darkSpyro

A bright green dragon took a flying leap. He landed squarely on top of a silver dragon, wrestling his opponent to the ground. A dragon with beige scales gave chase to a lilac dragon, chasing him from the grassy land. A blue dragon and an Orange dragoness were in the sky. The orange dragoness spat fire balls at him, while the blue dragon sprayed them with boiling water.
A young dragoness, scales white and horns deep purple, was crouching, ready to spring. A brown dragon, who looked slightly older then her, countered her.
"Shilah, go back to the village. You shouldn't be here." he murmured to her. The dragoness instantly straitened, snarling in his face,
"So you say! I can be here If I-" she was cut off by being tackled out of the way by the brown dragon. The green and silver dragons rolled past, locked in each other's talons.
"I don't need you to protect me, Druke!" Shilah snapped.
He sighed, before rushing into battle. A bright pink dragoness launched herself at Druke. He roared as they tumbled into a mass of wings and claws. He coated himself in soil and sank into the earth. The dragoness glanced around, and saw the earth tremble under her feet. She took flight just as Druke launched from the soil, coated in mud. She spat what appeared to be pink flames from her jaws, and Druke was sent to the ground. The pink dragoness landed on him, opening her jaws for a swift bite to the neck. Druke caused a glob of mud to launch into her mouth. She immediately gagged and backed up, attempting to get the mud from her jaws. Druke then raised onto his hind legs and began to swipe at the dragoness with his front claws. She took swipe after swipe to the face, roaring in pain. He continued moving forwards while she moved back, still taking swipes to the snout and face. Eventually she turned and fled from him.
Shilah watched, wriggling her haunches and flexing her wings. She launched herself at a neon yellow dragoness that was about to leap onto Druke. They rolled across the ground, Shilah charging a light beam in her jaws. The dragoness' body began to glow a bright yellow, charging a Fury Attack. Shilah let her beam from her jaws, allowing it to smash into the dragoness. She yelled in pain and growled, Fury Attack ruined. Shilah charged at her, allowing her horns to embed themselves into the opponent's scales.
A large shadow passed over the brawling dragons from the sky, and they froze. Shilah yanked her horns free and looked upwards. She gasped in horror with the yellow dragoness as grublins and wyverns came from the sky.
A dragon hovered in the sky, watching as her minions attacked the dragons. The yellow dragoness and Shilah nodded to each other, and together they began to hack at the wyverns. Shilah's light element seemed to blind them, while the electricity of the Yellow dragoness paralyzed them. This gave them the time to charge and claw the creatures.
Shilah looked up at the dragoness. She was black with red underbelly and wing membrane. Her horns were slightly curved forward, but not much. She had a crest: simply three, thin spines coming from her neck. Her tail and wing blades were nearly a cones, if it wasn't for a hole in the side of each. She wore silver braces on her tail, neck, and front legs.
Shilah flew towards her, roaring a battle cry.

As the White dragoness launched herself at the black dragoness, all activity in the area below froze. The dragons, weyverns, and grublins stared in astonishment.
The black dragoness smirked and roared at Shilah.
"You dare to oppose me, weakling? You are about to regret your foolishness!" she laughed. The black dragoness' voice was feminine, but evil at the same time. Shilah roared in return, eyes blazing with fury.
"I will cause you to regret those words!" she screamed, and let out a battle cry.
She launched at her opponent, the black dragoness swiftly dropping under her swipes. She moved her long neck to and fro, easily avoiding the swipes Shilah made. She breathed a black fire that seemed to suffocate the white dragoness. she began a coughing fit, gagging and wheezing with the effort to breathe.
"Shilah! Stop, this Cynder!" Druke roared, claws flexing with anger. A dragon with rose scales and blue horns slapped his tail around the brown dragon's mouth, telling him to shut up.
"I can handle myself!" Shilah choked out, and let lose a beam of light. An astonished Cynder was sent backwards, but managed to stay in the air.
"You are very powerful. You could be of use to me." her eyes showed she was in thought, and Shilah launched forwards. In a heartbeat Cynder was on her, pushing her downwards. She grunted in an effort to free herself, but too late. They smashed into the ground.
Dust cleared and Shilah was flexing her wings, Cynder smirking evilly. The black dragoness crouched in an aggressive stance, and ran forward. She took a jump into the air and lashed out with her tail blade. She slammed it hard into Shilah's shoulder, and spun into another lash. It struck the white dragoness' forehead, leaving a long, smooth marking that came from the crown of her head to the bottom of her jaw.
Shilah grabbed her tail during the nest swipe, pulling hard enough to unbalance her foe. She rammed her horns upwards, into Cynder's chest. The Black dragoness was sent into the air, dazed. Shilah leaped up and gave several quick punches to the face of Cynder before using her wing tips to send her flying backwards. Cynder smashed into the ground, nearly unconscious. The wayverns ganged up on Shilah and took her to the ground, while the fighting resumed in the grassy area.
The wayverns leaped off of Shilah in tome for her to see Cynder lashing out with a cuff to the head. Then things went dark.

Shilah blinked open her eyes, but when she did, she saw only and empty darkness.
"Master, I bring before you a new servant. She has been touched by the light, and would be of good use to you." she heard the voice of Cynder. A new voice sounded, one raspy and cracked with age.
"I do not believe you should take her in with us. She can betray us easily, and will resist corruption." it said.
"Shut up, Gaul!" a new voice snarled. It was deep, yet very odd. It seemed to echo repeatedly and clearly. The new voice continued.
"Cynder, are you sure you are ready to train this being of light?"
"Yes, Master, I am sure." Shilah heard her reply.
"Let me out of here! I'll take your sculls as trophies!" Shilah roared.
"I thought you were asleep." Cynder said, her voice getting louder as she walked towards the White Dragoness. Shilah felt something come from her body, and she could see again.
She found herself in chains, laying on her belly, and in a strange place. Around her, large, deep gray stones defied gravity, floating in mid-air. She was laying on the largest one, and in front of her was an arch. Inside the arch was what looked like a portal. Inside the portal, two great amber eyes looked down on her, astonished. An Ape stood on the left of the arch, also astonished. Cynder stood on the right-hand-side of the arch, grinning evilly.
"This dragon is White, fool!" the echoing voice sounded from the portal, "Kill her, Gaul!"
The ape walked forward, raising a blaze to behead Shilah. She attempted to move, and only managed to hurt herself. Gaul's blaze crashed down on her neck, and shattered. Shilah felt it and heard the snap, and looked at Gaul. He looked back, fear glinting in his eyes.
"See, Master, she will be useful." Cynder smirked.
"Come back to me in a year, with this fool. I will judge her training then, Cynder." the voice replied, and the portal vanished.

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Shilah woke in a cell. A chain was attached to a golden brace on her neck. She noticed similar braces on her tail and forelegs.
Sighing she murmured, "Hello?"
A nearly insane laugh echoed through the dungeon.
"Hello." said a male voice. It came from the cell across from her. He was a dragon with ebony scales, yellow wing membrane and underbelly, and white horns that curled around his head. He had ruby braces on his neck, forelegs, and tail.
"W-Where are we?" she asked.
"In Gaul's dungeon, naturally. I am Hornet." he replied, his insanity fading into civil conversation.
"My name is Shilah. Why are you here?" she came to the bars of her cell, looking at Hornet.
"I was taken by Cynder to this place. She says she needs me. She needs you too, Shilah." he frowned, flexing sharp, white claws.
"B-But why!?" she yelled to him.
"Don't shout! You'll draw the guards!" he hissed before replying,
"And I don't know. Keep your mouth shut and have some rest, training will start soon."
Shilah nodded and curled into a tight ball. She then began to wish she was home, before falling into sleep.

Shilah woke to being zapped by a small amount of electricity.
"Who did-?" she was cut off by a snarl.
"Get up, rat! Cynder wants yer!"
"Yer?" Shilah raised what would be an eyebrow.
An ape was standing in front of her cell with an electric stick.
"Yush, Yer!" it hooted.
"Yush?" she questioned, very confused.
"Just get your tail out of there!" it snarled as the chains fall from her neck brace. The Ape hooked two chains to her neck brace, each connected to a Dread Wing.
Hornet had been dragged out of his cell, and hooked onto two Dread Wings as well.
The five Apes, four on Dread Wings and one on foot, walked out of the dungeon. Shilah blinked as the continued walking. They moved very quickly through the castle, and soon were out. The White dragoness was completely bewildered on what was going on, but said nothing.
The Dread Wings took flight, beating their massive wings hard with the effort of carrying a dragon. Shilah couldn't help but pity them as she took to the skies. They were prisoners just as she and Hornet were.
The troop soared over a stretch of land. The grass there was dull and gray. They must have flown for an hour before they reached a large, walled, sandy area. This was where the Dread Wings landed.
The Apes detached the chains form the Dread Wings, and attached the dragons onto longer chains that vanished into the ground.
"What are we doing?" Shilah asked Hornet after the Dread Wings and Apes had gone.
"Battle training! I swear you have the brains of a mouse!" came a familiar growl. Cynder landed in the sandy area,
"Alright, Hornet, you first. Let's how the new girl how this is done." she snapped.
What could be called an 'earth cell' cropped up from the ground. It surrounded Shilah so she could not be damaged.
Is another dragon here? Shilah wondered as training began.
Cynder and Hornet circled each other, growling menacingly. Hornet was fist to make a move. He moved as if he were about to lunge, but instead slipped under Cynder as she raised into the air. Cynder smashed down onto him with unsheathed claws. Hornet roared in pain but scrabbled at her belly, and eventually kicking her off. Luckily, there was a nice big earth wall to catch the black dragoness, and she smacked into it with a loud sound.
"Come here you little- Whoa!" Cynder evaded an Earth Missile. She opened her jaws and all hell seemed to let lose. Waves and waves of Fear smashed into Hornet, making him scream in horror and pain. He twisted and began to spout electricity, letting lightning smash into Cynder. She took the hit, sure, but countered with Scorpion Strike, smashing into Hornet with a Poison-covered tail. Hornet growled as Cynder pinned him down, claw raised for a killing blow.
"If that were a real fight you would have died! how many times do I have to tell you not to hesitate when diving under me!" Cynder snarled in his face.
"No more, no more!" Hornet wailed like a chick.
"Shilah, your turn!" Cynder hissed, letting Hornet retreat.
Crap! the White Dragoness thought as the Earthen Cell crumbled.

The chain connected to Shilah's neck brace jingled as she padded forward. Cynder was already crouching, waiting for Shilah to make the fist move. Hornet was inside an earth cell, and was looking out with worry.
Shilah and Cynder circled each other, both snarling. Shilah made a motion that said she was about to lunge, but instead leaped strait into the air. Cynder had reared, and was surprised by the White Dragoness moving upwards. She growled and began to spin. Cynder began to create a cyclone, and and moved her way towards Shilah. The attack sucked her in, and caused her to be swirled around and around.
A black claw lashed out and caught Shilah on the cheek. She growled deeply and used her wings to resist the winds. She came to Cynder, who was still spinning. Cynder smashed her wing tip onto Shilah's flank, whipping around fast enough for the cut to become a gash. The White Dragoness hissed and lashed out with a kick to the belly. Cynder froze for long enough for the kick to miss, releasing the winds.
Shilah was dropped out of the cyclone, very dizzy. She growled and used a move she called 'Racing Light.' Light surrounded her body as she began to whip around the arena. Shilah rammed into Cynder, sending her off her paws and into the wall.
"Come here you being of Light!" the Black Dragoness screeched, and used Scorpion Strike.
Shilah evaded the attack, but Cynder was faster. She balanced on her forepaws and whipped her hind legs into Shilah's ankles. Shilah roared as she was knocked from her paws, but grasped Cynder's forelegs in her front paws to pull Cynder down, too.
Cynder now pinned Shilah down, claw raised for a kill. She went to swipe the White Dragoness' throat, but and Earth Missle knocked Cynder backwards. She fell down, and this gave Shilah the ability to stand. She turned to see green smoke coming from Hornet's nostrils.
"Hornet! You get the whip tonight." Cynder snarled, and took flight.
Shilah came to the side of the Earthen Cell, which crumbled.
"You didn't have to do what you just did." she murmured.
"Cynder was about to kill, and she knew it." Hornet growled.

As Shilah was latched onto the chains attached to the DreadWings, she caught small tidbits of speech from the Apes.
"Only a few more days until they're shipped to Dante's Freezer." one said, seeming satisfied.
"As long as their corrupted soon, we won't have to struggle." another mumbled.
"Yer right," hooted the first, "I can't wait to see the look on that purple runt's face!"
"She'll make quick work of 'im." snorted the third as the DreadWings took flight. They flapped their wings madly to lift off the ground. Shilah took flight herself, and the creatures screeched with relief as they slowed the beating of their wings.
"He'd be blind after five seconds. After ten, dead." the fourth grinned.
Shilah began to piece together that they were being taken to Dante's Freezer to be corrupted, and then sent to kill the legendary Purple Dragon.
"Crap!" she hissed under her breath.
"What's wrong with you?" Hornet asked, oblivious.
"Nothing, Hornet." she mumbled.
After quite a bit of flying, a single DreadWing came up, and on it was a large ape holding a staff on one hand. In the other, lay an unconscious dragoness. She looked about as old as a teenager. Her scales were blood red, and her horns a glossy black. The horns went back from her head for about three inches before making a sharp turn to point upwards. Her wing membrane was black, but had a few small holes in them. Her white wing-tips were long and hook shaped. Her glossy, black tail-tip was three sharp spines coming from the very tip of her tail. She groaned slightly as the ape nudged her.
"I'm giving her to IronSpike The Beast at Dante's freezer." the ape holding her announced.
"She hasn't been through corruption! She has never been here!" the ape nearest to Shilah screeched.
"This is a Black Soul Dragon, idiot! She needs no corruption!" the ape holding the new dragoness snarled.
Shilah stared at the new girl, confused by her.
She's a what? she thought, continuing to look. A sudden tug on the chains told her that they were moving again, and so her train of thought crashed. The rest of the flight was smooth, and she learned more about Dante's Freezer.
Apparently, Dante's Freezer was an ice cap where the Dark Master's armies created weapons and machines. Frozen enemies lay there, waiting to take revenge for their imprisonment. The apes spoke of how hard it was to persuade the ghouls to join them. Shilah tuned out as they reached Ghoul's castle.
Soon, they were locked inside their cells. The chains were reattached to the clip on the wall, and glowed bright green. Shilah came forward to speak to Hornet.
"Hornet?" she asked.
"Yes, what is it?" he asked, coming to the cell bars to look at Shilah.
"What did the ape mean when he said 'She is a Black Soul.'?" she questioned. Hornet heaved a sigh, shaking his head and muttering soft words of comfort to himself.
"Black Soul Dragons," he began shakily, "are a breed of dragon. Evil created them to balance the White Soul Dragons, such as yourself."
"I'm a what!?" she said loudly.
"Hush! A White Soul Dragon, a dragon touched by the light. They say White Soul Dragons are almost like angels. Some believe your kind have been sent by the Ancestors to purify the world." Hornet sighed again, "Naturally, the Dark Master wishes your kind dead, and the Black Soul Dragons to be his personal assassins."
Shilah let her jaw drop in horror. Malefor wanted her dead? She had such a great destiny, and that destiny would not happen in this cell. She began to breathe rapidly, fear churning in her belly. What if she couldn't get out, and was doomed to become like the Black Soul Dragons?
"Hornet!" a voice bellowed. An ape with a staff came down the flight of stairs. His staff glistened with green light, and a few miniature leaves floated around him. He took Hornet's chain in hand as he unlocked the dragon's cell. Giving the chain a vicious tug, he led Hornet out.
After a few moments of their departure, Shilah heard a scream. Hornet was screaming with pain. She heard the crackle of electricity, and the cracking of a whip. A louder screech followed the cracks, and Shilah began to panic. What was happening to Hornet? Pacing around her call, she jumped every time she heard the crack of the whip and the yell of Hornet.
About one hour of torturous waiting, Hornet was literally thrown into the dungeon. His body was covered with long, deep gashes that were easily three feet long. Shilah stared in terror as the same ape lumbered into the dungeon, kicking Hornet into his cell. The ape slapped the green latch back onto the clip, and it glowed brightly.
"Hornet?" Shilah said, coming forward.
He simply lay, bleeding heavily. A pool was forming under him.
"Hornet, get up!" Shilah pleaded. Sadly, Hornet refused to stir.