Dante's Freezer: New Elements and Rescuing Volteer.
Eleanor's POV.
Spyro, Sparx, and I had been walking down the frozen trail for ten minutes. We've seen no signs of life, which made things more complicated. The cold didn't help the problem because, I was freezing my tail off. Literally. We passed a lot of ice statues along the way, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary until one of them blinked at Sparx. I started sensing auras around the statues.
"Is it weird that that blinked at me?" Sparx asked.
"Just keep moving." Spyro muttered.
Suddenly, two soldiers burst out of where the statues were standing, causing Spyro and I to jump in fright. Apparently some of the statues weren't statues at all, but frozen, undead soldiers that have been awoken by our presence.
"Ice cubes alive!" Sparx yelled.
Spyro and I each took down a soldier, then proceeded down the trail. However, a metal barrier was in the way, and it looked impossible for either Spyro or myself to knock it down.
"Hey guys, why don't we use this thing to knock that bad boy down?" Sparx suggested, floating over a catapult.
Spyro chuckled, "I knew I brought you along for a reason."
Sparx gave Spyro a look, then looked at me. I just shrugged my shoulders.
Unfortunately, the Apes and soliders weren't about to let us get through so easily. While Spyro contended with them, I catapulted three giant snowballs into the air, knocking down the metal barrier.
"That was a good idea." I smiled, "Glad you thought of it, Spyro."
Spyro lightly chuckled.
"You? Thou-… You? No!" Sparx sputtered.
Sparx, Spyro and I then proceeded deeper into the frozen land, taking down Apes that got in our way. After getting through a small hallway, a staff wielder blocked the path with a magic ice barrier, so I set up another catapult to take him out.
After taking out a small wave of grunts, Spyro, Sparx and I encountered a new enemy: this one riding on some sort of giant bat-like creature. A Dreadwing.
However, instead of attacking us, they dropped more grunts on the path. This wave took us a little longer to beat them, but we managed in the end. The barrier fell, and instead of attacking us, the staff wielder retreated deeper into the frozen wasteland.
After climbing up a small hill, Spyro and I faced a new problem: a mounted ice cannon. Spyro and I quickly took it out with some fire balls and psychokinetic orbs, and we continued down the trail without any more distraction for a couple minutes. However, the sound of heavy wings flapping was heard and we stopped dead.
"You think that was Cynder?" Sparx asked.
"I sure hope so." Spyro said. I nodded in agreement.
"What?!" Sparx gasped.
"Well, if it wasn't, that means there's more than one giant, evil dragon around here." I explained.
"Oh, yeah." Sparx said, "I hope that was Cynder too."
Unfortunately, and further question into the matter was cut off by a rather loud sneeze from me. Turning around, Spyro and Sparx saw that I was shivering so much that I was making the snow vibrate. I might have grew up around the Rocky Mountains, but that doesn't keep me warm at freezing temperatures.
I'll explain later.
While I was shivering, my underbelly and vine marks started glowing in a spiritual blue.
Suddenly, the sound of another magical barrier popping up snapped them back into reality. Another new enemy decided to make its presence known, except this one was a larger skeletal solider, and was covered in so much armor that it was impossible to tell if it had any weaknesses.
Fortunately, once Spyro hit it with enough fire, we found out that it was just a floating torso of a skeleton, which proved easy to beat with a quick psychokinetic blast from me. After that it was a simple matter of taking out the grunts and catapulting a snowball at the staff wielder.
Suddenly, an electric jolt came out of nowhere and hit Spyro right in the muzzle. Slightly dazed, he got up in time to see three more of those skeletal armor things heading toward them.
"Spyro, you okay there buddy?" Sparx asked.
At that moment, Spyro sneezed, and instead of fire coming out, a strong current of electricity came forth, shocking the armor off all three of them.
"Woo! I guess so." Sparx shrugged.
Then, I suddenly let out another loud sneeze, accompanied by a strange, spiritual white and azure blast of fire, finishing of what was left of the creatures, by burning them, but not burning them on the outside. My underbelly and vine marks returned to their normal colors.
"I need new friends." Sparx muttered.
Another catapult was right next to us, and three snowballs were all it took to knock down the next wall. When Spyro, Sparx and I reached the next area, it seemed like it was just an endless wave of enemies, but we finished them off in the end.
However, we soon realized that the deeper they went into the Freezer, the more Ape soldiers and undead soliders we had to deal with. It seemed that Cynder had spared no expense to keep her prey under her control. Every time Spyro and I felt like we were making progress, more grunts would show up and slow us down.
After taking down another wave of Apes outside a barracks of some sort, our path was blocked by grunts riding their weird ox-like creatures. After taking care of them and some more of those armored skeletons, Spyro and I proceeded through another door.
However, the staff wielder that kept retreating surrounded us with a magical ice barrier, and were forced to take him out before moving on.
After fighting off a small wave of apes in a hallway and a small courtyard, we travelled through a dining court of sorts with minimal resistance. The walls around there had been frozen over, which didn't help my cold problems because it was colder there.
My body shivered to the point that I was moving like a vibrating cell-phone on a table. My voice shivered as well, "This p-p-place is not h-h-helping much with m-m-my physiology, Sp-S-Spyro. We need t-t-to find V-V-Volteer quickly."
"Don't worry, Eleanor. We'll get there soon." Spyro said.
Unfortunately, a crumbled bridge did not help his mood, nor did the small wave or Ape grunts that awaited us on the other side. To make matters worse, some of the bat creatures that had been dropping grunts had decided to go on the offensive, so I had to use my spiritual flame trick to get rid of them while Spyro took out the small fry.
Eventually, Spyro and I came to a door we assumed lead to where they were keeping Volteer. Spyro tried ramming it down, the door was either frozen on the other side or too sturdy to break.
"Maybe we should head this way, genius." Sparx said, pointing to a small tunnel that seemed to bypass the door.
Spyro, Sparx and I walked over to the opening and went in.
"Oh, check this out." Sparx whispered. "Echo!"
Sparx's voice echoed through the cave. Spyro and I smiled in excitement. Echoes were fun.
"Ha, ha. All right my turn... Hellooooooo." Spyro yelled.
Unfortunately, the cave leveled out to a chamber, in which a group of Apes were waiting.
"Hello." One of them said rather smugly.
"Who's the genius now, echo man?" Spyro muttered as he and I jumped down to take them out.
After making our way down a hallway, Spyro and I made our way to, what looked like, a gladiator arena. Volteer was on the other side, his mouth tied shut for some reason.
Volteer was a shocking yellow with bright, lightning shaped markings covering his body. His three horns were curved forward at the top, which looked like the tail of a scorpion ready to strike. Grey frills extended past his underbelly, covering his shoulders. His tail ended in a split spade, and his wings were a grey with a murky yellow membrane.
Like Ignitus, Volteer wore an elder monk uniform. But it was lightly burnt around the trimmings. Maybe due to his electrical powers.
Another dragon I've seen before. First Ignitus, now Volteer. What's next? The next guardian is blue and related to ice?
"Hey, that's him. We did it. Bye." Sparx said.
"I don't like this." Spyro said. "It's too quiet… too easy."
"I agree." I spoke up, looking around the area.
The silence of the arena was unsettling. And it screams with a battle-like aura. Obviously, something's meant to be here. But, what?
"Wha… ah, what part was easy?" Sparx asked, flying backwards. "Eh, getting chased by frozen mad men and gorillas?"
"Uh, Sparx..." Spyro shouted, as the sound of ice breaking was heard behind Sparx.
"Is that what I think it is?" He asked before turning around.
What Sparx had assumed was a statue was actually an ice behemoth, named the Ice King. It broke free of the ice holding him in place and stared down at Sparx. I hate it when I do that!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Sparx screamed, flying back to the safety of the others.
The Ice King jumped from the throne and into the arena. Spyro glared at the behemoth, and Sparx backed away behind his brother. I smiled and got into a fighting position. Finally a challange.
The Ice King started off with a simple shield and sword combo to attack us. Spyro quickly melted the shield with a fire bomb, giving an opening for me to blast it with an psychokinetic waves. This only seemed to make the Ice King angry, however, as he caused some frozen stalactites to fall from the ceiling.
Spyro quickly hid behind a pillar. Out of instinct, I grabbed several that were falling toward us with a psychokinetic wave and sent them at the King, shattering the sword and creating several holes in his armor.
He then created a staff with a curved blade at the end. He also created a barrier around himself. Spyro and I had to time our blasts accurately to break through the shield. Eventually we knocked it over from our attacks, taking out a huge chunk of the armor.
The Ice King pulled himself up and pulled a sword out of a stalagmite and started blowing a cold wind at us. Deciding there was only one good way to take it down; Spyro and I outmaneuvered it and launched our Furies at the same time.
The Ice King fell forward, this time not getting up. Now all that was left was to wait for Volteer to come too.
