Spyro looked out onto the Academy pavillion. He watched the cadets playing with each other. He wished he did not have to worry about everything the way the cadets did. While he saw some light on the dark horizon with Flashwing and Dark Spyro becoming a couple, he was still concerned at how many villains plagued the Skylands. Even though he was the Chosen One, he was only one dragon. He wondered how he was going to face Surtur and the Darkness at the same time when they fought.

Dark Spyro had a solution for this problem. He suggested that he and Flashwing would handle Surtur. Spyro agreed to this idea. While Spyro's lessons to the cadets were going well, they somehow always failed to work together. Spyro knew that one of his greatest strengths was working together with Cynder. After a rather dissapointing session with his students, Spyro was down in the dumps. He thought he could never be a great teacher like the other Skylanders like Eon and Jet-Vac.

Cynder was concerned about Spyro. He had seen many horrors in fighting the Darkness. He hardly ever smiled anymore and was rare to crack a joke or even a small pun. He may have eliminated the Darkness within himself, but he still lacked some light that made him who he was. Spyro had more fights then alone time. She tried everything to make him cheer up. Spyro was numb to all attempts to make him happy. Cynder was afraid for his mental state. Once, she had been woken up at night.

She saw Spyro on the training course, and when she tried to convince him to come asleep, he didn't seem to even hear her. He kept repeating the same sentence in a low mutter. "Train to kill Darkness...Train to kill Darkness." he said repeatedly. When he woke up the next day, he had no memory of ever getting out of bed to train and had very dark bags around his eyes. He seemed to be getting more and more irritable. Everyone was afraid to speak to him. When someone did, Spyro snapped at him.

Spyro even started to have friction between him and Cynder. Their bond was not as strong as it was before. Then one day, the Darkness attacked. Spyro was formidible and did not hold back. Spyro tried to combine powers with Cynder but failed. The two were too seperate from each other. Spyro knocked the Darkness back. He rushed to Cynder. "We have to set aside our friction to win this fight Cynder." he said "I am sorry for the things I did. Now would you forgive me so we can beat these losers?".

Cynder looked him in the eye and nodded. Spyro felt all the anger and resentment inside him evaporate as new power coursed through his veins. His nerves were relieved of all tensions they had been holding for so long. He looked at the Darkness and blasted him with white hot flames. The Darkness was not prepared and was blasted into a nearby island. Spyro knocked, the Darkness into the training course after the Darkness tried to get up and attack him. The record book was pulverized.

(If any of you had realized the constant destruction of the record book, it is going to be a running gag in this story. First person to name all instances where the record book was destroyed will get a shoutout in the next chapter.). Spyro pulled out a couple of moves he had practiced again and again. In short instances, he looked to see how his friends were doing. They were all holding up against their designated enemy. Spyro looked at the Darkness who had just gotten up after Spyro's attacked him.

Spyro was quite amazed that the Darkness was still fighting. Spyro switched to his Time Form. He brought out his Shuriken and spun it around him until it created a spinning disc of pure light energy. The Darkness got over before Spyro could heave the Shuriken at him. The Darkness then did something unexpected. He summoned lightning, but not dark lightning, pure undead energy that had no trace of Dark Magic. Spyro watched as the Darkness put it over his fists and started attacking Spyro.

Spyro saw the Darkness was aiming at the Shuriken at an attempt to slow it down. He succeded and the Shuriken stopped spinning. Spyro started using it as a shield and swung it like a pickaxe. The Darkness had unexpected elemental powers as he sent a fist into the ground and caused an earthquake that traveled toward Spyro. He used the Shuriken at the ground and sent a quake towards the Darkness. The two quakes collided and a large cloud of smoke was released in the following explosions.

Spyro used the smokescreen to attack with Dragon Kata. All this time, he felt cleansed of all and any tensions he had ever felt. He had no worry he wouldn't win this battle. He attacked the Darkness with pinpoint accuracy. After all that, the fight was stil fighting. Spyro couldn't decide if he was surprised or impressed. He once again spun up his Shuriken and heaved it at the Darkness. The Darkness put up a shield to protect himself. Spyro was amazed the Darkness was still fighting the ferocious battle.

Cynder then flew to his side after defeating Strykore. Cynder did something unexpected. An orange tornado appeared around her too. She also had an orangeShuriken on her back. Several spikes of Dragon Time Amber appeared on Cynder's spiked collar, horns, and legs. She had a Time Form. Spyro realized that since he shared powers through their bond, Cynder would also have a Time Form because Spyro had a Time Form. Spyro saw her and knew they would win. Cynder looked at him too.

The Darkness didn't seem to care and shot a megaflame after using his shapeshifting powers to transform into the likes of a dragon. Spyro and Cynder dodged and shot back. The Darkness blasted their attacks to pieces. Spyro was at his peak. He and Cynder used a flurry of time attacks to try to gain an advantage. The Darkness seemed to have no fatigue whatsoever. Spyro was getting angry. Then he felt a voice speak to him like it had so many months ago,"Use me, and you will win this battle".

It was the soul of the Power Stone. Spyro was tempted to let himself use the power stone to win the battle. He decided to show everyone that he was able to win the battle without any help from the Power Stone. He pounded the Darkness with Dragon Kata moves which put the Darkness on edge. Spyro decided to use a move he had been told had never been used before. He and Cynder took their Shurikens over their heads and spun them up until they were as bright as two suns. Spyro smiled.

One of the few smiles he had had in a month. Before the darkness could brace himself for two Shurikens attacking, Cynder and Spyro put their Skurikens against each other and they merged into a gigantic flaming saw. Spyro took over the giant Skuriken. "Feel the power of the true purple dragon Darky!" he yelled as he heaved the gigantic Shuriken. The darkness used a quake. The two attacks collided with their desired targets. There was an explosion that heated the entire battlefield's grounds.

Nobody could see who had won the battle. Spyro reverted to his normal form but caught the ground and stayed up. The Darkness had fallen and the Skylanders cheered tremendously high. The Dark Force retreated. Spyro did not black out amazingly. There were some minor injuries, but everything was fine. The Dragon Masters called Spyro for a meeting. Flare started off, "If you are wondering how the Darkness had elemental abilities, it is because the Darkness was the Chosen One's sister.".

Spyro responded to this, "I was not thinking that in the least.". Flare spoke again. "I wanted to speak to you about my experience with Surtur. Spyro was instantly intrigued. "Go on." Spyro said with every word weighing with weariness from his fight. Flare told his story in a tone that made Spyro full of sympathy that increased as Flare told his tragic tale of his Surtur experience. The tale began when Flare was only a teenager and getting ready for his turn as the Fire Master when Surtur came.

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Flare's Story.

I was but a teenager. My father and mother were proud of me for passing to become the Fire Master. I was going to the place where I would be acknowledged as the Fire Master when I started to hear a rumor that one Dragon Slayer had slipped into the Realm. I didn't believe it and went on with my day. When I got to the temple. There was my father, waiting for me to take his title. I will never forget the look he looked at me with. It filled me with layers of calmness and told me this was going to be fine.

My mother was standing beside him and was looking at me with a smile on her face. After my father had read his farewell speach, he bequeathed me the title of the Fire Master. As I stood beside my father, a rumble shook the palace. My father got ready to protect me. Then...he...came. I-It was Surtur. The Rumors were true. I was shaking as my father stood proud and strong. He tried to attack, b-but Surtur was too fast. He grabbed my dad by the neck, a-and flung him across the room at the wall.

I was too angry to be thinking straight. I ran out and even though my mother cried for me to stop, I released a volley of flames, but these were different, they were bright white and hit Surtur at full force. The once white skin Surtur had was now a smoking gray. He looked at me, muttered a few dragon profanities, and evaporated. I rushed over to my dad. He was bleeding bad. He (sniff) said he was so (sob) proud. He then gave me a special stone, it encaed his soul so I could question him at times of need.

He smiled for one last time and closed his eyes. He died. My mother and I were traumatized by the event. Whenever I train, I always make the targets the likes of Surtur. I will never forgive him for killing my father. I swore revenge that I would kill him, nobody else would kill him. I held on to that anger and hatred and turned it into a strength. Whenever I fight, I imagine my enemy as Surtur, and I could use my utter rage and hatred to give it my full powers and win when the odds are against me.

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Spyro now looked at Flare with sympathy. He said slowly, with every word wearing him down, "When we get him trapped, you will have the honor of killing him, Flare.". He set out to the Academy. He found Cynder and asked, "What was your worst experience?.". Cynder answered, "I think when I was trapped in the Inderworld when my dad was still evil before you came in and saved me, why?". Spyro simply looked at the distance and said slowly, "I know of worse times Cynder, much worse ones.".

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