The Key to Dragons Chapter 12

Spyro and Cynder flew towards The Destroyer in a huge arch. Luke examined and saw 12 groups of crystals on the located all over the legs of the golem. He also saw that there were ledges atop it all.

"Spyro, Cynder. Those crystals." He commanded. A dark corridor then appeared in front of Luke. Luke could see it was another member of the Organization. Luke stopped his keyblade rider and watched the person leave the portal. The person had a long and spiked up rocker hairstyle.

He was hovering on a platform of water. "I can't believe they picked me to be the one to fight this guy. Especially after he beat Axel, Larxene, Lexeaus, Vexen, and Xaldin all at once." He stated. Spyro and Cynder looked at Luke. "I'm guessing you want us to take care of the crystals while you handle rocker punk?" Cynder asked. Luke raised his hand and waved it saying yes.

Spyro and Cynder took off instantly. Luke looked at the rocker boldly.

Demyx stroked his hair. "Wimp!" He taunted Demyx. Demyx jumped slightly and panted some. "You shouldn't judge anyone by appearance." He said waving his finger.

Luke got into a battle stance.

Demyx jumped some more. He turned around then gazed back at Luke.

"Silence you meddling kid." He threatened. Water surrounded Demyx as a light spread across the air to reveal a flat plane. It was made out of a forcefield like with Luke's final encounter with the Twilight Thorn. Luke transmutated his keyblade back into the Ultima Weapon as he landed on the invisible surface.

Demyx raised his hand up into the air again. Water started collecting right in his hand as he conversed it into a huge ball before turning it into his Sitar. The rockstar turned his sitar and held it like he was about to play.

"Dance, Water, Dance!" He yelled as he started playing his instrument. As he did water clones of started appearing around Luke. Luke used a simple strike on one of the forms and it turned into the shape of a musical note. Feeling a Reaction Command overcome him, he grabbed the form and swung it around destroying many of the forms. The form then flew out of his hand and continued spinning in the air drawing many of the clones towards it and destroying those as well.

Luke repeated this process until he destroyed 50 forms. Demyx thrust his sitar up in the air and columns of water surrounded Luke. Luke deflected the attacks with Reflega and got a 4 hit combo on Demyx. Demyx propelled himself forward with the columns of water and Luke dodged it. "Water!" He intoned calling a rain of bubbles down on Luke. Luke used Quick Run to get out the way and stood there. Demyx started strumming and walking forward with a row of columns of water flying up as he walked.
"Thunder!" Luke intoned raising his keyblade up into the air. A single powerful Lightning bolt struck Demyx squarely in the head and Luke ran up and smashed Demyx backwards with an Explosion attack. The Rocker jumped back and started strumming hard. He started turning and jumping summoning forth columns of water left and right.

"C'mon get to the beat!" he yelled as he continued the combo.

"Reflega! Defend! Ha! Another Spell! Blocked! Not Hurting! Oww! Not really." Luke said as he blocked every single water attack with his Reflega spells. All of the power that had been absorbed into the barrier was incredible from all of the attacks and about to be released at once.

"Take this!" Luke yelled letting the barrier explode outward in a huge bomb. Demyx got sent skyward before hitting the ground with an insane crash. Hitting the barrier it was starting to break. Luke summoned forth his keyblade Rider and hovered in the air.

Demyx sat up and stood feeling his head. His sitar was dismissed and he tried to recover from the huge fall, unaware of the breaking barrier.
Luke immediately noticed that Demyx was going to die if he didn't do something quick. The glass broke and Demyx started falling.

"NO!" He screamed as he fell. Luke flew as fast as he could on his board and caught Demyx by the hand.

"What are you? What are you doing?" He demanded. Luke barely managed to land on the edge of the canyon with a horrible impact.
"Saving your ass." He said getting up from off the ground. Demyx looked in mere utter shock at what he just heard.

"But after all that-"He said. Luke smiled at him happily. "Hey, not even you deserved to suffer such a horrible death like that." He said back. "You know, you don't have to stay with the Organization. You can do whatever you want and well. I wouldn't mind if you came with us." Luke said holding out his hand and helping up Demyx.

"You sure?" Demyx said still in confusion. "I've been thinking of leaving the organization for some time now. I'm too scared to confront Xemnas though. He's a freak."

Luke was surprised at the revelation. "Well from now on you're officially a free guy." He said. "I'd like to be your friend if that's okay?" Luke finished as he held out his hand.

Demyx held his hand out as well. "I'd love to." He said back. The 2 shook hands and Demyx stood there as he saw the Destroyer.

"So where are you going to go?" Luke asked Demyx. Demyx gave Luke a suspicious look on his face.

"I'm going to go home if I can. Good luck on trying to take down The Destroyer." He said. Luke nodded.

"Thanks." He said taking off on his Keyboard. Luke then continued flying towards the top of the Destroyer. He saw that Spyro and Cynder had just started working on their 11th crystal.

"Luke!" Spyro called out to him as he landed and brandished his Ultima weapon. A group of 5 Berserkers and 2 Dancers appeared.

Luke pulled out his keyblade and got into his battle stance. "I need to make quick work of these guys. The Destroyer will be at the Ring of Fire soon and I don't want it to complete the circle." He thought to himself. The Dancers unleashed a spinning kick as they approached Luke. Luke floated in the air for a second above the Dancers to dodge their attack. "Take this!" He yelled as he came colliding with the ground and struck down 1 Dancer. The other Dancer grabbed Luke and threw him before he had a chance to recoil from the attack. "Gather!" He said drawing together the Nobodies.

Luke then felt the ground beneath him start to rumble. "What's going on?" he asked himself. Crack! Part of the ground broke up as Lava started to erupt next to Luke. Luke then realized that he was standing on a lava geyser.

Luke jumped out of the way just in time to avoid the eruption. The boiling hot lava engulfed the Nobodies and destroyed them instantly. "Wow that was lucky." He said. He then turned and got on his Keyblade Rider. Taking off he met back up with Spyro and Cynder in the air.

"You 2 destroy the crystals?" He asked the duo.

The 2 nodded their heads no. "We destroyed every one of the crystals on the outside of it. The only one now left over is the heart of the Destroyer itself." Cynder explained. Luke chuckled some upon hearing this.

"What's so funny?" Spyro asked.

"Heh, Heart." He laughed some more. "Oh that." The purple dragon said realizing what Luke pointed out.

"Let's go." The 2 said enthusiastically.

"Okay." Luke agreed taking off after them. The 3 flew around the Destroyer before finding an entrance in side of it. The trio flew in it seeing tons of Lava Geysers as they towards the heart.

"Spyro, look out!" Luke warned Spyro as he almost got hit by a rock falling towards him. Spyro narrowly avoided it before regaining his form and catching up with Luke and Cynder.

"Thanks." Spyro said flying next to Luke. Luke, Spyro, and Cynder entered a chamber which appeared to be the head of the beast. "Almost there." Spyro told the 2.

Then as he said it flying Creeper Nobodies appeared to attack the trio. Luke was impressed with the Organization so far in this adventure. They played all of their cards right and haven't held back on trying to hinder their enemies.

"I must say the Organization has really done their homework. I can't use the keyblade to fight while it's in Rider form." Luke said.

"That doesn't matter we can still beat them." Spyro encouraged Luke.

The Creepers then disappeared and attacked as swords swinging at the dragons.

"OW!" Cynder cried in pain as she received several blows from the Nobodies' attacks.

"Cynder!" Spyro called out. "Take this!" Spyro yelled unleashing a blast of electricity on the hoard of Nobody's. This attack destroyed about 5 of the Creepers only to make 9 more take its place.

"Stopga!" Luke intoned freezing every single Creeper in time.

"Now's it's my turn!" Cynder said as she got ready to attack. Cynder used her Wind Element and called forth a tornado to attack the Creepers. The tornado roared as it spun and collected the Nobodies in a huge whirling mass. The tornado then exploded in gush of loose wind destroying half of the Creepers. The other half of the Creatures were paralyzed and fell into the lava.

"Wow that was great." Luke and Spyro said surprised at Cynder's powerful attack.

Luke then saw the Hexagonal Forcefield disappear and they continued on. Flying down the chest they avoided a lot of rocks and lava plumes that would often appear.

They made it to the heart just in time to its purple and black layers. Luke made disgust as he saw it. It looked like the charred, burnt up ashes of several years of fireplace wood compacted together into 1 think clump.

"The Heart of the Destroyer." The teen said in a dark tone.

"I don't think we'll be able to destroy it in one run. We must hurry." Luke said informing the 2.

"How do you plan on killing it in one shot?" Cynder asked in wonder. Luke looked at her.

"Both of you place your paws on my hands." Luke instructed. The 2 confusingly cooperated. "What's this?" Spyro asked as he felt his own, Luke's, and Cynder's power all channeling together to one beam. A bright halo and beam started glowing in front of Luke's Keyblade Rider.

"It's working you 2 keep it coming." He said. The sound that the keyblade would make when its locking a keyhole could be heard as the beam shot out at the heart. The blast of energy made it all the way through the heart and continued emanating for about 10 more seconds.

"We did it." Spyro cheered as they just destroyed the heart. Luke was not so easy. The whole thing started to crumple as the Destroyer's Chest Cavity was imploding.

"Let's go." Luke said reaching out to the 2. Luke then used his Dimensional Glove to teleport them out of there back to the others.

BOOM! The entire chest cavity on the underside of the Destroyer exploded in a barrage of sparks and fire. Cheering could be heard coming from the soldiers that saw the beast slowing down. The Destroyer had come to complete standstill and it seemed to be defeated.

"Do you think it's over?" Terrador asked as he looked at the Fire Gaurdian.

The quartet of Luke, Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx all hit the ground with a huge thud.

"Well it looks like they made it out okay." Volteer said as he stood next to the 4. Luke, Spyro, and Cynder all got up from the fall. Luke looked at Terrador as the dragon approached them.

"You did good young one. It's nice to see you back here again." Luke happily nodded at the Earth Gaurdian and then looked at the Destroyer.

"What's happening to it?" Spyro asked.

"I don't know, it's seems to be most peculiar." Ignitus said. Luke started to get a bad vibe coming from this. Just as he was about to say something the eyes on the Destroyer opened with a now crimson color to them. It started crawling to the belt of fire as it struggled to climb up the cliff.

"That's impossible. That thing, it's Heartless." Luke said as he observed what was going on.

All everyone could do is stare in horror as it climbed up the cliff. It kept staggering even more and started to fall. It reached out with one last breath and barely touched the fire's circle, just completing the Belt of Fire. Luke felt a state of defeat starting to overcome him. Collapsing to his knees he could do nothing but not believe what had just happened.

"It's over." He said in defeat. Terrador saw Luke in his gloom and tried to think of something he could say to help him.

"Ignitus, what are we going to do?" Spyro asked hoping for an answer. The red dragon looked down at the younger dragon.

"There is nothing more we can do Spyro." He said in disappointment.

"All of this, why did this happen? It's not supposed to be this way. I don't want to it to be this way. I don't want to die." Luke yelled throwing his keyblade at the ground. The keyblade slid across the ground before stopping at Cyril's feet. The dragon picked up Luke's keyblade and held it in his hands.

"So you're just going to give up after coming so far?" A voice said out of nowhere.

"That's not the Luke I know. I think we may have a problem with our hero." Another voice finished for the other one. Luke saw 2 Dark Corridors appearing in front of him. Demyx and Axel appeared out of them and looked straight at Luke.

The 4 Guardians all readied themselves as well as Spyro and Cynder.

"It's okay guys." Luke said. "They're on our side I guess."

"What do you want?" Luke asked. Demyx laughed while Axel felt his hair. "The Organization is no more." Axel said.

"What?"Luke said in shock.

"It's true. Luxord, Lexeaus, Xigbar, Larxene, Zexion, Vexen, Marluxia, and Xaldin have all left."

"Why?" Luke asked even more shocked.

"They felt like they didn't need to be a part of the Organization anymore now that they have their own hearts. Only Saix and Xemnas remain." Demyx finished for Axel.

"We also came for some news we found about Malefor."

The others then listened in as well. "You found out something about Malefor, what is it?" Sparx asked. "Is it a really embarrassing secret?"

Axel shook his head. "It's not an embarrassing secret but a secret that has been kept from all of you since Spyro was an egg."

"What does this have to do with me?" Spyro asked.

"Spyro, I don't know I how to say this to you but Malefor, He's your Father." Axel said.

Luke, Volteer, Cyril, Terrador, Ignitus, Cynder, Sparx, Hunter and the rest of the surrounding crowd couldn't believe their ears.

Spyro was the one who was most shocked and most of all disappointed. "I don't know anything about my real parents and then I find out that the Dark Master, the evil Malefor himself is my father. How could this be possible?" He cried. A couple of tears were already making their way down Spyro's face.

"What If I end up like my father?" Spyro asked.

"Spyro, this news comes as quite a shock to all of us but this doesn't change thing about who you are and what you'll of yourself. It's your choice or not whether you choose the path of evil." Ignitus said trying to calm the purple dragon.

"BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE KILLED MY FATHER!" Spyro yelled back. Ignitus stared in disbelief at what Spyro just did. Never had he retaliated against Ignitus before. Not even once in all the time they had known each other. The 2 stood there quietly.

"Well Spyro, That's the other matter I wanted to work out with you and Luke.

"Huh?" Luke said in confusion. "Really?"

"Yes." Demyx said.

"There's a chance you can save Malefor from his own darkness if you try. If you can do that then not only will Malefor become an ally, Spyro won't have to kill his own father."

"Malefor a good guy.. Yeah Right…" Sparx taunted.

"Sounds a little far-fetched if you ask me." Terrador answered.

"Not really." Luke said. "It's definitely is possible if I try. Light is always there no matter what, even in the deepest darkness you will find a little bit of light."

"So then are you ready to go?" Axel asked.

"Huh?" Luke said.

"We better go now if you want to stop Malefor in time."

"Right." Spyro said.

"Cynder are you coming?" Spyro asked. Cynder nodded yes.

"I'm with you all the way." She said.

"And so am I." Sparx said.

"No Sparx you need to help guide the residents to shelter. You wouldn't be able to survive in those conditions very long."

"But I always go with you." Sparx said in his defense.

"Sparx, I know how much you care about me but I'm only telling you this for your own good."

"Okay." Sparx said in disappointment. Sparx turned to Luke and Cynder.

"You 2 promise me that you'll look after him. We've been through a lot together." Sparx said.

"I promise." Luke and Cynder said softly.

"Spyro, I wanted to tell you something before you go. It's something that I should have told you when you were younger but. I love you son."Ignitus said putting a paw on Spyro. Spyro looked up at the closest person he ever had to a parent. "I love you 2 dad." He said slightly.

Luke and Terrador were amidst there goodbye as well.

"Good luck, I'll be waiting for you here. I know that you'll do well." Terrador said. Luke smiled back at the dragon.

"I'll do my best." He said.

"Well with all of this stuff said and done. Let's go." Axel said opening the dark corridor.

The red head walked through the dark corridor and disappeared. Demyx walked in after him to be followed Cynder. Luke and Spyro looked at each before looking back at the Gaurdains and their friends. They took one last glance of them before walking through the corridor to their final battle.