Chapter 7 The Devil Dragon
As Spyro and Cynder follow Harbinger deeper and deeper into the massive worm they could look around and the vastness of the mechanical worm. It could support over three cities inside of it'd massive interior. Harbinger looks all around making sure that the entire area was clear. Lonora and Hendrix were both behind Harbinger as they continue on their way to where they believed the center of the ship was. They come up to a door and Lonora accesses the main control panel. But Harbinger notices that it was far too easy. He also noticed that before they entered the Overlord that he had scanned it and the Legion troopers were everywhere but now when he scanned it there was nothing other than him and the others inside of the Overlord. He then realized that something was blocking his scanners.
"I don't like this." Harbinger says to Spyro who was behind him.
"What? We're right here. Nothings gotten in our way?" Spyro says questioningly.
"Exactly." Hendrix says.
"He's right Spyro. Something's up. They would have at least tried to stop us by now." Sparx says agreeing with Harbinger.
"Well maybe we're just lucky." Spyro says to Sparx.
"Spyro nothing's this easy. Frederick must be following us." Cynder says to Spyro.
"The female is right. The only reason why we haven't engaged any of his soldiers or the Legion would probably be because Frederick has been following us." Harbinger says to Spyro turning around.
"Yes but why? What would he want from inside of this thing?" Spyro asks.
"That is simple. He either wants to capture this ship and use it for his own or he's after the Nevilis project." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"Okay enough with the project thing can you just tell us what the heck it is!" Sparx yells out.
"Acknowledged. The Nevilis project was a project created by my creators. We were to create the perfect Dragon specimen but something went wrong and the experiment died before it could hatch." Harbinger says.
"Okay so what does this have to deal with now?" Valavadorog asks from the back.
"Before we were put away in the capsules you found me and my team in there was a large electrical pulse that came from the egg. It deactivated our ship that Frederick is now using as his fortress. My creators were killed and the Legion troopers we were transporting found the Overlord. The wrest I have already told you. But the odd thing was that the egg seemed to have been alive all this time." Harbinger tells Spyro.
"So practically we're supposed to believe that some all powerful perfect egg has been alive all of these years and has never hatched. I not buying it." Sparx says crossing his arms.
"You are irritating little sparking insect." Harbinger says his eye concentrating on Sparx.
"Yah we know. But you can't really choose your family." Spyro says.
"Hay." Sparx says annoyed.
"Just kidding Sparx you know me." Spyro says.
"Commander I'm hacking through the last of the locks." Lonora says.
"Good it's time that we end this threat." Harbinger says as the door slowly comes open.
But as the door creeps open a laser bolt is fired into Lonora's chest. Lonora falls over backward on the ground as Harbinger transforms his hand into an alien rifle and opens fire inside the next room. Spyro looks inside of the room and sees a huge ten foot tall robot standing on the other side. It was heavily armored unlike Harbinger, Lonora, and Hendrix. It had a three foot long sword attached to one arm and a large alien machine gun on the other. The machine's head was heavily armored as well and had two eyes sitting on top of each other. The machine looks directly at Spyro and then points his huge gun at him. Then a huge gust of fire comes out of the lower third barrel of the gun. Spyro jumps over the gust of fire and charges up an ice beam while Cynder charges at the machine's legs. She knocks the machine backward and it collapses on the ground unable to get up. Spyro then jumps up over the robot as it tries to get to its feet. As he passes over the robot he fires a huge ice beam at it freezing it as he hits the ground. The robot was stopped. Spyro turns around and sees Harbinger holding up Lonora. Spyro sees the huge hole in Lonora's chest and knows that she couldn't make it. Harbinger rubs his hand on Lonora's wound. She looks up at him with a sweet look in her eye.
"I did good didn't I commander?" Lonora asks.
"Yes Lonora. You did. I'm proud to have been your commanding officer." Harbinger says to Lonora putting his hand on her face.
"I have always thought that death would come differently to me. Not like this. Not at the hands of a Legion soldier." Lonora says then lets out a cough sounding sound.
"I'll miss you Lonora." Harbinger says rising to his feet and resting Lonora on the ground.
"Kill me commander. I will not allow myself to die at the hands of the enemy." Lonora says he eye flashing as if it was dying.
"Goodbye Lonora. We will never forget you." Harbinger says turning his hand into an alien rifle and aims it at Lonora's head.
Lonora shuts off her eye knowing what had to be done. Then with a loud laser shot she was gone. Harbinger's eye flashes as if he hesitated. He then transforms his hand back into its original state. He walks away leaving Lonora's body on the ground where she fell. Cynder takes one look at Lonora as she slowly walked by her body. She comes up to Spyro who was starring at Lonora's body which lied on the ground. Cynder put her wing over Spyro as Hendrix and Valavadorog walk by.
"Spyro we have to move on. We have to finish this." Cynder says to Spyro.
He looks at her and she sees a sense of fear in his eyes. She comforts him and they turn around and follow the others who were approaching the next locked door in the three security door chain. Spyro looks over and sees Harbinger who seemed to be distracted by the death of Lonora.
"Is there something wrong?" Spyro asks.
"Yes little Dragon. You may think that we machines do not feel emotion but we do. Lonora was my third in command and she was more than that to me. She was my friend and I will never get over her passing." Harbinger says looking at Spyro with a sad look in his eye.
"I'm sorry for your loss Harbinger." Spyro says to Harbinger.
"She died so we can finish our war and I will finish it for her." Harbinger says as Hendrix blows open the locked door in front of them.
Spyro gazes around as the blast opens up a large circular room. The space was empty all except for a large cylindrical tune that was at the center of the room. Spyro enters the room with Harbinger and Cynder following closely behind him. Spyro looks at the tube in the center of the room and puts his paw on it. He notices that a type of condensation on the outside of what appeared to be glass. Spyro rubs his paw on the glass and saw the silhouette of what appeared to be a hatchling on the inside of the cylinder. But as Spyro got closer to take a better look at the hatchling it's eye opens up. The eye was purple and had a black pupil. Spyro jumps backward as the hatchling's eye opens up. Spyro sees the hatchling twitch a little but not too much. The hatchling that Harbinger thought was dead was actually still alive. It has been for thousands of years.
"There it is. Nevilis hard to believe it's been alive all of this time." Harbinger says activating his gauntlet.
"Hay wait Cynder it kind of looks like you. You know small and evil." Sparx says to Cynder.
"Hay wait don't you go there. We've been over this." Cynder says growling at Sparx.
"Apparently your mate doesn't seem to like that Butterfly much." Harbinger says to Spyro.
"She's not my mate." Spyro says to Harbinger.
"Oh sorry. It's just a couple of the readings I got from you that's all." Harbinger says to Spyro.
Then From nowhere a giant paw goes through Hendrix's chest. Spyro, Cynder, and Harbinger look behind Hendrix to see Frederick with a devilish grin on his face that he had. Frederick tosses Hendrix at the wall. Hendrix hits the ground dead. Harbinger yells out Hendrix's as he transforms his hand into the alien rifle and fires off an entire clip at Frederick. Frederick brings over his wing and uses it as a shield and deflects every single laser bolt. Then he disappears in another mist. Harbinger checks the entire area looking for him when behind him a mist forms and Harbinger looks down to see the paw of Frederick go through his left arm. His left arm is obliterated and he looks back to see Frederick as he swipes Harbinger away. Harbinger hits the cylindrical tube. He hits the ground and as he looks up Frederick stabs his paw through his chest and Harbinger falls over dead.
"Harbinger!" Spyro calls out.
"Spyro he's gone." Cynder says to Spyro.
"Yes little Dragon. You and Cynder are all that are left." Frederick says chuckling.
"Oh not yet they aren't." Sparx yells at speeding at Frederick.
Sparx flies at Frederick and punches him couple of times Frederick just looks down at the little Dragonfly curious. Sparx takes a breather and then punches Frederick last time before he looks up and sees Frederick's face. Frederick smiles and flicks the Dragonfly away. Sparx lands next to Harbinger unconscious on the ground next to him.
"Okay that was a little weird. Oh well at least now I can say that a Dragonfly fought me. Don't know what that means but what are you going to do." Frederick says unimpressed.
"My lord let us finish this." Malefor says coming up from behind Frederick.
"Yes you're right Malefor sitting here chatting isn't going to solve anything. Let's finish this once and for all." Frederick says as he gets into attack position.
"Spyro you take Frederick I'll take on Malefor." Cynder says to Spyro.
"Alright. I just hope you know what you're doing." Spyro says to Cynder as he walks away from her.
"Hay I always know what I'm doing." Cynder says to Spyro with a grin.
"One on one. That's noble for a young Dragon. Malefor you deal with the black one and I'll deal with Spyro." Frederick says to Malefor grinning as he approaches Spyro.
"Oh I've been waiting a long time for this Cynder you traitor." Malefor says jumps at Cynder.
Cynder dashes to the right evading Malefor. She fires a couple of dark blast at Malefor but he brushes them away and fires a huge fire blast at Cynder who evades it. She dashes under Malefor's legs and claws at his hind legs. Malefor growls in pain and turns around trying to hit Cynder but she is too fast for him. She tail whips him in the neck and cuts him on the left side of his neck. Malefor yells as he slams both of his paws together into a giant fist and slams it down on Cynder. She dashes upward missing Malefor's attack. She glides upward a couple of feet and then slams down with all of her might. Malefor whips at Cynder and sends her into the wall. Cynder rises and digs under the ground. Malefor slams his tail on the ground and sends her out of the ground. Cynder jets upward out of the ground and lands on her feet. Malefor charges up a fire blast and Cynder fires and electrical blast. The two elements meet in the center equally matched.
Meanwhile Frederick slams down his tail at Spyro. Spyro tail whips Frederick's tail away and then charges up at Frederick. Frederick leans to the right and Spyro misses him by a few inches. Frederick grins as he charges up his purple fire blast. Spyro sees him charging and flips over backwards as the fire blast goes under him. Spyro charges through the air aiming for Frederick. But Frederick grabs Spyro and throws him at the ground. Before Spyro can get up Frederick slams down one of his huge paws down on him holding him where he was then Frederick brings his head closer to Spyro chuckling.
"You still have no idea do you?" Frederick says to Spyro chuckling.
"About what?" Spyro says questioningly.
"The reason why only one of you are born every ten generations in your world the reason why you are the only one of kind here in this world besides Malefor. You see Spyro I was once a purple Dragon but the others thought that I was weak and defenseless. Once your kind was plentiful Spyro but now they are all gone except for little you." Frederick says to Spyro.
"What does this have to do with me?" Spyro says trying to get free.
"You don't get it?" Frederick says and laughs. "You and I are the last of the pure purple Dragons. The reason why is because years ago I killed them all! The only reason why you survived is because your father and mother were the only ones that stood in my path. They fought me thinking they could defeat me. But they were wrong and I killed your father but your mother ran away from me before I could deal with her. But as I killed your father he put a curse on me that sent me into the core where you released me and he also turned me into this thing that you see before you. You're alone Spyro and you know it." Frederick says to Spyro backing his head away.
"He's wrong Spyro I'm still with you!" Spyro hears Cynder call out.
Spyro gets angered and Frederick starts have trouble holding him. Frederick slams down his other massive paw at paw at Spyro but then Spyro disappears in a mist and he crushes his other paw. Frederick growls in pain then he looks in front of him to see Spyro coming out of a mist like the ones he used. But Spyro was different now. His body was dark as night and his eye were pure white. He spoke with a slightly deep toned voice now. Frederick is shocked and takes a single step backward but then smiles as he realizes what happened to Spyro.
"Yes now you embrace the full power of the dark. Strike me down in your hatred it will only make me more powerful than ever." Frederick says then fires his purple fire blast at Spyro.
Spyro fires a dark fire blast at Frederick's and the two blasts are equally matched. Frederick jumps at Spyro who disappears in a mist and reappears next to Frederick. Frederick whips at Spyro with his tail and Spyro again disappears and reappears in front of Frederick. Frederick calls out to Malefor but there was no answer. He looks towards the door and watches as Malefor runs from the fight in fear.
"Malefor you traitor! Guess I'll need to deal with you myself." Frederick yells out in anger then glides in the air.
Frederick hovers in the air looking at Spyro who was taking steps towards him in attack position.
"You took my family from you kill my friends. You deserve to die." Spyro says angerly.
"That's it Spyro strike me down with all of your hatred. Feel the anger of all your fallen ancestors flow through you and focus it on me." Frederick says then charges at Spyro.
Spyro then breathes a dark fire blast at Frederick who disappears into another mist. Spyro disappears as well. Cynder looks around frantically as the two disappear and reappear both fighting one another in a battle that seemed to be happening more than one place. Then Frederick gets knocked out of a mist and Spyro follows behind him. Frederick grabs both of Spyro's horns as he charges into his chest. Frederick throws Spyro against the wall which does virtually nothing to him. Spyro breathes a fire blast and Frederick backs away from Spyro to evade the blast. Spyro then charges and tail whips Frederick in the face. Frederick turns his face and gets cut by Spyro's tail. Frederick lifts up his paw and sees his blood on his paw. He grins at the sight. He had not seen his blood for some time. Spyro was a challenge for him. The two charge at one another and grab each other but Frederick gains the upper hand and tosses Spyro at the cylindrical tube in the center of the room. Spyro jumps away from the tube and charges back at Frederick once again. Cynder looks at the hatchling inside then notices that there was a crack in the tube. The crack got larger and larger as Spyro and Frederick continued to fight. Spyro slashes at Frederick but Frederick lifts upward evading his attack then he side swipes and knocks Spyro away. Spyro hits the ground next where Hendrix had fallen. Spyro then looks over as he charges another dark fire blast and sees Cynder with the look of fear in her eyes. He powers down the fire blast and slowly reverts back to normal. Then Cynder jumps over beside him and the two look at each other and grin. They stand together side by side in attack position waiting for Frederick to make his move. Frederick lets out a laugh and fires a purple fire blast at the two.
Spyro and Cynder both move in unsion evading Frederick's fire blast. Frederick is surprised and slams his fist down on the ground sending huge lines of dark crystals at Spyro and Cynder. Spyro and Cynder move in unison and evade the attack. They both charge at Frederick's chest. They both hit the center of Frederick's chest. The necklace around his neck shatters from its brace and lands on the ground behind Spyro and Cynder. Frederick did not notice because he was knocked backwards on his back by the attack. Frederick rises to his feet and sees Spyro and Cynder preparing for another attack. But as Frederick tries to stand he's too weak and collapses to the ground. He reaches on his chest and notices that his necklace was missing. Spyro and Cynder see Frederick stumbling as he tries to get up. They go over and look at him. It was kind of ironic he is so powerful but now he crawls around like a turtle on its back. Then Spyro turns around and sees the necklace behind him. He then realizes that it was the necklace that was giving Frederick his power. Spyro walks over and touches the amulet in the necklace.
Several thoughts then go through Spyro's mind at once. But one thought played in real time in his mind. He sees an adult female purple Dragon curled up in a corner grasping an egg closely. Then he hears a loud demonic laugh that sounded like sounded like Frederick's laugh. The female purple Dragon tucks the little egg away in a wooden box with a blanket on the side of it. She puts the egg inside of the box and put the blanket over the top of the box. She turns around and is slapped by a blood red dragon paw. She gets to her feet and sees Frederick looking down at her with a grin on his face and blood on the tips of his teeth. He chuckles as he slowly walks over to her. She tries to fly but her wing was cut leaving her stranded on the ground and at the mercy of Frederick. Then out of the sky drops a huge male purple dragon that had a bit mark on the left side of his neck. He tells the female dragon to run and she leaves running out the door to her left. The male dragon faces off with Frederick. Even though he was severely hurt by Frederick who attacked him brutally earlier he charges at Frederick and tries to bite him on the neck but Frederick dashes to the side and slams him into the ground. As Frederick prepares a fire blast the purple Dragon utters out some kind of chant and fades into dust. Frederick looks at the dust cloud that was climbing over him and starting to cover him. Frederic swings trying to get rid of the dust but it was futile. The dust surrounds him and consumes him into nothing. As the dust faded away an orange comes out of hiding. He is a middle aged Dragon and was half the size of an adult. The orange dragon walks over to the crate and moves the blanket. He discovers the egg inside and picks it up and looks at it.
"So much fuss for a single egg." The orange dragon says.
Spyro recognizes the dragon's voice. It was Ignitus.
The vision fades and Spyro jumps back thinking about what just happened. He rubs his head as Cynder comes over and puts her paw on his shoulder. He turns his head and sees Cynder. But when he looks behind her he notices that Frederick was gone. He looks over at the cylindrical tube and sees the crack getting larger. He folds his wing over Cynder as the glass of the tube fails and burst. Spyro's wing takes the shards of glass which tares his left wing just a bit. He folds his wing back as the water goes down around him and Cynder. Cynder thanks Spyro but then they both look and see the hatchling on the ground. He opens his eyes and spits out water from his throat. He gasps for air and slowly rises to his feet. He opens and closes his eyes several times as his vision clears up. Spyro and Cynder take a couple of steps backward. The hatchling looks up sees Spyro and Cynder. He opens his mouth but no words come out. He collapses to the ground. With his head on the ground he reaches out with his front leg and paw as if to say he needed help. Spyro and Cynder go over and help the little hatchling which was as small as Spyro and cinder were when they were kids. They help the hatchling up to his feet and notice that he had a large scar that ran across his neck.
"You can't speak?" Cynder asks.
The hatchling makes a sign with his hand that seemed to be a no.
"Cynder I don't think he can talk." Spyro says to Cynder.
"What? Why can't he?" Cynder asks.
"That scar on his neck seems to be why. Aren't I right?" Spyro says.
The hatchling shakes his head to say yes.
"But why don't they want him to talk? It makes no sense?" Cynder asks.
Then Sparx the Dragonfly slowly awakens on the ground and flies backward when he sees the black Dragon hatchling standing next him. Spyro and Cynder chuckle as the little Dragonfly runs into the tube and bounces but confused. Sparx shakes his head and looks at the black Dragon hatchling.
"Okay either I'm crazy and there's another black Dragon or there's two Cynders." Sparx says.
"No Sparx. He's… He's… I don't know." Cynder says.
"Harbinger says that the project's name was Nevilis and that what he called it. So I think that's your name." Spyro says to the dragon hatchling.
The dragon hatchling shakes his head yes.
"Okay Nevilis. Well why not. We seem to keep adding dragons to our team every day. Besides where is Valavadorog?" Sparx asks.
"I don't know. We haven't seen him since we entered the room." Cynder says.
"We need to focus Cynder. Right now we need to get out of here." Spyro says to Cynder.
"Why what's going on?" Cynder asks.
"I'm no expert but Nevilis was the thing powering this massive machine. So when we released him I think that destabilized the entire thing." Spyro says.
Then there is a sudden explosion that destroys the tube and starts to expand. Spyro and Cynder turn around and run. Spyro grabs Sparx as they run out the door. Nevilis follows close behind Spyro and Cynder. They sprint at full speed as explosions occur all around them as they make speedy turns around corners. As they pass by some openings Legion troopers see them but before they could fire off a shot they had already passed. Spyro and the others speed through a blown open door that Malefor had torn through getting out of the giant worm. They make one last turn and see light coming through the opening that they had come in through. But there was a silhouette of a Dragon in the doorway. It was Frederick and he was getting ready to blast the doorway down so that Spyro and his friends could not get out. But as Frederick prepares to fire the blast he suddenly is stopped as a claw slices into his back. Frederick spits out blood as he fall to the ground. He looks over and sees Valavadorog looking down at him.
"You are the weakest of them all. You tried to make me turn against my friends and even my own sister. You thought that was going to happen. Then you were sadly mistaken." Valavadorog says as Frederick slowly dies at his feet.
Spyro, Cynder, and Nevilis all charge out to Valavadorog as ac huge explosion can be heard deeper in the ship. Valavadorog takes off in the air flying to the top. He is followed by Spyro, Cynder, and Nevilis. They fly upward to the bridge as the worm's head suddenly explodes sending out a huge shockwave throughout the entire cavern. All around them the cavern started to collapse they made it one the bridge and they all charge at the entrance to Warfang. They run to the door as the cavern wall above it starts to crumble. They make one final charge grouping together tightly and charging at their full speed. They barely make it through the exit as the ruble buries the entrance. Spyro looks up and sees Terrador, Volteer, Cyril, Ember, Flame, and Guardian all rushing towards them. He looks to his left and sees Cynder and Nevilis both going over to help him up. To his right he sees Valavadorog who was already helping him to his feet. Out in the distance Fredericks flying fortress lied in ruins on the ground. The war had been won and Frederick the devil Dragon no longer was a threat. The Dragon Guardians had lots of questions to ask Spyro but for now times of peace and celebration have come.
In the distant forest that was next to the remains of Frederick's fortress there was a parachute stuck in a tree. On the parachute was the Ape king Gaul who had dropped his machetes. He looks down at his machetes which were on the ground beneath him. He crosses his arms and looks straight ahead as he slowly twirled back and forth from the strings connected to the parachute.
"Great. Stuck in up here in a tree with no way down. Ugh. How can this get any worse?" Gaul says to himself.
Then a branch snaps and falls in front of Gaul's face. Gaul looks up as another parachute crashes into the tree next to his. Two Baboons swing down from two parachutes. It was George and Frank. The two Baboons had gotten tangled up on their way down. They both look at Gaul who was shaking his head in disbelief.
"Hay boss." George says.
"Remember us?" Frank says.
"You got to be kidding me. I came back from the dead to be stuck in a tree with these two idiots." Gaul says rubbing his face.
They would be stuck in the trees for a day until their ropes snap. A new age has come but this is only the beginning. One question still remained. Who were the dragons in Spyro's vision and what made Nevilis so dangerous. But for now our heroes rest for Malefor still remained and he was gathering his army once more.
Well there you have it. The Legend of Spyro the Dark Dragon trilogy. Frederick is gone and the Dragon world and the Dream realm is once more at peace. But the threat of Malefor still lingers and Nevilis is still unknown. What makes this little black dragon so dangerous and Spyro's vision has given him clues about his past. His mother is alive. But these are stories for another time. Thanks once again for all my readers I had no idea there were so many. If it wasn't for you all I would have never done this in the first place. I am looking forward to continuing my fanfiction with the next story the Legend of Valavadorog. Oh yes one last thing the Legion is not gone. They will be back and more powerful then ever in the end of this fanfiction. But for now our heroes rest as a new day comes.