Talos, Maxios, Elios, Pyre, and Crux belong to Dragon Of Chaos97.

Skyler was hating Ignitus for suggesting this, him learn to ignore freezing temperatures? yeah right! But he had to go thru with it. Cyril was worse than Volteer, at least in pride anyway. Always babbling on about how "great" his ancestors were or how "great", "wonderful", "marvelous", yadda yadda, he is.

'How about shutting that wagging tongue of your's and shove it...'

"I beg your pardon!" said Cyril looking offended.

'Oops, guess I said that out loud...F#$% it!'

Skyler could feel his blood was already half frozen from the small snowstorm Cyril conjured and he was already on his knees.

He said they would go to Dante's Freezer in about 3 weeks and it was already day 8 and he wasn't even 10 ft near Cyril. His objective was to get close to Cyril without freezing, yet he was still at the 35 feet marker and had made no real progress whatsoever and then he felt...

Skyler dropped to the floor with a frozen 'clunk' and Cyril sighed.

"Spyro, if you please." said Cyril to the purple dragon.

Spyro stepped forth and breathed a small amount of fire on Skyler which instantly brought him back to the land of the living.

"Why do I have to go to Dante's Freezer? I can handle everything else, but the cold just fine!" complained the dragon getting up.

"If you don't get used to the cold, you'll be nothing but extra baggage." said Cyril in that British sounding accent he had.

"I hate when somebody's right." muttered Skyler as he slowly got up, "Once more."

It wasn't until nightfall that Skyler was forced to quit for the day, he limped out of the training room as Shard came over to him and helped him up. Heading back to their place, Maxios hit Skyler from behind.

"Talos took my girl, so I'll take yours! And just so you don't stop me..." with those words Maxios encased Skler from the neck down in ice.

"Maxios, you're a brute." said Shard slashing his face.

"Why...you!" he said before hitting her back at which she yelped in pain and that's when Skyler snapped.

A spiked, flaming chain wrapped itself around Maxios' neck and pulled him towards a flaming Skeletal Dragon.

"Give me one reason why I should't decapitate you now!" said the Dragon in a voice that sounded like many.

"..."

"Hah! See! Who's the coward now?! You may have used my weakness against me, but nobody, AND I MEAN NOBODY, hits my girl! I'm gonna teach you a lesson!"

With that Skyler threw Maxios to the ground, slammed his foot into his ribs (twice), then punted him.

Walking away from the now severely injured Maxios, who wobbled away, Skyler returned to normal.

"Sorry...you had...to see...that...Shard..." he said before passing out.

Regardless of what happened, she picked him up and carried him back to their place.

NEXT DAY:

Skyler was practicing against dummies and used his Force Crush move on a single armored dummy, crushing it into splitters. He then delivered a roundhouse kick to another dummy, grabbed it by the chest and slammed his head against it. The dummy reeled and then fell over as its head caved in. Charging at another, he sent it flying into the wall.

He then saw Talos and he had the dummies deactivate and walked over to the pale dragon and sat down.

"So, why are you here? Its five in the morning." said Skyler.

"Same with you." was the dragon's reply.

"Touche. I'm sharpening my skills, but I can never seem to get used to the cold! I've always hated winter, but the snow makes it beautiful."

"You realize Shard's element is ice, right?"

"Oh, shut up. I heard what you and Pyre did...Your brother went after Shard last night. He'll have sore ribs for a week the way I pounded him. Dummies aren't very fun targets."

"Want to spar then?"

"Never thought you'd ask."

The two dragons took their positions in the arena. Before Talos could react, Skyler disappeared and reappeared in front of him before delivering a spin kick that sent Talos flying. Talos teleported and gave a swift kick to Skyler's back, who staggered forward. Skyler whirled around throwing a Dark Energy ball, which Talos barely managed to dodge.

"Thought this was sparring not a death match." said Talos.

"It is sparring, my attacks do no damage, but they still hurt. You can go all out." said Skyler charging forward with a fire engulfed fist.

Talos teleported as Skyler brought the fist down, shattering the floor.

"Teleporting can't save you forever! Let's have some fun..." said Skyler as he morphed his body into Joker's.

"What'd you do?"

"What you didn't know I could shape-shift? I can't do it as well as my brother Scorch, but I can certainly do a few." said Joker/Skyler.

Three poker cards were then sent flying at Talos, who dodged them easily, but the next attack hit dead on.

"Oops. Too much torque." said Joker/Skyler as he had the boxing glove gun retract.

[Hysterical Laughter]"If you think when I shape-shift I can't use their abilities you are dead wrong. You need a smile on that face."

[Monkey chased the Weasel starts playing]

[BOING!]

Jack-in-the-Box pops out and opens fire while laughing. Joker/Skyler pulls out Balloon Tommy Gun and open fires at Talos.

"You sure you're not trying to kill me?" asked Talos creating a force barrier from the bullets.

"No. [Hysterical Laughter]"

Suddenly Joker/Skyler was engulfed in a nuclear explosion and he returned to himself and the Jack-in-the-Box disappeared.

"Oh, well on to the the next one." said Skyler as he began spinning in a Tornado.

"Ello Everybody!" said Mask/Skyler.

"What is this?"

"Me having fun. Now where'd I leave that weapon...Left pocket?" said the green faced corn ball as he pulled a very, very long ribbon out of the suit's left pocket.

After 5 minutes, he finally got what he was looking for.

"Say 'hello' to my little friend!" said Mask/Skyler as he pulled out a Ryno V and "War Charge" music began playing.

"You've got to be kidding."

Talos had to keep up a stronger force barrier up to prevent getting hit by the malestorm of bullets and missiles.

[CLICK! CLICK!]

"Oh, well! Time for something else." said Mask/Skyler as he pulled out a giant Whack-a-Mole Mallet.

Talos just stood there as Mask/Skyler swung the hammer and upon impact...it shattered into match sticks.

"Goodbye!" said Mask/Skyler as he began bouncing all over the place and Talos ducked as the goofball went over him and thru the window behind him.

[Alarm sounds as Mask/Skyler's eyes pop out]

Mask/Skyler waves goodbye as he plummets 40 ft.

Upon hitting the ground, he becomes a pancake. A hand reaches up and pulls his head off the stone.

"Look ma! I'm roadkill! [Goofy Laughter]"

Getting up, he returns to normal and arcs into the training room.

Skyler goes onto all fours and charges Talos at 800mph.

[CLANG!]

"Why didn't you tell me you have a metal skeleton before I charged? [Mumbles unintelligently] Goodnight New York!" said Skyler stumbing around before collapsing onto the ground.

Talos brought him to the infirmary where the early doc was waiting.

END CHAPTER

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