Chapter 4: The Temple
After about thirty minutes of running they finally made it to the Dragon Temple. When they got there, Spyro opened the door with a burst of electricity. Then the three of them searched the Temple for the Guardians and/or the Dragon Elder. There was no sign of life in the Temple so they all regrouped and decided to search the garden. The garden was split into two sections. One was a very small section where resided a fountain, a big tree, and hill steps leading to the larger section of the garden. Seeing that no one was in the smaller section they proceeded to the other one. When they arrived they saw three of the four Guardians unconscious on the floor as well as the Dragon Elder.
Cyros ran up to Ember a pink, fire dragon and Demi a Forest green, earth dragon both the same age as her. They were the youngest out of the guardians being the newest as well. As she did that Spyro and Cynder went to help the other two guardians: Volteer a yellow, electric dragon and Cyril a light blue, ice dragon, as well as the Dragon Elder Terrador a green, earth dragon. After Cyros helped Ember and Demi up she asked them, "Where's my brother?" Ember holding her head in one claw to help the dizziness pass pointed towards a large boulder. She ran towards it and when she got there she saw an orange, fire dragon with a broken horn lying there still unconsciousness.
"Pyrus!" exclaimed Cyros seeing her brother. "Come on wake up." said Cyros shaking her brother. "Uhh. Mommy can I get a glass of water." murmured Pyrus. "Thank the ancestors." muttered Cyros under her breath. "Come little bro. Get up." said Cyros helping her semi-conscious brother up. "Little? I'm older than you." mumbled Pyrus as they were approaching the others. "I'm still bigger than you." retorted Cyros with humor in her voice. Once everyone was back in the Temple Pyrus cringed in pain that's when Cyros noticed the large gash on his right side. "What happened to you all back there?" Cyros asked Pyrus. "I...I can't remember much it was all a blur." Answer Pyrus. "Well let's get you patched up before we regroup with the others." Pyrus simply nodded at his sister's suggestion.
Back at the infirmary Ember, Demi, Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador were getting healed. "Terrador, do you know what happened here and do you know what that loud screech was?" ask Spyro. Terrador finished bandaging his last wound and then he said in his deep voice, "It was-""Some sort of ambush I presume. We were all caught off guard. We don't know where it came from or why it came. To be honest I thought it got the better of us." interrupted Volteer in his usual rapid speech. "Volteer, you must learn to control that motor mouth of yours." said Cyril. "Thanks, Cyril my head was to spin." said Demi in appreciation. "You're not they only one." stated Ember. "Did any of you get a good look at what attacked you?" asked Cynder. "I did, but what I saw was something that shouldn't exist. I'm still wondering if I saw it correctly." piped up Ember. "What do you mean it 'shouldn't exist'?" asked Cyros. "I mean they were wiped out sometime ago by-by us." said Ember.
"Wait you don't mean…"started Spyro. "Yes I-it was a gargoyle." interrupted Ember in a nervous voice. "Wait how can there be any more gargoyles after we defeated Queen Tyranna?" ask Cynder. Demi being a faster healer than they others came up to Spyro and Cynder and said in her soft shy voice, "It was a gargoyle, but they were different from the ones we fought. This one was tougher, stronger, faster, and when I attacked it the material it was made of seemed similar to the material of those robots back in the canyon in the Forgotten Realms." "Robot gargoyles? Well did it get away with anything?" asked Spyro. "It did not even get away." Everyone looked in Terrador's direction. "Before I succumbed to unconsciousness I was able to deliver one final blow with my earth shot. That ended up being the finishing blow for it. I think it crash somewhere deeper in the garden because I shot it as it was flying away." explained Terrador. "I that case let's go take a look at it once you're all healed up.
In the middle of a desolate terrain a man on some sort of jet pack landed on top of a plateau. "Finally, a place far from any kind of civilization what so ever." said the Professor thinking out loud as usual. "Now let's set up base." The Professor then pulled out a small metal box from his lab coat and he threw it on the ground. Suddenly the box started to expand till it was as big as a two-story building. He then turned around to see two of his gargoyles in the distance. "All is going according to plan." The Professor then began to laugh at how his plan is so far working flawlessly.
Authors note: I hope you all are enjoying the story so far.