The Wind Dragon
"how are we supposed to find the Shadow Dragons in this mess?" jade asked as the group was now on the Dread-yacht sailing over the ruined San Fran, "The dragons could be all over the planet by now and we'd never find them in time. They're destroying the Earth and countless innocent live in the process and it's all because of Malefor's scheming."
"We'll find them the same way we found the Eternal Sources," Ice spoke. He and the JTeens were also going with the Skylanders on this assignment, "I still can't believe the Arkeyans would resort to destroying all of San Francisco, the entire Earth and the universe. It's all Stacey's fault that the planet's gonna die and the Arkeyans are about to destroy the universe just to restore honor to their race."
"Perhaps we should just let the Shadow Dragons destroy that whore Stacey and be done with it," Sunburn said, "That's the best approach I can think of at this point and while we're at it we offer everyone else who dishonored the Arkeyan Empire as a sacrifice."
"We can't do that Sunburn because the Shadow Dragons already destroyed all those who dishonored the Arkeyans by destroying the entire city with everyone in in it," Cynder said before continuing, "Though personaly I agree with that approach to appeasing the Governors. However its not the best approach since as Skylanders, we're supposed to save innocent lives not sacrifice them."
"Uncle sacrificed Wally without a second thought," Luna hissed coldly, "I say we should've killed all those who dishonored the Arkeyans when we had the chance before it came to this. Now Shenron won't restore the planet and revive those who died in the process."
"He can't revive somebody who has already been revived before," Rita reminded, "And Genghis won't revive anyone who dishonored the Arkeyans if he's already revived them before."
"What about asking another Eternal Dragon?" Colleen asked, "Can't we get another Eternal Dragon to undo all the killing and destruction the Shadow Dragons have done or will do if left unchecked?"
"We'll figure it out later Colleen," Zap said, "Personally I'm glad Jimmy and the adults who lectured you on how you stood up to Mikey are all dead. They committed a serious act of dishonor against Aqua because you were her apprentice so I wouldn't be surprised if she's flooded an entire city."
"We can discuss this later," Whirlwind retorted, "Right now we have to find the shadow dragons and stop them. Every second we waste here is another ten thousand people that they kill and another city destroyed in the process. But we have no clue where to start looking for them."
"Whirlwind's right, the shadow dragons are all over the planet and it could take centuries to find them all in time," Bash spoke before noticing colleen had been quiet since asking about Skylus, "What's with you? I thought you'd be glad to know that Governess Aqua's got your back."
"Yes and No in a way," Colleen said, "Yes in the sense that Aqua does have my best interests in mind but no in the sense that she and the other governors killed the adults who lectured me on how I stood up for my friends."
"For the record Coleen, the Arkeyan Empire sides with bullied kids and our race has been known to step in and slaughter anyone who tries to stop, lectures, or punishes bullied kids from fighting back the way Wally, Sophie, and yourself did by killing them," Reina chimed in, "That's one of the main reasons why we Arkeyans are the most dangerous and the most feared sorcerers in all of existence. It's also the reason why many bullied kids have come to us for the last 10,000 years from all dimensions to fight their bullies. We take the best approach to fighting bullies we know how and that's through brute force and slaughtering."
"That's the approach we should've used right from the start," Camo piped up as he spoke, "We show no mercy or pity to our enemies. As Skylanders, we're supposed to be fighting the forces of darkness and the forces of Evil and the Arkeyan are on our side so that means we should take a page from their book. Our job states we're to help those who need us and right now the Arkeyans need our help. Who else agrees with me on that or does anybody else have something to say?"
"Camo you have a point that as Skylanders, our job is to fight he forces of evil no matter where it is or what form it takes," Spyro spoke up before going into lecture mode, "But as Skylanders we also have a duty to protect the innocent and teach them right form wrong. The Arkeyans may have been acting with the best intentions but they killed innocent people who didn't do anything wrong and were only being parents."
"You do realize that Luna's present and if she wanted to she could tell the Arkeyans and they'd tear you apart right?" Drobot asked as Spyro nodded before the Tech Dragon continued talking, "Still you have a point. The Arkeyans killed innocent people and we should've stepped in yet as a team they're impossible to beat."
"However Drobot, Valmont's actions by calling them stage performers, thugs, and brutes and demanding that they summon Shenron so that he could wish they never got involved was the trigger that caused them to go berserk and mutate into the deadly shadow dragons," Jade reminded, "Or did you forget that. Either way the Shadow Dragons are attacking the planet as individuals so we can defeat them one by one."
"Don't look now but the first shadow dragon is already in Seattle," Flynn said reading the compass, "The weather up there is getting much worse than it usually is. You don't suppose that this dragon is affecting the weather patterns up there and using them to destroy the entire continent?"
"If that's the case then we better hurry," Drago advised, "That dragon's growing more powerful by the minute. If we don't stop it now then the entire planet is history."
The Dread-yacht sailed onwards to Seattle and to the eye of the storm. Meanwhile over in Skylands, Malefor was watching everything with Tchang Zu via a magic mirror on the Cloudbreak islands. The Thunder Demon was already in a good mood after hearing how the dragons destroyed most of his siblings and his father in the process and he called in some connections to finish getting things ready on the Cloudbreak islands.
"Remind me to thank you for teaching me the Chi Disease spell Tchang Zu," Malefor said, "This is going to make eliminating our enemies so much easier."
"Provided the shadow dragons are unable to defeat our enemies and destroy the JTeens themselves which fortunately may not be an issue," Tchang Zu said, "However the shadow dragons need to destroy the flowers for the cure to the disease."
"Which is why I already sent Vathek to do the job, I need him to destroy all the plants first. Then I've got Kaos and Glumshanks bringing in a special guest and both sets of Dragonballs. We'll need them to summon the Eternal Dragons."
"Why do we even need the Eternal Dragons and more importantly why bring that idiot Kaos into this? He's an imcompitent fool and he, that stupid rock ape, and Circe failed their jobs to eliminate the JTeens!"
"Because Tchang Zu, we need the Eternal Dragons to restore the Powerful Space Empire Zangyack to its full strength. I also plan to have use the Eternal Dragon to make me the new leader of the Space Empire Zangyack. As for Kaos, I need him to go after the Iron Fist of Arkus and wake up the legion of Arkeyan War Machines and have them destroy the rest of the Demon Sorcerers except for yourself."
"You want Zangyack restored and you want to be its new leader, clever but there's one problem. The Empire's dissolving thanks to a bunch of filthy human space pirates destroying its previous leaders. We should destroy them before they destroy us and we should also tie up some lose ends as well!"
"Such as finding and eliminating Jade since she was the one who got you stripped of your thunder powers for a month by ratting you out to Xua Wing," Kaos sneered as he and Glumshanks were riding on Vathek's back with both sets of Dragon Balls, "Personally I actually liked you being powerless during that time."
"Sir lets not make the super powerful thunder demon want to kill us," Glumshanks advised knowing Tchang Zu wouldn't hesitate to kill them in a heartbeat.
"Like I said kaos may acti like an idiot but he's got a cunning mind," Malefor spoke, "Who do you think it was that freed me from Skylands underworld and destroyed the Core of Light? Hektore?"
"I'll admit that Kaos is clever but I want that mouthy water kid dead by tonight!" The Thunder Demon Roared, ""Tell whichever shadow dragon is there to kill her and those blasted JTeens or get one of your minions to eliminate them!"
"All my minions are busy and the shadow dragons don't take orders from anyone. Besides we've got the dragonballs so all we need now is somebody else to make the wish for us. After all we're trying to cover our own tracks."
"Fortunately for us we'll either let Glumshanks make the wish or we get somebody else from say another civilization to make the wish," Kaos as the Villians already called the Eternal Dragon, "Fortunately Vathek was smart enough to find a good victim to do the job."
Back on earth, the Dread-Yacht sailed right into seattle and it was clear that from the destroyed city and blood and guts everywhere that the Air Shadow Dragon was near. The Dragon had already destroyed the area and much of the North Western United States and it was already preparing to unleash the rest of the wrath upon the planet.
"Take not everyone," Luna said as she gave the JTeens and the Skylanders a lesson, "This is why we Arkeyans are the most feared and dangerous sorcerers and all of existence. We're capable of destroying entire cities and planets if anyone pisses us off and we'll even even kill off entire civilizations in entire galaxies or solar systems of other dimensions to drive home the pont that nobody dishonors us and lives!"
"Okay we get it Luna. We get how much your race takes honor to your civilization," Jade said nearly about to puke, "Let's just find the shadow dragon and destroy it so we can start undoing the damage done to this world not to mention restore all the innocent lives those dragons stole."
"Guys is it just me or are we seeing Ventus on the top of the Space Needle?" Hugo asked as the group turned to see what looked like Ventus standing on the top of the Space Needle only he was pitch black and had glowing white eyes which gave the impression that the Darkness had taken over.
"I'd say we found the Shadow Dragon," Chrissie said, "It's probably using Ventus' body as a host."
"So how are we supposed to slay the dragon without killing Ventus in the process?" Cody asked, "IF we destroy Ventus then Luna will destroy us due to the bylaws."
"What bylaws?" Cali asked, "Don't' tell me the Arkeyans have bylaws about their leaders?"
"Unfortunately they do and one of them says that anybody who kills any of the leaders or Governors of the Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire is sentenced to death," Hugo said reading the Arkeyan Emire Bylaws, "No exceptions."
"So we need to separate the shadow dragon from Ventus," Rita said, "Any ideas on how we go about doing it?"
"We better think fast because the long we wait the harder it'll be to remove that dragon from Ventus," Yukie said as she and Maria suddenly showed up.
"Maria Yukie when did you show up?" Ice asked.
"We took a page from Jade's book and snuck onboard the Dread-Yacht," Yukie said. "And we were there when the Shadow Dragons destroyed all of San Fran. Personally I say it served those who dishonored our people right."
"We can talk about this later but getting back to the shadow dragon. If the Dragon was created from negative energy then perhaps there's a way to remove it," Adinda said working on a spell, "I'll need some time to prepare the exorcism spell and I'll need some assistance. In the meantime somebody needs to go run interference."
"I got it," Jade said grabbing an Arkeyan Jet Pack, "Luna taught me how to use it."
Jade took to the skies as Spyro, Drobot, Cynder and Whirlwind took off after her. Adinda and Chrissie began working on the exorcism spell to free Ventus from the shadow dragon.
"So tell me again why we didn't bring Sunburn with us?" Whirlwind asked, "We need him!"
"Because Sunburn pretty much hates our guts right now," Cynder said, "And by our guts I mean yours and Spyros' for that matter and so does Camo for that speech Spyro made earlier."
"I don't blame them since they pretty much like working for the Arkeyan Governors and side with them on nearly every battle they've been in before Kaos destroyed the Core of Light," Drobot said, "That and the negative energy shrouding the planet is getting worse."
"Well well glad you could show up," the shadow dragon sneered as the group of five stopped at the tower and saw the possessed Ventus standing on the top, "I'm Vanitas Shenron but you can call me Vanitas for short. I'm the Shadow Dragon of the air and lightning now prepare to die!"
Right on cue the shadow dragon fired air shattering energy orbs at the heroes in an attempt to kill the gang. Jade and the Skylanders dodged the attack before dodging multiple air related attacks. Spyro countered with an ice stream but the shadow dragon fought back with lightning before frying Spyro and sending him crashing right into the Dread-yacht.
"Remind me never to piss off Ventus ever again," Spyro groaned before passing out.
"Eat spectral lightning!" Cynder yelled trying to fry Vanitas with her breath attack but the shadow dragon simply absorbed the attack and grew stronger, "But how? That attack should've fried you by now. Only Tchang Zu has the power to absorb lightning."
"Did you forget who vessel is? He and his people studied the Eternal Air Source and all of its secrets," Vanitas sneered before charging an electric orb, "Eat the results of their research and die maggots!"
Vanitas fired the electro orb at the heroes forcing them to dodge both the attack and the numerous thunderbolts from the area and to make matters worse, some of the bolts hit the Dread-yacht sending the ship into a tail spin but Flynn managed to steady the ship.
"Please tell me that spell is ready," Flynn yelled, "I can't keep this up forever!"
"The spell's ready but there's one problem," Adinda said, "Vanitas has the place littered with thunderbolts and there's no way this ship can sail through them in one piece."
"Considering Vanitas is gonna destroy us the minute we get this ship closer I'm gonn say that somebody has to fly in close to the tower and remove him from Ventus," Rita said getting her staff ready," I'll need to summon Flavius to fly me there."
"Actually both you and Reina have to cast the spell," Chrissie said, "The spell requires Arkeyan Magic as the key ingredient to removing Vanitas from Ven's body."
"And what do we do once the shadow dragon is removed from Ventus?" Reina questioned as Chrissie poured the potion on Reina and Rita's staffs powering them up, "You do know that dragon's gonna be more dangerous than ever."
"Which is why we'll just destroy the dragon, once we remove the beast from Ven's body," Yukie said, "Simple."
"It's not so simple Yukie," Zap said as Reina and Rita summoned Flavius and took flight on his back, "Once we free Ventus we'll have to give it everything we've got to destroy the dragon and the scary part is that this dragon is the least powerful of the eight shadow dragons."
"The other seven Shadow Dragons are much more powerful and they'll all be trying to kill us," Bash said as Reina and Rita already casted the exorcism spell to remove Vanitas from Ventus' body, "Which means that we better fight for our lives."
The shadow dragon had been extracted form Ventus and was now a white and silver striped serpentine dragon whose form seemed to be a more dangerous version of Ventus' dragon form. Speaking of whom the Wind Arkeyan Governor was falling to the ground at a very fast pace.
"That's the end of Vanitas using Ventus as a shield," Flynn said as Ventus was out cold, "So now Ventus is free to fly so shouldn't he be doing that by now? Unless he suddenly fell asleep on the job or something."
"Ventus is out like a light due to being so weak after being the host vessel for a Shadow Dragon and he's falling right to the ground," Cali snapped as Reina and Rita used their staffs to rescue Ventus and get him to a medical bed in the Dread-yacht, "And Reina and Rita are busy restoring Ventus to his full power by now and trying to wake him up."
"Guess its up to us to help," Ice said preparing to step in only for Rose to stop him, "Hey what gives rosebud?"
"This is an Arkeyan Sorcerer Empire Problem Ice," Rose said, "So its up to me and Sara to stop Vanitas."
"Rose is right. Malefor's scheming forced the Arkeyan Sorcerer Governors to over summon Shenron and that in turn mutated them into the Shadow Dragons," Sara stated, "Just as your bratty whore of a sister stole riches and attacked our people and caused everyone who crossed her pain in the form of water pranks which forced you to reveal that you were the one who squealed on her to Tori and got her grounded for an entire summer."
"Which by the way was your best work ever," Sunburn chimed in while Rose and Sara combined powers, "I already told the Arkeyan Governors about that and they say that was your best idea ever."
"I second that and I also second Sunburn when he says that the Arkeyans killing the brat was the best thing that ever happened," Camo spoke.
"Can we discuss this later?" Adinda said as the JTeens stepped aside to give Rose and Sara room to combine powers and destroy Vanitas once and for all.
Said shadow dragon had already injured Drobot heavily before ending up in a breath weapon battle with Cynder and her spectral lightning attack and Spyro's lightning breath attack. Fortunately, he didn't see Rose and Sara combine powers and cross their staffs to blast him into bits, destroying him and returning the weather to its usual rainy state.
"The shadow dragon's history," Flynn cheered, "He's gone."
"Congraulations fools," Kaos' giant floating head sneered as it appeared before them, "You may have defeated Vanitas Shenron but there are still 7 more dragons and they're all more powerful. I've no doubt that the Water Shadow Dragon will ring you fools out. Hahahahaha!"
"That Kaos really grinds my gears," Zap growled.
"He does to same to me but he's right," Luna said, "Those other dragons are still out there and they're already using the bodies of the other seven governors."
"Luna's right we got to save them as soon as possible," Jade said, "Flynn set course to Rome," Jade said, "I'm thinking a Shadow Dragon might be there."
"Right little lady," Flynn said, "But why is a Dragon in Rome?"
"Probably cause that's where the Roman Empire was built," Colleen said, "And my guess is that's where one of the dragons has probably set up shop."
"We'll have to ask Ventus when he gets back on our feet," Yukie said, "He's our only lead."
The heroes knew that Yukie was right as the Dread-Yacht sailed to Rome in search of the next shadow dragon.