Chapter 4: Malefor´s Past and Convexity Teachings

It was starting to be a new day for the purple dragon known as Malefor, also now known as the God of Convexity. He knew not what the day had in store for him, nor how the others within the Twilight Academy would react to him.

However, he wasn't going to worry about that at this current stage. His first port of call, was that he wished to check up on Cynder.

One would question why he would do such a thing, but Malefor had his reasons for doing such a thing. It took but a few minutes to find where Cynder's room was and when he looked inside, the sight he beheld made him smile.

Spyro and Cynder were cuddled up together, sleeping happily and contently. Malefor was happy that Cynder had someone in her life and he couldn't think of any better than Spyro and was well.

He backed out and silently shut the door, going to go about what he wanted to do for the day, however, he didn't get far before he saw a dragon, or rather dragoness, he hadn't seen in a long time.

Coming from the opposite direction he had come, was a beautiful, yellow dragoness which who had a shining body, she has a sleek and slender body, similar to Cynder's, except for the more adult-like muscles. She has lightning shaped horns and a tail-blade which resembles Zeus' lighting spear. Her wings are battered, but electricity runs through them, creating a rough-like pattern that works as good as the membrane of normal wings, she also has lightning anklets on both her front and rear legs.

Malefor remember this dragoness well because she had been his mate before he was corrupted by the power Soul infused within him. This dragoness was Dazzler, Goddess of Electricity.

Just as the Electricity Goddess fully rounded the bend and lifted her head, her eyes met with Malefor's and then neither of them said anything for a while as they just stared at each other.

"Malefor..." Dazzler gasped quietly.

Malefor gave slight inclination of his head in a gesture of a nod but he made no other moves towards or away from Dazzler.

Malefor remembered well their time together. Starting from their innocence time together as children, as very close friends, to a time where it got a lot more personal and then to the point where they consumed their love each other by mating.

He would've loved to have stayed by her side, but the one mission he was sent on, was the same one that led him to his corruption. While away on that mission, he had encountered a dragon named Soul who, at the time, was as far as you could be to be evil.

Soul had managed to convince and lure Malefor in with promises of power. It wasn't long after that he was infused the darkness that Spare had freed him from the other day, causing him to do things he would've of preferred not doing.

The end result was him becoming the infamous Dark Master that everyone knew and feared.

"Its been so long, Malefor..." Dazzler spoke before taking a step closer to him.

He nodded in reply. "Perhaps we should catch up now then."

And so both dragons talked about what had happened

Meanwhile, inside Cynder's room, said dragon was slowly starting to wake and once she was wake, she could hear hushed voices talking outside her room. One of them she recognized as Malefor's but she couldn't quite determine who the other belonged to.

Curious as to what Malefor and the other dragon might be talking about, she cloaked herself within her Shadow power and glided over to the door, seeing that it hadn't actually been fully shut, telling her Malefor or someone else had opened. So she opened and slipped into the hall, sticking close to the wall and shadows.

Dazzler for her part remembered the same thing as Malefor, but the memory that affected her the most was when she had learnt of him becoming evil.

At the time she had already been dubbed as the Goddess of Electricity and using her power to speed her way, she attempted to stop the sealing of Malefor as she had the feeling of not wanting to live without him. However, she was unable to as the Eight Ancient Legends sealed him away after Dazzler refused to show emotion afterwards.

Until now...

"How has our daughter been?" Malefor asked, bringing Dazzler out of her daze.

"She has been fine. I was actually coming to check on her but I assume you just did?"

Malefor nodded. "You assume correctly...although..."

Malefor looked in Cynder's general direction as he sensed someone was themselves from his and Dazzler's view. Once he knew where they were, he pulled them out of the shadows, dismissing the power, revealing them.

"Cynder...I'm disappointed that you were hiding and listening on a conversation that didn't involve you."

"Well, technically, it did." Dazzler argued.

It was in that moment that Cynder realised what the two dragons had meant when they had said 'daughter.' Cynder was their daughter.

"However, before we go further into that discussion." Malefor said, looking towards Cynder. "Come with me please."

Malefor began leading Cynder to an arena that was designed specifically for the element Convexity and was ironically enough dubbed the Convexity Arena. It was here that Malefor wished to do some training with is daughter in order to better prepare her in case she ever came face to face with Corruption once again.

"I'm going to teach you the many secrets of Convexity, but first..."

Malefor focused on his core and after letting out a breath, he exhaled a flame of Convexity all over Cynder, which in effect made her totally immune to Corruption, which is the result that the purple dragon was after. He smiled at the silver dragoness.

"What was that?" She asked confused.

"I was infusing you with the Flame of Convexity. In short, you are now immune to the source known as Corruption, what had happened to me and what I had done to you that one time. It is also so that when Soul comes to being, if he ever does, he can not get to you as he will most likely plot to go after you first and then use you against Spyro."

Cynder remember well the nightmare that she had lived when Malefor, known as The Dark Master then, had twisted and poisoned her mind, forcing her to become a living, breathing weapon of destruction, The Terror of the Skies as she was known and what he had just said about using her to go against Spyro would make sense due to their relations with each other.

"But that aside, shall we get to training?"

And so for hours, Malefor began teaching the many techniques and secrets that the power of Convexity had to offer. Cynder was quick to learn and grasp how to perform these abilities, however when it was starting to get into the more advanced and more complicated moves, it took her longer and longer to learn each new one as they progressively got tougher to master but in the end, she managed to master them.

By the end of the few hours, Cynder was exhausted and panting heavily, sweat glistening off of her scales and running down them all the same. It had been a tough and rigorous training session for her, but she got through it nonetheless and was proud of how far she was able to get. Look to Malefor, she let a small smile grace her features.

"Well done, Cynder. I think you're ready."

Before Cynder was able to react in anyway, Malefor brought forth a great flame of Convexity, and began to recite a ritual. Cynder started floating off of the floor slightly as the flame began to merge with her own being. A few moments later, and a purple glow was starting to surround her person and by the end, a great flash filled the room as the purple aura around Cynder began to fade as she touched back on the ground.

"Now, you definitely are ready."

She certainly felt ready, but she wondered what Spyro would be up to.

Before Cynder had began her hours of training, Galaxia had gone to Cynder's room where Spyro was still asleep and proceed to wake him up. She bade him to follow her which he did, albeit groggily. Galaxia led him to an arena that was much like the Convexity Arena, but it was designed for the element known as Galaxy, and again, was ironically dubbed as the Galaxy Arena.

"What are we doing here?" Spyro asked, still tired and confused.

Galaxia turned and faced Spyro, to begin explaining what it is that was going on.

"I have sensed that Soul's prison is weakening meaning that the Realms will soon have to deal with his presence. I have also sensed that he means to corrupt you and to prevent that, I have brought you here, to allow me to protect you from it."

Galaxia spread some dust throughout the room within a circle. She told Spyro to stand in the middle of it and stand still. Once all was ready, and all was in place, she, like Malefor, brought forth a great flame of Galaxy and then started reciting the same ritual. Spyro, like Cynder, started floating off of the ground slightly and the flame began to meld with his body. A few moments later, his body was being surrounded by a black and light glow and by the end, the room was filled with a flash of light as the black and light aura that surrounded Spyro began to fade, placing him back on the ground.

"Now, you are ready and safe."

The rest of the day went uneventfully for the two dragons as they spent most of their day together. By the time it was night and dinner was done, they retried to Cynder's room where the fell into an easy and peaceful sleep.

Meanwhile in a place known as the Lore of Light, there was a beautiful, white dragoness, with a pale pink underbelly and wings, pale, gold, wavy horns and tail-balde which was a feather-like shape that was serrated, pure blue coloured eyes and was the Goddess of the element Purity, who was known as Clarity.

She had been reading a book when she felt a chill cross her spine, making her shudder slightly and she knew all too well what it meant. Off in a tomb that was created to imprison a dragon known as Soul, who happened to Clarity's brother, a crack formed and Clarity could feel that Soul's return to the Twilight Realm was soon to happen.

So putting down the book and getting up, she left the Lore of Light to start taking precautions.