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Crux belongs to Dragon Of Chaos97

A FEW HOURS LATER:

The two dragons who one minute seemed to have a grudge on each other, but now seemed to be buddies walked thru a deserted part of the city when Skyler stopped and stopped Crux from taking a step further.

The xeno dragon looked confused before Skyler put his fist where, if Crux had taken one more step, a trap sprung up which was disigned to maim and weaken the victim.

"You smell what I smell?" asked Skyler looking around.

"Yeah...a hunter...but not a hunter..."was Crux reply.

"Keep your eyes open."

[SHING!]

Crux saw two wrist-blades sprout from Skyler's wrist as he continued onward.

"Doesn't that hurt?"

"No...not anymore..."

Suddenly a energy blast was heard by only Skyler and before it could hit its target, Skyler moved into the projectile's path and took it straight to the chest, leaving Crux stunned.

"W-why?"

"I may be a hunter, but I know when prey is a friend. Besides, I was after the doc too. Did you know he created the K-series Xenomorph? He tried to make his own Hive, but the Predators found this unacceptable and they had him captured for a torture ritual, but he somehow escaped halfway thru and we found him on that planet. Oh, you should have seen the look on his face when I revealed I wasn't a Predator. Matter of fact, I have the skull frozen in the same expression. But, how bout we deal with this Muta first..."

With those words Skyler disappeared.

The Muta was incredibly excited. Not only would he get a dragon's skull, but also that of the Vanquisher's, in dragon form no less. He decided to take out the red one first and fired a plasma bolt, but instead it hit the Vanquisher. Pride turned to worry as the Vanquisher got up and his wound healed, the Muta got ready to fire again, but the Vanquisher was no longer in view. Suddenly he felt a claw tapping on his shoulder and, slowly, he turned around to get a haymaker to the mask, shattering it to pieces.

Crux watched in awe as the dragon xeno hunter walloped the Muta in the face, shattering its mask, and sending it plummeting into the stone ground creating a crater. Skyler then jumped down and advanced bringing out two wrist-blades from the narrow slits on his wrist, that were almost invisible, and advanced on the dazed Muta. The Muta got up slowly as its vision cleared and tried to activate its Plasma Caster only to have Skyler's tail rip it off and turn it into a Plasma Shotgun.

The Muta felt its left arm get blasted off with its own weapon and howled in pain. The tail threw the weapon away and turned into a silvery buzzsaw, that worked! The Muta caught a glimpse of something shiny before its stomach was slashed with a roundhouse kick and saw the Vanquisher in a Crane fighting style, yet somewhat different, with his now raptor-like clawed foot in the air. The Muta the felt a burning pain as the claw was swept across his face, while also severing his lower mandible.

Skyler then arced behind the Muta and brought the raptor claw down its back, as the mutant Pred howled in pain at the onslaught. Skyler then returned the claw to normal and put one of his clawed hands into the ground. The Muta was stunned until it felt three spikes go thru him and howled in more pain as the earth spikes were retracted from his body.

Looking at the Vanquisher, the mutant noticed that his scales and fur were greenish-orange...with small blotches of black and white but mostly black and wondered why it hadn't seen that before.

"Any last words?" asked Skyler grabbing the Muta by the chest armor.

"One: Cowa-" croaked the Muta before getting his neck sliced all the way thru.

Crux watched as the Muta's head slowly tilted backwards and fell to the ground with a bloody 'splat' as Skyler threw the body to the side and picked up the head. Crux noticed Skyler's blue eyes glaze over in blue, green, then red as he looked over the skull before throwing it to the ground over his shoulder.

"W-what's with your eyes now?" asked Crux.

"[Sigh] My body was adapting to this world, but in a very painful way. My more humanoid weapons, fused with me but it was only the wrist-blades that truly hurt. I can summon any of my weapons now, but the wrist-blades...[Unsheathes blades]...are forever stuck in my skin until I leave this world. That blast of energy that nearly killed you, was my Dark Eco powers mixing with convexity...that was worse than the wrist-blades. My adventures keep getting weirder and weirder. Get any dragons you can. We have a Muta camp to deal with and they're more important than those bio-mech soldiers. Trust me, I know how bad things can get. Meet me at the City's gate when you have some dragons with you. I'm gonna see how many there are."

With that Skyler turned into black mist as a small breeze went thru the alley and it drifted towards the gate, leaving Crux shocked and freaked out a bit.

A FEW MINUTES LATER, CITY GATE:

Skyler had looked over the badly hidden Muta camp at least 3 times and found 3 Young Bloods, 1 Elite, and 1 Leader.

His opinion: Too easy.

He heard wings flapping and turned around to see Spyro and Cynder landing with Crux climbing up the wall. Skyler knew something was very wrong and grabbed the xeno dragon.

"Exscuse us a minute." said Skyler before using the teleport ability, Scorpion taught him, leaving Spyro and Cynder confused.

A fair distance away Skyler threw Crux out of the teleport field and looked at him with stern eyes.

"What is your problem?!" yelled Skyler.

"You know what my problem is! I'm a freak and a monster. Always wanting to devour your enemies...you should know what that's like." replied Crux looking away in shame.

"I do, but I'm 900,000 years over it!"

"Well I'm not! Its disturbing."

"You think eating enemies is disturbing?! How about this?! [SNAP! SNAP!] I can snap my neck and not die! [pulls out trible-barreled shotgun. KA-BOOM!] I can shoot myself and not die! . ! I've only died 13 times in my life, yet I KEEP COMING BACK!"

"Well at least you're not a monster."

"You could never be more wrong. I am and always will be. My Fox Dragon form gives me power like nothing else, yet...I'll never be normal...why do you think I hunt with the Predators? Why do you think I hang with living machines? I try to get over the fact that my family ISN'T NORMAL! I had to deal with bullies since I was six. I had 12 years of anger inside of me when I joined Megatron. I killed thousands of innocents before I learned the truth...before I lost the friend I treasure almost as much as my little brother...I had him and my father taken from me when I betrayed Megatron. I bring my brother back 200 years later and then...I...k-k-killed him! I never ever wanted to harm him...but the Krimzon Guard didn't care! They saw me as a weapon and tried to control me...but he broke the control...by sacrificing himself...I also have two worlds burdening my soul! Why? I destroyed them! The first was accidental, the second...was the only choice. You want to know something?"

"What?"

"The Human Xeno project is no more. After the ship exploded, I continued onto Dr. Kachinsky's lab...but how about I show you. Look into my eye..."

Crux couldn't help but look into the left eye as the pupil broke into thousands of pieces while spinning and soon he found himself in a dark room with holo-screens and four figures looking up at one screen. Crux felt disorienated and stumbled over, yet none of the figures noticed him. He looked at the screen and saw two kids, one with raptor-like features; the other normal looking and both playing tag and laughing.

"Who are they?" asked Crux.

"The raptor one is me when I was younger, the one with blue-orange hair is my little brother." said the four figures at once.

Another screen came up and showed a green-blonde with long ears against a metal pillar and out of breath before a blue streak was fired at the green-blonde and instead of hitting him, it hit a man with blue-orange hair and a wolf tail with quills in it.

Then Crux saw hands reach up and rip metal off skin and he nearly gagged at the sound.

A new screen came up and recognized it as a ship suddenly exploded and a blue bloodied hand came up to cover the person's face. After the dust cleared, the person walked towards the highest tower. The door unfornutately wouldn't open, but Crux got a shock when the person reached out and forced the door open while also putting good size dents in the doors.

"This is my favorite part." said the four.

"You hunters won't take me again!" said Kachinsky holding a double barreled shotgun.

"You should have gone thru with the torture mister Kachinasky." spoke the person as he reached up and pulled of the mask.

"Y-you're n-not one of them!" screamed the doctor.

"You know, you're correct...[SHING!]...I'm worse."

White consumes the screen as a gunshot is heard and then a scream. When the whiteness clears, Kachinsky's head in the expression of a eternal scream is in the hands of the hunter when greenish-orange acidic fire consumes the head and the skull is now in a enternal scream also.

Crux stumbles back as he reenters reality. He then saw Skyler spinning the "screaming" skull on a finger with a grin on his face.

"Oh, how that day was so much fun. Too bad you "died" that day, you could have seen the look on his face also. [Chuckles]." said Skyler as he continued to twirl the skull.

"Yeah, with that project gone there's nothing much left to do. I'm still no better than a monster." said Crux.

[CRACK!]

"Ow! What was that for?" asked Crux as the tail seemed to give him the "I didn't do it" look.

"Sorry. My tails tend to have a mind of their own sometimes." said Skyler with a slight chuckle, "So how do you want to get back to the others? Arcing or Speed?"

"What?"

"Arcing it is then."

Before Crux could protest, he found himself back at the gate and he lost his lunch.

"Oops! Forgot you were first time Arc user." said Skyler with a chuckle.

Skyler then brought out a small metal stick and Spyro looked confused until it revealed its full length and its sharp double bladed tips.

"This ought to confuse the Muta scum." said Skyler before launching it.

A Young Blood Brawler was waiting for the scout to return when he heard a noise, but by the time he figured out what it was, his chest was skewered thru with a Glaive. As the life left him, he let out a guttural croak alerting the others in the camp before a EMP grenade went off, disabling their cloaks.

Suddenly a spear hit a Young Blood Spearmaster.

"COME HERE!"

[SLICE! CHOMP! SPLATTER!]

ScarFace had some how been captured by these mutants after dropping Jak, Daxter, and the others off at their new world and watched with a smirk (if a Predator can) at how unprepared the mutants were when he felt his chains suddenly give way. The Elite Discmaster was supposed to guard him, but the noise was distracting him.

Fatal Mistake!

Using the ruined chains, he wrapped them around the Muta's neck and pulled strangling the mutant before it could even growl a warning. As precaution, ScarFace unsheathed his wrist-blades and slit the Muta's throat before cloaking and running outside and running into the final Muta Young Blood. ScarFace sliced the Vanguard's head off before it could even react.

Skyler and Crux had engaged the Muta Leader and both were circling it. The Muta however considered the red dragon not much of a threat and so went for Skyler first, but was tripped by a whip-like tail. Suddenly a loud screech was heard and Seven tried to both body slam and impale the Muta, but the Pred was on his feet too quickly. Launching his tail at the Muta, Seven expected it to go thru, but instead saw the Pred grab it...then pain rushed into his tail as his red acidic blood came out causing the HumanAlien to stumble back in pain.

"Stupid Muta! I'll gut you for that!" yelled Seven as he clutched his new tipless tail.

The Muta just mocked him, but then a metal tipped tail burst thru his chest.

"Make sure your enemies don't have tails." whispered Skyler to the now dying Muta, "So what say the fans of the gladiators? Live or die?" addressed Skyler to the dragons, Seven, and Scarface.

All gave...thumbs...DOWN!

Grabbing the Muta's arms, he pulled them out of their sockets and kept pulling them until they were ripped off, then he put his fist thru the mUta's back and pulled out the Muta's still beating heart and dropped it to the ground.

"Now comes the fun part."

With those words, Skyler grabbed the Muta's spine and pulled out both the head and spine before throwing the body off the tail. ScarFace didn't feel comfortable around Crux, so he gathered up his weapons and tools and left.

Suddenly a bright light hits Cynder, Spyro, Seven, Sparx, Crux, and then Skyler, who had to be hit at least four more times before passing out.

"Wake up fools!" spoke a pink blur in front of Skyler.

"Please tell me that's not who I think it is!" said Sparx groggily.

"Its time to bruise not time to snooze! Get up now fools!" commanded the pink parrot again, "You in for a loooooooooooooooot of hurt thise time fools!"

The door to their cage opened and none seemed to pleased that their cage was connected to a arena and they could already hear the crowd jeering.

"I hate pirates." growled Skyler stepping forward.

END CHAPTER

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