Chapter 23: The End Of Trust

"There, right here. Set it down gently," Flint commanded to the other earth dragons.

Out near an open field, Flint, along with the help of more then thirty earth dragons, helped moved the Destroyer out to a field of where it'd rest for the time being. With the earth dragons, they had been using a square made out of earth to lift it over the tops of the trees, hiding it from any of those whom may see any kind of damage, and for Flint, he believed this to be master plan. Now with the Destroyer out here, no damage to the wildlife, and for nothing to be observed, things are going very, very well. Unfortunately, as they had set down the Destroyer, the square underneath it disappeared, letting it fall to the ground with a massive thud. The shock wave was enough to kick up pounds of dust and dirt, even making the surrounding wild life run away, or even fly for their own safety. With this massive thud, parts of the Destroyer sprawled out, smashing them to pieces all around it, and unfortunately, for how hard it fell into the ground, its body dug slightly deeper into the ground then he would've liked. Growling at this sight, Flint snapped around and looked at the earth dragons, yelling for what they had done, "Idiots!" Now seeing at what had happened, he had to improvise now, "The sun will come up any minute now, and while I would've wished for this to have been done before everyone woke up, your dumb asses just F'd up the whole plan! So instead of looking at me, GET IT OUT OF THE GROUND!" Watching as they all scrambled from behind him and made their ways all around the Destoyer's body, he snarled through his teeth, upset that he had to said anything at all, "Great... Of course as soon as I say something... No matter. This should still be done sooner rather then later, and then, once this is done, I shall see you soon, my love, either in the day, or the afterlife."

"Oh, come on, hurry up hurry up hurry up! I can't keep waiting this long," Malefor spoke to himself as he laid to his bed, watching from out his window for the sun to rise, but so far, it was still rather dark, "Ugh! I can't do this, nor can I sleep, so then... I'm kinda screwed," Looking to his left and seeing his lover sleeping so peacefully next to him, she laid on her right, sprawled out with her wings and paws, but all he could do to pass time was lay down with his body on his bed and his wing that draped over her back, "Sure do wish I could be sleeping as easily as you, my love." Turning his head back around to face out his window, his eyes grew wide along with the smile that went across his face as he finally saw the small amount of sun light lighting the sky from dark black, to light yellow and blue, "YES!"

Swinging his head forward to face straight, he stood up on his bed, was gentle as he climbed down, but once his claws touched the ground, he bolted to the door, making it there in seconds. Grabbing his door knob, he yanked at it, forgetting to turn it, "Oh, yeah, oops." Finally twisting the door knob and opening his door, he ran out to the hallway and to his left, over to Spyro and Cynder's room. "Don't want to pull a Spyro and yank my door knob off the door."

Making it over to the room, he did the same as his other door and opened it. Once inside, he stopped halfway through, watching as they slept peacefully, curled up with one another, smiling even. Since they had snuggled up together, worry started to set in as he thought, Well, hell. Do I wake them or not...? Wait! I have the perfect idea. Spyro would kill me, but Cynder wouldn't... maybe... Hah, I made a joke. Walking up to the two, Spyro's head rested over Cynder's, so he had to look down a bit to speak with her, whispering to keep quiet, "Cynder... Cynder, it's me, Malefor."

Seeing her body shiver, he knew he got her attention, waking her even, and so far, things were going good for Malefor. Giving a grumble and readjusting herself, Spyro adjusted himself as well, getting more comfortable with her as she moved her head more inwards against his chest. Only opening her left eye slightly to look at him, her smile turned to a more bland and normal resting face as she asked him, "Malefor...? Wh... What are you... doing in our room so... early in the morning?"

"Oh, yeah, I, want to apologize but I, uh... Just wanted to say that, now that tomorrow is here, I was hoping to wake up Spyro and get the okay on friendship before going back to bed," Unfortunately for him, she didn't really seem to care all that much, shifting her head more to the point where her head now rested against his chest, listening to his heart beat as she closed her eye, wishing to go back to sleep, "I, guess you probably don't care, I... I just am really excited to finally hear him say it. Hehe, and hey, he might even think I was waking you to prepare to destroy the world... Hehehe..." Not getting anything from her, Malefor felt a slight stab to the heart as he had hopes that his plan would've been a little more effective, but unfortunately, it wasn't, and he murmured, "Never mind... Sorry for, disturbing you..."

"Malefor..." Hearing now as Spyro spoke, Malefor looked up to him, and while his eyes still remained closed, he spoke, "Me and Cynder were up pretty late last night after what I did yesterday. We're just both really tired."

"Oh, my apologizes, I didn't know..."

"That's why I'm saying now. Just, give us some more time, we will have our battle, and then I will make our friendship official, okay?"

"So then I should..."

"You should leave before you piss off Cynder."

"Ahem... Yeah, better go."

Backing out of the room slowly but surely, he made it past the doorway before grabbing the door knob and shutting the door. Now this posed a bigger problem for Malefor as he was without anything to do, even with all the energy he had, but making his way back to his room as he turned, he was deep in his thoughts, wondering what there was to do, Well, there goes my hopes of anything happening, and if I'm being honest, I'm definitely not ready for me to get my head bashed in during our battle. Looking into his room and sitting down by the door, he looked in to see Carith was still resting peacefully, and while an idea came to mind, he didn't know how he'd be able to work two jobs at once, With that Dark Master around, I wish to train, but because he is around, I don't wish to leave Carith all by herself. So... maybe she would join me in the training room. Walking into his room and over towards the bed, he made it over after about a minute as he had walked rather then running, and once he made it to his bed, he whispered to her, "Hey, Carith, my love, can I ask you a question?" Getting her attention, she grumbled as she woke, moving her head a little straight to look to him, opening only one eye as she did, "Do you mind coming to the Training Room while I, well, train? I don't wish to leave you all alone, so, could you join me?"

"You want me to go in there and... Ugh," Pausing for a second as she stretched, she continued once she was done, "Be under possible fire, along with the fact that I can't go to sleep while in there?" He gave a frown, and she could see he didn't wish to go back to bed, so, for a compromise, she had a better idea, "How about I rest out in the hallway near the door to the Training Room. That way, I'm near both you, and the two?" His face lit up with a smile, glad to see that she made up a better plan then he could've thought of, "But first, I want something in return."

Giving out a chuckle, Malefor knew what she wished of, and so, he moved his head forward and kissed his love. It was a nice way for her to wake up, closing her eyes once again as he did the same. Feeling now satisfied for the two, he pulled his lips off of hers, and now opening up his eyes, she did the same as he spoke, "Thank you, my love," Getting a nod from him, she smiled, slowly getting up, and watching as he turned away from her, he trusted that she would make it over with him, "I will wait for you in the hallway then." Making his way now back out to the hallway, he exited his doorway, making his way over to the Training Room, he talked out loud to himself, "This is perfect. And maybe, I should train with my dark power to get a feel for it. And with Carith right outside the door, I can call for her."

"Who are you talking to?" Carith asked as she made her way into the hallway."

"Oh, just, talking out loud to myself. I'm thinking about training my dark power."

"That sounds like a terrible idea."

"Well, think about it. Ignitus doesn't plan for me to have my dark power under control. Getting such a strengh similar to that of Spyro, it could be a deciding factor in winning this war," Unfortunately to her, it made sense, and even Malefor knew that getting his darkness under control would be beneficial to the up and coming war, "I won't go over board, and I will use what Spyro taught me to control it. If I feel uncomfortable, then I will stop, or even call you if I feel that something is off."

"Eeeehhhh... I... Guess. Just, try and not scare both me and you when you attempt such a thing. This is supposed to be your special day. Last thing we need is for us to lose you too."

"I will be fine, promise."

"Alright then... I guess I can't stop you."

While she made her way to the side of the Training Room door, Malefor turned his own way and made his way into the room, and just as she had laid down, he opened the door, cracking it just a little so she could hear him in case anything happened. Now in the Training Room, he made his way to the middle, and once reached, he sat down, closing his eyes and focusing. Alright... I need to focus on just trying to gain a small amount, just not enough to screw me over. Brining in his thoughts and memory, he remembered back to the moment of which Spyro spoke to him of how to control his dark powers. Think of the saddest thing possible, control that, balance it out, and make it yours. Feeling himself gaining control over the darkness, he focused, eased his body, and while he tried to control his darkness, he also did the same to his breathing, making sure everything was as easy as it could be. Breath... take charge of the anger. Snarling only slightly, he still tried his best, but his best wasn't enough, and since he had more excitement then anything else, his eyes shot open, and he coughed a good couple of times towards the ground. Damnit! It felt like my lungs were being crushed... This is a lot harder in execution then that of explanation. But I have to keep trying.

Feeling a sense of darkness starting to surround the area, Spyro opened his eyes, somewhat a little angered as he wondered who could be using the dark power. Sliding his paws from under his lover's head, he stood up, moved slightly to his right to avoid her head and climbed off the bed. Using his own darkness, he prepared for a battle, and making sure to take it slow, he hoped it wasn't who he thought it was. Malefor... What are you doing? Opening his door, he looked into his hallway to see a sleeping Carith laying next to the door, and this confirmed his fear, Damn it, Malefor, why are you messing around with your darkness? Sensing the darkness coming from the Training Room, he made his way over to the door, and pushing it open, he saw Malefor sitting near the middle, looking down and darkened only slightly. Shutting the door behind himself, Spyro didn't wish for him to be training the darkness so early and decided to put a stop to it. While Spyro was sneaking up behind him, Malefor was still in his thoughts, eyes closed and unaware of his surroundings, Carith could die if you don't control yourself. Spyro's friendship and view of me is on the line, and hurting Cynder or anyone else could ruin my life as it once had before. Don't make the same mistake that you once-UGH! Having someone smack his back, his eyes shot open wide once again, and he watched as the darkness launched out of his body and forward before disappearing. Looking to his left, he saw Spyro smirking at him, "Spyro?! What are you doing in here?"

"Stopping you from making a mistake and causing problems for everyone around," Spyro admitted, sitting down in front of him and turning to face straight towards him.

"I remember what you said to me, and like I said, this is my special day, and I don't wish to ruin it."

"Then hold off on your darkness a little longer. Last thing I need is to deal with the Dark Master during our battle."

"Not the Dark Master, but Master Malefor."

"Yeah, well, I have a question for the Master. Why do I still sense darkness looming even after stopping you from using your darkness?"

Giving a gasp as to what he said, this made Spyro rather suspicious, but he knew he needed to say something to cover up what was really happening, "Oh, well, I'm still trying to train my darkness even after what you just did of course."

"Yet, this darkness feels much different then yours."

Flint couldn't possibly be attacking so soon, could he?! Malefor cried in his thoughts, hoping that he wasn't to attack so soon. Wanting to hurry with their friendship, he wished to fight now rather then later, and to seal their friendship, "Hey, Spyro, I honestly don't know why you feel this other darkness, but is it okay, now with you being awake, could we have our battle?" This sudden and quick talking still made Spyro suspicious that something was to happen, but Malefor made sure to keep talking as to keep his thoughts to a minimum, "It's just that, if something does happen, I don't wish to be your enemy, but a friend. I need you to know that."

"I'm surprised you wish to battle so soon, but if that's what you so please to do, I'm down to battle," Erupting into his dark form, Malefor was surprised he was quick to accept his challenge, and he was scared something was to happen to the females, but Spyro assured him even though he didn't know it, "If Cynder needs me, she could always use her darkness to call me. But now that I'm awake and you wish to get this friendship going, what do you say we have our battle as you wish: Now, rather then later."

"You couldn't just let me have a fighting chance, could you?"

"Nope."

Feeling a tap on his shoulder, Malefor jumped, turning around and seeing who it was. It was a clone of Spyro, and before he had time to react, he was punched right underneath his chin, sending him flying into the air, and with his clone, Spyro juggled him in the air, punching him where ever he could to keep him in the air, and now closing in on the roof, he grabbed Malefor by the throat and threw him out of the Training Room. Slamming his back against the top of the Training Room, Malefor's body flew out of the building and out into the open. With the attack Spyro made, this sent Malefor to the back of Warfang, and making sure he stopped his descent, Malefor kicked his wings backwards, doing a back flip and using his wind powers to ease him down to the ground and on his paws. Wiping his paw across his nose, blood already dripped down his nose, and seeing as Spyro landed in front of him, Malefor snickered, "That's some cheep shit my guy."

"We are battling, are we not? And I must admit, I'm not use to waking up so soon, but at least this helps me stretch my body now rather then later."

"Feels like this is all happening so fast, so what do you say we take things a little slower, get a feel for this day."

"You were the one who wished for this day to start off so soon, but if you wish to slow things down," Using his clone, he made one on his left side, and pushing himself to his limit, he made a clone on his right, and using his clone to make another on his left, he now had four of himself which made Malefor laugh, "This will help me see what powers are in store for myself, and you. So, pushing myself to the limit, I also wish to do the same to you. Now would you wish to take things even slower, or do you wish to speed things up?"

"What happens if we take things even slower?"

"I can try and make another clone, making five of us that you have to deal with."

"That's some bull shit right there. First you stop me from gaining an advantage and now your using an expert ass move against me?"

"Well, tell you what. Hit the right me, and you win."

"That seems rather easy."

"Or is it?" A clone next to Spyro spoke from his left side.

"Because I could've changed directions without you knowing," A clone on the right side spoke.

"You're literally breaking the laws of how the world works," Malefor cried.

"Guess it's a good thing the laws don't apply to me," The last clone chuckled.

Knowing exactly where Spyro was, he shot an ice shard forward at the front clone, and passing right through his chest, the clone disappeared, now making three Spyro's. Giving wide eyes and taking a step back, all the clones laughed before disappearing, "Wrong again, Malefor."

Now disappeared from out of sight, Malefor looked all around himself and wished for this to be a simple and easy battle to end rather quickly now, "Now now, Spyro, how about we calm down and I just forfeit?" Not getting a response, he heard the sound of a cracking leaf behind him, and jumping forward before turning around, nothing was there, "I forfeit! I give! Uncle! Uncle!" Feeling something tap his shoulder, he once again jumped forward, turned around, and saw that nothing was there, making this all too creepy, "Come on, Spyro. I've already given the safe word basically, so you can't attack."

"You really don't understand, do you?" A voice spoke to his left.

"You are a very true and dear friend to me," A voice spoke to his right.

"And I say that from the bottom of my heart," Spyro spoke from the front as he emerged from the shadow of the trees, making Malefor look straight at him, "And while it's not official yet, your strengh, your enthusiasm, almost everything about you is the opposite of the Dark Master, and I never knew I would see you as such an ally. But now opening my eyes, I understand just how wrong I was," Turning his eyes from white back to his normal eyes, he gave a smile to him, admitting all about how he really felt, "I love having Carith around, and the family that you wish to protect along with me. Cynder never knew she'd have so many friends, and it's thanks to you, helping keep everyone protected, and for that, I deeply thank you."

"Then why does it still seem you wish to kill me?" Malefor gave a slight nervous chuckle.

"Because after this, I don't wish to fight you as an enemy anymore. For now on after, we will fight to spar, to train together, and I wish to see the growth that you've gone through. So, from one almost friend to another, give me that fight that I crave. Show me the strength that I wish to see, and to understand from what you've trained for, to protect others," Turning his eyes back to a white color, Malefor gave a huge sigh before getting into a fighting stance, and this was rather pleasing to Spyro as this is what he wanted, "Thank you, Malefor."

"I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die."

"Relax. If I stab your heart, I can just heal you up."

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?!"

"Hehe, hell no. I'm gonna put the fear of everything on you."

"You're such a bitch."

"I don't like your tone," Splitting his clone into another one, it walked behind Malefor, now making him completely surrounded, and slamming his fist into his paw real quick before putting his paws back to the ground, he knew he was going to enjoy this, "Alright you Hatchling! You ready to lose some teeth?"

"No," Malefor whimpered.

"Heh... Too bad."

Hearing what sounded like a bang, Carith opened her eyes and immediately stood up, fearing for the worst, Malefor! Running around and over towards the door, she opened it and wondered, Why did he close the door? Once she made her way inside, she looked all around to see that no one was in the Training Room, but hearing and seeing a piece of rubble hit the ground, she looked up to the roof and saw a hole in the ceiling. Who... Spyro?! Turning around, she made her way over to the other bedroom, and just as she got to the door, Cynder had stood by the doorway, rubbing her eye and asking, "Are those two fighting," Both giving sighs, she hoped that they at least wouldn't kill each other, and taking her paw down from her eye, she spoke "Well, they did say they would have their fight. At least they can get it out of the way now and be friends. Then, it's over, and we never have to worry for those two ever again."

"Yeah but, even still, how far is Spyro going to take the battle?"

"If Spyro takes too long, I will call him and stop the battle. But for now, should we head down to the Chambers?"

"Yeah... Once we get down there, let's give it a couple more minutes at least. Don't want Spyro to come back and want to hurt him some more in the coming days."

"Malefor! Where are you!" Spyro yelled out, unable to find where Malefor went after their slight battle, "Alright then, let me get rid of the surrounding area." Brining all of his clones back to his body, he felt his power light up within him, and this gave him the strengh that he needed, "And... snap," Brining his paw up and snapping his fingers, the entire surrounding area was flattened out, taking down trees for a good quarter mile, "There we go," Seeing for a second, he saw Malefor booked it away from him, running and flying over to the ocean, "Hehe, oh no no no." Kicking his wings outwards, he flung himself forward, putting a hole in the ground where he was, and with his speed, he turned into a dark blur for the time being, "I'm about to bust your ass."

Hearing a snapping wind coming towards him, Malefor looked behind himself to see Spyro flipping his body around, ready to kick him in the face. Ducking down on the floor, Spyro went right past him, and this was a great sign for Malefor as he went to attack, shooting an ice shard at him. Using his wings to snap himself around, Spyro eased his body on the ice shard, grabbed it with his paw and did a front flip before throwing it back at him. Just barely passing by his face, Malefor stood there in fear of what he just saw, both in speed, skill, and flexibility. Landing down on the ground, Spyro admitted, "You know, kinda wish you were much stronger then how you are now. First my love, and now you. I miss the challenge back with the Dark Master, though... he shouldn't have hurt Cynder, which I should've prevented."

"I did try and train my dark power, but even I have to admit, you using your dark powers puts me at a hella disadvantage. From one to another, could you fight without them?" Giving a sigh, it did seem more of a challenge for him, so, giving a sigh, Spyro let the darkness go back into his body, bringing back his bright purple color for his scales and eyes, "There we go. Now I have more of a chance," Getting back into his fighting stance, all Spyro could do was chuckle, sitting down and mocking him, "Cocky dragon you are."

"Cynder said the same thing."

"Well, unlike Cynder, I'm gonna kick your ass."

"Hah! Funny joke."

Kicking off the ground, Malefor swung his fist forward, but all Spyro had to do was move his head and avoid the punch. Now with Malefor exposed, Spyro twisted his arm underneath his, wrapping it around his arm and slamming his palm from his other paw into his chin. Hearing what sounded like a crack, he let Malefor go and watched as he backed off, holding his chin and growling, "Damn Dog! Where in the hell did you learn these... moves... Holy hell," Rolling his eyes, but still smiling, Spyro knew this fight wasn't to last long, but Malefor had to chuckle at himself, "You know, Cynder might like these moves, especially in bed."

"Oh, ha ha, very funny. You call Volteer a bitch in bed, yet, I'm thinking Carith's gonna be on top more then you."

"So, you believe she will be my mate?"

"I mean... You are rather an easy target, are you not?"

"Alright, you know what!" Flexing out his body and busting his paw into the ground, he wanted to fight for real now, "I'm gonna show that I can work and play just as hard as you do! I'm gonna give you the fight you want so badly!"

Kicking off his back paws and doing the same as before, he sung his paw over the left of Spyro's side, and seeing as he was ready to do the same move, Malefor anticipated this. As his arm was grabbed with Spyro ready to hit him in the chin once again, he used his wind powers to flip himself forward, over him, and grabbing a hold of the back of his neck, he flipped Spyro backwards and over him. Landing down on his paws, Malefor tossed Spyro to the ground, making him head straight to the ground and land right on his head. Just as he was about to hit the ground, Spyro used his dark powers to faze through his paw that had grabbed his neck. Kicking off the ground with his front two paws, he now stood in front of Malefor, and seeing how dumbfounded he was, Spyro could only chuckle, "Yeah, not going to let that work on me."

"The hell kind of bull shit was that?!" Malefor cried.

"This is fun, that's for sure."

"I was thinking of a hypothetical question just to have some fun," Cynder spoke, wanting to have a little fun as they made their way to the Chambers, "Hypothetically, if you were as strong as Spyro, what would you do? Where would you go? You'll still have your slim body of course and nothing will change, but would you make Malefor pay for what he's done, or, what?"

"Hum... Well, since I could bust the sound barrier, I would like to explore the world some more, see what I'm missing."

"I wonder how the Guardians would react to that question," Seeing as they were right at the Chamber entrance, she knew she didn't have to wait long to get her answer, and with her and Carith turning into the Chambers, the Guardians of course were already sitting in the row they normally did, "Alright guys, and Claire, I have a hypothetical real quick just to pass the time." Sitting down at the left wall from the entrance, Carith sat down near her right wall and knew what the answer was going to be from the others rather quickly, "If you had the same powers as Spyro, what would you do and or where would you go?"

"We'd kill Malefor," Everyone agreed, laughing even from everyone saying in unison.

"You all are horrible. Let that poor man live his life," Carith whimpered.

"He is living a life, and that's the unfortunate part," Terrador grumbled, giving a slight smile even.

"Well, backing off from the hypothetical, what are we to do today? I do kinda wish we could go somewhere rather then being in the Chambers," Cynder wondered, and everyone else did as well aside from Ignitus as he worried for today, but he made sure to stay calm and not be suspicious, "Don't get me wrong, I love being here, but I wish to do something fun. Oh, I have a great idea. Ersa, do you have any potions that we could test and have fun with as before?"

"Oh, well... Ahem... I've been rather... preoccupied," Ersa gave a blush, smiling even, and everyone else blushed as they knew what she was talking about.

"Damn... Can you two go one day without... doing... stuff?" Cyril asked, feeling a little uncomfortable just to ask.

"Look, unless you understand yourself, don't come at me with your aggression."

"Don't make a joke, Ersa!" Terrador cut in, seeing she was to say something, so in order to make another conversation, he asked, "So where are the other two at?"

"Fighting... again. They are having their last battle as enemies," Carith answered.

"I don't mean to rush this but, Cynder, may you call Spyro back," Ignitus's fear was very noticeable in his voice, and even though he controlled his shivers, he couldn't control his voice, and since he saw everyone's suspicion, he gave a sigh, "Look... I can say right now, Flint is to attack rather soon, and I don't know if it could be today or tomorrow, but I know, last thing we need is for those two to blow through their powers," Giving a nod, Cynder used the darkness around her heart for a second, and once she felt his heart beat, she let the darkness fall back down, "Thank you."

"You do make a good point, so, it's the least I could do. And, also, we don't know how long they've been fighting, so it's just best to stop them now and let them become friends," Cynder agreed to everything Ignitus was saying, so it was a rather easy task for her to do.

The Chambers grew quiet for the time being as no one knew what to say, especially with Malefor gone, so they didn't have someone constantly talking. After waiting for a couple more seconds, they heard what sounded like glass breaking, which came from their sleeping Chambers. With everyone looking at the door, another crash was heard. From above the door, Spyro and Malefor came crashing through the wall, sending rubble all throughout the room, and using their wings, the Guardians protected them selves while Ignitus and Volteer protected their lover's. During front flips on the ground in the middle of the room, they exited the Chamber entrance and hitting Malefor's back against the wall, breathing just as heavily as Spyro, he was pinned against the wall, tail blade by his neck and on his back two paws along with Spyro. Trying to control their breaths, they both gave smiles to one another before Spyro backed off him and the two fell back down to their front paws. Taking his tail blade back, he shuck it off, turned, and asked his lover as he looked to her, "You called, my love?" Seeing everyone was still in shock of their entrance, Malefor walked to where Carith was, and for Spyro, he walked over to the left wall where Cynder was, "My bad. I knew I needed to get Malefor back to the Chambers so, I tackled him."

"Hehe, yeah, that shit hurt too. When he means tackle, he means he grabbed my neck first and threw me to the window before actually tackling," Malefor laughed, but once he looked around his body and seeing how dirty he was, along with Spyro once he picked his head up, he asked to Ignitus, "Hey, Ignitus, can you help us out and use your powers to clean up our dirty bodies?" Getting a nod from him, he brought up a paw and snapped his fingers, and once he did, their bodies slowly cleaned up of their dirt and some blood that had been spilled, "Thanks... And also, Thank Ancestors that was our last fight, Spyro," Pausing for a second, he watched as the rubble cleaned itself up while also cleaning the others bodies from the dust, and once Spyro sat down next to his lover, Malefor continued, "I'm definitely going to need your help when it comes to future training. That bull ass move you did with that ice shard was broken."

"What ice shard move?" Cynder asked.

"I shot an ice shard at him, he twisted in the air, stood on it, grabbed it, did a front flip, and threw it back at me," Getting wide eyes from everyone as they looked to Spyro, all he could do was chuckle as Malefor talked more of his powers, "He also snap his fingers so hard that it leveled the damn forest. And for another one which hurt like a bitch, I went to attack him, swung my fist, but as I passed his face, he wrapped his paw around my arm and slammed his palm from his other paw to my chin."

"Uhhhhh..." With everyone at a lost for words, Cynder looked to Spyro and asked as she wondered, "So... You want to make out or what?"

"Hehe, I mean, if you want to," Spyro chuckled

"Please don't. We already have to hear of Volteer and Ersa. Please no more mushy stuff," Terrador begged.

"Spyro did the same thing to me as well. When I went to attack him, he jumped to my tail blade, touched like the top of it, did a back flip and landed to the ground with ease," With more and more of talks about Spyro's skill, Ignitus wondered if he even needed to worry at all about the battle to come, and with Cynder talking more about what Spyro had done, it only made him feel more comfortable, "Mind you, my tail blade had poison dripping from it, so he somehow managed to avoid that as well."

"Hey, I know that we are talking about your skill and all, but, if it's okay with you... could we make our friendship official?" Malefor asked all the sudden, and everyone looked to Spyro as he wondered what he should say, and feeling as if he was still on the edge of what to do, he assured him, "Look, Spyro, if you do need more time, I understand. I don't what you to have anymore doubts about me."

"No... You're right, I just need to call it as it is..." Getting a wide smile from Malefor, Spyro rolled his eyes, smiling as well, "You've... done a lot, and I already gave my speech from before, so I don't believe anything more needs to be said," Everyone smiled as they looked to Malefor, watching as tail wagged from joy, and they listened to what Spyro had to say, "Malefor... After everything that has happened, I hope I can trust as my ally, and no longer as an enemy, but rather, my frien..." Hearing a loud explosion along with a massive rumbling, Spyro cried out, "What the hell was that?!"

"No... No no no!" Ignitus cried, standing up and running out of the Chambers, and since he was so panicked, everyone quickly got up as well and followed, "I knew he was going to attack! I shouldn't have let those two fight, I should've let him heal, I should've let him rest!" Making it around to the ground steps, his body skid as he bashed his shoulder onto the wall, but shrugging it off, he continued his way over to the door, "Spyro, my son, please understand what is to happen, who your enemy is."

Bashing into the door, Ignitus turned to his left and gasped as he looked over Warfang. With the others making it outside as well, they all did the same, turning to their left and looking over Warfang. With everyone else giving out a gasp, Spyro was the main one to look over the battlefield in shock, unable to give out anything. Three holes were blown in Warfang; one to the left, another to the right, and to the front, the massive sized door had been blown down. From each of the three holes stormed in apes, dark creatures, and even dragons. Now looking up, his eye grew wide to see something else that he didn't understand of how. The Destroyer started to make its way over to the Volcano as it had once did before. With everything going on all at once, it was rather overwhelming to him, but immediately, his body stood straight up as he knew who this could've been tied to. The other all backed off from him as his darkness slowly started to take over his body. His body tensed, his frustration was heard through his teeth as he growled, and watching as he turned, he yelled at Malefor, "No... No no no! I TRUSTED YOU!" Watching as he tried to defend himself, Spyro threw his paw sideways, kicking up wind and causing everyone to slide back even more, "YOU USED ME! You knew this was to happen today! You made me blow through my power! YOU SON OF A BITCH! Shedding tears from his eyes, he took a step forward, burning the ground as he did, "I trusted you... I believed you... AND YOU TOOK THAT TRUST AND DESTROYED IT! Just like the same as you're to do to the world." Taking another step forward, Cynder and Carith jumped in front of him, blocking him with their wings to defend, "CARITH! CYNDER! MOVE!"

"NO!" Cynder cried, knowing this was to happen, and she needed to calm him as quickly as possible, "I knew this was to happen, we all knew this was to happen, Spyro, and we've told you constantly that you'll be fighting someone of which you didn't need to! Malefor is not your enemy. Someone else is out there, controlling the darkness," Getting wide eyes from what she was saying, this confirmed his suspicions of another Dark Master, "Spyro, please, if we don't focus, your death really will happen, and I will lose you... Please, don't do this."

"Carith... Cynder... Please back up," Malefor whispered, and seeing them look to him, he pushed through their wings by walking between them, causing them to take their wings back, "Spyro..." Sitting down in front of him, Spyro was ready for an attack, but it was rather the opposite, "If you don't believe them, then kill me. You've always wanted to, and if you don't trust me... I understand," Giving a growl, he watched as more tears dripped from Spyro's eyes, and seeing this was difficult for him, he begged for his help, "I didn't plan this, I didn't want to betray your trust in me, and I never will. But the longer we sit here and wait, the more that could die, so please, just believe me, trust me as you always have, and I will never let you down."

The Guardians and girls looked to see the friends and Celia flying over behind Spyro and Blitz spoke, "We can keep them busy while you all get together. My and Celia will take the left, Sesal takes right, and Bolt will take the middle. We will need back up as soon as you can." Flying away, he looked to his friends and begged for them to be safe, "Bolt, Sesal, watch your backs. I don't want to lose either of you."

Still unable to think of what to do, Spyro came up with his own plan, making two clones, one to his left, and one to his right, "Stay here, all of you! I've worked my ass off to make sure I could protect you all and that's exactly what I am to do," Turning away from everyone and facing Warfang, Spyro whispered to Malefor, hoping he would keep his word, "If you really are still, Malefor, keep everyone safe for me while I battle. I can't have a distraction or else I will fail."

"You need me, Spyro. What about that battle of who is to kill the most dark creatures..."

"THIS ISN'T A GAME!" Spyro yelled in frustrations over his words, "Stay here, don't move, and don't say anything else to me ever again," Kicking off the ground and cracking the concrete of where he stood, one clone went to the left, another to the right, and for Spyro, he made his way to the middle.

Everyone watched as the Spyro's went their own separate ways, and the others wondered how he would deal with this battle. Seeing each clone have a massive shine of something from within their paws, they threw it near the hole of each of the openings, and once they impacted, Warfang lit up like a fire work, killing hundreds of the enemies to the point of where the attack stopped for a couple of seconds before they continue pouring in again. Seeing his display of power, they all walked up to the front and watched more of his battle, and Terrador wondered if they even needed to do anything, "Spyro... really could single out this war, couldn't he?"

"Yes, but then the earth will be destroyed if he does," Ignitus spoke, and everyone wondered what he meant by this, "His power is the only way to stop the Destroyer, and with his battle to Malefor, and his use of powers now, he's going to run out before he even gets to the Destroyer," Looking over to his friend, Volteer, they needed a plan quickly, "Volteer, we need that smart brain of yours. I don't wish to put pressure on you, but we need one right now."

"Uh... Oh... Okay," Giving a huge sigh and trying to control his breathing, he had a perfect plan for the time being, "Terrador, help Sesal as he might be the weakest. Cyril, help Bolt, and for Ignitus, you said you could fight, and since the most are coming in from the middle, you and Claire fight there."

"About time I can put my assassin skills back to work," Claire smirked, pulling up her tail blade up as she was ready when ever.

"Me and Ersa will make some red gem potions to help all of you around, along with some stamina ones as well," Thinking of what else there was to do, he needed to know where the others were to go, "Malefor put effort to the right. Cynder, since Spyro's real body is middle, go middle. Once you all are done, help assist other sides as soon as you can," Seeing as a dark dragon was heading for them, he called him out, "But first, we need to deal with who ever this is."

With the dark dragon landing more towards the steps, everyone looked to him, and this dark dragon was made of complete darkness and not completely real, "Hello, Cynder, my love," Snarling at him, Cynder knew it was Flint's voice, and with her growl, he growled back, "You could've prevented all of this. This isn't on me, this is on you. But tell you what; If you join me now, I can call off the attack and the Destroyer, and we can live a rather happy life together."

"Go to hell!"

"Not nice, Cynder. But tell you what, how about I take control of you real quick and force another problem?"

In an instant, the dark dragon and his darkness split into two, one going into Cynder and another going into Malefor. Both of them fell to the floor as they tried to fight back this darkness that felt like it was tearing up their bodies from the inside. The others backed up from them, unknowing of what to do, but Cynder had an idea of how to fight back. Using a slight portion of the darkness Spyro gave, she heard his heart, and it was beating rather fast, but she knew she got his attention. For Malefor, this was a big fear for him, and he didn't wish to turn, Carith is here! The Guardians... Claire... Cynder! I can't put them through this pain! Never again! The Guardians looked up to see Spyro had came over, still in his dark form, and as he walked up to Cynder, he helped her up first. Putting a paw against her chest, he pulled his paw back, grabbing the darkness away from her. With all the darkness extracted from with her, the darkness formed in a ball in his palm, and crushing the darkness from within his paw, the darkness was completely destroyed. Giving out a huge sigh with sweat dripping down her body, she thanked him, "Thank you... for the save... my love."

Reaching his paw forward and putting his paw on her chest one again, he erupted darkness into her body, keeping her safe from any other future attempt. Walking past her and around her side, he walked up to Malefor and was about to do the same, but he cried out, "No! Don't!" Raising a brow, Spyro wondered as to why he would say this, and he believed it was cause he wanted to turn, but he was proven wrong, "I won't harm you... all... ever again... I'm not turning... I never will!" Tensing his body, he stood on his back two paws, extended his wings and yelled, "NEVER AGAIN!" The darkness exploded from within his body, and feeling the darkness from within him, he landed back on his two paws, but while gasping for air, he saw he was still darkened, "Why... Am I still... Dark?" Looking up to Spyro, he didn't feel anything wrong with him, and looking around his paw, he laughed, "He... Hehehe... Hahaha! I did it! I got that shit down, I shut it down, and look at me!" His body, similar to Spyro flexed, now having control over his darkness, he cried happily, "Spyro! I did it! I... I did it... And it's all thanks to you."

Carith gave off a blush to see this new form of his, and she wondered as she asked him, hoping that he would hear, but he didn't, "Take me..."

Hearing cries from the citizens from Warfang, Volteer canceled out her voice and quickly called out, "You all need to go! And change of plans with this new development! Terrador, Cyril, go middle! That's where the most are coming from. Ignitus, Claire, go left! Malefor and Carith, take on right," Getting nods from everyone, they all did as they were told, opening their wings and flying to where they needed to be, and now all that was left was Cynder, "Spyro, you can't stop Cynder. If she wishes to fight, you need to bring your clones back together and fight along side her as you have before."

Looking behind himself, Spyro wondered how she would react to his words, and Cynder already had her tail blade ready, "Now with this extra darkness you gave me, we should be able to synchronize as we did once before," Giving a sigh, he understood where she was coming from, and watching him open his wings, she did the same, and once he took to the skies, she did the same, "Don't worry, I will stay by your side the entire time."

"Well then, with the darkness I gave you, I can control your darkness, so you should be able to hold that darkened form as well," Spyro finally spoke, and reaching the front of the door entrance rather quickly, he gave a smirk as he did see this as fun, "Now, let's deal with these enemies," With his clones coming back to his body, he erupted his body back into full power, and once he did, he spoke to her, "Now, use the darkness within you, and we will synchronize," Doing as she was told, the two floated into the air for a second, being lifted off the ground, and once their darkness was synchronized, they fell back down to the ground, "Your body will stay the same color, you'll just have a slight dark aura."

"Enough talk! I want to kill!" Feeling blood thirsty with this new power, she rushed in head on, and following behind her was Spyro as he stayed close by her.

With the two running in to assist Bolt in his attempts to hold back the enemy combatants, he jumped back from one of their attacks, but as he did, the dark creature was slashed in two as Cynder ran past him. Then looking to his right, he watched as Spyro ran into battle, nearly invincible once he ran head first into the fight. Watching as the front of Warfang was being rather protected very well, he backed up some more and wondered, Do they... really need my help? His question was answered once he saw the two shooting out a black beam that leveled the battle field, and now knowing what to do, he turned around, opened his wings, and thought of what to do next, "Guess I should assist Blitz and his army."

With the forces that stormed the left side of Warfang, Blitz and Celia had some trouble trying to hold the forces back, and both hoped here soon that they would have some kind of reinforcements. Being slightly over whelmed, both him and Celia took some slashes from the apes and dark forces, each slash making it more and more difficult to continue. Now being overwhelmed herself, Celia fell to the ground, taking a spear to her arm that went through her body and touching the concrete as it came out the other side of her shoulder. Turning to see this, Blitz cried out, "Celia!" Running over to her, he kept a field of fire near his right side to cover him like a shield for a time being, but once he made it to Celia, he knew he had to act fast, "I got you, I got you," Picking up her body with his wings and falling back, he backed away in towards Warfang, wondering what he should do, "Damnit... They are going to swarm this area." Hearing a snap, he watched as all the forces that stormed the area disintegrated into dark ashes, even the apes, which made him stop, "What the hell?"

"Blitz, go to the Training Room," A voice spoke, and watching as Ignitus landed in front of him along with Claire, he continued, "Spyro made a hole in the roof already, so go through there and go to the gem room right under it. We can hold the line till you get back," Giving a nod, he did as he was told, and switching her to his arms, he opened his wings and flew to where he was told, "Now with Blitz out of the way, you seem ready to murder, my love."

"Hehe, well, not being able to kill you all, I've wanted to hurt something, and knowing I can kill these troops will make me all too happy," The troops poured into the side once again, now making them prepare for another battle, "Leave some for me of course, and I don't mind this at all but, do you mind, watching my back?" Hearing him give a chuckle, he knew what she meant by this, and giving him a smile, she knew he agreed, "Just try and attack normally. Using your powers would make this rather too easily."

"Well, I can only do so much. My power for this battle has been limited by the Ancestors, so."

Blocking a spear that was thrown to Ignitus by using an ice shard to knock it out of the air, it was a little frustrating for her to hear this, "Of course the Ancestors would want us dead."

"I could easily end these enemies if they allowed me, but I most fight normally after what I just did."

"Then normally we shall fight."

With Terrador and Cyril standing on a building, over looking the front entrance battle, they looked at one another, wondering if they even needed to help as it seemed the other two were handling things just fine. They looked away from the battle and watched as Bolt flew away from the battle and over to the left side of Warfang, hoping he could be useful somewhere else. Hearing screams and cries behind them, the two turned to see that the enemy still made it in, and slapping Cyril on the shoulder, he knew what they needed to do, "We need to just protect the citizens. Me and you will be damage control." Jumping off the building, they used their wings to ease their descent, and now to the ground, they ran in to help defend those around the area, "Stay close. We don't need to be making things more difficult for the two of us."

"But, what about Malefor? Do you really think he can do everything on that side with just him, Carith, and Sesal?"

"We just have to hope."

Landing down on the battle field to the right of Warfang, Malefor watched to see Sesal was struggling, bleeding down his arms, legs, and wings. Unfortunately, he was unable to get the enemies from coming in to Warfang, which made him fall to the ground in defeat. I... Can't... do this... I... failed. Hearing steps to his right, he saw something dark, similar to a dark creature, letting him know what was to happen, So then... This is where I die. Watching as the dark figure walked in front of him, it seemed like a dragon, and once he spoke, Sesal knew who this was, "Go and recover. Ersa and Volteer will be out any moment now, and last thing we need is a death," Sesal chuckled at his words, but Malefor smiled as he knew what he was thinking, "I will be fine. Just go," Doing as he was told, it took him a bit to stand, but once he did, he turned and flew to the air, not really knowing where to go aside from assisting else where, "Now that he's gone, let's see what this power holds."

With Carith sitting down at the back of the battlefield, she smiled and wished to cheer him on, "I'll be watching my love! If you need me to join, just say so."

Giving a huge smile, he was happy Carith was with him, and since she was with him, he thought to himself, don't mess this up. You must, protect her, protect my love. Pulling up a paw and pointing one claw forward, he shot a black beam from out of his finger, sniping through the enemies and going far enough to put a dent in the forces. Whoa... I wonder what else I can do. Seeing himself being surrounded, he stood up on his back two paws, putting a thumb up and his finger forward, and with this, he shot his sniper shot from both of his paws. The shots penetrated through everything, wiping out enemies in a line, but as cool as it was for him, he saw he was still getting surrounded, so he wish to try something else out. Opening his wings and flying upwards, he let his wings go, flying just a little bit more upwards from his momentum. With his body hurtling back to the ground, he raised his two front paws upwards. Once reaching the ground, he slammed his paws to the ground, exploding the ground around him, sending out his dark powers throughout the area and dealing with all those around him. Smiling wide, this reminded him of another similar power, "This is just like that titan from that one book! If I sent out an electric attack that was blue, I would be exactly like the striker! Hell yeah man! This is friggen AMAZING! And with my fingers, what if I made my own golden gun?! Oh ho ho HO! I must try!" Looking behind himself, smiling wide once again, he wondered if she had seen that, "Carith! What do you think?!"

"I'm thinking about grabbing those lips of yours with my own if you keep this up!"

"Hehe, Hell Yeah!"

Swinging his boulder tail around which knocked and killed an enemy as it slammed to the wall, Terrador turned to his right and watched as a building was coming down, but making things worse, dragons were running from it who seemed like a couple. Taking some steps forward, he believed they should be fine to make it out of the reach of the building, but the green female fell to the ground, hitting her head on the pavement and knocking her out for the time being. Gasping, Terrador ran over to her, and turning to look to his left, he saw the red dragon waved his paw and left her. Bastard! Making it over to the female, he didn't think wise enough with his reaction, so, standing above her body, he let the building fall down on his back, breaking the ground around his paws from the weight of the building. DAMN! This shit is... heavy! The female came to, and with her coming back, she looked up, gasping to see Terrador above her, keeping the building up and trying to protect her. With her now awake, Terrador tried to speak, but he mainly growled, "GO...! Run...!"

"Bu... But why did you... Where did the red dragon go?" The female asked.

"He... left...! I would... love to talk more, but... I can't... hold this...!"

"Let me help."

Crawling from out underneath him, she stood up once she rolled to her paws. Using her powers, she made a couple of pillars made out of earth to help him out. Now with the pillars supporting the building, Terrador gave a huge sigh, falling down to the ground as his body felt horrible, like his limbs had just ripped. Walking up to his side, she used her wings by putting one over and around his body. Helping him out from underneath the building, just as they got away from underneath it, the pillars cracked before they broke, causing the building to fall to the ground, making dust kick to the air with the thud. Giving a sigh and a smile, he thanked her for the help, "Thank you... And also, sorry. I should've just used my powers to help, but I just... reacted."

"That building could've killed me... I should be the one who's thanking you."

"Did I just see you get saved by a girl, Terrador," Cyril snickered, running up and to the front of him.

"What's wrong with that?" The two asked in unison.

"Nothing... I wonder what Malefor would say to this."

"Do not tell him anything! I don't trust him."

"Because of... what's happening."

"No, we all know the truth. I'm talking about what he would say. I will hurt him."

"It will be brought up sooner or later."

"Unfortunately... Keep going around and helping those around us... I need to recover just... a bit," Getting a nod, Cyril opened his wings and flew up to the sky, looking around for anyone whom may needed help, and now with him gone, he was able to get back to his paws, angered by what Cyril had done, "I told him to stay with me, and he could've helped but, why would he have done that? He's too busy cracking a Damn joke," Hearing her giggle, he surprisingly gave a chuckle himself, and now getting his energy back, she felt him ease back to the ground, so she took her wing back from around him, putting them back to her side, "I know I already said this, but... Thanks."

"Anytime."

"Anytime?"

"Well... Now that I've been able to talk with you... I... Wondered if I... could some more?"

"Are you scared to talk with the Guardians."

"Of course! But... Seeing that you two were joking as normal dragons... I... I wonder what else is... normal about you."

"You don't have to be so scared to speak. I'm just here to help."

"Would it be... rude for me to... stop by and talk?"

"Absolutely not. We all wish to smile, and I'm sure if you wish to as well, you'll feel right at home."

"Really?!" The green female smiled, even wagging her tail, but trying to control herself, she wanted to apologize, "Sorry, it's just... After what my boyfriend just did, I... Want to move away from that life and hopefully start another one without him..." Wondering what she meant by that, she blushed and waved her paws in front of her face, "No no no, not like that! I just mean like, a change of atmosphere. It would be really nice to meet those who are also rather nice and... comfortable around me."

"Well, the girls would be happy to see you of course."

"It... Really does sound nice."

"So, after this war is over with, would you... like to stop by tomorrow?"

"You really would let me...?"

"We are just normal dragons."

"Oh, right, sorry... Tomorrow sounds nice."

"For now, seek safety and we can meet up later."

"Once again... that sounds rather... not rather, but... very, nice."

Smiling at one another, she turned and ran to a safe place, and it was rather surprising for him to smile as wide as he did, and even he thought about it himself, Why am I smiling?! I shouldn't be doing such a thing. Just, remember what's happened before! Don't get attached to love or anything like that anymore. Landing down next to him, Cyril smirked as he had saw the whole thing, and bumping his shoulder with his, he asked, "So, uh, what was that little spiciness that I just saw? I haven't seen you smile so big in your life."

"What?!" Terrador growled, shaking his head which got him back to himself, "I wasn't smiling! Wh-why aren't you helping around the area?!"

"Oh, I met up with Sesal and Bolt. Sesal was rather hurt, but he said he could still fight with help. Once we split up, I came back here to help and see you two... flirting I assume? I saw some blushes between you two."

"I want to hurt you so damn badly... Just forget what you saw, understand! I'm done with relationships, alright!"

"Okay, okay, calm down."

"Alright, we have everything we need here. The only problem is how long it will take to mix the chemicals. We need to snap the Crystal right and we need the right mix," Volteer spoke rather quickly, running back and forth with his mate from their tables as they made their potions, "We need to make sure these work better then red and green gems. Giving a boost will help them out, similar to Spyro's time power," Being quick about it, he snapped a red gem, grabbed some dust, dropped it in, grabbed a spoon, mixed it, and for his finale, he threw in a small little purple crystal, "Alright, now just to mix and electrify it." Hearing someone or something fall, he looked to his left, seeing it was Ersa as she nearly passed out from her anxiety, "Ersa!" Taking the spoon out and putting it down on the table, he ran over to her, comforting her as he put his wings around her as she sat there, "It's okay, my love, it's okay."

"I... I'm sorry, I just... I... I couldn't handle the Destroy the first time, the wall of fire, the panic, the fear, the world being destroyed... Thinking you could be dead-Volteer... I... I don't want to lose all of this," Ersa cried, shivering and snuggling up to him as she enjoyed his comfort.

"That's not going to happen. Ignitus will never understand everything, and remember, the Ancestors tried to scare you during that nightmare and failed. So just the same, they will fail with what ever they have planned now, okay?" His words helped her back her head up and look to his eyes, which, to give her more comfort, he wiped away a tear, whispering to her in a soothing tone, "We will be fine... Work with ease, don't push yourself... I can do the work as I'm most trained in this. All I need are the gems that I ask for, okay."

"Oh... Okay... I can... do that."

"After this is all done with, I know how to calm you better tonight, okay?"

"Hehe... Giving me something to look forward to definitely gives me the energy to stand up and keep going."

"You just love me."

"Yeah. Everything, about you."

Now with the entire front of Warfang having been dealt with, Cynder smiled wide, happy with all of the destruction that had happened, "I haven't felt this alive in forever!" Turning to see Spyro smirking with a raised brow, she giggled as she corrected herself, "What I meant was, I haven't felt so blood thirsty in forever," Turning back and facing the Destroyer, she knew what they needed to do next, "Everyone else should have Warfang covered, so what do you say we live some of the past and deal with that big bitch."

"Cynder..." Spyro murmured, getting her attention as she turned back around, "If... he makes it... and... I can't stop it..."

"NO!" Cynder quickly growled, "You and Malefor, we, all of us, together, will take it out!" Walking up to him, putting her tail blade tip against his chest and threatening him, it was rather scary for him, but he still enjoyed himself, "We are going to deal with it, then, we are going back to our room and make out with the remainder of your power, do I make myself clear!" Giving a hard swallow, he didn't reject what she said, fearing for his life as he knew there was nothing he could do, "Save that swallowing for my poison, understand? Now, let's go and figure out a plan on how we could deal with him."

Letting out his fire, Ignitus killed a couple more troops to end off their side. Looking over to his right, he saw Claire stand above an ape, slitting its throat before falling back to the ground as it disappeared. Giving a hard swallow for this, Claire turned to see this, and seeing his fears, she used this for her own advantage, "Man you're a lucky dragon. Sent to kill you just to end up loving you. Now that I've used my tail blade, pretty sure the Guardians are safe now for what happened," Standing in front of him and putting a claw to his lips, she gave a sad frown as a joke, "Someone's lips need some loving, don't they?"

"Hehe... Not just yet. We've almost cleared out the enemies, and then, we just have to deal with the Destroyer."

"Yeah, he's going to be the biggest problem," Claire sighed, taking her claw from his lips.

"Ignitus!" Hearing his name called and looking behind himself, they saw it was Blitz and Celia once again, and he was the one to speak, "We are here and ready to... back you... up... where's the threat?"

"Dead."

"Oh... I, apologize for being absent for such a thing."

"I probably would've been more pissed off if you stayed. Killing those dark forces was rather fun. There were some dragons as well but, they turned and ran so, what ever, I guess."

"So you don't need any assists over here?" Bolt asked, landing next to Blitz, along with Sesal.

"No," Ignitus responded, and since it seemed like the battle was dying down for now, he gave his own plan on what they should do, "Now with you all here, regroup up at the Guardian's Building entrance. Volteer and Ersa should be out any moment and it seems to me you all, especially you, Sesal, need some medical attention," They all knew his words to be true as the friends looked to Sesal and his banged up body, so now all that was left was a couple other dragons, "Where's Terrador and Cyril? And does Malefor need help?"

"Um... Yeah... About... Malefor," Blitz chuckled.

"Is he doing okay?" Cyril asked, sitting on a building with Terrador by his side and watching as Malefor was having way too much fun with his new powers.

"GOLDEN GUN, BITCH!" Malefor laughed, standing up his back two paws and shooting fire from his paw, flicking his thumb with his other paw as though it was a revolver, "Bam Bam Bam! Oh no! The gun only has six shots, what do I do?!" Launching as he flew to the sky, he spun in a circle, throwing ice shards down on the enemies with fire inside of them, "BLADE DANCE!" With the shards of ice hitting the ground, the fire inside of them exploded, killing the entire rest of the army, but Malefor didn't know this and raised a paw into the air, pulling back out his gun "GOLDEN GUN!" Landing back to the ground and on his two paws, he looked around the battlefield, and seeing he had killed everything, he fell to his knees and cried, "No... There's no reason for me to live... NONE!"

"Should we help him?" Cyril asked.

"Naw... Let him cry a little more. Makes me feel good to see his pain," Terrador smirked as this was way more enjoyable then he thought.

"Yeah... You're right."

Walking over to her lover, Carith felt bad that he was having some much fun, only for it to be taken from him. Making over to his side, Malefor looked to his left, whimpering with quivering lips, but she saw something from his lips, and she called him out for it, "I can see you're already getting your lips wet with water. Does someone want a kiss now that the big bad monsters are gone," With him giving a nod, she smiled, putting a wing on his back and easing him down to the ground, "Just lay back then," With him on his back and her over him, she licked her own lips, ready for a well deserved kiss, "I shall do all the work for you."

Now with the two making out on the floor, Terrador grumbled, turned away, and suggested something else, "Now I just want to leave."

"Yeah... You're right," Cyril agreed, saying the same words as last time.

"Didn't you already say that?"

"I don't know, Terrador, did I? But if I'm being honest... Yeah... You're right."

"Keep doing that and I'm really going to break your neck."

"You're a mean one, mister Terrador."

"That joke was already made!"

Running down the hallway of the Guardian's Building, Ersa had her satchel on her right side as normal with Volteer by her left side. Once the two reached the door, they pushed it open and saw that most of the group was already there, waiting for them. All that sat there was the friends, Celia who now joined the group of friends, Ignitus, and Claire. Giving a sigh of relief, Ersa was glad to see that everyone so far made it out safely, but a couple were still missing, "Wait... Where's Malefor? Terrador, Cyril, Carith, and the other two?!"

"Whoa whoa, Ersa, calm down," Ignitus spoke, trying to calm her as he understood her stress, "Don't worry. We've all spoke together on what's happened and I decided to follow with them. While I'm speaking, can you please heal everyone that's around us right now?" She first focused Sesal as he was the most damage, so she grabbed a bottle and gave it to him, but seeing he didn't understand, Ignitus explained, "Just break it in your paws," With him healing himself and Ersa helping the others, he continued with his words, "Terrador, Cyril, Carith, and Malefor are together near the right wall and should be heading back soon. As for Spyro and Cynder... We, don't really know. But I'm assuming they are going to deal with the Destroyer?"

"All by themselves?!" Volteer cried out in unison with Ersa.

"Are we really that surprised though? It's the biggest problem as of right, but the question is, will they have enough power to deal with the Destroyer?"

Sitting down and thinking of what there was to do, Volteer had a thought that came to mind, but instead of thinking about it, he thought out loud, "Maybe we could destroy the Destroyer. Combining our elements into the Elemental Desolation, adding other elements within our fire power, Malefor and Spyro using their attacks; if we focused one specific spot, we could knock it out. Maybe it would help, or it would slow his progress," It sounded like a rather good plan, but it was all about execution of how they would preform this, "We'd all need to be lined up though. If one of us isn't using our full strength, then we could fail, but then again, we don't even know if he could heal himself."

"What are we talking about?" Terrador asked, landing in front of everyone and nearest to the edge with Cyril by his side.

"Dealing with the Destroyer."

"Wait, where's Malefor and Carith," Ersa tried her best to keep calm, and lucky for her, Terrador assured her of their safety.

"Malefor reeked havoc, and now, because of his show of power, Carith is now making out with him... on the ground... during this battle."

"I could use a make out session right about now."

"I think we all would like one with our loves," Claire admitted, wishing to have done the same with Ignitus.

"I know Terrador might want one with that female, that's for sure," Cyril joked, elbowing him in the shoulder, but now taking it too far, Terrador punched him in the shoulder, "UGH!" Falling down to his knees and holding the left side of his shoulder, his forehead ducked down to the ground as he cried, "Holy hell... Man down... Man... down!"

"Instead of waiting here any longer, I'm going to say we go with the plan I've already made," Volteer spoke, trying to get everyone's attention, "We all will go while the friends and Celia help around Warfang and make sure everyone's alright. And, instead of saying friends and Celia, I hope it's okay I just say friends which will include Celia."

"Well, me and Celia aren't... Friends," Blitz spoke, blushing even, but for everyone else, they saw this as him being rude.

"Thought you said you wouldn't do anything that would change our view of you?" Ignitus spoke with a rather unpleasant tone.

"No no no, not like that! When I mean we aren't friends, I mean that she's my... Lover..."

"WHAT?!" Everyone cried in unison.

"But... How... When?!" Ersa was the one to ask.

"Well... After he helped me in the Training Room... We had a little talk and I... already felt so comfortable around him. He made me some promises, and I... trust him to keep those to me," Celia spoke, and everyone smiled now as this was rather good news to hear all around as of right now, aside from the Destroyer, "I didn't want to rush it as of... What Cynder had said, but I've never met someone like Blitz before, and so... Like I said... I trust him."

"Now if you screw this up, we will definitely be pissed at you, Blitz," Terrador warned.

"I would not destroy this chance of a prefect life," Blitz spoke with a smile as he wasn't worried at all.

"While you might not, the Destroyer will," Ignitus spoke, looking to the Destroyer as it was only getting closer and closer to the Volcano, "We need to get the other two and head over to the Volcano as soon as we can."

Circling around the Destroyer in hopes of finding an opening, Spyro growled in the air as he flew, thinking as nothing made sense to him, Why is the Destroyer moving with darkness? Why is it different then Malefor's darkness while still feeling like the Dark Master?! Who's really behind this?! His anger grew to the point that his darkness started to get out of control, but once he saw Cynder at the corner of his eye as she flew over to him, he controlled the darkness and spoke, "I can't find anyway to deal with the Destroyer. As of right now, our only best bet is to do as we did before when it attacked Warfang. The problem is, without those Crystals, it's next to unstoppable, and after it grabbed you the first time when we woke, this bastard still pisses me off."

"We will think of something," Backing up with Spyro and avoiding the shoulder of the Destroyer, Cynder spoke once again, "Maybe I can use my poison to help melt him down. As of right now, or beam of darkness could be our best bet, but even as strong as it is, it couldn't do anything to the thickness of the Destroyer, would it?" Seeing that her lover was thinking rather intensely, she continued to look around the Destroyer, now looking to his back and wondering if there was anything they could do, "Maybe... With Malefor's help, we could figure out where the darkness is originating from and take that out."

"Malefor would know where since he's using it."

"Spyro..."

"Sorry... I meant, used it."

"Maybe it's head?"

"Maybe it's chest, Maybe his leg, Maybe his eye. There's too many spots for us to go through, and at that point, he would just destroy the world anyway," Looking down and seeing everyone had been waving at them to come down, Spyro nudged his head to the ground, and she followed, "Maybe there is something I could do, but there is only one problem with it," Landing down in front of everyone along with Cynder, he gave out his idea to everyone, "The only thing I could think to do is to make it my power. Either I let myself become corrupted beyond what my mind could handle..."

"Please tell me there's an or," Cynder hoped.

"Or... I take the darkness from you, and Malefor, try my best to control it into my ball, and hit it with everything I have. But if that doesn't work, then... I don't know."

"We had an idea, Spyro," Volteer spoke from behind the others, "If we all use our abilities into one spot, we could theoretically be able to take it down."

"And what spot do we focus on?"

"It's leg for sure, taking out it's way of transportation basically."

"I... guess... But that thing knows how to use it's hands to climb, so he could just drag himself to the Volcano," Seeing that Malefor hadn't put his input in, Spyro called him out for it, "What's wrong, Malefor? You know how we could destroy this thing, but I'm assuming you don't want to say anything as you wish death upon us."

"Back off of that shit!" Malefor growled, upset that he didn't trust him, "There's nothing we can do. It's was made and used to do exactly what it's name stands for. Even if we did hit it from anywhere, it will just get back up. As long as there's darkness in there, it will continue. So the only thing we can do, is either kill the user, or let it complete its mission. Or better, you let the earth blow up, you try and pull it back together and die trying."

"Kill the user, huh. Well, you're right here, so I could end it right now and save billions."

"Try it then you puss!" Malefor growled, exploding into his dark form.

"Back off!" Spyro yelled, exploding out his own dark aura, "Know you place."

"My place is here on earth! You think I want to die?!"

"You've always wished death on others."

"As a joke! I'd never hurt my friends ever again."

"Yet your about to kill all of them."

"I'll kill you first then!"

"Malefor!" Carith cried.

"Spyro!" Cynder cried

Now with the two backing down from one another, Ignitus wanted to speak on behalf of Malefor, defending him even, "Spyro, my son. Since the very beginning, I've told you that he's never been our enemy, he's never wanted to be. I'm disappointed in you that you don't see..."

"I DO SEE IT!" Spyro yelled in frustration, turning and backing away from everyone before turning back around, "Malefor was supposed to be my friend. I trusted him, I called him that as we spared, but I never made it official. One of my supposed biggest enemy was now becoming my biggest friend, and now seeing all this, knowing that I was lied to, and that you all knew... You didn't tell me the truth to protect me, yet, now, because I didn't know the truth, I couldn't train up as I have, before this all happened!" Shedding a single tear, it made sense to all of them, but either way, it would've been a loss-lose, "And if I did know, I would've fought against Malefor anyway, so... I get it... This isn't easy for me... Ever since the day you came back, Malefor, I hated myself. But by betraying you, and for what you've done, I did the same to Cynder."

"Then why..."

"Because of my parents! Because of Cynder's parents! Because of what you did, because you didn't pay attention, you let the Chronicler betray you, and now, I feel I'm doing the same thing," His darkness along with Malefor's started to fade as there wasn't a balance of anger and sadness, but rather, just pure depression, "Now... With nothing to do, I may have to die even after the promises I've made to all of you. I've put darkness inside Cynder to protect her from anyone, and I did more after you had gained control of your darkness cause I didn't trust, you... And if I'm gone... It will protect her."

"But remember the dream, Spyro!" Cynder cried, "It's your darkness that kept me from turning. I know you weren't there to see it, but without you... what I will go through... Even if you do come back in three years, Ignitus gave us an easy future nightmare... Not the real thing..." Spyro didn't say anything for the time being, and looking behind herself, she asked Ignitus to get an idea of what they needed to do, "Ignitus, how much time do we have left until the Destroyer reaches the Volcano?"

"Well, with how far it was put back, I'd say only an hour," Ignitus answered.

"Spyro... In the next hour," Looking back over to him, she gave a frown as this was it, "This hour will decide if I live my life with you, or to never see you ever again... So what will you do?" This left him with a rather difficult decision, even though he knew which one to do, she made sure to give him a choice, "You sacrifice your life, and I'd probably later kill myself from the fears I have, or we fight this thing together, we make it through this, and we all go home."

"As we've always said we would, Spyro," Malefor murmured, and seeing Spyro give a sigh, he made a joke as to why this could be, "Let me guess, are you sighing cause you know I got more kills then you?"

"Volteer, What's the plan," Spyro asked, ignoring Malefor all together.

"We all attack his leg as I've said. If needed, Ersa has increased stamina gems that will give us an over boost if we need it. We will take out his body one by one, destroying his legs, then his arms. This should take it out for good," Volteer gave off the plan, and it did seem rather simple for a task, but he knew it was going to be much harder then what he was making it out to be, "Then again, we will need to use our ultimates basically twice; One to get through the left side of one leg, then the right on the same leg."

"Then I guess we should get started. Just follow me and we will get set up. We need to get some distance from the front of the Destroyer," Opening his wings and flying up to the sky, everyone followed Spyro one by one, but the one who flew next to him was Malefor, "I've already told you everything I have to say. You said it would suck, but you'd give me more time to think, and so, that's what I'm doing. I'm not going to give it much thought, but I will think about it."

"You really don't care for me or Carith, do you?" Malefor straight up asked.

"I found it rather annoying that someone so nice like Carith fell in love with someone like you."

"You say you won't kill me cause of how everyone would feel... but, if no one cared for me... would you kill me then?" It was a question that not even Spyro could give an answer to, so, he brought up more of the dream that had happened, "You know... The dream is right about one thing. Three years later, I will still be there to protect everyone. And even for you, Carith gave you the choice of her leaving or staying with me, and you, chose for me to stay with her."

"It is just a dream, is it not. It's just hopes and dreams, maybe even nightmares. It's not real."

"So if Cynder died and you saw her in a dream, you wouldn't care."

"DON'T TALK ABOUT HER DEATH!"

Now having felt like he stepped over the line, the two once again grew quiet, but luckily, they didn't have to stay quiet for too long as they reached their destination of where they wanted to be, about half a mile away from where the Destroyer was. With everyone stopping and landing down to the ground, they all lined up with the Guardians and the females in the back while the front lines stood Malefor and Spyro. With everyone ready, Spyro and Malefor let their bodies be consumed in their darkness, and same to them, Cynder let her dark aura show as well. With everyone charging up an attack, Spyro was the last one to do so as he was the one who wanted to call the order, "When I say so, fire. I can charge faster then all of you, and instead, I'll be using my ball of elements," They did as they were told, building up more on their attacks, and while they did this, Spyro raised up a paw to chest level, building up his ball of elements, "Ready..." With the ball of elements now complete and the darkness wrapping around his elements, he ran forward and yelled as he did, "Fire!"

Busting out all their elements, with everything activating all at once, the ground around all of them cracked. Combining all the elements in a single beam, the darkness from Malefor and Cynder only combined more into the powers, making them even more powerful. Just as the powers all connected and hit the Destroyer in the leg, Spyro kicked his wings upwards, flew as close as he could to the leg, and threw his elemental ball right at the leg of the Destroyer. Being so close to the blast, everything exploded all at once which sent him flying backwards. Trying to keep their abilities active as long as possible, Spyro's body skid on the ground, passing right to their side before popping up off the ground and snapping his back around a tree. With their powers running out, they all had to stop, closing their mouths completely, trying to control their breaths. Getting up to his paws, Spyro, along with everyone else looked to see the damage, and once the smoke cleared around it's leg as it kicked forward, the plan had worked. With Malefor crying happily, this was rather great news, "We did it! Just need to do it once more!"

"There's no way... we can..." Ignitus gave a painful breath, and even after the attack, fire still surrounded the inside of his mouth.

"What?! Why are you tired? Aren't you supposed to have the powers of the Ancestors?!"

"We are... outside of Warfang... Now I'm just a... normal dragon."

"They took your powers?!"

"Pretty... much."

"Ersa, what about your potions?! What happened to that?"

"While we could build up another... we are running into more problems than we thought," Ersa sighed, getting control over her breathing and trying to explain, "With our elemental use, our control over our elements is out of control. Even with the potions, we could maybe do it once more, but even if his leg was destroyed... he still has his other leg and arms. Me and Volteer wouldn't be able to make anymore in the time that we have."

"But you all were so sure of the plan?! What happened?!"

"I planned too much... We are weak... And I expected us to have more... but... we failed," Volteer murmured, falling to his rear as everyone had as well.

"Then there's only one thing we can do," Ignitus spoke, and looking to Cynder, everyone knew what this meant, and continuing, he whispered, "Get close to the Destroyer. Once he attacks, duck, but act like you got hit. Malefor, use your blood to act like she hit herself. It needs to be as real as possible," Hearing paw steps coming over, he looked over his shoulder and saw Spyro coming over, limping even as he lost a lot of power, "Spyro... if I'm being honest, your attack probably did the most. Our attack just contained the explosion and pushed it inwards."

"Then... Ugh... What do we do?" Spyro frowned, walking over to Cynder and seeing she wasn't doing all too well either.

"We just need to all attack it at once. Hopefully one of us will do some kind of damage to it."

"Well then..." Spyro's darkness exploded outwards but didn't consume his body as all it seemed to do was heal his body, "My darkness needs to recharge after that. Any more and I will lose control," Opening his wings and ready to battle once again, he locked eyes with his love and gave her another promise, "I'm not going to fail... Not after what you've told me, not after the promises I've made," All she could do was shed a single tear, trying to get herself up after that attack, but not seeing her fear, he looked to Malefor and asked him for help, "Malefor... I... Can't do this alone."

"Finally brother from another mother!" Malefor happily cried, but even for himself, it seemed as he lost his dark power as he went back to his normal form, "When ever you're ready!"

As they stood ready to fly, opening their wings even, everyone looked straight, seeing something heading straight for them from the runes of the destroyed remains of the forest. Giving an annoyed sigh, Spyro made out who they were, which only made this even more difficult for them, "Great... more dark creatures," Getting into a fighting stance, Spyro stood ready, but Malefor didn't, "You know, if this is you, Malefor, can you piss off with these dark creatures? They're just becoming annoying at this point."

"No... No no no, this is... This is great!" Malefor cried happily once again, confusing everyone with his words, even making Spyro show his teeth, but his words changed everyone's perspective, "I get to use my powers again! But which one should I use? Golden gun? Striker? Blade dance? Or maybe I could use another one, such as the flaming hammer, but how could I do such a thing... Sun Breaker! That's what the class was called! Now all I need is a sentinel shield."

"Hey, you can't just steal all those moves," Volteer called him out as he knew all about what he was saying, "You're literally taking the move names, acting out the same move, and making it seem like you were the one to create it. Make up another name for your move set."

"Hell no. That's like saying, if I call you a dragon, then someone else said that to someone else, then that would be stealing, even though it's not, it's just true. So by me using the same move and names, I'm not stealing, but just making it true as it needs to be. And it'd be plagiarizing if I used these abilities and said I came up with it, which I didn't, so, what is the problem here?"

"For the love of fu... Just kill me."

"See, no argument."

"Because your stupidness is beyond what my brain can handle!"

"Unless you become a badass, you'll never understand."

"They are coming at us!" Spyro growled, bursting into his dark form to prepare, but Malefor stopped him.

"Wait! Don't," Taking steps forward and walking in front of everyone, he smiled wide as he wished to use his powers once again, "You go deal with the Destroyer. His wound will heal over with darkness if we don't keep pressure on it, and don't worry; While you're gone, I can keep everyone protected as well," It seemed like a lot for him to handle, but watching as Malefor ran into battle, jumping up in the air and setting his paw on fire, it seemed as though he had everything handled, "GOLDEN GUN, BITCHES!" Landing to his back two paws while shooting out flame like bullets, continuing to act with his other paw and flicking his thumb to show a revolver, he cried, "Spyro! Go!"

"Alright, fine!" Spyro growled, already wings opened and jumping up to fly away.

"Cynder! You have to go and follow him!" Ignitus quickly called out, getting her and everyone else's attention that surrounded him, "Malefor will deal with the ads, you stay just long enough for us to recover. Once we are there, we can fake your injury," Getting a nod from her, she turned, ran forward, opened her wings, and flew straight to help with the Destroyer, "Ersa, make sure to save some gems, or, bottles, for Malefor. He needs to injury himself as we've already discussed. And since Cynder didn't heal up, nor Malefor yet, they need the potions later."

"We do have extras as we planned for the friends and a couple more to go along with it. So, in total, we still have six," Ersa spoke, looking around and knowing they wouldn't have enough for everyone, "If we healed ourselves, we'd be out. Malefor, Spyro, and Cynder wouldn't get anything. And since Carith also needs assistance, I'd gladly back out and let her heal up herself."

"Well, Spyro doesn't need one as he wouldn't take it. For now, I suggest the six be: Carith, Terrador, Cyril, Malefor, Claire and then you, Volteer."

"I can hold my own for now," Volteer rejected his portion of the potions.

"And I've been able to still stand for some time now," Claire rejected, same as Volteer.

"Then... With two left... Ersa, you need to keep your strengh. Then the last one will go to Cynder. While she's trying to keep strong, she's struggling," Everyone gave a frown as they knew why, but he still spoke out about it, "She knows this may be the only way, and if I'm... Being honest... If Spyro can't stop the Destroyer here and now... That nightmare will come true. We know this, and so does she. So we need to all give it our all."

"Spyro knows not to piss off Cynder, so I believe in him," Ersa giggled, making the others give a small laugh as well as they hoped that would stay true.

"Damnit... DAMNIT!" Hearing Malefor curse up to the skies, they looked over to him, seeing him growl as he turned around, walking back over to them as he stood back on all fours, "Why is this so easy now?!" Sitting down in front of them, he gave a sigh, but still tried to smile as he spoke, "I think I figured out the hammer thing, but all it takes is my golden gun. After that, if I blade dance, it's over in seconds... I wonder if putting everything I have into my golden gun shot would do some significant damage to the Destroyer?"

"Malefor! You're so stupid yet so smart!" Ersa cried out with a smile.

"Uhhhhhh... Thanks... maybe... That kinda hurt if I'm being honest."

"Think about it though; If your golden gun really is as powerful as you say, just do the same as Spyro does by channeling all of your power to your finger tip, and fire everything you have into it!"

"I could maybe increase the blast radius to count for the rest of its leg."

"How do you still have so much power?" Cyril asked as he felt beat.

"And why didn't you do this shit earlier?" Terrador growled, "Were you holding back?"

"I stopped cause you all did!" Malefor defended himself.

"So then you and Spyro could've taken out his leg?" Ignitus grumbled.

"Look, let's not play the blame game, okay. I will just fly up to Spyro, we will take out his leg and go from there, okay," Seeing everyone giving him a rather annoyed look, he even saw his lover as even she had to shake her head, "You know what, before I die here, let me just... you know... I'm gonna go," Turning and running away as quickly as possible, he opened his wings and flew over to help Spyro, and while he did that, he mentally slapped himself, "You keep letting this power get to your head...! Great... Now I see what Spyro goes through when he trains and puts one thing before another." Making it up to the Destroyer, he watched as Spyro flew around it, lighting up its body with blue flames, but he could see his dark power starting to fade, so he had to stop him, "Spyro! Stop!"

Hearing his name called as he made it to the left side of the Destroyer, Spyro saw Malefor fly past the Destoyer's arm and over to him as he was now flying behind it. Since he had been stopped, he growled at Malefor for what he was doing, and with the two now flying face to face, he was easily able to show his anger, "You just said it would heal! Why would I stop now? And why aren't you back there protecting the others as you said you would!"

"Cynder took over, and she nearly slit my neck when I said I'd stay. But I'm also here because, me and you are going to focus that leg again," Malefor spoke, "With this new technique I have, we can combine a charged golden gun shot with your four elements and darkness, which, by the way, we need to get it named so you can have a technique as well," Getting a huge angered sigh from Spyro, he waved his paw and told him to follow, "Yeah yeah, kill me later. But for now, follow me to the front of the Destroyer." Unfortunately doing as he was told, Spyro flew with Malefor passed the side of the Destoyer's left side, and using their speed to their advantage, they made it a good half mile away from the Destroyer in no time, "Alright, get ready while I focus my golden gun. Hit it right in the middle, and it should fall down like a ton of bricks," Doing as he was told, the remainder of Spyro's darkness went to his paw as he encapsulated his elements into one, and making one last joke, Malefor looked at this as a game, "Dude, if we're lucky enough, we're about to do like, a million damage to the boss and his health," With Spyro's ball ready, Malefor charged his darkness into his golden gun, letting it shine a red with a dark black, and having a fantastic idea, he gave it to Spyro, "Spyro! Put your ultimate in front of mine!"

"What? Why?" Spyro asked, confused as to what he meant at first, but once he understood, it was a rather smart idea, "Wait... If I put my ball in front of your shot, it could combine the two while sending it flying! That way, I wouldn't have to get so close to the blast radius, and it really would do massive damage to him," Getting a huge smirk from Malefor, Spyro unfortunately smiled back, knowing this was a rather smart idea, "Fine... You get this one. Just make sure to shoot as straight as you can. Line up your shot in the middle of my dark elements," Moving his paw right underneath Malefor's finger, the ball of darkness lined up perfectly with the shot Malefor had from his paw, "Now, fire when ever you get the shot. You got about a minute before he gets out of range. And don't shoot my friggen paw."

"Yeah yeah, but, I'm guessing with this shot, I'm hoping it will keep your ball together, right?" Malefor asked, closing one eye as he made sure to line up the shot well.

"With how small it is, your darkness and flame will cover it, holding it together long enough for it to hit."

"Dude... This is some cool ass shit we are doing right now. Can I give it an ultimate move name."

Giving a sigh, Spyro knew he wouldn't let it go, so he agreed, "Fine... But you better hurry! You got about twenty seconds."

"That's all the time I need," Keeping his aim steady, he knew exactly how he used his wings and how Spyro used his, so he was able to predict where he needed to shoot, "Alright! Ready!" Just as his wings flapped up, in almost slow motion, he lined up with the middle of Spyro's dark ball and yelled out the ultimate move name in joy, "SINGLE SIX ELEMENTAL SHOT!"

Firing all the darkness he had with the fire from his finger, the bullet traveled right through the darkened ball, wrapping itself around it and traveling at sound breaking speed. The sound breaking explosion was heard for miles, even getting the attentions of the others as they had just healed up. Even as they stood, the wind that whipped throughout the area knocked them down all while also sending Cynder flying back. Trying to use her own wind powers to keep herself in the air, it proved to be successful. The two in the sky watched as it hit the side of the Destoyer's leg, digging itself from within and for a second, it went quiet. Giving a raised brow, Malefor asked, "Uuhhhhh... What...?"

His eyes went from raised to shut as the explosion lit up the ground in a bright light of all kinds of colors, ranging from their elements, to the darkness, to even just a bright shining light. The light and explosion consumed not only the Destroyer, but Spyro and Malefor as well as they were caught in the blast. Since the Destroyer was still rather far, the others weren't hit with the blast, but rather another huge blast of wind, making them all roll backwards as they couldn't stand their ground from the shockwave. For Cynder, she was sent flying backwards in a spiral as she herself couldn't contend with the wind either. The explosion lingered for some time, showing a cloud of smoke that raised from the ground, and since the explosion was enough to move even the clouds above, the sun gave a clear shine down to the battlefield and what it had become. Once it seemed things had died down, Spyro and Malefor pulled their bodies from out of the ground, growling in pain as dirt fell of their backs. Once to their paws, the two held their shoulders in pain, but once they saw what they had done, their paw dropped back down to the ground as they looked in awe. The ground surrounding the area was nearly a mile deep, and anything surrounding it was reduced to rubble. Limping over to the hole, it stretched out like a crater, spanning nearly half a mile from where they had used their powers, and once Spyro made it over to the edge of the crater, he, along with Malefor, sat down next to each other, believing it was done. Reaching a paw over and elbowing Spyro in the shoulder, Malefor heard him give out a growl, and he apologized, "Hehe... Sorry... I guess me and you are... ugh... not feeling all too good from that... But hey... What did you like about my ultimate name?"

"Hehe... Well... what did the six stand for?" Spyro chuckled, feeling good that things were done and over with, but he still saw that both him and Malefor were still bleeding from what they had done.

"Well, Six elements of course, along with the fact that I was using a six shooter and putting it all into one shot."

"Six?"

"Fire, Ice, lightning, earth, darkness, and wind. The wind helped give that shot some kick of course. And I guess we... over did it."

"Hehe... That was over powered as hell though... Definitely a million damage to the boss right there."

"Hehe... You think so?"

"Yeah."

Feeling the ground start to rumble once again, the two looked at one another with fear, and out of the ashes came a huge darkened hand that reached up to the two. Jumping back with the help of their wings, the hand grabbed the ground, almost as if it was pulling itself up. No... no no no... this can't be! Spyro cried in his thoughts, similar to that of even Malefor. With the two opening their wings once again, they flew up to the skies, wondering what had happened, what could've been the one to have grabbed the ledge. Reaching a height of which they could see everything, the two gasp, seeing as it was the Destroyer pulling himself up and out of the crater. His body spilled magma as his left side had been completely destroyed, but even still, his left side had been replaced by darkness, filling in for his missing body parts. For his right side, it had cracked completely around him, but with the darkness, his wounds were healing slowly but surely. Once the Destroyer pulled himself from the crater, it continued his path, slowly healing his body one piece at a time. The two looked to one another in fear, not knowing anymore of what to do. Letting a tear drip down out of his eye, Spyro growled as he turned, "We need to regroup with the others..."

With everyone standing back up to their paws with those that had lovers helping each other out, they all looked to see the destroyed form of the Destroyer, still walking as it had once before, only halfway destroyed. Looking away from the Destroyer, they watched as Cynder flew down in front of them, and she nearly fell, feeling rather scared now, "Ignitus... they... that didn't do it... Wh... What else is there to do?! At this rate, I really will lose Spyro and I... Damnit!" Hitting the ground with her paw, her body tensed up as she wished there was more she could do, but she knew her, nor they, could do anything, "Even if I tried with everything in my power, I... I can't let this happen...! Spyro's... Spyro's gonna..."

"Not yet!" Ignitus cried, standing up and running over towards her, "We are still going through with our fall back plan!" Sitting down in front of her, he raised up his right arm, used his other paw and stabbed a hole in his arm, spilling blood down his arm, "We need to fake you being hurt as we've discussed. This should trigger Spyro into a fit of rage, hopefully giving him the power that he needs," Touching his paw around his arm and patting his blood around her head, he told her what to do next, "Alright, Cynder, lay down on the ground. We will act like you've been knocked out."

"Do you... Really think this will do it."

"We have to try."

"We need, to try," Doing as she was told, she turned her body around, laid with her back facing Ignitus and let her mouth hang open only slightly, but she spoke one more time as to give her idea of the plan, "I'm going to use my wind to keep my breath held so he really will think I'm passed out, or even worse."

"Try not to act dead."

"I will try not to."

"Spyro's coming back with Malefor!"

Playing dead and closing her eyes, Cynder heard as the two landed down to the ground in front of her. Spyro was immediately first to notice, running up to her as he cried, "Cynder!" Sitting down in front of her and feeling the blood on her forehead, he couldn't see Ignitus's arm as he hid it from behind Cynder's body, making sure he didn't put two and two together, "No... No no no, my love!" Easing her body upwards as he put out a wing underneath her head and body, he tried to get her to wake, "Cynder! Cynder, my love... Cynder, please..." The plan was working as his darkness started to radiate once again, but now it felt as though the plan was back firing on them, "This is on you, Malefor!" Yelling to Malefor, he eased her body to the ground and turned to yell at him, "I told you to stay with her! You said everything was going to be fine! I don't care if Cynder threatened you; take your death like a man you puss!"

"Spyro, I..."

"SHUT UP!" Backing off from him and turning back to his lover, Spyro placed a paw over his lover's body, and resting it on her side, darkness went throughout her entire body, healing any wounds she may have had, and even the blood on her forehead, "Please... Please please please... Wake up," Even after his use of darkness, she still didn't move, almost as if she really was dead, and he believed so, but nothing made sense to him, "Cynder...! Please... your heart still beats so, why... what, happened..."

"She was hit in the head by a piece of the Destoyer's body. It was small, but it hit her rather hard in the head. Right now, she's probably in a... coma," Ignitus gave the bed news, and this sparked the darkness with Spyro rather quickly, sending his body into a fit of rage, "She could be just knocked out, but..."

"SHUT UP!" Spyro yelled, backing away from her, and letting the darkness take over completely.

"Spyro! Stop!" Malefor cried, but since he wasn't listening, he ran over to protect Carith as quickly as he could.

His teeth grinded, his body tensed, his tail blade was eager to kill, and instead of the darkness heading outwards, it headed inwards even as it tried to make an aura, but it was pulled back into his body. Clenching his eyes shut, he threw them open, and now, instead of his eyes being white, they turned a dark yellow, shining slightly and taking form along with his body. His darkness eased his muscles slightly down while extending his body and everything on him to an adult form, even now being as tall as the others. Snapping his body outwards, stretching his arms, legs, wings, tail, and neck, his body now shined with an eased darkened look, now seeming more contained then it was before. Slightly opening up one eye to see what had happened, Cynder gave a huge blush to see this new Spyro. His now near eased body, slight loss of muscle, gain in height and even his angered look that felt rather soothing to her, but she couldn't tell why until he had spoken, "Everyone, you need to run," His voice was deeper, but still rather soothing, and this control over it made it's way known, and now, even hearing his voice, she opened both her eyes now, picking up her head even as she wished to see and hear more, "Cynder... You're awake?" Walking up to her in his new body, she stood up, still blushing rather hard, and now that he stood in front of her, she swallowed hard, "I'm sorry. I made a mistake once again, but I'm not making another," Out of instinct, she quickly touched his chest as he had it puffed out, and she couldn't contain herself with his new form, "Please get to safety."

"Spyro... It's, me, my love... Don't you... remember?" Cynder murmured, still trying to smile as it seemed like he was forgetting, or rather, letting go.

"Cynder... The mistake I made was getting you hurt. There's only one more thing I can do to stop the Destroyer, and if it doesn't work... I don't wish for you to be here to see what happens next."

"No... No no no! You aren't going to die! Do you understand me!"

"I've tried all I can... Even with this darkness, it's made it rather clear that, nothing we do will work... So unfortunately... I must do what needs to be done."

"NO!" Backing up, Cynder took Ignitus's spot as he had backed up and joined the others, staying out of what was happening, "If you want to sacrifice yourself, then I will see you up there then too!" Swinging her tail blade to her neck, everyone gasped, taking steps forward even, but Spyro didn't seem fazed at all, "I have no problem with killing myself! You think I can live three years without you?! I can't even go seconds, and knowing you could possibly die, or one of us could in the future... Things will never be the same... I... I just want things to go back to normal..."

Taking a step up towards her, he gave off his voice, eased with a rather evil yet soothing tone, "You know I can't let you kill yourself..." Standing in front of her, he gave a slight smile as he saw this as something different, "Look on the bright side; I'm not going to die a hero, I'll die as an enemy to you all. I don't want to... call you my love because... well... I've failed you, so... why do I deserve someone like you...? Why do I deserve anyone."

"Stop with this darkness shit and wake up! This isn't you, and if I have to hurt you, I will! You saved me from my darkness, and I will do the same to you!"

"A kiss would save me... But it won't save the earth."

"Spyro... please... we can think of another way... there has to be another way."

"Cynder... I don't want you to go through this nightmare," Easing his nose against hers, Spyro looked to her eyes and smiled, "When you wake up, you will feel eased, and I will make sure you never feel pain ever again for what I did," Moving his lips down to hers, he let his breath linger around her lips as to warm them, and he gave off a slight whisper, "Rest easy, Cynder... Please... When you find someone else... make sure they are better then I ever could've been to you."

"Spyro... Don't... do this..." Cynder cried, and feeling his lips touch hers, she jumped back, growling even, unable to deal with the future, "NO! You think I want to forget! You act like you know what I want, but you don't! You're a fake compared to my love! He promised me, swore on his life he wouldn't leave me! If you're going to die, let your darkness take the hit, not you!" He didn't say anything, but rather shed a tear from her words, and knowing he wasn't to say anything, she watched as he walked up to her once again, "I'm not... I can't... live without you! So then... I'll just end this myself," Trying to slit her own neck, her body wouldn't allow it, the darkness wouldn't allow it as it held her back, making her body tense with sadness while she watched Spyro stand in front of her, "Don't you dare... Damnit, SPYRO! Don't you dare... don't... do this... please... I... I can't... SPYRO, LISTEN TO ME!"

"I'm sorry, Cynder. I'd rather you forget about me then to feel the pain of remembering me. While are... time was short, I enjoyed every second of it," Now as he was to do before, Spyro rested his nose back on hers, letting his breath linger around her lips, "I don't want you to feel such pain any longer. Me being around has only made things worse for you, all of you. When it comes to my darkness, our love... my life, has been nothing but a block of what you all could be living."

"You do this now... I will kill myself in the future... I will find a way, you understand me... So... don't... leave me."

"I shall always been in your heart... I'll never leave."

Taking his nose down, his lips now pushed against her, but for the two, they could only shed tears, rather then to enjoy it. The kiss he gave her, she knew this was his way of saying goodbye, and even though she still tried, she couldn't use her tail blade against herself. Feeling her body starting to fade, getting drowsy and shedding tears, she cried in her thoughts, Please... No... I can't live without... you. Now with her body falling to her side, his lips slid off hers, and using his wings, he caught her body before easing her down onto the grass. Taking his wing from underneath her body, he put a paw to her cheek, but before she passed out, he saw her tear, so, he gave as soft of a voice as he could to her, "I'm sorry... Cynder... Just know... I love you."

"Spyro!" Malefor yelled at him, stepping in front of everyone and tail blade ready, he threatened, "You sacrifice yourself, and I will kill everyone in a heart beat! I'm the Dark Master, remember?!"

"Malefor..." Spyro cried, getting control of himself as he came from without his new dark form, revealing his normal purple body while making up his mind, "Without a doubt, you truly weren't the Dark Master of this all. So... because of this... I need you... all of you, to keep Cynder safe for me while I'm gone. Don't tell her about me... I don't wish for her to feel the pain of remembering who I am..." Looking down to the grass in front of him, he then picked up his head and saw the Destroyer closing in on the Volcano, and he knew his time was up, "The most I can do is encapsulate the Destroyer into a time crystal with myself... We will fall down into the Volcano and I... don't know what will become of me... or even if the Crystal will hold up."

"Spyro, please don't do this," Everyone spoke in unison, each with their own way of saying what they hoped would get to him.

Shedding more tears, his words only made it worse for everyone, even more so as he walked up more to ready his final end as he faced the Volcano, "I love you all... Dad... friends..." Looking behind himself and to Cynder's resting body, he whispered the same to her, "I love you too... Cynder," Turning back to face forward, he opened his wings, readying himself for his final goodbye, "Take care of each other, don't make the same mistakes as I did, and... I... Hehe... If I'm being honest... I'm scared to die... I... I don't wish to die... But... At least I'll die knowing I saved you all and... that's what counts, right?"

"Spyro! Stop!" Everyone cried out, but he still flew up and over to the Volcano without even thinking twice.

"No... No no no, Damnit, Spyro!" Malefor growled, knowing he needed to take action, "Carith! Come over to Cynder with me," Running over to her body and past the others, Carith turned and followed as well, wondering what he was going to do, "I need to wake her! We have to think of something, and if he's trying to keep her safe, he's doing a shit job at it," Reaching her body and sitting down in front of her, Carith did the same as she sat next to his right, looking down on her sleeping body, "These memories will make Cynder suicidal. And even if she... sees... his death... she needs to know who he was, not who he wasn't," Tapping a claw on the side of her head, he sent some darkness in her mind and explained what he was doing, "I need to destroy the darkness he put around her mind that knocked her out, and it should-UGH!"

Flinging his claw back, Carith cried to him, "Malefor! Are you okay."

He wasn't able to respond as the two looked to see Cynder moving her paws, rather frantically as she wished to wake. Flinging her eyes open, she pushed her body off the grass, slamming her fist down and getting herself up, but with the help of Malefor and Carith's wing, she made it up a lot sooner then she thought. Coughing some even as she looked straight, she then looked to her left and saw the two, "Malefor... Carith... Wait! Spyro! Where's Spyro?!" Once the two took their wings from around her, she ran beside Malefor and looked to see the Destroy grabbing a hold of the edge to the Volcano, "No... No no no, it's going to... Wait..." Seeing a bright yellow light going around the Destroyer, Cynder cried as she knew what this was, "The time crystal... But only..." Gasping as she realized only Spyro had that, she ran up a couple of steps and yelled out, "SPYRO!"

Watching with everyone in horror as the Destroyer fell into the Volcano, they expected something to happen, but nothing did, instead, it just turned silent. The silence was slowly interrupted by cries, knowing they had all failed, and falling down to even her back side, she looked to the ground, cold and lifeless, I... Failed... He... NO! He can't be gone! Slamming her tail blade down to the ground, she turned to Ignitus and wanted him to tell her the truth, "Spyro can't be dead! This is all a trick... The... The dream... That nightmare... Please... Don't tell me..." Seeing tears go down even his eyes, tears ran down her eyes just as everyone else cried together, knowing they had lost a dear friend, "Spyro... Spyro... My love..." Remembering back to something from her nightmare, one thing came to mind which only made this even worse for her.

"I don't know... All I know is, when he woke up, he was surrounded by what looked like shards of glass... But... lets all just... smile... cry with joy that... our friend... our family... is back from the Volcano," Ignitus spoke with a smile.

Having this thought in her mind, Cynder's heart slammed from her chest with enough force for her to hear it. From the beat, her eyes grew a little wide, the cries from everyone became muffled, but most of all, the color in her eyes started to fade as did the feelings in her body. Hearing only a couple more breaths from herself, her body went from sitting to falling down on her side and to the floor in seconds, gasping for air as her body hit the ground. Hearing muffled cries, voices that sounded deeper then they should've been, more thoughts came to her mind, only making her feel more dead then alive, My... life is... passing before me... As soon as I wake... Three years will pass... and... where would I be... where would Spyro... be. Cynder's breathing almost stopped completely, her mind started to fade, and with her eyes closed, she passed out with tears dripping down from her eyes and off her nose.