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Spyro found himself inside a black empty space that never ended, he looked around for Skyler certain the dragon would make the first move. He heard a whimper behind him and turned around to see a black mist holding Cynder in a headlock, threatening to snap her neck.

SNAP!

The sound reviberated inside Spyro's head as the mist tossed her lifeless body to the side and the mist disappeared with a wide toothy grin. Spyro's scales began to slowly turn black...

Outside the genjustu

Cynder, Talos, Shard, and Crux watched as both were frozen in a stare down when Spyro let out a small whimper and then his scales started turning black.

"No. No! What has Skyler done?!" yelled Cynder begining to panic.

Suddenly Skyler was sent flying into the stone wall behind him and emerged roughly unharmed, for he just snapped his jaw back into place.

"Skyler what have you done?!" screamed Cynder fully enraged.

"Having fun. Now pipe down." said Skyler as he advanced towards Dark Spyro at a steady pace.

"You can't stop me." said Dark Spyro as he glared at Skyler.

"Oh, but I believe I can...After all Crux kicked your butt and I could kick Dark Jak's butt without even trying. But how about we make this fair..." said Skyler as he allowed his scales and fur to go black.

Skyler was then engulfed in shadows and evil laughter filled the room causing some of the Acemdy's younger students to cower in fear. When the shadows went away, Cynder's mouth dropped as did the others.

Standing in Skyler's place was a dragon that resembled Malefor, but was much bigger and darker, shadows and spirits flew in circles around him, he had the same appearance as before but his eyes were hellfire, and the very enviroment warped around him.

"[Distorted] You see? I'm worse than anything Malefor could ever be! I can destroy you with a single swipe of a claw!...but...I'm not like that." said Dark Skyler as he circled Dark Spyro.

"You dare challenge me?! I'm Spyro the purple dragon-"

"No, you're not. You were purple, but now you're black with latern eyes." said Skyler mimicking Crux's voice and having a smirk on his face.

"I'll destroy you!" snarled Dark Spyro as he lunged at Skyler, but was swatted away with a single paw.

"[Distorted] HAHAHAHAHA! See? I don't even have to try to beat you! I can use your anger to my advantage young one." said Skyler sitting down and swinging his tail behind him, that now had a wickedly serrated edge to the tip.

"Why won't you die?!" snarled a fully enraged Dark Spyro.

"[Mimics Malefor] I'm eternal! You can never defeat me!"

Spyro fired a Convexity ball at Skyler who took the blow head on and looked bored when the smoke cleared.

"[Distorted] Are you finished yet? This is how you do a Convexity attack!"

Spyro was sent flying as a single heavily concentrated beam of Convexity struck him and sent him flying into the stands directly above a group of students who watched in shock, awe, and fear at the sight and ran away as Spyro emerged from the ruins of the stands.

Spyro got up, roared, and charged Skyler who disappeared into black mist causing the charging dragon to skid to halt as Gual's spirit appeared before the dragon.

"I will finally have my revenge dragon!" said the Ape King.

Gual charged at the black dragon, but missed phasing into the ground and disappearing as Skyler reappeared a delivered a spin-kick to Spyro's jaw.

"[Distorted] You are actually really fun to annoy, you know that?" said Skyler as he dodged Spyro's attacks with ease despite his greater size.

Suddenly Spyro struck Skyler in the face with his tail and Spyro smirked.

"For a whole bunch of talk, you're nothing but a cowardly weakling."

Cynder who had been struggling against Talos, Crux, Shard, Blaze, and Hunter to get at Skyler stopped and gaped at what Spyro had said and flinched when Spyro was sent flying out of the arnea, thru the stone wall, and well over the walls of Warfang with Skyler after him.

Spyro landed creating a crater that uprooted trees as he slid thru the ground, while his darkness talked to him.

'Spyro...use me more...forget he is your friend...friends make you weak!' said the darkness.

'Yeah! Some friend! He killed Cynder in an illusion...to...get...me...going...No! I won't! He's just being rough...' agrued Spyro with darkness.

'Are you sure? He said he was worse than Malefor a while back remember?'

'You...you're right! He IS worse than Malefor! Can't believe I fell for him being my friend!'

'Dig deeper into my power and destroy him!'

As soon as Skyler landed a few feet in front of Spyro, the purple-now-black dragon became engulfed in a purple light and Skyler had to shield his eyes from the light. When the light subsided, he saw Spyro and nearly jumped but his military training prevented him from doing so.

Spyro now had spikes jutting from his fore leg shoulder joints, his wings had razor sharp edges, his claws were serrated, and his spikes that ran down his back to his tail seemed longer.

"[Distorted]Nice upgrade. Mind if I upgrade too?" said Skyler as he was once again engulfed by shadows.

When the shadows retreated, Skyler was still the same size, but he had multiple spikes jutting out of his back, elbows, knees, and shoulders, and black smoke rose from his nostrils and open maw.

All that Spyro did was growl at Skyler and his white bright eyes showed nothing but malice and hate.

"[Distorted] What's the matter? Cynder got your tongue? Or are you just afraid I'll beat you? [Distorted Laughter]" said Skyler showing little change in attitude.

Skyler easily dodged a Convexity attack from Spyro that instantly vaporized a tree.

'Hmm...Better wrap this up before somebody gets hurt.' thought Skyler as he easily avoided every attack.

Creating an army of shadows, they swarmed over Spyro who kept struggling as they wrapped themselves around the enraged dragon. Light energy began to crackle in Skyler's right paw/hand and taking aim at Spyro, he fired nailing the beam right in the dragon's chest who screamed in pain. Within seconds Spyro was on the ground, back to his normal color...

'Wait...Since when does he have black on the back of his tail?' thought Skyler before he heard an angry screech.

Next thing he knew three claws raked against his left cheek along with posion burning his body as an enraged Cynder lashed out at Skyler who didn't fight back.

"How could you do this?!" yelled Cynder as she slashed at Skyler causing the bigger dragon to stagger backwards at her onslaught.

It wasn't for another twenty minutes that Cynder stopped attacking Skyler and when she did he had numerous cuts, posion burns, and claw marks and he limped away with a grin on his face.

'I think I deserved it. I'll have to tell Shard not to try to get payback.' thought Skyler as he limped to the infirmary despite his less serious wounds already healed, but he did have a new scar, right where Cynder's tail blade struck his chest and went in an upward slice nearly striking his heart, but even that wouldn't have finished him. Shard saw the grin as he limped by her and guessed he planned for something like this, but why'd he have Spyro go dark?

Looking back at the battlefield, she saw Cynder haul Spyro's unconscious body towards the Infirmary.

'Wait! Since when did he have black on his scales near the end of his tail? And what's with the spikes on the shoulders?' Shard thought to herself then she looked at the damage.

"Skyler...what have you gotten us into now?" she asked herself as she and the others went into Warfang.

A fair distance away

"Whoa! Since when did he learn to do that?! Cynder certainly gave him a beatin'! I wonder if it's safe to enter Warfang?" said a medium sized, orange, fuzzy creature after looking thru his binoculars at the battle.

Shrugging, the creature picked up his equipment and headed for the city at a calm and somewhat cocky pace with a goofy grin on his face.

"Wonder if I'll see any hot dragonesses in the city?" mused the creature to himself then expelled the idea from his head, "What would my girlfriend think?"

He continued walking, avoiding the cheetah village and came to the gates before sunrise.

Inhaling, he let out his signature scream waking the guards.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAH!"

END CHAPTER

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