Chapter 2: her name is grunge
Spyro still had the dream in his mind; he hasn't forgotten anything about it.
The day wasn't over yet, Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx had nothing better to do but just go back to the swamp. Spyro noticed something different about the swamp, the sun. The sun was brighter, the sky was blue, and the mushrooms revealed their true colors.
"Sparx, have you noticed something different?" Spyro asked
"Huh, what, oh look the suns out"
"What ever…" spyro rolled his eyes
Sparx hurried ahead of both dragons, rushing them to keep up.
"Spyro, look, it's our mushroom, the one we always hang out by and it's…" Sparx yelled
"Hot pink…" Cynder replied
The mushroom had a hot pink cap with purple violet dots, pretty much a fruity color.
"I kinda regret that the sun came out…" Spyro explained
They walked farther into the swamp, Cynder started to question Spyro about the dream.
"Spyro, I know you're still thinking about the dream" said Cynder
"It's not a dream anymore…"
"What?"
"Nothing…"
They walked deeper into the marsh to the center were the largest mushroom sits; it was a red mushroom and had white spots.
"Here it is, the great mushroom" I explained
"Damn, that's tall" Cynder said in surprise, looking up to the mushroom
"Standing 70 feet tall, worlds largest mushroom"
"Pfft, my mushroom can grow taller than that" Sparx whispered
"Ewwwww, I don't even want to know what you meant" Cynder said disgusted
"What, I didn't mean it that way!" Sparx panicked
"What I meant was I tried growing mushrooms!"
"Magic mushrooms…!" Spyro teased
"Sparx grows magic mushrooms!" Cynder teased
"Stop it!" Sparx demanded
As they played, they didn't know that they were being watched by others. On top of the great mushroom, two other dragons stared down to the trio.
One of the dragons, a female, looked similar to cynder. Her horns were slick; she has a VERY long red scarf wrapped around her neck that moves with the wind.
The other, a desert tan color wrapped in white bandage cloths. His horns jagged and wings torn. His eyes were a bloody red color, and his teeth were razor sharp.
Grunge and dusk were their names.
"They look tasty, I can't wait to sink my teeth into the purple one!" dusk said impatiently
"Your going to have to wait, we can't go down there till Zane's back" Grunge replied
"But they look so yummy"
A black mist rolled onto the mushroom, a shadowy figure raised from the mist.
"What took you so long?" Grunge asked
The shadowy figure became a black dragon with a dark red belly, it was Zane
"Babe, I missed you" Zane flirted
"Don't get all flirty with me…"
"Is it your time of the month?" Zane teased
One of the red scarves dangling in the wind wrapped around Zane's neck hanging him 6 feet above the mushroom cap.
"Your pushing it, aren't you?"
"I can't die, you know that…" Zane replied
"I'm the one that drew the curse seal on you, and it's not that hard to erase it either!" Grunge threatened
"Err…"
The red scarf smashed Zane several times on the cap and threw him down with immense force, Zane bounced once and landing on the cap softly.
"Come on, I'm hungry!" Dusk demanded
"…it's clear to go" whispered Zane
Dusk exploded into a cloud of brown dust and zoomed down to the ground were the trio played.
"What the hell…" Spyro whispered
The cloud of brown dust took form as dusk; his mouth was open with drool dripping from his teeth.
"You look so yummy…"
"Did he just say Spyro looked yummy?" Sparx asked
Dusk dashed at high speed attempting to take a bite of Spyro, at close range Spyro tail whipped Dusk throwing him several feet away. Dusk landed on his four feet, he took a large chunk of earth and spit it back at Spyro. The lump of earth took form of a spike hurling Toward Spyro; Spyro used his earth breath to shatter the spike into several pieces, not knowing that Dusk was dashing toward Spyro behind the spike. Dusk attempted a slash but a long red Scarf wrapped around his body forcing him back.
"That's enough Dusk" Ordered Grunge
Spyro ran back toward Cynder and Sparx.
"Sparx, go back to the temple and alert the guardians!" Spyro ordered
"Yeah, I was thinking of that"
Sparx quickly flew back toward the temple, Cynder stayed with Spyro incase of another attack.
"Who the hell are you?" Spyro demanded an answer
Grunge walked closer to both dragons, Zane entered the area as well.
"Allow us to properly introduce ourselves, my name is Grunge"
"My humble hungry friend over there is Dusk, Dusk say hello" Grunge ordered Dusk
"I already have!" Dusk panted
"And this is…"
"My name is Zane, or you can call me the black mist dragon, but it's a pleasure to meet you two" Zane introduced himself
Spyro positioned himself for an attack, but Cynder stopped him.
"Spyro don't, there's no point, they can't die" Cynder explained
"How…"
"They are part of a clan named the children of the grey, the immortal clan. It would be suicide to even step into their territory"
"Very good, and you must be Cynder, the X servant of the Dark Master" Grunge asked
"But why are you here, what do you want from us?" Spyro asked
"We are afraid you might interfere with our plans…" Grunge replied
They heard voices in the background, voices recognized from the ape soldiers.
Several soldiers came running out from the surrounding entrances. About 20 soldiers ran in Spyro's direction, waving their axes and swords in the air.
"Let me take care of this…" Grunge explained