The small group of dragons entered the meeting hall, all taking seats. There were about twenty in all, including families. Blaze, the leader, looked around the room, taking in everyone there. This included Vexel's family, the daughter of Spyro and her family, the leader of the guard, and his own family. Vypa and Scorpa were there as well, though their parents weren't since they had moved here alone.
"Does anyone have an idea as to why we would be attacked after so many years?" Blaze asked, it was Mist who spoke up.
"It's likely that the Shadow Master is angry that I was freed, it's the only reason I can think of as to why he'd suddenly attack." Mist said.
Though he nodded at the logic of her statement, Mist could still see that Blaze distrusted her greatly. She wasn't surprised, she was Necro's servant less than a few days ago.
"Now I need reports on the battle, I know already who all lost their life, but documentation of battles is important, especially with you involved." Blaze said, looking right at Vexel. The purple dragoness groaned and started relaying the information.
Mist looked around her while Vexel was speaking. The first thing she noticed was that Ravyn was smiling at her, she returned the smile meekly while the darkness dragoness' parents also smiled at her. Mace, Ravyn's brother, was just staring at her. Mist could see that Scorpa and Vypa were likely communicating, and it seemed to be an intense debate over a topic she had no hope of figuring out. Her parents were calmly talking about something with Cell, Blaze's mate. Lastly, Tundra, the leader of the village guard, was glaring at her.
Scorpa was not happy with her instructor, neither was her sister. I know Vypa, but if he's calling then it must be important and there's no telling when we'd get to rest. Scorpa said firmly, her sister sighing allowed.
Fine, but I'm not telling you if you missed anything important while off to who-knows-when. Vypa said before Scorpa closed her eyes and relaxed.
Scorpa had to take a moment to look around her at the scene she had landed in. The Dragon Temple, she had only ever seen its ruins, but here it was, brand new. The floors were clean, as were the walls and the sigils around them. If she remembered right then she was actually in the training room, the large statue having sunk into the ground. "Wow!" Scorpa didn't even hear her own exclamation.
"Enjoying the scenery I see." Inferno said from behind her. Having expected it, Scorpa just turned around.
"It's just strange, I'm aware of my Time element but I never thought I'd see the temple in perfect condition." awe was her voice.
"It is amazing, but I didn't call you here for sightseeing, I called you here to teach you a technique I hold close to my heart." Inferno emphasized this by placing a paw close to his chest. Scorpa was confused, Inferno knew some powerful attacks, some even forbidden, but nothing that she could think of that would be so important. "Fury breath is a technique that Malefor created, though Spyro perfected it, by accident I might add. The technique is exactly as it sounds, pure condensed fury energy. The actual process of using it, however, is not that simple."
The young Adelike stopped looking around and gave Inferno her full attention.
"To use the Fury Breath, you need to tap into your elemental reserves as well as your Aether connection. That's the easy part, the difficult part is forcing yourself to only use fury energy and to balance your Convexity and Poison elements perfectly, though your other elements will work as well." Inferno smiled slightly and motioned to his side, where several shadowy canine-like creatures formed for the training.
Scorpa growled lightly to herself and lunged at the nearest one. She was quick to tear its throat out and move on, slicing another apart and impaling the next. Scorpa rolled to dodge an attack by one of the shadows and destroyed another before snapping around to take out the one she dodged. The next three were destroyed by a tail swipe that used her tail spikes to tear the shadowy flesh apart. The rest were quickly taken down by a flurry of melee attacks.
Scorpa sighed as she finished her build up and prepared to try the fury breath. She relaxed a little while pulling in her elements, mixing the Convexity and Poison together and targeting her fury energy. The energy began crackling within her maw. She released the energy after only a moment, only to have it literally blow up in her face and throw her into a wall. The Adelike groaned as she pushed herself up and shook her head. Her second attempt went slightly better and her third was unstable, but usable.
"Next time, warn me about the dangers of things like this." she said while glaring at her mentor, who shrugged.
"You need to get back to your body, you're not going to want to miss this." with that, Inferno vanished.
Scorpa blinked a few times to clear her head to a minor extent. The meeting room hadn't changed at all while she was 'gone' so she took the time to look herself over. Even though her training was practically a dream, she still had a few scorch marks on her scales, which her green scales and glowing veins made very prominent.
"That was fun! Can we play with those things again?!" The sudden intrusion of Aura Scorpa startled the twins.
"No! They were fodder, not toys!" Convexity Scorpa said harshly.
The twins were pulled from the two's argument by a sudden eruption of force. Vexel, or rather Vex, was suddenly standing over Blaze on the table, her eyes seemingly more slitted than usual and her tail spikes against his throat.
"Say that again and I swear I will tear your heart out! No one insults Vexel like that." Vex hissed, only to go wide eyed and stumble back. She looked away and seemed to mumble to herself before returning to Vexel's seat, the dragoness in question taking over and looking around in confusion.
What the hell was that? Vex asked in the recesses of Vexel's mind. It had happened far too fast for her liking, one moment Vexel and Blaze were deep in debate over whether or not being sisters was impairing Vexel's judgement of Mist. The next, Vex was at his throat and threatening to tear his heart out. What disturbed her more was the trigger that caused it, all Blaze had done was claim that Vexel's status as a Purple Dragon was making her blind to the real world. He doesn't realize how much it hurts her to be told that, how painful it is for her to be forced to face the, very real, possibility that Mist is just playing her. The corrupt dragoness cut that train of thought off upon realizing that she was defending Vexel, for some reason. Vex was trying to think of anyway that the insult could have weakened her chances of gaining complete control, but it seemed that it could only strengthen them. So why had she done it, why had she willingly gave up a chance like that? She'd have to think this over.
"What?!" The Purple Dragoness exclaimed after a moment of everyone just staring at her, no one answered.
Later on, the meeting concluded and everyone went to leave, with a few exceptions. Rogue approached her daughter as they were leaving, simply motioning for Vexel to follow before she walked off. The Convexity Dragon's sister was also stopped, this time by a Wind Dragoness. The dragoness was revealed to be Spyro's daughter Talon, who was merely thanking Mist for both her role in the battle and for protecting Ravyn.
"So, what'd mom want you for?" Mist asked her sister as they were flying to Warfang. Vexel smiled and lightly hit her with her tail before winking and dashing off. Mist shook her head in confusion before chasing after her sister. It was obvious that Vexel was wanting to keep it a secret, but Mist had never done well with anything being hidden from her.
The twins twirled around each other playfully. Flying was their favorite thing to do, especially flying at high speeds and crazy heights. Originally they were on either side of the other sisters, but then Vexel shot off and they decided to keep up, but leave room for a little fun. The twins flew close to each other, bright smiles on their faces.
Vexel giggled as she rolled in the air, avoiding a concentrated blast of Aura. I didn't realize she would be this determined.The Convexity Dragoness thought as she took a dive, followed closely by her friends and sister. Even though they hadn't so much as seen each other in several years, the sisters proved just how synced they could be as they spun and shot forward in unison, putting Mist above Vexel. The twins got next to their friends moments later.
They landed a few hours later to rest, having been up for quite a while by then. The twins were the first ones to fall asleep, curling into each other while facing opposite directions, putting their heads side by side. Vexel and Mist were a lot slower in falling asleep. The sisters looked each other over as if seeing each other for the first time.
Mist looked at Vexel in awe, there was little to show her as the little hatchling she remembered. Vexel's spines were a medium size and very sharp, compared to the row of stumps they had been back then, her scales had darkened slightly too. The most prominent difference was that her scales had started to glow slightly, emphasizing her Convexity nature, and the silver pattern along them had grown more complex.
Besides the obvious changes of her extra tails, white wings, transparent membranes, and solid light-blue eyes Mist, Like her sister had gained a more complex Aura pattern. Scars were still on her body in some places, but she didn't mind, the worst was down her left side from when she got into a fight with one of the guardians, and lost. After a while, the sisters also fell asleep.
Mist opened her eyes on a large rocky platform. The dragoness slowly stood up before shaking her head to clear it a bit. "Hello! Where am I?" she asked
"Welcome young Mist." The voice came out of nowhere, causing Mist to snap around in an almost complete circle to make sure nothing was there. After another quick look around, she found a larger rock in the distance that looked disturbingly like a room to a temple minus the walls.
There were floating rocks between where she was and where she wanted to go so she'd have to jump as it seemed flying was out of the question with the thick air around her. She watched the rocks that would take her to where she wanted to go, trying to judge when she could jump between all of them without falling. After almost ten minutes of staring she finally lunged. Mist landed and jumped off the first platform as it was at a slight angle, the next was sideways, and the last one was spinning just enough for her to land sideways and have it right itself before she lost balance. The Aura Dragoness quickly jumped off the last rock and glided to the ruins.
The floor of the ruins was surprisingly cold on her paws. The stone statues around her were recognizable to anyone who studied draconic history, let alone Necro's former servant. Malefor's statues guarded an entrance on the other side of what could only be a vision pool. Mist stalked towards the pool, listening closely for the voice from earlier as well as any other noises. She soon got to the pool and rested her forepaws against its rim while peering into the crystal waters. "What is it you want me to see?" even as she spoke, the waters turned and rippled, shapes briefly appearing and disappearing. Flashes of a place shrouded in darkness reached her first, the place felt like it was bright, but the pool simply couldn't reach it. In a place of pure darkness, she saw golden eyes and fragmented crystals. Crystal caves were her last vision, four dragons walking through the area, following a small orb of light.
"Continue your trip to Warfang, afterwards find me in the White Isle."
Mist stumbled back a little and shook her head again to clear the visions, just barely catching the voice's words. She wanted to know more, but decided to just continue. She awoke right as she passed through the gate.
A/N: Hope you guys enjoy. It might be a bit confusing since this chapter was written in fragments over a roughly 2 month period. Look! Character development for Vex!
