Chapter 6: Attack on a village

Relief was all Cynder felt after her first day off school came to an end. Throughout the day she had been worried she'd once again be ridiculed by the other dragon. Though, to her surprise, most of them were treating her as if she was just another student like them now. She thought it might have something to deal with her feinting on the first day, or something like that, but she had later found out that her three friends, Spyro, Conflagration, and Mineral, had been able to finally convince the better part of the students that she truly had changed. Some of the dragons even had gone up to her today wondering what had happened and if she was okay.

She smiled as she thought of her friends. They had easily accepted her for who she really was. Not only had they accepted her, but they had been able to change her reputation entirely around, for the better. She chuckled, "I'll never forget dragons like them."

Meanwhile...

Spyro walked down the halls near the front entrance. Finally he arrived there. He had been told that one of the students had not arrived yet, but was to be here today. So, because the guardians were off on a quick trip to the valley of Avalar to help the cheetah village, he was to wait there for the dragon to arrive. It didn't take long for the door to begin to screech open. In the entrance stood a brown dragon with an orange underbelly, wing membrane, horns, and eyes. The male dragon looked around and then spotted Spyro. A grin appeared on his face that was so big Spyro thought it may reach horn to horn.

The dragon went into a full run with his wings flapping to give him extra speed. Spyro tried to move out of the way as the dragon jetted towards him. Before he could even move, the dragon had screeched to a stop before him. "You're Spyro! Dude, I can't believe it! I've always wanted to meet you ever since I first heard of you! My name's Skelvon and it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Stuttering out of surprise, Spyro answered, "W-well, it's a pleasure t-to meet you too, Skelvon."

A look appeared on Skelvon's that looked like he had just become a guardian. "Y-you, Spyro, conqueror and destroyer of Malefor, y-you're pl-eased, to meet ME! This has to be the greatest day of my life!"

This made Spyro chuckle. "That's nice to know Skelvon." Spyro then looked down. He kept on thinking there was something missing, but he just couldn't put his paw on it. When he thought he may be close to figuring it out, he heard Skelvon shout in joy and start running towards something… or someone.

As Spyro turned around, he heard a loud "Oaf!" When he had completed turning around, he saw Cynder wide eyed, suppressing a laugh, and then he saw Skelvon, lying on the ground, smiling.

Quickly, Spyro ran over asking, "What happened?"

Skelvon weakly replied, "I just felt the best kind of pain ever… Cynder just punched me. Now I know I'm not dreaming! She's so strong… That was AWESOME!"

Both dragons were extremely confused by Skelvon, and decided to let him lie there, cherishing the wound. Cynder looked at Spyro with love in her eyes. "Mineral, Conflag, and I are going into the city; do you want to come with us?"

Spyro could easily tell that she really wanted him to come with them. So, he put on a smile and replied, "Of course, Cyn! Ju-" Before Spyro could even finish, Skelvon popped up.

"May I come too? Besides, I need to find my house on the far side of the city."

Cynder curiously asked, "You live by yourself?"

He shook his head, "Nah, I live with my grandmother, Nefia, and my younger brother, Nicolai. Our parents died in the war with Malefor, so my grandmother took us in."

Both dragons felt pity for Skelvon, especially Cynder. She wondered if she had been the one who had taken their lives, back when she was Malefor's puppet. She was the first to speak up, "Of course you can come with us."

Skelvon let out a small cheer. Spyro and Cynder looked at each other, both of them grinning. As the three began to walk towards the door, it flew open to reveal Conflagration and Mineral running in. The two dragons slowed to a stop as they approached Spyro, Cynder, and Skelvon. Conflagration spoke, "Spyro, Cynder! The guardians sent an urgent message to us. Mineral and I were just told that a village was recently attacked! Because they're off helping the cheetahs, they want us to protect it. So, we better get going now!"

As the dragons began to run towards the door, Skelvon asked, "May I come with all of you?"

Spyro turned to him and smirked, "You can't come if your legs aren't moving and your wings aren't flapping, now can you?"

With that said, Skelvon went into a full out sprint after them. Once the five dragons had exited the building, they all unfurled their wings, and with a couple mighty beats of their wings, took to the sky above.

Conflagration lead them to the half demolished village. Smoke billowed from the northern half and the faint glow burnt-out fires could be seen. The five dragons landed near a small group of villager dragons. With his head held high and wings open, Conflagration called, "Hello villagers of the Avalar realm, I am the Fire Throat Prince, Conflagration, am here to help your village. I have brought the dragons Spyro, Cynder, Mineral, and… uh."

Skelvon chuckled, "Skelvon."

"Ah, yes, Skelvon. At any sign of danger, we will not heed to jump in its way."

The villagers looked pleased as they heard this. But, their smiles soon faded into their previous, helpless expressions as they saw a ball of fire shoot towards them. Conflagration then jetted towards the source of the fire. There he saw a small unit of apes and in front of them was an orange and red dragon. In place of the dragon's spines and tail blade, were flames, along with flames dancing upon his wings. Conflagration growled, challenging the other fire dragon as if instead of growling, he was saying, "Let's see who the stronger fire dragon is!"

The other dragon snorted in reply and lunged at Conflagration. In return, Conflagration grabbed him and the two tumbled through the village, clawing and biting each other. Each dragon fought for the upper hand, but it wasn't going to be that easy. Whenever the orange dragon was beginning to get the upper hand, Conflagration would be able to avoid his next few attacks and then get a few of his own. But when Conflagration would begin to topple the other dragon, he would snap at Conflagration's wings.

As the two fire dragons battled, the other four attacked the squad of apes. Spyro shot a ball of fire at an incoming ape, roasting it alive. From behind his, an ape tried to hit him on the head with a hammer, but Cynder saw this and shot a toxic ball of poison straight at his face. When he hit the ground, all that was left of his head was a skeleton. Mineral had fun jumping on apes' heads one by one. While she distracted them, Skelvon shot an earth missile at each one. One by one, all the apes were victim to the dragons' assault.

As the amount of apes dwindled in numbers, Conflagration saw his chance to get, and hold onto, the upper hand. He slashed at the dragon in front of him, while jumping over him. As the dragon began to turn around towards Conflagration, Conflagration swiped at the other dragon's feet with his tail blade. The other dragon fell to the ground with a thud. Now was Conflagration's chance. He grabbed the dragon by the throat and began to pull him, ready to stab him through the chest. But, before he had reached his target, the dragon breathed fire right at Conflagration's face. He let go of the dragon and let out a small roar. This was just enough time for the other dragon to take to the air.

As Conflagration's sight came back, he saw the dragon flying away, already too far out of reach. He sighed and then turned to his friends. They had just finished off the last of the apes. He went up to them with his head held low, "I'm sorry my friends, but he has escaped my clutches."

Spyro smiled, "Don't worry about it Conflag, at least we saved the village from destruction. Now, how about we go back to Battleclaw?"

They all nodded. With blood stained wings, the five friends flew off back to Battleclaw, happy to go back and relax. They didn't know what truly awaited them.

Yes, next chapter! So, what does await them, hm? Well, you'll see in the next chapter! Who was that dragon leading the attack? Why do most authors on Fanfiction ask questions at the end of each chapter in the author's notes? Figure out the answer to most of the questions in the next few chapters! Oh, and thanks Belitinog for letting me use Skelvon! He fits nicely in the story!