A Vision of Darkness

Spyro groaned as he woke up, his small body was a stiff as a board. The dawn sun was low and red in the sky, like a dot of blood upon a lilac sheet. He looked at the two sleeping dragonesses then got up. Slowly he walked to a tree and sat down. A nightmare had entered his mind during the night. It had showed the entire planet cracked and red just after the destroyer had completed it's Belt of fire. Suddenly it was covered by a purple force field and started to piece together again. A black flare of fire flickered in the middle of the pieces. The world pieced together over the black flame. As the pieces melded into a whole sphere again, a spark of energy pulsed through the world. At first Spyro didn't understand this until a black shape flew upwards through a crack in the top of the world. Spyro looked at the black shape and saw that it was a black dragon, five times the size of Malefor and power radiated from the beast, like heat from a forest fire. Burning red eyes were deep voids of anger, hate and malice. The huge dragon looked at Spyro, then opened his maw, filled with razor sharp fangs as long as Spyro's leg. He fired a massive blackish purple flame that shot towards Spyro with terrifying speed. That was when Spyro had woken up.

"I wonder who that new dragon was. If he even exists... No, I'm sure he does. I've had too many dreams like this to be stupid enough not take something like this seriously. I'm sure that that was when I pieced the world together so it was not that long ago. My viewpoint in the dream was also weird. It was as if the dragon could see me but I was still in the core piecing the world together. After that I had to escape before I was trapped."

Cynder stirred in her sleep, Spyro watched her for a while. This calmed his thoughts as he thought of just how much he loved that dragoness. He strolled over to her and placed one of his paws over one of hers. He remained like this for an hour before she woke up.

"Morning Spyro" she smiled

"Morning Cyn." he laughed.

The dragonnes lifted her head up and kissed him lightly. She pulled away after a moment and looked into his eyes, her emerald eyes sparking. Rolling onto her side, Cynder got up and stretched. Spyro watched her stretch and grinned wolfishly "Stiff are we?"

"A little," admitted Cynder. "Someone's still sleeping. Shall we wake up the little gemstone." the dragoness gave a fiendish giggle

Spyro looked at her, half in surprise half in amusement. Cynder got some water in a hollwed out log with a natural cap on one end and a vine tied around the other. Spyro breathed a light column of ice on the makeshift bucket, so as to make the water icy cold. Cynder flew above Amethyst and gripping the bucket in her front talnos, tipped it so the contents spilled on the dragoness.

"AAAAAAAYYYYEEEEEEIIIIIIAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" yelped Amethyst. The purple dragoness shot bolt upright, her limbs were as rigid as boards and her body as tense as a pulled bow string. She saw Spyro and Cynder laughing their heads off.

"Haha. Ve- ve- ry fu n-nny you-ou t-two." she said through chattering teeth

"I think you may have overdone it with the ice Spyro." observed Cynder

"Y-ya th...ink" said Amethyst irritably. Cynder put her wing around her.

"Sorry, that was the weakest that it would go." murmured Spyro sheepishly

Cynder rolled her eyes. Amethyst shivered so Spyro breathed a thin column of fire onto the bucket they had used. As the inside was wet it didn't ignite instantly. After the reamining moisture had evaporated (which took around two minutes) the bucket flickered into flame. Cynder helped Amethyst over to it as the violet dragoness was too cold to move and her joints had stiffened painfully.

"Thank... you... Cy- Cynder." said Amethyst gratefully. She slightly shifted her joints constantly to unstiffen them.

"Last night was freezing." said Spyro "We're all stiff after it."

A cracking noise nearby made them all jump. Spyro stood in front of the two dragonesses and called out "Who's there?"

A small lizard crawled next to them. Amethyst laughed nervously "Just a lizard. Phew."

"But was it?" asked Cynder quietly. Spyro nodded at her the slipped into the bushes as quietly as he could. He disappeared from sight quickly in the thick forest undergroth.

Cynder said "I hope it was just a lizard but it was too loud for that" Amethyst nodded. There was another thing bothering her

"What age is Spyro?" she asked

"I5, why do you ask?"

"Well. I'm only 14 so I'm the one that shouldn't exist" Amethyst sighed

Cynder looked up at the sky for a minute then whispered "I don't know why there is two purple dragons at this time, nor how it could have happened. Spyro and Malefor was different because Malefor was not from this time. The only person who would know is the Chronicler."

Deep in the bushes, Spyro shivered as the familiar feeling of fire flowing through him returned. Shaking the feeling of; he continued through the leafy undergrowth. The morning dew dripped onto his purple scales and his claws clacked against the hard crystalline floor. Crackling sounds make him pause and listen. A chorus of undecipherable shouts and calls echoed through the air. Birds flew from their perches and mice and lizards scurried for shelter. Spyro pressed forward. He came to a spot where the undergrowth ended and peered out of it. A low gasp escaped him as his eyes fixed on a terrifying scene.

Standing in the middle of the clearing was a massive creature made entirely of ice. The only thing that it could be compared to was long dead. Tyrannosaurus Rex. However this was at least twice the size of any T. Rex and it's claws were much larger and stronger. it's stance was more upright and it's tail was flexible like a thick icy snake, writhing and twisting in fantastic patterns. Spyro had not noticed this while he had been crawling but the temperature had plummeted to about minus ten. A horde of dark creatures stood around the creature, howling and seemingly praising it. Spyro slinked back to the others and said

"Well, I've found out why it was so cold." He descibed to them what he had saw

Cynder said "I've never heard of anything like that before."

"Me neither," breathed Amethyst.

"We can't let it stay here." said Spyro, his had set and his eyes were determined

Cynder nodded. Amethyst hesitated but nodded "Let's go." she murmured.

The trio crept back through the undergrowth. This was easier than usual as Spyo had already carved a sort of tunnel by going through it before. This meant that they had to go single file. Spyro went first, then Cynder and finally Amethyst. When they reached the end they moved so all three of them were in a row with Spyro in the middle.

"When I say now. Jump out and, Amethyst, you use fire, Cynder emm, use poison." they nodded.

"HELLO!" yelled a voice from behind them "I FOUND YOU!" Sparx floated behind them

"Sparx." hissed Spyro "We're kinda busy."

"Oh, you're always bu- AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" a dark shadow passed over them

The dragons looked up slowly. The Ice monster had heard Sparx and was now looming over them. It brought a massive foot down upon them. They all scattered to avaoid it. Spyro breathed a column of Fire at the creatures leg. It howled in pain but proceeded to try and blast him with an icy breath. The purple dragon dodged it. Cynder hit it in the stomach by jumping up and using a scorpion strike. This created a large gash in it's icy body. Enraged the creature lumbered after her. Spyro distracted it's attention with a fire bomb. Pain lanced through his body as he was too slow to avoid a punch. His scales burned as an icy cold washed over them. Every bone in his body felt as though it was shattered intp pieces and the young dragon knew that at least three were, his hip and two of his ribs. Cynder narrowly dodged a stamp.

Wooh, that was close. she thought

Amethyst used a comet dash on the monster. She gasped as her head spun. She felt like a boulder had fell on her head

"Comet dashes are a very bad idea." she said to Spyro.

Spyro flew up to it's face and blasted a massive torrent of shining orange flames. With a loud crash the beast fell over. Amethyst breathed more fire upon it's neck while Cynder burned it with her poison breath. A blast of Icy wind burst from it's body. Knocking all of the dragons into trees.

Sparx was flowing around fretting for his foster brother. This was going badly. A noise behind him made him turn around. The black dragon from the last chapter was behind him. He put his finger on his snout and disappeared into shadow.

Who was that wierdo? thought Sparx.

Spyro breathed more flames on the creature. This time the flames were white and were twice as hot as ordinary fire. The creature roared in pain.

"What the heck was that?" gasped Cynder as she was struck by the monsters tail.

"It was white fire. The hottest flame." said Amethyst as she dodged a kick. A blast of icy energy from the maw of the monster took out the two dragonesses and left Spyro on his own. He blasted more white fire on the creatures chest, then rose up into the air and used a Fire fury. The ice beast began to heat up and turned an angry red. It clawed at it's body creating massive gashes. Icy liquid flowed from the wounds and froze the ground that it touched. With a final roar the creature blew apart. Chunks of ice flew everywhere. Spyro collapsed to the ground in exhaustion a clump of ice hit him and he was thrown into Cynder and Amethyst. Sparx yelled

"Yay! Spyro you did it! That guy wasn't so tough. Woohooh"

Spyro felt his vision failing as he lost all of the energy in his body. The dark creatures looked at one another before advancing on the wounded dragons. Amethyst and Cynder stood up weakly and placed themselves in front of Spyro. A red gem smashed next to them as it was dropped from the sky. The dragons felt some energy flow into them but it still wasn't enough for them to fight of the Dark creatures.

Spyro stood up and said "Well, this is it."

Cynder nuzzled him gently. Amethyst looked at the dark creatures "But where did the gem come from?" she asked quietly. The other two didn't hear her. All of the dragons got ready for the charge. The Dark horde raised their weapons and ran at the trio. They skidded to a halt when they were ten feet away however. Spyro and Cynder looked in confusion as the ground swirled with shadow.

Amethyst said "And here he goes again."

A black dragon jumped from the shadow. The dark warriors looked up at him. He landed in the middle of them and blasted a pulse of dark energy through his body. The blast knocked the crowd on their backs. They got up however and slashed their weapons at him. He was cut by three of them but dodged the rest. Spyro watched in case the dragon got into trouble and needed help. Cynder looked at the dragon with fear and wonder in her eyes. Amethyst yelled

"Go Slasher."

This made Cynder gasp slightly. Slasher knocked three over with his massive tail then whacked another few with his large wings. He breathed shadowfire on the ones on the ground and killed them. The rest decided to run away but Slasher jumped in front of them. He shot black lightning towards them and paralysed them. Lastly he used an electric Fury to kill them. He landed on the ground and panted slightly.

Amethyst ran up and nuzzled him "Cutting it close as always."

Slasher laughed "Your welcome Amethyst." then nuzzled the purple dragoness back.

Spyro said "Well they two look friendly"

Cynder nodded, She was looking at Slasher and trying to remain inconspicuous.

Slasher raised his head "Long time no see. Cynder"

"I know Slasher."

"It's an even longer time since i seen the real you. Rather than the one who was trying to kill me."

"That wasn't me."

"I know." said Slasher as he closed his eyes.

"Well, why were you going to try and kill me?" hissed Cynder

"Because, I didn't know that you had changed back."

Spyro said "Yeah, I beat her and she became her normal self."

Slasher looked at Spyro "Yes I heard that from Amethyst. Well that uncomplicates things at least. I'm Slasher, Cynder's brother."

Amethyst looked at him and Spyro looked at Cynder.

"Is this true?" asked the two purple dragons at the same time. The two black dragons nodded at the same time.

Sparx said "So the evil psycho she-dragon has a brother."

"I thought you had stopped calling me that, Sparx" said Cynder fixing her eyes on the dragonfly

Sparx looked away "Well I haven't called you it in ages so I decided just to do it, no offence meant."

"None taken" laughed Cynder.

Slasher closed his eyes again and Spyro noticed the mark on his forehaed "Hey you have the same mark as Cynder,"

He nodded "Yes, the Dragon of Darkness mark."

"What is that?" asked spyro

Slasher didn';t answer for a while. He remained perfectly still then said "Basically, it's a dragon that can control darkness plus a few more elements. Not as powerful as the purple dragon but powerful enough. Usually they were evil. Darkwrath himself is one."

"Cynder, we've heard that name before."said Spyro

"Yeah, the lizard thing told us that Darkwrath was the name of his master."

Amethyst said "He's also both Slasher and Cynder's father."

Cynder gasped "What?!?"

Slasher nodded then stood up he jumped into a tree and sat there with his massive tail hanging down, the tail blade swinging like a pendulum

Cynder said "What was that ice thing?"

Slasher shrugged "I don't know but if you see one again, have one dragon not fighting it so that if there are dark creatures around, you will not be defenceless like you were this time."

"How did the war go?" asked amethyst

"Everyone is dead. Well everyone except Sora Blackfrost and Cyrus, they survived. But no one else." whispered Slasher a tear fell from his eyes.

Amethyst looked down

"What war?" asked Spyro.

"A terrible one." said a female voice behind them. Spyro turned to see a Black dragoness a black dragon and a turquoise blue dragoness with feathered wings

And that my friends is chapter 14. I hope you liked it. It was fun for me to write. Blackfrost belongs to Cynderfrost HowlingMoon. Cyrus belongs to Black Cyrus and Sora belongs to Luna345. They all write awesome fics so check them out when you can

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