Chapter 1: Dark Gems (Remaster)
Disclaimer: (dont own spyro characters, but oc's are mine)
PS: This whole story takes place in TLOS Dawn of the Dragon universe.
War was raging everywhere throughout the Dragon Realms. What use to be bright blue skies, is now covered with a large sheet of dark smoke. Where the wild life use to roam are now burnt to the ground, but the ashes wouldn't blow away. When everyone use to trust one another are now betrayed and left to die. Where there use to be light, is now dimming due to the darkness that is covering the land. Where there use to be good, now there is evil... and it's getting stronger.
Above a large active volcano, was a gothic floating temple. It's walls look like they are about to crumble, but darkness protects it. Near the castle, a dark deformed dragon came flying towards the temple with 2 boxes attached to it's back. It flew over the high walls, until it reached a smaller temple that resembled a roman palace, but with more gothic appendages.
The creature flew through two giant doors and landed on the ground near a huge dark throne that could almost fit ten people. The dark walls had dark graffiti art that carried on until it reached the throne. Flying on the back of the dragon, was a small sized creature that looked like a fusion of a fly and an ape (that's what I've got from seeing these things in the game). It walked towards the throne, but it looked nervous and didn't the want to be here. Two yellow demonic eyes were shown above the throne with black slits in between them. The creature then dropped onto one knee as a sign of respect towards the being on the throne. "S-sir we've got what you've asked for...". The creature seemed to tremble due to the glare of those demonic eyes.
"Gooooood, bring them too me."
Then, the bug shouted at the dragon in a different language which sounded like a bunch of gibberish to anyone. The dragon walked towards the crates and carried them to the creature. The dragon dropped the crates next to the creature and flew out through the large doors . "There is a problem s-sir. This is one of the few that we've found in the caves. We aren't even sure that there are anymore of these gems around. There are some theories about it: They were either used by other dark forces before you or most other resistances were able to get there claws on them."
"That doesnt matter, Captain. Your objective was to search and find the Dark Gems before any of the guardians could find them and besides, these Dark Gems don't just contain dark energy... they contain all the souls of the dark forces of the past." Then from the throne, came a 12 foot tall demonic looking dragon. The colour of the dragon was a dark purple with dark pink smudges around certain parts of the body. It had three long horns, two of them were on the sides of its head and one was in the centre of it's head that curved backwards. It had a large muscular build, especially by the legs and tail. It's chest had an unusual rocky surface due to the mixtures of different brown and yellow colours. The wing sizes were probably larger than the actual body of the dragon!
"Open it now," The dragon growled. It took out a small rusted axe and roughly hit the edge of the box over and over again. This seemed to enrage the dragon.
"You stupid grublin pest! You aren't suppose to hit them with force! The gems in there are very fragile!"
The grublin got such a fright that he dropped his little axe onto his foot and said,"S-sorry ,M-Malefor." The grublin picked up his axe and gently hit the edges of the crates until the hinges broke off and then the box fell apart.
A dark mist started escaping the crate and energy seemee to burst in flares of pink. "Finally! After all these years... I finally got what I want."
Malefor started laughing evilly that seemed to make everything tremble in the temple. The grublin couldn't take it anymore, so he dissappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Inside the crates were ten medium sized dark gems. They had dark colours that could probably make up a dark rainbow. They had mixtures of black, purple, blue and red. The arua that emitted from the gems... was a black mist. The mist looked like it was reaching out into all spaces with it's smoke-like fingers.
"The guardians would be stupid enough to face me, while I have these. If I can find a way to use the souls in these gems to escape... Avlar and the Dragon realm will be mine..."
Malefor moved towards the gems and placed his claws on the surface of the gems. The gems started to react to Malefor's touch and suddenly more black mist was generated. Malefor stared into the gems with an evil grin. He could feel all of that power inside the gems, that it almost felt overwhelming for the average dragon.
'I will make sure that those fools feel my rathe! It will be too late for the prophecies to save anyone... because there will be nothing left to save!' Malefor thought and then started laughing like an evil maniac.
Suddenly, the gems started acting up differently. All the dark mist in the room was pulled towards the centre of the gems. In an instant, Malefor jumped back a few feet away from the gems. He observed what was happening in front of him. The gems couldn't be seen due to all of the dark mist that it attracted towards it's centre. All of the mist seemed to start forming an orb around the gems, until it turned pitch black. Whispers and moans could be heard coming from the mist. They sounded like the cries and moans of the damned, which could make a person go insane. Malefor has heard many suffer due his ongoing slaughter of innocent dragons, moles and cheetahs, but he doesn't feel anything towards them. This all surprised him until...
"Malefor..."
Malefor heard a voice come from the orb. Looking at the orb, he could see a faint outlining of something that was inside the orb. It definitely wasn't the gem outlinings, but it looked... different. He stood his ground waiting to see what was going to happen inside the orb.
"Show yourself, creature."
The outlines of the being that was inside the orb could be properly seen from the outside. The next thing that happened, the orb simply shattered to the floor and the being could be seen better. It was an unusual site for Malefor because this being looked like a living shadow. It had shredded robes that dripped a black substance into the floor. It didn't have a face, but the only thing that you could see was a hood that shielded a shadow. It had a dark arua that emitted from it's body, just like the gems just did.
Malefor was surprised by this site and got into an attack position, ready to destroy this creature in case it decides to try and attack him. Before he got into an attack position, the creature lifted up it's shadowy arm and held it up in front of Malefor.
"I don't mean you any harm, Malefor. I shan't attack you, unless you do..."
Malefor stared at the creature with anger and confusion. He could feel this creature's power emitting off of it. This creature's power has so much darkness inside of it, it could almost far exceed Malefor's own power!
"You think that you are no harm too me... the power and darkness I sense inside you can make you an actual threat towards me... or a ally if possible."
Malefor got into a normal stance, but was still on the alert in case this creatures decided to attack him.
"I don't want to be any of those, Malefor. Being an ally with you is like being friends with a lier!"
The creature turned around and faced Malefor. What struck Malefor was the stare of the creature's eyes. The shadowed face showed two glowing white orbs that were focused on him... digging into his evil soul.
Malefor snarled at the creature. "If that's what you want... then DIE!"
Using the ice element, Malefor shot two large icicles at the creature, followed by another large icicle. The creature just stood there in the killzone completely motionless. Once the icicles were only three feet away from it... they shattered!
Malefor was very surprised by this, but he continued. He charged up his fire breath and exhaled all the fire from his mouth at the creature with tones of heat. This attack could've melted any structure in mere seconds, but the creature wasn't affected by it. Only smoke emiited off it's body after the attack and there were no visual signs of damage.
"I think that killing me will be a problem..."
Suddenly, dark mist started forming over the creature's arms until they solidified and became large shadow claws. The claws themselves were at least 5 foot 7 inches long compared to it's 9 foot long body!
"But killing you won't be a problem!"
In the blink of an eye, the creature vanished and reappeared by Malefor's side. The creature slashed at Malefor with it's large claws leaving large cut wounds on his body. Malefor roared in pain and tried to whack the creature with his left claw, but he failed to do so when the creature disappeared.
Malefor growled in annoyance, but noticed that the chamber became darker, even with the torches along side the walls and pillars. More of the dark mist started filling the chamber... until nothing could be heard.
Malefor looked around and noticed that shadows started patching the darkest parts of his chamber.
"You think that you can hide away from me, creature?! The shadows won't be able to protect you for long because I can see through my own darkness!"
Then, Malefor's eyes started glowing a brighter yellow because this ability helps him to see into the darkest parts of the realm. Looking into the shadows, he couldn't see anything... only that dark mist!
"Don't make me laugh, Malefor. You can't even see me through my darkness! What does that tell you, Malefor? It tells you that you aren't ready to became THE Dark master!"
The dark mist became a fog to Malefor's eyes and it became impossible to see through this dark fog. This shocked Malefor in his head, but he kept a calm look on his face.
"The darkness has a mind of it's own, you know, meaning that it can choose it's bearer. It doesn't choose you because it knows that you would use it for the wrong purpose..."
"The darkness doesn't have a mind of it's own. It has been used by dark forces for over a millennia! Darkness is the main ingredient too all evil!" Malefor protested with rage.
"That's where you are wrong, Malefor. The wicked are the one's that see darkness as a force that can destroy the light and because of their twisted minds... evil uses darkness in the wrong ways... in YOUR ways!"
Malefor felt a strange sticky texture against his claws. Looking down at his claws, a black gue formed into a puddle underneath him that stuck him too the floor! Immediately, he shot a stream of cold air at the gue until the puddle was completely frozen. With his fire breath, he melted the ice and the black gue flowed off his claws.
"Trying to stabilize me, creature?! You're going to have to do better than th..."
Before he could continue, he roared in pain when he felt something stabb him on the back.
The creature impaled Malefor with it's long claws that went deep into the dragon's body. He kept his claws inside of Malefor until he felt the dragon's body went stiff. Malefor wasn't dead of coarse because his spine was split in two, so he was paralyzed.
"This will show you, Malefor, that there are forces stronger than good and evil. This also shows you that you can't become a true dark master. This will also show you... that I am stronger. Now, I'm going to give you some news. Somewhere out there... there's another being similar to me who can overcome the power of darkness, which makes it a threat too me as well. I want you, Malefor, to destroy it because if you don't... there will be nothing on this world for you or anyone else to save..."
The creature slowly pulled out his claws from Malefor's back and walked off of him. Suddenly, all the mist in the chamber flowed around the creature until an orb was formed around it.
"Don't screw this up, Malefor, or you along with every being in this world... won't live for much longer."
Then, the creature disappeared along with all the mist. Everything became lighter when the dark mist was gone. Malefor just lay on the floor in pain. He wants to rip that creature into pieces and feed it to the grublins!
Malefor started glowing a dark purple until an aura was formed around his body. He was pissed... very pissed. His eye's turned into two glowing white orbs that could probably suck your soul dry.
RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
From the outside of the temple, the whole place was having an earthquake that rattled the whole temple. Smaller structures on the temple started breaking due to the large amounts of power that Malefor was unleashing! The volcano beneath the temple started erupting small streams of lava onto the ground surface that started forming large pools of lava.
"I WILL BECOME DARKNESS AND I WILL BECOME EVIL! NO ONE WILL STOP MEEEE!"
Far away from Malefor's temple, a cloaked figure stood on the tip of a mountain and stared at the Malefor's temple. The figure could feel Malefor's rage flowing throughout the land and it wasn't anything scary to it.
"Step one... complete. Time to move onto stage two..."
THAT IS IT! I feel so proud of myself. This chapter is way better than the last one I wrote. Punctuation is way better along with the flow of scenary. I hope that you guys enjoy this one! I might make a remaster of the 2nd chapter as well