Pyro meets Spyro
Chapter 8: Old Enemy, New Puppet
This chapter is pretty good based on normal standards. Not only does it show the new friendship between Spyro's friends and Pyro it also shows some action between one of Pyro's sworn enemies and new enemy. Tell me what you think about it later.
Pyro had just started explaining everything about his home. He told them of his royal heritage and about the kingdom he hailed from. He told all of Tremor, Candice, and Stella about how he came to be in Warfang. He told them about the Chronicler and the spirit gem he created as well. Spyro even told them how well he fought in the battle against Tundra and Stone. After the explanation everyone was giving Pyro anxious looks.
Sparx was the first to ask, "Well 'Your Majesty' why do we have to face enemies from your world. Shouldn't that be your job?" Pyro then said, "Well I'm about to fight enemies from your world, so I guess that makes us even." Candice then asked, "Pyro, are these humans dangerous?" Star walked up and said, "More dangerous then you would think. Their weapons are very advanced and so is the way they fight. Not mention they're completely ruthless. Anything they see as an obstacle they destroy." Flame snorted smoke and said, "Sounds just like Malefor and the monsters he controls."
Pyro then said, "Ignitus told me about Malefor and the things he did. He truly is a monster, one that I'll gladly help you fight." Stella then asked, "Hey if Spyro is Pyro's double from another dimension wouldn't that mean we all have our own other selves in Pyro's dimension?" Candice then said, "That is possible, and if it true then that means that we have even more people we can count on for help." Tremor then said, "Hey Pyro, what's the other me like?" Pyro then said, "Well if I had to guess I would say that Ethan would be the other you." Star then laughed as she said, "Definitely, they might as well be twins." He then said, "Ethan is the elemental master of earth. He acts almost just like you. His mastery over his element is unmatched throughout the entire city. Its almost like he can hear the voices of nature all around him, and that's why he's one of my generals." "Wow." That was all Tremor could say.
Stella then asked, "What about me, do I have a double?" Pyro backed up and said, "Yeah I think so, except she's not as… jumpy. Her name is Trisha." Stella then giggled as she asked, "What's she like?" Pyro began to explain, "Well she looks a lot like you except she's a little bit darker. She's incredibly powerful and very loyal. She's also mated to my best friend." Stella shot up and asked, "She's mated to someone?!" Pyro flinched and nodded saying, "Um… yes. All my friends are mated and married now. Even I am." Pyro then showed them the golden gauntlet with a red ruby in it he received as a wedding gift from Star. Star showed them the sapphire crystal with a dragons eye in the middle of it hanging from her neck. The girls let out a few 'awwwws' and giggles embarrassing Pyro and Star. Sparx however was making small gagging noises in the corner.
Cynder then said, "I guess I know who my double is." Spyro then asked, "Who?" She giggled and said, "Who do you think." Cynder used her wing to point to Star who was sitting next to Pyro. Star nodded and said, "Yeah I can see that. Since Spyro and Pyro are forms of each other, whoever they are mated too would be doubles as well." Both girls giggled while they sat next to each other. Pyro then whispered to Spyro, "You know they are pretty similar in behavior." Spyro nodded agreeing with him.
Flame then said, "Wait a minute I just realized something. If you are Spyro from another dimension and your the master of fire, then that would mean your best friend would be my double since I'm Spyro's best friend." Pyro then said, "Then technically, your married to Stella." Flame and Stella shared nervous side glances at one another before taking a step apart. Pyro then said, "That was joke guys. My best friend's name is Razor, he's a psychic dragon." Candice then said, "I've never heard of a dragon having psychic powers before. What can he do."
Pyro then explained, "Well as the name implies Razor can use his mind to control things. He like Ethan and myself became an elemental master. His psychic powers allow him to control any object. He can also control the distance attacks of any dragon's element once its shot. Now with his mastery over the element he can now move living things, read minds, and generate energy." Flame then stated, "That is so cool." Pyro laughed and said, "Yeah, I know. Razor is my best friend, rival, and my top general. He's completely loyal and never questions my authority. I couldn't ask for a better friend."
Spyro then said, "Maybe we should switch best friends, I've had enough of this hot head." Flame elbowed his arm and said, "Oh thanks!" The whole group started laughing; even Sparx started chuckling to himself. Candice then said, "We'd love to meet your friends Pyro, when you figure out how to get back home of course." Pyro then sighed and said, "Yeah, I hope we fix this problem so we can get back home." Stella then said, "I just hope we win period. Both of the enemies from our dimensions were hard enough to beat alone; now their joining forces to defeat us." Tremor followed her statement and said, "You know she's right. We have to step up our game and work together if we want to win this war." Candice sat beside him and said, "Pyro, you'll have to tell us everything you know about the humans if we're going to fight them with you." Pyro then said, "Consider it done. You're going to have to tell me about your enemies too." Cynder then said, "With all of us working together I'll know we'll win for sure."
Tremor then asked, "Did you ask Ignitus when this war was going to start?" Pyro shook his head no and said, "Even if I had it wouldn't matter. What matters is that we be ready for when it does come." Sparx then flew in the middle of the group and said, "Well my guess is that Ignitus didn't say anything because it's not bound to happen for a while."
As soon as the yellow dragonfly said that an explosion went off and shook the building. Pyro then looked at Sparx and said, "You had to jinx it didn't you?" Candice then yelled, "That was at the front gate! We need to get down there!" Spyro then said, "Alright let's go! You two coming?!" Pyro then said, "Try and stop us!" Spyro smiled and they all took off down the stairs. Once they were outside the building they took flight.
The group of dragons flew off towards the front gate of Warfang where Spyro and Cynder had fought off Male for's army. As they arrived they saw the normal fire lock that held the gate shut was starting to disappear. Spyro then yelled out, "Pyro, Flame, you've got to keep those flames lit so the gate will stay closed!" Pyro then yelled back, "Got it! We'll relight the flames, you go see who's knocking on your front door!" Flame and Pyro dived down and lit the fire pits that kept the flame lock burning. Flame turned to see Pyro's side almost completely done, and the flame he was releasing was enormous compared to his own. However he didn't have time to admire his new friend they had to keep the gate closed.
Spyro and the others flew over the gate and landed on the other side. As they landed they saw a large, red dragoness. She looked like Cynder when she was under Malefor's control except there were no holes in her wings. Behind her stood an army of grublins, and other monsters that Malefor had brought before. Spyro's attention was then draws to a smaller creature standing beside her. There at least a hundred of these strange beings behind the one in front. The creature looked ape like except it had no fur, and no feet for hands either. The creature also had some strange black armor on that had two dark crystals locked in them (the crystals were locked on his arms); the armor itself seemed to be flashing. The human was wearing a dark mask so no one could see his face. Pyro and Flame had finally finished locking the gate and flew over to help the others.
As Pyro landed Spyro leaned over and asked, "Pyro, whats that ape looking guy over there?" Pyro raised a brow and looked over to the creature Spyro was referring to. Pyro's eyes shot wide as he saw the creature. He then said, "Its called a human. My people and I have a history with these jerks. They are the ones that we fought against in the war!"
The human then laughed and said, "Ah Pyro, I would say its good to see you again, but I'd be lying considering you almost killed me."
Pyro was the one to laugh this time as he said, "Considering I killed a bunch of you, you're going to have to be more specific." That comment seemed to strike a nerve and the human raised his voice as he said, "I'm surprised you could have forgotten me, after I killed your father and you left me for dead in the dragon city."
Pyro's eyes narrowed as he said, "So, it is you… 'GENERAL STERNS'!" The human laughed and removed his helmet, conforming Pyro's thoughts. It was his father's murderer, his mother's captor, and his old enemy, General Sterns. Pyro then turned his attention to the red dragoness beside him. Pyro smiled and said, "I'm guessing the lovely dragoness next to you is Flare."
Flare giggled and said, "That's right. We are Malefor's new generals."
Pyro let a little smile go over his face as he said, "Well at least he's smart enough to put a dragon in charge." Spyro and the others couldn't help but snicker at his comment. Spyro then stepped forward and asked forcefully, "Where's Malefor!…" "… And Jones!" Pyro said following his friends statement. Sterns laughed and said, "Oh don't worry they're fine. They are both back at our fortress, because they needed more time to recover."
Pyro then asked, "So why are you two here?" Flare smiled and said, "You catch on pretty quickly. Our master's sent us here so we could give you a little demonstration of our new power." As Flare said those last words the ground started shaking. Suddenly both Flare and Sterns were engulfed by a dark aura. Flare's aura looked like purple-black light was coming at of her core and she was surrounded by black flames. Sterns's aura was being generated by the two black crystals in his armor; his aura looked like he was wrapped in a cloud of darkness.
Candice then said, "I've never felt such dark power!" Pyro then let out a loud growl as he said, "I can fell their darkness resonating with my own." Spyro then said, "I can too. It feels like it I'm being forced to activate it." Cynder was experiencing the same effects but she didn't say anything.
Spyro and Cynder both had small black clouds coming off of their bodies; Pyro's black flames were beginning to spread across his body. Candice, Flame, Ember, and Stella were being kept at bay by the dark force. Pyro looked back and thought, 'They can't get any closer because they don't have a dark force in them. Huh, never thought I'd be happy to have my dark power.' He looked again to see that Tremor was ahead of the others and only slightly struggling against the dark force.
Pyro knew there was only one way he would be able to get close enough to attack. He closed his and gave in to his dark powers. His tail blades, horns, spikes, and claws all turned black almost immediately. As he opened his eyes they were revealed to be black eyes and red pupils were reveled. Flame and the others were worried that Pyro had been taken over by his dark powers.
Pyro then yelled everyone in a distorted voice, "Stay back I'm not sure if I'll be consumed or not so don't get to close!" Spyro and Cynder decided to follow his lead and gave in to their dark forces. Both dragons turned jet black and their eyes turned white. Sterns gave Pyro a strange look and said, "Well that's new. Although I gotta say that look really suits you."
The three dark dragons got into their stances and prepared to attack. Pyro led the charge with Spyro and Cynder close behind. Pyro went after Sterns while Spyro and Cynder went to fight Flare.
Pyro and Sterns clashed punches sending out a dark shockwave that blew most of the soldiers back. Pyro swung his tail blade sending a blade shaped, dark wave at Sterns. Sterns swung his arm and destroyed the attack surprising the young king. Sterns laughed and said, "You can't control the dark power yet can you. You are truly weak."
Sterns then activated his rocket boots and flew in at Pyro. He pulled his left hand back and punched Pyro in the face. He then uppercutted him with his left hand sending out another dark wave. Pyro was sent hurdling through the air by the sheer power of the blow. Sterns then activated a switch on his suite and a dark whip came out of his right arm. He threw the whip in the air and wrapped around Pyro. Sterns then pulled his arm down slamming Pyro against the ground. The dark red dragon growled and used his brute strength to break the whip and charged Sterns again.
Spyro and Cynder were working together to fight Flare. Spyro came in and shot a beam of Convexity at Flare who dodged it with ease. Cynder came in from behind and tried to slash her but Flare already knew she was coming. She dodged the attack and grabbed Cynder by the tail. She spun the smaller black dragoness around and threw her at dark purple dragon.
Spyro took the blow head on and managed to catch Cynder. Spyro then charged in and Convexity dash (looks just like comet dash, but with convexity. Spyro used it in his battle with Malefor). He hit Flare right in her chest and sent her flying towards the ground. Flare opened her eyes and smiled as she easily recovered from the blow. Spyro and Cynder were baffled by the power of this dragons. Both dragons charged her head on. Flare let them come closer and opened her maw revealing a black and purple sphere in the back of her throat. She realeased the beam and blasted both dragons to the ground.
Pyro yelled out, "SPYRO, CYNDER!" While he was distracted Sterns came in and used both his hands to smash Pyro out of the sky. Pyro flipped himself into a dive and blasted the ground with his dark fire. The force of the flames allowed him to land on his feet. As he landed his darkness disappeared. He looked to his left side to see that the same thing had happened to Spyro and Cynder.
Spyro had managed to force himself onto his feet and stood beside Pyro. Cynder however had been knocked unconscious by the force of the blow.
Sterns then held up his metal arm and said, "We might as well finish you off right now." Pyro growled and said, "I'm not going to let you hurt my friends!" Spyro growled as he said, "Neither will I. No matter what we'll never stop fighting to protect the people we care about!" Pyro followed his statement by saying, "As long as the people we care about most are in danger we will fight to our last breath!"
Suddenly Spyro and Pyro started glowing with new auras. Pyro's was purple and Spyro's was golden. Strange, purple marking that looked like tribal tattoo's started forming on Pyro's body along with his new purple glow. Spyro's body was now covered with golden tattoos that were similar to the ones on Pyro's body. The strange markings covered their sides, arms, tails, and wings.
As the marks ran over their bodies their injuries healed and their power began to rise to new levels. That's not all that happened; Spyro's claws and tail started glowing and grew out; his normal tail spike looked like a sword, and his claws grew an extra two inches. Pyro's claws and tail started to glow a purple color and grew as well.
Sterns and Flare were taken aback by the dragons' sudden transformation. Pyro then said, "Well… that's new." "Yeah… this feels strange." Spyro said following his statement. Sterns flew in at Pyro and tried to punch him with his dark covered fist. Pyro had wide eyes as he was easily able to follow his movements. When Sterns threw his punch Pyro used one paw to grab it. He then delivered his own punch and sent him flying back. Spyro flew into the sky and shot a golden beam out of his maw. This made an explosion that hit the human army.
Flare then turned to Sterns and said, "We better fall back. He took out a third of your army with that one attack." Sterns grunted but nodded and everyone went into full retreat. As they left Pyro and Spyro went back to normal.
Ethan then said, "We can't let them get away." Pyro then said, "Calm down Ethan. None of us are in shape for another fight right now." Spyro then said, "He's right. We need to talk to the guardians about this." Ethan nodded and said, "Okay. Lets go."