Light of Shadows Chapter 16

~Chapter 16: Friend or Foe?~

Spyro stared, completely horrified by the thought of Malefor being alive; more so, by the fact that he was a zombie. So much, he actually wet himself. The urine seeped down to the grass, discreetly of course. In doing so, he blushed deep and beet red. Good thing nobody noticed it.

Sienna on the other hand was trying her best to get past Jaye to get to Alec. But it would seem Jaye was more of an obstacle than she ever thought. Jaye wouldn't let Sienna pass and this made her frustrated.

"Get out of the way!" she exclaimed at her, her frustration boiling to a deadly point.

"In your dreams!" Jaye replied, blocking her off by firing her element to her.

Sienna dodged the rogue ice shard and fired off some fireballs at her to distract her. But she just merely dodged them like they were nothing and kept blocking her. Sienna's frustration eventually bubbled over and she got mad. And mad she was. Whilst this was happening, Alec was being led away by Malefor, who was just watching the scene unfold before him. Suddenly, he was slightly taken aback when he heard the dragoness shout Alec's name.

"ALEC!" Sienna exclaimed, before she began to glow.

Jaye suddenly got curious and got on the defensive. She didn't expect this to happen. Sienna began to glow and before she knew it, she was summoning her Fury. Spyro and Cynder who were previously frozen in fear, immediately ran for cover as Sienna's fury was about to begin. Jaye didn't have time to do so; she was caught in it when it happened.

Fire burst all over as Sienna's Fury ignited. It was as if the air itself exploded. Sienna's fury was not a Fire Fury, but more like a cousin of it. It was a Solar Fury, powered by the sun itself. This fury could do one of two things. It could bring life, using the power of sunlight to allow plants to grow. Or it could take life away, using the ferocity of the sun's fiery energy to destroy. And Sienna's mind set was going to cause the latter.

Jaye was struck head on by the Solar Fury, and did great damage on her. So much, she reverted back to her child form as she was flung to the air and struck a tree, breaking it in half. Sienna, which was now finishing her fury, didn't come out unharmed though. She herself had burns and bruises and whatnot, covering her body as her Fury was really strong.

And to add to it all, she fainted.

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It was days after that incident, when Spyro found himself sighing. What were they going to do now? Jaye, whom was out cold and locked up inside a cage, was sleeping soundly as he stood guard. She still hadn't recovered. Sienna on the other hand was in her room, not leaving and locking everyone out. It would seem that the blow of Alec being captured got her down.

Xander on the other hand was contemplating deeply about his friend Alec. He was really worried about him. Even Kayla's constant comfort of him didn't seem to have any effect on him. He wondered where he was and how he was doing. He hoped for the best, trying to tell his mind he was still alive, and not...dead.

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Alec was trying to free his mind from Malefor's control. There was just one thing. However, it was not his mind that was under his control. In fact, Malefor had released full control back to Alec...So there was no reason for him to continue following Malefor.

There was nothing stopping Alec from leaving. But something compelled him to keep following...perhaps a desire to figure out what's going on, "Why did you release control of me?" Alec questioned the purple dragon zombie.

"I'm surprised you're first question wasn't why you were still following me," Malefor countered, "Several years ago when you were originally my general, I gifted you with a sixth sense. Or rather, the Chronicler gave you a sixth sense through me."

"Huh?" Alec replied.

"Let's just say that you haven't tried to leave because you sense that I am not what you think I am," Malefor said, "But I need your help. I need the help of all of you."

"I'd ask you why you didn't just ask," Alec said, "But I figure that's a stupid question. But why do you need our help? And why did you take...well...borrow, me?"

"I chose you because of the part of your mind that's still corrupted by your past with me," Malefor received a glare from Alec, "Also because the guardians would've expected that of me."

"Because I was able to do in one year what it took Cynder eight to do?" Alec replied coldly.

"That plus it would be easier for me to take control of you," Malefor said.

"But you didn't take control of me," Alec said, "Or at least you didn't keep it."

"But they think I do," Malefor said, "And the demon dragons believed that I have taken you back as my general. And that I why I need your help. The demon dragons were the one's who were controlling me when I was the 'Dark Master'. So I was just as much of a victim as Cynder was to my power. They revived me to serve them. But their major flaw was their method of reviving me. I was revived by Tetrix' power to raise the dead. He wanted me to be the leader of his zombie army. So he gave me intelligence. But the flaw was that by doing so, I was no longer under his control. But I have to keep up this act and pretend that I still serve them because they still hold my life, if you can call it that, in their claws."

"So, I'm supposed to free you from them?" Alec questioned.

"We'll get into that another time," Malefor said as he and Alec arrived at the entrance to the catacombs of Mt Malefor, "Let's see how good of an actor you are."

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Back at the Temple, Xander was watching guard on Jaye, who yawned as he was bored. But his boredom was immediately stopped when he heard someone stirring. Looking to where it came from, it came from Jaye.