The Battle

"Burn!"

Burn emerged from the shadows, grinning evilly.

"I knew you would work out how to change my Ember 2 back. You see, there's Light gems and Dark gems. There's a connection, isn't there."

"Okay smartie-tail, tell us how the hell we get out of this death trap!" snapped Spyro. As soon as Spyro had said this, Smoke charged at Burn sending him crashing through the wall. Smoke chased after him, Ember 2 on his tail. As soon as they had disappeared, Red entered through another wall.

"Stay away from Ember!" cried Spyro, as he moved protectively in front of her. Red changed into his true form.

"This is the real me, Spyro!" said Darkness. He had said 'Spyro' as though it was something distasteful.

"Ember 2 loves me!" Smoke screamed. "Oh, come on. You know she loves me!" "Lets end this!"

"Bring it on!"

Burn attacked first, biting Smoke on the back of his neck, then he slammed his head against a wall. Blood streamed from his neck, head and mouth. Smoke punched Burn in the chest, so mouth too was covered with blood. The fight stopped when Ember 2 stood in the way of the two males. She stared at both of them, at the red wounds where scales had been ripped of and scars made by claws. Both dragons were panting uncontrollably. Tears of hate and sorrow streamed down Ember 2's face.

"I'm going to end this."

She charged into Burn, sending him toward a pool of sticky green goo, with little white beads in it. It burned him and he clung on to the edge, looking at the two dragons.

"I thought you loved me," said Burn, his voice soft than ever before. He let go and the goo sucked him in.

Spyro was hit again and Darkness laughed cruelly. Spyro slowly tried to get up, but he was hit again. Ember jumped forward and punched Darkness in the face. He returned it by punching her in the chest.

"Both of you are weak!"

"And Burn is dead," said Smoke appearing behind Darkness with Ember 2. There was a moment of stunned silence. Darkness' eyes widened with shock. Instead of feeling sorrow, he was surprised that two small dragons managed to kill his nephew. He flew through the ceiling smashing the Dark gems in his way.

"We'd better get going too," said Flame already beginning to fly through hole Darkness had made.