Hey guys! So I decided to reread through my book, and I couldn't even get through the first thousand words.. Wow... That was the cringiest thing i have ever read. So! I am making it up to you guys by re-writing the whole book! I was going to just replace the old chapter, but there are gonna be some plot changes so I decided against it. Here comes the updated Dark General! ENJOY!

Prologue

"Foolish dragon... you are no match." Gaul laughed.

"I've made it this far, haven't I?" Spyro countered, rising from the ground after Gaul initial attack.

"Yes. You have been quite elusive." Gaul surmised, stepping away from his throne, aiming his staff menacingly at the purple drake. "Had I but known that all it would take would be your miserable amity for Cynder." Gaul laughed as the young purple dragon stood glaring at him. "How tragic really," Gaul mocked. Cynder then leapt from out of sight, tackling Spyro and sending him for a shot tumble in the process. "that she should be the one to destroy you."

Slowly, Spyro pushed his legs back underneath himself. "You don't need to do this, Cynder." Spyro declared, keeping his amethyst eyes trained on the ebony dragoness as she began circling him.

"Just like old times, huh Spyro?" Cynder snarled, then reduced her voice to a whisper. "Same as last time. Line me up with his staff."

As they began circling each other, keeping their eyes locked in a deadly stare, they slowly moved to position Cynder for a sneak attack on Gaul. Once properly lined up, Cynder leapt at Spyro, feigning an attack. Just before colliding, however, she snapped her wings open, soaring over Spyro's head and straight for Gaul. Unfortunately, Gaul saw it coming and caught her in his free hand. "This isn't over!" Gaul yelled, hurling Cynder across the cavern. Spyro gasped as he watched Cynder slam into the wall and fall to the ground, motionless.

In his lapse of concentration, one of Gaul's lackeys advanced towards Spyro, only stopping when he was called off by Gaul himself. "Don't touch him!" He commanded. "The whelpling is mine!" Gaul jumped off of the stage he was on and drew both his swords. With a mighty growl, he readied himself for a battle which he thought was going to be a simple victory.

Spyro got into his battle stance as Gaul began his attack. Spyro dodged a mad swing of Gaul's giant sword, retaliating with an earth blast. The large projectile merely bounced off of Gaul's chest. Completely undisturbed by Spyro's attack, Gaul advanced again. Again he missed, leaving him open for another attack. But yet again, Gaul was unharmed. Gaul switched tactics, this time leaping and slamming one of his swords into the ground where the young dragon was standing mere moments before. Spyro dodged the initial attack, but didn't compensate for the shock wave that blew from Gaul's sword. Spyro was knocked to the ground, dazed by the shockwave. By the time he gathered his wits, Gaul was in the air again. With unimaginable haste, Spyro rolled away, somehow managing to get his front paw underneath him and leap away with surprising agility just as the green ring of energy passed below him. When Gaul jumped again, Spyro was ready. After he got over the shock wave he charged at the large ape. Exhausted from his attacks, Gaul was powerless as the young purple drake attacked with everything he had. Claws and tailblades met ape flesh as Spyro attacked over and over again.

Utilizing his staff Gaul teleported away, reappearing on the other side of the cave. "Your time is over, dragon!" He roared, jumping again and bringing his swords down into the ground just after Spyro dodged away. Unfortunately for both of them though, the ground collapsed under the enormous impact. Both combatants fell into the cavern below, one smashing heavily into the ground, while the other seemingly disappeared. As Gaul raised his eyes after his bone-crunching collision with the floor, he spotted his staff falling from above. When the unfortunate weapon hit the floor it shattered.

Before anything else could happen, the eclipse peaked and the mysterious beam of light that was in the middle of the room exploded in strength. Growling, the ape general staggered back to his feet, raising his eyes to his young combatant who was being pulled slowly skyward by the other-worldly beam. Gaul roared as Spyro fell from his spot in the air. The dragon who fell from the purple beam of energy wasn't the kind purple drake that it had once been, however. It now had scales as black as the void and milky white eyes. The only thing on its mind was how much it was going to enjoy beating the ape king into dust.

Spyro zipped across the thirty feet between him and his opponent in the blink of an eye, and without mercy he began tearing at the ape's flesh. With claws, tail blades, horns... Anything on his body that could be used as a weapon Spyro utilized in his ruthless flesh tearing. Gaul was only allowed a breath after he collapsed to the ground.

Gaul tried to rise to his feet, blood spilling out of the numerous holes in his body as he did so, only for Spyro to blast him with the same strange light that was coming from the hole in the ground. The sheer power of the attack caused the ape king to cry out in pain, and slowly he began to turn to stone, and as he lost the ability to move his limbs Gaul felt an insurmountable fear take hold of him. Spyro stopped his attack when the only thing left unfrozen was Gaul's head, and, with an deadly air about his steps, Spyro stepped towards the soon-to-be former ape king.

Stopping only inches away from the terrified face of Gaul, Spyro spoke with deadly venom dripping off of his voice and a devilish smirk on his face. "Oh how i am going to enjoy this!" He exclaimed happily as he raised a paw to smash the rock that was Gaul's body.

"WAIT!" Gaul yelled in fear. "I-I can get you a high p-place in the army!"

"Oh, I'm getting a place in the army." Spyro replied and Gaul relaxed a hair. "As your REPLACEMENT!" Spyro then brought his paw down, and with strength that belied his size, smashed Gaul into pieces. The only thing left intact was Gaul's face, forever in a mask of pure terror. Spyro snickered at the face of his fallen combatant then leapt into the air, flying up through the hole which he fell through earlier.

"What's happening down there?" Cynder wondered out loud.

"Spyro? You okay, buddy?" Sparx called into the darkness below.

Just then the dark dragon shot up out of the darkness below.

Sparx screamed and Cynder backed up a step.

Spyro came to a stop inside the beam of light coming from below, strengthening his dark power. He looked down upon Sparx and Cynder, wondering how he was going to deal with them.

"Oh no!" Cynder exclaimed. "Spyro STOP!"

Spyro's face curled into a wicked smile, scaring Sparx and worrying Cynder further.

"Whoa! Calm down man, it's me!" Sparx said fighting off another scream.

The black scales of the evil dragon in front of them flickered for a moment as Spyro fought for control of his body. "I… I can't." He said in a half distorted voice.

Cynder had to act fast. So, leaping, she tackled Spyro out of the beam and rolled with him across the ground. When they stopped rolling, Cynder looked down to see that Spyro's body had turned back to its normal shade of purple. "Spyro! Are you alright?" Cynder asked concernedly as she tried to shake Spyro awake.

"I… I think so." Spyro said as he slowly came to. "But something is wro.." Suddenly, shadows erupted from his body, surrounding him in inky blackness.

"SPYRO!" Cynder screamed in fear that her companion was about to turn.

Spyro's body began absorbing the darkness and his scales began fading into black. Spyro gave a shout of pain. "CYNDER… PLEASE… HELP ME…"

"I don't know what to do!" Cynder cried helplessly as tears began streaming from her eyes.

More shouts of pain came from Spyro, as he struggled to maintain control. "Then run! I can't...keep control much longer, and I feel Malefor approachiaaAHH!"

"No! I'm not leaving you Spyro!" Cynder yelled, her voice growing more desperate by the second.

Suddenly, the shouts of pain stopped and Spyro's body was again, black as the night sky.

"Spyro! Please! Say something!"

Nothing

"Spyro? SPYRO!" Cynder screamed as she shook her companion, desperately trying to wake him up.

She stopped shaking him, burying her head into his chest as tears of pain overtook her. Suddenly a distorted voice cut through the silence. "You should've run when you had the chance." When Cynder realized where the voice was coming from, she leapt away from spyro, clearing ten feet in a single bound. "But no matter. My Master has arrived."

Spyro turned his eyes to the beam as it nearly quadrupled in size. Cynder turned a fearful gaze towards it too, and after her eyes adjusted to the near blinding light she saw something that scared her to no end.

"N-n-no…NO! How are you back?" Cynder cried, as her fear multiplied.

"I am here thanks to a friend of yours." Malefor said gesturing towards Spyro.

As his name was spoken, he leapt to his feat and quickly strode towards Malefor, kneeling in front of him as a servant would before a king.

"Master." Spyro pronounced, a mixture of awe and satisfaction in his voice.

"Rise my friend." Malefor commanded. "How do you feel?"

"Strange, but not strange." Spyro began. "Strange, but better than before. I feel… powerful."

"Good my friend. Now may I ask, what are you willing to for me?" Malefor asked, testing his "friend".

"Whatever you ask of me, Master." Spyro stated, becoming more eager for a battle.

"Good. Kill the mosquito and apprehend this traitor of a dragoness here." Malefor commanded.

The reply came with deadly intent. "With Pleasure!"

And FIN! I will keep the old book up until this is complete so anyone new will still be able to understand the sequel. Also, updates for TDR will come slower than normal. Notice how I said 'normal'. It won't take months in between chapters. You should be able to expect a chapter a week at the very least. Chapters for this only take a day to write because I can use the old one as a template. Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing!

Edit: Would this be violating the first rule in 'Entries not allowed'? It states:

Multiple entries of the same material. There can only be one copy of any unique story on the entire site. No exceptions.

Would this count as a violation to this rule? I'm not completely sure because there will be plot changes and all, but I just want to make sure I'm not violating any rules. Thanks!

Shadow out.