Chapter 7: Reunion


Ignitus slowly emerged from his coffin. "What is this? My body's moving on its own..." he mumbled to himself. He opened his eyes and saw two familiar faces in front of him. "Spyro? Cynder?"

Sparx frowned. "Hey, what about me? Don't you remember me? Does anyone remember me at all?"

Spyro was at the verge of breaking down into tears. "Ignitus..." Ignitus looked exactly the same as when he was alive, except for his eyes, which were the same as Molt's. He would have been happy to see Ignitus again if not for the fact that he would have to defeat him in order to get to Molt and stop him. It was truly a cruel thing for Molt to send Ignitus up against Spyro.

"Yes, it seems I have been brought back to this world by some kind of resurrection magic," Ignitus said. "And it looks like my opponent will be the two of you."

An illusion of Molt appeared next to Ignitus. "Do you have a slight idea of the pain I have gone through now? This is only a tiny fraction of the agony my life has given me. Be grateful for that, you purple mutt! It was your choice to side with Warfang! You will either stop me, or die trying!" he faded away again.

Ignitus dashed forward and raised a fiery claw to strike Spyro. "My body's moving on its own! You have to dodge my attacks!"

Cynder quickly tackled Spyro, causing him to fall to the side, and took the hit for him. "Spyro, snap out of it! We have to defeat him!" she said as she turned back to look at him.

"Spyro, if you remembered what I said to you in the cave, I told you that you had surpassed me. Prove me right! Defeat me, if you really are the legendary purple dragon!" Ignitus said as he charged up a huge fireball in his maw.

"I can't do it!" Spyro shouted as he broke down into tears. "I can't take you down, Ignitus!" Cynder quickly fired a shadow ball at Ignitus to deflect his attack.

"Pull yourself together, young dragon! Right now, I am your enemy! It is as simple as that! Taking me down is the only thing you can do to help me!" Ignitus slammed his forelegs on the ground and created an explosion around him, knocking Spyro, Sparx and Cynder back.

Cynder blew a whirlwind at Ignitus. "Come on, Spyro! You're the only one who can help defeat him! You know him better than I do!" Cynder kept on trying to convince him. Spyro slowly got up. "I know what I need to do." He took in a deep breath and shot a beam of convexity out of his maw. Ignitus quickly darted out of the way. "You'll have to do better than that, Spyro!" He shot three giant fireballs at Spyro. Spyro countered using fireballs of his own.

"Don't forget about me!" Cynder said as she shot a ball of acid at Ignitus. He quickly dodged it, but the pool of acid began to expand and managed to burn one of his feet. He quickly flew up and breathed fire towards the ground as he neared Spyro and Cynder. Spyro smacked his paw on the ground, causing a pillar of earth to rise up underneath Ignitus, hitting him in his belly. Ignitus coughed out a little bit of blood as he fell to the ground. Spyro's body sparked with electricity and he directed it towards Ignitus, electrocuting him.

However, after the electricity died down, Ignitus got up as if nothing had happened to him. "Spyro, use your convexity! That's the only way you can stop me!" He created another explosion around him. This time, Spyro had a plan. He raised a wall of earth in front of him to shield Cynder and himself from the attack. Almost immediately after the explosion died down, Spyro shot another beam of convexity at Ignitus, which shot through the wall of earth in between them and took Ignitus by surprise. He fell back onto the ground. "Well done, Spyro. Keep hitting me like that!" He managed to survive that? Spyro thought to himself. No wonder he used to be the strongest guardian. He knew that he needed to get rid of Ignitus fast, or Molt would sooner be able to kill everyone in Warfang.

Spyro closed his eyes and charged up his convexity fury. "Cynder, distract Ignitus for me. I'm ending this battle." Cynder nodded and used her phantom fright on Ignitus, causing him to be paralyzed. Ignitus began to charge up his own fire fury. "Watch out, Spyro! Ignitus has fury as well! Cynder warned him. "It won't help him."

They unleashed their furies at the same time, but Spyro's convexity fury quickly overwhelmed Ignitus' fire fury, and struck him at full force, causing a purple explosion around him.

When the smoke cleared, Ignitus' eyes had returned to their original shade of yellow and were no longer like Molt's. "I feel as if I'm slowly losing my consciousness... but I can control my body now..." Ignitus said as he walked towards Spyro, who was slowly getting up. "Spyro, I have one final thing to say to you before I leave." He reached out to Spyro and hugged him. "Whether or not you defeat Molt, whatever you choose to do, I will love you forever. You were always like a son to me. I only wish I had realized that before my death." Spyro started to cry and hugged Ignitus back tightly. "I love you too, Ignitus." Ignitus' body started to glow white. He turned to face Cynder. "Cynder, take care of my son for me. I have an age to chronicle." With that, his body vanished.

Cynder draped her wing around Spyro. "You alright?" she asked gently. "Yeah, just a little out of mana, that's all. It'll come back soon," Spyro replied. "That was... pretty touching..." Sparx said as he flew out from behind a rock. "You think?" Cynder joked. "So what do we do now?" Sparx asked. "We find Molt and stop him." Spyro held his paw out in the center of the three of them. Sparx put his hand on Spyro's paw, and Cynder followed suit. "We make a good team." Sparx grinned. "As if you did anything at all," Cynder giggled.

"So where are we going to find Molt? I mean, this world is a pretty huge place, y'know?" Sparx asked. "Well, when he cast his illusions, I managed to track down the source of the magic. It's coming from the Warfang ruins," Cynder said. "Then that's exactly where we're heading." Spyro smiled.


A.N. Did this make you feel even the slightest bit emotional? Or am I that bad at this? Anyway, tell me how garbage I was in the reviews :D


MurasakiKuroAkai: Yeah, I actually misspelt his name throughout the whole story XD Anyway, I've fixed it. Thanks for the feedback