TBD Chapter 26 A New Challenge

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Chapter 26

A New Challenge

"…Fira who is this?" asked Malefor as he stood up, looking at Demex, whom was trying to remove the mud of his scales, after Demex got of him.

"You don't know who he is?" asked Fira raising an eyebrow.

"Who are you?" asked Delnok, giving Demex a curious gaze. Demex sighed.

"And I thought you guys missed Me." answered Demex playfully.

Delnok's eyes traveled over the cobalt-blue dragon's body. As he continued to examine him, his eyes widened when he saw the scar that was on the dragon's face.

"That scar…" he mumbled as he stared at him. His eyes traveled from Demex to Fira, who nodded at him. His doubts were confirmed.

"DEMEX!" he exclaimed. Delnok ran towards his brother and gave him the tightest bear hug ever.

"Can't…breathe…" said Demex, his face turning darker blue as he ran out of air. Fira giggled.
"Sorry. Sorry." Delnok apologized as he loosened the hug.

"Demex…is that really you…?" asked Malefor approaching warily towards his son. Demex looked towards him.

"It's really me dad." answered Demex.

Malefor smiled and hugged his son. His paw though, reached over Demex's back and bumped his sprained wing. He winced.

"What's wrong?" Malefor asked concernedly.

"It's my wing, it was sprained when I crashed into the wall." answered Demex.

"We should get that treated." said Fira.

"I agree; I'll get the red gems." said Delnok, heading towards the nearest medical room.

"And we need you two cleaned up; your dirty as heck." said Malefor turning to Fira and Demex.

"Okay, we'll get right to that." said Demex.

As things were calming down inside, outside was quite a different story. The storm didn't look like it was letting up anytime soon. Gale winds were blowing things away; lightning striking a few trees, making them tumble to the forest floor, in a burning heap. Immediately, Cyril ran towards the burning tree and extinguished it. If he didn't, the fire could easily spread, burning the entire forest, along with the Temple. Terrador on the other hand, were striking the debris that were flying in the air to smithereens. These debris were moving haphazardly in the wind, and could be launched to 120MPH, causing massive destruction if it crashed.

These two guardians have been going at it, ever since the storm began. These two were the only sole defense of the Temple, against the raging storm. So far, no debris has gotten past them…

After thoroughly cleaning himself until his scales sparkled, Demex laid on his bed. He was currently in his room, lying on his belly as Fira cured his sprained wings. Malefor, and Delnok were also there, pelting him with all sorts of questions.

"Amazing…" said Delnok after Demex finished explaining his story.

"I knew Portal Magic is unstable but I didn't know it was that unstable." said Malefor.

"Tell me about it…but at least I managed to meet my human parents." replied Demex. Malefor nodded.

"But that little trip of yours took heck long." said Delnok.

"I didn't know that there could be time difference." said Demex.

"One week is to one year…wow." said Malefor. By this time, Fira was done healing Demex's sprained wing. Demex sat up.

"Thanks." he said Fira.

"No problem." replied Fira.

"So…what happened, what I missed?" asked Demex.

There was suddenly silence in the room.

"What happened while I was gone?" asked Demex seriously.

"A lot happened." said a voice.

Everyone turned around and saw a dragon standing in the doorway. It was a black dragoness that Demex came to recognize as Cynder. Cynder looked a lot older. (Cynder looked like her adult version in ANB) Her face bore no expression at all, which surprised Demex. She looked emotionless. Shouldn't she be happy that Demex was back?

"Oh Cynder, is Volteer finished?" asked Fira.

"Yes, he is. And the Chronicler's here too." answered Cynder.

"Great then, where are they?" asked Malefor.

"They're at the Pool of Visions." answered Cynder.

"Let's go then." said Delnok.

"What's going on? What's happening? What did Volteer finished?" asked Demex as everyone began piling out the room.

"We'll explain everything later Demex. Right now, we have to head to the Pool of Visions." said Fira. Demex nodded and went out of the room.

The door slid opened and Demex found himself in the Pool of Visions. Ignitus was there, who was chatting with Volteer. They stopped when they noticed that they walked in. Volteer looked like he'd seen a ghost when he saw Demex walking beside Fira.

"Ancestors! Is that you Demex!" he exclaimed as he approached Demex.

"Yes, it's me Volteer. Long time no see." said Demex.

"Hello Demex." greeted Ignitus.

"Hello Ignitus. Mind filling me in, I seemed to have missed quite a lot significant events." replied Demex.

"Significant indeed; I think we should get Demex up to speed, so he knows what's going on." said Malefor.

"I concur." said Fira.

"Very well then, Demex, you have every right to know about this since this involves your brother." said Ignitus.

"My brother?" said Demex, turning to Delnok.

"He means Spyro." said Delnok, giving off a heavy sigh.

"Have you not wondered where he might have been?" asked Volteer.

"I have, where is he anyway?" asked Demex.

"Gone." answered Cynder.

"What?" Demex asked, trying to make sure what he heard was correct.
"He's gone." repeated Cynder and she bowed her head. Fira walked over to her and comforted her.

"What she meant to say is that…Spyro… has gone…berserk." said Ignitus.

"I don't understand," said Demex confusedly; "Berserk?"

"Yes, berserk. He's mind is now currently unstable." said Ignitus.

"Why, what happened?" asked Demex.

"He had an episode." answered Malefor.

"A what?" asked Demex.

"Have we ever told you about Spyro's…condition?" asked Fira. Demex shook his head.

"Well, Spyro tended to have these seizures. He hadn't had one for a while and we thought he was cured of it. But we were wrong." said Fira.

"Why, what happens when he gets a seizure?" asked Demex.

"It leads to drastic events." answered Volteer.

"Like what?" asked Demex.

"He turns into Dark Spyro and unleashes havoc everywhere. This is caused by the darkness that is lying dormant within him. The darkness takes over and controls him when he is in this state." explained Ignitus.

Author's Notes:

This is the summarized version of what the seizures can do. If you want a more detailed one, please go to Chapter 4 Introductions, and look for Cynder's detailed explanation for this.

"He is currently in this state." he said grimly.

"What?" Demex asked, aghast.

"Demex, that storm wasn't an ordinary storm. It was caused by Dark Spyro; along with the other unnatural events that had been going on for two years." explained Delnok.

"For two years!" asked Demex.

"Yes. And if this keeps up, he'll die, along with all of us. His well along his limits of power." said Malefor.

"Well, why not change him back to normal then. Is there someone who could do that?" asked Demex.

"Only one person can return him back to normal." said Malefor. "It's Cynder." Cynder looked up; her eyes were slight red as she was crying silently.

"I tried to change him back. But I'm guessing the control was far too strong for it to work." said Cynder her voice trailing a little.

"Okay… what triggered the episode?" asked Demex.

"You." said all of them in unison to Demex's surprise.

"What? How?" asked Demex.

"You're disappearance. We assumed you had died. He didn't take it quite well." said Volteer.

Demex nodded. Now he understood what the Chronicler meant when he said, 'You're 'disappearance' from Avalar has activated a series of chained events that has led to disaster'. He was referring to Spyro causing havoc and destruction as Dark Spyro due to his disappearance.

He sighed as he realized he was the cause of all of this. He was the catalyst. Technically, no, if you think about it; since it was Volteer who told him to go to the Portal Caverns. But it was his curiosity that activated the Portal.

"Well, I'm here now. Why not just tell him I'm not dead?" asked Demex.

"We could but it seems the darkness has gotten a very tight grip on him." answered Malefor. Demex sighed.

"How are we going to change him back now?" he asked.

"This now brings us back to the agenda." said Ignitus. "Since trying to change Spyro back by means of Cynder's method didn't work. We needed to try something else." he explained.

"Like what?" asked Demex.
"Since we couldn't change him, we decided that we should just try to expel the darkness within him, like how Convexity worked on Cynder, Delnok and Malefor." said Fira.

"But we encountered a problem." said Delnok.

"And that is?" asked Demex.

"Cynder's and Malefor's breath combined can't take down Spyro. He's too strong." said Volteer.

"So what are we going to do?" asked Demex.

"I've spent all my time researching for a way to expel darkness other than Convexity." said Volteer.

"And?" asked Malefor.

"I've found one. It's risky but anything's worth a try now." said Volteer.

"Okay, let us hear it." said Cynder. Volteer cleared his throat.

"Digging into our ancestral books, it was hard to find ways to expel darkness, since it rarely happened and even more, rarely documented. But luckily I managed to find one scroll that mentioned them. It said that there was an ancient dragon that lived back then; a silver dragon. That had the ability to cleanse the evil from one's soul." said Volteer.

"A silver dragon?" asked Delnok.

"Yes, a silver dragon." answered Volteer.

"Aren't they like, rare and extinct?" asked Fira.

"Afraid so." said Malefor.

"But anything's worth a try now right?" asked Volteer. Everyone nodded.

"So what can this silver dragon do to help us?" asked Cynder.

"Well, it said that silver dragons have the same ability of purple dragons." answered Volteer.

"Same ability?" asked Demex.

"Yes; they can apparently use the four elements, along with the dark elements. Like Cynder's. But what makes them unique is what we need." said Volteer.

"And that would be?" asked Malefor.

"Their breath; the Concavity Breath." answered Volteer.

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