Me: Hello readers! I'm very happy your here. I'm TornadoF6, but I'm twig to you. Prepare for a wild ride, and some warnings: I'm not in the business of making things easy for the good guys. My story will likely spike at fake climaxes before reaching the true climax, though I can't guarantee that. but either way, I assure this will be a good read. And without further delay, here's The Shadow Realm: The Light in the Darkness.

A young fire dragon was sleeping on the grass. The fire dragon was red with orange under scales. His wings were a brighter red, and his horns and spines were yellow. His tail tip split into three at the beginning and merged back into one at the end, and he appeared about 14 years old. Another young fire dragon walked up to him with very similar coloration, but his tail tip stayed split. He was older than the one sleeping, and spoke to the unconscious drake, "Helios, wake up."

The fire drake opened his eyes groggily, "What do you want Solaris?"

"Come on Helios! Are we going to go exploring or not?" Solaris replied.

Helios's eyes flew open, and he was almost instantly, "We aren't waiting on me anymore."

Solaris laughed at Helios's antics. The duo wandered off looking for something to explore. It was then that Warfang came into view, and Helios smirked, "How's that for exploration?" Solaris nodded, his mouth agape at the great city.

It wasn't long before they had to stop. It turned out warfang was further than it appeared, and they were getting hungry. They quickly found some food and ate heartily. After they finished, they walked a bit to conserve energy. As they were walking, they were startled by a group of grublins. Helios quickly lashed with a kick, grab and claw flurry. Solaris also struck the grublins with one powerful strike after another. The poor grublins never stood a chance against the speed of Helios or Solaris's power. The duo kept going undeterred, as they ran into a couple more groups. The duo eventually made it to their destination but quickly had to find an inn as it was late by the time they made it. When hey got up, early in the morning, hey wandered about the city, seeing the sights. Eventually they got to the temple, and Helios was awestruck, "wow..." Solaris couldn't even speak. They quickly shook out of it though and began to sneak through. They saw numerous rooms, but they hid ever time they heard a dragon come near. They wanted to remain stealthy, mostly just for the fun of it. They even saw spyro and cynder once, but they kept moving. Eventually though, they came out and continued to wander the city. They found not much more and decided to venture out of the city again. As they wandered, Helios couldn't shake off the prickling sensation. He looked around but saw nothing or the longest time. But then as he walked, the earth beneath him shook with a thump! causing them to jump. Then it happened again thump... thump.. thump. thump thump. and with that the source showed itself. With a mighty CRASH! the giant grublin stood in front of them. It was a large, 4 legged muscle heavy weight. Helios and Solaris stepped back, eyes wide. They snapped out of it quickly, however, when a large claw came down right in front of them. The duo jumped back. Solaris quickly became the first to strike, and Helios followed in short order. Solaris started with a powerful combo, but the instant he quit, he was slapped away, and tumbled to the ground. He quickly righted himself as Helios launched into a long, high-speed combo. He was slapped way as well and righted himself a little later. Solaris began another combo as Helios switched tactics and began firing fireballs. The battle dragged on a while, the duo taking far more damage than the way-oversized grublin. Eventually, during one of his combos, the grublin got annoyed and delivered a claw-slash to Solaris's chest. Solaris was sent flying back landing with a graceless THUD! He tried to right himself, but quickly collapsed. "Solaris!" Helios cried. He growled at the beast after seeing the clearly fatal wound on his brothers chest. What he didn't see was the figure who had just stepped out of the caves, still standing in the shadows.

Me: Dun-dun-dun! Chapter one ends in a cliff hanger!

Helios: Solaris...

Me: I'm sorry Helios, but the plot couldn't go forward without this.

Helios: *Sighs.*

me: Anyway! Spyro does not belong to me. I know this chapter was short, but i had to stop it there. The others shall be longer.