This is Flame's turn to shine just to let you know, after this and one other chapter though the plot begins to get a bit shaky. Any ideas please have them ready. Contains some slight twists to the game world seeing as how this is not in the game; I know very well what really happened (more or less) but this is fanfiction and I want some originality. The New Beginning plot line of Spark and Spyro being brothers is the same but some things have been changed or altered.

A little belated but I only just thought of it now; this story and future trilogy is dedicated to my friend On30n who while not directly responsible for this story, has helped me more than he can ever know by inspiring me when I have run into problems. Thanks for the wonderful and amusing conversations.

Chapter Two: A feeling

"Hey Flame, come on and do something fun so I can do it too!" I sighed. "Ember I am in the middle of deep thought and can't be disturbed. Don't you have anything better to do then an… I mean hang out with me?" She had almost heard the slip but being Ember she was blessed with a short attention span. It had been really quiet lately and boredom was a constant enemy that no one could fight. Having no enemies to fight quickly became apparent and led us all into a down spiral of boredom.

The only thing to actually do was play like we had in the days of old. Shortly after Cynder turned up with her parents and openly began pursuing Spyro often going so far as kissing him in public, Ember finally got it through her head that he was off limits. After a short and slightly amusing attempt to join them, she realized that Spyro was taken.

We were childhood friends ever since we hatched. With the obvious exception of my parents, she was the first one I saw out of the egg. We played together and grew up for 15 long years. Somehow we had never thought one another dating material because of our close bond. I loved her like a sister and like all close family members, it would be very awkward. She even behaved like a sister, pestering and annoying me to no end, but my mother, shortly after I had wondered out loud to her, assured me that we were not related.

I was restless something that almost never happened to me. We had lived a life devoid of evil for a long, long time, seemingly the last time anything fitting the bill of evil happened before any of us were born or even thought of. We were taught by the new guardians after the others left mysteriously after I had turned thirteen. Ignitus and the others just up and left and shortly after that four others stepped up and told us that Ignitus, Cyril, Terrador and Volteer had to retire and that was where they left it.

We didn't sense any ill intent or other downright awfulness to this so we accepted it. Life resumed for three years with no bad guys to fight and we adopted. Occasionally during that time, minor troubles occurred where an outsider usually ape like creatures would steal something important or cause minor trouble and Spyro, Cynder, and myself would fly off to sort through the problems.

Nothing too big or serious happened and the constant mini fights kept us from doing anything too horrible and we didn't like it but at least nothing happened. I had never before become restless or fidgety until now. I had been thinking for a while that something was coming, though I didn't want to appear paranoid or crazy to the others so I kept it inside.

I got up so suddenly that Ember who had been leaning in to try something suspicious jumped and fell over. "I am going to Froster, for some help and guidance. It will probably be extremely boring and tedious and you should probably go do something else."

She rolled her eyes and mock glared at me. "Flame, you have known me your whole life and you should know better than anyone by now that when someone says run along and do something else, it just makes me want to do what you are doing."

I nodded and turned around and began my way to Froster's quarters. Before you ask, no his element isn't ice, it is fire. His parents thought he was going to be an ice element, but despite his coloring, he is a fire element. It had shocked a nation and led to amusing rants when a wit decided to give him a hard time about it.

He and I had bonded almost immediately and ever since I would often be told things that others did not know. This usually had something to do with guardian duty, but I understood that there were some things that couldn't be revealed. He also had the uncanny ability to guess what was on my mind. At first it scared the s*** out of me but after a laughing fit, he assured me he always had the ability to read a very small amount of someone's mind.

I found it downright weird and creepy. Oddly enough, I was his only victim and often enough when Spyro or others were in his presence, he wouldn't freak anybody out. I at first thought he did it because of our bond, but he had always been able to do it, always it seemed with me. I wondered about it and he never mentioned any reason that I was special in any sense. I slowly dropped the subject and thought of ways of blocking my mind.

Ember it turned out to be a good companion and seemed to take pity on me being distracted and went into rare occurrences of silence. She never did this to anyone else and would torture the hell out of everyone around her, but I got silence when I was desperately in need of it. Not always but enough to be thankful for them when the occurred.

I knew Froster's schedule by heart and each guardian had a different one for visitations and lessons. He would be in his rooms at this time so I had no fear of missing him. I stopped outside of his rooms, and was just about to knock when a voice called out to me. "Enter Flame and Ember to my sanctuary." I jumped out of habit and Ember's eyes were wide. "I hate it when he does that. Ember he has these freaky mental powers and seems to know what you are thinking and when it is you. It would make some vague sort of sense of him being able to read you since we are so close. But damn it I hate it when he does that."

I shook my head and opened the door and Ember and I tentatively (on her part) stepped into the room. It was comfortable, and despite the icy blue coloring of the dragon in front of us, the room was warm and comfortable with cushions around every square inch of the room. A fire was lit in the room, and just screamed inconsistency with his color.

He was laughing in his eyes at the slight look of rage on my face and Ember's slight frown as we took our seats. "Ember my dear I have never poisoned a dragon in my life and I am not going to start now. It was a slight shock to see a visitor with young Flame here and I didn't want to be rude. I can't read your whole mind dear just the little bits and pieces that make it to known to me.

"It has been somewhat of a game between Flame and myself and he has never before been in company before." She settled down somewhat but was slightly shaking. She who was a pest to everyone was stunned speechless at freaky mind powers.

"Not to be rude, but what exactly caused you to come all the way here. I may not be busy but it is weird for the middle of the day like this." I sighed not knowing if I should reveal my vague and paranoid suspicions about what I thought was happen, what might happen. I felt a slight pull as if something was going to happen at any moment.

"I have been restless and fidgety for the last few days. I feel like something is going to happen. Something is pulling me or watching me, not with eyes but something. It has never happened to me before and just a few minutes ago, it hit me in full force."

He nodded not condemning me like I had initially thought he would. Ember was staring at me with a weird expression on her face. A slightly hurt expression appeared on her face for not telling her. To be honest, I couldn't find words for what I was feeling until this very moment. Ember being Ember did not let much bother her and quickly the expression vanished.

"What you are feeling is common while at the same time being uncommon. It is sort of hard to explain without a definite title but I am sure people have often times experienced that feeling. Usually when faced with down time or slight paranoia about long times of nothing happening. Usually nothing happens and sometimes if something does happen it is met with thoughts of it being coincidence and not related to the feeling experienced earlier. Some call it a premonition and others foreshadow both mean similar things."

I nodded, feeling slightly better that I at least wasn't fully crazy. "In any case, sometimes we walk for extended periods of time to at least dull the restless energy or do something strenuous to get their minds of the feelings of what to them is impending doom. I am glad you told me I will alert the others. It is always good to at least be on guard even if it is a false alarm. It can't hurt except patience and mood, but those are small compared to the alternative."

He didn't elaborate and the little cloud of doom still hovered over me but further away than before. The feeling that the session was coming to an end occurred and I stood up Ember still quiet, slightly depressed that I haven't told her what was on my mind stood as well. "Thanks for your time young ones; it is always good to have visitors. I would take a short hike to at least kill the energy or hold it at bay."

I nodded and walked over to the door, Ember a short distance behind, still quiet. I walked back into the hallway and the dam burst and I knew something was coming. "Why didn't you tell me you had weird feelings?" I sighed and was about to speak when the next thing Ember said caught me off guard. "I wouldn't have laughed if that was what you were afraid of." Hesitating, only a little bit she continued. "I have been feeling something too. I was with you today trying to do something as well." Now I felt guilty about holding back on her. In a weird sort of way, it kind of made some sort of sense seeing we were so close. She was bound to pick up on some of my habits.

"I think I have a way to make it up to you Ember. Why don't you accompany on that hike. Since we feel the same way, we can both get our manic energy out of the way together." Obviously that did the trick for she squealed and ran ahead and grinning I ran after her. I had no idea what if anything we would find in the woods. The alternative of course was to pace constantly lost in unwanted thoughts or to walk on a set path and hope something jumped out.

Spyro and Cynder were waiting for me along with Ember outside the temple. Sparx was flying a few inches above Spyro's horns as all of them waited for an explanation. "Guys, I am taking Ember for a walk in the woods. I have been feeling pretty restless lately and so has she. I don't know how long we will be gone, but maybe it will make us feel better."

After the usual goodbyes and well wishes we set off. This was our journey and hopefully nothing too sinister would happen. Maybe it would turn out to be a pleasant hike through the woods and nothing worse than that. All I could do is hope.

I am wondering if the feeling described in this chapter is real and not just me. Yes we will meet more of the other Guardians. I don't know if Froster's ability will ever be explained. Depends I guess on what comes to me. I don't know when I will update again maybe tomorrow or something depending on my schedule.