Author's Notes:

Good news and bad news

Good news is that there has been over 100 views of this in under a week.

Bad news is that I am sick. Second ear infection in the same month and now I am dealing with round two and it doesn't get any better. This on one hand means that I am sick and feel terrible, on the other hand it means that I have more time to write and this is oddly relaxing for me. So, this explains why chapter three is up sooner than expected.

In response to my first review, although you did only use three words you said 'please' so… (reference to intro's author notes)

THERE WILL BE CYNDER involved with this fanfic. This is not so much as a spoiler as it is to simply let you know that I have a plan. (May not be a good one but the plan is still there.)

As for other characters I will be using them for various purposes, but I will not be saying what, nor will I mention who for now on just wanted to address the Cynder thing up front. She will not be here in this chapter but she does play an role in the coming ones.

Thank all of you for reading my story and my notes.

Enjoy the show.

Chapter 2. I believe that it starts with a K.

Core of Light

"It's on Jester"

Those words echoed in the air causing a silence to befall the team. This was a first for the Skylanders. They have lost fights before, but not like this. Jester wasn't even trying to fight them, but he won. Then there was what he said, which had bothered them. Why did he do all of this to get their attention? He could have done something smaller to get them like attack a village or anything and the Skylanders would have responded, but he went out of his way to take over the core of light only to get them here? Maybe it was because they were the only ones that could respond to what he did, like he was trying to single the Skylanders out and only get their attention. Then there is what he asked for.

"You okay Elf?" Spyro asks breaking Stealth Elf from her train of thought. "You have this whole 'questioning look' on you right now."

"I am fine Spyro thanks for asking. I was just thinking about that Jester guy. What do you think he meant when he said to find out what his name is?"

"I don't know but I don't like this one bit." Kassondra says breaking the heavy air that fell on the team. "Look we just suffered a major defeat by someone who, by the looks of things, just beat us without actually trying to hurt you all."

"That's easy for you to say you didn't do anything at all." Jet-Vac says with a little harsh attitude clearly expressing how much he noticed things going on.

"Yeah, that was my bad." Kassondra says while rubbing her arm looking like Jet-Vac's words did hit her somehow. "But in my own defense he did take the form of Strykore which really confused me, and I cannot do anything without my magic which until he released his 'influence' on the core I could actually do anything."

"I also find it weird how you knew something was up with the core." Eruptor says with a questioning tone. "How do we know that you don't know him? After all he didn't do anything to you."

"Because if I did know him, I wouldn't be so surprised at what he did, and he didn't do anything to me because I didn't do anything to him. Jet-Vac can you please use your truth thing to prove that I am not lying."

"All right I guess I could since there is no harm in doing so. Kassondra can you please say exactly what you just said please?" as Jet-Vac says this he points his Vat gun at her on the truth setting.

"I don't know who Jester is and I am not working for him or with him."

Truth

"There happy now?" Kassondra says while giving Eruptor a mean look telling him to back off and not accuse her of every problem. "Despite me not being able to do anything, I was able to look at how he works, and I was able to determine that he uses a magic that is unlike anything that I have seen before. It looked sinister, but it had no 'dark magic' feel to it and he certainly didn't use any incantation that I know of. I also noticed how he can use several elements in quick succession, I never even heard of any wizard who could pull of such a feat."

"Okay so what do we do? How can we deal with him if we cannot hit him?" Pop-Fizz asks while scratching his head.

"What do you mean 'what do we do' Pop?" Spyro asks giving Pop his trade mark smile that fits his personality. "He says that if we just tell him his name then he would stop everything. So, all we have to do is just shot every possible name that we can think of and we win." After saying this Spyro gets several looks from the team, silently asking him if he lost his mind.

Kassondra leans down getting closer to Spyro as she tries to council him. "Spyro, I know that you want to believe him but there is no way of knowing if he was telling the truth. And before you say anything, I saw the paper as well, that was Eon's handwriting but that doesn't mean that Eon wrote in the whole book and for we know this could be a fake. Besides I think anyone finds it hard to believe that someone that powerful would stop if we just knew who he is. He is probably doing this to distract us form taking him down." Kassondra then gets a little quieter so that no one other then Spyro could hear. "I know you still want answers Spyro and believe me I would love to help you, but I need time to recharge and then I can help you, but I have to put the Skyland's first. It's what Eon would have wanted anyways."

"Okay so we are going to stop him but how do we even get him he can just doge all of our attacks without breaking a sweat, and he hasn't even attacked us yet." Stealth Elf asks the team hopping to get an answer from any of them.

"I think I know of someone who could help us on this matter, but you aren't going to like it." Kassondra says after pondering a little.

Cloud Breaker Prison

"remind me again why we are here again Kassondra?" Jet-Vac asks while walking past the cells filled with in-mates.

"Because there is only one person in all of Skylands who can help us with Jester and he is locked up in here."

"Who is that again." Stealth Elf asks looking quite worried.

"Kaos." Kassondra tries to say this without sounding too awkward.

"Wait a minute you expect Kaos of all people to help us, he makes it his own hobby to try and destroy us, which usually fail miserably, but still he is a problem." Eruptor angrily says. "Besides that, how do you think that he could even help us in the first place."

"Because currently Kaos is the only person who can use dark magic and quite frankly I think that is the only way to actually hit Jester." After getting a look of confusion from the team she sighs and explains further. "Look we know that he is using magic and that he has powers over several of the elements that make up Skylands, but we don't know how many he can use. So, we need someone who can hit him without using any of the elements and while dark magic can affect the elements it's not one of the elements themselves. So, he shouldn't have anyway to counter it. I would use magic myself but like I said before I still need time to recuperate and we know that Jester uses magic like that of dark magic, so they should be able to actually hit him. Furthermore …"

After a while Spyro stopped listening to what Kassondra was saying. He knew from firsthand experience that Kaos wasn't a very good option no matter whose side he worked on. Spyro know that Kaos was a screw up and a backstabber who did what he wanted when the time was right. But then again so was he. Spyro did turn evil and he did betray his friends on more than one occasion. He knows it wasn't exactly 100% his fault but it felt like it was. Spyro remembers that at first the only thing that he felt for the Skylanders was hatred and he just wanted to get rid of them. Over time things changed but he still wanted nothing to do with them or he felt like he didn't belong. In all honesty, if it wasn't for the fact that Eon and the rest of the team supporting him, he probably would have ended up in a cell too.

Other then the irony of Spyro not being punished for his crimes, there was something else that Spyro was thinking about that bothered him greatly. It was the symbol on Jester's shirt. At first when he saw it, it looked like nothing more then an artistic design, but he had the feeling like he has seen it somewhere before. It was then that Spyro realized that he saw the exact same symbol on the door in his dream. Upon realizing this, he asked Kassondra "Uh, hey Kassondra quick question. You saw the shirt the Jester was wearing right? Did you recognize the symbol that was on his shirt? I just thought that maybe that symbol came from somewhere and we could try and track him down by figuring out where that came from."

Kassandra thinks about this for a second and turns to Spyro "No I haven't seen that symbol before but that isn't a bad idea Spyro we should look it up when we head back but not until after we get Kaos."

He wasn't sure why but Spyro wanted to keep the dream he had a secret. It just seems too weird that right before meeting Jester he saw the exact same symbol on his shirt in a dream. But at the same time, it was just a dream and he had no idea what to make of it so telling them won't really be any helpful either. Now he and the rest of the team are going to have to deal with Kaos, which is really the most painful thing that they had to do today, hopefully forever.

"Well look at what we have here Glumy. A bunch of Sky-losers who have come to gloat in front of me to get back at me for all the terror that I put in them. Well it won't be long I tell ya, because Glumshanks and I will be busting out of here soon enough and I will have my revenge." The voice was all too familiar and the entire team including Glumshanks was annoyed by this mostly because it wasn't the first time they heard these exact same words but the fact that he keeps going at it even when he fails nearly every step of the way.

"I cannot believe I am saying this but," Stealth Elf says through clenched teeth. "We need your help."

"You what now?" Kaos screams at them from inside his cell.

So, the Skylanders explained what was going on to Kaos and Glumshanks. They spared the details of them losing but included how Jester uses some form of dark magic that can manipulate the elements and deflect all their attacks. Kaos sits there not saying anything and looks like he is paying attention. Needless to say, Kaos had not interrupted the entire time that the Skylanders were explaining things to him but when they were done he was shocked to say the least.

"So, let me get this straight. You want my help to stop a bad guy who I am the only one in which can hit? You honestly expect me to believe that? Why would I want to help you at all? You are the people that put me here in the first place and you want me to help you? I refuse there is no way that I…" Kaos stops mid rant, freezing in place, he then rapidly turns around facing the Skylanders and hurriedly asks. "What a minute what did that guy call himself again?"

"Uh, Jester. Why?" Jet-Vac replies, being a little concerned about the sudden change in tone.

Upon hearing this Kaos gives his best fan-boy scream jumping up and down all over the cell, making Glumshanks wince in pain as he knows what this can only mean. "I cannot believe it. The actual Jester is here in Skylands, do you know what this means Glumshanks?"

"No sir but I have a feeling you will tell us all anyways."

"It means that the legendary villain is actually here. Most people on the fan cite believe that Jester was a completely made up character, but I knew he was real, he just didn't want to reveal himself that's all. Now he is here." Kaos says all this with as much joy as any hyperactive kid his age would have upon hearing that there favorite celebrity is in town. "I have to get his autograph."

"Wait a minute. You know who Jester is?" Spyro asks with keen interest like he missed something, and someone said his trigger word.

"Well duh, Jester is only Skylands first and best villain comic ever. Not only was Jester the first comic to ever feature a villain in Skylands, but it also started the entire villain comic genre. They stopped production of those comics a while back, and any of those comics would go for a fortune on the market. I managed to collect all of them save for one. The first one to ever come out, most of them are lost or got destroyed, but I hear that the author has a copy."

"Wait, hold on a sec. You are telling me that we faced and lost against a guy that named himself after a comic book?" Stealth Elf is getting really embarrassed saying this out loud.

"Only the best one ever. And the way you described him and what he did I don't think that it was an imposter either." As Kaos states this he sees that everyone is staring intently at him as if everyone had just seen something horrifying. Normally this would please Kaos, but he doesn't like it when he doesn't know what causes their fear. Kind of like being on the outside of a good joke. "What? What did I say?"

Eruptor breaks the silence by asking Kaos "How do you know that the Jester we fought wasn't a fake? You haven't even seen him yet."

"Because, Sky-loser the real Jester is the only one capable of using shadow magic to this degree. There have been countless people who tried to do what he demonstrated in the comics, but no one could ever pull it off. Even I myself have tried countless times to do shadow magic and I cannot pull it off." Kaos said with a matter of fact attitude. "In fact, …"

The rest of the Skylanders roll their eyes at the last thing Kaos said. He can get full of himself when given the chance, and he always finds the chance. Most of the Skylanders stopped listening to what he was rambling on about because they really couldn't take Kaos seriously when he was monologuing. Stealth Elf, using her ninja like talents, whispers to Kassondra what she wanted to know. "What's Shadow magic? Have you heard of this before Kassondra?"

Kassondra crouches down and whispers back trying to not draw everyone else's attention. "No first I ever heard of it. Then again, I don't really listen very well when Kaos is monologuing about his comics and such very often. However, that would explain why his magic felt so weird and different to me since it only resembled that of dark magic but didn't have the same feel to it."

"Hey, are you guys even listening to me?" Kaos shouts gaining the attention back from everyone who was ignoring him. Which was everyone within ear shot.

"Yeah so he can use 'shadow magic' whatever that is but how is that he can manipulate the elements and such?" Spyro asks thinking that this trip was becoming somewhat useful, if Kaos was telling the truth. Spyro also thought that if Kaos was just going to reveal everything about Jester then he might as well ask all the important questions so that they can hopefully leave Kaos here. He really doesn't want to work with Kaos again. The one time was more than enough, and personally he hated the fact that he wasn't in a cell like Kaos, when he committed some evil deeds himself. Spyro is truly grateful for all the things that his friends have done, but he still feels guilty about it and showing him pity isn't really helping.

"Why should I tell you, Spy-dork? You know what I have been too kind to all of you and now I won't say a word until you let me out like you said you were." Kaos says while crossing his arms and turning around such that his back was facing the Skylanders. "And Glumshanks too, of course."

This last bit surprised Glumshanks, thinking that perhaps that Kaos was thinking of someone other than himself or revenge for a change. "Woah thank you Kaos, I never thought that you would care enough about me to try to get me out of here as well."

Kaos turns to face Glumshanks and says in his rather innocent tone. "Of course, Glummy. Why wouldn't I want you out of here with me." Kaos says this as he puts an arm on his shoulder only to quickly pull Glumshanks in closer hurting the poor trolls head. "Besides who else is going to do all of my chores and be my torture subject when I need one?"

This forces the troll to let out a sigh, clearly losing all excitement and happiness that he had a moment ago. Why the troll keeps falling for the same trick repeatedly is a mystery to him. "Of course, sir I simply cannot wait for all of that to happen."

"I hate to interrupt your thing you have going on back there." Jet-Vac says after giving a slight cough to get the two inmates attention. "But as for letting you both out we have some conditions and rules that need to be taken care of first." Jet-Vac then proceeds to take out his glasses and a very large pamphlet. He then proceeds to clear his throat and starts his long lecture. "First off …"

Spyro listening at this point as most people do whenever Professor Jet-Vac gives a lecture that nobody asked for. As JV was giving his lecture Spyro was lost in his own thoughts. He will never admit it to anyone here but this whole plan about taking out Jester feels wrong. No one else seems to know this guy and yet he clearly has a long history and seems to know a lot. The more he thinks about Jester the more he thinks about why he is here at Cloud Breaker. In all honesty, Spyro was just angry right now. He was angry at the gang for going to Kaos of all people to ask for help. He was angry at Jester for showing up out of the blue. He was angry at Kaos for the things that he and his uncle had did to him. He was angry at Kassondra and Eon still for hiding his past for so long. But mostly, Spyro was angry with himself. If he had never reacted the way he did, when Eon finally told the truth, then none of this would have happened. If he could, Spyro would leave this very moment and just try and hunt down Jester on his own. Eon may have told him about Spyro's ancestors briefly, but he never got to ask about who his parents where or what were they like before Eon sent them away. Jester may have been lying about knowing anything about Spyro's past, but the fact that he appeared just when Spyro thought that he reached a dead end. It was too good of an opportunity to miss.

"Any questions?" Spyro tuned back in to the conversation just as Jet-Vac had finished. Hope he hadn't missed anything too important.

"Fine." Kaos shouted as he turned around to face the Skylanders again. "But I want to add some conditions of my own."

"What are they Kaos?" Jet-Vac asks as he clearly sounds annoyed since this would mean that he would have to remember what it was so that he could write it down on paper latter on.

Kaos smirks at this as he starts counting on his hand for each 'condition' that he has. "First, I want some of my stuff that was left at mother's castle. Second, I want to amend clause 3-4A since there is no way that anyone, other then Glumshanks, who can take care of my personal hygiene better. Which leads me to my third condition, that Glumshanks can be a suitable substitute for most events titled 'non-evil but necessary actions' as you defined in section 2. The fourth condition, that I may have some sort of selection for who I want as my chaperon since Glumshanks will always not be able to fulfill that role. This can be written out in detail later as an additional clause that can be neutrally beneficial to both parties." The entire gang was in awe at this stage since none of them expected Kaos to suggest any of these things as conditions. Most were just amazed that he was even paying attention to Jet-Vac's talking, since that can put even the toughest of Skylanders asleep. "The last condition, I don't want to be around mother as much as possible since, I still am upset with her."

It took a moment for Jet-Vac to regain his composure from Kaos's intelligent and reasonable conditions that he made. Truth be told Jet-Vac just wanted to make a contract since it seemed like a fun thing to do and that way he could lay out all the rules against Kaos if he ever broke them. "Uh, well yes. We will have to say that the items you bring back will have to be checked by the Skylanders first, but those other conditions are fine. No offense Kassondra."

"None taken, Jet-Vac." Kassondra seemed to be the only one not in total shock of Kaos's conditions to Jet-Vac's contract that he made.

"Okay, I got to ask." Eruptor breaks in to the conversation getting the rooms attention. "Kaos, how is it that you were able to make sense of that thing?" He says as he 'points' to the contract that Jet-Vac wrote. At least that is what is most likely the case since it is hard for anyone to tell what he is 'pointing' at when he doesn't have fingers to really point at anything. "And how is it that you became so good at making conditions that fit the margins of the contract?"

"Isn't it obvious hot-head?" Kaos says as he confidently turns around using his high and mighty tone when addressing the fire-element Skylander. "You of all people should know that lawyers are the evilest beings that ever existed?" He turns around facing the Skylanders making a gesture as if he was grabbing something and starts shaking it around. "They can turn the good guys bad and bad guys good. So of course, I know how to handle the law and any of its aspects. I am a true evil genius after all."

The Skylanders sigh after hearing this. If Kaos was this good at handling a contract by ear, it's a wonder how he keeps coming up with the dumbest of plans for his 'evil schemes'.

Skylander's Academy

One signing and a long discussion with the guards, Kaos and Glumshanks are let out of Cloud Breaker prison in the custody of the Skylanders. Stealth Elf and Pop Fizz were getting the academy ready to handle Kaos in case something goes wrong, while Jet-Vac and Eruptor went with Kassondra to her castle with Kaos to collect his things. Spyro went to his room and laid done on his bed. Normally he would go and help Jet-Vac and Eruptor with getting the stuff and 'move Kaos's stuff' but he really didn't want to go back to Kassondra's castle. Kassondra and the rest of the team understood since it would be kind of painful to go back to the place where you turned evil.

Spyro was exhausted after handling Jester and dealing with a trip to see Kaos. All he wanted to do was go to sleep. Just as Spyro was about to close his eyes the door to his room is busted open and in comes Kaos. "Hello roomy." Kaos says with a cheery voice that tries to make him seem like a good person. This would work on a normal person if it wasn't for the fact that Kaos always dresses in dark robes that scream 'I am a dark wizard' all the time.

"What are you doing in my room Kaos?" Spyro shouts in surprise. He really didn't want Kaos being here right now especially when he had a long day.

"What do you mean 'What am I doing here?' I am your roommate for the foreseeable future. Didn't you hear the clause about watching me in my sleep." Kaos says as if Spyro was the crazy one and not him. "Although, now that I say that out loud that does sound weird, but it was detailed in the contract that someone has to watch me at all times and that person is you since you weren't there to oppose during the meeting help a couple of minutes ago." Kaos says rather matter of fact like and almost sounds genially concerned about Spyro.

"Great so I am now stuck with you in my room." Spyro sighs in defeat. Normally he would fight back tooth and claw for him to not be stuck like this, but he was too tired to do so. That and this arrangement is a little ironic for Spyro. Since this means that Spyro and Kaos are sleeping in the same room it's almost like both are being watched together. 'Like inmates in a cell'. "Look I am really tired can we just both go to sleep and deal with the details of this in the morning?"

"Sure, I don't see why not." Kaos says while looking around the room. To him, Spyro really did look tired and so was he but he didn't want to admit that to him. As Kaos was looking around the room he realized that there wasn't any bed for him. "Hey, wait a minute, where am I going to sleep?" Kaos turns to face Spyro only to see that he has already fallen asleep and doesn't look like he is about to wake up anytime soon. "What? Well this is just great. No where to sleep and stuck with a Skylander that I hate the most. Oh well. Since he is asleep first, time to show him who is really in charge of this room." As he says this Kaos pulls out a black marker, trying to suppress his laughter of what the dragon will awake to in the morning.

In another Dimension

A figure in the shadow emerges from the corner seeming to come from nowhere. "Kaos. They brought along Kaos to try and fight me?" Jeter says with confusion and a hint of shock on his face. "I don't know whether I should be mad at them from deviating from my plans or sorry for them for dealing with him." Jester folds his arms seeming like he is considering answering his own question. "Regardless, I must go on. It is going to be tricky with dealing with an unknown factor like Kaos, but I cannot stop now." There is no one else in the room with Jester yet he still speaks out loud. He knows that deep done he is not a villain, but he cannot help acting like one from time to time. He hates doing it, but it beats listening to the endless silence of the room or the tormenting thoughts of his mind. He really hates to admit it but whoever said that saying was right. He is his own worst enemy. "I will get all of you to know me there is no stopping that now. The problem is that I need to make sure that they know the 'me' that I want them to find. After all, I don't know what to do if they reject me fully. I don't think I could bare that even though it still hurts to think about what I must do to get them to know me. This pain will not stop me, the show must go on."

After saying this, Jester starts to lay down in the middle of the room with nothing beneath him. As he is doing this a mattress forms right where he is about to lay down and he starts to fall asleep. A smile forms of Jesters' face as he closes his eyes and goes to sleep. To Jester, looking forward to going to sleep feels foreign to him. After all, when you have been around for over 10,000 years its hard to really enjoy anything.

Chapter 3: The path that we choose and the one I take.

Author's footnotes:

Hey everyone, just wanted to say thanks again for looking at my story so far. It really makes me happy that so many are interested in what I have to offer. Speaking of which I am happy to announce that I should be able to start a regular routine on posting future chapters. I should be able to post a new chapter every other Friday after starting next week. AKA Chapter 3 should be out by 11/2/2018. I managed to find time in my schedule to devote to this and I really looking forward to writing this.

As a side note. If anyone would like me to use Jester in another Fanfic I would be more than happy to. I cannot say that I will be spending any time on writing it, but I don't mind looking into where I want to take Jester in the future. Send me a review if you have any suggestions or what not.

Also, I wanted to do this to see if anyone is interested in my story but if anyone guesses who Jester is in this story I will give your name a Shout Out. At the start of every chapter if you get it right. I will not be giving any hints on the matter since that would spoil the story, but I am really interested to see if anyone can guess it. Until next time.

-DJester