Ch.7: Black Lightning

The next stop was Lightning Valley, and the area really lived up to it's name. A forest of tall rocky spires pointed towards a black and threatening sky that roared with the fury of a thousand dragons.

A three-pronged lightnig bolt suddenly illuminated the entire area to reveal the striking image of the evil Volteer. The gold, electric dragon's claws and fangs shown deadly when presented in the blinding flashes of light.

" That's Volteer?" said Spyro unbelievably.

" Ah no" mocked Sparx, pretending to quiver in fear behind Spyro's back " it's the evil Teacher-saraus. I always knew school would come back to haunt me,"

Volteer made the first move by calling down thousands of lightning bolts from the angry heavens and aimed them right at Spyro. The purple dragon had to move fast in order to avoid being hit, but that still didn't stop some lightning bolts from scorching his body.

"Oh, I can't look," said Sparx as he watched Spyro fall down onto the rocky earth.

Volteer came close to Spyro and was about to shoot a bolt of lightning from his mouth when Spyro jumped up and beat him to the punch. While Volteer stumbled back, shocked from Spyro's lightning breath, the purple dragon took to the air and flew a few feet away from Volteer.

But the evil " Teacher-saruas" as Sparx called had more tricks up his sleeve, by charging his tail and claws with electricity making his blows more damaging to Spyro.

Spyro had to be very careful on how he dodged the deadly moves. He didn't want anymore signed scales than he had already. Using the Air Melee on the back of Volteer's neck caused the older dragon to lose focus, and lose his supercharged skills.

However, with a whip of his head, Volteer strung Spyro out in front of him and started to activate his Lightning Fury attack. Hurrying to beat him to the punch Spyro released his own Lightning Fury.

Both Fury's hit each other with an equal amount of power and suddenly everything went white as everything exploded. Sparx had to cover his eyes from the fierce display, and when the light cleared the dragonfly could see the bodies of two dragons lying on the ground.

Volteer lay on the left and Spyro on the right, but only one dragon managed to gather enough strentgh to stand. And that dragon was Spyro.

Sparx was shouting cheers as Spyro placed his claw on the third Convexity Pillar opening the gateway a little wider.

"One to go," said Spyro. Just then Volteer began to move.

"Spyro?" said Volteer "what happened here?"

"You happened" said Sparx " now can we hurry up and get this speech over with so we can move on? We got one more pillar to activate,"

"The Lunar Dragon?" said Volteer in surprise " yes, of course, I should have seen it before. How foolish, gullible, and mild-mannered I have been. She were certianally aid us during this crisis. But beware, she can be quite stubborn,"

"So you guys warned us" mocked Sparx " so many times,"

"We still have to find Terrador" said Spyro " let's go,"

But as soon as Spyro started to walk away the purple dragon almost fell over onto the ground. He quickly regained his balance however and shook his head in order to stay awake.

Yet, when the purple dragon reopened his eyes Sparx's felt his heart fill with fear. For the once voilet eyes of his best friend had changed to their opposite color, amber. The eyes of a predator.