We awoke the next day. "Inferno why weren't you in my dream last night?" asked Cynder. "Sorry about that but Shard pulled me to his time and taught me a very powerful attack that a guardian of the purple dragon can do, but it uses a lot of energy." I said. Mysty awoke and started clearing the venom in her teeth. "That must get really annoying." I said. "Yea it does but I would rather not unintentionally kill someone because I forgot about the venom in my teeth." Mysty said. The communication crystal started glowing again. "What is it dad?" I asked annoyed. "Well looks like you hate me." dad said mockingly. "Ok cut to the chase, what do you want." I said. "For you to join me of course."dad said. "Never." I said in a demonic voice, that could match convexity Inferno. He's trying to anger you so that you let your guard down and he can take control. Evil Inferno said. Then let's not let him. I said as I calmed down. "Nice try dad but you are unsuccessful." I said. "You three come with me as it is time for your daily meeting with king Gual." said an ape. "So have the little whelps given up yet?" asked Gual. "In your dreams." I said. "Why would we give in when there is no torture and our room is great?" asked Cynder. "We can have all that changed." said Gual. Gual's communication crystal activated and dad's evil voice rang through the chambers. "You will do no such thing!" screamed dad. "Yes master." Gual said. "Well if your done I would like some food." Mysty said mockingly. "Kill it yourself and you can have it." Gual said. Mysty smiled and bit into the ape next to her, her venom taking effect instantly. Gual stared in shock at what he had just witnessed. "Surprised that I can kill so willingly." Mysty said. "I didn't expect a ten-year old to be a killer." Gual said, trying and failing to hide his happiness that it wasn't him that was bitten. "Don't be as I spent five years in the ancient grove so killing is what I do to survive." Mysty said angrily. "My king we have spotted a dragon entering the cave." said an ape as he ran in. "So what?" asked Gual. "He's a purple dragon and young." the ape said, only one dragon fit such a description and it was Spyro. "What!" screamed Gual. "Looks like our rescue party has arrived." I said. "Yes and you three will be the first dragons to attack him when he gets there." Gual said, it took us a split second to come up with a plan of action. "Fine but only if you let us free after that." Mysty said. "Fine, you have a deal." Gual said as we were escorted to a safe place for the ambush.
I focused and jumped back in time. Dad was standing in the center of a large mountain and was preparing for his plan. Dad was about to use his power but mom came in so he had to stop. "What is it my love?" asked dad. "Sorry for bothering you Mal but I spotted about ten dragons coming to attack." mom said. "Well then let's take them out and maybe we can recruit a few." dad said. A few minutes later and I saw the dragons approaching, I recognized one instantly. "Look one of the soon to be guardians joined in." mom said. The group landed and tried to attack only to get either killed or tossed before being able to do so. "Well Malefor you are stronger than I thought but I will fix that." A darkness dragon that had heart-shaped markings said as he used his strongest attack. "I thought I told you not to use your full power." A darkness dragoness, with the same markings, said. "Sorry sis, but after what he did to mom and dad I couldn't hold back." the darkness dragon said. After a few minutes all the dragons where badly wounded or dead. "I was hoping for a challenge." dad said. "Well when this war escalates to the right point then you will have your wish." mom said. "Listen to me!" yelled dad. "Any who wish to live must become my servants, any who wish not to do this will die." dad said. I looked around for the dragon that I recognized and found him, it was Cyril. I watched as several dragons were killed with only Cyril remaining, not counting the ones that had bowed before dad. I thought Cyril would escape or get killed but he did the unexpected. Cyril stood up and bowed to dad. "What is your wish master." Cyril said. "So that's where he went." said Shard from behind me. "apparently but I can't believe that he did such a thing." I said, the shock of what I had seen was so great that I lost my focus on time and returned to my time. "What did you see?" asked Mysty. "I saw Cyril." I said. "Doing what?" asked Cynder. "Bowing before dad and calling him master." I said. "I can't believe that he would do such a thing." Cynder said as Spyro walked in.
"Where are we?" asked Spyro. "I think a better question would be, what is that smell." Sparx said. The green flames that had be put out to aid our ambush suddenly lit up. "Welcome dragon." Gual said. I heard a low crunch next to me and looked to find that Mysty was even eating the bones of her kill. "Wow you where hungry." I whispered. "Yes I was." Mysty said, whispering as well. "How nice of you to come and witness the dawn of a new age." Gual said. "I wouldn't dare miss it Gual." Spyro said. "Then have a seat." Gual said as he grabbed his staff and used it to drain Spyro's elemental energy. "Foolish dragon, you are no match for me." Gual said as he secretly looked over to us. Mysty smiled and showed the dripping venom that was in her teeth. "I have managed to make it this far." Spyro said. "Yes, you have been quite troubling haven't you. I should have placed a bigger bounty on Inferno, Cynder, and Mysty. How ironic that they would be the ones to end you." Gual said as we all threw Spyro across the room. "You three don't need to do this." Spyro said. "Just like old times eh Spyro." I said as I looked around, no one was paying attention. "Same as last time, line us up with the staff." Cynder whispered. We started to circle Spyro in a predator manor. "That pile of bones over there your's?" asked Spyro. "What can I say, Gual told me that if I killed it I could eat it so the ape next to me was my best bet." Mysty said. Spyro finally got us aligned with the staff so we ran after him. Spyro dodged the attack and we flew to Gual to get the staff, unfortunately he saw the attack and grabbed me and Cynder in one hand and Mysty in the other. "weeklings." Gual said as he threw us into a wall, knocking Cynder and Mysty out. I fought the pain but was unable to move from the impact. Gual jumped off his throne and pulled out two large swords. Spyro dodged a spark that was thrown at him from the blades. Gual jumped into the air and came down, aiming to end Spyro right then and there. Time slowed to a crawl but Spyro was moving at normal speed. "I see you managed to get Tempo to teach you a few time tricks." I managed to say. "Yep." Spyro said as he walked away from Gual's attack. After a few more repeats of that, Gual got his swords stuck and so Spyro slowed down time for a moment and attacked until Gual teleported away. Spyro repeated that process a few more time before Gual dropped his swords. "Your time is up dragon." Gual said after getting up. I noticed that the night of eternal darkness was almost here and knew what he meant. Gual jumped into the air again and slammed into the ground causing it to fall. I jumped down and landed a few feet away from the convexity beam while Gual's staff broke on impact. "Wait where is Spyro?" I asked. "I don't know." Gual said. The eclipse began and the beam started to glow even stronger. Gual laughed as Spyro wasn't around to stop him now. I noticed a black spot in the beam and suddenly a memory flooded back to me, the memory of being corrupted. Spyro suddenly snapped his wings open and landed, but all I saw was his dark form. I am guessing that that is one way to taint a purple dragon. Evil Inferno said. Yep. I said as we started battling Gual. I dodged several of these strange green beams that came from the crystal of Gual's eye. "Time to die Gual." Spyro said, his voice echoing many times. "You first." Gual said. "Don't forget me." I said as I gave Dark Inferno control. Me and Spyro smiled evilly as we started bombarding Gual with convexity. Spyro was thrown into a wall but got back up and continued to fight. I fired a few convexity beams. Gual became a tornado so I countered with an overcharged darkwind tornado, do to the night of eternal darkness being an event that is charged with dark energy, my attacks where a lot stronger. After a few minutes I noticed that Spyro wasn't attacking at close range so I did. I ran up to Gual, with time frozen, and attacked at impossible speeds, each attack was charged with convexity to speed it up and increase its power. After a while we finally weekend Gual. "What are you waiting for Spyro kill me." Gual said. Spyro hesitated so I knew that he was gaining control. "You can't can you." Gual said. Spyro took that as an invite and started using convexity to turn Gual to stone. After a moment Spyro rose in the air. I knew what he was about to do and flew up to the ceiling. Convexity encircled him then it released in two waves, the first turned Gual to stone and the second obliterated the stone. After that I flew back up to find that Cynder and Mysty where looking down into the hole.
"Inferno what's happening down there?" asked Mysty in fear. Before I could answer, Spyro flew up but stayed in the beam. "No." Cynder said. "Spyro stop." Me, Cynder, Mysty, and Sparx all said in unison. "I... I can't." Spyro said. Cynder jumped into the beam and knocked Spyro to the ground, breaking the tainted hold on him as well. "What have I done?" asked Spyro. "Well you killed Gual and tainted the darkness within you." I said. "Well at least I didn't kill any friends." Spyro said. Suddenly the roof broke apart. "That's our way out come on." Cynder said as we ran to take flight but stopped, Spyro wasn't moving. "You four just go." Spyro said. "We aren't leaving you." Mysty said. A bolder fell and blocked the way out. "We're too late." Spyro said. We all looked down in shame but it appeared that Spyro knew what to do. "Get close to me all of you." Spyro said. We all ran to Spyro and made sure that we where in contact with him. Spyro rose into the air as I felt time start to slow and knew what he was doing. A time furry is the only thing that can even freeze a time dragon in time and that was what Spyro intended to do. We all took flight as time became slower and slower then everything stopped.
A/N: Shocking twist within this chapter. Cyril actually was Malefor's servant. Well Inferno is frozen in time but if you know the TLoS trilogy then you know that this is not the end but rather the beginning. (Post your theories as to why Cyril decided to become Malefor's servant in a review.)
