Chapter Twenty-Five: Gold VS Black

Brandon head turned back toward the temple as he heard Nathan scream out Snow's name, as well as a few earth shaking roars. The earth below him shook matching the screams as Saira also looked over as the Apes they were fighting ran away screaming in fear as they covered their ears.

"What the hell was that?" screamed Saira over the roar as Brandon eyes frowned. He didn't say anything as he started to run towards to the noise as Saira followed after him. "Brandon what is it?" she cried as he kept up his running toward the Temple.

"Its coming from the temple!" he called back. "Snow and Nathan are there!" Saira nodded and took into the air.

"I'll fly on ahead and see what's going on; you need to help the others!" Brandon stopped as she hovered away from him.

"If you think I'm going to let you go when something like that can make the earth shake you must be out of your mind!" Saira looked toward the temple then to Brandon.

"What if Malefor comes?" she asked as Brandon looked away. "Only you, Cynder, and Spyro are strong enough to stop him; go I'll be fine!" Brandon looked toward her then back to where the fighting was starting to look bad. "Go…please they need you." Brandon looked back once more at Saira before nodding.

"Please safe." she nodded and flew toward the Temple as Brandon ran back toward the streets."

Nathan screamed again bringing his double edge staff down on Greydor. The dragon mind human jumped out of the way, his hair wiping behind him as he skidded back from the attack to his head.

"How is it that a human can possess so much power?" he mused to himself as Nathan ran at him again. Greydor brought up the black sword he held as both weapons collided, the ground Greydor held started to break from the force of the gold armour human which caused him to look back with only his eyes in shock. Nathan eyes started to flash as his gripped tighten and began to push more of his power toward Greydor until his hand reached out and grabbed the yellow eyes Draman and threw him in the air. Nathan dug the staff into the earth and brought his right hand to his side as it started to glow a deep gold, Greydor saw this and fear gripped his face as he brought both of his hands up in the air as he started to fall. Shadows started to move from their places toward his hands as a dark ball was formed above his head. Nathan cried out as he shot his hand toward Greydor as a blast of gold light shot from his hand, as Greydor brought his hands down causing the ball to fling toward Nathan. The two forces collided causing the ground to shake again as a force was being pushed from the two attacks. Greydor landed on the ground and started to push all of his power to keep it away from him, Nathan seemed to be smiling in a way as he just gave his arm a slight push causing the gold hair Draman to be pushed back a bit as the ball of power that was now being formed to move toward him even more. Saira watched from above what was going on, her eyes both showed amazement and fear at what her friend could do. And when she saw the other human, she almost went down to stop Nathan because he looked almost like Brandon. But unlike Brandon this human was an almost yellow, hair pulled back into a gold ponytail; his face was clean with any hair. The only thing that made her stop was the eyes; deep yellow Malefor eyes. She could feel the earth below her start to give way because of her earth element; she started to worry that if this attacked were to keep going on that the force would destroy Warfang! She looked toward the Temple to see a limp white body on the ground, bleeding. She looked closer to see that it was Snow as she flew down, staying away from the attack.

"Snow!" she cried as she went toward the dragoness. Nathan heard the name and turned his head, because of all the power he was feeling he couldn't think straight. Pushing his power toward Greydor, it caused the Draman to slam into the wall behind him as only a small hole was seen on the ground where their attacks collided. He brought his hand up as Saira gave a yelp in surprised as she started to float, then a cry when she was thrown into a wall away from Snow.

"Stay away!" he bellowed out toward the dragoness. "No one will harm her, no one!"

Saira started to stand up as she shook her head.

"I'm trying to help her Nathan!" she cried. "I'm her friend and your friend as well!" Nathan shook his head forcefully.

"Lair!" he cried as he shot his gold light toward her causing her to jump away. "You're trying to kill her, like Greydor was!" his eyes was still flashing as flames licked around his body once more; causing him to shudder. Saira didn't like what she was about to do, but if she was to stay alive she had to bring him back to his senses.

"Sorry Nathan," she muttered as she slammed her paws to the ground causing a rock wave to move toward the gold armour wearer. Nathan slashed though the rock with a wave of his arm as he ran toward Saira grabbing her neck causing her to chock and struggle to be let go. Nathan held his grip tighter.

"You won't kill her…" he muttered. "I will protected her…I will…" a purple blast shot his side causing him to let go of Saira as she fell to the ground as he was pushed away from the green dragoness. Spyro ran to Saira side and stood over her.

"You okay?" he asked looking back for a second as she nodded. "What happened to him?" Saira shook her head.

"I don't know!" she cried. "But he seems on protecting Saira, even if it means killing us!" Spyro nodded.

"Get out of her," he ordered her. "I'll try to get him to snap out of it!"

"But how?" Spyro didn't say anything as he just glared toward Nathan as he shook his head, clearing the rubble from his head. Saira looked toward Snow and started to drag her away, a slight groan was heard from her; again Nathan roared.

Spyro own roar was heard as he ran toward Nathan colliding with him as the two were pushed back from each other. The purple dragon started to glow a deep black, his scales lost its rich purple and gained a new deep black. His eyes grew into a deep white as his red wings grew a dark blackish red; his horns staying the same as well as his chest plate. He roared again causing the air around them to swirl as he attacked Nathan on the chest leaving three black marks on his armour. Nathan grabbed the dark version of Spyro and threw him in the air in hopes to do the same attack he did with Greydor, but Spyro had thought of this. Twisting his body he flew straight down as Nathan shot his attack toward the dragon; Spyro mouth opened as a black shield was seen surrounding his body. The gold light pushed away from him, because of the shield around the dragon body. Nathan eyes grew wide with anger as he brought another hand out to double his power; the shield started to snap in places, but held until Spyro head butted the human in the head. Blood shot from Nathan mouth as he cried out in pain, he was flung to the ground as pieces of his armour from his arm started to break off. His eyes flashed from gold to green then back to gold, the black dragon saw this and smiled; knowing how to beat his foe now as he charged again.

Saira dragged Snow as far as she could take her; the ice dragoness groaned more as she was dropped on the ground, her chest still bleeding. Saira turned her on her back to see the wound, luckily it didn't priced her heart so she would have a chance to recover. Ember flew toward them seeing the wound on Snow chest as she landed.

"What happened?" Saira was about to answer when Ember shook her head. "Forget it, I'll heal her. You go help Flame, those Ape are making holes in the ground and need a earth binder to fill them up again!" Saira nodded her head as she started to run off, when Cynder flew down with Steele by her side.

"Where Spyro?" she asked almost in a panic. "We heard a huge roar a while ago and he went to go see what it was and hadn't come back yet!" Saira started to tell the dragons by her what she saw and what Spyro did for her as Steele looked toward the temple. "We got to help him!" she cried as Steele stopped her.

"No," he answered. "Let him fight Nathan." Cynder looked up at the male version of her and growled. "Only Spyro can fight Nathan like he is," he told her. "This armour is too much for Nathan to handle, like a 'dark version' of himself. And who do we know that has a dark version as well?" Cynder looked down then nodded. "He'll be fine Cynder," Steele told her. "He'll do what ever it takes to make sure Nathan is safe and himself as well; but right now we have our own battle to do. Ember you're going to stay here and tend to Snow?" the pink dragoness nodded as Steele nodded back. "Good, Cynder Saira, you two come with me, Saira you stay on the ground and make sure those Apes don't make any more holes! Cynder, you stay in the air with me and provide air support!" Cynder made a slight nod as well as Saira as they flew toward the gate of Warfang to put their plan to action.

Spyro was flung into another wall as his corrupted cry was heard. Nathan had already lost his arm part of his armour and his crown, the only thing that was left was his leggings and chest plate. But Nathan was giving him a hard time to even get close to him now. Spyro thought that if he were to break off the chest piece, maybe he could break the power over Nathan, but the only way to break it was one big head butt. He couldn't risk a blast like his purple one, for risk of killing the human. Nathan again howled in the sky as the flames again licked around his body, Spyro saw his chance and took it, running straight on toward him and slamming his head hard in Nathan chest the chest started to creak in many places, until it just broke off of the human. Nathan didn't move as Spyro stood back, his scales returning to normal as he fell on his chest breathing heavily. Nathan soon followed falling on is hands and knees, sweat pouring down his face as his gold eyes returned t the rich green they once were. He looked around, wondering what had happened.

"Snow?" all he remembered was seeing Snow stabbed, and a rage blew up inside of him. Looking around again he found Spyro laying on the ground and went over to him. "Spyro…are you alright?" he groaned as he fell on his side, holding his chest from where Spyro hit him. It felt like a few of his rips were broken as Spyro chuckled.

"I'm fine…" he breathed. "But…I guess you're not…I'll explain later…" he brought his head down closing his eyes. Nathan was still a bit confused, but with the last of his strength he picked up the purple dragon and made his way inside the temple, and hid behind a wall so the two could rest.