The Key to Dragons Chapter 13
The corridor opened among the courtyard of some kind of castle. The light-brown haired youth Luke Todd and the purple dragon Spyro walked out of the portal to what they knew was there final battle. Spyro was as restless as ever now knowing whom he was about to fight.
"My own father." He reverberated in his thoughts. Luke wasn't do so good either.
"How do I save Terra's heart from Xehanort's. It makes no sense." The 2 were shaking and Cynder offered them comfort. "Relax you 2. Spyro, we'll save your father and return him to normal again. Trust me, you'll do great."
"Thank you." Luke said weakly. Spyro stood next to Cynder. "Thanks." He said back to the dragoness.
Luke saw the architecture of the room and was amazed by it. "This is the original dragon capital and all of its fine glory. It's ashamed that we can't save it." He said. The whole entire room was decorated in gold and sterling silver. Diamonds encrusted several Dragon Statues they had sitting around the room. Luke had never seen anything like this except in a storybook when he was little.
"Luke are you ready?" The red headed Axel asked. Luke took a head count and noticed that Demyx wasn't there.
"Where's Demmy?" He asked. Axel waved a hand.
"Demyx is helping evacuate the citizens to shelter. He couldn't resist the urge to help them all."
"Wow he's normally extremely lazy. This is a change."
Axel looked at Luke. "It is, I was surprised at that to=" "Look OUT!" He yelled warning of oncoming attack. Luke and Spyro jumped out of the way just in time to avoid a huge claymore. Luke remembered that the Claymore belonged to none other than Saix.
"Well it seems the runts have to come to play." A man said walking out of a dark corridor. The guy had light blue hair, pointed ears, green eyes, and a X-shaped scar in-between his eyes. "Nice seeing you here Lea." Saix said. "But I'm afraid this comes to end now."
Luke was unintimidated. "I'm ready." He said getting out his keyblade. Spyro and Cynder readied themselves as well.
"No you 3." Axel said calling out. Luke, Spyro, and Cynder stopped and looked at him.
"You go on ahead. If you waste your time on Saix then we won't be able to stop it in time."
Luke understood what he wanted. "Spyro, Cynder let's go." Luke urged them.
"But what about Axel?" Spyro asked.
"This is a something that needs to be settled between 2 old friends." He explained. "Let him handle this battle."
Spyro was reluctant at first but then decided it was for the best. He continued to the door with Luke and Cynder holding his head down. Luke already knew all to well why he had was depressed. Spyro was having to fight his own father whom happens to be the Dark Master. Ironically enough Luke didn't see this coming either. Yes he knew to some extent the story of the Legend of Spyro but it never stated in the series who Spyro's real father was. Luke kept imagining it would've been Ignitus but destiny proved otherwise that you never know what to expect even in a video game based reality.
Luke closed his eyes as the doors opened. The trio slowly entered and saw the 2 that were awaiting for them.
"It appears that the Keyblade Master has finally arrived." Xemnas said as he saw Luke entering the chamber. Xemnas sat upon chair high up in the air with Malefor setting upon his self-proclaimed throne. Luke was scared by the dragon's appearance. His body had a mixture of dark purple and black shades going across his scales with his tail being hooked at the end. His wings were torn up somewhat appearance due to his older age and he had 3 horns sticking up before his mane. Malefor reeked of Darkness.
"Ahh…. It's time I get meet my son. Welcome Spyro." Malefor said glaring down his offspring. Spyro and Cynder didn't flinch a bit.
"Well its as they say, Like father like son." He laughed.
"NO… I'm nothing Like you." Spyro retaliated.
"Ahh…. But I'm right. Who was the one freed me from this prison?" The dragon taunted bringing his face down to Spyro's level.
Luke charged for an attack but felt a power holding himself back.
"Keyblade Master. I must say, you have deep darkness running through you. You could be a great ally to us If you joined me." He said as a flash appeared on his eyes. Luke felt his chest starting to grow in pain. Agonizing him and feeling his heart, he screamed. " What's going on?" He asked.
"Come forth." Luke felt his darkness spreading over him. "No!" Luke screamed as he hit the ground clutching his chest at his heart.
"The Darkness in his heart is growing, the keyblade master will be ours." Xemnas intoned.
"No!" Spyro cried. "Father stop!" He begged. Malefor scoffed at his son.
"Muhaahahahahaha!" Malefor laughed in his demonic tone. "Alister. I promised you that I would come back. If I fail now I'll be breaking that promise. I won't give in. I won't give into the darkness. NO! Get Out! Leave Me Alone!" Luke yelled.
A huge amount of Darkness exploded from Luke as he got back control of himself.
"Sorry Malefor, Sorry Xemnas. But I made a promise to someone that I'd come back to them and I'm going to keep that promise." He said brandishing the X-Blade.
"There have been many Purple Dragons before you Spyro. I haven't been the first . In fact the true nature of our kind is to destroy the world."
"That's a lie!" Luke yelled jumping bring a swing of his X-Blade at Malefor.
"Gah!" he said as he was bound in a shield by Xemnas.
"You have chosen your fate and you shall burn with the worthless creatures on this pathetic planet." Malefor said taking off. Spyro and Cynder followed suit as they were going engage in an aerial battle with The Dark Master. Luke was left alone on the ground to deal with Xemnas.
Luke glared at his target.
"It's about time we finished this up." Luke stated.
"You'll be surprised what the heart can do. As am I." Xemnas stated disappearing.
Luke saw the dark blur move behind him. Doing a Quick Run he avoided the lasers that Xemnas launched at him. Luke then landed a quick Explosion Finisher on him before disappearing.
Xemnas then reappeared and did something completely different than Luke would've ever imagined. He started hovering up in the air and, Luke saw underneath him, a darkness started to form. As he watched longer the darkness took the form of a heartless. It was the Guardian Heartless Cypher had used against Luke in there battle. Xemnas then re-summoned his Ethereal Blades out of his hands. Sweat poured over Luke's face as he started to grip exhaustion.
"I don't think I can take much more of this." He said somewhat panting.
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Malefor shot a huge a fireball at Spyro.
"Watch out!" Cynder warned the dragon. Spyro ascended above the fireball and curled himself into a ball launching himself directly at the dragon. He was using his Earth element to attack like Terrador did on the golem. The dragon clawed at Spyro as he landed a direct hit to him in the chest.
"Cynder!" Spyro cried as he was grabbed by Malefor. Malefor hurled the dragon and Cynder crashing the 2 of them together. They both started flying and recovered somewhat from the attack. Spyro then unleashed charging up an Ice attack in front of him.
"Blizzara!" He intoned shooting the Ice attack at Malefor. Malefor wasted no effort in taking the attack head on and taking a swipe at Cynder. Cynder dodged the attack and tried attacked using her Wind.
The attack somewhat blew Malefor off and opened a window to attack.
"Take this!" Spyro yelled doing clawing and swinging his tail dealing 2 blows to Malefor.
Malefor then exchanged another blow with Cynder. He then grabbed the 2 Dragons by the tail and threw them skyward. He then warped behind them, then with a tail whip and a and a swipe of a claw sent them falling like cannonballs to the ground.
"Ha! HA! HA!" He laughed again. Malefor then warped and grabbed Spyro and Cynder thrusting them together before tossing them skyward for a 2nd time.
Spyro, who had stabilized himself with his wings, noticed that Malefor was holding Cynder by the neck and getting ready to kill her. "No!" He screamed out in a blind rage. The purple dragon felt a huge power starting to overcome him. He remembered this power as Dragon Time.
"Now's my chance." He exclaimed. "Take this!" He yelled slowing time down. Flying at a supersonic speed, he rammed into Malefor knocking Cynder out of his grasp.
….
Luke managed to land a couple of blows to Xemnas before jumping away to avoid the lasers he shot at him.
"Darkness! Nothingness!" Xemnas intoned. The guardian started shooting dark balls of energy at him that flew at a breakneck speed. Luke started avoiding them and noticed that Xemnas had a circle of lasers in front of him ready to fire.
"Fire." He ordered. The lasers all shot in a straight line in a blink of an eye and all landed a hit on Luke.
"God Damnit!" He yelled hitting the ground. Unaware of the dark energy attacks coming from the guardian, he received even more damage as the attacks hit him.
"AHH!" He screamed almost at the top of his lungs. Luke looked and saw Xemnas floating to him again. He reared his hand back as he got ready to unleash an attack.
"Take your heart." He droned as a spherical bubble encased Luke and started to drain him of his life energy.
"This is the end of you." Xemnas said in a monotone as Luke cringed at the shocking power that was draining him of his own power.
"I need to get out this mess. But how?" He asked himself. He could slowly feel like he was dying. He felt like death would just come at any second and take him away.
"You just give it all up now huh?" Luke heard a voice calling to him in his head. Luke closed his eyes and could swear he was seeing Alister.
"You are strong Luke. You have the strength to beat him. You just have to believe in your heart." The Alister said to him.
Luke took in what he had just heard.
"Believe in my heart." He said. He opened his eyes and felt a darkness overcome him. "Accept the darkness." Another voice called out. Luke felt darkness overcoming him now. He was getting on all fours and losing his conscious and reason. He was doing all of the things whenever he went into Anti-Form, only this time he was doing so willingly.
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Spyro and Cynder combined there attacks and knocked the Dark Master back again with another blow. The dragon grunted as he felt the pain and then as he recoiled, flew down into the clouds out of the view of Spyro and Cynder. He flew surprising them and slashed at them with both claws to try to grab them. Spyro and Cynder flew out of the way taking off in the opposite direction. Clawing at them again he attempted to grab and throw the duo.
Fortunately they evaded the attack with Malefor flipping forward. The 2 dragons then flew back around in an arch, spinning, and landing a direct blow to his head like an uppercut punch to the face.
"Gah!" The dragon groaned as he was sent plummeting towards the platform that Luke and Xemnas were on.
Xemnas launched a huge barrage of dark energy attacks on Luke. Anti-Luke avoided them and then did a aerial combo on Xemnas.
Xemnas flew back in minor pain as he recovered from the attack.
Anti-Luke reverted back to normal as he ran out of Drive Power.
"How was that?" Luke asked as he panted from exhaustion.
Xemnas's guardian disappeared as Xemnas started to glow. A huge bubble shield encased Xemnas as he started shooting lasers all over the place. 5 solid laser beams started shooting all around him in random directions. Luke managed to try to get out of the way without much trouble. The attacked ended and Xemnas could hear a voice screaming as Malefor fell.
Luke and Xemnas avoided the dragon falling and Luke saw Spyro and Cynder land next to him as well.
"It's over. You can't possibly defeat us in time." Malefor laughed. Luke looked in a state of determination. "You're wrong." He said back in retaliation.
"I'll kill you." He yelled jumping at the dragon and swinging his keyblade at Malefor. The dragon simply blocked the strike with his paw and Luke jumped back as he tried to control himself.
Luke and Malefor exchanged a couple blows and Xemnas launched a couple of lasers at Spyro and Cynder. The duo used a combination of there Ice and Wind to freeze Xemnas. "You're done!" They both intoned as they broke Xemnas out of the ice and damaged him even more. Malefor launched a stream of Ice and Convexity Breath at Luke. The keyblader kept running and jumped up, thrusting his Keyblade into the air. "Thunderga!" he yelled calling a thunderbolt on Malefor. The dragon took a direct hit and collided with the ground. Luke cheered some and then pelted Malefor with 2 Blizzard Spells. The Dragon unleashed an unexpected fireball hitting Luke directly in the chest. Luke hit the ground and healed himself with Curaga.
Malefor then rushed Luke and grabbed him slamming up against the wall. Struggling to get out, Luke tried and tried to get out of Malefor's hold. He started feeling the pressure push up against his chest even harder.
"Spyro." Luke said in a tone of desperation. As Luke said it he started to cough up blood. He could feel the pressure barreling up against his ribcage and by now struggled to breath.
"Spyro." He called out again.
"How does it feel to be- Gah!" Malefor yelled being attacked by the duo of smaller dragons. The Dark Master wasted no effort in jumping back in retaliation of attack.
"Spyro. I think I can OW!" Cynder cried in pain as she felt herself cut by Xemnas's Ethereal Sword. The Guardian then picked up Cynder and held her in a death grip. Spyro rushed to try to aid her.
"Not now!" Malefor intoned tackling and bounding his son. Spyro watched in horror as Cynder was dyeing at the hands of the Preordain.
Luke tried to get up but felt his entire body was limp. "I need to keep going." He stated as he struggled to get up. He then felt his pocket for a heal item but found his pocket was empty.
"Damn it!" he cursed himself for not remembering to bring any heal items to the battle. He couldn't cast a Curaga spell because his magic was still in recharge and his Drive Power was low from earlier so he couldn't do that either. The keyblader was in a tight spot now.
"It's over." Malefor said as he looked at his son. Spyro tried to get out of the hold but couldn't. All he could was look at was the father who was killing his only son.
Luke was in no position to attack anyone at the moment either.
"Spyro, Luke! Please help!" Cynder cried in a much more desperate tone. Her voice was sounding like that of a scared child and now fell on death's ears.
"Cynder!" Luke called out to the dragoness.
"Why Did it have to be this way? Oh dad I wish you were here." He said calling to Alister, Terrador, or his real father. Whichever one would come although he knew none of them could.
Luke could feel it in him. He couldn't believe he was doing this but, he had just given up.
"Get Back! Be Gone!" 2 Voices uttered their lines as Luke saw a pair of flaming chakrams and a claymore flying at Malefor and Xemnas. Xemnas and the Preordain barely managed to avoid the attacks in time but also were forced to release their grip on Cynder. The Claymore struck the dragon and knocked Malefor back with a giant shock of energy.
"We're here to offer assistance." A blue haired man said stepping in front of Luke.
A green light appeared over Luke as he was healed by someone behind him.
"A little thank you is all we need." Axel said blatantly putting a hand on Luke's shoulder.
Luke felt some of his strength return to him. It wasn't 100% but it was enough to last him a little while. Spyro and Cynder got up as Siax had healed them too.
"You 2. Why are you here? I thought you were fighting?" Luke asked.
Saix and Axel each laughed and then explained.
"While we were in the middle of our 'battle' Siax told me of the thoughts he had on the Organization lately." Axel said.
"We both realized that we no longer needed Organization XIII since our hearts are returned to us and our goals are complete." Siax finished.
Luke rejoiced some at the hearing of that news. "You hear that Xemnas? It's over." He said.
"Yes so why don't you give it up?" Spyro asked Malefor. Malefor gave another one of his trademark evil laughs with Luke and the others rearing for battle.
Malefor disappeared and swung his claw at Luke. Luke blocked the attack with his Keyblade and slashed at the dragon cutting him 6-7 times. Malefor then received another blow as a Chakram and a Claymore struck him.
"Pitiful Luke, It has already begun. Just look below you." Malefor replied in a demonic tone. Luke and the others saw that the Destroyer was already making its way to the volcano. The creature thrust itself into the volcano and it started erupting in a huge fury. Saix looked at Xemnas.
"At least we can take him down." Axel said. "Agreed." Saix said back.
"Mu HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! It's already to late for that." Malefor stated. The platform they were on started to fall with Luke, Siax, Axel, Spyro, and Cynder losing there balance. Luke saw Malefor charging the 2 dragons and saw him shove Spyro and Cynder up against the stone wall as they fell. Theirs paws rubbed up against it and they struggled to resist the pressure. Axel was busy engaged in combat with Xemnas in order to notice.
"Get back. Got it Memorized?" Axel said landing damaging the guardian. Saix saw the 2 dragons and charged Malefor while Luke charged Xemnas.
The guardian swiped Axel out of the way.
"Gah!" Axel said colliding with a stone pillar getting rendered unconscious.
Luke jumped into the air with his X-Blade.
"You shall be wiped out!" Xemnas intoned as he shot a group of lasers at Luke. Luke did a flip evading the lasers and brought his Keyblade down onto Xemnas.
"Heart Unlock!" He yelled as he drove the X-Blade into Xemnas's chest.
Luke landed on the ground and jumped back to see the Keyblade lodged into his chest.
Xemnas held his hand out as he felt the heart of him being unlocked. The X-Blade exited his chest and reappeared in Luke's hand. As Luke watched, 1 yellow light exited the body as he saw the body reverting to a different person. He watched in shock as he saw that the body was now getting more muscular and the hair turned brunette.
Luke was looking at the character of someone he remembered from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
"Terra!" he exclaimed as he caught the feeble body. Luke looked into Terra's eyes and saw he was unconscious but alive. Even better now knowing that he had saved the heart of Terra.
"Saix!" Cynder said as the Luna Diviner was tossed aside and defeated. Luke saw that Spyro and Cynder were staring face to face with Malefor.
Crash! The platform the were on now crashed into the ground as they had just hit the center of the planet. Axel and Saix crashed into the ground with a mild impact. Luke looked to see whether to see they had received injuries but saw none.
"You can't defeat me. I am eternal!" Malefor grunted. Luke face-palmed himself as Malefor laughed.
"How cliché." Luke remarked. Malefor reared his head back and unleashed a beam of energy from his mouth.
"Look out!" Spyro and Cynder warned as the beam was directly aimed at Luke.
Spyro and Cynder intercepted the beam and fought back at it with there own energy breaths. Luke saw the blasts collide 4 ft from his face and jumped back to get out of the way.
Energy reverberated and was pulsing from the combined blasts of energy.
The 2 dragons struggled to hold their own as they flapped their wings and fought off the energy beam that Malefor was using against them.
"Just hang on!" Spyro said trying not to let Malefor win.
Luke then got an idea. Jumping back Luke twirled his Keyblade and aimed it at Malefor. A halo formed around the edge of the X-Blade as it pointed down Malefor.
"It's time for you to see the Light!" Luke yelled as the halo closed in on the weapon and shot the beam combining with Cynder's and Spyro's. The beam got even more intense as it started to get sent flying back at Malefor.
As it happened Spyro noticed something happening. As he looked around him, everything started turning white. He felt like he passed out and everything went black.
"Spyro!" a voice called out to the dragon. Spyro woke up and saw that he was in a cave. He looked and saw that the voice had came from a dragon who was bound by his paws and neck. The dragon was big in size which didn't surprise Spyro but what did was what he found scary the most. This was a purple dragon like him. The dragon was purple like him and Malefor although with a light purple shade to him like Spyro.
"Spyro." The voice said feebly as the dragon opened his eyes. Spyro looked and didn't know whether or not to trust the dragon.
"Son, please help me?" The voice asked desperately. "Hurry. We don't have much time. I love you." The dragon said reaching out with a hand.
Spyro doubted for a second whether or not again to trust him. He then looked and saw next the dragon was what seemed like a portal. He looked inside and saw that he was watching the battle that was going on between the trio and Malefor.
"This… this place. I'm inside Malefor's heart." Spyro said as the realization dawned upon him.
"You're right." The dragon said gently.
Spyro looked up at the Elder purple dragon and wasted no time in freeing him. The dragon hit the ground and got up with no trouble. He then got what seemed like an evil smile on his face and charged Spyro. Spyro cussed himself for ever trusting him as he ran. He looked and saw he was cornered. Before he could get a chance he was tackled by the Purple Dragon. Then he felt himself being tickled by the dragon.
"Ha ha ha… Dad stop he cried as tears came down his face as he tried to get Malefor to stop. Malefor stopped and looked at his son.
"I love you son." He said before a bright light blinded Spyro.
"Father!" Spyro cried out as he couldn't see the dragon anymore.
Spyro then found himself back inside his body the moment before he had felt himself passed out.
"Gah!" Malefor yelled as he was blasted back the combined attacks of Luke, Spyro, and Cynder.
Malefor hit the ground roughly before lying there. He then suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart and head.
"What's going on?" He asked as he grasp his chest in pain. A light started emitting from his heart.
"No, this can't be. I can't be fading, No! Not now! Why now!" He screamed as a light blinded him and the protagonists trio.
"What's happening to him?" Cynder asked as she blocked her sight with her wings.
The light lasted for about 10 more seconds with the screaming of Malefor dieing down.
Spyro, Luke, and Cynder saw that Malefor lay there on the ground.
"What was that about? Malefor's not dead but why was he in a lot of pain?" Cynder asked in confusion as she looked at Luke. Spyro and Luke smiled as they saw something different on Malefor.
"Look at his color." Luke said flatly. Cynder looked at Malefor. "He's, he's not dark colored anymore. In fact-" her mouth dropped as she said it, "He has the same exact colors as Spyro.
"That means?"
"That was the way that Malefor looked when he wasn't corrupted and still a good guy right?"
"Yes and-" Cynder said urging Luke to continue.
"He's back to the way he was before becoming the Dark Master. He's a good guy again." Luke finished.
Cynder barely believed what she had heard.
"Maybe." She said doubtful of that.
Spyro looked at the dragon with. "I know that Luke's right. I just know that it worked." Spyro said hopefully. The dragon then raced up to Malefor's side. Spyro looked at Malefor and saw the older purple dragon open its eyes.
"Spyro my son." Malefor said in a deeper yet gentler tone. Spyro smiled as Malefor returned did the same.
Malefor slowly got back on his feet only to find himself tackled by Spyro. Spyro started crying tears of joy as he cuddled with his father. He hadn't felt that happy except for when with his Flash and Ignitus. He felt like he had just found a lost family member.
"I can't believe it." Cynder said touched by the sight. Malefor is actually showing love towards someone else. She felt a smile come across her face but not knowing why.
Luke enjoyed the moment as he watched the 2 together.
Just then, Crash! More rocks started fall as the planet was starting to break apart.
Saix and Axel awakened as they heard the crash.
"Its happening!" Malefor said. "The end of the world."
"Can we stop it?" Spyro said in doubt.
Malefor looked at his son.
"Only 2 purple dragons would be able to stop this." He explained. "Son, I know that I may have not done anything decent my life as your father. And you have the right to expect your father to keep doing so. But please just let me ask you this. Will you trust me?" He said asking his son bringing his head down to Spyro's level.
Spyro looked at Cynder then back at his father. "I do. I trust you till the very end." Spyro said. Malefor felt a wave of pride overcoming him. He was proud of his son.
"And I do too." Cynder said joining Spyro's side.
"NO!" Malefor barked at Cynder viciously. "You must go. It's to dangerous for you." Malefor said.
"I'm staying with Spyro." Cynder said back. Malefor looked into Cynder's eyes and could tell that nothing would sway her now.
"Alright then. Siax, Axel, you take Terra and Luke and go."
The duo nodded and agreed with Malefor. Luke stood his ground refusing to go. "NO Spyro. I want to stay here. I don't want to leave."
Saix grabbed Luke by the neck and started dragging him towards the portal against his own will.
"What are you doing? Let me go!" Luke screamed as he struggled to get out of Saix's grip.
Axel had already grabbed Terra and made it through the corridor.
"Luke." Spyro said smiling.
"SPYRO! CYNDER! MALEFOR!" He screamed as the portal closed on him holding his hand out.
Malefor looked at his son and the black dragoness.
"Its now or never!" Spyro said with the planet shaking even more. It was about to explode and destroy itself if they didn't hurry.
"Spyro, I love you." Malefor said as a light started enveloping the older purple dragon.
"I love you." Cynder said as the light now enveloped all 3 of them.
The mass of the planet started to eject chunks and pieces of land out into space by now. Looking out into the vast space. The whole planet could be seen pulling itself back together. Everything was coming together as a whole again like it should be.
Overlooking the caves where everyone had been taking refuge. 4 Dragons, a Cheetah, and a Dragonfly appeared. Demyx, Terra(whom had just come to), Luke, Axel, and Saix looked up there as well as they had appeared on another cliff side to rest.
They all looked in awe at the amazing sight they were seeing. The sunset had been appearing and by looking into space they could see what appeared a new constellation forming.
The constellation appeared to be of 4 people. Looking closer they saw that it was 2 small dragons, a larger dragon, and a human with what looked like a keyblade.
Luke smiled at he sight as he felt a wave of happiness overtaking him. He laid down under the sight and fell asleep where he felt at peace. He was sleeping like it was his home.
"Welcome to the beginning of a new age." He said looking into the brightness of the sunset bringing about the end of the day.