Credit for Crux the Xenomorph Dragon goes to .Choas97.
THE NEXT DAY
Skyler awoke to the sound of bones rattling under him which startled him and he realized he had a bone in his mouth. In disgust, he spit it out.
'Did I kill somebody last night? No the bones are those of wings, so...guess I de-winged somebody...but...who?' thought the confused Fox Dragon then it hit him.
'Oh, man! That foolish bully called me the'c' word and I lost it! I image he won't be picking on anybody for a loooong time.'
He heard the door creak, causing him to shoot up onto his hind legs and trip over a bone under his foot and fall onto his back, dazing him.
"Are...those...bones?" he heard a female voice ask and he looked up to see Cynder with wide eyes.
He looked away in shame before answering.
"Yes. But these are wing bones."
"You de-winged Vulcanus?" said a small yet annoying voice.
Looking toward the voice, he saw a golden dragonfly that had a shocked expression on his face.
"Yep. Nugh..."
"You alright?" asked the dragonfly.
"Yeah...just a small muscle spasm..."
"Come on. The acedmy is waiting." said Cynder.
"Wait. Why do I have to go to school? I'm well over the age for that stuff."
"Its a sparring match."
"Oh. Could use a later sparring. So, who do I have to fight?"
"You'll see."
Arriving at the Acedemy, Skyler takes his place and waits for his oppenent while clutching his right leg/arm.
"You sure you're alright?" asked Sparx noticing this.
"Yeah...I'm fine...nothing to worry about..." was Skyler's reply as the pain slowly got worse.
"This is just a sparring match, so don't go too harsh." said Terrador looking at Skyler.
"Ah, well, that depends on who I'm fighting." said Skyler going bipedal and it shocked Terrador at how easily he looked humaniod standing like that.
A dragon from the other side steps forth and this one confuses Skyler. It has dark red scales, a whip-like tail with a knife-like edge, two different colored eyes, and...HAIR. Skyler takes a deep breath and the scent from this dragon kicks in a instinct from fighting wild Xenos.
XENOMORPH!XENOMORPH!KILL!KILL! KILL XENOMRPH! KILL XENOMORPH!
He shakes his head at this, but the instinct doesn't go away. Instead he unsheathes his claws all the way to reveal the serrated edge. Suddenly he feels his dreadlocks come back to his head, but that's all. Suddenly the red dragon let out a alien hiss, and that's when he knew that this wasn't a true dragon and his instinct may have been right. Taking another deep breath, he lets out his own warcry, which startles both the onlookers and the red dragon.
In a split second both Skyler and the red dragon close the distance between each other and are going at it tooth and claw. The red one tackles Skyler and pins him looking him straight in the eyes.
CRUX POINT OF VIEW:
This dragon was unlike any of the others. He had greenish-orange scales and...fur. Along with black dreadlocks, two scars one on the right eye, the other was on the right cheek, his claws were heavily serrated, his tail ended in a metal tip, his eyes went from blue to orange, his wings arced electricity, and he was able to go bipedal like it was as natural as walking on four. My scent sense came on and I nearly lost my grip on him...he was a pure black outline. Never had I encountered this before! It was scary! Suddenly I heard him speak.
"What are you waiting for?" he said in a dark whisper as I looked into his eyes. Wait! I shouldn't look in the left, it freaks me out! Suddenly I feel his feet in my stomach as he launches me off him.
He gets up in second as I land painfully on the hard stone floor and catch a glimpse of him bringing down his fist towards my head and I barely dodge the blow as it connects with the stone and the floor explodes, but his tail may be stiffer, but...OW!...does it move fast and hit hard!
I see him clutch his wrist in pain, but not from the blow to the ground...something else is causing him pain. Suddenly he slashes my flak and my acidic blood does nothing to his claws as he advances wiping the blood off his claws. He rears his hand back for a hay maker when I hear the sound of flesh being impaled and see my tail has gone thru his stomach and out his back as blue blood drips onto the floor.
+FLASH+
The last of the hunters, though bigger than the others, is now dead as his blue blood drips to the floor. Wait! BLUE?! Since when do they have BLUE BLOOD?! Suddenly the figure grabs my tail...
+FLASH+
...and pulls it out of his stomach before falling to the floor.
"So...we meet again..." said the green dragon going onto all fours as his wound healed up then went back to standing on his hinde legs.
Suddenly the air startes filling up with electricity and I see his wings arcing with more electricity than before and he lets loose a stream of orange lightning from his maw and I counter with my red lightning. Both collide and try to beat the other, but mine loses and the orange lightning hits and it stings worse than any other lightning. I look at my scales even though it burns...and I see smoke rising from them! He's cooking me alive!
Suddenly the orange lightning stops and he grabs me by the throat and lifts me to eye level. I notice he doesn't have wrist-blades...but his serrated claws will do the job, if not better! Suddenly he screams in pain, drops to his knees, and releashes me as he clutches his hand.
"Why is my blood boiling?! AAAAHHH!" he screams falling over and then I notice purple flames licking on his scales and fur, but causing no damage, and then I realize...
"Oh, crud!"
A huge blast of purple energy erupts from the dragon and I'm sent flying as the blast seems to eat at my scales and it hurts worse than anything before now. The last thing I see before blacking out is the green dragon standing up on his hind legs clutching his arm with a shocked expression on his face. Then I knew...he didn't try that on purpose...
Skyler's Point of View:
I didn't try to kill the red dragon, but d-did I? Sure he impaled me back then, but here he seemed to have different life, all I planned to do was scare him.
Yeah, great job there Skyler.
I need to get away from here! Pain...to...great...can't fly...have to run...
Suddenly three fire dragons walk in front of me.
"We want to teach you a lesson for what you did to Vulcanus!" said the leader.
Vulcanus' goons? Now's not the time!
"Out...of...my way!" I growl thru the pain, but none of them move.
I try to conjure a fireball, but instead I threw a black ball of energy that when it exploded two of the three were turned to stone, the third halfway. I run out of the building trying to avoid the people in the streets as the pain got worse. I arrive at the gate and I just arc thru it and once on the other side the pain increases tenfold.
Why is this happening? This never happened before!
Before my eyes, I see either desert or forest and I chose the forest as I stumbled along, the pain slowly overcoming me before I fell into unconsciousness. Oh, what a curse we Hybrids have to be unable to die.
7 MONTHS LATER:
A few weeks after Skyler left, Vulcanus was found tied up, gagged, and hanging upside down and when he saw Cynder he started screaming and trying to get away. Spyro and Cynder couldn't help but laugh at the terrified Fire Bully, but something kept nagging on Cynder and Spyro knew it.
Suddenly one of the gate guards yelled.
"Intruders at the gates! Man your stations!"
Spyro and Cynder were the first ones there, followed by Crux who climbed up the wall and looked at the scened ahead of them.
Thousands, maybe millions, of soldiers in armor were advancing on the city. Suddenly a loud humming noise was heard as a bright flash of light hit the gate, destroying it instantly.
At least 20 of the armored soldiers came storming in with swords, spears, and carbine rifles. Within seconds the three dragons were beaten black and blue, when one of the soldiers apparently the leader grabbed Spyro by the neck and spoke in a language he couldn't understand.
"{Did you kill the Ice King?}"
"I-I can't...Hurck!"
"{I'll ask one last time, did you-}"
The three noticed a heavy black whip-like tail had burst thru the leader's chest and what stepped out from behind the captain shocked them. The figure was about as tall as a normal human, the back spikes made him look a few inches taller, he had no eyes (as most Xenos don't), the Fox Dragon Symbol on his forehead, and he had what appeared to be the ruins of blue jeans on his legs.
The creature brought the stunned captain's face close to his mouth and shot his second jaw into the captain's head, causing it to exit the back of the skull then retracted the jaw and tackled another one that was gonna impale Crux with spear thru the head.
Next Blaze came running up and transformed in mid-air before tackling a soldier.
The group heard a strangled scream and turned around and saw a one-eyed snake-like robot wrap its tail around a soldier, pulling the coils tighter until the sound of groaning metal became clear yet the machine kept tightening until the soldier's head popped off in a spray of oily blood. Hunter then moved onto another one as more kept pouring in.
"{The captain is down! Now what?}"
"You die!" said a dark voice on the wall and soldier turned to see a bipedal dragon appear on the wall and before he could raise his carbine his head was sliced off.
The second soldier was too stunned as to how quickly his comrade was killed and soon found the same dragon on his chest as it ripped his chest plate off to reveal his heart and a ton of electronic devices instead of organs. He felt his heart get grabbed by the dragon in its mouth and then...
Oily blood gushed out of the heart as Skyler brought his jaws down on it. He then threw the lifeless body into a oncoming wave of soldiers. Throwing a spear, it hit a soldier in the stomach before a pair of barbed latches stuck themselves in his sides and he was pulled towards the owner.
"COME HERE!"
The soldier was decapitated as he flew past the greenish-orange bipedal dragon, who caught his head put a black and red orb of energy into the head.
"Batter up!"
Said the dragon throwing the head into the air, and Crux couldn't help but jump into the and whack it with his tail sending it flying into the huge cannon that destroyed the gates and the gunner caught it. Turning it over he saw what appeared to be a LED timer and it had only one second left.
"{OH, NO!}"
When the bomb went off, the cannon exploded in a fiery inferno sending a few of the soldiers flying and the rest into a hasty retreat.
One of the soldiers was staring the green Dragon down, but decided to run for it. The soldier was caught off guard as the dragon cloth-lined him sending him onto his back and knocked his voice translator to "English".
"Please don't kill me! I'll tell you anything! Anything!" screamed the soldier as Skyler dragged him around the corner of a deserted alley.
"I'll tell you what you are...LUNCH!"
Spyro and Cynder back away as did Blaze and Hunter, who started bickering over who got the most kills, when Seven came back into view dragging two unconscious soldiers over to Skyler.
The HumanAlien took one look at Crux and continued on his way. Crux couldn't take it anymore and went over to the spot where Skyler had the bodies and dug into one himself.
END CHAPTER
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