Hi guys! Sorry about the late chapter… my uncle passed away earlier last weekend (god bless his soul). I know how you all were waiting for this next chapter, the big battle, between the two evil dragons who are controlled by the darkness, and Spyro and Cynder. (They don't know Spyro and Cynder are still alive.) I don't have this fight planned out so I am y winging this. Well, time for disclaimers: I do not own Spyro or anything Spyro related. That all belongs to Sierra Entertainment.

CH. 11

Character: Star

She hurried to the temple. She quietly made it away from the groups of creatures and as soon as she was far enough away, she flew as fast as she could to the temple. Minutes later she arrived there at the door of the temple. She entered and hurried quickly to the room of the sleeping guardians. When she got there she opened the door and yelled, "They're coming! Terrador, Volteer, Cyril! Quick, please get up!" They slowly drifted back into consciousness. "What is it Star," Cyril asked.

"There's a lot of grublins and other creatures only a few miles away! And two black dragons are leading them! Please, get up!" The guardians immediately sprang awake as they heard this news. The camps had come earlier than they had thought.

"We need to inform Spyro and Cynder," Terrador said. They all ran to the room and practically broke the door. It was still on its hinges, but barely. "Spyro, Cynder! Get up! The camps have come earlier than we have thought," Volteer yelled. Spyro and Cynder jumped awake at this news. They didn't know what to do. No one did. It was still really dark outside and the camps were merely hours away.

"What do we do Terrador," Spyro asked. Terrador was the earth guardian and the offensive guardian. If anyone knew what to do he would.

"We need to gather outside the temple." They all did as was instructed of them. What luck, it had started to rain as they made their way out the door. "Now we need to wait. When they get here, we all will fight. We will protect this temple," he walked in front of the other dragons and turned around, facing them, "Or die trying." Terrador was the most stubborn dragon in the whole dragon realm, so if he says or promises anything, the promise will be kept and what he said will go.

Outside the Temple

Character: Spyro

Cynder asked, "So we just kill everything in sight?"

"Yes," Terrador said. Cynder smiled a little bit. Spyro saw this and began to get a little uncomfortable.

"Cynder, why are you smiling," Spyro asked.

"Oh, was I? I didn't notice." She couldn't help it. She had gone without bloodshed for so long. She couldn't wait to be able to rip her claws into one of them grublins hearts and rip it out of its chest. Spyro didn't know what to think of Cynder's behavior lately. She was just eager to kill something, but why? Spyro didn't know and he was a little afraid to ask, so he didn't. They sat there for a while in complete silence.

In the Temple

Character: Flame

About an hour after Spyro, Cynder, Star, and the guardians exited the temple

He couldn't fall asleep. The rain had waked him up a while ago, so he just lay in his bed. He finally decided to get out of bed and walk around. Maybe that would tire him out, a little stroll around the temple. He got up and began jogging around. He decided to take a break near the infirmary. He walked by there, and out of curiosity, looked through one of the windows. He was surprised to see a young, beautiful dragoness with bandages wrapped around her sides and stomach in there. He walked into the room. She was asleep. "Who might you be," Flame asked himself. The pink dragoness rolled in her sleep. She must have been having a nightmare.

"No, get away," She said in her sleep. The only thing Flame could think to do was to wake her up. He walked over to her and shook her a little bit. She jumped and swiped her claws in reaction to her horrible dream. She sliced Flame in the face. "Oh my god, I'm sorry," she said.

"Well, that'll wake you up," Flame said. He looked at the pink dragoness completely ignoring the wound she had given him, "Well, hello there. My name's flame, what's yours?" She was confused. She just scratched him in the face and he completely ignored it.

"M-my name's E-Ember." She tried to sit up, but felt a terrible pain on her side when she tried. "Ahhh," She said.

"Well, Ember, it seems you won't be able to sit up for a while. Well, you need to rest anyway."

"Why are you being so nice to me? I just scratched you." Flame looked at her with a smile and a happy face. After a while of no response she asked again. He shook himself out of his trance this time and said, "Well, Ember… I know we don't know each other very well, but I kind of… sort of like you." Ember's pink scales turned a light reddish color. Flame's would have been the same but wouldn't have been visible due to his red scales. They both looked away from each other for a second and looked back. Ember was confused. She just woke up from a nightmare to accidentally attacking someone who tried to help her, and now they were staring at each other awkwardly. "Sorry/ I didn't mean to overwhelm you as soon as you woke up."

"Um… It's okay."

"A little shy, are we?" Ember nodded her head. "Well, I don't know how you got here, but chances are Spyro and Cynder found you and brought you here."

"W-who a-are they," she asked.

"Well, Spyro is one of my best friends, and Cynder is his girlfriend."

"Oh, well then when I meet them I will t-thank them."

"What happened to being shy?"

"I am s-shy, but I'm still… W-what was that noise?"

"What noise?" Thud… Thud… "Stay here Ember, I'll go and see what it is." Ember nodded her head. Flame then left the room and found Spyro and Cynder outside of the temple. "Hey guys. What's going on? I heard a noise from inside the temple and… What are you guys staring at?" Flame looked out in the direction they were staring at. His eyes grew wide from fear as he saw hundreds of grublins and other various enemies. They lit the night with their torches as they slowly marched towards the temple. Flame quickly ran back to the infirmary to tell Ember what's happening. As soon as he reached there, he saw a small rock golem guarding the door. He breathed fire on it until the rock got hot, and hit it with a comet dash, shattering the rock golem to pieces. He entered the infirmary, surprised to see no-one there. Ember was gone.

"Ember, Ember! Where are you?" He heard a little rustle in a cabinet to his left. He slowly walked over there, cautiously getting prepared unless it was a grublin in there. He slowly extended his paw to the little door latch and opened it. He was relieved to see Ember in there, shaking like crazy. "Ember, are you alright," Flame asked, concern clear in his voice. Ember nodded. "Well, get out of there and follow me. I'm going to take you somewhere safe." Ember did as she was told and got out of the cabinet. Flame then started walking towards the entrance of the temple. Ember followed close behind. They soon made it outside the temple with Spyro, Cynder and the others.

On the opposite side of the battle field

Character(s): Unknown dragons

The she-dragon watched her forces and made sure they were in order. The male dragon was right beside her. "Well, it seems the time has finally come. The two little pests are out of the way and the guardians who reside at the temple are old and frail. They won't be much of a problem."

"Don't under-estimate the guardians," The she-dragon said. "They are tougher than they look."

"I know," said the male dragon. "Wasn't under-estimating them, I was merely being cocky."

"Well, cockiness will end up getting you killed. Please, be careful." The male dragon sighed, nodded and flew off ahead of his troops. "STOP," yelled the she-dragon. The whole bunch of creatures stopped and stared at her. "We are here to kill all of the dragons, except one of the guardians. We need just one of them." The creatures all nodded and continued towards the temple. Minutes later, they found themselves on the outskirts of the temple. In minutes, a horrific battle between good and evil will start… and it won't be without bloodshed.

Just outside the temple

Character: Cynder

She smiled as the various creatures walked closer. She had been waiting for something to happen to where she could just attack them. They had done nothing but move up for the last five minutes. "Garr," Cynder growled. "When are they going to attack?"

"Be patient, Cynder," Spyro said calmly. It was an excellent strategy to let the enemy attack first. This usually helps pin-point their tactics and styles of fighting.

Cynder couldn't take it anymore. She ran at the enemy and began firing balls of poison and gusts of wind at the crowd of enemies. She continued doing so until she was tackled to the ground by a black colored male dragon. The two landed in a small area that was surrounded by rubble due to Cynder's wind breath. The two dragons circled each other until the male black dragon attacked. He opened his mouth and charged up an attack that isn't common to normal dragons. He attacked using blue lightning. Cynder didn't know how to dodge this and was hit by the attack. This stunned her for a few seconds. She got back up and was more prepared for anything else this dragon had up his sleeve. She circled around him for a minute trying to find one flaw in this dragon. She hadn't found anything before the dragon attacked again, but with another new attack. He shot out a blob of magma. She dodged this easier though, because it was slow, but as soon as the magma landed it burned a hole in the ground. Cynder got a little nervous at this. The black dragon saw this and shot another blob. Cynder dodged it again. They continued this for a while before Cynder found a way to counter. After the black dragon used his magma attack this time, Cynder used her wind attack to cool it down into rock and throw it back at him. The dragon didn't see this coming so he was hit by the rock. It didn't do much damage, but this infuriated the dragon. He attacked again with his blue lightning. She was still too slow. She was hit again in another result of a minor injury.

She was hit to the ground by the attack, and was vulnerable to any other attack. So the dragon decided to use another new attack. He got real close, looked at Cynder and started to open his maw. A purple light formed in his mouth as he charged something. The dragon let out a horrific scream which blew Cynder back. She was clearly at a disadvantage with the way things were playing out, and the black dragon knew this. He walked over to Cynder again and looked at her. She was unconscious.

In the middle of the battle field

A few minutes into Cynder's battle

Character: Spyro

Spyro saw a little bit of the fight between the black dragon and Cynder, but didn't see what was currently happening until he looked over. The black dragon opened his maw again and unleashed a terrible scream. He saw Cynder get thrown back by this attack and was worried. He started to fly towards her. He looked at the result of the black dragon's attack, and found Cynder unconscious. The black dragon walked up to her and started to charge up another scream. Spyro just wouldn't allow that. He dive bombed the black dragon and screwed up his attack, which missed Cynder and hit a group of grublins. The black dragon looked at Spyro and said, "I thought you two were dead!" Spyro looked at the black dragon and said infuriated, "No, but you will be soon!" Spyro used his electricity attack to stun the dragon and used his ice breath to shoot a group of ice shards. A few of the shards pierced the black dragon. He had two in his right side, and one in his left back leg. The dragon fell to the ground, unable to move. Just then, the black dragon started to lose color. He was brought up into the air and started to change. His scales changed from a dark black to grey with a dark blue under belly and wings. This astounded Spyro. He then realized that this dragon was being controlled by the darkness. He set him free by enabling the dragon from being unable to move or fight back. Spyro then walked over to Cynder and dropped a few red shards near her. She instantly woke up feeling less injured.

"Spyro, what happened," Cynder asked. He motioned for her to look at the slowly dying dragon lying in a pool of his own blood near her. She was shocked. "Spyro, we have to help him." Spyro nodded and Spyro began to lift the dragon onto his back. Cynder lead the way as Spyro dodged the incoming waves of grublins.

The dark black she-dragon looked over and saw Spyro carrying her mate. She didn't want him to be hurt, so she stopped her troops. She knew it was her mate he was carrying because of how he looked. She could never forget his dark black horns. Not another dragon in the realm has black horns. "Retreat," She yelled. She looked back to her mate one last time before she flew off back to their castle.

Well, what did you guys think? I think I didn't add enough detail throughout the whole chapter. But besides that fact, I think I did pretty well. Well, I know this chapter took forever to update, so I will try to make the next one as fast as possible. So I'll see you guys next chapter!