Chapter 10: Sins of Thy Father

We all stood there in shocked silence, Spyro had a kid?! How? He was frozen for decades! Worse yet it seemed Sol wasn't the biggest fan of dear ol' dad as he seemed poised to reach through the hologram and strangle his dad across dimensions! The other rangers and I had no idea what to do, or even if we should do anything.

Sol just sort of glared at Spyro, an awkward silence hung in the air for an uncomfortable twenty seconds, however, "I… I had a son?" Spyro suddenly said, more to himself than anyone else. He seemed stunned by the revelation, almost horrified even.

Sol's expression darkened, "I knew if I followed Flame and the Power Rangers I'd get the chance to finally confront you," he said, "I've waited so long… so many years wondering why the great purple dragon would abandon his own family," he added.

Sol began to draw closer and closer to the hologram, "Mom was devastated when you left… she always tried to hide it but I could see the hurt in her eyes whenever I asked her who my dad was, it's why she disappeared you know, she went looking for you… if only she know you abandoned us to create them!" He said cocking his head towards us.

He then slowly craned his head in our direction, I could see the hatred in his eyes, I felt myself tense up, as I knew what he was about to do, "You ruined our lives to make this team of yours, well now… you get to watch it END!" He roared, he then unleashed some kind of sonic scream, knocking all of us off our feet.

I got back to my feet, I could see it in Sol's eyes he wanted a fight, "Sol! Don't do this!" said Dean, I could tell reasoning with him wasn't going to get us far, this hatred had been building all his life, and now he was about to unleash it all.

Sol took an aggressive pose, "Father destroyed our family to create you, now I'm taking it all back! By taking you all down! Let's see how great father's precious Power Rangers really are!" He growled.

This was ridiculous! He was seriously going to doom both worlds because daddy didn't wuv him enough. "You wanna fight? You've got one!" I said, getting ready to morph, I wasn't going to sit here and be whiny boy's example!

"Dylan no!"

I froze at the sound of Spyro's voice, "Do not fight him! Let me handle this!" He ordered me. I didn't know what he was getting at, Sol was going to kill us! We had to fight back! "Sol I know you're angry with me, you have every right to be, but please, this is bigger than you and me," He said, trying to plead with his disappointment of a son.

However, Sol seemed unconcerned with the fate of the world, "Of course it is, all you care about is stopping Malefor! Why should you care about the family you abandoned!" He growled, I guess petty grudges outrank the world ending in terms of importance to Sol.

Spyro just had a blank expression on his face, like he wasn't even sure how to proceed here, "Sol… I-" He started, however before he could continue, everything suddenly went white.

When the light faded, we were back in the temple, none of us even knew what happened until, "I'm sorry man! I… I panicked!" said Dean, he must have activated the teleportation crystal by accident somehow, at least he landed us back in the temple.

But with one problem, "Where the hell are we?" asked Sol, it seems in his panic, Dean brought Sol along for the ride. I don't know if this was a good or bad thing considering his current daddy issues. He turned angrily towards Dean, "What did you DO?!" He growled.

Kevin looked to Dean, "Nice one Dean! You just brought Spyro's jerk son to the Dragon Temple!" Kevin accosted Dean.

Sol didn't seem to pay much mind to the "jerk son" comment from Kevin, as he seemed far more worried about the "brought to the Dragon Temple" part. I mean, I can't blame him, I'm pretty sure dimension hopping wasn't a part of his "confront my dad" plan.

Spyro soon joined us in the room, Sol being sure to break himself from his panic to shoot his dad a death glare. Spyro ignored this, as he sighed in relief upon seeing us, "You guys scared me for a moment, you just suddenly disappeared and I thought the worst," He said.

Dean threw his hands up, "Dude I freaked okay?! Sol was screaming his head off, I thought we'd never be able to get home, and then poof! We zapped back here!" Dean tried to explain himself.

Spyro looked to Sol, "Yes, I understand Dean, my son and I apparently have much to discuss," he said in a flat tone, Sol simply growling in response, Spyro then turned to us, "Considering what you five have been through today, I think it might be good for you to take this moment to rest a bit before heading back to New Harmony," He said, I could tell he was just trying to get rid of us so he could talk down his son, make him a bit less… let's just say "moody". So we all dispersed.

Kevin and I decided to hang around each other for a bit, "Man, and I thought I had issues with my dad," Kevin commented.

I shook my head, "Dude's a mental case, he should be thankful he even has a dad," I said, Kevin instantly grew uncomfortable, knowing exactly what I meant by that.

Kevin put a hand on my shoulder, "Dude, are you going to be okay?" He asked me, I guess I felt like Sol was taking for granted something I would have been thrilled to find out, that my dad was still around. But I knew better, I knew that I wasn't so lucky…

It did make me wonder though… Sol said his mother disappeared years ago, could she still be out there somewhere? I mean, it was very possible she was dead, but something in my gut told me there was more to it than that. "Hey Kev, you think it's possible Sol's mother's still alive?" I asked.

Kevin clearly wasn't expecting the question, but realized I kinda wanted to change the subject so answered anyway, "I dunno man, it's possible, depends on how long ago she bailed I guess," He answered. I guess I figured if we found Sol's mom it would make him less angry, having him in the temple being all angry with Spyro would no doubt hurt our productivity as Power Rangers, but on the other hand, it was more than that… I guess I sympathized with Sol a lot more than I thought, I knew what it was like to lose a parent, and if dad were somehow out there, I'd want someone to find him too. "If she's out there Dylan, I have a feeling we'll find her at some point, with all our dealings with Malefor she's bound to find us eventually, given she's still out there," Kevin suggested.

He had a point, we were kinda hard to miss what with all the explosions and giant Kaiju battles, I guess we'd just have to keep going as usual… just keep on keeping on.

However, before more could be said, suddenly some kind of alarm went off, I'm guessing this was how Spyro knew things on earth were going screwy. Kevin and I both rushed to the main room, soon enough we found the others, Sol included for some reason, all gathered around the Pool of Visions. There we saw… apes? Yup, apes were attacking the New Harmony Zoo, how ironic. "Apes? What are they doing in New Harmony?" I questioned.

Spyro shook his head, "Malefor must have re-aligned himself with the apes and sent them to the human realms," Spyro theorized. Well he certainly didn't waste any time did he? He must have thought we'd be stuck in the Dragon Realms and decided to have his apes mess with the city in our absence.

We all stood together, "Alright guys! It's morphin' time!" I called out, after all the madness we've had to deal with today, punching some monkeys sounded divine.

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Red Fire!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Blue Ice!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Yellow Electricity!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of the Purple Dragon!"

We soon teleported to the New Harmony Zoo, man it felt good to be home, but we had monkeys to deal with, we all flipped in the air, landing on the ground in front of the rampaging primates, "Alright apes! Fun's over!" I said, the apes turned to us for a moment before launching themselves at us.

I couldn't react in time to get out of the way, the ape tackling me to the ground, both of us rolled around, but I managed to toss the monkey off me, sending him into a garbage bin, "Now that's what I call taking out the trash!" I said, god that was lame, but hey, if I'm going to fight apes in bright red spandex, I might as well have fun with it right?

Another ape launched himself at me, I managed to see it coming this time and scored a huge roundhouse kick to the base of it's skull, sending it flying into one of his buddies. I then heard something bounce in front of me, I looked down to see a stick of dynamite of all things, what was this? A Bugs Bunny cartoon? I managed to backflip out of the way in time before the dynamite blew up. "Alright banana breath! You wanna play with fire? Let's play with fire!" I said before drawing my Sword of Flame, "FIRE SLASH!" I called out, before slashing my sword, sending a wave of fire right at a group of apes, sending them flying back.

Meanwhile…

It felt so weird watching the rangers in action, they were effective to say the least, but yet I found it almost impossible for me to let go of the anger I felt towards them for what their creation had done to my family, to my world. "Impressive aren't they?" said Father.

I just glared at him, still not willing to forgive him for what he did. Father sighed, "Sol, I understand why you're angry, like I said before, you have every right to be angry, but I want you to understand something," He said, I didn't care what sort of speech he had waiting for me, he still abandoned me and mom, so he could take his speeches and shove it. "I didn't enjoy leaving Cynder, it was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make," He explained, oh I bet it was. "But sometimes, we need to sacrifice what's most important to us, so we can protect them," He continued, "I created the Power Rangers because I wanted the Human Realms to have a fighting chance, but I also created them to keep our world safe as well, I'm not as young as I once was, and the last thing I ever wanted to risk, was not being able to protect your mother," He said.

I shook my head, "If you wanted to protect mom you should have stayed!" I snapped. He was so full of himself, it was sickening! Acting like he was the only one hurt by his decision! Our whole world suffered to create his precious Power Rangers!

Father sighed, "It's not that simple Sol," he said, "I would have loved nothing more than to have stayed with your mother, and raise you like a father should, but sometimes, we have to give up the things we want the most to do what is right," he said before approaching me, coming face to face with me, "You need to let go of your hatred Sol, I know Cynder well enough to know that she would raise you better than this, to almost condemn an entire world for the sake of your broken heart isn't something she would tolerate, and neither will I," He scolded me.

That did it! "You don't get to talk about what mom would think!" I snapped, father had no reaction, just glaring at me, but I didn't care, he wasn't going to pretend he had the moral high ground here! "You lost your right to play moral superior when you left! You threw your entire family away, and for what? A world you didn't even know anything about?! To pick up some spoiled humans and give them super powers?! Your "duty" was to us father! Not them!" I snapped.

Father's eyes began to flare with anger, "THAT'S ENOUGH SOL!" he snapped, "I was willing to forgive your actions before because I believed you had the right to be angry with me! But they have done nothing to you!" He roared, "You think them spoiled Sol? Each one of them has struggled their whole lives, Kevin's family is in shambles, barely hanging by a thread, Jess endures constant mocking from her peers, Dean struggles to simply gain his father's affection, and Dylan has lost his father and struggles just to support his widowed mother!" He growled, I just cowered back, caught completely off guard by father's outburst, "But despite all of their pain however, they still all agreed to lay it all on the line to fight for their world and ours! Because that is what heroes do Sol! We sacrifice the things we love the most to spare others from suffering! If you can't understand that, you have no right to call yourself my son!" He roared.

Father took a deep breath, calming himself down, "I'm sorry I left you and your mother, I truly am, but I will not sit here and let you take it out on a group of people who just want to do the right thing," He said before turning his back to me, watching the Power Rangers fight.

I looked to the ground, how was I to know how much the rangers had lost? I then left the room, I had a lot of things to think over…

Meanwhile…

Malefor's Castle…

So… it seemed the Power Rangers had somehow managed to return to their world, and naturally, those hapless apes were struggling to fight them off. I turned to the apes, their general Grave had arrived a little while ago, "Allow me Lord Malefor, I'll crush the Power Rangers!" He said.

I shook my head, "Your men have told me of your last battle with the rangers Grave," I said, however I needed something to change the tide of battle and we had no time to make a monster, "Tell me general, how do you feel about… growth potions?" I asked, Grave simply gave me a confused look, unsure of my meaning, but Scorn knew exactly what I meant, as he produced the potion from his robe.

Meanwhile…

Back at the Zoo…

You know, I'm not entirely sure why Malefor would sub out his Grublins for these losers, they were just about as effective. The five of us stood tall over the pile of beaten apes on the floor, "Well, I guess that's that then," I said.

Suddenly there was a rumbling, "You'd think that, wouldn't you Power Rangers?" we heard a familiar voice say, we all looked behind us to see Grave, only now he was giant sized! "Let's see you blast me now you lesser primates!" He laughed, he was aware that Zenith was a cheetah right?

No time to correct dumb apes, as we all just barely managed to dodge a stomping attempt by Grave. "We need Legendary Dragon Zord power NOW!" I called, no way we could take this dude on foot!

However, Zenith looked confused for some reason, "Legendary what now?" He questioned, oh crap, it seemed that Zenith wasn't too familiar with the concept of Zords, it only dawned on me now that, given the nature of how Zenith got his ranger powers, he probably didn't have a zord.

However I wouldn't have to explain as our zords came flying in. Each of us human rangers leaped into our mechanized dragons, the zords began to click together to form the Legendary Dragon Megazord! It seemed that Jess' zord had been repaired after the damage it took in our fight with Malefor as it easily reformed the arm it usually did.

All four of us sat in the cockpit of the Mega Zord, "Alright rangers! Let's send this overgrown monkey packing!" I said. Grave however suddenly launched himself right at us, tackling the Mega Zord to the ground. We both rolled a good couple of feet, flattening a few buildings in the process, again, I really hope these buildings we keep accidentally smashing didn't have people in them or… yikes…

We managed to throw him off however, but Grave was right back on the attack, "You dumb humans think that overgrown toy can beat ME?!" He said as he began to scratch and claw wildly at the Mega Zord, sparks flew everywhere as we struggled to just to stay in our seats!

Kevin had to grab onto his control console just to keep himself from flying out of his chair, "This is bad! This guy is way too fast for our Mega Zord to keep up!" He said. Unfortunately, he was right, as powerful as the Mega Zord was, it was also still a giant robot, and giant robots were also kind of slow, slow enough for this ape to get an advantage… dammit! We needed something, ANYTHING to turn the tides here!

Meanwhile…

Ground Level…

Things were not going well, the other rangers were losing the fight! Not even their giant metal man could hope to best Grave's manic onslaught! I felt so useless standing here without a Zord of my own to call! If only I had one, we could possibly turn the tide of this battle! But I didn't have a Zord, I didn't even know they existed before now!

However, I noticed something in the distance, a black speck flying through the air right at Grave, at first I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me, but upon further inspection, I saw that it was a dragon, it was Sol! What was he doing here?

The dragon slammed into the ape general's back, horns first, causing him to cry out as he fell off the MegaZord. What in the name of the Ancestors was happening here? I thought Sol hated us? Why would he come out here to help us?

Meanwhile…

Back in the Mega Zord…

Something had managed to knock Grave off of us, it was only after the giant ape fell did we see a sight none of us expected, it was Sol! "Sol? What's going on? What are you doing here?" I asked as the Mega Zord began to rise to it's feet.

Sol looked off to the side, "I… I was wrong… about you guys, father was right, you did nothing to me, I had no right to take my anger out on you, I'm hoping that by helping you, you can find it within yourselves to forgive me," He said.

It seemed Spyro's son had done some soul searching since the last time we saw him. "Don't worry about it Sol, no hard feelings," I said, Sol seemed surprised we were so quick to forgive him.

He fumbled a bit, "B...But I was going to strand you in my world! I threatened your lives! How can you be so forgiving?!" He questioned.

I shook my head, "I'd be a hypocrite if I got on your case for being quick to anger dude," I said, "But that doesn't matter right now, we have a monkey to crush!" I said, grabbing hold of the Mega Zord controls. "Legendary Dragon Sword Mega Sword!" I called as the giant blade landed next to us. "Let's end this!" I said as the sword began to charge with it's signature purple energy.

However, suddenly Sol latched himself onto the blade, "DUDE! What are you doing?!" Kevin protested, at first I was worried Sol had changed his mind but suddenly he began to glow with the same purple energy, he was powering up our sword!

The sword sparked and cracked with even stronger purple energy! "ALRIGHT!" Dean exclaimed, "Now that's what I call Legendary Power!" He added, I said nothing, simply bringing the sword down on Grave, the pure energy from the slash cut the ape general in two, sparks flew through the air like a Fourth of July fireworks display, the remains of the ape general exploded in a burst of purple energy.

The inside of the Mega Zord erupted in celebration, talk about a welcome home right? "Alright guys, let's head back," I said triumphantly.

Later…

Dragon Temple…

We all returned to the temple, Sol in tow, to find a rather upset Spyro waiting for us, "Sol why did you run off?! You could have gotten killed out there!" he snapped.

I shook my head, "He saved our lives out there Spyro, cut the kid a break," I said, I couldn't believe I was coming to Sol's defense, but he did save our bacon back there, and I was grateful for that.

Spyro grumbled, Sol approached his father, "Dad, I… you were right… I needed to put others before myself, that's why I did it, these rangers… they're just trying to protect their home, I couldn't just sit there and watch them die, it wasn't right," He said.

Spyro suddenly grew a little smile, "I'm proud of you son," he suddenly said, catching Sol off guard, "You put the lives of others before your own, just like your mother and I would have done," He said, Spyro began to curl his neck around Sol's, the dragon equivalent of a hug I assume.

To say today had been a weird day would be an understatement, we traveled to another world, got a fifth ranger, discovered Spyro's long lost son, and somehow through it all, Sol managed to find it within himself to forgive his father, and us, for what he'd gone through…

All and all, I guess you could count it all as another win for the Dragon Legend Power Rangers…

A/N: I TOLD you I was still going to write this thing! But you didn't believe me! Did YOU?! My updates with this story probably won't be very consistent however, I still have Legend of Spider-Man, and I've been toying with a straight up Spyro story I've been wanting to write as well, so updates for this will probably be a bit sporadic.

I just couldn't leave this on a cliffhanger anymore, it annoyed me.