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

"Stupid teleportation devices. They always malfunction or don't work." grumbled Skyler as he and the others trudged thru the forest towards Dante's Freezer.

When he had arrived at the teleporter, it suddenly malfunctioned and so he and the others had to walk to Dante's Freezer for the first 20 miles, then fly the other 5 miles and Skyler was already annoyed with the journey.

Blaze and Hunter had scratches and bruises (even though they're metal) and both were ready to rip each others' throats open, but for now they kept their distance from each other.

It was near noon when they stopped for a quick break.

"I'll be right back." said Skyler going on all fours and heading for a clearing.

"Where are you going?" asked Spyro.

"Hunting. What else?" was Skyler's reply before he cloaked and went off.

Skyler saw his perfect target, a 12-point buck standing right in the open. His cloaking ability allowed him to appraoch undetected and once he was within striking distance, he pounced.

[Sqeaul! SNAP!]

Skyler began digging into his prize when a burning smell reached his nose. Spitting out the half-eaten bone, he cautiously headed towards the smell and found the ruined remains of a camp. Looking around he saw the dead bodies of cheetah warriors all over, all of them at least 2 days old. Tilting his head back, he fired a fireball into the air.

A few minutes later the others had arrived and they were all stunned.

"W-what happened?" asked Cynder looking around at the carnage in disgust.

"Looks like a fight, a rather short fight, ensued here." said Seven looking around.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the freaks." said a familiar voice, "So you're the ones who did this. Figured the culprits would return to scene of the crime."

"We didn't do this." said Spyro evenly.

"I wasn't talking to you or the Black Serpent. I was talking to the three freaks over there."

[Points at Skyler, Talos, and Crux]

"THAT'S IT!" yelled Skyler charging forward and before Maxios could react, he was sent flying and landed on his back.

"I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU IN THE DREAM WORLD! YOU ARE UNCHANGABLE, YOU SELF-CENTERED B#$%!" yelled Skyler charging forward prepared to slam his fist into Maxios' head, crushing it but stopped when Talos got in his way.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" yelled Skyler the black on him spreading all over him, his eyes turning hellfire.

"No. I won't let you kill him in cold-blood." said Talos evenly.

"AFTER EVERYTHING HE DID TO YOU, YOU DEFEND HIM?! I THOUGHT YOU HATED HIS GUTS!"

"I hate him, but not enough to let you kill him!"

"FINE! THEN DIE WITH HIM!"

With those words, Skyler sent Talos flying with a back-hand and charged after him, leaving Maxios stunned.

'D-did he defend me? After everything I've done?'

Maxios snapped out of his shock as a strangled gasp was heard. Looking towards it, he saw...something that no longer resembled the greenish-orange dragon choking his brother and bringing the wrist-blades to his neck.

"TALOS!" yelled Maxios and fired an Ice bullet which struck Skyler square in the face, causing him to drop the white dragon.

"ICE NO LONGER WORKS ON ME! THOUGHT I HAD ESTABLISHED THAT AFTER SHOCK WAS THROWN IN JAIL!"

"Leave. him. ALONE!" yelled Maxios sending a heavily concentrated beam of ice at Skyler who after five seconds fell to the ground completely frozen.

The two brothers then looked at each in surprise.

"I-I, um, uh, I have to be heading back." said Maxios and left.

Talos got up wobbly and looked at his brother still in shock.

'D-did he just...save me?' thought the white dragon.

Suddenly canisters came flying out of nowhere and landed in front of the dragons. Green mist came pouring out, knocking everybody, but Crux and Seven out who were imediately surrounded.

The four dragons, the two machines, and Seven were chained up and Skyler, who was still encased in ice, were being held prisoner by the bio-mech soldiers and the captain (who held a strangle resemblance to Radec) approached them.

"You are all under arrest for threatening the new order of our master." said the captain coldly.

"{Sir. The Fox Dragon is escaping!}" yelled one of the soldiers guarding the ice block as it blew open.

Skyler grabbed both soldiers and slammed them together, splattering them. He then charged forward and flattened another soldier. He then breathed acid-fire on the chains, freeing the others.

"We are nobody's prisoners!" growled Skyler going Dark...Phase II.

END CHAPTER