" Are you're men ready Corniss." Verena asked looking over the army that had assembled. Corniss was standing on the left side of her slowly looking over his army.

" They are ready my liege. Nothing will stand in our way." The Wyvern chuckled.

" you are correct on that. Now I need to redefine our target. We're no longer going after that purple dragon."

" My liege?"

" We need only a dragon that hatched in the year of the dragon, which means you're looking for a dragon aged fifteen or sixteen."

" Yes my liege.-"

" Now address you're army. We're leaving in due time." Verena said then entered back into the cave.

" Alright!" Boomed Corniss over the mass of wyvern. " As you know we are to head to Warfang and devastate the city. But there is a small change, the plan as you know it is too capture the purple dragon. Well that has changed. we only need a dragon that hatched in the year of the dragon. That means you are looking for a dragon aged fifteen or sixteen-"

" This'll be easy." Came a chant from the middle of the mass. The wyvern then roared in approval but Corniss frowned at them all.

" Be warned. This is no easy task. The dragon city's defences are formidable. It will be hard to penetrate the outer walls let alone capture one of the young ones. Now you have ten minutes before we leave." Corniss said.

" we're leaving today." came the voice of another worrier.

" yes. We have the element of surprise. They wont see it coming." And with that, The leader Wyvern entered the cave leaving the army whispering to each other and some shouting battle cries trying to get worked up. Corniss rounded a bend in the cave to see Verena sitting next to a large dark energy portal. Coming from it was a low growl of a voice.

" you must use the blood of the dragon to set me free. You need not keep it alive in the process of retrieving it." The voice said.

" And the crystals you wanted."

" Are black crystals. They are kept in the temple at the lowest point in the building."

" All of them master."

" You catch on well. Are my shadow dragons doing as you please." The voice asked somewhat devilishly.

" Yes. I have kept them from all eyes waiting to release them in the final battle. The city wont know what hit them."

" Hmm, Good. It's only a matter of time Verena. Soon I shall be back in power and all the realm shall bow down."

" I can only imagine how that should be master." And with that the portal closed leaving the yellow dragoness staring at a blank wall. Corniss was about to speak but thought better of it and went back out the cave. He walked back out into the ledge and stared at his army. Coming from behind him however were the dragons known as the shadows. These stood at an average young adults height but the were dead black. No colour escaped their bodies apart from ther white claws and white eyes. There were a total of fifteen of them standing behind the Wyvern.

" Alright. We're leaving now instead." he said moronically to them. Roars of approval came from the mass a the sun began to become blocked with the amount of Wyvern talking to the sky's.

Back in Warfang, the dragons were all bustling around. Lunch time seamed to be the highest paced part of the day. Earn and star were walking alongside Ornis, Winfil, Flame, Cynder and Spyro. Both of them having done the same as Ornis and came clean saying they were both sorry to Spyro and Cynder.

" So are we off to the temple." Spyro asked Cynder.

" I think so. Apparently there's some 'urgent' stuff we need to attend to." She said then chuckled a little. On the other side of them Flame and the others were squabbling over a game of kick-rock that they were playing.

" You cheated Winy. Using you're earth element to make to rock go into the goals is against the rules."

" Quite moaning Flame. After all, you didn't say no elements." Winfil sniggered.

" C'mon girls. Winfil's right. After all," Ornis said and a grin pulling across his face. " Are team won." He blurted out at a high pace. " Don't get upset but YA LOST! … Uh Excuse me. I think I lost it there for a sec." He carried on. Flame started to go red with anger and annoyance.

" Least you're not the only one who lost. I did too." Earn said tapping him on the shoulder. This seamed to calm the fire dragon down a bit.

" I'll get you back Y'know." Flame laughed.

" Ho, I can't wait." Winfil said raising his eye brows sarcastically.

" Right guy's enough. We're at the temple." Cynder said silencing them.

" Yeah, what's the actual reason we're needed." Star asked. The first time she spoke.

" We're needed to help with some stuff apparently. I don't know what it is but it involves us."

" right." Star nodded not wanting to say anything else. They all entered the temple to find it empty. There were no dragons that usually walked around it there. The dragons did here the low mumbling of the guardians coming from the centre chamber.

" What's the problem." Spyro said entering the room.

" Spyro. We seem to have found-" But Terrador was cut of by an explosion from outside. " What the." He cursed running out the doors followed by the others. When they came to the ledge what they seen made them all look with terror. Coming from all directions on the south side of the city was an army of wyvern that were reigning down fire on everything in sight.

" By our ancestors. CYPHER!" Cyril shouted. The blue dragon snapped to his side from within the building. " Get to it. Everyone to arms. Take to the south side of the city" Cyril yelled flying of the ledge followed by the entire guard. Terrador and Volteer followed sending both earth bullets and lightening towards the mass. Spyro and Cynder shot off with all the other younger guardians into the air headed to the battle. All the guards that lined the walls of the city had converged on the wyvern and had started they fight. Fire and lightening were flying everywhere. The smoke from the buildings that were ablaze below causing a thick cloud of black smoke to block out the sun.

" Lets do this." Cypher sneered at the front of his triangle formation guard and charging up electrical energy. " NOW!" He roared and all the guard let out lightening in all direction killing several wyvern but not much.

" Idiots they are." Corniss spat. " What should I prioritise my liege." He asked Verena who was surrounded by her shadow dragons. She waved a dismissive paw and chuckled.

" Let them devastate the city first. Then I shall unleash my shadows." She said darkly. Corniss nodded and looked back to the battle at hand. Several of the wyvern were powered by dark crystals giving them superior speed and agility but the guard had experience on there side and seen the attacks coming as they danced around lightening and fire. Cypher dealt a deadly blow to one wyvern as two others killed on the spot one of the other guards. Then just as quickly another four wyvern then took four more guard by surprise killing them.

" Damn you." He hissed and sprung for them.

Cynder dodged several wyvern using her fear element to scare some away but having to use an mixture of wind and poison to protect herself. She flew straight up and looked down on the devastation bellow. It was only one sector of the city but it was homes to many hundreds of dragons. ' Having fun are we.' Her adult voice whispered in the back of her head.

" Go away." Cynder hissed. ' Oh what's the matter. Remind you of anything.' The adult Cynder sniggered. ' here, let me remind you myself.' and with that Cynder's vision blurred a little and all the dragons disappeared from her vision and were replaced by apes. Thousands of apes spilling over the walls into the city. The sky was orange and black from smoke and fire giving the land a red glow. Ash was raining down from the fires that raged across the city.

" If my memory is yours then you should remember this." The adult Cynder said from behind her. Cynder snapped her head round to see her adult self hovering there with Ignitus in her claws smiling.

" Let him go!" She screamed launching herself towards her. She came within meters and hit into her adult form but when she made contact, her adult self blew away as did the scene below her into black smoke and she was engulfed. She had a grip of something so she grabbed it until she came out of a large plume of black smoke. She had her claws around a wyvern that was screaming as her claws were coated in poison. She jumped of him spreading out her wings coming back to a stop as the other wyvern had began to spread out over the city.

" To the bunkers." Terrador bellowed to the dragons and younger dragons bellow. They all sprang through the maze of houses for the tunnels that lead to the bunkers bellow.

" Repeat the order for the whole city." He yelled at a mole on the ground who span and told his fellow moles to do the same.

Spyro had jumped into the air and was about to unleash hell with his dark powers but Cyril jumped in-front of him.

" Not yet. Save you're power." He said before freezing a trio of wyvern.

" Why. I have unlimited power in dark form." Spyro retorted dodging a bolt of lightening.

" Have you clocked the black dragons behind the yellow dragoness in charge." He hissed glaring at her. Spyro spotted what he meant. All the dragons had formed a half circle around her guarding her.

" Hmm. Seems I may have to let you take care of them my lovely's." The yellow dragoness laughed. She waved a paw and all the shadow dragons disappeared from behind her and re-appeared in the middle of the battle scaring everyone.

" What the!" Flame exclaimed and flew out the way as dark energy began to flow around them.

" Take cover." Winfil shouted at them all as black fire shot out from the dragons scorching everything in sight. All the shadows then in perfect symphony started to kill all the defensive forces and even the elite guard easily. When any of the dragons tried to burn the shadows with streams of fire it seamed to go straight through or it would dodge it and come at the firing dragon. Cypher looked as he seen both wyvern and shadows stopping dragons getting to the bunkers and killing them. What shocked him was when he seen the leader shadow land hard in-front of a dragoness and her hatchling smiling darkly. He started to advance on them when what must have been her mate, jumped in-between them and punched the shadow. His hand however going straight through it and the shadow smiling at him, struck him in the head with enough force that Cypher could hear the skull being crushed.

" NO!" Screamed the dragoness with tears streaming down her face. The shadow smiled and turned back to her.

" now for you." It said in a warped voice. It took a step over the now dead dragons body and the dragoness turned to run but the shadow slipped into the ground and back out in-front of the screaming dragoness. Cypher, having had enough of this, flew straight for the shadow dragon and bombarded it with fire and lightening before putting his talons into its head. His eyes widened when a low laugh came from the shadow and he was thrown of it into a wall.

" GO!" He yelled at the dragoness and she shot for one of the bunkers. Cypher turned his head back to the shadow and squared it off. " You should know better than to hurt a dragoness. Let alone a new parent!" He yelled and sent a bolt of lightening towards the shadow who sidestepped it and laughed moronically. He lunged for it with his talons bared and sliced through what seamed to be thin air before getting slammed by a paw from the shadow dragon. Cypher then flipped sideways dodging a stab from the shadows tail and jumped back a phew meters. The Shadow dragon then sprinted for him with its talons bared. Cypher side stepped it and flipped over its back trying to elbow it but again, his elbows didn't contact anything. The elite guard landed back on his feet and spun round flinging a fist at the shadow dragon but yet again, his paw and then arm went straight through his head as if he were smoke or a hallucination. Cypher roared jumping back from the dragon.

" Fight me like a real dragon. Paw to paw" Cypher screamed. The shadow dragon stood there looking at the elite guard. He laughed darkly and shook his head.

" As you wish." The shadow growled and his eyes darkened to show a pair of yellow eyes looking at him. The black smoke around his body stopped pulsing out and a definition line could be made of his body. Cypher looked at the dragon as it revealed its true form. It looked no older than a teenager but the eyes looked like they had seen centuries of pain and war.

" Now the fun begins, shadow."

" Darksis." The shadow dragon replied. " Leader of the shadow dragons. And the last name you will hear."

" You speak to soon." Cypher grinned and launched for him. Darksis span out the way at incredible speed and ploughed a paw into Cypher's side sending him of his paws. Cypher, using his wings spun in the air and connected his tail with Darksis' head knocking him forward onto the ground and sliding. The elite guard landed on his paws and glared at the shadow dragon.

" You're quite fast. I'll make sure I don't make the same mistake." Darksis said and flung himself of the ground and slammed to the ground in-front of Cypher. Darksis then slammed the elite guard in the stomach and Cypher roared in pain. The shadow dragon then at high speed used the other arm to punch him in the stomach again and Cypher started to spit blood. The elite guard saw his chance though and grabbed Darksis' arm as it was pushing into his stomach and span round pulling the shadow dragon of his feet and flinging him into the nearest wall. To Cypher's surprise and astonishment, Darksis pushed himself back of the wall upon contact and shot straight back for him. Cypher tried to dodge but Darksis was to fast. He was upon him before Cypher could even try to dodge and he slammed him in the side of the head knocking him to the ground. Cypher couldn't move from the pain in him. He felt like he had been hit by a meteor or had fallen from above the clouds without stopping himself. He tried to push himself up of the ground and was spitting blood. He was knocked back to the ground from behind his neck however and a black paw grabbed the front of his neck now lifting Cypher of the ground and into the air. The elite guard looked down in horror as Darksis started to choke him. Cypher then started to kick the shadow dragon frantically trying to get free but his hind legs when they hit Darksis in the head only seamed to annoy him. The shadow dragon roared and spun round then flinging Cypher through the wall on the furthest side of the ally into a house. The elite guard landed in the middle of a living room that was furnished with large sheep wool sofa's and chairs. He pushed himself of the ground using his last once of energy to stare at Darksis who was grinning at him.

" So weak." The shadow spat at Cypher. The elite guard roared finding the energy from somewhere and sent a peace of the inside furnishing at him. The shadow dragon tore through it as it past him. Cypher then quick to, jumped through the whole and threw his arms at the shadow in an attempt to grab it but the shadow smiled as his eyes brightened back to the white they were and black energy came of his body as smoke. Darksis then laughed and disappeared. Leaving Cypher alone.

" Coward!" Cypher screamed as his eyes shot around the large alleyway they had fought in. He heard yells of pain however and looked up and time seamed to slow down. He watched through horror struck eyes as each of his elite guards were mercilessly killed in cold blood. Some of them being burned alive by over ten wyvern as others were killed instantly by single shadow dragons. Cypher turned to look for the Darksis again but was shocked when he was standing in-front of him smiling. the eyes on him seamed to light up brighter as an arm was sent straight through Cypher's body coming out his back faster than he could react and he drooped down going limp coughing blood.

" Foolish mortal." The shadow spoke then tore out its arm taking with it bones and flesh letting Cypher fall to the ground dead.

" No!" Volteer yelled then shot lightening at the small group of shadow dragons that fought against them. It was then that Darksis shot up to take point glaring through white eyes at them.

" Kill them all." He screamed and the other shadow dragons flew around him straight for Spyro and the others.

" Retreat!" Terrador shouted after watching the most of the guard getting slaughtered and not wanting to sacrifice any more. He took a quick glance round to see no more dragons on the streets.

" Lets go!" Earn shouted grabbing star and shooting across the sky to the bunker within the temple. Terrador and Volteer spun round and flew along side Spyro, Cynder, Flame and Winfil for the same place. They flew through black clouds of smoke and dodged lightening that was shot between them from the shadows as fire was also shot at them from the wyvern. They came to a large door within the temple and all went in it slamming it behind them. They found themselves inside a large tunnel that slanted down steeply. Spyro draped a wing over Cynder as they walked down. She was shaking.

" Its alright. We're safe now." He said comforting her. She put her head onto his shoulder and nodded slowly. They soon came to another set of large doors. This one had locks all around it with four large orbs around it. Green, Red, Blue and yellow.

" Flame I will need you're help in this." Terrador ordered and pointed to the red orb. " Blast a stream of fire onto that when I say so. Guy's, you know what to do." He said turning to the green orb.

" Three, Two, One. Now." Cyril said. Flame let loose a burst of fire onto the red orb as Cyril froze the blue one. Terrador used his earth abilities to turn the green three hundred and sixty degrees in its casing and Volteer shot a bolt of lightening into the yellow one. The door rumbled then moved slowly into the wall revealing a large room on the inside. It was lit with candles all across the walls. There was a table next to a wall with some scrolls on it and on the other wall was a large map of the city that was magically enhanced to chart the positions of the inhabitants or if need be, attackers. Spyro went in with Cynder and laid down in a corner with her. She had been reminded of all the things she had done by what had happened. She also didn't want to tell them the voices she had heard. Spyro looked up from her to see Cyril shaking his head as some tears came out them.

" We were so outnumbered. So terrible in our defence." Cyril said hanging his head.

" Its alright my friend. You have to stay strong for the others and besides, We still have the shield." Terrador said. And with that he slammed his fist on the ground lifting a blue rock and settling it on the red table. " This shield shall cover the city pushing out the intruders but not for long I think." Terrador said stifling a growl. He tapped it and it glowed a light blue before it started to pulse.

Outside there were screams of terror as the wyvern openly fired upon the citizens that were still out in the streets as they ran for bunkers and safe zones. Tearing down buildings as Verena watched and laughing.

" Seems like this was easier then I thou-" But she was cut off when a large blue bubble started to grow from the temple. " What's this." She bellowed. The blue bubble then sprang out across the vast city and to her shock. Pushed all wyvern and shadow dragons it came across out leaving the dragons on the inside.

" My liege. The shields pushing out troops out-"

" I can see that!" Verena spat at the leader Wyvern. The blue bubble expanded until it had covered all the city and the walls around it. Energy poured of it and there was no getting threw it.

" You. Try and enter." Verena said pointing to one wyvern. The half dragon nodded and turned to the shield. He hovered next to it and slowly placed a hand on it. A second later the wyvern was no more. Just a little smoke where it had been hovering

" Damn those dragons." Verena hissed.

" My liege, the type of shield it is. It cant last forever."

" Hmm. You're right Corniss." Verena said examining it. " It should fall within the hour. They wont get away that easily."

" What should I have them do now my liege." Corniss asked pointing to the mass of wyvern Standing and hovering around the whole south side of the shield.

" Order them to branch out across the shield. I don't want any dragons getting past us." She ordered. Corniss turned back to the army frowning.

" You heard her. Get moving." He boomed out over the mass. The wyvern shot in all directions spreading themselves out over the shield. The made a large ring around the blue bubble that was at least three wyvern thick.

" Anything else my-" Corniss started but she held a hand up to him when the shadow dragons came to a stop on the ledge she was on. Darksis standing at the point.

" Verena. All elite guards have been dealt with. All guards around the city have either been dealt with or are severally wounded. The dragons are trapped inside the city." The shadow dragon said.

" Very good. The shield will come down at some point and until then, we wait."

" My liege." Darksis said bowing to the yellow dragoness and looking over the city. On the inside of the shield the fire's still blazed furiously. Smoke was bellowing out the roofs of houses but the temple in the middle was fine. Darksis thought for a moment. All they needed was one dragon born in the year of the dragon and they had instead destroyed the city's defences and were waiting until the shield was down to carry on.

" Verena. If we only a dragon at an age fifteen or sixteen, why are we destroying the city at the same time." The shadow dragon asked.

" Very simple my friend. We do not want anyone. And I mean anyone coming after us and the new city that had been planned will rise out of the ashes of this one. Warfang's time has come." She said smiling. Darksis turned back to the city as it burned. He couldn't help feeling a little disgruntled about it but he shook his head and frowned beside the yellow dragoness. "The dragons WILL lose Warfang." Verena said laughing.