We where flying to the caves of light as I waited for Spyro to ask a question, I could tell that he was looking for the right question to ask. "Inferno." said Spyro. "Yea Spyro." I said. "Why where you so jumpy back there with Ignitus about darkness dragons when you only wield the element and aren't a darkness dragon?" asked Spyro. "Well technically I am a darkness dragon. Your element is chosen before you hatch while the position of being the guardian of the purple dragon is chosen when you hatch. What I mean is, to prevent a guardian of the purple dragon from dieing before they even hatch they are chosen when one of several eggs containing twins hatch and me and Cynder where the only twins still alive after that raid." I said. "Then why did you become the guardian of the purple dragon instead of Cynder?" asked Spyro. "That was just luck as after the twins are born one of them is chosen randomly to become the guardian of the purple dragon." I answered, I could tell that there would be a lot of questions in this two-hour flight. "Could you explain why the caves of light are feared by most darkness dragons and dragonesses?" asked Spyro. "Yes. The caves of light are filled with an unnatural light that can weaken darkness dragons, the light strikes at the soul and can harm or kill a darkness dragon, There is only one currently known darkness dragon or rather dragoness to have ever managed to leave the caves of light." I said. "Who is this dragoness?" asked Spyro. "She is the very dragoness that took Darkra to the caves to imprison her." I answered. "Cynder?" asked Spyro. "Yep." I said. "How hard would it be for a darkness dragon or dragoness to live in that place for seven years?" asked Spyro. "Hard but possible." I said as I spotted the caves up ahead. We landed and I instantly felt pain all around me. "Inferno maybe you should stay outside here." said Spyro. "And let Cynder have all the glory of being the only darkness dragon to every leave these cave, not going to happen." I said, Spyro nodded and we headed off.
"Well which way should we take?" asked Spyro as we came to a split in our path. I used my convexity sense and found that the right path would lead us straight to Darkra while the left would take us hours to do so. "Your choice we could go straight to Darkra our we could take a long and deadly path." I said. "May I suggest we take the path straight to Darkra?" asked Sparx. "No as that wouldn't be fun at all so let's take the long and deadly path." said Spyro, he clearly wanted a challenge. "Ok Spyro has chosen and so we go that way." I said as we took the longer path. "What is that?" asked Spyro as he pointed to a glowing white crystal. "That is a light crystal but I suggest you don't absorb it as it may sound safe but the crystal actually temporarily removes all your elements." I said. "Wow now I know why you said deadly." said Spyro. "Ow there is to much light in here." I said as I slammed my, dark magic infused, paw onto the ground and caused several dark crystals to come out along the walls and darken the area. "Well that helps I guess." said Spyro. After a few minute of walking and talking we came across a few apes that were wearing some light crystals. "Finally we find some combat." I said excitedly but then a large white scorpion killed them. "Better." Spyro said. I attacked the scorpion and found that it was made of light and my attacks where weaker. "I hate these caves." I said angrily but then I had an idea. My scales started to glow and become white while my eyes became bitch black. "Wow let me guess Light Inferno." said Spyro. "Yes it is." I said in an impossibly calming voice before attacking the light scorpion, now able to hit it and use strong attacks. I started with a few slashes and a light breath then I used a light furry as these things where extremely strong. "Wow." said Spyro after I turned back to normal and collapsed from the unnatural light and the pain of it. "You alright Inferno?" asked Spyro. "Yea I'll be fine." I said as I stood up. So the hatch-ling is facing his fears though I doubt that you can make it out. said Cynder. Oh I'll get out and I'll bring Darkra also I am not a hatch-ling and am not offended by you calling me that. I said. Wow Inferno you're doing great but why take the longer path. said the normal Cynder, Evil Inferno had been giving Evil Cynder info on our location in which Evil Cynder had been telling Cynder. Because I didn't feel like having an easy mission. I said. Sounds like you are a bit scared and I must agree with Cynder that to us you and good Cynder are nothing more than hatch-lings that need taking care of. said Evil Inferno. Think what you want but when I defeat Evil Cynder you will be the weak ones. I said darkly. "So Inferno. What was the real Cynder like?" asked Spyro. "She was kind to me and the few apes that didn't wish for us to be tortured, Cruel and evil to those that did torture us, always playful, and happy when we where killing off the prisoner. At the time we both thought that the killing was a game." I said. "How much of that do you think she will retain?" asked Spyro. "I doubt that she will be nice to any apes or enemies and she may not be as playful since she is now twelve but was corrupted at the age of five, along with me." I said. After that we headed off to another cave.
I wasn't feeling nearly as drained now as I had created a dark crystal and shattered it to keep a piece on my choker while I was here. "Your idea to do that was a decent one." Spyro said. "Yea but it took a lot of energy to fuse the crystal with my choker until I left the caves." I said as I rubbed my paw over the crystal, which was shaped like me and Cynder sleeping before our corruption. "So when twins sleep with each other they naturally curl up and into each other." said Spyro. "Yep and finally some fun." I said as I spotted an ape coming around the corner but when he saw the look in mine and Spyro's eye he ran the other way. "Hey get back here." I said as me as Spyro chased the ape, right into an ambush. "This again." I said annoyed. "Yea." Spyro said before getting hit with a light cannon-shot. "Forget you." Spyro said as he used darkfire to torch the ape and the cannon. "I see that you have unlocked the element of darkness." I said. "I told you that by the end of the day I would unlock another element." Spyro said. "But why darfire instead of a darkness breath?" Spyro asked. "Because you where thinking of fire when you did it and darkness can take on the shape and effects of other elements but let's leave that for later." I said. "Ok." said Spyro and then we headed off to attack the apes around us. "Hey Spyro how about we add to the challenge by only using darkfire." I said. "Sure." said Spyro as he used darkfire to kill the ape that was running at him. Well now that Spyro has the element of darkness we can taint him and make him join our side. said Evil Inferno. not really as a purple dragon can only be tainted via a direct hit of the light of an evil event such as the night of eternal darkness. I said. "Hey Inferno since I have unlocked the element of darkness is it safe for me to be around a tainted darkness dragon?" asked Spyro. "Yes as it takes an extremely evil and dark event to taint a purple dragon." I said. "Ok." said Spyro. we continued attacking the apes and other enemies that came at us with only darkfire. I turned a corner and used darkfire out of instinct as a dragon had bumped into me and I also got hit but with darkice. "Sorry." me and the darkness dragon said in unison. "Get away from me tainted dragon!" yelled the darkness dragon, which I could tell by her voice was a dragoness, after sensing that my darkness was tainted. "Hey whats going on here!" yelled Spyro as he turned the corner. I was about to say something until I saw the markings on the darkness dragoness' body, they where that of six pointed stars, all darkness dragons are born with marks that run in the family and though those weren't mine and Cynder's markings they where Darkra's markings. "Wait don't run as we are here to get you out of this torturous cave system." I said as Spyro walked into the light. "Who are you and is that the purple dragon as I thought he was dead." said the dragoness. "Well let's just say that two eggs where saved on the night of the raid and three dragons hatched from them." Spyro said. "Wait three but how... oh." said the darkness dragoness as she realized my resemblance to Cynder. "Well what is your name?" asked Spyro. "I am Darkra, the darkness guardian, and you must be Inferno as Cynder told me a lot about you of course none of it was that nice." said Darkra. "Well Cynder is sadly still corrupted but the real Cynder can sometimes take over oh. This is Spyro and the annoying dragonfly is Sparx." I said. "Well let's get out of this cave as I am very week after being in here for seven years and getting my power drained by Cynder." said Darkra.
After an hour or so we where at the entrance and waiting for us was this large creature that resembled the light guardian Apollo only ten times bigger. "Who is that?" asked Spyro as I place a large dark crystal in front of Darkra to prevent her from running to it. "What are you doing-" said Darkra before I cut her off. "That is not who you think it is Darkra, that is a lightspark." I said. Darkra realized the differences and backed up a little. "A Lightspark looks into its opponents mind and finds their main living love then morphs into a larger form of it." I said to answer the question Spyro was going to ask. "This thing is made of light so how are we going to do this without risking me being tainted." said Darkra, as if a nontainted darkness dragon gets hit with a strong enough tainted darkness attack then they will become tainted. "Easy you and Spyro fight with darkness and I will fight with light as I am the guardian of the purple dragon." I said, Darkra knew that that meant I wielded a few more elements than any other dragon, mostly of the opposite of the element I would have had if I wasn't what I was along with some random elements. I flew out-of-the-way of a tail swipe from the Lightspark and fired a strong light blast that hit as Spyro and Darkra's darkfire attacks hit. "You know for a team of a purple dragon, a nontainted darkness dragoness, and a tainted darkness dragon, we work pretty well together." said Darkra. "Yes we do but we have a battle to fight." I said as I unleashed one of the strongest light attacks around and it hit. "What's happening to it?" asked Spyro. "It's changing to a different form." I said as it finished and a large form of the real Cynder appeared. "Inferno I hope you don't have that same problem as you did earlier when we fought Cynder." said Spyro. "I won't as this thing has dared to take on the form of the real Cynder when I haven't seen her in person for years." I said with pure hatred as I attacked with multiple combination attacks and several furries. "I suggest we stay out of his way." said Darkra. "I agree." Spyro said as they moved away from me. "You never use my past against me!" I roared as I literally torn the lightspark limb from limb. I finally stoped and calmed down after a few minutes. What are you doing good Inferno as with this rage you could kill every dragon here so quite being such a hatch-ling. said Evil Inferno. You shut up before I rip you apart and throw every part into the deepest pit of these caves. I said with truth evident in my voice. I would come back together and find my way out so it wouldn't matter. said Evil Inferno. Then I'll do that to Evil Cynder. I said, I could hear Evil Inferno shaking from fear at that thought crossing my mind. Please you can do anything you want with me but please just leave Cyn alone. Evil Inferno said fearfully, I didn't reply just yet as I was in the middle of unleashing an anger charge darkness furry. I finished my furry, calmed down, and walked over to Darkra and Spyro.
"Wow that thing really angered you." said Darkra as we walked out of the cave. "Yea and if anything every repeats that I won't go as easy on it." I said angrily. Sorry for not answering you but I am sure that you saw why and as it would seem I finally broke you. I said. I don't know what you're talking about. said Evil Inferno, still with a hint of fear in his voice. Oh really as this is what I mean. I said as I mentally replayed our conversation. That wasn't the real you as you would never do such a thing. said Evil Inferno. Oh but I would. I said, I was lieing but it sounded completely truthful. Oh and I will not call you a hatch-ling like that ever again. said Evil Inferno as he slowly calmed down, knowing that if he just did this then Evil Cynder would be safe. "So now we head back to the temple." I said as I realized that it was already night. "No as I will not return without Apollo." Darkra said. "Who is Apollo anyway?" asked Spyro. "Apollo is the light guardian and my mate." Darkra said. "Oh." said Spyro. "So Inferno Cynder told me that you where the one to take away Apollo so any idea where he is?" asked Darkra, surprised that she was getting along with a tainted darkness dragon. "I can't remember exactly where he is but I know that he is somewhere within a cave that is hidden at the Valley of Darkness." I said. "Ok then let's go." said Spyro excitedly. "Wait are you saying that we are going to go into a place called the valley of darkness in hopes of rescuing a dragon that might be dead." said Sparx. "Yes and I am sure that Apollo is alive." I said. After a few minutes of preparing with some food and other necessities we headed off to the Valley of Darkness.
A/N: Well that might have been interesting or boring as I am not sure so tell me in a review. Will they make it to the Valley of Darkness and save Apollo in time. Inferno is not a safe dragon to be around when he is extremely mad. Inferno finally broke Evil Inferno.
