the new guardians part nine
LOSC: The New Guardians Part 9
Five years have past five long years, which proved to be the happiest years Spyro and Cynder had ever since they awoke nine years ago, and during that time Cynder gave birth to their first clucth triplets, a fire dragoness they named Fira an ice dragon named Avalanch, and a electric dragon named Bolt, all three grew into very power full dragons, though they are still learning how to use their elements, Slipstream ended up mating to Tsunami and they had two kids a year younger than Spyro and Cynder's, one was named Silverstreak a wind dragon with his father's playfulness and his mother's attitude, while his twin sister River took after their mother more, Nightstream just was Nightstream, Eartha started to date a white dragon local by name of Moonstride after he go hired as a clerk to help with keepping the temple's paper work orgainized but instead got hired as a teacher due to his skill with his element, Axel on the other hand kept on living with Moonstride and learned how to use his fear element even more from Moonstride since finding out he was a double elemented dragon a family trait on his father's side that tended to skip a generation or two, all the apprentices ended up being teachers at the Acadamy and found it enjoyable especaily for Spyro, Cynder, and Slipstream, who were parents as their kids attended the Accadamy. These last five years were the best years for all who lived in Warfang but a new menece was rising poised to strike as soon as they feel their ready to attack and plunge the world into war.....again!
On the outskirts of Warfang a small mouse was foreging for food as it reached the top of a hill looking down on the dragon city, raising to it's hind legs to sniff the air it turned to run when a pitch black paw crushed it's neck killing it then tossed it into the air to be swallowed by a dragon wearing a cloak the exact color of his scales with the hood up as it cover all but half of his muzzle with part of his tattoo showing, his muzzle was split in a feral grin as his tail with it's three sythe tail blades swiching behind him as he watched Warfang, "after five years this city is still gorges" he stated getting off his haunches, "after five years I'm back Warfang and look out cause here I come to full fill my promise to a friend and my brother" the dragon said as the setting sun shined in his blood red right eye and his golden left eye.
As the moons rose higher in the night sky a small band of apes was lead by two dragons as they drug an adolesent dragon chained, shackled, and muzzled to a wagon, the adolesent dragon had black scales with glowing red marking all over his body and his head was adorned with a crest the same red color of his markings, he had six horns, the top two jutted out from the back top of his head at angle to curve inward then did a quick zigzag to have the points almost touching facing each other, the two right below the first two were significantly shorter but jutted to the side and curved back facing his bum, while the final two pointed towards his muzzle, his back and neck had a line of horn like spikes running down his back and he had two of the horn like spikes on top of his shoulders, his tail had instead of a tail blade had two horns on either side and they followed the same pattern as the top two horns at his head and the tips of the tail horns faced the tail about two inches from the tip of the tail, this dragon was about fifteen years old. The other two dragons that were in front of the group were male and female, the male on the right was a bright green dragon with a black under side with two horns that jutted from the back of his head to curve toward his muzzle as the tips stopped just above his eye ridges, he had no tail blade either but four nasty looking spikes at the end of his tail ment for puncturing deep into an opponent as well as a double snaggle tooth with both of his top canines his eyes are mocha brown, his name is Venom, the female is a black dragoness with a saphire underside and on the underside of her wings with two cresent moon tattoos in saphire blue on both her shoulders and five spots under her icey blue eyes matching their color, her six horns start from the top back of her head to just behind her jaw all of the pointing strait back towards her rear, she also had two tuck-like horns on the underside of her bottom jaw making an L shape toward her muzzel, her tail was a mix of a sword and an axe, this is Umbra "the shadow mistress". The group kept walking trying to as silent as they could when the smell of blood reached Venom's nose he raised a paw the apes stop and draw their weapons silently, "what is it Venom?" Umbra asked on edge since they where still in Warfangs site, "blood mistress....ape blood" Venom said as he moved forward eyes scaning the forest when his paw encounter a puddle, 'a puddle in the summer' he thought as he raised a paw to his nose and sniffed it recoiling from the smell, 'ape blood but where is the body' he said to himself as he followed the blood stream to a tree where he saw an apes leg poking out from behind running to it he stopped and retched when he saw the corpse, running over to Venom Umbra saw the corpse was that of an ape but it had been cut in half with it's head ripped off, "what did this?" She asked trying not to lose her dinner like Venom had, "not what but who mistress" he replied as they spirnted back to the apes, "form a premiter now we're being hunted" Venom ordered fear noticeable in his voice, "what's going on Venom tell me" Umbra ordered him, "that shadow dragon I was hunting thats what happening! he's hunting us like the last time five years ago" Venom said while scaning the tree branches, "the one with three sythe tail blades?" she asked and he nodded when a groan echoed making the to dragons whirl to find their charge waking, "you keep Axel silent" Umbra ordered the nearest ape to Axel to shut him up but as he stood in front of the teenage dragon he suddenly was ripped in half spraying blood everywhere and waking Axel fully and making him panic as he jumped away from the slip ape pulling at his bond but they held firm as he growled, snarled, and howled trying to break free, "Venom get him calmed dowm n-" Umbra tried to order him when the ape next her head was slashed off of spraying her with blood and another at the back head was cut off, then a third was cut in half, the apes started to freak out and panic yelling, "uta geethrura naut seet uta geethrura" in their native tongue, "what the hell are they saying Venom" Umbra demanded, "their saying the shadow within the shadow the nickname they gave my target" Venom said as he start to panic scaning every where when several blood curtling screams where heard making the dragon look back at the apes to see three quarters of the peirced by black spikes coming from their shadows in the most grusem ways (three where vlad the impaler sytle) when the ape sudden ly grab their heads and started to kill each each other and when the last ape was left he aproached the two dragon eyes bugged out his weapon dropped to the dirt when a sythe blade with two other's beside it on either side stabbed him through his waist and lifted him to a tree where a pitch black paw claspped his head, the ape shrieked in pain as he was ripped into three parts in one smooth motion and landed next to the tree, then Venom felt a dragon's hot breath near his ear and heard a voice he hadn't heard in five years, "even after five years Venom you never change huh? heheheheh" spinning he swung a poison enhanced paw at where he thought the dragon was, when he heard Axel panic more trying to break free recovering from the shock of all that death around him eyes bugged out so much they where the size of platters, then Umbra heard a voice in her ear, "and you are the self proclaimed mistress of shadows what a presumtus name" making her leap away shreiking in fear as she swung her tail blade at the source to only see it go through a smoke-mist, when they heard an insane cackle all around them making Axel freak out even more as his paniced struggles get worse, "can't hit what you can't shadow mistress HAHAHAAA!" a voice said echoing through the forest, "SHOW YOURSELF COWARD AND FIGHT US LIKE A TRUE DRAGON" Venom shouted at the mysterious voice, "HAHAHAHAAA! and I am fighting like a real dragon but if you insist heheh" replied the voice, and a Shadow smoke-mist form where a cloud was blocking the moons in front of Axel to reveal a dragon wearing a pitch black cloak matching his scales with half of his muzzle with some of his tattoo showing sticking out as it was split in a hunter's grin while his tail swished behind him as his three sythe tail blades whistled through the air as if cutting it as his missmatched eyes stared at them as they twinkled dangerously making Umbra gasp when she saw the blood red right eye and the golden left eye, "it's been a while hasn't it Venom?" the black dragon asked darkly his preditory grin turning into a preditory sneer as he circle them watching them as if they were prey to him making both dragon nervous, when he came back infront of Axel he swung his tail blades at him, "NOOO!" Umbra yelled as the blades sliced through the chains and shackles like a knife through butter in one swing, taking his chance Axel made a break for it as Venom tried to follow when a wall of shadow fire burst from the ground in front of him stopping him dead, "did I say you can go?" the dragon asked his sneer widening as Umbra and Venom converged on him when the pupils of his eyes flashed with shadow energy making Venom and Umbra stop dead eyes widening facil scales noticably paling as they took to the air a flew as fast as they could toward their destaination fleeing Warfang in fear of the black dragon.
Smirking the black dragon turned to where Axel fled, 'well lets see if he's all right' he thought with a grin as some clouds cove the moons creating a shadow where he was standing and his body started to bcome like smoke and mist and vanished into the cloud's shadow. Axel was running for his life scared beyond belief from what happened in front of his very eyes as the image of the ape being torn in half kept replaying in his mind along with that insane cackle when the dragon responsible appears in front of him out of nowhere and stood right in front of him, skidding to a stop Axel's heart started to beat faster, "hey dude would ya calm down I'm not going to hurt you dude iwas rescueing you" the black dragon stated shocking Axel when he noticed the the dragon's tone was different and his eye's glinted happily not the dangerous hungery gleam he had and his smile was softer, "who are you sir?" Axel asked the dragon sputtered with laughter as he pulled his hood down to reveal his teenage face and his four horns jutting out of the back of his head stacked on top of each other on eith side of his head curving up a good foot from his head and he has on his face are blood red tribal tattoos centered around his eyes but curving around his horns and muzzle and ending at the base of his neck where it turns into the head, "sir? I'm only fifteen dude" he said to Axel really surprised that his savoir was the same age as him, "oh and where are my manners I'm Shadowheart" the black dragon introduced himself, "I am Axel Hunter but I prefer just Axel" Axel replied to Shadowheart as they shook paws, "so Shadowheart how did do all that without being seen? I mean Umbra is a strong shadow dragon so she should have known you where there?" Axel asked highly curious while Shadowheart grinned, "because I'm a more powerful shadow dragon than she is.....what in the nine circles is wrong with you?" Shadowheartasked when he saw Axel's happy expresion turn into one of hate and anger, "get away from me" he muttered, "what?" Shadowheart asked confused, "I said, GET AWY FROM ME YOU MONSTER" Axel shouted leaping at the shadow dragon, "tsk how droll" he stated as he intercepted Axel in mid air with the blunt ends of his tail blades sending him into a larg oak tree, "how dare you assume I'm like her you brat but I get why you hate me" Shadowheart said as he approched Axel and leaned down to his ear, "it's because you fear me" he whispered into Axel's ear as a hungery sneer spread onto Shadowheart's muzzle making Axel roar and sent his tail forward stabbing Shadowheart then swung a paw slashing the shadow dragon as the paw struck Shadowhearts body dissolved into the shadow of the oak when Axel was hit from the side with a shadow tendral and sent him into another oak, "you stupid fool is this how you repay a friend for saving your worthless hide?" Shadowheart asked disgusted, "you aren't my friend and your nother but a blood thirsty monster like all shadow dragons" Axel stated coldly making Shadowheart snarl. Then Shadowheart calmed himself and then grinned the same preditory grin he wore against Umbra and Venom as his whole persona changed, his tail swished faster ready to rip anything to shreads, his eyes got their hungery gleam back, "you just messed with the wrong dragon Axel" Shadowheart said in a dark tone and Axel scoffed, "you don't scare me in fact you should fear me" and with that Axel luanched a fear shreik that ripped the bark off the nearby trees when Shadowheart countered with a blast of shadow fire from his maw stopping Axel's attack and sent it back with his flying at the fear dragon, jumping out of the way Axel dodged both attacks with he was struck with a black bolt of lighting, Axel got up only to have his head driven into a tree making a dent in the big oak, "shadow lighting works everytime heheheh" Shadowheart stated as he walked off when Axel leaped for him again when suddenly Shadowheart vanished into a smoke/mist in the moon light, "whats going on how'd he do that?" Axel said to himself when Shadowheart reformed infront of him looking like he was made of the smoke/mist still in the moon light, "now who do fear more me or her" he stated dragging out the last word as he up a disappeared again Axel heard a voice, "AXEEEL" making him turn to the sorce of the shout to see Umbra leaping at him about to hit him forepaws and talons ready to shred him making Axel shout in fright when she vanished like Shadowheart and the forest turned into that smoke/mist and Axel started seeing his house burning and Umbra's outline, "RAAAAAAAAH MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOOOOOP!" he yelled and releashed a fear roar at what he judged to be the ground hitting him and everything around him, getting up he then got his head slammed into another oak tree knocking him out cold. As Shadowheart released Axel he shook his head in dissapointment, "*sigh* and here I was thinking we could have been friends" Shadowheart said sadly as he pulled his hood over his head and walked towards Warfang at a pace that would allow him to reach the dragon city at dawn leaving Axel lying in the dirt while a hidden watcher with a red cloak and a drawn bow picked up the young fear dragon and followed.
Dawn came as Shadowheart entered Warfang via the northern gate and as the sun rose and it's light hit the young dragon his cloak was shown to be in tatters from his eight years of travels, he was in the market distrect of Warfang he sighed heavly from his lack of coin as he passed all sorts of stalls when he bumped into some one, "sorry I'll be more careful" he apologised to a twenty year old crimson dragon wearing city guard armor, Shadowheart walked past the dragon when he put a paw on the shadow dragons shoulder, "son I'm sorry but your coming with me to the temple" said the guard making Shadowheart panic, "but I didn't do anything.......yet" he said backing away when an even bigger crimson dragon landed behind him, "nice work Flame grap him and take him to the guardians" said Flash the guard captain of Warfang, "sorry kid but orders are orders and pick up the shadow dragon, before long Shadowheart was lead into the temple escorted to the guardian champers, "is this the dragon Hunter?" Terrador asked the cheetah in front of him who look at Shadowheart and nodded, "thank you Flame you may leave and tell Flash you are to have a day off" the earth guardian told Flame who smiled and bowed to Terrador as he left. Turning his attention to Shadowheart he looked at the shadow dragon anylising him, "young dragon please remove you cloak if you please" he ask Shadowheart who unclaspped the cloak and threw it off with his wings showing that he was a small for his age a runt, "shadowheart" said a voice by Ignitus making him turn to it to see Spyro staring wide eyed at him, "uuhh hi Spyro long time no see huh?" Shadowheart said while smiling sheepishly, "young dragon you are brought here under the charge of assault on one of our acadamy stundents how ho you plead" Terrador asked while Shadowheart examined his talons, "who did he attack Terrador" Ignitus asked confused, "he attacked Axel Hunter" Terrador making Shadowheart snarl and bare his fangs at the mere metion of the name, while everyone stared unbelieving, "he one of our strongest students how could this whelp beat him" Stone asked growling at Shadowheart making the shadow dragon sneer at him, "that little excuse for a fear dragon attacked me first for being a shadow dragon and I deffended myself he was absolutly pitiful" Shadowheart stated while sneering at Stone making Terrador gwak at Shadowheart, "guardians if I may interject this young dragon did indeed just defend himself against Axel so he is innocent but I think he should attend the Accadamy" Hunter said snapping everyone's head toward him and made Shadowheart jaw drop from the suggestion, Terrador chuckled, "I believe Hunter but young dragon do you want to attend" He asked Shadowheart and the shadow dragon nodded his head as an estatic smile blosemed on his muzzle, "well then if that's so Arrow you may start" Terrador said to the wind guardian, "young dragon you will face off against both of my apprentices Slipstream and Nightstream" as he said this Nightstream slugged the sleeping form of his brother to wake his dumass up, 'wind dragons and from the looks of them they are all-around fighters which means they can fight well at long and close range, and I can't fly against them since they'll have the advantge in the air so I'm stuck ground side to fight them' Shadowheart thought as he studied his opponents making a plan against them when Terrador yelled, "BEGIN" 'crap' Shadowheart thought as Slipstream and Nightstream charged at the same time swinging their tail blades at Shadowheart who swung his own tail into the nearest shadow and shadow warped out of the way in a plum of shadow mist and reappeard right above their heads in the shadow behind them spinning at a side ways angle as he swung his tail blades at them, jumping in two diferent directions Slipstream and Nightstream dodged Shadowheart's attack making him cut a deep furrow into the stone with ease landing between them, as soon as Shadowhearts paws touched the floor the brothers fired off two slicing wind currents cutting up the counsel room, using his shadow Shadowheart raised a wall on both sides to block the wind attacks and once they collided Shadowheart charged Slipstream since he was the most relaxed as Slipstream saw this he reared up and attempted to grap Shadowheart but the shadow dragon dodged the grapple and struck the silver wind dragon with the blunt ends of his tail blades in the gut knocking out his wind, spinning Shadowheart grabbed Slipstream's head and threw him with enhanced strength gathered from his element smashing him into a pillar and Shadowheart appeared infront of the wind dragon ramming him with his shoulder into the pillar again, Shadowheart went for Slipstreams head again when he was struck with a wind bullet from Nightstream but the black wind dragon couldn't get to his brother because Shadowheart had used his shadow warp to get close to Nightstream and started to swing his tail blades at Nightstream, dodging the shadow draon's tail blades was the only thing Nightstream could do as Shadowheart swung with gracful presion spinning, jumping, and various other acrobatics as he swung the deadly sythe tail blades at him, when Nightstream backed into a pillar Shadowheart pounced swinging his blades at Nightstream, who leaped over him and as he summersaulted over Shadowheart he saw the shadow dragon's tail slice and smash through the stone pillar as thick and as wide as a giant red wood like it was nothing but paper, Shadowheart then swung his blades into the pillar above him while still airborne and swung himself onto the pillar climming in with his talons with such ease he was running up it, as he was alinged with Nightstream Shadowheart leaped at him colliding him and they began to fight at close quarters. bitting, clawing, slashing, and punching each other but it soon bacame apparent that Shadowheart was out monuvering Nightstream as the broke apart to land on their paws when they were about to crash into the ground, "you surprised me with your skill this might actually be a challenge" Nightstream said to Shadowheart just before charging him from the front as Slipstream finally recovered charged from the rear they swung their tail blades at Shadowheart who using his dexterity to leap side ways between the brother's tail blades and as he did so he spun catching Slipstream's bottom jaw while he grabbed the top of Nightstream's head and slammed it into the floor making a small crater dent in the floor and threw Slipstream into a wall as Nightstream entered close combat with Shadowheart again as Slipstream got up and charged to help his brother when shadow tendrals rose up out of the shadow he went through grabbing him and pulled him down, forcing himself up he was suddenly shocked with shadow shock as making him scream in pain and surprised making Nightstream turn to his brother only to get hit in the head with Shadowheart's tail blade's blunt ends sending him into a pillar denting it, Shadowhert swings his tail through a shadow and as the blades leave the shadow they are wrapped with shadow energy as Nightstream stood up gruntting in pain and grimicing from his wounds as Shadowheart started to twirl his tail in tight circles when he suddenly swings his tail blades up in an uppercut slicing a line to and past Nightstream who stood there eyes bugged out as he hurled blood and blood gushed from a deep cut in his right flank and the pillar flew apart matching Nightstream's cut and the black wind dragon fell forward, "such power" he stated as he hit the ground out cold making the first aid moles and cheetahs run forward to him and stopped the bleeding, "heh heh looks like big brother is going to have another scar" Slipstream stated grinning limping over to a gerny and climbed onto it, after he did so he looked to Shadowheart, 'he's deadly very deadly' he thought as Shadowheart growled getting in a fighting stance and licked the bottom sythe tail blade, "young dragon you are a very impressive fighter to be able to bring down those two the way you did" Terrador said as Arrow studied Shadowheart closely and opened a small book at his feet and placed a talon just under the tattoo pattern that he had and read the title, "Brand Of The Guardian Of Shadows", Arrow read it a queitly as he could while watching Shadowheart, "young dragon who taught you to use your element?" Arrow asked while watching the shadow dragon intently as he got very uncomfterble as he answered, "I can't say I was told to keep it a secret" he said nervous, "by whom? Arrow asked making Shadowheart back away being very vigilent, "I can't say that either" Shadowheart said, 'why is Arrow acting like this is he afraid of this dragon or is he interogating him' Cyril thought as Terrador spoke again, "young dragon you will fight one more battle with the Ice Aprintice and Fire Aprintice, Spyro and Cynder" Terrador announced as the couple gets up off their cushion and walk to the center of the room as Shadowheart drops back into his fighting stance, 'okay first take out Spyro his flames will hamper my ability to use my element against them and----' he thought when his eyes suddenly bug out and focuses on Cynder, 'what's going on my shadows say that that there is two minds inside her unless she's gravid' he thought as he closed his eyes using his element to peer into her and after a few seconds his eyes snap back open, 'she is gravid damn I can't hit her or I'll kill the hatchling plan B then' he thought as Terrador yelled "BEGIN" and slamed his paw down and Cynder leaped and charged Shadowheart as Spyro fired off a volley of fire balls at him, Shadowheart doged the fire balls nimbly and dove into a shadow as Cynder struck and charged Spyro from behind but Spyro had wrapped his tail in fire and hit Shadowheart with it blasting him into a wall as Cynder slamed her tail blade into the ground firing an ice wave at him Shadowheart sees it at unleashes a torrent of shadow blades at it slicing it to ribbons, "CYNDER DODGE THEM!" Spyro yelled but the blades changed directions and flew at him instead, 'what the hell' Spyro thought as he leaps into the air dodging them making them cut through everything behind him, 'that was to close' he thought as he heard Shadowhearts tail blades whislting behind him making Spyro duck as the tail blades slice through where his head was when they swung back and bashed him in the side of the head dazing Spyro but Cynder tackled Shadowheart before he could do anything, he used a shadow to warp out from under her but she was already on charging him, "fight me damn it FIGHT ME!" she yelled as Shadowheart dodged all her blows with ease making her even more pissed when shadow tendrils grabbed her and pined her in front of the guardians facing Shadowheart and Spyro, "there now we can fight without any more.....distractions" Shadowheart said as he looked into Cynder's eyes and grinned making her uncomfterble, Shadowheart then swept in Spyro's direction firing off another flurry of shadow blades from the shadow in front of him dodging them Spyro unleashed a torrent of fire at the shadow dragon who then unleashed a torrent of shadow fire in response both attacks met mid way between them but Spyro over powered Shadowheart quickly but the young shadow dragon had fired a bolt of shadow lighting at Spyro striking him in his left flank painfully tensing the mussels there freezing him in place as Shadowheart charged and grabbed Spyro's head and smashed it into the floor, raising his paw again Shadowheart stuck it into a shadow and wrapped it with shadow energy and grabbed Spyro's right horn and threw him into a wall making a small crater in it but Shadowheart shadow warped and rammed into the fire dragon's stomach with an adible whoof as Spyro got his air knocked out of him, grabbing Spyro's head slamed it against the wall and threw Spyro grinding his face against the wall smashing into the next wall and a shadow tendral grabs him and slams him into the center of the counsel room, getting up shaken Shadowheart walks out of a shadow in fron of Spyro and he snarled a Shadowheart earning him a deep slash acrossed his right flank making him cry out from the pain and fall to his left side holding his side, "give up Spyro my shadows are stronger than your flames" Shadowheart said as he walked to Cynder's side grinning evilily, "I wonder what would happen if I were to cut your unborn child from Cynder's womb" he said as he grabbed her head and licked as he stood over her, "get away from her" Spyro snarled as Shadowheart grinned even more and shoved his paw into her gut making her scream in pain and continue to scream as blood poured from where his paw entered her when her screams worsen and Spyro struggles to get up but was forced down by shadow hands pinning him to the ground and ripping his right flank wide open showing his organs, then Shadowheart's paw exits her body ripping out their egg from her womb and crushed it, "NOOOOO!" Spyro yelled as Cynder smiled at him with tear filled eyes and with barly a whisper she said, "I will love you always Spyro and her eyes closed as Shadowheart ripped out Spyro's still beating heart, "now die knowing that you could have save her and your child if you only gave up ehehehehehehhahahahahHUAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA! YOUR TO WEAK TO LET LIVE HAHAAHAHA!" Shadow heart yelled with manical laughter as Spyro lunged for him and sliced half of his head of but Shadowheart kept on laughing as the world burst into shadow smoke Spyro when he was suddenly wrapped in the smoke like a snakes prey would be, "so your drakest fear is losing your mate Cynder and your children" said Shadowheart's voice as his face form from the smoke grinning like a mainiac, "what is this what did you do to me" Spyro demanded as he tried to break free, "ahhahahahaaa! I did nothing but bring out your drakest fear to life before your eyes," Shadowheart said as spyro was uncermoniusly dropped and Shadowheart reformed in front of him looking like he was made of smoke and in the wind, "this world is my dream shadow and I rule here not you" he said when, "SPYRO SNAP OUT OF IT!" "Cynder"Spyro said looking around when he saw Shadowheart grab his head, "damn it I can't hold it! your lucky your mate loves you so much or else you'd be trapped here until this became your reality" Shadowheart said through gritted teeth as the the shadow smoke blasted apart. Snapping his eyes open Spyro shot to his feet and faced Shadowheart who was standing in front of him snarling, visions of what he saw flashed before Spyro's eyes making his body start to smoke from his rising body temp and charged making Shadowheart grin and they collided snapping clawing and beating the hell out of each other when they broke apart panting, finaly calming down Spyro charged again catching Shadowheart off guard and hit him with a comet dash and got a slash across his back as Shadowheart was blasted back from the explosion into a wall and hitting the floor in a crumbled up mess, as Shadowheart stood back up on his shaking legs Spyro scoffed, "why don't stay down Shadowheart I don't want to hurt yo--" "SHUT UP!" Shadowheart yelled eyes bugged in anger interupting Spyro, "I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY SPYRO NOT NOW NOT EVER I'M GOING TO WIN I HAVE TO WIN! I CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE!" Shadowheart shouted as he charged Spyro who charged in response reading for another comet dash as Shadowheart gathered energy from the shadows he ran through for his own comet dash, they crashed into each other grasping each others paws as their attacks blasted out ward from where they met, Spyro immeadiatly started to over power Shadowheart from the huge size differenice between each other but Shadowheart pushed trying to over power Spyro and failing, "no I can't lose I just can't I WON'T LOSE!" he yelled putting all of his power into his comet dash and started tp push Spyro back but Spyro over powered him and caused both of the comet dashs to explode sending the young shadow dragon into the same wall Spyro blasted him into earlier, crashing back onto the floor shadowheart stood back up wincing in pain the shot from his ribs, Spyro was ontop of Shadowheart before he could fully recover and acted on instinct a juped over the fire dragon, but Spyro slamed his head into Shadowheart's ribs with a sickening crunch as he was hit with Shadowhearts blunt ends in the head again as the shadow dragon crashed to the floor laying on his left side holding his ribs while he vomited blood, getting back up Shadowheart sprinted forward and rammed Spyro with his head and stabbed Spyro with his horns only to recieve a fire paw to the face blasting him into the wall again but Shadowheart got back up again only to be thrown into a different wall with a horrid crunch, "spyro stand down he's finished" Terrador said shaking his head but before he could call for the medics Shadowheart moved trying to stand again, running over to him Spyro looked at him about attack when he saw that Shadowhearts eyes were glazed over, 'he's not even consious and he's still trying to win' Spyro thought as he watched Shadowheart, "young dragon the fight is over admit deffeat or you will die from your injuries" Terrador ordered, "I...can't..lose here I need to win, I need to get up I can't lose no brother please I can win, I can't let Moonstride down" Shadowheart said while hacking up blood, "EMBER GET IN HERE HE NEEDS IMEADET TREATMENT NOW!" Ignitus yelled as Ember flew into the room shoving Spyro aside and aplied bandeges to all his surface wounds lifted him onto a streacher with the help of Hunter and ran as fast as she could while pushing Shadowheart.
Moonstride was walking to the mess hall to get something to eat when, "MOVE IT! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" he headr Ember shout and jumped out of her way when he saw that she was pushing hrribly injured dragon to the infirmiry, "what happened to hi--" Moonstride started to say to himself but stopped when he saw the three sythe tail blades, "no it can't be it just can't be" he said eyes wide as he ran after Ember and arrived at the infirmiry and saw the dragon more clearly, "NO SHADOWHEART!" he yelled tears falling as he ran to his foster brother only to be restrained by two Warfang guards, "LET ME GO THAT'S MY BROTHER DAMN IT!" He yelled and was realesed skidding to a stop he nuzzled his brother, "don't die shadowheart I just got you back please don't die!" Moonstride said through tears as Ember worked on the shadow dragon for the rest of the day and night and Moonstride never moved from his spot next to his brother until Ember smiled to him, "he's going to be fine Moonstride and he's going to be right as rains when he wakes tomorrow," she said smiling as Moonstride sighed in relief and laid next to his brother nuzzling him, "he's lucky to have you for a brother Moonstride" Ember stated before leaving but Moonstride didn't hear cause he was already asleep mid nuzzle.