We landed in the darkness grounds. "So we all ready for this." I said as we opened the door to the crystal. "That's a lot of tests." Spyro said as we looked at the hundreds of various items that would be used. "I walked up to the first one and found that it was a fire lock that had been turned black. "Looks like we're going to need to use the dark form of every element to unlock these doors." I said. Cynder walked up to the fire lock and used darkfire to light it. "One down, about four-hundred and ninety-nine to go." Cynder said. I walked over to a hole that had a black and light blue ring around it and fired an ice shard into the hole. "I would hate to be the one that has to do this daily." I said as I used darkfear to unlock the fear lock. "Yea and this is going to be a while." Cynder said as she used darktime to unlock the time lock, I used darkconvexity to unlock the convexity lock, and Spyro used darkearth to unlock the earth lock. I walked up to a lock that was shaped similar to a predator with green dots that had the darkness symbol in them all over its body.
I figured out the element and coated my claws in darkpoison as I slashed at it. After a few minutes we had finished half the locks. I walked up to a lock that looked like and actual lock with no key, having researched the ruins and various lock tactics, I placed my paw on the lock, which had a clump of solid metal on it, and channeled darkmetal into it, forming a key with the metal and unlocking the lock. "There are a lot of locks here." I said. "Yea there is." Cynder said as she unlocked the wind lock. After an hour we finally finished with that and continued on to find a large maze that had darkness covering it. "We will not be able to get through this as only you two can see in the dark." Spyro said. "Correction we're the only darkness dragons but that can change." I said as I chanted the element changing spell for darkness and Aphaya, Spyro, and Mysty all became darkness dragons. "Wait why didn't we think of that earlier." I said. "No clue." Cynder said. "Sparx you wait here for our return and don't get eaten." Spyro said as we all walked into the maze. We quickly found the crystal, found our way out, and got back to the exit before heading off to the ice grounds.
We landed in the, cold, ice grounds and Spyro started looking for the symbol. "Wait not yet." I said. "Why not?" asked Spyro. "I'm still curious about what Adamu said in his journal and Rin may have more information." I said. "How can we be sure that Rin had a journal?" asked Aphaya. "All the guardians were required to at least have one." I said as we walked off to find Rin's home. "This is quite a large place isn't it?" asked Mysty. "Yea, well when your trying to protect an entire thriving race you tend to have huge places to do so." Cynder said. After a while we finally found Rin's home. "Wow, how can we be sure that the Destroyer hasn't made it across the world yet?" asked Spyro, after guessing how long we had been in this place. "Is the world falling apart? No." I said as we entered Rin's home. We looked around for a few minutes before we finally found Rin's room and entered. Upon entering I quickly saw that the journal wasn't in sight and started looking around for it, finding it hidden under the bed. I pulled the book out and read the title. "Journal written by Rin." I said happily as I opened the journal and read.
As of late Cyril has been showing aggression aimed at small creatures, but I fear that it isn't a play aggression. Yesterday I over heard Cyril, in his room, say '-ark master will rise again' I didn't hear what exactly he said but it is clear that something is different about him. when I asked him about what he said he simply said that he never said anything. Every time I look at Cyril, a cold shiver goes down my spine and I have no idea why. A few minutes ago I caught Cyril cutting himself, slightly, with his claws and he seemed to be drawing a symbol, but I got him to stop and made him second I spend with him, Cyril seems to become darker and darker.
I read as I flipped to the last page.
Today Cyril seemed to go back to normal, having been missing for the past three years and returning only yesterday. Today is a special day as today I will pass my title down to Cyril. I only chose to do it because he seems normal again but I will still hide the crystal, just in case. I asked Cyril where he had gone but all he said was that it was all a blur, I'm not buying it.
My suspicions where confirmed a moment ago as I over heard Cyril say 'Now, with me as a guardian, Master will surly have little trouble taking over the world' After he said that and paused for a moment he had continued with 'The Dark Master, my master, will attack soon and I can't wait for all the killing.' This has proven everything that I thought was true about Cyril and now he's locked me in here until he can get a chance to kill me. Oh no, he's coming I will have to leave with this message Do not trust Cyri
I finished reading and I was in shock. "I can't believe that all that's true, but we don't know if he is still like that or not." Aphaya said. "I know so, for now, we'll trust him, but the second he attacks us I will destroy him." Spyro said, his scales darkening. "Spyro." I said. Spyro looked at himself and then calmed down. "Sorry." Spyro said. "It's alright." Cynder said as we started looking for the crystal. I walked into Cyrils room and found a simple message, written in very dark coloring to prove the point. Rin is a liar. is all that the message said, but seeing as it was from him I decided to ignore it for now. After a few more minutes we found the crystal and got back to the exit, placing the crystal into the statue's chest.
The doors swung open as Ignitus and the others walked in. "Next time let me know when you are heading on a mission like that." Night said. "Ok." Aphaya said. Luna got out of the crowd and smiled at us. I looked at Luna and saw that she looked drained, meaning she must have had to untaint another dragon. "You going to be alright Luna?" I asked. Luna smiled and nodded yes. Should we tell Cyril about what we found out about him? asked Cynder. Good Cynder we all no that that would be a bad idea. Evil Cynder said as we walked along the long hallway that lead to the other side of the ruins. "So which statues did you have to find the crystal for?" asked Cyril, clearly seeing if we might have found Rin's journal. "Fire, Fear, Darkness, and Electricity." I said. "Oh well it is such a shame that you didn't get to look around the ice grounds." Cyril said. "Yea but that doesn't matter right now." I said as I caught up with the rest of my little group. After an hour of going along the halls, we finally found the second exit and left, with the destroyer in the distance. "So how are we going to slow this thing down?" asked Volteer, looking over to Cyril. "Hey I may have tortured some large dragons, but I have never done something like this before." Cyril said as I noticed Cynder looking over to her right. I followed Cynder's gaze and saw a dam in the distance and a canyon bellow. "Ignitus. How deep do you think that canyon is?" me and Cynder asked in unison. "About five miles or so. Why?" asked Ignitus as he followed our gaze. "You two are geniuses." Spyro said. "Yea." Mysty and Aphaya said in unison. "Well we know our mission and we know the location so shall we go." I said. "Sure." the four of them said in unison as me, Spyro, Mysty, Cynder, and Aphaya all went to the dam while the other's kept the destroyer distracted.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed. More dark information about Cyril.