Shadows of Ronco

Chapter 7: Purple of Light and Purple of Dark.

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula



   I growled as I leaped at him trying to swipe at him with my claw just to have him roll to the side of me and head butt me as I looked at him. I took a step back to regain my sight as I watched him hit me with a bomb of pure fire that exploded as it made contact with me. I coughed as I inhaled the smoke and immediately flapped my wings making the smoke dissipate.

   I looked up and saw him jump at me ready to strike but I grinned and swung my tail around and smacked him out of the air. I watched him land with a thud and I walked out of the smoke wiping some soot off my neck.

   “You’re not bad.” I said as I looked him over. I stood still as I drew a deep breath and let loose with a small whirlwind of air as it flowed from my mouth and I watched as he countered with his own fire breath which didn’t have the dark aura that Cynder’s had but was still able to stand against my air stream. We stood there for a good minute before I watched his fire and my air swirl upwards into a fire typhoon which then busted out and sent both of us sliding back a little from the expulsion of energy.

   “What kind of Element was that?!” he asked out loud in shock at seeing the Air breathe I had recently discovered thanks to the pressure the Stone Sentinel had applied on me.

   “I’m not too sure myself. But it sure is handy.” I say as the dragonfly whispered to him something and he nodded quickly as I stepped closer to him. And I watched him quickly let loose a stream of pure cold and ice which hit me hard and I could feel the ice freezing my front claws. I stood my ground as I let felt sparks of flames escape my mouth.

   I released my fire at my feet to melt them free before turning my fire having it meet the little ones ice. The two streams countered each other perfectly and wouldn’t budge until we both stopped as we had both needed a breather.

   “Why are you on her side?” he asked in our moment of break.

   “Because I need to be. She is the only one I have to call a, “Family,”” I explain as I leaped at him and smacked him with my wings and chased him smacking him with my claws and horns constantly as I got my second wind. When I watched him land and he raised his head to the air before lowering it quickly launching a volley of energy projectiles that had homed in on me. The three projectiles hit me hard and launched me into the air and held me there as the little one jumped up and followed up my barrage of strikes with his own.

   As I saw him coming down with his tail I had no choice but to let out my Sound breathe which had taken him by surprise. He was knocked out of his attack and into a rock as the lightning that held me subsided and I dropped to the ground. I groaned as I stood up and looked at the dragon as he stood up as well. I feared any longer and I would lose to him I needed to end this quickly. It needed to end…. Now!

   I reared back my head opening my mouth letting a ball of sound build in my mouth as I was about ready to end it here and now. I quickly screamed out the waves that I had been holding back and watched as the dragon slammed through the rock from the sheer force and the rock crumbled under the force and his weight.

   I grinned as the dragonfly flew to him as he wasn’t moving shaking him hoping I had only knocked him out. I turned away back to the Ice dragon to see his reaction but before I could get a good look I heard some rustling behind me.

   “You won’t win…” I heard as I saw a spark of fire blew by my face and I quickly turned to see the dragon was up on his feet. If that wasn’t the least of my worries I saw fire rising and swirling around him as if acting like a barrier. I watched him hover in the air as the fire grew more and more until he had finally opened his eyes and starred right at me. With a single flap of his wings the fire that had surrounded him exploded out from around him. The fire slammed into me with enough force to knock me straight into the wall of rocks next to where the ice dragon was laying.

   As I slammed into the rocks I fell to the ground and looked up to see him land on his feet and rush over as I laid on the ground in pain before finally blacking out from his unusual power and the damage it had done to me. It felt like years since I had slept but it felt odd this time. Odd as in as I laid asleep I felt something leave me whatever was keeping me in that grown state left and I felt my body shrink as if returning to my former appearance.

   I have no idea how long I was out for but it wasn’t long enough to have the pain from my impact to subside I held my head as I slowly woke up and stood on my feet. I opened my eyes to see myself not in the pit where I had fought the other dragon in but was in some sort of stone room which had a outer line of grass, vines, and fungi from years of abandonment.

   It was a circular room with two doors on opposite sides of the room. One was open and leading to a balcony which didn’t have a roof to protect it from the elements. In the center of the room was a pool of green liquid which I didn’t know what importance it had here but I shrugged at noticing it.

   I looked at the other door as I had heard a sound like something shattering. I walked to the door and pressed my head against it as I heard a bunch of noises like someone was fighting while others were talking. I heard a large blast like noise and was surprised when I fell over on my face in surprise as the doors had opened on their own.

   “Ow… That was real smart…” I said as I stood back up and sat down and looked at the new room to see four other dragons in an open room looking like a training room as the center as it was a barren stone area that had sigils in it that looked to spawn training dummies.

   I couldn’t help but let out a yelp in shyness as I saw the purple dragon I had tried to kill not long ago and the ice dragon I was to protect as an order by Cynder. The other two I didn’t know but I think they knew me from what the other two had told them. One was a yellow and blue dragon. I noticed the yellow dragon had white markings looking like Lightning bolts. While the tip of his tail looked like a combination of axe and sword with the curve of an axe but was the length of a decent sword.

   The other dragon was a Red and light brown colored dragon. He shared the ice dragon’s feature where he had a somewhat fire like feature on his front forelegs. He looked more like a commander in terms of his stern look he was giving me as if trying to decide if I was really there. I noticed his tail tip looked strangely nothing like the others looking more like an outright flame.

   “Oh good your awake. How are you feeling?” I heard as I jumped and snapped back to reality as I had noticed the purple dragon had walked up to me as I was staring at the three larger dragons.

   “Umm. I’ve been better but I’ll be fine.” I answered not wanting to look at him in guilt but he moved into my eyesight no matter where I turned.

   “I’m glad you’re ok. What is your name anyway in the chaos you never said it” He asked as I looked him over.

   “Ronco. I go by Ronco. It’s an odd name from what I’ve been told. What about you?” I replied as I was curious to why he wasn’t more cautious.

   “I’m Spyro. I-“Spyro started as the dragonfly flew between us.

   “Sorry to break up this Lovely conversation but why is he still here?” he asked as if I wasn’t there.

   “Sparx. He is another dragon like me we can’t just leave him on his own. Cynder might find him.” He answered as the dragonfly flew out of my face and I sighed as I couldn’t blame him for wanting me gone. “I’m sorry about him. That’s Sparx.” He introduced me to him as he started to walk over to the other dragons and I hesitated to walk toward them but still followed him after taking a deep breath.

   “I see our surprise guest is finally awake.” The Red dragon said as he looked at me.

   “This is most surprising, stupefying, impossible and improbable. Two Purple Dragons.” The yellow one said as the blue one shushed him quickly

   “Now, now calm down Volteer we don’t need you confusing the lad with your nearly incoherent babble.” He added.

   “So what is your name young one?” The red one asked me directly ignoring the other two as they argued a little.

   “Ronco. That’s the name I was given.” I answered as he smiled.

   “Ronco is it? Well then I’m glad you seem well after all that I have heard from Spyro about what had transpired at Tall Plains. Hopefully you can help enlighten how it is you came to be a pawn of Cynder’s.” he said as Spyro stood next to him. “You already met Spyro and Sparx obviously. I’m the Guardian of Fire you may called me Ignitus. You have already met Cyril the guardian of ice while in Tall Plains.” Ignitus said as he motioned toward the blue dragon as he stopped arguing with the yellow dragon.

   “Yes. I’m terribly sorry we couldn’t have done a proper introduction before you blacked out.” Cyril said quickly.


   “And the yellow dragon here is Volteer.” Ignitus continued as Volteer stood forward.

   “It is most pleasing to meet you Ronco. And might I add quite perplexing to see another purple dragon aside from young Spyro.” He explained as I saw ignitus point to the center of the stone area.

   “With all the introductions out of the way. Ronco if you’d care to step into the center so we may see what it is you can do.” Ignitus asked me as I nodded and I slowly walked into the center and watched as the stone summoned 6 small training dummies that looked and moved like the apes I worked with.

To Be continued…