Chapter Eight

On her way out of Warfang Cynder found a map showing where the temple was thought to have landed, she memorized the map and took off toward The Well of Souls. As Cynder drew closer to the mountain she and Spyro had killed Malefor in she noticed the land around the area was dying or infected it seemed to worsen the closer she got until the mountain came close enough to almost touch she looked around and saw something shiny on the ground she dived towards it and saw that it was a Cheetah from the village where they had been held captive in the body was old and torn to pieces by… something she didn't want to meet.

She was almost hovering over the mountain when she saw the temple as she dived towards it she could see it was in ruins and that there was black… mold oozing out of it. There was a faint glow coming from inside, she landed on the dirt and saw tracks leading toward the temple and felt a faint thrum coming from the temple. As she walked toward the temple she saw more Cheetah warriors being… consumed by the mold. She went to a sort of cocoon formed by the black mold the cocoon was moving.

Suddenly the cocoon burst as a moldy creature with long claws and the deformed face of a Cheetah on its chest. She dodged the "thing" just before the claws hit her and shot a blast of poison at it. The thing recoiled and tried to attack her again "What in the ancestors names are you" the thing moaned in response before attacking again. She swung her tail blade at the things head cutting the head clean off.

The pulsating power grew stronger as she reached the entrance of the temple. The doors sealed she tried opening the doors with no success but after clawing at the mold between the seems the door opened easily. Inside she saw that the statue in the middle of the hall was gone and that a dark almost black beam of energy replaced it. She saw Spyro in front of the dark energy almost seeming to prepare for… something. Then he spoke:

"You interfered with the first time he entered the dark light just like Malefor stopped you from being completely consumed by the dark power, maybe he still cared about his daughter...or maybe he feared me it really doesn't matter now." Cynder was shocked, Malefor was her father...she didn't have time to think about that.

"Give me back Spyro!"

"I will but, the ritual must be complete I must be...free." Spyro's body stepped into the dark energy, she couldn't move the energy started encompassing the room having to shield her eyes from the blinding darkness she heard him say:

"Finally."

The energy began to recede until it was completely gone, when she looked toward the center of the room she saw a larger adult version of the dragon she saw in her vision, in front of him lay Spyro. He started laughing a cruel menacing laugh:

"I'm FINALLY FREE!" His laugh continued for awhile longer until he started speaking to himself.

"My father will come soon and the beauty of corruption will spread through the land."

"Who are you?" He snapped eyes toward her.

"My name...is Fury" Fury jumped through the ceiling letting daylight into the room and the mold started crumbling around them.