Note: Sorry for the long wait for the second chapter I needed to do some things but I managed to make it and here it is. Enjoy!

Chapter 2 – The path of darkness

In a lonely area of a large forest filled with many oak trees within daylight a white light appears. It shimmers for a while and then disappears. In its place was a gray scaled dragon asleep on the ground that was about the size of a large dog. The dragon slowly woke up and looked around. "Where am I?" It said to itself.

It then looked at his claws. "So, Lloyd was trying to make me a part of his dragon army. But….what does he want?" Soren tried to look for a clear path to follow in the woods. His eyes found a rough but reasonably path that he can easily follow. "I better find my way out of this forest first before I am attacked by one of Lloyd's men. I can't fight in this body."

Soren tried to walk towards the path he saw but the ended up tripping over his own feet and fell to the ground. "Yeah….this is going to take some time to get used to. Who knows how long I will be stuck like this." Soren got back up and slowly stepped his way towards the path watching his movements until he finally had a feel for walking and he started to move faster down the path.

The path was filled with rocks and a variety of wildflowers. As Soren came to a bend in the path he noticed something of a shrine in front of him. It had two pillars parallel with the large entrance. Before the entrance was an inscription in stone. Soren walked up to the rock and read it. "As the darken skies envelop the light, chaos shall awaken from the deaths of many and with them will cause darken skies to shatter" Soren pondered what he just read. "Not sure what it means but the place does look deserted. I might as well take a look inside."

Soren began to walk up towards the entrance. A shadowed whisked by him from within the trees. Soren quickly looked back in surprise to see nothing behind him. He quickly put whatever might have been behind him aside and began to step into the shrine.

The shrine was very dark inside. Nothing but the light coming in from the outside and light coming from the cracked ceiling of shrine illuminated the place. Rubble laid about the area in every which way. The walls and floor had deteriorated over time and had begun to crack. Wind swept into the room in a whistle.

"What is this place?" thought Soren.

Soren walked into the room some more. Looking around noticing that there was barley anything left from the time it was made. Then Soren's eyes gazed upon a pedestal at the far end of the shrine. He slowly walked up to it and then he stood on his hind legs and looked at was still on the pedestal. The one thing that laid on the pedestal was a red gauntlet for the left arm of a human. The gauntlet had seven circular slots to which to put something inside of it.

"What is this?" said Soren as he moved his left claw to touch the gauntlet. But as soon as his claw touched the gauntlet black electricity radiated from the gauntlet and shocked Soren. He screamed in pain as the electricity coursed through Soren's left claw. The pain soon became unbearable for Soren. He felt as if his life was being sucked out of him.

Images appeared within Soren's mind of a town blazed in an inferno. Bodies of humans laid on the ground with stab and slash wounds. All had ash like skin. And then Soren saw his human form standing over a silhouetted body. His sword that he held in his hand was marked with blood. Then Lloyd appeared in Soren's thoughts.

"Why….why did this have to happen" said Lloyd. Lloyd looked at human Soren's face. "What have you done!" exclaimed Lloyd.

Then everything went black. Nothing but the abysmal darkness Soren saw. After a couple more moments Soren began to wake up. His eyes were blurry for a few seconds but became clear in just a few moments. Soren slowly got up. "What happened?" said Soren. He then looked at himself and noticed that the gauntlet he touched attached itself to Soren's left claw and changed its form so it would fit Soren's dragon state.

Soren looked at his arm in amazement. "How did this get on me?" Soren said to himself. Soren then looked up through the cracked ceiling and noticed that twinkling of stars. "I must have been out for the whole day it looks like."

Just then Soren heard a loud noise in the shrine. "Who's there!?" yelled Soren. The shrine was darker then it was moments ago. Soren began to see a shadow move across the perimeter of where he was. He stared at it in fear. And as the moon came over the crack in the ceiling Soren saw a demon dog standing before him.

The dog pounced on top of Soren knocking him to the ground. Soren couldn't do anything to stop it. He didn't know how to defend himself in his current form. The best thing he could possibly do was to struggle. The demon dog started to scratch on Soren's body. The sharp claws began ripping through Soren's scales causing deep claw marked wounds. Soren thought that his life would end in this place. But all of a sudden something attacked the demon dog and knocked it to the ground.

Soren looked up at the thing that attacked the demon dog and saw a purple dragon that was around the same age and size as he was.

The demon dog got up and ran at the purple dragon. The purple dragon slash it with his claws twice and then shot flame from it's mouth, covering the demon dog in a inferno and making it disintegrate to ash.

The purple dragon ran over to Soren and said to him "Hey, are you okay?"

Soren was too tired from the attack to respond and his eyes began to close.

The purple dragon was scared that Soren was dead but noticed that he was still breathing and was relieved. "Don't worry I will bring you to a safe place."