Stairway of Tranquility
"An opening!" he begins to run towards the path where a light could be seen. Struggling to be free, he bursts out as quickly as possible, only to be interfered by someone. "You will never go anywhere now. Now that I have you, you are entirely mine!"
"It is impossible to do that. Once they can set me free, you'll see the end of your existence..."
"You are completely forgetting where you are now, aren't you? You are 'inside', and you are locked forever. All you can do is starve and thirst to death!"
"This is not the end yet. You'll see what I mean."
"What power do you have to be able to resist me? I have locked you away completely, and you are merely a toy now! Regardless, I'll leave you here again. I'll let you watch how all of this ends before you die, so don't worry. Hahahaha..."
"You will regret saying that after you fail."
"How can I fail, no one knows where I am! Once I am done here in this place, no one can interfere with me. Release all the power they want, I won't be affected by it anymore!"
A blade is then approached to him, and he is clinged by the neck.
"But if you really want an early death... I can give you it..."
"Gah... no... way. Fine... I'll watch..."
"...good. Now sit back and... ENJOY... HAHAHA..."
And then the step out is made.
"...you'll regret listening to me.
"We now have 4 crystals. 4 more is need to be found." the large black dragon says.
"But what did he mean when he said we can get it just by asking around?" Spyro asks.
"Maybe it only applies to these 4. We have to hurry before the dark one is complete with his power."
"But where should we start looking?"
"If we don't know, then we have to scamper. We'll have to search in random places instead of just waiting."
The 2 had no choice but to just walk to random places, just to look for the 4 remaining stones that they need to find. Eventually, they came near across the swamp, where the dragonflies lived. "It looks more populated now, doesn't it?" Cynder notices. "Yeah, I'm glad they've been able to manage themselves once again." Spyro says. Then a familiar voice was heard from afar. "Oh, look who's ba-" the voice said, with an unfinished sentence. A yellow dragonfly was flying to them when it suddenly hid behind Spyro, screaming. "It's OK Sparx, she's fine. She won't bring the chills to your spine anymore." Spyro says to him. The yellow dragonfly eventually slowly came out behind Spyro. He was holding a purple crystal. "Hey, you totally forgot this." Sparx says, as he hands over the crystal to Spyro. "...why didn't you give me this earlier? You know I never liked anyone else touching this!" Spyro complains to Sparx. "Sorry pal but even you forgot about what you liked, which may just be plain ilogical..." Sparx replies to him. "Wait... give me that..." the large black dragon says, as she grabs the crystal and examines it carefully. "...this is one of them! Have you found something else like this but is of different color?" Cynder states, while asking the dragonfly. "Sorry big babe, nothing else except this birth-mark Spyro forgot in his own brain." the dragonfly replies. "Spyro, this is the crystal of Dragona... this is your element! Why didn't you tell me you had this?" Cynder asks. "...because I don't remember. Weren't you listening?" Spyro replies. "Whatever, let's go. We don't have time to waste." Cynder commands. "Leaving so soon? Too bad I can't come... gah." Sparx complains. "Oh come on, it's alright, I'll visit here once I get the chance, alright? Well then, catch you later." Spyro replies, then both dragons walk out of the swamp.
"I hope it's going to be that easy to find the other 3..." Spyro says. "I doubt, Crevasse said that the white crystal is very rare, and usually he tells the truth so... gah. Let's just walk..." Cynder replies. Suddenly, the purple crystal was making a weak sound, but loud enough for them not to ignore. They were wondering why it was making that sound, when Cynder realized that there was something glowing in her patch. She reached for it and picked it up. "This is the gem I found under the Lake... it seems to be responding to the crystal..." she says, while the gem continues to shine. What was weird was it was shining a black light instead of a bright one. Not long after, it suddenly transformed into a crystal of it's own, a crystal made of black elements. "...the crystal of darkness! I've been holding it all the time?" Cynder states. "So that's why Crevasse stressed that on keeping it with you..." Spyro says. "That leaves us with 2 more gems. Come on, let's try looking back at the homes again; we might just find them there." Cynder commands.
"They're near. Fortunately I inadvertently made finding some of the gems a lot easier."
They reached back at the dragon homes. Ember was still in a blank state of sorrow. They headed straight for the temple. "We already found 2 others, fortunately. What's surprising is they're quite easy to find... so I'm suspecting there is still one remaining here." Cynder tells the guardians. "Good work. Then... if most of the gems we obtained are held by someone... it must comply that you just need to ask the right one." Ignitus states. "...I have something in mind! Why don't you proceed to questioning the small pink dragon? You might just be able to feel something within her." Volteer asks them. "Hm... never thought of that... but alright." Cynder says. "Spyro, you stay here. I'll have to check something of you." Ignitus asks Spyro. So the large black dragon went out of the temple and went to Ember, while Spyro spoke with the 4 guardians.
"Ember..." Cynder tries to talk Ember out of her blankness. "Ember..." she tries to speak to the pink dragon. No response. "Come on, wake up." she tries to get her out of her feelings, but it just might not work. "Hm..." Cynder tried to touch her with her wing blade, but suddenlky Ember retaliated with a force of wind going through her and charging at the wing. This made Cynder back off a bit, but this finally made Ember go back into the world. "Oh... sorry, I was just thinking too deep since earlier..." the pink dragon finally speaks. "...no... do that again to me." Cynder commands her. "What? That almost hurt you!" Ember got confused. "Just do it. I might just be right..." Cynder states. "...OK, whatever you say!" Ember replies, then she readied to charge at her and began to gain extra wind power. Then suddenly, a flash of green was spotted from Ember's pouch, making her suddenly flinch. Cynder approached her and reached for it and grabbed a very small green stone. "That... that's my gift from Crevasse! What's happening to it?" Ember backs out astonished. Soon enough, the small green stone suddenly transformed into a green crystal, and a breeze could be felt whenever you put your face near it. "I'm right. This is the crystal of Wind, the most unique element that Crevasse said. He gave it to you for a purpose, fortunately you still kept it." the large black dragon states. "Well... my uncle played many significance in my life, so... of course." Ember replies, while trying hard to block off grief-memories. "So one last! Ember, you should come with us now. I feel that I need to take as many allies as I can, come on." Cynder commands. "...alright. If it's Crevasse's word, then I shall do it." Ember says, then they both enter the temple.
The guardians were just done talking to Spyro, and Cynder interrupted at the right time. "7 in clear! Just 1 more!" Cynder excitingly says to them. "Good job... but how are we going to find the last one?" Ignitus asks. "Yes, yes, I haven't heard of such an element from anywhere... Ultima?" Volteer wonders. "Even I don't know that despite the many places I've traveled to." Terrador states. But Cyril had a more positive statement. "Well... it may sound like a guess, but I guess we should try going into Crevasse's lair." Cyril says. "What good will that do?" Ignitus asks him. "...I don't know, but sure Crevasse is the most intelligent among us, he might be hiding what is to be 'the rarest stone' in the realm." Cyril states. "Well, what are we waiting for? We can't just stand here arguing, let's go." Spyro commands them. Then all 7 dragons went out of the temple and straight to the hound-dragon's underground cave.
When they got there, they were surprised to see someone there. "Welcome, now it's time to take the test." it said, then all 7 were suddenly teleported to different rooms. The one inside the lair was the dragon of magic. Who would've thought he'd be there? "Well that took them long to figure out. I hope they can get out on their own."
"Find the last key... now!
Gah, I may have to lengthen this up more...