Chapter 2: The Beast beneath the Ocean
"I have to go there!" Malefor says walking at the sea, but is stopped by Spyro, who replies "No, I have to. You stay here and protect the villagers.". Malefor sighs and says "I'm the Dragon Guard, this is my responsiblility.", but Hunter walks at the two purple dragons and says "Malefor, you've still got to find your Dragon Guard powers. You cannot go yet.", Malefor sighs again, knowing Hunter was right, and replied "Okay, okay. You go, Spyro, I'll meditate with Hunter so I can find my inner powers.".
Spyro replied with a nod and flies to where the explosion in the distance was. Malefor meditated, with his eyes closed while Hunter said "Now... breathe in and out", Malefor does what he is told and feels the energy entering him. Hunter knew Malefor was going to be a great Dragon Guard, until, in a wave of a sudden, Malefor got a disturbing vision!
In his vision, Malefor saw his wife Orkean screaming, and being consumed by fire! His and Orkean's children cried and suddendly, the grassy ground beneath them disappeared, causing them to fall into a black abyss!
Malefor opened his eyes, saw Desert Island around him again and said to Hunter "I've got to go! My family is in grave danger!" and he flew up, landing on a tree branch. "Malefor, your training is not finished yet! You do not have all of your inner powers yet!" Hunter said, Malefor looked back at him, apologized and flew away. Hunter looked sad at him and sighed.
Meanwhile, Spyro was flying over the ocean, and the weather turned stormy. "The heck?" said Spyro, and he noticed something afar. Spyro sees remaints of a ship that exploded, he looks sad at it and wisperes "What happened?", but after he says that, two red eyes appeared beneath the ocean! Spyro gasped and flew up, and a monstrous claw rises from the sea, chasing him!
As fast as Spyro is, the purple hero got grabbed by the claw, and was pulled underwater!
During these events, Malefor arrived back home, but his wife Orkean was nowhere to be seen. And neither were his children. "Could it be...?" Malefor wisperes and he looks around... teary eyed. A cold wind was felt by Malefor, and the silence in his own home made him even more emotional... "Orkean?" Malefor wisperes while walking backwards, and his tail touches something cold, Malefor startled, turned around and his jaw drops, while his eyes get even wetter. "No..." said Malefor softly... "No!" said Malefor louder this time, seeing the grave of his wife and children. Malefor tried to hold back tears, with all of his power, however, he just hadn't the power for it, and screamed it out of sadness. Malefor screamed as loud as possible, worrying the residents of Desert Island.
While those things were happening, Spyro found himself in an empty, once peaceful field, which is all quiet. "Where... am I? What is this place?" Spyro asks and he explores the field. Spyro gasps when he enters an eerie castle, inside it, everything was destroyed! Bricks all lied on the ground, paintings were hanging up side down, with scratches in them. Beneath the bricks, Spyro hears some creepy moaning, which sounded inhuman. Spyro gasps and ran out of the castle.
"So odd, this place looks familair, and so different..." wisperes Spyro, looking around feeling unsafe. "Yoooouuuuu are in theeee Artisans World... An once peaceful world where everyone lived in everlasting happiness, or so we thought it was everlasting..." a voice says out of nowhere, which startles Spyro. "W-who are you?" Spyro asks. "I... am... Spyyyyyyyyyyyro..." the voice replies. "That can't be! I'm Spyro!" Spyro says shocked. Unexpected for Spyro, the Artisans World starts shaking, and a large chinese dragon with monstrous claws flies around the field, through castle's and the walls around the field, destroying them! Spyro looked at the dragon's claws and saw that one of those claws grabbed him earlier!
"That dragon must've been the one who pulled me under the ocean!" Spyro says and he flies away! The large chinese dragon breathes fire on the field, so it burns away! The fire caused by the chinese dragon quickly chases Spyro, who tries to fly higher up into the sky, but the flames beneath him get bigger! Spyro hears more moaning like that what he heard back in that eerie, destroyed castle and tried to fly higher, succeeds and flies up into the sky! The large chinese dragon sees Spyro fly into the sky, chases the purple hero and he grabs him with his monstrous claws! "Time to end this, "Cyn"!" the chinese dragon said and he closed his eyes, while glowing.
