The mood in the room suddenly changed...
"Oh yeah, that feels good." Cynder said as Spyro was polishing Cynder's scales.
"...What in Equestria am I looking at?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"You wanna know something funny? Dragons have a funny way of showing each other tenderness. Even if they don't realize it." Cozy Glow said. "It's not mushy, because to Spyro's dragon-kin, asking another dragon to polish your scales is a sign of trust. When Cynder found out about it, it's not an uncommon sight for them to be doing this to one another." She added.
"Huh..." Spike said. Gonna have to remember that one... he thought to himself.
It looks...pleasurable. Maybe one day... Smolder thought to herself.
"So, while they are doing that, I guess I should continue. So, we found two portals to other areas connected to the Fairy Homes that were active. There were four portals that we couldn't go into because the magic that kept them running needed more fairies to be unfrozen. But then Cynder spoke up once we found out one of those areas had the name Lava Prarie: Apperently, Cynder is lava proof." Cozy Glow said.
"That's not surprsing. Malafor was originally from Equestria and dragons in our world are lava proof." Twilight said.
"Wait how do YOU know aobut that?" Smolder asked.
"Ember told me and Twilgiht about it once. Twilight was really wanting to learn about Dragon abilities and customs." Spike said.
"...You know what, that actually makes sense." Smolder said. Plus, if Ember told them, then as acting Dragon Lord she most certainly can do so. Even though Spike told me the real truth, the fact that that's being kept hidden so that Spike can stay with the pony who raised him is something I ain't messing with. Besides, the fact that Twilight didn't kick him out of the castle after the molt says a lot. She thought to herself.
"With Cynder able to just traverse lava, it was easy to split up. That's when we found out something interesting about the ice spell when Cynder used her previously mentioned Shadow Powers on one." Cozy Glow said.
"Yeah...I found out I can phase into them with my Shadow Powers and rescue the Fairy inside. But, I couldn't do that for more then one per area. The inside of those crystals wasn't normal ice." Cynder said. "It was like it was more of a deep freeze ice." She added.
"Deep Freeze Ice? There's a difference?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Indeed there is young Pegasus. Deep Freeze Ice can freeze dragons if they are effected by it too much too often." Malafor said.
"So whoever it was that cast the magic must be a very powerful wizard." Twilight said
"Yep. Once we cleaned up that area, we did notice that Moneybags had guarded one of the other portals. Which meant more bribes to pay out. Though this time it was for Sparx Levels. Seems some fairies had been outright captured by insects. Sparx was able to get the one that was at the Ant Farm. After that, we decided to go to the other area that was opened up at the start which was Mermaid Coast. Once again, there were more rynocs there though there was the fact we were asked to light up the lighthouses. Once we cleaned up that place, enough fairies had been rescued to unlock a speedway and I had never been more excited! Only to become disappointed quickly. The speedway was DIFFICULT. I don't know why I ever bothered getting excited. Seriously, I don't want to know how just ONE of us could've dealt with the speedways around the fairy home worlds." Cozy Glow explained. The anger on her face was clear as day.
"So, how did those speedways work? Just curious." Rainbow Dash said.
"The speedways were pure time-attack challenges where getting hit took away time from the clock. So I had to be careful not to go full on head collision with the enemies. There were two difficulties: A normal time-attack challenge with a fair amount of time, and a time attack challenge with half the time to start with from the beginning. It was a PAIN to get through but we managed it. We then came across a level where we enountered a Theif. It was Cynder's first encounter with thieves, and because she didn't know how to charge, Spyro attempted to show her how, but she was...very poor at it." Cozy Glow said.
"I guess being raised the way I was gave me better special awareness when I can't see where I'm going." Spyro noted.
"Yeah. So I often resorted to using my Shadow powers which made all thieves a joke." Cynder noted.
"Not that I ever complained about it." Spyro noted.
"I know you didn't. But I would've liked to have done it legit at least once..." Cynder said.
"Don't be so hard on yourself Cynder." Spyro said.
"Can we not have mushy stuff?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I agree." Smolder noted.
"And on that note, after clearing up that level, there wasn't anything else to do so we headed to Bianca who with the help of the fairies we rescued, opened the way forward to the next Fairy Home World." Cozy Glow said.
"And now it's time for dinner." Spike noted.
"Oh it is? Time sure flies." Cozy Glow said.