Disclaimer, I do not own anything used in this story except the Werehog transformation by Jade, and the brothers of the Guardian Dragon Elders who will be introduced in this chapter. Author's Note the Guardian Dragons already know about the magical community so there is no need for introductions from them.
Section 13's Wild House Party
Jade was beyond surprised when the heroes got back to section 13 for it was only 20 minutes to sunset and the rest of the heroes were equally shocked for standing there among Captain Black, Jackie, Uncle, Tohru, and Professor Pickle were not only Terrador, Volteer, and Ignitus but they were joined by Jake Long, Spud, Trixie, Rose, Lao Shi, Sun Park, Mr. Lee, Mei Ling, Ring, and Shaoran as well as Aladdin some new dragons who look very much like Terrador, Cyril, and Ignitus in the process.
"Jade once again you managed to restore another piece of the planet to its proper place." Professor Pickle congratulated the heroes.
"Professor now is not the time for congratulations just yet." Lao Shi interrupted.
"My old friend Lao Shi is right." Mr. Lee added "There are still a few problems we have to attend to and dropping our guard now is a foolish decision at this point in the battle."
"Mr. Lee is right. With 3 Gaia Temples activated, the forces of evil will stop at nothing to prevent these young kids from trying to get to the remaining 4 Temples of Gaia." The Ignitus look alike explained. Everyone who knew Ignitus as well as Volteer, Cyril and Terrador would've noticed that the dragon who just spoke was a lighter shade of red than Ignitus and his oranges markings were of a yellow orange instead of a regular orange and the tail was a yellow orange flame pattern.
"Okay Ignitus we already get it. We have to go out and restore the chaos emeralds which in turn will restore the planet which in turn will strengthen the seal on Dark Gaia." Sparx said already annoyed at hearing the same thing 3 times and doing the same damn thing three times.
"Well done Sparx you just did me and my brother a favor. You saved our young guests a very long lecture but your only mistake was thinking that I was Ignitus." The Ignitus look alike explained.
"Okay if you're not Ignitus then who the heck are you supposed to be?" Trixie asked with a great amount of impatience.
"My name is Shahryar. I am the younger twin brother of Ignitus the Fire Guardian Dragon Elder by 3 minutes." Shahryar explained to Trixie then turning to Ignitus he added, "Brother I think a round of introductions are in order before we explain as to why we are all here."
"Yes yes of course. Well as you all know I'm Ignitus the fire guardian and leader of the Guardian Dragon Elders." Ignitus explained.
"I'm Volteer the Electricity Guardian and I do believe that some of you have already met my younger twin brother Aladdin." Volteer explained to the crowd referring that last part to Jade, Sonic, Crash, Coco, Crunch, Spyro, Sparx and Sasami.
"My name is Cyril and as you all know I'm the Ice Guardian and my brother is Sinbad. He's older than myself but I do not mind because we were born on the same day so he not much older than I am." Cyril explained getting some odd looks from Jake and Mei Ling.
"My little brother has a point about him being the Ice Guardian even though I'm older. Guarding eggs may be a great honor I just didn't seem to be the kind of dragon to stay in one place. I liked to see the world so when it came time to appoint the Ice Guardian. Everyone thought I would be the selected choice but I turned it down and Cyril earned the position instead." Sinbad explained. Everyone noticed that Sinbad was a darker shade of blue than Cyril and instead of purple markings his markings were a mix of Blue and Purple.
"What made you want to turn down an offer of being a Guardian Dragon Sinbad?" Ring asked Cyril's big brother.
"Well let's just say my wife Marina was still on earth and I needed to be there for her and the kids. I would be a lousy father if I left to go fight the forces of evil and died in the process." Sinbad explained.
"Don't remind me. Jensen, Cameron, and Lauren were a handful even for you and Marina back then and they were triplets. Jonathan being the eldest of the five kids was pretty much well behaved despite taking after you most of the time. But Zach was pretty much like our grandpa Flurious." Cyril explained.
"If you guys are done chatting I think we'd all like to hear about Terrador and his brother." Sasami spoke up not knowing that she could diffuse an argument with only a quiet word.
"Sasami is right we have much to do and we need to focus on the task at hand." Terrador added.
"My younger brother is right. As you may not know I'm Terrador's older twin brother Ali Baba and I was born 7 minutes before he was but that is irrelevant to the situation at hand. However he and I are opposites when it came to combat for the power of an earth dragon resides in both the soil and the air and where he was rooted to the soil I was more at home when it came down to air based abilities." Ali Baba explained. Ali Baba was a green dragon who looked like Terrador only he was a forest green dragon and like Terrador he had brown markings but his were a more lighter brown to contrast with the emerald green instead of the earth brown of his brothers markings.
"Well then thank you for the introductions but we all like to know who you are. I believe I have already met some of you back in Spagonia before you headed out for the temple, but I don't know about the rest of you so could please introduce yourselves." Aladdin asked the heroes.
"Well my name is Jade Chan. Pleased to meet you." Jade spoke up.
"I'm Sasami. I don't know much about myself or my past and I've been traveling with Jade to find my memories." Sasami continued.
"I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive." Sonic added.
"I'm Spyro the Dragon and this is my adoptive brother Sparx." Spyro continued the introductions.
"You got that right Spyro. I still wonder why you get the attention just because a lot of weird stuff shoots out of your mouth." Sparx commented but then stopped when he received glares from Jake, Mei Ling, Ring, Jade, and Spyro.
"I'm Coco Bandicoot, That's my big brother Crash Bandicoot, that's Crunch and our guardian is Aku-Aku." Coco explained pointing to herself, Crash, Crunch and Aku-Aku in that order.
"My name is Professor Pickle. I'm the one who studied up on Dark Gaia and the Gaia Temples. I'm very pleased to meet actual talking dragons. Perhaps we can talk over a plate of luscious cucumber sandwiches later." The professor commented.
"I'll look into that on professor. Perhaps I could serve that for dinner later on." Shahryar explained later. The heroes guessed that cooking was something that the fire guardian and his family did very well.
"My name is Jackie Chan. This is Uncle and his apprentice Tohru and Captain Augustus Black the head of Section 13." Jackie explained to the dragons.
"Well it appears we know who you are and from what each of our brothers has already told us you seem to be very nice people." Ali Baba answered politely.
"It's a shame that we cannot say the same for the rest of the humans in the base unless my brother Cyril was telling the truth about other dragons being in the area besides us." Sinbad said solemnly only to be interrupted by Ignitus.
"That's the reason why we're all here Sinbad. There are other dragons present and I believe that the sun is about to set right about now and that's when you'll see what our new problem is." The fire guardian explained and true to his the sun started to set as day started to turn into night. Sonic and Jade transformed into their respective werehog forms but they weren't the only ones who transformed for everyone who had been to Hong Kong during the Aztec Skull quest could tell that Dark Gaia's presence has not just affected Jade and Sonic.
"I believe Ignitus explained only half of our current problem." Lao Shi stated seriously for he was in his dragon form along with, Sun Park, Jake, Mei Ling, Ring, and Mr. Lee.
"Let me guess," Jackie asked. "Dark Gaia's presence forces you into your dragon forms at night."
"Jackie is correct." Sun Park responded. "Dark Gaia's power has forced all the dragons around the world to take their dragon forms at night. Fortunately we can still transform into our dragon forms during the day if we need to but at night we cannot change back into our human forms."
"This is a serious problem, especially if the forces of darkness learn about this latest development." Tohru commented.
"I have just one question." Sparx asked as he and Spyro never met the American Dragon or his allies before now.
"What is it now Sparx?" Spyro asked annoyed due to his adoptive brother usually asking something annoying or pointing out the obvious.
"Who are those four kids and why haven't they turned into dragons?" Sparx asked pointing to Trixie, Spud, Rose and Shaoran.
"Well Sparx to answer your question. My name is Trixie Carter." Trixie replied annoyed at the dragonfly.
"I'm Arthur P. Spudinski but everyone calls me Spud. We just happen to be 2 ordinary kids who found out that our friend Jake was a dragon." Spud replied seeming to be much calmer than his friend.
"Okay and you guys are supposed to be the Huntsgirl and the Chinese Huntsboy respectively." Spyro added referring to Rose and Shaoran respectively after hearing so many stories about Jade's adventure in Hong Kong during the race for the Aztec Skull.
"We were members of the Huntsclan until we found out that the Huntsclan kidnapped us as children and lied to us about our pasts. My name is Rose." Rose explained to Spyro.
"My name is Shaoran but the Huntsclan changed my name to Pong to make it harder for my real family to find me." Shaoran explained seeming aware that Sparx didn't trust him.
"Great if you guys used to be dragon slayers where were you when we need help slaying Cynder when she was evil or better yet why didn't you help us deal with Malefor over in China?" Sparx yelled only to receive glares from elder dragons while Spyro, Jake, Mei Ling, and Ring all responded in a different manner.
"Sparx do us all a favor for once and shut the hell up already!" Spyro and the younger dragons yelled at the dragonfly while Sasami, Jade, Sonic, Crash and Coco and the humans said nothing though Trixie seemed to trust Sparx after that last remark.
"Guys this is not the time for yelling." Sasami stepped up. "We need a plan to work on how we're going to deal with this situation."
"Sasami is quite right. Now is not the time to yell kids." Sun Park added very impressed at the 13 year old girl for being able to diffuse an argument with minimal effort which was quite a chore to do even for the former Korean Dragon.
"Indeed which is why we are going to see the Dragon Council while Shahryar, Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba will cover for their respective brother at the temple." Aku-Aku explained.
"One More thing," Uncle yelled "Professor Pickle is going with us as is Captain Black."
"Why is Professor Pickle going with us?" Jackie asked only to be wacked in the head by Cyril's tail.
"Jackie, Professor Pickle is the authority on Dark Gaia and the Gaia Manuscripts. The Council will want an explanation as to what Dark Gaia is and what the Gaia Temples are and every second we waste here is another second Dark Gaia grows stronger and who knows what the forces of darkness have planned." Cyril explained.
"That's something I'd expect to hear from Uncle." Jade commented while Tohru nodded.
"Cyril's right even though he is terribly obnoxious at times. We must depart at once in order to stop the forces of darkness." Uncle Agreed and with that Aku-Aku teleported, the elders out of section 13 leaving, Jade, Sasami, Sonic, Crash, Coco, Spyro, Sparx, Jake, Rose, Trixie, Spud, Ring, Mei Ling, and Shaoran alone in the base.
"Well what are we going to do now?" Sasami asked the group.
"Well you know what they say. When Grandpa's away the kids will party." Jake spoke up and with that Spud and Trixie seemed to get what the American Dragon was thinking.
"Jake, remember what happened the last time you threw a party?" Spud asked.
"Rose nearly slew three members of the dragon council during that Halloween party, one of which was revealed to be a traitor to the order of dragons." Trixie remembered for she still didn't trust Rose.
"Who's gonna know?" Sparx commented "I think it would be a great idea."
"I don't know Sparx what if the elders come back and find this place a mess?" Spyro answered.
"Relax boys I'm a genius, I can create a robot that will clean this place up in a minute." Coco reminded them.
"Well as long as we're going to throw this party we may as well introduce ourselves to Sonic, Spyro, Sparx, Sasami, Crash, and Coco." Mei Ling reminded them.
"My name is Ring and this is my sister Mei Ling and this is my sister's boyfriend Shaoran." Ring introduced to Sonic, Crash, Coco, Sasami, Spyro and Sparx who nodded. Then it was Jake's turn to introduce himself and Rose to the heroes.
"My name is Jake Long, the American Dragon and Rose is my girlfriend, formerly known as Huntsgirl." Jake explained to Sonic, Spyro, Sparx, Sasami, Crash, and Coco who nodded again to the American Dragon.
"Jake doesn't it bother you that you are dating a former dragon slayer?" Sparx asked not trusting Rose and Shaoran due to their ties to the Huntsclan.
"Sparx has a point I mean isn't it an odd relationship. I mean a dragon and a slayer?" Spyro added for he was worried about the safety of the dragons as well as the rest of the guests.
"Believe me Spyro," Mei Ling responded to the purple dragon. "I know what Jake is talking about."
"Don't tell me you and Shaoran the former Chinese Huntsboy are dating each other right?" Sparx responded in sarcasm only for Mei Ling to nod her head in response. At this point Sparx almost fainted when he heard that piece of news.
"Considering the fact that Mei Ling's boyfriend is a former member of the Huntsclan is difficult but I'm still learning to deal with that after what happened to our mother and father." Ring added.
"Believe me Ring, Aladdin told us about your parents." Jade added.
"Well let's bring some light into this darkness and start the party!" Sonic exclaimed and with that the heroes began setting up and preparing for the party.
Meanwhile over in the Dragon Council Room on the Isle of Draco, Professor Pickle was explaining about Dark Gaia and the Gaia Temples to the Council and after listening to Volteer add what he found out combined what the information he learned from Aku-Aku and Coco the Councilors were extremely shocked.
"From what you have described professor, it would appear that Dark Gaia has been freed from his slumber." Councilor Andam the African Dragon responded gravely.
"That pretty much sums it up." Cyril remarked to the council.
"Cyril will you hold your tongue and don't say anything that will make us sound arrogant?" Terrador replied to the ice guardian only to be silenced by Councilor Kulde the European Dragon.
"Cyril is right Terrador." Councilor Kulde replied to the earth guardian dragon elder. "Dark Gaia's influence has not only affected the human world but it is causing the magical community to suffer side effects of being exposed to Dark Gaia's powers."
"I'm sure you're all aware of this but Dark Gaia has affected more than just us dragons by trapping us in our dragon forms at night." Councilor Omina the Atlantis Dragon recalled.
"Jade and Sonic are still stuck as werehogs at night and turn back into a human and a hedgehog respectively during the day." Ignitus answered to the Atlantis Dragon.
"What of the Talismans of Shendu? How do they factor into Dark Gaia's release from the earth?" Councilor Kulkulkhan the Central American Dragon asked the Professor.
"I'll take that question Councilor." Aku-Aku spoke up. "It wasn't the talismans that freed Dark Gaia. The power of the Chaos Emeralds caused this mess and caused the talisman powers to bond to Jade causing her to have black tattoos on her arms."
"The Chaos Emeralds caused this? We've heard stories about the emeralds but we didn't think that the emeralds actually existed." Councilor Omina explained.
"Sensei speaking of Jade, I hope she's okay." Tohru said as he was greatly concerned for her safety.
"Relax Tohru, What could possibly happen?" Crunch asked the Sumo apprentice as he was greatly wondering about that question.
"I'm sure that they're probably at Uncle's shop or spending time together as friends should." Captain Black responded.
"Captain Black has a point Crunch." Terrador added to the muscular bandicoot. "It's not like they're throwing a wild house party right now."
Back in Section 13, said wild house party was in full swing as kids in costume and magical creatures from all over the city appeared in the underground base. The music was blaring and food was being served as the hosts could only relax at the party which consisted of Front 2 Back by Xzibit being the current song playing over the speakers. It had been several hours since the heroes were left alone in section 13 and as far as they knew they weren't going to waist this opportunity to throw a party. Many of the magical creatures were still worried about Rose and Shaoran being present but after hearing what they did for the dragon council some of them didn't mind having the former Huntskids present though they were still cautious around them.
"You know this wasn't such a bad idea after all." Trixie conceded as she took a sip of her beverage.
"Well what can I say? Just relax and go with the flow." Sonic replied snacking on a hotdog and French fries.
"And the best part is that who would be stupid enough to show up and crash the party?" Sparx asked only to hear a loud crashing sound.
"Guess what kids? Drago's in the house!" The son of Shendu proclaimed as he barged into section 13 causing the music to suddenly stop and the guests to stare at him and his posse.
"Drago, how did you get in the base without tripping the alarms?" Jade asked knowing full well that Captain Black installed new motion detectors and heat sensors to keep Drago out of the base.
"Well I had some help from a certain scientist who we all know." Drago fired back to the female werehog. As if on cue, Dr. Eggman was present but instead of flying his usual Egg Mobile he was riding on Malefor's back.
"Well that explains that. Eggman probably disabled security so Shendu could sneak in here undetected during the house party." Shaoran surmised leading to clear shocks from everyone even the villains.
"Shaoran, how did you know about Shendu?" Spyro asked shocked that a member of the Huntsclan knew about Shendu since he heard stories about the demon sorcerer of fire from Ignitus.
"When I was a member of the Huntsclan training to slay dragons I often heard stories about Shendu but I thought he was still a statue." The former Huntsboy replied.
"Why does everyone I meet here think I'm Shendu?" Malefor groaned in annoyance at the mix up of names.
"Why don't you go look in a mirror already?" Eggman responded bluntly and as if on cue Malefor saw his reflection in one of the disco balls and saw he did indeed look like Shendu.
"Well if you're not Shendu then who are you?" Jake asked the Shendu impostor.
"My name is Malefor. I'm the Dark Master and I seek the destruction of Spyro the purple dragon." The Shendu look alike replied to the American Dragon.
"Well if you want to go after Spyro you'll have to go through us first." Jake said and everyone prepared to stand their ground for the fight against The Dark Master.
(Fight the Knight ~Strings Version~ on Sonic and the Black Knight Tales of Knighthood starts to play during this segment of the party.)
The party guests cleared out of the area and stood on the sidelines thinking that this big fight was entertainment and wanted to see if the rumors about the purple dragon were true.
"Who's first?" Drago asked only to be answered with a fireball formed courtesy of Ring. Drago dodged and countered with a fireball that knocked out Ring and sent her crashing into Sasami. Sasami instantly tended to any injuries that Ring might have received while the rest of the heroes prepared to face down Drago.
"That was dull. Next!" Drago yelled in a cocky attitude only to get a fist to the face thanks to Sonic the Werehog.
"Hey, you ugly lizard." Sonic taunted. "Try me on for size."
"I'd be glad to do so you filthy rat." The son of Shendu responded trying to make roast hedgehog out of Sonic but the werehog shielded his arms and created a sphere of light around him which deflected his attacks. The rest of the party guests watched in shock and wonder at the battle going on before them.
"Why doesn't the group all just rush in already?" a troll commented.
"Hush you fool." A pixie commented. "The American Dragon, Spyro the Purple Dragon and their allies don't know their enemies well enough to do that. They want to see what they're capable of first."
"For once the pixie actually has a point. Its time I got serious." Drago yelled finding that his fire attacks were ineffective so he turned into his water demon form.
"Jade what's with the giant fish stick?" Ring asked after Sasami took care of her minor injuries and once Drago's transformation sequence was complete.
"Long story short, different forms of demon chi give Drago different powers." Jade replied to her friend. "The water demon chi gives him the power of water and causes him to resemble his aunt Bai Tsa."
"The kid has a point now let's see you try to beat me now." Drago challenged after washing Sonic off the field.
"Bring it on fish breath." Jake yelled and before anyone could say something the American Dragon sent a stream of flames at Drago only to find that they were of no effect. Before Jake could counterattack Drago sent a flood of water at the American dragon heavily injuring him.
"Ouch what happened?" Jake asked as he tried to stand up.
"It looks like Drago is impervious to fire based attacks." Mei Ling responded.
"So how do we beat him in this form?" Sonic asked once he recovered from that tidal wave.
"Well he's made up of water and our parents tell us not to drop a light bulb in water." Spud commented after studying up on the demon sorcerers. Spyro and Jade seeing what he meant stepped up to the plate.
"Is this all they have left to fight me with? A whelp and a child?" Drago roared with laughter. Jade and Spyro just answered with a blast of electricity from their mouths and fried Drago knocking him unconscious. Sasami thinking quickly casted the removal spell draining the water demon chi power into the Chi-O-Matic. Sasami rushed to the vault to transfer the power into the containment unit. The crowd clapped at the performance thinking the fight was over.
(Song Ends)
"Oh yeah folks, we rule." Sonic the Werehog commented as he bowed before the fans. Sasami returned from the vault after placing the water demon chi in the containment unit and joined in the applause.
"Well I never thought that the werehogs actually had it in them." said a troll who was watching the fight.
"Well I believed they could stop that filthy lizard." a mermaid replied after she heard the troll's comment.
"If you're all quite done I think I'll pick up from where Drago here left off. Eggman take Drago back to base while I deal with the kids." Malefor ordered and with that Eggman left with Drago with a portable teleportation device he created. The party DJ sensing that another battle was about to take place fired up the jukebox again and selected Fight the Knight by Crush 40. (Author's note: I advise you listen to Fight the Knight while reading this part of the story to feel the flow.)
"Bring it on old man." Sonic taunted the Dark Master while preparing to serve him a knuckle sandwich werehog style.
(Fight the Knight by Crush 40 on Face to Faith: Sonic and the Black Knight Vocal Tracks begins to play. Lyrics are in bold and Italics)
My will to fight the knight
"You shall regret the very moment you said those words to me." Malefor fired back and he started to launch fireball attacks which knocked the werehog off of his feet.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
"You'll pay for that comment lizard face." Trixie said confidently with a not so confident Spud by her side.
"Trixie are you sure we can take on Malefor alone?" Spud asked his friend.
"You won't be fighting him alone. We'll help as much as we can." Rose commented as she and Shaoran attempted to stun the mighty dragon. Spud and Trixie threw some stones at the Dark Master but they had no effect.
Will to fight
In a world that's time is right and I'm alive!
"Pathetic." Malefor only said as he dodged and whipped his tail at Spud, Trixie, and the 2 Huntskids sending them right into a wall. Jake and Mei Ling rushed to their aid. While the bandicoots prepared to attack.
On my own
From a world that seems alone and I'm alive!
Crash tried to perform Norris round house which consisted of 2 punches and a kick but that didn't even phase Malefor.
"You'll have to do better than that to defeat me." The Dark Master remarked and dodged the attack.
Will to survive!
Coco attempted to use what she knew about martial arts but that only served to irritate the Dark Master even more. Malefor having had enough of the bandicoots blasted them with flames leaving them with 3rd degree burns. Jade used the power of the levitation talisman and moved Crash and Coco away from the battlefield so Sasami could treat their burns.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
"Is that the best you can do?" Malefor teased the heroes once again being met smack in the face by a blast of flame.
My will to fight the knight
"Try this on for size!" Jake yelled as he fired multiple fire balls at the Dark Master who simply countered by dodging.
Face the knight in a world of evil light and I'll survive!
"Jake, try not to be so reckless and keep a lookout for trouble." Mei Ling warned only to find Malefor floating a few feet from her.
On my own, overthrown, yet not alone and I'm alive!
My will to survive
"You would do very well to follow your own advice. That is what separates the warriors from the wimps." Malefor commented and without giving her a chance to answer he blasted Mei Ling's wings with ice causing her to fall to the ground. Spyro went to thaw her wings out while everyone else prepared to defeat Malefor.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
"Hey Ugly look behind you!" said a voice and before Malefor could attack he was met smack in the face by Sonic's knuckles, then the werehog slammed both of his fists into Malefor's forehead but the dark master countered with a torrent of flames which burned Sonic's fur and shot several ice spikes at him to increase the damage. To add insult to injury, Malefor smacked the already injured werehog with an electricity orb and an earth mace.
Will to try, I will meet you eye to eye and I'll survive!
"Time out, foul, off sides, Penalty, I thought dragons could only breathe fire." Trixie said shocked and surprised that Malefor just used 4 different elemental attacks.
Dead of night, feel the power, feel the might and I'm alive!
Will to survive!
"That's normally true but, where I come from some dragons breath ice, lightning, or earth. However since I'm a purple dragon I can use all the elements." Spyro explained.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
Back on the battlefield Jade was about to have her chance to fight Malefor by taking on her bandicoot form. She tried using a flurry of punches and kicks on the Dark Master and was actually doing some damage while giving Sasami time to heal everyone else.
My will to fight the knight
Will to fight
In a world that's time is right and I'm alive!
"I have to admit I'm impressed, but you are still no match for me alone." Malefor conceded to Bandicoot Jade.
On my own
From a world that seems alone and I'm alive!
Will to survive!
"You're right Malefor, I can't defeat you alone but I never said I was fighting this battle alone." Jade responded and with that Jake, Mei Ling, Ring, Sonic the Werehog, Spyro the Dragon, Sparx the Dragonfly, Crash Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, Trixie Carter, Arthur Spudinski, Rose, Shaoran, and even Sasami all stood by their friend ready to face Malefor.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
Malefor tried to launch a blast of ice but Ring, Mei Ling, and Jake countered with a torrent of flames. Shaoran, Rose, Trixie, and Spud charged for Malefor's right and before the dark master could counter the 2 former Huntskids each dealt a massive blow to the dark purple dragon with a double drop kick while their allies Trixie and Spud slammed him with some baseball bats they found lying around.
Face the knight in a world of evil light and I'll survive!
"That's it I've had enough of you taste flames!!!" Malefor yelled after ending his ice attack and turned his fury to onto Rose, Shaoran, Trixie and Spud only to be slammed by a sonic boom courtesy of Jade in her dragon form only this time her dragon form resembled Cynder as a 12 year old dragon.
On my own, overthrown, yet not alone and I'm alive!
Will to survive
"So you ditched the bandicoot form and decided to go for the dragon form. You even mastered how to perform the earth element breath." Malefor noted to Jade.
"Yep it was a rumble for me to even know I could do that." Jade fired back to Malefor while keeping his attention off of Coco and Crash.
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
My will to fight the knight
Will to try, I will meet you eye to eye and I'll survive!
"You still cannot defeat me even with the power of earth alone." Malefor sneered to the young Cynder look alike only get his face slammed with an extending arm, a monkey wrench, and a flurry of spin kicks.
"Jade always said that we were fighting together." Sonic spoke up.
Dead of night, feel the power, feel the might and I'm alive!
"Jake, Mei Ling, Ring, Spyro, I need your help with this next attack. Blast Malefor with everything you have." Jade commanded and she and the named dragons hit the dark master with all the firepower they had.
Will to survive
"This isn't over I cannot be defeated!" Malefor roared as he tried to push back the blast with ice breath and for a moment it seemed he would win but Jade's tattoos took on the shape of a pig and a dragon giving her the power of heat beam eyes and combustion which added even more power to the heroes combined fire breath attack.
My will to fight the knight
"Guess what Malefor, You just lost!" Jade and the dragons all said in unison as the blasted Malefor's ice breath back at him and tossed him out of Section 13.
My will the fight the knight
"You haven't heard the last of me I'll be back!!!" Malefor roared with fury as Jade preformed a teleportation spell and sent him back to his lair.
My will to fight the knight
(Fight the Knight by Crush 40 ends)
"Well that was fun let's do a dance contest next." Sparx commented only to be drowned out by the massive cheers the crowd was giving the heroes.
"Okay, relax, that wasn't even the final battle and you're sounding like we've done the biggest favor to you guys." Sonic commented.
"Well we've all heard of the dark dragon and after seeing you fight him and his posse you've earned our respect Mr. Werehog." A mermaid complimented warmly to Sonic while she was shaking his hand.
"That wasn't the dark dragon. That was Malefor the Dark Master and he's probably worse than the dark dragon." Spyro answered back.
"Relax guys; Malefor, Drago, and Eggman are gone so let's dance!" Sasami added, with that the whole crowd replied by getting back on to the dance floor. The DJ fired up the stereo system and once again the party was on. The song that was currently playing was Give it to me by Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.
"You know something Shaoran?" Mei Ling asked her boyfriend.
"What is it Mei Ling?" Shaoran asked thinking something was about to go wrong.
"I wonder what would have happened if you had never been taken by the Huntsclan." The dragon replied to the former slayer. "If you were just a normal human then it would have been harder for me to tell you that I was a dragon."
"Mei Ling, You already know that it was hard enough for me to tell you that I was in the Huntsclan because I was afraid that you and I would break up." The former Chinese Huntsboy explained.
"Why would you want to break up with me?" Mei Ling asked with curiosity.
"Because if the Chinese Huntsmaster found out that I was dating you, I would be forced to explain why I haven't been doing my job and to do that I would have to turn on Rose, Jake, and yourself and I couldn't bear the thought of loosing you." Shaoran explained only to be interrupted by Jake and Rose. The new song playing was Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield for a slow dance mood.
"Shaoran are you talking about your days in the Huntsclan as Pong again?" Rose asked knowing full well what the conversation was about.
"I'm sorry Rose," Shaoran apologized, "I didn't notice you were there I guess I was wondering how things might have been if I hadn't been abducted."
"Shaoran, as you know we cannot change the past but we can work with together to build a positive future in the time that we have." Rose wisely explained to Shaoran.
"Rose is right." Jake added, "As grandpa would probably say. 'Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery but Today is a gift that is why it is called the present'."
"What Jake means is that the future is not set in stone so stop feeling sorry for yourself and spend some time together." Sonic the Werehog barged in with Sparx.
"Speaking of time guys, what time was it when we decided to throw this party?" the yellow dragonfly asked as he and the werehog were returning in quite a hurry.
"Around seven in the evening why?" the former Huntsgirl asked.
"Because the elders sent a messenger fairy to find me and let me know that they're coming back at the crack of dawn which is exactly 5 hours of when I got the message." Sparx replied.
"That can't be a problem since they won't be back for about 3 hours Sparx. You worry too much." Jake commented.
"Actually Sparx has good reason to be worried since the crack is about to occur in 5 hours and with this many guests here not to mention the amount of cleaning to do. It's going to take about 4 hours." Spyro answered after hearing the conversation and was hoping that everyone would take him seriously.
Meanwhile somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean the elders were flying back to San Francisco after informing the dragon council on the matter of Dark Gaia.
"Would someone tell me again why Tohru is the only one who got to leave with Aku-Aku and Professor Pickle?" Crunch asked as he was flying on Terrador's back. Uncle was flying on Volteer's back while Jackie was flying with Ignitus which left Cyril to take Captain Black. Sun Park, Lao Shi and Mr. Lee were in their dragon forms flying alongside the elders.
"How many times do I have to tell you Crunch?" Terrador explained annoyed with the muscular bandicoot for asking that question for the 15th time. "Aku-Aku used up so much power that he only had enough energy to take two of us back to San Francisco. Professor Pickle had to leave with Aku-Aku because he's the only one who can translate the Gaia Manuscripts and since none of us are strong enough to carry somebody of Tohru's size the only way to get him back was teleportation."
"Terrador's got a point and besides someone needs to make sure that we don't all fly into an ambush when we get back to see the kids." Ignitus added. "I can only assume that they're probably asleep right now."
"I don't know Ignitus." Jackie answered the fire guardian. "Jade can be very cunning and she is very unpredictable and with Sasami and Sonic with her the problems could double or triple."
"Relax Jackie it's not like they're throwing a wild house party and wrecking the base by now." Volteer commented only to hear stunned silence from the others.
"Volteer you don't really think that Jade could throw a party while we were gone do you?" Mr. Lee asked as he was flying in back in the event they were ambushed.
"Well you have to take into account of who else is with her. Crash hardly speaks much and Coco probably would want to build something in our absence." Terrador remarked to Lao Shi's successor as the Chinese Dragon. "Spyro and Sparx wouldn't do anything silly and Ring and Mei Ling shouldn't be a problem either."
"But there is still my grandson and his friends Trixie and Spud we have to worry about. Need I remind you of what happened the last time that Jake threw a party?" Lao Shi added very crossly to the rest of the dragons. He was flying beside the guardian dragons since Sun Park had the ability to shed light on any situation made her the ideal candidate to lead the party through the night flight.
"Three members of the Dragon Council stripped Jake of his powers during a surprise inspection while he was throwing the party and you were both demoted out of the Order but after saving them from being slain by the Huntsclan the Dragon Council decided to reinstate both of you back into the order and restore Jake's dragon powers. Chang was among the councilors that made the inspection and was later revealed to be working with the Dark Dragon in an attempt to overthrow the human world." Cyril answered the former Chinese Dragon surprising the current Chinese Dragon and the Korean Dragon and stunning the other guardians in the process of his response.
"How did you know about that party Cyril?" Ignitus asked the ice guardian.
"Well it was just a lucky guess Ignitus." Cyril answered back but the earth and lightning guardians were far from convinced.
"Cyril, be guileless, straightforward, candid, upfront, unequivocal, outspoken, forthright…." Volteer began with his usual grasp of the thesaurus before being interrupted by Sun Park.
"What Volteer means to say is that you better tell us how you knew about Jake's Halloween Bash." the Korean Dragon translated. "None of us even knew about the party to begin with and usually if the guardian dragons were informed Ignitus would be the first guardian to know but you already know about the party for it occurs to me that you're hiding something."
Cyril was caught in a corner after Sun Park's last comment and even he knew that this was one of those situations where he wished his brother Sinbad was here.
"Okay I'll talk, Laurel used to throw wild parties back when we were teenagers and Jake's case was very similar to Laurel's." The Ice Guardian explained.
"Cyril 2 questions," Jackie asked "One, who is Laurel and Two, how did you know where and when she would throw wild parties?"
"Laurel is our older cousin born 6 years before Sinbad and myself. She would invite Sinbad and me to these parties whenever our Uncle Flurious II and our Aunt Lorelei were out leaving her at home with our cousin Flurious III. It was at one of those house parties where we met our respective girlfriends who later became our respective wives, Marina and Veronica." Cyril answered the martial artist/archeologist.
"Cyril that was more information then I needed to hear right now." Terrador bluntly responded for he was completely shocked by what the ice guardian told him. The rest of the team would've asked more but they stayed silent since they were approaching the outskirts of San Francisco.
"I wonder how Tohru and Aku-Aku are doing right about now." Volteer asked out of the blue as the dragons began to land on the city square.
"Hopefully, they're already studying the Gaia Manuscripts so we can get on with the task of restoring the planet." Ignitus answered the electricity guardian as they landed near Chinatown.
"Well it looks like it's going to be a long walk back to Section 13." Captain Black stated right before getting wacked in the head by Cyril's tail.
"Just be thankful the dragons are kind enough to carry us to section 13 or we would be too tired to transcribe the manuscripts." Uncle responded to Captain Black as the dragons began the walk back to section.
"Does anyone have something else to talk about so we can pass the time, like how Cyril knew one of the councilors was a traitor to the order?" Crunch asked the group.
"Well now that you mention it Crunch," Lao Shi added. "I myself would like to know how Cyril knew that."
"That's a long story." Cyril responded.
"I for one would like to hear it." Ignitus requested and Cyril began to tell the guardian, the elder dragons and their human allies what he knew about the former councilor.
Meanwhile, Aku-Aku, Professor Pickle and Tohru had teleported outside of section 13 before the elders even left the Island of Draco and were already outside the entrance to Section 13. The group was about to go in when the mask was feeling weary for some reason.
"I'm picking up some strong magical energy inside the base guys." The benevolent mask responded.
"Well you have to take a few things into account Aku-Aku, Such as the magical energy that is in the base and of who is there right now." Tohru reminded.
"Tohru is right Aku-Aku." Professor pickle added, "Jade and Sonic are still in their werehog forms. Crash and Coco have the power to absorb mojo magic, and the Dragons all breathe fire which according to Jackie and Uncle is magic."
"I didn't forget professor." Aku-Aku retorted. "I already filtered out their energy signatures but I'm picking up some stronger energy signatures from within the base. One of them happens to be chi energy from one of Shendu's siblings."
"Shendu's siblings are here then we must investigate at once." Professor Pickle exclaimed and with that the trio entered the elevator which would take them into the base. Aku-Aku used his magic to make Tohru small enough to fit in the phone booth entrance then once the headed outside the elevator and into the base they were in for a big surprise.
"It would seem that Volteer was right about Jade throwing a party." Tohru noted to the professor and the mask as they saw that the kids had indeed thrown a wild costume party. Right now the song that was playing was Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like Its Hot Featuring Pharrell Williams and the DJ had opted for the clean version of the song instead of the unedited version. Aku-Aku opted to restore Tohru back to his normal size after entering the base at this point.
"Well at least everything is still in one piece." Professor pickle noted only to hear something break in the background. Pickle, Tohru and Aku-Aku discovered the source of the noise was the sound of 2 ogres and a group of goblins accidently falling over a set of monitors breaking them in the process.
"I believe you may have spoken too soon professor. Let's go find the kids and ask them what is going on around here." Aku-Aku said and with that the trio made their way through the crowd of guests eventually finding Coco, Crash, Sonic, Sparx, Spyro, Shaoran, Ring, Mei Ling, Rose, Spud, Trixie, Jake, Sasami and Jade looking like they're in the middle of discussing something.
"Spyro chill out." Jake said to the purple dragon. "Once the party clears we'll have plenty of time to clean up before the elders arrive."
"Jake's right you need to learn to relax." Sparx added. "It's not like Aku-Aku, is back already with 2 of the adults who left to see the Dragon Council."
"Uh Sparx, you might want to turn around." Spyro spoke to his adoptive brother as soon as the sound of Aku-Aku clearing his throat was heard.
"Don't tell me." Sparx shot back sarcastically. "Aku-Aku's here and he brought company."
"That sums it up Sparx." Jade added as the dragonfly turned to see that Aku-Aku had indeed returned with Tohru and Professor Pickle much to the shock of the kids.
"Would anyone care to explain what is going on around here?" Professor Pickle asked the bewildered group.
"Well it goes like this professor." Spud began to explain. "We were throwing a party to give the magical creatures some time to be themselves and to reward Jade, Sasami, Crash, Sonic, Spyro and Sparx for restoring 3 pieces of the planet."
"Look I understand your reasons were good Spud," the benevolent mask began "But you acted without our permission and I'm sorry to say this to you kids but this party is over."
"Hey look everyone there's a floating mask. Let's get it." Said a vampire dressed guest just as the music changed to Sanctuary by Utada Hikaru.
"I bet that mask will make a great decoration on the door." Responded a mermaid and with that a group of magical creatures proceeded to chase Aku-Aku around the base while Tohru and Professor Pickle were speaking with one another on the party itself. More like Professor Pickle was telling Tohru about the finer points of eating vegetables while Tohru was stuffing himself with pizza and breadsticks.
"Guys, I really think we need to end this party soon." Sasami added to the other hosts of the party.
"What makes you say that already?" Trixie responded only to receive her answer in the form of one of the monitors displaying the sun rising above the city.
"The sun is rising." Sparx noted, "That doesn't sound like a bad thing."
"Sparx perhaps you have a short memory But you forgot 2 very important things." Spyro responded to his adoptive brother ". One, the Dragons, Jade, and Sonic return to their human forms or in Sonic's case a hedgehog and Two, Jackie, Uncle, Captain Black, Crunch, Lao Shi, Mr. Lee, Sun Park, Ignitus, Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador will all be back here any minute and I'm afraid to even think about what they're all going to say."
Sure enough Sonic, Jade, Jake, Ring and Mei Ling returned to their human forms or in Sonic's case a hedgehog. Aku-Aku stopped being chased by the magical creatures who wanted to catch the floating mask. Meanwhile the DJ was getting done with the music and was about to speak.
"Guys Can I get a cheer for the hosts of this party?" the Disk Jockey yelled "Give it up for the heroes of the planet. Jade Chan, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Sparx the Dragonfly, Jake Long the American Dragon, Mei Ling and Ring the Granddaughters of Mr. Lee the current Chinese Dragon, Trixie Carter, Arthur Spudinski, Rose formerly known as the Huntsgirl, Shaoran formerly known as the Chinese Huntsboy, and Sasami!"
The crowd gave a huge roar of applause to all of the named heroes even though the magical creatures still felt some hostility towards Rose and Shaoran. The DJ once again called for silence.
"Now that this is 3 minutes to being over is there anyone that has one more request?" the Disk Jockey asked.
"By the ancestors, What is going on here?!!" shouted a voice that Tohru, Professor Pickle, Aku-Aku and the heroes easily recognized. Ignitus was standing right at the edge of the crowd with Volteer to his left, Cyril to Terrador's right and Terrador to his right. Jackie, Captain Black, Crunch and Uncle were still riding on the backs of the dragons while Mr. Lee, Sun Park and Lao Shi were in back in human form standing in front of the dragons. Needless to say, Jackie, Captain black and Uncle were looking very cross while the dragons were shocked and surprised.
"Ignitus hello," Sasami began speaking as she and the other hosts were still on the stage. "We were about to end the party with one last request for the DJ."
"Except I don't think 'By the Ancestors, what is going on here?' is a song." One of the fairies interrupted.
"That is beside the point." Terrador barked to the guests. "You have a lot of nerve to party all night while we were gone and I don't even know where to begin on what to do about this mess."
"Actually Terrador," Coco replied to the earth guardian. "I had already built a machine to clean up the mess and was putting it to use as the Disk Jockey was mentioning us to get on the stage so the magical community could thanks us for all our hard work so far."
"Well the place may have gotten clean but you're all still on thin ice." Volteer reminded then turning his attention to the rest of the party guests the lightning guardian added, "As for the rest of you! This party is officially over! Everybody Out Now!!!"
The crowd didn't need to be told twice as they all cleared out of Section 13 as fast as they could for they all knew full well what Volteer was capable of. Cyril had a few additional words for the hosts of the party once all the guests left.
"Kids as you know we would be discussing what we're going to do about the party but since we're all too tired to speak about it. We will discuss this later." The Ice Guardian responded to the young party hosts.
"That was close." Sparx remarked only for Cyril to begin speaking again.
"Unfortunately that means the rest of you will have to stay at Uncle's shop until Section 13 is clean enough for us to hold our meeting." The Ice Guardian added.
"Oh Man." Most of the group complained. Sasami didn't see much of a problem with staying at Uncle's shop, Spyro, Sparx, and Sonic didn't mind, and Crash was just being himself.
Author's Note. Well this looks like this may be a long chapter folk. Please Read and Review
Next Time
The Heroes are in For a shock when Cyril takes them to Spagonia at night to stop Uka-Uka from terrorizing the population and turning them into mindless slaves. While the other guardians are in for a shock when they learn more about the Dragon Council from Lao Shi, Sun Park, and Mr. Lee