Hey folks sorry that this took ages. On a side note I'm starting school again so I'm going to be pretty busy for now on but I will make time for the story, and you guys. I am so so sorry.
Within the walls of the Academy. Eon has been in deep thought while the others have been discussing the events that have spoken by Drobot. Everybody was now worried at the power that Spyro and their army possess.
Eon sighed and felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked into the worried gaze of Kaossandra who gazed back at him. The headmaster nodded to the sorceress and walked to the crowd of Skylanders.
"May I have everyone's attention please." Many pairs of eyes faced Eon. "I know many of you may be worried but we can't fall due to fear. We must be strong and smart about our actions from now on and I know that each and everyone of you can do this. So please I ask for your support in this time of need, not only for me but for everyone else here."
The room was silence and many skylanders looked at each other. Each one nodded towards Eon telling him that he has their support. Eon smiled, glad to have trained brave soldiers to fight in the worst.
"Well my old friend, it looks like you have everyone with you but what is our course of action?" King Pen asked.
"Not to mention," Said Drobot standing up from his corner of the room standing up trying not to put pressure on his bad leg. "The dark army have taken control of the city of technology, which also held the most dangerous and rarest reactor within the realm. If they bring that reactor anywhere near civilization it could be used as a bomb."
The words got everyone's attention making them more worried.
"W-Wait you mean there was a bomb in that city?" Jet-Vac stuttered.
"It's not an actual bomb. It's a reactor with a lot of energy that could power the city for centuries. But if it's treated in the wrong way or if it overloads it will blow up, destroying a rather large portion of the land, as well as making it a radiation zone." Drobot answered.
"You've got to be kidding they would most likely grab that thing and throw it straight at us." Eruptor shouted throwing his hands in the air.
"I don't believe they have any attention to use it as an explosive weapon, Eruptor." King Pen assured the lava creature.
"How can you be sure?" Stealth Elf asked.
"Like Drobot said, it is a power source that could power many things at once. It is more likely they would power there own things besides using it as a bomb." King Pen replied.
"Also in Drobot's story, whoever designed those airships would probably know about the reactor." Sprocket added.
"She's right." Drobot said. "I told you about the Mabu who was controlling those airships happens to be a mechanics researcher known as Professor Jones. He did studies on the reactor and he knows how to use it properly."
Strykore's castle (used to be Kaossandra)…
"ACHOO!" Jones sneezed, his air escaping his lungs quickly in the direction of a purple dragoness.
"God dammit!" Cynder said jumping away.
"It's god bless you." Jones corrected wiping his nose.
"No get away from me with your germs. You don't just sneeze on people." Cynder hissed back.
"Maybe someone's talking about me?" Jones questioned.
Back at the academy…
"So this Jones fella knows how to use it?" Jet-Vac asked.
"That is correct Jet-Vac, but that is not the importance of the topic at hand." King Pen said facing back towards Eon.
"Indeed, it is plausible to know that the remaining Skylanders who still yet to arrive may be in grave danger." Eon said rubbing his white majestic beard. "Strykore will most likely set out to look for them and turn them against us."
"Well is their a better way to know who's with who?" Cy asked.
"Indeed there is Cy, indeed there is." Eon said walking off to his desk and picking up the book of Skylanders.
Eon walked to the center of the room where everyone had their eyes on him. Eon calmed his breathing and his eyes glowed a powerful bright beam of light. The book began to float away from One's hands and it opened by itself flicking through pages until stopping in the middle of the book. Tiny balls of bright blue started to appear than multiple streams of lightning jumped out of the book startling everyone within the room. The streaks of lightning intercepted each other until the magical power stop and it was now formed as a globe with hundreds of circles made by the interception points turning.
Eon's eyes stopped glowing and returned back to normal, the old wizard stepped back into the crowd of stunned Skylanders. Stealth Elf was the first to recover and slowly stepped forward to take a look of the lightning made globe. The young Elf eyed the globe carefully until her eyes found a certain coloured image, she watched the image come into view until the picture became clear.
"Is that Double Trouble?!" Stealth Elf exclaimed and pointed to the tiki masked Skylander.
"Hey that's Bash!" Eruptor said pointing to a different part of the globe seeing the picture of a brown earth elemental crocodile (Or whatever it is?).
"Oh look its me!" Pop Fizz said jumping up to his picture and pointing at it. "Man I look good."
"Eon what is this?" Stealth Elf asked.
"This is the index. It shows the picture of all the Skylanders and its easier to view besides flicking through pages." Eon reassured.
"Question, what's with that picture." Jet-Vac questioned pointing to a picture off a dark grey picture of a four arm yeti.
"That's Slam Bam! Why does he look like that, he should be blue not a thirty percent dark grey colour." Drobot said making everyone confused on his calculations.
"Well Drobot this means that he is lost." Eon said in a saddening tone. "Strykore has already taken his light and now he controls him.
"It's the same for Sonic Boom as well!" Cy said.
"So all of the Skylanders that were captured had their light taken away from them?" Drobot asked not showing any emotion.
"Yes, I'm truly sorry that this has happened." Eon said becoming more depressed.
"Hey what's with that image?" Eruptor asked getting everyone's attention. The lava creature pointed near the top of the globe seeing a flicker of a dark purple flame.
Eon watched it cautiously and walked up to the globe. The picture turned and showed a familiar dark dragon. "Spyro?" Eon said reaching for the dark flame. Before he could touch it a black tiny spark shocked his hand forcing him to back his hand away quickly.
"Eon? This could only mean one thing." King Pen said.
"No it just means that he has his light stolen from him nothing more." Eon said walking away.
"My friend you know as good as I do we cannot avoid this any longer. You know what Strykore has been looking for, more accurately… Who."
"No I refuse to believe Spyro is the one." Eon hissed back shocking everyone.
"Eon what are you talking about?" Stealth Elf said glaring at Eon.
"Come on Eon, you have to tell them." Kaossandra said only to receive a glare by Eon.
"If you won't say it Eon," King Pen said. "Then I will."
"What is this about?" Jet-Vac questioned.
"It's the reason why Spyro is still in control, the reason why he isn't a mindless creature and a person bent on nothing but revenge. Spyro is a creature of darkness." The sensai penguin said shocking everyone.
"Buts its not true." Eon added.
"Well then Eon explain why he is like this." Kaossandra shouted back.
"He… he…" Eon struggled to find words.
"You can't explain it." Kaossandra said.
"What do you mean he is a creature of darkness. He couldn't be anything like that." Stealth Elf said tears almost coming to her eyes.
"Not necessarily that he was born from darkness, he is more likely he was born normally but he must of something dark within him." King Pen answered. "You see during the time of the great war Strykore learnt of someone who is resistant to his powers. We thought it was skylanders who possess the dark element like Blackout knightmare. But we discovered it was someone who had the power of light and dark within them. Since Spyro had his light stolen, it is most likely that the darkness within him rose and the reason why Spyro isn't a mindless zombie."
"But we can't be to sure." Eon said.
"No we can not but it might be true that Spyro is this creature of light and dark." King Pen added.
"But what would Strykore want with Spyro." Eruptor asked.
"It is reasonable that Spyro was used to release Strykore from his prison by taking his light. But when Spyro woke up Strykore saw something useful in him so he did nothing about him." Kaossandra answered.
"So Spyro just happens to have this darkness inside him that allows him to still be in control?" Pop Fizz asked still confused.
"I assume yes." King Pen said. "But we should be careful with Spyro no matter what happens."
"If Spyro is this creature of light and dark than what can he truly do?" Jet-Vac asked
"We don't know, but it will be troublesome. It would be wise to stop them as soon as possible." King Pen advised.
"What about Cynder? Drobot said that she was also in this Elite team." Stealth asked.
"Yes but it is possible they used a different method to get her to join her as she sounded completely normal." The penguin answered.
"Well Glumshanks should be appearing soon for a report so we can ask what has been happening." Kaossandra said walking over to the phone.
"Indeed." Eon said helping her with contacting the troll.
After a few moments a hologram picture of Glumshanks was seen in the middle of the room. He was breathing very hard as if he was running.
"Glumshanks what's the problem?" Kaossandra asked.
"I've been running a lot of chores for Strykore and I had to rush here so I can have enough time to talk with you." The troll replied gaining his breath and he kept looking to his left and right.
"Well then what is the situation Strykore is creating?" Eon asked trying to stay on topic.
"Strykore has taken control of the city of technology and obtain many residents of the place as well as the reactor. Apparently their creating an entire fleet of ships and putting the reactor in the biggest one they can create." Glumshanks answered.
"So their preparing for an invasion and by the sounds of it they could be ready soon if he has that many mindless slaves." King Pen replied.
"What about Cynder?" Stealth Elf asked.
"The female dragon, she's one of Strykore's elites. I have to say she seems really rough when I go to talk to her but the only person I know she's comfortable with is Spyro." Glumshanks gave her his answer.
"What made her join you?" Eon asked.
"Yeah how come she's on their side, did Strykore steal her light?" Jet-Vac pushed on.
"As far as I know she just came in and started fighting for Strykore. I heard that she didn't get her light stolen from her but when I asked her she said that Eon killed her mother." The room went quiet and Eon's eyes almost seemed like they were gonna pop out of their sockets.
"W… W-What!?" Eon managed to say.
"That's absurd, her mother died when Cynder was born, due to a sickness of some sort." King Pen said backing up his friend.
"So why does Cynder believe that Eon killed her." Eruptor asked.
"Glumshanks are you sure she didn't say anything else on how she knows her mother died by Eon." Kaossandra ordered.
"Well it was difficult to figure out but I finally managed to find out that apparently Spyro showed her memories that were locked away in her mind." Glumshanks responded.
"That's how they did it. They entered her mindscape and inserted a false memory, making her believe that Eon did kill her mother." Kaossandra told everyone.
"Those monsters tricking her to hate us." Stealth Elf hissed.
"Can we tell her that it was fake." Pop Fizz asked.
"No, Strykore and Spyro have their eyes on her and are making sure she doesn't think their fake. And I don't fancy being roasted by an evil dragon." Glumshanks told them.
"Wait is Spyro really protective of her?" Stealth said for assurance.
"Yeah he is, but right now he is at Cloudcracker prison with Berserker sorting things out and getting it all prepared. Something big is happening and the Elites are all regrouping here soon."
"Well then what is it they are planning." Eon said out loud.
"Hard to say but I think their all going after the Skylanders on route to where you are." Glumshanks told master Eon seeming to make the situation worse.
"So it's true that they are going to intercept them." Eon said rubbing his chin.
"Then we need to get to them and stop them." Cy said.
"Yes we should, if we can get to the incoming skylanders first before they do, we can quickly bring them back here on a different course." King Pen advised.
"Alright then that's our goal, any idea where we'll find them though." Jet-Vac asked.
"If it helps we heard rumours of a large group of skylanders coming from the north-east regions and traveling through the lushes jungle. I believe that's where the elites are gonna go first." Glumshanks said.
"Nice work Glumshanks, by the way, what about my book." Kaossandra asked.
"That dark magic book? Strykore sealed it away in the meditation room with a strong spell holding the door closed." The troll explained.
"Well try and find a way to get in there. Grab the book and send it to us." Kaossandra ordered.
"Won't he notice the book gone?" Stealth Elf asked.
"No, he memorises everything in that book and he is sure that his spell may keep the door closed." Kaossandra said before turning back to face the hologram. "There was a certain object I left in Kaos's room. It looks like a gold tridon but smaller, I used it to get passed Strykore's barriers in the past. He doesn't know about it so be careful."
"Okay mam'e I'll try and find it. I better head off before they get to suspicious." The troll said.
"Okay, thank you Glumshanks." Kaossandra said and the troll disappeared and left the room as it was before.
"Now that, that's done Skylanders I want you to head the lushes jungle and try and find the incoming Skylander group and bring them he safely." Eon advised.
"Of course Sir. Let's move Skylanders, Cy and Drobot your with us." Jet-Vac ordered and ran out of the great library into the skylands with the group following leavingEon, Kaossandra and King Pen behind.
"Eon what should we do if Strykore does something to Spyro because of you know what." King Pen asked.
"We do not know for sure if Spyro is this being but I do know he holds such greatness. But we should not worry, we'll stop Strykore before he tries anything." Eon told his friend.
Strykore's castle
Spyro and Berserker were walking through the hallway of the castle making their way to the dining room. The castle sounded empty except for their footsteps. The two turned a corner and a purple reptile landed in front of them.
"Hey Spyro welcome back." The dragoness Cynder said.
"Yeah it's good to be back. Where is everyone?" Spyro asked his friend.
"Jones is in the dining room and Kaos is talking to Strykore." Cynder answered him.
"Well then let's get going!" Shouted Berserker. "I want to smash something because i'm…"
"Crazy?" Cynder answered him. Berserker growled at her showing of his fang teeth.
"Move along Berserker. Go to the dining room and we'll meet you there, tell Jones that the fleet will be here soon." Spyro ordered but only received a louder growl from the drow and gave him a death glare for intimidation. Berserker gave up and left without another word leaving the two dragons alone. Spyro sighed and faced the dragoness. "So? How are you fitting in with all of this?"
"Yeah okay." Cynder answered looking down which Spyro noticed.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"N-Nothing." Cynder stuttered. "It just that this feels wrong to do."
"You're not mad at Eon anymore?" Spyro continued to question.
"I don't think I was ever mad at him to begin with." Cynder said starting to make spyro mad. "And my friends… I didn't want to be that evil being my dad wanted me to be."
"No one's asking you to be Cynder but please understand that Eon is a bad person. He must pay for his ways." Spyro tried to convince her.
"But Spyro, what if he isn't like that at all." Cynder said.
"He killed your mother!" Spyro shouted at her making her freeze in fear at the sudden outburst. "He obliterated my entire race, destroyed the only family I ever had. He would've killed you to if it wasn't for your mother so tell me why aren't you mad?" Cynder took a deep breath and explained.
"Because it feels like that memory was fake." Spyro eyes widened when she said that but she continued. "I have never seen that look on Eon's face before when he was killing my mother and he seems so different now. It makes me wonder why he would do something like that and if I find out the truth then I will be mad at him." She walked closer to Spyro who hasn't moved at all. "But he isn't the only one that's different."
Spyro knew what she meant by that. He was now a evil dragon wanting revenge on Eon and not letting anyone get in his way, but before he was an arrogant dragon with great friends. 'Do not go back to those fools!' roared a voice in Spyro's head. Spyro shook his head and turned to Cynder.
"Everyone changes over time, and you can't always have who really want back." Spyro said cold heartedly. Cynder flinched and sighed.
"I guess so." Cynder said almost having tears to her eyes. Before she could say anything else a struck of pain went into her head making her clutch her head in pain. Spyro noticed this and started to worry.
"Cynder what's wrong?" Spyro asked the dragoness gently grabbing her hands.
"My head hurts. Must be a headache." She said letting go of her head after the throbbing started to go away. She was about to go on all fours when she noticed the her hands were in Spyro's. She looks up into her only friend and see his worried bright red eyes. She blushed but she was glad that her scales hid it well and glad that Spyro still cares.
Spyro was looking into her bright blue eyes. 'So beautiful' he thought to himself. He noticed that he was still grabbing her hands and let go slowly feeling her scales and claws move along on his. Spyro let go and dropped down to all fours and looked away from Cynder's crystal blue eyes.
"I'm sorry." Spyro said looking down.
"For what?" The dragoness asks.
"You'll know eventually." Cynder was confused at the response but didn't push it.
"Should we go join everyone else." Cynder asked quietly.
"You go ahead. I'm going to see Strykore first." Spyro answered her and she walked past him.
"Okay I'll see you there, oh and Spyro," He turned to look at her. "Thanks for showing me truth."
Cynder walked off and left Spyro in the empty hallway of the castle. The dark dragon was frozen stiff and pressed his hand to his chest where his heart was. It felt painful but it wasn't physical, it was… emotional. 'Is it because I lied to her, why do I feel like this?' the thoughts flowed through his head until he finally came back to his senses.
"I can't be distracted I must remain focus and destroy Eon." Spyro said to himself and walked off to Strykore's study room.
After a few minutes he finally came to the door of Strykore's plotting room and opened the door. He could see Kaos bragging about something to Strykore who was placing paper notes on a board. It showed a picture of Skylanders academy so Spyro must have thought it was some future plan. Strykore turned his head and noticed the dark scale dragon.
"Spyro, back from the prison. Anything you wish to tell me." Strykore said while kaos only glared at Spyro.
"The fleet is coming this way as we speak. Then we will head out to ambush the Skylanders going to the skylanders academy." Spyro said.
"Excellent. Know I want you and kaos to head out as soon as possible. The more we have the better this will be." Strykore said showing his dark smirk before turning to his son. "Kaos lead the fleet and the elites to the area and make sure you bring back our prizes."
"Of course father." Kaos bowed to his father and walked towards the door giving Spyro one final glare and outside.
"Make sure this goes swimmingly Spyro." Strykore said towards the dragon.
"I have a question for you Strykore." Spyro said getting the dark wizard attention.
"And what would that be?" Strykore said.
"It's about Cynder, she had a pretty painful headache so I was wondering if there is any side effects to the mindscape magic you used?" Spyro asked. Strykore started to grow instristed.
"Headaches you say, strange? Was there a certain topic you two were talking about?" Strykore said.
"She said she wasn't mad at Eon and starting to believe that the memory we implanted in her is fake." Spyro told him.
"Hmmm? Most interesting. Well I'm sure it's fine just keep an eye on her. We can't let her return to Eon or know we implanted a fake memory in her." Strykore ordered Spyro who nodded then left the room. Strykore looked at the door with his hands behind his back and just stared. With a wave of his hand the door closed and locked itself leaving Strykore alone.
He turned to face a stone wall and with another wave of his hand a fire was summoned and expanded into a frame (Like what Malefor used in the last episode of season two to speak to all of skylands). From within the frame an image started to appear and Malefor stood looking at Strykore from the other side.
"If you wanted to know my dark ape army is ready when needed. Gaul and his legions are ready to move." Malefor said.
"That's good, leave them on standby we need them for a later attack. I contacted you to tell you about your daughter." Strykore told the dragon king.
"What is wrong with Cynder?" Malefor questioned.
"The stain spell I used on her when she was in the mindscape has taken affect. If she decides to turn her back on us the spell will destroy her fragile little mind."
"Now listen here Strykore!" Malefor roared at Strykore. "If you kill my daughter you will no longer have my support."
"Of course Malefor but before things get out of hand know that we will keep her safe and that Spyro will protect her." Strykore assured his ally.
"I do not trust that poor excuse for a reptile. It's most likely he's using her to get back to his family." Malefor said.
"She hasn't got the power to access hidden realms Malefor. And besides she doesn't even know that Spyro's kind is alive, only me, you and Spyro know that their alive."
"Then perhaps you would want them for your army as well." Malefor suggested.
"No, if we bring them back and take control of them Spyro will attack to release control. Its best that they stay where they are so they can rot." Strykore said. "And besides we'll go after them after the core of light is destroyed, that way they have nothing to fight for."
"Good, I didn't want them back anyway. If that is all then call when you are ready to use my army." Malefor said before the fire fram disappeared.
Spyro was walking through the hallways back down to the dining room where all elites were. He passed the corner and a green figure came into view and almost bumped into him.
"Oops sorry." Glumshanks said before walking away and Spyro caught a glimpse of something gold in his hands until ignoring it.
Spyro continued walking and finally coming to the dining room to see Jones looking through a book, Cynder waiting patiently, Kaos looking out a window with his hands behind his back and Berserker scarfing down food. The elites looked up and noticed Spyro walked into the room.
"Okay, let's go." The dragon said.
Right well that's it for that chapter. Again I'm sorry for posting it really late but I was super busy. Anyway starting from now the chapters are going to start getting serious so if you have any questions put them in the reviews and I'll answer them next chapter. Thank you guys for your support and sorry for making you wait and for not adding the skylanders you wanted to see in this story but I will add them because you asked for them and if you want a certain part dedicated to them I can try and do that just put it in the review.
Light:
Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet-vac, Pop fizz, Sprocket, Ka-boom, Drobot, King Pen, Cy, Hot dog, Fright rider, Ghost Roaster, Dino-Rang, Bash, Lightning Rod, Scratch, Warnado, Thumpback, Chill, Hex, Roller brawl, Food Fight, Wind-up, Flashwing & Bad Breath.
Darkness:
Spyro, Cynder, Snapshot, Terrafin, Slam Bam, Gill Grunt & Sonic Boom.