darkSpyro

This is my first story. I hope everyone likes it. Feedback and comments are welcome and please feel free to ask questions if anything is confusing. By the way this takes place in the Legend of Spyro universe. Sorry I should have put this warning in when I started writing...This story contains blood and violent content. (Is it obvious I'm new? *groans* I'm stupid.)


Prologue: The Master's Reward

Some time had past since the Dark Master's defeat, but Malefor had not been as down and out as everyone had thought. Malefor's dark deeds had been noticed by the one of the most powerful cults of monsters known by the name of Chaos. Chaos followers live by the meaning of the word, anything that causes destruction or havoc gives them their power. Shortly after Malefor's defeat he found himself in a different reality and with a offer he just couldn't refuse. His evil deeds had been noticed by Chaos and now Malefor had the chance to obtain much greater power than he had before, but it came as all great power comes with, a price. Malefor was infused with chaos energy as a brutally painful transformation began when it was done Malefor emerged in avalar the sunlight hitting his hidious new face. Now Malefor had a humanoid body walking on his hind legs, his front legs were now arms with working fingers, His right hands claws were greatly enlarged, his body and face looked like it was decomposed, his eyes now glowed a firey orange, and his voice was still distorted but it sounded deeper more demonic. Malefor's mind had changed as well and this was the biggest price he paid, now Malefor no longer cared about his previous purpose his new goal was revenge, and then he would leave this world and cause chaos elsewhere. The universe was a feeding ground all Malefor had to do was find the right place to start. Now however there was a more pressing matter at hand, the purple dragon would pay dearly. Malefor stood on a ledge looking over a small town, the voice of Chaos was in his head. "Now the gate has been unlatched, soon the dead will rise, the screams of the doomed will sound the new age, Those who walk the cursed path will overcome the mortal foe, and the universe will be bathed in eternal darkness." Malefor's glowing eyes fell on the town. the purple dragon was in there. A smile came on his face. "Well....Spyro." Malefor spoke "This is the way your world will end." Chaos energy then filled the town. Little did Spyro and Cynder know the their worst nightmare was about to make a horrific enterance, and Chaos was about to be unleashed.

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Chapter 1: Onslaught of Chaos

Spyro and Cynder had just sat down with a group of towns people. This town was mainly populated by humans. there were some cheetah villagers as well, but mainly humans. They formed a circle around a campfire and began talking. "As some of you may be aware, there has been a great disturbance in the world's balance." The older man with thinning hair spoke, as he spoke a young woman was watching her children play nearby. "Don't go too far Nathan." "Mama there's something weird over here!" "Don't touch it Nathan, Whatever it is..." Her words cut off as another woman came out of the shadows, but something was clearly wrong, She was decayed and her eyes glowed bright red. "What in the?" The young mother let out a loud scream as the zombifyed woman bit her on the arm, and took a large chunk out. "What in the world?" Spyro jumped to his feet and rushed towards the two girls. Cynder was just catching up when several screams came from behind them. "What is going on?!" Cynder yelled just as a zombie caught up to a fleeing bystander and bit his neck "Hey" Spyro yelled and hit the zombie with his horn throwing it off, but the damage was done and the man quickly died from blood loss. Another zombie tried to jump onto Cynder's back but she quickly moved to the side and nailed it in the chest with her tailblade. By this point everyone besides the two dragons was dead or zombifyed, and more and more zombies were pouring in to the square by the second. "We can't fight them all, we have to get out of here." Spyro yelled, then he and Cynder flew to a different spot on the town's border to catch their breath. "What just happened?" Cynder asked "I don't know." Spyro said uncertainly "something's not right, can you feel that...that energy in the air?" "Yes, but what is it." Spyro had never felt anything like this. "It feels....awful, just awful." Cynder said. "We need to get out of here and get some help." Spyro said, The two of them then headed off, where to they didn't know, who they would find, they were unsure all they knew is that something wasn't right.

Meanwhile watching from afar was Malefor. He could attack, he could attack now and be done with this, but it would be so much more satisfying to see his opponent suffer greatly before his demise. Spyro had been living here in this town since their last encounter. He had grown attached to these pitiful humans and now it had been taken away from him. The thought of this made Malefor laugh. "So my Purple friend, what else?" Spyro had been exposed to Malefor's new energy enough where Malefor could sense Spyro's thoughts and emotions. Seconds later Malefor made a new discovery, A evil smile spread across his face "Now Spyro, Prepare to learn the true meaning of the word pain." Malefor burst out laughing and set off to put his new plan into action.

Sorry about the lack of action in the last chapter. I'm not sure about how detailed I can be with the action. I don't have a clue. Does anyone know? I have not seen any rules on it, but I need to be sure in order to write a good story.

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Chapter 2: Death of a Friend

Spyro and Cynder had left the town. They were headed to a cottage in the woods. This moderate sized cottage served as the home of Johnathan Baxter. John is a simple man living a simple life, he knows much about magic and studies magic from the far flung corners of the world, this is the one reason for Spyro and Cynder's visit, but they were also very good friends. John had just finished dinner when he sensed the dark energy flowing into avalar. "By the gods, it can't be!" He said. He had heard of chaos and their evil power, and had even faced a chaos warlock before. Now they were spreading their horrific power, even here. "I have to find Spyro!" John said, right before noticing his front door was open. "What...What? Who is..." That's when a zombie appeared out of nowhere and bit John on his right wrist. "Ahhhh, You son of a!!!" John kicked the zombie against the wall then crushed its head in with a hammer, but the damage was done, much like a lethel disease chaos energy filled John's body. John cleaned the wound but did not bother to bandage it. He knew he would turn soon. John grabbed the notebook where he kept all his findings, put it on the desk, and opened it to the pages Spyro and Cynder would need. John sighed and pulled the gun from its spot. It was a handmade single shot pistol, not much, but it would do the job. "I'm sorry Spyro, you and Cynder were two of the closest friends I've ever had. I just hope the information in this book is enough." Spyro and Cynder, that's what this evil wanted and it was trying to use him to get to them. John shuddered at the thought of becoming one of them, then his choice came into play. Spyro and Cynder were very close, John looked at his gun, it was now or never.

"Here we are." Spyro said, he was happy to see the lights on. "Do you think he's here" Cynder asked "Theres only one way to find out...John!..John!" (BLAM) "What was that?!" Cynder had jumped at the loud banging noise "That was John's gun!" Spyro said quickly heading for the front door. The door was open the two quickly headed inside. "John!" Spyro called, and was caught off gaurd by the dead zombie's body leaning against the wall. "Look, there's a lot of blood going into the hall." Cynder started following the blood trail to the bathroom, then to the bedroom. "John?" Cynder called, then cautiously opened the door to a grim discovery. "Spyro" Spyro came into the bedroom and there laying against the wall was John. He had his pistol in his hand which had a nasty looking bite wound on the wrist, but the fatal injury was clearly a gunshot. "He got bit." Spyro said noticing the bite. "Are these things contagious?" Cynder asked "Clearly John thought so." Spyro said "Spyro look at this. his notebook is opened to...something about Chaos." Cynder said, then added "He's gone, Spyro." Spyro sighed, now the situation was getting bad who would want to do something like this. "Lets go." Spyro said and then left the room. Cynder stayed for a moment to pay her respects. She was just about to go when she heard a growling noise, she turned around, then turned beck to see that the growl had come from John. Despite his best efforts he still could not prevent the transformation from happening. The zombifiied John grabbed Cynder and was on top of her before she could react. Cynder used her front feet to hold him off, and she tried to get through to him. "John! John!, Stop come to your senses!" John snarled in response and contiued to go for her throat. Finally Cynder kicked John off of her. She couldn't stand leaving him like this, but what to do, thats when the zombified John rushed her again. "John please." Cynder said trying one last time to get through to him, but it didn't work he charged again. Cynder quickly moved to the side, and stabbed her tailblade right through the zombiefied John's forehead, He finally fell to the floor dead. Cynder was shocked and confused she sighed "I'm sorry John." She took the notebook from the desk, then joined Spyro outside. "I'm sorry, Spyro." "Let's go." he said glumly. They then took flight yet again. It had been a awful night, first the town they lived in was overrun, now this. The true question was what....What is next.

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Chapter 3: Questions and Answers

Spyro and Cynder had stopped to rest in some dense forests. It had been only four hours since the trouble started. At this point Cynder decided to start reading through John's notes on chaos. Almost immedietly Cynder noticed some notes that were very strange. "Spyro, check this out!" She then began to read aloud.

"Of all the the most horrible things out there, Chaos is among the worst. Chaos is a cult of the most powerful monsters and demons imaginable. They draw their power from chaos pure, and simple. Creatures of Chaos gain their power by causing destruction, murdering masses, and generally doing anything that causes disorder and havoc." Cynder paused and looked at Spyro then continued.

"Creatures of Chaos come in two varieties, Chaos masters, and Chaos spawn. Chaos masters are the ones who have proven themself worthy, and have been given, very great but terrible power. Chaos spawn are the victims of a Chaos master that have been, twisted and corrupted against their will, and often serve as simple footsoldiers and grunts, sent in to do the mass destruction." She paused again. "What does this have to do with whats happened?" Spyro asked. "Listen to this." Cynder said grimly.

"The most common type of Chaos spawn is the Zombie. Zombies are in every respect, Walking Corpses. A zombie is created when a victim is corrupted by Chaos energy. It is easy to tell when someone has been zombified, the skin decomposes immidietly after zombification, they also have glowing red eyes, and a taste for living flesh. Their taste for flesh serves a unique purpose, the Chaos energy they have around them can be transfered, like a virus, into a bite wound. Therfore if you get bitten, YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED into a zombie yourself."

Spyro was shocked, John had just died because of this, but apparently he knew what was happening, that was why his notebook had been left out in the open, which it never was "John knew" He had been bitten, he knew they were coming, and now most of it made sense."It appears so." Cynder said "What are we going to do Spyro?" "I don't know. What I want to know is who is doing this and why." "It's pretty obvious why, Chaos masters feed off this kind of thing." That's whan they heard a gagging noise nearby. "What, what was that?" Cynder asked. "Lets go check it out." The two dragons moved through the brush, then on the side of a river they found the source of the noise. And they wondered what would happen next, this discovery made them wish they hadn't.

Back story and info on chaos...Is anyone reading this???

Chapter 4: The Corpse-Twister

Laying near the rivers edge was a horribly injured man, with millitary clothing on, and thining brown hair. He was getting worse by the second. Spyro and Cynder cautiously approached. "Help....m,m,me...p,p,please." the man groaned, then made a sickening gargling noise. He reached out to the dragons desperately, Then Spyro noticed, his back was starting to protrude out from his body. On the man's neck was a bizzare injury, but it did not look like it came from a zombie. "Please....h,h,help...MEEEEEEE!!!" the man's plea for help suddenly to a scream of agony, as a pair of new limbs emerged from his body. The man's hands were changing, his pointer and middle finger on each hand, followed by the index finger and the pinky fused together, leaving hin with three deformed fingers on each hand. his new arms that emerged from his back didn't have hands, but rather organic blades at the ends, Then as if this wasn't enough, as he stood up his jaws broke themselves allowing the new creature to open it's jaws, REALLY wide, in addition his teeth grew much bigger, with a set of massive fangs, his new fingers and his toes all had really big claws. It was a monster straight from a nightmare, and now it had Spyro and Cynder in it's sights.

"Uh...Spyro? What should we do?" Cynder asked. "I'm not sure." The creature let out a piercing shreik and charged. It lunged and tried to stab Spyro with its blades, but spyro moved to the side, and then rammed it with his horns. "Spyro, heads up!" Spyro quicky moved away at Cynder's warning, then Cynder hit it with a big blast of poison, right in the face. The creature backed up but then charged again, this time for Cynder. She quickly dodged the attack, only to turn around and get hit by a blast of liquid, the seconds after it hit, it began burning Cynder's eyes and face. The creature taking advantage of this moment of weakness grabbed Cynder and pinned her to the ground, it then aimed it's blade right at Cynder's throat. "Cynder!" Spyro quickly rushed the beast and bit it's new right arm, the creature then threw Cynder at Spyro. The two colided and flew back. "That's it! I've had it with this!" Cynder yelled, before charging the creature, and ramming it. The blow knocked the creature onto its back, then Cynder stabbed her tailblade through it's new right arm, then with a twist cut the bladed arm off. Blood sprayed from what was left of the limb, but the creature gave little notice, but Spyro wasn't going to let it get another chance to attack again. He bit the creature's neck, then used a blast of flame to weaken it, then in one swift move, decapitated the creature.

Spyro stepped away from the body. "We have to find who ever is responsible for this...We have to." He shook his head in disgust at the body. "We didn't have a choice." Cynder said, trying to be comforting. "Let's get out of here." Spyro said. They started walking, thats when Spyro looked back. "What? HOW?!" Spyro said in shock. Cynder spun around to see the headless creature's body was walking behind them, it got closer, and began to flail it's remaining three arms blindly. "Why isn't it? How do you kill it?" Cynder asked, horrifyed. She had see a lot, they both had, but nothing like this. "Cynder, Let's go!" Spyro shouted and with that, they both took off, flying faster than ever.

But this was Malefor's game, these were his rules, and if Spyro and Cynder wanted to stay alive it woult take much more than a miracle. As Malefor watched the fleeing dragons he could not help but feel proud, but there was only so much he pleasure he could take from doing somthing which was to him. "Too easy." He felt obligated to reveal himself at this point. maybe, maybe not. All the newborn Chaos Master knew was there is plenty more he could do. He smiled "You can run, but you cannot hide Spyro."

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Chapter 5: Chaos Unleashed

Spyro and Cynder had spent the night in a small cave. The next morning they headed north and soon found a town. This town was larger than the town they had lived in. Spyro moved up to the outskirts and stopped next to a building, Cynder came up beside him. "I can hear somebody inside." Cynder said, then moved to the door. "Hello? Who's in there?" She looked inside, and saw to her horror, a zombie feeding on a corpse's innards. "Shhhhhhh" Spyro said. "Lets go that way." They moved away from the building, then they heard somebody scream nearby. Spyro and Cynder quickly headed towards the sound, and what they found was sheer brutality.

A group of people were fighting against a rapidly growing horde of the undead, in a large courtyard The zombies moved forward, pulled a man down and tore him apart. At this point the remaining people scattered, and all hell broke loose. The zombies quickly began chasing down the humans. One man fired a gun, but there wasn't enough ammunition to take out all of them. He quickly found himself surrounded, and as the zombies pulled him to the ground, he used the last round of ammunition to shoot himself. One woman screamed in terror as a zombie attacked her husband, and tore of his left ear. "RUUUNNNNNNN!!!!" he screamed as the zombie bit him again on the face. The woman turned only to run right into a zombie, It went right for her throat. Another man had been swarmed, His screams faded as the zombies tore his head off. there was practically no help for them, Spyro realised. almost everyone else had died at this point, and the zombies fed on their corpses. As they moved away from the carnage Spyro and Cynder saw a group of survivours escaping as well, one of them motioned for Spyro and Cynder to follow.

Spyro and Cynder escaped the courtyard with the remaining five survivours. They barricaded the warehouse they hid in. "What the hell is going on?!" a young woman shouted, as her boyfriend quickly tried to calm her down. "Cynthia please, relax. Were going to be alright." Spyro looked at each of the survivors. There was a middle aged man, (Curtis) he was heavyset, bald and had glasses with a greying beard, a short sleeve shirt and shorts. There was a thin young girl about the age of twelve, with long brown hair and blue eyes,and a pink dress.(Mindy) The young woman apparently named Cynthia, looked to be in the early twentys, she was skinny and had blond hair in a ponytail, she had a leather jacket and khaki pants. Her boyfriend (Tom) looked slightly younger with long dark brown hair, and a similar jacket and grey sweats, he also had a club like weapon. Then there was a man who looked to be in the mid thirtys (Charlie) with short black hair and a bushy moustache, he a formal looking navy blue suit with a tie, and had a handgun.

Safety was very short lived as something began breaking through the barracades. Inhuman screeches could be heard outside, but as suddenly as the attack started it seemingly came to an end. It was to quiet, suddenly a horribly twisted human tore through the ceiling, It's jaws open inhumanly wide with massive fangs, its right arm was twisted out of shape with a large blade like claw. It shrieked and with lightning fast speed impaled Cynthia. Charlie the man with the handgun fired off several shots, but other than generally pissing the creature off, it had no effect. At that moment several zombies broke through the weakened barracade. Spyro and Cynder found themselves swarmed, Tom, Cynthia's boyfriend was eviscerated by the twisted creature. Charlie was dragged outside and torn apart. Spyro used his firey breath to keep the creatures at bay until he heard someone yell "Come on!" Curtis the middle aged man had found a way out, he and the young girl Mindy made a break for it through the warehouse. Spyro and Cynder began following them, zombies in hot pursuit. Spyro, used his earth abilitys to launch a Rock at some boxes, knocking them down in front of the bloodthirsty horde, and buying some time. Spyro, Cynder, and the remaining two survivours made it out side into another courtyard. It was safe at the moment but as nowhere could be called safe in this overrun town, This was quickly proven to be the case as something new appeared on a nearby roof. The last 18 hours had been trying, but nothing, absolutely nothing could prepare Spyro and Cynder for this...

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If you wanted to know there are really no rules about the stories. Just the usual, keep it porn free, little to no swearing, and that is about it.

If you ever feel the need. check out The Eye of Destruction.
End of 9 beginning of 10 if you wanted something something Graphic.


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Chapter 6: Malefor

Spyro, Cynder, Curtis and Mindy were halfway across the courtyard, when a horribly distorted voice came from a nearby roof, that chilled Spyro and Cynder to the core. "Well, well, well, look what we have here." Everyone stopped. "It can't be." Cynder said. They looked on the nearby roof, and standing there was the transformed dark master. "Spyro, Spyro, Spyro..." Malefor said, a twisted smile on his face. "Still trying so hard to defend a world that means nothing." Curtis who didn't realise the danger that was happening spoke. "Do you guys know each other." Malefor's eyes locked with Curtis's "And on to the matter." Malefor pointed at Curtis with his enlarged claw, then a split second later a unseen blast of energy, blew Curtis in half. Mindy screamed in terror and took off running. Spyro was enraged "Leave them alone! They have nothing to do with this!" "Or do they?" Malefor laughed. Cynder looked at Malefor's transformed body, as he dropped down to their level. "Inpressive, isn't it." Malefor said as he walked slowly towards Spyro and Cynder. "Chaos, has granted me more power than I ever thought possible." "So you're the one who caused the zombies." Spyro said, getting even angrier. "And that is just the start, I always thought, I had the greatest power, but now even the gaurdians will bow down before me. Now, I truly am immortal, and soon I will become...a god. You will not live to see my glorious reign, now Spyro...Prepare to die!"

Spyro had no intention of giving up, Malefor would not win, no matter what power he had come across. "You ready? He asked Cynder, she nodded very hesitantly. Malefor stopped a short distance from them, and then released a was of demonic energy towards them. Spyro managed to move out of the way but Cynder was hit dead on. She let out a cry of pain as the energy cut her several times, but other than being extremely painful, the damage was very minor. "It hurts, doesn't it." Malefor laughed. "The pain Chaos can bring, is nothing short of immense." Malefor then moved so fast that he was only a faded blur, he then appeared right in front of Cynder and sent her flying into the nearby building, like a child's toy." "Cynder!" Spyro shouted, he charged Malefor, but was quickly stopped by Malefor who grabbed him by the throat. Zombies were pouring into the courtyard and making their way towards the fight. "You cannot win this time young dragon...and after I'm finished with you, you can rest assured that all your friends will be next." Malefor laughed a more evil laugh than Spyro had ever heard, and he knew that if he didn't pull through, Malefor would indeed kill everybody. Spyro pulled all his strengh in and prepared to unleash a fury blast, it was all or nothing. Malefor saw it coming but didn't react in time. Spyro unleashed all his power. Malefor let out an enraged roar as the blast tore through him and sent the remains flying.

Spyro stood in the courtyard it had gotten really quiet. The zombies were all laying on the ground Malefor had been destroyed once and for all. Spyro was about to go and check to see if Cynder was alright when a zombie started twitching, followed by another, then the whole horde began getting to its feet, "No, it's not possible!" Spyro said. Malefor had been blown apart, Spyro had seen it. "Anything is possible with Chaos." The twisted voice said from behind Spyro. Spyro turned around to see a mangled Malefor approaching. His left side was torn open with a couple of ribs exposed, his right eye was hanging out of it's socket, and his right arm was gone. Malefor laughed as if there was nothing wrong, and said "You really should make sure that what you killed is actually dead." The flesh on his side grew back healing itself while he was talking. He then in a very grusome act popped his eye back in, it almost instantly healed after, and then he looked at the stump of what used to be his arm, and then in a explosion of blood grew a new arm, that was just like the original. "You can't kill me, I'm already dead." "What?" Spyro said, in shock. It dawned on him what Malefor had done, He had traded his life, his body, his very soul for these powers, but there were so many ways this could come back to haunt him. "You fool." "We'll see." Malefor smiled, Spyro was about to say some thing else when he realised to late that a legless zombie had crawled up right next to him, and the last thing Spyro saw before he passed out, was the zombie sink it's teeth right into his foreleg.

Sorry about the delayed post, hope I didn't lose any readers. What can I say, it's been hell, hope to post more often.

Hopefully

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I liked the part with Malefor in it.

Chapter 7: One of Them...

Spyro woke up two hours later. He gasped for breath, his muscles ached, and it was clear almost immideitly, that something was very wrong. He could hear voices in his head. "soon all that the universe knows will cease to exist, as the dead rise and feast on the flesh of the doomed, those who walk the cursed path will find unlimited power, as the universe is bathed in eternal fire." "What." Spyro said, getting to his feet, that's when he noticed the bite. "Oh no." The whispers in his head continued. Several zombies were nearby, feeding on what was left of Curtis, strangely they paid no attention to Spyro, then of course seeing as he had been tainted, and likely would soon turn, why would they? He looked again at the bite, it appeared to be decomposing, a sign of the change. In fact, now that Spyro looked his whole body looked different, his scales were very faded looking. Spyro quickly looked away, and then remembered the fight, and Malefor. "Cynder!" Spyro cried out loud. Malefor had thrown her across the courtyard. "Cynder!, CYNDER!!!" Spyro looked around, she was nowhere in sight.

Cynder had made it out of there, she sat on a river bank, wondering what to do next. She knew Spyro was dead, she had tried desperately to wake him dispite the bite on his foreleg, to no avail. a tear ran down her face. This battle was not a battle any more, Malefor was more powerful than anything she had seen. and he at this point could not be defeated by conventional means, but it was not over vet. Cynder opened John's notebook again and started to read.

Spyro finally realised that Cynder was no longer in the town. "I have to find her." He said getting on his feet, strangely enough the bite didn't hurt at all. Spyro walked a few feet foreward but stopped dead when he saw his reflection. "Oh no." He said quietly, looking at his own eyes, which glowed red. He forced himself to look away, and keep walking, but he stopped again when he got close enough to the feeding zombies to smell fresh blood. Spyro's eye's fell on the zombies and then the remains of Curtis, at that point his breathing went from normal, to deep raspy growls in an instant, his upper lip curled, and hunger was all that mattered until, a high pitched shriek was heard. Spyro quickly snapped out of the chaotic state of mind, his eyes stopped glowing, and he went to see where the screams had come from.

Malefor was watching, now that Spyro had been tainted Malefor could see and hear everything that Spyro did, and he could not have been more pleased even though the purple pest was fighting it every step of the way, it was unavoidable, he would become Malefor's greatest asset, his most powerful servant, and by the end of it all, knowing Spyro, by the time Malefor was finished with him, the young dragon would wish he was dead. starting now.

Spyro entered a open area with several houses, this was where the scream had come from. Spyro stopped and looked around cautiously that is when Mindy came out of a nearby basement. "Hey, over here!" She waved Spyro over. Spyro was greeted by a young woman, who was apparently Mindy's mother "Hello." She said in a very warm manner. "I'm Linda. Its good to see that others are still alive out there." She said clearly very grateful, but Spyro didn't respond, the voices in his head were getting louder, more distorted. "The time is here..." they said. "The time, is now..." Spyro's eyes began to glow red again.

Chapter 8: A New Twist

Spyro walked away from town, completely disgusted with himself. Although he had managed to fight Malefor's influence on him, and escape without harming Mindy, or her mother, the thought alone that Malefor could turn him against everything was just to much for Spyro to bear. His new connection with Malefor was disturbing to put it lightly. Now within the horde, Spyro could hear and see every thought that Malefor had, along with many others. Spyro sat down to rest, but as he did realised he was hungry, Malefor wanted him to join his ranks, and as time went on Spyro was finding it that much harder to resist. Then as if things couldn't get any worse, they did.

Cynder was looking through John's notebook when she noticed a familiar dragon a short distance away. "Spyro!" Cynder called. Spyro hear her, he knew Cynder was alive, and that is what Malefor was wanting, to have Cynder under his control as well. "Go ahead, greet your little friend." Malefor's voice said with a laugh. "No." Spyro said. "All you need is a little push." Malefor said Spyro's eyes began to glow, the urge to draw blood was becoming overpowering. Spyro took a tiny glance at Cynder, she was aproaching fast. "No, NO! Spyro broke free and ran in the other direction.

Cynder was close when Spyro started running from her. "Wait, Spyro!" She cried. Spyro's new power made him really fast, there was no way for Cynder to keep up with him. "Spyro!" She yelled after him, but he was already gone. Cynder took a second to think and then remembered what she was reading. With a gasp she ran back to the notebook, and then began to read again.

-Some time ago everyone thought Chaos and his follower's were invincible. That proved to be the case until the a ordinary man was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Pastor Paul Thompson was a considered a hero before his brush with Chaos. Paul and the church he had ties with burned many people who were acused of being witches and vampires. It was a routine thing in his home town, but most people that were burned were just normal, unfortunate victims of superstitions. One day however Paul personally over saw a acused witches burning, later Paul went home and found himself confronted by a mob. As it turned out the woman was a real witch and her husband, who was a Chaos zombielord, was enraged, and the mob outside Paul's house were zombies. When Paul woke up he realised he had been turned into a monster. Knowing what he had become Paul enlisted two of the churches other pastors, in the end Paul killed the vengence seeking Zombielord, but realised his transformation was permanent, Paul ordered his fellow pastors to destroy him. This situation, although grim revealed Chaos's true weakness. Holy water has a very powerful effect on the demonic, Paul's discovery made it possible for anyone to battle Chaos.-

Cynder looked at the notes, they were very lacking in any usefull information, aside from Chaos's weakness to holy water. Cynder looked at the notes again and realised there was blood on the page, and on closer inspection realised. "John wrote this the night he was killed." That's when Cynder saw something in her mind. She could see the river, and near the river was a cave. The vision vanished. Cynder looked around, there was something important about that cave. She sighed, she could hear whispers in the air. The vision returned, followed by a voice that was all to familiar. "Go Cynder." John said "What?" She said. "There isn't much time." John said, his voice fading into the wind. Cynder sighed, and began to follow the river, looking for the cave she had seen.

****** personal issues. Sorry it took so long to post this next chapter, if anyone is still reading I would love some feedback.

Chapter 9 The Hunt

Cynder had followed the river for over an hour, and had a feeling she was getting close, but it was hard to tell. All she knew was that she was in unfamiliar territory, after all she had never seen this cave before, she didn't even know if she was going in the right direction. She paused and listened to the sounds around her. She could hear the low groans, moans, and growls from the various undead that hid in the shadowy trees around her. She began to move again, when a group of zombies appeared across the river, and immedietly noticed something new among them. It was a tall formerly human, zombie, but it was very different, the flesh from it's skull was almost completely stripped from it, leaving only muscle and bone. It also was extremely hyperactive jumping and twitching, but what stood out the most, was the loud squawking gibberish it uttered. Cynder found herself standing still and staring at the creature, which made several attempts to approach her, but seemed to be reluctant to get too close. "Move along, Cynder." John's voice suddenly said. "It's not safe." Cynder sighed and continued forward.

Spyro was near the breaking point, his hunger was overpowering, with every step he sliped further into Malefor's grasp. "I have to eat something." Spyro thought out loud, and that's when he saw a deer running through the trees. There's an idea, he thought, and quickly followed the deer. up until this point Spyro had thought that he was going to lose this battle, Spyro followed the deer into a clearing, but stopped dead when he saw the village walls. "Oh no, it, it can't." Spyro stared at the familiar walls. This wasn't any village, in the middle of the village a group of cheetah warriors gathered to discuss the plague that threatened avalar, among them two of spyro's close friends. "I know, I know, but seriously, walking corpses, who even thinks of that?" Sparx asked, clearly in disbelief. "Sparx I know it's hard to believe, but this is serious." Hunter said "Has anyone found any sign of Spyro or Cynder." Chief Prowlus asked. "No." Hunter said.

Outside Spyro could not take it any more, he charged for a deer going right for the jugular vain, a bloodthirsty roar came from inside his throat. Inside the village everyone could hear the roar. "What was that?!" Prowlus snarled. "It came from outside the village!" Hunter said. "Hey, isn't..." Sparx made frantic gestures towards the gate. "What? MEADOW!" Hunter Shouted "He's outside!"

Outside, Spyro fed on the deer he had just killed, Shocked, Meadow approached to see what had happened, to his dismay it was Spyro. The young purple dragon who had saved his life, was back, but why was he savagely ripping apart this deer like a animal, he couldn't help but approach, not realising the danger. "Spyro!" Meadow called out. Spyro looked up, his mouth drenched in blood, his eyes glowed a bright menacing red. "Spyro, What Happened?!" Meadow said horrified. Spyro's lips pulled back, he bared his teeth and let out a vicious snarl.

Hunter, Prowlus, and several warriors rushed towards the the village enterance just in time to hear Meadow's terrified scream outside.

Meanwhile Cynder had reached the enterance to the cave, it was very dark, however strangely inviting. "Don't be afraid Cynder." John's voice called, his voice sounded so vivid, like he was actually there. "I don't understand this." Cynder said. How in the world could this be happening. As if reading the voung dragoness's mind, John's voice spoke. "It's okay, soon all of your questions will be anwsered." Cynder sighed and slowly walked into the cave.