Cynder glared down at Flame, casting side glances at a bloodied Spyro and the quivering Ryuujin, she locked her eyes on the rogue fire dragon. Now Cynder was many things,She is cunning, intelligent, witty, resourceful, brave, spirited, determined, independent, and isn't afraid to speak her mind and not very merciful and very vengeful. so since Flame effectively crossed the line with attacking her mate he has dug his own grave.
"Flame, I have only know you for this past month and you have been nothing, but a unkind nasty snake in the grass. Nor I or Spyro have given you any reason to hate us, but as of now you have given me a reason to hate and KILL YOU!" she lept form the rooftop and soared down at Flame who didn't have nearly anytime to react. She was merciless striking him across his chest and mangling his wings, the weaken fire dragon could do little to react agiast the angry dragoness, for every blow he tried to give her was uneeded as he missed every single time.
Cynder used her wings to propel herself into the air and brought her tail up behind her hitting Flame with a strong uppercut via her tail. The fire dragon soon found himself on his back, Cynder came forth from the sky and posed her tail at his neck. Flame rolled out of the Way causing the dragoness to miss. Flame rolled back onto his feet and managed to strike Cynder with his tail, but only hit her horn making her reel back bait. Taking the small chance this gave him Flame increased the dark energy flowing though him to heal his wounds, but got only a sheering pain in response.
'damn I'm beginning to overuse it's power, well that's what I get for using the dark orb instead of the fire orb.' Flame thought. 'perhaps, yes, I need to end this now, and that's the best way to do it.'
"You know Cynder as much fun as this has been,its time to add a new player." Flame eye's flared with dark energy, Ryuujin's demonic howling vanished drawing Cynder's attention to him.
The blue dragon hobbled back to his feet as a dark mist began to leak from under his scales and began to consume him, as he was consume by the dark mist it began to break down his from and rebuild him, his horns began to curve and lengthen size and muscle increased to the point of a fully grown male dragon. The mist began to leave the now fully grown blue dragon, to reveal a near-look alike for Malefor with pure Grey eyes.
"well there's my new puppet!"
The blue dragon let out a dark roar in acknowledgment.
Guardians tower
A darking roar shook though the city getting the attention of Warfang's Guardians.
"it can't be!" Terrador shouted. "it feels like like."
"Malefor…" Cyril said.
Back at the scene
The terrible roar had sent most fleeing from there homes and kept Warfang's guardsmen from wanting to go any further.
The adult blue dragon flexed his claws and cracked his neck.
"Ryuujin, say hi to Cynder." The blue dragon stood there silent. "you dumbass respond to me!" Flame yelled in anger at the blue,
The blue dragon turned his gaze at the fire dragon. "silence lower breed…I do not answer to you at all…in fact you answer to me and the master now."
"what NO! your suppose to be under my control!"
"under your control?" he let out a hearty laugh. "no Flame your under my control now." The dragons eyes opened and let forth a bright glow. The fire dragon was lifted from the ground and slammed into the nearby wall, " now Flame I ask you to release that which dose not belong to you."
"no I won't, it was a reward from master Ara-ugh!" the Fire dragons throat became clenched and he ceased to speak.
"do not dare speak his name low breed, you have already proven that you cannot serve us well, but would rather only further your own standing with the lower breeds than assist the master in his goal, so release the orb now and i might spare you by making you my slave."
"screw you!"
"Hmm fine !" the fire dragon began to glow a strange black color as he howled out in pain, the darkness took the form of a mist and lifted off his body and over to Ryuujin, as Flame's weak corpse fell to the ground.
the blue dragon held out his claw and the mist began to collect and condense into the orb above it removing his hand form under it it began to float in place, "Arare will be pleased..." the dragon said plainly.
Then turned his attention to Spyro and Cynder. "the purple dragon of legend dieing...sad, but interference is not required." the blue dragon turned and seemed he was going to the fly off, but Cynder stop him by blocking his path.
"female dragon, I would recommend you move or you risk becoming a enemy of Arare."
Even though Ryuujin and Cynder did not get off on the best claw they had grown close over the past month although Ryuujin would fiercely denied it. (he hates being pegged as soft.) "Ryuujin what did you do to Flame and what happened to you." Cynder asked worried about her half sibling. Then blue dragon was going to give answer, but something snared his leg and brought him crashing to the ground, dropping the orb in the process which landed right next to Cynder.
"what happened?" the blue dragon said. Looking at his snared leg, in which a clear blue crystal crystal had grabbed it. Following the the lead that one several others burst forth from the ground shattering the stone pathways they came from and ensnared his neck chest area and his three other limbs before being pulled to the ground and being locked in place with another closing his jaws to prevent him from using any breaths. Grunts and disgruntle roars could be heard heard muffled from the dragons muzzle.
Cynder not fully grasping at what she just witnesses soon got her answer, heavily patting behind her was a dragoness who had several part of her body encased in a thin layer of glowing Crystals, she soon realized it was Gaia.
"Gaia what happened to you!?" Cynder yelled.
"nothing really." the earth dragoness grinned slightly. "i just had a run in with flame a little while ago and he did a number on me, sorry I wasn't here earlier it I had a few wounds to patch up."
so after a their small exchange and Gaia patch up Spyro the same way she had done herself she was once more talking to the purple dragoness.
"why is Ryuujin acting this way?" Cynder asked watching her half sibling just sit their on his back chained up by Gaia's vine crystal's. In the same place now guarded by several cheetahs and the dragon guardians.
Gaia look down at her claw as the crystals fell of it as it finished healing, she sighed. "we hoped that this would never be know but know I see that's impossible, you see Ryuujin isn't a ordinary dragon he's a twilight dragon."
"Twilight dragon?" Cynder asked looking at Gaia.
"yeah, a twilight Dragon is a type of sub-purple dragon or you might say a alternate purple Dragon from another realm, as the Twilight dragons didn't spawn here first. They can use every sub-element that a purple dragon can't as in mist, wind, shadow, steam, magma, the list goes on for awhile, but being able to use those is nothing compared to their main element , which Ryuujin has refiered to it as cosmic breath as it looks similar to the stars against the black night's sky when it is used and if it's used in the right way with the convexity element it can be used to mess and bend reality itself." Gaia said. " and the reason that Ryuujin is the Way he is now is because the Twilight tyrant Arare's power."
"Arare? I thought he was nothing but a legend, i mean, just the amount of charange and chaos one dragon could cause on that level is just surprise, is he really real?"
"your the one mated to the purple dragon of legend and your asking me?."
Cynder blushed with embarrassment. and Gaia could only laugh at her reaction.
"No matter, but Arare was very REAL,he was everything evil in the world, he slaughtered trillions of dragons in his reign, reduced our anceint proud race to nothing but fearful cowards who would not raise a wing in defiance against him... he was forever sealed in stone, but legend has is that his dark power still exist in pockets of the realms and I fear Ryuujin might have made contact with one of these by accident and now is under some kind of influence of his power and seeks to bring back his long dead 'master', which is impossible but as it stands it is having a adverse effect on him none the less."she stopped for a moment and looked down in the ground in shame. "i am sorry for what happened to Spyro, if Ryuujin wasn't affected by this sickness he mightn't be able to help Spyro fight Flame."
"he's alright now,but what of the Crystals and this thing." Cynder asked about the dark purple orb she had her Claw resting on.
"well the orb i know nothing about, but i can control the crystal because well I'm not an earth dragon, i really a crystal dragon a sub-type of the earth dragons."
"there are sub-types of dragons?" Cynder asked abit surprised.
"yeah, magma, water, forest, etc."
"why are there sub-type's?"
"no one knows really, Ryuujin thought they might be the offspring of of purple dragons, but he wasn't really ever sure though, its still a puzzle to him at the moment."
be fore the conversation could go anywhere master Ignatius came and asked Gaia if she could help them move, the twilight dragon by containing his power the crystal dragoness bidded farewell to Cynder before leaving to move Ryuujin, and then Cynder moved on to visit Spyro who was the in medical wing of the temple.
2 hours later
"What are we to do about Flame Terrador?" Volteer asked.
"why should we do anything about him he injured Spyro and caused the Dragon Ryuujin to become corrupted, as i see it we should just let his corpse rot in the plains and let the animals pick him clean." Terrador said with anger
"there's no reason to do that Terrador, you shouldn't let your emotions grab hold of you like this." Cyril said to the earth dragon.
"and why not he nearly killed my son, and he has driven another dragon to near insanity, besides he's dead now anyway he had no family no mate, basicly noone that cared about him, well leave him in the morgue tonight and dig a shallow grave tomorrow outside of Warfang... and that's all were going to do!" the earth dragon said in anger at the fire dragon and turned and walked out of the room back to his chambers and his mate.
8 hours later, late evening
Cynder had been sitting at Spyro's side for the past few hours trying to talk to him via telepathy, trying to get him to come around with soothing words a a song she knew since hatching. ( no i don't have one figured out, i wish i did though would make this since so much better.) but just little more than a few groans from him, she got nothing from him truly.
she let out a tense breath of air."at least he is not dead," she said aloud.
"Yes it is a very good thing indeed," Said Flarera walking up behind Cynder to come check on her son, makeing the purple dragoness jump slightly at her appearance.
"i didn't mean to startle you Cynder i was just coming by to see my son and his mate." Flarera sat on her hunches and smirked at the younger dragoness.
Cynder's tail quickly moved to her neck trying to cover what was impaled to be shame only comically though. "ho-ho-how did you know."
"I didn't you just told me." The elder fire dragoness smiled cleverly at the dragoness, to which Cynder cast a small frustrated glare at her. "so has he come around at all yet?"
Cynder broke her glare at Flarera and cast her gaze back at out of it purple dragon, "no he hasn't at all." her face turned to sorrow. I have tried to contact him though our link but I get nothing but scattered thoughts and moans from him."
"so how exactly did you grow to love my son?" Flarera asked Cynder with only the intent to embarrass her new daughter "in-law"(sorry couldn't come up with a name for addressing dragons related by mating or whatever it should be called, so sorry.)
In another realm
A human encased in black armor violently struck a small goblin like creature on the back of the head while yelling "keep moving!" the small goblin scrambled back to his feet and ran as much as his chains would let him before falling down again, the human growled at the creature and raised up a sword with a black hilt silver blades and a rose flower design just top the hilt, and slide its razor sharp blade though its back then cut it upwards quickly though it's head cutting it in two.
"let that be a lesson to the rest of you!" he yelled out swinging his sword and pointing it at a long single line of chained and shackled creatures of all type's letting the goblins blood fling off it and hit most of the captive's and horrifying some of the calmer creatures.
This is what happened on a daily basis here it was a prison camp for magical creatures and humans who used it in anyway or shape. Here was the base camp of the cult of the rose a group of magic hating humans who appeared after a year after the rift war, really no one knew their intentions or why they even existed. And it didn't matter what magical creature it was being a great and powerful tyrant dragon or a gentle fairy they would capture them then do who knows what with them, and the main problem was they had the good king Alteon's blessing to hunt any magic creature and with that in preservative no one really challenged them aside from necromancers were, holy paladins, dragons, living magical mushrooms, Draconian, mages, guardians, wizards, zards, gnomes, drwefs, elves, the endless DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM !, bandits, Dragonlords, dragon masters and randy the grass framer and his magical dirty stick of holiness.
Honestly even the common folk were even afraid of these cult of the rose solders as many heard stories of villagers and non magical folk disappearing, and later ether showing up dead or within the ranks of the Rose cult.
"hehehahahaha!" the human laughed evilly at the chained up creatures reaction. "what are you freaks waiting for keep moving!" He yelled while smiling a completely insane smile, and pointing his blood covered sword in the detection of the cells, to which the creature quickly complied.
Elsewhere in the cult of the rose camp.
A large hulking male human wearing armor fashioned and made from the bones of dragons looked down at what would look like to some as a alchemical formula, but to this person he saw it as a map, a map that could show pathways to different dimensions and realms, the man slightly smiled and traced his finger along the map and it glowed in response. "finally I have found master Arare's soul!"