the Naga Spirit Of War.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Cyros manages to do this to [[spoiler:Ember in one chapter, first revealing Cynder's anger towards her and forcing Spyro and Cynder to break her heart by revealing the truth about their relationship and tell her she can't be with Spyro. It continues next chapter were she's locked up in a mine and beat half to death by a Gargoyle. Thankfully, Siria the Phoenix Queen snaps her out of it.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Cyros]] ends up getting this. [[spoiler:The power she absorbed drove her near insane, causing her to nearly kill the one being in the entire world she considered a friend and almost her own brother, and she then realizes the entire reason she had for hating her brother as she did was a misunderstanding on her part. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Both of those reduce her to a sobbing wreck]] as she finally realizes she'd ruined her great relationship with her family over a simple misunderstanding her brother had spent years trying to undo. This ultimately leads to her HeelFaceTurn and [[MustMakeAmends swear to make up for]] [[TheAtoner everything she's done]].]]

** [[spoiler:Turns out Cyros is an ''even bigger'' BrokenBird than Deadlock, but for different reasons. Her entire motivation centers around the belief the world is just a cruel and selfish place were you're the only one who can watch out for herself. She feels like Pyrus betrayed her by taking the throne after he promised her she could be the princess, leading to her believing she could trust no one and must become so strong no one can ever hurt her again.]]

* BullyingADragon: Sparx, as always. Turned out Deadlock was the victim of this because she had three heads and was thusly a "freak", the bullies completely forgetting that she can utilize three elements and is a good bit stronger than a normal dragon.
* CainAndAbel: Pyrus and Cyros. Cyros is a sadistic egomaniac who loves torturing her smaller, more kindhearted brother. Pyrus is kind and friendly on the otherhand, and isn't aware of just how villainous his sister is.

* CurbstompBattle: Drake vs. Hades. [[spoiler:Hades had already taken a beating from the heroes, Drake just made sure he didn't escape. Hades ''tried'' to fight back, but gets killed in short order. Extra points for the fact that Drake really didn't give Hades too much notice.]]

*** [[spoiler:Even more subverted in the rewrite of "Endgame". Spyro and Demi ''don't'' forgive Cyros and tell her if they want them to, she'll have to earn it.]]

** Deadlock truly loves her adopted children Cyros and Pyrus, who act as {{Morality Pet}}s for her. Cyros in turn has her childhood friend Kage who she, despite what she says, shows compassion and listened to. [[TheDragon General Grendel]] and Commander Gaia are also in love and apparently intend to wed. [[spoiler:In the last case, it's subverted as Grendel murders Gaia in coldblood when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer of use to him]]. He even outright says he didn't truly love her and was only using her.]]

* EvilDiva: Cyros becomes this once she puts a magic gym in her guitar.

* EvilPrince: Subverted with Pyrus, who, despite being the son of Deadlock and crown prince of the Naga, is actually a good guy. Played straight with Cryos though.

** Empress Tyrania was once one of the guardians of the Phoenixes, but ultimately betrayed...[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder well just about everyone to get what she wanted]].

** Boss Kaze to Pyrus. Where Kaze is a self centered theif who will do anything to get what he wants, Pyrus is a selfless prince who gave up everything he had to protect six eggs he didn't even know who their parents were.

** [[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 blames 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.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Delilah frequently mentions her own adventures, but not [[NoodleIncident in detail]], implying this isn't her first time helping with a heroic journey. Also, she's apparently a DimensionalTraveller whose had all kinds of adventures in alternate universes.

** [[spoiler:Kaze's QuirkyMiniBossSquad are killed by Blaster's own bomb being thrown back at them, which wouldn't have killed them, if Blaster hadn't been wearing a tons more sticks straped to him which that explosion set off.]]

* IgnoredEpiphany: Whe Pyrus has a conversation with Deadlock on her plan and tries to get her to stop, she sends him away to prevent him from reaching her. It's clear she seriously considers what he's saying and even partly agrees with it. [[IveComeTooFar But she feels she's come too far to turn back and can't quit when she's so close]].

** Delilah has CompleteImmortality. She can't die at all, either by age or injury, due to being a spirit. But she ''can'' be hurt and she can't phase through "natural" weapons like teeth and claws. [[spoiler:Boss Kaze eventually puts a magic stone collar on her that makes her TheAgeless, and since only he could remove it and he's dead, she's struck with it, she doesn't mind though.]]

** {{The Phoenix}}es have ResurrectiveImmortality if proper procedure if their body is cremated in a volcano and exposed to sunlight. Tyrania successfully performed genocide on them by blocking out the sun over the volcano so they couldn't come back to life.

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

* IveComeTooFar: Deadlock turns Pyrus' plea for her to stop down because she believes she can't turn back any more.
* JustFollowingOrders: [[spoiler:[[TheDragon The Warder]] attempts this after his cursed collar is destroyed, making it so the slaves are able to hurt him. They don't listen.]]

* KilledOffForReal: Despite being able to come BackFromTheDead, Phoenixes can die for real if the proper ritual is not taken and Empress Tyrania was responsible for this happening to a large number of the species. [[spoiler:In the end, Siria dies for real by transfering her next revival to Blaze to save his life, but [[TogetherInDeath is reunited with her mate in the afterlife]].]]
* KirkSummation: Spyro gives one to [[spoiler:his own fears manafested into Malefor, deconstructing Malefor's motivation for what he did into one thing; Malefor ''[[ForTheEvulz enjoys killing people]]''. He just used BecauseDestinySaysSo and Spyro's birth as an excuse to murder people for fun. He also makes a logical point that Malefor required the Destroyer to destroy the planet while [[WorldHealingWave he pulled it back together with his own power]], proving Malefor wrong. It actually works, as the fake Malefor is sent into a VillainousBreakdown fueled UnstoppableRage from it, allowing Spyro to defeat him.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted with General Grendel. After the Hydra is defeated and he's reverted to normal, he rises from it's remains and charges the exhausted and pretty much defenseless Spyro. Instead of a flashy, climatic FinalBattle, Cynder is so ticked off she just slices his sword in half and [[SwordOverHead holds her tail blade to his throat]] in [[SingleStrokeBattle one quick motion]].]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Ignitus reveals that he is Cynder's father when they visit him on White Isle. His explaination for never telling her is that he was too ashamed of himself for doing nothing to rescue her egg.]]

*** It's revealed later that she it runs in the family and her mother Nova was much the same.

** Nina, Spyro's adopted ''dragonfly'' mother is described as this, having beaten ''one of her species' natural predators'' up to protect her sons. [[spoiler:This shows when she confronts Deadlock after being kidnapped, and ''doesn't backdown at all''. Deadlock commends her for this, one MamaBear to another. The two then have a fairly indepth discussion on this trope.]]

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Played with. It's dragon mating season and Cynder is a good bit more agressive because of it. Being reptiles and the context of the story, not much more is said than that.
* MesACrowd: Kaze's trump card is [[spoiler:the ability to make two clones of himself. However, while Kaze is a LightningBruiser, his clones are {{Glass Cannon}}s, every bit as strong and fast but can be destroyed in one hit.]]

* MookHorrorShow: Some Gargoyles get one at the hands of [[spoiler:a SuperpoweredEvilSide possessed Cynder, who brutally hunts them down and violently slaughters them. Some of them actually try to ''run away'' from her. Even Cynder is horrified by what she did when she snaps out of it. This was actually [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by the writer, WordOfGod said that he made the scene out like this to make up for how the SuperpoweredEvilSide was treated in ''Dawn Of The Dragon''.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted with General Grendel and Commander Gaia. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness The moment she's no longer useful to his cause]], he murders her in coldblood and reveals he never cared for her at all.]]

** [[spoiler:Drake had this the moment he crushed a single dragon egg and realized what he just did. He does a 180 as a result, defecting from Malefor's army and running off to the Unknown Realms.]]

** [[spoiler:Cyros invokes this on Deadlock by [[TakingTheBullet taking her combined Fury attack]] for Spyro and Cynder. Deadlock breaks down in tears and actually says "[[OhMyGods By the Ancestors, what have we done?!]]". It takes a [[CallingTheOldManOut a tongue lashing from Pyrus]] to make her completely see the error of her ways though, but this was a major reason for her HeelFaceTurn.]]

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:Drake and his clan are an exception to the ruthless monsters Spyro and Cynder have known all their lives. He's actually glad his race lost the war because he knows how horrible they were to the dragons and deserved what they got.]]

** [[spoiler:General Grendel gains a combination of the PhysicalGod and [[HealingFactor Regeneration]] types after bonding with [[EldritchAbomination the Hydra]]. He's insanely hard to damage and just heals from any damage he takes near instantly. Spyro firing a Convexity Breath right down his throat does ''nothing'' but annoy him. It takes being nailed with [[RasputinianDeath Cynder's Poison Fury, Ember's Blue Fire, Delilah's Fox Fire, Delilah's Earth Fury, Pyrus' Ice Fury, and Spyro's Convexity Fury (as in the attack used to finish off Dark Cynder) in rapid succession then having his chest cut open and his]] ArtifactOfDoom forceably torn out to defeat him. And even then, the only reason it too four powerful Dragons and a Kitsune working together to keep his chest wound open long enough to steal his power source.]]

** Sparx makes mention of a few involving his and Spyro's parents, including Nina going MamaBear and Flash giving him TheTalk. Delilah also makes refrence to her past but doesn't go indepth with them, just pointing out how something that happened just now always happens. Apparently she's seen villains [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to their death]] [[KarmicDeath as a result of their own actions]] frequently enough she's come to expect it.
** "The Cupcakes Incident". Apparently, whatever Delilah witnessed has left her deathly afraid of cupcakes, an alternate universe version of someone she knows, and an unfortunate Pegasus. Those who know of [[Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}} a certain, infamous grimdark fanfic]] that this is a refrence to will probably understand why.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Destroying Tyrania resulted in her gargoyles perishing with her and the phoenixes coming back to life. Justified as she was [[KeystoneArmy the source of her gargoyles life and power]] and her magic interfered with the conditions needed for phoenixes' resurrection ritual.
* NoSocialSkills: Ember to some degree. She's got ''some'' social skills, but is still naive about a lot of things due to the only interaction she's had with other dragons was her mother. Like being able to tell Spyro and Cynder are mates.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Kaze seemingly dies when he lair falls off the mountain it's attached to with him in it, but manages to escape and climb back up.]]

* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler:Siria has one after her HeroicSacrifice, finding peace in the fact her race has been can live again and she can finally move on to be with her beloved king in the after life. She also thanks the group for avenging her and restoring her people.]]

** [[spoiler:Hades gets one when he Drake cuts off his escape. Sparx gets one the same scene when he realizes that Drake and his band are Apes, but this turns out to be unfounded.]]

* OneSteveLimit: WordOfGod stated that Cynder's Dark Form isn't refered to as Dark Cynder because the story already established Dark Cynder is the name of her evil SplitPersonality and it'd be confusing to call it that when her evil personality hadn't truly emerged.

** [[spoiler:As part of his LastVillainStand, Boss Kaze undergoes the BeholdMyTrueForm version and assumes his Kamatachi form for the final battle. Complete with BodyHorror TransformationSequence.]]

** [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted with General Grendel. It seems he turned ''into'' the Hydra, but he was actually inside it controlling her, seemingly unchanged when the heroes arrive to confront him. Then he reveals sheds his skin...]]
* OrphansOrdeal: While Spyro is still HappilyAdopted, Cynder turns out to have serious issues with the fact she has no idea who her real family is. She wanted to be a good mother for her egg because it and Spyro are the only family she's ever known, thus [[MamaBear why she's so protective of it]]. This is only worsened when she discovers [[spoiler:she murdered her mother as Dark Cynder]], driving her into a miniture HeroicBSOD until Spyro breaks her out of it. WordOfGod even lists this as one of the reasons [[spoiler:Ignitus was made her father instead of Spyro's]], she needed it more. Finding out this fact helps her a great deal, as does her [[TrueCompanions friendship with Ember]], who she refers to as like her little sister.
* OurGargoylesRock: Gargoyles in this situation are rock creatures created by the life energy of their queen, Empress Tyrania. They're allies of the Naga and slavers. Well ''this'' group is, Tyrania is the only true Gargoyle who was known to be evil, she just killed all the good ones.

* Really700YearsOld: Delilah is actually 200 years old. Siria is actually several eons old, due to her [[ThePhoenix species life cycle]].

* RedemptionPromotion: [[spoiler:The Apes, who were formally incompetent {{Mooks}} in the games, are now elite and powerful combatants with expert team work when they're fighting for good. This is lampshaded twice in the chapter with a character pointing out that the Apes are a ''lot'' more effective on their side.]]

** In her first chapter, Cyros responds to Pyrus calling her cruel by saying "I'm not cruel, just...morally challenged" in a ShoutOut to Belladonna from ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''.
** Kaze and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad are a shout out to the Weasels ''Mr. Toads Wild Ride''. Kaze is also a partial ShoutOut to Ratigan from ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''.

** [[spoiler:Deadlock gets several of these to General Grendel during their confrontation prior to the FinalBattle. Perhaps the biggest is convincing the ''entire Naga army'' to perform a HeelFaceTurn, spitting in the face of his belief his revenge is so important.]]

* SleeperHit: From the writer's perspective. The writer was actually worried the story wouldn't do well, as it was his first attempt at a full length Spyro story. It became his first story to reach triple digit reviews, all positive, and is by far his most popular story to date. Because of this, he's showed intrest in making it into a trilogy.

* SuperStrength: Demi is revealed to have this due to training her physical strength by headbutting trees...until they fell over...
* SwordOverHead: [[spoiler:Cynder cuts Grendel's sword in half and holds her tail blade to his neck, posed to kill him. However, after giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, she lets him go and permits the Naga to arrest him, as she knows to him that [[CruelMercy far worse than her killing him.]]]]

* SuperhumanTransfusion: Queen Siria uses her own fire to reignite Ember's inner fire when it was burning low (which wouldn't be fatal, but it certainly was unpleasent and dangerious). Due to Ember learning how to use fire in a simular way to Phoenixes, this causes her to gain Phoenix abilities as well. This was pretty much a complete accident, not that Ember minds at all.

** [[spoiler:Dark Spyro appears later when Commander Venti reveals he's kidnapped his parents, causing Spyro to lose it. Going berserk, he destroys everything in his path to get his claws on Venti, eventually beating him half to death and leaving him buried in rubble. Sparx manages to calm him down though.]]
** [[spoiler:Cyros becomes Dark Cyros when she absorbs Empress Tyrania's magic, simular to Dark Cynder from ''A New Beginning'', being an adult, superpowerful version of the original person. Tyrania's evil pretty much drives her completely insane. Thankfully for her, Ember and Pyrus manage to completely drain the darkness out of her, restoring her body and her sanity.]]

* SuperSpeed: Kaze has this, able to move lightning fast in the blink of an eye. [[spoiler:This was actually foreshadowing the fact he was a [[{{Youkai}} Kamatachi]].]]

** [[spoiler:Nina and Flash also feel this way when Deadlock explains her past, truly feeling sorry for her. Even moreso because they're parents themselves.]]

* TagAlongKid: Ember only ''thinks'' she's this to Spyro and Cynder, as she's well aware she's the immature rookie of the group and secretly feels like she's just the little kid following the two legendary heroes around. Part of her CharacterDevelopment is finding out she's much more important to the team than she though she was.

* TechnicolorFire: Ember gains the ability to breath blue fire after being accidentally granted Phoenix powers. It's much more powerful than her normal fire, as one blast reduced a [[EliteMooks Warrior Gargoyle]] to ashes, but it takes a lot of energy to use. This is of course refrencing that blue fire is hotter than red.
* TheCameo: The dragon in Ember's flashback who gave her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that resulted in her low self-esteem is Red, the BigBad of ''Spyro: A Hero's Tale''. Considering the writer has announced this is the first in a trilogy, it's open as to rather this is a [[EarlyBirdCameo special kind of cameo]] or just a MythologyGag.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Ember. She's a ''big'' fangirl to Spyro and Cynder and gushes over them when she first meets them. She's mor subdued most of the time, but can't help but {{Squee}} whenever they do something ''really'' cool.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story has two main storylines, Spyro's group making their way to Deadlock and Pyrus' journey to try and find them. The story frequently changes focus from Spyro's group to Pyrus' as it progresses. Pyrus' StoryArc even has it's own BigBad, Boss Kaze. Deadlock's own story could be considered a third storyline, as despite being the BigBad, her backstory and present character growth are shown seperately.

* UseYourHead: As a classic Spyro move, it's only natural it's here. However, special mention goes to Demi, who knocks a thick iron gate off it's hinges by literally using her head as a BatteringRam. Spyro and Cynder are impressed.

** Cyros has had two, really short songs. One is a version of "Rock A Bye Baby" detailing her bitterness for her brother and intends to dispose of him. Another of "Three Blind Mice" telling how she intends to use {{The Hero}}s upcoming confrontation with Empress Tyrania to her own ends.

** She gets another one in "Endgame" called "Welcome To Your Final Show" which is used to [[spoiler:magically assault Pyrus and Ember. Noteable as it's her only Villain Song that is actually truly villainous.]]

* VillainousLament: [[spoiler:Cyros gets one in "Captured" called "How Things Were Back Then", singing about her StartOfDarkness and how she secretly wishes things were back to how they used to be, but feels like that it can never be that way again.]]

** [[spoiler:"Rescue Mission" starts as a pretty simple chapter; enemy captured some cheetahs, group rescues cheetahs. It ends with Drake making his first appearence. Not only is Drake an Ape who is seemingly ''friendly'' and leads a small group of like minded apes, one of the dragons that Ignitus told them about appears to be his adopted daughter! The group's staring wide-eyed in ackward silence is a pretty good response.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Delilah is deathly afraid of ''cupcakes'' after "[[NoodleIncident The Cupcakes Incident]]". Though its implied she has very good reason for this fear. Thankfully for her, these don't exist in this universe.
* 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.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Deadlock. The only reason she's doing any of this is because she's had a horrible life. Her own parents wanted nothing to do with her because she was born with three heads, and she suffered a great deal of bullying for being a "freak" for most of her life. Then she finally got a mate named Andreas who loved her for who she was and a job at the temple she loved and was respected for as a nursery dragoness. She had two clutches of eggs with him as well, which she loved with all her heart. Then it was all stolen from her in one night, Andreas and her second clutch of eggs destroyed the night of the raid along with the others (which destoys her job as well). The pain of this drove her insane and now she wants to take revenge on those she blames for it. Yeah, she's doing horrible things, but her past is so horrific it's hard not to feel bad for her.

** [[spoiler:However, she ''really'' shows her skill later when she reveals she worked the final battle with Empress Tyrania into her plans, intending to drain out the power of the loser for herself. It didn't matter who won, she'd profit reguardless. Tyrania was killed, so she drains the power from her corpse.]]
* {{Youkai}}: Boss Kaze uses this term to refer to Delilah [[spoiler:and himself, as he is a Kamatachi]]. In this context, it's used to refer to any one of various supernatural creatures hailing from the same land.

* YouKnowTooMuch: [[spoiler:When General Grendel kills the Naga who brought him the Sun Jewel, he cites this as his reason.]]

* TheChessMaster:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When her minions capture [[spoiler:Hunter]], Deadlock's fire head asks to eat him, but her ice head furiously refuses to let her on the grounds that they're "vengeful, not savages" and states that, despite their grudge against Spyro and Cynder, they have no reason to be cruel to the duo's friends.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Drake is the leader of his band [[spoiler:of Apes]], and is effectively their most BadAss member.

* BadassFamily: [[spoiler:Drake and Demi are both effectively BadAss. Since the whole group is a BandOfBrothers and TrueCompanions, the rest of the Apes probably count too.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[TheDragon The Warden's]] energy ball attack takes a bit of time to charge up, [[spoiler:but several characters are GenreSavvy enough to take advantage of the charge up time instead of just standing there. Sparx uses it to steal his cursed collar while he's not looking. Ember actually kills him off by hitting him with her Blue Fire while he's charging up to try TakingYouWithMe.]]

** Due to being in a base built into the side of a very high mountain, Pyrus and Delilah end up dishing out quite a few of these to {{Mook}}s climbing Kaze's fortress, though not always on purpose. [[spoiler:Boss Kaze ultimately falls to his death by trying to attack Pyrus when he tries to SaveTheVillain. Delilah then points out all the gruesome ways the fall could kill him, much to Pyrus' discomfort.]] Delilah even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope due to being GenreSavvy:

** Subverted with [[spoiler:the true BigBad General Grendel]]. While his mother was a monster in her own right and was implied to have been an AbusiveParent, no attempt is made to use that as justification for his [[spoiler:attempted genocide of the dragons.]] Delilah ([[GenreSavvy as always]]) [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]]:

* GenreSavvy: Sparx and Delilah, Sparx due to all the adventures he's been with Spyro and Cynder on and Delilah due to being an over 200 years old DimensionalTraveller. This leads to plenty of LampshadeHanging.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Delilah frequently mentions her own adventures, but not [[NoodleIncident in detail]], implying this isn't her first time helping with a heroic journey. This is also why she's GenreSavvy. Also, she's apparently a DimensionalTraveller whose had all kinds of adventures in alternate universes.

** Due to her own childhood, Cynder is ''extremely'' protective of her adopted egg and is a lot more brutal when fighting to protect it. The Phoenixes who let her babysit her children probably deserve some GenreSavvy points...

** Sparx makes mention of a few involving his and Spyro's parents, including Nina going MamaBear and Flash giving him TheTalk. Delilah also makes refrence to her past but doesn't go indepth with them, just pointing out how something that happened just now [[GenreSavvy always happens]]. Apparently she's seen villains [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to their death]] [[KarmicDeath as a result of their own actions]] frequently enough she's come to expect it.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:The Warden attempts this. But Ember is GenreSavvy enough to blast him with her blue fire while he's charging, killing him.]]

* [[ConjoinedTwins Conjoined Triplets]]: Deadlock.

** {{Phoenix}}es have ResurrectiveImmortality if proper procedure if their body is cremated in a volcano and exposed to sunlight. Tyrania successfully performed genocide on them by blocking out the sun over the volcano so they couldn't come back to life.

The verse has been on hold almost two years due to the writer having WritersBlock on it, but they do want to some day finish it.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Both of the main antagonists were refrenced in the previous story. Red played a role in Ember's backstory, having caused her inferiority complex with a HannibalLecture due to [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy over Ember getting the title of Fire Guardian instead of him]] and Desputier was mentioned as a GhostStory told by Ember.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Commander Gaia. She was only working with Grendel because she truly loved him...and then he goes and stabs her in the gut, telling her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]]. She dies a sobbing, broken wreck muttering that she loved him.]]

** [[spoiler:Drake. He killed a baby dragon the night of the raid and he can't forgive himself even 24 years later.]]
** [[spoiler:Cyros after her HeelFaceTurn. Despite being forgiven by the main group (except Sparx and Demi, who refuse to do so until she's earned it), still refuses to forgive herself and shows desire to make up for everything she did. This causes her to nearly die TakingTheBullet for Spyro and Cynder the next chapter.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Drake is the leader of his band of Apes, and is effectively their most BadAss member.]]

* BadassAdorable: Ember is a naive, childish, and rather cute pink dragoness, but she's also the new Fire Guardian and suprisingly powerful.
* BadBoss: Subverted with Deadlock, whose actually really good boss. Played straight with Empress Tyrania.

* BenevolentBoss: Deadlock is actually rather kindhearted to her minions, even asking TheDragon if he was ok after fighting Spyro and Cynder. Some of the Naga seen actually say she's the best queen they've ever had. In fact, she overthrew their former queen because she felt they deserved this over a tyrant.

* {{BFS}}: [[spoiler:Drake wields a pair of these.]]

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Cyros manages to do this to Ember in one chapter, first revealing Cynder's anger towards her and forcing Spyro and Cynder to break her heart by revealing the truth about their relationship and tell her she can't be with Spyro. It continues next chapter were she's locked up in a mine and beat half to death by a Gargoyle. Thankfully, Siria the Phoenix Queen snaps her out of it.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Cyros ends up getting this. The power she absorbed drove her near insane, causing her to nearly kill the one being in the entire world she considered a friend and almost her own brother, and she then realizes the entire reason she had for hating her brother as she did was a misunderstanding on her part. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Both of those reduce her to a sobbing wreck]] as she finally realizes she'd ruined her great relationship with her family over a simple misunderstanding her brother had spent years trying to undo. This ultimately leads to her HeelFaceTurn and [[MustMakeAmends swear to make up for]] [[TheAtoner everything she's done]].]]

* BrokenAngel: [[spoiler:Cyros becomes this at the end of "What Really Matters". Not only does she get badly wounded and nearly dies, her wings are so horrifically damaged the author [[TakeOurWordForIt leaves most of it to the reader's imagination]]. The next chapter reveals that her wings actually couldn't be saved and had to be cut off. Her SpinOff story is actually titled "Broken Wings".]]

* CryForTheDevil: Most reviewers have admitted feeling very sorry for Deadlock due to her tragic past.
* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler:Drake vs. Hades. Hades had already taken a beating from the heroes, Drake just made sure he didn't escape. Hades ''tried'' to fight back, but gets killed in short order. Extra points for the fact that Drake really didn't give Hades too much notice.]]

** [[spoiler:Refrenced InUniverse by Nina and Flash, who point out to Deadlock that it's a never ending cycle unless someone breaks it. She ''wants'' to listen, but believes she's come too far to turn back.]]
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:[[TheDragon The Warden's]] energy ball attack takes a bit of time to charge up, but several characters are GenreSavvy enough to take advantage of the charge up time instead of just standing there. Sparx uses it to steal his cursed collar while he's not looking. Ember actually kills him off by hitting him with her Blue Fire while he's charging up to try TakingYouWithMe.]]

** [[spoiler:Drake and his band are Apes, which were previously believed to be AlwaysChaoticEvil. These ones are ''good guys'' and he himself actually saved a baby dragon and raised her as his adopted daughter.]]

* 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 interpretation of this is the destruction of their spirits.]]

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: [[TheDragon The Warden]] is powerful and normally a SmugSnake, but the moment the tables are turned on him he resorts to begging for his life and instantly backs down when Tyrania so much as glares at him. This may be due to the fact that he's used to everyone under his thumb being literally incapable of laying a finger on him. Turns out Ember's calling him a bully was pretty spot on.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:The Warden gets the living crap beatened out of him by the slaves when his collar is destroyed.]]

* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: General Grendel is revealed to be this, having his own plans that he's doing behind Deadlock's back which includes [[TheManBehindTheMan manipulating Empress Tyrania into attacking the Dragon Realms]]. He also had a hand in Kaze kidnapping Pyrus, as he sees Pyrus' pacifist nature as standing in the way of his plans.]]

* [[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.]]
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler:Drake and his group (minus Demi) first appear by attacking Commander Hades' reinforcements and Drake himself [[CurbstompBattle curbstomping]] Hades in seconds.]]

** Subverted. [[spoiler:While Cyros is forgiven by the group for her wrongdoings, it's partly due to having been tainted by Venti and Tyrania's evil and and Demi and Sparx both state they don't intend to trust her until she's earned it. Even so ''she'' [[TheAtoner doesn't consider herself worthy of their forgiveness yet.]] This drives her to make herself into a [[HumanShield Dragon Shield]] for Spyro and Cynder next chapter.]]

* [[spoiler:EatMe: The group kill Empress Tyrania by flying down her throat and blowing up her heart. Tyrania doesn't realize this until it's too late for her to do anything about it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[spoiler:Drake scaring the crap out of Commander Hades and utterly dominating him, Hades being the sadistic monster who'd just given the heroes a run for their money. He then plants his swords in the ground as a show of peace and [[PetTheDog reassures the dragoness with him it's alright to come out and the new dragons won't hurt her.]]]]

* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: When her minions capture Hunter, Deadlock's fire head asks to eat him, but her ice head furiously refuses to let her on the grounds that they're "vengeful, not savages" and states that, despite their grudge against Spyro and Cynder, they have no reason to be cruel to the duo's friends.]]
* [[spoiler:EverybodyLives: Every named character involved in the FinalBattle survives, despite several close calls and some Naga dying in the fight with the Hydra. For Cyros and Deadlock, this is a good thing. For General Grendel, [[CruelMercy not so much.]]]]

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

* EyeLightsOut: [[spoiler:The last we really see of Tyrania is the eyes on her shattered head going out. The rest of the Gargoyles die out the same way.]]

** [[spoiler:Drake. He's TheDreaded to the Gargoyles for good reason, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him outside of battle, where he's kind and very goodmannered, spending much of his time being a good host and father than anything else.]]

* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath:

* KnowYourVines: After going awhile into the forest temple, Sparx begins getting an unpleasent rash. Ember identifies the plants in the bush he passed through as poison ivy, which she knows because her mother taught her about it (not because Dragons get poison ivy, which they don't, but because eating it is really dangerous).

* [[spoiler:MesACrowd: Kaze's trumph card is the ability to make two clones of himself. However, while Kaze is a LightningBruiser, his clones are {{Glass Cannon}}s, every bit as strong and fast but can be destroyed in one hit.]]

* [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor: Cyros when she joins the group in order to trick them.]]

* TechnicalPacifist: Pyrus. He really doesn't like to fight and the only reasons he does so is to defend himself and others. He is willing to kill in self defense and the defense of others, but he's also somewhat [[AfraidOfBlood hemophobic]] and seeing blood makes him sick. In fact, the first time he kills in self defense, he passes out. [[spoiler:He even tries to SaveTheVillain with Boss Kaze, but Kaze ends up [[KarmicDeath causing his own death]] by trying to kill him, which Delilah had told him would happen.]]

* TechnicalPacifist: Pyrus doesn't like to fight and is peace-loving, but that doesn't mean he doesn't believe people shouldn't be punished for their crimes.

* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Turns out [[DragonWithAnAgenda General Grendel]] is behind Tyrania's invasion of the Dragon Realms. He is also connected to Boss Kaze kidnapping Pyrus due to seeing the peaceful prince as a roadblock to his plans. In the end, it turns out everything was part of his plan to take genocidal revenge on the Dragons with a civilization destroying EldritchAbomination. In a twist, the reader finds out after the deaths of Tyrania and Kaze that Grendel is the one pulling the strings, but the characters themselves don't find out until the very end.]]

** In "Deception", she gets "Let Your Secrets Out" which she uses to [[spoiler:hypnotise Cynder and Ember and cause their hidden feelings to come to the surface. Demi interupts it though.]]

** 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.

** Kaze and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad are a shout out to the Weasels ''Mr. Toads Wild Ride''. Kaze is also a partial ShoutOut to Ratigan from ''TheGreatMouseDetective''.

* BenevolentBoss: Deadlock is actually rather kindhearted to her minions, even asking her {{Dragon}} if he was ok after fighting Spyro and Cynder. Some of the Naga seen actually say she's the best queen they've ever had. In fact, she overthrew their former queen because she felt they deserved this over a tyrant.

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Tyrania, when her {{Dragon}} suggests she attack the Dragon Realms while Spyro and Cynder aren't there to protect them, says she's glad she thought of it. When said Dragon tries to object, she shoots him a DeathGlare and he quickly praises "her" idea.

** Deadlock delivers one to Spyro and Cynder after her {{Dragon}} wears them down for her.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Deadlock's {{Dragon}} General Grendel wears a skull as a helmet, and is the only Naga seen so far to have such a thing.

* SmugSnake: The Warden, Tyrania's {{Dragon}}. [[spoiler:At least until [[DirtyCoward the tables turn on him]].]]

** Ember in "Breakout", ''big time''. After getting a power boost from Siria and motivation from protecting her dad, she fights Tyrania's {{Dragon}} in a huge battle, ''alone'' and more than holds her own. She begins said battle by ''plowing him through a wall!''

* RedundantRescue: 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.]]

* MenstrualMenace: Played with. It's dragon mating season and Cynder is a good bit more agressive because of it. Being reptiles and the context of the story, not much more is said than that.

** This is the easity way to kill the {{Man Eating Plant}}s living in the Forgotten Forest.

** {{Phoenix}}es have ResurrectiveImmortality if proper proceedure if their body is criminated in a volcano and exposed to sunlight. Tyrania successfully performed genocide on them by blocking out the sun over the volcano so they couldn't come back to life.