Chapter 1. "Invasion"

Ten years have passed since the final defeating of Malefor and Liun. There was held a meeting in the Dragon City of Warfang. At one of the towers, in a big room with completely shaded windows and an extinguished fireplace there were four young dragons.
"Everybody knows our plan?" asked a young male."Remember that now we can count only on ourselves. If something goes wrong there will be nobody to help us and fix our mistake."
"Of course we know that, sweety," said two young dragonesses at this same moment and giggled.
"I've been telling you this all the time! Stop calling me like that!" Dragon started shouting, sparkles appeared between his teeth.
"Quit this. We don't have time for this," interrupted firmly another male voice. "If you spend all this time annoying him, you won't be at your positions at the right moment. Now, you'll..."
"Don't forget, that's me, who directs the whole action," interrupted him a male called earlier 'sweety'. "Girls, I think it's time to invite others here. And you take care of our target." The last sentence was addressed to a male dragon.
"Understood," the male nodded. "Let's go."

Meanwhile, two mysterious dragons were hiding in the forest inside Warfang. They were watching the city carefully and trying to find out how to sneak deeper into the city.
"Are you ready for this, Brute?" Asked one of them while he was putting his equipment on.
"Yeah, I think so." The one called Brute wore a big, metal gauntlet on his right arm. "You know, I'm glad that we have all this stuff, brother, because I don't think we could do our mission without it. You remember, what happened when that stupid wyvern tried to kidnap Spyro?" Brute whispered.
"That action was thoughtless. You cannot break into Warfang and fly away with a purple dragon just like that."
"Crue, somebody is coming!" Brute pointed at a small shape moving slowly along the street, quite close to them.
"It's only Spyro's daughter- Zealous." The dragon called Crue replied. Brute sighed with relief. "Maybe, let's catch her? That would be a good start!" Brute's brother was already excited.
"No, if she shouts once, all the city will know where we are. We wouldn't even reach the city walls." Crue glared at his brother with disappointment.
"You know, I'm kind of proud that we'll make first Venganza's move." He said after a few seconds of silence.
"Yeah, me too. Just don't get killed, right?" Brute suggested. Crue smiled in reply.
"I'm Noveno, I can't die so easily. Anyway, now we are splitting up, bro. I will take the main targets."
"Alright, diversion is mine. Crue? Don't you think that kidnapping of those two females from him will make that dragon really angry? Especially, if he's kind of dragon, who really cares about his family. He wouldn't stand that loss."
"Of course, he wouldn't. I'm sure that I'd prefer a suicide rather than being caught by him." Crue said and threw two explosives to his brother. "Those are special bombs for diversion from Primero, they might prove useful."
"Thanks." Brute caught them and hid them in the bags at his sides. "Good luck!" He answered before disappearing in a dense forest.

"Where are they all gone?" confused Zealous asked herself. It was middle of the summer and the sun was beautifully shining. But the little purple dragoness wasn't enjoying that day, because she couldn't find any of her equals in the whole of Warfang. While she was walking sadly next to the forest, she heard something like talking. She looked around, but after a moment she gave up.
"If they want to hide, I can't make them stop." Zealous sighed and continued her walk. Then something cold tweaked her hind leg and she tried to thwack the intruder in the face with her tail. She was so good at doing it already that she wouldn't even hurt her friend and he had been beaten in the face so many times, that he easily dodged it. Then the dragoness turned around and slapped his cheek.
"Ouch! That hurts! Why... " Torch shouted, while he was keeping his paw on his burning from pain cheek.
"I told you so many times that I hate it." She replied and started walking away.
"Wait!" Torch called her, while chasing the dragoness. "I'm sorry for that." He apologized when he finally caught her.
"Why isn't there anybody today?! Where have you been since the morning and why didn't you take me there?! Why everybody suddenly disappears when I have my...my..." Zealous was shouting and tears started to appear in her eyes, when a young fire breather interrupted her with a gentle voice.
"Don't cry, please. I know that we saddened you, but I have a surprise for you." He was smiling mysteriously.
"What is this?" Zealous asked him really interested. Her sadness just disappeared and she was smiling to her friend.
"It wouldn't be a surprise, if I told you, right? Come on." The purple dragoness followed him to one of the towers. They were going higher and higher and they were going to get into a room where there was meeting fifteen minutes before. Then draggones stopped the fire breather.
"Something wrong?" He asked surprised.
"If this is another place where you want to spar with me, I will be angry at you." She threatened with voice characteristic for youngsters in such a situation.
"Of course it's not! I'm not gonna spar with you in your parents' room!" Then she noticed where she was. But still, she had no idea, what was the point of coming there.
"Shall we get in?" Torch asked her. When she nodded, he opened the door and said "ladies first." She smiled at him and went inside the dark room and after the young dragon got in too, he closed the door. Then light enveloped the room when the young dragons took off black curtains from the windows and let the sun shine inside the room.
"Happy birthday!" Everybody shouted. Zealous stood there aghast and unable to say a word. She was so happy, when she understood, they hadn't forgotten about her fifth birthday. They all burst out with laughter, seeing, that the dragoness didn't know what to do. She just stared at the guests. There was everyone: Her parents, Sparx, Ember, Flame, Tremor, Candice, Stella and Infernus. Torch, Sierra, Zap, and Tundra surrounded the purple dragoness and started giving her compliments.

Brute was installing the second incendiary bomb when he heard singing. "Why are they so loud? I almost detonated it because of them!" He hissed with annoyance. "I need to hurry up." He finished arming the bomb and hid it well so no one would see it and the explosion wouldn't be weakened. "Perfect." He smiled at himself when he put in a fuse."After burning this fuse I have five minutes before both explosions." He said to himself. "If I meet our two beautiful targets, Crue will be unnecessary, but I will have much more fun catching them." He smiled devilishly and started running back at the position and laying fuse behind him. His armor was slowing him a little, as he noticed with annoyance. "That metal gloves are quite heavy, but I must use them, if I want to have a chance in the fight with guardians." He noticed bitterly.

"I'm so glad that you've organized this party!" Zealous said joyfully.
"You must thank Zappy." Sierra giggled, when Zap looked at her annoyed and rolled her eyes.
"Why do you call me Zappy?" The lightning dragon asked her angrily.
"Because I like you. And this name is so sweet." This time both, Sierra and Tundra giggled.
"But I don't like it!"
"Our daddy calls mom Candy, not Candice. Can't we call you Zappy, not Zap?" Tundra asked him with the sweetest eyes she could do.
"Yes, please..." Sierra echoed.
"So what are we going to do?" Torch interrupted with growing impatience.
"I have an idea." Sierra grinned and kissed Zap on the cheek."Tag!"She shouted, jumped away from him and all the young dragons started running away from the tagged one. When Tremor saw, they were going to fly away through a window he started saying:
"Don't jump through the windo..." He stood silent when he saw that all the hatchlings ignored him.
"They learnt flying not much time ago and they think they can do anything." The earth guardian muttered with note of disbelief.
"They learnt it about month ago and they are making progress really fast. All of them are good flyers. And finally you know, how annoying your stubbornness is." Stella said and everybody started laughing.
"We will have to teach them really a lot of things, Tremor." Candice stated.
"Indeed, we will." Cynder admitted. "First thing. Your daughters must stop kissing Zap." As the black dragoness started enumerating, all the dragons laughed again.
"Yeah. Poor Zappy." Infernus provoked another wave of laughter.
"Anyway, the second thing...

"You will never catch me!" Torch was flying between trees and attempted to lose the enemy. He looked at the lightning dragon and got surprised, when he saw his rival three feet behind him. Right when he was almost tagged he dived, made a half-loop which made him fly in the opposite direction and fly under the shocked Zap. The tagged dragon did exactly this same after several seconds. Torch turned around again and his eyes grew wide, as he saw the lightning dragon was gone. He looked for him on the left, right, behind and above him and when he looked down he saw a yellow dragon grinning devilishly. Zap flew up and touched him with the tip of his wing.
"Tag! You're it!"
"Wait Zap! Let's make a break, I'm tired!"
"Sure." Both dragons landed on the ground. They had no idea they were being observed.
"Where are the girls?" Torch wondered.
"When you flew to the forest, they ran to the eastern side of the city, they're somewhere near our parents."
"How far are we from them?"
"I think one or two miles."
During their conversation Crue was watching two young dragons with growing excitement."They are males. We don't need them. Judgment: death." He prepared his gauntlet quickly. It was big and metal and had three cylindrical bulges along the front limb, which used to be empty inside. Now he started putting needles into them . They were about five centimeters long, but shot, were really fast, well sharpened and had terrific penetration power. He reloaded the glove and aimed at the red dragon. The idea of killing two dragons made him so excited, that he couldn't aim at first, because his hand was shaking. Zap, as a lightning dragon, felt someone's presence. And he had really bad feelings about that. He didn't expect anyone to be here. He looked around carefully to notice a reflex of light from a stranger's gauntlet.
"Torch!" Crue pulled the trigger, when Zap jumped to Torch pulling him out from the needles' path. One of them flew between their heads and two others flew on another side of the yellow dragon's head.
"What is that?" Torch asked when he saw two little holes in the oak and the third one in the spruce behind them.
"Just run!" Both dragons ran away and tried to hide from the enemy in a forest. Crue quickly reloaded his gauntlet, cursing with disappointment. The hunting began.

Meanwhile Sierra, Tundra and Zealous were being watched by another intruder."Don't fail, don't fail." Brute was speaking to himself. "If I catch or kill those hatchlings, the mission will be almost finished. Alright, now it's my chance." He burned fuses from the bombs and got to the girls as close as he could without being noticed.
"Hello." He said to the hatchling without showing himself.
"Who are you?" asked Zealous.
"I'm a dragon, my name is Brute and I'm from the East." He lied to the hatchlings and hoped they would believe him.
"It's nice to meet you Brute. This is my sister Tundra and a friend Zealous."
"Hi. Are you a purple dragoness? I've heard a lot about you."
"Yes." Zealous nodded.
"And who are you girls?" the stranger asked.
"We are twin daughters of the guardians of earth and ice."
Brute's eyes grew wide as he knew that he saw his kidnap or kill target, but every intruder had to die. That made him really sad, because even if he was five times older than her, he felt she was so beautiful, majestic...
"How old are you?" Tundra interrupted his reflection.
"I'm seven, but my voice sounds like I was adult because of my speech defect." It was bluff, but he knew, how naive all youngsters were.
"Oh...I'm sorry. Show yourself now!"
"No...I'm...shy. Can I play with you?" Brute quickly changed the subject of the conversation
"Do You know what we are playing?" Sierra asked.
"Yes."
"But Zap was tagged and he split up trying to get Torch." Zealous said with disappointed.
"Where did they go?"
"They are in the southern forest, probably far away from us"
"They must have met Crue." Brute said to himself. "They are surely dead right now. My brother gets excited easily, but he never misses."
"Maybe, we shouldn't wait for them. I will try to tag you." Suggested the male.
"Do you want to?" all three girls asked him simultaneously.
"Yes, why not?"
"Let's start then."
Then Brute jumped out of his hide with great roar. He showed up his talons which were getting closer to the girls' faces. Then Zealous, Tundra and Sierra understood what was really going on. Brute wasn't seven years old but at the age of their parents. He wasn't a young and shy dragon, but a disgusting and horrific one, whose face expression was showing some sick euphoria. And the most important for that moment: he didn't want to play with them but pierce and smash their heads with his giant, black talons.
"Aaa!" All the three girls started screaming the loudest they could so that whole city could hear them, but the fear made them motionless. And they felt the cold of death which was coming for them and could prevent it.