Chapter 8: Sparx the Dragonfly

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 There since the dawn of both species existed a special consummation between Dragons and Dragonflies. Dragonflies were a conduit of Earthly magic, while Dragons were wielders of Earthly magic. However, the relationship between a purple Dragon and their Dragonfly was even more unique. Whenever a golden Dragonfly would land on a Dragon egg, the Elder Dragons would know another purple Dragon was to be born, the quintessence of the Dragon spirit, courage, and ability. The bond between a purple Dragon and their Dragonfly is more than just loyalty. The Dragonfly acts as both an amplifier of the Dragon's magic, as well as their protector. A golden Dragonfly acts as the guardian of its purple Dragon's life. To ensure that he or she is never killed before it's natural life ends. No golden Dragonfly had ever needed to make the ultimate sacrifice except one: Aurea the Dragonfly. She willingly had to give up her life for her purple Dragon she was chosen to protect.

The battle between Malefor and the Sorcerer was that saddening time. Losing his Dragonfly at his age was hard for Malefor, and some could argue it was the beginning of his disconnection to the Dragon community. He began to question his elder Dragons, why they had needed him solely to murder the dangerous Sorcerer (or how they phrased it, stop him) and why only he could accomplish this. He in his adolescence sought ways to use Power Crystals to revive the Dragonfly that accompanied him since birth, his best friend. That was when Malefor began to learn the true power of the Crystals, why the Sorcerer had campaigned to have total control over them, and why his elders' insisted on governing their use.

This is where the Sorceress came into the picture. The Elder Dragons were warned of her father rising to wreak havoc on the world, and trained Malefor to defeat him. What they could have never anticipated was the Sorcerer's daughter succeeding her father in power, and more importantly in anger and rage. She sought not control over the world (well, not at first), but vengeance upon all Dragons for executing her father. And the only Dragon at the time that stood a chance at defeating her had now forgone their control, hating and resenting the Elder Dragons for what they made him do and the Dragonfly it coast him, renouncing his loyalty to all Dragons and essentially sought the same power the Sorcerer and his daughter would eventually crave. Malefor's quest never did bring back Aurea; it instead corrupted him and turned him into a vindictive and maleficent creature of hatred and evil. The Sorceress, unopposed, led her people for a war over the Forgotten Realms. Dragons from all over the world now were engaged in a bloody war against the Dinopotamuses, and although the Dragon's effort to have good triumph over evil was courageous and brave, they eventually were defeated by the Sorceress. The surviving Dragons were forced to flee to six islands that are the Dragon Realms, where they hid for a thousand years, waiting in fear and in shame for not being able to protect the world from the malice of the Sorcerer or his daughter. Dragons formed an impenetrable magic barrier keeping her out, and prayed that one day another purple Dragon would be born, so that they could use him or her to defend their culture and heritage from the wrath of the Sorceress.

Malefor remained in the Forgotten Realm, not hiding from the Sorceress, but instead demonstrated his command of magic by (like the Sorceress) becoming immortal, and dared her to try to kill him. The one Dragon who matched her command of magic, the one Dragon she couldn't intimidate, couldn't overpower, couldn't kill. Because of how Malefor's existence tormented her, she searched of ways to defeat this legendary purple Dragon. This was how the Sorceress became aware of the legends surrounding Dragonflies, how they were a vital part of Dragon's manipulation of Earthly Magic, so she set out to have all of them systematically killed. Because there were no more Dragons to defend them, they were slaughtered. Aurea's husband, Ardescere, did everything in his power to hide and protect their son from the Sorcerer. His golden glowing son, who someday would aid another purple Dragon against the monster now destroying his race, he hid from the Sorceress. There was nothing the Dragonflies could do to stop the genocide of their kind, but maybe someday another purple Dragon would be born and avenge their species. Sparx would have to wait a thousand years for Spyro to be born. He almost emerged from his perpetual sleep, until the egg disappeared. He would then have to wait a hundred thousand more years, until Spyro was born inside the home of a time traveling bandicoot that inadvertently saved Spyro from the Sorceress. His wait finally over, Sparx patiently waited until he could make the long journey to a remote archipelago to meet the purple Dragon he was supposed to serve as a loyal friend and loving protector.  

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