Part 11
Later that night, the moon was full and the stars were twinkling in the skies. At the mouth of the temple's entrance, Daisy cautiously peeked out and waited patiently for the Death Hound that might attack. After a few moments of nervous tension and waiting, the blue fairy spotted the Hound walking out of the tall grass of the hill into view, sneaking toward the temple to try another attempt to attack the dragons.
"Dog-breath!" Daisy taunted aloud, as she flew back inside the temple.
The Death Hound approached the entrance to the temple and stopped to smirk evilly before he went inside and made his way through the hallways. The Hound stopped near the foyer and looked around, not knowing that Daisy had hidden herself behind a column so the hound wouldn't find her.
"No dragon?" The Death Hound muttered softly, and was about to turn back to the entrance to the temple when Daisy jumped out from behind the column and appeared into view, then flew away into the room that has the hole. The hound instantly saw the blue fairy and quickly chased after her. As Daisy flew through the room and into the rock tunnel, the carnivore stopped in his tracks.
The Death Hound muttered sinisterly, "Fairy mouthful now, dragon later." He forged a wicked grin before he crept into the rock tunnel to follow Daisy.
Grayson looked at the scene from and saw the Death Hound walk completely into the tunnel for Daisy from outside the chamber before he quickly screeched out his call to alert the others. Immediately, Spyro, Coltrane, Halvor, and Flame emerged from the tall grass of the hill outside the Artisan Temple and hurriedly ran inside to where the tunnel is.
Inside the rock tunnel, the Death Hound walked through the rocky passage until he stopped and noticed it was too dark for him to see. He began to backing his way out while looking over his shoulder to see where he was going.
Daisy stopped in mid-flight and looked back, seeing the Death Hound backing his way towards the tunnel's entrance. She took a deep breath and taunted again, "Dog-breath!" The tone of her voice echoed throughout the tunnel and around the hound.
Enraged by the insult, the Death Hound turned his head back towards the tunnel's depths and scowled viciously, snarling a little. With a guttural roar, he started running through it to get to Daisy. When the Death Hound finally saw her, the hound quickly lunged at the blue fairy, but Daisy went through a small crack, narrowly being caught by the carnivore behind her.
The Death Hound's eyes gleamed brightly with anger as he snarled ferociously and bared his teeth viciously at the crack where Daisy had taken refuge in. Daisy had a look of fear in her eyes after realizing the fact that she was nearly killed, her back was pressed against the wall of the crack she was in. The blue fairy then turned around and saw the Death Hound snarling at her with enraged fury.
Growling, the Death Hound lifted his head from the small crack, still glaring furiously at Daisy. The crumbings movement of rocks erupted fro, behind the Hound, and as the carnivore turned his head back to the tunnel's entrance see what was making it, he saw the opening being completely sealed one by one by large rocks...
Outside the rock tunnel, Spyro, Coltrane, Flame, and Grayson had shoved the rocks into the tunnel entrance until they lodged it tight to keep the hound from escaping, locking him into the rock tunnel to force him to go to the far side of Artisans where he should never return to the temple.
Daisy emerged from the escape hole that laid beside the sealed entrance to the rock tunnel. She sighed deeply, "Whew! That was pretty scary."
Spyro remarked happily, "You were wonderful, Daisy!"
"I suppose fairies aren't useless after all..." Flame muttered, feeling remorseful about what he said earlier about fairies.
Daisy smiled to him, "Oh, indeed. It's that the best we get from you, eh, Flame?"
Flame only turned away slightly, feeling a bit guilty...