Cynder's heart was racing. Someone was chasing her. She ran as quick as her scaly legs could carry. "Stealth elf! Food fight! Hex! Rb! Anyone! Please help!" She cried out, frightened of the current situation. But no one came. She soon came to a dead end which forced her to turn around. Luminous red eyes flashed at her as the shadowy figure came closer. Their grin showed as their claws scratched against the path, making an annoying scratchy noise making cynder wince her back up in discomfort. The figure then spoke in various voices. "No one is here to save you. You are all alone, poor cynder…" It sounded like dark spyro as well as other people cynder knew, such as, spyro, stealth elf, kaossandra, erupter, pop fizz, hex, food fight, and last but not least, roller brawl, and her own father malefor.

She glared at the figure. In an instant, the figure ran up to her, and then! She bolts up out of her bed. Cynder was dreaming this entire time. However, her heart beat rapidly as her eyes darted across her bedroom. After a few moments, she sighed in relief. "i-it was only a nightmare….thank the ancients…" she sighed to herself, still sweating from her dream. Cynder then softly hops out of her bed and leaves her room. She wanted to check on her roommates. She wanted to make sure they were okay. First, she checked Hex's and roller brawl's shared bedroom. She silently cracks the door to see Hex sound asleep, roller brawl asleep in her hot pink and black coffin that she regularly slept in, and Skull on a sky blue cushion on the table asleep. Cynder then carefully closes the door and goes into wind up's room to check on him to see that he is also asleep. She then snuck past him and climbed the ladder that led to food fight's tree house and put herself up against the door to hear him snoring and sleep talking utter nonsense in his sleep, such as "gummy bear cheese sandwiches" or " cheese fry smoothies." cynder's cheeks flash green for a moment due to hearing him sleep talk that, but then she quietly climbs the down the ladder. Then she sneaks off into Chill's room to see that she's also asleep, with her helmet off in her pajamas. This is the first time Cynder sees her not wearing her armor and the first time she sees her light blond and blue hair. The air was cold as cynder began to shiver, but Chill always liked her room to be chilly. It reminded her of home. Her bedroom even had ice caps on the celling. Cynder then closed her door, grabbed some water from the fridge in the kitchen, and went back to bed.

Next day.

Cynder woke up to a strange smell…cynder was about to fall back asleep when she realized what that smell was. Something was burning. Cynder's eyes open wide, and she leaps out of her bed and out of her room, running to the kitchen to see everyone there trying to put out a fire one of their roommates caused. "rb! Why did you have the heat this high up!" food fight asked, getting a hose out of the garden. "what? You said the higher the heat, the faster they will cook!" roller brawl responded. "yeah! That also means you need to pay closer attention to it because it is more likely to set on fire!" food fight hastily explained, spraying the entire stove with the hose he grabbed. The fire then gets fully put out. "welp….we definitely need a new stove. Thanks, roller brawl." hex said sarcastically as everyone else stared at her along with her. Everyone then notices cynder. "morning!" roller brawl says. "morning…?" cynder trails off awkwardly. "well, I think we know who's income is paying for a new stove." food fight glares at roller brawl as she awkwardly chuckles nervously.

Hex then grabs a box of cereal and takes a seat. Food Fight does the same, breaking his glare at roller brawl. Cynder then sat down." so, did anything else interesting happen while I was asleep?"cynder asked. " not much. Unless you count me rolling off of my bed and falling on my face when I first woke up this morning… too much info? Maybe?" food fight said as cynder looked at him, confused and a bit concerned. "You good? You're usually not this….-" cynder paused, looking for the right word. " open." food fight glanced at her. "I'm just slightly uneasy about this whole dark spyro situation thing." Food Fight responded, not being completely honest with the dragon. " "Slightly" seems like an understatement. Come on, food fight, be honest with me. Telling by your face right now somethings wrong." cynder told softly, staring at his eyes. "...fine. Dark spyro frightened the tomato paste out of me. I'm worried that he'll go after you again." food fight admitted trying not to look cynder directly in the eye. Cynder's face lightened up. " food fight…you don't have to hide that. I'm sure we are all worried about his next move." she said softly. "It's just after what he tried to us on our camping trip. He's….. terrifying." food fight explained. "That's a reasonable fear. But I will assure you that everything will turn out fine. It always does." hex said."b-but what if it doesn't!? What if he breaks in here and takes you!? He could be watching as we speak for all we know!" food fight quickly panicked, frantically looking around paranoidly. Cynder then grabs his shoulder and looks straight into his eyes. "Food fight. It WILL be okay," she said firmly. Food Fight gulps and calms himself down a bit.

"If you say so," he says. Food Fight then finishes eating, puts the bowl in the dishwasher, and walks to his bedroom. Cynder was just about to finish up her bowl of cereal when hex touched her shoulder. "Cynder…can we talk?...in private?" she asked calmly, but you could tell she was apprehensive about something. Cynder nods. Hex and her then walk into her room and closes the door. "Cynder. Don't you find it weird how malefor has been quiet lately? He usually would of commented on something like this." hex explained. Cynder looked surprised.

"Yes…your right. My father would of at least acknowledged this whole situation. After all, whenever he sends me letters, he usually seems to know what's happening." cynder said, pulling out the various letters from her ill-tempered father. Hex then reads some of the letters. " " Happy evil-ween"...is that what Halloween is called in the undead realm, or is he just making lousy dad jokes?" hex asked curiously. "That's his way of "subconsciously" wanting me to return to him and become evil. He couldn't make it any more obvious, and yeah, that's a dad joke too." cynder explained, chuckling at the end. "Hm. and I thought food fight's puns were terrible." skull snarled mockingly. "Oh yeah, his are STILL VERY terrible…don't tell him I said that." cynder said. "Yeah, that's one thing we can ALL agree on. I don't know how to tell him that, and that's the worse part about it. Perhaps I never will. After all, I don't wanna kill his spirit." hex agreed. "yeah, maybe that's for the best." cynder said. "Though the thing with malefor concerns me." hex says. Cynder was about to say something when suddenly a speaker went off. " b team! You are all needed at the town center! The core team is off dealing with rabid rabbits elsewhere!" kaossondra announced through the speakers. You see, kaossandra couldn't do what master eon did whenever he needed the skylanders due to kaossondra's abilities working differently. Hence, she thought of a workaround by installing speakers in all the team's houses. Everyone then left the house and portaled to the town center. They are greeted by a group of greebles. They hiss and snarl at them, ready to attack at any moment.

"Haha! Since when did they send noobies at us! Are they getting desperate!?" hissed one greeble mockingly. Food Fight then reloaded his bazooka and huffed, "Well, these "noobies~!" are gonna kick your ugly butts!" the same greeble that said that before him hissed. "Ugly!? I'll show you ugly!" the greeble then leaped at him. Food fight dodged, which sent the same greeble into a dumpster screaming angrily. Food fight, then mockingly shut the lid. "Hehe! Someone needs to get the garbage!~" he joked as muffled screaming and words came from the dumpster in response. The rest of the team then chuckles. "Okay, that was a good one." skull said. The rest of the greebles then attack. Hex cast a few spells as cynder electrified Greebles. Roller Brawl slashed at them, skating around them to confuse them. Food fight fired tomatoes as he usually does and messes with them to get them distracted. As quick as the fight began, the fighting stopped with the b team standing proudly on the knocked-out greebles while that other one was still in that dumpster. Screaming angrily.

The garbage truck then came and dumped the trash along with that greeble into the back of it. The Greeble screams even louder, but the worker had their headphones on, listening to heavy metal. Food fight rolled in laughter at this. The groups then soon went back to the academy. When they did, kaossandra was there waiting for them." I see all of you are back safe and sound. Did any of you see dark spyro while fighting?" she asked. "I don't think any of us did…." hex sighed. "oh, this is most definitely not good. He could be doing anything right now." kaossandra moans. "So, did the core team return from their mission yet?" roller brawl asked. "I'm afraid not. I mean, I'm confident they are fine, but only one could assume." kaossandra clarifies. "yeah…well, I mean, they are the core team, after all. They scarcely ever run into problems, and when they do, they solve them quickly." cynder added. "yeah, I'm sure they will be fine." skull said. "So I heard about the fire…how did it happen?" kaossandra asked. "it was rb. She Put the stove on the highest setting and didn't look after it." food fight explained. "oh. Why would you do that roller brawl?" kaossandra asks. "well…uhh….i thought It would cook faster?" roller brawl admitted awkwardly. Food fight face palms and sighs. "at least you didn't try to microwave an orange like cynder did." he said. Kaossandra had no words. For a second, she thought she was just hearing things. "yeah, that's something I did. Let's just say it was for an experiment…." cynder blushes in humiliation.

"my son kaos tried to turn the microwave on with a metal spoon and plate inside, so don't feel too bad, cynder." kaossandra said. "he did what!?" food fight was shocked indeed even kaos would have had enough common sense not to do that right? "yes he thought he could turn the entire oven and stove evil by doing this. If it weren't for glumshanks the entire kitchen would have been set on fire that day. "okay that's a whole new level of bad cook!" roller brawl added. "it sure is." skull agreed. The core team then returned. "we're back!" pop fizz shouted with his fur looking extra messy then usual. "by the ancients what happened to your fur pop fizz!?" kaossandra asked noticing. "those rabbits don't like pop too much…." erupter answered. "none of you got bit right?" kaossandra asks. "nope." pop fizz answered. "man it looks like you had a nasty fight with those fluffy things!" roller brawl said. "we did. However, we put them in this carrier" erupter holds up the carrier full of ravenous rabbits. They try to bite through the bars but are unable to…so far. Food fight was the closest cadet to the carrier. One of the rabbits then notices he's there and tries to bite him. Luckily, he quickly notices and pulls his hand away just in time. "woah, chill out, lil guys!" he said with his eyes widening. "What do these lil fluffs have anyway? I don't remember rabbits being this aggressive." "rabies." jet vac answered quickly. "So it was a good thing you didn't get bit. These tiny guys are already hard enough to handle." stealth elf said. "alright so where are we putting these absurd things?" jet vac asked kaossandra. "In here is fine." she responded. erupter then puts the carrier down. "so what about the other mission?" stealth elf. "oh the cadets here handled it." kaossandra answers. The core team raises an eye brow. "really?" erupter asks."yup! We did it all by ourselves!" roller brawl stated. "one even went into the garbage truck ha!" food fight joked. "ooookay…. Now that's settled. What are we going to do about dark spyro?" jet vac asked. "just keep an eye out and if one you see him find your group and attack him together." kaossandra said. The cadets and core team then left.

A few minutes later.

Once the cadets returned home, food fight opened the fridge to see that they were out of milk. "welp, looks like we need more milk. I'll go to the store to get some more." he said, closing the door to the refrigerator. He leaves the house and uses the portals, or at least he was. You see, they, for whatever reason, were not working. "looks like I'm taking the old fashion way then. " he said. Food Fight began to walk across the bridge that led to a forest path that he would have to go through to get to the nearest store. However, once he entered the forest, it was eerie. The trees creaked as the wind howled. Food fight felt a bit uneasy. Suddenly, a branch he had avoided walking on behind him snapped in half. He quickly turns around. His heart was beating fast as his senses were on high alert. His eyes darted from tree to tree, his leaves sharpened as he pulled out his bazooka. "if there's anyone there..come out!" he shouted as the wind blew in his face making him close his eyes. However, no one responded. After a few seconds, food fight turned forward again and continued walking. Something behind him snapped again. Food fight was starting to get annoyed. He turns around once again. "I'm armed! So you better come out or else!" he warned sternly. Once again, there was no response. Food fight, then turns forward and continues walking. He then hears an evil crackle. Food fight freezes in his tracks. He quickly turns around. But no one was there. When he turns forward,and is greeted by dark spyro. He jumps at the sight of him. "you! Stay back!" food fight says, reloading his bazooka. "well, well, well!~ if it isn't food fight!~ what's the matter, scared!?~" dark spyro snarled mockingly.

"leave!" food fight demanded strongly. "or what?~ I'm just here to have fun, foodie~" dark spyro put his claw on food fight's face mockingly, making food fight grind his teeth and make a low growing noise." aw~ are you trying to look intimating?~ well, we all know how you really are. After all" dark spyro paused and put his claw on food fight's scar on his cheek that he got from him. "we all know how that turned out." food fight slaps dark Spyro's claws off his face. "do it again and I'll break your hands!" food fight snarled. "oh so you're being feisty huh? Two can play at that game!" dark Spyro's wings suddenly come out, making his image look more extensive and fierce. Food fight aimed his bazooka. " I said stay back!" he said. Dark spyro only laughed. "look at you! Trying to be threatening! Literally, anyone else can do it better than you can! Unless…..you want to show those little under fangs you got, then maybe you'll get somewhere! Hahaha! Or are you too chicken to show them!?" dark spyro asked, pointing to food fight. Food fight was getting angry. "how do you know about that!?" "Oh, food fight, it's so obvious! Especially when you smile, people can see those two larger shaper teeth." dark spyro explained, which only made Food fight angrier. Dark spyro was trying to see if food fight was sensitive about this. Food Fight's eyes were glaring angrily at him. He was breathing heavily. His leaves were sharp as ever. Telling by his reaction, dark spyro could tell he was sensitive about it.

"are you going to fight me or what!?" dark spyro mocked. Food fight was about to when he remembered what kaossandra told him to do just in case this happened. He backed away once he realized what dark spyro was doing. Dark spyro was trying to trick him into getting into a fight he CAN'T win! Dark spyro noticed food fight's change in behavior. "hmm…so you figured out what I was doing, huh? So you're smarter than I thought but also more boring than I thought." he said. "that's right scaley! So you better leave before I gather everyone else here. Or better yet, don't! Stay here so we can deal with you together!" food fight said. He then pulls out a walkie-talkie. You see, sprocket gave everyone a walkie-talkie in case this happened. Dark spyro wasn't even expecting this. Food fight then turns it on. "food fight here! I found dark spyro!" after a few seconds, cynder and stealth elf responded in unison." really?!" "Yeah! He's right here in the forest path you would use to get to new leaf village!" food fight responded. "alright, we'll be on our way. Try to hold him off!" stealth elf said. The walkie-talkie then turns off as food fight aims his bazooka. "finally! Some action!" dark spyro shouted excitedly as his horns ignited. They then start to quarrel. Food fight shoots his tomatoes at full speed leaping from tree to tree dodging dark Spyro's purple fireballs. Dark spyro was quite impressed by how agile and quick food fight was. Food Fight on the other hand finally had a real chance to put his training to the test. The wind swept through his lengthy leaves as he hurdled and dodged dark Spyro's attacks. He utilized his height and his ability to camouflage to his advantage making dark spyro sometimes lose sight of him. He took his chances and leaped onto his back, trying to get him to land. Dark spyro frantically moved around in the air, trying to get him off. "get off me!" he shouted. He whipped his tail, and widely breathed fire, but none worked until he had an idea. He ignited his horns.

While it didn't burn food fight's hands it weakened his grip on dark spyro. He then flew wildly and breathed fire. In combination with the smoke coming from the fire and how wild dark spyro was flying, food fight became light-headed. He tried to hang on, but his hands started to slip. Dark spyro noticed and flew even more widely. This not only made food fight even more dizzy but also made him prone to passing out. He finally let go falling into the air. His vision was blurry. He then closes his eyes and passes out when suddenly dashing towards him, a violet blur comes to his aid catching him on their back. It was cynder! "hang on! We're here!" she said. She then noticed he was unconscious and flew down to where the core team and the rest of the b team and sprocket were. "is he good?" roller brawl asked noticing food fight on cynder's back. "I think he is just like that from dark spyro flying around like a manic." cynder responded. "yeah probably." skull said. "so who's going to look after him?" hex asked. "I'll do it." sprocket answered. Cynder then walks over to her and she picks up food fight and walks back to the academy. "now to deal with-wait where did he go?!" cynder asked looking around for dark spyro. He was nowhere to be seen. It seems like he flew away as they were trying to figure out what to do. "let's look around for him. If we don't see him we go back to the academy okay?" jet vac said. They two teams began to look for dark spyro but he was nowhere to be found. "how does that dragon keep getting away with this!?" roller brawl sighed. "I have no idea." hex responded. "we better get back at the academy to make sure sprocket made it back with food fight okay." jet vac said. "yeah." cynder said.

The two teams began to head back to the academy.

Meanwhile.

Food fight wakes up. He was on The couch in the library. Sprocket and trigger happy were in the room with him. "oh good your awake." sprocket said noticing him as he sat up. "how long was I out for…?" food fight asked. "about twenty minutes." sprocket responded. The realization then hit "where's the rest of my team and dark spyro!?" he asked bouncing up ready to run to them if he had to. "take it easy!" trigger happy hyperly said. Food fight then froze upon hearing his friend's voice. "trigg!? What are you doing here!?" "I heard that you were in trouble! I had to see if you were alright! Yeah! Yeah!" he responded happily. "he wouldn't stop asking about you so I eventually let him in." sprocket explained. "it's between you and spyro with how clingy he is." "really?" food fight asked. "yeah he would watch him while he's sleeping. You seriously didn't notice?" sprocket said. Food fight was really confused now. Just as he was about to say something the core team and the rest of b team opened the door. "he got away!" cynder announced. "I kinda had a feeling that would happen." sprocket said. "really? Why?" roller brawl asked. "you see he stayed unnoticed till now so don't you think he'll hard to catch if that's the case." sprocket explained. "yeah that does make sense." hex added. Cynder then looks at food fight and is relived to see that he's alright. "thank goodness your okay." she said. Cynder hugs him with her wing.

A few hours later.

Stealth elf and kaossandra stood in the battle ring. They were about to train. Pop fizz and ka boom watched from the seats. Stealth elf then charges at kaossondra as she fire up a magic fire ball. Kaossandra fired at her as stealth elf dodged the blast. Stealth elf then teleports behind kaossondra. She notices and stirs out of the way of her blades and ends up blasting her. Stealth elf wasn't hurt by this due to this only being a friendly exercise battle. Ka boom and pop fizz cheered as all this was happening. "that was very clever elf." kaossandra compliments helping stealth elf up. Stealth elf looked up at her. "I only learn it from the best" she said. Kaossandra blushes in responses. "so is there any sign of spyro yet?" stealth elf asked concerned. Kaossandra rubbed her arm as she looks down. "i'm sorry elf but he's still…no where to be found." she sighed. Stealth elf looked down. "of course. Why did I even asks when I already kinda knew the answer." she says. You see spyro been "missing" for three months. Kaossandra places her hand on stealth elf's shoulder. "elf i'm sure we'll find him soon." she tells sweetly. Stealth elf signs she felt like a puzzle forgetting a piece of itself. "your right…he has to come back some day." she says softly." i'm just wondering when…"

Meanwhile.

Kaos and glumshanks arrived at kaossondra's castle and her previous home. He flickered open the doors dramatically. "home sweet maliciously evil home!" he says with his arms wide open as glumshanks face palms and sighs. To kaos's shock his home was dusty and unkempt as if someone broke in and took a look around. "eh! Why is it so messy here glummy!?" he questioned. Glumshanks looks around he sees scratches and scorch marks. He then notices a spell book. "how to be sly and have your enimes not notice you…?" glumshanks reads the title aloud as he picks it up. "gimme that!" kaos snatches it out of glumshanks hands. "one of my mother's curseded books! How did it get out here!?" kaos then suddenly runs to the out house aka his part of the castle and sees it all torn apart. His action figures scattered and some of them even missing limbs, his comic books ripped to shreads and worst of all his plans were somehow burnt to ashes. Kaos fell to his knees and screamed. "NOOOOOoooooo! WHO HAS DONE THIIIIIS!?" his eyes flashed bright as he out of anger released his doom sharks. Glumshanks stood there concerned. "lord kaos…are you alright?" he asked. "alright…ALRIGHT!? DO I LOOK AlRIGHT YOU FOOLISH FOOL!?" kaos shouted angrily at him. "I was just-" ""YOU WAS JUST" NOTHING! just…JUST….LEAVE! " kaos screamed at him getting ready to throw him out of the room with his powers. Glumshanks ran out before kaos could do so. Kaos breathed heavily as he just was on his knees in the center of his bedroom.

Later At night.

Everyone else is asleep ecxpt cynder. She was up and was outside watching the sky for a possible sign of spyro. "come on….show up.." she whispered. She stood there for a few minutes she then goes inside the cadet housing. Though in the shadows someone was watching her. As cynder went to her room that shady individual watched her from the windows. She takes off her spikes and lays down on her bed. The shady figure watched as she slept. The moonlight then stunned on their scales revealing dark soyro grinning wickedly as his bright blood red eyes shined against the shadows of the night. To be continued.