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

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Crux had prepared a revenge prank for Skyler and the green-orange dragon was right on time. Skyler walked directly onto the "X" without noticing and Crux pulled the lever he happened to find.

*CLANG! EXPLOSION!*

Crux walks over to the 16-ton weight on top of Skyler.

"And that's how we Xenomorphs roll around here b#$!"

Skyler lifts the weight off himself and throws it to the side and gets in Crux's face.

"You realize this means WAR." said the dragon.

Both dragons growl and give each other death glares before heading in opposite directions.

"Might I ask what the contraption's military purpose is?" asked Mech Byrd as Skyler lifted it and put onto his shoulder.

"No military purpose. Gag purpose." said Skyler sneaking out of the building with the Rocket Launcher on his shoulder.

A fair ways away he saw Crux and before you could "Skyler's unfair" he was in front of Crux with the Launcher pointed directly at him.

"This is how a Fox Dragon rolls small-fry!" said Skyler as he fired the launcher and hit Crux with a pie, "See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!"

Crux looks and sees tiny bomblets in the pie.

*EXPLOSION!*

Crux was sneaking up on Skyler with hand-made jumper cables and he didn't notice a small dragon in front of Skyler who noticed Crux and froze.

"Hold it kid. You're doing the 'frozen take'. Which means Crux-"

*Pulls out SledgeHammer and flattens Crux with it*

"-WAS right behind me. Oh you dropped your jumper cables."

*Attaches cables to Crux*

"I know almost every trick in the book. You can't win Crux." said Skyler walking away with the young dragon following.

Crux was walking around the city trying to think of a revenge prank for Skyler when a voice reached his ears.

"Get your churros! Get your churros! Nice, hot, an' fresh! Get your churros!" cried a cheetah market vendor.

Crux went up and got one and noticed the lit fuse of a TNT stick. Grabbing the cheetah's mouth he wrenched it open, shoved the churro down his throat, and shut the cheetah's mouth closed at which point the vendor shape-shifted back to Skyler.

"Oh, crud." said Skyler.

*Explosion!*

*Skyler's head lands in Crux's hands and Skyler's body starts doing a Russian dance*

"BOO!" yelled Skyler's head.

"AH HA HA AH!" screamed Crux and bolted.

"I didn't think that would work." said Skyler as his body picked his head up and reattached it.

For the next 12 hours both dragons did countless old gags and pranks on each other until they met in the courtyard and came up with a plan to end this whole mess.

"I'm not gonna let you kill me!" said Crux.

"No, no, no! That's not what I meant. We fight in a mindscape until one of us 'kills' the other. We won't truly be killing each other, only an astro projection of the other. After effects include slight dizziness and a 1% chance of vomiting. Pain can still be felt though. This will also be projected as a movie." explained Skyler.

"Why a movie though?"

"Example; YOU win, yet nobody sees it and I say I won, we can fake being the winner otherwise, so that's why we'll be projecting the fight for others to see, audio and everything."

"When do we begin?"

"[Darkly] Now..."

Inside the mindscape

"A warning next time please." said Crux stumbling around in the mindscape.

*SILENCE*

"Hello? Anybody here?" said Crux walking around in the black landscape.

"[Distant] Crux, I think I accidentally sent you to the darkest recesses of my mind! Be careful while I try to fix it!" came Skyler's voice.

Suddenly Crux felt cold bony claws grab him by the neck and he found himself staring into dark bloodlusting soulless eyes. Suddenly two figures grabbed the monster and got Crux from his clutches. One of the figures was a brought blue, the other was a black mist. Suddenly Crux was engulfed in red mist and reappeared on a grassy plain.

"Sorry about that. [Laughs Sheepishly] I didn't intend to do that. I didn't start the projection when that happened. So, ready?" said Skyler.

"Yeah." said Crux getting into a fighting stance.

Both dragons charged and locked claws in a test of strength. Crux found himself being pushed back, then he got a knee to the gut knocking the wind out of him, then a haymaker to the face.

"I have the advantage in strength and speed. I can outrun Shadow so bad he's on the ground wheezing. Now eat fire!"

A huge fireball flew towards Crux who barely managed to dodge, but did get a little singed. Crux charged and impaled Skyler in the stomach.

"That doesn't work remember?" said Skyler removing the tail then delivering a spin-kick to Crux's lower jaw.

Soon both dragons were locked in melee combat with each getting a hit in and blocking the others' attack the best they could. Suddenly Skyler's tail went thru Crux's chest, and pulled out Crux's heart showing it to the stunned xeno dragon.

"This was fun." said Skyler crushing the heart and Crux dropped over still wide-eyed.

Skyler then put his claws into Crux's back and pulled his head and spin out and let out a roar.

*Thunder crashes, Lightning flashes*

Back outside the mindscape

Crux stumbled back and felt dizzy.

"Sorry, if I was a bit brutal but that's how I can be." said Skyler clutching his head a little.

"[Slurred] No problem. I tthink I'll be in tthe Infirmary a llittle bit." said Crux stumbling away.

Skyler was outside the city hunting again when an arrow hit him in the neck, making him pass out.

He regained conscious in a cell and noticed his arms, legs, and tail were in weird chains. Looking thru the glass in front of him, his mouth dropped open.

"{Skyler forgive me for what I'm about to do.}" said One-Eye throwing a switch.

Immeasurable pain erupted throughout Skyler's body and he began to lose consciousness as the chains holding him suddenly unlocked dropping him to the floor. Trying to crawl forward he saw his left paw/hand and he could only muster a few words before blackness welcomed him.

"No...not...this..."

Spyro was sound asleep when Ignitus appeared in his dream.

"Spyro, I bring terrible news." said Ignitus urgently.

"What?! What is it?!" asked Spyro panicking.

"Its-"

Spyro awoke as the screaming of civilians reached his ears. Looking around he saw Cynder was also up. Both dragons left their room to see what was going on. Looking around, they saw the city's gates were in ruins and a big black dragon rampaging thru the city. When they got closer they saw Talos, Shard, Pyre, Kai, Blaze, Hunter, Crux, and Maxios trying to fight the dragon. They spotted Vulcanus in the dragon's grip trying to get free, but to no avail. When the dragon spoke, it sounded like death, hate, destruction, and malice all in one.

"[Distorted] Good, the dragons who defeated Malefor have also arrived. I have proclaimed myself the new Dark Master! Those who resist will die! Vulcanus is coming with me!" with that the dragon took off and headed towards the Mountain of Malefor.

Suddenly Blaze and Hunter went together and became a giant machine. The machine fired a spear that wrapped around the dragon's left hind leg.

"Get back here! Annhilator isn't done with you!" yelled the machine.

"[Mutters] I always hated you two."

Suddenly black lightning travels down the chain striking the machine causing the machine to split into two again and fall to the ground while being encased in black lightning. Both machines then fell unconscious.

The dragons watched as the black dragon disappeared from sight, but Vulcanus' screams did not fade. Thunder crashed and lightning flashed in the distance. The dragons left the battlefield, except Shard who let a tear fall before it started raining and then she too left.

END CHAPTER