Chapter 10: Transformation

Molt continued to beat Cynder up, tossing her around, slamming her into the walls of the cavern and clawing at her body. "Do you have a small taste of what pain is now?" he asked. "Do you finally know what kind of suffering I have been through?"

Spyro, who had been witnessing everything that Molt had done to the dragoness he loved, started to get taken over by the darker side of his soul. I... I'm going to kill you! I'll rip your head off from its socket! he thought as he watched Molt smash Cynder into the ceiling. Memories of him killing Gaul and Ignitus' death came back to him. Hatred consumed his mind. His irises vanished, giving his eyes a pure white color and his scales turned as black as the night. Dark smoke started to pour out of his body, forming a small aura of shadowy smoke around him. His fangs and claws grew longer and sharper, and the scales on his belly and the horns on his head turned from gold to a muddy brown. He snarled at Molt like a wild animal. "How dare you... How dare you do that to Cynder!"

Molt turned around to face Spyro and tossed Cynder away like a toy. The darker side of Spyro's soul... It's responding to his rage. Molt thought as he watched Spyro transform. The rods of dark magic that were pinning Spyro to the ground shattered as Spyro clenched his paws. He got up, in his full dark form.

"Finally, a real fight!" Molt laughed evilly. Spyro responded by roaring loudly and created a huge ball of convexity in his maw. Although Cynder was aware that Spyro had been taken over by the darkness, she figured that using his dark powers would be the only way to defeat Molt. She let out a high pitched scream and sent three giant red spheres of fear at Molt. Molt stood there as the spheres of fear circled around him, covering him in a red aura and filling his senses with a high pitched screech. He managed to fight the paralysis and lifted his paw up. Cynder screeched at him again, but he didn't seem to be affected. Much to both Dark Spyro and Cynder's surprise, Molt bit down on his own paw. Blood came gushing out of the bite mark. The red aura around him vanished straight away. "I beat your fear element attack using pain," he explained as he let his own blood drop from his mouth. "The useless elements that Malefor's powers have given you won't work on me."

Dark Spyro launched the ball of convexity at Molt, but Molt just sucked Cynder into his right paw using his vacuum powers and used her as a shield. However, Spyro's ball of convexity went around Cynder and hit Molt on his left foreleg, dismembering it. Blood spewed all over the ground next to Molt. He dropped Cynder and backed up. "You haven't got the best of me!" He opened his mouth and a claw emerged from it. The claw touched down on the floor and began to pull itself out of Molt's mouth. To Dark Spyro's disgust and surprise, the claw belonged a new, reincarnated Molt. It emerged from the old Molt's maw as the old Molt started to melt away into black slime.

Dark Spyro roared in anger and extended a giant arm of dark energy from his back. He smashed Molt into the ground so hard that his whole body had been buried into the earth, and only his head and tail was sticking out of the ground. However, despite the amount of force that was used to strike him, Molt appeared to be unscathed. He looked at Spyro menacingly. "Do you hate me?" he asked. "It's fine if you do, but my pain is far greater than yours!" He bellowed as he summoned many pillars of stone to rise up underneath Spyro, pinning him to the ceiling.

Spyro broke through the pillars and grabbed Molt by his face with the arm that was coming out of his back. He extended another dark arm and tore Molt's head right off his body and dismembered his limbs. After Dark Spyro was done with Molt, his body was lifeless and in pieces. For a few seconds, Spyro thought he had won, but Molt's head opened its eyes and started to make choking noises. He vomited out another copy of himself. "Don't underestimate the Bringer of Pain!" he roared. I have to avoid his attacks more often, I'll run out of mana if I have to reincarnate myself over and over again! Molt thought. Spyro roared back. The mass of shadowy smoke that surrounded his body grew larger, and he got up on his hind legs. Spyro stuck out both his paws at Molt and shot a huge beam of dark energy at him from both his paws and his maw.

Molt, who had just been reincarnated and was still emerging from his old body, didn't have time to dodge. He raised a wall of stone, trying to block from the attack, but the beam shot right through and he was still hit by it. The beam pummeled him into the wall. Before he knew it, there was a large cavity in his belly and he was inside a huge dent in the wall. Dark Spyro dove at him, grabbed Molt by his forelegs and crushed them. Molt coughed out blood, and roared in pain. Ugh... how can this fool be more powerful than me? Molt thought as Spyro continued to claw at him.

Molt coated his claws in purple acid and sunk them into Spyro's flesh, causing him to let out a yelp of pain and let go of Molt. There's no way... I'm losing to this guy! Molt let out an ear-piercing screech and a purple aura of convexity surrounded him. "There's no way... I'm losing to the likes of you!" The cavity in Molt's belly started to fill itself, and the purple energy around him turned into a huge purple figure that resembled the top half of his body, sticking out of Molt's back. Molt continued to let out enraged roars as the purple figure slammed a claw down on Dark Spyro.

"This is my convexity clone. Nobody has ever survived this before. Prepare to die." Molt's clone pressed down harder on Spyro's body, threatening to crush him. Dark Spyro roared and created a small explosion of dark energy around him, causing the convexity clone to let go. Dark Spyro got up quickly and shot out another beam of dark energy. Molt used the other arm of the convexity clone to block the beam. The clone picked Spyro up and threw him into a wall of the cavern. Molt and the clone took in deep breaths at the same time, and they both shot out powerful beams of dark energy from their maws. Spyro was hit by the beam but didn't take as much damage as Molt had as he managed to counter the beam using his convexity. He waited patiently for Molt to run out of breath. After his beam had run out, Molt took in another deep breath, preparing for another attack. However, he started to cough out blood uncontrollably and fell to his knees. "Damn it!" He continued coughing until the convexity clone disappeared from his back. Subsequently, he collapsed to the ground. He had reached his limit.

Dark Spyro took this as an advantage and started to slowly walk towards Molt, moving in for the kill. If Spyro had not been in his dark form, he would probably not have done so, but right now the darkness had taken over him, and he wanted Molt to pay for what he had made Cynder go through. He wanted Molt to feel pain.

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Cynder had witnessed Spyro turn into his dark form, attack Molt and use powers that she had never seen him used before. She lay down in a corner of the cavern, watching the fight. This isn't Spyro... it's something else... she thought, trying to convince herself that Spyro would never do such things, even if he really hated someone. Spyro had Molt pinned down under him, and he was clawing and beating his face. Cynder forced herself to get up and ran clumsily towards Spyro. She put her paws around his neck from behind him and nuzzled her head on his shoulder. "Spyro, please, stop. Please, come back to me. Don't do this," she begged.

Dark Spyro turned his head to look at her. His eyes slowly changed back to normal and his scales and horns returned to their original color. His fangs and claws shrunk back to their original size. Spyro looked at his claws. They were covered in Molt's blood. He vaguely remembered the bloodthirsty feeling that had taken over him, filling his mind with an intent only to kill and cause his enemy to suffer. It wasn't like him at all. "Wha... What have I done?" he asked, suddenly sounding afraid.

Molt kicked Spyro off from him. "Don't... underestimate... the Bringer... of Pain!" Molt said between pants. He roared and growled like a wild animal that had been provoked, trying to squeeze out more power from himself. Unfortunately, he had already used up all of his mana and could not build up enough strength to launch another elemental attack. He charged towards Spyro and tried to strike him. Unfortunately for him, Spyro quickly stepped to the side to avoid him, and Molt pummeled himself headfirst into the wall instead. Realizing his defeat, he let out a roar of anger and dropped to the ground.

A.N. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Once again, I think this was too violent for a 'T' rating, but whatever. By the way, if there are a lot of grammatical errors I'm sorry, it's just that I was half asleep when I was proof-reading this. Anyway, tell me how garbage I was in the reviews :D

The Dark Death: So guess what? You just got blocked, buddy.

MurasakiKuroAkai: Yeah, I should probably change that, I'm just a little confused whether I should make Cynder's scales dark purple or black. As for Molt, his ability to 'vomit' out stuff is based on his special abilities he was born with. The black rods were merely just to pin Spyro to the ground. I kind of did reference Naruto there again, like how Orochimaru always pukes out his weapons and how Tendo Pain pinned Naruto to the ground.

Not A Guest: Hope this chapter satisfied you.