Chapter 5: Lightning and Blizzard

While Hugara was waiting for Spyro to return, he was sitting calmly outside the waterfall. After a few minutes, he sensed something wrong, he could sense a presence. He whirled around and struck a nearby tree with a beam of ice.

"Come out from hiding." Hugara said calmly and coldly

Rikira was hiding behind the tree hoping to ambush Hugara. He had been tracking both Spyro and Hugara and he found the black half dragon sitting calmly. Unfortunately, Hugara felt something wrong and had guessed exactly where Rikira was hiding.

"What do you want?" Hugara growled.

"You should know by now" Rikira replied

"The only thing I can tell you is that you are wrong. However, I can sense that you are one who will not listen now. Prepare yourself!"

With that Hugara blasted another beam of ice at Rikira, who at once countered with his blasts of electricity. This was the moment when Spyro came out of the cave and it was the collision of the two elemental breaths that caused the bright flash. The two of them then charged at one another with their horns, both of them remarkably missed each other. Rearing back, Hugara blasted another icy beam at Rikira who again let of a blast of lightning causing another bright flash. During the flash, Hugara took the chance to get airborne.

When Rikira saw that, he snorted,"What goes up must come down" and blasted another blast of electricity at Hugara. "Oh really?" Hugara asked as he dodged the blast. He then flapped his wings hard, very hard at Rikira, breaking the spped of sound and causing an air blast to hit Rikira, knocking him off balance. Striking the iron while it's hot, Hugara shot straight at the unbalanced Rikira, pulling one of his wings back. Once he was close enough, he pushed his wings hard into Rikira's front leg, creating a cut that was very painful.

Rikira managed to ram his horn into Hugara but Hugara got back on his feet and the two opponents started to blast each other again, causing multiple bright flashes in a row. Just as the two were about to start another attack, they were interrupted by a scaly, short orange lizard.

"I see that you two are having so much fun." ripto said with an evil tone. Snapping his fingers, a squadron of rhynocs and riptocs surrounded Hugara and Rikira. "Now that you are going to die, Rikira, I can tell you the truth safely. I was the one who planned your father's death!"

Rikira was obviously in shock, "You lied to me?"

"Yea, so what? Since you are going to die, I can tell you. The night when your father was in his room, I had ordered my Riptocs to capture your father, because I had a deal to offer him. Well, he didn't take it and I ordered his execution. I knew you would be useful to me when I found out you were his son, so I gave you some false information so you can keep Spyro and Hugara busy. Now that our plan is going as planned, we figured that you will find out the truth faster than the cloud can spread, so we decided to kill you as soon as possible. Now that you are here as well as the black half-dragon, we can kill you both at once. After which we will track down and kill Spyro as well. So long, it was nice knowing you" Ripto laughed a while before disappearing,

"Overconfident shorty, "Hugara muttered under his breath, "Like that will stop me from my task."

As the Rhynocs and Riptocs were about to throw their spears, Hugara whispered to Rikira, "I got a plan…" and told Rikira of his plan. Rikira nodded.

As the Rhynocs and Riptocs threw their spears, Hugara and Rikira dratted out from their encirclement. The spears ended up hitting the Riptocs and Rhynocs instead. While the Rhynocs and Riptocs were busy screaming with pain, Hugara beat is wings very powerful, creating a gust of strong wind which blew the Rhynocs and Riptocs off their feet and into the nearby river. Rikira then unleashed a bolt of lightning at the soaked opponents, electrocuting them all.

"Now that we have settled some misunderstandings, "Hugara said and turned to face Rikira, "Perhaps you would like to help us out."

Rikira stood silent for a while, and then replied," Yes, I shall. Not only to get back at that dirty lying cheat, but also to redeem myself."

At this moment Spyro came up to the two. "I must apologise for attacking both of you without thinking."

"That's okay, " Spyro replied

"Did you find the herb Spyro?" Hugara asked.

"Yes, I did."

"Okay, we will take a rest in the cave now. The sun is already starting to set and Rikira and I need time to recover from our battle."

The three of them crept into the cave and waited for the next day to come.