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

Skyler was out if the city hunting a deer, a 14-pointer, he always wanted to hunt a deer like this but before it felt...wrong...now it feels natural. He dug his claws deeper into the dirt and he watched the prey get nervous as he circled it, out of sight (literally), the creature began to panic before the dragon pounced. The deer tried to get out of Skyler's grasp but its attempts were in vain. He snapped its neck and then dragged it to the nearby river.

'Why is it that I feel like I have drag it to water? Oh, right. My father was a Crocadog. Crocodile characteristics passed down a bit.' thought Skyler stopping at the sandy edge.

He was about to dig in when his ears twitched and he jumped up into a defensive postion with his tail's tip forming into a Gatling gun and his wings spread. Scanning his surroundings with Thermal, Tech, Neuro, and finally Xeno visions he found nothing, but then he heard a familiar...ish voice speak.

"{Don't do this!}"

Skyler turned his head and saw One-Eye with his hands bound behind his back and a Bio-mech with what appear to be .45 cal. handgun pointed to the back of the Vasudan's skull.

Skyler heard a gunshot as visions flooded his mind, he stumbled back falling into the river.

"Where-where am I?! Where's One-Eye?! What's going on?!" asked Skyler in a panic as he found himself in a library filled with books, flying books, and an hour glass with blue sand inside.

"Calm yourself young dragon." said Ignitus stepping forward, "I brought you here to warn you."

"Warn me about what?" asked Skyler calming down.

"The darkness I spoke about is steadily getting stronger each day. And I fear it may complete what Malefor wanted to do."

"What Legendary? I somewhat-freed him, but he's safe inside Warfang."

"No, not him...or you...but somebody darker..."

Skyler shot out of the water and began coughing and hacking as he pulled himself onto the beach and noticed two vultures eating his prize.

"Find your own meal, you scavengers!" yelled Skyler before breathing fire at them.

"Whoa! Not cool dude..." said one of the vultures with a surfer-like accent as he and his partner flew off with some burnt feathers.

Skyler looked over his prize and found that the scavengers had only eaten a small bit and dug in. When he was done, he walked over to the river and got a drink before spitting a leg bone out of his mouth. He then prepared for the trek back to Warfang and decided to let Terrador, Cyril, and Volteer know about this.

" 'Not him...or you...but somebody darker...' How come I don't like the sound of that?" mused Skyler to himself unaware of a shadowy figure watching him.

"Man he's changed. Why'd I even agree to this?" muttered the figure as he climbed down the tree he was in and stealthily followed Skyler while quietly complaining to himself.

2 HOURS LATER; GUARDIANS' CHAMBER

Skyler entered and told them what happened earlier. Terrador was the first to speak.

"This is very troubling. Even with the Dark Master gone it seems a new darkness is coming and growing. We must do something."

Suddenly the chamber doors burst open and a prison guard was in the doorway.

"Shock has escaped!"

"WHAT! Let me see!" said Skyler arcing to the prison.

PRISON

Skyler entered and found the dead guard. Unsheathing a claw, he swept it thru the small puddle of blood where the guard's head once was and smelled it.

"[GROWLS]...Darkness...seems there more than one of those chaos beings like Rage and Dark in this world." he said quietly and looked into Shock's cell.

His hearing picked up ticking under the bed and his instincts kicked in.

"EVERYBODY OUT!" yelled Skyler as he realized what it was.

Spyro and Cynder arrived at the prison to see every guard storm out as Shard also appeared.

"Where's Skyler?" asked Cynder.

Her question was answered as the whole prison building was engulfed in a fiery inferno. The three dragons shielded their eyes with thier wings. Suddenly Blaze, Hunter, and Seven were there and the three began digging frantically for Skyler.

"Boss, if you die and leave me with Blaze I will never forgive you!"

"Say something Boss!"

"Blaze! Hunter! I found him!" said Seven as he tried moving a huge piece of wall.

The three dragons approached and saw that the tail was trying to help Seven get the wall off as the two machines walked over.

"On 'three'. One..."

"Two..."

"Three!"

The Xenomorph and the two machines heaved the rubble off Skyler, but Shard had to look away at what was underneath.

Skyler's wings were shredded to nothing, his entire rib cage section was showing, half his face was blown off revealing the blue skeletal skull underneath, his breathing was shallow and rigid, he was missing his entire left arm/leg, and he had small pieces of dark crystals inside him.

"What...happened...?" gasped Spyro.

+Minor Flashback+

After Skyler told everbody to leave, he went over to the prison bunk and removed the box from under the bed. He listened and realized the ticking was originating from the box. He looked at it carefully and saw a medium-sized dark crystal wedged into the top. When he pulled it into the light to get a better look at it, he heard a sharp 'click!' and then a recording started playing.

"Farewell Fox Dragon. Have a nice trip." said Shock's voice with a hint of malice in it.

"Oh, Slag!..." said Skyler as the ticking stopped and a fiery explosion engulfed him.

+END FLASH BACK+

Seven, Blaze, and Hunter picked up the wounded Fox Dragon and carried him to the Infirmary as Talos, Crux, and Maxios, along with Legendary arrived.

"What happened?" asked Crux looking around at the ruins and then noticing the large trail of glowing blue blood.

"Skyler...was injured...badly..." said Spyro and Shard was on the ground crying.

They began sifting thru the rubble while also clearing it.

END CHAPTER