Perils Of War TLOS (Book 2)

Chapter Four

"Your... parents? Oh, your Spyro!" the green dragonfly said

"That's me" He answered, and Cynder chuckled

The dragonfly flew back inside, then they heard a latch slide and then a voice called them inside. They walked into the house to see a bunch of tiny huts spread out around a massive room. The green dragonfly landed outside one of the huts and knocked on the door. Nina peeked her head out and immediately noticed Spyro.

"Spyro!" She yelled, and burst out the door to land on his snout

Flash flew out and stopped right in front of him.

"Where have you been?" He asked "We've been worried about you"

"In another dimension, Michael made us take a forced break after the fortress we were on got shot down." Spyro answered

"For six months?" Nina replied

"He was a bit... Busy" Cynder cut in

"I'm glad you're okay" She replied

"Where's Sparx?" Spyro asked

"He's at work, he collects building supplies for the village" Flash answered

"I wanted to check in, but I also wanted to warn you, some dark forces were detected not far from here. They expect a siege soon." Spyro told them

"What! Here?" Flash asked

"Warfang is the planet's best defense, they will try to take it first before taking the rest of the planet" Cynder told them.

"I should go warn June, and she will go find Sparx." Flash flew away

"We tried to get a letter to Michael asking about you but all we got was a brisk 'they're fine' on a paper covered in blood" Nina told

"Yeah, he was leading an army into a siege, so I'm surprised he even was able to respond." Spyro said

A letter appeared over Spyro's head, he grabbed it and read it

"A cursed army was spotted advancing on the city, were needed on the fortress. I love you mom, stay safe, this part of the city should be untouched." Spyro told her.

The two dragons flew back to the fortress, they landed right beside Ember, she had an annoyed look on her face.

"You okay?" Cynder asked

"Fine, just my mom being terrible to Flame. She is a bit busy, so busy in fact, that she had no time to see her daughter after she was away for six months. And when Flame called her out, she snapped at him." Ember answered, with a frustrated sigh.

Trice landed across the square and walked up to Michael. She said something and he laughed, the six dragons made their way to the war room. Once in there Spyro noticed a projection of Warfang, it showed the entire city and its immediate surroundings. The cursed army was staged a few clicks away from the main gates. They had siege towers and cannons pointed at the city.

"Can we hold them?" Cynder asked

"With the shields over the city and the new cannons in place, we should be able to hold an army four times that size, I don't think they know the importance of this planet." Michael answered

"We have six fortresses on standby if we need them" A general told them

"We will be fine" Michael reassured them.

A bell started ringing at the main gate.

"They're advancing"

The group left the room and landed on top of the gate, watching the army march towards their location. The fortress's cannons started firing first, massive booms echoed through the city. Then as the army reached their range, the city's cannons started firing. Spyro felt the vibrations of each shot. The cannons were severely damaging the enemy, barely any of the first wave made it to the shields. The offense cannons and catapults started returning fire. The city's shield took the direct hits, but did not crack. The soldiers started to pass the shields, and charged the city's walls, archers took their positions and started releasing arrows down on the ascending soldiers. After a few agonizingly long minutes, the wave died down, then stopped, leaving no cursed soldiers left to advance.