Spyro had been flying for two hours into the mountains and had told no one where he was. He landed and fell into a heap of snow and began to think about Cynder.
"Damn me," Spyro said to himself, "Damn me for being so cowardly. How hard can it be to ask her how she feels about you Spyro? The best thing in your life could be lost forever now."
That thought enraged him and he felt his rage grow. He should go and kill the dragon that Cynder was talking about. These thoughts added to his rage, which began to control him. Spyro began to call the elements to him.
First storm clouds started to appear and spiraled above Spyro creating a hole directly above him. Next snow started to fall and soon became ice balls. The earth started to crack around him and splintered. The cracks spread through the mountain and off into the surrounding land causing earthquakes as they sped along. Then came fire that erupted from the mountain he was on. The flames shot high into the air, hundreds of feet straight up, visible for miles around. Lastly a burst of Convexity exploded from him leveling the immediate land around him. Spyro looked around at the power he had as several mountains near him exploded with fire and then shattered with his earth powers. The winds and rate of ice balls falling increased and soon lightning bolts joined striking the area at random points. The burst of Convexity focused into a large beam that shot into the air.
An hour earlier, Cynder met up with the dragon she met yesterday. He greeted her more casually, but still complemented her. She thanked him and introduced herself.
"My name is Cynder," she said.
The dragon was taken back by the name and asked, "The Cynder that assisted in the Dark Master's fall?"
"Yes," she replied.
"It is a great honor to meet you Cynder," the dragon said, "My name is Cephas."
"I'm glad to meet you Cephas," Cynder replied, "Now should we get dinner?"
"I think that would be splendid," Cephas said walking next to her.
At the same time Cynder and Cephas were going to eat the four Guardians were on the balcony. They watched the mountains intently, trying to figure what was happening. Dark storm clouds had rolled over the land and lightning began to light up the sky. After a short time snow fell and then became hail. Fire randomly exploded into the sky inside the mountain range, which was visible to the Guardians. A minute later an earthquake came, cracking the earth near the temple.
Ignitus looked at the other Guardians and said, "I hope this is not what I think it means."
He quickly ran into the temple and looked into the Pool of Visions.
Terrador followed him and asked, "What is it Ignitus?"
"This is a sign of either the Dark Master's return or of the creation of a new Dark Master," Ignitus explained.
"Ignitus! Terrador! Come quickly!" shouted Volteer.
The two Guardians ran back to the balcony and looked up at the sky above the mountains and saw a beam of Convexity. Their eyes where filled with horror and they knew what this meant.
"Where is Spyro?" Ignitus asked.
"No one is sure at the moment Ignitus," Cyril answered.
"May the Ancestors protect use from this new evil that has risen," Ignitus said.
At the time of the earthquake, Cynder and Cephas were finished eating.
"Well that was great," Cephas said leaning back in his chair a bit.
Cynder had to agree the restaurant, the food, and the talk was quite enjoyable for her. She hated to admit it, but she thought this guy was pretty capable to be with her, but nowhere near as capable as Spyro was. But Cephas would serve his purpose for the time being.
The earthquake came through and hit the restaurant they were in and the building took quite a beating. The roof collapsed in and Cynder dived out of the window they were next to. Cephas looked up at a piece of the ceiling that was about to fall.
Cynder saw him stand there and yelled, "Cephas, come on!"
Cephas just smiled, closed his fist, and punched the ceiling piece, breaking it into hundreds of smaller rocks that flew everywhere.
He then stepped out of the building and Cynder asked, "Why did you stay in there?"
"Perhaps to show off how strong I am," Cephas said in a humorous way.
Cynder rolled her eyes and Cephas laughed.
Suddenly a bright purple beam of energy shot up into the sky on the horizon. Cephas' eyes were wide for an unknown reason, almost as if he was trying to remember the beam of energy. Cynder's eyes were also wide, but not for the same reason. She knew that something must have happened to Spyro and she turned to Cephas.
"I have leave I'm sorry," Cynder said, "I'll see you around?"
"Yea…yeah, sure," Cephas said still locked onto the beam.
Cynder took off and quickly flew towards the beam.
An hour later, Spyro was using the different elements in the most destructive ways possible. The ground was crisscrossed with cracks and fissures. Spyro glared at a mountain about half a mile away. The intensity and the focus of his energy caused the mountain to crumble into dust.
Large icicles began to fall from the sky, splitting the ground as they shattered on contact. The Spyro put more into the unnatural weather and the clouds grew darker and the rate of falling ice was greatly increased.
Lightning was more frequent and struck the ground, causing the rocks and ground to explode, pummeling the landscape with rock debris. Lightning began to flow through the very rocks of the mountains. Purple currents of electricity dashed across the rock faces and continued traveling to the top of the mountains and connected with the lightning from the sky followed by the loud booms of thunder.
Flames erupted from every possible way in the mountains. Any crack, fissure, hole, cave, or craves now became a flamethrower. The immense heat that came off from the infernos was great enough to cause some of the deadly icicles to melt in mid air.
All of these elements were completely under the control of Spyro. As the four other elements increased in power so did Spyro's most potent force, Convexity. The beam that shot out of him increased in diameter and small waves of the destructive energy were thrown onto the landscape, passing right through them as if they didn't even exist.
Spyro growled deeply making the earth below rubble. He continued his rampage only increasing the destruction of the land around him.
Cynder was advancing towards Spyro, but was hindered by the storm. Nevertheless she pushed on, knowing that Spyro's life could be lost if she didn't hurry to find him. Luckily she had the beam of Convexity to guide her.
"Who ever Spyro is fighting he sure is powerful to be able to stand up to this," Cynder thought.
She pressed on determined to find her friend thinking that he was need of some assistance from some new evil. Little did she know that that evil was the dragon she cared for the most.
"Ignitus what options do we have?" asked Volteer.
"Spyro must return to the light or be killed to prevent another series of events like the Dark Master's," Ignitus shared, "Hopefully Spyro's friends can help him stay in the light and not fade out like Malefor did thousands of years ago."
Cynder found Spyro and was utterly horrified to see him acting the way he was. He destroyed everything around him in pure rage. Cynder could only wonder what has caused him to do such a thing.
"Spyro!" she shouted as loud as she could.
Spyro paid no heed and continued on his hell-bent rampage.
"Spyro!" she shouted again.
This time Spyro seemed to hear it and looked towards her with glowing purple eyes saying, "Go back to the village Cynder, it's not safe for you here."
"Nowhere is safe at the moment," Cynder replied, "Your power is beyond your understanding. It is damaging the village as we speak and it almost killed me!"
"What?" Spyro roared, "That is impossible. I made sure I was far enough away so that I didn't harm the village."
"Like I said your powers are beyond your control and understanding," Cynder said, "You are endangering everyone you know, you are putting everyone you care about in harms way."
Spyro stopped his rampage and the elements around him seemed to lessen as he realized how dangerous he was. He stopped completely and the natural weather came back and Spyro returned to his normal self.
He collapsed onto the hard rocky outcrop that once was covered with snow. The small outcrop should have been destroyed, but Spyro was able to keep it intact with his earth powers. Cynder landed next to him and helped him to his feet. Tears rolled down his face as he looked at Cynder.
He shook his head and asked, "What is happening to me Cynder?"
Cynder held him in a comforting embrace and replied, "You just have a lot on your mind."
She guessed the real reason though. Males weren't the hardest to read, she found that out mostly from Ember, her close friend.
"Let's head back home," Cynder suggested. Spyro nodded and they left the site of great destruction for the place of great comfort. Home.