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Guardian Dragons and the Gaia Phoenix
Ignitus and his young charges had arrived on the Great Wall of China while looking for the hidden Chun-Nan village said to be the home of the second Temple of Gaia which they were hoping that Ignitus's fellow guardians could point out.
"Well here we are folks." Sparx was the first to say to the team. "A useless wall that leads to nowhere."
"Now Sparx." Sasami chided "We've only just got here so there should be a route leading to the village, which in turn should lead to the Gaia Temple."
"Sasami is correct. The other guardians and I wouldn't just leave the location of the temple in plain sight now would we?" Ignitus asked everyone
"Now that's settled we should probably get going before the forces of darkness show up." Spyro replied and with that everyone started their walk along the great wall due to not wanting to draw a crowd to see 3 flying dragons. Especially by the forces of darkness since Ignitus knew Drago would want to eliminate him and the other guardians.
Speaking of the forces of darkness, Eggman along with the rest of his allies were in his base overseeing the construction of their main base. Just then Ergo the robot appeared holding sub sandwiches for everyone.
"Your dinner everyone." The robot stated in a monotone voice.
"Thank you Ergo." Drago said taking a bite out of his beef sandwich. "If there's one thing the human world is good at its food."
"Enough of that Drago." Cortex interrupted before returning to his salami, baloney and lettuce sub then turning to the robot he asked "What is the progress on the Dark Gaia-powered construction system of our new headquarters for when we rule the world?"
"Not the mention the Production of the mojo enhanced mutant army that Cortex and I are working on." Uka-Uka said irritated that he couldn't eat properly because he had no hands and forced to rely on his telepathic powers to eat his vegetarian sandwich.
"Current Status is 27 percent complete," Ergo responded "Progress is significantly behind projected timetable. Presumed cause of Delay is Dark Gaia's dispersion across the globe."
Hearing that sentence made Uka-Uka cross. "Of all the lazy beings I send Cortex to go through the trouble to wake that thing up and it causes us nothing but delays!"
"Dark Gaia had yet to reach maturity within the planet's core. Ergo, it was still incomplete at the time of its awakening. Ergo, it was unable to sustain its own weight upon its release. Ergo, it scattered across the globe."
"I don't want to hear about its weight issues!" The evil mask shot back to the robot "So what if it's been woken up suddenly this is unacceptable!"
"Ergo this is another repercussion of your hasty actions." Ergo responded.
"What was that?!" said Eggman already finished with his sub sandwich.
"I think we have bigger problems to worry about at the moment." Said a voice and everyone turned to find that Malefor had just returned to the base only he looked very much like Shendu in his spirit form right down to the tendrils only they were purple with black markings and he had four legs which he was walking in.
"Malefor you're back." Uka-Uka said as he greeted The Dark Master with pride knowing that he seemed more competent than the scientist he had been working with ever since their first adventure. "Perhaps you could fill us in on what you were doing out lately."
"Well for one thing I had to get used to flying without my wings which proved very difficult. Honestly I don't know how Shendu dealt with this when he was a sprit." The malevolent master replied.
"Yeah yeah, Pops had his issues back in his heyday." Drago responded in a bored tone.
"Quiet. Anyway the professor ran off with the Gaia Manuscripts and I just saw a piece of the planet coming back together." Malefor answered to the young dragon.
"That, Lord Malefor, is the result of the power of the Chaos Emeralds, which Cortex discarded along with Jade." Ergo responded, "Ergo, another repercussion of his hasty actions."
"Oh, quiet, you junk heap!!" Cortex shot to the robot. "That was, uh… all part of the plan. Part of the big picture! Where's the fun of our plans succeed without any challenge."
After a brief awkward silence Malefor asked. "What is the Status of the Remaining Temples of Gaia?"
"Combined forces have secured all remaining locations. Defensive preparations are nearly complete." Ergo responded
"Good. That should slow down the heroes for now, which leaves the problem of Dark Gaia. It'll be difficult to collect every piece around the globe." Eggman summarized.
"Searching conventional wisdom banks for topical advice… `The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.` `Slow and steady wins the race.` `Nobody likes a whiner.`" Ergo replied again.
"Isn't there a better way to do this? Some way to I don't know gather them all at once." Cortex asked
"Cortex that's it of course, what a great idea." Eggman said in glee and he went over to a computer and typed in a few commands.
"Now if anyone needs me I'll be over in Chun-Nan." Malefor explained "The local beast over there is going to help us deal with the heroes."
"Just how exactly you plan that the temple guardian is going to help us stop them?" Uka-Uka asked suspiciously.
"As the young people say just watch and learn." Malefor replied and with that he teleported away to the location of the Temple Guardian taking Drago with him in the process.
Speaking of the heroes, they had just arrived in the village around nightfall. Ignitus had suggested that they look to see if anyone knew where to find the other guardians. Spyro and Sparx found some great food and got it for free since the shop owner knew he was the legendary purple dragon destined to save the world so they took enough for everyone on the trip.
"Well this was a bust." Sparx said "But at least the food is good and the guy even fed our brains in the process."
"What do you mean Sparx?" Jade asked suspiciously.
"I mean that the shop owner said that that the village elder has gone missing and he thinks that an enemy of his friends has something to do with it." Sparx answered the Werehog. "He says that he'll give us access to the entrance of the path the elder took to the temple."
"Well that just saved us a load of work." Coco remarked. "Crash, Crunch, and I will stay here and locate more information as to the temple itself."
"Can I stay to help the bandicoots then since it appears that you don't need me for this mission and there's a full moon out tonight anyway." Sparx asked hoping not to get himself killed.
"Fine. Sparx you can stay." Ignitus said knowing the bandicoots would be able to handle themselves and they would have some light should things get dark. "Just run to one of the other guardians if you see any trouble."
"Will do sir." The dragonfly saluted as everyone else headed to the entrance of the path.
"There seems to be 2 teleport pads though one is in the temple with the number 2 and a crescent moon on it." Spyro remarked after reaching the entrance stage.
"The other one seems to be right across the lake and also has the number 2 on it but in the picture of a sun." Jade answered back.
"Sasami which path leads to the Temple of Gaia," Ignitus asked "If we can find the temple the village elder is sure to be over there.
Sasami just concentrated on finding the right path to the temple while her crystal hair spheres began to glow.
"The moon path will take us to the temple." The aqua haired girl responded to the elder.
"That's not all that's on there." Jade added. "I also sense 3 other dragons and some dark energy."
"The other Guardians might be there." Jade exclaimed "We've got to rescue them."
"Not to mention Uncle said to remove any demon chi from Drago should you run into him." Sonic added and with that the group headed for the moon path teleport gate.
When they arrived through the gate they found themselves on a stone path that ran through some Chinese style buildings. The heroes walked along the path keeping their eyes and ears open for the village elder and the other guardian dragon elders.
Their walk continued for a few moments until they ran into none other than Drago himself only he resembled his uncle the Moon Demon Tso Lan and was even wearing his uncle's robe and had purple hair floating down to the feet and sprouted 2 more arms. This time he was accompanied by a purple Chinese dragon with 4 legs and resembled a sprit very familiar to Jade only without the legs.
"Drago what are you doing here and I thought you weren't freeing your father." Jade accused the demon child.
"Jade the dragon next to Drago may look like Shendu in his sprit form but it is not him." Ignitus explained.
"Ignitus is correct foolish girl." The Shendu look-alike confirmed "It is I, Malefor, the Dark Master himself back in the flesh."
"Ignitus how is that even possible I thought the Dark Master was reduced to a sprit after being trapped in the portal of convexity." Spyro asked his mentor in shock as Sasami was about to prepare the removal spell to take one of Drago's newly acquired demon chi powers only to notice 3 other dragons floating in the air next to Drago only the seems to be knocked out and look heavily injured.
"The other guardians!" Sonic yelled "What have you done to them?!!"
"Well these foolish dragons though they could try to stop us so I beat them down and mutated the local guardian into doing our dirty work." Drago replied clearly not intimidated by Sonic the Werehog.
"Let them go. NOW!!!" Jade ordered preparing to blast them with a combustion attack.
"You fire and the elders go poof." Malefor sneered "but just to show that I'm not completely heartless I'm going to let them go but not here."
On cue the three other dragons were flung across the path to the Gaia Temple with one of the dragons being dropped 50 inches from them.
"What was that for?" Spyro suspiciously asked the dark duo.
"Consider that to be a demonstration that we're not completely heartless." Drago replied and with that the dark dragon duo left.
"Guys as much as we'd like to go after them." Sasami began "I think that the dragon in front of us needs our help." True to her word the rest of the group raced to the elder dragon's rescue.
"It's Volteer." Spyro yelled, instantly recognizing the dragon. The elder known as Volteer was a yellow dragon that looked to be as old as Ignitus. His wings were yellow and he had blue horns and a blue tail that looked like a thunderbolt.
"Volteer are you alright? Say something." Ignitus asked his fellow guardian.
"Well the process of vocalizing my present condition would require a sustainable amount of information relation as to ascertain my present state of awareness." The yellow dragon began.
"Huh?" everyone but Spyro asked stunned.
"He's fine but he says that it could take awhile to explain what happened." Spyro translated.
"Volteer it's good to see you too but now is not the time for sentiment." Ignitus spoke to his old friend. "Now what happened to you and the other guardians?"
"Well it was right before the tremors hit." The electricity guardian explained. "The village elder had arrived to see us to ask if we were alright though it seems that we could all sense that something had woken up from within the earth."
"That must have happened after Ignitus and I went to Section 13 to fight off some intruders." Spyro replied.
"Indeed and from what I could discover the clues could only point to one creature." Volteer answered.
"Dark Gaia." Ignitus confirmed. "It appears that Malefor has teamed up with other dark forces to summon the beast from within the earth."
"That's not all Dark Gaia has done for as you can see before you the monster's influence has also neutralized my mental capabilities." Volteer continued.
"This as Sparx would say 'You've lost your living thesaurus trait.'" Spyro exclaimed. (Authors' note; I'm having it so that Dark Gaia neutralizes the traits of some people or dragons in this case Volteer from time to time.)
"I'm afraid so but that's not the half of it for you see just after the tremors the demon known as Shendu appeared and attacked me and the other guardians alongside some green lizard like human that wore a red and purple robe and had 4 arms." Volteer continued.
"I take it Drago did this to you guys to make sure you couldn't protect the temple." Sonic asked.
"Indeed he did but Drago as you call him looked different before turning into what you saw while I was unconscious. He seemed to have wings before Terrador preformed some spell to try to stun him. I would like to inquire more on the matter but alas we have to rescue Cyril and Terrador first." Volteer replied to the werehog.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Werehog Battle Theme/ Werehog Night Battle Suite Begins to Play)
"Well let's move." Sasami stated racing along the stone path only to be ambushed by a pack of nightmares. Everyone else started to do their best and fight off the nightmares. Jade had used the healing power of the horse talisman to mend Volteer's wounds before rushing back into the fray. She took on her dragon form again and started slashing away at the nightmares with her tail and used her breath attack only this time she was using attacks that not even Ignitus had taught to Spyro such as charging forward while surrounded by flames. She roasted the nightmares while Sonic just bashed them with his fists and Sasami used her martial arts on them. Ignitus and Spyro had opted for the more long range approach using their fire breath on any new nightmares that could attack them. The assault kept up and then Volteer stepped up as the next group of nightmares charged only this group seemed to be comprised of wizard like nightmares some red and some blue. They were known as fire master and dark master respectively which seemed to confuse the guardian dragons. Ignitus easily defeated most of the new set of nightmares including the dark masters but the fire masters were giving him problems because for each fire attach he tried they seemed to absorb it and made themselves stronger. They also summoned even more nightmares to the field thus giving the heroes more problems.
"Ignitus your combustion based exhalation assault is only multiplying our current troubles." Volteer stated "I detest saying this but I hypothesize that I should proceed to deal with these combustion based apparitions as you fire based attacks are ineffective."
"I have no idea what you just said but go for it." Jade encouraged while still fighting off even more nightmares. The Electricity Guardian nodded and fired his lightning breath at the nightmares which surprisingly did some damage. Volteer followed up with some ground and air melee attacks then he finished up with an electric fury which eradicated every enemy within a 30 mile radius of Volteer while surprisingly not electrocuting his allies.
(Song ends.)
"Volteer that was very impressive." Sonic noted after the battle was over.
"Yeah Dark Gaia might have taken some of your intellect but he couldn't take away your fighting skills." Jade added after she used the horse talisman powers on those that might have taken some more damage and returned to her normal form which at night was the werehog form.
"Young Ones we mustn't waste time with idle chit chat." Ignitus interrupted.
"Ignitus is right we must get going." A new voice spoke and there standing on the path leading to the river was Jackie Chan himself.
"Uncle Jackie." Jade asked "How did you get here?"
"I had Aku-Aku drop me off here. Apparently the professor wanted me to examine the Temple itself for the next class and to make sure the local dragons didn't eat you alive." Jackie answered.
"I can certainly assure you Mr. Chan the other guardians would not eat any human alive and neither would I for that matter." Ignitus answered the archeologist.
"Well Ignitus that's a pleasant thought considering my experience with dragons has been lousy." Jackie answered referencing Shendu and Drago.
"I detest having to break up the sentiment but we have a temple to visit." Volteer spoke up and with that everyone continued along the stone path that lead across the river. They had to jump across a few stones from time to time but they managed to reach the second check point which consisted of a hut floating on the water which oddly didn't crack under the weight of 2 full grown dragons and it was there where the group found another dragon. This dragon was blue with icicle like features from the tip of the horns to the tail. The wings themselves were blue with a light shade of purple and the tail was icicle like.
"Hey guys." Sasami voiced "It looks like one of the other guardians is okay but he seems to be just stuck there."
"That looks like Cyril and from the visual comprehension on his current condition." Volteer hypothesized "I theorize that he tentatively ended up on the receiving end of a highly placed stealth assault."
"He thinks Cyril was ambushed." Spyro once again translated seeing that everyone else had gotten lost after the first 3 words.
"Guys it is just me or does it seem to quiet to you?" Jade asked and as soon as she finished that sentence the nightmares once again appeared. This time green wizard like nightmares with electricity were among them along with the dark masters and fire master. The lightning nightmares were referred to as lightning masters.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Night Battle Suite/Werehog Battle Theme Begins to play)
"Jade I will try to free Cyril from his captivity you keep any of those creatures from attacking." Jackie was about to tell her to stay put but in this case he had to let her fight alongside the other guardians.
"Got it Jackie." Jade responded happy that he didn't tell her to stay here and she went to town on the nightmares along with Sonic. Sasami used some martial arts on the nightmares and found a barrel of water and threw it on the fire nightmares that doused the flames which allowed Spyro to melee them into the ground. Ignitus had no problem with the nightmares that had surrounded him and used a simple blast of fire to incinerate them but Volteer had problems similar to those Ignitus had with the fire masters. Whenever the lightning guardian dragon tried to attack the lightning master nightmare with lightning breath the lightning master would absorb the attack and make itself stronger and hand to hand combat was out of the question since the nightmare was surrounded in electricity. To make matters worse the lightning master nightmares summoned even more nightmares and revived the dark and fire masters starting the whole sequence all over again. The heroes were still fighting but exhaustion began to creep in even on Jade who still had the horse and dog talismans which made her able to heal quickly and immortal but she too was fading out from fatigue and when all seemed lost a new voice stepped up.
"I believe that it is my turn to step in." a proud and cultured tongue spoke and there was a blast of ice which covered some of the nightmares. Ignitus, Volteer, Spyro and the heroes all turned to find that Cyril the Ice Guardian had fully recovered and Jackie Chan standing beside him ready to do battle. The nightmares that weren't frozen which were the fire master had just simply melted the ice but that doused the flames that were covering them which allowed Jackie to use his martial arts upon them. The other nightmares tried to attack but Cyril and Jackie had beaten them down with a combination of ice element ground and air melee attacks.
The rest of the team had used the energy from the horse talisman that Jade had willingly used to heal their wounds to get back into the battle and with another big effort the nightmares disappeared only to be replaced by another group the largest yet.
"I say chaps I think that I should end this little pretense of an army." Cyril quoted and like Volteer did to the last group and blasted some with ice attacks and then finished up with an ice fury that froze and shattered every nightmare within a 30 mile radius of Cyril while turning the entire river into a frozen winter wonderland.
(Song Ends)
"Cyril thank you for saving our lives back there." Jackie spoke to the ice guardian.
"Consider it a thank you for freeing me from that dreadful containment seal placed on me by that impudent young lizard." Cyril replied.
"Cyril, what exactly did Drago do to you?" Spyro asked as did the other heroes.
"Well the last thing I remember was Terrador telling this Drago character that he was a disgrace to the warrior dragon community after I told him he was unfit to call himself a mighty dragon to begin with." Cyril explained.
"Is that all because if I know Drago then you must have done something more than say something to annoy him." Jade the Werehog responded.
"Well there was one other thing, Terrador managed to somehow blunt some of Drago's magic and the next thing I saw was a dark blue aura that looked like a flower end up leaving the lad and for some reason Terrador tried to find something to contain it but the minute he touched it the aura disappeared. " The ice guardian mentioned to the group. Jackie and Jade after hearing Cyril's explanation as to what happened knew full well what happened.
"From what you have described," Jackie explained "It appears that Terrador has absorbed the Earth Demon Chi after removing it from Drago."
"So that's why Terrador felt a little tingly all over." Volteer responded.
"So what's going to happen to him?" Spyro asked with concern.
"Well considering he's the earth guardian I'm sure the power wouldn't do much to his physical appearance right?" Sonic asked.
"I think we better ask Uncle." Jackie asked and pulling out his cell phone he dialed a number and took out another device that Coco had made for situations like this and placed the phone on it. Once the phone and the unit were connected it began to project a screen on to a rock face with Uncle appearing on it.
"Jackie!" Uncle exclaimed. "What is so important that you had to call 3 hours before sunset?!"
"Uncle Terrador removed the earth demon chi from Drago but with no containment unit to store it in he had to become a living vessel for the power." Ignitus answered.
"Oh well in that case being earth dragon." Uncle responded "Earth Guardian should not be affected by the power given his inherent good chi for the moment but it will be harder to remove it from him the longer it stays within him."
"So what you're saying is," Cyril inquired "that if we don't remove the demon chi from Terrador then he's going to turn into the earth demon himself?"
"AIYAA!" Uncle Screeched very annoyed. "If you know that already then why do you bother me?!"
"Calm down wise elderly sorcerer. Now what we require is a veritable, authentic, genuine technique as to confiscate the demonic earth based chi that Terrador has paradoxically been immersed in." Volteer spoke with his usual electric tongue leaving everyone stunned.
"He's asking if you know how to remove the earth demon chi from Terrador before it turns him into the Earth Demon." Spyro translated for Uncle.
"AIYAA! Why did you not say so?" Uncle explained "Jade has been carrying the Chi-O-Matic. It is the only thing that can contain the chi." And with that he cut the connection leaving Jackie staring sternly at Jade.
"About that well Uncle told me to remove any demon chi powers Drago might have in the event that we run in to him." Jade replied to her uncle's stare.
"Now is not the time for a staring contest." Cyril answered. "We must rescue Terrador quickly and since there are 3 dragon elders we'll fly to his location."
"Cyril is terribly obnoxious at times but in this case he happens to be right Jackie." Volteer added and with that Sonic and Jackie hopped on Volteer's back while Sasami and Jade hopped on Cyril's back and with that the dragons took off into the nighttime sky while flying just about the tree tops in case they should see their missing friend.
"Hey guys." Sasami spoke up her crystal hair spheres turning a mix of dark brown and green. "I think I can sense Terrador."
"Well then tell us Sasami." Ignitus asked as he and the other guardians were flying.
"He's right over there." The aqua haired girl spoke and sure enough everyone did see Terrador in front of a large gate that had water covering the stone foundation in front. The dragons instantly took a nose dive and landed gently onto the ground while still carrying their passengers.
"Hey guys is it just me or does Terrador seem to be really out of it." Sonic asked as everyone was making their way towards the earth guardian.
"He seems to be in a deep trance trying to keep the earth demon chi contained while at the same time avoiding the use of its influence." Jade noted after she along with Jackie, Sasami and Sonic hopped off their respective dragons.
"Jade how did you know that?" Jackie asked her in shock.
"Actually I didn't know that I was just guessing about his state and the fact that we haven't seen a reason for him to use it." Jade answered.
"In that case we should probably remove the demon chi from him at once." Jackie responded.
"Careful it's never this easy." Spyro advised the group.
"I don't see any nightmares." Sasami responded to the purple dragon.
"Typically, I would throw caution to the wind and try something as Jackie would call foolish but in this case Spyro has a point and after the last few times we were about to rescue someone something huge usually dropped in." Jade sheepishly admitted and as if on cue some nightmares showed up.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Werehog Battle Theme/Night Battle Suite Begins to play)
The werehogs charged right for the nightmares easily flattening them into pancakes while Spyro roasted the ones that attacked from the sky. Cyril prepared his icicle spears and fired them at the fire master nightmares while Volteer took on the dark master nightmares which left Ignitus to face the lightning masters which given their extreme aversion to heat above the temperature of magma they were no match for the fire guardian and his breath. Jackie had resorted to using his martial arts on from the nightmares even though he really didn't want to fight but he was forced into doing so by the nightmares. Sasami had just finished beating down the group of nightmares that surrounded her by using her martial arts. Pretty soon everyone had their group of nightmares eliminated and yet it felt like they didn't even break a sweat.
(Song Ends)
"Hey Jackie didn't that seem to be a bit too easy?" Jade asked her uncle.
"Jade's right nightmares usually show up in larger groups than that so something is clearly wrong with this picture." Cyril added.
"Well I for one am not complaining." Jackie responded to the ice guardian. "Let us remove the chi from Terrador while we still can."
"Mr. Chan has a point." Ignitus also answered to the ice guardian. "Terrador's well being is our primary concern right now."
"Then in that case let's move." Sasami vocalized and with that the heroes rushed for the earth guardian dragon. When they arrived the first thing the heroes other than Ignitus, Volteer, Cyril and Spyro noticed was that Terrador was a big green dragon with brown earth like patterns and brown horns on his head. He had a brown mace like tip at his tail and the strange thing was he seemed to have taken the least damage.
"Terrador," Jackie spoke softly "Your friends are here. We've come to help you."
"I think this is going to require a louder approach." Sonic asked and on cue he took out an air horn which was surprising to everyone and he blared said air horn but still the earth guardian didn't wake.
"Sonic. I do not think that is going to work." Jackie noted to the werehog.
"Perhaps we could try to remove the demon chi form him using the Chi-O-Matic." Sasami suggested and Jade immediately pulled out said device before the 2 girls walked over to Terrador who was still in a trance.
"Sasami do you even know how to remove the demon chi?" Jackie asked the young teen girl.
"I'm not sure but I'll try." Sasami politely answered back and with that she started concentrating, her crystal hair spheres glowing light green in the process as a blue aura disappeared from Terrador and was sucked inside the containment jar of the Chi-O-Matic. As soon as the process was done the earth guardian started to wake up from his trance.
"Who are you?" Terrador asked the aqua haired girl "What happened while I was in that trance?"
"You mean you don't remember that you removed the earth demon chi form Drago?" Cyril asked.
"Well I remember that and stating that he was unfit to call himself a warrior but before that the village elder and the treasure he was carrying seemed to be in one piece before Drago beat him up badly." The earth guardian answered.
"Well in that case some introductions are in order now that you seem to be back." Ignitus noted.
"Unfortunately that will have to wait." Terrador responded. "Before I was knocked out I overheard the dark master say something about mutating the temple guardian to attack anyone going to the Temple of Gaia. It is important that we head there at once."
"Terrador is right. Let's bolt before the welcoming committee shows up." Sonic noted and with that everyone headed to the goal ring that appeared in the center of a waterfall. The waterfall was actually an entrance to another location and when the heroes warped there they found themselves atop a cliff. On the cliff the group could see an elderly man clearly unconscious lying next to an emerald orb.
"That must be the village elder. We've got to rescue him." Sasami noted and with that she and Jade rushed in along with Sonic.
"Jade get back here before…" Jackie started to shout but was cut off by the sound of a giant roar. As he and the rest of the team looked up to investigate a massive purple phoenix in cursed flames flew in low and nearly charred the group. Sonic took the village elder to safety before the phoenix arrived, leaving Jade and Sasami to face down the monster that Spyro and the guardians knew right away.
"Jade, What in the world is that thing?!"Sasami yelled clearly freaked out.
"I'm going to guess that's the temple guardian that Terrador mentioned on our trip over here." Jade answered as best as she could.
"Right you are you little pests." A dark familiar voice chuckled and there standing was Drago in his sky demon chi form again flying next to the phoenix.
"Drago what have you done to the temple guardian?" Ignitus demanded of the demon son of Shendu.
"The temple guardian is now under our power. Dark Gaia Phoenix Destroy them!!" Drago yelled disappearing and the phoenix instantly let out a roar at the 2 girls.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Boss Battle Night Begins to Play)
The Dark Gaia Phoenix launched a swarm of fiery tail feathers which Jade and Sasami immediately dodged. Jade tried to attack only to be knocked back by the cursed flames.
"Jade, listen to me." Ignitus responded as he flew next to the edge of the square. "The beast is covered in flames a direct attack won't work in its current state."
"Duh, I think I figured that out so what am I supposed to do about it?" The werehog asked.
"Try removing those flames first there should be something here that can remove them." the fire guardian simply responded and as he finished the Dark Gaia Phoenix took to the air and flew in low. The girls avoided the attack by a near miss while Ignitus took cover within some wooded area of the land.
"Sasami, where am I supposed to find enough water to douse that thing?" Jade asked and Sasami noticed some barrels of water on some raised platforms.
"Jade why not try throwing a barrel at it and see what happens." The aqua-haired girl responded so Jade raced over to the shortest platform and used her werehog strength to lift the barrel. Then taking aim as the Dark Gaia Phoenix was about to perform another low swoop she tossed the barrel into the monster and extinguished the flames around it forcing the beast to rest on the tallest platform. Jade instantly took action and leaped into the air throwing a punch to the face then an uppercut to the chin that did massive damage.
Once Jade landed she did a victory pose only to find the monster had gotten back up this time surrounded by more cursed flames.
"Chaps that was only round one, The Dark Gaia Phoenix isn't going to be defeated that easily." This time coming from Cyril who had appeared where Ignitus had taken cover.
"So what do I do now then Captain Obvious?" Jade asked the ice guardian.
"Simply stun the monster with water last time though you'll need more water than only a single barrel could provide you with but just to ensure that you don't get burned to badly I'll provide some of my ice powers." Cyril explained and he fired a stream of ice breath to draw the phoenix away from Jade and Sasami while they looked for another barrel of water. Once they were ready with the barrel the ice guardian ended his assault and flew back to the cliff where the others were waiting and where Volteer was applying medical care to the village elder.
"Jade the beast looks like it's going to fire another attack." Sasami noted and true enough the Dark Gaia Phoenix launched a barrage of tail feathers at the 2 girls but didn't do much for Jade had the powers of the horse and dog talismans activated, her tattoos turning into the shape of a horse head and a dog respectively protecting the duo from harm.
"Great Now the stool pigeon decides to play dirty." Jade noted as she and Sasami returned to continue the battle.
Jade wasted no time in throwing another barrel at the Dark Gaia Phoenix only it didn't completely douse the flames surrounding it. Thinking quickly Sasami focused her mind and created another water barrel for the werehog to throw at the phoenix. Jade took aim and threw it at the beast completely drenching the monster and temporally removing the cursed flames causing it to rest on one of the elevated platforms. Acting fast the werehog pulled herself up onto the platform then jumped and preformed a quick punch to the face and an uppercut to the chin but it didn't seem to do enough so she jumped a few feet back then charged in with a punch to the stomach and using that momentum she leaped into the air, brought her fist together, extended her arms and slammed them down onto the Dark Gaia Phoenix. Once again when she landed, Jade took the time to make a victory pose only for Sasami to point her to the direction of the Dark Gaia Phoenix only to notice it had even more cursed flames surrounding it. The monster seemed to be EXTREMELY pissed off right now.
"Well that's what you get for trying to burn us alive you smelling stool pigeon." Jade taunted only to receive a response in the form of the monster slamming down in the center of the square and launching multiple shockwaves which seemed would have burned both her and Sasami if they weren't deflected by a sonic boom attack. The 2 girls were stunned to find that Terrador had fired that attack. Apparently to them it looked like his earth powers had returned and he was getting back into the fight.
"Lowering your guard for an instant would have left you vulnerable to attack if I had arrived a second late." Terrador lectured to Jade.
"I get enough lectures from my uncle about not doing anything reckless Terrador." Jade responded to the earth guardian.
"So then any suggestions on how we finish the battle then because it looks to me like we're in round 3." Sasami noted to the earth guardian.
"Well I've been watching the fight so far and from what I saw it would take a total of 3 water barrels to completely remove the cursed flames long enough for Jade to attack it." The earth guardian explained to Sasami.
"Only one problem," Jade imparted "there's only one water barrel left and it's sitting on the highest platform here."
"One more thing, never give up when you are fighting alongside your friends." Terrador advised and with that he returned to the edge of the arena.
While the trio was conversing the Dark Gaia Phoenix had recovered from the surprise attack and launched another round of fiery feathers at the 2 girls. The girls dodged to the left and out of range of the attack. Sasami concentrated on creating another water barrel for Jade to throw at the bird while Jade kept the bird busy.
Jade immediately threw the last water barrel in the square at the beast to find that only 1/3 of the flames had disappeared. Jade ducked and avoided the fiery feathers that the bird threw at her by racing around the edge of the arena. Sasami meanwhile had created another water barrel and was just about to work on a second barrel when Jade ran into her.
"Sorry about the crash." Jade apologized.
"Look now's not the time for that we've got a monster to stop." Sasami said seriously and taking note Jade went to the second water barrel that the aqua-haired girl had made and was about to throw it right for the phoenix but she had to contend with the fire blast the bird fired from its mouth. Thinking quickly jade used the power of the rooster talisman and levitated the barrel causing the tattoos on her arms to turn into the form of a rooster until it was above the Dark Gaia Phoenix. Jade let go of the power and then the barrel dropped onto the monstrous bird dousing the flames around it yet leaving only 1/3 of its flames remaining. Meanwhile Sasami had just finished creating another water barrel for the werehog to use but she saw that Jade was pinned down from the constant barrage of feathers that the Dark Gaia Phoenix was firing at her so she took the barrel and threw it as the bird itself. The Dark Gaia Phoenix crowed as its flames were completely doused and it landed on to the lowest platform which was confidently where Jade was taking cover behind.
Jade started with a standard punch to the face followed by an upper cut to the chin. She attacked with a punch to the stomach but this time she used the claws as a foot stool and leaped to its head then using all her strength, Jade moved into a somersault and slammed the Dark Gaia Phoenix right onto the ground effectively ending the battle. The Phoenix could only crow in agony of its humiliating defeat.
(Song ends)
"Bad Guy defeated." Sasami said heroically.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Boss Stage Clear plays.)
"Strike three, monster! That's enough out of you!!!" Jade yelled in victory.
(Song ends.)
"I take it that your mission was a success." Volteer asked as he and everyone else flew down to the ground. The village elder was beginning to regain consciousness.
"Are you alright?" Jackie asked.
"Yes thank you." The elder said kindly.
Jade was examining the treasure found on the battle field. Just then it started to shine and emit a jade colored beam that opened the temple gate. Not asking any questions she and Sasami along with Spyro, Sonic and Jackie entered the temple. When they reached the center Jade took out another chaos emerald from her bag and stretched her arm to the slot which Sasami revealed by using her crystal hair beads. Once the emerald was placed in the slot it regained its red glow which caused the temple to start shaking as the second piece of the planet moved back into place.
"I take it that another continent has been restored?" Jackie asked as soon as the rumbling stopped.
"You got that right Uncle Jackie." Jade replied.
"Guys lets head outside I'm sure everyone's worried about us." Spyro noted and with that the heroes headed out of the temple.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Chun-Nan Night Music begins to play)
When they did they were in for quite a surprise; the phoenix was back on its feet, but the cursed flames were gone and it was now numerous colors and seemed to be much calmer. The village elder was standing next to the Gaia Phoenix. To the left of the elder were Ignitus and Volteer and to the right of the phoenix there stood Cyril and Terrador.
"The moment the temple lit up the beast woke up." The village elder explained. "It appears he's come back to his senses."
"I see. You must be the true temple guardian." Spyro understood as did the rest of the heroes.
"I'll bet your job is to guard the chaos emerald temple." Jade noted. "You must've gone berserk when the emeralds lost their power."
The phoenix simply nodded. The Guardian dragon elders were pleased to see that Jade and Sasami made it back in one piece.
"Well I'm glad you're back to your old self again." Sasami stated to the Gaia Phoenix. "Want some chocolate?"
With that Sasami once again pulled out a bar of chocolate from her backpack and offered it to the phoenix. The sacred being simply crowed and took the chocolate bar before it flew back to its perch high above the temple.
"So long. See you again sometime." The young heroes stated. Jackie and the elders just stared with pride at the sight before Terrador spoke up.
"Guys I think it's time we head back to the village to let everyone there that the elder is in one piece." The earth guardian suggested and on cue everyone hopped onto the back of the guardian dragons and with that they flew off into the night sky and headed for the village to go and get some rest for the next day's events.
(Song ends)
Next time
The heroes have restored Chun-Nan back to its place on the planet but there is still unfinished business in the area. Meanwhile the forces of evil seem to have something devious in mind involving restoring Dark Gaia back to his full self again. Read and Review Please.