Chapter 8: Spyro's battle

When Rikira was battling off Ripto, Spyro was tied in a fight with Gnasty Gnorc, a very old enemy. Gnasty was swinging his axe, magically enchanted by Rippto's magic. The axe was beaming with a sinister purple aura, each time Gnasty hit something, be it a wall or the floor, the axe would leave a dark mark behind.

"Hey Gnasty!' Spyro yelled," planning to redecorate the room with dark colours?"

"Blast you dragon!" Gnasty yelled in reply"Watch this!"

Gnasty pressed a hidden button on his axe and the dark spots which he made while trying to hit Spyro suddenly started shooting beams of dark light. Gnasty laughed," this is the power of my enchanted axe Ripto made. So who gets the last laugh Spyro?"

"Not good" Spyro thought. Dodging the beams were much difficult than Gnasty axe. Firstly, Gnasty axe was slow and cumbersome, but the beams travelled at a much faster speed and were highly manoeuvrable. Some of the beams even bounced off the walls and tried to hit Spyro again. Spyro was at a loss of what to do. This was the first time he ever had to fight such beams in his life before.

A beam bounced of a wall and finally hit Spyro. unfortunately for Spyro, the beam had hit him into Gnasty. Gnasty was laughing all the way and picked up Spyro. "Looks like I win this time Spyro!" saying that, he threw Spyro all the way across the room and into an oak bookcase. the bookcase had not only books on it, but also bottles of liquids and dust powder. When Spyro smashed into the bookcase, all of the contents spilled out of the bookcase and fell onto Spyro. Spyro was covered in a cloud as books, liquids and dust powder fell onto him.

Gnasty was extremely happy." I won Spyro at last!" he shouted with joy and was about to leave when he noticed something moving under the bookshelf. He could have run off if he wanted but he thought Spyro was not dead and wanted to make sure Spyro was dead.

As Gnasty neared the now destroyed bookcase, he could now clearly see movement coming from under the broken boards. He raised his axe, "Goodbye Spyro," he said with a menacing tone.

But as he was about to bring down his axe, Gnasty felt a claw pulling his right leg which caused him to fall to the ground. When he finally got up, he saw Spyro. However, this did not look like the Spyro we all know; the purple's dragon's purples scales had turned blood red, which also caused Spyro to become a blood red dragon.

Gansty was in shock. "Surprised Gnasty?" Spyro asked, " I don't know what happen but the mixture of liquid and dust has turned me into this. Now I may never return to my original state…All thanks to you!" Spyro launched his flame breathes at Gnasty. The flame breathes looked different. Each breath seemed to resemble huge fireballs, fireballs of a volcano…and they were as hot as a volcano.

Gnasty was unable to dodge any of Spyro's fireballs, all five fireballs Spyro launched collided with Gnasty's body, incinerating him, Gnasty screamed and dropped his axe. he dashed towards a window a jumped out of it and, he hoped, into the moat.

Spyro remained in the quiet, now somewhat charred room. He had no idea what he would be able to do with this new power of his, he'd probably be unable to return to his normal dragon life as a purple dragon. He had to cast his thoughts away. Though he had changed his outside appearance, his mind has not changed. As Spyro climbed up another spiral staircase, he hoped that he would find a way to cure himself.

While Spyro has completed his battle; Rikira was still fighting it out with Ripto. Hugara's battle is coming up next.