Talos, Maxios, Pyre, Elios, Kai, and Crux belong to Dragon. Of. Chaos97.
The black dragon threw Vulcanus across the room inside the Mountain of Malefor, the new Dark Master could not believe how resilenant the fire dragon was.
"I'll never...join you!" panted Vulcanus as he slowly got up.
"[Distorted] HAHAHAHA! You already have. I was the one who de-winged you, brought your black heart to the surface, gave you a chance to redeem your former color. Now you'll lose that chance forever! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" said the dark dragon circling the injured fire dragon.
"I don't care! I'll never join you!"
"[Distorted] Too late."
Before Vulcanus could react he found his head in the monster's paw then pain that he never knew entered his body as he was slowly corrupted.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH !" his scream echoed throughout the Mountain.
WarFang; Guardians' Chambers
The three Guardians brought the young dragons before them and questioned them.
"Does anyone know who that dragon was?" asked Terrador.
Shard relunctantly stepped forward with her head down.
"Shard, who was it?" asked Terrador as kindly as possible.
"Skyler." she said holding back tears.
"The rest of you may leave, Shard we have to talk." said Terrador getting up and leading Shard deeper into the building.
Meanwhile; Mountain of Malefor
"[Distorted] Ah, Makuta's Staff. How I remember obtaining this weapon from his crushed corpse. So much dark power...now mine to command."
*Slams staff into ground*
"[Distorted] Arise my new Dark Army! HAHAHAHAHA! Vulcanus, you know what to do right?"
"Yes, master." said Vulcanus taking off and heading for WarFang.
From in front of Shadow Skyler, hands burst from the ground followed by reptilain bodies and heads. The creatures roared, their heads spiltting open revealing snake-like creatures behind their intelligence. Thousands of the reptilian-like creatures emerged from the ground, each a different color and holding a different staff.
Suddenly each one jumped into the air and began flying towards WarFang followed by Shadow Skyler.
WarFang; Next Day
The dragons were in the training hall when Riptor ran past them with electricity arcing off him.
"Hey hey hey! Look look! I have electricity for an element!" said the hyperactive Utahraptor bouncing up and down on his feet and arcing all over the room.
"He's like that. You get used to it." said Raptor coming in and sitting down while keeping his gaze on his hyper brother.
"You cheat Raptor [Yawn]..." said Riptor before falling asleep.
"Since when did you two get elements?" asked Spyro looking at Raptor in shock.
"We have a weird gene that allows us to adapt to any world." said Raptor.
Suddenly the doors were blown open and in stepped Vulcanus...or a corrupted version of him. His scales were pitch black-red, his wings were full of holes, and his scales had spikes jutting out of them, his eyes were completely hellfire-red. He was also the size of an adult dragon now.
"Resistance is futile. This is what happens to those who don't surrender." said Vulcanus throwing Shock over to the dragons.
Shock had a black eye, a broken wing, a broken horn, deep cuts and gashes, burn marks, and other injuries, the injured eletric dragon was also breathing shallowly.
"You have until noon to surrender." said Vulcanus leaving.
"What do we do with Shock?" asked Cynder looking at the beaten dragon.
"Have the Infirmary deal with him. He probably won't be leaving for a while." said Spyro as he and the others left.
Ruins of WarFang's Gates, Noon
Shadow Skyler landed in front of the Guardians and the young dragons with Vulcanus by his side.
"[Distorted] What is your answer?" asked Shadow Skyler glaring at the Guardians.
"We WILL resist." said Terrador evenly.
"[Distorted] Then you have doomed this city!" said the black dragon retreating.
When the dragons looked to the horizon they heard stomping and the roars of creatures, all coming towards the city.
"[Distorted] Welcome to the end. ATTACK!"
Hearing this, the creatures surged forward. Terrador was the first to react creating a pillar of earth to fill the gap of the ruined gate and the dragons watched as the creatures climbed onto the wall and began climbing up. When the creatures got to the top, the walls' defenders began fighting the creatures. Moles were slaughtered left and right by the creatures, cheetahs stood more of a chance but were still butchered. The dragons took to the skies providing air support the best they could. Some fighting on the walls as well. Soon the creatures made it over the walls and began rampaging thru the city, slaughtering everyone in sight. Within hours the city was in flames, still the defenders fought on. Help arrived from Mecha-Byrd and his Mecha-HummingBird platoon, Legendary also joined the fight and rivaled both Spyro and Cynder in power.
When nightfall came, the creatures retreated into the darkness and the city was nearly in ruins from one attack. All but Crux regrouped in the Guardians' Chamber. The reason why he didn't was because he was stuck between a hard place and a posion staff. The creature kept putting more force on its staff trying to impale Crux with it. Suddenly Crux's tail burst thru its chest and the creature dropped its staff as it screamed it pain. Crux then snapped its neck. Crux was panting heavily when he noticed a snake-like creature coming out of its back, it looked at him before hissing and squirming away, only to get stepped on by One-Eye.
Crux jumped into a defensive position at the sight of the strange creature before him.
"Who are you?!" hissed Crux.
"{My name is One-Eye. I caused this catastrophe and I want to fix it.}" said the Vasudan walking past Crux towards the Guardians' Chamber.
Guardians' Chambers
One-Eye entered and Cynder instantly looked away from the battle-scarred Vasudan. His armor was scratched and he seemed to have a bit of a limp as he walked, but he still seemed rather strong despite his thin frame.
"{I'm sorry I never made my presence know before now, but both Bio-mechs and Skyler's current state are my fault. I plan to give my life to help you get Skyler back.}" said the Vasudan bluntly.
"How do you plan to do this?" asked Terrador.
"{Skyler is currently protected by a skin-tight layer of solid shadow, this staff will disperse them and reveal what is underneath the shadowy armor. It will then be Spyro's job to get Skyler back, I've lived well beyond my time and I believe I can make up for one mistake." replied the Vasudan.
Shadow Skyler the next day broke down the earth barrier and got One-Eye on his back who raised the staff and struck it into the armor. The blast knocked the Vasudan back as the shadows dispersed to reveal a black bone dragon.
There was no skin or organs, just pitch black bones with hellfire eyes. The dragon roared in rage as Vulcanus landed beside him.
"[Distorted] Deal with these fools!" yelled Shadow Skyler at Vulcanus.
"Yes Master." said Vulcanus rushing forward and getting into a fight with Kai, Riptor, and Crux.
"Can't catch me! Cantcatchme!" said Riptor rushing forward as a streak of orange and black lightning striking Vulcanus before the corrupted fire dragon could react.
Crux then sent a power blast of red lightning striking Vulcanus right in the face. Kai split himself in two and began attacking the fire dragon mercilessly. Soon Vulcanus was out and returned to normal.
"[Distorted] AAHH! You can never find good help these days! So I'll finsih you myself!" yelled Shadow Skyler charging toward Shard with his metal tail blade poised for a fatal strike.
Shard didn't look up when Skyler came charging at her as tears fell down her face.
"[Whispers] I love you."
Shadow Skyler stopped short of his target and backed up, shock and surprise evident in the soulless eyes. The tail blade struggled to impale Shard, but wouldn't budge.
"[Distorts between Skyler and Shadow Skyler] Ngh...NOO!...SPYRO!...HELP...ME!"yelled Shadow Skyler with his voice distorting between Skyler and this current form.
Shadow Skyler began flickering back and forth between green-orange scales and fur and black bone. The shadow dragon grabbed his head in pain as he kept flickering.
'What do I do?!' thought Spyro in panic.
'Use me!' screamed his inner darkness.
'WHAT! NO WAY!'
'He helped you gain control of me! Now you have to help him! Use me or I'm taking over!'
'Fine! But if you trick me, you are so dead!'
'You can't kill me! I'm you!'
Spyro went dark and fired a Convexity beam at Skyler who began flickering more rapidly. Shadow Skyler began edging towards Spyro in an attempt to smash the dragon.
"Hey, coward!" yelled Kai at Shadow Skyler.
"What...did...you...call...me?!"yelled Shadow Skyler turning his attention to the silver dragon and he began to flicker more and more to green-orange scales and fur.
"You heard me! I called you a coward!" yelled Kai as he slowly drained away Skyler's life energy.
Suddenly Skyler flickered completely to green-orange scales and fur and lunged at the silver dragon who spin-kicked him into the nearby wall. Skyler slowly got up and spoke two words.
"Thank you..." after that he fell unconscious.
The Rahkshi horde outside then turned to dust and their weapons corroded until they fell apart. One-Eye seeing this looked up to the stars as he slumped against the wall.
"{This destruction was my fault. I'm never going home, because I became a Bio-mech after I created a few of them. They took over and tried to turn me, but they failed. Farewll...*Rips out power core*...[distorts as he shuts down]...Skyler...}" said the Bio-mech Vasudan as green blood dripped from his mouth.
2 HOURS LATER; Guardians' Chambers
"We can't imprison him! Its not his fualt, that 'Vasudan' did it and he helped correct the mistake and took his own life!" argued Spyro.
"He created a new Dark Army, destroyed half the city, along with half of its citizens and want to let 'it' LIVE?!" yelled Magmus, fire council member and father to Vulcanus.
"He's not an 'it' and don't you dare use that tone of voice with me! You're also mad because of what he did to your son, grow up you old snot bag!"
"Why you impudent, young-"
"Enough! This is getting nowhere. I say we have Skyler under constant guard by you Spyro and your friends. The only time there is an exception is when he goes outside the city to hunt, we know what happens if we didn't let him do that." said Terrador.
The Guardians and the other council members, excluding Magmus, agreed.
Mountain of Malefor
A red and black hand reached out for the staff still lodged in the ground and took hold of it, pulled it out, put it into the purple beam of energy deep inside the mountain.
"HAHAHAHA! I will finally be complete once again." said an old, graty, and evil voice as it held the staff in the beam.
END CHAPTER