Ch.6: Dark Fire
" Alright" said Sparx to Spyro as they were leaving Alvalar " where to next?"
" Lava Lake" said Spyro " that's where Ignightus orginally trained. It located inside one of the volcanos in the Municans Forge,"
" So what, let me get this straight" said Sparx " we're going to risk our lives over a flaming death just to open another pillar to get to a she dragon who stubborn and probably won't care about the war?"
" She won't if you don't stop jinxing us like that," said Spyro and the pair flew on to the Munican's Forge to find the legendary Lava Lake.
The mole people were willing to lead Spyro to Lava Lake imediately, for they feared that if Ignigtus wasn't stopped and soon his actions could cause every volcano in the Munican's Forge to erupt all at once filling every inch of the forge with molten lava.
Lava Lake really did look like a lake, except if you went swimming in that water you die in minutes from extreme burns. Luckily there were some magma plates to stand on so you wouldn't have to risk swimming. The downside was that on the other side of the lake stood Ignightus guarding the second Convexity Pillar.
" You will not get past here young dragon" said Ignightus " fire is my element, and it's the only one you'll be able to fight me with on this lake. You are doomed to fail,"
" I shall not fail" said Spyro " I know every trick you taught me. Nothing is going to stop me from seeing the Lunar Dragon,"
And so the fight began with Spyro taking one end of the lake while Ignightus took the other. The middle section of the lake made way for a steaming pool of hot boiling lava with only two magma plates to serve as bridge to the other side.
First Ignightus let out a mighty roar which brought out Magmaworms to attack Spyro. While Spyro was busy defending himself the Dragon Master even shot a few long range flame blasts to lower Spyro's energy even more.
After defeating the last of the worms Spyro lept onto one of the floating magma plates and let loose a few blasts of his own. After taking in about three hits Ignightus hopped onto the second magma plate and started to power up for his Fire Fury.
Red flames started to break through the hardened magma and soon opened up the whole lake now making it impossible to escape to firmer ground. Desperate Spyro threw out a few fire darts at Ignightus making the older dragon lose more energy and also break his Fire Fury attack.
But Ignightus was far from defeated as he called up the red flames and used them like tentacles to attack Spyro. Spyro had to jump from magma plate to magma plate just to escape the fiery arms.
Again Ignightus tried to call up his Fire fury attack, but Spyro shot a few more fire darts and interrupted it. Wasting no time Spyro flew at Ignightus and released his very own Fire Fury. The battle was over in an instant and Ignightus lay defeated.
"Hey Spyro I found the pillar," said Sparx.
Spyro went over to where Sparx was and pressed one of his claws againist the pillar. Once again a rainbow aura filled the sky opening another quarter to the Convexity. Suddenly Ignightus began to stir.
" Spyro?" said Ignightus.
" I'm here too you know? hello?" said Sparx " no cares for the dragonfly anymore,"
Spyro explianed to Ignightus what had happened and what Terrador had told them to do. Sparx was barely listening to the whole explianation.
" If I to hear that story repeat itself every time we battle one of these I'm going to pull my own wings out," said Sparx quietly.
" Your task is only halfway done Spyro" said Ignightus " while I make peace with the moles you must finish your quest and activate the other two pillars. Who knows what dire fate awaits us all if Malefor suceeds,"
" Well that was inspiring" siad Sparx as he and Spyro left Lava Lake " thanks for the dire warning of forboding doom. So Spyro...,"
Sparx stopped when he noticed Spyro wasn't listening. The purple dragon's eyes had almost gone glazed like he had been hyponotized. Sparx imediately knew it must be the virus he was carrying and wouldn't stop shaking Spyro's head until he snapped out of it.
When Spyro finally did Sparx felt a creeping fear as the Chronicler's prophecy reverberated in his mind again. With the virus now infecting Spyro Sparx knew that if he didn't find a way to stop it and fast his life long friend would soon be a servant of Malefor.