Chapter 11
The Nightmare
Electra woke up seeing herself inside a wooden room with a fence at the door. She looked to her left and saw Damian sleeping close to Torch. She looked to her right and saw her mother, Cynder sleeping as well. Electra crawled towards Damian and shook him to try to wake him up. Damian opened his eyes and let out a big yawn. "(Yawn)…Electra? Where are we?" Damian asked. "I don't know. I think we're in some kind of wooden building." Electra guessed. She looked at Torch and saw him twitching. "Something's up with Torch. I think he's having another vision." Electra guessed again.
"I wish we could see what's inside his head." Damian said. Electra then thought of something. "Maybe we can! Think about it, if Torch has the ability than maybe we do as well." Electra explained. Damian thought about it and Electra may be right about that. "Okay, let's try to see what's inside his head." Damian said. Electra nodded and said, "Okay! I'll go first and if I don't have it, you try it." Damian and then Electra put her hand on Torch's head. She closed her eyes and focused hard. Damian waited for a while and then Electra opened her eyes.
"Aw man, it seems as though I don't have the ability." Electra said while feeling upset. Damian sighed and said, "Okay, it's my turn." Damian then put his hand on Torch's head and closed his eyes. He focused hard and then he began to feel tired. Damian began to tumble and fell to the ground.
-Inside of Torch's head-
Damian opened his eyes and saw himself falling in space. He saw several moons and planets past him. Damian looked down and saw floating rocks around a massive floating rock in the center. Damian crashed onto of the outer floating rocks. He felt little pain but he didn't know if he would feel it when he wakes up. Damian lifted his head up noticed Torch on the other side from where Damian was. Damian stood up and yelled out, "Torch! I'm over here! Torch!" Torch didn't seem to hear Damian and then Damian noticed Torch heading to the big floating rock with a black spiral at the center. Damian knew that he had to get to Torch. So he looked around to see if there was a connected path to the black spiral and it was on the other side from where Damian was.
Damian sighed and said, "Alright, looks like I have no other choice but to take the long way." So Damian immediately ran across most of the rock and headed to the black spiral. While heading to the dark spiral, he noticed some jellyfish around and a giant, whale looking creature. Then Damian had an idea. He flew on top of one of the jellyfish creatures and he was flying up with it. When Damian was high enough to see the entire view, he had a chance to glide all the way to the dark spiral. Damian spread out his wings and glided to the dark spiral. Damian managed to get on the giant rock platform, and he managed to find Torch as well. Damian ran towards Torch and hugged him. "Uh Damian, what are you doing?" Torch asked.
Damian let go and said, "I'm just happy to see you again. What have you been doing?" Damian asked. Torch looked around and said, "I don't know. After I used my fury on the army of apes, I ended up here. I was going in circles until I managed to find a way to this dark spiral." Damian was curious about the dark spiral as well, but he needed to return to the real world along with Torch. "Listen Torch, we need to get back to the real world. We need to wake up." Damian explained to Torch. Torch sighed and said, "I can't! I tried everything! The only way for me to wake up is if I have a nightmare or something scary to wake me up."
Then all of sudden, the ground began to shake. Torch and Damian looked over at the dark spiral, and noticed that it was glowing bright. Then they saw lots of rocks going into the dark spiral. "What's happening?!" Damian asked. Torch held himself from being sucked in and said, "I don't know! But something tells me that "something" is about to come out of that dark spiral." As the dark spiral glowed brighter, they began to see a dark figure coming out.
Damian walked a little closer to the dark figure. "Who are you?" Damian asked. The dark figure laughed and then it wasn't a dark figure anymore. It was Spyro, except his scales were dark like the color of black. His wings became red and so did his eyes. Torch became scared on what he's seeing. "Dad…is that you?" Torch asked in fear. Spyro laughed and said, "I'm not your father. My name is Dark Spyro!" Then Dark Spyro let out a big roar and it scared Torch so much.
Damian ran towards Torch and said, "Torch! Focus! We need to wake up!" Torch closed his eyes and concentrating on waking up. Damian did it as well but it wasn't working. "Torch, you have to focus harder!" Damian said. "I'm trying!" Torch said. Then all of sudden, a portal opened just behind Torch and Damian. "I don't like the looks of that." Torch said. They turned around and saw Dark Spyro very close to them.
"Say goodbye my sons!" Dark Spyro said. Then Dark Spyro shot are dark aether at Torch and Damian. The two brothers were launched into the air and entered the blue portal. Torch closed his eyes and said, "Come on vision, let us out of here!"
-Back in the real world-
Damian managed to wake up first and he saw his mother awake. "Damian, are you okay?" Cynder asked. Damian nodded and then Torch woke up. Cynder and Electra dropped their mouths and then they both hugged Torch. Torch became confused but he liked getting a hug from his mom again. "Torch, are you okay?" Cynder asked. Torch nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm fine mom. Although, I think I had another vision. This time it was about dad."
Cynder became shocked and then she said, "Really? What did you see?" Torch took a deep breath to calm himself to say what he saw from his vision. "Okay, so I was in this world where there were jellyfish creatures and a giant whale. There were also floating rocks that were floating around a giant rock platform, with a black spiral at the center of it." Torch explained. As soon Cynder heard that, she had a flashback of her at the world of convexity where she attacked Spyro as a monster. Torch continued his explanation.
"And then when I was about to head to the dark spiral, Damian came in front of me. Then the dark spiral began to glow and then he saw a shadowy figure. The shadowy figure was dad, except it wasn't dad. He said that he was Dark Spyro." Torch finished explaining. Cynder then became shocked after hearing that. Torch, Damian, and Electra looked at their mother and became confused.
"Mom, are you okay?" Electra asked. Cynder nodded and then she said, "Yes I'm fine, but I don't think your father is." They the three dragons became upset on hearing that. "What do you mean mom? What's going to happen to dad?" Damian asked. Cynder sat down and then she explained to her children about Dark Spyro. "Many years ago, when me and Spyro were about your ages, he had this element power called, "Dark Aether" He use to have "Light Aether" but ever since he versed Tuk's father, who was Gaul, the Aether has created a dark version of Spyro. He is known as Dark Spyro.
He's a deadly and an angrier version of Spyro." Cynder explained. Torch, Damian, and Electra then became scared after hearing that. Torch then had a question. "Did dad became Dark Spyro when we were born?" Torch asked. Cynder shook her head and said, "No, he managed to keep Dark Spyro within himself. Whenever Spyro becomes angry, like really angry, that's when he becomes Dark Spyro. I fear that Tuk might turn your father into Dark Spyro." Cynder explained.
That's when Torch became upset. Cynder saw Torch and then she hugged him. "Don't worry Torch, we'll find Spyro and bring him back home." Cynder said while trying to cheer Torch up. Torch began to feel better and then he hugged back his mother. Electra and Damian then hugged their mother as well.
