The Darkness's castle. (3 months after the previous chapter)

The Darkness was in ruins. He had never been able to defeat or even tire Spyro out. His futile hits only made things worse. He was almost out of ideas. Then his entire team of doomraiders burst through the door. "We have an idea on how to beat Spyro." they said out of breath. The Darkness jumped up. "How? Cannons, Corruptors?" he asked.

The Doomraiders did not answer what he expected. With a smile on their faces, they told him the plan.

The Academy Campus

Dark Spyro, Spyro and Cynder were walking across their new mansion they had made. Dark Spyro was just recently made a Skylander and was put with Spyro's team. While they had gone on some missions, others still kept their distance from him. He still was friends with Spyro and Cynder as Cynder had never met him before and Spyro owed him for helping him escape the Underworld.

Then an alarm sounded. "Cloudcracker prison has been breached!" said Eon's head as it appeared. Spyro used his powers to teleport himself, Dark Spyro, and Cynder to Cloudcracker. They found a ship transporting an elderly looking mabu on and they started flying away. Spyro tried to stop them but was unsuccesful.He wondered who it was.

They found Snapshot there. "Who did they free?" asked Spyro. Snapshot said, "A scientist who specializes in transformation. He tried to transfigure Eon's beard statue but was stopped.". Spyro thought on this for a moment before transporting back to the Academy. Two days later, Snapshot bust through Spyro's door with a bunch of Mabu patrollers.

Spyro was so surprised he accidentially set off a Water Fury. He held out his hand. Snapshot asked where Dark Spyro was. Spyro, still confused as to what was going on, told him he was upstairs. The police went upstairs and a minute later had Dark Spyro in a cage. "What is going on!?" Spyro yelled in outrage. One of the mabu read off, "We are here to authorize the arrest of Dark Spyro, without trial, who at 15 hundred hours today, robbed the Skylands National Bank of 2000 karats of gold.".

Spyro was in shock. Besides the fact they had accused his twin of something, the part about no trial was pure injustice. He could only stammer as the mabu led Dark Spyro away. He was left with Snapshot. "If you are thinking we don't have any proof, here it is." said Snapshot as he held up a tape using magic filtered footage. A dark shape in the form of a dragon crept in, used Dark magic to get in the vault and crept out.

Spyro flew to the Bank and examined the crime scene. He found like it had been at the end of the tape. He looked around. However, he found nothing. He started walking away. He looked back and saw his footprints from all the dust. His were the only ones. He was about to look back foward before he realized. His footprints were the only ones there.

He realized if Dark Spyro had done this, there would have been footprints. He then realized that, from all his experience, when Dark Spyro used magic, he used his horns. In the tape the figure had used his front paws. He found a whole bunch of other clues. There were no indentures in the carpet. The fingerprints were not Dark Spyro's.

He flew this evidence to Eon who was reluctant to set Dark Spyro free. As reluctant as he was, he had to at least give Dark Spyro a trial. Spyro volunteered to be his lawyer. Nobody objected as Spyro knew the lawbook back to front. Eon was the Judge. He swore that if he made an unjust decision, he would have to cut his beard. Dark Spyro was going up against Snapshot who's lawyer was Jet-Vac.

Eon read, "Court District 5, Case #4265. Dark Spyro vs Cloudcracker Police Force. Jet-Vac, you are representing the Police Force?". "Yes, I am." Jet-Vac said. "And Spyro, you are defending Dark Spyro?" Eon asked. Spyro simply replied, "I was deeply honored to do so.". Eon called the court to order. The first wittness called up to the stand was Cynder.

She testified that she had seen Dark Spyro at their house at the time of the robbery. Jet-Vac waved it away as he said Dark Spyro made an illusion of himself. While many wittnesses came and went, none were able to leave a huge mark on the jury. What the deciding testimony was, was that of Dark Spyro's. Jet-Vac tried to object, stating Dark Spyro was untrustworthy.

Eon dissmissed the objection and allowed Dark Spyro to speak. However, Eon told Spyro to put a Verita Charm to make sure his counterpart told the truth. Argue as they may, they were shown the facts that Dark Spyro was innocent. They found out the Darkness used the scientist to transform. They tracked the scientist down and took him back to jail.

Dark Spyro had finally earned the trust of his comrades. When they found the scientist, he was not carrying his transforming equipment. Therefore, the Darkness would be able to transform for future battles. Dark Spyro offered to teach Spyro how to combat this and Spyro agreed to it. Dark Spyro agreed to bring Cynder long with them as it might be helpful.

The journey ahead of them was a tough one. Unlike all the other skills Spyro had mastered, this one would not be so easy to beat. The skill required immense amounts of patience which Spyro did not possess easily. And they would have to leave the Academy for a week. Tis was hard to do as Spyro was a key factor for the Academy's preservation and safety.

Dark Spyro used his Dark Magic to create a magical forcefield. He didn't know if it would last but it was good enough for Spyro. He and his twin and Cynder flew off to find a mythical place called the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars.

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