Entity: alright good job on that last chapter. It was actually better than chapter 24

Me: thanks. I still need to work on my styling though because I am still out of the zone.

Entity: true it seemed like you were struggling with that last one.

Me: I was kinda. Right now I am in some such of a zone so let's get this started before I lose focus.

Entity: Agreed, Don't forget that these fragments have been collected. Fire and Ice. the ones that still remain... Earth, Electric, Machine, Twilight, Phazon, Spirit, Shadow, Fear, Poison, Wind... Wow they have a long ways to go... I wonder what awaits them at the end of all this...

(Samus' POV)

Link and I had already cleared out all of the trials of the White Isle and were looking at the door way that opened into the Spirit of Phazon trial. We walked into the swirling vortex but nothing happened. Instead of anything happening I saw a message appear on the visor of my Dragon Armor helmet.

(Error: Cannot enter trial due to incompletion of the trials of Shadow, Fear, Wind, and Poison.)

I groaned slightly and read over the Ancient lore that Link had scanned. Some of it made since while some did not seem to go together with what we had. Agitated I sat back and looked around wondering what we could do for the time being, that is until I got a message with the Space Pirate code marker.

I opened the message to read it.

"* Hunter. Lord Ridley lead an attack on the Corrupted Lands and was thrown through a vortex. Our scans indicated that it had properties of time dilation and preservation. We have not learned of where he will reappear at and the entire command chain has been disrupted terribly so. As of now we are naming you and Link as our leaders until such a time our leader returns to us. Command us as you see fit.*"

After reading the message I decided to get some help from mine and Link's new subjects so I sent a message back in my own voice with the following.

"I thank you for your cooperation with Link and myself. My orders to you are as follow: Get a group of a hundred to two hundred pirates together and search the land for the following temple ruins. Poison, Fear, Wind, Shadow. Report any sort of anomaly that could pertain to one of those four and you will be rewarded. Any Objections?" I said and could not resist giving the Any Objections question.

The reply back was an image of a Space Pirate salute with the words following below, "As you command and so shall it be done." Below the text was an image of a thumbs down with a voice file attached.

I opened the file and got, "So you're now the leader of the Space Pirates... at least for now. Be careful Samus. Your main objective is to find the rest of those fragments. and the use of the Space Pirates numbers will be extremely useful for the search of the four temples that you seek. Good luck to you and Link."

I smiled about the voice file from Adam and sent a command to him for him to search or the four as well. I got swamped by several messages over secure Federation com links and one from the AU as well. Each of them with a message that I quickly read over acknowledging my new leadership and some willing to assist in the search for the four temples. I shook my head and opened the one from the AU.

"Samus, I wish to congratulate you for your new leadership as of now the Federation is rallying equal number of troops as the Space Pirates to search out the four temples. I have already scanned the planet and have found several abnormalities. The federation and Space Pirates are examining each location. With this message I have sent you a marked map identifying these abnormalities. Good luck on your journey."

I opened my map and sure enough the locations were marked and there were several. Three of which were in the Corrupted Lands but most of them were spread across the land. Warfang Province, Avalar Province, Mountain of Malefor Province, Great Gorge Province, Frozen land Province, the Poisoned Forest Province, and many more. Just by the name of the Poisoned forest I had to guess that the Poison Trial Temple would be located somewhere within the dark confines. As for the time being Link and I returned to Warfang to rest up for the approaching trials that were certain to test our abilities to their fullest.

Upon arriving at Warfang, VIA Twilight Portal, we were surrounded by Space Pirates and were ushered into the lower portion of the tower. As we were taken into the lower depths I wound up doing my usual routine when entering a Pirate Base. I looked at the machines and scanned them for information. The deeper in we went I took notice of the vast number of Cloning Pods that filled the rooms. They were in active use cloning all the sentient beings of this planet. As I looked around I noticed a Federation AU conduit running up the wall. I knew that it went to the Aurora Unit at the top of the tower so I had to only assume that these clones were for a just in case scenario.

That scenario being in case the world is in danger of destruction and the beings of the time are not able to stand toe with it. These battle hardened, Wise minded beings would be released from the pods to bring order to the crisis. As it were they were in use and inside them depended on the room. One room all the cloning pods were cloning the Cheetahs of Avalar. Another room was cloning the Dragons of Warfang. Another was cloning the Moles, while several other were cloning many other creatures that populated this planet. However in one of the chambers was a large cloning pod, obviously not in use due to Ridley still being alive but somewhere lost in time.

As we were lead further we came to a single chamber that was big enough for Ridley to move around in without any troubles even fly for a bit. In the center was a single platform that could hold both Link and myself with room to spare for the Guardians and several more dragons besides. Link and I got onto the platform and turned to face the Space Pirates who were kneeling before us. They then began to speak in their language swearing alliegience to Link, Myself, and Ridley. Ridley because despite the fact that he was gone he was still alive somewhere.

After it was all said and done one of the Space Pirate's approached Link and me.

"We were told to report any anomalies that we find to you. We have reports from scouts who have sent in reports of seeing some ruins... uh it says here 'Ruins cloaked in shadow within the veil of a great mountain range beyond a great body of water.' This message last marked their position a few days beyond the Dam so make sense of it what you can. We'll be getting back to work on things now but before we do we have a few things to give to you two." The space pirate said before pressing a few buttons on it's data pad.

A few seconds later the walls opened and Link and I were surrounded in some kind of containment field. I was not sure what was going on but they had sworn an oath of loyalty and servitude to us so I did not think that they would harm us. I was right because after some time I noticed all the functions of the Power Suit changing around slightly. The Beam fusion device was removed but what was left in it's place was something else. Upon looking at it closer I noticed that there was an X on it with some kind of blob next to it. I called this the X device. The other augments were astounding to such a point that I did not know that the Space Pirates had done so much research into such things. Here it all was being given to me and Link for our use, most likely for our journey ahead and the battles to be faced.

The containment withdrew leaving me and Link standing on the platform with a whole new apparel. Our armor held a set of emblems that recognized Space Pirate, Federation, Civilization of planet Spyrus, and Hyrulus. I decided to take it that we were all allies now and that we would assist each other in the goings on of the galaxy. I decided to go with it for the time being and decided to tell them to return to their work so that Link and I could seek out the Temple of Shadows and take on it's trials.

(Spyro's POV)

Cynder and I were being trained in the rigorous task of using advanced versions of our current elemental abilities and our fighting skill. A days ago we had seen a group of Aerotroopers fly over head and into the distance. We continued our training up to today and it was going hard for the both of us and Malefor was being somewhat harsh even though he was no longer controlled by that darkness.

"No... Wrong... all wrong." Malefor roared and kept himself from lashing out as if he were punishing an underling for failing him. "Try again Spyro. Draw upon the energy that flows from the sun and from the power within you. Let their combined energies fuse into one and then release that power. Cynder for you focus on the earth itself and take notice of the poisons that are natural amongst the world. Concentrate that poison into the acid that it becomes... Now... Focus."

We renewed our focus on our current element training. It was harsh and difficult, the Fire was to become a force like that of lava but something in me told me that it was not just simple Fire. Something told me that it was Fire and Earth that I had to use but I did not know how to combine my breath attacks. That is until two familiar dragons flew overhead and something fell off the one with the orange read scales.

My focus broke as the object hit the ground nearby, Malefor was surprised by the sudden sound as well. We went to investigate the object and saw something shining with the emblem of swirling energies and there were two of them one Purple and one Black. I walked towards the two objects and noticed the design of them. They looked like a floating flat coin but there were two dragons encircling the center while the center seemed to show all four emblems of our elements as one element with the symbol for Convexity above them but attached. Curious I touched the coin and it flashed and was absorbed into my body and the other one rushed to Cynder and the same happened.

I shook my head and saw a message appear on the Bio scope that was the eye piece of my helmet. It did not register anything wrong but I felt different but in a good way. I looked at Cynder and she too was much the same. I shook my head and went back towards the dam but stopped at the massive lake and tried something.

Standing still and close to the water I focused my mind on the fire within myself and the Earth that was beneath my feat. I took a deep breath and released it. What shot out of my mouth was a stream of molten rock that the air itself seemed to burn. The molten rock hit the water and became hardened stone. I was surprised at the out come and Malefor was surprised slightly as well then he looked at Cynder who drew upon her focus and unleashed a maelstrom of power that seemed to encase the area in shadows combined with blood chilling screams, and a chill wind the blew without touching the plants, and the ground itself seemed to star bubbling around her.

Malefor jumped back at the combined power of all four breath attacks being released at once. From his expression I figure that he was gonna try to teach us to use this new ability but then he seemed to reconsider the idea, which he did. We followed him back to the dam and he told us to find Ignitus so that we could gain control over our new ability.

I shook my head and took to the air heading back to Warfang before remembering that Samus had given us a Call Beacon that would summon her ship to us if we needed it. I activated it and sure enough her ship flew in and allowed me and Cynder to get on board. The voice of the A.I. Adam greeted us.

"Welcome aboard Spyro and Cynder. Might I ask what you need?"

"Adam. We need you to take us to the White Isle. We've..." I was cut off as Adam cut in.

"I have taken note of your new ability to combine your breath attacks. I have set a course and we are on our way now." Adam said as the ship started moving.

Cynder and I sat back but soon we just laid down on the metal floor and began to talk about various things. The whole subject soon turned to a slightly embarrassing topic which I hoped that the color did not show forth on my scales.

"Well Spyro it makes sense because we never leave each others side no matter what and we always watch out for each other. To top it all off we don't fight." Cynder said with some color on her face.

"I know Cynder but don't you think it's a bit early for us to be thinking about that?" I asked.

"Not really I mean we are of age but I guess we are still considered young by most standards." Cynder stated but still maintained her course of topic, "What would your answer be though? I'm curious."

I looked at her and saw in her eyes thee love that she had for me in it's purest form, the gratitude, the caring, the love, the kindness, and the memories of the times that I had her safety on my mind instead of my own. I couldn't lie to her after our journey I had actually started to have feelings for her and I knew that at the end of our journey that the two of us would never be separated ever again. So I answered her.

"Yes. Cynder my answer is yes. Even now I consider you my mate." I smiled a smile of love and compassion and continued, "Many of the things that were accomplished I could not have done so without you by my side. Even when things seemed to be a lost cause we still found a way through it all. We are here because we work together as we do."

I nuzzled the side of her head gently and lovingly and she returned the gesture. That's as far as it went because the A.I. chimed in that we had reached the White Isle. I looked at Cynder and she returned the look.

"Shall we go master this new ability?" I asked her. She smiled and we made our way to the ground through a drop gate at the back of the ship and we glided down to the ground.

Another slow chapter but I think this one is rather good. Samus and Link are the leaders of the Space Pirates due to Ridley being trapped in the past for who knows how long. Spyro and Cynder have gotten a new ability and to top it all off the two have expressed their feelings for each other (expect in the epilogue of them being official mates and all that good stuff cept with it being good clean.) Now then... where were we... Oh yes.

If you liked this chapter then please join me for the next one and drop me a review alright... I am getting back in the zone once more. and thank you to all of you who read my story I am grateful for the reviews. If you want I can throw in an OC of your creation into the Epilogue chapter of the story and on top of that I'll be posting the Ancient Lore data as well.