Part 9
Later in the morning, inside in one of the many large rooms, the young dragons were all cleaning up parts of the temple after Flame lost the fight with Spyro, much to the males' annoyance. Though with everyone working together, the task was getting by a lot quicker. The dragons were finishing the last dirty chamber in the temple and were halfway done. The blue fairy Daisy was hovering over the room, zigzagging around every so often to check on the dragons.
As he cleaned, Grayson accidentally slipped on the floor and bumped against Flame, who gently pushed him off with a grunt, "Watch it, clumsy."
"Achoo!" Coltrane sneezed aloud, after sniffing some dust that was brought up into the air by the others, and he called out, "Hey, do you mind??"
Halvor started sputtering and sneezing until he managed to say, "I-I'm filthy!" After years of being clean in the Temple of the Black Nets, the pink Peace Keeper was not used to getting dirty like the others.
"We should figure out how to deal with that Death Hound instead of doing girl's work." Flame groaned, as he brushed the floor, "We tried our best, and what do we get?" Suddenly, as the red dragon cleaned, he gasped when the cluster of dust that was clinging over him gave way and stumbled on all around the room on top of the dragons altogether before the dust slowly settled.
Ember emerged from the dust and swept the dirt away with a few flaps of her wings, she looked over to the others, coughing a little, "Everyone alright?"
"All accounted for." Grayson replied, emerging from the loose dirt and wheezing the dust from his mouth, "Are we done yet?"
The pink dragon looked around and then smiled, "Actually, you guys did very good." She saw no trace of dust or cobwebs in the room after the cleaning, as everyone looked about the last room they had to clean.
"Now there'll be room enough for everyone." Spyro smiled.
Daisy chimed in, hovering in between Grayson and Flame, "Even fairies?"
"Hmph, not likely." Grayson scoffed.
"Come look at this!" Rikki called out, sniffing at a large hole that was once covered with thick layers of dust and cobwebs in the room. She turned to Spyro as he approached and asked, "Do you suppose it goes somewhere?"
Spyro answered, "Let's see." The purple dragon put his head inside the tunnel and looked around. He shouted inside, "Hello!" And his voice bounced off the walls and echoed down the tunnel before Spyro backed out, "It's narrow and rocky, and from the echo, it goes on forever, and I can feel fresh air coming from it."
"So it must come out somewhere." Ami responded.
Daisy spoke out, "Well, I heard stories. My friends have been underground twice, goes to the far side of Artisans. It's true."
"Not much use to us if you can't turn around in it." Coltrane said, looking inside the tunnel.
As Coltrane backed out of the tunnel, Spyro responded to him with a smile, "It might do us a lot of good. I think I know how to tackle that Death Hound..." The purple dragon turned back to the tunnel and let out a sly smile only to make Coltrane look back into it...