So, here it is! The final chapter of the choice chapters! This one will be about Xigbar and Demyx going to the valley of Avalar. I decided I wanted to do another chapter early, so here it is. Lucky you.

Disclaimer: The only thing I own of the Spyro and KH companies are a few of their video games.


Demyx and Xigbar were walking along a stream towards the smoke. Xigbar could of teleported there, but he wanted to talk to Demyx. That, and he didn't want Demyx to freak out if Xigbar suddenly teleported away.

"So, um…" said Demyx "how is it being a cat-like creature?"

"It's alright" said Xigbar "can still hold my Arrowguns, so not everything is bad." They walked on a bit until Xigbar spoke again.

"So, how's the dragon body treating you?"

"I don't really know," said Demyx "It feels weird to have a tail twice the length of yourself, and for some reason I have the sudden urging to eat fish."

But while Demyx said all this, he was thinking about the cat body Xigbar was in. He knew he'd seen a cat like this somewhere…

(I just want to interrupt to explain what Xigbar looks like. He has no shirt, so you can see many scars on his body. He has red pants on with red cloth wrapped around his feet. He has pointed shoulder pads on him and a frayed scarf around his neck. Were his heart was is a spot shaped like a Nobody symbol. You may now continue reading.)

Demyx suddenly snapped his fingers.

"I got it!" he exclaimed.

"Got what? Milk?"

Demyx had to laugh at that joke. "No, not that," Demyx said after he was finished laughing "I mean I got what animal you are."

"And what's that?" asked Xigbar

"You're a cheetah" said Demyx

"And you know this how…" asked Xigbar, eyebrow raised on his good eye.

"Well, when we went to the Pride Lands we got transformed, right? And when I got transformed I got transformed into a cheetah, remember?"

"Oh yeah." Xigbar said, snickering a bit "Hey, do you remember when Xemnas came with us-"

"-and his Ethereal Blades came out his mouth?" completed Demyx. "Oh, do you remember when he tried to yell at us to stop laughing."

"Yeah!" laughed Xigbar "all that came out was 'mpph hrm hm mrmp'.

They started to laugh until they got to a rock fissure with the stream coming out of it. Climbing over the rocks, what they saw on the other side of it let out a gasp from the pair.

It was a beautiful valley, with blue birds chirping in the air and the grass slightly swaying in the light breeze. There was the sound of a waterfall crashing against rocks, and Demyx even saw a deer grazing on the grass.

"Whoa," said Xigbar, who was slightly stunned "this place is…"

"Beautiful" completed Demyx. If he had a heart, he would have started crying tears of joy right there.

"Come on," said Xigbar, who just remembered why they were here, "we've got to find out where that smoke is coming from. You stick to the water and I stick to the land."

Nodding his head in agreement, Demyx dived in the stream and began to swim up the stream while Xigbar began to run ahead on the land above. Little did they know that a challenge would meet them soon enough…


Hunter was on patrol. Even though their master was gone, the Grublins still tried to cause trouble for everyone else. His job was to make sure that that no Grublins were to get into the village and to warn the other villagers if they were too powerful or too many for him to handle. He hadn't encountered any yet, but you couldn't let your guard down.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake. Knowing what it meant, Hunter drew his sword. Suddenly, Grublins started to pop up from the ground. There were 5 little ones and a middle-height one. Charging at them, Hunter quickly destroyed two little ones of them. Weird thing about Grublins: when you kill one, they turn to dust.

The 3 little ones (let's call them Grubs) charged at Hunter. Hunter quickly destroyed 2 of them but the remaining Grub grabbed onto his head. Pulling it off, Hunter plunged his sword down in it. Hunter spun around…but didn't see the Twig (the middle class one). Looking around for it, Hunter heard the sound of cracking wood. Looking up, Hunter saw a tree was about to fall on him. Hunter raised his arms up, waiting for emanate doom…

As Xigbar was walking, he noticed a cheetah like him fight weird things. Xigbar began to watch as the cheetah killed them all…and then he noticed the skinny weird thing pop up behind a tree. With a swing of its axe, the thing chopped down the tree. The tree than began to fall towards the cheetah man. Not really knowing what he was doing, Xigbar rushed towards him.

"Watch out!" Xigbar exclaimed and tackled him out of the way of the tree. The tree crashed into the ground just where Hunter was.

Xigbar got up and dusted himself off. Hunter also stood up, stuttering before he said "Thank you, kind stranger."

Xigbar shrugged. "Hey, I was just taking a stroll when I saw you. So, I decided I would play hero for a bit."

"Well, whatever your reasons, I thank you," Hunter said "but I don't think we've been properly introduced. My name is Hunter, and yours is…"

Xigbar had to think fast. "Um, my name is…Braig."

"Well, Braig, I don't think I've seen you at the village. I think I would remember someone with such…looks."

Obviously he was taking about the eye patch and scars. Xigbar, wanting to change the subject, said "Well, no, I'm not from here, but do you think you could take me to see this village?"

Hunter nodded yes. "Come, follow me." With that he sprinted off, with 'Braig' not far behind him.


Chief Prowlus was waiting for Hunter when he got back.

"Hunter, it's good to see you're okay," Prowlus said. His attention then went to Xigbar. "Who's that?"

"Chief Prowlus, this is Braig." Hunter said, "Braig, this is our Chief, Prowlus."

"Pleasure to meet you, Chief." Xigbar said. Prowlus nodded, but his mind was wandering about this 'Braig' person. It was not the eye patch, nor the scars that disturbed Prowlus. It was his eye. It was the color of amber, and Prowlus felt that some secrets were in that eye.

Prowlus cleared away those thoughts. "It's a pleasure to meet you too, Braig. I ask where you come from though, for you don't seem to be one of my villagers."

"Well, I come from a far off land," said Xigbar "I was sent to explore this area. You may have seen another one of my group: she's a yellow dragon."

Prowlus had indeed seen an electric dragon fly over the valley. Many villagers had stopped to wave at her when she had come by.

"Well, since you did come all the way here, I guess a tour is necessary."

So Chief Prowlus gave a tour to Xigbar. But true to his nature, Xigbar wasn't really listing until they got to the

"A archery coarse!" exclaimed Xigbar, "Awesome!"

"You shot the bow?" asked Prowlus.

"Not exactly," said Xigbar, "but give me a pair of Arr-I mean, crossbows and I'll show you what I got."

"Okay," said Hunter, "I accept your challenge."

"Yeah-wait, what?!"

"You said that if we gave you a crossbow you would show us what you got," Hunter said while taking a crossbow off the weapon rack and handing it to Xigbar "so show us what you do have."

Xigbar gradually took the crossbow. Where did his big mouth get him this time?

"I go first." Hunter said, and stringing his bow and releasing, he got a bulls-eye 25 meters away.

"Good luck, buddy" said a random villager to Xigbar. Xigbar just smiled and prepared to shoot. But before he did, he lowered the crossbow.

"You know, it would be fair if I didn't handicap myself somehow." Xigbar said, and turned the opposite direction and covered his one remaining eye. He then began to aim the crossbow in the opposite direction.

"Oh, come on, there's no way you can ma-" Hunter was saying, but stopped instantly when Xigbar pulled the trigger and landed on the exact spot where Hunter's arrow was, splitting the arrow in half.

While everyone had their mouths wide open in shock, Xigbar just twirled the crossbow in his hand and said "That's how you do it." However, the victory was short lived as they heard a loud screech. Turning around, they saw that 5 Flyers were in the village!

"Villagers, to arms!" yelled Prowlus, and instantly everyone picked up a weapon and charged towards them. Xigbar thought it would be fun to join in, so he grabbed another crossbow and began to shoot at the Flyers.

However, nobody, not even Hunter, could even land a hit on it. Xigbar, checking his ammo, saw he had only one arrow left.

Okay, he thought, time for a little space distortion. With that he loaded up the arrow and shot it. It missed, but when it hit a pole, it bounced back.

One Flyer, not seeing it in time, got shot threw the head. The arrow began bouncing around until it had slayed all of the Flyers and finally came to a stop when it hit a pole.

Everyone was confused what just happened, but Xigbar just smiled. However, he heard another sound from a high-pitched voice.

"Ow! Get off of me!"

Oh man! Xigbar thought, I completely forgot about Demyx!

Going to the entryway of the village, Xigbar saw that Demyx was on a island of a sort and was being chased by Flyers.

"Dem," yelled Xigbar "jump into the water!"

Demyx did as he was told and jumped into the water. Hunter then killed all the Flyers with his bow.

As Demyx came up to the village entrance, Xigbar said "Hey, Demyx, you alr-" before bolted out of the water and almost crushed Xigbar in a hug.

"Oh, Xigy," said Demyx "I thought they were going to kill me."

"Dem…yx" said Xigbar

"Yeah?" asked Demyx

"Need…air…"

"Oh!" said Demyx and released Xigbar from the hug. Chief Prowlus and Hunter came up to them.

"Do you know him?" asked Prowlus.

"Yeah," said Xigbar "this is Demyx, a member of my group."

"Pleasure to meet you" said Demyx to Hunter.

"Hey Dem," said Xigbar "I think we had enough excitement for one day, don't you think?"

"Yeah," said Demyx "I think we had enough recon to do for now."

But before they could walk away, Hunter said "Hey, Braig."

"Yeah?"

"You know the bouncing arrow that happened earlier?"

"What about it?" asked Xigbar.

"How did you do that?" asked Hunter.

Xigbar just smiled and said "Hey, when you're as good as me, stuff just happens." And he picked up a stray arrow and threw it at the nearest pole. While everyone was looking at the pole, Xigbar put a hand on Demyx. But when everyone looked back, 'Braig' was gone, as though he had disappeared…


Wow, finally finished with this chap. I have three things to say:

1. If you have the time, check out my profile. I have a new poll and I need every vote possible.

2. Check out a new story I made, Koopa Hearts. Don't worry, the story gets way better.

3. And finally, the most important one for you, Spyro and Cynder will be in the next chapter. So no more reviews asking about when they're going to be in the story.

Well, that's all. Review and try to tune in to the next chapter of

The Legend of Spyro: The Twilight Torment