Copyright: I do not own Spyro or anything Spyro related. It is all owned by Sierra Entertainment and Activision. I do own my original characters in the story.
(A/N): Thanks for all the positive feedback, I got from the last chapter.
Eight Years Ago
Inside one of Malefor's many lairs, a figure walked through the hallway. He was being guided by two apes. The three figures were doing their weekly routine were they would examine each of their prisoners. They would examine each dragon's physical performance. It had been eight years since they had taken the dragons by force from one of the dragon temples. They arrived at one cell where one particular dragon had been assigned. The two apes opened the cage for the larger figure. The figure walked into the cage and came eye to eye with the young dragon. The young dragon had light green scales and a light blue underbelly.
"Let's see if this one has gained his yet." Gaul said, smacking the dragon across the face with his staff.
The dragon staggered backward for a second before regaining his composure. The dragon locked eyes with Gaul for a couple of seconds. He stared at the ape king intensely, trying to make him see the hatred he had for him. The dragon opened up his maw, releasing a surge of wind that threw Gaul backwards against a wall.
"Well it looks like we have found another one that has gained their element early." He said, regaining his composure. "You also have something else that we look for, and that is a lust for blood. The fact that you are an early bloomer, and that you have the blood lust mentality we look for makes you a perfect candidate. Lead him to our experimentation room." He said, directing the two apes. "If he manages to live through the convexity transfer then we can finally complete the Dark Master's elite guard."
Present
"The Dark Master's elite guard?" Venn said, questioning Seth's sudden outburst. "You must be lying. I heard that they all fell in battle. Besides I've heard that they were capable of amazing elemental feats. It was believed that they were some of the strongest dragons of the new generation. You do not fit that description. If you are truly part of that group you have failed your task, because the Dark Master is already dead." He said, teasing the dragon.
Venn ran towards Seth, and began throwing punches at him. Seth easily avoided each, moving with the wind to aid in his evasiveness. The electricity dragon grew furious upon seeing the dragon dodge his punches without trying. He could not understand why his opponent was suddenly able to dodge them. Nothing had changed between the two. As far as he could tell his speed was still the same, and the wind dragon had not activated any sort of ability. It was then that he felt something resonate from the dragon. This feeling was burning the dragon, and sending shivers op his spine. He could feel Seth's power begin to not only over power his, but it felt like his power was being eaten by his opponent's. He could feel Seth's blood lust surround the room. The elemental power that the dragon was now showing blew his away.
"This…This power is equal to our leader." He said, with eyes wide upon. "This power far exceeds my own. This is the power of someone that has been given the rank of D. How the hell were you able to increase your power so much?" He said, as he felt his fist get caught by Seth.
"This has always been my power." Seth said, encircling wind around the electric dragon's arm. The wind tore the electricity dragon's right arm, shredding it to pieces. The electric dragon looked on in horror as his forearm was reduced to mere dust. The wind had splattered blood across the floor. Blood poured from the area that used to connect with Venn's limb.
"Please no more, I don't want to die not like this." The electricity dragon said, looking into Seth's cold eyes. A shiver went up the dragon's spine, seeing that there was no emotion in his eyes. Seth ignored the dragon's plea, and grasped his paw around the dragon's neck. Venn saw that the dragon was encircling his right paw with wind.
"Now let the winds guide you to your death. Wind Element: Piercing Wind Torrent," Seth said, piercing his claw into his opponent's chest.
Wind surged from his claw, and into Venn's chest. The surge from the wind created a large hole in the electric dragon's chest. The surge of wind carried blood out of the dragon's body, and splattered it across the room. Some of the blood trickled onto Seth's face. The wind flew across the wall colliding against it. The dragon's wind was so strong that it broke the multiple layered concrete wall, creating a large hole to the outside. Seth still held onto the lifeless dragon. He saw that a large amount of blood was gushing out of the dragon's newly formed wound. He also noticed that the dragon was beginning to disappear, a sign that the dragon was passing. Having no more interest in the dragon, Seth threw his body across the room. He turned his back on the dragon and began walking towards the exit.
"Not enough blood was spilled here today to satisfy me." He said before passing out on the ground.
"Did you guys feel that?" Blair asked the group.
"It seems that the huge spike of power suddenly disappeared." Greg said, running across the hallway.
"No one in our group has that kind of power." Spyro said, leading the group through the hallway.
"Then it must have come from the enemy." Brox said.
"All the more reason to reach the end of this hallway." Blaze said.
"Well it looks like we have." Spyro said, stopping in his tracks.
The five dragons looked upon the sealed door in front of them. They once again saw that there was one door on each side of them. This time they saw that each door only had a single letter, but the letters were higher in rank than the group. Both doors had an opponent on the other side that was ranked E. Out of the entire group only Spyro held that rank.
"I'll go," Blaze said.
"I'll enter the other room." Blair said.
"You guys don't have to do this individually. Two of us can go into each room at the same time." Brox said.
"No, it's better this way. You and Greg need to represent your city. Your leader's daughter should see that dragons from her own city have come to rescue her. I have no doubt that Spyro will be able to get the two of you to her." Blair said.
"Plus so what if these guys are on a higher level than us. The two of us have faced some pretty difficult opponents in the past and we've managed to beat them." Blaze said, remembering the cheetahs that he and Blair had once fought against.
"Alright then we have faith in you." Spyro said.
Blaze and Blair each stepped through the tangible door, unlocking the sealed door for their comrades. Spyro, Greg, and Brox stepped through the door, leaving their teammates behind. They continued onward leaving Blaze and Blair to fight enemies that would surely test them in every area. The three dragons had faith that they were up to task. They believed that their teammates would come out victorious regardless of the odds.
Blair examined the room that she was in. The first thing that the fire dragon noticed was that the dragon that had greeted the team when they first entered was in the room with her. The light green dragon turned around to face the red scaled dragoness. Blair looked into the dragon's snake like eyes, and immediately felt that the dragon was remarkably strong. He jumped in the air, and began flying towards her. Blair immediately jumped in the air, and released a medium sized fireball. Rattle began spinning around in the air. The fireball found its mark, covering the older dragon in flames. Rattle continued spinning around in the air while covered in flames. He came to a sudden stop, and opened up his wings. The act caused the flames to fly off of his body, and onto the ground beneath them.
"You'll have to do better than that girl." Rattle said, dashing in the air towards Blair.
Rattle delivered a kick to Blair's head, but she managed to block it using her left wing. The light green dragon used his larger body to tackle the dragoness into a nearby wall. Blair quickly pushed herself and the dragon off of it. She kicked the dragon in the face, sending him flying backwards. The dragon shook of her attack, and headed back towards her. Blair opened up her maw, releasing her fire breath. She knew that she had to rely on weaker fire attacks, because if she used stronger ones her energy would deplete quickly. Upon seeing the vibrant flames, Rattle backed away from the dragoness. He created as much distance between himself and the flames as he could.
"It appears that you are going to put up a fight even though it is useless. Alright I want to get this fight over as quickly as possible, Poison Element: Knockout Breath." He said, releasing a green mist from his mouth. The green substance quickly filled the room.
"What is this?" Blair asked.
"The moment you breathe in that stuff your body will start to shut itself down. The more you move or exert yourself. The faster it will take effect. The poison will eventually put you to sleep, and I will be able to do what I wish with you." He said, licking his lips.
"In other words I have to beat you as quickly as possible before I get knocked out." Blair said.
"Show me what you are capable of Warfang dragon."
Blaze and a dark green dragoness around the same size as him exchanged blows in the middle of their room.
"I'm amazed that a rank F dragon can actually hold their own against a rank E one." She said, delivering a punch to Blaze.
"Instead of being amazed you should focus more on the battle." Blaze said, matching her incoming punch with his own. The impact created a small shockwave that travelled through the room.
"Oh how true." She said, purring at him.
The dragoness smashed her tail against the floor, bringing spikes forth from the ground. Blaze jumped away from her, dodging several spikes. The dragoness smashed her fist into the ground. A part of the stone floor attached itself to her fist, empowering her fist.
"Earth Element: Augmented Earth Body Parts," she said, running towards Blaze.
The fire dragon blew fire at his fist, readying his fire fist attack. The two opponents threw their elemental punches at each other. The punches collided against each other. While struggling to overpower Blaze the dragoness felt something from him. She quickly felt that the dragon was holding back for some reason. The dragoness wanted him to fight her seriously.
"Transfer," she whispered. The stone surrounding her fist began moving onto Blaze's fiery fist. The stone substance began trapping the fire within it. The dragoness watched as Blaze's fist became incased in stone.
"What is this?" Blaze said, lifting up his stone fist.
"Fighting an opponent who is not taking a fight seriously is really frustrating. How about you show me what you can really do, or else I'll have to trap more of your body in stone." She said, fluttering her eyes seductively at Blaze.
"If you want me to fight with full power then I suggest that you come at me with everything you got." He said.
"Alright then, just know that if you still continue to fight the way you currently have that this will be a short battle." She said as she began stumping her forelegs, hind legs, and tail on the ground.
Blaze flew up into the air, and watched as the ground beneath him began breaking apart. He knew that if he continued fighting the way he previously was that he would not be able to defeat her. Blaze knew that if he was going to come out victorious he needed to overwhelm his opponent with his fire attacks. Blaze began heating himself up again, but instead of only doing it to his paws like before. The fire dragon began heating up his entire body. His entire body began glowing an amber like color.
"Fire Element: Heated Dragon Mode," he said.
"His elemental power just went up a bit." The dragoness said to herself.
In this form I am able to fight at the level of a dragon with the rank of E. Not even the Guardians know that I possess this form. Blaze thought to himself. "Fire Element: Heated Surging Flame Breath," he said, releasing a continuous flow of amber colored fire.
"That's what I want to see." The dragoness said, sliding her paws across the ground. "Earth Element: Total Reconstruction," she said, creating several spiked pillars from the ground beneath her.
The pillars moved towards Blaze's incoming attack. Blaze's heated flames made contact with the stone pillars, enveloping the pillars in amber flames. The fire burned the pillars to a crisp. The earth dragoness saw that the flames were making their way towards her. She immediately closed her wings in front of her. Cement from the walls moved in front of the dragoness, offering her protection from the flames. The blistering flames made contact with the wall, and began to slowly melt the protective walls. Before the flames could get to her they extinguished. The dragoness let out a sigh of relief upon realizing that the flames had ran out of power.
Her relief quickly vanished when she looked back up at her opponent. She saw that Blaze was flying down towards her. Out of desperation the dragoness molded the ground into a spiraling pillar, and directed it upwards towards Blaze. The fire dragon saw the pillar moving towards him, and stuck out his fist in front of him. The two figures made contact, upon making contact with Blaze the pillar easily melted. Blaze flew through the pillar, melting any obstacle in his way. The dragoness watched in amazement as Blaze melted her pillar like it was nothing. She began taking a step back out of fear. Blaze was within reach of the dragoness. He was preparing to finish her off, but just as he was getting ready something unexpected happened. His amber glow faded. Blaze instantly knew that he had run out of energy.