Disclaimer: Greetings everyone I'm about to begin my newest Story the Shadow Dragons. This is set after StellaMagic's Demon Mutate Saga and it takes place in my own JTeens universe from this point forward so if anybody is reading this tell her that from now on I'm doing things my way and if she doesn't like it not my fault. I have my own way of doing things and that's that. I don't own anything in this story except the Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire and my own ideas. Let's get this show on the road.
Awaken the Shadow Dragons
Ramses was sitting on his throne, atop Dragon's Peak, as he was currently listening to his loyal Dragon Knight Flavius give him the news of what's happened. Buck was also there, as Flint had to help with the restoration of the Volcanic Arkeyan Civilization, and he was giving his own two cents as to what happened lately.
"So let me see if I got this right now," Ramses said, "The Demon Mutates on Earth are defeated and Tchang Zu's the cause of all this, yet nobody but the Arkeyans themselves seem to notice that yet?"
"Pretty much, but it gets much more dangerous than that," Flavius said, "Buck says that he had a vision of what's to come."
"He did? This is interesting, yet very concerning; so, what did he see in this vision of his?"
"I saw darkness for one thing," Buck said shakily, giving Ramses and Flavius a vision of what he saw, "Then I saw eight dragons made of black smoke each forming around an orb of energy, and five other figures standing next to the Arkeyan Sorceress Queens as they went to find these dragons."
Ramses was thinking hard about this as the images of Buck's vision showed up in the vision pool. He knew that this meant a massive surge of negative energy was about to be unleashed, and he also knew that Reina, Rita, Rose, and Sara wouldn't be strong enough to stop it. This is despite the fact that they were the four Queens of the Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire.
"King Ramses, are you alright?" Flavius asked, seeing that the king had been silent for a while, "What does Buck's vision mean?"
"It means that the Earth and her people are about to bear the cost of a battle that is not theirs to join," The King of Dragon's Peak said wearily, "And we'll need some more help. I must summon Reina, Rita, Rose, and Sara's elder brother back here at once."
"But he's all the way on Metamoor trying to restore that world to its original glory," Buck reminded having been the one to see him off, "And while he was away, he said that his sisters were to lead the Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire until he returns."
"True, but if what you say is true we may have no choice but to call him and the friends he made over in that world," Ramses said.
"But shouldn't we see what's happening on Planet Earth?" Flavius asked.
"We shall," Buck said bringing up the Dragon's Peak Viewing Mirror, "Fortunately this was given to us by the Arkeyans so we could check up on what's happening in any known location."
The trio began looking into the viewing mirror as they could see it get a vision on what was happening. The mirror showed San Fran only now it was covered in red clouds and Adinda, Luna, the Arkeyan Sorceress Queens, and the Skylanders were watching as they saw a huge terrible black smoke dragon. To make matters worse, the dragon had already vanished and the sky turned back to its usual blue hue, albeit there were now multiple colored lights in the sky. They were not dissimilar to the northern lights, however they were sinister looking. However, the Governors themselves were nowhere to be seen.
"Okay, am I the only one who thought that was weird?" Buck asked nervously, as they saw the group wonder what just happened there.
"You better get down there before this turns ugly," Ramses ordered urgently, as the negative energy was already beginning to take hold on the planet.
Back on Earth, everyone was stunned at what just happened.
"Okay, is it just me, or did the Arkeyan Sorcerer Governors just go berserk right before that dragon showed up?" Bash asked. "I mean we knew the Governors were pissed, but Valmont just had to enrage them further."
"You don't know the half of it," Flint said as he, Buck, and Flavius showed up, much to the surprise of everyone but Reina, Rita, Rose, and Sara. "For those of you who don't know me, I'm Flint, Shasta's dragon body guard and this is my brother Buck."
"Nice to meet you; so, can you tell us why the Governors vanished?" Zap wondered.
"Because of a buildup of negative energy and the fact that somebody seriously pissed them off, I can only guess that whoever dishonored the Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire is now fleeing for their lives," Flavius said, "Didn't king Ramses tell you lot not to call the eternal dragon so much?"
"Well yeah, but I just thought it was because he was old fashioned like Uncle," Drobot said much to Flavius' shock and horror.
"It's the generation gap," Buck said, a poor attempt at an excuse.
"Gap? Did you say gap? It's a fucking canyon not a gap, now you listen here!" Flint shouted angrily, "That fucking creature and its fucking hell spawn are not only capable of destroying the earth but also the fucking universe as well!"
"Before do anything else, we need to know," Rose said calmly, "How strong are these shadow dragons?"
"Strong enough to destroy not only the earth but also the entire universe as well," Adinda explained plainly, "Did all the cursing make Flint's statement unclear?"
"Are they really that strong?" Sara asked, ignoring Adinda's comment.
"Yes, they're that strong. Thanks to Malefor's scheming, he forced my sister and her fellow governors to undo the damage that he and his minions have caused over the years, via the Eternal Dragon," Luna hissed with exasperation, "Now that they've got berserk thanks to Valmont and the others dishonoring them. It's only a matter of time before they destroy the earth and the universe."
"I thought the news of Stacey in Juvie would appease the governors, but Valmont had to make it worse. Now he and all of San Fran have been leveled to ruins," Jade sighed, explaining what just happened*.
"This is much worse than we thought," Buck said, "The Governors have mutated into the Shadow Dragons due to the overuse of the power to call Shenron."
"Let's remember that they had to call Shenron to revive all those that Malefor killed," Rita reminded. "Which means that this was all part of Malefor's plot all along."
"I'm afraid so," Reina said, "Which means we better save the Governors and fast."
"Wait there's just one question," Cody said before asking, "How can the Arkeyan Governors mutate into the deadly shadow dragons?"
"You all know that for every yin there is a yang, and even though the Arkeyan Governors summoned Shenron for positive things, negative energy was introduced into the world," Adinda explained seriously, "The energy was originally meant to be stored inside the Arkeyan Crystal, but because it wasn't present, the negative energy went into the next best thing."
"The Governors themselves," Colleen realized, "They've been carrying years of negative energy and we didn't even know!"
"Hey what happens to the negative energy? Does it just stay in the governors themselves?" Jade asked.
"It's probably just like anything else," Chrissie guessed, "They'd hold as much energy as they could then one day when they exceeded capacity and couldn't hold any more, they'd go berserk."
"That's exactly right," Reina said, "They can only hold so much the negative energy does dissipate over time, but for each wish it takes about 100 years for that to happen."
"The power to call Shenron without the use of the Dragonballs was never supposed to be used more than once, to allow time for the negative energy to evaporate harmlessly as it was intended to do. However, Malefor's scheming forced the governors to call the Dragon more and more," Rita said as flashbacks of the wishes and the governors turning into the Shadow Dragons. "They couldn't hold the negative energy any longer and when their rage boiled over all the negative energy was unleashed at once in the form of the Black Smoke Dragon. His very name reflects his evil."
"This is much worse than we thought," Spyro said, "We better stop them before they destroy thousands of innocent lives and all of Avalon next."
"Then you better get moving," Buck said, "That dragon's attacking the nerve centers of the globe, the planet itself is already beginning to suffocate under the weight of that beast's evil and the rage of the Governors. If you don't intervene soon the destruction of the earth and the universe will be inevitable."
The Arkeyans and the Skylanders bolted at once to go and hunt the shadow dragons. Flint and Buck wished them good luck and returned to Skylands knowing that there was nothing they could do for them at this point except hope for the best.
Beta's Note: Hey, Dark-Automaton here. I am back to helping DJ every so often with his works. If I find anything noteworthy in the story, I'll point it out.
* To me, it just seems a little odd how Jade, who's anywhere between nine and twelve, can take all this death and destruction so well. She's not even crying. Then again, she is the kid who outright murdered Shendu(technically defenseless and sentient at the time) back in Jackie Chan Adventures' first season finale. Maybe there's more to that kid than the cuteness and smartass attitude.