darkSpyro

Chimera raised an eye ridge, "If a sparring partner is what you want, why didn't you just say so? I'll take you on." Chimera emphasized her point by summoning the feathers for her wings.

"Ok you two, we'll take that to the combat arena" Austin said

Midnight gave Spyro some of his bacon

"No... You're too good... I'd lose within two minutes of you actually tried." Mark sighed

"What if you can actually hold your own? It's not like we've fought before." Chimera reasoned.

"I actually would like to see this." Blister nodded.

Mark sighed. "Fine..."

"Yay, we get to see them in action." Ganter said.

Careena twitched her tail, curious about Ganter still being five.

Chimera nodded to Austin, "Lead the way."

Flower looked at Ganter "He should have turned back by now" She thought

Austin got up and led the group to the fight arena

Chimera wondered what Mark's fighting skills were like.

Nuevo was also curious about Ganter.

Mark walked with them, as did everyone else.

Everyone sat in the audience area, Kihei sat in his special seat

Midnight led Spyro away "Ok, lets go over what you should do to prove you're sorry" He said

As did Pilila and the group of siblings.

Chimera, meanwhile, prepared herself to fight; she had kept her wings feathered.

Mark was stretching a bit at his starting point.

"Alright, what should I do...." Spyro thought.

"Since we're at the arena, how about you prove you're sorry by taking my dad's impossible challenge" Midnight said

"As King, I say this battle starts right... Now!" Kihei said as he hit a button on the panel of buttons in front of him, lowering the dividing wall that kept the two from attacking each other

"How would that prove I'm sorry?" Spyro asked.

Mark backed up a bit and let Chimera move first

Chimera examined Mark's stance, and decided to create a disk-like shield of shadow energy.

Mark sat down and simply waited

"Because my dad's challengeis very hard, and if you can win, you get a great prise that you can give to Cynder, it also shows that you are willing to get hurt just make her happy" Midnight explained

Chimera turned to shield into a bladed disk and flung it at Mark.

(She doesn't physically touch it, she does it through will.)

Mark side stepped to the right and sat back down.

"I was thinking maybe dinner..." Spyro said.

"Trust me, she'll love seeing you fight to please her" Midnight said

"But thats not the kind of girl Cynder is." Spyro said.

(Was waiting for D-U in Elemental Keys.)

Chimera nodded, making a note about Mark, and so she fired a blast of shadow fire at Mark.

Mark dodged again and yawned. "Anything else?"

Chimera looked thoughtful, and summoned tendrils of shadow energy from the ground to entangle Mark.

Mark smiled, "there we go." He went straight to work, various earth pillars of many sized burst forth from the ground and were slamming into each other, the dark tendrils in between. He was crushing them.

Chimera smirked, firing blasts of shadow energy at Mark in various locations, hoping he'd get hit by one.

"Uh oh." Mark said, he encased himself in an earth dome, hoping they won't penetrate it.

Chimera frowned, charging up a blast and firing it at the dome.

Mark had an idea, he left the dome intact but made a little hold and went into it, he covered it up.

"At least give it a try" Midnight said

"i'm not sure I'm ready to do some tough challenge. My body is still weak from not moving for ten years." Spyro said

(What exactly did Mark do?)

(He hid underground)

Chimera frowned when she couldn't see Mark, and entered a shadow cloak.

"Just try it, trust me Spyro, what do you have to lose?" Midnight asked

"My head... A limb..." Spyro said, rattling off possible body parts he could lose in a challenge.

Multiple holes opened up in the arena.

Chimera flapped her wings, heading up.

"Ooooooooooooh Chiiiiiiimeraaaaaa." Mark's voice rang out through the arena. "I can seeeeeeeeee yooooooou."

Frost face pawed. "Not this again..."

Kihei was intrigued as he watched the battle

"True, but I'm not sure dinner will work" Midnight said

"I have a feeling she likes me though...." Spyro said, he was clearly thinking.

Chimera smirked, "You won't when I'm through with you; this is a little something I like to call 'night's embrace'." With that, pitch-darkness began to surround her, and expanding to cover the whole field, blocking out light.

Kihei pressed a button, allowing everyone in the audience to see what was happening

"I know she does" Midnight said

"You do? Then a night with her would be fine. Duribg the Maleforic Wars me and her fought every day of our lives to save the world, and each other. I've already proven I would fight for her." Spyro said.

Mark frowned a bit and went to the surface. He looked around and started to walk blindly. He tripped over a stray rock and fell into one of his holes. "Ouch."

Chimera giggled, and fired a blast of shadow energy at the point of where she heard Mark.

Mark yelped as it hit him. "Where are you?"

"I'm in the black." Chimera fired another blast in the same direction.

Mark was hit again. He growled and launched an earth missile where the darkness blast came from.

Chimera flapped out of the way; she had sensed she'd need it.

The audience watched, waiting to see who wins

"Ok, then let me help you set everything up" Midnight said

"Do you guys have an outdoor garden?" Spyro asked.

"Did I hit you?" Mark asked as he climbed out of his hole.