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Groaning awake Skyler clutched his head as his eyes adjusted to the lack of light. When his eyes adjusted he saw free-floating platforms in almost every direction, two moons that looked to eclipse each other, and different streaks of elements shooting off in every direction. He then caught a glance at his hand and saw that his scales and fur were now black and purple-black flames were licking off him.

"Please tell me nobody got hurt." said Skyler as he looked at his scales carefully.

"Nobody, but pirates." said a cold voice.

Turning around Skyler saw Crux getting up wobbly.

"See? I'm worse than you Crux." said Skyler walking forward.

Crux just shook his head as he continued forward. Coming to the end of the platform, they saw Spyro and Cynder down on something that resembled the ruins of a temple and Skyler suddenly created a dark crystal slide down to that location.

"Xenos first." joked Skyler and Crux's tail just gave him a good smack upside the head before going down the slide.

When Crux cleared the slide, Skyler came down himself and then destroyed the slide and the two walked over to Spyro and Cynder.

"So...Where are we?" asked Skyler bluntly.

"In some training area that the Chronicler brought me to at the worst of times before the Night of Eternal Darkness to increase my powers, but this doesn't make sense! We defeated Malefor! Why is this happening?! Did we fail?!" said Spyro slowly raising his voice.

"You did succeed Spyro, but a new threat has emerged worse than anything Malefor could ever be." said a familiar voice to Spyro and Cynder.

From out of nowhere walked a old dragon, but roughly about the other guardians' age and Skyler got a hint of "former fire guardian" scent from him.

Skyler sat down, brought out his wrist-blades and started to clean and sharpen them for any later battles and he noticed they were getting dull from his last adventure. Also bloody blades don't look very clean. He was roused from this by the bluish-gray dragon when he cleared his throat and Skyler's military training kicked in as he shot up and saluted while standing as straight as possible.

"So a Fox Dragon has returned to the world. Interesting." said the old dragon eyeing Skyler, "You can get out of that pose now. I have called each of you here because of a new threat."

"The bio-mechs?" asked Skyler.

"No...A darkness worse than Malefor's is coming and I believe its time each of you got stronger even those who are already strong need practice. The bio-mechs are just this darkness' soldiers. They were slowly awaken after the Ice King in Dante's Freezer was killed and they originate from that location. Escape from the pirates and head to Dante's Freezer and see what you can find there."

"Cold area?" asked Skyler.

Ignitus nods.

"Full of undead?"

Nods

"Death around every corner?"

Nods once more.

"Okay. Death and undead I can handle, but I can't handle the cold!" the last part Skyler yelled.

"Are you scared?" teased Crux.

"No...my blood freezes and I go into a coma. [Slits wrist] Spyro?"

Spyro breathes a small amount of ice energy and the dripping blue blood turns to ice and it causes Skyler pain who has to breathe fire right away on the blood.

"Have Cyril teach you how to ignore cold and then head to Dante's Freezer, but be careful." said Ignitus fading away as did the world around them.

The group awoke back in a cell, but more luxurious than the previous one. Sparx was asleep, Seven was nowhere around, but the sound of bagpipes playing reached their ears.

"Who's playing those things?" asked Spyro.

"Seven. [Chuckles] He never lost his memory on how to play the bagpipes ." said Skyler climbing onto the ceiling then hanging himself upside down and falling asleep.

The group was woken up when the pink parrot came into their cell, causing Skyler to fall on top of Crux.

"Wake up fools! You got some pain to deliver!"

"I see why Sparx hates that pink parrot...If I get the chance, I'll skin him alive." growled Skyler between clenched teeth at the parrot.

Being forced into the arena again, they see a tall armored figure with a longsword and a spiked shield.

Skyler charges and goes Dark in the process while Seven plays the bagpipes next to Scabb.

Skyler dodges the Executioner's sword and delivers a foot to the knee, snapping the leg back and causing Klaw to scream in pain. Skyler then grabbed the shield, yanked it out of Klaw's grib and sent it hurtling into his face, which knocked off his helmet to reveal...nothing.

'If I hadn't known Alphonse that would have seriously freaked me out.' thought the dragon to himself as he did a sweep-kick, knocking Klaw on his back.

Grabbing Klaw by the chest plate, he threw the armor into the air and fired a cloud of Dark Eco/Convexity which incinderated the would-be executioner.

"Hah! You're as weak as Gnasty Gnorc! Wait, who's Gnasty Gnorc? [Voices whisper inside head] Anyway, we're out of here!"

Skyler then threw a fireball which blew apart the wooden wall to their left and they left.

"Here. Keep my bagpipes. Goodbye!" said Seven as he fled after his friends.

"What are you waitin' for foo'?! Get them! Aaaarrrkkkk!" screamed the pink one before Scabb blew him up with his leg gun.

"Nobody touches bagpipe player and friends now." said Scabb replacing his gun.

"Hmm, I won't say he didn't deserve that, but why do you not want them killed? They ruined our life."

"We like bagpipes."

"Ah, so the weird looking bagpipe player got to your heart. Fine. Attention all crew members, we now have a new opening for gladiators. Any takings?"

Soon thousands of the pirates were fighting in the arena and each ignored the gaping hole in the wall left by Skyler.

Arriving back at WarFang, the group entered a room where the guardians and some others were watching into a crystal. Spyro and Cynder sat down near the crystal and Skyler peered inside the crystal himself and saw a red dragon and another purple dragon, who was ignoring the enemies and was walking arrogantly when a idea came into his mind.

Forming his tail into an exact replica of the purple dragon's face in Dante's Freezer, he mocked him with his own voice.

"Look at me, I'm a purple dragon so I don't need to fight any enemies. I'm so wonderful. I like to have others do the work for me. Blah, blah, blabbity, blah!" said the tail.

Everyone was stunned until Ember burst into laughter, followed by Crux, then everybody else. The group turned serious again when the purple one smacked a chalk white skinned dragon into a wall and kept walking.

Skyler then disappeared in a flash of bright light and then the image on the crystal changed to show Skyler had entered Dante's Freezer, right in the middle of 20 undead warriors. The crystal went blank as a blast of Dark Energy escaped Skyler, causing the guardians to speak to themselves quietly. The screen then went to where the purple dragon was getting his butt kicked by the (new) Ice King until green mist enveloped the purple dragon, as the chalk-white dragon entered the room.

Suddenly Skyler burst thru the ice wall, did a roll, sprang up, brought out two triple-barreled shotguns and fired at the Ice King's shield, melting it with acid.

The Ice King was caught off-guard by the attack and had to throw his shield away before the chalk-white dragon smashed his knee and the greenish-orange dragon delivered a armor shattering punch to the stomach, causing him to cough of dry and stale blood. The Ice King howled in pain as he brought the icicles down at both dragons, nailing the bigger one to the floor in a spray of blue blood, the other was able to reverse his attack and skewer the Ice King with his own attack. The Ice King felt massive pain before...

Skyler's eyes opened as he heard a dragoness crying and holding the chalk-white dragon in her arms. Looking around, he saw pieces of the Ice King, along with shrapnel, everywhere. Grabbing an icicle, he yanked it out of his stomach and grunted at the pain, even ice hurts, then ripped another one out. He then noticed the red dragon from earlier along with the dragoness looking at him in shock as he pulled the last icicle out of his leg.

"I'll...explain later..." he said as he got up, limped over to his guns, picked them up and made them disappear in a poof of fire as green mist enveloped them all.

Talos when he entered the room, saw a tall greenish-orange dragon on his hind feet arguing with his purple brother, Maxios. He also noticed black creeping up on the guy's fur and scales.

"...You want to know why you failed?! You hit somebody who you didn't have to, yet you did! I so want to take your head, put it on a silver platter and give it to Crux!"

This shocked Talos, the guy was defending him and was willing to give his brother's head to Crux? He also saw everybody's shocked expression, even Crux was surprised when the green dragon saw him.

"Good, you're awake. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Skyler, I am a Fox Dragon, element master of fire, acid fire, eletricity, darkness, and light." said the dragon calmly.

"More like the master of cowardice." said Maxios.

At the word "cowardice", everybody backed away from the green one, at least 10 paces, and Talos saw the black cover him completely as purple-black fire engulfed him. He seemed to be fighting the urge, to what Talos would call, decapitating Maxios and he couldn't blame him.

"Only a coward picks on the weak!" yelled the now enraged green dragon as he slammed his fists onto the stone floor and a wave of dark energy exploded the floor, "You are lucky I'm in a good mood. Vulcanus wasn't so lucky." said the dragon regaining his former color as he began walking away.

In a split second, Maxios fired a earth bullet at the back of Skyler's head, Talos teleported in sliced the earth projectile in half, and pinned Maxios with his claws at his neck. Skyler came over put his foot on Maxios also, bent down, and his wrist-blades cane out surprising both of the dragons.

"You're just like my freaky brother." said Maxios with difficulty because both dragons were heavy, even his chalk-white brother was heavy.

"You think you're brother is freaky? Give me one, ONE, good reason why I SHOULDN'T GUT YOU RIGHT THIS MINUTE!" yelled Skyler as the wrist-blades burst into flames.

Suddenly a double-sided door opened and Skyler could tell that this wasn't any of his business. So he took his foot off the purple dragon, his eyes had gone from blue to orange to hellfire, sheathed his blades, and arced out the door, but not before going thru the newcomer, who "danced" as the electricty coursed thru him. Seven couldn't help but stifle a laugh at the newcomer's unfortunate encounter with being "arced thru" and he too silently left the room.

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