Author's notes: Yup, it's the sequel to 'Abused', well, read and enjoy. Yes, this is post-KH2 and pre-FF12 but there's a bit of The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon in the beginning couple of chapters of it. My suggestion, if you don't know what any of the characters look like, go on Google Images and look up their names rather than have me try (and fail) to describe them.
Missed
"So, the radios actually communicate between the worlds? Cool." Sora looked at the gold walkie-talkie device in his hands. His name had been etched into the back of it. His older brother, Riku, and his Nobody, Roxas, had similar ones, only Roxas's was blue and Riku's was black. Color-coding for the three different Keybearers. Sora represented the Light, Roxas the Twilit, Twilight or Betwixt; all the terms were used equally, and Riku the Darkness. Three and a king to rule beside. Roxas, being a Nobody, had to either be the Twilight, or die. They had figured out that fate had created Roxas for a reason. When it had, Riku was still in the Darkness.
The silver-haired man that was Sora and Riku's father nodded, his eyes, the same color as his younger son's, revealed his amusement.
"You can thank Cid for developing them later; this will make your individual missions easier. No more pacing for days on end waiting for them to return, Sora."
Sora laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head. Riku raised an eyebrow at him.
"Riku, you can get just as bad."
"No, Sora's worse." Roxas corrected him. "Riku just doesn't talk for several days, Sora is downright annoying."
"Hey!" Sora exclaimed. Roxas glanced over at him.
"It's true."
"Is not!"
"QUIET."
Everyone jumped and looked at Sora and Riku's father.
"Thank you, carrying on will get you three nowhere. You have to be a unity, that's why your hearts were connected. No 'I' in team."
"But there is a 'me' in team. Oh, there's also an 'I' in unity." Riku said in a smart-alek tone.
"Shut it, smart-ass." Roxas hissed.
"BOYS!"
Everyone shut up again.
"Look, my point is that you'll be able to keep in contact when you're on separate missions, rather than just talking while on the same one. Anyway, Riku, this is yours." He handed Riku a familiar black folder – Riku's mission files. "You're going to a place called Warfang – apparently the Dark Forces are gathering there. You're to talk to them and discover their motives. Apparently they're setting loose a creature called the Destroyer – it creates worlds by destroying the one it's on."
"Espionage for the Light? Easy enough."
"That's not the end of it," his father interrupted, "in this world there are strange creatures we haven't even seen before; humanoid, bipedal cats, bipedal moles, other weird creatures of the Dark and most importantly, I know of six dragons fighting on the Light. They are Ignitus, Volteer, Cyril, Terrador, and most importantly, Spyro and Cynder. The first four are the dragon Guardians, Ignitus is fire, Volteer is lightning, Cyril is ice and Terrador is earth. Spyro will be the easiest to spot, well… kind of." He paused. "He's a young purple dragon, accompanied by a yellow dragon fly and a dark purple, near black she-dragon, Cynder. The one fighting for the Dark is, I believe a larger purple dragon. His name is Malefor, they call him the Dark Master."
"Oh he'll learn who the Dark Master really is." Riku growled.
"I suspect that you'll turn into a dragon upon entry in this world. You'll be larger than Spyro and Cynder, I suspect, but no where near the size of a full-grown dragon. Be careful, though, my son; this war has been going on for years."
Riku nodded. "Of course, father. I'll come back." He assured him. Then he turned to Sora and Roxas. "See you two soon." He said before turning and leaving through a portal that opened in front of him; an ability he had recently recovered. The portal closed and the radios sounded with static.
"Radio check."
"Radio check."
"Radio check."
"Cool, seems like the system works. We'll have to thank Cid, 'ey? I think I've spotted Spyro and Cynder… shit, there are sure a lot of Dark Forces here. I've got a headache already; and not from the noise. WHOA SHIT."
"What's up?" Sora asked.
"Me. I'm flying. Actually flying… this'll take a bit to get used to-OOO… note, must flap wings."
Sora, his father, and Roxas's palms all became acquainted with their faces at the same time.
Riku was both having a mid-air panic attack and a party all at once. He was a black dragon hatchling, a bit larger than the purple and the near-black ones he had seen on the walls of the fortress. His spikes and horns were sparkling silver, his wings matching them. The Heartless symbol was on his forehead, his black wristband around his neck as a choker. He guessed that his radio had been stored in it because he was transmitting to Sora and Roxas. The purple Amethyst in it was glowing slightly.
"What's up?"
"Me. I'm flying. Actually flying... This'll take a bit to get used to-OOO." He had stopped flapping for a moment and dropped several feet. "Note, must flap wings." He flapped and veered off to the left towards the fortress. He looked below him. There was a complete army of monsters, and large red stone siege towers. He landed on the stone and found himself facing the two other hatchlings, both were snarling at him. Riku lowered his head.
"I don't mean you any harm; I'm not one of Malefor's." He told them. The darker one, the she-dragon Cynder, smelt of Darkness. "I've come to assist you. I'm powerful in dark magics, but I am an entity in myself. I want to help you restore peace to your world."
"Oh, yeah, like we're really going to trust some black dragon with the weird marking on his forehead."
That was the first time Riku noticed the yellow dragonfly buzzing around the two hatchling's heads. He seemed to be a bit of a pessimist, Riku could tell that already.
"If you don't trust me, kill me." Riku shrugged as much as he could like this.
"Sparx, we should at least have Ignitus hear him out." Cynder suggested. "Yes, he does seem like a dragon of the dark but so was I."
"Yeah and you wonder why I don't trust you."
"Sparx." Spyro glared at the dragonfly.
"What?"
"Forget it. Fine, you can help us for now. Once we find Ignitus and the other guardians then you can explain yourself." Spyro decided, before turning towards a catapult.
"Sparx, if you really don't trust him, keep an eye on him." Cynder suggested, following Spyro. The two appeared to be messing with some stuff in a hatch under it, probably fixing it, before they returned. "Let's go, we've got to destroy that siege tower… er…"
"Riku." He replied. The other two nodded and ran towards a siege tower that was pressed against the wall. Riku went to run after them, but he only succeeded…
…In falling face-first.
"Oh look at this, he can't even walk." Sparx shook his head.
"Screw it, I'll fly." Riku muttered, flapping his wings so that he was just above the ground. He followed behind the others, landing near the siege tower. Some of the monsters were surrounding it. "Great. I want to know how Sora uses his Keyblade in his lion form." Riku muttered. He jumped in the air and snapped his tail suddenly, causing him to turn, but also smacking a monster in the face with its arrow-head tip. He swiped, with his fore claws, slicing another. He then bit into one and quickly spat it out, landing on the ground. "SHIT that tastes NASTY. BLEH." He tried to spit the taste out, failing miserably.
"You don't bite them!" Spyro rolled his eyes. He and Cynder were attacking a spot of grey spikes on the side of the tower that Riku hadn't noticed before. He decided to allow them to focus on that while he distracted the creatures. He continued to attack with his claws, horns and tail, but eventually found himself surrounded. He went to growl at them, but a strange scream emitted from his throat instead. He could see red sound waves pulsing through the air. Cynder and Spyro both looked over.
"Siren Scream." She muttered.
"Great. Just great." Sparx muttered.
Riku laughed, he couldn't help himself. The monsters were cowering in fear. He sliced some more until Spyro and Cynder finished destroying the tower.
They had to destroy three more towers before they were finished, then they had to defeat some weird golem-like creature at the main gates. When they killed that, the lock on the gates, which was pretty much lava, broke.
"Try re-lighting the torches, Spyro. Maybe that'll help. Me and Cynder will keep the door closed." Riku said, before unleashing a Siren Scream on the monsters that had gotten in. Cynder joined in with her own scream. A loud THUD rang out, and they both turned to the door, which had three bipedal moles trying to keep it closed. They pushed their weight against it, somehow keeping it closed against whatever was on the other side – battering ram, probably.
They didn't even notice when the lock filled with lava again. Riku dropped to all fours, Cynder doing the same.
"God, Sora, how the hell do you do this kind of stuff?" Riku muttered. He heard Sora laughing quietly.
"Riku, mind flying around the area?" Spyro asked him. "We need to see if there's anything else out there." Riku nodded, not going to question why one of them didn't. He flapped his wings and took off into the air. He flew around the city, watching the Dark Armies. What he didn't notice was the cannonball the catapult had sent barrelling towards him…
The last thing he remembered was landing in something wet, then falling a great distance.
