I woke to a scream, I shot my head up. Cynder was up and off the bed, I hopped off and we both ran out the door. Dragons scurried by us, they were heading towards the infirmary, it looked like they bore battle wounds instead of training wounds. Cyril was standing just inside the door that led to outside. He had a deep cut that ran from his shoulder down to his side, and it was bleeding heavily. He had a look of fear in his eyes, I needed to know what was happening.

"Cyril whats happening!" I yelled.

"The Dark Armies have raided the Vanguard, we need to push them away before we lose anymore dragons!" Cyril said desperately.

"How many casualties have we tooken?" I asked.

"About an hour ago it was close to five hundred, its hard to tell now." Cyril said.

"Alright, ill do what I can to repel the attack, where are they attacking from?" I asked.

"The main gate, we're holding steady there for now, but we wont last much longer without some reinforcements, our enemy is relentless." Cyril said.

I ran outside, blood spattered the courtyard, bodies of dead dragons were strewn across the courtyard. Cynder and I continued our sprint to the main gates, something seemed to follow us though I pushed this away, we needed to get to the main gate before the situation got any worse. When we arrived at the main gate, multitudes of dark soldiers poured out of the gates, the Vanguard was lined up in a single trench. For know we were holding steady with constant elemental attacks. I ran down into the trench to find a large green dragon heading the defense.

"Hey, we're here to reinforce the trench!" I yelled.

"Good, we're running thin to the west! That's where they're hammering us the hardest! Can you breathe Convexity? If so it would help us out a lot!"

"Yeah I can, i'm going to head to the west end. Good luck on this end!" yelled.

The trench was lined with wounded dragons, blood was everywhere on the ground. The dragons that were able to fight made a wall of deadly elemental attacks. A loud thump rung through the air, and I heard a loud whistle coming towards us. My eyes went wide, as the whistle got closer and closer.

"Get down!" I yelled.

The projectile exploded pretty close to Cynder and me, but some of the other dragons around us weren't so lucky. A young tan dragon was crawling to me, he was bleeding heavily from his chest and stomach, he tried to speak, but blood would spill out of his mouth with each word spoken. He managed to crawl to my front paws, then he laid unmoving. I stepped over the unlucky dragon; we would have to mourn the dead later. We managed to make it to the west end of the trench, three dragons stood on a platform, they were all that was left of the defense on this end. A fire dragon, an ice dragon, and an electric dragoness were constantly using their elemental attacks, but the enemy just got closer and closer. I ran up onto the platform and the three dragons looked at me with surprise and relief. I nodded at Cynder and the other three dragons. I allowed the power of convexity to fill my body, after using it twice, I had figured out how to use it willingly. The convexity filled my body with its power, opened my mouth and the purple beam of convexity decimated everything in its path. Cynder was hitting the enemy with a constant stream of poison, while the other three used their elemental attacks. The enemy forces were slowly pushed back, with our combined attacks, anything that stepped into our attacks died. Slowly but surely the west end of the trench was more secure. I heard paw steps behind us, I whipped around to see more dragons come into the west end.

"Spyro, head back to the a main blockade in the trench, we were sent to secure this location, but it looks like you've done it for us, but we'll keep hitting them." The dragon said.

Cynder and I ran back to the command area, it was getting hit hard, the commander had a look of dread in his eyes.

"We cant hold this position any longer, we need to fall back! Or we are all going to die." The commanding dragon said.

"Whats our situation?" I asked.

"While you were securing the west end, our eastern side completely collapsed, there're enemies in the trench and we are getting attacked head on, we would need a miracle to hold this position, we just don't have the numbers to do it." The commanding dragon said.

What the commander said made sense, we would be getting flanked from the right, and we would be getting hit head on from the dark armies. Plus, with the eastern side completely decimated, the western end was open for a full on assault, even with the reinforcements there. We needed to repel this attack, there's no way any of us would survive, even if we did retreat.

"We cant retreat we will just corner ourselves, barricade the eastern side of the trench, and we will just have to hold them off from here. It's the only flexible option we got." I said.

"Alright, we will stay, but I'm telling you, we need a miracle to actually win from this position."

I ran to the front of the trench to help with the impeding assault. My convexity breath was clearing a path through the enemies; they were slowly getting pushed back by my convexity breath. The powerful stream of energy slowly began to weaken; I knew I was getting exhausted, I had to use the only two elements I knew, fire and ice.

"They're coming over the barricade! We're getting overrun!"

I turned to see orcs climbing over the barricade we had set up. I blew a steady stream of fire and ignited the two orks, they slowly burnt to death with painful screams and small twitching movements.

"We need to defend the barricade as well! Any dragon that's not defending our front, defend the barricade so we are not overwhelmed!" I yelled.

The commander lined up a row of dragons my age, they stood firm and waited for any enemy to come over the top. The three dragons I helped on the west end came limping into the main defense area.

"The west end has been overrun, they came in full force!" the dragoness yelled.

The commander cursed under his breath, and got more dragons ready to make a barricade for the west end. I ran over to him, he had a dreadful look in his eyes and he seemed to be shaking.

"We lost our flanks! If we stay here we are going to get killed, we need to fall back to the courtyard, we have a chance there."

"No we don't, we will get surrounded, and they will kill us or execute us one by one, we need to hold here. " I said.

"We cant-"

"There are hatchlings in the main building; we need to defend them before anyone else! You see, we can't retreat or we put the whole Vanguard at risk, we still have a fighting chance here!" I yelled.

The commander reluctantly nodded and ordered that the west side of the trench be barricaded. I continued to defend our front. A series of loud roars filled the air, I looked up to the sky to see four large dragons flying towards the Vanguard with loads of smaller dragons varying from age to age behind them. They landed behind the invading army and started to attack.

"Everyone behind me, we can surround them and finish them off!" I yelled.

Cynder stood next to me and hundreds of other dragons were behind me, they were waiting for my signal to attack.

"Attack!" I yelled.

We charged into the fray of battle, the army consisted of mainly orks. Slowly the enemy was surrounded by an army of dragons, the dark army knew they had lost, victory belonged to the Vanguard today.

"Finish them off!" I yelled.

Our forces were in a giant circle, the enemies inside had no cover from elemental attacks, the circle of dragons slowly enclosed around the dark army. The last ork took his dying breath, victory was ours. Battle crys filled the air, the four large dragons looked really famillar I walked towards them to get a better look. I got close to them, I knew all of the large dragons, Terrador, Volteer, Kryll, and Thresh, were all here and secured our victory. The four dragons looked down at me Kryll had a large smile on his face as did Volteer and Thresh. Terrador however seemed to be even happier to see me.

"Terrador I thought you hated me." I said.

"For a while I did, but it was soon after you left, about a week, that Warfang's location was discovered. The dark armies attacked in full force and we had no plan of defense, so we ran. What you see behind me is whats left of Warfangs residents."

"I'm sorry to hear that Terrador." I said

Cynder walked up next to me and kissed me on the cheek unaware that her father was watching her.

"So Cynder I see you found someone you care about." Terrador said.

"Father, what are you doing here?" Cynder said bluntly.

I walked away from Terrador to allow him to talk to Cynder alone. I still really wanted to know why most of the residents of Dragonspine were here.

"Volteer, im surprised to see you here." I said.

"Yes, I'm surprised im here to. The dark armies attack and destroyed Dragonspine a week after you left, we left the ruins of our town and met up with Terrador and the rest of Warfang. We both agreed we needed to get here, luckily, Kryll was able to help us get here." Volteer said.

"I'm glad you guys are ok." I said walking away.

I walked passed Thresh and gave him a nod, but a certain red dragon caught my eye. He had a long black scar that ran down his side. His eyes met mine and I soon found myself walking towards him.

"Never thought I say this, but it's good to see you Spyro." Flame said.

"Likewise Flame I guess we aren't enemies anymore." I said.

"After you nearly killed me I got to thinking. I made your life hell since we knew each other, so I thought I really deserved to die, but I didn't." Flame said.

"So are you saying that your sorry for making my younger life a living hell?" I asked.

"Yeah I am, I know I was being and idiot, but can you forgive me and can we be friends instead of enemies?" Flame asked.

I extended my paw to Flame and we shook, we would no longer be enemies, but friends.

"All right Flame ill catch you later, I need to head back to the infirmary, to check on Cyril." I said

I ran back to the Vanguard's main complex, Cyril was in the infirmary, he seemed to be okay, but when he saw me a look of sorrow came over his face.

"Cyril whats wrong?" I asked.

"Your father took a bad hit, he's in the next room, he's not going to last much longer." Cyril said sorrowfully.

I was shocked, I ran into the next room to see my father lying on his side. He was covered in deep wounds and around his body was a rather large puddle of his blood.

"D-dad." I said.

"Spyro, im sure Cyril already told you, but I'm not going to make it, ive lost too much blood and theres no way of replacing it." My dad said.

I couldn't find the words to say, my father was going to die and I couldn't do anything to save him.

"Listen up son, this war is far from over, this is only the beginning. Protect your loved ones with your life. You've come a long way since you were borne, im pround to be your father, and your mother would have been proud of you as well. I want you to destroy Malefor and Soul, bring forth a new age of peace, ill be watching you, and I will do anything to protect you son, I love you."

His last words were a struggle to come out but after my dad said he loved me, he died. Tears welled up in my eyes, I collapsed into my dead fathers side and cried. I shut the world around me out, all I wanted now was my father back.

(A/N) That does it for chapter nine, please give Alpha Kyogre credit for this chapter as well, and our reviews are welcome, im very open to my readers ideas! And as always I hoped you enjoyed chapter nine.