Ch.2: Eternal Darkness

Fire rained down from outside as the Dark Master's army of apes invaded the Dragon Temple grounds. Spyro and Cynder had been standing outside talking about the attack on Sparx when this unexpected invasion came.

"Spyro" said Cynder " the eggs,"

"We have to hold these monkeys" said Spyro preparing himself for battle " the others will make sure the eggs get to safety. Right now our job is prevent these guys from invading the temple,"

Cynder knew that Spyro was right and though it hurt her about abandoning her eggs during a crisis she stood by Spyro's side and helped him battle againist the Dark Master's hord.

Meanwhile, inside the temple, Sparx was awakened by all the loud explosions coming from outside. The vibrations set off by the blasts made him accidently bump into Ignitis's wing.

"What's going on out there?" said Sparx " World War 3?"

"I'm afriad it's much worse than that Sparx," said Iginitis dragging himself up from his fallen position.

"Ignitis the eggs" said Cyril " we have to move them to safety,"

" Volteer and Sparx will help you" said Ignitis " meanwhile Terrador and I shall help the young dragons defend the temple from these dishonorabal apes,"

With that the groups Iginitis assigned split apart to fufill thier different duties. Cyril, Volteer, and Sparx burst into the hatchery where the twelve defenseless eggs sat on thier pedstals unaware of the danger surrounding them.

Sparx picked up one egg while both Cyril and Volteer grabbed two. Together the three of them hid the five eggs in a secret chamber and went back to the haterchy to get the rest, but when they returned to the hatchery the apes where already in thier destroying the rest of the eggs.

A gold egg had not yet been touched by malefor's dark forces and Sparx quickly dove in and grabbed it. Another explosion shook the temple causing Sparx to land agianist Cryil and Volteer's legs. Miraculously Sparx's fall had not caused any harm to the egg, and he raced off to where he and the dragon elders hid the other five leaving Volteer and Cyril to face the army alone.

The leader of the invasion, and ape named Gore, stepped out the shadows wielding a mystic staff that set up a forcefield around the two dragons. Cyril and Volteer clawed at the forcefield with all thier might, but couldn't make a single stratch.

Suddenly a sleepy sensation drooped over the dragon elders faces and they landed on the floor on the hatchery with a thump. Gore removed his forcefield and ordered his ape soliders to board the dragons onto the BoneWing.

The apes obeyed and dragged the two unconious dragons onto to a gaint skeletal bat. Sparx had absoutely no idea what happened to the two dragons he had left behind, and went out to see how Spyro and the others were doing.

The battle was raging pretty well until a BoneWing appeared in the sky, with Gore riding on it's back. The monkey's cold yellow eyes glared at Cynder and the others, and Sparx felt a cold chill go down his spine. Gore's eyes reminded him of the eyes of Malefor's statue just before it attacked him.

"Give up dragons" said Gore "two of the elders have already been captured and Malefor will soon have the rest,"

"Oh no" said Cynder " Cyril and Volteer,"

A thump soon met thier ears and Terrador, Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx turned to see Ignitis had fallen unconious. That one moment of distraction was enough for a DreadWing to swoop down and grab Cynder in it's talons.

"Cynder!" cried Spyro.

"We have all we need for now" said Gore " retreat!"

The Dark Master's army fled leaving Terrador, Sparx, Spyro, and an unconious Ignitis behind. Terrador imedately sensed that something was wrong and looked over at the two young ones still in his presence.

"Quickly Spyro inside," he said.

"But what about Iginitis?" asked Spyro.

"Now," demanded Terrador more firmly.

The earth dragon's tone ceased all agruement and Sparx and Spyro accompanied him back to the Spirit Pool chamber. Terrador sighed before he breathed a word.

"Young Spyro" said Terrador " I'm afriad that today is the begining of a terrible battle. I can no longer feel the other Dragon Elders spirits, they have been claimed by Malefor,"

"Even Iginitis?" said Spyro " how?"

"I fear that when Sparx was attacked Malefor cursed him with a virus that changes a dragon with a good soul to a servant of evil" said Terrador "as soon as Sparx touched thier skin they were infected with the virus,"

"So now I can't touch anyone or they'll end up on the dark side?" asked Sparx.

"Yes" said Terrador " no doubt Ignitis will soon wake up and be on his way to do Malefor's bidding, and soon I shall join them as well,"

"What do you mean?" asked Spyro.

"Being a dragon of the earth I have a connection to all living things" said Terrador " if the spiritual link of the Dragon Elders is tianted then won't be long until I am to forced to do Malefor's bidding. If anything should happen to me Spyro you must promise me that you'll contact the Lunar Dragon,"

"The Lunar Dragon?" said Spyro confused "how do I find him?"

Before Terrador could answer he fell unconious, but before his eyes closed the earth dragon's mouth whispered one last word,

"Run,"