In the lush jungles in the north-east regions of skylands a large force of mabu and corrupted civilians move through the thick tall trees. The Elites moved further in front of the group with Spyro leading them. He paused when he jumped up on top of a rock and looked back at the dark army.

To him it was barely an army, over two hundred mabu sane or corrupted and a few skylanders. True armies have soldiers and these soldiers were basically hopeless, he wouldn't even stick his neck out for them. They could leave for all he cared but still Strykore wanted them for some reason and he won't question his orders to the fullest.

"Why do we have to walk?!" Spyro sighed and looked towards Berserker who was throwing a large log out of the way. "We can get their faster by flight so why are traveling by foot?"

"Because you idiot if we travel by air they'll notice us and if possible shoot us out of the sky, plus they have the tree's for cover its best if we stick to the ground." Jones replied to Berserker.

"But do we have to walk all the way there?" The Drow said back.

"Why feeling weak Berserker?" Kaos gloated towards the giant.

"Oh shut up Kaos you're the one who asked for a piggy back ride five minutes ago." Berserker shouted.

"Hey what do you know the goliath drow knows time." Jones joined in.

"Can it nerd brain, can't you see the genius is talking, by which I mean me." Kaos continued earning an angry glare from Jones.

"In what universe are you a-"

"Lock it up all three of you!" All three elites turned to Spyro who was giving them all a Death glare to make them stop. "Quit fighting each other and focus on the mission, all your stupid issues can wait until after the attack."

The three Elites look between each other then back at Spyro, his gaze was cold where no life could be found. Jones found the gaze agonizing and decided to reply.

"Right… sorry about that." The Mabu said.

"Yeah, sorry boss." Berserker said even feeling the true means of being threatened by the dark dragon.

"Wait boss? I'm the boss here." Kaos continued to argue.

"You may be the son of Strykore but I would rather follow Spyro into battle instead of you Kaos." Jones said walking off deeper into the jungle.

"Yeah you suck so, see ya." And with that Berserker left. Kaos was furious and he knew exactly who to blame. Spyro sense the anger from Kaos and spoke first.

"Don't even start another argument Kaos, if you want your father to recognize you then you better do a good job on this mission." Spyro said giving Kaos a twitchy eye in rage. Having done enough Kaos walked off to catch up with the others. Spyro sighed, he couldn't believe he had to put up with this. He turned back to the troops and saw the first group of them pass him.

The army was split into several groups and they all carried weapons of spears and clubs, some carried bow and arrows which will be very useful to the attack. Since they needed them alive they put a special serum on the arrow and spear tips to knock them up for awhile. Although few of them carried banners of a flag which showed a black background with a red marking in the middle which looked exactly like the symbol on Kaos head.

"Do you really think this is the right thing to do?" Spyro stood up straighter after recognizing that sweet innocent voice.

"If you're still on about that topic from the castle forget it, this is our job now Cynder." Spyro said turning around to face her. She was on the same rock he was and looked over the army of mabu.

"You didn't answer my question." The dragoness replied.

"I don't think there is an answer to the question. We cannot know for sure if we are doing the right thing, we are just two sides aiming for different results in this war." He told her.

"So you don't know is that it?" Cynder said.

"I cannot have an answer to everything now can I Cynder."

"You can't, but the old you did, even if the answers didn't make sense." She continued. Spyro looked back on his past of who he was. When he didn't know an answer he just replied with idiotic things.

"That idiot is long gone." Spyro said. Cynder got angry and faced him.

"How could you say that, the old you would've gave an honest answer." She said.

"Well the old me is dead so just give up on him, it's not that hard to forget him." Spyro shouted stunning Cynder. The dragoness looked down in a sign of sadness which made Spyro's heart sink.

"Well it seems it's hard for me." Cynder said making Spyro regret what he said.

"Cynder I… "

"Spyro sir!" The dragons turned to a mabu soldier. "The other elites found something and want you to look at it."

Spyro was about to reply but Cynder walked past him making him shut his mouth. Nodding to the soldier he walk along side Cynder but didn't dare speak a word.

The two finally made it to the rest of the group and saw all three of them staring up at something in the tree's.

"What's going on here?" Spyro asked.

"...I have found… love." Jones said making Spyro and Cynder stare in disbelief.

"Don't say it like that." Kaos said not looking away from the tree's.

"It looks like a piece of junk." Berserker added.

"Don't talk about her like that." Jones shouted making the two dragons very confused.

"What on earth are you guys talking about?" Cynder asked.

"You know when you see that girl that you've never met but you just stare at her and smile and get this feeling that she means something to you." Jones explained making Spyro think and get a quick glance at Cynder then back to Jones.

"Maybe?" He said.

"Well I've got that feeling right now." The two dragons looked towards where he was staring and saw what they couldn't believe.

It was an Arkeyan giant robot hanging from the vines of the tree's. Its body structure was made from a thick layer of stone but most of the joints were made from metal. It's head face looked feminine which was why Jones referred it to a woman. What really stood out was that there were three large gashes through its chest which showed damage to the inside of arkeyan robot.

"Whoa." Was all Cynder could say. Spyro just stared at the Arkeyan, something about it just seemed off to him, like he recognized that machine.

"I know, one of the first models of Arkeyan giants. These were specifically designed for combat." Jones explained.

"It seems like she wasn't." Kaos said.

"So this was a waste of time let's keep moving." Berserker added.

"Are you kidding me we have to fix her, just think of having her on our side we'll be unstoppable." The Mabu said.

"Wait so you can fix it." Cynder asked.

"Her," He corrected. "But it'll take a while, her design shouldn't be that hard but it will take a few hours."

"We don't have the time." Kaos spoke up.

"Well I'll make the time, you can't stop me." Jones shouted.

"Enough," Spyro broke in. "Jones you have time to try and fix it but if it isn't done within five hours then were leaving it here."

"Great, there's so much to do. I wonder how she was programed, oh maybe the arms have a high powered spring for a powerful punch, this is so exciting." Jones said running towards the Arkeyan. Spyro saw him walk away before he turned his attention to the others.

"We're gonna be here for awhile so Berserker." He said getting the Drow's full attention. "Go alert the troops to set up a perimeter and stay on guard around here."

Berserker nodded and walked off.

"Kaos you can help Jones with the machine-"

"Don't tell me what to do." Kaos said walking off in the other direction. Spyro shook his head and turned to Cynder.

"I'll go and scout the path ahead." She said.

"No, it's to dangerous." Spyro replied.

"I can take care of myself thank you very much. I won't be too long." And with that she flew off into the tree's.

Spyro sighed and flew up into the trees. He found a branch where he could sleep for the time being. He had enough going through his head already.

(Spyro's POV)

I found myself flying in the sky, but something didn't feel right.

I knew I was dreaming but it felt so real. I was flying through the white clouds of skylands in the clear blue sky. My wings made a heavy beat like they grew larger than they were before. I look behind me and I was shocked at what I saw. My wings were like four times the size and had three large curved claws at the end. My scales were pitch black glisterling in the sun and the length of my body was long almost a snake like body. I was practically ten times the size of what I am now, I was even bigger than Malefor. I looked at the end of my tail and noticed that my spear like tail was know a simple slithery scaly tail.

'Was I still a dragon?' The question ran through my head or the beast's head I was in. My head looked forward which made me notice I had no control of this body. Was this someone's else's memory? It felt like a memory but it isn't mine. My eyes, or his eyes looked down his long black snout and flapped his large wings again gaining more air. With a mighty roar I dived down beneath the clouds.

What I saw next was beyond existence. It was a major war. Arkeyan robots, different kinds of dragons flying everywhere, people running around with weapons attacking what appeared to be a demon army. Smoke and fire covered most of the field as the rest was grey and burnt. The demon army looked liked humans but their skin was black and you can see their bones and they glowed a red substance. They wore heavy metal armour and had great swords and battle axes. This was no normal army, this was an army meant for war conjured from something with no remorse and these soldiers had no emotion and only one purpose. To serve the almighty.

'Almighty?' I think in my head, how do I know this.

My dragon body flew down near the battlefield. I assume he was going to fight this demon army but instead another dragon came for him, and I knew this was a mistake. The dragon had dark green scales and a roar of fire came from his mouth, he looked like an adult but smaller than me in this body. The fire hit me but did nothing against my black heavy scales. I flapped my wings and caught onto the dragons long neck with my back legs. It looked like I had no front legs so I was a different species of dragon altogether.

The opponent dragon snapped his jaws and started to twist and turn in my grip but he was to weak. With one final flap I dove straight towards the ground with him still in my grip. I was falling at an incredible speed and the ground was getting closer. With no hesitation I quickly eased up and flicked the green dragon out of my grip with him hitting the ground really hard at the speed I was falling. He struggled to get up but my mouth was brought into a smirk and a dark chuckle escaped my mouth. The opponent looked up to me with extreme horror in his eyes. He tried getting up on his four legs but a large number of the demon soldiers jumped on top of him swinging their weapons at every part of his body. The dragon roared in pain begging for mercy but I only flew away up into the air.

Realization hit me like a hammer. I'm with the demon army not with my the other dragons. What did I do? What did this dragon do? It can't be. This is his army. I'm seeing through the eyes of a evil warlord witnessing the destruction he was making.

More dragons of different races came towards me but for some reason I didn't worry. From the depths of my soul something felt like it was rising and became a solid power source in my mouth. With a mighty roar I released a powerful wave of energy of pure darkness knocking all the dragons off course and making them fall to the ground.

I was this powerful that no one could stop me. An explosion hit me on the back of my head and I snarled towards the do'er. It was an arkeyan robot that looked exactly like the arkeyan we just found. The arkeyan flew towards us using its rockets on the bottom of its feet with its fist's forward. The arkeyan got really close and I dodge its attack. With quick movements I moved my left wing across its chest striking three large gashes into its circuitry causing it to spark and go haywire. I did a spin and hit the arkeyan with my tail sending it flying across skylands.

I couldn't believe this was happening. This all just had to be a coincidence. So is that what really happened to that Arkeyan that we found in the jungle it was destroyed by me, the dragon that I'm in.

Shouting from the battlefield caught my attention and I looked down. It was just horror, the dragons, arkeyan's and other residents of skylands fought hard against the quiet demon army.

With one more dreadful chuckle my body flew down for another swoop of action.

"Spyro..." A voice! It sounded so distant but yet close. It appear that my body didn't hear it so it must be from the outside.

"...Spyro…" The voice sounded again, louder this time. But still my body didn't react and just kept falling down to the war field. I was diving straight for a dragon with light blue blue scales. It looked liked me until I looked to the tail. It was my Tail! My own kind fought against the demon army! It was the spear point tail. But yet I still didn't let up, I kept diving for the other dragon. I tried to force myself to let up but I still didn't have control of this body. With one final look as I got really close I could see his eye in pure terror at the sight of me. I looked into his eye until I saw my body of the one I'm looking through.

He had spikes and sharp scales and teeth. His eyes glowed a strong red colour. One look at him and you'll be having nightmares for weeks. I started to breathe heavier, it felt like I was in an oven. I was a killer of my own kind, or whoever I am now.

"...SPYRO!"

(Normal POV)

Spyro woke up in sudden fright jumping up from his sleeping position and accidently hit Cynder making them both fall off the branch. They began falling down to the ground and Spyro quickly grabbed Cynder pulling her head into his chest and surrounding her with his wings. The branches hit Spyro on his back and sides getting multiple scratches on his wings but at least they weren't hitting Cynder.

Finally coming to a heavy stop on the ground knocking the air straight out of Spyro. Cynder brought her head up and looked down at Spyro. His breathing was heavy and hot, his body was shaking by the sudden fright.

"...Spyro? Are you okay?" She asked. Spyro managed to open his eyes to look straight at her.

"Uh? ...yeah, I'm fine." He said not taking his eyes of her but she looked worried about him.

"You were shaking in your sleep? What was wrong?" She questioned.

"I… uh? It was nothing." Spyro said trying to focus on something instead of those terrible images in his head.

"You were having a nightmare, weren't you?" Cynder said in a all to worried voice. "Its okay to admit it."

"Okay yes I was having a nightmare? But you wouldn't believe what I saw?" He said closing his eyes not wanting to explain the horrors he saw.

"Uh Right... okay." Cynder said. Spyro open his eyes and looked into the sapphire blue eyes of the female dragoness and she looked back into his. Everything didn't seem to matter but as long she was there.

"Hey where are you two dragons? Cynder have you found Spyro?" Shouted what sounded like Berserker. The two dragons jerked up at the voice and tried to get up but they just realised that they were still hugging each other from the fall. The two dragons felt embarrassed and Spyro let go of Cynder.

"Sorry." Spyro apologized standing up.

"Oh no its okay, you were just protecting me." Cynder replied. "By the way Jones is almost finished with the Arkeyan and we thought we should find you so we can head out."

"Right," Spyro said becoming serious. "What did you find when you went scouting?"

"There's a camp a few miles away in the east, it's a big group of skylanders and there's a few giants and famous skylanders there." She answered.

"Okay now there's a challenge." Spyro said walking off to the Arkeyan followed by Cynder.

The two made it to the arkeyan, the thing was on the ground in sitting position and multiple brown steel plates cover the arkeyans gashes that were there. It made Spyro think of how powerful that other dragon was to finish this arkeyan in one attack. The Arkeyan jerked making Spyro turn his full attention to the machine.

"Alright I think we're in business." Jones said jumping down from the arkeyan to join the two dragons. Kaos and Berserker joined them once they heard it.

"Are you sure it won't attack us?" Cynder asked.

"No, but it's a good chance to see weapon options and defense systems." All the elites looked towards Jones.

"Clearly he has a different way of saying things when working with machines." Kaos said.

"Power level critical." The arkeyan said in a poor shaky feminine robotic voice.

"Hah I knew she was a pretty lady." Jones said.

"How much do you think insurance will cost?" Berserker said.

"Screw the insurance she sounds practically dead." Cynder exclaimed.

"Alright my time to shine." Kaos said stretching his fingers. He charged the black electricity between his fingers and unleashed the energy to the arkeyan. The giant began to shake as the electricity traveled through it.

"Power levels… overcharged!" The giant exclaimed.

"Kaos stop that's too much!" Jones shouted. Kaos stopped and the arkeyan began to adjust to the increase in power. The arkeyans eyes glowed and the giant stood up shaking the earth along with it.

"Catastrophic arkeyan titan operational." The machine said.

"Catastrophic arkeyan titan?" Cynder said pointing out its name.

"CAT!" Berserker shouted making everyone look at him.

"What?" Spyro asked.

"Its name, it can be shortened to 'Cat'." Berserker said.

"Cat? She could've had a better name." Jones said. The arkeyan turned her head towards the mabu scientist and knelt down to bring her head closer to him.

"Thank you for repairing me. My systems are opened to access to you." Her face split open showing a room in her head where controls were spotted. A set of stairs came out of her chin allowing Jones to step in.

"Sweet I never thought my first relationship would go off wonderfully." Jones said walking up the stairs into the cockpit. The arkeyan face closed back up to it's emotionless face.

"You still think it's going to be a challenge?" Cynder said to Spyro.

"No, it never is." He replied.

(Somewhere in the lush jungle)

"Hey Tree Rex are we heading out soon?" Tree rex turned to face Crusher, his earth elemental giant friend.

"Soon, Master Eon wouldn't call us all together if something wasn't completely wrong." The large wood creature stated. "Get the others ready to move out."

"Right Eye Brawl and Swarm will get them together." Crusher said looking over the camp, there were just below twenty skylanders. Him, Tree Rex, Eye Brawl, Swarm, Chopper, Sunburn, Zap, Camo, Spotlight, Blackout, Flameslinger, Drill Sergeant, Prism break, Stump smash, Zook, Shroomboom and Chop Chop.

"We're a big group so it's best to move as quick as we can." Tree Rex said. A small gust of wind past through the leaves of the tree and across their bodies. Tree Rex felt something wrong. "You feel that Crusher?"

The rock giant nodded and got his hammer ready. Tree Rex brought his arm up and began charging the gem in his hand and pointed it towards a bush.

"Heads up." He shouted warning the other skylanders and fired the energy. The blast kicked up a lot of dust but that wasn't all, a group of mabu with batons and bows appeared to. "Skylanders prepare for-Gah."

Tree Rex was forced to the ground by Spyro taking him by surprise. The attack was on. The mabu troops all rushed in taking all the skylanders by surprise. Tree Rex tried to push himself up but Spyro grabbed his horn and spun his body so he faced the sky. Without hesitation Spyro sprayed a large blast of fire over Tree Rex face burning the wood to no end. Once Spyro felt the giant go limb and he let up and saw he was knock out and part of his face was charred black.

Crusher brought his hammer up to hit the dragon but a large green drow grabbed the handle of the hammer and swang himself up kicking the rock giant on the jaw. Crusher flinch and accidently let go of his hammer allowing Berserker to lift it up and swing it down on the poor giants head knocking him out.

"Thanks for the hammer crumble man." Berserker shouted. Spyro shook his head at the drow's stupidity. An explosion happened near them and they looked up in the air to see the Skylander Chopper drooling and coming for them firing another missle.

Spyro got ready to leap out of the line of fire but the missile exploded when it came into contact with a purple lightning. A purple figure flew past heading back at Chopper, it was Cynder. Cynder spun around Chopper and struck him with her lightning breaking his blades that made him fly making him fall to the ground.

Swarm and Eye Brawl fought against the mabu left and right. Swarm flew up into the air and summoned a swarm of wasps to fight. Out of nowhere Swarm was grabbed in a stone metal hand by Jones and his arkeyan titan. The hand came down to the ground smashing Swarm into the hard earth knocking him out as well. The arkeyan turned to Eye brawl who was firing his undead laser. Jones moved the arkeyan to the giant and grabbed him straight off the ground. The eye came off the body of the giant and started firing at the head off the arkeyena. With fast thinking Jones threw the body at the crowd of skylanders knocking most of the skylanders off their feet. They tried to get up but were quickly over runned by the mabu holding them down and tying them up. The Eye kept firing at the arkeyan but was hit by a heavy stone hammer knocking it to the ground. Jones turned to see Berserker who threw the hammer.

The Skylanders kept fighting back but couldn't stand their ground. They were completely surrounded with no escape. Blackout kept firing constantly not giving up until a large magic ball of dark magic knocked him across the field pushing him into a tree. Kaos laughed enjoying the action very much. Flameslinger fired three arrows towards him but Kaos caught them using his magic and sending them to the ground. Spotlight fired beams of light towards him but he summoned a shield blocking the attacks and pushed the shield towards her hitting her out of the air and making her fall to where Blackout was. The rest of the Skylanders didn't let up and kept attacking.

Spyro landed next to Kaos as they looked at each other and nodded. Spyro took in a large breath as Kaos began charging dark magic together they both released their stored energy. Spyro fired his black flame which completely covered the skylanders and Kaos fired dark magic lightning bringing sparks out of the fire. The two elites stopped their attacks and the fire cleared. All of the skylanders were on the ground groaning in pain and could no longer stand.

The battle ended with all of the Skylanders tied up and captured, the airships came soon after and all of the prisoners were now being pulled onto the ships. Spyro watched as some struggled against the restraints while other felt to weak to respond.

"Hey, how many are on the ships?" Cynder asked walking up to him.

"Sixteen, a good number especially with the giants." Spyro answered.

"Wait sixteen? I counted eighteen." She said confusing Spyro. Spyro looked at her then around the area searching for the remaining two. His eyes landed near a tree with some of the bark removed where it looked like someone ran into it.

"Blackout and Spotlight escaped." Spyro said. "They must've slipped away once we stopped the rest of them."

"Should we go look for them?" Cynder asked.

"Yes, send a squad out to find them. Break down the tree's if you have too, track them down." Spyro ordered and Cynder ran off commanding some of the mabu.

"Hey Spyro!" The dragon turned to the voice and saw Jones waving to him. "Come over here I need to show you something."

Spyro walked his way over to where Jones was standing next to the arkeyan.

"What is it?" Spyro asked.

"Well I've been searching through Cat's memories, but most of them are all ruined and erased from her memory." Jones explained. "But I was able to find one image that might lead us to victory. Cat bring up the image."

"Of course master Jones." The arkeyan titan brought up a hologram image of the map of skylands. It showed many islands but there was one glowing red dot beeping on and off at a certain island.

"So what does it mean?" Spyro asked bored.

"Don't you see, there is a temple there and it may have more arkeyan titans inside. Just think of the wealth of knowledge if its a arkeyan temple, this will improve our complete understanding of them." Jones exclaimed.

"Right and why would this interest me." Spyro said.

"Just think an entire army of arkeyan robots this would surely conclude our reign and defeat the skylanders. We have to see what's out there." Spyro thought about Jones words. An entire army of arkeyans, and if Cat was in the war that he saw in his dream then it might help him learn the truth about that dragon.

"Alright we'll go but only for a quick look." Spyro said. "Was there anything else in her memories?"

"No just the map and her operational settings, we should bring some of the troops as well. Oh this is to exciting." Jones said.

"What's going on here?" Kaos said coming to the group accompanied by Cynder and Berserker who still had Crushers stone hammer.

"We're heading out to a temple I found on a map in Cat's memories." Jones explained.

"Wait what about bringing the prisoners to Strykore?" Kaos asked.

"Well two of the skylanders escaped so we'll have to split up. Me and Jones will head to the temple while…"

"Whoa, whoa hang on Spyro don't think about leaving me here." Cynder said.

"Yeah I'm coming too." Berserker said as well. "If their are enemies there then I want to test out my new hammer."

"Whoa wait, what about the skylanders?" Kaos said again.

"Well why don't you take them back to Strykore while the hunters look the remaining two. I'm sure Strykore will be impressed if you bring him the prisoners yourself." Spyro said making Kaos smile.

"Well that's something I can't refuse." Kaos said moving to the prisoners ship. Spyro rolled his eyes and looked towards the others.

"Alright let's head out and make it quick. Jones you're leading the fleet, the rest of us grab the ships we need and move out." The elites nodded and ran to their tasks.

Spyro walked to the biggest ship where the cannons were being loaded. The crew looked towards the dark scaled dragon.

"Enough fooling around get this ship into the air." Spyro shouted as the crew ran to their jobs and the ship was lifted into the air. Spyro walked to the front of the ship as it followed the arkeyan titan into the air. Spyro thought back to the nightmare he had earlier. "Time to see who you are dragon."

Chapter twelve after a few months. I'm sorry it took that long but somethings have been troubling me so writing took awhile. I don't know when the next chapter will come out but I will tell you we are reaching the main part of the story. By the way if you have another name for the Arkeyan than let me know. Credit for the arkeyan titan is Franco Saglio, I know it isn't exactly like he asked but I didn't really want to copy a main story plot from another game. See you next time, oh and when you thought Strykore was the main enemy think again.

Light: Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet-vac, Pop fizz, Sprocket, Ka-boom, Drobot, King Pen, Cy, Hot dog, Fright rider, Ghost Roaster, Dino-Rang, Bash, Lightning Rod, Scratch, Warnado, Thumpback, Chill, Hex, Roller brawl, Food Fight, Wind-up, Flashwing, Bad Breath, Blackout and Spotlight.

Dark: Spyro, Cynder, Snapshot, Terrafin, Slam Bam, Gill Grunt, Sonic Boom, Tree Rex, Eye Brawl, Swarm, Crusher, Chopper, Sunburn, Zap, Camo, Flameslinger, Drill Sergeant, Prism break, Stump smash, Zook, Shroomboom and Chop Chop.