chapter 19
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LOSC: 19
Clouds slowly slid silently in the night sky above the forests of Avalar. Almost as silently a pair of cheetahs moved through the foliage on patrol. Their eyes able to use what little light they were given to scan around them. Hearing something the lead scout holds up a hand in a closed fist to have them stop. As they drew their weapons the group s attacked from all directions by black creatures, their screams echoed through the forest around them.
Snapping his eyes open Shadowheart gazed in the direction of the Avalar panting, "some thing is coming...An oddly familiar darkness." He mutters to himself, before walking into a a shadow and vanishing off the roof of the academy. He was meeting Teza for a tour of the inner areas of the temple he had yet to see. It was their second date.
Those creatures were still on the move...The walls of warfang in sight as they took out four guards with out a sound. Now inside the walls they made their way to the temple guided by a dark force.
Walking through the temple's empty halls Icea and Cynder walked, talking about her future status....and who should take her place as the heir to the throne. "mother why not wait a little longer, your in perfect health no need to worry about this." She tried to reassure her mother who sighs and nods, "okay I'm sorry I just have been getting this dark nagging feeling of dread and doom." As the Queen finished speaking the dark imps flooded from the shadows tearing both their wings and pinning them roughly to the ground in a matter of seconds thanks to their ambush. The creatures would continue to come as they merged into a single shape, one of a dragon. Laughing darkly the dragon roughly grabbed Icea's face making her look at him, "hehehehe miss me my dear Queen" he taunted sneeringly, "Sear! you've got a lot of balls attacking us." she snarls making him laugh, "You talk big but right now I'm in control." he says shoving her face away, "I'm not here for you anyway....I'm here for her." he says looking to cynder who tried to freeze Sear making him laugh more when he just reformed his shape next to her slugging her head into the floor dazing her. "After she is recorrupted and is seen killing you icea...my revenge will be complete, heh I may even make her kill spyro and her other kids." he said before cackling madly.
In the middle of his cackling Sear's form was blasted into a wall, "instead on trying to force a family apart...learn to keep things down so others can't hear you." Shadowheart states when he walked into the room followed by Teza, who stayed hidden cause she knows how disrupting her element is to Shadow's. Standing up Sear stared at the young shadow dragon and chuckled, "so a child of shadow comes forth after all these years....your brave...and foolish young one." He says eyeing the shadow dragon, as shadowheart walked into a shadow showing half of his body to be covered in the tattoos from the Eclipse. His heart beat making them pulse brighter with each beat. "it seems you haven't even fully awakened your full power..." Sear added eyes narrowed, "no one was supposed to have that pattern since the last Shadow King and Guardian...then why does he possess their style of tattoos." He thought eyeing Shadow, who sprung into action by warping in next to Sear only to be tackled and attacked by the shadow imps. Slicing and bitting the imps he got free dodging a shadow blade launched by sear. or so it seemed. Shadowheart's eyes suddenly opened widely as a massive slash appears on his back along with several other cuts all along his body, "wha...how?!" he asked before being launched up and slammed into the wall behind him coughing up blood. "SHADOW?!" Teza called frightened, "Like I said you have yet to realize your true abilities as a shadow dragon whelp...you shouldn't have tried to challenge me, cause now your lady friend here will join you in death." He says grinning making teza gasp, but at the mention of teza dying with him Shadowheart grabbed Sear's head eyes snapping open glowing white, "NO!" he says before they just suddenly got sucked into the nearest shadow like it was a black hole. the Imps even vanished with them, Teza would run over to the queen and Cynder getting them up and headed for the infirmary.
Some distance away, the outskirts of warfang, Shadowheart and sear came flying out crashing to the ground. "what the hell was that?!" Sear asked himself as he eyed Shadow, who could barely stand up from the slashes to his form, "your lucky you got me away from there else your little girl friend would be dead at my-" "SHUT UP!" roared shadowheart his eyes flashing white again creating a black sphere around them, which shrank into Sear's shadow before exploding blasting him away. And made his real body throw up a large amount of blood, "he's using moves that should have died about forty years ago...with the destruction of Noir the shadow capital!" Sear thought as he was struck with the same move as before throwing him into a boulder, his real body hacking up more blood again. "your lucky this round shadow prince....I will return for you and cynder now!" he wheezes before vanishing.
Sear's real form would drop onto the ground panting, "damn shadow brat...I never thought he'd have ability to strike my real body via the shadows....one other dragon could have done that...but he's been dead and I have control of his soul....so how?!" Sear asked as he stood up shaking horribly as he walked to his quarters to find out how shadow could have been able to harm him so.
When the enemy shadow stood there shaking and panting before he fell forward heavily and exhausted, as a black paw belonging to a female stepped into his view, "it's time to embrace your true power my child." came her rippling voice before he passed out.
The guardians having learned of the attack on Cynder and the Queen Terridor ran to their side, spyro beating him as he had found out from Teza, who ran to get him as Ember had told her to. Getting an odd feeling marshal headed to the west gate of warfang and found Shadowheart passed out on the ground before it, with a spectral shadow dragoness standing over hims smiling, "keep him on the right path." was all he heard before she vanished. Having no idea what just happened Marshjal just picked Shadowheart up, running him to the Infirmary.
Later that night the Guardians convened a emergency meeting, and had marshal sit in as a proxy guardian. "this latest attack is extremely disturbing, a dragon who was able to infiltrat, and attack two high profile dragonesses within these walls virtually undetected." Volteer says growling in anger, "I agree old chap, but according to Queen Icea, and Terridor he was the reason Cynder was corrupted. It would be possible he has ways in and out of the city we do not know of." Cyril says in a worried tone, "and do not forget Shadowheart's involvement as well." Marshal says eyeing them all carefully, "According to Teza he displayed some amazing abilities that we had no idea he could do...not only that...there is the fact of a Ancestor returning him back to the city and telling me to keep him on the right path." All the other guardians would nod in agreement with Marshal's words, "but need I remind you all that we can not break the code...unless Shadowheart wants to be a guardian we can not interfere with him in any way...just guide him." Ignitus says. "That's utter bull shit ignitus, how are we supposed to guide a dragon who doesn't want it?" marshal asked flustered. "it's like rolling a snow ball down a hot road, you want it not to melt but it does anyway." He added. "I agree with you marshal but that is the code we can not make him be a guardian it will drive him to hate us, despite him being the only way for the Shadow dragon survivors to-" "I'm sorry old chap but...have any of you considered there might not be any shadow dragons left on this planet?" Cyril interrupted with a sad tone, "Shadowheart may have thought of this and it made him lose heart espeacially after that full moon incident. I've listened to the tales of his actions all through out the fief and other areas looking for shadow dragons...I found none." Cyril finished making the other guardians look to the ground. "despite this revelation we must help guide Shadowheart the best we can...Get some sleep everyone." Ignitus says, before they all went to sleep.
Shadow heart lay in his bed that night listening to what the guardians said about him and he sighs closing his eyes, before some one shadow walked into his room, "shhh I'm friendly...and I'm a survivor of the shadow purge...names Bandit." came a young and hopeful voice, when a silver cloak came into Shadow's view. Taking down his hood bandit's tattoo rand down his face over his eye in lazy waves like a river icon on a map, "I'm from Setu in the north, and came to take you to the shadow sanctuary." bandit says to Shadowheart, "why?" he growls baring his fangs, "because....your a shadow dragon and you do not belong among these racists." He says making shadow remember the beating he got, "but not-" he tried to say when he was cut off, "they're lying! none of these dragons like or love you it's ruse!" bandit snarls only to get slammed into a wall by the wounded shadowheart who fell down coughing. "you won't ever have to worry about what happened that day in the markets again with us....just think about it Shadowheart...Whenyou make your choice.Follow this mental map." bandit says before touching shadow's forehead giving shadow the map, then vanishing into a shadow leaving Shadow stunned. Not having time to think on what just happened he was put back onto the bed and sedated glad he wasn't the last but...torn. Thinking of Moonstride, his friends, and teza, he could feel his heart cracking almost ready to break.