CHAPTER-10 FALL OF THE EMPRESS

Spyro was awakened by a crash, then many cries for help as he raised his head to see what the trouble was.

"Oh right, the Atlawa!" he said waking the others up so they could watch the result of their handiwork the night before.

The slaves began pouring out of their huts, each armed with spears, attacking their outnumbered oppressors.

"Now's our chance!" Nero said as they charged from the woods, through the chaos, into the middle of the village, where Lea was waiting for them.

"Hello Spyro." She hissed as she flared her wings angrily at him and the rest of them.

Lea's features were not like Cynders...her face had not been scarred by dark magic or previous battles. She was relatively young and quite attractive, compared to Cynder in her adult evil form, making the guys hesitate to attack her, as they weren't the type to hurt females.

"Hello Lea. Are you going to come quietly and let us get His evil out of you, or are we going to do this the hard way?" he smiled arrogantly.

She laughed at his confidence and said.

"Oh, little dragon, your powers cannot hope to match that which my master have given me."

"Then lets put you to the test!" Spyro said launching a fireball at her chest.

She smirked, then raised her left paw up and deflected it into a nearby hut, blowing it to pieces, along with the apes and Atlawa fighting around it.

Spyro wasn't discouraged by this as the rest of the crew gathered around him.

"Same attack plan as Nero. She looks like she may be stronger, so keep your guard up." Spyro said as the four of his friends charged her, hurling everything they had at her.

Nero fomed ice daggers and began throwing them at her, hoping to pierce her rock hard hide, but they merely shattered on impact.

Draganta used a horn drill attack from the air, only to be deflected in a similar fashion to Spyro's fireball.

Austin decided on a flying kick to the head, but was swiftly met with sharp horns in his stomach as he too was thrown back towards Spyro.

As his friends recovered, Spyro and Lea locked eyes

"This isn't who you are Lea. This is the dark masters magic making you do these things!"

"Dont lie to me dragon! I know what you are here to do!" she snapped at him, taking a fighting stance.

"Really? And that would be?" he said taking another low position.

"To kill me. I'll be damned if I give you that opportunity!" she hissed

"That is a lie! Who told you that?" Spyro said hiding his right forepaw behind his back as it began to glow purple.

"Cynder! The dark masters best general!" she shouted over the chaos back to him.

"Cynder..." Spyro said and raised his eyes to look over her shoulder, pretending he saw something massive in the sky.

"By the gods..." he said as he gazed behind Lea, waiting for her to turn around and fall for his ploy.

She turned her neck to see what he was looking at when Spyro cried

"Now!"

Nero, Austin and Draganta charged from the places they were thrown tackled her hard to the ground, holding her down as best they could.

Spyro became a purple blur as he charged toward her, jumping into the air, and slamming his purple glowing paw down on her chest.

She released a blood curdling scream as the black magic was forced out of her, and she became her normal size again.

Nero knelt down beside her and raised her head up off the ground as she slowly came to.

"W...who are all of you?!" she said recoiling nervously as Nero let her go.

"Take it easy! We saved you from the dark master's magic." Draganta said as the slave revolt raged around them.

Spyro addressed her and knelt down beside her.

"Lea, I need you to tell me what you did with Voltier. Think hard." he said as she tried to remember, even though she couldn't make out much, it was all very blurry.

"Who?" she asked faintly

"Voltier! The Yellow dragon! He never shuts up!" Austin said trying to jog her memory.

"Oh...right. I uh..hehe, I locked him in the den of Geos. Sorry guys." She said sheepishly

"Wonderful..." Draganta said

"Draganta, you stay here with her, and we'll go get Voltier. See if you can organize these Atlawa before they hurt anyone else. We wouldn't want a riot on our hands." Spyro said

"Sure thing Spyro." he said as he watched the others fly the short distance to Geo's temple, which was a stone ring with a huge boulder covered in vines in the middle. On the far edge of his temple, on a rock slab, lay Voltier, chained to the wall, unconscious just as Terrador had been.

They landed next to him and began working on freeing Voltier. All of his limbs were constricted so they began to work as fast as they could.

Before they could even remove the first chain, they felt the ground quake, and looked to the boulder in the middle of the ring. It had begun to move! It shook and began to form the arms and legs of a rock monster, covered in vines.

"I think thats Geos!" Austin said as it turned to face them

"We cant leave him here, we need to take that thing out first, Nero, you and I-"

"Wait Spyro, you have the strongest flame, so you will melt the chains quicker than we could. Leave Geo's to us, you just free Voltier and we'll meet you back in the village!" Nero said

He nodded and began melting the chains as Nero and Austin flew toward Geos.

"Nero, which part do you want? Top or bottom?" Austin asked

"Dibs on the top!" Nero said launching ice balls at the beast's head while Austin examined its legs.

'So...it looks like its made of vines inside its rock legs...'

"Nero! Cut the vines between its joints!"

Nero crafted a sharp ice boomerang of sorts, and threw it at the creatures right arm.

It cut through the air and then through the vines, leaving its arm hanging limply by its side.

"Awesome!" he said making another one and positioning himself to take out the other arm.

Spyro was burning away the last chain as Geos raised his only working arm, and prepared to smash the both of them.

"Spyro No!" Austin said blowing fire on its exposed leg vines, burning them up, causing him to lean backwards.

Geo's arm didn't fall as it leaned dangerously back.

Austin, caught under its shadow, realized it was about to fall on top of him.

"Uh oh..." he said as Geos rapidly fell toward

"Austin get out of there!" Spyro yelled as he could only watch the stone Goliath crush him.

Nero streaked out of the sky toward Austin, tackling him around the waist and they both tumbled out of Geos path as it lay, defeated on the ground.

"Nero...Thank you..."

"No problem...Its what I do..." he said catching his breath

"Voltier! Wake up!" Spyro said as he melted the last chain link.

They gathered around him as Spyro shook him, hoping to wake him up.

"Oh...Spyro...What are you doing here? It's much to dangerous, perilous..."

"We don't have time for that now, we have to get out of here!" Austin said as Geos tried to stand and attack again.

"Can you fly?" Nero asked urgently

"Yes...I believe I can.."

"Then lets go!" he said as they took to the air, and signaled Draganta to follow, as he carried Lea on his back, as she was too weak to fly.

As they were leaving tall plains, they saw Kane's rebels charge out of the jungle and capture the remaining apes, restoring order to the old Atlawa system.

"God I am glad to be out of there. It was way too hot and it smelled terrible." Nero said as they headed back toward the temple.

"I wish you'd have said that to Kane." Draganta joked.

They arrived at Spyro's cave where they lay Voltier in Flames bed, filling the capacity of the cave. Two young females and two fully grown males.

"Voltier, did you know what they did with Ignitus or Cyril?" Spyro asked

"I heard very little young ones...Beware, the guard of munitions forge." he said before passing out

"Damn, he seemed pretty delirious...you think he was telling the truth?" Draganta groaned as Voltier fell deeper into unconscious.

"We can always ask Lea." Austin said motioning to the sleeping dragoness outside.

Nero voulenteered and walked outside to interrogate Lea.

She heard his footsteps and began to stir, though she was still very tired as the sun began to set.

"Sorry to wake you, but I need to ask you something." He said as she lifted her head off of her forepaws, smiling at him.

"Go ahead handsome." She said in such a manner, that Nero couldn't tell weather or not she was joking. He decided to play it off as though he didn't notice her comment, just in case.

"Do you know where the other elders are being held?" he asked

"Well, I don't remember much...but I think another one of us is guarding munitions forge, so one of your elders is more than likely there." She said waking up a little more as the others joined them outside.

"Well?" Austin asked

"Looks like munitions forge is our next stop." He answered

"Sounds good. Voltier said to beware the guard of munitions forge...so we need to rest up, he sounds tough." Spyro said laying down by the fire again.

"Good idea..." Draganta said yawning and taking his place around the re lit fire, letting Lea sleep inside with the other females as the moons rose over the forest.

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Cynder smiled as she gazed into the vision pool in her fortress.

"So Spyro...you have rescued another. No matter, this time I will personally see to it that you and your friends will never make it out of Munitions Forge." She hissed as she took flight towards the mountain ruled by the most powerful of the stolen hatchlings, Ash.

ok, so they finally got out of tall plains, and have 2/4 guardians back. munitions forge and Ash is next! and also, I have pics of Amber, Deo, Demon Spyro from lucifers kingdom, and Snow. they are at the top of my page, check em out!

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Peace!