Chapter 13

It took some time for Spyro and Sparks to reach Munitions forge, by the time they reached their destination it was night time and both moons was high in the sky.

Munitions forge looked like a very unfriendly place, the ground was made of dark black rock that was hot to the touch, there was pools of molten lava scattered all over the place, and no matter where Spyro looked he could see some kind of ape structure made out of metal.

Spyro landed in the safest area he could find, the air was burning hot and thick with ash making it somewhat difficult to breath, Spyro could see Boyzitbig not too far away in the distance.

The volcano was much larger than any of the surrounding mountains and it had a thin trickle of lava pouring down one side, even from this distance Spyro could tell that the volcano was becoming more unstable by the second and would soon erupt.

"Oh boy is it big" said Sparks looking at the volcano, "Sparks we have to hurry, that thing could erupt at any moment" said Spyro, "Than what are we waiting for, let's get moving" said Sparks in a slightly panicked voice.

Spyro began to search of any clue to Terrador's whereabouts, however no matter where he looked everything looked the same and he soon found himself becoming lost.

Spyro quickly became tired of running in circles and decided it fly into the air to regain his bearings, Spyro flew into the air but despite now being up high the thick ash in the air made it almost impossible to see anything.

Straining his eyes to see through the ash Spyro managed to catch a glance of something unusual down below, Spyro flew down and found several train tracks leading into several of the mountains, along with about a dozen apes that all reacted in surprise at the sight of Spyro.

The apes drew their weapons and charged at Spyro, Spyro unleashed his ice breath freezing the front two apes solid, knowing that the icy prisons would not last long in this hot environment Spyro charged forward and shattered the ice and the apes inside to pieces.

Some of the apes began to hesitate at the sight their companions deaths, the ones who continued to attack was greeted by Spyro's electric breath, the frightened apes managed to regain some of their courage and charged at Spyro only to fall to his fire breath.

"Wow, your starting to get pretty good at this fighting thing" said Sparks, "Thanks" said Spyro as he looked at the train tracks and where they led, "These tracks have to lead somewhere" thought Spyro as he began to follow the tracks.

Spyro followed the tracks into the mountain, the tracks led the two further and much deeper into the mountain until they finally came to an area that looked like it was being used as a weapons forge.

All around the forge Spyro could see apes that was using pools of magma to heat up metal or shaping metal into swords, axes or other weapons, once a weapon was finished the apes would place it into a mine cart that was in the centre of the room.

Spyro know that he couldn't defeat all of these apes despite how much he had improved in combat, there was far too many apes and the ceiling was far too low for him to fly, Spyro was about to turn back and try another way when he heard one of the apes scream.

Spyro looked in the direction of the scream and saw a small ape being attacked by some strange creatures, these creatures had long worm like bodies that was purple and orange in colour, they also had sharp pincers coming out of their mouths and crab like claws coming from their sides.

A nearby ape who saw the attack and blow a horn to alert the other apes, "Stop what you're doing everyone, the Magma worms are attacking again" he said, all of the apes grabbed their weapons and ran to attack the Magma worms.

Seeing his chance Spyro quickly ran through the forge while all of the apes was distracted, after reaching the other side of the room spyro looked back and saw that the apes had managed to drive the Magma worms back into the magma pool from whence they come.

Spyro ran down the tunnel before any of the apes noticed him, "Well it looks like Ignitus was right about this place being dangerous, I mean there must have been about forty apes back there" said Sparks.

"Quiet Sparks" said Spyro, "What's the matter, we're too far away for those guys to hear us" said Sparks a little annoyed that Spyro told him to be quiet, "I mean be quiet because I think I can hear something" said Spyro slightly annoyed.

Sparks listened closely and realised that he too could hear something, it sounded like someone was screaming out in pain, Spyro quickened his pace now running towards the source of the screams, "Hey, wait for me" said Sparks not wanting to be alone in these mines.

Spyro followed the screams until he found an ape using a whip to torture a small creature that was huddled in fear, the ape was just about to whip the creature again when Spyro came up behind him and use his ice breath to freeze the ape solid.

Spyro looked at the small creature that was still huddled in fear, the creature was very small only about half the hight of Spyro, it looked very mole like with grey fur and sharp claws on its hands for digging.

"Excuse me" said Spyro getting the creatures attention, "What, who's there" said the creature in a panicked voice, the creature raised its head revealing his blind silver eyes.

The blind creature sniffed the air in front of Spyro, "You, you do not smell like the apes, tell me who are you" he said this time with a little more confidence in his voice, "I'm Spyro and this is Sparks, we're here to rescue someone from Cynder" said Spyro.

The creature jumped in joy, "Finally, rescue at last" he said excitedly then almost immediately became embarrassed at his own outburst, "I'm sorry about that, allow me to introduce myself, I am Mole-yair, leader of the Manweersmalls, of at least I was before Cynder enslaved us" said the creature now known as Mole-yeir.

"So you're a Manweersmall, man they really are small" said Sparks, "Ignore him, Mole-yair what exactly does Cynder want with your people" asked Spyro, "Cynder and her apes invaded our village some time ago, since then we have been forced to work in their mines collecting metal so they can build more weapons" explained Mole-yeir.

"To make matters worse Boyzitbig is getting ready to erupt, if my people are not at a safe distance when that happens then they will all be burned alive" said Mole-yeir, "Don't worry Mole-yeir, I'll do whatever I can to help free your people" said Spyro, Mole-yeir's face lit up in joy.

"Oh, thank you, thank you" said Mole-yeir as he kissed Spyro several times, "whoa there fella, save it for the lady's" said Sparks, Mole-yeir calmed down "Yes, sorry about that, thank you Spyro, if there is anything I can do to repay you please don't hesitate to ask" he said.

"Actually there is one thing, we're looking for someone, he's a big dragon, do you know where he is" asked Spyro, "You're asking this guy for directions, talk about the blind leading the blind" said Sparks sarcastically.

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea where he is, but I do know someone who might know" said Mole-yeir ignoring Sparks's comment, "Who" asked Spyro, "My brother Exhumor, he always keeps his eyes and ears open, if anyone knows where you friend is its him" said Mole-yeir.

"So where can we find your brother" asked Spyro, "That's the problem, he was taken to another part of the mine, so I don't know where he is" said Mole-yeir sadly, Spyro sighed he know this wasn't going to be easy.

"Ok, first we'll free the Manweersmalls that are here, then we'll look for Exhumor" said Spyro, suddenly the ground shook as if there was an earthquake, Mole-yeir looked terrified by the shake, "We must hurry, the volcano will soon erupt" he said.