Before I get started, I'd just like to make a note that the first chapter of my songfiction has been edited. The songs that make a note into this story are still going to be there, but not making a note towards this story anymore. Also, the songfiction is on hold until I complete my Les Miserables story and get out of the past on the Titanic story. Let's hope I can do that. Anyways, now onto the long awaited 3rd Book in The Return of Malefor series, The Ties that Bind!
Dragonstorybooks presents:
The Ties that Bind
Chapter I: Preparations on two ends.
As the story opens up, we can see a 9-pointed star on the cave floor, with steam rising out of the center. At one of the points, a dragon is chained to the ground. He looks to be in serious pain, as the color is literally missing from his face. This dragon is Flame, a friend of Spyro, the Purple Dragon of Legend. Now why is his face literally colorless? Let me explain, he's having the elemental energy drained out of him, and with it goes his scale color.
"Help…me…" he cries out in vain, trying to get someone to rescue him.
Suddenly, the steam from the center forms into a face. "Silence, you insignificant worm!" the figure rings out in a demonically deep voice. It is the voice of the Dark Master, Malefor, who is now just a spirit. "Your elemental energy is necessary to bring me back to life. As soon as that runs out, either you'll be replaced or I'll just drain your life force as a replacement."
As soon as Malefor stops talking, another figure can be scene entering via another entrance. This person is a dragoness, but not just any dragoness, this particular character is a bit strange, considering her wings are literally attached to her arms! This particular dragoness is a succubus, if you've ever studied some basics of demonology or read The Crucible, you'll most likely know what that means.
Our mysterious succubus approaches the spirit of Malefor and kneels in respect. "What is thy bidding, my master?" she says. "Ah, Enchanting Ace, I have a mission for you." Malefor tells his servant "You are to gather the next element I require to be released from this prison."
"This sounds like an easy task. Who is my target, Lord Malefor?" The figure asks, rising. "Your target is, hopefully, Cynder, my former servant. I have heard that she is engaged to that meddling fool, Spyro. Your mission is to drive Cynder into depression by luring Spyro into your control." Malefor explains, while a mysterious amulet forms in front of Enchanting Ace afterwards. "Once you have done that, use this amulet to drain Spyro's Dragon Time powers, then bring both it and Cynder back to me."
Enchanting Ace grabs the amulet from midair and places it around her neck as her master finishes giving her the mission. "I will not fail you, my lord." she says, and after bowing her head in respect, leaves the cave.
"Soon," Malefor tells himself "I will have the most crucial key to my release, and then there will be nothing Dragonkind can do to stop me!"
The scene ends with evil laughter as we exit the scene and we then arrive at the Dragon Academy, where the wedding of Spyro and Cynder is to take place in two days. It is the middle of the night and Spyro is up later than normal, probably due to the stresses of the wedding. His family weapon, The Blade of the Purple Dragon, is resting against the wall, still in its scabbard. Spyro doesn't say anything, the sheer stress on his face gives that away.
Just as he reaches the wall his sword is up against, we can hear a diabolical laugh in the background, the laugh of Malefor from earlier. Spyro hears it too, and looks off in the direction of the window. "Something tells me that the wedding isn't going to go exactly as planned." He says as he retires for the night. Just then, Enchanting Ace lands on the wall above Spyro's room. "Oh, you have no idea, purple fool." She says as the scene cuts to black.
This is going to be weird, I can already tell. Anyways, this story is final up, yay! Now, there will be no guest stars from other writers, considering none answered my riddles. Anyways, yes I did include a demon in all this, so if you don't want to read this, don't. But think about this, Spyro has braved the depths of Hell to save Cynder, so he would inevitably run into one of its demons at one point, right? Anyways, the wedding takes place two days after this, so Enchanting Ace hasn't got a lot of time to complete her mission, but she can't succeed. Let's hope she doesn't. To see how this whole thing progresses, tune in next chapter. Same Time, Same Channel!