This story was insired by The Legend of Spyro series. All credit goes to thier origional creators at activision. Credit for swamp goes to the origanal creator. Credit for the wyvern, Candice, and Tremor goes to Spartan-029.
Chapter Twenty Five: Valley Of The Damned
The next day everyone was gathering in the main hall of the Temple. The ones who showed up already were Candice, Flame, Ember, Sparx, Jolt, and Electra. they were waiting for Spyro and Cynder but Jolt was getting impaient from all the waiting and finaly spoke up.
"Whats taking them so long?" Jolt said getting annoyed. Candice turned to Jolt.
"I'm sure they are on they're way." Candice said, and as if on que Cynder walked around the corner but Spyro wasn't there.
"Figures I get a day off from being a messenger and they're late." Sprax says folding his arms.
"About time Cynder! Where's Spyro?" Jolt asked.
"He's getting a friend of his. He said he might take a minute or two to find his friend and that he'd catch up later." Cynder explained.
"Well someone needs to stay for Spyro to fallow." Electra said.
"I'll stay." Flame said before turning to Ember.
"Finaly now we can get moving." Sparx said.
"And I thought I was impatient." Jolt muttered so Sparx wouldn't hear.
"Ember You know the way right?" Flame asked her suprising her.
"Um sure. C-come on guys." Ember said nervously. She flapped her wings and started flying off with the others fallowing accept for Flame. They fallowed Ember as they flew over Warfang and over the wall. They soon arrived at a beutiful lake where they landed. Jolt however landed a little shakey since he was still getting the hang of it.
"This place is beutiful." Candice and Cynder both said.
"It's amazing." Said Electra.
"It's alot better now that Venom is dead." Jolt said with a slightly evil grin as he remembered cutting the basterds head off.
"Now why dont we have some fun!" Jolt said as he flew up and cannon balled into the lake. He doggy paddled up to the surface and waved with his wing.
"Come on in! The water's perfect!" Jolt shouted to them. Electra instantly dove in laughing. Cynder flew up high and dove straight down into the water making a big splash. She came up laughing while Ember jumped in.
"Yeah I'm ganna stay up here where it's nice and dry." Sparx said making everyone roll thier eyes.
"Come on in Candice!" Cynder shouted.
"We're supposed to be getting to be getting to know each other!" Cadice shouted back her.
"Don't you know the best way to get to know someone is to have fun?" Electra said.
"I don't know about that." Candice answered as smirk grew on Jolt's face.
"Dont tell me you have a stick shoved up your ass like Cyril does!" Jolt shouted to her.
"WHAT!" Candice scream having her mentore insulted.
"Oh geez." Sparx said knowing what was going to happen. Candice instantly dove into the lake and darted at Jolt.
"OH SHIT!" Jolt took off in the water laughing with Candice tailing after him. Soon Candice was actualy smilling and having fun and everyone eventualy started having fun.
After a few minutes everyone heard wings flapping and saw Spyro flying towords them with Flame and another Male Dragon. They all got out of the water see who it was. When they landed they saw that this Dragon was a Male Earth Dragon. He was like Spyro. Musculare body, muzzle-like snout, and three dark yellow horns on both side of her head, the top two horns were curved all the way back, the middle two were pointing foword, and the bottum two were pointing outword. He had dark Green scales, the frames of his wings were the same color, on the joint of his wing had the same dark yellow spike, his wing membrane and underbelly was Dark Brown, rock-like spikes ran down the back of his head, her horns were the same brown and they looked a mohawk, his tail-spade was a bumpy brown club, and his eyes were forest green.
As soon as Candice she glared at him making the dragon grin. Spyro introduced him.
"Everyone I want you to meet my friend, Tremor." Tremor's smile widend. Everyone introduced himself.
"So you're Spyro's friend huh? I'm Cynder."
"Spyro's lucky to have you as a girlfriend." Cynder blushed at his comment as Ember stepped foword.
"Hi I'm Ember." She said with a smile. Tremor turned to her.
"Flame's girl right? Glad you got her away from Spyro huh Flame?" Tremor said turning to Flame.
"You have no idea." Flame said with a laugh. Electra stepped foward.
"I'm Electra, Volteer's Niece." Tremor turned to her.
"You're the one that fought that Wyvern right? You got guts. Nice to meet you." Electra nodded as Jolt stepped up next.
"I'm Jolt." Tremor's eyes widen'd.
"You're the Dradon that sang at the concert and sent that Wyvern packing!" Tremor said in surprise. Jolt chuckled before speaking.
"And killed thank you." Jolt added proudley. Tremor raised an eyebrow.
"I thought some ape-like creature killed it." Jolt's eyes widend not only worried about blowing his cover but he was also disapointed that he couldn't realy take the credit.
"Well I did help." Jolt said before Sparx flew over.
"How's it hanging Tremor?" Tremors eyes widened.
"Sparx! Finaly got a day off from playing messanger boy huh?" Sparx rolled his eyes.
"Oh you have no idea." Then Candice stepped foward.
"Hello Pebble Brain." Candice with an attitude.
"Hello Candy." Everyone looked back and forth between the two.
"Yo two know each other?" Sparx asked.
"Me and Pebble Brain here have one class togethor." Candice said before they both spoke the class name.
"Fighting." Jolt had a pretty good idea where this was going and turned to Sparx.
"I'm guessing they fight alot." Sparx just shook his head.
"More than you'd believe." Sparx said before Jolt looked back at the two.
"Consider yourself lucky that your Spyro's friend." Tremor smilled and got cocky.
"Or what? Cyril isn't here so you cant snitch on me for something stupid." Tremor said making Candice angerier.
"Tearing pages out of a book to throw crumpled balls of paperat me is a legidiment reason to tell Cyril. It's ruining a perfectly good book for something childish." Candice shot at him.
"It was a book, there's other copies in the library." Tremor shot back back att her.
"Guys." Spyro said trying to get them to stop. Unfortunatly it didn't work.
"That's not the point, it's property of the Temple and you should respect it." Candice said raising her voice.
"Come on guys stop!" Cynder said raising her voice. It didn't work.
"Respect what it's a bool!" Tremor said raising his voice as well. Jolt and Electra looked at each other and nodded before turning back to Candice and Tremor zapping them both in the rear.
"AHH!" They both shouted as they got zapped and looked at Electra and Jolt.
"Come on guys your acting like a bunch of Ba- Hatchlings." Jolt said looking at them and almost blew it using the wrong word.
"We're supposed having fun and getting to know each other not fight at wach others throats." Electra said getting a smile from Jolt. Spyro then walked up to Candice.
"I invited Tremor because he was one of the first dragons I made friends with. I wanted to get pur friends togethor so we could have a day to relaxe from all the training and get to know each other." Spyro then looked at both of them before continueing.
"It's obvious that you two don't get along but can you too stop fighting and try to be nice to each other for the day?" Spyro asked. Candice and Tremor looked at each other.
"Fine as long as he doesn't start." Candice said annoyed.
"I won't as long as she doesn't." Tremor said, before they shook paws.
"So can we go back to having fun?" Flame asked wanting to go back to having fun again.
"Yes wa can." Condace said rolling her eyes.
"GOOD!" Jolt shouted immidiantly flew at Candice and grabbed her as he flew over the lake.
"LET ME GO!" Candice shouted making Jolt smirked.
"Okay!" Jolt said as he dropped her into the lake close enough so she couldn't fly to stop herself.
"YOU JERK!" Candice shouted as Tremor started cracking up.
"YOU'RE NEXT CHUCKLES!" Jolt shouted as he did the same to Tremor only he actualy dove in the water bringing Tremor with him. Soon they both came up.
"Oh it's on now." Tremor said before dunking Jolt who started to fight back while laughing. Then Candice joined in and teamed up with Tremor to get back at Jolt. Jolt tried getting away but failed and shouted while laughing.
"ELECTRA HELP I'M UNDER ATTACK!" Electra flew up and dove at Candice as they went back to having fun. They all had some fun in the water again before they eventualy got tired and decided to start a fire to get dry quicker. As they all layed by the fire Tremor thought of something and turned to Jolt.
"Hay Jolt, how did you fight off the Wyvern? and what was that Creature that fought too?" Jolt's eyes widen'd as he thought. {Oh shit. I gotto make up something or they'll get suspicious.}
"He said his name was Joe and that he was a Human, he looked a little like an ape though. He came in when I just saved Electra from getting stabbed by his stinger. He used a sword with a black blade to fight against the Wyvern. I saw a cluster of Blue Crystals and used them to recover, it gave me the strength to fight against the Wyvern with a boost of Mana and Strength. Joe managed to cut off the barb on it's tail and broke it's arm. Soon he apparently had enough because he started punching kicking and slashing with his sword non stopped before he cut the Wyvern's head clean off." Everyones eyes widen'd except for Spyro and Cynder.
"Geez even Cynder isn't that brutal." Sparx said making Cynder glare at him.
"That's pretty harsh. What did this Wyvern do?" Candice asked. Jolt got angery when he remember'd Venom had done.
"I don't know, maybe he heard what the Wyvern had done with Electra?" Jolt said like he was guessing. Candice turned Electra.
"What DID happen anyway?" Candice asked. Electra was sill shaken by what had happen'd and shiver'd at the memory.
"I was trying to save Jolt From Venom, the Wyvern. When I thought I knocked him out I went to check on Jolt. Thats when my Uncle Volteer shouted my name, I turned to look at him. That's when Venom stung me in the side. I was paralised but i could still see and hear everything. I heard Jolt scream my name. The way I fell i was looking right at Jolt. He was petrified and just stared at me. I could even see tears in his eyes. But then his face turned from horror to complete rage. Thats when his scales turned dark." Electra was about to continue when Candice spoke up.
"I know what happened after that." Eeveryone looked at Candice.
"Jolt lost it and used some kind of dark power to defeat... Venom?" Candice asked trying to get the name right. Electra nodded.
"That was when i realized something... He loved me, and I loved him back." Jolt and Electra nuzzled each other while Jolt blushed. Candice smilled before she heard a russtling in a bush.
"We have compony." Everyone froze and listened except for Ember and Sparx who were looking around.
"Where I dont see anything." Sparx said as he hover'd. Cynder swated him to the ground with her wing as Flame pulled Ember down.
"Get down! You two are imposible to hide." Cynder said while Sparx grumbled while Ember looked at Flame.
"You never were good at hiding." Flame said with a smile.
"Quiet!" Candice said listening. She soon heard a samiliar laugh.
"Apes." Candice said bluntly making Jolt smile.
"Time to party." Jolt said as his smile turned into a grin.
"Show yourselfs! We know you're there!" Candice shouted and not a moment later did about 58 Apes walk out of the woods. 50 of them were small Apes, 7 of them were medium size Apes, and one large Ape that was probably the leader. Sparx shot up looking at them.
"Wow that alot of ugly." Sparx said everyone laugh except Candice, Cynder, and Spyro.
"Looky what we got here. The Purple pest, the Traitor, and a bunch of thier worthless friends." The large Ape said making Jolt growl with a big toothy grin.
"Come over here and say that to my face dip shit!" Jolt said. Tremor leaned over to spyro.
"I like this guy." Tremor whisper'd making Spyro chuckled.
"You may have us out number'd but we have you outmatched. Well they do, not me." Sparx said motioning to his Dragon friends.
"Even if you do have us out matched but you can't take us all on at once. Our master will be pleased when we bring back the one who got in the way as well as the Traitor." Jolt decided to trick some info out of the Ape.
"So Gaul IS alive then?" Jolt said Making Candice and Tremor look at him in surprise. The large Ape chuckled.
"You're certainly a smart one. Too bad you want live to see him." The large Ape mocked confirming Jolt's guess. Cynder was definatly worried.
"I beat Gaul before by myself. Now that I have my friends with me it will be a peace of cake." Spyro said getting into a fighting possition, everyone else got into a fighting possition as well including Ember.
"We'll see about that. GET THEM!" The Apes charged at them and everyone excluding Sparx fought against them. They all slashed with their claws and bit and even used their elemental breath to defeat any Apes. Cynder turned around an Ape had already jumped at her leaving no time for her to react. Thats when Ember used Comet Dash right in its side knocking it a couple feet away before she punced on it before biting its neck and tearing its throat out.
"Thanks Ember. You're getting better." Cynder said a little surprise by Ember who smilled confidently. That is before Cynder breathed a glob of poisenjust to the left of Ember's face hitting an Ape who was about to attack her. Ember saw the now dead Ape then back to Cynder who was smilling.
"But you still need to practice." Cynder said before running off to help Spyro with some Apes. Everyone was fighting them off. Jolt was fighting some Apes when he grabbed one by the throat in his jaws and slamed it into the ground before breathing Electricity into it while holding it in his jaws until it died. Spyro incased himself in a bolder and rolled over a group of Apes. Tremor did a front flip while making what looked like an earth Flail and Slamming it onto an ape. Jolt couldn't remember what it was called since he didn't own The Eternal Night and only saw it on youtube.
Candice used a Polar Bomb on some Apes before she started spinning around a started to use Snow Storm. As she spun became surrounded by icey winds, it only became more powerfull as she spun faster until she stopped.
"I DID IT!" She shouted excitedly. She went back to fighting Apes seeing as this wasn't a time to celebrate. Flame actualy grabbed on in his Maw and did a Comet Dash which burned the Ape to a crisp. Electra had five Apes surround her whe she used Electric Sphere to not only shield herself but electricute the Apes surrounding her. Soon they defeated all the small Apes leaving the medium sized Apes and the leader.
"Looks like you're tougher then I thought. If you want something done you got to do it yourself. Let's get them boys." The Apes started walked foword when Tremor stepped foword with a serious face.
"Stand back guys, I got this." Before anyone could say anything Tremor's body started to rise without flapping his wings as many rocks of different shapes and sizes hovored around him with green energy surronding them, making the Apes stop in confeusion. They hovored closer and closer while the everyone else backed up. Everyone knew what was going on, especialy Candice.
"You have GOT to be kidding me." She said to herself. The rocks soon stopped moving, Spyro and Sparx knew what this meant.
"DUCK!" They both shouted and everyone except the Apes ducked just in time as the rocks hovoring around Tremor shot out in a green shock wave, puncturing the apes just before a ring of sharp jagged rocks shot up threw the ground like spikes going straight through the Apes bodies. Soon the jagged rocks sank back into the ground leaving the bodies on the ground. Everyone got back up and walked over to Tremor who was panting from exhaustion. Sparx came out of hiding and flew over to the others.
"I don't believe it." Sparx said surprised
"How long have you been able to do that?" Spyro asked. Tremor turned to him with a smile.
"Ever since the day that Wyvirn was killed. I felt a strong connection with the forest so I flew outside the wall to do something I don't normaly do. I enjoyed nature. Soon I hovored in the air and did what you just saw. Ever since then I've been practicing out here once a day and I think I finaly figured how to do that on command. Unfortunatly I can only do it once a day." Tremor explained. Electra walked up to him.
"Do you know what that means?" Electra said with an excited face. Tremor raised an eyebrow.
"It means I have a special power?" Tremor guess'd. Candice shook her head.
"No Pebble Brain it means your the new Gaurdian of Earth." Tremor's eye's widend to the size of dinner plates.
"WHAT!" Tremor shouted.
"That was a Earth Fury. Only a Purple Dragon like Spyro or a Gaurdian can do an Elemental Fury. When a new Gaurdian is chosen they will experience characteristics of thier Element. You felt more in tune with nature. Your Elemental energy had built up until it was to much and released itself in the form of a destructive Elemental Fury. The same thing happen'd with Flame, he's the new Fire gaurdian." Ember Explained looking at Flame Lovingly.
"And I'm the new Gaurdian of Ice." Candice said stepping foword.
"Figures that Cyril's number one kiss ass would become Gaurdian of Ice." Tremor said making Jolt and Sparx crack up instantly.
"The reason you can do it only once a day is because an Elemental Fury takes up alot of energy and mana. Tremor now that your a Gaurdian it's only fair that you know. Not too long ago Ignitus, the previous Gaurdian of Fire who died contacted me in a dream as the new Chronicler." Spyro started.
"So the rumers are true." Tremor said excitedly. Spyro nodded.
"Yes. Ignitus showed me a book with prophecies. He showed one with a picture of all of us and the Human Joe. The Dark Master is going to return and we are the only ones who can stop him." Spyro explained making Tremor jump.
"WHAT! But I thought you and Cynder took care of him, or rather those ghosts did like you told us." Tremor said surprised.
"It's true. But apparently Gaul is back somehow and he's going to release The Dark Master." Cynder explained. Tremor hang his head taking all the information in and thinking before raising his head up with a slight smile.
"Bring it on." Everyone smile except for Candice who just rolled her eyes. Sparx leaned over to Jolt
"I like his attitude." Sparx said.
"Me too." Jolt replied sharing a laugh with him before they all heard a groaning. Everyone turned to see the Leader was still alive.
"Tremor hold him down." Termor ran over and held down the Ape.
"ARGH! Let go of me you pest!" The Ape growled in pain.
"Shut the fuck up." Jolt said walking over to the ape.
"Now you're going to answer some question. If we hear anything other then answers you will be punished. Understand?" Jolt explained calmly.
"You'll get nothing out of me!" The Ape shout before Jolt clentched his paw and punched the Ape in the Crotch. making him shout in pain in a high pitched voice. All the males including Sparx flintched at the sight.
"AGH!"
"Are you goin to co-operate?" The Ape nodded.
"Good. Now where is Gaul." Jolt asked.
"At the remains of the Mountine of Malefor." The Ape answere'd making Jolt slash him in the arm with his claws.
"ARGH!" The Ape shouted in pain.
"Nice try. The Mountine of Malifor is used during the "Night Of Eternal Darkness" and that isn't happening anytime soon. Tell us the truth." Jolt said readying for another slash.
"Okay okay. He's at the mountine where that purple pest and the traiter fought with The Dark Master." The Ape confessed.
"And how does he plan on bringing The Dark Master back?" Jolt asked.
"No one knows. He wont tell anyone." The Ape Answere'd. Jolt lower his paw.
"Thank you. was that so hard?" Jolt asked as the Ape relaxed.
"Sadley your no use to us now." Jolt said bringing a paw to his kneck. The Ape could only widen his eyes before Jolt slashed open it's throat. Tremor got off as it gargled in pain before dieing. Sparx brought a hand up to his throat and turned to Cynder.
"Cynder I am officialy more scared of him then you now." Cynder rolled her eyes as turned to spyro.
"Spyro it's obvious these guys are out to get you and Cynder. I think we need to strike now while there'still a chance." Spyro's eyes widen.
"But we still dont know who the Gaurdian of Electricity is." Spyro explained.
"Spyro its obvious that Electra is going to be since she and I are the only Electric Dragons in the prophecies picture." Jolt said getting annoyed.
"Why not you?" Tremor question'd annoying Jolt more as he turned to Tremor.
"I'll explain later" Jolt said before turning back to Spyro.
"Spyro we need to act now." Jolt said to him. Spyro thought for a minute. {He's right. If we don't act know who knows what the Apes will do.}
"OK first lets get back to the Temple and talk to the Gaurdians." Spyro said.
"But let burn these bodies before we go or this place will wreek like shit next time we come here." Jolt suggested.
"Good idea." Sparx said. They all put the bodies in a pile and set them on fire before leaving them to burn. As they Flew everyone knew that things were about to get serious.