DtD: Here we go, another siege and the next chapter.

Firewalker: We always have a siege.

DtD: I think Zephyr is calling you Firewalker. I don't own any Spyro characters in this chapter but I do own the other characters in the story.

The Destruction of the Dead.

The battering ram rebounded off the heavy fortress gates. Draganta remembered back to when his grandfather was sparing with him.

'Aim your blows, now block with your shield. Now you've got the determination that you need. Discard your shield, now parry my blows.' echoed his grandfather's voice in his mind. As Draganta mimiced every blow he was also killing demons without even knowing it.

'Whoa, he's an unstoppable killing machine.' exclaimed Cynder.

Suddenly the enemy siege engines fired huge boulders at the walls.

'Let me get the hell out of here.' whined Flare.

'Ah leave the cowardice back in the lair, Flare.' encouraged Steel.

'A fight between you and me later on, just like we do when we're out swimming.'

'Let's leave it until after the siege.'

'I'd have given up my sword if I knew it was going to end up like this.' murmured Draganta.

'Deathfang tell Ignitus to tell Zephyr to light the beacon.' ordered Eldreth.

While Draganta was in a bloodthirsty rage he kept cutting down wave after wave of demons and undead.

'What's wrong with Draganta? He fights like one that's possessed.' said Maia when she came over to the group.

'The loss of his parents has driven him into a bloodthirsty rage.' explained Firewalker.

Suddenly two siege ladders hit the battlements.

'Push them down, fast.' ordered Rynn.

Mirage gazed at the nearby forest and saw treemen and wood elves as well as Orion and the Sisters of Twilight on their forest dragon.

'So the forest dwellers join the battle.' said Volteer.

'Volteer look to the left of you.' said Frost when he joined the battle.

When Volteer looked he saw an army of spirits assembling and among them were Draganta's parents and older brother in the ranks.

'Death to them all!' echoed Braganza's voice as he sounded the charge.

As Draganta watched them charge, he charged out of the fortress.

'Father, I'll help you.' Draganta announced.

'I can't leave him go out there alone.' moaned Rynn as she mounted Frost and charged out after Draganta.

'I'm not leaving Rynn take all the glory.' said Steel.

'That goes for Frost as well.' smirked Flare.

'To hell with it, we'll all charge out together.' replied Deathfang and Asarnil in unison.

When the gates opened again they all charged out to the battle. As the demons were banished back to hell and as the undead attacked Firewalker and Draganta, the dead clashed with the undead, then came the wood dwellers and finally came the dragon riders. While the armies were preoccupied, Settra, Rinoa and The Lichemaster as well as their bodyguards stealed away into the fortress.

'Draganta you fool.' smirked Rinoa.

'Forget about him for awhile Rinoa, we have to get that young dragon we came for.' hissed Settra.

As they were about to enter the dragons' lairs, a powerful dark elf general named Malekith, known to his foes as the Witch King of Naggaroth sprung towards them but only managed to get Settra. Rinoa grabbed Malekith by the throat and squeezed it. But his dragon Seraphon, was a lot closer than Rinoa thought.

'My Gods, how much have you grown Seraphon.?!' said Rinoa angered by his presence.

' Take your hands off my rider hag.' growled Seraphon with rage.

Malekith took this as a distraction and stuck his elven dagger into Rinoa's shoulder.

'Huh, do you seriously think that I'll die in that kind of way.' she sneered.

'As long as I live there will be honour.' rasped Malekith.

As soon as the words left his mouth Imrik drove his sword deep into The Lichemaster's torso.

'How can this be?' he hissed in shock.

'Try it again and I'll become the slayer of the undead.' growled Imrik.

As the battle raged on outside the castle, Draganta fled to the castle as he felt Malekith's words echoing in his mind. Suddenly as he entered the castle's passages, Araugnir's spirit took control of his body once again.

'Time to kill!' he exclaimed as he ran down the passageway to the dragons' lairs. As he ran down through the passageways Draganta became one with the shadows as he has black scales on his body and is descended from his mother's great grandmother who was an elf. He ran silently past chaos warriors, through swarms of fell bats, and finally over a lava pit.

'Just you wait Rinoa because you and your allies are dead meat.' growled Draganta as he took a great leap across the pit.

As he raced through the hallways he slashed through flayerkin, sliced through marauders of chaos and ran into an exalted champion that went by the name of Dolgorath.

'Stand aside, traitor!' exclaimed Draganta.

'When will humans and dragons ever learn not to underestimate the forces of chaos, Draganta.' snarled Dolgorath.

'You are chaos and I have to banish your kin.' challenged Draganta.

Then he raised his sword and clashed it against Dolgorath's sword. As the battle went on volleys of arrows pierced undead and demonic minions alike. But inside the castle, Draganta and Dolgorath kept exchanging glancing blows but Draganta was getting tired or so Dolgorath thought. While the battle kept raging on outside and deep in the castle a dwarf named Skag the Stealthy crept up behind Dolgorath and cleaved his head clean off.

'Skag the Stealthy indeed. Now go and get reinforcements and then march outside.' ordered Draganta.

Then he raced down through the passageways again and flew off to Bretonnia, The Empire, Athel Loren, Ulthuan and Naggaroth to get reinforcements.

DtD: This is hard work fighting battles and getting more reinforcements.

Zephyr: Awww, poor baby.

DtD: Shut up or I'll put a picture of you on the computer.

Zephyr: What picture?

DtD: The one when you got a kiss from a boy.

Zephyr: gulp Now that's blackmailing.

DtD: That's exactly the point.