While Spyro was talking with the Professor, there was a pink dragoness in the library inside the Professor's lab. This particular pink dragoness was helping the Professor out, as she was putting several books back to the shelf, while standing on a ladder so she could reach the top shelf.
Just then the door to the room opened and Spyro walked through, which startled the pink dragoness causing her to lean backwards and making her lose her balance, before falling. Just before she fell, Spyro noticed that she was going to fall so he quickly ran up to her. He jumped catching the dragon, and then began to turn his body, so that the he landed on his back, while the dragoness landed on top of Spyro.
As she opened her eyes she saw the familiar face that was the purple dragon.
Warm memories of Spyro flooded back into the pink dragoness mind, and she began to hug Spyro. She loved the warm coming from the purple dragon, and loved the feel of her scales against his. That is when it hit her. She opened her eyes and glanced down and saw how close they were, and quickly got off of him while blushing.
Spyro was also had a bright red blush on his face as well as the pink dragoness got off of him. When she did, he was able to get a better look at her.
She had pink scales, with light pink wing membranes, large blue eyes, a yellow underbelly and horns, and a heart at the tip of her tail. She has a purple frill that runs down from her head all the way down her tail and horns that slightly resemble Spyro's. She wore a beautiful necklace with a small elegant pendant that was shaped like two golden dragons, with their tails intertwined. In between both of the dragons was a rainbow-colored light gem that sparkled in harmony. Her body frame was much like Cynder's only she had a slightly rounder belly with wide hips, and delicate claws.
"Sorry about that Spyro," said the pink dragoness not looking towards Spyro in embarrassment.
"You know me?" Spyro asked confused as to how she knew his name.
The pink dragoness then looked at Spyro with a hurt look on her face. "Do you not remember me Spyro? It's me…"
"EMBER!" shouted the professor, scaring the two dragons by his sudden appearance. "Look at what you have done!" he shouted.
It was then that Spyro noticed that there were books littered all over the floor, which must of fallen when Ember fell off the ladder. Also noticing the mess she made, Ember franticly started to pick up the books.
"Sorry Professor, I was startled, and…"
"I don't want to hear your excuses," said the Professor, interrupting Ember again. "Just get this place cleaned up already,"
As the Professor began to leave the room, Spyro watched Ember pick up several books and placed them on a cart. While watching her Spyro was deep in thought, 'Ember… where have I heard that name before?'
"Your name is Ember right?" asked Spyro as he helped Ember picking up some of the books.
"You really don't remember do you?" said Ember with a sad look on her face.
"Im sorry but I really…"
"SPYRO?" shouted the Professor from outside the room. "You coming or not?"
"Sorry Ember I promised that I would help him," said Spyro with an apologetic look on his face. "Maybe we can catch up another time?"
"Yea that would be nice," said Ember. "I will be here for a while, so just come back whenever you're done," said Ember before getting back to work a glum face washed over her.
Not wanting to make the Professor wait, Spyro quickly ran out of the room and met the Professor in the hallway.
"So I see you've met my assistant. I'm sorry if she bothered you in any way, she tends to be a clots sometimes," said the Professor.
"Oh no she did nothing wrong, I just scared her is all when I walked in. It's my fault for the mess," said Spyro defending Ember.
"Let's not worry about whose fault is whose. Right now I still need your help with my experiment," the Professor said.
"And what exactly, am I doing?" Spyro asked.
"I'm going to use you as a power source," replied the Professor.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well you see Spyro, I may have come across something that will change the world as we know it, but it needs to be powered by something very powerful. Now generally I would use elements from other dragons to power my experiments, but this one needs something stronger than normal elements. If I understand right, you possess the power to use convexity right?" the Professor asked earning a nod from Spyro. "Fantastic news. Basically what my plan is to use convexity to power my invention,"
"And what is this invention?" asked Spyro.
The professor remained quiet until they reached his laboratory. Upon entering, Spyro's eyes grew with shock at the size of the room. The Professor's lab was an enormous room with multiple steam powered machinery running twenty-four seven. The room contained several dials and switches several of which were connected to a device in the center of the room that was covered in a large red cloth. On the far right were a few tables containing multiple items. One table had a variety of chemicals and the other had bit and pieces of parts of devices, that Spyro couldn't even make heads or tails of. It also possessed a decent number of book shelf's mostly containing what Spyro believed were notes and science books.
The Professor paid no attention to the look Spyro was making, and walked towards the device in the center of the room. He picked up something near the device, and brought it towards Spyro.
"This my boy, is called an orb," said the Professor as he held out a small green orb with two intersecting, golden, strips, of metal wrapped around its sides.
"What is it for?" Spyro asked examining the orb.
"Well I have found a way to travel places in a matter of seconds," the Professor said. He then placed the orb down, and walked over to the device covered in the red cloth. He pulled away the cloth to reveal a large stone arch "I called it, a portal," the Professor said, with much pride in his voice.
"How does it work?" Spyro asked amazed by the creation.
"I'm glad you asked, it's simple really. All you have to do is walk through and it will take you to the other portal that it is connected to. The problem is that, it needs a lot of power to work, which is why I invented those orbs," the Professor said while pointing to the orb. "Each portal will need four of these to work," the Professor concluded.
"Alright, but how do you need my help for this? It seems like you have everything under control here," asked Spyro.
"Well you see the orb does not contain any energy. All it does it transfers the energy inside it, and turns it into an endless source of power, however my biggest problem is that, I haven't been able to find an element that will be contained in it," said the Professor.
"What do you mean by, you haven't found an element that would be contained?"
"You don't know? Well you see, to power just about any machine you will fine, you need some form of element to power it, in most cases it's the element of electricity, however every now and then you would have to refuel it. This orb on the other hand, when an element is transferred into it, it reacts badly and breaks. Now do you see my problem?"
"Yea I do. So you just want me to use my convexity to power it?" asked Spyro.
"That would be correct," replied the Professor.
"Alright how do I do that?" asked Spyro.
"Just use your convexity breath, just like you would if you were fighting someone," said the Professor.
"Alright then," said Spyro before taking a deep breath. He then let out his convexity breath. The purple beam made contact with the orb and, was quickly absorbed by the orb.
"Alright Spyro that is enough," said the Professor.
Just as the Professor said that, he stopped. The two looked at the orb and saw that it had a strange purple glow to it. Spyro was fascinated by the glowing device, and he stepped closer to it.
Suddenly the orb began to pulsate, the aura around it dimed before becoming bright once more. Spyro was confused by this, but took it as a warning so he started to step away from it. Just then it glowed a bright white.
Spyro's eyes went wide, and upon instinct he raised his wings to shield him, as the orb exploded. The room was filled with smoke in an instant, and the Professor coughed and waved his arm around trying to get rid of the smoke. Thankfully the Professor had a window open so the room cleared out shortly.
As soon as the Professor would see, he quickly ran towards Spyro. Spyro was still standing in the same spot as before, but in his wings were several small shards of what remains of the orb.
"Are you alright Spyro!" the Professor asked concerned when he saw the wound.
Spyro coughed a little before saying, "yea, I'm fine, just a little banded up is all. What happened?"
"Well I'm not sure exactly my best guess would be that you overloaded it, and it exploded. I would have to look over my blue prints again. Maybe I screwed something up, but regardless of that, are you sure you are alright?"
"Just a little shaken up is all. My wings hurt a lot though," Spyro said as he glanced at his wings, and saw the orb pieces.
"Here why don't you go find Ember? Despite her clumsiness she is actually very skilled in the medical field," said the Professor. Spyro nodded before thanking the Professor. Just before Spyro left, the Professor said, "Oh and Spyro if there is any way I could repay you for this mishap feel free to tell me,"
Spyro nodded one more time before leaving the room. He quickly ran towards the library were he last saw Ember. His wounds weren't major, but they began to bleed, and were very irritating. Soon he walked inside and found Ember at a table in the library, with medical supplies next to her as she continued to put away books.
Not paying attention to who entered the door, Ember said with her backed turned "Just give me a bit professor and I will be with you in a second." She put away one last book before turning around and saw Spyro, and the blood that began to drip from his wings and on to the carpet. "Oh my goodness, are you alright Spyro?" asked Ember worryingly. She quickly grabbed the medical supplies and attended to Spyro's wounds.
"Yea I'm fine, just a little mishap in the lab," Spyro replied as Ember took out a bottle with some liquid in it and a rag. She removed the cap of the bottle and applied some of the liquid to the rag.
"This might hurt a little," said Ember as she began to wash his wounds trying her best not to move the shards of the orb as she cleaned the area around it.
Spyro winced every now and then, as Ember moved an orb shard a little which she quickly apologized for. As she moved onto cleaning the other wing, Spyro asked "So why did you expect the professor to come in?"
"Oh this type of thing happens all the time with him. Despite the fact that he is brilliant, his projects, for the most part, blow up or something along those lines. So I'm use to have him come to me and ask me to patch him up after hearing a boom," replied Ember as she finished cleaning the last injury. "Unfortunately I don't have the tools with me here to pull out those shards, so you will have to come with me to my other job,"
Spyo gave her a confused look before asking "were else do you work?"
"I also work in the city's temples infirmary. I don't really do much there, but I help out taking care of the patients who have minor injuries or sicknesses," said Ember. She then motioned Spyro to follow her as she left the room. It wasn't long before the two were back outside.
They walked a little in silence before Spyro asked, "So what has happened the past three years? I mean I was frozen for the past three years, so I'm wondering what has happened,"
"Is that why you disappeared? I was wondering what happened," said Ember. Spyro noticed that she had a sad look on her face as she said that.
"Is everything alright?" he asked concerned.
Ember's facial expression quickly changed, and she began to smile. "Yea everything is alright, no need to worry,"
Spyro could tell that she was hiding something and was just about to ask her, when Sparx showed up. "Hey what's up Spyro, found anything interesting?" asked Sparx. He then noticed that Ember was next to him, so he flew closer to Spyro and whispered "Oh I see you already have,"
"SPARX!" Spyro shouted.
"What I'm just calling it as I see it," Sparx said.
Ember was confused on what was going on and said "um Spyro, who is this?"
Before Spyro could reply Sparx interrupted him saying "The name is Sparx, I'm Spyro's step brother. Sorry If I bothered you, I know that these massive pecks of mine can be very distracting," said Sparx as he began to flex his so called muscles, causing both Ember and Spyro to roll their eyes. "So what is your name lovely?" asked Sparx.
"My name is Ember and I can tell you now that you're not my type," Ember said guessing that Sparx was hitting on her.
"That is alright, you're a little too big for me anyway," Sparx responded before lying on top of Spyro's horns. "So where are you guys off to?"
"Well if you haven't noticed Sparx, I was injured while helping the Professor, and Ember here is helping me out. We were just about to head over to the temple when you showed up,"
"Oh I see, and you will be rewarding Ember with a cherry lollypop I take it after she is finished?" asked Sparx with a devilish grin on his face.
"SPARX," both Spyro and Ember yelled this time, a large blush across both of their faces.
"Im only kidding, you guys take things to literally. Now what are you waiting for, Spyro here is hurt, so why don't you go fix him up,"
"Im going to fix you to a wall in a moment," mumbled Ember to herself.
"What did you say," asked Spyro?
"Oh nothing," Ember said innocently before walking towards the Temple. Spyro stared at her for a moment before quickly catching up with her.
As they walked Sparx remained silent as well did Spyro and Ember. Spyro however was in deep thought. He remembered Ember's name but other than that everything was completely blank. 'Where do I know her from?' Spyro thought to himself. As he thought to himself, he gave passing glances towards Ember.
Sparx must of noticed this and asked, "Hey Spyro, are you looking for a specific part or are you starring at a lovely sight before you?"
Another blush came appeared on his face, and he ignored the question, leaving Sparx with another large grin on his face. Not too long after they reached the temple. Upon walking inside Ember was greeted by some of guards who stood in front of the building. Not too long after they reached the infirmary. Spyro was quickly seated in one of the rooms, and Ember left only to return shortly after with a pair of forceps in her paw.
"Now I need you to stay still Spyro," said Ember as she held up the forceps. Spyro nodded and stood as still as possible as Ember slowly removed each and every orb fragments in his wings. When all of the fragments were removed, Ember left once more only to come back this time with some red crystals. Then in no time Spyro was fully recovered.
"Hey thanks a lot, Ember," Spyro said.
"No problem Spyro," said Ember.
"You know Ember you are really good at this whole medical thing. Why do you work with the Professor?" asked Spyro.
"Oh I just like to help people out is all. Speaking of which, I do have one person that I need to check up on, would you like to come?"
Spyro thought about it for a moment before saying "Sure, I guess I can spare a few moments," which caused Sparx to groan.
"This place is boring enough as it is, now we have to go say hi to some sick person?" Sparx protested.
"Well Sparx you don't have to come if you don't want to," said Spyro.
Sparx sighed, "I might as well, there is little to nothing for me to do around here anyway,"
Ember then left the room with Spyro and Sparx right behind her. They went a few doors down and when they entered they say a young fire dragon lying in bed with stiches in his left leg. As soon as he saw Ember in the door way, his eyes brightened up.
"Hi Ember," the boy said excitedly.
"Hello Milal," said Ember with a smile on her face. "I need to do a quick check up on your leg again, but before I do that I have someone you might like to meet really quick,"
Milal gave her a confused look until he saw Spyro standing next to her. His mouth dropped, and he was left stunned.
"Hello, it's Milal, right?" asked Spyro.
"Y-y-your…" Milal stammered. Just then all the excitement in his tiny body exploded as he jumped up from his bed, and ran up to Spyro. He was about to thank Spyro and ask him several questions, but when he jumped up, he accidently reopened his stiches, causing him much pain. He soon began to cry in pain, to which Ember quickly wrapped her wings around him and began to cradle him as if he was her own child. Quietly she whispered comforting words to Milal, before craning her head over towards Spyro and asked him if he could comfort Milal for a bit.
Ember then quickly ran out of the room, leaving the three boys in there. Not sure what to do, Spyro walked up to the weeping child and draped a wing over him.
"It's going to be alright, don't worry," said Spyro nervously. He had never done anything like this before so he wasn't sure if he was doing anything right. Much to his relief Ember soon returned this some thread and a needle. Spyro moved out of the way, but still continued to comfort the child as Ember re-stitched the opening.
Once his wound was sealed up, his crying lessened. When his crying changed to sniffling he said "Sorry Ember,"
"Shhh, it's alright, don't worry about it. Accidents happen. Now then I know that you must be excited to meet Spyro, but could you try to calm yourself this time?" Ember said with a happy, but also stern face.
Milal nodded and for the next hour Spyro sat in the room talking to Milal. After Spyro answered another question, Ember said, "Well its time that Spyro and I took our leave," When he heard this Milal became rather depressed. Noticing this Ember said "I'm sorry but me and Spyro have stuff we need to do. I promise though that I will return as soon as I can,"
This seemed to brighten up Milal who then waved goodbye as they left. Once they were far away from Milal's room, Sparx let out a sigh of relief,
"Finally we are out of that room, that kid was beginning to annoy me with all of his constant questions,"
"But I thought you liked being praised?" asked Spyro.
"He was praising you, you purple lump. Even when you mentioned me he basically ignored my existence," complained Sparx.
"Oh stop being such a big baby," said Ember, to which Sparx stuck his tongue out at her.
Wanting to change the subject Spyro asked "So why did Milal have stiches? I mean wouldn't it be better to use red crystals to heal his wounds?"
Ember sighed. "Yes, it would be easier, but his parents requested for him to have stiches,"
"Why would they request that?" asked Spyro.
"Well you see, it's been proven that red crystals leave larger, more noticeable scars, then stiches do, and his parents didn't want to have him walking around with a large scar on his leg,"
"Well where are his parents now," asked Spyro.
Ember's mood dropped a little as she said "They are hardly around. From what Milal told me, they are always working, so they don't see him often. Don't get them wrong they love him allot, it's just that they're always busy,"
The three of them fell silent, waiting for someone else to speak.
"So now what, are we going to do," asked Sparx, breaking the silence.
"Well I guess I could use some Mandra lily's. I can use them to help ease some of Milals pain, but there in a garden not too far from here. Spyro do you think you could go fetch me some for me?"
"Sure thing, come on Sparx," said Spyro as he quickly ran off.
Sparx sighed, "Well it's better than just standing around I guess,"
Ember watched as both Sparx and Spyro left her line of sight, and once they disappeared she ran off in search for the other supplies.
As Spyro walked through the hall ways, Sparx said, "I take it that you like her,"
"Oh will you stop that already. We only just met," said Spyro.
"Whatever, I've seen that look you been giving her. You my friend are in love,"
Spyro groaned in annoyance before saying, "look Sparx, the only reason why I've been looking at her is because she seems familiar, other than that, there is nothing between us ok? Now would you drop it already?"
"Whatever you say there buddy,"
Spyro didn't like his answer but knowing Sparx it was the best he was going to get. Soon the front doors came into view. Just as he is steps outside, there was a large explosion mere inches from him, which threw him into the door behind him. Spyro slowly stood up, his ears ringing and the world around him spun. Just as he was about to stand back up a piece of the temple crumbled and fell on top of his head, knocking him out.
Not too long after Spyro was awoken up by someone shaking him. As The first thing he felt was agonizing pain in his head. He opened his eyes and saw a large yellow dragon trying to wake him up.
"Oh thank goodness you're awake," said the yellow dragon.
Spyro began to stand up when something dawned upon him; Sparx was sitting on his head when something exploded. He quickly looked around for his step brother, and he found him lying on the ground not too far from him. Much to his relief he did find that Sparx was still breathing. Standing up he noticed his surroundings and saw that most of the village was in ruins. Just then a small group of strange gray creatures with large horns on there noses and wore small scraps of plate armor came into view.
"Hey could you try to wake up my brother," said Spyro to the yellow dragon as Spryo got into a defensive stance. The yellow dragon, though confused as to why Spyro called the dragonfly his brother, did as asked, and tried to wake up Sparx, while the rhino creatures approached Spyro.
One came up to Spyro and looked at him a little before picking up its mace and swings it towards his head.
Using his quick reflexes and fighting experience, Spyro quickly ducked out of the way and counter attacks with a slash to the creature's face. Before it could react, Spyro continued the counter by disarming the mace from the creature with his mouth. With the weapon in his mouth, Spyro does a spin bash to the creature's face to send it to the ground. Another one of the creatures soon saw his partner in trouble and rushes towards Spyro, spear ready. Spyro uses his tail to swipe the creature off his feet. He then quickly followed it up by pulling himself to the creature's back where he uses his jaws to grab the creature's foot and twist its leg in two. After knocking both creatures out, Spyro quickly rushes over to the yellow dragon, and Sparx to see if he's ok.
"Sparx are you alright?" asked Spyro as the yellow dragon moved aside.
Sparx's hand suddenly tries shoeing Spyro aside.
"Go away this is my spot to play dead, go find your own!" Sparx said thinking that the yellow dragon was bothering him again.
"Sprax it's me Spyro, open your eyes already," Spyro said.
Sparx opened his eyes this time and saw Spyro close to his face. "Can't I just play dead?" he asked.
"No Sparx, I need you to fly towards any nearby village and tell them that this one is under attack,"
"I could come with if it would help," said the yellow dragon.
"I think that is a great idea," said Spyro.
Sparx groaned not liking the idea, but soon stood up and quickly flew off followed by the yellow dragon. Spyro watched as Sparx flew out of sight, before turning to face the entrance of the Temple. By the looks of the place it seems to be in bad condition as it looked like parts of it were about to collapse. Still Spyro had to make sure Ember got out alright, so he ran inside.
He ran through several hallways, looking high and low for Ember. It wasn't long before he found her, helping Milal walk through the halls. Spyro noticed that both Ember and Milal had several cuts along their body's.
"What happened?" asked Spyro as he ran over to them, and helped them walk.
"We heard several explosions, and then suddenly part of the room we were in collapsed," said Ember. "Luckily we did not get hit by much debris,"
"Well I'm glad that you two are ok," said Spyro.
"What is going on Spyro?" asked Milal clearly afraid.
Spyro looked at the young dragon and said, "We are under attack, by some strange creatures," said Spyro, making Milal begin to quiver in fear. Spyro noticed this and said, "don't you worry I will make sure nothing happens to anyone, alright?" This seemed to cheer Milal up a bit as a small smile formed on his face.
It wasn't long before they found their way to the entrance. Once they were out of the temple, Spyro said, "Ember do you think you can get Milal out of here?"
"Yea I think I can, why what are you going to do," she asked slightly scared for Spyro's safety.
"I'm going to find who is in charge of this attack, and see if I can take him down before he hurts any more people here," said Spyro.
Ember was reluctant about this idea, but she knew that Spyro could take care of himself. She nodded, before helping Milal walk towards the exit of the city.
Spyro then turned around and used his shadow element to sink into the ground. He began running around town looking for anyone. One thing that he found strange was that there were no dead bodies of the civilians. "Where is everyone," Spyro thought to himself. As he continued to search the village, he came across a large group of the rhino creatures escorting a few dragons towards the center of the village. The dragons seemed to have a few bruises on them, but for the most part they seemed ok.
"Where are they taking them?" Spyro thought to himself. Instead of helping the dragons Spyro decided to follow the rhinos. As he got closer to the center of the city, from a far he noticed a large gathering of the townsfolk. Deciding to get a better view of what is going on, Spyro climbed up one of the buildings near by.
Once on top, he was able to get a better look of everything around him, suddenly in a flash of bright light, someone or thing suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The apparent commander of the group of horned creatures walks up and kneels before the figure that appeared out of nowhere.
"The dragons you requested my liege,"
The figure simply looked around it and walked up a little. Now that it reveals itself, Spyro was able to get a better look at the figure. He is red anthropomorphic dinosaur-type creature, with tridactyl talon tipped claws and raptor like feet, digitigrade legs, yellow eyes with green irises, a tail, and three horns protruding from his forehead to the back of his lower neck. He wore a white tunic shirt, dark purple trousers, and a purple robe with gold trim. He also wore a glowing red gem surrounded by a red and orange pattern with a purple silk string holding it around his neck. Finally he carries a Bone scepter with a pink crystal sphere on top.
Two other figures also appeared with him. One was a big blue dinosaur like creature that carried a large club with multiple spikes on it. He has horns, wings, and stubby tail and razor sharp teeth. The other is a large green four-legged green dinosaur like creature with two large horns protruding from his head and two large blades attached to his back.
The red figure walked a little in front having a good eye on every dragon in front of them. He sniffed the air a little before sighing.
"I imagine that every one of you are wondering seriously what the hell is that or what the fuck is going on, am I right?" asked the red creature.
None of the dragons answered due to fear or confusion. The red creature seemed to sigh again as he twirls his bone scepter a little.
"It's alright I do believe a few introductions are in hand. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Ripto, and as of now with Malefor gone, I am the new Dark Master," said the red creature now known as Ripto as he looked at his scepter some more.
Half of the dragons gasped in fear while others where still confused with what's going on.
"Good, some of you fear me, and some of you don't, but I promise you before I leave you will all fear me. But let's cut to the chase."
Ripto walks up to some of the dragons. He noticed the professor who looked banged up himself. With a small nod, one of the horned creatures dragged Professor to him.
"You look like some who knows things, so maybe you'll answer my question."
"Release me this instant you foul abomination" Professor yelled to the horned creature.
The horned creature simply responded by smashing Professor's face to the ground. Ripto simply kneels down as the professor slowly got up.
"I do apologies for my rhynocs, they're all brawns and nothing but shit for brains. Still, they do make for loyal soldiers who know not to offend me in any way possible for the most part,"
The professor, didn't say a word as he picked up his cracked glasses, and glared at Ripto. Ripto merely stood up and just a quiet nod to the rhynoc, the rhynoc slammed his foot onto Professor's back.
"For example, that look you just gave me. You see…I don't like that, not one bit."
The rhynoc continues to stomp Professor on the ground before Ripto snaps his fingers to have the Rhynoc stop and yank the Professor back to his feet.
"So for your sake, I hope you have some good info for what I'm looking for."
Before the Professor could say anything a voice came out from the crowd, "Stop it, you're going to kill him,"
Ripto just stood up straight and looked at nothing particular with his arms crossed behind his back and bone scepter in his hand.
"Get him out of my sight."
The Rhynoc merely threw the professor back to where he was. As this was happening, one of the rhynocs dragged Ember out of the crowed.
"My lord, it was this pretty dragon who spoke out of term."
The rhynoc forcefully kicked Ember to the ground next to Ripto's feet. Spyro silently cursed to himself seeing Ember in there grasps, presuming that Milal was in the crowd as well.
Meanwhile, Ripto looked down at Ember as she slowly gets up. He himself slowly started to walk a circle around her, never taking his eyes off her.
"You seem nervous my dear, now in my experiences that either means you're a cowered or you've got something to hide."
Ember gulps nervously. Ripto sniffs her a little and looks at her confusingly.
"You smell pretty nice. A little bit too nice for someone who lives here."
"I smell nice, I just take allot of baths."
"Yet you don't seem to have the same sent as the other dragons here."
Ember doesn't respond.
"Where's the purple dragon?"
"I'm sorry?"
Ripto looks at the whole crowed.
"I am looking for the purple dragon who defeated Malefor. And I have reason to believe it is here.
He looks back at Ember
"So where is it?"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about. No purple dragon has come here."
Ripto merely looked at Ember a little and walks back towards the crowed.
"But even if he was here, aren't you a little short to fight him?"
Apparently that struck a serious nerve in Ripto even if he didn't physically showed it when he stopped. Some of the rhynocs flinched at the sound of "short." A small burst of pinkish red energy appeared from the ground close to Ember, forcing her to back away a little. Ripto calmly turns back towards Ember, a somewhat angry smile on his face.
"Well just for saying that, its pretty clear that you're not too much of a coward."
He walks over to Ember, scaring her every step.
"Which means that there's something you're not telling me."
H-honestly, I-I don't know w-were h-h-he is," said Ember as she began to back away from Ripto before bumping into a Rhynoc.
"You know I'm pretty good at telling when someone is lying to me," said Ripto as he took a step closer to Ember.
Suddenly he grabs Ember by the face and yanks her to make her look at him in the eyes.
"And you are lying very badly."
"Unhand her you vile, monster." said an adult earth dragon who appeared to be almost as fearsome as Terrador. He looked as if though he has seen many fights in his day with a few scars and the tip of his left horn missing. "If you even harm a single scale on the princess, then I will end you were you stand."
Spyro was shocked to hear what he just did and nearly gasped along with the rest of the crowd. Did he hear the green dragon right or was he just hearing things? Ripto in the meantime looked at the earth dragon a little before looking back at Ember with a wide smirk on his face.
"So your the royal heir to Warfang. I thought you looked familiar."
Ember at the moment was panicking so much she can barely speak.
"Are you deaf, I said unhand the princess."
"Crush deal with him, I'm busy at the moment."
Without warning, the blue monster carrying the multi spiked club roars viciously and charge the earth dragon. The Earth Dragon used some of his earth element to incase himself in armor made of rock. However, Crush attacked the dragon with such aggression it cracked through the armor and slammed the dragon to the ground. Before he could get up, Crush stomps his foot on him to keep him place. All the dragons including Ember and Spyro were shocked to see the dragon be beaten so quickly by the monster known as Crush.
"Now that we have him out of the way it's time to continue where we left off your highness. So I will ask again, where is the purple dragon?"
"I swear I don't know where he-
Before she could finish, Crush smashes his spiked club on the green dragon's wing. Making him cringe heavily in pain and horrifying the crowed.
"I'm told that's suppose to hurt."
Ember is horrified but she does answer. Ripto looks at her some more and waves to Crush to slam the other wing.
"Please stop, he was just doing his job."
"Really, still nothing?"
Ember didn't respond.
"Well, unless you decide you have something to tell me. I'll go have a chat with that little kid right there," Ripto said as he suddenly points to Milal.
"And if he doesn't talk, I'll kill him, and just move onto the next person. Then the next…until I find someone who does. In the meantime I will leave you in the care of my men until you do decide to talk. But you should know, I can't guarantee what my men could do to you."
Ember glanced over to the large group of Rhynocs behind Ripto. Three of the closer ones heard what Ripto said, and several thoughts formed in there heads. One of them began to crack his fingers, and another licked his lips waiting to taste the sweet taste of dragon. The third one however had a different thought in mind. His checks began to blush, before he reached under his metal loincloth, and gripped his length. He moved it out from under its cover, and swiftly jerked it up and down. A horrified looked feel upon Ember at the thought of what the Rhynoc had in mind. She could feels his gaze bare right through, her to the point were she was just about to scream, when suddenly the Rhynoc burst into flames, and quickly disintegrated. She turned towards Ripto and saw that he held his scepter outwards towards were the Rhynoc once stood. Ripto noticed the Rhynocs activities and decided to take care of him.
"I don't want any of you doing anything like that in front of me ever again, do I make myself clear!" Ripto yelled
The other two Rhynocs quickly stopped what they were doing, scared at the thought of them being killed like their friend.
"As I was saying, so do you have something to tell me? Or do you prefer I move onto to your loyal subjects here?"
Ember didnt respond. Ripto looks over to Milal and walks over to him.
"So kid. Maybe you can give me a straight answer."
Milal was so afraid and worried he was unable to answer. Without warning, one of the Rhynoc slaps him hard to the ground before picking him up ready for Ripto to tell him to smash Milal into the ground once more.
"Yeah…I'm told that hurts," replies Ripto as he watches in amusement.
Just as the Rhynoc was about to throw Milal, Ember screamed out "NO STOP IT!" Just then a fire ball came out of no were, and hit the Rhynoc making it stumble backwards into the crowd. Then Spyro swooped down, and killed the Rhynoc before it could hurt anyone else. Most of the crowed were left stunned, including the Rhynocs. Ripto however was confused. After killing the Rhynoc, Spyro carefully turn around to face Ripto at the reasonable distance. Upon seeing the new purple dragon for the first time, Ripto chuckled to himself a little.
"A child, countless years waiting for the next purple dragon to take down Malefor, and it turns out to be just a mere child who took him down?"
Spyro responds by spitting another fireball. Which merely bounces off his magical energy shield. He suddenly walks up to Spyro who tries to slash him with his claws but only to be repelled by Ripto's strong magic.
"So you're the purple dragon who defeated Malefor. Funny I expected you be a little bit older and more experienced."
Spyro ignores him, instead he tries to deliver a punch that Ripto easily catches.
"Not as skilled as I would of hoped either."
Suddenly Spyro does a backflip surprise kick at Ripto. Which does take Ripto by surprise as it sends him a few feet away. As Spyro lands back on the ground, Ripto steadies himself from the attack and looks at Spyro. He rub's his bruised face a little while smirking.
"But at least you have talent."
Spyro charges forward to try a comet dash but only to be stopped in midair As Ripto's eyes glow red and his body glows with a red aura.
"And you've got power, power that I want."
Before Spyro could do anything, Ripto blasts him with his scepter through a building. Ripto's eyes and body stop glowing red as Spyro slowly rises from the rubble.
"But you're not powerful enough, not yet at least."
Ripto turns around towards the green monster. "Gulp," Ripto said to the green monster
The monster known as Gulp rushes up to Ripto and let him hop on his head. Ripto turns the commander Rhynoc.
"Finish up here and bring the purple dragon back alive."
With that said, Ripto, Crush, and gulp disappear in a flash of magic.
Once Ripto left, the Rhynocs all charged forwards towards were Spyro laid. Spyro, after picking himself up, readied himself and took a stance, waiting for them to get closer. Just as they were only a few yards away, a small ball with a fuse droped close to them. A few stopped to look at the ball, while others continued to run past them. One of them was just about to question it was before, the fuse ran out, and the ball exploded, killing all Rhynocs nearby, and throwing others across the street.
When everyone stopped to realize the explosion, they saw a young athletic mole appear above a building. Most of his appearance being hidden in his outfit, wearing a full protective NBC suits with a gas mask, goggles, boots, and special gloves with wrist-mounted crossbows. His outfit covers his entire body from head to toe.
On top of a hill that overlooked the village below, a griffin gazed down towards the people below, searching for one in particular. His eye's narrowed as he found the one he was looking for.
"Finally I've found you," the griffin said a large maniacal smile forming on his face.