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Voltara: Voltaradragoness

Venus: LegendaryGodzilla

Vexx: Dragon-Uprising

Shea(Shealyne): JoelCoxriley

Fentus: Hixkin

Nayer: GoldenVolt

Crow: Crow Omius

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-Voltaradragoness

"Voltara? Voltara!" a voice echoed,causing the child to groan as she stirred slowly from slumber.

"Urmm...hm?" she mumbled,eyes open a sliver.

"Child,wake up!" another voice echoed,louder than the last one.

Mustering the strength,she opened her eyes all the way and lifted her head,to see Venus and the others sitting at the mouth of the cave.

"Guys? What...what's wrong?"

"Voltara,dear it's midday...you needed to awaken at some point..." Nayer answered and up she jolted,only to stumble and fall back down on her side.

"It's what!? Holy crud...i'm sorry!"

Venus moved closer and gave her a hard stare. "Do not apologize,all i want is an answer. Shea said that something happened yesterday while training and you told her that you feared yourself. Is this true?"

Young Amethyst tried to process this,but found she had little memory of said event. All she remembered was saying she was afraid,so she told him this.

"I see,but why? What about yourself did you fear?"

Volty gulped. "Oh,god...what do i tell him!? Shadow help me out here!"

(Ha! And here i thought you would never actually want my help)

"Cut the crap! Just tell me what to say!"

Voltara heard the shadow sigh in her mind. (Tell him that you simply were afraid of hurting Shea.)

Nodding internally,she turned and repeated it. "I was...just afraid of hurting Shea." Shea herself didn't buy it however.

"Then tell me child,why were you flailing and clutching at your head?"

She gulped again. "Great,now what do i say!?"

Her shadow remained silent and this quickened Voltara's heartbeat. "Shadow? Shadow! Answer me!"

(We're screwed.)

"What? What do you mean,'screwed'?"

(Would you just be quiet!?)

Venus' eyes hardened and started leaking a black mist. "You..." he started,gaining everyone's gaze including Volty's. "You are..."

"Venus...i know what you're gonna say,so i will say it once and ONLY once. Do NOT say it." Shea growled,venom dripping from her words.

"Venus...what's wrong? Do you know what's wrong with Volty?" Nayer asked,voice shaking.

"She's not our hope. She's the Dark Master reborn..."

With that,Shea raised her tail and whacked Venus upside the head with it. "I WARNED YOU!" she bellowed,charging her Fear element.

"Shea! No!" Vexx yelled in attempts to restrain the enraged dragoness. "Nayer,get Voltara out of here now!"

Without even a word,she grabbed the child and flew out of the cave at the fastest speed she'd ever accomplished when flying,then vanished into the cloudy sky.

Voltara herself had begun hyperventilating ever since the black mist appeared. Her shadow had tried to coax her out of it but she had stopped listening. Everything after that slowed down and was a mess of blurred colors in her eyes. She only snapped out of it when Nayer's voice pierced the panic in her heart.

"Volty...are you alright?" she asked,holding the female close to her chest.

"Nay...i...i'm so...sorry...i swear...i didn't..."

Nayer's golden gaze fell on the saddened emerald's. "Sshh...it's okay. We're the ones who should be sorry. There's just so much...controversy with your species little one."

"What does...*Sniff* that mean?"

Nayer's wingbeats began to slow,indicating she couldn't hold her blazing speed and was slowing down. "It means there's a lot of...well...it's hard to truly define. In basic terms it means many species are divided on what they think of you."

"You mean...creatures don't like me? It's not just Fentus?"

She nodded solemnly. "Unfortunatly yes...child did you understand what Venus had said?"

Her gaze shifted from Nayer's golden comfort. "He said something about a Dark Master...but i don't know what he meant...Nayer?"

"Yes?"

"What is this purpose everyone keeps telling me i'm here to fulfill? Why do none of you explain it?"

Sighing,Nayer began to land. Close to the ground,Voltara jumped from her arms and collapsed into the grass as Nayer's paws hit the ground and she folded her wings. "We figured you wouldn't understand."

"Well,i would. Now please,tell me!"

"Come here." she beckoned. The young female obliged and snuggled next to her as a bit of sun leaked through the clouds,bringing some color back to the grassy field. "How much do you want to know?"

She laid her head on Nayer's right paw. "As much as you know."

"Alright. Well,i don't know as much as Venus and Shea,but here is what i do know. Many years ago,before you,me and any of us...there was a young dragon born from a purple egg. It was a color that had never been seen before and the guardians of that time where pleased,to say the least. They figured that it contained a special and powerful form of dragon,and they were right. Out of the egg hatched a purple dragon,like yourself. He was seen as a blessing to the dragon race,especially after finding out they he could master multiple elements. His name was Malefor."

(Malefor...) Shadow's voice echoed,Voltara turned her eyes inward to glare but turned them back to Nayer.

"Soon however,he began to bully others of his kind. Boasting about how much more powerful he was than everyone else. Eventually he became so powerful that he was asked to stop his training since it was beginning to poison others around him and it was corrupting their element crystals,oh wait do you know what-"

"Yes Nayer,i know what they are."

"Oh,alright good. Anyway,he refused to cease his training and was therefore,exiled. However,he had become vengeful and due to this...he planned to annihilate his kind with an army of Dark Apes who he had taught to harness the power of the black crystals his power created. He was stopped however,twice."

"Twice? He tried multiple times?" Voltara asked,the info she was being given making her heart sink. "My kind...did something like that? No wonder so many creatures hate me..."

"Yes,the first time he was stopped he was sealed in a place known as the Well of Souls. However,Gaul who was his army's commander had a plan to release him. During the Year of the Dragon,hatchlings from powerful and well known parents are brought to the Guardian's Temple to be hatched and raised by them. That is where Venus saved your egg from and Gaul knew about this. For one thing,he knew that's where the next purple dragon was set to be born and he intended on killing it. One of the guardians however,was able to save it. It was one of the two to survive that tragic event."

"T-Two?"

Nayer nodded,pulling the child closer in an attempt to comfort her. "Yes,while the Dark Master wanted to prevent the birth of what was foretold to destroy him he also needed a dragon."

"Why would he need another dragon?" Voltara asked,hushed and distant.

"Because the seal that he was chained behind could only be opened by a keeper of Convexity. A dragon with kind of purpose is only known to hatch on the Year of the Dragon and it didn't take long to find the egg that housed it. A black dragoness who the Dark Armies named Cynder."

"Cynder? Why did she help them?! Surely she must have known what evil she was committing!"

"Hush,don't get so riled. She didn't,actually. After her egg was taken and the others were smashed,she was hatched and corrupted with the dark energies that the Dark Master had left behind. This made her grow in size considerably and she became known by many names. The ones documented are "The Umbra's Puppet and Terror of the Skies."

"W-what did she do?"

Nayer sighed again,wondering if she had said enough,but then remembered what she had been told. "She needs a wake up call...I just wish this wasn't the way to do it..." She murdered many of her kind. Males,females,hatch-lings...anyone who stood in her way. She showed no mercy."

Voltara shivered,but Nayer continued.

"Along the way she had been tasked with capturing the guardians. Their powers combined were what Cynder needed to complete a key that would free her master. What she didn't expect was that purple dragon who the Fire guardian saved would stand in her way. His name was Spyro. Together with a dragonfly,who he considered his brother he defeated her in the portal of Convexity,restoring her to her true form,a small dragoness his age. The two were what eventually led to Malefor's downfall,by having him be brought down to the convexital realm,where he soul was shredded."

Voltara sighed. It was all she could manage,after all she was speechless. "Is that...what Venus and Fentus think i'll become? Why would they ever..."

Nayer saw that Voltara's thoughts had drifted into sadness and tried to rouse her. "Little one,do not even start to compare yourself to him. You are nothing like he was. Unlike you,he was born wicked. He never chased butterflies...or rolled in the grass...or purred when snuggled...compare yourself to Spyro instead. I see more of him in you than Malefor."

"You...you do?" she asked,wiping beads of tears from eyes.

"Very much so. He was depicted as brave and very caring. Even as he fought Malefor,it has been written that he was only as violent as he was because of what he did to Cynder,who he cared about very much so and who also fought loyally by his side."

"It was a difficult choice on her part though." called out a voice that was familiar to Voltara but alien to Nayer.

"Who's there!?" she asked,claws unsheathing and tail moving to block Voltara from view. "Nayer wait-"

"Don't get so defensive. The child knows me." Crow said,stepping from the shadows of the treeline. "Crowy!" Voltara shouted,gleefully as she started towards him only for Nayer to stop her.

"How...exactly does she know you?" she growled.

"That's none of your concern." he said,simply as his eyes reflected an emotion only Voltara could read. Lament.

"Crowy? What...What's wrong?"

"Child,Dragoness...can you imagine how hard it was for her?"

Pushing Voltara back slightly with her wing,she asked another question. "For who? Cynder?"

"Yes...a purple dragon was the one who put her through so much torture...so much agony...forced her to murder her own species in cold blood as a child...and she still decided to aide Spyro. She feared him all the way and that is why she fought alongside him as she was afraid of what he'd do to her if she didn't."

"That's not true and you know it! Cynder loved him for saving her and it showed her that purple dragons weren't the problem! Malefor was!"

"If only that were true,my family would not have to bear this curse." he stated,turning and revealing the symbol on his other shoulder. On one there was a crescent moon,but on the other was the very same symbol Cynder carried all those years ago.

Nayer gasped in horror. "Y-You're..." she stuttered,unable to find her words.

"Yes. Cynder is indeed my ancestor. For many years,my family thought that the way we'd be able to rid ourselves of this curse would be to aide the purple dragons who were born in our lifetimes if there was one,but our fate was either to become their slaves or they would simply leave us be."

Voltara,defiant crawled under Nayer's wing and stood with a proud expression. "I would never do that to you Crowy! Like everyone else,you're my friend! You don't have to worry." she told him,eyes soft and slightly glowing.

Crow's head fell,eyes holding back tears. "Unfortunately,i have to." Then he lifted his head to Nayer's gaze. "Forgive me." then without warning,a blast of Shadow Fire erupted from his maw and slammed into the golden dragoness. Upon hitting the ground,her instincts kicked in and all she could think was;"Protect the child."

She growled like a feral animal and her golden went ablaze as a sparkling charge of electricity grew in her own jaw and was fired at her attacker. Then while he was distracted,she grabbed Voltara in her teeth which caused her to cry out as she was not gentle this time and spread her wings,then fired herself into the air like a bullet.

"Oh no,you don't dragoness!" another familiar voice bellowed as Fentus bashed into the now feral dragoness,causing her drop the child.

"AHHHHHH!" she screamed,as she plummeted to the ground below. Despite her shadow screaming in her mind that she could fly now,the sheer panic of the situation caused her mind and wings to lock up,luckily for her Crow caught her.

"Child,did i not teach you to fly just last night?" he asked,voice void of emotion.

Instead of answering she turned and glared hatefully at him. It was the most malice-filled expression she'd ever given anyone and Crow found it slightly intimidating coming from a dragoness her age. "Let. Me. Go." she snarled. He simply shook his head,no. This she did not take kindly to. She flailed,kicked and screamed,but he still held onto the terrified child as he shifted his emotionless eyes to see the fight going on in the air.

Fentus and Nayer were flying around in a circle slowly,until suddenly Fentus charged forward into her. She fired off another electricity blast but it only grazed his face as he grabbed and wrapped himself around her. She bit and kicked at his throat to get free,which worked but before she could fire another blast he slammed into her again and turned her so she was below him. She flapped her wings furiously as the two bit at each other's necks until Nayer got a strong jaw hold on Fentus' neck and was able to break his flight and ended with him hitting the ground and making a small crater.

Crow tried to shield the child's eyes but she continued to fight his grip. "This is what i get for listening to you! Trustworthy,huh!?"

(I-I'm...sorry...i thought...)

Voltara grit her teeth and shut her eyes tight as tears flooded from her eyes. "Sorry? SORRY!? You're freaking sorry!? That's great,what does that do for poor Nayer!? Fentus'll kill her! Then he'll kill us! And you're SORRY!? No,I'm sorry i ever trusted a single damn word you've said! I..."

Crow held on tighter as the dragoness had gone rigid. Nayer had dived down,trying to get to Crow but Fentus emerged and hit her with his Poison breath and it made her hit the ground like a brick.

"HATE YOU!" she screeched in her mind,as her eyes snapped open to reveal no color. Just blank glowing white slates. Crow nearly dropped her when he saw that but he did when he got his own element to the face. A stream of dark blue and black flame with purple sparks had flown from her mouth. Hitting the ground,her eyes glowed brighter and her scales darkened. Scanning the scene before her,she found that her mind seemed to be working separate from her will and despite it feeling odd and a little frightening...it didn't stop her. As Fentus toward over the fallen dragoness,Voltara herself charged forward and unleashed all the hate in her heart in the blast of shadow that engulfed him. His screams were heaven currently to her ears as she just kept unleashing more and more Shadow Fire unto his being.

(Good girl! Make him pay! Make him feel your fear and suffering!)

For once she did not defy her Shadow's voice,hearing that praise her heart fluttered. Eventually she was forced to stop due to exhaustion,but once she did Fentus collapsed onto the now dead vegetation. She felt her anger begin to fade,but she felt her Shadow's hatred rise when she saw he was still breathing. Breathing heavily herself,she tried to regain control.

(He's still alive,you dolt! Finish him!)

"No! We've done enough! Stop it Shadow!"

(Not more then ten seconds ago his screams were the most heavenly thing you'd ever heard and now you want to show Mercy!? Are you kidding me!?)

"I won't kill him! He doesn't deserve to die! No one does!"

(Stop trying to be so heroic! You are not Spyro nor will you ever be!)

By now,Voltara had fallen down belly-first and was gripping her head so hard in her claws that they pierced her scales,causing ruby-red blood trails to seep down the sides of her head.

"Stop! STOP! Please! Please...it hurts..."

(You fool-) She never got to finish,something had stopped her from speaking to her host,and that something was Crow. Due to being a Shadow dragon himself,getting hit with the element doesn't do much damage,but he was surprised and slightly impressed that hers was able to actually knock him out. Once he had awoken,he merely watched Voltara torch Fentus as he was never truly his ally,but knowing that her Shadow was trying to take control he had placed two paws on her head which temporarily cut off the connection which enabled them to speak to one another as dragons of his species can do as they manipulate shadows.

As he did,he picked up the tired child carefully as she turned her trance-eyed gaze to his saddened blue one and then shut them again,going limp. Expression grim,he shouted to Fentus who was beginning to stir.

"Hey,we have the kid! Let's go!" With that,he spread his wings and took off. Not bothering to wait for him.

As the sun began to set once again,Vexx's wingbeats sounded throughout the air as he frantically searched for Nayer and Voltara. After she had flown away,he and Shea had to calm Venus down which took a great deal of time and effort. "It seemed like his element had been slowly giving him nightmares of Voltara becoming what he referred to as the Umbra Mistress...i guess that's female for Dark Master...but why would he dream of such things?"

His thoughts continued to drift as he fought against the Twilight winds,scanning the now shaded treeline until he came to a field which reflected a golden light from a mass on the ground. "Nayer!" he thought,quickly diving down and landing. That's when he noticed how wounded she was and it sent him straight into a panic again.

"Nayer! Nayer! Are you alright!?" he yelled,running as fast as he could. Once he got close enough,he heard her sobbing quietly. "Oh thank the gods you're alive! What happened!?" he paused,looking around and added hesitantly;" Where's Voltara?"

Nayer's sobbing grew louder as she turned her head slowly so he could see her sorrow coated eyes. "They took her,Vexx...Fentus took her...she's...gone..."