Attack
" Remember Spyro you are to control the power. Not Embrace it. If you embrace it then you will lose yourself to it." The ice guardian told Spyro. He had black smoke seeping of his dark scales as they returned to normal.
" I know that. Just seems like it would be allot easier." He muttered to himself.
" Well. That's enough training for today, I think a nice rest is due for the rest of the day."
" Yes. And maybe they'll have sheep for dinner today, I'm starving." Flame nearly shouted from excitement.
" Always thinking about you're stomach aren't you dude." Winfil chuckled. Ornis walked up to the fire and earth dragon and smiled.
" I best be off then. Want to get these checked over by the medical before I carry on." He beckoned to the slightly bluish gash on his arm which suggested it was infected. Winfil nodded and flame grinned.
" Hope you don't become to ill then." Flame snorted. Ornis huffed and went out the doors. Spyro on the other hand was sitting next to Cynder who was giving him a telling off. He had admitted to her that he was thinking of trying to embrace it rather than control it.
" If you embrace it, you would become like what happened to me!" She roared in anger. Spyro shrank back a little.
" It was just a thought. I wont do it I promise." Spyro said holding up a hand. Cynder couldn't help but giggle a little.
" Right well of and enjoy the rest of the day you four." Cyril said pointing to the door. All four dragons left and headed for the meadows at the south side of the city.
" Do you think that Ember will come round at all." Cynder asked Spyro and the others listened in.
" If I'm honest. I have not got a clue what goes through her head so not really." He sniggered a little. They arrived at the meadows and it was fair to say it was nearly empty. Only three dragons were scattered about the open space.
" I shotgun this spot." Flame yelled as he jumped to a soft spot on the grass grinning.
" Fat chance my friend." Winfil smirked. Spyro laughed as Winfil and Flame battled over the one soft spot on the grass and then looked at Cynder.
" Should we just go here then." The purple dragon asked pointing to a small spot next to the scuffling dragons.
" Yeah, looks fine. I only hope they don't touch us because if they do then….they'll not forget what happenes next." Cynder chuckled a little. Eventually Flame and Winfil settled with sharing the small spot and Spyro and Cynder laid next to each other smiling softly.
" So are you-" Spyro started but was cut off by a large explosion coming from the front of the city. All four dragon snapped their heads towards the front looking at the large rise of smoke bellowing up.
" C'mon! We need to help." Shouted Flame as he took of into the air followed closely by the others.
Screams and yells of pain came as fireballs and dragons where thrown around as the mass of wyvern entered over and through the gates setting everything alight.
" Burn everything, find out where the temple is." Corniss shouted. Just then he turned round and a large dragon smacked him in the face sending him flying. A green with blue underbelly dragon was growling at him.
" You shouldn't have done that. Not with what iv learned." The leader wyvern boomed before charging towards him with great speed and sending the dragon of his feet. He then lifted the stunned dragon and threw him at a wall that made the faint sound of bones cracking heard. " You're so weak." Corniss cursed at the dragon. He then stomped on the dragon and he went limp as his life faded to nothing. " Once you have found the temple, retreat and fall back to base. We are only to find the week spots of the city." Corniss ordered and all twenty wyvern flew off looking for the temple. He looked up and Spotted four figures coming towards them at high speed. Spyro was pained to see the devastation of the entrance square and the dragons that were lying on the ground. He landed hitting the floor at full force.
" What is the meaning of this." He spat to Corniss. Cynder, Winfil and Flame on his flanks. Corniss sneered at the purple dragon and crouched back a little.
" You mean you don't know. Surely the event of my lieges introduction said it all."
" That dragoness in the blue orb."
" Well, well. She was right, you are quick for such a young dragon." then when Corniss finished four wyvern pounced on the purple dragon. Spyro seeing this coming hit the ground sending a wave of earth out from him hitting three of the four wyvern. The unharmed one lunged for him with its talons and teeth bared. Spyro snorted and unleashed a stream of fire consuming the wyvern whole. Once finished there was nothing but ash that even hinted of the wyvern that was once there.
" You're going to have to do better than that." The purple dragon sneered. Corniss growled and snapped his fingers. The other three wyvern appeared and were glowing slightly. Spyro seen one of them send a fire ball towards him however it was nothing he couldn't handle. He raised a paw and stopped the ball grabbing it at the same time then throwing it back. The other two wyvern then jumped to Spyro who ducked under one then kicked the other one in the gut sending it flying. He then turned on the other wyvern and spat ice daggers at him and the ended his life. The wyvern that the purple dragon had kicked was in the air charging up another fire ball. ' Idiot' Spyro thought to himself. He puffed some smoke and opened his mouth sending his own fire towards the wyvern. The small grey half dragon didn't have time to react and ended up like his brother in a pile of ashes on the ground. In the temple meanwhile there were twenty wyvern swarming over it trying to find an entrance.
" We must protect the city. Use any means necessary." Terrador boomed as he slammed his front paws in the ground causing spikes to snap out all around the temple making it nearly impossible to get close. Cyril the flew out the roof to see all the wyvern going to all windows and all doors. The ice dragon growled and let go a barrage of ice spikes that hit three wyvern sending them to the ground.
" Cyril. Electric wash." Volteer shouted as he came to his side. Cyril nodded and opened his mouth and a large stream of water flew out of it into the air above the wyvern. It then started to fall as very dense rain soaking all the half dragons. Volteer then powered up electricity and smiled as he sent it shooting to both the mass of water causing the rain and the wyvern themselves. The electricity, upon contact with the water sparked all through the densely compacted rain electrocuting the wyvern within it. Cyril turned to Volteer who grinned back at him but his eyes were then whipped back to the wyvern and the widened to saucers. They were severely wounded and struggling to fly but they were still alive.
" How. That should have knocked them un-conscious or killed them."
" Wait. There turning around." Volteer said flabbergasted. Just then an almighty roar came from bellow them and a single wyvern whizzed past them as two earth bullets followed suit and Terrador came to a hover next to the two guardians.
" They're leaving-"
" I know…. Cypher." He commanded. Immediately a large dark blue dragon came to a halt next to him. He had shiny silver battle armour on that clung to his black under belly and his eyes were bright pink.
" Master Terrador-" but Terrador cut him of still angry.
" Take half you're guard. Dispose of some of these things. Leave one alive so you can bring back for questioning." Cypher nodded and turned roaring at the temple. Instantly seven other dark blue dragons which mirrored Cypher flew out the cracks and gaps in the broken temple and flew towards the guard leader.
" After them." He bellowed and they shot after the wyvern's at high speed. Back at the entrance square, Corniss watched as his anger grew and he let his eyes look over Spyro but his eyes fell upon Cynder who was watching the two. ' It can't be. She died.' He thought. He then roared launching himself at Cynder to her surprise. She sidestepped Corniss but he was much faster than a young dragon. He spun on the spot slamming his tail into her and she flew into the wall of a house and grabbed her chest where one of the poisonous barbs had imbedded itself in her.
" No!" Spyro roared and sprang for the wyvern but he simply flew of into the air towards the small mass of wyvern returning from the temple. Eight of the twenty that entered the city had come back but they had received wounds and burns but were still flying. They had nearly all the elite guard flying closely behind them.
" Sir, we have found the temple and all weaknesses. It is however, heavily guarded the further in to the city we go. We will need more numbers-" a Smaller wyvern said.
" Silence. Back to home we shall go." they turned and started to leave and Corniss stopped turning to Cydner again who lay panting heavily. He glared at her then took of with the rest of them as several fire balls flew over the heads of the four dragons after them. The guard fired over their heads at great speed after the wyvern and were gaining. The quickest of the dragons came near to one of the slower wyvern and smashed it across the back with his talons and then bit his wings sending it to the ground. The dragon then unleashed a wave of fire which burned another two wyvern who were flying close by. Cypher then sped past him and holding his paws out killed another two leaving two left. A large one flying at the front and a smaller one behind him. Corniss turned and gasped as he seen only himself and one of his fellow brothers flying next to him with the elite guard about to finish him.
" Corniss help me." The wyvern screamed as one of the guards took a swipe at him. Corniss glowered at him then turned as if he was embarrassed and shot of into the distance with great speed.
" Corniss. CORNISS-" Screamed the wyvern but one of the guards caught him and snapped both his wings.
" Wait!" Cypher shouted to one of the guards as he was about to give the final blow. " Bring him back. He is the last one." The leader guard said and started back for the city.
" We shall find out more in the coming hours." One of the blue dragons said. The other dragons nodded and they both flew back to the city. Spyro was at Cynder's side intently having tears in his eyes.
" Cynder." He whispered. Cynder smiled softly at him and put a hand on his cheek.
" Its alright, its not that bad. Remember, poison is one of my elements so its not the poison that hurts. it's the cut itself." She said chuckling mildly. Spyro felt some relief come over him and lifted her onto his back. Flame was watching from the wall as all the wyvern were decimated by the guards leaving one that flew with in-dragon speed and disappeared into the sun.
" What the hell was that." He said angrily.
" Beats me man. Damn I wish I could have sank my claws into one of them." Winfil growled and Flame nodded in agreement.
" I just want to know why they were trying to find the weak points in the temple and the city itself." Flame pondered.
" Well we have to go to the guardians as ever. Lets go now." Winfil nearly ordered. They turned to see Spyro helping Cynder up to a medical dragon that was on the scene. Noticing Cynder injured for the first time, they both flew done slamming themselves next to them.
" What happened. Is it bad." Flame sad looking between Spyro and the black dragoness. His thoughts were ceased when Cynder laughed a little.
" Just a rather deep cut. Wont take long to fix I suspect." She said looking to the red and white medical dragon who cracked a red crystal which seeped its way into the cut and it shrunk until it was nothing. Both Spyro, Winfil and Flame whiped their heads.
" My, God that was a close one." Winfil said.
" looks like you're going to have to deal with me for a whole lot longer purple boy." Cynder winked and put a paw on Spyro's cheek.
" I wouldn't have it any other way." He said and kissed her. They both kissed for it seamed like hours on end but they were distracted when someone cleared their throat.
" Perhaps you should keep that for the bedroom and I think we should go to the temple." Flame said chuckling a little. Spyro pulled back from Cynder who blushed a little but simled at him.
" Lets go then." Spyro said helping her up and they all flew of to the temple. two of the elite guards started to help the injured and repair. Moles then started to swarm on the scene also doing there best. The four young dragons spotted the temple as the large rock spikes started to reseed back into the walls. Cyril was using the water on the ground the clean the blood as Volteer helped the worst wounded up and into the medicals care.
" This is terrible." Cynder said sadly.
" Why would they do this." Flame asked.
" I don't know. But I plan to find out what I can from the Guardians. Either way, we need to be prepared if they do it again." Spyro said. Both Cynder and Flame nodded slowly and Winfil started to see the dragons that had been hurt. He let out a low whimper as he seen one family holding relatives on there arms.
" Terrador" Spyro shouted catching the attention of the green dragon. His face was unreadable.
" Young dragons. I'm glad to see you all aren't hurt." Terrador then turned to walk in the temple which was now circular again and had the doors back on. Spyro gave a quick glance towards Cynder before they were beckoned to follow.
" Do you have any idea who did this. Wyvern wouldn't normally attack a fully fledged dragon city, let along Warfang." Said Cynder.
" Well I have an idea but it seems far fetched at the moment." He led them into the pool of visions chamber and gazed into the first one he came to. The large green dragon stood there for half a minute before he growled and broke eye contact. " I should have known. Why didn't we see it coming, it was so obvious."
" What was." All four dragons said simultaneously. Terrador turned with a frown on his face.
" The yellow dragoness from the blue orb. She sent them but I'm having trouble finding out why."
" Who cares why, we need to get them back for doing this."
" No Flame. We need to figure out why first so we know how to counter it. Otherwise we could be flying into a trap." Spyro argued.
" Maybe you're right. Perhaps a small hint of help could do."
On the other side of Warfang. Ember was picking herself up of the ground with the help of some moles. Star and Earn not far from her. They had been arguing about the whole Cynder thing when they were attacked.
" Are you alright miss." A mole asked putting small red crystals where some small wounds were on her.
" Yeah. I think so. Star, Earn!" She yelled looking for them but she found them both helping each other over to her.
" We're both fine. We got away lucky I think." Earn smirked a little. " What about you. Are you alright."
" I'm fine. Just a little shaken." Ember replied getting to her feet.
" What were they. They weren't dragons." Star asked.
" They were wyvern. Disgusting creatures. They don't care about life or anything if it gets hurt. All they care about is power and strength." Earn hissed. He hated the wyvern and couldn't stand them but he always kept his cool hat on when it came to them.
" Well we need to go and help. There might be others injured." Ember exclaimed and she took of heading for a trail of smoke. Earn shook his head.
" They couldn't have done it alone. They aren't that well in the head so someone must be pointing them and unfortunately for us, its in our direction."
" Do you think someone meant for more than this."
" I'm not sure. All I know is there has to be something telling them what to do." Earn stopped looking at the ground thinking. Star came up to him and nudged him on the side.
" Hey, maybe we should help the others as well."
" Yeah. C'mon then, lets go." Earn said and they both took of flying where Ember flew to help the injured.
Only Corniss landed back on the large ledge to everyone's astonishment. As he pushed past the other wyvern there were mutters of disbelief and fear. Corniss ignored these and headed straight for the cave where the yellow dragoness was.
" Verena." He shouted. A low growl came from deep within the cave and the now nervous Corniss, slowly made his way in. " My… My liege." The wyvern stammered.
" That's better." Came the voice of Verena as she walked out the shadows. " Report then."
" Yes my liege. There is three points in which to enter the city. Ones inside there is three bands to go through. There is the communities and services before coming to the housing band. The the last one contains the temple and higher housing. The city walls themselves are heavily guarded. Once inside there are so called elite guard which are the very best of the city. We couldn't handle them and had to retreat once we found out the weakness's."
" Which are."
" There is an underground system that the moles must have used in the last war that's still free. If we could use them to enter the temple we could destroy the city from the inside out. Then once we're finished we could have the purple dragon in our grasp." Corniss finished pleased with himself.
" you have done well Corniss. You shall be rewarded for this in the near future."
" Thank you my liege. You are most gracious." Corniss beamed and started to head for the door but stopped remembering what he saw. " My liege. What is of you're old mentor might I ask." Verena looked at the wyvern a little taken aback but snorted.
" She died fighting the purple dragon at the convexity doors. She was pulled into the purple fire as the purple dragon flew away. If only she where here, all of the realm would bow to her with me at her side." Verena nodded to herself. ' Patience, Verena.' Came the voice. ' Remember I am not dead but only contained in this crystal. The purple dragon can free me and once that has happened. I can assure you, you will be at my side.' The voice said. Verena agreed silently but came back to reality looking at the wyvern.
" Why do you ask."
" Just an errand thought. I seen a black dragon with the neck, ankle and tail bracelets that the high mistress wore." Hearing this the yellow became a little nervous. Her mentor was at least four times stronger than her and she hadn't taught her everything before the purple dragon killed her.
" You're dismissed then." Verena ordered. Corniss bowed and left the cave and joined the other wyvern. Verena pondered to herself silently.
" If she's alive then this changes things. That little black dragoness from the ball. She couldn't be her. Surly not." The yellow dragoness recalled her first encounter with the dragon city through her blue orb and remembered seeing the black dragoness.
" Cynder." She whispered.
Spyro Flew out the temple after a briefing on what is to happen. They were all going to track down the wyvern with some of the guard and punish them. They had found out from the captured one that they wanted a certain dragon from the temple but he didn't know who. All he said he new was that the dragon was strong and could wield four elements.
" They must have meant me. They couldn't have meant Cynder." He said to himself. He flew out to a ledge that overlooked the city and it was getting dark. The trees were starting to sway in the wind and an overcast was starting to creep over.
" I will not let anything happen to her." Spyro growled to himself. " Even if it means doing something I might regret." the purple dragon took a deep breath and Started to feel the darkness coming over him. But instead of fighting it he did the opposite.
" I accept this is who I am. These are my powers." He said as his scales started to turn to black and his eyes turned pure white. He then felt Oryps as he came to take control but again instead of fighting, Spyro accepted that these were his powers and that they weren't to be controlled. ' You're mine now.' He heard Oryps speak.
" NO!" Spyro roared and fought his dark powers. But he then remembered the only other way was to embrace them rather than fight to control them. " If I have to." He muttered and tried again to embrace them. This time however when Oryps tried to attack his will he was severely weaker and Spyro felt that he could still move his front and back paws. He kept on trying to accept the powers and started to here Oryps scream. ' No! What are you doing. Stop this.' He screamed.
" This is the only way to protect the one I love. I must do this." He felt Oryps try to turn back and run instead of take control. Spyro growled a little and held him there with his mind. " it is you who is mine my friend." He said darkly. Oryps then lost all control as Spyro felt the power come over him and give him strength. ' Stop it. Please stop it.' Oryps screamed in his head.
" This is the only way to protect her from the ones who want to hurt her and more importantly. You." He roared and with a final surge Oryps fell and disappeared leaving Spyro standing with his black scales seeping black smoke of them along with his white eyes which leaked white smoke from them. He felt the power surge through him and he smiled.
" Better than ever." He said in his normal voice. He let out an enormous roar and threw his head back sending a stream of fire out of his mouth, however this fire wasn't orange and golden like normal. This fire had black all the way through it. It was far more larger than anything he had produced ever. He roared louder and the fire climbed into the air burning all the clouds. The fire gave a small glow to all the land around it.