It's almost time for the conclusion of my story! It sure took me a while!
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Chapter 19- Sacrifice (Part 1)
Meanwhile, outside Malefor's body...
"Yes... Yes! It's finally completed!", Malefor called triumphantly as he held the elemental bomb up in the air. "Spyro... In this round... You lose.".
Spyro could only watch in horror. "There's nothing I can do now... I can only hope I've bought them enough time!", the purple dragon thought desperately.
"Once I throw this into the portal, your dimension will be no more! This dimension will become independent, and this body will become real and immortal!", he called, adding an evil laughter.
"Lavender, can you hear me? We're out of time!", he thought, hoping she'll hear him.
"Give us just a few more seconds, and get ready to activate the Convexity Connection!", he then heard her.
"Did you honestly believe your pathetic trick would work?", Malefor asked with a smirk.
"What?", Spyro yelled in shock.
"Did you really think I wouldn't know what's happening in your my own body?", he then asked, grinning diabolically.
"I was amused with your little idea, even though I don't know how you even got it, so I let you do it. But did you forget that I am also a purple dragon? I can simply use my own convexity to destroy your petty connection!", he laughed.
Spyro's eyes widened in astonishment. "How didn't I think about it?", he thought, shocked.
"Lavender, we have a problem! He knows about the plan!".
"Cynder thought so. She says she has an idea, but she won't tell me what. Anyway, just stick to the original plan. Give us one minute and we'll use the connection.".
"Okay.", Spyro answered mentally.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a dimension to annihilate.", Malefor said with his evil grin and was about to fly out of the volcano, when Spyro spoke up.
"I don't think so. One wrong move and I hit your precious bomb, and then we'll all be done for.", the young purple dragon warned.
Malefor narrowed his eyes. "And do you really think I'll believe that? You, who cares about his little friends more than anything else in the world would come up with a plan just to get them all killed? Don't make me laugh!", he roared and blasted him with a fire bomb.
Spyro was unprepared and took a direct hit, and fell the short distance to the ground, but soon got up again.
"There's a difference between persistence and not knowing when to give up.", the dark purple dragon said angrily as Spyro flew once more in front of him.
"I'm not letting you leave this place!", Spyro called and charged right at him.
Malefor used his earth breath at him, but Spyro flew above it and snatched the bomb from his paws, barely managing to hold it with his smaller ones.
"That was a dire mistake of you.", Malefor said with a sinister grin.
Spyro stared at him, puzzled, as he landed back on the ground, just barely avoiding the bomb's contact with the ground.
But then, his eyes widened in shock. He yelled in pain, feeling the bomb as if burning through his scales and flesh.
"You might be powerful, but no matter how strong you are, your body is still young and undeveloped. You can't hold such concentrated elemental energy with your thin scales.", Malefor said with a grin. "Now, hand over the bomb unless you want your paws will melt off completely.".
Spyro clenched his teeth and shut his eyes tight as he stabilized the glowing ball on his front paws.
"This hurts so much... But if I let go of the bomb everyone will die... And if I have to give up two paws, I'll do it!", he thought as he attempted to cope with the pain.
"How foolish!", Malefor called as he swooped down at Spyro and grabbed the bomb as he flew over the young purple dragon.
"Never close your eyes when facing your opponent!", Malefor laughed evilly.
"No!", Spyro yelled and tried to get up, but only screamed in pain once more as he placed weight on his front paws. He stared at them to see the damage, and found that they were so burnt that the scales turned from purple to gray.
"Spyro, now!", Lavender called in his mind.
Still struggling with the pain, Spyro tried to get up once more. Barely holding back the scream of pain, he shot out the convexity breath as he thought about Lavender.
The purple flame-like energy suddenly turned into a purple chain and shot at Malefor, but the dark purple dragon himself seemed like he didn't even feel it.
"Now to foil your foolish little plan, before destroying your beloved world.", Malefor said as he landed dawn on his two back legs, held the bomb in his two front paws and closed his eyes.
Spyro couldn't do anything because the purple chain of convexity was stuck in his mouth.
Inside of Malefor...
Orion and Cynder were staring at Lavender. The purple dragoness just formed the same purple chain as Spyro, and was seen going as far as they could see.
They were still waiting for the others, though.
Suddenly, at the very end of their sight, they saw a purple colored portal appearing, with the purple chain as its middle.
Lavender herself couldn't speak, as the purple chain was coming out of her mouth, but she nodded towards the others, signaling that the connection is ready.
"Hey, what's that?", Orion called as he saw purple energy coming down towards the convexity connection.
"Malefor is probably trying to disrupt the connection.", Cynder answered quietly.
"What are we-", Orion muttered, but Cynder answered before he could finish. She jumped into the way of Malefor's convexity.
"Cynder!", Orion yelled as she took the blast instead of the connection.
He and Lavender stared at her with worry as she got up, the stream of convexity still hitting her constantly.
"Don't... Worry... This is nothing...", the black dragoness muttered, but looked like she was about to fall down.
Orion reach his paw above her back, where the stream of convexity was. The stream then traveled up his back and did the same as it did to Cynder.
"You... Were right...", he muttered. "This is really... Nothing...".
Cynder smiled. "Thanks, Orion.".
"Sorry we took so long!", Glacos' voice reached them, as he and Phoenia finally made it back while pushing the almost-empty orbs. One of them had some blue substance in it and the other red one.
"How can you touch it? I feel hot just standing next to it!", Glacos called, staring at Flametta's orb that was taken by Phoenix.
"Same with you, only it's cold.", Phoenia said with a smile.
"I'm not surprised. Those orbs contain the very essence of the dragons' elements in their purest form. I can't imagine how the lightning and earth orbs will feel like, though.", Cynder said.
"What's this?", Glacos asked, staring at the stream of purple energy coming down at Orion.
"It's Malefor's convexity that's trying to destroy the connection. But if one of us can direct it to himself, then the connection should be fine.", Cynder answered with a frown. "And you've had enough.", she added towards Orion and took his place once again.
"Oh, there they are, finally!", Phoenia called angrily as she saw Selarus and Ampira approaching them, each rolling in front of him the orb.
"Sorry, but this thing is heavy!", Selarus called, exhausted from the effort.
"It's just as full as ours.", Glacos said in surprise and tried to push the green-filled orb.
"Woah!", he exclaimed.
"And the lightning orb feels weird.", Phoenia noted.
Lavender growled angrily, unable to say anything because of the chain in her mouth.
"Oh, sorry.", Selarus said.
"We just need to go through the portal?", Ampira asked.
Lavender nodded.
"Lavender and I will go last. We need to make sure the connection stays in tact.", Cynder muttered, struggling with the pain caused by Malefor's convexity.
Orion once again switched places with her. "Go.", he muttered.
Cynder stared at him in surprise, but then nodded.
"Let's go!", she called.
Selarus, Glacos, Phoenia and Ampira nodded and followed her, rolling the orbs in front of themselves.
Selarus stopped and stared at the two dragons left behind them.
Lavender nodded towards him.
"Hurry, they are waiting.", Orion murmured, doing his best to not yell due to the pain.
The green dragon stared at the two, opening his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but turned his head and followed the other four dragons into the portal.
Outside of Malefor...
Malefor clenched his teeth furiously as he realized something was preventing him from destroying the convexity connection.
"No!", he soon roared as the portal in his chest started glowing, and one by one fell out Cynder, Selarus, Ampira, Phoenia and Glacos, the four latter ones holding a large orb safely between their wings.
"You might have gotten out, but it doesn't matter! In a few moments, your dimension will cease to exist, this one will become real, and I'll be invincible! Hahahaha!", the dark purple dragon roared.
"Guys, go give the guardians the orbs quickly. I'll handle Malefor.", Cynder muttered.
They all stared at her and nodded. Ampira looked back at her again, but then quickly turned to Joltina.
"I'm sorry I took so long, Roxine.", Selarus muttered, tears forming under his eyes, as he approached the green dragoness.
"You did more than enough.", she whispered with a loving smile.
"Here, take this orb. It has some of your energy in it.", he muttered and handed her the orb.
Roxine slowly reached her paw towards the orb and placed her paw on it. The green substance in it started glowing, and then flew up into her paw, through the glass orb.
He then looked at the others and saw them doing the same.
Ampira was crying and couldn't control it. "No matter what you've done, I'm sure it was for the right reasons. I missed you so much, my child.", Joltina said quietly to the young yellow dragoness and hugger her with her front leg.
Phoenia and Glacos seemed nothing but rejoiced to meet with their guardians again. He noticed the color returning to their scales, meaning that their element was also restored, even though they have only a minimal amount of it at the moment.
"Why aren't you here yet, guys?", he then thought, worrying about Orion and Lavender.".
"Listen to me, Selarus. You have to take your friends and leave now. Your lives are in danger. We'll stop Malefor.", Roxine said with a serious expression.
"But you've just got your elements back! You're in no condition to fight!", the young green dragon objected.
Roxine ignored his words. "Hailey, are you alright?", she asked.
"Better than ever.", the blue dragoness replied.
"Flametta?", she then asked in her turn.
"It's time to fulfill our duty, finally after all these years.", she said as she and Hailey got up on their feet.
"Joltina?", Flametta then asked the yellow dragoness.
"As ready as I'll ever be.", she answered with an excited grin.
"But our friends are still in there!", Glacos called.
"Lavender, Orion, hurry up!", Phoenia yelled towards Malefor, who was fighting with Cynder at the moment.
The black dragoness took the fight up to the air, but neither she nor Malefor were fighting seriously. They were both afraid that the bomb would go off. Malefor still had to hold the bomb in his two front paws, being so large, so he had a disadvantage. Also, he knew that the moment the orbs were out of his body, he couldn't use elemental breathes from his body, except his mouth.
Spyro could only watch and worry because he was still chained to Lavender inside of Malefor, and was afraid to cause the connection to break.
"Come on! Is that the best you can do?", Cynder teased.
Malefor frowned. "Don't blame me if your foolishness will be your demise!", he called and then charged at her in mid-air, trying to bash her with his horns.
Cynder, as agile as she was, avoided even his large body without much difficulty.
"Enough!", the dark purple dragon roared and used his convexity breath at her safely above the bomb.
Cynder dove down in the air just in the nick of time to avoid the purple breath.
"Come on, what's keeping you, guys?", she asked mentally, worrying about Orion and Lavender, who were still inside Malefor.