Chapter 12: A New Hero (Part 2)

It was a long, tiring month but he did, he mastered all the elements including holy and cosmic. During his month long training he was taught how to use the holy element, "This element is one of the three mark." Elva said during his holy element training. "The three?" he asked. "There are three forbidden elements, holy, cosmic, and convexity, or better known as the Darkness element." She said. The white crystal in his blade shone with Elva's power now I know what element the crystal is used for.

He thought, then after his training he soon began to learn the cosmic element "this element was used by members of the royal family and the dragon king Bahamut" Leon explained. "Bahamut?" he asked looking at Leon. "He was the first dragon to come to this world, and legend has it he's Sedro's brother, also he's the statue of the dragon here" he said and pointed to the statue. "So he was Sedro's brother, I wonder what he was like." he said. Leon gave him a small golden jewel and infused the cosmic breath in it, it glowed a golden glow. He was then transported to what looked like space, there where stars and planets "We'll train in this dimension to try you powers." Leon said.

He mastered it flawlessly and his fury was like a star exploding in a fiery explosion of fire, he named it "Super Nova". After that he was training nonstop till midnight, either by trying new flying techniques, sparing with his friends and occasionally one of the Guardians or Ansem, or in the library with the Chronicler, he liked this since he liked to read books in his spare time. "It seems we have a bookworm here" Chronicler said amusingly as he saw mark reading a book. Every night he would stagger into his room exhausted and fall into his bed and fall asleep instantly, Ignitus noticed this one night, the other guardians including ansem, the chronicler, and Elva and Leon watched too. "Maybe we should lighten his training" Ignitus said. "Yeah, even thought he mastered everything we taught him, he's exhausted" terrador said. "But Falzar will come in a few days, maybe we should prepare not him, but the temple instead" Elva said. "Good idea Elva, we'll let him rest for now." Ignitus said. As they were leaving Elva wrote him a not and placed it on his door.

On her way to bed she saw Yulie sitting on the balcony; she was looking at the sky, it shone with bright stars and the two moons. "Yulie, I didn't think you'd be up" Elva said, she was startled since she didn't hear her. "Oh Elva, I didn't know you where up." She said. Elva moved towards her and sat next to her "What's wrong?" she asked. "I don't know I feel as like something bad will happen" she said. "I feel that same way, almost like an inevitable event will come and we can't stop it." She said shifting into a comfy position. "But I'm worried about Mark, I think he might fight someone from his past" she said. Elva wrapped a wing around her trying to comfort her. "Don't worry, Mark is strong he'll know what to do." She said softly. "Your right, but…" she trailed off. "You care about him, don't you?" she asked. Yulie blushed slightly "Yes, he's something precious to me." She admitted. "I know how you feel, I had fell in love with Falzar before he became the dark master, now I'm trying to bring him back." She said. Yulie looked at her "You were in love with Falzar?" she asked. "Yes, we had a child, his name was Spyro, soI need to bring Falzar back so he could meet him, and to bring him back to us." She said. "Yulie, promise me this, fight for mark with everything that you have, don't let him fall prey to Falzar." She ordered. "All right, I won't let him take Mark away from us." She said and left. Elva smiled If Mark cares for her like she does; he'll do anything to protect her she thought.

The Next day everyone was preparing to fortify the temple, Mark woke up and heard construction going on; he saw the note on the door it said:

Mark,

We decided to give you some time to rest from the training we gave you, we're going to fortify the temple for Falzar's attack, don't worry about us just rest. Also some food is provided, you can help us if you want but I suggest getting some extra sleep today.

From, Elva

He read the note and saw a platter of food, some roasted sheep, vegetables, and water on his nightstand. He ate it but left some for Kuzo to eat, and went back to sleep. A few hours later he woke up and looked at his clock, it read 1:00 pm. He dressed, tied his sword on his belt, took Kuzo out of his cage as he glided onto his shoulder and they left the room.

He found the others in the library looking at plans for the temple when he came in. "Ah, you woke up." Ansem said as he walked over to them. "Yeah, felt good to, so what's going on?" he asked. They explained that they're going to fortify the temple in preparation for Falzar's attack "No doubt revan and Cyrix will be in there." Ignitus said. Mark looked at the plans "I have an idea, how about you put some towers here" he said pointing to various locations "Also add some archers in those towers, two per tower would do and give them fire arrows for more damage." He explained. He told them what to build and where to put it, and what type of men to train and where to assign them. They followed his ideas to the word and told the builders where to do it, before long his plan was done and they had drawn up a new plan for their temple fortification.

"I have to say, you're quite the strategist." Terrador said. "This might work" Cyril said. "Looks like all those hours here reading those booksreally paid off" he said amusingly. They built a barracks, an archery range, a stable, a blacksmith, some farms, a few tower around the temple and a market place, and a siege works. Mark and his friends where given troops to command, Hunter was assigned a group of rangers and some where of his kind, Yulie was given command f a healer troop to heal wounded, Siegfried was commander of a group of Knights, but Mark was given a special group of men. "Since you can control the elements, you can summon elemental units using your elements" The Chronicler explained. Mark nodded and raised his dragon arm, instantly the four elements appeared including light and they saw an amazing site.

Where a fire had been a group of four floating men in empty suits of armor appeared, they had two swords in each hand and where the legs should be they saw fire coming out "the flame knights" Ignitus said proudly. Then a group of Knight appeared but they looked like they where made of ice itself "The Ice warriors" Cyril said. A bolt of lightning shot down on them and where it struck stood a lion, it was bright yellow with a golden mane "The thunder lion" Volteer said. And a giant golem appeared from a crack in the ground, it was covered with moss "And the earth golem" terrador said. "The four elementals, they are the embodiment of the four elements in physical form." The chronicler said. They looked at the four shadows in front of them, the shadows walked towards them and they saw five men in white armor. They had lances in one hand and shields in the other, they shields then where put on their backs and they saw them turn into wings. "The Angelus" Elva said as they looked at the five armored men standing in front of them. "The Angelus?" mark asked. "They are the physical form of light; some say they are real angels." She told him. They stood in awe at them, "I command them?" he asked "yes, you command them." Ignitus said.

A few days after getting their men they had helped build the fortifications for the temple, Mark was given the Imperial Dragon armor identical to Sedro's "He wore this armor in battle and wanted his next descendent to wear it" Ignitus said he thanked him and wore the armor, it gleamed like the sun when light was on it. When they finished the work on the templethey saw it was a day before the attack, they had begun preparing for it and had the archers in their assigned towers and everyone began to prepare for the attack. While this happened Grabacr showed up, they where preparing their men when he showed "what are you doing here?" mark asked pulling out his blade. "Don't worry, he's on our side" Ignitus said. They looked at him confused, "but I thought he didn't want to fight?" he asked. "Doesn't mean I can't show I'm a good guy." Grabacr said.

Later that night after dinner they sat with the other men around the fire, mark began humming a tune, back home it was called "Journey Home" a song sung before and after battles. The other liked it and so did the men, soon everyone was singing the tune including Grabacr, the night was filled with song to ease their souls for the fight ahead. The song had ignited their souls like fire and gave them high spirits, The Guardians joined in also but Ansem disappeared "You know how he is; he's probably getting a surprise waiting for us during the battle." The Chronicler said and returned to singing.

Meanwhile, on a high cliff overlooking the temple Revan and Cyrix looked at the camp, hearing them sing "Hmmm, they seem pretty sure they'll win" Cyrix said. Revan said nothing but listened to the song That song,it takes me back he thought and remembered hearing that song before and after the battles back home, "You know what we have to do right?" he asked. He nodded "I can't believe Grabacr betrayed us, and now he's working with them." He said and spat on the ground, just then Falzar appeared behind them "It's time we ended this and got revenge for what they did to us." He said. Cyrix and Falzar left but Revan stayed.

He looked at the camp and heard their song I haven't heard that song in a long time. He thought to himself, he shook his head I have a mission to do, I need to get the girl, but… he sighed but can I really do that to my little brother? He thought to himself and walked away from the cliff, the song still heard in the night sky.