Spyro: A.C.I.D. Reign

Chapter 9: The Field of Waking Dreams

Good gravy, I'm sorry I haven't updated in like forever! I know chances are, there's some little fruitcake out there MSTing this because it looks abandoned. But I haven't forgotten! I just wanna thank you guys for all the support you've given me and the fanart you've drawn. It has really helped in the completion of this fic. But obviously, this isn't the last chapter. I'm trying to make the fic actually serious now. So yeah. Read and review, please. (P.S. and the strange symbol on the cliff is NOT the Keywork. Ask me and I'll show you a pic of what it looks like)


Phaydees led Zola through an underground passage. Previously, in years before, it had been used as an escape tunnel in case a sudden threat had come upon the castle. Several forgotten lanterns hung from the dirt walls, and Phaydees set them aglow with what appeared to be a lighter as she passed, illuminating the walls so that they became a deep, blue-gray color. At least that's what it looked like to Zola. If you can recall, she was under a spell that controlled her every movement, which was why she had not tried to escape yet. She even had trouble controlling her own thoughts; her dreams and memories were filled with almost nothing but Phaydees' rage. Occasionally a snippet of a lost memory would float by in her mind and she would try to capture it. One was a memory of Ripto in A.C.I.D. and how happy he was-- for a very short time. Another was in doctor's office. Her mother was at her side crying, and she felt a sharp pain in her back and a feeling of shock. Being mocked, being rejected by the popular group at ACID…everything was a blur. Spinning…spinning… such a mix of pain and happy memories. She was weak and her vision was distorted. Her knees buckled and her stomach churned as she felt vomit come up in her mouth. Just as she was about to faint, they reached a dead end.

"Hold on," Phaydees commanded as Zola slumped against the wall. "Get up, stupe. If it weren't for your foolishness, none of this would've happened. Have you any idea what the impact of being in Ripto's body did to my mental well-being?" She slapped Zola in the face.

"Certainly made you more screwed up than you already are," Zola thought to herself. She could feel her face throbbing in pain. "Wait a minute. I thought something on my own!" In Zola's weakness, was she actually fighting off Phaydees' defenses?

"I hear someone coming," Phaydees whispered to herself. She crouched down so that her goatish ears were to the ground to hear sound vibrations. "I'm anxious to see who it is, but I don't want to leave you here. Oh wait, I forgot. You can't move." She laughed lightly to herself and she kicked Zola to get up. Facedown on the cold stone floor, Zola found the strength to get up and backtrack.

"God, my life is one big joke. I wish I could just die right now. It's better than whatever Phaydees is going to do to me." Zola's lower lip trembled in fear as they retraced their steps back to find the source of the noise. Louder and louder the footsteps grew, the pitter patter of feet soon turning into what seemed like an entire army, rushing upon the two goats to destroy them. The noise pounded its way into Zola's mind, hammering the horrifying sound into the very depths of the meek domestic farm animal's soul until she couldn't stand it any more. She was going insane, now the voices mixed with Phaydees' own rage and the resonant footsteps were driving her off the edge. Releasing a scream of anguish like a thing possessed, she fell to her knees and met the source of the horrible noise.

It was Gulp. The moronic quadruped dinosaur's fanged smile was a little comforting to her, knowing he really couldn't do much harm unless Ripto provoked him to. The missile launchers on his back gleamed in lantern light and he cocked his head to the side, as if confused.

"Maaaaaaan. Gulp, why are you here?" Phaydees whined. "Did that demonic dinosaur send you? 'Oh, riptoc gods above, I'm so afraid of Phaydees! I know! I send Gulp to kick their asses!' God, he knows better. " Phaydees mimicked Ripto's voice.

Gulp was dejected as Phaydees continued. "I mean, you're hardly reliable, Gulp. You think Ripto would've learned that by now but oh nooooo. But I'm only ranting stereotypically as all villainesses do. "

Only then did Gulp speak up. "Seems like you could power a small realm with your 'ranting'." he started. "But can't I help? I mean, it's not like I'm some transmogrified goat that was once your former lackey. And you're a lot nicer than Ripto. I think he likes you."

Phaydees's rage got the best of her. Screaming at the top of her lungs in a voice that made rubble shake loose from the tunnel walls, she shrieked "WHY IS EVERYONE ON THIS FIXATION ABOUT ME AND RIPTO! I want to make the little riptoc suffer!" Zola raised an eyebrow in surprise and Gulp looked at her, not intimidated at all as every lantern in the tunnel sputtered and was extinguished. Phaydees ceased her ranting and let out a sigh of discontent.

"God, Gulp, just come with us. Just don't get in the way, please." she gestured with her hand for him to hurry along. Zola looked at Gulp and couldn't help but pity him. His stupidity masked his innocence. If Ripto hadn't forced him into being some cold-blooded obedient lackey…She wondered if Gulp would be a lot happier if it weren't for Ripto. Maybe, just maybe if she had not told Ripto about the fight that day in A.C.I.D…


Meanwhile, back at the Professor's Lab, the group, who had now become well acquainted with Puri, was discussing the matter at hand. Spyro couldn't stand looking at the pale, pallid bloodless bodies that were once his friends. He meant every word of his threat to destroy Phaydees.

"You just can't go up and claw her eyes out, Spyro. I've dealt with these types of things before, and she's probably got some sort of barrier spells around her." Mica stated. Spyro didn't even ask about her previous adventures.

"Well, we still have the transmogrifier," Melvin said. "This hunk of plastic has to be useful for something." He absentmindedly zapped a spider dangling from its web on the wall. It transformed into a cherry pie; Melvin quickly grabbed it and hid it from view, anxious to eat the pie himself. Aqua monkey rolled his eyes.

"Melvin has a point, Spyro." Bea said. "If you can transform into a powerful-enough creature, you just might be able to penetrate Phaydees' spell. And if we destroy her, the spells are destroyed as well. But if you fail, Phaydees will devour your flesh like Melvin and that cherry pie over there."

"What? I didn't do anything!" The blue-haired mouse said with his mouth full of cherry filling and pie crust. Sparx buzzed with laughter and Spyro shot an angry glance at him.

"Didn't you used to go to A.C.I.D., Melvin? How do we know you're not a spy? How do I know you're not all spies? Hell, you could be leading me to Phaydees right now!" Spyro exclaimed.

"So maybe I used to go to A.C.I.D.!" Melvin cried suddenly. He swallowed the remaining pie in his mouth and continued shouting. "Who cares? Maybe I used to be friends with Ripto! Whoop-dee-doo! I didn't have anything to do with Corky's death! He never told me he was going to kill anyone! There you go. Satisfied?" The others stood in awkward silence and Melvin panted. "All those innocent goats…" she slumped into a ball on the floor.

"Melvin…we knew you went to A.C.I.D., but you used to be friends with Ripto? Why didn't you tell us?" Mica said quietly.

"You guys wouldn't understand. Yeah, I used to be great friends with Ripto. Everyone knew he wanted to kill Corky…" he racked his brain to remember "…something about him almost being immortal…but when he fulfilled his vow to kill him, that's when I knew I couldn't trust him…I mean, nobody thought he could honestly do it…"

Puri sighed and tried to get back on-topic. "We all want to get rid of Phaydees, Spyro. Well…I do to, but I'm just here to look after these four's sorry butts." She waved a claw at Mica, Melvin Bea and Aqua Monkey.

"Hey you shut up, Puri!" Aqua Monkey said in defense.

"Well…well you can take that transmogrifier and shove it up your--Bea, what the hell are you doing?" She turned her head to look at the small cherub, who was yet again work on another portal, but this one was different.

"Bea, are you really sure about what you're doing? That's the portal to Ripto's realm, from when the Professor accidentally tore a hole in the fabric of time and space," Spyro said uneasily. He looked toward the swirling blue twist of light and Bea, who was inspecting the area around it.

"I know that, Spyro. What I don't know is why we didn't think of it before. We tried using that other portal to get there, but we ended up fighting Zoloe. So why not use the most obvious portal to Ripto's realm?" Bea asked

"Because it's unsafe, unstable, too much of a plot hole…" Mica counted the reasons on her hands.

"Bea still has something there, Mica." Aqua Monkey stated. "I don't think Phaydees even knows about this. She probably just made a temporary portal for her and Zola to travel from Avalar to Ripto's realm."

"The real question is, how the two of them got to Avalar in the first place--hey wait a minute! What are you doing, Bea?" Spyro shouted.

"Going through the portal, stupid." Bea hollered back as she stepped through blue torrent of light.

"Should we follow her?" Melvin asked.

"What other choice do we have?" Mica said and she rolled her eyes."


Spyro was relived to find that the portal was still in working order when he arrived safely in Ripto's realm. "It doesn't look familiar to me." Spyro said as he surveyed his surroundings. It looked as if they were in some sort of valley. Except there was hardly any plant life, mainly dry ground interrupted with rocks here and there. He turned around and behind him was a large mountain range. The serrated peaks of rock and earth gave the red skyline a jagged look, as if the sky was a piece of roughly-cut fabric.

"Yes! Finally! I kiss the sweet ground! I thank my stars!" Mica rejoiced. Everyone stared at her, disturbed, yet amused. "What? It is my homeland, in a sense." Mica stated.

"Okay, so because you're so smart and you lived here, can you tell us where the crap we are?" Puri said with a tone of sarcasm in her voice.

"I can tell that we're undoubtedly in Ripto's realm." Mica said.

"Thank you for stating the obvious," Melvin said in a bored tone as he pushed the hair out of his eyes.

"Shut up. But as I was saying, I think I've been here before. I'm getting some peculiar vibes from this place…oh no." Mica breathed silently. "I know exactly where we are. And I know exactly where Phaydees is going. It's only up that cliff. I don't have time to explain, but I'll try to on the way. But it has a bit to do with Corky." She pointed to a small peak in the distance. It didn't seem like it was too far away. She saw Spyro shudder and realized that everyone's lives could be changed on that overhang

"It about time he came into play." Sparx rolled his eyes and rested in a patch of dry grass.

"Can you just tell us where we are before we go on some wild goose chase? ---Bea! Stop harassing those poor things!" Aqua Monkey exclaimed as Bea chased flock of wild geese that were resting a few yards away.

"Heh heh…got a bit preoccupied." Bea blushed.

"I'd at least think you'd know of all people, Naramon." Mica said. Aqua Monkey cringed at his true name. She whispered something in his ear, and a shocked look came over his face. "God…that's the place where Corky would…" his voice trailed off into a whisper only he could hear.

Something about where we're going…it's really distressing Aqua Monkey. I don't think we're going to Chateau Ripto just yet, but wherever we're going, it can't be good if it has to do with Corky. Spyro thought.

They began walking. Mica at the lead, she was the one who gave directions to where they were going. Eyes set on the cliff in the distance, she quickened her pace. The others followed suit. She remembered where she was walking through and sped up. Soon, she was in a muck sweat and running at almost full speed, which is very fast, even for a genetically improved hybrid as herself.

"Mica, could you slow down?" Spyro panted. He looked around at his companions. Bea had completely given up on running with such short legs and was flapping her feathery wings furiously in order to keep up. Melvin almost tripped over his long tail while running and Aqua Monkey wiped sweat off of his brow and struggled with his shoe as he was running.

"Where's the fire, anyways? We or Spyro at least, should conserve our energy." Sparx buzzed and tried to be heard.

Mica looked around at her surroundings: she has dragged them even farther into the rocky valley. The cliff seemed a little closer, which was a relief. But she couldn't stop running. She had a peculiar look on her face and finally stopped running. Aqua Monkey flopped sarcastically onto his back and was panting.

"I'm going to die," he managed to say "I was hit by a runaway plot bus."

"He's got a point, Mica. Why are you going so fast? Well, despite the lives of my friends are at sake, and that Phaydees is trying to resurrect a demonic monster…" Spyro stated with blunt sarcasm. "I mean, do you even know your way around here and--ELORA!" Spyro looked straight out across the valley, and saw all of his friends. Elora, Hunter, Bianca, the Professor and everyone else were there, having a picnic. Elora seemed to notice Spyro, and she happily waved, flashed a smile and gestured with her hand for him to come and join them. Spyro walked toward them, with a hypnotized look on his face. But the closer he moved in the direction of his friends, the farther away they appeared to be.

"Spyro stop!" Puri shouted "What in the name of holey Swiss cheese are you doing?" Puri stepped on his tail and Spyro stopped suddenly. Puri's voice snapped him out of the spell, and his friends seemed to waver and disappear before his eyes.

"Didn't you guys see them? Elora! Everyone: Hunter, Bianca, and the Professor they were there just a second ago!" Spyro stammered.

"That's what I was going to explain, Spyro. This is the Field of Waking Dreams. Anyone who travels through it will see what they desire the most in the distance. Spyro, for instance, saw his friends happy and safe. That's why I was running so fast. I had my eyes closed so I wouldn't get distracted…" Mica explained. She kicked up some dirt on the ground, and something red shone on her shoes. With a look of disgusted fear on her face, she tried to wipe it off on a patch of dry grass, only succeeding in getting her shoe more covered in what appeared to be blood.

"That really is gross," Melvin said "I didn't think Phay could find an energy source strong enough to power such a spell." He handed Mica a clean tissue to wipe her shoe.

"Well there's no use waiting around," Aqua Monkey said. "We should just keep walking. Just keep your eyes close to the ground and don't look up. We can't lose anyone." Even Bea stopped hovering in the air and started walking, knowing she really couldn't fly around with her eves closed unless she wanted to hurt herself. Not a lot of conversation went on between the heroes as they walked. It seemed like tension was building up in the air because of the battle at hand.

Suddenly, Aqua Monkey heard something. Someone was calling his name: a woman's voice, which calmed his anxious nerves like a lullaby. He hadn't known such peace since he had left Blade Runner Labs and the surrogate mothers there. He almost found himself crying. Without thinking, he looked upward. There, he saw who was whispering to him: a female aguamonkey, with a three-pointed fin on her head, flowing blonde hair, and wearing blue sorceress garb. Next to her, stood what looked to be a human, but he had dozens of pairs of wings behind him. He had black hair, strange red markings on his face and was wearing a white robe lined with gold. He had his arm around the female's waist. Only then did Naramon realize who he was looking at.

"Mom? Dad?" he blurted out and ran toward them. He experienced the same thing as Spyro: the more he ran, the farther away they appeared.

"Aqua Monkey, stop it!" Bea's voice called. "Oh dear…Beakiss." she had fallen under the spell as well, and flew in the opposite direction to see her brother: the white cherub with black markings and bat wings waved and smiled at her with dangerous-looking fangs.

"What are we going to do?" Spyro shouted, still looking to the ground. He started charging toward Aqua Monkey. Mica ran in the other direction after Bea.

"Wait? What should I do?" Puri shouted. Spyro walked back, practically dragging a reluctant Aqua Monkey by his feet. Mica had Bea in what appeared to be a bear hug, except her hands were covering Bea's eyes.

"Let me go! Beakiss isn't dead! He's come back!…yes. Oh, you'll all pay…" Bea suddenly said in a voice that wasn't her own, a deeper, harsher voice. She bared her Cherubic fangs and her tongue lolled out of her mouth as she let out a harsh, demonic laugh, and was drooling on disgusted Mica.

"Bea, snap out of it!" Puri blindly slapped her across the face with one of her purple claws hands. "See? I did make use of myself." she added. Bea gasped and whatever was wrong with her appeared to stop.

"That's never happened before…" Melvin's voice drifted off. He had yet to fall victim to the spell's effects. "Bea, are you all right?"

"Yes, I'm sure I'll be fine. Thanks, Puri." Bea said with a small smile.

"Anytime, pal." Puri said with a hint of sarcasm.

It wasn't long before they finally reached the edge of the cliff. Spyro craned his neck to get a good look at what they had to climb. The blue-gray cliff seemed loom over them perilously, as if an earthquake was going to cause it to collapse upon them any second. Boulders jutted out of the rocky overhang, and rocks that looked like knifes of stone stuck out, as if they were supposed to be footholds.

"Okay, someone's going to have to fly up there to see if the coast is clear." Mica said. Everyone looked at Sparx.

"What? Oh no, I'm not going up there. You can't make me! What if Phaydees is up there?" Sparx buzzed furiously.

Puri replied "Sparx, Spyro can't fly well yet. I'd do it myself, but you're the only one who really can fly up there to check and risk getting caught. You're the least noticeable of all of us."

Sparx reluctantly sighed. "All right. I'll go." He started flying up the cliff.

"Sparx, be careful." Spyro said. He wished he could go in Sparx's place. He loved Sparx like a brother and couldn't handle it if any harm came to him, not only because he'd be at a loss for hit points, but a loss of the only being he could claim as something of a brother. He watched silently as Sparx flew out of sight into the fog that surrounded the cliff, with only his dragonfly glow visible. Spyro craned his neck to see, but it was no use. About fifteen minutes later, Spyro heard a faint buzzing noise, which was Sparx.


Phaydees, Zola and Gulp had finally reached their destination. A trap door led up out of the earth and to wherever they were going. Once she and Phaydees had gotten out, Zola wondered how Gulp would fit. But somehow, the passageway seemed to shrink or grow in according to whoever was passing through. Zola silently cursed at this. She didn't want a lackey weaker than her to see her fail at something.

She gazed weakly and warily at her surroundings. Nothing seemed to grow on the cliff, as the rest of the land around her, but there was a peculiar circular symbol at the very edge of the cliff. It wasn't very large, only about 20 feet in diameter. A triangle in the middle of the circle had a small star at its top. Three formations of curved lines topped the strange circle. All these seemed to be drawn in a bright blue that seemed to glow. Zola knew what this place was for: an evil, horrible place, where Corky worked his spells of immortality. Zola knew what went on here, and even though her memory was fuzzy, she couldn't deny the rumors of the sacrifices that occurred here…

"Ah, the perfect place to torture someone. Smell that fresh mountain air!" Phaydees proclaimed loudly.

"I think that was me. Sorry." Gulp admitted.

Phaydees shot him an angry look, but it quickly dissolved on her face when she remembered what she was doing here. Out of nowhere, bolts of blue lightning shot out of the darkened sky. They formed some kind of chains around Zola's arms and legs, binding her to the ground.

"This is wrong on so many levels," Zola thought as she winced in pain.

Phaydees withdrew her transmogrifier. Aiming at a stone on the ground, she shape shifted it into a large sword. She used it to pin down Zola by her hair, almost cutting Zola's right ear off. She cried out in pain.

Phaydees said leaned on her sword casually. "I know you've had a hard life, Zola. And it breaks my heart to do this. Well, not really. But when you promised to work for me, you pledged your life. And sometimes…the lives of others need to be sacrificed for a greater good. Don't you want to avenge your friends and family? Wouldn't you sacrifice your life in order for me to carry that out that age-long duty? Corky promised me immortality, and that's what I'm going to get. And in this new age: you have the honor of being the first soul to offer to the void."

The evil goat paused, as if she were giving a grand speech to an audience and was making them anticipate her words. "Yes, that's exactly what I shall do." She rested the blade of the sword on Zola's left arm, and it penetrated her skin slightly, but enough so that the wound was gushing blood. The ground immediately absorbed it. "Once your limbs are detached, I'm going to squash you like the insect you are. You've let people walk all over you your entire life, and that's what will happen.--"

"In other words, she'll transmogrify you into a bug and squish you," Gulp said. Zola's mouth gaped open in horror.

"Thanks Gulp, you just ruined the end of my story." Phaydees sighed. "Ah well, the sooner you get to suffer. Now…" All of a sudden, a small glistening body of gold light fluttered around her head. It was Sparx, trying to create a diversion.

"What the…?" In one swift movement, Phaydees caught the dragonfly and held him in a fist. He pleaded to be freed and beat his wings furiously. "Well, well, Sparx. Ripto had the mind to scatter all the dragonflies, but I have the most important one of all…"


"NO! LET ME GO!" Sparx screamed faintly but furiously. The others were in horror. Spyro's eyes were wide with fear and he was shouting orders to go climb up after Sparx. Aqua Monkey already had started climbing and tears were streaming down Mica's face. Melvin was running around screaming, brandishing his swords and ready to attack. Bea was comforting Puri, who was horrified at what she made Sparx do.

"Stop! We can handle this like semi-mature fan characters!" Aqua Monkey yelled above the others. They silenced. "Good. First off: Puri, this is your fault and I know you admit it. Second, we can't act like this! We're supposed to be rescuing people, not screaming like kindergarten kids at a soccer game. Let's just calmly climb up there and rescue Sparx, okay? I'll get off my soapbox now." He sighed and helped the others up the rocks.

Spyro led the group. He tried to use his flame breath to enlighten the fog around them, but it proved to be of no avail. His claws bled from snagging them along the sharp rocks, and the rest of what would be considered his hand was practically cut to ribbons. He hissed in pain as dirt got in his wounds.

"Spyro, you just clawed me in the eye!" Mica yelled up to him, not in pain but out of annoyance. Dry twigs and dust clung to her enormous hair and her foot almost slipped, but she caught herself just in time. Melvin placed her foot back on the rock and adjusted his glasses.

"Melvin get your tail out of my face." Bea called.

"Bea why aren't you flying?" Melvin asked. Bea didn't reply.

Puri appeared to be the only one with any sense. She had climbed on the opposite side of the rest, alongside Naramon. The two of them seemed to be locked in secret battle, each climbing faster than the other as if there was a prize for the winner at the very top, other than a violent death. Both were completely unaware that they were dangling perilously on the brink of death, and just the slip of a claw or hand would cause their deaths. Which was exactly what almost happened. His hands absorbed with swat, Naramon slipped. Only his tail hung from a small boulder was keeping him up. He screamed in fear, and Bea heard him. Flying toward him, she lifted him up and placed him back on the rock.

"You should really be careful," Puri said sarcastically between panting.

"I can look after myself," he replied. "Thanks Bea."

"And you asked why I wasn't flying," Bea smirked at Melvin.

"That's exactly what I…never mind." As he said that, they had reached the top of the cliff. That's where Melvin went into shock and rage at the same time. Seeing the girl he once loved when he was younger, chained up like an animal and tortured until she was near death by this…this horrible goat monster who never seemed to age. Awkwardly he slung one leg over the other and stood upon the cliff with a mix of seriousness, disgust and anger on his face. He drew one of his swords and ran toward Phaydees.

"Damn you, you petting-zoo freak! You've been the cause of so much pain for as long as anyone can remember! And now I'm going to put a stop to it!" Melvin was thrown backwards by some energy force field, which ran around the edge of a circle. The others stood behind him, with Spyro by his side ready to back him up. He was shocked at Melvin's seriousness for once.

"Yeah, you can hide behind your sissy spells and force fields. But the help of a dead guy who could've been used to knit a sweater won't help you know! Because I have my friends behind me. I don't know anything about magic, but that's the one force that will never fail me: my friends." Melvin yelled.

The force field seemed to dissolve around Phaydees. "Well, it seems like the student is trying to surpass the master. Heh, let your dragon friend fight your battles for you, he's much more fun to destroy."

She looked at Spyro. "I've been waiting to meet the dragon who has been the cause of Ripto's falls so many times. Even in suspended animation deep under Avalar I could sense some presence of goodness above. And I knew Ripto was close. But I've already got him. It's just too bad that our meeting has to end so quickly." Phaydees said darkly with an evil smile.

"Melvin's right: you are a monster. I might not be strong enough to defeat you just yet, but I can sure as hell try." He looked to Sparx, who was chained to the ground just as Zola was. His wings were torn and his body battered. Then he looked to his friends. Naramon had the transmogrifier in his hand. Spyro nodded his head and Naramon aimed the gun. In a flash of white Cherubic light, Spyro was a towering mass of muscles and strength. Phaydees aimed her gun at her own head, but instead was transformed into the same thing as what Melvin insulted her: a goat that looked like it belonged in a petting zoo. Running at full speed, she butted Spyro in the stomach, and he reeled backward. Meanwhile, Naramon shouted orders.

"Bea and Mica! Work on getting Sparx free! Melvin, you can get Zola free! Puri…" but she was already helping Melvin. She never listens. He sighed.

Melvin ran to Zola. He trembled with fear as he saw her chained up. Zola thought she had already died and gone to heaven and was looking into the face of a blue-haired angel.

"Melvin. Am I going to die?" she said in a delirious voice.

He didn't know what to say. Puri looked at him. "No, you're not going to die. You're going to come live with us. And you'll be happy forever and you'll never have to obey Phaydees again. You're life will be happy."

"I'm going to be happy…" Zola managed to say until she silently fainted.

Spyro and Phaydees were still battling. Spyro appeared weak, and Naramon fired the gun again, and he transformed into an Eastern-style Dragon. He coiled his snakelike body around the goat, ready to crush the life out of her. Phaydees, who had the transmogrifier in her teeth, somehow pulled the trigger and she was transformed into some sort of shadowy essence or outline of her normal self. A glowing black darkness shot from her eyes, injuring Spyro. Another zap of the gun, and he was a Cherub: but in a dragon form. His body was purple and his wings gold and brown as normal, but instead of antennae, he had his normal horns. He flew swiftly at the shadow and instead of blowing flames in her face, like an instinct, a white-hot bolt of energy formed at the tips of his horns and shot the shadow in the head. It fell backward, crashing onto Zola, whom Melvin and Puri had just succeeded in freeing. Puri moved Melvin away from the impact, but it was too late. Zola, receiving the head-on effect of Phaydees crashing into her and was pushed over the cliff from the edge of the cliff, a stream of blood flowing after her.

"ZOLA! NOOOOOOOO!" Melvin shrieked with tears in his eyes and sunk to his knees. Meanwhile, Phaydees seemed to disappear. She hadn't fallen off the cliff, but she was nowhere in sight. Aqua Monkey brought Spyro back to his normal form and they gathered around Melvin to comfort him. Even Gulp, who remained suprisingly quiet during the battle, gathered with them.Spyro placed a claw on his shoulder and both Mica and Bea hugged him. Puri just stood blankly, with Sparx buzzing around her, happy to be free, yet saddened by Zola. Aqua Monkey kneeled in front of the mouse.

"Melvin…God, I am so sorry." was all the seamonkey angel hybrid could manage to say.

"I tried everything…she told me she didn't love me when she went to work for Phaydees. It was the control Phaydees had…Spyro…she does need to die." Melvin spat and cried.


Thanks for reading. If there are any mistakes,I know, I'm just too lazy and tired to fix themI hope to update soon. Please review! Thanks!