Three years after the defeat of The Dark Master, Spyro and Cynder are reunited; but life hasn't gotten any more peaceful. A crystal of dark power is taken from Warfang, and Spyro and Cynder are the best two dragons to find out the truth. But are they simply being played? Every move they make now seems to have been expected by an ingenious enemy, and the more they learn the more it seems as if they've been playing this game all their lives. Just how far do these plans go? What is their aim? Neither hero likes the idea of following the path that they've been put on, but to escape it they're going to need to fight harder then they ever have before.

Time leads to change, and change is loss. A loss of what once was. One thing, however, does not change and never will: A desire for self improvement. These are the original chapters of The Legend of Spyro: A Duel with Destiny, and also the rewritten new ones.