Well, Flame has become the LEGENDARY DRAGON OF CHAOS, the opposite side to Spyro's DRAGON OF DESTINY. What awaits Spyro and his friends in the Shadow Realm will test them like nothing before ever has. Can Spyro save Flame from himself or will he succum to the dark power growing within him? What about Spyro himself? As it was said in Spiderman: "With great power comes great responsible." Spyro, as well as his friends are all about to learn just what this means and the lesson will change all of them forever. So get ready to journey on because now... now it is finally time to enter the SHADOW REALM. Here is the Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 3 of 4... Enjoy.
Oh yeah, I can't forget the disclaimer or else this series will end prematurely with VU sueing me for all that I am worth.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Spryo characters or their world. They are property of Universal Games. I only own the new characters and ideas that are being created for this series. Blah blah blah... Let's move on...
Update: As many of you have probably noticed I have changed a few things in the story, such as how many parts this mini-series has. Originally the Dragon Rage SAGA was going to be only 3 parts long but due to part 3 running extremely long I hacked it in half and created a brand new part 4. Season 1 of Spyro: Dragon of Destiny will run a tad bit longer then it was originally planned too. The ending has also been changed as well. If you don't know what I am talking about then go check it out. This is a revision of the original part 3.
Old and New Review Replies:
I know some of these replies are old and I am sorry. However it is time to get back on track and continue the story...
BrandonLyNguyen: Hi Brandon. Thank you for the compliment and I am glad you are enjoying the series so far. I am working on brand new episodes right now and the series is set to resume later this month on the 20th with the conclusion of the current saga and the beginning of a brand new chapter that centers around Hunter and the other characters. The Legacy of Ages: Dragon of Destiny movie is also being currently written. The second season will be debuting sometime in late June or early July. As to your questions: 1. The character of Bandit the Armadillo from Spyro: Dark Legacy will be making his debut later on. I say this because in this alternate universe of events the storyline of Dark Legacy doesn't occur. There is a variation of Dark Legacy happening with Spyro's powers developing in this series but that is all. The plotline is completely different so that will make Bandit and the Armadillo tribe's debut different. The online for both the current and the second upcoming season has him appearing at some point either late in this season or early next season. It all depends on what direction the future episodes take. However, at the present time there is a very good chance that he might make his debut in this series before the endo of the current season. 2. Bandit and Ember will indeed meet at some point. The meeting is scheduled to take place soon and when it does the romantic relationship issues will get really interesting... If you know what mean! He he he...! Anyway, enjoy this revised version of part 3 and be on the lookout for part 4 coming soon.
Lithe: Heh, surprised that my story has gotten this good so fast. Well, get ready for more shocks and surprises. Spyro and his friends are about to enter the SHADOW REALM... duh dum. Okay, that was kinda lame but you get the point. As for your question I would have to say no, I was inspired by it while I was creating the rough draft of my series plotline but that is all. By the way, you have written a wonderful futuristic Spyro fanfic series, Lithe. I hope you continue writting 'Fall of the Future' soon. I really like what you have written so far. In fact, I am currently thinking about letting people who have good ideas contribute them for possible inclusion as full fledged Season Two: Invasion episodes. Unlike UV I can let the fans of the Spyro the Dragon games contribute to what they want to read in the future of this fanfic series. Currently, I am writting the script forms for the actual Spyro: Dragon of Destiny CGI series to be submitted to UV next year. Season One is already finished. This series is basically a slightly different story version of the ACTUAL story being submitted. The Spyro: Dragon of Destiny movie and Season two sneak peeks will start appearing now.
Gusty bv: Well, I hope you are ready for the mind-bending conclusion of this epic three part saga. As for Flame and Ember's fate... Well, the end of this episode will be a shocker. I would love to give you pointers for your stories. I am a writer of not only fanfics but original stories too. I am currently working on an original series of sci-fi anthromorphic adventure stories. A manga and animated series pilot film based on these stories is currently being worked on. I am writting this series in my spare time.
icewolf9: Glad you liked the introduction of Bianca and Hunter's two hybrid offspring. I am currently planning a spin-off series, that is currently untitled, that will feature Skyler, his team mates and their future world as the main characters for either later this fall or early next year.
Update: Look down at the point before the story begins for the title of the upcoming futuristic Spyro: Dragon of Destiny spin-off series.
Elliot The Dragon: Thank you for the great comment. Well, I hope you like this episode because it was a very interesting one to write. Prepare yourself for some very shocking surprises. The long complex origin of the Dragons of Destiny and Chaos and the roles both play in the mythology of all the Dragon Clans ancient history and lore will start to be explained here. Heh, heh... I think you are in for a very big shock and surprise when you find out what is really going on. I'll just say that Spyro and Flame have no idea what is in store for them both in the future. Also, expect one other major shocker...
Attention: Because school has started up again for me and I am sure for you guys as well, new episodes for this series will take a little longer to write and post. The series is not going to end prematurely or be cancelled so don't worry. I fully intend to finish what I started. I am also writing a multi-part season long Digimon fanfiction series called Digimon Tamers 02. That series should appear here later this year. The young digimon who is the star of that series is Dorumon and I have some very interesting plans for the little guy. His appearance has always made me curious about his origins. Now, I am going to play with that idea. Also, expect, everyone from Takato and Guilmon to the Digidestined that appear to get a major face-lift. This Digimon series is my idea of Digimon redefined and upgraded to a more action packed level.
As for Spyro: Dragon of Destiny, a spin-off series currently called Vanguardian Heroes: Team Skyler is planned for later this year. This series will introduce all of you to the brand new exciting world of Skyler and his friends. Expect new threats and mysteries to be revealed. New allies will be discovered and more legendary powers uncovered as the Legacy of Spyro lives on in a new generation of heroes and heroines. Prepare to enter the world of Vanguardian Heroes: Team Skyler later this year. Also, this final part of the Dragon Rage SAGA will be structured slightly different because it is much longer then the first two parts were. Read on and you will see what I mean.
Vanguardian Heroes: Team Skyler: A Glimpse ahead aka Sneak Peak
"Legendary heroes never die, Skyler. They just get updated and surpassed by new heroes. A hero is and always will be a hero." Spyro said softly as he looked proudly at his son. "Skyler, I am very proud of you and Blaze. You both have gone far beyond the call of duty many times to protect and defend not only this city and our past but also our beliefs. Be proud of yourself, Skyler, because you and your friends have made and continue to make a difference in this world." Spyro pauses and then gently puts an arm around his son's shoulder. "I know that even if something happens to me, you and your friends will be there to carry on in my place. As long as there are brave heroes who fight for what is right then there is always hope for the future. Always remember that, my son."
"I will, dad. I promise." Skyler said softly as he hugged his father while Ember watched from a distance with tears in her eyes.
- What is going to happen? Well you will just have to wait until Summer 2006 to see what the future holds in this completely original spin-off series.
Okay, that's done. Now, let's continue.. shall we...
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Hunter: "Your turn, my love."
Bianca: "Thanks, Hunter. Previously on Spyro: Dragon of Destiny" -
A purple dragon lands gently and starts walking back and forth along the beach watching the surf come in and go out. So much info to digest and so little time to digest all of it. Spyro thought sadly as he stopped walking and sat down on the sand. I can't believe I died here and was reborn here. How did that happen? I don't understand how I could die one minute and then somehow defining the natural laws of life and death come back. It just doesn't make sense. Spyro growled and rubbed his head in anger. "Why, Nestor? Why didn't you and the other elders not tell me or Flame about our parents or us being related?" Spyro said softly as his anger faded and tears fell from his eyes. "I have always wanted to have a family of my very own and have the answers to the questions that have plagued me all my life:
Where did I come from?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Is my duty as Guardian of the Dragon Realms all that defines me?
Is this really my true destiny or is there more?
So many questions and yet I have no complete answers for them even after all this time. And now, as if my life wasn't complicated enough, I have these new powers and abilities that I somehow gained after coming back from my untimely death. I don't understand... Is there something I am missing here? Knowing me I wouldn't be surprise considering how stupid and ignorant I have been." Spyro sighed sadly and looked up at sky as he laid down on the sand putting his arms behind his head. "I thought I was invinicible but Reeco changed that. I am not invinicible at all. All I am is an arrogant fool who has let being a hero for so long go to his head. Oh, Hunter... guys, I am so sorry for the way I have behaved lately. You guys have always been my best friends and look how I have treated all of you. I wish you guys were here so I could tell all of you that I..." Spyro started to close his eyes as sleep tried to take hold of him.
At that moment someone cleared their throat and said, in a very familiar voice, "You are sorry for acting like such a jerk and that you promise you will never again behave in such an arrogant manner. Don't worry about it, pal. All is forgiven!"
The familiar voice made Spyro's eyes snap open quickly as he quickly jump to his feet in a battle pose and look at the intruder or in this case intruders. Seeing that it was Hunter and gang, Spyro eased himself out of the battle pose he was in. "GUYS, don't do that!" Spyro said as he took a deep breath and calmed down. "Why are you here?"
Flame walked slowly over to Spyro and grabbed him in a tight bear hug surprising the older dragon who slowly returned the hug. "You know why, brother." Flame said as tears fell from his eyes. "We came here to try and get you to come back and talk to Nestor about what happened earilier."
Spyro pulled away from his brother and growled. "I can't talk to him, Flame! He lied all these years to us. Why should I give him the chance to lie again?" Flame sighed and placed a paw Spyro's shoulder.
"I know what Nestor and the other elders did was wrong, brother, but it is wrong to not at least give them a chance to try and make up for their mistakes." Flame said calmly as he slowly turned Spyro around to look him in the eyes. "Everyone deserves a second chance, brother. Please give Nestor and the other elders a chance to redeem themselves. We forgave you. Why can't you forgive them?" Spyro looked at Flame as a smile began to slowly appear on his face.
"Your right, Flame... brother. I shouldn't have overreacted like that. I just didn't know how to deal with the revelations I was told. I was overwhelmed and it scared me. ME, SPYRO, I am not suppose to let anything scare me but what Nestor said did. I... I don't know if I ever will be able to handle this." Spyro said as he dropped his head and Flame gently wrapped his arms around his brother. "Mom... Dad... why did you abandon me and Flame so long ago? Didn't you love us?" Spyro leaned on Flames shoulder as he cried.
Spyro's Inner Pain revealed and A brotherly moment, Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA, Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
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"DO- AS- I- SAY-, RED OR YOU WILL DIE RIGHT HERE AND NOW BY MY PAW!" Reeco growled deeply tighting his grip on Red's neck to send the point home to him. Red, in fear of losing his life, activated the machine. As he did, Reeco let him go and smiled as his eyes turned blood red. "Well done, Red. Well done."
The machine powered up and as it started sending pure dark gem energy into his body, Flame woke up and roared in pain as dark energy, that was forced into his body, made it start to change.
"Increase the flow," Reeco said coldly as the sinster smile on his face seem to darken on his face. "I want him to be stong enough to kill his brother." Red frowned and stalled as he thought about what he was about to do. I can't do this. I want revenge on Spyro, but I can't torture his younger brother just to get back at him. This is wrong. "Well..., what are you waiting for, Red!" Reeco growled as he grabbed Red's right shoulder. "Carry out my order or pay the price. Remember, you wanted to get your revenge on Spyro, old one. This is the way we can accomplish that task without getting our claws dirty. Let Flame do our dirty work for us."
"Reeco," Red said as he looked away from the control panel and up at the black dragon. "I... I can't do this to him. Flame is an innocent dragon who hasn't done me or you any wrong. Why must we use this tactic to accomplish our goals?" Reeco looked at Red and as he did his red eyes narrowed into angry slits.
"So you are you refusing to obey me, Red! Very well, I'll do it myself!"
"NOoooo!" Red screamed as he tried to stop Reeco and got grabbed by Ryua as she stepped up behind him.
"Tough luck, gramps! Don't worry, Spyro will get his just desert in the end..." Ryua then stabbed him with her long claws thru his back. Red growled and then his eyes went wide as he feel backwards after Ryua retracted her claws letting him fall backwards to the floor. "Get this garbage out of my sight. The smell of his dying corpse offends me!" She said as she licked the blood off her claws with her tounge. Her eyes turned red and she smiled. "At least his blood is sweet."
"Yes, Lady Ryua," Two large Shadow Dragon said as they came and picked Red's body up and dragged him off to Sky and Stryker's cell. They opened the door and tossed him inside.
Sky went over to Red and knelt down by his side.
"Hold still, Red, I'll heal you." She said as Red looked at her with tears in his eyes. Sky began channeling her healing energy into Red as Ripto, Gnasty Gnorc, Grendor and the Sorceress watched with horrified expressions on their faces.
"I am so sorry, Sky," Red gasped. "I have been such a fool. Please forgive me!" Red closed his eyes and went out like a light. Stryker checked Red's pulse and sighed sadly.
"Sky, he's still alive, but for how much longer I can't say. You have merely slowed down what will happen. He is dying. The only way to save him is to get him to a Magic Crafters healing center." Stryker said with a solemn sad expression as he looked at his mate. Sky started crying as Stryker grabbed her and hugged her tightly.
While the tragedy in the cell was playing out, Flame was still undergoing his transformation. He growled as he fell to his knees in pain as the dark energy flow increased and he started to feel himself changing faster. No... what is happening to meeee! Flame screamed in his mind as the transformation that his body was undergoing sped up and entered a new phase. His muscles started to expand as his red scales turned blood red. As his form continued to change, Sky, Stryker and everyone else that was conscious, excluding Red of course, watched in horror as Flame began to grow larger and black stripes began to appear on his body. "SPYRO, BROTHER HELP ME!"
Hunter's Home
The golden energy field around Spyro's body ceased. As it did, everyone awoke holding their heads. Spyro groaned and his golden eyes snapped open wide as he sat up quickly. He looked up at the roof and cringed as he felt his brother's pain flash through him making him roar, "FLAME, NOOOooooo!"
- Soul Possession of Flame by darkness, Dark Transformations, Red's Tragedy and Spyro's Torment, from Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
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"Don't keep your inner pain forever bottled up, Hunter. It will only continue to bother you unless you let it go by telling someone. In fact, I can see you are hurting right now. Something about this current situation has brought back bad memories you have tried so hard to keep buried all these years. You lost your family at a young age. Didn't you?" Artimas asked. Hunter looked at Artimas with a sad look and nodded his head slowly as his face took on a far off look and his memory of the past came roaring back.
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The Mountain Kingdom of Willowbrook - 18 years earlier - Avalarian Time
"Mommy... Daddy, where are you?" Cried a seven year old Hunter as he ran out of the large burning country house that belonged to his family. Other cheetahs wearing war paint and carrying bows ran past him as bolts of flame rained down on buildings, destroying them left and right, from a large glowing overhead portal. Hunter looked up at the portal in fear and started running but tripped on a tree root. He turned around and watched as a fire bolt came flying toward him. He closed his eyes and put his arm up to shield himself. Just as the bolt neared him a large muscled arm wrapped around him and pulled him out of the way. Hunter opened his eyes and looked up into the loving face of his father, Kyle. "DADDY!"
Kyle smiled as he said, "I got you, Hunter, don't worry." Kyle ran with his son cradled safely in his arm. As soon as he outdistanced the blast range of the fire bolt he stopped and put Hunter down. "Son, go to the shelter with the other kits. We'll take care of this."
"But dad, I want to stay with you!" Hunter cried. Kyle knelt down and hugged Hunter as he cried.
"I know, son, but you are my world. You are all I have left and I can't let you get hurt. You and the other kits are the future of all four clans." Kyle let him go. "I love you, son, don't ever forget that just in case..." Kyle drifted off leaving his statement unfinished as unshed tears glistened in his eyes.
"Just in case of what, dad?" Hunter asked as his father stood back up and looked back toward the burning village.
"Just in case I..." He said as a female cheetah named Leona ran toward him and stopped right in front of him with wide eyes.
"Your highness, you must come quickly, the magical defense barrier has been breached! The enemy is invading the north part of the city and even with the faun helping us we are having a hard time stopping them!" Leona said as she bowed respectfully to Kyle. Kyle frowned and took his two bows off his back. He looked at Hunter and gave him one of the bows.
"Take this, Hunter. I taught you how to use the bow well. Use it to protect the other kits just in case we fail to stop the invaders from getting this far." Kyle said. Hunter nodded silently and ran toward the shelter. Kyle watched as his son entered the shelter. He smiled as tears started to fall from his eyes as he turned his back to the shelter and nodded to Leona. Leona pulled out her bow and together both of them ran back toward the burning city. As Kyle ran in his mind he remembered all the happy times he had spent with his children and his mate. Looking up at the sky as the stars began to appear, he said a silent prayer. Then he ran with Leona to face his fate with courage and determination. "Goodbye, Hunter." Kyle said to himself as he joined the rest of his people in a battle to save their home. "I love you with all my heart and soul. Even if I die tonight I die happy knowing that you will live to have a future. May your future bring you happiness, my son." With that said Kyle met his fate and faced his destiny as all leaders must do to save the ones they love.
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Hunter frowned as he and the other kits stayed in the shelter all night. They fell asleep to the sound of burning and awoke the next morning to the sound of rain. "It's over," eight year Jordan, a young black panther and one of Hunter's best friends said as he tried to open the shelter. "Hey, someone please give me a paw here." Hunter stood up and walk over to the doors and joined Jordan. Together they pushed but because of the weight of the rain pouring down on the door it wouldn't budge.
"Hey, could you guys give us a paw here?" Hunter asked as he and Jordan tried to open the door but couldn't. Two ten year old lion kits, Christian and his twin sister Crystal both nodded and joined Hunter and Jordan at the door. Together all four children pushed the heavy door open and walked out into rain.
Hunter looked at the other children inside the shelter. "Stay here while we go check the city. We'll be back." He said as he grabbed his bow. The other kits nodded and stayed put as Hunter, Jordan, Christian and Crystal ran toward the smoking watch tower that marked the entrance to the Valley of Orbs which led to Willowbrook Kingdom, the land of the four kings and clans. As they entered the kingdom they all looked in horror at the amount of devastation before them. Bodies of Cheetahs, Lions, Leopards, Cougars and Fauns lay burned and broken everywhere. "Oh god!" Hunter whispered as Christian and Crystal looked around with wide eyes. Jordan just fell to his knees and dropped his head in silent prayer.
"Come on, let's go check the palace and see if anyone is alive there." Jordan said as they all looked at each other.
"Good idea, Jordan." Hunter said as he ran ahead. Jordan, Christian and Crystal nodded silently as they followed their friend closing their senses to the sights, sounds and smells of death and tragedy around them. Finally, they reached the large tree-like palace.
"I wish the flames of war had stayed away from here." Crystal said sadly as tears fell from her eyes as she and the others looked around at what had once been the beautiful rainbow flower gardens that surrounded the palace. There was nothing but smoking ashes and dust left. Then they looked at the palace and gasped in shock. The once majestic palace was a burned out shadow of its former self. Stones lay scatter every-
where and the proud symbol of the four unified clans: Four paws holding a long wreath of white Avalarian Roses - the flower of peace, lay broken on the ground in front of the main palace entrance.
Hunter dropped to his knees as he looked at the place he and his three compainions had once called home. "It is all gone." Hunter cried as the other three children looked at the palace with tears in their eyes. "Everything that has ever matter to me. First my mother, then my sister Rachel, now my father and our beautiful city are all gone. I am all alone."
"No you are not, Hunter," Christian said as he knelt and put an arm around Hunter's shoulder. "We are here and together we'll rebuild this Kingdom to its former glory. Our parents loved us so much that they sacrificed themselves to save us. We can't let that sacrifice be in vain."
"My brother is right," Crystal said softly as she knelt and placed her paw on his shoulder. "We are together in this tragedy. We will survive and rebuild." Crystal looked down and smiled as she saw a small multi-colored flower by Hunter's left foot. She gently touched the flower as she looked at Hunter. "Hunter, my mother once told me that even in times of great tragedy new life is born. No matter how bleak or horrible the situation may seem we must always have hope and never give up. This young flower hasn't given up even though all its brothers and sister have been burned to ashes around it. It continues to grow and thrive not giving up on life as it reaches for the sky with hope for the future. Do you know why this flower does that?" She asked as Hunter looked her in the face and shook his head softly. "The reason is because this flower knows that one day the rest of its kind will come back and it won't be alone anymore. We mustn't look at what has happened as the beginning of the end but as the end of what once was. We must look at what has happened and fight to make the future better. I miss my parents just like you do, but the best way we can honor their noble sacrifices is to forever keep them right here." She said as she touched her chest. "In our hearts where they will live forever as a part of us."
Hunter looked at Crystal and smiled as he wiped the tears from his eyes. "You know what, Crystal, I believe your clan will benefit from your wisdom one day." He then looked up into the stormy sky as he stood up with his friends letting the rain fall on them washing away their tears, their pain and their innocence. Then he looked back at the other young future clan leaders and started walking back toward the shelter quietly. As he walked Hunter promised himself that he would never forget what happened here and he would, just like the little flower Crystal found at his feet, thrive and reach for the sky with endless hope for a better future.
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Soon they reached the shelter and as they got ready to enter it they heard a loud crash. Hunter ran to the river and looked upstream in horror as Hope Dam, a beautiful orb powered dam that the fauns had built thousands of years ago as a show of peace between the Avalar clans collapsed releasing huge wave of water. Hunter ran and jumped for the outstetched paw of Christian. He grabbed Christian's paw and held on as the river raced by pulling him downstream. "HOLD ON, HUNTER!" Christian growled as he tried to pull Hunter out of the rushing water. Jordan and Crystal also reached for Hunter.
"I am trying!" Hunter growled when suddenly a piece of the broken dam hit him in the waist making him scream in pain as he let go of Christian's paw. "CHRISTIAN!" He yelled as the rough current pulled him downstream away from his friends.
"HUNTER!" Christian, Crystal and Jordan yelled as they watched, in shock, the river take Hunter away from them.
Hunter struggled against the current as he tumbled around in the river that his people got their food from. "Help me... Someone, please help me!" He screamed as the swift current carried him farther and farther away from his friends. He fought to keep his head above the water but his energy ran out and just as he started to go under a cloaked figure tossed a rope around him and pulled him out quickly.
"Don't worry, little one. I have you." The cloaked figure said as she/he looked back at the remains of the city of Willowbrook. "I can't take you back home and you can't come with me on my journey. I'll have to take you someplace where it is warm and safe. But where could that be...? Wait! I know!" The cloaked figure picked him up and ran swiftly toward the nearest faun village. Hunter never knew what happened because he was slipping in and out of unconscious. Now, he thought before unconsciousness claimed him, I am alone.
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Hunter growled as his memories of the past faded back into the back of his head. Looking at Artimas he said softly, "Please, don't say another word, Artimas. Just give it a rest. I know you are trying to help and don't get me wrong I appreciate what you are trying to do, but right now like I said before isn't the time. Right now let's focus on helping Flame." Artimas nodded and smiled
"You are truly a good friend, Hunter. You put other people's problems before your own. Spyro and his friends are lucky to have you around." Artimas said as he bowed to the cheetah before he silently turned and started to walk inside...
Hunter said, getting Arimas's attention, "Even so, thank you for caring, Artimas. Now go check on my pal and see how he is doing. I'll be in there to check on him in a minute." Hunter grinned as Artimas looked at him and nodded before turning and going inside. As he entered Hunter's home he headed straight for the large bedroom. As he opened the well oiled door, he noticed that Spyro, who was wearing a short, white with gold trimmed jacket-like robe, was hovering in the air with his legs crossed and eyes closed holding a meditating position.
- Hunter's Secret Past is finally revealed at last..., from Episode 5: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame
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Outside of Hunter's House
As soon as Spyro and his friends walked out the door they had to duck the flying body of Ember that slammed into the door going thru it to the interior of Hunter's home. Hunter groaned. "Great, now I am going to have make a new door! Thanks alot, Ember!" Hunter said as a dark pink, very angry Ember walked back outside. Ember looked at Hunter with narrowed eyes. Hunter grinned sheepishly and backed away from her seeing how royally ticked off she was. "Never mind, I was going to replace that door anyway." Ember flapped her wings and flew back toward a bruised, black eyed Elora with smoke billowing out of her nostrils like she was a raging fire ready to burn anything or anyone that got in her way of mangling the faun. Spyro groaned, closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Let's end this right now!" Ember yelled as she grabbed the faun and body slammed her through a wooden table. Elora jumped back up slowly shaking her head and body to get rid of the dazed feeling she was feeling.
"BRING IT ON, POWDER PUFF!" Elora growled as she punched Ember in the stomach making the dragoness gasp in pain as she bowed over holding her stomach. Elora follow up the stomach punch with a slap to her face knocking her to the ground. "STAY DOWN, EMBER! I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU BUT IF YOU KEEP THIS UP THEN I WILL DO WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO TO PUT AN END TO THIS!" Ember's body started glowing red as she stood back up growling with angry eyes fixed on Elora. Elora saw the look on Ember's face and said, "Oh crap!" Then she ran as Ember charged after her ripping apart wooden tables and chairs that got in her way with rage increased strength. Elora looked back over at Spyro and her other friends and said, with fear in her voice, "Help, she's going to kill me!"
Spyro looked at Hunter and they groaned as they nodded to each other. Spyro jumped into the air and flew toward Ember at full speed. "EMBER, STOP!" Spyro screamed. Unfortunately, Ember was so angry that she didn't hear what he had said. "This is not good." He said to himself. Ember usually never ignored him completely unless she was enraged and not in her right mind. And that meant that... Oh no, Spyro thought. If we don't stop this now someone is going to die and considering how angry Ember is right now I'd say Elora is already dead. Unless... "Hunter!"
Hunter looked over at Spyro with a matching grim expression on his face. He understood perfectly how seriously bad the situation was and that their old friend, Elora was screwed. Ember wasn't going to stop until she either reduced Elora to ashes or clawed her eyes out... literally. Either way, Elora was going to suffer horribly. "Yeah, pal, I know! We have to put a stop to this before it gets any worst." He yelled as he turned to Bianca. "Bianca, we have to help Spyro calm Ember down before she fatally hurts Elora." Bianca nodded and snapped her five pawed fingers summoning her new magic wand staff.
Meanwhile, Ember had pinned Elora on the ground started to breath fire at her. Elora put her arms up in front of her and blocked the flames with a magical barrier. Spyro landed behind Ember and tried to stop her but she backhanded him into the sand. Turning back to Elora she resumed breathing flames at her. Elora started sweating with the amount of effort and strain it was taking to keep the barrier up. She had trained over the years to increase her magical abilities and defenses, but even she had limits. Despite all the training she was starting to grow tired. Good grief, this girl has a good set of lungs. She has been breathing fire on me for the last fifteen minutes nearly non-stop. Geez, when will she get tired and stop. The beads of sweat on her forehead started to rolled down her face as the strain continued to increase making Elora growl as she fought hard to maintain the barrier a little longer. Somebody, please help me, I can't hold this barrier up for much longer.
Blink and Hunter ran over and grabbed Ember's arms causing her to stop. "Ember, stop it! You are going to kill her if you continue." Blink screamed. "It isn't worth it!" Ember, enraged that she was being interrupted, growled and turned to face both him and Hunter.
"Let go of me, Blink! I am going to finish what I started. Sorry, but someone needs to teach this faun a lesson and make her realize that..."
Spyro jumped back in and pushed Blink and Hunter to the side as he grabbed Ember's horns and flipped her on her back. She growled as she struggled to stand back up and continue her attack on Elora but Spyro put a stop to it by pinning her to the ground. "GET THE HELL OFF OF ME, SPYRO!" Ember roared as she kept struggling. Spyro narrowed his eyes and looked down at her with an angry expression on his face as he shook his head. Ember growled as she said, "Very well, I am sorry, Spyro, but remember you forced me to do this!"
"DON'T YOU DARE, EMBER!" Spyro growled but it was already to late as Ember breathed a large stream of flames on him making him jump off her with a roar of pain as he fell backwards onto the sandy ground. Artimas and Bianca, in shock and horror, ran over to their smoking friend as Ember stood back up and started getting ready to resume her attack on Elora.
Bianca sighed and shook her head as she healed the burns on Spyro's body. "Oh great, now Elora is going to be angry. Hunter, we have to stop this fight now before it goes any farther." She whispered to him and Hunter looked at her and silently nodded as he looked at Ember.
"EMBER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Hunter growled as he looked at her angrily. "Spyro was trying to stop you from killing Elora and you hurt him! You claim you love him and yet you do this to him!"
Ember froze in shock her body going slack as she finally realized what she had done and backed away shaking her head. Elora growled angrily, jumped to her feet and ran toward Ember. Elora growled as she pulled her paw back into a fist and was about to punch Ember when a singed, nearly healed Spyro sat up and roared getting their attention. "STOP IT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" He growled in anger making all of his friends pause and look at him. Spyro pulled himself to his feet as he glared at Ember and Elora with eyes that were slowly bleeding to gold as he walked over and looked at them. "I refuse to stand here and watch two of my best friends fight each other over who gets me! I am not a prize to be won by either of you! I said this same line a few days ago when we were at Nestor's home and here I am saying it again!"
"WHY, SPYRO!" Elora growled as she pushed Ember down to the ground hard. "She hurt you and she deserves to get punished."
"You don't have the right to judge anyone, Elora, considering the fact that you originally started this in the first place." Spyro growled as he looked Elora right in the eyes.
Elora stood up and face Spyro with an angry expression on her face. "How dare you talk to me like that. I have loved you for years and you never returned the love I gave you." Looking at Ember as the dragoness stood up. "Ember started the fight this time. Not me! I just simply told her you were my dragon and she snapped!" Elora growled as she glared at Ember. "She just can't accept the truth that you are already taken. It really is sad. Hey, powderpuff, maybe you should date Flame once we rescue him. I hear he is single and that he loves you. Leave Spyro to me. He is more dragon than you can handle, little girl." The way Elora said the insult made Ember sigh sadly and just looked at Elora.
"You dare accuse me of starting this. You started this. I admit I may have made it worst with my own actions, but don't forget you started this, Elora. Besides in case you have forgot I had your but on the ropes just a little while ago. If Spyro, Hunter and our other friends hadn't interfered then you would be ashes right now." She said softly.
"Shut up, powderpuff! Why would Spyro love you? You are nothing but a pest to him. All these years you have just followed him around like a giggling fangirl." Elora said as Ember glared at her with tears in her angry eyes. Elora growled and then started to jump on her but instead Spyro grabbed her.
"Stop fighting, I am growing tired of this!" Spyro growled as she struggled against him. He held her tight until she stopped struggling and then he let her go. As soon as Spyro let her go, Elora punched Ember in the face knocking her on her back. Elora started to cry then as she started raining punches down on Ember's chest with such force that she cut her paws on Ember's scales.
Ember looked at Elora sadly with tears in her eyes and said, "Go ahead, Elora. Kill me! I hurt Spyro and tried to kill you. I deserve to die for my sins like you said." After she said that Ember started to cry.
"Very well," Elora said as she started to punch the dragoness again. At that moment Ember sat up and grabbed her arm and pulled her down into a hug. Elora froze in shock as Ember hugged her. "What are you doing, Ember?" She asked in surprise.
"Putting a stop to this," Ember said softly as she looked up at Spyro, who had stopped himself from jumping between the two fighting girls again. Ember reached out to him and he turned his back on her and walk away.
"WAIT!" They both yelled as they got up and ran over to him. Putting their paws on his back they cried. "We're so sorry, Spyro!"
"We shouldn't haven't been fight over you at a time like this!" Ember said sadly as she dropped her head in shame.
Spyro growled in anger and turned around slapping both Ember and Elora in the faces. "Your right, now is a bad time to fight over me... again!" Both females rubbed their faces as they looked at Spyro with hurt expressions on their faces. "Don't you dare give me those looks, ladies!" He growled as he looked at Elora and Ember with narrowed eyes. "You were trying to kill each other again and when I tried to stop both of you." He looked at Ember. "You hurt me, Ember."
Ember closed her eyes as tears started falling from them. "I am so sorry I did that to you, Spyro. Please forgive me!" She cried. Spyro looked at her with a frown and sighed.
"I am sorry I slapped both of you just now I didn't want to do it, but you two earned it because both of you refused to listen to reason. I had to make a choice of whether or not to let you girls keep fighting in which case would have result in the death of either one or both of you. I could have chosen to let the fight play itself out to the end. An end you know would have resulted in Ember's favor and not yours, Elora." Elora dropped her head as what remained of her anger faded away to be replaced with shame. "I didn't want that to happen so I chose to intervene in the fight in the only way possible: I stepped in and used force. I am glad one of you came to your senses after hurting me. I know that in those love-filled heads of yours you both think you deserve me. Don't get me wrong I won't say neither of you do because I don't know. I have recently thought that prehaps I don't deserve you guys because of how I arrogant I have been lately." Ember looked up at Spyro in surprise as she felt his tears fall on her. Elora sighed sadly and started to back away sadly. Spyro looked at her and grabbed her gently, pulling her into the hug between him and Ember. "Now that I have your undivided attention I want you to get this through your heads right now. I will chose who I want to be with on my own terms and in my own time. We are all still very young so there is no hurry. Just be patient." He said softly as he released them both with a grin. "Besides, at the moment, we have a rescue mission to plan for."
Ember said, as both she and Elora smiled and nodded as they both, hand in hand, walked with Spyro back toward Hunter's home. "You have changed a lot recently, Spyro. I know you have and I am glad it was for the better." Spyro looked at her and opened his mouth to deny her comment only to have Elora put a pawed finger on his mouth.
"Yes, Spyro, Ember is right about you. You have changed and I too am glad you have. When I first met you years ago you were a very bold, brash and tough young dragon with a lot of heart and determination. Over time you changed and seem to lose your heart as you became more arrogant. Me and Ember may have our differences but we both agree that for awhile we both were afraid that we were losing that part of you that made you YOU. A dragon who puts the safety of others he care about before his own safety. That is why I think me and Ember fell in love with you, Spyro. You care about others and want to make things better." She paused for a minute before she said, with a thoughtful look on her face, "I think I finally figured out why you are called the Dragon of Destiny." Artimas smiled as he listened as Elora said, "It is your destiny to bring all of us together to build a better future, not just for your people, but for us all. You are, like the beautiful rose of peace on Avalar, a symbol of unity and hope." Elora looked over at Artimas and noticed that he was smiling. "I am right about that aren't I, Artimas?" Artimas merely nodded as he walked beside them silently.
"Maybe I am," Spyro said as he looked around at all his friends. "But, if that is true, I wonder what future we are going to build together."
"I think the future we build together will be a happy one." Hunter said softly making Spyro and the others glance over to him. "I just have to say that I am also thankful you have backtracked. I don't mind my best friend being a tough guy but your arrogance was starting to hurt all of us. We are all proud to be your friends, Spyro, but for awhile it seemed as if you were forgetting us. I know me and you talked about your walkabout sight seeing journey around the Realm you did after defeating Red, but I still wonder if you told me everything. What was the TRUE reason for your traveling, pal?" Spyro looked at Hunter and smiled.
"Heh, I should have known I couldn't keep the truth from any of you." Spyro sighed and with a serious expression said, "Hunter, guys, I left to do some soul-searching. I know, it's not like me to do that but I did it because of what Red said during my battle with him."
Flashback to A Hero's Tale during Spyro's first battle with Red
I had made it to Red and he was waiting for me. We talked briefly and as we talked he said something that troubled me deeply. He said, "You remind me of myself when I was your age." It was almost like he was trying to warn me to be careful not to let myself get so overconfident in myself that I let my arrogance blind me to everything and everyone who is truly important to me. My duty and above all else you guys... my loving friends. The more I fought him I began to realize that prehaps once upon a time Red may have been like me and somehow made mistakes that changed him into what he became. I realized after I defeated... no, that isn't right, WE all defeated Red I begin to see what he meant. Because when I started to finally take the time to look at myself I begin to realize that I was indeed slowly losing myself and I didn't like that.
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Spyro looked at his friends with a solemn and humble expression as he said, "I have always been rather hardheaded that is the truth. I never listened to Nestor, Sandra or any of the Elders and they were only trying to teach me something because they cared. I guess because I spent so many years keeping myself to myself that I have become hard and cold to everyone around me. I took that journey and tried to rediscover myself. When I fought Reeco and died I thought that was the end but..." Spyro looked at Hunter and all his friends and smiled. "You were there, Hunter. In fact all of you were there with me, I felt all of you giving me your strength to keep me going. I may have gained this power in death but it alone wouldn't have been enough to bring me back from death's grip. All of you made the difference just like you did in the past. I am only here now because of you guys. I have never been one to learn any lessons but I think I owe Red for helping me open my eyes and see what I was in danger of becoming."
"Being a hero with determination but with no heart is not being a true hero at all. Am I right, Spyro?" Elora said softly as Spyro nodded and smiled.
"Thank you, all for caring about me. I don't think I'll ever be able to repay all of you but I will try." Spyro said as Hunter and the others smiled and followed them happy that not only was the fight between Elora and Ember finally over with at long last but Spyro... the SPYRO they had all come to respect and in most cases love was finally back home.
- The War over Spyro ends and Spyro's Amazing Change, from Episode 5: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame
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"My duty, Lord Reeco, is to kill Spyro with extreme predjudice." He said as Ryua brought him a long black jacket. He slipped it on and as he did metal gauntlets appeared in the air in front of him and he raised his arms letting the gauntlets lock around them. "Excellent!" Flame then surprised Ryua and Reeco by grabbing Reeco by the throat and slamming him into the wall. "I do this for you, Reeco, but not because you want me too. No, I am doing this because I have my own reasons."
"What are you talking about!" Reeco gasped as Flame held him by the throat. Flame smiled and dropped him. Ryua checked on Reeco as both of them looked at Flame in shock.
"My brother has answers I must get from him before I kill him. He has powers that I want and I intend to take them for myself. As he is the Dragon of Destiny, I am the Dragon of Chaos. While it is his destiny to bring order and peace to the worlds. Mine is to bring chaos and discord. You can't have order without chaos. Thank you, Reeco for awakening me to my true destiny." Flame said as he walked over to the prison cells. Reeco and Ryua frowned as they realized just what they had done.
"Oh crap," They both said as they watched Flame grab a blade staff.
"Flame, nooooo!" Sky screamed as she cried on Stryker's shoulder. As Flame looked at her and Stryker he gave them a smile that chilled them to the bone. No, dear god please don't tell me my son is gone. Flame can't be gone.
"Don't worry mother, I promise you that Spyro won't suffer... much before he dies!" Flame said as he summoned a black portal. The portal appeared behind him and he stepped backwards into it leaving his parents with a view of his cold smile and dead gold eyes that promised death to all those who got in the way of his objective.
"What have I done." Red gasped as he stopped breathing. Stryker and Sky turned quickly as they ran over to Red and checked his pulse. Stryker growled and started hitting Red in the chest trying to get him breathing again.
"Red, RED, OH GOD DON'T DIE LIKE THIS!" Sky screamed as she channeled some of her healing energy into him draining her so much that she collapsed. Red started breathing but he didn't wake up. Stryker examined him and realized immediately that Red was comatose. Sky woke up not long after Stryker's examination. Sky, in a very tired voice said, "Stryker what are we going to do?" Stryker frowned as he remembered what he and Sky had researched on the legendary dragons of destiny and chaos. He looked at Reeco with an angry frown.
"My friend Nestor warned you, Reeco. He told you that there would be consequences if you mess with powers that you don't understand. Congratulations, you have unleashed a force that might be the death of us all.
Ripto frowned and said, "Did you just say that your son is the DRAGON OF CHAOS?" Styker and Sky both nodded. "And Spyro, his annoying brother is the DRAGON OF DESTINY!" They nodded again. Ripto seem to get paler making the other villians in the cell worried.
"Ripto, what is it? What is wrong?" Gnasty Gnorc asked. The Sorceress answered him in a frighten whisper.
"Gnasty, do you have any idea what kinda force we are dealing with here? That young crimson red dragon maybe the Realm Deathbringer of legend! Do you get it now?"
Gnasty turned pale and said in a tone dead voice, as he leaned against the wall. "We are so royally screwed."
"Yes, we most certainly are!" Ripto said.
- Awakening of the Dragon of Chaos, from Episode 5: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame
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Spyro flew threw the air and as he did he talked to himself. "Heh, destiny has a strange sense of humor. Why was I chosen?"
"Good question, Spyro."
Spyro looked around and said, "Artimas, where are you?"
"I am still in the Dragon Realms, Spyro. I will meet you and your friends in the Shadow Realm." Spyro frowned and was about to tell Artimas that was a bad idea when Artimas's voice in his head said, "Don't worry, Spyro, my people know more about the Portal Network so we can manipulate the network to take us where we want or need to go. Oh, before I go I will tell you that all things must eventually change. How they change is up to you."
"What do you mean, Artimas, I don't understand?" Spyro asked as he quickly flew toward the professor's lab. As he arrived, his friends exited out of the Professor's lab. As soon as they exited the lab a bolt of black lightning hit the ground throwing them all into a wall dazing them briefly. As they shook themselves out of their daze they looked up on the roof of the professor's lab and gasped in shock at the sight of a crimson dark striped dragon with red feathered wings standing on the roof.
"Oh my god, FLAME...! What have they done to you?" Ember said. Flame jumped off the roof and landed gently with a single flap of his large feathered wings.
"Greetings, brother!" Flame roared as he dived straight for Spyro. Spyro jumped aside and Flame slammed head first into the ground.
"Flame, please stop! I don't want to fight you!" Spyro said as he backed away from the blood red dragon. Flame got back on his feet and shook his head to clear the cobwebs before he smiled coldly at Spyro and the others that were present.
"Flame, please listen to Spyro. Reeco is just using you to accomplish his own goals. Don't you understand? They are controlling you." Ember said as tears started to fall from her eyes. "Don't do this, Flame! He is your brother!"
"Actually, Reeco isn't controlling me at all. Even if he was I wouldn't care!" He roared and unleashed a shockwave of dark lightning that sent everyone flying. As soon as they landed, they found they couldn't move. Flame laughed and walked over to Spyro. As soon as he got there he knelt down and with his right paw grabbed his brother's neck. Summoning a black staff to his left paw he looked down at Spyro smiled as he brought the staff closer to Spyro's face. The black gem on the top of the staff transformed into a flaming black blade. "Now, brother... you DIE!"
"NOOOOooooo," Spyro's friends screamed.
At that moment a paw tapped Flame on the shoulder and he turned and was sucker punched by Sheila the Kangaroo. Flame spun around and went crashing down to the ground out cold. "Need a paw?" Sheila asked as she reached down helped Spyro to his feet. "Good thing that portal from Avalar brought us a mile west from here."
"US! Who else is with you?" Spyro asked. Sheila gestured to a rocket pack wearing penguin and yeti who both smiled and waved at Spyro and his friends.
Hunter smiled and walked over to the yeti. "Bentley, it is good to see you again. How have you been?" Hunter shook Bentley's paw.
Bentley said, "It is good to see you again too, Hunter." He looked down at Flame and frowned. "What happend to Flame?"
"Good question, chap." Sgt. Byrd said. "What happend to the young chap, Spyro?" Spyro knelt down and touched his brother before he looked up at Sgt. Byrd.
"The Shadow Dragons, who you guys haven't heard about yet, did this to him. Let's go inside and we'll explain." Spyro turned to Amanda and Ember and said, "Help me carry him inside." They nodded and they entered the Professor's lab.
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Three Hours Later...
After Spyro and the others brought Sheila, Sgt. Byrd and Bentley up to date on what they had missed Sheila said, "Well, this looks like the biggest mess we have ever faced. We never seem to have much luck."
Bentley sighed and said, "This black dragon, you call Reeco, makes Red and all your old enemies seem like good guys. I can't believe you died, Spyro and came back. How did that happend?"
Spyro sighed and said, "I am afraid I have no explaination on my amazing return from the dead. That is a question whoms answer is still pending." Spyro then turned to the Professor who was doing a detailed examination on the unconscious Flame. "Well, Professor, can you undo what was done to him?"
The Professor looked at Spyro and with a frown shook his head. "Sorry, Spyro, but the only way to undo what was done to him is to take him back to the Shadow Realm and use the machine or equipment that did this to him in the first place. But..."
"Then it is settled, we take Flame with us in the Portal Jumper back to Shadow Realm. Break into Shadow Dragon HQ and borrow machine time to undo what they did to my brother. If Reeco or any of his other lackeys get in the way we kick their asses so bad that when they wake up they will swear that they had out of body experience."
"Spyro, listen to me. I know you want to reverse this as soon as possible but I think we may have a major problem."
"What do you mean we have a MAJOR PROBLEM, Professor? I don't understand." Spyro said. The Professor sighed and took off his glasses and cleaned them before putting them back on.
"Your brother, Spyro has become..."
"Become... What has he become, Professor?" Spyro asked. A throat was cleared getting everyones attention as they looked at the wall strapped Flame who was now wide awake and smiling.
"Hi, brother, I have become the Dragon of Chaos." Spyro touched Flame's paw and jerked back as he felt pain surge thru his paw. "Ahhh, be careful, you don't know what will happen if you touch me now." Tears started to fall from Spyro's eyes as he backed away from Flame. "Ahhh, don't look so sad. I know... I know, destiny sucks doesn't it? You spent your whole life trying to find out if you had a brother, mother and father only to find out the truth. You have a mother and father only they are being held as prisoners in the Shadow Realm by the Shadow Dragons. You learn you have a younger brother only to discover that he is your opposite. You bring happiness, peace and hope to everyone around you." Flame vanished and reappeared behind Spyro. Spyro turned and looked at Flame. As he adjusted his black jacket, Flame sighed sadly as tears started to fall from his eyes. "I bring only sadness, war and dispare. Face it, brother. We are opposites. We were born to be two sides of the same coin."
"That doesn't change the fact that you are my brother and I love you." Spyro said. "I don't care what they did to you. We will undo it!" Flame laughed a bitter harsh laugh and looked at the floor.
"You don't get it, brother! You can't undo your destiny once it finds you."
"You didn't chose this to happen to you, Flame! Good grief, stop sounding like you are giving up on everything. You had this forced upon you." Spyro growled as he grabbed Flame's paws only to feel his paws burning. He look down and notice smoke was coming off his paws. He pulled them back and looked at them seeing that the burns were healing quickly. "I refuse to give up on you!"
"What's the point! Think about it. What about you, Spyro, you were killed by Reeco. The same monster that did this to me. We both had no choice over what destiny we both were given. You can't change what happened to you no more then you can undo what has happened to me. ACCEPTED IT!" Flame roared as he looked Spyro in the eye with angry gold eyes. "I hate what I have become. I didn't want this. I only wanted to live a long happy life full of fun and love. Now, all that is gone. I am never going to get the chance to live a life like that now."
"SHUT UP, FLAME!" Spyro roared surprising Flame and everyone in the lab. Spyro balled his paw into a fist and slammed it down on a work table caving it in with his strength. "LISTEN TO ME! I DON'T CARE WHAT HAS HAPPEND, I STILL LOVE YOU! GET THAT THRU YOUR HEAD!"
"But brother I..." Flame started but Spyro stopped him.
"NO, FLAME, I AM GOING TO HELP YOU!" Spyro growled. Flame punched Spyro in the face at that moment sending him to the floor. Spyro looked up at Flame who had an angry look on his face.
"No, brother, I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP! You can't help me so don't even try!" Flame growled angrily as a blackish red aura of energy formed around him. Spyro jumped up off the floor and grabbed Flame, slamming him into the wall hard denting the metal. A white aura of energy formed around Spyro as his eyes bleed from purple to gold.
"ENOUGH, FLAME! I am going to help you whether you want my help or not. I am your brother and that will never change. So what if you are my opposite I still love you and will do everything in my power to undo what was done to you. I know that Reeco once had a little brother that our father killed. Reeco's father was responsible for what happened to our father. He made our father a monster."
Flame looked at Spyro with a calm expression as he said, "What is your point?"
Spyro sighed and let go of Flame as he dropped his head and said, "My point is our father wasn't born a monster and neither were you. So what if you are the Dragon of Chaos?" Spyro looked up at Flame with a sad expression on his face as tears filled his eyes. "That doesn't mean you have to BE the Dragon of Chaos. It's your choice what you do with the powers you are given. You are good hearted, Flame. I know you are and you know you are so let that good heart of yours guide you. Use your power to help people. It is your choice. The power you have is neither good or evil. The power is only defined by the character of the person who uses the power. Do you think it would have matter if I was the Dragon of Destiny if I was evil. No! The power I have is only good because I am good. That is my choice. To help others and be a hero. You can chose to do that too. Stop thinking that just because you are my opposite that you must be the anti-hero to my hero. You don't have to be like that at all. The Dragon of Chaos is just a title you were given. It in no way defines who you are, brother. You define who you are by the choices you make and the actions you decide to take. Remember that!"
Everyone in the room looked at Spyro in surprise including Flame as Spyro offered Flame his paw. Flame looked at Spyro's paw and at Spyro and then grabbed his paw. To everyone's surprise there was no burning this time. The two aura's around them seem to flare larger as Spyro pull Flame into a hug letting his younger brother cry his heart out on his shoulder. After awhile Flame pulled away still looking at the auras surrounding him and Spyro. "What's happening?"
"Good question, but I think I understand. The powers we both have are great separated but when we unite the power becomes greater." Flame smiled a smile that, for the first time, was a true one.
"Thank you, Spyro. For not giving up on me." Spyro smiled and looked over at his friends who were just standing there with shocked, wide-eyed expressions on their faces.
"Oh come on, guys, stop staring like that. I don't care if I am not acting like my normal self at the moment. I just want to help Flame and that is more important then being cool all the time."
"Whoa, okay, where did all THAT just come from?" Hunter asked as he looked at Spyro wide-eyed. "I think you shocked all of us with that speech."
"Hell, Spyro has been shocking us with all the changes he has undergone for days now." Ember said as she and Elora smiled. "Don't change too much, Spyro. We like the new improved you but try to keep some of that charm that makes you so lovable."
Spyro rubbed the back of his head and blushed as everyone laughed. The laughter died five minutes later as Flame grabbed his head and screamed. Spyro grabbed him but Flame tossed him away as his body started growing larger. He looked at everyone with pain filled eyes. "I am sorry!" He screamed as his body began to grow even larger. He ran to the lab portal and activated the portal with his powers. Spyro ran to stop him from stepping thru.
"Flame, noooo!" Spyro screamed as he watched his now larger brother look back at him sadly with red tear filled eyes as he dived thru the portal that changed black. Spyro growled and ran to the opening in the back of the Portal Jumper. "Get in guys, we are going after him." They all nodded as they got into the jumper.
Sgt Byrd, Sheila and Bentley frowned and shook their heads. Spyro looked at them and realized that there was only room for one more person and the person that was coming was Tobin, whenever he decided to show up. Speaking of Tobin, he entered the lab right at that moment with a shocked look on his face.
"Let's go NOW!" He yelled as he ran and dived inside the jumper closing the door behind him.
"Tobin, what is wrong, besides the fact that Flame was transforming as he jumped thru the portal?" Ember asked. Tobin frowned.
"That is the problem, Ember, Flame has absorbed some of the portal energy making him change even more then a normal Warrior Dragon should." Tobin said grimly.
"Are you saying that Flame may have just made his situation worst?" Spyro asked as the Jumper powered up and lifted a foot off the floor.
"Yes, Spyro, I am. That is why we must get to the Shadow Lands now before we are too late to reverse what is happening to Flame. The larger he gets the more his power will increase until..."
Spyro's face paled as he said, "IT CONSUMES HIM...!" As he said that the back thrusters on the Portal Jumper activated and the jumper entered the black portal. As soon as it was in portal its thrusters powered up to full thrust and blasted them toward the Shadow Realms...
- Flame and Spyro: Dragons of Destiny and Chaos Meet, Reunion of Old Friends, Spyro's Heart-to-heart talk to Flame, Flame's Forced Departure, The Journey to the Shadow Realm begins..., from Episode 5: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame
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And now... our story continues...
ACT ONE:
JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
The Portal Jumper flies in an unstable zig zag pattern at full speed thru the dark portal. Inside the Jumper, Spyro and his friends hold on to the armrests of their metal chairs as the Jumper shakes with the motion changes. Spyro looks over at Amanda as she taps the flickering holographic control consoles. "Can you do something about the shaking, Amanda." Spyro looks back at a green faced Hunter. "I think someone is about to throw up."
Amanda looked back at Hunter and frowned as she said, "Oh no, don't you dare throw up anywhere near me, cheetah boy!" She turned back to the controls and looked over at Spyro. "I am trying to stablize the Jumper, Spyro, but don't forget that this craft is a protype. Remember when I said there was a possiblity that we might encounter some bugs."
Spyro frowned as he looked at her and then at Ember and Tobin. "Yes, I remember very clearly, Amanda." Spyro paused and groaned as the shaking got worst. "Wait... oh no, please don't tell me. We have a problem!" Amanda frowned as her holographic control console flashed and then went blank with a red letter 'SYSTEM FAILURE' message spinning on the display.
"Yeah, Spyro, we have a MAJOR problem! Everyone hold on tight! I am engaging the backup systems." Amanda said as the holographic console moved to her left side as a manual control panel rose out of the floor in front of her. Spyro looked at the manual control console and groaned.
"You have to be frickening kidding me, Amanda! You are going to TRY to fly this craft MANUALLY!" Spyro yelled. Amanda laughed nervously.
"Yes, I am, Spyro!" She said. Hunter grabbed a barf bag and threw up. After he finished, he handed the bag to Bianca who magically waved her miniature magic staff making the bag vanish.
"ARE YOU MAD?" Spyro yelled as Amanda quickly pushed and tapped switches and buttons on the console. "Please tell me you have at least taken some lessons on how to operate this craft manually?" Amanda looked over at Spyro briefly and again laughed nervously.
"Heh heh, I asure you that I am quite sane, Spyro. Computer, reroute main guidance control to this control console." The computer rerouted the helm controls from the holographic console to the manual control console with a low beep. "As for manually operating this craft I took a short course that the Professor gave me to t..." Hunter groaned making Amanda look at him. "WHAT! DO YOU THINK I CAN'T DO IT!" She growled.
Hunter raised his paws and did a 'no no, that is not what I think' gesture in the air before he said, "No, Amanda, I have perfect faith in your flying abilities." She smiled and turned back to the control console.
"Thank you, Hunter, for believing in me." She said.
"No problem, Amanda, but you didn't let me finish. I believe in YOU but when it comes to the PROFESSOR..." Hunter looked over at Blink who had his arms folded over his chest giving the cheetah a not so friendly frown. "Nothing, personal, Blink, but your uncle scares me sometimes with his inventions. Those gadgets he create tend to be death traps waiting to happen..." Blink gives Hunter the 'evil eye' before sitting back in his chair.
"Listen, PAL, my uncle may make mistakes at times, but at least his heart is in the right place. He goes out of his way to build those gadgets. So shut up and stop criticizing his hard work. Despite a slight problem with the main control system this craft is working. I doubt anything else is going to go wrong." Hunter growled and stood up just as Spyro frowned and gave both his friends an angry look.
"SHUT UP!" He growled making Hunter sit back down and Blink shut up. "Now is not the time to be arguing between ourselves. My brother needs help and we must work together if we are going to save him." He paused and looked at Amanda who finally managed to stablize the Jumper as the swirling dark portal exit finally came into view. Amanda smiled and increased the thruster power.
"Hold on everybody. We are almost there." Amanda said as Spyro sat back in his seat.
"Get ready everyone. We must be prepared for whatever awaits us." Spyro said as the Jumper exited the portal and entered the Shadow Realm.
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Meanwhile, an hour before... in the tall ancient Tower known as the Vanguardian Tower of Lore and Knowledge
A swirling magical blue flame hovered over a clear table made of a strong glass-like material. A blue robed figure sat silently at the desk writting in ancient symbols that meant nothing in the present day Dragon language but meant many things to any dragon who was not only old enough to remember the past ages but also had been alive during them. The robed figure wrote on the scroll slowly and with great care. Suddenly, he felt a presence in the room and spun around grabbing his gold staff quickly transforming it to a golden sword that swirled with gold energy. When he saw who it was he sighed, shook his head and lowered the sword which transformed back into the gold staff. "Artimas, I see you still haven't learned to knock before entering my domain even after all these years." Artimas laughed as he wiped the sweat that had appeared on his brow before he rubbed behind his head. He waited until the light disc platform lowered almost to the floor before he shook his friend, the Lore Keeper's paw. As he released his friend's paw he stepped down off the platform that had transferred him and Milo to the domain of his old friend, the Lore Keeper of Ages.
"Sorry about that, Cale. You know how hard it is to change old habits." Cale nodded silently as he looked at his friend.
"No problem, Artimas, but you do know I could have easily killed you if I didn't know you. Just be careful next time... okay." Cale said in a deep commanding voice before he laughed and embraced Artimas in a bear hug that knocked the air out of him. "It is good to see you, old friend." Cale released his gasping friend. "Sorry about that, Artimas. I still forget how strong I am even after all these years."
Artimas smiled and said, after he had finally caught his breath, "No problem, Cale. You have obviously been keeping in shape. Let me guess, former Shadow Dragon Clan leader Drake has been coming around often." Cale frowned and nodded.
"Yes, Drake has been coming around here a long time now. I admire his determination but we both know that he is wasting his time. I made sure ages ago that the Destiny Gate would only open for Dragons of my clan's magical signature. Your clan and the Peace Keeper Clan is an exception to the rule. I refuse to let the Shadow Dragons get their paws on the information contained in this tower. I have protected this tower for ages. I promised my mother, the former Lore Keeper, that I would protect our clan's ancient history and great knowledge." He then looked over at Milo who was stepping down from the secret hovering Transportal Network Traveling Light Disc. He smiled as his serious side relaxed letting his normal cheerful side return. "Milo, how have you been? Still chasing the girls and breaking their hearts." Milo grinned sheepishly.
"Actually, I stopped doing that two years ago when I found Dana, my dream girl. She is beautiful, brilliant and most of all she loves to talk about many of the same things I like to talk about." Milo said as he adjusted his blue jacket. Cale grinned and released Artimas and nodded as Milo finished.
"I am glad you found someone, Milo. I hope you treat her with the respect she deserves." Cale said as he gave Milo a stern look that wasn't meant to be harsh. "Do you understand what I am saying, young one." Milo nodded as he grabbed his case off the light disc as it lowered into the floor and shut off..
Artimas bowed respectfully to Cale and Cale returned the bow with one of his own. "Forgive me, old friend, but me and my son were in the neighborhood and decided that maybe it would be nice to visit you." The Lore Keeper smiled as his clothes transformed into a short flowing open chest white robe. As the robe transformed it revealed a tall, white chested gold dragon, who despite his great age, was very muscular. His body had a few battle scars and purple stipes that ran down his face around his square shape jaw. On top of his head four silver and gold streaked colored horns elgantly sat. A row of sharp similarly colored spikes ran down his back and to the tip of his long tail that ended in a white spade shape tip. Cale stretched and snapped his silver colored claws on his right paw making three chairs appear.
Cale gestured to the chairs and said, "Have a seat, old friend. Tell me the REAL reason you are here." Artimas and Milo sat. As soon as they had taken their seats a square table appeared in front of them. Artimas looked at Milo and nodded. Milo returned the nod as he put his case on the table and opened it up revealing holographic console that powered up on light gem energy and displayed past video images of Spyro and Flame talking and fighting each other in the Professor's lab. Cale frowned as he looked at the image as Flame started to transform before he jumped through the portal not long after. He looked up from the images being played and sighed. "So, it would appear that history is about to repeat itself again, old friend."
Artimas sat back in his chair and nodded as he said, "Yes, old friend, it does. Spyro and his friends are already on their way here to save Flame. You do know that you and Spyro will have to meet, Cale. I can't tell him what being the Dragon of Destiny really means." Cale growled softly and stood up walking away from Artimas and Milo. Artimas got up and walked over to his friend placing a paw on his left shoulder. "I know how you feel about this but only you can tell Spyro what he needs to know. You once was what he is now." Cale looked at Artimas sadly and nodded.
"I know, Artimas. I remember being young. I remember when I was chosen to be the Dragon of Destiny. I never knew what the title meant or what being the Chosen One of legend. Artimas, every time I remember those days it brings a tear to my eye. I lost so much just to become what I was born to be. Spyro has no idea what awaits him. You didn't tell him. Did you?" Artimas sighed and shook his head.
"No, Cale, I didn't tell him. I think he suspects I know about the nature of his powers but he hasn't asked me so I have kept what little I know to myself. Only you, Cale as the former Dragon of Destiny can reveal the harsh truth to him. He is the Inheritor of the destiny power for this generation."
"But what about his brother, Artimas?" Cale said sadly as he glanced at a wall covered in stone carvings of the long line of dragons who had been born to be the Dragon of Destiny and Chaos. "How can I tell him what I know he won't take well. I know he won't like what I tell him because I didn't like what I was told about my own brother." Cale looked at Artimas sadly as he gently rubbed a claw over the stone carving that represent his brother. "I miss him, Artimas, I never thought I would have to lose so much just to fulfill a destiny, that now that I am able to look back on, I never really wanted. Oh brother I really wish things could have been different between us..."
Cale's Memory of Ages Past...
Back then before I assumed the thrown of leader of the Vanguardian Clan, I learned that I was chosen, not only by my mother, but by the Ascendants to be the hero of legend: The Dragon of Destiny. At the time I was happy and honored to be chosen for such an honorary duty. Being chosen to be the Dragon of Destiny was said among the warrior clans to be the greatest honor a warrior dragon could ever recieve. My mother, a red dragoness had been chosen to be the Dragon of Destiny before me and I was the one chosen to inherited her duty and be her successor. I remember how honored I felt to walk in my mother's footsteps.
My mother, Clan Elder Tala, had been one of the few legendary Dragons of Destinies that, like the others before her, who had been born into the chaotic times of the Clan Wars. During that time she had been trained to fight and kill, if necessary, other dragons from the time she was hatched to when she met up with her friends. Together with her friends, she survived many battles and became a hero among the members of our clan, The Vanguard Guardians. As time passed, she became aware that her powers were developing along paths she didn't understand or believe possible. Not to long after, she met a young Dragon named Galen. Galen and my mother became good friends despite the fact that Galen was not what he appeared to be. In the end, Galen ended up being revealed to be an assasin sent by the Crimson Guard. My mother's friends had tried to stop him but he still mangaged to carry out his mission and kill her before he ran disappearing into the shadows like the coward he is. That was when she had returned different. Her wounds healed and her destiny revealed. After that, she and her friends for the rest of their long lives helped bring peace, hope and prosperity. Over time, her noble efforts, along with her friends and other brave dragons, brought the Clan Wars to an end. Afterward, she had remained the Dragon of Destiny for two centuries before she had finally decided to find a soulmate, settle down and become a mother. The funny thing about her plans is that the Ascendants had other plans for her.
She fell in love with a strong brave gold dragon of the then noble Shadow Dragon Warrior Clan. The gold dragon was my father, Kalor. Kalor and Tala became mates and not long afterward me, my brother, Deon and my sister were born.
Unfortunately, my father didn't live long enough to see us grow up because he was killed protecting me and my mother from some old Clan War enemies who decided they wanted to have their revenge on Tala for her role in their defeat two centuries before. So in the end, my mother ended up raising all of us. We grew up into health strong young dragons and became protectors of the realm. We became known as the Vanguard Trio. We fought together and went everywhere together. Me and my siblings were close and we promised each other that we would always be that way. Unfortunately, it seems that destiny was about to play a cruel trick on all of us...
As time passed and we grew older, we began to undergo changes that would eventually drive a wedge between us. Soon my brother and sister began to fight with each other and I would often have to break their fights up. Our mother did whatever she could to stop the fighting but no matter what she did she couldn't stop the fighting. The fighting continued for years until my brother finally went to far. It had started with my sister picking at him. She hadn't meant any harm and we even laughed about it but my brother didn't seem to like being picked at. He had started fighting with my sister and the fight became very violent. I tried to stop it but he knocked me out. When I awoke awhile later I discovered, to my horror, that my sister was dead and my brother was covered in her blood.
"Brother, what have you done!" I yelled as I looked at my brother. My brother didn't turn around to face me so I grabbed him roughfully by his shoulder and turned him around to face me. The look in his green eyes was strange and seemed a little off. There was this look of shock and rage that just didn't make any sense. "Brother, what's wrong?" My brother's eyes suddenly widened as they changed from green to a dark swirling gold as he looked at me and growled. His face seem to take on a dark sinister change as he smiled.
"Nothing is wrong, brother. I was just trying to make our sister shut up and stop laughing at me." He said in a very deep eerie voice that made me back away from him.
"Brother, our sister didn't deserve this. She was only kidding with you like we always have done since we were hatchlings. She loved you and me." My brother laughed then as he looked me in the eye.
"SHE DIDN'T LOVE ANYONE BUT HERSELF. THE SELFISH LITTLE WENCH ALWAYS GOT MOTHER'S ATTENTION MORE THEN ME. MOTHER NEVER SEEMED TO HAVE THE TIME TO TALK TO ME OR HELP ME. DO YOU KNOW WHAT, BROTHER? I AM GLAD I KILLED HER. NOW I WILL BE MOTHER'S FAVORITE." He said and I had just stared at his blood drenched form in shock and horror as I backed away from him.
"Brother, you know that isn't true. What has happened to you?" I asked. He wipped some of my sister's blood off his of his silver scales as he slowly turned away from me. "ANSWER ME, BROTHER!" I had yelled as I ran toward him only to get knocked backwards by a black barrier of energy that seem to surround him. "Brother...!"
He glanced back over his shoulder with sad eyes that now had reverted back to his normal green eyes. "Forget about me, Cale. I no longer exist as the dragon you once called your brother. I am dead to you and everyone."
"Nooo, I will find someone who can help you. I will save you." He had looked at me and laughed an emotionally empty laugh.
"Don't make promises that you know you can't keep, Cale. Until we meet again. Goodbye." After he said that he had left and history took a dark turn after that. My mother discovered what had happened to my brother and she had been horrified to learn that it had something to do with the destiny she had given up years before and I had been given. That was when I truly became the chosen one... I became her TRUE successor. I became the new Dragon of Destiny in more then name only and learned the horrible truth about the legends that surround me and my brother.
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Cale looked at Artimas with tears in his eyes. "I learned that me and my brother were chosen by two opposing forces to be their warriors. I was chosen, like my mother before me and others before her to be the champion of the Ascendants, the DRAGON OF DESTINY. My brother, became my opposite... my shadow. Chosen by the forces of darkness known as the Fallen. He was to be their champion and bring chaos and destruction to the worlds. He became the DRAGON OF CHAOS. My god, Artimas, I didn't want to accept that because I loved my brother but I was forced to realize that was the horrible truth." Cale said as he angrily balled his paws into fists. "I would have to kill my brother... MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD BROTHER. The brother I had shared so many joyful and happy experiences with. The brother, me and my sister had shared our fears and inner most secrets with. I loved him, Artimas and still do even to this day. I didn't want to kill him. I wanted to save him but here was my own mother who was just as heartbroken and horrified as I telling me the awful truth. I couldn't save him. No matter how much I wanted to or tried to. I question my mother and what she told me convinced me that I had to let him go." Cale sighed as he looked at a painting of his brother and sister smiling with him when they were younger. "Being the Dragon of Destiny, Artimas, maybe a honor but it is also a burden. A very heavy burden. And at that moment I didn't want that burden on my shoulders but I had no choice. I had to stop my brother before he destroyed the balance of the world and killed others in the process."
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So when we met again ten years later, we faced each other not as brothers but as enemies. "Deon, I don't care what our mother told me. I know there has to be some way to save you from the hold that darkness has over you."
"Be quiet, Cale!" Deon growled as he unsheathed black claws that seem to glow with dark energy and slashed at me with his left paw. Dark energy streaked out of the slash and I ducked the energy slash. "Give up, Cale! It's too late to save me." He then quickly repeated the motion with his other paw catching me off guard. The hit sent me spinning backwards through the air and into a rock wall. As I slammed into the wall it cracked. Deon wasted no time and pressed on with his attack. He waved his black claws in mid-air summoning the gold Staff of Chaos. He growled and threw the staff at me. I saw it coming and pulled myself out of the wall and flew up to avoid it. The staff, instead of hitting the wall, followed after me.
"What the..." I growled as I flew around trying to shake the staff off of my path. The staff seemed to know what I was doing and continue to follow me until I summoned my own staff and spun around in mid-air hitting the staff with my own which sent it flying to the ground quickly where it imbedded itself into the rock hard ground. I looked up at my brother and asked, "How did you do that, Deon?" Deon laughed as he moved his clawed right paw in the direction of the ground. I looked down and saw the Staff of Chaos glow black before coming free from the ground and flying up into his outstretched paw. He caught it and spun it around quickly to face me.
"It's quite simple, Cale. I can mentally control my staff. I am surprised you can't do it. You never did take your training seriously. Too bad..."
"What do you mean 'too bad', brother?" I asked and he growled angrily as his eyes flashed gold.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT, CALE! I AM DONOVAN THE DEMON NOW! NOT DEON. DEON IS DEAD, CALE. I AM..."
"NOooo," I roared as I looked at him with tear-filled glowing gold eyes. "You are not Donovan the Demon! You are my brother, Deon. That name once meant great honor but the Fallen corrupted it. Open your eyes and see the truth, brother. They are using you to do their dirty work. They don't know the TRUE you. I do and the Deon I know would never work for the forces of darkness." Deon growled and charge me with his staff raised and I answer his attack with my own staff. As the two staffs collided a shockwave of energy blasted outwards away from us reducing nearby rocks to powder. I swung my staff at Deon and Deon spun backwards away from my swing. His second pair of black feathered wings started glowing and he brought them foward.
"CHAOS WING...!" He roared and black feathers flew off his black wings becoming dark streaks of energy. I frowned as the dark energy feathers came at me. I put my own gold wings in front of myself and shielded myself from the attack. It hurt like hell but I survived that attack and returned one of my own. I opened my wings and flew straight up. Deon looked up and tried to follow my quick movement but I managed to fly fast enough to only appear as a blur. I flew around in a circle quickly gathering my energy into a swirling storm of golden light. Deon growled and shot another 'Chaos Wing' at me and I spun out of the way. Soon all four of my gold wings glowed and I flew up then took a dive straight at Deon. Deon tried to move but I was flying way to fast for him to avoid my attack.
"SHINING WINGS OF DESTINY." I roared as my wings became nothing more then just pure energy. I flew around quickly streaking passed him letting the energy contained in my wings rip into him making his roar out in pain. 'I am sorry, brother, but you have left me no choice but to try and knock you back to your senses with this attack.' I thought as I finally finished my attack by grabbing Deon's left arm and swinging him around sending him spinning into and through a rock wall. My wings returned to normal after that and I hovered in the air regaining my energy. Unfortunately, Deon apparently wasn't out for the count because I felt a horrible pain erupt from my right shoulder as he sunk his black clawed left paw in my shoulder sending black lightning through my body. I roared in pain and slowly spun around dazed just in time to get a hard punch in the face from his right paw. The punch sent me flying backwards into what I thought was going to be a wall of rock but I soon discovered that Deon was unleashing his own powerful attack on me allowing him to make a magical double of himself. Instead of hitting the wall of rock I collided with Deon's double who had been waiting patiently for me. The double swung around in an arc as I sailed under him and then used his large tail to hit me in the head knocking me straight down into the ground. As I hit the ground I felt one of my wings snap and as it did I blacked out in pain...
When I woke up later on I found myself bound and hanging over a lava pit. My wing was healed and no longer hurt but it still made no difference considering the fact that Deon had the upper paw. I looked over at him and saw that Deon was smiling at me as he adjusted his grey battle armor. "It looks like I win, Cale." He said calmly as he came over and punched me in the gut knocking the air out of me. "Chaos shall now reign supreme over order and the world as you know it will end." He unsheathed a single sharp black claw from his left paw and started slicing the rope that held me up away from the lava. "Good bye, Dragon of Destiny. Your destiny ends... now!" He said as his claw cut through the rope and I fell to what should have been my doom but it seems I got lucky because you guys decided to show up right when I needed you.
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"Heh heh, your right Cale, your brother's expression was priceless. I loved the 'what the hell' expression he had on his face when me and Mara brought you back up to the platform and dropped you off just as he was starting to leave. He turned around pretty quickly." Artimas said with a smile. Cale returned the smile.
"Deon always was overconfident and that is what saved me. He wanted to make me suffer to prove he was stronger then me. Why? I don't know. I guess the Fallen really did one hell of a head job on him." Cale said sadly as his memory returned to the past again.
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"Greetings, brother," I said as I ran and jumped at him.
"What the..." He said as he turned slowly and ducked as he did. I sailed over him hit the floor and rolled back onto my feet. After that, we started glowing as our bodies transformed back to our four winged warrior forms. As soon as transformation ended we went at each other in a battle to the death. This is where the battle really got nasty... You and Mara along with Drake and two other dragons joined the battle and fought by my side as my brother threw everything he had at us.
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"In the end, after fighting him for three whole days non-stop we finally gained the upper paw and cast him down." Cale said sadly. Artimas nodded. Milo's facial expression was one of awe at what he was hearing from both elder dragons.
"Yes, we did, Cale and as I recalled that was the moment we met a very unwelcomed guest." Artimas said with a frown.
Cale growled as he said, "Oh, yes, I remember HIM. That snake of a dragon seems to love to cause trouble.
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After Deon had crashed into the rock hard ground breaking his back on impact, a familiar dragon appeared in front of us. He smiled at us, especially me. Clapping his paws together he said, "Bravo, Dragon of Destiny, you won! Amazing, I didn't think you would have a chance." He turned and looked down at Deon laying on the ground broken. "What a pity, I really though that this time the Dragon of Chaos of this generation would succeed in killing you. No matter... There is always next time!" I growled as I grabbed him and started to strangle him.
"YOU COLD-HEARTED SCUM SUCKING SNAKE!" I growled in his face. "You Fallen Ones don't care who you hurt as long as you defeat the Ascendants and bring all the worlds to a chaotic end!" Galen smiled and turned into a black mist that floated out of my paws becoming his solid form again. Galen then punched me in stomach bowing me over his arm.
"YOU ARE RIGHT... WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU MORTALS. YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THEN TOYS TO US. OH AND HERE IS A WARNING..." He punched me again making me gasp out in pain. "BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU TREAD, CALE! I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN YOU CAN POSSIBLY BELIEVE! YOU MAYBE THE DRAGON OF DESTINY BUT TO ME YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THEN A NOVICE HATCHLING IN THIS POWER GAME. IF YOU EVER AGAIN TRY TO HURT ME I WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO REALLY CRY ABOUT!" He paused and then laughed. "Then again maybe I should just kill you myself and get this over with. Besides I am tired of this war. The war between the Ascendants and Fallen has gone on and on for ages and enough is enough!" Galen growled as he started strangling me with only one paw. I tried to move and growled out as I felt dark electric energy flow into my system paralyzing me.
"LET MY SON GO YOU NO GOOD LYING SCUM!" My mother roared as she suddenly showed up with a glowing sword in her paw. Galen looked up at my mother and laughed.
"Tala, nice to see you again after all this time. Be a dear and let me finish killing your son. Once I am done you are free to TRY and avenge him." Galen said with a laugh as he squeezed my throat harder. Tala only growled, spun around to behind Galen and swung the glowing sword around and thru Galen's neck making him roar out in pain and let go of me as his body changed into black mist again and flew back rematerilizing into his solid form. As he did he grabbed his throat with his right paw. He pulled the paw back and looked at the black blood that had come from the slow closing wound the sword had inflicted on him. "Well, I see you finally mastered summoning one the greatest Dragon of Destiny weapons."
"Yes, Galen, I have learned how to summon the Destiny Blade. And as you know it can inflict horrible wounds on you and the other Fallen." My mother said with narrowed gold eyes. Galen growled but didn't move as his own swirling black eyes glowed. An icy white pupil appeared in the depths of his eyes. "Be gone, Galen and trouble us no more." Galen laughed as he stared at my mother.
"Sorry, babe, but you know that I can't do that. As long as the Realm worlds exist the war will go on. You and your son are nothing more then pawns in a game so big and long that you have no idea just what is really going on. There is more to this then meets the eye, my dear. Until we meet again and believe me when I say WE will indeed meet again." Galen said with a smile as he blew a kiss to my mother and started fading away. Just before he vanished completely he said, "Oh, I'll tell Kalor you said hi. Poor chap, needs some good news before he becomes one of us. Ha ha!"
"YOU NO GOOD CREEP. HOW DARE YOU AND YOUR KIND PLAY WITH SOULS LIKE THIS!" My mother roared as she tossed the Destiny Blade at the vanishing black mist. The blade did no harm but it did make Galen's laugh sound more taunting as he vanished compltely. "Galen... Galen, come back here and fight me you coward!" I placed a paw on my mother's heaving shoulders and she started to cry as I wrapped my arms around her in a hug.
"Let it go, mom. One day, Galen will get what he deserves. I know he will." I said softly. My mom pulled away from me and looked me in the eye as she raised her left paw in the air catching the Destiny Blade as it returned to her. The Destiny Blade glowed and changed back into my mother's gold staff.
"Go, check on Deon, Cale. I'll join you in a minute." She said softly as she wiped the tears from her eyes. I nodded and went down to see if he was dead or alive. He was alive and still willing to fight me. Unfortunately, for him, even though his will to fight was still strong his body was too tired and damaged to continue the fight. I looked down on him with tears in my eyes as I bent down on one knee to gently grab his left paw in my own.
"I am here, brother, I told you I wouldn't let the darkness take you from me. We have been fighting each other off and on for the last ten years and I never gave up because I made a promise to myself that I would do whatever it took to get you back. I just wish it hadn't took a batle to the death between us to bring this about." My brother looked up at me as blood trickled out of his mouth and smiled.
"I am so sorry, Cale. I wish I could go back and undo all that I have done. I have caused so much misery and pain." Tears fell from his eyes as he said that. "I was a fool to listen to the lies that Galen told me." At that moment, Tala showed up and walked over to us dropping to her knees as new tears filled her eyes.
"Cale, Deon, I never meant for any of this to happen. I wanted to be happy and I wanted all of you to be happy and live long happy lives free of the burden and legacy of my past. What a fool I was putting such a painful burden on your shoulders, Cale. Being the Dragon of Destiny has never been easy for me but because I was born an only child I never thought about the fact that where there is good there is always evil. Everything has an opposite side to it. I..."
"No, mother," I said with tears falling from my eyes. "We are free to chose what path our destinies take. You had nothing to do with what happened here. It isn't your fault." Deon smiled in agreement.
"It is my fault for letting myself be manipulated by the darkness and lies of the Fallen. Cale is right, mother, you are not to blame. I messed up and it cost me. Oh, Serena, I am so sorry for what I did to you sister." He said sadly. Deon's silver scales started to glow as his body became transparent. "Looks like it time for me to go, Cale... mother." Deon said as his tear filled eyes started to droop heavily. As his eyes slowly closed he said, "I wish there was time left to tell both of you how truly sorry I am. Cale... mother... I love you. Please forgive me for what I have done..."
I smiled and griped his paw tighter. "We forgive you, Deon." Deon's eyes then went wide and then closed. "Tell, Serena hi for us." I whispered as the paw I was holding in my own fell through mine and hit the ground. His body glowed white and then vanished into a silver sparkling ball that floated around us before it sped up and flew into the night sky.
I opened my paw and noticed that a silver scale sat there. I gently closed my paw around it and looked up at the night sky as tears flowed down my face. "I love too, Deon. Rest in peace, my brother." I said in a whisper as my mother grabbed me in a hug and started to cry. I held her in my arms and let the warm evening breeze carry away not only our tears of lost and sorrow but of joy. My brother came back to me in the end. Not in the way I wanted but still..."
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"...I got him back, Artimas. That is all that counts." Cale said as he looked at Artimas and Milo. He then looked at the screen and saw that the Portal Jumper carrying Spyro and his friends had landed. Cale sighed and said, "Looks like the war continues on. Time for me to get invovled and see if I can make a difference. I will not sit idly by and let Spyro go thru what I had to go thru. If there is a way to save Spyro's brother from the dark rage brewing inside of him then I will help Spyro find it. This war must end... enough is enough!" Artimas nodded in agreement as he and Cale prepared themselves for the storm that was about to come.
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'DRAGON OF DESTINY...' Echoes twice before drum beats start in the back ground
'SPYRO' A flame burns the logo into metal as it appears on the screen and then water is poured on the metal making it steam up and shatter like glass revealing different locations of the Dragon Realm, Avalar and the Forgotten Realm.
New Song 'Moving on to a New Day' begins.
'Moving on to a New Day,
Moving on to the future.
No turning back. echoes once
Images of the sun rising with a white jacket wearing Spyro and Ember sitting together looking up at the horizon with pictures of Hunter and Bianca sleeping in each other's arms on the beach at Dragon Shores. Elora is on Avalor training and pauses to look up at the rising sun with a smile. Sgt. Byrd with the Professor's help is tuning up his rocket pack while Sheila and Bentley talk and then pause as they look out the window of the professor's lab to watch the sun rising.
'Yesterday is gone,
Stand up and face the future.
With your head held high to the sky,
Nothing ever stays the same.
Image of Flame and Spyro split screen. Flame is looking solemn with tears in his eyes while Spyro turns to face his brother and hugs him closing his eyes as tears fall from them and a gentle breeze blows around them both stirring up Spyro's white jacket and Flame's black jacket as their tears are carried away.
As we move on to a new day,
Everything changes more and more,
And that's truth.
Nothing stays the same.
As we move on to a new day. To a new day echoes
Images of Reeco sitting at a monitor and looking bored at the display of Spyro and Flame hugging before he stands and turns it off and looks at a picture of his younger brother Cael with tears in his eyes. Ryua walks around the Citadel and goes out on the balcony to look at the moonlight with an sad smile expression on her face.
I know it is not easy,
To move on to the future now.
To let go of all that you are,
And become what you are destined to become,
No turning back, No turning back...
Image of Flame roaring as Hunter and the others run away from rushing river. Flame dives in front of the large wave of water and begins to spin as his feathered wings glow red and he becomes a flaming tornado of fiery energy stopping the wave. As his friends make it to safety, Flame flies toward them and lands giving them a smile.
Moving on to a New Day,
Nobody said that it would be easy,
And I know it in my heart and soul.
Know in my heart and soul. echoes once
That's the truth.
Images Ember and Spyro flying together in the moonlight. Hunter on Avalar helping his old friends rebuild Willowbrook with Bianca using her magic to lift a large rock up to repair the palace. Once the rock is in the right place, Hunter uses his gauntlet bow to fire some fire bows to melt the rock in place. Jordan, Chrisitan and Crystal pat Hunter on the back as Bianca smiles and wipes the sweat from her brow.
But with my friends by my side we'll make it to,
To a new day.
To a new day,
We will make to a new day together,
Images of Spyro and Flame with their mother and father celebrating with everyone. Artimas flies and lands as Milo crashes into Ember. Everyone laughs as Milo runs and Ember runs after him. Amanda smiles as she and Tobin sit together on a bench watching the party. Elora sits by herself as Spyro walks over to her and sits down giving her a smile as he gestures for her to join everyone else at the party. She smiles and together with Spyro join the party.
As we all move on to a New Day,
We mustn't forget yesterday.
All we lost and gained,
Has made us who we are today.
As we move ahead,
To the future with hope in our hearts.
Final Image of Spyro and his friends, old and new, all standing in action poses against a Huge Dark Dragon that stands before them. Spyro's eyes turn gold as they charge at the dragon. White feathers fill the sky and float around spinning as the image of Spyro and all his friends appear on the screen freeze in photo style as the final Drum beats sound and then stop.
Dragon of Destiny moving on to a brand new day,
Spyro: Dragon of Destiny
Episode Six - Dragon Rage: Part Three - Brothers In Arms
Shadow Realm... Three hours later...
A glowing blue swirly tunnel appeared in the swirling dark clouds of the Shadow Realm. The tunnel flashed as a white streak exited the tunnel and materialized into the Team Skyler Time Jumper. The portal closed behind the Time Jumper as it flew down through the dark clouds turning invisible as it entered the Skull Mountain range heading in the direction of the ruins of Vanguard Command and the legendary Vanguardian Tower of Lore and Knowledge. Inside the Jumper, Skyler and Blaze sat quietly at the holographic controls. "So, why are we here anyway, oh great leader?" Khan asked as the Jumper landed silently on a what once was a landing platform for the ancient Vanguard Command Defense Corp Building.
Skyler frowned and looked at Khan as the computer unlocked the chair harness from around their shoulders. "Khan, we are here to make sure that no one or thing interferes with what must happen here." Sean the dragonfaun stood up and stretched as the Jumper powered down and the side door opened.
"So, let me guess, she is expecting us isn't she, cousin?" Sean asked as he and the others pulled off their normal Team Skyler uniforms and put on their normal much lighter black armor jackets. The form fitting jackets securely fasten to their muscular forms. Skyler nodded and gestured for his team mates to follow him to the secret entrance that led to the interior of a secret Timecore underground facility that was near the ruins of the Vanguard Command Alpha. As they descending into the chamber on a glowing light disc, a tall black scaled dragoness dressed in an long silver robe walked up and placed a paw on her waist.
"Well, if it isn't Team Skyler. About time you guys showed up. You do know that you are late don't you?" She said. Skyler looked at her and frowned.
"Yeah, we know. Tell us what we missed, Ryua." He said even though he had an idea what had already happened. Ryua sat down in chair and waved her paw out in mid-air making a magical hologram appear.
"Before I tell you and the others anything, Skyler, I want you to promise me that you will tell Spyro that this facility needs to be moved further away from the ruins. It is dangerous for us to even be here as it is. The Lore Keeper may discover this place soon if we aren't careful and then we will really have a major problem. I don't want the future to get screwed up because of careless mistake on our part. That would just be so stupid!"
Skyler sighed and rolled his eyes. "Okay, I promise I will tell my dad. Now, could we please get on with it, Ryua? We don't have a lot of time to play around here!"
Ryua frowned and sighed as she said, "Very well, kiddo. Geez, you are worst then your old man was at your age. You do know that don't you?" Skyler lifted his right eye brow at her in surprise and then rolled his eyes. As he did that Ryua just watch his reaction in silence while her a single thought ran through her mind... 'Yep, he is definitely like his father in the attitude department.' Skyler gave her a narrow eyed look as he heard her thoughts.
With a sigh, he said, "I heard that! I will admit that I do sometimes over react and loss my temper. Yeah, that is true, Ryua. However, I have been told that many times already by other people, including my own father... Please don't remind again... Please!"
"Sorry about that, Skyler. I meant no disrespect to you." She then smiled. "I'll explain what you and your friends missed." Ryua then turned to Yua and whispered, "I don't know how you put up with him, Yua." Yua laughed softly.
"Aunt Ryua, Skyler can be impatient at times but he is a good leader." Yua said. Ryua smiled and nodded.
"I'll have to take your word for it. This is first time I have met him in person." She said in a teasing tone. Skyler sighed and Ryua laughed. "Yep, your are your father's son alright." Her comment made Skyler sigh and shake his head. Ryua grinned at the irritated expression on Skyler's face. "Sorry about picking at you, I'll stop now and tell you and your teammates what you all want to know. Your highness this is what you and your friends missed..."
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Three hours earlier...
The Portal Jumper stablized fully as the holographic control systems started to reactivate. Amanda restored the original guidance controls to the holographic console but still kept the manual control console out just in case there was malfunction again. The Portal Jumper flew on and landed outside a series of caves that led to the cave entrance of the Destiny Gate.
As the Portal Jumper powered down the back door opened and Spyro, who was slipping on his new white battle armor jacket, stepped out and looked around at the landscape. "This realm is definitely one I don't want to spend my next vacation in. Come on guys lets go find Flame." Spyro said and then his eyes narrowed as he balled his paws into fists. "The sooner we find him the sooner we can deal with Reeco and undo what he did to Flame." Spyro looked at the dark cave entrance and turned to Bianca. "Yo, Bianca, care to shed some light on our path." Bianca smiled and raised her wand.
"No problem, Spyro. One lighted cave path coming up." She said as she waved the wand in the air and cast a spell that made a hovering mage light appear over each of their heads. Once the spell was cast Spyro and his friends entered the cave...
One hour later...
'Good grief,' Spyro thought to himself quietly as they continued to walk on and on through the massive cave path. 'Does this stupid cave ever end.' Spyro sighed getting Ember's attention.
"What's wrong, Spyro?" She asked as the group paused at crossroad of three paths. Spyro rubbed his head and point ahead at the three separate paths.
"What do you think is wrong, Ember? Look around and tell me what you see." Spyro said. Ember looked around and sighed as she figured out what was bothering Spyro.
"I understand, Spyro, this stupid cave is starting to get to me too." Ember said as she looked at Tobin, Amanda, Hunter and Bianca. "Does anyone have any bright ideas on what path we should take to get out of here?"
Hunter stepped forward and rubbed his chin as he turned and looked down each path. "Hmm, I know..." He cleared his throat and said, "My mommy told me that I better shop around." As he said this he kept turning and pointing down each path. He did the same thing three more times. While he did this Spyro rolled his eyes while the others just looked at each other and sighed. Hunter smiled and finally said, "I say we take the middle tunnel." Hunter's smile faded as he saw the expressions on his friends faces... "What? What did I do now?" Spyro and his friends started laughing and Hunter just sighed as he leaned up against the wall. Suddenly, Hunter heard something and took off running down the path he had picked. Spyro and Ember looked at each other and started running after Hunter.
"Hey, Hunter wait!" Spyro yelled as he and Ember continued to run after him. Soon Hunter stopped and stood looking out what look like a glowing portal. Spyro and Ember looked at Hunter as the rest of their friends came running up behind them. Stepping forward, Spyro reached out and touched the glowing portal and instantly got knocked backwards by a flash of energy. "What is it?" Spyro asked as Ember and Tobin helped him to his feet.
Amanda stepped forward and waved her paw over the portal. "Hmm, it looks like a door of some kind." As she said that the portal glowed brightly and the form of tall red dragon appeared inside the portal. The tall red dragon looked at them and smiled.
"GREETINGS, I AM TALA OF THE VANGUARD GUARDIAN DRAGON CLAN. THIS PORTAL IS KNOWN AS THE DESTINY GATE." Spyro and his friends looked at the swirling portal in surprise.
"So, Tala, does this gate lead to the ruins of Vanguard Command?" Spyro asked as he stepped forward and stood face to face with Tala. Tala nodded silently. "How do we gain entrance to the gate?"
"YOU, DRAGON OF DESTINY, MUST FIRST FIND YOUR MISSING HALF. GO TO MIST VALLEY. YOUR OTHER HALF LIES IN WAIT THERE FOR YOU." Tala said as a new portal pathway opened in the wall to the left of Spyro and his friends. Tala then looked over at Ember and the others before returning her attention to Spyro. "ONCE YOU FIND YOUR OTHER HALF YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS MUST RETURN HERE. DON'T HESITATE OR YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS THROUGH THE GATE." Spyro nodded silently and started to walk toward the other portal that would take them to Mist Valley. Right before Spyro reached the portal, Tala cleared her throat getting his attention.
"Yes, Tala, is there something else you want tell me?" Spyro asked. Tala's facial expression became one of sadness.
"BE CAREFUL, YOUNG ONE, FOR THE ROAD AHEAD WILL BE A DIFFICULT ONE. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND IN YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU WILL FIND THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE FUTURE. BUT BE WARNED THAT THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR AND SOMETIMES IN ORDER TO GAIN SOMETHING PRECIOUS WE MUST FIRST GIVE UP SOMETHING EQUALLY PRECIOUS. NOTHING IS GAINED WITHOUT A SACRIFICE OF SOMEKIND. WHEN THE TIME COMES, SPYRO, YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE OF WHAT IS TRULY IMPORTANT TO YOU. SO LISTEN TO YOUR HEART AND MOST OF ALL LOOK WITHIN YOURSELF TO FIND WHAT YOU SEEK. GOOD LUCK." After Tala said that her image vanished as the Destiny Gate shut down.
"Come on guys, let's get going." Hunter said as he jumped through the portal. Spyro and the others looked at each other, nodded and then jumped thru the portal. The portal closed behind them leaving an unseen cloaked figure behind watching everything with an expression of worry on his/her face.
"Be careful, Spyro." The cloaked figure said as he/she vanished into thin air.
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Mist Valley
A portal opened on a hill overlooking beautiful cascading waterfalls. Hunter exited the portal first followed by Spyro and the others. As they exited the portal closed leaving a Portal Archway that glowed white. Hunter looked around and shivered as he looked at all the waterfalls. Spyro looked at his spooked friend and smiled.
"Come on, Hunter, the water is down there and we are up here. It can't hurt you." Hunter looked at Spyro and sighed.
"Sorry, buddy, I just hate water. I have tried to over come my fear and dislike for it but my past just keeps bringing back the reason why I hate it. I can drink it, but swimming in it is totally out of the question. There is no way in the world I am going to swim in water!" He said as Bianca walked over to him and wrapped her arm around him to calm his fear. Spyro looked around with Ember and Tobin and sighed.
"Where is he? Tala said that my other half would be here and that other half could only be..." Spyro said but Hunter interrupted him by turning to look at Spyro and gesturing that they follow him over to a rocky outcropping. Spyro frowned as they headed over rocky outcropping and said, "What is it, Hunter? I don't sense anything."
Hunter looked out over the valley as the rocky outcropping came closer and then back to Spyro. "I heard something, buddy." Spyro gave Hunter a 'yeah right' look that made Hunter growl. "I AM NOT CRAZY," Hunter growled as he walked with his friends. "I know we are being followed."
"Well, I don't hear or sense anything..." Spyro said but was cut off when Elora screamed.
"SPYRO, LOOK OUT!" Spyro looked around him but didn't see anything.
"What, I don't see.." At that moment Spyro heard footsteps and jumped aside just as a large foot came down and nearly crushed him. Spyro gave Hunter, who was wearing a smug expression on his face, a look of panic on his face as he said, "Please tell me that wasn't who I think it was! That couldn't possibly have been Flame!" Tobin and Hunter gave Spyro a grim look making Spyro groan. "Great, just great! This situation just seems to keep getting worse and worse."
At that moment, Flame looked down in his warrior form and smiled a fang filled muzzle down at Spyro. "Well well, look who has come to pay me a visit. Nice to see you, brother." Flame said in a sinister tone before opening his mouth and letting loose jet blast of fire that streaked toward Spyro and his friends. Spyro groaned and placed his paw up in front of him, closed his eyes and focused on his inner power. As he did, Spyro felt a change come over him. He opened his eyes and as he did his paws glowed blue as ice flew out creating a ice wall that Flame's attack hit and melting it creating a massive wall of steam.
"EVERYBODY RUN!" Spyro screamed as he took off running. His friends ran after him. Flame noticed that they were trying to escape and quickly followed them. Spyro and his friends changed their direction and ran back toward the portal. As they ran, Spyro looked back over his shoulder at Flame. How do we stop Flame. There is no way I can fight him like this. I am too small and he is too BIG. Spyro thought as he saw the portal archway coming back into view. There has to be away to bring Flame back down to his normal size. At that very moment five Shadow Dragons in their warrior forms seem to come out of nowhere and start attacking everyone. "Ah crap this day really sucks..."
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Meanwhile in a mysterious black fortress located in an unknown realm...
A grey cloaked figure walked swiftly down one of the many dark crystal lined halls. The figure continued to walk on until he/she reached a large gold double door. The cloaked figure pushed both doors open gently and entered into a huge chamber lined with chairs and a long meeting table. The cloaked figure paused and looked around the council chamber admiring the middle chair that the leader of the Fallen sat in during meetings. Growling in a deep voice that immediately identify the cloaked figure to be a male. He said, in a whispery tone of voice as he pulled back his hood, "I swear one day I will become the leader of this clan. And then..."
"Then you will put an end to this war we have been fighting for ages! Heh heh, I would sure like to see you try, Galen?" Said a femine voice behind him. Galen growled angrily and turned to look at the blood red dragoness that stood there in her silver robes. Seeing that it WAS the leader made Galen cower back away from her.
"Silvia.. I... didn't... hear you come in! Heh heh, may I ask why you are here, your majesty? Of course you don't have to answer my question if you don't want to but I was just curious." Galen said as he bowed his head to her. Silvia smiled and walked over to her center chair and sat down in it.
"As you were. I am here to simply look around and admire the scenery. The same as you are obviously, Galen. Though I have to say that I did hear your comment as I walked in." She said making Galen start sweating as he became nervous. "Now you wouldn't be up to some sort of scheme again? Would you?"
Galen laughed and cleared his throat as he looked at his queen. "No, your highness, I am not planning anything. I was just enjoying my time off." He said. Silvia looked at him with narrowed silver colored eyes that glowed as she frowned.
"Very well, Galen. Continue..." Galen smiled and bowed to her again and just as he started to turn to head out of the chamber, Silvia cleared her throat and said, "But, for your sake, I hope you are telling me the truth. I won't be so forgiving next time I catch you going against my orders. Do I make myself clear?" Galen's wings sagged a little but he held himself together as he turned his head to look back at Silvia.
"Crystal clear, your majesty!" He said as he closed his eyes and quickly bowed his head as he turned and walked out of the chamber. Silvia sat back in her chair and sighed as she activated a holographic monitor in mid-air by waving her glowing right paw over a dark gem that was imbeded in her chair. As the monitor turned on a gold dragoness appeared on the screen.
"Can't you see that I am bus...y!" The gold dragoness said but then bit her tongue as she noticed who she was speaking with. She quickly bowed her head and said, "Forgive me, your highness. I meant no disrespect. What task do you need me for?"
Silvia smiled at the Ascendant leader of the Celestial Knights and said, "It is good to see you again, Crystal. I hate calling you at a time like this but I need you to pass along a very important message to my sister. Tell her that Galen is up to his old habits again and that she needs to take precautions. I will handle things on my end but I need you to get this message to my sister as soon as possible." Crystal smiled and bowed her head.
"I will gladly carry out that request immediately, Queen Silvia. Is there anything else you need to pass along to my queen?" Silvia sat back in her chair and crossed her legs.
"You know me too well, Crystal. Yes, tell my sister that I need to meet with her on neutral ground as soon as possible. Also, please pass along this message to your other allies: 'Lord Silvermane, Queen Silvia humbly requests that you send help as soon as possible to assist Spyro and his brother. Both young Dragons of Destiny and Chaos will need all the help they can get in the near future if Galen is planning what I fear he is planning. Take all necessary precautions to minimize the damage I fear will be done to all realms. I am currently in the process of making my own secret plans of action to deal with Galen. Also, I must warn you to be very careful of who you trust because I have noticed that certain individuals, besides Galen, are making secret deals and alliances with him and other parties behind all our backs. These deals could very well lead to THE Chaos War we have all been struggling hard to try and prevent for eons now. Be careful and good luck.' Got all of that, Crystal?"
Crystal nodded and said, "Yes, I have it. Take care, your highness and be careful."
"You too, Crystal. Bye." Silvia said as she deactivated the holographic screen and stood up rubbing her chin with a worried expression on her face. Glancing up at the large glowing dark gem, Silvia sighed and said, "Galen, you old fool! What am I going to do with you? Your scheming ways, up till now, have been irritating at best and annoying at worst but now what you are planning to do could bring all our efforts for a peaceful end to what has been a long bloody conflict between our two people to a horrible end. I don't want another Chaos War to happen. The last one eons ago was bad enough. This time, I fear that if another such war breaks out the level of chaos and destruction that will occur this time could possibly bring about the end of everything..."
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A gold eyed Spyro blew a stream of white fire out of his mouth at two of the large Shadow Warrior dragons. The two dragons blocked the attack and returned one of their own. Spyro dived out of the way as two black fire balls flew toward him. While this was happening, Flame was dog fighting two of the other warrior form Shadow Dragons in the air. Spinning around in the air Flame's four large feathered wings glowed and bursted into flames as he sent a tornado of superheated flame spinning toward the two Shadow Dragons. Both Shadow Dragons tried to block the flames but as it hit both of them it made their efforts totally worthless as they roared out in pain as their bodies were quickly reduced to ash in mid-air. Flame smiled and then headed down to finish off his brother and his friends. He got there in time to see Hunter and Bianca's teamwork K.O. one of the Shadow Dragons. That just left the two that were fighting Spyro, Ember and Tobin. Blink and Amanda had already been knocked out cold. Flame entered the fight knocking one of the remaining two Shadow Dragons to the ground where he returned to his smaller size. Flame laughed and was about to kill the downed Shadow Dragon when he got knocked out of the sky by a lightning bolt that render him unconscious as he hit the ground and returned to his smaller size.
"Flame!" Spyro screamed as he went over to check on his brother. Flame was out like a light and his black jacket was smoking. Flame groaned but didn't wake up. "Ember, tell Bianca to get over here as quickly as she can and help Flame." Ember nodded.
"Bianca, we need your assistance." Ember said. Hearing Ember's plea for help, Bianca looked at Hunter.
"Can you handle the last Shadow Dragon by yourself, honey." Hunter grinned and somersaulted out of the way of a fire blast.
"Of course I can," He yelled. "Take care of Flame and leave this oversized loser to me. I can beat him." Bianca smiled and ran over to where Spyro sat with his smoking unconscious brother. Getting there she started healing him as Spyro ran to join Hunter in fighting the last remaining Shadow Dragon. Hunter fired an arrow of ice at the Shadow Dragon dazzing him long enough for Spyro to enter the fight.
"Hey, buddy, you weren't going to try and hog all the glory were you?" Spyro said with a smile.
"Of course not, pal. I was saving some of the action for you. Now, let's clean the floor with this loser!" Hunter said as his left gauntlet started glowing. As he noticed this, Hunter smiled and jumped up into the air toward the falling Shadow Dragon. As soon as he was up enough to start free falling backwards toward the groind, Hunter aimed both arms at the still dazzed Shadow Dragon. "Eat this! Double Action Crossbows..." Both gauntlets glowed as an energy cross bow appeared on both gauntlets. "Rapid fire!" Hunter yelled as both bows unleashed a torrent of Fire and Ice Arrows. The Shadow Dragon roared out in pain and unleashed a life stealing Black Dragon attack at Hunter. Hunter saw the attack coming and said, "Oh crap. Looks like I really am going to die this time." Just as the Black Dragon attack neared him Spyro with gold eyes flew between him and the attack and reflected the attack back at the one who sent it in the first place. The Shadow Dragon roared out in pain and was knocked unconscious as he hit the ground hard.
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After the fight was over, Spyro, who was holding an embarrased Hunter in his arms landed by Ember and Bianca, who was busy healing Flame's wounds. "So how is he?" Spyro asked Bianca as he knelt down beside her. Bianca smiled and looked at him.
"He'll be okay, Spyro. Prehaps you and Ember should take Flame and go back through the gate. We'll join you guys at the entrance to the Destiny Gate as soon as we can get Amanda and Blink patched up." While they were talking they didn't notice a black shadowy mist wrap around the two unconsious Shadow Dragon's making them disappear within it's grasp.
"Okay, just follow after us as soon as your able. The sooner we can undo what was done to Flame the sooner we will be able to go home." Ember said as she gently wrapped her right arm around Flame and stood up with Spyro support Flame's right side. Together they walked toward the gate which activated allowing them to walkd thru. Once they got to the other side they headed back down the tunnel to main chamber where the entrance to the Destiny Gate sat silently spinning. As soon as they had entered the chamber they sat Flame against the cave way gently and stood back and started to head back toward the Destiny Gate. Just as they neared the gate they heard something or in this cause two dark voices.
"You may have beat us before but this time we are going to crush both of you." One voice said.
Then another voice spoke out.
"Time to die! Once we are done with you, Spyro, Reeco will reward both of us with a promotion."
Ember groaned and said, "Good grief, enough of this. If you are going to attack us then come on and let's get this over with."
"With pleasure, my dear." Said one of the dark voices. At that moment Spyro and Ember heard the sound of falling bodies... Very large falling bodies. Looking at each Spyro and Ember looked up and groaned.
Spyro and Ember jumped out of the way as two male Shadow Dragon guards attempted ambush failed. Spyro and Ember recognized thetwo Shadow Dragons as the same two that had attacked them eariler in Mist Valley. As the two Shadow Dragons split up to attack both Spyro and Ember as they separated, Spyro smiled and said, "Let's dance."
The much larger Shadow Dragon swung his bladed battle staff at Spyro. Spyro ducked beneath the blade of the battle staff. The Shadow Dragon growled angrily as he swung the blade at Spyro again and Spyro jumped to the side avoiding the blade. With a blur of motion, Spyro reached for the battle staff the Shadow Dragon was using against him and pull his opponent towards him with all his strength. As soon as he was within striking distance Spyro jumped up into the air using his wings to do an aerial spin, that would have made Neo from the Matrix proud and a little jealous. As he came down rapidly, he gave his opponent a hard spin kick to the head sending him flying, head first, into the cave wall knocking him unconscious. As Spyro landed he caught the bladed staff in his right paw and said, "Well, that was a piece of cake!"
Ember, meanwhile was ducking and dodging the bladed staff of the other Shadow Dragon. Her opponent made the blade on the staff extend longer as he started swing at her in a slice and dice motion. Ember frowned as she jumped up into the air as the blade missed her by a hair. She grabbed the cave ceiling with her front claws and hung there. The Shadow Dragon below looked up and saw where she was hanging. He smiled as he stabbed his blade staff up intending on gutting her. Ember moved quickly out of the way and let go of the ceiling flipping down gracefully landing behind the Shadow Dragon. As he turned she jumped up wrapping her feet around his muscular neck spinning him around and slamming him into the ground hard with her weight. Once he was down she quickly jumped up flipped over the wicked blade of the battle staff and landed hard on his grind making him scream out in pain as she kicked the blade staff out of his flexing paws. Then she jumped off him to the side and elbowed him hard in the face.
"Shut the hell up!" She said as her elbow knocked him out cold. She grabbed the Shadow Dragon's staff and looked over at Spyro with a smug smile. "I bet you thought I couldn't fight that good. Did you, Spyro?" Spyro smiled and went over to check on his unconscious brother. While Spyro was doing this the same black mist that none of them had seen in Mist Valley floated into the cavern from a crack in the rock wall behind Ember.
"Not bad, babe. You remind me of Tala. That dragoness really had alot of spunk." A mysterious voice said as a transparent black dragon appeared suddenly behind Ember. Spyro and Ember gasped in surprise as they heard the voice bouncing around the cavern. They both looked around and saw nothing. At that moment Flame woke up and looked at Spyro with a thin smile on his face. Spyro, once he had noticed that his brother was awake, smiled and gently propped him up against the rock wall.
Flame licked his dry mouth and looked at Spyro and then over at Ember. As he did his eyes widened in shock as he noticed the black dragon appear behind Ember. "EMBER, BEHIND YOU!" Flame screamed. Ember frowned and turned around as quickly she could with the blade staff in paw and got a fist in the face. She roared out in pain and flew backwards into the rock wall dropping the staff in the process. Spyro growled and charged at the black dragon.
"You will pay for that whoever you are!" Spyro growled and punched the black dragon in the face with a powerful punch. The punch sent the black dragon flying back a little bit. The black dragon bent over and coughed. Spyro smiled as he said, "Not so tough are you?"
The black dragon suddenly, to the surprise of Spyro and Flame, stood back up ram rod straight and smiled at both of them with not a scratch on his face. He laughed and clapped his paws together. "Bravo! Hmm, you must be the new boy..." He paused and rubbed his chin with his right clawed paw. "Your name is Spyro right!" Spyro looked at the strange dragon with a puzzled expression on his face. "Well, Spyro, my name is Galen and I think we are going to have a lot of fun. You and I. Heh heh." As he said that he looked at Flame making Flame gasp.
"Who the hell are you?" Flame asked. Galen smiled and waved his paw through air in a swiping motion sending both brothers flying back into the cave wall dazing both of them.
"I am your worst nightmare made real, Flame. Heh heh, and YOU call yourself the new Dragon of Chaos. How pathetic you are. You shame all the dragons who carried that title before you. You are a total disgrace." Galen said making Flame pull himself to his feet and stand up straighter with a smile that surprised the older dragon.
"I don't care about my predecessors, Galen!" Flame said proudly puffing out his chest in pride as he gave brief glance to his brother before returning his attention to Galen. "So what if I am not a weapon of destruction for you Fallen, Galen. Get this through your head 'I... DON'T... CARE...!' Dragon of Destiny or Dragon of Chaos is just a title." Spyro and Ember, as they both forced themselves back on their hind legs, looked at Flame and smiled. "I am proud of who I am and not ashame of being what I am. Spyro was right when he told me that powers don't make the person good or evil it is what is in that person's heart and what that person choses to do with the powers that determine what cause they truly serve." Galen growled in anger as he looked at Flame with narrowed glowing eyes filled with fury. "I am free to chose my own destiny, Galen. I am not your puppet or anyone elses." Flame smiled a fang filled smile. "So stop trying to control me!" Flame roared sending a wave of energy out knocking the older dragon backward into a rock wall. Galen growled and picked himself up off the ground. As he did he looked over at Spyro and Flame and smiled.
"You will regret that decision, Flame. Heh heh, oh yes, I promise you will most definitely regret that decision!" Galen said as he turned with narrowed eyes to look at Ember as she walked with a slight limp toward the two brothers. "In fact, I think I will punish you right now..!" He growled as he sent a black wave of energy that cut threw Ember making the young dragoness gasp with wide eyes as her body went rigid and she fell to the stone floor.
Spyro and Flame, with looks of horror on their faces, walked quickly over to Ember and knelt down to check on her. They discovered that while she was still breathing she was in bad shape. Her dragonfly, Lily, was unconscious along with her and that was a bad sign. Flame looked up at Galen with glowing angry narrowed eyes. "YOU MONSTER! I SWEAR YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" He growled as he unleashed a beam of dark energy at Galen. Galen merely absorbed the beam and smiled at Flame's shocked expression.
"Come on, boy, did you really honestly think the power WE Fallen gave to you would hurt one of us. Don't be so stupid. Still, I must say that you do have great anger in your heart. Prehaps there is still hope for you after all." Galen said as he heard the footsteps of Hunter and the rest of Spyro's friends coming. "Well, I think I'll take my leave now. We will meet again, Flame, sooner then you think!" He then turned to Spyro who was looking at him with tear-filled angry eyes and smiled. "As for you, Dragon of Destiny, I promise you that before all is said and done you will be begging me to kill you. The end is coming and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Enjoy the time you have left because soon the sands in the hourglass of time will run out for you and your pathetic friends!" Galen then turned into black mist and laughed as he exited threw the same crack in the stone wall he came thru in the first place laughing and mocking both Flame and Spyro as he left.
Hunter and the others then showed up running over to check on their three friends. Amanda and Tobin noticed that Ember and Lily were in critical condition and dropped to their knees. "What happened to Ember, Spyro." Amanda asked as she nodded to Bianca and both females started trying to heal Ember. Spyro stood up and walked over to the stone wall and started punching it hard enough to crack the stone. Hunter with a look of worry walked over and placed a paw on Spyro's left shoulder as he fell to his knees sobbing.
"I just stood there and did NOTHING! That monster nearly killed Ember and all I could do was just stand there! I am totally useless!" Spyro growled in anger as Hunter tried to comfort him.
"What happened, buddy. Who did that to Ember?" Hunter asked softly as Blink joined him in trying to comfort Spyro. Spyro looked up at his two friends as tears rolled down his face.
"Galen is responsible for this tragedy." Spyro said in a low emotion-filled voice. Hunter and Blink looked at each other with puzzled expressions on their faces before turning to look back at Tobin. Tobin shook his head as he continued to examine the Shadow Dragon staffs that Spyro and Ember had taken from the two Shadow Dragons that they had defeated earlier.
"Who the hell is Galen?" Blink asked as the room suddenly filled with white light from the Destiny Gate opening. "What the..." Blink said as a strange white cloaked figure exited the now opened swirling gate.
Everyone, except for Bianca and Amanda stood up and turned to face the newcomer. "Who are you?" Flame asked in low voice filled with anger. The stranger walked toward them slowly before stopping and bowing to them.
"Who I am will be revealed in time. Right now it is more important to try and help save the life of your friend, Ember, Flame." Flame gasped in surprise along with everyone else. "Spyro, remember when Tala told you." Spyro nodded silently as he looked at his friends in turn. Hunter growled.
"How do we know we can trust you after what has happened here?" Hunter asked as he pointed his wrist bow at the cloaked figure. "For all we know you could be in league with this Galen fellow."
"Prehaps my intentions need to be made clear." The stranger said as he/she nodded and raised a glowing staff into the air sending healing energies into Ember helping Amanda and Bianca to stablizer her. "Now, Hunter, son of Lord Kyle of the Willowbrook Kingdom Cheetah Clan, do you still doubt me?" Hunter's face took on a guarded expression that everyone noticed.
"Hunter..." Spyro said as he touched his friend's right shoulder. "How does this stranger know your name and background. I thought..." Hunter frowned and looked at Spyro and sighed as he shook his head before looking back at the stranger.
"I don't know how you know me, whoever you are, but I still don't trust you that mu..." Hunter said but Spyro interrupted him with a look that spoke volumes as he looked at Sparx who was speaking softly to him.
"Hunter, I don't care whoever this person maybe. Neither does Sparx. All that matters is that this person helped stablize both Ember's and Lily. Do you honestly think that someone who was out to hurt us would help us out in anyway?" Spyro said in a tired hollow voice that surprised everyone. Spyro looked at the stranger and nodded his head in understanding. The cloaked stranger returned his nod and turned heading back toward the Destiny Gate.
"Follow me!" Said the cloaked figure. "I will show you the way to the Vanguardian Tower of Lore." Spyro looked at his friends and reached down taking the Shadow Dragon blade staff from Tobin. Hunter sighed and shook his head.
"Do you honestly think we can trust this one?" Hunter asked in a soft tone as he looked at Spyro. Spyro looked at Hunter and nodded as he attached the Shadow Dragon blade staff to the back of his white battle jacket.
"I don't think we have much of a choice in the matter. If we don't do something soon Ember will die." He said as he bent down in front of Bianca and Amanda and picked up Ember's motionless body up in his arms and walked after the cloaked figure.
No one said a word as they followed Spyro through the Destiny Gate to face whatever awaited them beyond...
Together...
To Be Concluded...
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Finally, the series is back on track. I apologize to all the fans of this series for not continuing this story sooner but I had computer problems and a major cause of writer's block that prevent me from continuing the story even though I had most the series past season two outlined. I hope you have enjoyed reading the revamped version of the original episodes I had up before. Next up get ready for brand new episodes... but first before that happens here are some exclusive Sneak Peaks ahead. So if you are curious to know what lies ahead for Spyro and his friends then keep reading because I promise you one thing... You ain't seen nothing yet. What lies ahead is more shocking and surprising then any of you can possibly imagine. Ok, enough with the 'hyping the future' rountine. Read on and discover for yourself what the future holds...
ARE YOU READY FOR SEASON TWO? ARE YOU READY FOR THE FIRST SPYRO: DRAGON OF DESTINY MOVIE? Well, ready or not, both are coming soon.
In Spyro: Dragon of Destiny: The Movie...
A terrible secret from the past...
Will be revealed...
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"Donovan the Demon was Cale's brother!" Spyro said with a grim expression on his face as sat around the table looking at his friends.
"Well this is definitely a screwed up situation. Isn't it?" Hunter said as he sat back in his chair with a frown. Spyro looked around the table at all his friends, old and new.
"Hunter, buddy, I have a bad feeling that this situation is screwed up much worst then we have yet to see." Spyro said as his eyes narrowed. His friends all nodded silently in agreement.
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A decision in the present will be made...
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"This can't be happening..." Cale screamed as his Deon appeared in front of him holding the Chaos Blade in black paw.
"But it is, brother..." He said coldly as he stabbed Cale thru the chest with the Chaos Blade. "Forgive me, Cale."
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Awakening the future that is yet to come.
When your destiny comes calling will you stand up and face it...
And when the time comes will you stand and fight...
Not only to discover who you are and what you are...
But to save the people you love and the friends you cherish...
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Spyro hugs Ember as tears fall from his eyes. "Don't do this, Ember. Please don't do this."
Ember wraps her arms around Spyro in a tight hug and says, "I must do this because I love you. And I care deeply about all of you. What must be done must be done."
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An old friend will return...
And Spyro, Flame and all of his friends will come face to face with the Demon...
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"Prepare to die," Deon roared as his huge body pulsed with dark energy. Spyro and Flame in their warrior dragon forms raised their gauntlet covered right arms into the air summoning the Destiny Blade and Chaos Blade to their paws.
Spyro brought the sword to his chest and roared, "STAND TOGETHER AND WE CAN'T LOSE!"
Deon laughed and growled, "Even together you will fail. You can't win this battle."
Flame brought his blade to his chest as his eyes started glowing. "We shall see, Donovan, we shall see!" He roared as he tossed the now glowing Chaos Blade at Deon. Deon blocked the attack and then...
All hell broke loose...
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Coming Soon... Vangauradian Legacy: Donovan the Demon: A Spyro: Dragon of Destiny Movie.
Then, get ready for Season Two...
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"Nestor, I don't want to say good bye to my friend. Sparx has always been with me. I feel like I will be losing a very important part of myself." Nestor looked at Spyro with sad eyes.
"I am sorry, but the time has finally come for you to let go of what you are and become what you were born to be. Saying goodbye to your childhood is never easy. Believe me when I say I know what you are going thru." Spyro smiled a sad smile as he stood up looking at his mentor.
"I believe you, Nestor. It is just that I hate saying goodbye to people I care about." Spyro said in soft emotion-filled voice as he dropped his head and closed his tear-filled eyes. Nestor stood up from behind his desk and reach under Spyro chin with a single paw digit on his right paw. He raised Spyro's tear stained face up to look at him.
As Spyro opened his tear filled eyes to look at him, Nestor said, "I know, Spyro. I know. But you have to learn that sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do. Not only because it is the morally right thing to do for Sparx or any of your other friends but because you DO care about all of them. You have always put the well being of others ahead of your own and despite your personal feelings you have always tried to do what is right." Spryo wiped his eyes as he looked into Nestor's as the older dragon smiled. "Sparx will always be your best friend no matter where you go or what happens to you. He will always be near. Remember that best friends, are and always will remain best friends no matter how far apart you both may be from each other. Friendship... TRUE friendship is forever..."
"Thank you, Nestor for putting up with me and my problems for so long. You are a true friend and a great leader. The Dragon Clans are truly blessed to have you in charge." Spyro said as he bowed in respect for the Elder. Nestor smiled and placed his left paw on Spyro's shoulder making him look up as Nestor bowed to him.
"No, Spyro, I have done only what is required of me. I am not great I am merely a single dragon doing what I must to make a difference. Just like you have done many times before. We may have, in the past, not seen eye-to-eye with each other but I do now. You have earned the respect of not only the Elder dragons of each clan but all dragons. Your good heart, courage and dedication to duty makes us all thankful for you being here. You have and continue to make a positive difference in our world. Never doubt yourself or the good deeds you have accomplished." Nestor then hugged Spyro surprising the younger dragon. "Thank you, Spyro, for always being there when we have needed you. We Elders may have not always publicly thanked you but secretly we have always been honored by your presence. May the Dragon god always rain down his blessings on you." Tears rolled down Spyro's face as he wrapped his own paws around Nestor's neck returning the hug.
"I don't think any words I say will be enough to express how proud I am that you and the other Elders think so highly of me. I promise you and the other Elders, Nestor, I will continue to do my best for as long as I live." Spyro said as he stepped back away from Nestor. Nestor handed Spyro a gold staff with a light gem shaped in the form of a 'S' in the hilt. Spyro grabbed the staff from Nestor's paw and held it in his left paw. "Thank you, Nestor." He said with a smile as he turned and walked out of Nestor's office. Nestor smiled as he watched Spyro walk away holding the staff.
"No, Spyro, I thank you and Flame for being the sons I never had. I may have only been your foster father but I still am very proud of both you and your brother. Whatever the future holds I know both of you, with your friends standing loyally by your side, will handle it wisely with great courage and wisdom." Nestor whispered as tears rolled down his cheek. "I love both of you more then you ever will know, Spyro."
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Hunter looks at his old friend Jordan and said, "I am not ready to be king."
Jordan lookes at Hunter with a solemn expression on his face as he said, "Maybe not but it is your destiny. Your people need a leader and you must lead them. If not you then who?"
Hunter looked around the room at all his friends and then looked at Spyro as the young dragon walked up to him. Looking Hunter in the eye, Spyro smiled and said, "I know you will make the right decision, Hunter. Just listen to your heart and let it guide you to the right choice." Hunter dropped his head as tears started to fall from his eyes. Spyro used a single paw digit on his right paw to lift Hunter's head to look at him. "I believe in you, Hunter, because you have always been there when I needed you. You have always been a true friend and I know you will make your father proud by being good leader. Go on, buddy and face your destiny." Hunter nodded as he stepped forward turning back to look at Spyro with a smile.
"Thank you, Spyro." Hunter said as Bianca joined him and together, hand in hand, they walked forward into to claim Hunter's true destiny... together.
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Spyro and Flame hugged as Flame turned and walked away turning back to briefly look at Spyro with tears in his eyes as he sadly says, "Goodbye, brother." Jumping up into the air, Flame flaps his wings and flies off. As Flame flew off into the distance, Spyro stood silently on the hill as a soft breeze brushed his feathered wings which dropped low as a deep feeling of sadness gripped him...
"Good luck, Flame." He said as tears rolled down his cheek. "Anytime you decide to come back we will be waiting here to welcome you home. I will miss you, brother."
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"It can't be," Spyro said in shock as he knocks the hood off the top of the stranger's head revealing the face of...
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Galen's black swirling eyes glowed omniously as he smiles and says, as Spyro and his friends stand in a semi-circle battle pose glaring at him with narrowed eyes, "The war games are over, Spyro. Now... heh heh... NOW the Chaos War begins...!"
Get ready because the future is coming soon...