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Episode 5: The Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame

Story by Nathan aka jamieque on SoFurry

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#6 of Spyro: Dragon of Destiny - Season One - Rising Destiny

Well, things have gone from bad to worst. Flame has been kidnapped by Reeco and company and corrupted by dark gem energy. Spyro and his friends have a tough task ahead of them. The dangers ahead will test them all and by the end of this journey they will learn that everything must and will change. Whether that change is for the better or worst will be entirely up to them. As if there wasn't enough pressure on them as it is. Here is the Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4... Enjoy. Oh yeah, I can't forget the disclaimer or else this series will end prematurely with VU suing me for all that I am worth. DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Spryo characters or their world. They are property of Universal Games. I only own the new characters and ideas that are being created for this series. Blah blah blah... Let's move on...

    • * Hunter: "PREVIOUSLY ON SPYRO: DRAGON OF DESTINY: RISING DESTINY" - "My metal arm band protected me from your attack. What? You didn't honestly think I wear these metal arm bands just because they look pretty. Did you? Heh heh, you may have spent time training with the Peace Keepers but that still changes nothing. You are STILL so predictable, Spyro. I am not Gnasty Gnorc or Ripto or even that loser Red. I am Reeco, leader of the Shadow Dragon Clan and you, Spyro are my enemy. My clan fought your warrior clan ages ago and my clan lost. Now, I intend to avenge that lost by making absolutely sure you never forfill your true destiny." He calmly said as he yanked down hard on Spyro's leg making my friend growl out in pain and flap his now much larger wings harder to maintain his position in the sky. - Reeco's introduction, from Episode 3: Changes and Secret Relations
    • * Nestor sighed and said, "Spyro, Flame is your younger brother." After Nestor said that Spyro just looked at him with a silent unreadable expression. "Well, Spyro, say something!" "What do you mean, Nestor?" Spyro asked as he looked over at the elder dragon in shock at the revelation that had just been dropped on him like a fire bomb. "You heard me perfectly well, Spyro." Nestor said in calm tone. "Flame is your younger brother." - Nestor reveals the truth to Spyro, Episode 3: Changes and Secret Relations
    • * A purple dragon lands gently and starts walking back and forth along the beach watching the surf come in and go out. 'So much info to digest and so little time to digest all of it. Spyro thought sadly as he stopped walking and sat down on the sand. 'I can't believe I died here and was reborn here. How did that happen? I don't understand how I could die one minute and then somehow defining the natural laws of life and death come back. It just doesn't make sense.' Spyro growled and rubbed his head in anger. "Why, Nestor? Why didn't you and the other elders not tell me or Flame about our parents or us being related?" Spyro said softly as his anger faded and tears fell from his eyes. "I have always wanted to have a family of my very own and have the answers to the questions that have plagued me all my life: Where did I come from? Who am I? Why am I here? Is my duty as Guardian of the Dragon Realms all that defines me? Is this really my true destiny or is there more? So many questions and yet I have no complete answers for them even after all this time. And now, as if my life wasn't complicated enough, I have these new powers and abilities that I somehow gained after coming back from my untimely death. I don't understand... Is there something I am missing here? Knowing me I wouldn't be surprise considering how stupid and ignorant I have been." Spyro sighed sadly and looked up at sky as he laid down on the sand putting his arms behind his head. "I thought I was invinicible but Reeco changed that. I am not invinicible at all. All I am is an arrogant fool who has let being a hero for so long go to his head. Oh, Hunter... guys, I am so sorry for the way I have behaved lately. You guys have always been my best friends and look how I have treated all of you. I wish you guys were here so I could tell all of you that I..." Spyro started to close his eyes as sleep tried to take hold of him. At that moment someone cleared their throat and said, in a very familiar voice, "You are sorry for acting like such a jerk and that you promise you will never again behave in such an arrogant manner. Don't worry about it, pal. All is forgiven!" The familiar voice made Spyro's eyes snap open quickly as he quickly jump to his feet in a battle pose and look at the intruder or in this case intruders. Seeing that it was Hunter and gang, Spyro eased himself out of the battle pose he was in. "GUYS, don't do that!" Spyro said as he took a deep breath and calmed down. "Why are you here?" Flame walked slowly over to Spyro and grabbed him in a tight bear hug surprising the older dragon who slowly returned the hug. "You know why, brother." Flame said as tears fell from his eyes. "We came here to try and get you to come back and talk to Nestor about what happened earlier." Spyro pulled away from his brother and growled. "I can't talk to him, Flame! He lied all these years to us. Why should I give him the chance to lie again?" Flame sighed and placed a paw Spyro's shoulder. "I know what Nestor and the other elders did was wrong, brother, but it is wrong to not at least give them a chance to try and make up for their mistakes." Flame said calmly as he slowly turned Spyro around to look him in the eyes. "Everyone deserves a second chance, brother. Please give Nestor and the other elders a chance to redeem themselves. We forgave you. Why can't you forgive them?" Spyro looked at Flame as a smile began to slowly appear on his face. "Your right, Flame... brother. I shouldn't have overreacted like that. I just didn't know how to deal with the revelations I was told. I was overwhelmed and it scared me. ME, SPYRO, I am not suppose to let anything scare me but what Nestor said did. I... I don't know if I ever will be able to handle this." Spyro said as he dropped his head and Flame gently wrapped his arms around his brother. "Mom... Dad... why did you abandon me and Flame so long ago? Didn't you love us?" Spyro leaned on Flames shoulder as he cried. - Spyro's Inner Pain revealed and A brotherly moment, Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA, Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
    • * 30 Years Ago... - Dragon Elder Council Hall - "Nestor, wait up!" Titan yelled as he ran to catch up with Nestor. Nestor and Sandra had been heading for the technological lab area to meet up with Sky and his childhood friend Stryker. The main reason they were going to see Sky and Stryker was because they had info, that they had recently discovered, that they wanted to tell them about. "Hurry up, Titan! You know how much Stryker hates to be kept waiting." Nestor said and Titan had nodded silently in agreement as they all raced as quickly as they could to the lab. _ New Haven Labs _ They reached the labs an hour later and was met at the door by our tall, barrel chested father, Stryker. "What took you guys so long to get here," Stryker had asked Nestor, Sandra and Titan. "We found what we were looking for over six hours ago!" "Sorry, Stryker, but we had a meeting and the meeting ended late. What is it that is so important? What did you and Sky find anyway?" Nestor had asked as he and his two companions entered the lab. As they did they noticed a holographic building siting in the middle of the floor. They had all stared at the hologram in shock and surprise. "Oh my god, Stryker, is that what I think it is!" Stryker smiled and patted Nestor on the back. "Yes, buddy, it is. The Vanguardian Tower of Lore and Knowledge!" He said as Sky descended the circular stair case. "Yes, Nestor," Sky said, getting our attention, "This is the legendary Vanguardian Tower of Lore and Knowledge. The place where it is said, according to the ancient Vanguardian text and Peace Keeper legends, a library of great knowledge lies hidden. I know it is a long shot but the fact that the tower matches the ancient drawings means that this building is part of the ruins of what use to be Vanguard Command. THE VANGUARD COMMAND, THE ANCIENT FLOATING BATTLE CITY OF THE VANGUARD CLAN THAT COULD TRAVEL THROUGH THE PORTAL NETWORK! Do you have any idea what this could mean?!" Titan stared at the hologram with a look of awe on his face as he said, "We may finally be able to answer all the questions we have long asked about the Portal Builders. After all this time, we'll finally be able to recreate our lost history with the knowledge that we find there." Titan then paused and rubbed his face in thought before given our parents a hard look. "Let me guess why you asked us to come here. You both want to go see if you can open the door to the tower. Don't you?" Sky and Stryker looked at each other and then back at Nestor, Sandra and Titan and nodded. Nestor sighed. "Okay, Stryker and Sky, you guys can go but first I think you need to tell us where the tower is located." Sky sighed and then frowned as she deactivated the magically-made hologram with a snap of her claws. "Now that is the problem, Nestor. The tower is located in the Shadow Realm in a mountain range known as the Skull Mountains." After our parents mentioned that Nestor, Titan and Sandra all paled and started swearing quietly to themselves. Sky walked over to them. "Well, what do you guys say? I know it is dangerous but we have to try besides..." Titan shook his head and said, "Sky, last time you guys went to the Shadow Realms was to rescue your mate from the Shadow Dragons. I don't think it is such a good idea to go back to that realm again even if it is for the Tower." "We know how dangerous it is and that is why we are using the ground portal we found located in a cave that is at the base of the mountain." Stryker said calmly. "Please, Titan, Nestor and Sandra, let us go. We promise we will be very careful and...." "What about about your two unhatched eggs, Stryker." Sandra said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "As you know this is the Year of the Dragon and in the next few months all the eggs that have been laid must be blessed by the fairies and presented before the other dragon clans. It has always been our tradition to be present at the presentation of our offspring. Will you and Sky be back before the festival begins in three months?" "Well..." Sky said as she looked at our father and then back at Sandra. "To be honest, Sandra, we don't really know how long it will take to get to the Tower. It could take months or years. That is the other reason why we called you guys here. We need you guys to take care of our two sons." Nestor looked over at dad and shook his head as he said, "Styker, how could you? Why did you used your magicl to do that?" Dad just frowned and sighed. "Nestor, I did it because me and Sky probably won't be here when they hatch so we both were curious to know if they were going to males or females. I know it is kinda like cheating but...." Nestor and Titan folded there arms and gave mom and dad a hard stare. "Okay, so we cheated, cut us some slack for pete sake! We just wanted to know what they were. Is that so wrong?" Nestor, Titan and Sandra all groaned as they snapped their claws making their staffs appear in mid-air and float down to their waiting paws. "Even though we don't like this, we'll let you go but you have to promise that you will try to come back as soon as possible. We'll take care of your children for you until then but please don't stay away too long. After all, your children will need your guidance and love to help them grow into responsible young adults." Sandra said as she leaned on her staff. "We understand, Sandra," Sky said as she sat down on a bench. "What do you guys say? Will you promise us to do what must be done for our children? Please?!" "We know we can't stop you and Stryker, Sky. Once you both make up your minds to do something it will get done no matter what we elders of the Dragon Council say. But at least tell us you have picked out some names for the two hatchlings that will be appropriate for them when their hatching time comes." Sandra said calmly. Stryker and Sky looked at each other and smiled as they gestured to the three elders follow them back to their living quarters in the back of the labs. Once they arrived they found two large eggs with different markings and symbols being tended to by a fairy that we all know very well.
    • * Spyro smiled and said, "Let me guess, brother, it was Zoe right!" Flame grinned and nodded as he continued.
    • * Zoe gently turned the magically warmed eggs and then looked up with a serious expression on her face as the five elder dragons entered the living quarters. "Oh, thank god it is you and Styker, Sky. For awhile I thought it was the egg thieves trying to take these eggs again. You do know that it isn't safe to keep these young ones here don't you." "Yes, we know that Zoe, but we had to work. By the way, Sandra and Nestor will be looking after our eggs until we return from the Shadow Realms. We found the Vanguardian Tower of Lore and Knowledge." Sky said with a smile. Zoe grinned. "That is good to hear, Sky, but what about your eggs?" Zoe asked with a little concern. "Who is going to take care of them?" Nestor and Sandra stepped forward and smiled. "Me and Nestor have agreed to look after them, Zoe." Sandra said as she turned and looked at our parents. "By the way, Sky, what are their names?" Sky smiled and walked over to each egg and with a motherly touch gently picked them up. She cradled the two eggs gently against her body to keep them warm as she showed them to Nestor, Titan and Sandra. "The red one is Flame and this one is Spyro," she said softly with a look of motherly pride. Nestor and Titan looked down with Sandra at the two eggs. "Flame is a good name for the child in this red egg," Sandra said softly as she touched the egg, "but why did you call the other child Spyro, Sky." Stryker smiled and tapped Spyro's egg gently.
    • * "What the..." Spyro said with an annoyed look on his face. "SO IT WAS OUR DEAR OLD DAD WHO WOKE ME UP WHILE I WAS STILL IN MY EGG." Spyro rubbed his head with a laugh. "That was so annoying!" Flame laughed and pat his brother on the back. "Oh, come on, brother, dad tapped my egg too so don't think you were the only one." Flame said as Spyro looked at Flame and smiled. "Yeah, but you were obviously dead to world, Flame." Spyro said with a laugh that made Flame growl slightly. "I don't think dad hitting your hard egg with a boulder would have made you respond at all." "Why do you say that, brother?!" Flame said as he gently punched Spyro in the arm. "I was just having a good dream." "No doubt! You must have been dreaming about sleeping like you do now because you are not a light sleeper. Me and Ember tried waking you up once and nothing seem to work." Ember smiled and laughed as she remembered that time. "Although, I have to say once we did manage to wake you up you kissed Ember deeply on the lips and she slapped you unconscious again which defeated the whole purpose of trying to wake you up in the first place." Flame groaned as he looked at Ember embarrassed. "Sorry about that, Ember." He said. "OKAY, ENOUGH OF THIS STROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE ROUTINE!" Spyro smiled and gave him a look that said 'See how you like walking down memory lane and being embarrassed by a stupid mistake. Not much fun. Is it?' "Okay, I admit I deserved that but don't rub it in. Okay!" Spyro nodded and Flame continued.
    • * "Just watch and you'll see why we named this little one Spyro." Stryker said with a smile. The other elders looked as the egg started glowing from within. Nestor and Sandra both gasped in surprised while Titan looked at the egg in awe. "Well, that is unusual," Titan said, he tapped the egg softly and it glowed again. "I have never seen an unhatched dragonling breath fire before he or she has even hatched." He looked at Stryker and Sky with a smile. "I have a feeling that this child will have quite a future ahead of him once he hatches." Stryker and Sky just nodded slowly as they each took the eggs and placed them back in the warm nest. Titan turned to Zoe and said, "Zoe, you do know that you will have to deliver these eggs to the nursery tomorrow." Zoe nodded and then Titan looked to Sandra. "Sandra, since you and Nestor promised to look after both young ones until Sky and Stryker returns please do your best. I will help out whenever I can and so will the other elders." Titan then gave our eggs one last look before turning around and leaving for the nearest portal to Peace Keeper home."
    • * "Sandra and Nestor returned to Artisan Home and Zoe promised to deliever our eggs to them the next day. Mom and dad put us to bed and Zoe went home. However, during the night due to some good luck on my part and bad luck on yours, my egg rolled out of the nest and under one of the magic heating generators thanks to dad bumping the nest by accident. He didn't notice the mistake until hours later when your egg was stolen. Mom found out first that we were missing and started looking around the living quarters to find us. She found my egg right where I had rolled but your egg was gone and that made her panic. She got dad and together they told the other elders what had happened. After that they stayed a whole extra month to help the other elders find your egg but unfortunately they couldn't find you. Zoe brought my egg to the nursery and Sandra started taking care of me and a pink egg that had just been laid only four hours before I was delivered to the nursery. That egg was of course Ember's egg. While this was happening the other elders continued looking while mom and dad decided to go to the Shadow Realm. They looked everywhere but they couldn't find your egg. Just when they were about to give up and declare your egg lost forever, Titan stumbled upon a hideout of the turban thieves. They found your egg and another smaller egg as well. The smaller egg was Sparx's egg. How Sparx got there is still a mystery but then again you were a special child Spyro. From the way Nestor put it, the thieves that took you regret taking you because all of them who handled your egg burned their paws on your hot shell." "So that was why I couldn't sleep! I have always wondered who kept tossing me around like I was a game or something." Spyro growled. "I really hate egg thieves. Those guys are a real pain in the but." Flame laughed. "Anyway, after Titan found both of your eggs, Spyro, our parents returned and was present when your egg hatched. My egg and Ember's didn't hatch until later. We were late hatchers. Tobin's egg hatched two days after yours. As for mom and dad they, unfortunately, discovered something interesting in the Forgotten Realms and decided to go look. According to Nestor, they remained gone for over 22 years. They returned after you defeated Gnasty Gnorc the first time." Spyro frowned and Flame noticed. "Spyro, don't be sad." - Origins Redefined..., from Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
    • * "What a fool I have been..." Spyro said just as a flash of dark energy flew at them making them all dive out of the way. They all looked in the direction that the blast had come from and growled. Ten Shadow Dragons stood a few feet away from them. One of the Shadow Dragons smiled and stepped forward making Hunter and Spyro jump back on their feet quickly and power up their own attacks. Hunter armed his new gauntlet energy bow while Spyro's eyes shifted to gold and he raised his paws bring golden energy to bear. "REECO! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?" Spyro growled. Reeco yawned. "Nice to see you again too, 'hero'. As for why I am here I'll gladly tell you. I came here to invite your brother to visit the Shadow Realm. I am sure you know about your mother and father by now, so let's just cut to the chase, shall we. Flame is coming with us whether you like it or not." "No way are you taking my pal's brother, Reeco." Hunter growled. "If you want him then you and your merry little gang will have to come and take him by force, because we sure as hell aren't going to gift wrap him to give to you losers!" The other shadow dragons growled in anger and started flashing black. Hunter smiled and raised his gauntlet bow. "Bring it on!" Reeco grinned and gestured to a female Shadow Dragon that stepped forward with a smile on her face. "So you want to play with us, cat. Very well, but don't say my brother didn't warn you later after this is over." She started laughing and then unleashed hell on all of them. For the next few minutes arrows flew and magic was casted back and forth between both sides. "ENOUGH OF THIS!" Reeco roared as he flew into the air and unleashed a new attack that seemed to warp time. Spyro and his friends tried to shield themselves but the Time Freeze stopped them cold. As they stood there unable to move the other Shadow Dragons beat the hell out of them and sent them to the land of unconsciousness while they grabbed the time frozen Flame, who despite being frozen had tears in his eyes as he looked at Spyro. Spyro had tears in his eyes also as he watched unable to stop the Shadow Dragons from taking his only love one present and return thru the dark portal to the Shadow Realm. As soon as the portal closed time resumed and Spyro and his friends fell unconscious on the beach. Time passed and hours later they all awoke to find themselves in Hunter's home lying in beds. Hunter jumped to his feet and promptly fell on his behind in pain. "What the hell happened?" He groaned as he slowly crawled back into bed. "I feel like someone kicked my ass, took my number and then kicked my ass some more just for the hell of it." "I know what you mean." Spyro groaned and then he set up quickly looking around the room at his battle beaten friends. He looked at each of them and realize they had just lost someone. "FLAME! Hunter, guys, where is Flame?" "I am sorry to say your brother was taken prisoner by Reeco and his elite squad of Shadowcore Warriors, Spyro." A strange voice said from the door to the large guest bedroom. They all turned and looked at an old, tall male white Dragon that wore a blue robe with silver trim. He had large feathered wings and his body was slender and covered in white scales. In his hand was a metal staff with a glowing light gem spinning slowly. The white dragon smiled and said, as he looked Spyro directly in the eye, "So, at last we meet, Dragon of Destiny or should I call you Spyro the Dragon Guardian of the Dragon Realms. It is truly an honor to meet you. I have spent years looking for you." The faces of everyone, including Spyro, briefly showed shock and surprise at the knowledge this old Dragon possessed but then their eyes narrowed as they all slowly try to stand up only to fall back into their beds in pain. Spyro, who had also fallen back into his bed in pain decided to try again to stand. As he made the extra effort to get up the second time he growled. His legs burned in pain and shook as he stood up as straight as he could on them. He gently folded his bandaged arms over his bruised chest. "Okay, obviously you aren't a Shadow Dragon and you don't work for Reeco. Who are you? Why are you looking for me anyway?" Spyro said calmly. The white dragon smiled and snapped his talons making a chair move toward him so he could sit down in it. Once he was seated he said, "My name is Artimas and I am a member of the Cloud Runner Clan. I have been looking for you for a very long time. As to why I have been looking for you well it is to fulfill an ancient prophecy." "What prophecy are you talking about?" Spyro asked with a frown. Artimas smiled and snapped his fingers. A small portal appeared in mid-air over his head. "Milo, would you be so kind to send me the Prophecy Scroll." The portal flashed and a white taloned paw dropped a glowing scroll thru the portal into the opened paw of Artimas. "Thanks, Milo." "Your welcome, Artimas. Oh, hi Spyro. Good luck." The portal closed leaving Spyro with a dumbfounded expression on his face. "Okay, what is going on here, Artimas?" Spyro asked as Artimas opened the scroll. Artimas toss the scroll at Spyro and as he caught it the scroll vanished and he felt his body start burning as his energy levels suddenly increased. "What's happening? AHHhhhhh!" He screamed as gold markings appeared under his eyes and his eyes turned totally gold with no pupils at all. Hunter and his friends stared in shock as Spyro collapsed unconscious to the floor. "WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY BUDDY, ARTIMAS?" Hunter yelled as Spyro's body began to glow gold and then white. Artimas stood up and looked at Hunter and everyone else present with a serious expression on his face. "Destiny...," was all he said as the room flashed brightly and everyone, except Artimas, went out like a bad light bub at the end of it's warranty. - Reeco's Return, Flame's Capture and Artimas' Arrival, from Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
    • * "DO- AS- I- SAY-, RED OR YOU WILL DIE RIGHT HERE AND NOW BY MY PAW!" Reeco growled deeply tightening his grip on Red's neck to send the point home to him. Red, in fear of losing his life, activated the machine. As he did, Reeco let him go and smiled as his eyes turned blood red. "Well done, Red. Well done." The machine powered up and as it started sending pure dark gem energy into his body, Flame woke up and roared in pain as dark energy that was forced into his body made it start to change. "Increase the flow," Reeco said coldly as the sinister smile on his face seem to darken on his face. "I want him to be strong enough to kill his brother." Red frowned and stalled as he thought about what he was about to do. 'I can't do this. I want revenge on Spyro, but I can't torture his younger brother just to get back at him. This is wrong.' "Well..., what are you waiting for, Red?!" Reeco growled as he grabbed Red's right shoulder. "Carry out my order or pay the price. Remember, you wanted to get your revenge on Spyro, old one. This is the way we can accomplish that task without getting our claws dirty. Let Flame do our dirty work for us." "Reeco," Red said as he looked away from the control panel and up at the black dragon. "I... I can't do this to him. Flame is an innocent dragon who hasn't done me or you any wrong. Why must we use this tactic to accomplish our goals?" Reeco looked at Red and as he did his red eyes narrowed into angry slits. "So you are you refusing to obey me, Red! Very well, I'll do it myself!" "NOoooo!" Red screamed as he tried to stop Reeco and got grabbed by Ryua as she stepped up behind him. "Tough luck, gramps! Don't worry, Spyro will get his just desert in the end..." Ryua then stabbed him with her long claws thru his back. Red growled and then his eyes went wide as he feel backwards after Ryua retracted her claws letting him fall backwards to the floor. "Get this garbage out of my sight. The smell of his dying corpse offends me!" She said as she licked the blood off her claws with her tongue. Her eyes turned red and she smiled. "At least his blood is sweet." "Yes, Lady Ryua," Two large Shadow Dragons said as they came and picked Red's body up and dragged him off to Sky and Stryker's cell. They opened the door and tossed him inside. Sky went over to Red and knelt down by his side. "Hold still, Red, I'll heal you." She said as Red looked at her with tears in his eyes. Sky began channeling her healing energy into Red as Ripto, Gnasty Gnorc, Grendor and the Sorceress watched with horrified expressions on their faces. "I am so sorry, Sky," Red gasped. "I have been such a fool. Please forgive me!" Red closed his eyes and went out like a light. Stryker checked Red's pulse and sighed sadly. "Sky, he's still alive, but for how much longer I can't say. You have merely slowed down what will happen. He is dying. The only way to save him is to get him to a Magic Crafters healing center." Stryker said with a solemn sad expression as he looked at his mate. Sky started crying as Stryker grabbed her and hugged her tightly. While the tragedy in the cell was playing out, Flame was still undergoing his transformation. He growled as he fell to his knees in pain as the dark energy flow increased and he started to feel himself changing faster. 'No... what is happening to meeee!' Flame screamed in his mind as the transformation that his body was undergoing sped up and entered a new phase. His muscles started to expand as his red scales turned blood red. As his form continued to change, Sky, Stryker and everyone else that was conscious, excluding Red of course, watched in horror as Flame began to grow larger and black stripes began to appear on his body. "SPYRO, BROTHER HELP ME!" Hunter's Home The golden energy field around Spyro's body ceased. As it did, everyone awoke holding their heads. Spyro groaned and his golden eyes snapped open wide as he sat up quickly. He looked up at the roof and cringed as he felt his brother's pain flash through him making him roar, "FLAME, NOOOooooo!" - Soul Possession of Flame by darkness, Dark Transformations, Red's Tragedy and Spyro's Torment, from Episode 4: Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 1 of 4: Soul Possession
    • * And now... the story continues... Three days later... Outside Hunter's New Home After what had happened three days earlier, Spyro's friends had decided to wait until after they had had a few days to recover before attempting any plan of action. This also gave them time to get to know their new guest, Artimas. The white Clound Runner Elder dragon was interesting and he knew a lot about each of them. How he knew none of them could figure out but obviously he had been watching all of them for sometime. Spyro, they had learned from Artimas, was unique dragon known as the Dragon of Destiny. What this meant Hunter and the others still hadn't quite figured it out. So they spent everyday they were staying at Hunter's home resting, relaxing and learning more from Artimas as their bodies recovered... During this time, however, Ember and Elora began to argue with each other again and that made everyone, including Spyro uncomfortable. The two girls had briefly stopped when Spyro got tired of their bickering and went inside. So the last few hours have been filled with peace and qui... [Sound of girls arguing] Never mind... The two girls in question sat arguing with each other as Hunter groaned and covered his ears. Artimas sighed and shook his head as he sat back in his chair. Hunter looked over at the girls and growled getting their attention. "Will you girls please just shut up?! I can't hear myself think over here!" Hunter yelled as both he and Artimas looked over at the arguing duo. Hunter's answer was a small fireball that he ducked under the table to avoid. He looked wide eyed at Ember and Elora who had paused their argument to give him a not so friendly grin. "Never mind. You can resume killing each other if you like!" Ember and Elora smiled and resumed their argument with each other while Hunter and Artimas sighed and moved to a table further away so they could talk about what to do about Flame. "We need to go to the Shadow Realm, rescue Flame and while we are at it kick that arrogant jerk Reeco and his dishonorable foot soldiers asses. What do you say, Artimas?" Artimas looked at Hunter and said, calmly, "I am all for doing that, Hunter, but the situation is not that easy to resolve. I fear that Reeco took Flame for a dark reason considering how Spyro reacted earlier." Hunter scratched his chin in thought. "Yeah, I was wondering about that, Artimas. What happened to Spyro anyway? He just freaked out!"
    • * Flashback... Hunter's Home three days earlier The golden energy field around Spyro's body ceased. As it did, everyone awoke holding their heads. Spyro groaned and lifted his head shaking it gently. Suddenly, just as he started to sit up slowly he froze as his golden eyes snapped open wide. He then quickly sat up straight. He looked up at the roof and cringed as he felt his brother's pain flash through his body making him roar out in pain, "FLAME, NOOOooooo!" He then collapsed back into unconsciousness... "SPYRO!" His friends yelled in concern. * * * Present "I gave Spyro a gift. That prophecy scroll I tossed him contained a special spell that will help him reach his true potential a little faster. I think the spell in the scroll most have caused his powers to evolved giving him an extra sensory ability. Apparently, Spyro somehow mentally connect with Flame and felt whatever pain he is currently going through." Hunter looked at Artimas with a dumbfounded expression on his face as he slammed his head down on the table. "Hunter, are you okay?" Artimas asked with a look of concern. Hunter sat back up, shook his head and smiled as he said, "I am fine, I think my brain just temporarily overloaded with all that mystical mumbo jumbo you just said. Other then that, I think I rebooted just fine." At that moment Bianca walked by with a glass tray of lemonade. As she set two glasses down in front of Hunter and Artimas she smiled. "That's Hunter for you. Don't worry about it, Artimas, he tends to space out like that at times when someone gives him too much info all at once." Bianca said. "I do not!" Hunter laughed as he playfully swiped at her and she laughed as she jumped out of the way. "Whatever am I going to do with you, Bianca?" Bianca smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "Just love me, darling. That is all I ask for. Now I better see what I can do about our two arguing friends over there." She said as she turned and walked over to where the two arguing girls were while Hunter looked at Bianca with a smile on his face as she walked away. Artimas smiled and tapped Hunter on the head getting the love-stricken cheetah's attention. "Huh, oh, sorry, Artimas, I was thinking about someone." Hunter said as he blushed. Artimas laughed. "No doubt. You really do love her. Don't you?" Artimas asked as he put a straw in the lemonade glass and took a sip. "Yes, Artimas, I do. I love her more then I ever thought I could. I never thought I would ever feel this way for someone again. I once felt this feeling long ago." Hunter said as his smile faded off his face becoming a frown. "When I was younger and had a family to love and be loved by." Hunter wiped a tear, that appeared in his left eye, away. Artimas put the lemonade glass down and placed his right paw on Hunter's shoulder to comfort him. "Do you want to talk about it? What happened, Hunter?" Artimas said softly. Hunter looked at Artimas and sighed turning away sadly. "I don't want to talk about my past right now, Artimas. Please don't ask me to tell you. My past is a very unhappy filled one with painful memories I just want to forget." Hunter said softly as he fought to keep from crying. He looked back at Artimas and shook his head. "Don't worry about me. Right now we have to come up with a plan to rescue Flame and deal with Reeco and his followers. My problems can wait for another day." Artimas nodded and stood up grabbing his staff as he did. He turned and started walking back into Hunter's home to talk to Spyro. As he reached the doorway to enter he turned around and looked at Hunter with a look of sympathy. "Don't keep your inner pain forever bottled up, Hunter. It will only continue to bother you unless you let it go by telling someone. In fact, I can see you are hurting right now. Something about this current situation has brought back bad memories you have tried so hard to keep buried all these years. You lost your family at a young age. Didn't you?" Artimas asked. Hunter looked at Artimas with a sad look and nodded his head slowly as his face took on a far off look and his memory of the past came roaring back.
    • * The Mountain Kingdom of Willowbrook - 18 years earlier - Avalarian Time "Daddy, where are you?" Cried a seven year old Hunter as he ran out of the large burning country house that belonged to his family. Other cheetahs wearing war paint and carrying bows ran past him as bolts of flame rained down on buildings, destroying them left and right, from a large glowing overhead portal. Hunter looked up at the portal in fear and started running but tripped on a tree root. He turned around and watched as fire bolt came flying toward him. He closed his eyes and put his arm up to shield himself. Just as the bolt neared him a large muscled arm wrapped around him and pulled him out of the way. Hunter opened his eyes and looked up into the loving face of his father, Kyle. "DADDY!" Kyle smiled as he said, "I got you, Hunter, don't worry." Kyle ran with his son cradled safely in his arms. As soon as he outdistanced the blast range of the fire bolts he stopped and put Hunter down. "Son, go to the shelter with the other kits. We'll take care of this." "But dad, I want to stay with you!" Hunter cried. Kyle knelt down and hugged Hunter as he cried. "I know, son, but you are my world. You are all I have left and I can't let you get hurt. You and the other kits are the future of all four clans." Kyle let him go. "I love you, son, don't ever forget that just in case." "Just in case of what, dad?" Hunter asked as his father stood back up and looked back toward the burning village. "Just in case I..." He said as a female cheetah named Leona ran toward him and stopped right in front of him with wide eyes. "Your highness, you must come quickly, the magical defense barrier has been breached! The enemy is invading the north part of the city and even with the fauns helping us we are having a hard time stopping them!" Leona said as she bowed respectfully to Kyle. Kyle frowned and took his two bows off his back. He looked at Hunter and gave him one of the bows. "Take this, Hunter. I taught you how to use the bow well. Use it to protect the other kits just in case we fail to stop the invaders from getting this far." Kyle said. Hunter nodded silently and ran toward the shelter. Kyle watched as his son entered the shelter. He smiled as tears started to fall from his eyes as he turned his back to the shelter and nodded to Leona. Leona pulled out her bow and together both of them ran back toward the burning city. As Kyle ran in his mind he remembered all the happy times he had spent with his children and his mate. Looking up at the sky as the stars began to appear, he said a silent prayer. Then he ran with Leona to face his fate with courage and determination. "Goodbye, Hunter." Kyle said to himself as he joined the rest of his people in a battle to save their home. "I love you with all my heart and soul. Even if I die tonight I die happy knowing that you will live to have a future. May your future bring you happiness, my son." With that said Kyle met his fate and faced his destiny as all leaders must do to save the ones they love. Hunter frowned as he and the other kits stayed in the shelter all night. They fell asleep to the sound of burning and awoke the next morning to the sound of rain. "It's over," eight year Jordan, a young black panther and one of Hunter's best friends said as he tried to open the shelter. "Hey, someone please give me a paw here." Hunter stood up and walk over to the doors and joined Jordan. Together they pushed but because of the weight of the rain pouring down on the door it wouldn't budge. "Hey, could you guys give us a paw here?" Hunter asked as he and Jordan tried to open the door but couldn't. Two ten year old lion kits, Christian and his twin sister Crystal both nodded and joined Hunter and Jordan at the door. Together all four children pushed the heavy door open and walked out into rain. Hunter looked at the other children inside the shelter. "Stay here while we go check the city. We'll be back." He said as he grabbed his bow. The other kits nodded and stayed put as Hunter, Jordan, Christian and Crystal ran toward the smoking watch tower that marked the entrance to the Valley of Orbs which led to Willowbrook Kingdom, the land of the four kings and clans. As they entered the kingdom they all looked in horror at the amount of devastation before them. Bodies of Cheetahs, Lions, Leopards, Cougars and Fauns lay burned and broken everywhere. "Oh god!" Hunter whispered as Christian and Crystal looked around with wide eyes. Jordan just fell to his knees and dropped his head in silent prayer. "Come on, let's go check the palace and see if anyone is alive there." Jordan said as they all looked at each other. "Good idea, Jordan." Hunter said as he ran ahead. Jordan, Christian and Crystal nodded silently as they followed their friend closing their senses to the sights, sounds and smells of death and tragedy around them. Finally, they reached the large tree-like palace. "I wish the flames of war had stayed away from here." Crystal said sadly as tears fell from her eyes as she and the others looked around at what had once been the beautiful rainbow flower gardens that surrounded the palace. There was nothing but smoking ashes and dust left. Then they looked at the palace and gasped in shock. The once majestic palace was a burned out shadow of its former self. Stones lay scatter every- where and the proud symbol of the four unified clans: Four paws holding a long wreath of white Avalarian Roses - the flower of peace, lay broken on the ground in front of the main palace entrance. Hunter dropped to his knees as he looked at the place he and his three companions had once called home. "It is all gone." Hunter cried as the other three children looked at the palace with tears in their eyes. "Everything that has ever matter to me. First my mother, then my sister Rachel, now my father and our beautiful city are all gone. I am all alone." "No you are not, Hunter," Christian said as he knelt and put an arm around Hunter's shoulder. "We are here and together we'll rebuild this Kingdom to its former glory. Our parents loved us so much that they sacrificed themselves to save us. We can't let that sacrifice be in vain." "My brother is right," Crystal said softly as she knelt and placed her paw on his shoulder. "We are together in this tragedy. We will survive and rebuild." Crystal looked down and smiled as she saw a small multi-colored flower by Hunter's left foot. She gently touched the flower as she looked at Hunter. "Hunter, my mother once told me that even in times of great tragedy new life is born. No matter how bleak or horrible the situation may seem we must always have hope and never give up. This young flower hasn't given up even though all its brothers and sister have been burned to ashes around it. It continues to grow and thrive not giving up on life as it reaches for the sky with hope for the future. Do you know why this flower does that?" She asked as Hunter looked her in the face and shook his head softly. "The reason is because this flower knows that one day the rest of its kind will come back and it won't be alone anymore. We mustn't look at what has happened as the beginning of the end but as the end of what once was. We must look at what has happened and fight to make the future better. I miss my parents just like you do, but the best way we can honor their noble sacrifices is to forever keep them right here." She said as she touched her chest. "In our hearts where they will live forever as a part of us." Hunter looked at Crystal and smiled as he wiped the tears from his eyes. "You know what, Crystal, I believe your clan will benefit from your wisdom one day." He then looked up into the stormy sky as he stood up with his friends letting the rain fall on them washing away their tears, their pain and their innocence. Then he looked back at the other young future clan leaders and started walking back toward the shelter quietly. As he walked Hunter promised himself that he would never forget what happened here and he would, just like the little flower Crystal found at his feet, thrive and reach for the sky with endless hope for a better future. Soon they reached the shelter and as they got ready to enter it they heard a loud crash. Hunter ran to the river and looked upstream in horror as Hope Dam, a beautiful orb powered dam that the fauns had built thousands of years ago as a show of peace between the Avalar clans collapsed releasing huge wave of water. Hunter ran and jumped for the outstretched paw of Christian. He grabbed Christian's paw and held on as the river raced by pulling him downstream. "HOLD ON, HUNTER!" Christian growled as he tried to pull Hunter out of the rushing water. Jordan and Crystal also reached for Hunter. "I am trying!" Hunter growled when suddenly a piece of the broken dam hit him in the waist making him scream in pain as he let go of Christian's paw. "CHRISTIAN!" He yelled as the rough current pulled him downstream away from his friends. "HUNTER!" Christian, Crystal and Jordan yelled as they watched, in shock, the river take Hunter away from them. Hunter struggled against the current as he tumbled around in the river that his people got their food from. "Help me... Someone, please help me!" He screamed as the swift current carried him farther and farther away from his friends. He fought to keep his head above the water but his energy ran out and just as he started go under a cloaked figure tossed a rope around him and pulled him out quickly. "Don't worry, little one. I have you." The cloaked figure said as she/he looked back at the remains of the city of Willowbrook. "I can't take you back home and you can't come with me on my journey. I'll have to take you someplace where it is warm and safe. But where could that be...? Wait! I know!" The cloaked figure picked him up and ran swiftly toward the nearest faun village. Hunter never knew what happened because he was slipping in and out of unconscious. Now, he thought before unconsciousness claimed him, I am alone.
    • * Hunter growled as his memories of the past faded back into the back of his head. Looking at Artimas he said softly, "Please, don't say another word, Artimas. Just give it a rest. I know you are trying to help and don't get me wrong I appreciate what you are trying to do, but right now like I said before isn't the time. Right now let's focus on helping Flame." Artimas nodded and smiled "You are truly a good friend, Hunter. You put other people's problems before your own. Spyro and his friends are lucky to have you around." Artimas said as he bowed to the cheetah before he silently turned and started to walk inside... Hunter said, getting Arimas's attention, "Even so, thank you for caring, Artimas. Now go check on my pal and see how he is doing. I'll be in there to check on him in a minute." Hunter grinned as Artimas looked at him and nodded before turning and going inside. As he entered Hunter's home he headed straight for the large bedroom. As he opened the well oiled door, he noticed that Spyro, who was wearing a short, white with gold trimmed jacket-like robe, was hovering in the air with his legs crossed and eyes closed holding a meditating position. 'I didn't know he had clothes.' Artimas thought with a smile on his face as he watched a soft glow of golden energy surrounded Spyro's form. He walked over to the nearest chair and sat down to wait for Spyro to come out of his meditation. 1 hour later.... 'Incredible, he really has amazing mental focus. He has been like that for a whole hour without stop. Truly impressive.' Artimas thought as Hunter came in the room and looked at Spyro. Artimas looked at Hunter and pointed at Spyro as he said, "He is truly amazing isn't he, Hunter?" Hunter nodded as he leaned against the door frame. "I never thought he would be able to keep such a strong mental focus so long." Hunter pushed off the door frame and walked over to his friend and tilted his head toward Spyro. Artimas looked at Hunter with a frown and asked, "What are you doing, Hunter? Don't break his concentration!" Hunter laughed and leaned on Spyro's shoulder as he said, "He isn't meditating, Artimas." Artimas looked at Hunter wide eyed. "What are you talking about, Hunter? What else could he be doing?" Hunter walked back over to the door and before he left the room he said, with a smile, "He's sleeping, Artimas. My friend told me that he always was made to sit like that since he was a dragonling in Sandra's class. Sandra use to punish him a lot for his disobedience by making him sit like this in a corner for hours on end. According to what Spyro told me, she was trying to make his class time as unpleasant as possible so she could make him focus on her lessons. It failed miserable, of course, because he just started falling asleep in that position. Bye." Hunter left the room as Artimas started grumbling and picked up his staff raising it to the ceiling. As he did the blue light gem started glowing. "Milo, I hope you can hear me because I need you to do me a favor." Artimas said. "No problem, one rudely awaken dragon coming right up." Milo said as he opened a portal over Spyro's head and sent a small river of ice cold cascading water pouring down on Spyro waking him instantly. "HEY...! WHAT THE HELL?!" Spyro roared angrily as he was awaken. "WHOA, Ahhhh!" He fell to the floor with a loud crash. Sitting up, Spyro growled as small tendrils of black smoke billowed out of his nostrils. As he ran his left and right clawed paws over his wet white jacket to knock some of the cold water off the fabric he looked up at the white portal above him in the ceiling and saw a young white dragon grinning sheepishly down at him. "Sorry about that, Spyro, but Artimas wanted me to wake you up. So I did!" Milo said as Spyro growled, opened his mouth and blew a medium-sized fireball his way. Milo ducked the ball and heard someone he knew very well behind him scream, "HEY, BE CAREFUL YOU ALMOST FRIED ME!" Milo looked behind him and said, "Oops, sorry, I should have warned you about... no wait... DANA... STOP... ahhh." The portal then closed with smoke floating down out of it. Spyro grinned and then gave Artimas a narrow eyed look as he pulled off the soaked short, white with gold trimmed jacket-like robe. The robe didn't fall to the floor but it hovered in mid-air as Spyro snapped his claws. The robe burst into flames and as the flames burned Spyro used the heat from them to dry his purple scaled body off. As soon as he was dry the flames went out leaving the robe dry and undamaged. Artimas looked at the white robe in surprise as Spyro slipped it back on carefully slipping his wings through the holes in the back. "Surprise..., Artimas, this robe was a birthday gift from Amanda three years ago. The Magic Crafters made this robe of magic materials that are flame proof. I don't usual wear it often in public because it tends to get in the way of my movement. Amanda told me she was working on a new version of this robe. The new version is a jacket I can and will wear in public because it is more like body armor that will help me in battle instead of slowing me down or getting in my way." "I understand." Artimas said as he stood up and walked over to Spyro. "By the way, Spyro, I am sorry for having Milo wake you up like that. I just wanted to talk to you about Flame and what you planned to do to rescue him." Spyro frowned and looked down at the floor sadly. "I will help you out as much as I can. I just need to know what..." At that moment both of them heard a scream come from outside. They turned to the door as Hunter came running in with Bianca and Blink. "What is going on, guys?!" Spyro ask as an explosion was heard outside. Hunter frowned as he opened the door a crack to look and then turned back to Spyro with a fearful look on his face. "Spyro, it's Ember and Elora! They were arguing with each other and Bianca tried to break up the argument but that is when it spiraled out of control. Ember punched Elora, Elora then hit Ember with a chair and then everything just went to hell after that!" Spyro sighed and grabbed his head like he was starting to get a headache. "NOT AGAIN!" Spyro growled as he walked toward his friends. "Let's go break up the Fight Girl Convention before it gets any worst." Hunter stepped aside slowly and laughed harshly as another explosion was heard outside and the house shook with impact of a body hitting it hard. "ARE YOU KIDDING, BUDDY?! IT ALREADY IS LIKE A WAR OUT THERE. IT CAN'T GET ANY WORST UNLESS.... OH CRAP!" Hunter growled as he opened the door quickly and with Spyro and his other friends rushed outside. Outside of Hunter's House... As soon as Spyro and his friends walked out the door they had to duck the flying body of Ember that slammed into the door going thru it to the interior of Hunter's home. Hunter groaned. "Great, now I am going to have to make a new door! Thanks alot, Em... ber!" Hunter said as a dark pink, very angry Ember walked back outside. Ember looked at Hunter with narrowed eyes and growled. Hunter grinned sheepishly and backed away from her seeing how royally ticked off she was. "Never mind, I was going to replace that door anyway." Ember flapped her wings and flew back toward a bruised, black eyed Elora with smoke billowing out of her nostrils like she was a raging fire ready to burn anything or anyone that got in her way of mangling the faun. Spyro groaned, closed his eyes and shook his head. "Let's end this right now!" Ember yelled as she grabbed the faun and body slammed her through a wooden table. Elora jumped back up slowly shaking her head and body to get rid of the dazed feeling she was feeling. "BRING IT ON, POWDER PUFF!" Elora growled as she punched Ember in the stomach making the dragoness gasp in pain as she bowed over holding her stomach. Elora follow up the stomach punch with a slap to her face knocking her to the ground. "STAY DOWN, EMBER! I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU BUT IF YOU KEEP THIS UP THEN I WILL DO WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO TO PUT AN END TO THIS!" Ember's body started glowing red as she stood back up growling with angry eyes fixed on Elora. Elora saw the look on Ember's face and said, "Oh crap!" Then she ran as Ember charged after her ripping apart wooden tables and chairs that got in her way with rage-enhanced strength. Elora looked back over at Spyro and her other friends and said, with fear in her voice, "Help me, she's going to kill me!" Spyro looked at Hunter and they groaned as they nodded to each other. Spyro jumped into the air and flew toward Ember at full speed and as he did he let his white robes vanish off his body. "EMBER, STOP!" Spyro screamed. Unfortunately, Ember was so angry that she didn't hear what he had said. "This is not good." He said to himself. Ember usually never ignored him completely unless she was enraged and not in her right mind. And that meant that... 'Oh no,' Spyro thought. 'If we don't stop this now someone is going to die and considering how angry Ember is right now I'd say Elora is already dead. Unless...' "Hunter!" Hunter looked over at Spyro with a matching grim expression on his face. He understood perfectly how seriously bad the situation was and that their old friend, Elora was screwed. Ember wasn't going to stop until she either reduced Elora to ashes or clawed her eyes out... literally. Either way, Elora was going to suffer horribly. "Yeah, pal, I know! We have to put a stop to this before it gets any worst." He yelled as he turned to Bianca. "Bianca, we have to help Spyro calm Ember down before she fatally hurts Elora." Bianca nodded and snapped her five pawed fingers summoning her new magic wand staff. Meanwhile, Ember had pinned Elora on the ground and had started to breath fire at her. Elora put her arms up in front of her and blocked the flames with a magical barrier. Spyro landed behind Ember and tried to stop her but she backhanded him into the sand. Turning back to Elora she resumed breathing flames at her. Elora started sweating with the amount of effort and strain it was taking to keep the barrier up. She had trained over the years to increase her magical abilities and defenses, but even she had limits. Despite all the training she was starting to grow tired. 'Good grief, this girl has a good set of lungs. She has been breathing fire on me for the last fifteen minutes nearly non-stop. Geez, when will she get tired and stop.' The beads of sweat on her forehead started to rolled down her face as the strain continued to increase making Elora growl as she fought hard to maintain the barrier a little longer. 'Somebody, please help me, I can't hold this barrier up for much longer.' Blink and Hunter ran over and grabbed Ember's arms causing her to stop. "Ember, stop it! You are going to kill her if you continue." Blink screamed. "It isn't worth it!" Ember, enraged that she was being interrupted, growled and turned to face both him and Hunter. "Let go of me, Blink! I am going to finish what I started. Sorry, but someone needs to teach this faun a lesson and make her realize that..." Spyro jumped back in and pushed Blink and Hunter to the side as he grabbed Ember's horns and flipped her on her back. She growled as she struggled to stand back up and continue her attack on Elora but Spyro put a stop to it by pinning her to the ground. "GET THE HELL OFF OF ME, SPYRO!" Ember roared as she kept struggling. Spyro narrowed his eyes and looked down at her with an angry expression on his face as he shook his head. Ember growled as she said, "Very well, I am sorry, Spyro, but remember you forced me to do this!" "DON'T YOU DARE, EMBER!" Spyro growled but it was already to late as Ember breathed a large stream of flames on him making him jump off her with a roar of pain as he fell backwards onto the sandy ground. Artimas and Bianca, in shock and horror, ran over to their smoking friend as Ember stood back up and started getting ready to resume her attack on Elora. Bianca sighed and shook her head as she healed the burns on Spyro's body. "Oh great, now Elora is going to be angry. Hunter, we have to stop this fight now before it goes any farther." She whispered to him and Hunter looked at her and silently nodded as he looked at Ember. "EMBER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Hunter growled as he looked at her angrily. "Spyro was trying to stop you from killing Elora and you hurt him! You claim you love him and yet you do this to him!" Ember froze in shock her body going slack as she finally realized what she had done and backed away shaking her head. Elora growled angrily, jumped to her feet and ran toward Ember. She pulled her paw back into a fist and was about to punch Ember when a singed, nearly healed Spyro sat up and roared getting their attention. "STOP IT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" He growled in anger making all of his friends pause and look at him. Spyro pulled himself to his feet as he glared at Ember and Elora with eyes that were slowly bleeding to gold as he walked over and looked down at them. "I refuse to stand here and watch two of my best friends fight each other over who gets me! I am not a prize to be won by either of you! I said this same line a few days ago when we were at Nestor's home and here I am saying it again!" "WHY, SPYRO?!" Elora growled as she pushed Ember down to the ground hard. "She hurt you and she deserves to get punished." "You don't have the right to judge anyone, Elora, considering the fact that you originally started this in the first place." Spyro growled as he looked Elora right in the eyes. Elora stood up and face Spyro with an angry expression on her face. "How dare you talk to me like that. I have loved you for years and you never returned the love I gave you." Looking at Ember as the dragoness stood up. "Ember started the fight this time. Not me! I just simply told her you were my dragon and she snapped!" Elora growled as she glared at Ember. "She just can't accept the truth that you are already taken. It really is sad. Hey, powderpuff, maybe you should date Flame once we rescue him. I hear he is single and that he loves you. Leave Spyro to me. He is more dragon than you can handle, little girl." The way Elora said the insult made Ember sigh sadly and just looked at Elora. "You dare accuse me of starting this. You started this. I admit I may have made it worst with my own actions, but don't forget you started this, Elora. Besides in case you have forgot I had your but on the ropes just a little while ago. If Spyro, Hunter and Flame hadn't interfered then you would be ashes right now." She said softly. "Shut up, powderpuff! Why would Spyro love you? You are nothing but a pest to him. All these years you have just followed him around like a giggling fangirl." Elora said as Ember glared at her with tears in her angry eyes. Elora growled and then started to jump on her but instead Spyro grabbed her. "Stop fighting, I am growing tired of this!" Spyro growled as she struggled against him. He held her tight until she stopped struggling and then he let her go. As soon as Spyro let her go, Elora punched Ember in the face knocking her on her back. Elora started to cry then as she started raining punches down on Ember's chest with such force that she cut her paws on Ember's scales. Ember looked at Elora sadly with tears in her eyes and said, "Go ahead, Elora. Kill me! I hurt Spyro and tried to kill you. I deserve to die for my sins like you said." After she said that Ember started to cry. "Very well," Elora said as she started to punch the dragoness again. At that moment Ember sat up and grabbed her arm and pulled her down into a hug. Elora froze in shock as Ember hugged her. "What are you doing, Ember?" She asked in surprise. "Putting a stop to this," Ember said softly as she looked up at Spyro, who had stopped himself from jumping between the two fighting girls again. Ember reached out to him and he turned his back on her and walk away. "WAIT!" They both yelled as they got up and ran over to him. Putting their paws on his back they cried. "We're so sorry, Spyro!" "We shouldn't haven't been fight over you at a time like this!" Ember said sadly as she dropped her head in shame. Spyro growled in anger and turned around slapping both Ember and Elora in the faces. "Your right, now is a bad time to fight over me... again!" Both females rubbed their faces as they looked at Spyro with hurt expressions on their faces. "Don't you dare give me those looks, ladies!" He growled as he looked at Elora and Ember with narrowed eyes. "You were trying to kill each other again and when I tried to stop both of you." He looked at Ember. "You hurt me, Ember." Ember closed her eyes as tears started falling from them. "I am so sorry I did that to you, Spyro. Please forgive me!" She cried. Spyro looked at her with a frown and sighed. "I am sorry I slapped both of you just now I didn't want to do it, but you two earned it because both of you refused to listen to reason. I had to make a choice of whether or not to let you girls keep fighting in which case would have result in the death of either one or both of you. I could have chosen to let the fight play itself out to the end. An end you know would have resulted in Ember's favor and not yours, Elora." Elora dropped her head as what remained of her anger faded away to be replaced with shame. "I didn't want that to happen so I chose to intervene in the fight in the only way possible: I stepped in and used force. I am glad one of you came to your senses after hurting me. I know that in those love-filled heads of yours you both think you deserve me. Don't get me wrong I won't say neither of you do because I don't know. I have recently thought that prehaps I don't deserve you guys because of how I arrogant I have been lately." Ember looked up at Spyro in surprise as she felt his tears fall on her. Elora sighed sadly and started to back away sadly. Spyro looked at her and grabbed her gently, pulling her into the hug between him and Ember. "Now that I have your undivided attention I want you to get this through your heads right now. I will chose who I want to be with on my own terms and in my own time. We are all still very young so there is no hurry. Just be patient." He said softly as he released them both with a grin. "Besides, at the moment, we have a rescue mission to plan for." Ember said, as both she and Elora smiled and nodded as they both, hand in hand, walked with Spyro back toward Hunter's home. "You have changed a lot recently, Spyro. I know you have and I am glad it was for the better." Spyro looked at her and opened his mouth to deny her comment only to have Elora put a pawed finger on his mouth. "Yes, Spyro, Ember is right about you. You have changed and I too am glad you have. When I first met you years ago you were a very bold, brash and tough young dragon with a lot of heart and determination. Over time you changed and seem to lose your heart as you became more arrogant. Me and Ember may have our differences but we both agree that for awhile we both were afraid that we were losing that part of you that made you YOU. A dragon who puts the safety of others he care about before his own safety. That is why I think me and Ember fell in love with you, Spyro. You care about others and want to make things better." She paused for a minute before she said, with a thoughtful look on her face, "I think I finally figured out why you are called the Dragon of Destiny." Artimas smiled as he listened as Elora said, "It is your destiny to bring all of us together to build a better future, not just for your people, but for us all. You are, like the beautiful rose of peace on Avalar, a symbol of unity and hope." Elora looked over at Artimas and noticed that he was smiling. "I am right about that aren't I, Artimas?" Artimas merely nodded as he walked beside them silently. "Maybe I am," Spyro said as he looked around at all his friends. "But, if that is true, I wonder what future we are going to build together." "I think the future we build together will be a happy one." Hunter said softly making Spyro and the others glance over to him. "I just have to say that I am also thankful you have backtracked. I don't mind my best friend being a tough guy but your arrogance was starting to hurt all of us. We are all proud to be your friends, Spyro, but for awhile it seemed as if you were forgetting us. I know me and you talked about your walkabout sight seeing journey around the Realm you did after defeating Red, but I still wonder if you told me everything. What was the TRUE reason for your traveling, pal?" Spyro looked at Hunter and smiled. "Heh, I should have known I couldn't keep the truth from any of you." Spyro sighed and with a serious expression said, "Hunter, guys, I left to do some soul-searching. I know, it's not like me to do that but I did it because of what Red said during my battle with him." Flashback to A Hero's Tale during Spyro's first battle with Red... I had made it to Red and he was waiting for me. We talked briefly and as we talked he said something that troubled me deeply. He said, "You remind me of myself when I was your age." It was almost like he was trying to warn me to be careful not to let myself get so overconfident in myself that I let my arrogance blind me to everything and everyone who is truly important to me. My duty and above all else you guys... my loving friends. The more I fought him I began to realize that prehaps once upon a time Red may have been like me and somehow made mistake that changed him into what he became. I realized after I defeated... no, that isn't right, WE all defeated Red I begin to see what he meant. Because when I started to finally take the time to look at myself I begin to realize that I was indeed slowly losing myself and I didn't like that.
    • * Spyro looked at his friends with a solemn and humble expression as he said, "I have always been rather hardheaded that is the truth. I never listened to Nestor, Sandra or any of the Elders and they were only trying to teach me something because they cared. I guess because I spent so many years keeping myself to myself that I have become hard and cold to everyone around me. I took that journey and tried to rediscover myself. When I fought Reeco and died I thought that was the end but..." Spyro looked at Hunter and all his friends and smiled. "You were there, Hunter. In fact all of you were there with me, I felt all of you giving me your strength to keep me going. I may have gained this power in death but it alone wouldn't have been enough to bring me back from death's grip. All of you made the difference just like you did in the past. I am only here now because of you guys. You have never been one to learn any lessons but I think I owe Red for helping me open my eyes and see what I was in danger of becoming." "Being a hero with determination but with no heart is not being a true hero at all. Am I right, Spyro?" Elora said softly as Spyro nodded and smiled. "Thank you, all for caring about me. I don't think I'll ever be able to repay all of you but I will try." Spyro said as Hunter and the others smiled and followed them happy that not only was the fight between Elora and Ember finally over with at long last but Spyro... the SPYRO they had all come to respect and in most cases love was finally back home. *

* Meanwhile.... in a place that has yet to exist and a time that has yet to come.... Vanguard Command Beta - ?? years later... A tall and muscular adult purple dragon with large gold feathered wings stands on a tall balcony. In his purple, gold clawed left paw he held a large metal staff with a glowing white gem attached to its head. 'So much has happened... I still have a hard time believing how much has changed.' He thought to himself as a soft breeze stirred blowing his gold trimmed white robes that covered his broad scaled muscular chest. "They should be home soon." He said to himself. Suddenly a portal in the distance opened and as he watched the magical defense shield dropped letting the magic powered Portal Jumper craft enter. He smiled as he watched the craft return home safely from the Dragon Realms. "I better go down and greet them." He turned slowly in his sweeping robes and headed down to the landing pad where four passengers were just starting to exit. While the purple adult dragon made his way down to the landing pad, two young dragons were opening the doors to let a bearded mole out of the craft. As the mole stepped down, he adjusted his glasses and looked back at two of his four traveling companions that exited the craft behind him. One of the two dragons was male and had mixed colored blue and purple scales. He wore an open chest metallic blue vest that had the white letters P.T.D.F: T.S. shown on a metal plate that was attached to the front of the vest. As he stepped down behind the mole he reached up to a black dragoness that handled him the mole's two metal cases. "Thanks, Yua." the young male said as he took the two cases from her. He turned and handed the mole his two cases. "Here you go." He said with a smile. "Thanks, Skyler, I am sure my visit here will be wonderful. By the way wasn't your father suppose to meet us here?" The mole said as he looked around the pad not seeing his old friend anywhere.. "Don't worry," said Yua as she adjusted her black, red trimmed armored vest. Her armor had the initials S.W.D.C. etched in silver on her sleeves. "He'll be here soon enough." She looked back inside the Portal Jumper and yelled, "Hey, kiddy kats, would one of you please toss me my battle staff!" Two young cheetunnys, one male and the other female, jumped out of the craft with frowns on their faces. The twins as they were called both looked like a mix of their cheetah and bunny parents. They had long, black spotted pointy bunny-like ears that fell over their shoulders. Their spotted tails were long and puffy with white fur that went down to the white tip of their tails. The male twin wore a green open chest jacket and wore on his back a green backpack where he kept his spell books and collapsable magic staff. Under his jacket he wore a blue battle vest that marked him as a member of the Project Timecore Defense Force. The female also wore a similiar blue vest that went down to her waist. The vest held her various blades and throwing knives. Around her waist she had a special metal sash-like belt that held her two small dual shot gauntlet mounted crossbows. Both twins wore metal gauntlets like the two dragons did. The female cheetunny tossed Yua her staff. "Here you go, Yua." Yua reached up with her left paw and caught the staff which glowed and magically retracted into a small rod that she strapped to her vest. "Thanks, Tina." Yua.said as she looked at the sky as the sun started to go down in the distance. She looked at the door that lead from the main Vanguard Command living quarters and smiled as she saw a tall purple dragon making his way toward them. "Well, speaking of your father, Skyler. Here he comes now." Skyler, the two cheetunnys and the mole turned to the main walk way that connected the landing pad to the main Vanguard Command living quarters just as a familiar purple dragon approached them quickly. Skyler smiled and ran over to hug his father. "Father, I am so glad to see you!" His father smiled and returned the hug his son gave him wholeheartedly with his right arm. "It's good to see you too, son." "You too, dad. By the way has anything interesting happened while we been gone?" Skyler asked. His father sighed and gave his son a worried look. "What's wrong?" "I have an assignment I need you and your team to take care of. Go get your other team members and meet me in the Timecore Control Room and I'll explain." "Hey, Spyro, long time no see old friend," said the bearded mole. Spyro looked at the bearded mole and did a double take as he recognized his old friend. Spyro rubbed his chin and smiled once he got over the shock of seeing his old friend's new appearance. "Nice beard, Blink. It really looks good on you. By the way, did you bring the equipment from your lab that I asked you to bring?" Spyro asked. Blink nodded. "Good. By the way... how is your uncle doing? I haven't had the chance to go see him lately." Prof. Blink smiled and said, "My uncle is doing fine. He may complain about being retired from the lab but that is understandable. I think he is bored with doing nothing other then reading his library of old books. By the way, Spyro, you do know that he is currently staying with Nestor and Sandra at their home." Spyro smiled and nodded. "Also, by the way, Nestor and Sandra told me to tell you that they are also well." Spyro smiled and nodded at Blink before he turned to Yua and bowed to her. "Yua, thank you for your assistance. Do you mind taking Blink to the Control room. After that you are free to go." Yua smiled and bowed to Spyro. "No, Sir, I don't mind." Yua said as she turned to Blink. "Come with me." Blink nodded and together they started walking toward the Timecore Control Room when Spyro cleared his throat getting Yua attention. "Is there anything else, Sir?" "Yes, Yua, your father told me to remind you that you and your team have a training mission scheduled for tomorrow. So don't stay out partying with Sean all night." Spyro said with a smile. Yua groaned and rolled her eyes as she bowed to Spyro. "Thank you for the message, Sir. By the way..." Yua said as she looked around before she whispered, "You won't tell my father about the party I planned tonight. Will you?" Spyro smiled and said, "My lips are sealed, Yua. Now get going." Yua smiled and turned leading Blink to the Timecore Control Room. Spyro turned to his son and his son's two friends and team mates. "I'll meet you in the Timecore Control Room." Skyler nodded as his father left him and his friends standing there. Skyler smiled and looked at his friends. "I'll go get my sister so we can get this over with as soon as possible. I have a date with Vicky tonight and I don't intend on missing that. Meet me in the control room." He walked away leaving Khan and Tina to look at each other. "How much do you want to bet that Skyler will miss his date with Vicky again?" Khan said as he smiled. Tina rolled her eyes and walked away. "WHAT? WHAT DID I SAY?!" "Nothing, brother, I just am tired of making bets with you because I seem to always lose." Tina said as she headed for the control room. "Oh come on, sis." Khan said as he walked after her slowly making her stop and turn her head to look at him. As she did her long pointed ears swayed in the breeze. "NO WAY! Sorry but I am not giving away any more of my gems for your little magic experiments. Besides you have a tendency to blow stuff up too often. I am not going to get in trouble for you again, little brother. If you want to make a bet with someone why not do it with dad." 'No way, dad wins all the time...' He thought as Tina looked at him with a smug grin as she heard his thoughts. 'You do know, dear brother that maybe you need to learn to keep your thoughts to your self. As to why I said that you are correct. Dad always wins!' She spoke in her mind with a bit of sarcasm. 'Besides I love seeing you lose. It is a humbling experience... one that if you don't mind me saying you constantly need to make sure you stay humble.' She grinned as Khan opened his mouth to respond before closing it with a growl as he realized she was right. Tina smiled and said, as she turned and started to walk on, "Now, let's get going before we are late." Khan groaned and followed his sister.

    • * One hour later.. "Thank you all for being pat...ient " Skyler said as he entered the large Timecore Portal Room with his sister Blaze. He looked around, glancing up the stairs at the Control Room and saw that it, just like this room, was empty. "Okayyy, what's going on here?" As soon as he said that a bright flash briefly blinded both him and Blaze. As they rubbed their eyes to clear the blurryness they noticed that the once empty room was now filled with smiling faces. "SURPRISE, HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY TO BOTH OF YOU, SKYLER AND BLAZE!" Everyone yelled as they clapped their paws. Skyler and Blaze looked around at everyone in surprise. "Wow... just wow!" Blaze said as everyone laughed. "We don't know what to say." Blaze hugged many of the dragons that ran the Timecore equipment while Skyler shook the paws of the younger Timecore members and bowed to the elder members. "How about 'thank you'," said Stryker as he walked down the light gem powered lit stairs. Blaze saw him and ran toward him. Stryker smiled as he hugged his granddaughter. "We have been planning this party for the last couple days while both of you have been either gone or very busy." "So this was the BIG emergency, grandpa!" Skyler said with a grin. "The way dad made it sound I thought we were under attack or something." "Spyro has always had a flare for being over dramatic." Sky said as she appeared out of thin air and hugged Skyler. "It's so good to see you and Blaze, Skyler. Next time you decide to take time off from your job please come visit me and your grandfather." Skyler smiled and said, "Okay, grandma."
    • * While everyone was cheering and singing 'Happy birthday' to Skyler and Blaze downstairs, Spyro, Ember and Blink sat upstairs in the control room looking at a holographic temporal display. All three adults were silent and their solemn facial expressions were ones filled with concern and worry. Blink looked at Spyro and said, "I am afraid that your concerns were well founded, Spyro. A temporal storm is brewing." Ember looked at Blink and said, "How can you be sure, Blink? I don't sense anything..." Suddenly everything became transparent and then became solid again leaving everyone at the party downstairs stunned and Spyro, Blink and Ember with severe headaches. "Never mind. You were right to believe that Spyro, Blink." She said as she rubbed her head and looked at Spyro with a frown. "Spyro, I think something very bad is happening in the past right now that originally didn't happen before." Spyro rubbed his horned head and nodded as a frown appeared on his face. "Ember, I think it would be a good idea to put up the temporal shield right now." Ember nodded as she raised her left paw in the air as she stood up. Her metal staff, which was laying against the wall next to Spyro's staff floated off the floor, spun in the air and flew into Ember's outstretched left paw. She spun the staff around in her paw and slammed it down into a hole in the floor. As she did that the light gem in her staff lit up and showed a holographic version of Vanguard Command. "Computer," Ember said as she tapped the hologram bringing up a holographic console display. "Activate the temporal barrier." As soon as she said that a blue swirling magic energy barrier powered up and surrounded the entire floating city just as another temporal wave hit shaking the city. The wave knocked nearly everyone and thing to the floor. The shockwave lasted for a full minute before passing. Once it had passed, Spyro pulled himself to his feet and then help Ember and Blink to theirs before he walked out of the control room and headed down the stairs to the party below. The party had ended already with everyone looking rather disturbed and concern. As Spyro walked down the stairs four holographic display screens appeared and followed him down to the ground level. Skyler looked up the stairs and saw his father coming down them. "Dad, I felt like I was being ripped apart when everything went transparent not to long ago. Please don't tell me that something bad is going on in the past again. Geez, can't the bad guys take a vacation for just ONE day!" Spyro frowned as he looked at his paw and noticed that he could see right through it. Stryker and Sky both looked at their son's paw and gasped before looking at Blaze and Skyler and noticing that they too were also transparent. "Oh no," Sky said as she reached out and grabbed Spyro's shoulder to steady him when he suddenly became dazed and nearly lost his footing. Sky looked at Ember as she was coming down the stairs slowly being braced by Blink who was struggling to keep himself from falling. "Ember increase the temporal shield strength by twenty-five percent." Ember nodded and headed back up the stairs with Blink in tow. As soon as she did that, Spyro's paw along with Blaze and Skyler become solid again. Sky smiled and said, as she let her son go to stand on his own two feet again. "Thanks." "No problem," Ember said as she walked out of the control room with Blink and quickly headed down the stairs. Spyro shook his head as Stryker lent him a paw and helped him shake off the eerie 'Displacement' feeling. "That didn't feel good at all. It felt like I was dying or something!" Stryker frowned and placed his paw on one of the four hovering holographic display enlarging the display in the process while accessing the temporal records of the past so that everyone could see them. As the images appeared in front of them they all realized what had happened. Yua growled while Skyler and Blaze groaned along with everyone else. "Well," Skyler said irritated, "I guess this means the party is canceled!" Everyone nodded as they quickly cleared the floor of all the party items and returned to their holographic command stations. He looked around at his sister and Yua and their three friends as technicians ran in with their black stealth armor. "I guess it's mission time." They all nodded as Skyler turned and looked at Spyro and his grandparents. "We are ready to go whenever you are ready for us to go, dad." Spyro nodded as he, Ember, Blink, Stryker and Sky quickly walked back up the stairs to the control room. As they entered the control room, Ember activated her microphone. "PLEASE MAY I HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION: Activate your temporal protection fields around your stations and bodies then activate the time gate setting it for the following date, time and location." Everyone quickly did as she asked and fifteen minutes later the temporal gate was cycling through the first powering up phase. As everyone continued to move around quickly and efficiently the gate zipped through the final two stages and soon everything was ready to go. Spyro activated his mic and said, "Bring it down now!" Skyler and his four team mates moved as a Time Jumper Pod was lowered down from the ceiling and turned to face the online time gate. "Sir," A faunlike brownish gold male dragon said as he turned to Spyro from his display, "We have a go from all stations." Spyro nodded. "Well done, Sean. Now get down there. Your team is waiting for you." Spyro said with a smile. The dragonfaun stood up and smiled before he respectfully bowed to the older dragon. "Thank you, sir. Wish us luck!" Sean said as he grabbed his battle staff and made his way down the stairs to join his team. Spyro sighed as he watch his son's team make their final preparations. "Good luck, young ones. Come back home to us safely." He said with a soft whisper.
    • * ACT 2: QUANTUM LEAPS AND RISING CRISIS "Team Skyler, you have a go." Skyler nodded and looked up at the control room at his father and grandparents. Spyro met his son's eyes as both of them nodded. Skyler turned to the familiar face of the brownish gold dragonfaun and smiled. "It's good to see you, Sean." Skyler said as Yua smiled as she looked at Sean and Sean returned the smile as he made his battle staff shink small enough to strap to his black armored vest. "What? Did you think I was going to let you and the guys go on a mission without me, Skyler. I don't think so." Sean looked at his team mates and said, "Well, what are we waiting for, the past isn't going to protect itself. Let's go!" They all nodded and entered the Time Jumper "Good luck and come home safely." Spyro said softly as Ember stood up and looked at him with a sad expression on her face. Spyro sighed and grabbed Ember's paw gently as they watched Team Skyler enter the Time Jumper and power up the light gem powered temporal shields. "Ready?" Ember asked as holographic display screen appeared in front of both of them. Spyro nodded silently as they both together pressed the execute button opening the time gate. As the gate opened the energy from the gate rippled outward grabbing the Time Jumper and sending it and Team Skyler on their way. As this happened Ember whispered, as she laid her head on Spyro's shoulder, "Take care!" After the Jumper had cleared the gate it shutdown leaving Spyro and Ember standing in the control room with everyone present holding their breaths and praying that everything turned out okay. *Screen fades to black*
    • * 'DRAGON OF DESTINY....' [Echoes twice before drum beats start in the back ground] 'SPYRO' [A flame burns the logo into metal as it appears on the screen and then water is poured on the metal making it steam up shatter like glass revealing different locations of the Dragon Realm, Avalar and the Forgotten Realm.] New Song 'Moving on to a New Day' begins. *'Moving on to a New Day, Moving on to the future. No turning back. *** [echoes once]** Image of sun rising with a white jacket wearing Spyro and Ember sitting together looking up at the horizon with pictures of Hunter and Bianca sleeping in each other's arms on the beach at Dragon Shores. Elora is on Avalor training and pauses to look up at the rising sun with a smile. Sgt. Byrd with the Professor's help is tuning up his rocket pack while Sheila and Bentley talk and then stop as they look out the window of the professor's lab to watch the sun rising. 'Yesterday is gone, Stand up and face the future. With head held high to the sky, Nothing ever stays the same. Image of Flame and Spyro split screen. Flame is looking solemn with tears in his eyes while Spyro turns to face his brother and hugs him closing his eyes as tears fall from them and a gentle breeze blows around them both stirring up Spyro's white jacket and Flame's black jacket as their tears are carried away. *As we move on to a new day, Everything changes more and more, And that's truth. Nothing stays the same. As we move on to a new day. *** [To a new day echoes]** Images of Reeco sitting at a monitor and looking bored at the display of Spyro and Flame hugging before he stands and turns it off and looks at a picture of his younger brother Cael with tears in his eyes. Ryua walks around the Citadel and goes out on the balcony to look at the moonlight with an sad smile on her face. I know it is not easy, To move on to the future now. To let go of all that you are, And become what you destined to become, No turning back, No turning back... Image of Flame roaring as Hunter and the others run away from rushing river. Flame dives in front of the large wave of water and begins to spin as his feathered wings glow red and he becomes a flaming tornado of fiery energy stopping the wave. As his friends make it to safety, Flame flies toward them and lands giving them a smile. *Moving on to a New Day, Nobody said that would be easy, And I know it in my heart and soul. Know in my heart and soul. *** [echoes once]** _ That's the truth. _ Images Ember and Spyro flying together in the moonlight. Hunter on Avalar helping his old friends rebuild Willowbrook with Bianca using her magic to lift a large rock up to repair the palace. Once the rock is in the right place, Hunter uses his gauntlet bow to fire some fire bows to melt the rock in place. Jordan, Chrisitan and Crystal pat Hunter on the back as Bianca smiles and wipes the sweat from her brow. But with my friends by my side we'll make it to, To a new day. To a new day, We will make to a new day together, Images of Spyro and Flame with their mother and father celebrating with everyone. Artimas flies and lands as Milo crashes into Ember. Everyone laughs as Milo runs and Ember runs after him. Amanda smiles as she and Tobin sit together on a bench watching the party. Elora sits by herself as Spyro walks over to her and sits down giving her a smile as he gestures for her to join everyone else at the party. She smiles and together with Spyro join the party. As we all move on to a New Day, We mustn't forget yesterday. All we lost and gained, Has made us who we are today. As we move ahead, To the future with hope in our hearts. Final Image of Spyro and his friends all standing in action poses against a Huge Dark Dragon that stands before them. They charge at the dragon and the image freezes as the final Drum beats sound and then stop. Dragon of Destiny moving on to a brand new day, Spyro: Dragon of Destiny: Rising Destiny Episode Five - The Dragon Rage SAGA: Part 2 of 4: Descending Flame Shadow Realm ... four days later Reeco sat smiling as the Dark Gem Energy Chamber finally ran out of dark gem energy to infuse into red glowing dragon that was sitting in on the floor of the chamber with large red feathered wings folded over his face. "Guards, get him out of the machine and bring him to me." Reeco said in dark tone. The guards approached the machine and just as they were about to open it the red dragon inside stood up and roared in anger ripping the door on the machine off the hinges. Everyone gasped, except Reeco and Ryua, as a much larger black striped, crimson red Flame stepped out of the machine. He looked around at the guards and laughed as he said, "Do you honestly think any of you can stand up to ME!" The guards charged toward him and Flame just stood there waiting for them. As they came within striking distance he spun around and behead four of the guards with his now bladed tail. The remaining three guards back away from him. Flame noticed and folded his arms over his chest. "Cowards!" Reeco walked toward the machine and told the guards to back off and they did. "You will serve us, Flame. Swear loyalty to our cause!" Flame looked at Reeco and laughed making Reeco growl in anger. "WHAT IS SO FUNNY, FLAME?!" Flame stop laughing and spit on the floor at Reeco's feet. "I am laughing because you are pathetic just like the rest of your guards. Sorry, but why would I serve someone who still can't let his little brother's memory rest in peace." Flame smiled at Reeco as his eyes turned red in extreme anger. "Ohhh, did I hit a sore spot in your armor. You thought that just because you infused me with Dark Gem energy that I would be your loyal slave. Sorry, but I don't think so. If you miss your deceased little brother so much I will be more than happy to arrange a reunion!" Reeco snapped right then and there and ran at Flame slamming him into the floor so hard that it dented the metal plates. Flame kicked Reeco hard across the hall and into the wall leaving a dent in the wall. Reeco growled and pulled himself out of the wall as he looked at Ryua and nodded. Ryua smiled and jumped up in the air and dived at Flame. Flame looked up and tried to move, but was grabbed by one guard from behind as Ryua landed in front of him and slammed her fist into his chest making him fall to the floor breathless holding his chest in pain. "Reeco, NOW! Do it now while he is dazed." Ryua screamed. Reeco smiled and ran over toward Flame grabbing him by the throat and tossing him back into the machine. Flame still dazed did have time to react as a new metal door slammed down from the ceiling closing the machine as it reactivated. Flame screamed as he felt himself mentally slipping away. Reeco laughed and said, "Let's try this again from the top and see if we get better results this time." The machine deactivated and this time around Flame just stayed inside the machine. "Guards, go get him!" The guards, even though they were scared, nodded and walked over to the machine and grabbed Flame and started trying to pull him out of the machine. Flame didn't move so the guards sent an electric blast at him making him angry. With a roar, Flame stood up inside the machine and breathed super heated flames at the nearest guard reducing him to ashes instantly. "You dare try and hurt me!" Flame growled as he slowly walked out of the machine. This time there was difference in Flame's personality. He didn't behave like he did before. No. This time it was almost as if he had had his mind altered. "What is your duty?" Reeco asked as the crimson black striped dragon exited the machine. The crimson red dragon beheaded one of the Shadow Dragon guards near the machine with a sharp claw slash spilling his blood on the floor. As the blood flowed over the floor, the crimson dragon opened his eyes. His eyes were black with gold pupils that glowed. He smiled and stepped down on the dead Shadow Dragon guard shattering his back. "My duty, Lord Reeco, is to kill Spyro with extreme predjudice." He said as Ryua brought him a long black jacket. He slipped it on and as he did metal gauntlets appeared in the air in front of him and he raised his arms letting the gauntlets lock around them. "Excellent!" Flame then surprised Ryua and Reeco by grabbing Reeco by the throat and slamming him into the wall. "I do this for you, Reeco, but not because you want me too. No, I am doing this because I have my own reasons." "What are you talking about?!" Reeco gasped as Flame held him by the throat. Flame smiled and dropped him. Ryua checked on Reeco as both of them looked at Flame in shock. "My brother has answers I must get from him before I kill him. He has powers that I want and I intend to take them for myself. As he is the Dragon of Destiny, I am the Dragon of Chaos. While it is his destiny to bring order and peace to the worlds. Mine is to bring chaos and discord. You can't have order without chaos." Flame paused and shook himself as he buckled up his jacket with the four gun metal colored strapes that was on the jacket. "Ah, much better. Thank you, Reeco for the cool jacket and of course thank you for awakening me to my true destiny." Flame said as he walked over to the prison cells. Reeco and Ryua frowned as they realized just what they had done. "Oh crap," They both said as they watched Flame grab a blade staff. "Flame, nooooo!" Sky screamed as she cried on Stryker's shoulder. As Flame looked at her and Stryker he gave them a smile that chilled them to the bone. 'No, dear god please don't tell me my son is gone. Flame can't be gone.' "Don't worry mother, I promise you that Spyro won't suffer... much before he dies!" Flame said as he summoned a black portal. The portal appeared behind him and he stepped backwards into it leaving his parents with a view of his cold smile and dead gold eyes that promised death to all those who got in the way of his objective. "What have I done." Red gasped as his eyes began to flutter as they rolled back into his head as he fell back into the gripe of unconsciousness and stopped breathing. Stryker and Sky turned quickly as they ran over to Red and checked his pulse. Stryker growled and started hitting Red in the chest trying to get him breathing again. "Red, RED, OH GOD DON'T DIE LIKE THIS!" Sky screamed as she channeled some of her healing energy into him draining her so much that she collapsed. Red started breathing but he didn't wake back up. Stryker examined him and realized immediately that Red was comatose. Sky woke up not long after Stryker's examination. Sky, in a very tired voice said, "Stryker what are we going to do?" Stryker frowned as he remembered what he and Sky had researched on the legendary dragons of destiny and chaos. He looked at Reeco with an angry frown. "My friend Nestor warned you, Reeco. He told you that there would be consequences if you mess with powers that you don't understand. Congratulations, you have unleashed a force that might be the death of us all. Ripto frowned and said, "Did you just say that your son is the DRAGON OF CHAOS?" Styker and Sky both nodded. "And Spyro, his annoying brother is the DRAGON OF DESTINY!" They nodded again. Ripto seem to get paler making the other villains in the cell worried. "Ripto, what is it? What is wrong?" Gnasty Gnorc asked. The Sorceress answered him in a frighten whisper. "Gnasty, do you have any idea what kinda force we are dealing with here? That young crimson red dragon maybe the Realm Deathbringer of legend! Do you get it now?" Gnasty turned pale and said in a tone dead voice, as he leaned back hard against the wall behind him, fear gripping him. "We are so royally screwed." "Yes, we are!" Ripto said.
    • * Nestor's Home Spyro had returned to Nestor's home to talk to Nestor but Nestor was gone so instead he was talking with Sandra. "Sandra, I owe both you and Nestor an apology. I didn't mean to..." Sandra shook her head silencing him. "No, Spyro, there is no need for you to apologize. Both of us understand why you did what you did. We are to blame more then you are." Sandra said sadly. "Still, Sandra, I did overact and did something I regret doing. I could have killed both of you. Do you understand?" Spyro looked at the gold bands on his arms and dropped his head in shame. "I have been cursed with these powers and I don't..." "Don't you dare call the powers you have been blessed with a curse, Spyro." Sandra said softly making Spyro look at her. "You have no idea just how special you really are." "What do you mean, Sandra?" Spyro asked surprised. "I don't understand. How can these new powers I have make a difference when I can't even control them? I barely stopped myself in time before I..." "Spyro, I know you don't understand these new powers you now possess. Hell, me and Nestor don't even understand them ourselves, but that shouldn't make you afraid of them. How else will you learn how to control your powers if you decide to lock them away and not use them because of fear. You were chosen to have these powers for a reason, but in order to control these powers you must stop doubting yourself and your abilities. Don't let the power control you. Become the master of the power by embracing it fully. Only then will you truly gain full control of it." Spyro smiled as he looked at Sandra and nodded. "Yes, ma'am. Thank you for the excellent advice." He started walking away but stopped and turned rubbing behind his head embarrassed. "Sandra, I owe you an apology for being such a hot headed dragonling years ago. I understand that you were trying to teach me lessons I would one day need as an adult. Please forgive me." "Well, I have to say that today is just filled with surprises. Apology accepted, Spyro. I am glad you came to me when you needed some assistance. Feel free to ask me and Nestor for help anytime you need it." "Speaking of Nestor, I want to talk to him when he gets back and..." Sandra nodded and said, "When are you, Ember and your friends planning on going to the Shadow Realm to rescue Flame?" "Tonight." Spyro said. "My friends are already waiting for me at the Professor's lab. The Professor told us that he had something that might help us travel safely to and back from the Shadow Realm." "Be careful, Spyro, I have a bad feeling that you may discover that things are much more complicated then they at first appear." Spyro bowed to Sandra and said, "I understand. Take care." He turned and walked out of the library. "Good luck, Spyro." Sandra said as she watched him go. She looked down at the book she was holding and frowned as she got a bad feeling. "I am afraid before this is over you and the others are going to need it."
    • * Meanwhile on Avalar - Two hours earlier... A blue temporal portal opened as a Time Jumper flew threw it cloaked. The Jumper landed and powered down. As it did the door slid open and the six stealth armored members of Team Skyler exited the craft. Skyler pulled out a holographic compass, tracker and com unit and moved it around in the air. Sean looked at the display and said, "Skyler, please don't tell me we have a problem?" Skyler looked at the dragonfaun and said, "We have a problem." "Great! This sucks." Sean said as he sat down on a rock. Yua came and sat near him. "Don't worry about it we'll find the Shadow Alliance time agent and stop him from altering history, Sean. All we need is to get the right info from Timecore Command and we'll be on our way." Yua looked over at Skyler and Blaze. "Well, do you guys have the info from Ember yet." "Just a minute, Yua." Skyler said as holographic video image of Ember appear in front of them. "Hey, mom, we seem to be in a slight jam right now." "Let me guess, Skyler, you guys landed at the wrong location. Am I right?" Ember said as Skyler nodded. Ember groaned and said, "Please standby for data transfer." "Mom, what happened? How could we have ended up in the wrong location?" Skyler asked. Suddenly Ember's holo image begin to go all wavy and scrambled. "Oh crap, we have been so had. Everyone get back into jumper NOW!" As soon as Skyler said that, bolts of fire and electricity came flying at them from three directions. "Great, our Shadow Alliance time agent decided to bring some help with him. Blaze, I want you and Yua to take care of the Shadow Dragon to our north. Sean, you and Khan take care of our unwelcome follower to the south while me and Tina will handled the one near us. After that is done we'll contact my mother again and get the CORRECT location data of the assassination. Let's move people, we are running out of time."
    • * Meanwhile at the Professor's Lab... during this event while Spyro is talking to Sandra... "Wow, so this is the big surprise that you wanted to show us." Ember said as she looked at the craft. "Professor, what is this?" "It is a Portal Jumper. It will take you guys safely to the Shadow Realm and return you guys back here." Hunter looked at the Jumper and said, "You mean that this Jumper can travel thru the portal network, Professor? How? What powers it?" The Professor smiled and with a remote control turned the craft on. "The Portal Jumper is powered by the magic energies of light gems. As to how I did this I think you direct your thanks to Amanda here." "Amanda, what are you doing here?" Ember asked as Amanda walked out the back of the Portal Jumper. Amanda smiled. "I was helping the Professor fine tune the energy flow of the light gems. This is the first time we have used ancient Vanguardian knowledge to create this craft. It is a protype for a future Peace Keeper Task Force. We thought it would be a good idea to let you guys use it on this rescue mission. The craft has a few bugs but I will be going along with you guys so there should be no problem. Also, I am here to give Spyro this." She picked a white jacket. "This is a battle jacket. I promised him that I would give it the first one we finished making. The jacket will protect him from fire, ice and lightning attacks. The jacket is based on some of the ancient battle gear Vanguardian Warriors used years ago. We took the original design and updated it." "Nice, I hope we all get to have one." Hunter said. Amanda smiled. "Sorry, Hunter, but this jacket is for Spyro. In time, we'll make more battle jackets but the process takes time to duplicate." "How long did it take you guys to make this jacket?" Hunter asked. "It took us almost two years to make the material for this jacket. It is made of light gems in case you are wondering. We had to grind the gems down to a powder and then slowly process the powder turning it to a special cloth. I am sure some of you have seen Spyro's white robe. Am I right?" Hunter and the others nodded. "Well this jacket is made out of the same material as that robe." "Interesting, very interesting!" Bianca said as she sat down. "Is Tobin coming with us?" "Yes, he'll be here later when we get ready to leave." Amanda said as she sat down. "Well, would any of you guys like to check out the Portal Jumper." They all nodded and entered the jumper. Meanwhile... back on Avalar... Team Skyler took care of the three renegade Shadow Dragons and met back at the Time Jumper. As they did, Skyler contacted Ember and got the right location. Skyler looked at his team mates and said, "Let's go." They nodded and boarded the Jumper activating the light thrusters and temporal jumper. The time jumper flashed and jumped to the correct time and location of the assassination that would change everything. As the jumper reappeared it landed and Skyler and his team quickly exited the craft and located the Shadow Alliance agent. The agent was just a few minutes from killing his three unsuspecting targets who were preparing to enter a portal that would take them to the Dragon Realms - Nestor's Home. They time froze the agent and dragged him back to the jumper. Once there, Skyler contacted Ember. "Mom, mission accomplished. We have the Shadow Alliance agent in custody. We will be returning shortly." "Acknowledged, Team Skyler. Well done. Skyler, make sure before you come back that no one tries to do this again. Temporal lock this point in time so that no one can access this event ever again." "Understood, mom. Skyler out!" Skyler said as the holo com unit deactivated. Skyler turned to Yua and Sean. "Secure the prisoner in the back." "Yes sir." They both said as they locked the time freezer. "Blaze, activate the time scrambler." Skyler said. Blaze nodded and turned on the temporal lock device that ran off light gem energy. "The device is active." Blaze said. Skyler smiled and nodded as the rest of his team entered the Time Jumper, strapped in and sat back in their chairs as the craft took off. The Time Jumper flew around the area invisible making sure that the time scrambler was working properly and then they activated the temporal shield. "Let's go home," Skyler said with a smile that turned into a frown when an incoming message flashed on the holographic display in front of them. "Oh crap, looks like our job here isn't done yet. Blaze, set activate the temporal core and send us to the time indicated on the display." Blaze looked at her brother and said, "Alright, hold on everyone. We jump in 5...4...3...2...1 execute!" With that said the Time Jumper and Team Skyler flashed headed forward in time to a meeting they wouldn't forget.
    • * Meanwhile.. back in the Dragon Realm... Spyro flew threw the air and as he did he talked to himself. "Heh, destiny has strange sense of humor. Why was I chosen?" "Good question, Spyro." Spyro looked around and said, "Artimas, where are you?" "I am still in the Dragon Realms, Spyro. I will meet you and your friends in the Shadow Realm." Spyro frowned and was about to tell Artimas that was a bad idea when Artimas's voice in his head said, "Don't worry, Spyro, my people know more about the Portal Network so we can manipulate the network to take us where we want or need to go. Oh, before I go I will tell you that all things must eventually change. How they change is up to you." "What do you mean, Artimas, I don't understand?" Spyro asked as he quickly flew toward the professor's lab. As he arrived, his friends exited out of the Professor's lab. As soon as they exited the lab a bolt of black lightning hit the ground throwing them all into a wall dazing them briefly. As they shook themselves out of their daze they looked up on the roof of the professor's lab and gasped in shock at the sight of a crimson dark striped dragon with red feathered wings standing on the roof. "Oh my god, FLAME...! What have they done to you?" Ember said. Flame jumped off the roof and landed gently with a single flap of his large feathered wings. "Greetings, brother!" Flame roared as he dived straight for Spyro. Spyro jumped aside and Flame slammed head first into the ground. "Flame, please stop! I don't want to fight you!" Spyro said as he backed away from the blood red dragon. Flame got back on his feet and shook his head to clear the cobwebs before he smiled coldly at Spyro and the others that were present. "Flame, please listen to Spyro. Reeco is just using you to accomplish his own goals. Don't you understand? They are controlling you." Ember said as tears started to fall from her eyes. "Don't do this, Flame! He is your brother!" "I don't care!" He roared and unleashed a shockwave of dark lightning that sent everyone flying. As soon as they landed, they found they couldn't move. Flame laughed and walked over to Spyro. As soon as he got there he knelt down and with his right paw grabbed his brother's neck. Summoning a black staff to his left paw he looked down at Spyro and smiled as he brought the staff closer to Spyro's face. The black gem on the top of the staff transformed into a flaming black blade. "Now, brother... you DIE!" "NOOOOooooo," Spyro's friends screamed. At that moment a paw tapped Flame on the shoulder and he turned and was sucker punched by Sheila the Kangaroo. Flame spun around and went crashing down to the ground out cold. "Need a paw?" Sheila asked as she reached down helped Spyro to his feet. "Good thing that portal from Avalar brought us a mile west from here." "US?! Who else is with you?" Spyro asked. Sheila gestured to a rocket pack wearing penguin and yeti who both smiled and waved at Spyro and his friends. Hunter smiled and walked over to the yeti. "Bentley, it is good to see you again. How have you been?" Hunter shook Bentley's paw. Bentley said, "It is good to see you again too, Hunter." He looked down at Flame and frowned. "What happened to Flame?" "Good question, chap." Sgt. Byrd said. "What happened to the young chap, Spyro?" Spyro knelt down and touched his brother before he looked up at Sgt. Byrd. "The Shadow Dragons, who you guys haven't heard about yet, did this to him. Let's go inside and we'll explain." Spyro turned to Amanda and Ember and said, "Help me carry him inside." They nodded and they entered the Professor's lab.
    • * Three Hours Later... After Spyro and the others brought Sheila, Sgt. Byrd and Bentley up to date on what they had missed Sheila said, "Well, this looks like the biggest mess we have ever faced. We never seem to have much luck." Bentley sighed and said, "This black dragon, you call Reeco, makes Red and all your old enemies seem like good guys. I can't believe you died, Spyro and came back. How did that happened?" Spyro sighed and said, "I am afraid I have no explanation on my amazing return from the dead. That is a question with an answer that is still pending." Spyro then turned to the Professor who was doing a detailed examination on the unconscious Flame. "Well, Professor, can you undo what was done to him?" The Professor looked at Spyro and with a frown shook his head. "Sorry, Spyro, but the only way to undo what was done to him is to take him back to the Shadow Realm and use the machine or equipment that did this to him in the first place. But..." "Then it is settled, we take Flame with us in the Portal Jumper back to Shadow Realm. Break into Shadow Dragon HQ and borrow machine time to undo what they did to my brother. If Reeco or any of his other lackeys get in the way we kick their asses so bad that when they wake up they will swear that they had out of body experience." "Uh, excuse me but you didn't let me finished." The professor said. Spyro blushed in embarrassment as he nodded. "Now, Spyro, listen to me. I know you want to reverse this as soon as possible but I think we may have major problem." "What do you mean we have a MAJOR PROBLEM, Professor? I don't understand." Spyro said. The Professor sighed and took off his glasses and cleaned them before putting them back on. "Your brother, Spyro has become..." "Become... What has he become, Professor?" Spyro asked. A throat was cleared getting everyones attention as they looked at the wall strapped Flame who was now wide awake and smiling. "Hi, brother, but since you won't let the dear professor answer I'll just have to respond for him. I have become the Dragon of Chaos." Spyro touched Flame's paw and jerked back as he felt pain in his paw. "Ahhh, be careful, you don't know what will happen if you touch me now." Tears started to fall from Spyro's eyes as he backed away from Flame. "Ahhh, don't look so sad. I know... I know, destiny sucks doesn't it? You spent your whole life trying to find out if you had a brother, mother and father only to find out the truth. You have a mother and father only they are being held as prisoners in the Shadow Realm by the Shadow Dragons. You learn you have a younger brother only to discover that he is your opposite. You bring happiness, peace and hope to everyone around you." Flame vanished and reappeared behind Spyro. Spyro turned and looked at Flame. Flame sighed sadly as tears started to fall from his eyes. "I bring only sadness, war and despair. Face it, brother. We are opposites. We were born to be two sides of the same coin." "That doesn't change the fact that you are my brother and I love you." Spyro said. "I don't care what they did to you. We will undo it!" Flame laughed a bitter harsh laugh and looked at the floor. "You don't get it, brother! You can't undo your destiny once it finds you." "You didn't chose this to happen to you, Flame! Good grief, stop sounding like you are giving up on everything. You had this forced upon you." Spyro growled as he grabbed Flame's paws only to feel his paws burning. He look down and notice smoke was coming off his paws. He pulled them back and looked at them seeing that the burns were healing quickly. "I refuse to give up on you!" "What's the point?! Think about it. What about you, Spyro, you were killed by Reeco. The same monster that did this to me. We both had no choice over what destiny we both were given. You can't change what happened to you no more then you can undo what has happened to me. ACCEPTED IT!" Flame roared as he looked Spyro in the eye with angry gold eyes. "I hate what I have become. I didn't want this. I only wanted to live a long happy life full of fun and love. Now, all that is gone. I am never going to get the chance to live a life like that now." "SHUT UP, FLAME!" Spyro roared surprising Flame and everyone in the lab. Spyro balled his paw into a fist and slammed it down on a work table caving it in with his strength. "LISTEN TO ME! I DON'T CARE WHAT HAS HAPPENED, I STILL LOVE YOU! GET THAT THRU YOUR HEAD!" "But brother I..." Flame started but Spyro stopped him. "NO, FLAME, I AM GOING TO HELP YOU!" Spyro growled. Flame punched Spyro in the face at that moment sending him to the floor. Spyro looked up at Flame who had an angry look on his face. "No, brother, I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP! You can't help me so don't even try!" Flame growled angrily as a blackish red aura of energy formed around him. Spyro jumped up off the floor and grabbed Flame, slamming him into the wall hard denting the metal. A white aura of energy formed around Spyro as his eyes bleed from purple to gold. "ENOUGH, FLAME! I am going to help you whether you want my help or not. I am your brother and that will never change. So what if you are my opposite I still love you and will do everything in my power to undo what was done to you. I know that Reeco once had a little brother that our father killed. Reeco's father was responsible for what happened to our father. He made our father a monster." Flame looked at Spyro with a calm expression as he said, "What is your point?" Spyro sighed and let go of Flame as he dropped his head and said, "My point is our father wasn't born a monster and neither were you. So what if you are the Dragon of Chaos?" Spyro looked up at Flame with a sad expression on his face as tears filled his eyes. "That doesn't mean you have to BE the Dragon of Chaos. It's your choice what you do with the powers you are given. You are good hearted, Flame. I know you are and you know you are so let that good heart of yours guide you. Use your power to help people. It is your choice. The power you have is neither good or evil. The power is only defined by the character of the person who uses the power. Do you think it would have matter if I was the Dragon of Destiny if I was evil. No! The power I have is only good because I am good. That is my choice. To help others and be a hero. You can chose to do that too. Stop thinking that just because you are my opposite that you must be the anti-hero to my hero. You don't have to be like that at all. The Dragon of Chaos is just a title you were given. It in no way defines who you are, brother. You define who you are by the choices you make and the actions you decide to take. Remember that!" Everyone in the room looked at Spyro in surprise including Flame as Spyro offered Flame his paw. Flame looked at Spyro's paw and at Spyro and then grabbed his paw. To everyone's surprise there was no burning this time. The two aura's around them seem to flare larger as Spyro pull Flame into a hug letting his younger brother cry his heart out on his shoulder. After awhile Flame pulled away still looking at the auras surrounding him and Spyro. "What's happening?" "Good question, but I think I understand. The powers we both have are great separated but when we unite the power becomes greater." Flame smiled a smile that, for the first time, was a true one. "Thank you, Spyro. For not giving up on me." Spyro smiled and looked over at his friends who were just standing there with shocked, wide-eyed expressions on their faces. "Oh come on, guys, stop staring like that. I don't care if I am not acting like my normal self at the moment. I just want to help Flame and that is more important then being cool all the time." "Whoa, okay, where did all THAT just come from?" Hunter asked as he looked at Spyro wide-eyed. "I think you shocked all of us with that speech." "Hell, Spyro has been shocking us with all the changes he has undergone for days now." Ember said as she and Elora smiled. "Don't change too much, Spyro. We like the new improved you but try to keep some of that charm that makes you so lovable." Spyro rubbed the back of his head and blushed as everyone laughed. The laughter died five minutes later as Flame grabbed his head and screamed. Spyro grabbed him but Flame pushed him away as his body started growing larger. He looked at everyone with pain filled eyes. "I am sorry!" He screamed even louder as his body continued to grow even larger. He ran to the lab portal and activated the portal with his powers. Spyro ran to stop him from stepping thru. "Flame, noooo!" Spyro screamed as he watched his now larger brother look back at him sadly with red tear filled eyes as he dived thru the portal that changed black. Spyro growled and ran to the opening in the back of the Portal Jumper. "Get in guys, we are going after him." They all nodded as they got into the jumper. Sgt Byrd, Sheila and Bentley frowned and shook their heads. Spyro looked at them and realized that there was only room for one more person and the person that was coming was Tobin, whenever he decided to show up. Speaking of Tobin, he entered the lab right at that moment with a shocked look on his face. "Let's go NOW!" He yelled as he ran and dived inside the jumper closing the door behind him. "Tobin, what is wrong, besides the fact that Flame was transforming as he jumped thru the portal?" Ember asked. Tobin frowned. "That is the problem, Ember, Flame has absorbed some of the portal energy making him change even more then a normal Warrior Dragon should." Tobin said grimly. "Are you saying that Flame may have just made his situation worst?" Spyro asked as the Jumper powered up and lifted a foot off the floor. "Yes, Spyro, I am. That is why we must get to the Shadow Lands now before we are too late to reverse what is happening to Flame. The larger he gets the more his power will increase until..." Spyro's face paled as he said, "IT CONSUMES HIM...!" As he said that the back thrusters on the Portal Jumper activated and the jumper entered the black portal. As soon as it was in the portal its thrusters powered up to full thrust and blasted them toward the Shadow Realms... TO BE CONTINUED...
    • * Well, just when things were starting to look up everything took a turn for the worst. Flame is transforming into a force that even Spyro might not be able to handle. What will they find when they finally arrive in the Shadow Realm? What about Red? Will he die? Also, what about our 'Team from the future' Team Skyler? Where are they? What do you think is going to happen next? What does the future hold? To find out or at least get a few hints on what is yet to come in the Spyro: Dragon of Destiny Universe you can either wait till episode 6 or join me in a Q&A aim session at alphainc7 on aol. I will be hosting that aim discussion later today at 7:00. I will even take your idea suggestions for possible future episodes in Season two and three. So log on and join in. As for the series, stay tuned. And now here is a sneak peak at scenes from SPYRO: DRAGON OF DESTINY: RISING DESTINY: EPISODE 6: THE DRAGON RAGE SAGA: PART 3 OF 4: BROTHERS IN ARMS... Enjoy.
    • * "We must be prepared for whatever awaits us." Spyro said as the Jumper exited the portal and entered the Shadow Realm.
    • * "I AM NOT CRAZY," Hunter growled as he walked with his friends. "I know we are being followed." Spyro heard footsteps and jumped aside just as large foot came down and nearly crushed him.
    • * Spyro and Ember jumped out of the way as two male Shadow Dragon guards ambushed them. As the two Shadow Dragons split up to attacked Spyro and Ember separate, Spyro smiled and said, "Let's dance." The much larger Shadow Dragon swung his bladed battle staff at Spyro. Spyro ducked and jumped to the side grabbing the battle staff the shadow dragon was using against him and pull his opponent towards him with all his strength. As soon as he was within striking distance Spyro jumped up into the air using his wings to do an aerial spin, that would have made Neo from the Matrix proud and jealous. As he came down rapidly, he gave his opponent a hard spin kick to the head sending him flying, head first, into the cave wall knocking him unconscious. Ember, meanwhile was ducking and dodging the bladed staff of the other Shadow Dragon. Her opponent made the blade on the staff extended longer as he started swing at her in a slice and dice motion. Ember frowned as she jumped up into the air as the blade missed her by a hair. She grabbed the cave ceiling with her front claws and hung there. The Shadow Dragon below looked up and saw where she was hanging. He smiled as he stabbed his blade staff up intending on gutting her. Ember moved quickly out of the way and let go of the ceiling flipping down gracefully landing behind the Shadow Dragon. As he turned she jumped up wrapping her feet around his muscular neck spinning him around and slamming him into the ground hard with her weight. Once he was down she quickly jumped up flipped over the wicked blade of the battle staff and landed hard on his grind making him scream out in pain as she kicked the blade staff out of his flexing paws. Then she jumped off him to the side and elbowed him hard in the face. "Shut the hell up!" She said as her elbow knocked him out cold.
    • * "Follow me!" Said a cloaked figure. "I will show you the way to the Vanguardian Tower of Lore." "Do you think we can trust this old one?" Hunter asked as he looked at Spyro. Spyro attached the blade staff to the back of his white battle jacket. "I don't think we have much of a choice in the matter. If we don't do something soon Ember will die."
    • * A shockwave shook the ground as a large black form emerged out of the fiery pit. As the dark form rose Spyro and Hunter ran jumping out of the way of the lava pouring off the body of the dark dragon. The dark dragon roared and looked at Spyro with a wide fanged smile. "YOU THOUGHT I WAS DEAD! DID YOU? SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU, 'HERO'!" Spyro's eyes went wide along with Hunter's as they both looked open mouth at the dark dragon. "Reeco! No way!" Reeco laughed and hovered above the pit opening his four large wings. "No, 'hero'. The old me died. Now, I am REBORN!"
    • * "Destiny is not set in stone, Spyro, it can be rechanneled and rewrittened. But be warned that the more you screw with destiny the more destiny will screw with you!" Artimas said as Spyro looked at him. "What other choice do I have, Artimas?" Spyro said solemnly.
    • * Energy erupted from inside Spyro as his eyes went totally gold with a white slitted pupil appearing as he transformed into his Warrior Dragon form which was a large purple dragon with glowing gold stipes that lined his muzzle and ran down the sides of his broad gold scaled chest. His normal wings transformed with a flash of gold energy into two large gold feathered ones. "This ends... NOW!" Spyro roared loudly in a voice that echoed as he flew toward Reeco. Reeco smiled and charged, and soon they both, in their Warrior Dragon forms, collided with each other sending a huge shockwave of radiant energy outward. The wave knocked everyone to the ground. "SPYRO!!" Hunter and Flame screamed as the sound of the shockwave finally drowned out their scream.
    • * You have been given a sneak peak into the next couple of episodes. What is going on here? Good question. Changes abound everywhere... But how will it all end? Will Spyro and Flame be forever changed or not? What secrets lie inside the Vanguardian Tower of Lore? Who is the mysterious cloaked figure who comes to the aid of Spyro and his friends? What is Ember's fate? What other future shocks and surprises await our brave team in the future episodes? Find out in SPYRO: DRAGON OF DESTINY: RISING DESTINY: EPISODE 6: THE DRAGON RAGE SAGA: PART 3 OF 4: BROTHERS IN ARMS... and future episodes....

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