Alright the ruins of Warfang we're definitely on our way to the home stretch
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XLI-The Ruins of Warfang
Red paced the ground growling the Destroyer was the most powerful Golem sealed away by the ancient ones long ago but….. "If I know Ignitus he'll think of something someone will there's at least a few dozen brains among them" He suddenly felt a presence behind him,
"You seem anxious General." Said the voice Red turned and bowed to the Purple Dragon as he paced into the room, "The time of our Victory is coming and let's forget so is your reward." Malefor replied as he walked out to the balcony of the Temple his castle, Red remembered coming out her as a young Dragon but now he was overlooking the world.
"I know the Fire Guardian all he needs is hope and he'll find a way he's not the Guardian of that Element for nothing and let's not forget both sides have a purple Dragon not to be rude or unconfident but arrogance often leads to defeat I know this." he stated admitting the last part grudgingly.
Malefor thought about this for a minute, "Very well if it will ease your nerves I will allow you to have the Ghoul apes and a Couple of Golems scout."
"Much Obliged." Red replied feeling better as his leader left he wanted to be sure this worked he and Malefor would be safe up here once the world that dared scorned him was obliterated he and Malefor would inherit a new world.
FAI FAI FAI
The Dragons found themselves in a large tunnel like area it was vast and endless but no time for sight-seeing Solria spotted Koryu examining some statues, "Hmmm I bet ya these are how we open the gate but we need certain keys to get them working."
"Well there not gonna be right by the door." Cynder agreed as she examined a cavity in one, "Looks like we need a crystal of some sort."
"Let's take a look around." Spyro stated,
"Let's go this way if the mechanisms anything like the ones back at the Well of Souls the crystals will be spread out all over the room." Raiciel called as he got them all to come to the left flying down towards the area on the lower right Cynder quickly flew ahead catching the attention of the others as she looked up at something.
"Spyro look at this." Cynder stated they all gazed up at it the Mural was Dragons each a different color red, blue, yellow, green, along with other colorless Dragons, Cheetahs Atlawas, Manweersmalls, Yetis and Moles among other creatures seemingly bowing down to a large purple Dragon in the middle with many horns.
"Whoa, Whoa is that supposed to be you?!" Sparx asked Spyro, "They're all worshiping you!" he stated in Awe,
"Sparx this Mural is too old there's no way its Spyro." Solria stated,
"No it's actually Malefor." Spyro stated,
"Look at this place amazing, the ancestors must have trained him here." Koryu muttered in awe.
"No doubt they had such high hopes." Spyro muttered sadly,
"Spyro you're not him!" Koryu stated, "What matters between the two of you are the differences not the similarities!" but Spyro didn't say anything he just continued onward looking around he quickly found a weight and took it,
"Okay now what?" Sparx asked,
"We look for something to use those on it's just like launching the raft back in Avalar." Solria replied,
"Oh that figures but were not talking about solid ground here this place has more holes in it then Swiss cheese or one of Solria's schemes to get into forbidden rooms of the temple." Sparx said as Raiciel and Cynder saw a wheel and began to turn in Spyro had placed the weight down since it wasn't necessary to hold it right now plus down here….
"Hey if the cloth hadn't been snagged the ghost thing would've worked." Solria stated,
"No it wouldn't have." Koryu and Spyro muttered together.
There was suddenly the sudden sound of undead Ghost apes coming from a hole nearby, "UNDEAD MONKEYS!" Sparx screamed pointing as they poured out of the hole.
Spyro quickly grabbed one from trying to pick up the weight and toss it over the cliff he threw it off the cliff instead before slamming his tail into the face of one where Raiciel hit it with a frigid breath,
Cynder sent out a banshee gale the other dragons had to cover their ears as the sound wave killed many of the apes Solria then used a comet dash to set several on fire as Spyro hit them with a Crystal Rush knocking them off the cliff,
Koryu used a Snow wing attack to hit several of the Ghoul Apes freezing them he then grabbed on and slammed it into the ground shattering it, Raiciel and Spyro managed to kill a few by using their electric Sphere a Fire wall from Solria blocked several from advancing forward but back into Cynder who bit one with her poison fang attack the Ape then staggered around touching the others infecting them they all eventually died after that.
"That was a bit scary." Cynder noted,
"Evil magic poison what do you expect?" Sparx asked as Solria and Koryu got the platform down, Solria looked to see it had bars on it.
"Hey it looks like we're gonna need the chain again." She called.
"I'll get the weight!" Raiciel stated as he picked it up they quickly gathered on the platform Solria went to help Spyro pull the platform by pushing it from the back they both groaned as they finally got it to the other side.
"Whew!" Solria muttered as she trudged behind them she suddenly caught something out of the corner of her eye, "Guys look!" she stated they quickly gathered around and looked up there in a new Mural was the Destroyer it was being pushed underground by a wave of white snow like substance with blues outlining different colored Crystals Sparx flew up to it,
"These are Dragons they just look like living Crystal." Sparx stated,
"Crystal Dragons?" Spyro asked,
"That must be the ancient Race that Ignitus spoke of." Solria stated deciding to ask about it later, for now they had to keep moving, it wasn't long before they came across some weird mechanisms.
"What are these things?" Spyro asked,
"They kind of look like Tuning forks." Solria stated,
"Tuning forks huh?" Cynder replied before walking up she summoned another banshee gale that struck all four the two on their side and the two by the shrine.
"Do we have to go back to the surface it might be safer down here." Sparx muttered as they continued forward,
"Sparx…" Solria muttered,
"No if worse comes to worse I think everyone might be safer down here they might even survive the Destroyers wrath." Spyro stated,
"Hmph!" Sparx stated proudly. Spyro dropped the weight and the walls of the shrine went down however there was rumbling,
"So should I start crying or say something like oh that figures?" Sparx asked as another large grass covered Golem appeared grabbing the Crystal.
"Someone clearly doesn't want us to open the gates!" Koryu stated as they dodged a blow the young Dragons took to the air Solria and Spyro hit him with Fire breath's Cynder landed a few Blinding hisses in his eyes making him rear back in pain Koryu then hit the burns with a few Cryo Bombs before rushing in to grab the Crystal just as Raiciel zapped him with an electro Orb and Spyro knocked him over the edge with an earth mace.
"That's the end of that." Spyro stated,
"Hey look." Solria stated they all saw that the Dragon statue now that Koryu had it was breathing out a powerful wind tunnel.
"That should help us get back to the gate quicker we can set this one in place and look for the others." Spyro stated as they jumped into it riding the wind up to the gate eventually placing the gem in its proper place the statue next to it began to blow another wind tunnel one that would help them get higher but for now Spyro and Co headed in the opposite direction of where they came. Coming to a waterfall like area,
"Nowhere to go, but forward" Raiciel muttered as they walked on coming to a wall they each climbed over it. Suddenly they found themselves surrounded by Ghoul Apes.
"Of Course." They muttered together before breathing out elements of Poison, Fire, Ice Electricity and Earth this knocked the apes back several were quickly dealt with Electric streams and Puppetry attacks that sent many of the Ghouls to their death over the edges,
Koryu froze many with Polar Bombs that Solria toasted with a couple of Rocket shots Cynder let loose a Glare attack freezing many before they were struck by an Armored earth bolder from Spyro.
"STRRRRIIIKKEEE!" Sparx shouted,
Raiciel used a wave strike to wash away the remaining Ghoul Apes and that was the end of it they continued forward,
"Have you noticed that Spyro and Cynder have been working together well?" Solria.
"Spyro and, Spyro and? NO!" Sparx stated getting deadpan glares from everyone, "You heard me NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!"
"What are you guys talking about back there?" Spyro asked with Cynder looking back in curiosity,
"Nothing important" Solria replied innocently with Sparx muttering angrily to himself something about Ignitus then Solria.
It was then they climbed on the ivy of a strange round structure in the wall. "What do you think that's for?" Raiciel asked,
"Who knows probably some bad statue." Sparx replied as they went forward, Koryu looked up at it,
"Bad Statue my foot I'm keeping this in mind for later." It was then that when they finally reached the shrine another Golem appeared from beneath them.
Solria did a face palm into the ground before her head shot up again, "REALLY?!" she asked annoyed the Golem then quickly turned to them everyone shot a glare at Solria as her eyes went wide, "Oops." They quickly dodged the attack it growled as Spyro hit it with a powerful blast of Fire Solria quickly hit its face with a Rocket Shot, it tried to crushed her but it was hit in the back by a wave strike from Raiciel who quickly followed up with a Sclading heat breath that made it shriek in anger it swung sending Raiciel into the ground it had gone in for the kill when something held it back it's own Shadow Cynder though having complete control over the Shadow itself was having a difficult time keeping it's true owner in place. "Somebody do something before he breaks loose!"
Solria and Koryu got close to the Golem as Spyro picked up Raiciel and flew him off just as they unleashed a Fusion fury that killed the Golem causing it to fall and explode into gems which Spyro quickly had Raiciel absorb the red ones.
"Unngg sorry about that." He muttered it was then that two torches had appeared, Koryu decided to watch the wheel as Solria lit them up,
"I was right Spyro, Cynder come here." Koryu called the two rushed over to see that four more torches appeared on the wheel.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Cynder asked Spyro smirked and nodded Cynder quickly got onto the middle of the wheel and Spyro fire breath a-blazing swung around the whole wheel getting it lit up.
"Aww man they do work well together!" Sparx inwardly groaned, "I've lost my buddy to love and Solria and Koryu aren't far behind!"
"Guys!" Solria suddenly screamed they rushed back to see Solria and Raiciel fighting off more Ghost apes Raiciel turned and zapped one with an electro orb he and Cynder quickly got back to back and rose up wind whistled all around them before a large tornado appeared with them in the center that exploded out killing the Ghoul Apes and sending those who survived the blast to their deaths once they were done the shrine opened.
"Wow nice Wind Fury!" Koryu noted the attack and sent them literally flying but unharmed they quickly grabbed the Crystal as before the statue where it sat gave them a wind tunnel that blew towards the gate following it back they placed the second Crystal which then created a new wind tunnel to the upper left of the cave.
"Okay should we just rinse and repeat then?" Solria asked,
"Might as well it doesn't seem to matter what order we do them in." Koryu replied everyone agreed with this and the group jumped into the wind tunnel taking them to the upper right.
When they landed the Ghost Apes rushed out at them, "I'm getting tired of this and they're only slowing use down!" Spyro stated angrily before jumping into the middle charging up an earth Fury that knocked several away and over the edge to their deaths Solria and Koryu quickly shot the remaining ones with Pyro arrows and Ice Spikes effectively killing them.
"I think Red and Malefor are trying to slow us down, maybe he's not so confident in his little Apocalypse now plan as he seemed." Koryu stated as they walked forward,
"That means we can win!" Solria stated excitedly.
"Hopefully." Spyro replied as they stopped and examined the next area, "The winds to powerful here we'll have to use the vines to move ahead."
"Oh it's never easy!" Sparx stated they all looked at him, "Sorry force of Nostalgia."
Solria nodded in understanding he was right nothing about this was easy but like Spyro said nothing worthwhile ever is they heard large cracking they quickly jumped to the other side when they saw rocks were falling on them they were quick to get to the other side to avoid injury Raiciel was the last to cross then they saw something strange.
"It looks like we're gonna have to do some wrecking." Spyro stated as he studied the ceiling, "Cynder I need your help." He replied,
"Okay." They quickly climbed to the top Spyro let go and floated down he then became an armored earth bolder he charging up the charge attack swung around until he smashed down the wall.
"And that's how it's done!" he stated smugly,
"Indeed it is!" Cynder agreed they quickly climbed up and sighed when they saw they'd have to go rock dodging again after doing this they quickly saw another cracked wall. "Talk about rinse and repeat." Cynder muttered she and Spyro quickly set up the Wrecking ball Maneuver and broke through they climbed up and there on the other side already open was the Crystal.
"Someone's baiting us." Sparx muttered in a sign-song voice,
"Yeah this is too easy." Spyro stated they cautiously walked towards the crystal as they did with a screech a Ghoul Monkey surged out and ate the crystal Sparx gapped pointing.
"We need to be careful this time if we lose the crystal we won't be able to open the gate." Spyro stated,
"The one who ate it has a red glow coming from it whoever gets it should get out of the way and keep it safe till we finish this!" Raiciel stated as Solria burned them with fire Koryu quickly grabbed the Ghoul with the Crystal and flung it into the wall where it was soon frozen with a Cryo bomb and a horn charge dead.
"I've got the Crystal just make sure that those apes are taken care off I'll guard it." Sparx stated rushing in and picking it up, "Man this is heavy make that a rush job!"
"Gotcha!" Koryu replied Crystal rushing several Ghoul Apes into Oblivion Spyro shot several that rushed over to Sparx with Pyro arrows killing them Raiciel used a Whirlpool attack Cynder a Twister Solria a fire Tornado and Koryu a Snow storm to suck in and send the remaining Ghoul apes into the air taking massive water, Fire, Ice and Wind damage when they hit the ground Spryo quickly zapped them with and electric stream that instantly finished them.
"Whooo." Sparx stated flying over, "Can some take this?" Raiciel grabbed it as he did the Dragon Statue awoke breathing wind back to the temple. "Thanks." They returned to the gate and placed the final crystal.
"Nowhere to go, but left and up" Solria noted before nodding she raced into the wind going up there the others followed when they got there to another waterfall like area they saw that nothing was attacking them this time deciding to keep it that way they hurried reaching what looked like a weird Key.
"Well look at this." Sparx stated with a whistle,
"This must be how were going to get the crystal." Spyro mused Cynder looked up and saw it.
"It looks like the Chain can be used to drag it to the Keyhole." Cynder stated, "Wow hours ago we were complaining about that chain and now it's helping us out tremendously."
"Yeah Ironic." Koryu agreed,
"There's barricades in the way how are we supposed to drag it over there without begin blocked?" Solria asked,
"There's gotta be a way." Raiciel replied looking around then he saw it a conduit just like back in the catacombs. "Over there Spyro, Cynder, Solria, Koryu get ready to pull I'll keep this thing going!" he stated they nodded Spyro held on to the bottom of the key this time while Cynder and the twins got ready to pull Raiciel instantly charged the conduit as the blockades move out of place Cynder Solria and Koryu pulled as hard as they could eventually they got it into the key hole undoing the lock which opened the shrine.
"Well we had to unlock a huge Keyhole so freebee?" Sparx offered remembering what happened last time Spyro quickly swooped in and grabbed the crystal they all closed their eyes and waited,
"We live." Solria muttered, then the statue gave off the powerful wind tunnel.
"And there's our ride." Spyro agreed jumping into it with Cynder the others followed and flew to the gate placing the final crystal the light from the sun temporarily blinded them as the army advanced in front were the Guardians, Bianca, Gea, Kinzo, Mole-Yair and Exhumor along with Kane, Mason, Hunter and Bentley the young Dragons joined the march.
"We're getting closer." Ignitus stated he saw that Spyro had his head to the ground he was marching but he seemed tense as did the twins, "I know what you're thinking have no worry young Dragons we'll make it."
"Ignitus no offense but the Destroyer is about to burn the world to a crisp." Solria replied more bluntly then she wanted,
"She's right Ignitus Malefor is about to destroy everything but you seem so calm we don't understand." Spyro added Koryu nodding in agreement.
"I don't imagine that Malefor would expend all this effort if he did not feel threatened." Ignitus replied,
"So he's afraid." Koryu replied,
"But why should he be?" Spyro asked,
"Throughout our history there has only known to have been two purple Dragons." Ignitus replied,
"Spyro and Malefor." Solria replied,
"Yes, Like Malefor your powers Spyro go far beyond what you might imagine he knows this." Ignitus replied, "Malefor could have accomplished anything but instead chose evil and the world has been spiraling into chaos ever since."
"I get it Spyro's existence is Nature's way of balancing itself out!" Koryu stated excitedly.
"Precisely." Ignitus replied,
"But the Ancestors thought Malefor was going to be different they believed in him and look what happened." Spyro stated,
"Malefor draws his powers from destruction, destruction is the only way he knows Spyro." Ignitus replied.
"Why should I be any different?" Spyro asked,
"Because we know you" Solria stated firmly. "And your heart would never allow it!"
"Exactly like I said before in the case of you and him it's differences not the similarities." Koryu agreed,
"We all know this Spyro." Ignitus replied referring to himself the other Gaurdians, Cynder, Raiciel, Sparx, Solria, Koryu, and the rest of his friends the ones he made on his adventures. "And we all believe you are destined for great things and I believe you will bring about a new age an age of peace, and I do not see what role destruction will have in that age." Ignitus said,
"The light" Solria stated daylight broke into the area as the door opened for them allowing them out.
"We're here." Ignitus stated.
Alright so I decided to cut the last Ghoul Ape fight because I figured it was too much and there's a lot of fights with them already also special announcement for those keeping up with my Kingdom Hearts series.
BIRTH BY FRACTURE IS OUT NOW!
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