Chapter 7: The Club
"Are you kidding me?" Sparx said in awe, "He's flying! Welcome to the club, bug guy!" Flame and Sparx flew side by side while Spyro flew further away.
"Would that be the annoying pest club?" Spyro returned rudely.
Sparx lowered his eyes at Spyro, "No, smart ass. The flying club."
"Yeah, I could get used to this." Spyro agreed and flew forward through the clouds. He loved flying; it gave him a new sense of freedom. He could see everything from up where he was.
As Spyro was enjoying his new view, he saw something black in the air. What is that? He thought. He squinted to try and get a better look.
"Spyro, look out!" Flame yelled.
Spyro quickly spiralled out of the way. He looked behind him, seeing a cannonball leaving a trail of smoke. He turned around again; eyes wide open, and saw five more cannonballs heading straight for him and his friends. Shit. They all dodged them.
They quickly realized that the fun was over and that they needed to get serious. They were under attack and needed to be careful. Flame and Spyro shot fireballs straight back at the canoneers, taking them out as fast as they could.
Sparx looked down at the sea, and he saw something moving in the water. When he took a closer look, he saw that it was some sort of giant turtle. What in God's name is that…? A little scared of this mysterious creature, he requested that either Spyro or Flame shot it with a fireball.
"It's not doing anything, Sparx," Spyro explained, "Besides, we have bigger problems." Spyro said, looking back at all of the cannonballs flying towards them.
It didn't take long to get to Dante's Freezer. The boys had no idea what was in store for them.
"Wait, how to heck do I land?" Spyro asked in a panic, "Incoming!"
Sparx said to himself, "This doesn't look good…" Flame was killing himself laughing.
"Ouf!" Spyro grunted as he landed on his face. "Maybe this flying thing isn't for me."
Sparx commented, "Well, it sure doesn't help that you're carrying all that weight."
Spyro raised an eyebrow at him.
"You know, throw in a salad once in a while. You might be okay." Sparx was joking, but he said it seriously.
"Jeez, it's fucking cold here…" Flame changed the subject.
"Yeah," Spyro replied, "I wonder where we should start."
Sparx answered, "Well, I'm no hero like you, but maybe we should take that clearly marked path that leads to the interior?"
Spyro rolled his eyes.
Suddenly, they heard another shriek from the sky. They looked up and they saw her. Cynder.
Holy shit…Flame couldn't take his eyes off of her. She reminded him so much of his mom. They looked exactly alike, especially from far away.
XXXXX Flame's Flashback XXXXX
"Aaaahhhh! Don't touch me!" Flame heard someone scream. It was a female dragon.
Flame turned his head to the right and saw the dragon. Mom! An ape that was trying to throw chains around her wings was attacking her.
He jumped out of the bush to try and help. "Stop!" he screamed.
The ape looked towards him, and slowly started to walk this way. He had an evil grin on his face, like he was going to enjoy hurting Flame. Flame's eyes were filled with terror, and he backed away slowly. Suddenly, Flame's mom tackled the ape and burned him with her fire breath. Flame stared at the lifeless ape that was lying on the floor. He's dead.
He was then snatched away by his mother without a word. She was carrying him, running to somewhere. Flame just hung on and shut his eyes. He wanted this nightmare to be over, he wanted to wake up. A few tears fell from his eyes and onto to the ground.
XXXXX End of Flashback XXXXX
They were all standing completely still. They watched her as she flew away.
Spyro, Flame, and Sparx all continued on inside. The first thing they saw were these strange structures made of ice. They were similar to the shape of a human being.
Sparx stared closely at the ice structures, "Is it weird that that blinked at me?" he asked.
Flame and Spyro both shot their heads in his direction and said in unison, "What!?"
Suddenly, the ice cracked off and there were men with armour attacking the three boys.
"Aaahh!" Sparx yelled, "Ice cubes alive!"
They defeated the men and continued on. Then, something really weird happened. The three boys came up to a tall tower when, suddenly, a lightning bolt shot out and hit Spyro, knocking him to the ice-cold ground.
"Shit. Are you okay?" Flame asked, worried.
Three men ran at them, ready to attack when Spyro let out lightning bolts from his mouth. They all fell to the ground, defeated. Spyro kept walking forward.
"I guess so." Flame replied to himself.
They were met with many challenges. Fighting their way through the Freezer, they finally made it into the cave, which enclosed the guardian, Volteer. Volteer was a big yellow dragon, possessing the element of lightning. He was just as big as Ignitus. His body was yellow and he had large purple wings and spines going down his back. He was lying down, unconscious.
"Well that's him. We did it. Bye" Sparx said, wanting to go back to the temple where it was safer.
"No, this is too easy," Spyro stated.
"What?" Sparx argued, "What part of this was easy? Getting chased by frozen mad men and apes?"
"Uh…Sparx…" Flame said quietly.
Sparx asked, "Is that what I think it is?"
The three of them had realized that Sparx had awakened one giant frozen soldier who was intent on keeping Volteer in the cave. It was a hard battle to fight, but with Spyro, Flame (and Sparx?) working together, they managed to defeat him.
Once Volteer had woken up, he wouldn't stop talking. He even talked more than Sparx.
But as usual, Sparx was able to interrupt, "Excuse me… Mr. Volt? Sir, shouldn't we get going?"
Volteer replied with enthusiasm, "Oh, of course."
And they were off.
