A/N: And here's Chapter 2! enjoy

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Chapter 2: Reawakening

'Even in the Darkest of times, there is always hope. But sometimes fear clouds our vision. Sometimes our strength gives out. And yet sometimes, when all seems lost, a light shines through the darkness, and we are reminded that even the smallest amount of courage can turn the tides of war…' Excerpt from The Wisdom of Ignitus, Vol. 1.

Hunter's POV

I've been searching all over to try and find Spyro, Cynder, and Jolt. Most recently, I'd been sneaking around the Well of Souls… or at least the ruins of it. I'd heard the grublins speaking in their strange tongue of some interesting discovery in the deepest chambers of the ruins. I decided that it would be the better part of valor to follow them.

I tracked the grublins deep into the mountain I noticed that they were carrying some sort of ornately decorated chest.

"We're here," said one of the grublins, as they stepped into a chamber.

In the center of the chamber, surrounded by crumbled stone, was a massive orange crystal. Within, there were four figures: three dragons, and a dragonfly. Even through the crystal, I could tell that they were the ones I'd been searching for!

"Break it," commanded the grublin leader.

One of lesser grublins stepped towards the crystal and bashed it with its mace. Suddenly cracks started to radiate across the crystal, and light started to pour forth from the crystal. On top of that, voices were heard echoing around the chamber.

"Spyro, stop!"

"I… I can't"

The cracks widened, and the light got brighter.

"Guys, get close to me, now!"

The crystal blew itself apart, and the grublins shielded themselves until the dust settled. As it did, the dragons were revealed to be lying on the ground unconscious.

"Shackle them!" said the grublin leader.

The grublins carrying the chest set it down and opened the lid, revealing a trio of what looked like green, crystalline snakes. The removed the snakes from the chest. They then had the other grublins lift up the unconscious dragons, then approached the dragons and placed the crystal snakes against their necks. The crystal snakes sprang to life and coiled around their necks forming into necklaces. They then dragged the three dragons away.

I moved out of my hiding spot, carefully checking to make sure it was safe, and picked up the dragonfly, Sparx, who was just waking up.

"Who are you?" said Sparx, "where's Spyro? What's going on?"

"Shhh… you're making too much noise," I whispered.

I then set out to follow the grublins who'd taken Spyro and the others.

Jolt's POV

Ow… where am I? I though.

"Spyro… Jolt… Open your eyes!" said Cynder.

I did so, and then slowly got to my feet. I checked quickly, and saw that the Charge Crystal saw safe, and so was the Blade of Storm's Fury. I looked around… and I didn't recognize my location. We were on a platform suspended over what appeared to a pool of magma. We were positioned next to a large stone disc. It had what looked like some sort of attachment point on top, but there were no chains connected to it.

I looked over and Spyro and Cynder… it seemed that they had grown a bit since he had used his powers to protect us during the Night of Eternal Darkness. I then realized that I had as well.

How long have we been out? I thought.

"Cynder, what happened?" Said Spyro, "Where are we?"

"I don't know, it's all a blur," Said Cynder

"Yeah," I said, "me too. My head's pounding".

"Shhh. Wait!" Said Cynder, "That's not your head. I hear it too…"

I listened carefully, and heard the sound of large drums being played somewhere nearby. This only compounded the pounding headache, which I did in fact have.

"What is that?" I asked hesitantly.

All around us, torches at the edges of the chamber started to light up.

"Sparx, is that you?" Spyro asked.

"I don't think so," I said

More torches lit up revealing some sort of insectoid creatures. I didn't know what they were, but they definitely weren't allies of ours.

"For once I wish it was," said Cynder.

The creatures seemed to be cackling maliciously… or possibly cheering? I couldn't tell… either way, I didn't like it.

"What are they doing?" asked Cynder, sounding worried.

"Let's not stick around to find out," said Spyro, "Come on!"

"Yeah… let get out of here," I said.

We started to move towards where we could see another platform directly ahead of us. Suddenly I felt something pulling me back… like I was on a leash. Cynder apparently thought was Spyro or I doing it as she paused to complain about it.

"Argh!" said Cynder, "What is your problem?"

We then noticed our new necklaces… or should I say collars. They resembled green, coiled, crystalline snakes. And extending from these collars were arcing ropes of energy, which was traveling back to the stone disc, and looping through the attachment point on top.

"Oh," we all said simultaneously, "This can't be good…"

We realized there wasn't anything we could for moment: we were trapped.

Another group of these creatures arrived, along with a larger one that was probably some sort of leader. It started speaking in a language I was sure i was unfamiliar with, yet somehow I could understand it clearly.

"They're awake," said the enemy leader, "don't let them escape!"

A large number of the insectoid creatures dived into the ground where they we standing, and then burst out of the ground next to us. We started to fight them off. We were still out of elemental energy, so we used basic melee combos to defeat them. They we actually pretty weak, and each one fell after only a few hits… of course, the sword I was wielding helped as well. After several waves I noticed that our foes were backing off… but why?

"Why are those things running away?" I asked, and then felt the ground starting to shake, "Uh oh…"

Suddenly from the magma pool below, a massive golem burst forth. It raised one of its huge fists and slammed it down onto our platform while roaring, causing a crack to open up. The fracture ran from the edge platform right through the stone disc we were chained to. The stone disc now looked weakened enough to break with some effort. The Spyro and Cynder noticed this as well.

"We have to break this thing," said Cynder, "It's holding us down!"

We rushed up to the stone disc and started bashing it, but it was slow going… that is, until the golem slammed it fist into the disc, intent on smashing us flat. We quickly dodged out of the way, and watched as the golem's fist completely shattered the stone disc. We were now free from that thing, though we were still chained to each other.

We rushed towards the golem, but we quickly discovered just how awkward it was to move while chained together. After several minutes of constantly attacking and dodging, our foe showed no signs of weakening.

"This chain is slowing us down!" I said, "We can't fight it!"

"We have to move in unison!" said Spyro, "Follow my lead!"

"Why should YOU lead?" said Cynder.

Before this argument could go any further, we heard the golem readying itself for anther attack.

"Uh-oh… take cover!" said Spyro.

We quickly took to the air in unison, deftly avoiding the golem's fist as it smashed down on the platform.

"Okay," conceded Cynder, "good idea… you lead".

We flew further away from the golem, as watched as it became increasingly annoyed at our continual dodging. It was at this point I noticed a new figure had entered the chamber: it was a Cheetah wearing a green traveler's cloak.

He swiftly drew out a bow and fired an arrow straight at the golem. It was a very well placed shot, and went straight into the golem's eye. From were the arrow hit, a cloud of purple smoke started emerging. It tried to punch at the Cheetah, but seeing as it was now partially blinded, the golem's punch went wide, and the Cheetah dodged with ease.

Instead, the only thing the punch hit was one of the rooms support columns, knocking it over right on top of the golem's other hand. The golem reared back in pain and shook it's injured hand while in submerged back into the magma pool, looking embarrassed. I noticed that the column had fallen in such a way that it formed a convenient bridge to the ledge where our mysterious protector was standing.

With the chaos of the battle now over, we returned to the platform where we started. We then looked over at the Cheetah, wondering who exactly he was. It was around this time that Sparx showed up, flying over from where the Cheetah was standing.

"Hey, Spyro, man," said Sparx happily, "you're alive!"

"Sparx! It's good to see you too!" replied Spyro, "You okay?"

"Huh, you know," said Sparx, "little stiff, voice keeps changing, but I'm good".

I couldn't help but chuckle a little at that, but we had more important matters to attend to, and apparently Cynder thought the same.

"Hey, this reunion is really touching and everything," said Cynder, "but shouldn't we be going? Unless, you WANT to wait for that thing to climb back up…"

"Yeah," I added, "I'd hate to think what it might do to Sparx…"

Sparx suddenly looked around uncomfortably. Mean while Spyro, Cynder and I we more focused on the Cheetah.

"Who is he?" asked Spyro.

"I don't know," said Sparx, "all he said was 'Shhh, you're making too much noise'".

I snickered at that.

"I like him already!" said Cynder.

Our group climbed up onto the fallen pillar, and headed over to speak with our apparent ally.

"Spyro, Cynder, Jolt," said the Cheetah, " are you alright? Anything broken?"

"We're shaken a little," said Spyro, "but not too badly… thanks to you".

The Cheetah sighed, and then continued.

"I am relived," he said, "I had feared I might be too late. My name is Hunter".

'I look forwards to the day we can meet, Hunter of Avalar', I remembered.

"Hunter," said Spyro, sounding awed, "you've been tracking us!"

"For far too long, friend," said Hunter, as we started to head towards the exit.

"When you didn't return to the temple," said Hunter, "the elder dragon, Ignitus, sent me to find you. That was nearly three years ago".

Wait a minute, I thought, did he say THREE YEARS?

"What? Three years?" said Spyro, sounding just as shocked as I was feeling, "But that's impossible!"

"Yes. I'm sure this news comes as quite a shock," said Hunter, "Forgive me the brevity of my explanation, but this is not the place to account for missing time".

As if to punctuate this statement, a section of the ceiling fell, blocking us from returning to the previous chamber.

"We are not safe here," said Hunter, "Follow me!"

He then ran off down the passage, and we hurried to keep up.

Meanwhile

Warfang Dragon Temple

Tempest's POV

It was late, yet I couldn't sleep. My dreams were filled with images that at the same time were both wonderful and terrible… I saw Spyro and Cynder… they we okay! I wondered for a moment why I didn't see Jolt, but then I remembered what the Chronicler had told us about our necklace's ability to let us see feel what each other were feeling, and even see through each other's eyes. I also saw them fighting off a small army of Grublins, and then being attacked by a massive golem… only to be rescued by Hunter! I hurried out to tell, the Guardians the wonderful news.

Outside my room, I almost immediately ran into Gneiss.

"Tempest? Did you have a strange dream involving Spyro and Cynder too?" he asked.

"Yeah, I was just on my way to tell the Guardians about it," I replied.

"I think Ignitus is still up, he should be in the library," said Gneiss, "let's go tell him what we saw".

We hurried off to the temple's library, and as expected, we found Ignitus still up, working late as usual. He hadn't changed much in the three years we'd known him… he was still the same kind natured dragon that we'd met in that cave in the swamps.

As we entered the library, Ignitus looked up from the book he'd been reading to speak with us.

"Young dragons, what are you still doing up?" asked Ignitus, "with the way things are, you need to be well rested so you may be ready for the Dark Master's next assault".

"We know, Ignitus, but we had a vision about Spyro, Cynder, and Jolt," I said. We then told him what we'd seen.

As we finished recounting the events of our dream, we saw Ignitus smiling about what we'd told him.

"This is excellent news young dragons," said Ignitus, "they'll be safe with Hunter guiding them. I know this will be difficult, and that you want to go flying to their aid, but you must remain in the city for now. As you know, Hunter has standing orders to bring them here, and we must trust him to get the job done".

"Alright, Ignitus, well do our best to restrain ourselves," said Gneiss, "come on Tempest, let's try to get some rest".

With that, we headed back to our rooms to try once again to sleep. We were glad to know that our friends were not only back, but that they were on their way here right now.

A/N: And there we go! Next time... Through the Catacombs.