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Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 1 (Part 1)
Spectacular
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Terrador glanced over the basin into a grand abyss of water that stretched out as far as the eye could see on its way towards a never ending perfection. He stared at it incessantly with his eyes wide open only able to utter “Whoa,”

“Amazing isn’t it son?” asked a much larger dragon beside him.

He nodded, his breath taken away by the incredible view.

Solid blue sky ran into the blue sea, both of which seemed to stretch one forever together. Warm summer breezes traversed the sea, and gently brushed each of the dragons across the face only adding to the scene.

“Nowhere in any city will you find a view quite like this,” Terrador’s father commented mostly to himself as his son was completely lost to the world; “I don’t know why anybody’d ever want to move away from some place quite like this.”

He gave his son a few more moments before he gave Terrador a soft nudge in the back “come along, you wouldn’t want to make our friends move under darkness would you?”

“I guess not” he said disappointedly looking away from the ocean and upon his father’s warm green face. Terrador bore a striking resemblance to his father; the only big exception was Terrador’s yellowish underbelly.

“When he gets older he’ll have a black secondary like me.” He had told somebody in front of Terrador “When I was younger I looked just like him, you’ll never know the difference between us someday”

“Well then, we’d better get going, we’re going to have to get there pretty quickly, it’s almost midday as it is. I just wanted to show you this really quick since we’re out this way. Come along now” he said taking to the air.

Terrador lingered a moment longer and then he too set off.
*****

“Dad, how much longer do we have to go? My wings hurt.”

His father turned his head over his shoulder, and smiled at Terrador “Only a few more minutes, we’re almost there.” He told him trying to obscure his laughter.

“Does, Mal, have to fly this whole way into training every day?”

“Yes, son, he does”

“Wow, I couldn’t do this every day, no wonder he’s the best flyer of our generation!”

His father glanced back at him once more, this time Terrador couldn’t tell what emotion he was conveying so for the most part he ignored it.
It was only a few more moments before his father began to descend below the clouds. “Finally,” Terrador sighed as he rested his wings into a glide.

“You going to be able to carry their couch into Warfang?”

“Sure!” Terrador said suddenly perking up excitedly.

His father chuckled at him “Well just have to see.”

The ground quickly closed in on their feet and in the short distance a small stone structure stood out from the grassy plain. A bright orange dragon stood outside of the structure and alongside of him stood what appeared to be a purple dot from the distance, slowly it became more defined until it revealed itself as a young purple dragon.

A/N: I'm writing this for Fanfiction.net and this is only the first half of chapter 1.. Please point out anything you see wrong with this so I can fix it.. feed back is much apperciated

As always, Thanks for reading,

~Cornys

A good start

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Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 1 (Part 2)
Spectacular
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It wasn’t long before they were right in front of them.

“Hello, Helgar” Terrador’s father addressed the orange dragon upon landing.

“Hey, Felpar, how’d you get here this fast? I thought you guys were going to take a detour.”

“We, did actually, I wanted to get here a bit early though.” Terrador’s father said.

“Oh, I see,” Helgar replied catching the hint. “You were able to keep up Terrador?”

“Not hardly,” he replied chuckling a bit.

“You did though, that’s all that counts right?”

“Yeah,”

“Right, Mal, if you two want to you can go off and play for a bit. I don’t want to make a big scene coming into the city with all of our stuff” the orange dragon said.

“All right!” the purple dragon exclaimed in excitement as he reached out and touched Terrador on the side with his wing tip. “You’re it!”

Terrador took off after him in the air as quickly as he could, and it appeared that he was going to touch Mal but at the last moment he rolled and left Terrador far behind with the quick movement.

They both giggled with excitement.

Helgar watched them closely as they got further and further away from them. “So, Felpar, what is it?”

“The council, they grow weary of the success of Mal is acquiring. They have proposed that he should only be allowed one element.”

Helgar’s eyes grew larger, “You mean they think my son will become something of a monster, a threat to society?”

“I know, a little low of them don’t you think?”

“Yeah, who proposed it?”

“Ignitus did, but he was one of the few who had a proposal remaining, and with the end of the session coming quickly he said that it was the most popular idea out there. I can guess from that, that he was asked to do so, he probably won’t even vote for it himself.”

“Odd, how was it received?”

“I couldn’t tell, for the most part it was just a lot of conversation, couldn’t tell which way it was going though.”

“All right, thank you Felpar,” He said with a smile; “I guess it’s time to get to moving some furnishings, eh?”

“Yep, let me reel in the younglings, Terrador thinks he’s going to carry the couch”

Helgar laughed at the idea of such a young dragon carrying something so large.

“I told him we’d have to see.”

“Then I guess we’ll just have to see won’t we?” Helgar laughed.

“Terrador! Mal! We are ready for you!”

*****

“You think you can still carry the couch?” Felpar asked his son as they walked into the living room.

The massive couch was more than twice Terrador’s size, it was quite evident that he was not going to be able to carry it to Warfang, let alone pick it up.

“Um, well, never mind, I don’t think I can do it.” He stuttered causing Helgar and Felpar to laugh at him.

Mal just walked underneath it and attempted to fly, he was barely able to lift it from the floor.

The two elder dragons chuckled at the younger ones, “We’ll get it.” Helgar told them, “You guys go and get something littler.”

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Wow,Nice chapter,go on!

Yeah, not exciting yet, just a few sensual (or however you spell that with spell check lol) chapters to introduce the characters and then I'm going to go crazy on you guys Writing again now

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Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 2 (Part 1)
An Unexpected Meeting
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Malefor rushed into his new house nearly bursting with joy at the mere site of the place. Large stone pillars worked their way up from the ground clear up to where the roof hung over the outermost front wall. The whole house seemed very elaborate and formal, especially with its solid white finish.

“Some place you’ve got here isn’t it?” Felpar inquired to Helgar who looked the house over approvingly.

“Yeah, a lot better than what I thought I was going to get when I was first elected. You know all too well how hard it is to get a house like this close to the Council Hall.”

“Yeah, all too well.” Felpar laughed in shrill memory of his house searching experience.

The two younger dragons were nowhere to be found now, and probably were taking in their first tour of the house that they would eventually become so accustomed to that they could walk around it with their eyes closed. Outside, the two adults really couldn’t care less though as a larger situation loomed near, and the both of them knew it.

“You think the neighbors will be able to accept such a country family into the neighborhood?”

“Nah, you ain’t that country anyhow Helgar.” Felpar pointed out.

“I suppose not,” he said immediately laughing at his country side coming fourth.

Felpar followed with the same laughter. “Well come on, let’s put this all of stuff into the house and rearrange it a bit before we have to go off to our meeting.”

*****

The night had fallen upon the city and inside of the new house lights were now lighting up the home. All of the furniture from outside had been moved into the home and looked like it was completely sorted into order.

“Well boys, I guess it’s time for us to leave for our meeting, you behave yourselves now while we are gone.” Helgar told them in salutation as he and Felpar walked out of the doorway and into the vacant street.

“Well, Terrador,” the purple dragon addressed him, “You want to go and look around the outside of the city while they are gone, or go and meet a few of the local dragonesses?”

*****

The two elder dragons walked side-by-side into that night’s meeting of the Dragon Council and were met by a host of faces and filled seats.
Only three were left and they were the ones at the direct opposite side of the room. They made their way over there without any real unusual attention and took their seats beside one another leaving only an empty spot to their left.

They both took nervous glances around to room as they tried to remember the names and faces once again. After a few seconds Helgar leaned over to Felpar “Can you remember half of their names?” he whispered to him.

“Not really, you’d think that we’d be able to remember them after two weeks wouldn’t you?”

Helgar bobbed his head in reply as the final dragon came into the assembly took his attention.

“Ignitus, late again I see” somebody near to entryway commented.

“Sorry, me and my mate had to see to it that a particular dragon got a proper first day of training.” He explained as he continued to hake his way over to the set next to Felpar.

“Maybe your teaching job and council spot are too much for somebody your age.” suggested another closer to the opposite side of the room.

“No better suited for me than somebody twice my age.” He deflected continuing of his way.

He finally arrived next to Felpar and took his seat. “I understand that you two may not like me so well at this time” he said to Felpar and Helgar, “but I hope you understand that when I’m here I’m not here for me, I’m here for a group of people. This is the only reason that I have proposed this. You can rest assured that I’m voting it down though.”

Helgar turned away from him a bit, and failed to address him. Felpar who sat directly next to him at the large circular table gestured a small apology for his friend’s actions.

Ignitus returned him a nod “yes” but otherwise acted as though nothing had happened. “I understand, you have every right to be angry right now. I am sorry.”

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Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 2 (Part 2)
An Unexpected Meeting
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Terrador considered the door from afar knowing that either way they were going to have to go out of it, and somewhere in his mind he felt like he had to stay right here for a while. The peer pressure got to him quickly though and he knew that that was not an option after all that would be pretty boring.

“Well, I don’t know, I don’t have any idea who lives in this neighborhood to be honest.” Terrador replied as he slowly made his way toward the exit.
“How about we walkout here and just look around a bit, and then if nothing exciting shows up we can just go on out into the wilderness.” Mal offered.

Something told Terrador to refuse it and to just stay put, but his continuing motion towards the door was an open sign of willingness. “I guess that would work” he finally returned as they reached the door and emerged into the outdoors.

The door nearly brushed into a pure crimson colored dragoness with a lighter red underbelly. “Oh," she exclaimed startled.

“Oh, sorry,” Mal replied genuinely while sending her a small smile.

“It’s all right, Mal” she replied through a brightly light face. “Hey, Terrador” she offered him.

“Hey,”

She was visually into Mal and either she didn’t care to conceal it or she couldn’t. For a moment Terrador thought that she was just going to tackle him on the spot, but by her reputation he knew that this would never happen.

Her name was Shandra and she was well known to be the most attractive dragoness in the entire generation of hatchlings. Her entire body seemed to be shaped perfectly and her scales seemed to be flawless. She wasn’t open to disrespecting her father’s rules either and this pretty much assured that she wouldn’t do anything with Mal at this point in time, possibly later in life, but not at this moment.

“You know, Shandra me and Terrador were just about to head out to the outskirts of the city here, you want to tag along?”

Her face light up in excitement, “Sure! You guys going right now? Our parent’s meeting probably won’t last past midnight you know?”

“If we are going to do guess we’d better get going.” Terrador butt in as he allowed his wings to lift him off of the ground.

“All right,” Mal replied playfully taking to the sky himself “last one over the city wall has to ask out Jalon!” he chided as he took off at full speed towards the west.

Terrador’s face flushed at the mention of the last person to ask him for courtship. “Oh, heck, no way am I even touching that thing! Shandra can mate with that!” he demanded taking off himself with Shandra right behind.

“I’m a dragoness,” she stated rather calmly before taking off in hot pursuit of the two males.

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Thanks, try and bring another half chapter tomorrow night if I can

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Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 3 (Part 1)
Distressing Conclusion
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“I don’t think that my child’s progression should be in any way hindered in relation to the rest of this generation simply because of his success in the training room. Academically he is doing well too, and I can’t find any conceivable reason to halt his education in any area. Turning down his potential in no way shape or form will make our society any weaker; if anything it will make us safer. Some lot of cowards we have here to be afraid of a youth dragon simply because he is excelling in his training!” Helgar protested to the large council.

“May I remind you that your relation to the subject matter allows us to exclude you from any conversation if it becomes necessary? I wouldn’t want it to come to that, but if you continue to own this debate you will have given us no choice, Helgar.” An aged white dragon who headed the table threatened.

“I’m sorry.” Helgar replied glaring at Ignitus before slithering deeper into his chair.

Ignitus put his head down onto the table in reply and gave himself a few moments to re-gather his composure. “Are you all right Ignitus?” the head dragon asked.

Ignitus looked up to the elder, “Yes, I will be, just give me a few moments.”

After a few moments of pause the council returned to their discussion. “We all have seen what the Apes are doing now as the time of the ‘Spyro Prophecy’ closes near.” An older red dragon who hung out towards the side of the table warned; his eyes were wide open and conveyed a sheer sense of fear.

“We know that within a few years the events of the ‘Spyro Prophecy’ will have to commence, and at this moment we have no way of knowing what this grand evil will be. If there is anything that we can do now to help prevent these terrible events from transpiring then I suggest that we do them. A world reigned by evil is far worse than a world with a few unfair handicaps.” Another dragon suggested from near Felpar’s position on the table.
Finally, Felpar had had enough of this; “Don’t you understand what you guys are saying?! You are giving a guiltless hatchling a punishment you would give to those found guilty of a murder. I cannot force myself to believe that this is the correct course of action, nor will I ever.”

“Felpar has a valid point.” Ignitus offered turning more than a few heads. “I have only proposed this course of action because it was popular among those who had elected me into this office. I personally don’t think that this is fair on the young dragon. I don’t know if some of you are afraid that he’ll take all of your athletic records or what, but whatever it is you had best start looking to do what’s right rather than what's the safest. The safest thing to do would be to kill everybody who is outside of this room, but we all know that this is a terrible thing to do. Why can’t you see that this is wrong?”

The council murmured among themselves for a moment in reaction, and when nothing was said to the group Ignitus decided that it was still his turn to speak. “You are all cowards, acting so rashly out of fear like this!”

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Hmm, about the 'Spyro Prophecy', didn't Spyro just give his name out when Ignitus found him.
Otherwise, good chapter

Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 3 (Part 2)
Distressing Conclusion
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Terrador cleared the city wall just in front of Shandra, and, not paying attention where he was going, collided with Mal. "Looks like you are going to have to mate with Jalon!" Mal laughed at Shandra after regaining his flight balance.

She looked at him oddly, but with a smile she huffed "No, I think that's Terrador's territory."

"No way! I did hear a rumor you getting all oiled up with your best friend Tirana." Terrador rebuffed blushing.

"Oh, no fair, we had frost bite! We had to." Shandra protested as the two boys chuckled to themselves.

"Nice excuse," returned Terrador.

"Nah, forget about the whole thing," Mal decided at last. "I think it's time that we get moving; our parents will be back here pretty soon, and we don't want them to find us away from home."

"Either of you guys ever been up to that mountain before?" Shandra asked pointing to a peek on the horizon seeing that the two boys seemed to lack a sense of direction.

"No, is that where you want to go?" Mal asked glaring directly into her eyes, a slight smile on his face.

"Sure, I think it would be pretty cool to go there." Shandra decided bringing herself forward towards the mountain in invitation. Immediately the two males copied the action, and the group was on their way.

*****

The council was still recovering from the words that had come from Ignitus's mouth. Finally after a few minutes of private discussion the head council member spoke up once more.

"I think it's time that we get this vote done with, we have already shown that a debate gets us nowhere, and that this is a simple matter of ethics. It is our job to decide what is right and what is wrong; I advise you all to take your time to think out the possible implications of your decision before you cast your final vote."

A small sheet of parchment sat before each of the members along with an ick bottle. Many of the council members immediately removed their bottle's closure and dipped their first claw into the basin of ink.

Quick movements of the finger and wrists etched out the different letters that would ultimately decide the fate of their civilization. The lives of the next nine generations would hinge upon this vote.

Felpar waited for a few to finish writing before he too dipped his claw into the ink bottle and scratched out in his unpleasant script "Nay"

After quickly signing "Felpar District 16" beneath it he folded the paper in half and tossed it into the middle of the table.

The die had now been cast, the stakes were high, and a count was the only thing left to do before the results would be set into stone.

*****

Mal landed upon the summit of the mountain long before Terrador and Shandra were able to get there. He marveled at the clouds that were mere feet above his head. The wind slipped around his body and created a soft whistling sound; he saw how Terrador and Shandra were struggling to move against the wind, and he felt like helping them. An erratic thought suddenly entered his mind and crossed out any thought of this action.

"Kill them,"

It sounded as though it was spoken aloud so he looked around; upon seeing nobody near him he decided that this was something in his mind. Never had anything like this happened to Mal, and it mesmerized him into silence.

"For the betterment of dragon-kind you must kill them all."

Oh no, Mal is beginning to lose it

Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 4 (Part 1)
Crushing Pressure
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"I-I can't" Mal denied weakly watching his two friends fly towards him regrettably.

"You know that what I'm telling you is true, Mal. Why can't you simply accept reality and quit living this dream?"

He looked them over as they continued to struggle against the high elevation's wind. Slowly he persuaded himself that they were inferior to him leading him to the voice.

"You see it now don't you? Nothing in this world is as strong as what our kind are, Malefor, and your only purpose in this weak Earth is to strengthen it through the only means possible, a complete monopoly on a generation's breeding. You already have that one's and the others will not be far behind; all that you have to do is remove all of the males."

"No," he denied weekly.

"It is the truth; accept it and the pain shall be much less."

He stewed over the idea quietly losing himself to the world and finding that all that was said was true. No sense of logic could disprove the facts given him allowing him to begin accepting the idea. "It's not right." He whispered.

"What?" Shandra asked him as she landed upon the summit alongside of him.

Mal instantly forgot all that had happened and considered her momentarily. "I didn't say anything, must have been the wind."

"Oh,"

Terrador landed tiredly beside Shandra. "Whew," he sighed in exhaustion. "Why'd you go so far out-in-front of us, Mal?"

"I don't know, I guess I just wanted to get that against-the-wind flying done as quickly as possible. Wasn't really paying attention."

"I can see that you're that fastest flyer," Shandra sighed; "We tried to catch up to you and you just kept getting farther and farther away."

"I'm not fast, you guys are just weak," he joked.

*****

"The results are in," the completely white head of the council announced as he was handed a white envelope and considered it in his hands. He moved his claw beneath the seal and with a quick glance at Felpar he slid out the contents.

Felpar and Helgar glanced at each other anxiously knowing that the painful task of waiting was nearly over, the paper held all the answers that they were looking for.

"Now, should the vote be in favor the act will only be able to be reversed by this board, any further arbitration on the matter is only subject to this board." The white one announced before opening the paper.

"The vote went as follows: For seventeen, against fourteen. The proposal has been accepted and furthermore will be put into effect immediately following this session at which time all involved parties will be gathered together and informed of the matter. Thank you all for coming tonight. Council is released."

Does this mean that Mal is banished?
Good part

A/N: Sorry for the long update time. I'm trying though lol

Dark Shrouds Rising

Chapter 4 (Part 1)
Crushing Pressure
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Mal and the group were now down from the mountain and walked through a path cut through the thick undergrowth. Mal glanced back at Shandra sinfully and then, noticing her return stare, turned back around forward.

"Couldn't we just fly back home?" Terrador asked from behind.

"I guess we could have, but I figured that you guys' wings were still tired." Mal replied.

"Well, they are, but our parents are going to be getting back anytime soon you know."

"We can if you want to I guess."

"I think we should, if they get home and we aren't there they will kill us, Mal."

Mal looked back and made a quick decision "A'ight, me and Shandra will catch up with ya' in a minute."

"Ok, if I'm home and you're not then you just up and left on your own." Terrador warned.

"Fair enough"

With that Terrador took off and was gone leaving Shandra and Mal alone together in the woods.

*****

The room burst into an over flowing place of emotion immediately after the result was given. Members talked excitedly or angrily between one another in reaction to the news and a few contemplated how to reverse this ruling. Until a couple of dragons started leaving a few minutes later the room was completely out of control in conversation.

"Alright guys, I'm locking the place down for the night. You had better get out of here." threatened a security guard who could seemingly care less about happenings of the night.

Everybody quickly made their way out of the building and took off towards their respective homes.

Helgar and Felpar flew together letting loud exasperations of rage fly into the chill night time air.

"I cannot believe that the council is even able to do this to Mal. He is a dragon just the same as all of the others, he just happens to be better at picking up new things is all, and they are condoning him for that?" Helgar argued.

"I hear, ya', I hear, ya'."

"I know you do; I just don't understand why seventeen of the smartest dragons in the world don't!"

"I think Ignitus hit the nail on the head there when he said that they were all cowards for this; you know that's the only reason why they did this in the first place. They are a big lot of frigging cowards, and you know how you get that eerie feeling in your stomach when you know something bad is going to happen?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, I'm getting it now."

*****

Mal continued to go along the train in the absence of Terrador. "I know what you are looking at." He said suddenly, starling Shandra.

"W-What?"

"If you want all you have to do is ask you know, I'm not guarded or anything, honey"

"I-I just don't kn-know you that well y-yet" she stammered.

"There will be a time for getting to know each other, but I think that now is as good a time as ever to mate, I may change my mind at any time you know?"

Shandra turned her head to the side shyly then returned facing him "There is no better looking anyways." She accepted and gave in.

Only danger would result.

Oh No, looks like there is going to be more X rated stuff on the way
Good chapter

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This will be completed come middle of May.

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