A few dragons had returned from the chevrons already, including those who never left, the dragons at the super portal were Spyro, James, Selena, Kenji, Ryan and Jacy. Perrin had left to help with a child who had broken a leg. Just a few minutes ago Kenji had been telling them all about his battle with the illusion that had taken the form of his dark side, a nobody called Ixnek.
The eight beams struck the portal and their corresponding gem had reacted, but nothing happened, Spyro noticed a large amethyst on the portal that was unlit. And they all turned after hearing a laugh behind them.
Spyro's eyes widened in shock as he stared at the dragon before him. His entire body was flat black, not a single scale, horn or plate on him was any color but black, it seemed so dark that it absorbed light around him, giving him an aura of darkness. Or maybe it was just that he had a black aura. But what shocked Spyro the most was what the dragon looked like.
It looked exactly like him, with the exception of having all of its tail of course. Spyro regained his composure and asked "Who are you?"
The dragon looked at Spyro with eyes that glowed white, the only part of him not black, and replied with a multi toned voice. "Who are you?"
"I'm Spyro."
The black dragon coked its head. "I'm Spyro."
"Dude." Kenji said, earning him an unreadable stare from the black dragon. "Quit copying him and answer already."
There was a pressure all of a sudden, like the air was thicker and the black dragon vanished. He reappeared a moment later, towering on two legs above Kenji, his claw cloaked in flames, it swung with the intention of separating Kenjis head from his body.
There was a gale of wind and the dragon was shoved just out of range, it's flaming claws rending the air inches in front of Kenji who calmly said "Aeroga." Then there was a flash and his keyblade, Keberdu was in his hand. "I wouldn't try that again."
"Kenji stop." Spyro said, causing us all to look at him. "I want him to answer my questions." He turned to the black dragon. "Why do you and I look so similar?"
The black dragons claws extinguished and he turned to face Spyro. "Why do you and I look so similar?"
Spyro growled, to which the black dragon growled in return. "Enough!" Spyro roared. He turned to the others. "He's mine." Then he leapt at the black dragon, yellow and white flames erupting from his mouth.
The black dragon smiled cruelly and took the attack; his body was swallowed by the inferno. Spyro cut the blaze and watched as the flames gathered into a raging ball that consumed the dragon. He smiled, knowing that no one could survive.
Then the orb seemed to shrink, intensifying as it became smaller, eventually it became so small it no longer covered the black dragon, who they could see was completely unharmed. The orb continued to shrink until it was hovering in front or the black dragon, so small they couldn't see it, just its white glow.
The dragon smile at Spyro. "Die." Then the concentrated inferno shot at Spyro, who dodged just in time, the attack streaked straight through a boulder that was behind Spyro, leaving a tiny glowing point on the front and back. Suddenly the entire boulder went off like a bomb, catching Spyro off guard, the shockwave throwing him to the ground.
The black dragon jerked his head back and they could see the point of light return, heading towards Spyro again.
James summoned a disk of shadow that intercepted the attack, it hit the disk, which absorbed much, but not all of the attack, what was left passed through the disk and hit Spyro, his friends looked on with anger burning in their hearts as Spyro screamed.
That does it. Selena said. She looked at James, who nodded. He had told her about something from another world that while not magic, was just as effective in certain cases. He tossed her a small pendant, which he now wore at all times. It had half of some kind of seal on the back She grabbed it and her own pendant which bore the other half of the seal and pressed them together, they locked and blue lightning flashed from the seal. The lead pendants then began to morph as the alchemy took place, transforming into a glowing orb that she enveloped in a bubble shield to keep the radiation at bay.
James had explained that the humans had a technology involving radioactive materials that produced a massive amount of energy, the by product of the materials losing all radioactivity was the creation of lead, Selena had transmuted the lead, infusing it with enough energy to convert it into uranium. Selena threw the deadly metal at the black dragon, then covered them both with a shield as James shot a small beam of light, which struck the uranium, starting the chain reaction. He then reinforced Selenas shield with shadow and Kenji added a barrier spell on top of that.
Even through these barriers, the light and heat were intense as the explosion decimated anything inside.
James's shadows absorbed any residual radiation as the barriers were lifted. The area was a perfect sphere bowled out of the earth, the surface completely molten. They stared in wonder. Perrin looked at her paws. To think that this new power, alchemy was this powerful. Honestly it scared her. She was glad James had the foresight to split the transmutation circle onto two keys otherwise it would have been too easy to accidentally do something horrible. And after seeing the devastation wrought by this power she wanted to destroy the others they had made, there's a difference between enough power and too much.
They heard laughing behind them. They all wheeled around to see the black dragon, who said "Honestly, you throw much too slow."
"So you can talk." Kenji said.
The black dragon cocked an eyeridge. "Of course."
"So what's your name?" Jacy asked.
"That I cannot ell you, otherwise you'd tell Spyro."
"Why don't you want dad knowing?" James asked.
"It is something he must learn himself"
"You look like Dark Spyro." Ryan said
"I would tell you that you were wrong, even if you are correct, so why ask?"
"And besides." Kenji said to Ryan, "Dark Spyro's belly and wings are bone colored, not to mention the whole smoke and lightning thing."
They heard groaning behind them and as they rushed to Spyro's side, they heard te black dragon say "He'll learn what I have to teach or die trying."
They got to Spyro's side as he was getting up, he had a large burn that bled on his face, but other than that was unharmed. Selena went to heal the wound, but Spyro shook his head.
"No time, I've got to finish this now."
"But that'll scar." Selena said. Spyro shrugged.
"Spyro." Ryan said, "He said he has something t teach you, but didn't say what."
Spyro stepped forward. "Well? Are you going to teach me or kill me?"
The black dragon said nothing.
"Tell me!" Spyro yelled.
"Tell me." The black dragon said.
Spyro growled and shot a bolt of lightning, which seemed to curve up and strike the dragons horns, it then arced from one to another before firing back at Spyro, but infused with dark energy. Before anyone even realized it was coming back it had struck Spyro, throwing him off his feet and to the ground. The black dragon just sighed.
As Spyro got back up the others formed a barrier between the two should the black dragon attack again. Spyro pushed through them, and ignored their objections.
"Well, aren't you going to attack yourself, or just throw what I have back at me?"
The black dragon said nothing.
Spyro growled. "No answer? Well try throwing this back! Spyro's eyes glowed white and a beam of convexity shot out, the purple beam was two meters off the ground but destroyed the ground underneath from the sheer force.
The black dragon smiled as the beam came to him. He opened his mouth as the beam struck, it narrowed and was absorbed into his mouth.
As the glare of the convexity cleared, they could see the black dragon smiling, Spyro's eyes widened.
"Convexity…" the black dragon said, his mouth glowing with a purple light. "A powerful force unrivaled by anything, it penetrates all barriers and destroys all matter, converting physical objects to heat and light, erasing it's presence from existence." He looked at Spyro. "Do you still not know?"
Spyro glared "I know you now. You killed Gaul." Everyone stared at him.
"I thought you killed him." Kenji said. Then it dawned on him. He turned back. "So, you are Dark Spyro."
Dark Spyro bowed. "Guilty as charged. I'm not Spyro's dark side, I'm a completely different entity born at the moment he entered the Convexity portal to stop Cynder from bringing Malefor back. At the present, neither Spyro nor myself can exist without the other, his life force is split between the two of us."
"Then why try and kill me?" Spyro asked.
"So the remaining life force will be transferred to me so I can truly live. Convexity had unexplainable properties, one of which can manipulate souls, which you're aware of Spyro."
Spyro nodded. "That fury back in Convexity that freed Cynder from the darkness."
Dark Spyro smiled. Prepare to witness your last moments of life, convexity destroys all barriers and with my power over it, it will be unavoidable, give in to despair and allow me to assimilate your soul into mine."
Dark Spyro opened his mouth and the absorbed convexity shot out, tainted by darkness. Spyro didn't move, it would be pointless; he just stared at his doom.
Suddenly he saw a silhouette in the blast, Kenji had moved in the way, he heard the others screaming over the roar of convexity.
There was a flash of pure light and the roar of convexity was replaced by an equally loud, but deeper rumble. The light flared and winked out. Spyro could see Kenji, his keyblade extended, pointing at Dark Spyro, who looked as shocked as glowing eyes can express.
"Wh- what did you do?" Spyro stammered. The he noticed Kenjis keyblade was shaped differently, it was white.
"I used the chain I took from the doppelganger during my fight, Oathkeeper. It's been imbued with a power called Concavity. It seems to be the polar opposite of convexity, I couldn't let you die, no way. So I thought it was worth a try. He smiled much like another keyblade bearer. "Looks like it worked eh?"
He then took the chain off the end of the blade, it reverted to a very normal looking key shape, except that it was much larger of course, and handed the chain to Spyro. "Here, the purple dragon can use every element, this ought to boost the natural process of learning concavity, if it's an element at all. If not, you'll at least be able to use it whenever you hold that."
Spyro nodded. "Thanks." He turned to Dark Spyro, who stood there, eyes still showing shock, but not fear.
"Earlier Kenji," Spyro said. "You told us that Concavity purges all evil from it's target without inflicting physical damage. In that case this may do quite a bit to a being of darkness."
The chain in his paw glowed and he opened his mouth, the light was so intense tat they couldn't see anything, just hear the rumble and an odd laughter."
As the light faded, Dark Spyro stood there still.
Spyro stared in shock. "How did it not affect you?"
"Simple, I lied about wanting to assimilate you, I knew the two legged dragon would use that power and give it to you. I merely started the chain of events that granted you this power and stripped it from Kenji."
"Why didn't you ant me to have it?" Kenji asked.
"And how did you know what would happen?" James asked.
Dark Spyro sighed. "To many questions… I didn't want you having concavity Kenji, simply because it's power is too much for all but a few dragons, if you noticed, you're attack was nothing compared to when Spyro used it, had you tried to use it's full potential, it would have rebounded and destroyed you. And as for how I knew? I overheard you talking about it and knew it was the logical thing to do to use concavity. Any more questions?"
"Where did you come from?" Spyro asked.
"I've existed inside you ever since you entered Convexity all those years ago, when you became to emotionally unstable to fight I took over to ensure our survival.
"What about those times my life wasn't in danger but you came out anyway? Or when my life was in danger, but you didn't show?"
"There are times when you're emotions would make you do incredibly stupid things, such as go back into the belt of fire after Ignitus or kill Valcor because of his fathers identity. Your emotions influenced how I acted, but I kept you from doing those things. And as for when you could have died, but I didn't show up, did you die?"
Spyro stared at him. "…No."
"Then you didn't need my help, did you?"
"I'd still have my tail if you had helped before!"
Dark Spyro shrugged. "After you overreacted about Valcor and I intervened, I couldn't manifest for sometime. I takes huge amounts of energy to completely morph your body and replace our conciseness', and even then I'm only partially successful, as Kenji said, the change isn't 100%, I still had some of your coloring, and your emotions still influence my actions. When I force myself out, I lose a great amount of power that could otherwise be used to ensure your survival."
"Is this what you wanted to teach me?" Spyro asked.
"Partially. Aside form my intentions earlier, I haven't distorted anything I've said, after using concavity on me, you know I'm not here for evil purposes, so I ask you again. "Who are you Spyro?"
James walked up to Spyro. "Dad, times wasting."
"I know, but the portal doesn't work, so until it does we've got time." He thought a minute before looking at Dark Spyro. "Everything you've said, it's all a large puzzle." Dark Spyro nodded.
Spyro thought for another minute, and then looked back to Dark Spyro, who nodded again.
"Thank you." Spyro said, "For all the times you've helped." A surge of purple lightning shot up through Spyros crests to his head, his eyes flashed purple and a beam of convexity shot out his mouth. The roar and light swallowed Dark Spyro. As the light faded, the place Dark Spyro had been was a smoldering patch of bare earth, Dark Spyro was gone.
"Why'd you do that?" Selena yelled. "We just find out your evil side wasn't evil at all, and you kill him!"
Spyro turned to her. "It's what he wanted. The whole reason he used every ounce of power just to manifest here. Did you notice he never once attacked me, only redirected my own attacks?"
Selena nodded.
"He was too weak to attack himself. He also said one of convexities powers is to manipulate souls. That and whenever he came out in the past, he could never fight with his full strength, I didn't kill him, but at the same time he no longer exists. I've assimilated his soul and power, along with his knowledge of convexity.
Before anyone could stop him, he turned and fired a beam of convexity at the portal itself. Ten minutes ago, the portal would have been reduced to rubble, Now with his newfound power over convexity, it did no damage to the portal, but when the beam stopped, the could see that the amethyst in the center of the arch was lit up.
He turned to the rest. "Convexity activates the portal." Just then there was a flash and the portal lit up, a field of white that faded to show the destination.
They all looked at Ôumí Jiâs realm, anti-space.
It was an endless expanse of white, with a large stone castle floating in the nothing.
They prepared to go through when James stooped them. "Wait! I'll be right back!"
There was a whistle sound as he teleported. A minute later he reappeared, Perrins paw on his.
"Now we can go." The others nodded and walked to the portal. Spyro however stayed where he was.
"Sorry, but I'll need to stay behind to reactivate the portal once you're ready to return. The portal will stay locked on anti-space, it'll just need to be activated again. Good luck."
James went back and hugged him. "Spyro… dad, I'm glad I could learn about who I really am."
Spyro smiled. "Me too, looks like purple dragon or not, a requirement for saving the world seems to be a tail."
"James chuckled and went back to Perrin, as a group James, Perrin, Kenji, Ryan, Jacy and Selena walked through. The portal flashed and closed, leaving an empty arch.