And here is Chapter 11 all nice and edited by my friend Naomi and her wonderful large vocabulary that made this chapter come alive in a way I could have never done by myself.

Ardera belongs to Naomi.

My Characters are mine.

Spyro and those dragons belong to them.

-Recap-
"It means, thanks to my carelessness, the Dark Lord is returning…" the time dragoness whispered.
…

The ground below the group of dragons began to tremor violently. Cracks spread and intertwined like a spider's web across the shimmering violet floor, forcing the heroes to take flight or else risk having the floor fall out beneath them.

"Trinity, listen to me." Elex was suddenly shouting above the deafening noise of everything around them falling to pieces, "None of this is your fault! If I had never-" He stopped himself and shook his large orange head, "Never mind. I just need everyone out of here. I will take care of Malefor."

"But, father-" Zane began.

"No, son!" He growled angrily, "I have to do this. There's no other way. He's too strong. Spyro, a purple dragon like him, still has not grown enough to take on a fully grown purple dragon like Malefor. Why do you think he's sealed here in the first place?" Elex was sounding desperate to get the others out as he rushed through his words in attempt to keep his voice sounding aggressive.

Spyro looked hurt by the truth but agreed. "Shlade is right. I sealed Malefor away because there was nothing more I could do," he said, using the only name he knew to call the elder dragon.

"But-" The younger orange dragon protested.

"Zane." Trinity cut him off, "You are not going to talk him out of it. There's no time. We have to let him do what he has to do."

"He is emerging." The black dragoness called. Her fear of her previous master prevented her from looking away from where the largest fissure upon the crystal had formed, right above Malefor's imprisoned body.

"Every dragon out!" The white female bellowed as she took up her elder form and shoved her brother towards the exit, "Now!"

"I love you… both" Elex whispered behind them as the enemy's horns breached the crystalized floor.

Once the others had disappeared, the male turned to Malefor, staring down the leach that had hijacked his body, whom had risen to his altitude.

"Ah, my greatest slave. Tell me, Elex, have you stayed to pledge your undying allegiance to me? Is that why you have not fled like the other poor, unfortunate souls?" Malefor's deep, menacing voice echoed around the silent cavern.

"You wish!" The orange male snarled.

"Oh? Good. I sure was hoping you would not be disappointed when I killed you." Malefor cackled.

Elex was fed up with Malefor's bullshit and sarcasm. Every scale on his body lit up and sparked with electricity, charging. The electric sparks danced across his form until they discharged off of him into different directions of the cavern.

"Oh, being brave are we? What are you going to do? Strike me with lightning?" Malefor sneered.

The orange dragon simply smiled.

…

Just as Zane turned to look back at the mountain they had just left, the unthinkable happened. An electrical bomb detonated inside of the inactive volcano. Thunder boomed and lightning shot out of the mouth and into the sky. The whole mountain collapsed as the electricity ripped open the walls of the cavern.

"Dad!" The young orange dragon bolted for the mountain of smoke and charred rubble, almost knocking Spyro and Cynder from the sky.

Trinity cut him off, "Zane, stop." Her voice was a painful whisper, but effective as her brother stopped in flight, "It was his plan. A suicide bomb to save us." In her voice rang the pity, sorrow, regret, and anger for the father she never had the chance to know and now never will.

"I didn't get to say goodbye… or I'm sorry… Just like mom." He whispered, voice raspy with shock.

The white dragon had to fight back tears, "I understand." She was silent for a moment, "Let's go home."

Zane nodded and turned for Dragon City along with the quiet heroes and his sister. Trinity spotted a black dot in the sky heading towards them, but as she opened her mouth, someone beat her to words.

"Oh boo hoo." A voice called, turning all of their blood to ice, "My daddy died because he had killed himself to save the world. It is so sad." The voice mocked

The speed in which the younger dragons turned around could have put a bullet to shame.

And there he was, Malefor, floating behind them, scales scarcely singed, "You really thought a little electricity and stone would kill me?" he guffawed, "That is weak!"

"Son of an ape!" Zane shrieked, hot wrath striking him as swiftly as the lightning he breaths, blinding his vision in white furry, as he launched himself at the enemy.

"Zane, no!" Spyro and Cynder called at the same time, fearing for the orange dragon's incompetence.

It was too late. In Zane's anger, he forgot all fighting techniques, like protecting the soft under skin of his neck. Malefor, not emotionally compromised, easily spotted the fatal novice mistake. In one swift movement, Trinity watched her brother go just as her mother did. The enemy latched on and tore out the orange dragon's throat, crimson blood cascading down the enemy's jaws.

Frozen in horrified shock, the white dragoness watched as the last member of her family dropped from the sky, eyes unseeing, blood staining his orange scales.

She could not wrench her gaze from the spot Zane's corpse had crashed through the canopy of trees below. She hovered, oblivious to the battle waging around her between the valiant couple and their old enemy. Likewise, she took no notice of the black spot's progress, nor did she see that the spot was a certain red dragon, who upon witnessing the unfolding tragedy in the Dragon Temple's pool, flew to aid in whatever way she may.

It was not until the large purple dragon threw Ardera into Trinity and both when tumbling into the forest below did the white dragon snap halfway out of her emotional trance.

The battle shifted to the forest floor. Malefor pinned Spyro to the dark green grass of the forest; Cynder flew around Malefor, desperately shooting acid at him. Ardera forced herself off the ground, dark scarlet blood running in streamlets down her horned face.

Trinity scrambled onto her insecure feet, aimed herself at the enemy, opened her jaws, and sent a devastatingly large, blue fire ball of sheer vented rage straight at Malefor's face.

The wrathful attack struck him right between his purple hued eyes, knocking him off balance and sending him hurtling backwards into a rather large tree. The impact sent the tree collapsing on top of the villainous dragon.

Cynder rushed to her mate's side. Ardera shouted something to the white dragoness; it sounded sad? Hopeless? And Angry? All simultaneously. But she was not listening. She was focused on the purple dragon in front of her, not the one behind.

Malefor got back to his feet and chuckled. The chuckle morphed into a laugh. The laugh altered into an explosion of menacing and proud cackling.

"What. Is. So. Funny?" Trinity growled, anger and hatred bubbling up inside her, moments from erupting out from under her fracturing lid of self-control.

He sneered, staring at the scene behind her.

"He's gone." She heard another voice, tight with grief and anger, speak. Cynder? "You killed him!"

A black blur flew past her and red waves screeched towards the dark purple dragon, hitting him full force.

Though she feared what she might see, Trinity turned to look at the ground where Malefor had pinned Spyro. Ardera stared at white dragon, as if she was the last remaining hope against the doom that now slowly eliminated them one by one, in a small depression in the earth laid a little purple male dragon, unmoving… dead.

The white dragon's green eyes widened. With Spyro dead, Malefor now stood unchallenged as the strongest dragon in the world.

"Surprise!" Malefor's voice mocked behind her as she was knocked to the ground by something hard.

Trinity tumbled and skidded along with the black body of a dragon next to her. They came to a halt only when they both hit a tree at the far edge of the battle field. The combination of the shock of the young purple dragon's death and the force of Cynder hitting her had forced the time dragon into her normal form.

She pulled herself up once again. The black dragoness beside her was unmoving. Whether from unconsciousness or death, Trinity did not know. But the battle was going downhill way too fast. What was she going to do? How was she supposed to defeat the purple dragon of legend gone evil?

"Trinity!" Ardera bellowed at her, "Help, you must!"

The white dragon turned to the fire guardian. She was in a stare down with the enemy, almost nose to nose.

Anger reignited in her veins as the impact of the sight of Spyro's corpse next to the red dragon drilled itself into her. Trinity did the only thing there was left for her to do; she charged the enemy. He attempted to stop her, or slay her, with a rapidly fired ice spear flying at her. She opened her maw and melted the spear with a burst of her blue fire, and with a leap, reigning in time and changing herself into her elder form once again, bowled over the enemy.

Malefor reached for her neck with wickedly sharp teeth, but with a ruthless agility, she promptly stomped down his jaw with her foot, claws digging under his scales, as brutally and violently as she could. He retaliated via a harsh kick using his sharp hind legs into her unprotected soft underbelly, throwing her off into the grass.

Ardera was ready, shooting a fire blast of her own at the male dragon and leaping on him at the same time. She bit into the hard scales of the back of his neck and clawed at his sides with powerful hind legs like a cat would to a larger enemy.

Attempting to detach the large female dragon, Malefor flipped over onto his back, knocking the wind out of the fire dragon with his weight.

Before Malefor completely regained his feet, Trinity rammed him with her head. He reacted with a thunder bolt as he was launched backwards, colliding with the white dragon and sending her the other way. As her body twisted in the air, Trinity quickly swiped at him and managed to catch him in his face with a whip like lash of her pastel blue spiked tail, staining it scarlet with the blood of her foe.

The blow split open the side of his jaw; a battle wound that would defiantly scar. With Trinity out of the way for a minute, Malefor aimed his next attack at Ardera. Launching himself at the fire guardian, he targeted her throat, hoping to kill her in the same manner as Ciena and Zane.

Ardera had a different idea. Fire rose up from her feet, cloaking her in flames, and then in one quick burst, a ring of fire exploded from her body, clearing the field of trees and throwing the enemy backwards once again. Trinity, who was still on the ground, avoided the attack as it flew right above her.

Now the purple dragon was extremely pissed off and very much scorched all over his body, changing his hue to almost black. Fitting. With a beat of his wings, he stopped his fall. The rage had been accumulating in him for a very long time and now he unleashed all of the energy into a deadly beam of intense purple laser right at the fire dragon.

Trinity reacted fast, stopping the flow of time, and freezing the purple beam in its place. Ardera nodded gratefully to the white dragon and started to move out of the way.

It was not meant to be.

Something strange unfolded next.

Something that neither Ardera nor Trinity expected.

Malefor broke Trinity's control over the flow of time.

Her hold shattered and the beam hit Ardera full force, flinging her into the charred grass behind like an unwanted rag doll.

"You think your time tricks will stop me?" Malefor snarled, "I am the great purple dragon! I rule all elements!'

Trinity rushed for the fire dragon, who lay broken and smoldering near Cynder. Tears swelled in her eyes at the thought of losing the foreign dragoness as well. She was one of her best and only friends.

But the enemy dragon was faster. He reached the red dragoness first and dived for the kill.

And Trinity lost it.

An unearthly golden glow emitted from her body, golden light poured from her eyes, and she screeched, "STOP!"

The whole forest radiated gold. Malefor, shocked, stepped back, mouth agape as the golden light hit him. Then, everything went black.

Everyone died D:

Wait and see how it effects the battle! Cliffhanger! ;0