Destruction

Spyro, Cynder, Sora and Cyrus ran as hard as they could to the Dragonfly Village. Sparx flew up to them and stayed next to Spyro. All of the dragons skidded to a halt just before they reached the village. They couldn't go any nearer, in place of the village was a huge pillar of flames. Spyro tried to go through it. Cynder pulled him back with her tail.

"Spyro there is nothing that you can do," she whispered

"I have to do something, I can't let everyone die,"

He pushed Cynder's tail away and jumped into the flames. His hard scales stopped the blaze hurting him too badly but he still felt the burn of the hot fire. Irritated at Spyro's stupidity Cynder flew above the flames with Cyrus, Sora and Sparx hard on their tail. Sora used her wings to protect the dragonfly from the intense heat radiating in waves from the flames. Spyro gasped as he felt the flames cease to lick his scales and the temperature cooled slightly. He looked up as Cynder, Cyrus and Sora landed next to him. Cynder snapped

"Spyro, don't ever do that again,"

"Sorry, this is just too similar to how Ignitus died."

Cynder couldn't see a connection but didn't press the dragon. Instead she said

"Right, we need to get all of the dragonflies out of here."

They all nodded and began to search for any dragonflis that were still alive. Sora found a group huddled together, trying to hide from the flames in their home. Sora noticed that a burning branch was about to fall on the house.

"Come with me," she said urgently

"What are you?" asked the biggest dragonfly.

"That doesn't matter, just come with me or you're all going to die," said the angel dragoness hurriedly.

The dragonflies were about to protest but she picked them up in her talons and threw them out of the hous just as the fiery branch fell on the house and her wing which was still inthe way. She winced in pain but moved on to try and find more dragonflies. Turning back to the ones she had just rescued she said

"Fly as high as you can to get over the flames, tell any other dragonflies you see to do the same," with that she ran off

Cyrus and Cynder had found about ten dragonflies between them and were both trying to convince a third group to get out of the village. The stubborn dragonflies only moved when Spyro came and told them to get out of the village. Suddenly the two dragonflies that Spyro and Sparx most wanted to see flew up to the dragons

"What's going on?" asked Nina

Spyro said "A dragon attacked the village and an army is heading here. We need to get out of here, now!"

Flash said "There is no more surviving dragonflies in th village, there were about fifty of us, and that has been diminished to seventeen"

Spyro looked at the ground. This place had been his home for ten years when he had thought he had been a dragonfly. To see it transformed was shocking but to see it burning wrenched at his heart and made him feel ill inside. Cynder nuzzled him then said

"We need to get out of here. If that dragon comes back we're dead."

Spyro shook his head "We can't let that dragon get away with this. We have to fight it."

Sora hit Spyro on the head "Spyro, listen to yourself. That dragon razed the entire forest in a single pass. It would make dragon food out of you."

Spyro snorted irritably. Cynder said "Come on. It's getting too hot in here."

Spyro nodded and the four dragons helped the dragonflies over the inferno. Spyro and the dragonflies looked back at their former home. They didn't have much time to mourn it though as another explosion sounded in the distance. Slasher ran up to them, followed by Amethyst and Blackfrost. Cyrus said

"We got all of the surviving dragonflies out but the village is destroyed, there's nothing left."

Slasher looked up at the dragon flying in the sky. The massive beast had already set a ten square mile section of the forest ablaze. Spyro growled low in his throat as the army marched past them. He blasted a fireball at one of the creatures and killed it. The rest walked over their fallen comrade as if he wasn't their anymore.

Cynder looked at the fire and the few remaining dragonflies then asked "Why?"

Slasher looked at her "Why all the destruction? Because he likes it. Plain and simple."

Spyro looked at Slasher "We need to stop him."

The black dragon nodded "I know. but first I need we need to go to the Chronicler. He wanted us to bring you to him. He told us he had a few things to tell all of us. The first is why there are two purple dragons and two Dragon of Darknesses born at the same time."

Spyro nodded then looked at his parents "We need to go."

Nina hugged her son and Flash said "Show that dragon who's boss son."

Sparx chimed in "Not going without me are you?"

Spyro said "Sparx, this is dangerous."

"And? I always go with you."

Spyro looked down then said "Well, as you were helpful at points during the last adventure. I think that you can tag along in this one,"

Cynder fixed Sparx with a death glare "But one annoying comment and I'll kick you all the way back here."

"Okay Cynder, no need to get so worked up."

A snarling roar cut them off as the dragon landed in front of them. He grinned maniacally

"Well, I might as well polish you all off now that I have the chance."

"You shall do no such thing while I am around."

Everyone looked around and saw a large dragoness. Her scales glistened with every hue imaginable: gold, pink, silver, blue, red and every other colour. The colours were continuasly shifting and sparkling in an entrancing way; if you stared at them too long you would lose yourself in the myriad of sparkling lights. She was slim with large violet wings that were so clean and whole they could have belonged to a hatchling. A huge elegant crest ran from her forehead down to the base of her tail. Claws as sharp as ice protruded from gemlike paws. Her wing blades and tail blade were light blue and as lethal as a trio of cobras. Two silver horns spiraled above light, shining blue eyes with so much depth it was like staring into the sea. Ther was also something odd about this dragon. However, amid all of the sparkling colours was the rarest of all dragon colours. Purple.

Spyro stared at the dragoness. All of them had noticed that she was a purple dragon. Amethyst and Spyro looked at each other in wonder. The dragoness said

"Darkwrath, you pick on children like a coward. Pick on someone you're own size."

This was a kind of wierd statement as Darkwrath was five times the size of the new dragoness who in turn was as large as Volteer or Cyril. Darkwrath laughed then lashed his tail at the dragoness. She jumped over the massive tail.

Darkwrath snorted "Still as agile as ever Sparklefire."

With a snort Sparklefire blasted a fireball at Darkwrath. He dodged it then blasted Black fire at the youngster. They all scattered.

Sparklefire hissed "You lot get out of here."

Spyro moved forward to help but Cynder pulled him back. Slasher said "We need to go to the White Isle."

Everyone took off. Spyro looked at the fighters once again before following the others to the legendary White Isle.

And that my good readers is Chapter 16. Hope you all like. I'm not continuing on this until I get ten reviews so if you want to see the end then review. Simples

Would anyone be interested in reading a story about Ember growing up? By that I mean stopping being a spoilt brat who is obsessed with Spyro