Spi-Ky-Ro! King of Purple Dragons
Long ago, when the Multiverse was still young, there existed a planet inhabited by sentient moles, cheetahs, apes, grublins, and dragons. But one powerful purple dragon attempted to use his power over all elemental dragon breaths to destroy the entire planet. Until a braver and even more powerful younger purple dragon locked the evil dragon away, imprisoning him within the core of the planet. . .
Now, many light-years away, on the magical flat-planet of Equestria, a young dragon named Spike unlocks the secret of the Purple Emerald Pendant. He is infused with ancient magical energies, for destiny has chosen him to defend the Multiverse from the return of the Dark Master, just as the brave purple dragon did, on the faraway planet of the Dragon Realms. . .
Episode 1
Convexity Fury! The Purple Dragon Obliterates!
Spike ran his claws over the pendant in his hand. It had a gold chain that was attached to an oval shaped amethyst about the size of a chicken's egg. The gem's back was encased in gold, and its front sparkled with a purplish-violet color.
"Now who would just bury such an amazing pendant?"
Rarity's voice snapped Spike out of his almost hypnotic state induced by the pendant and looked up at Rarity. Spike had been helping her collect gems for her outfits, when he had discovered, amongst a few gems that were naturally growing beneath the ground, the mysterious pendant.
"I know, it's so weird, and the ground was perfectly flat. It didn't look like anyone had done any digging here," Spike said.
Rarity shrugged, and her horn began to glow. Spike's eyes widened as the pendant was placed around his neck.
"It certainly does bring out the color of your scales," Rarity said smoothly.
Spike grinned smugly, "Oh yeah!"
"Why don't you keep it?"
Spike's eyes widened, "Really? But, you could use it for an outfit or-."
Rarity waved her hoof and said, "Nonsense, Spike. Besides, this is a very rare and special find,
and you are a very rare and special dragon."
Spike's heart kicked into overdrive. "Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh! Rarity thinks I'm a rare and special dragon!" he thought excitedly.
"And, you did give me that gorgeous Fire Ruby," Rarity said, "So now we'll each have gem to compliment our mutual good looks."
"Wow, t-thanks Rarity! I'll never take it off!" Spike said, full of emotion.
"Oh, don't mention it. Well, I think we have enough gems, let's head back over to Ponyville now. Just wait till everyone sees you wearing that gorgeous gem."
Spike pretty much skipped his way back to Ponyville while pulling the cart full of gems. He was so oblivious to the world around him that he couldn't see was going on right in front of his eyes.
"Spike! Look at that! I don't believe it!"
Spike turned to see Rarity shocked and appalled face, and then turned to see a terrible sight.
Every single one of Sugar Cube Corner's windows had been broken. Standing in front of the sweet shop were Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. Standing between them and Spike was a very familiar looking griffin.
"Gilda?" Spike gasped.
Gilda whirled around and said, "Well, well, well! If it isn't the marshmallow and the misfit!"
"You, miss, are about the rudest griffin to ever fly in the skies of Equestria!" Rarity said in disgust.
"Relax, Rarity, leave this to me!" Spike said confidently.
"To you? A lame baby dragon! Ha!" Gilda laughed, and she shot a talon forward and grabbed Spike's pendant, ripping it from his neck.
"Hey! That's mine!" Spike shouted angrily.
"Not anymore!" Gilda said, and she dropped it on the ground, reared back on her hind legs, and with a mighty cry of an eagle, slammed down on it with her talon.
Gasps arose from all of the surrounding ponies.
Spike's eyes teared up as he stared at the pendant, now broken clean in half.
. . .This is a very rare and special find, and you are a very rare and special dragon. . .
"Hmmph, garbage!" Gilda said, as she turned towards Dash and Pinkie.
"Gilda!" Rainbow gasped in horror, "I can't believe you did that!"
"You aren't just a meanie pants!" Pinkie said, hopping up and down with rage, "You're a big huge meanie pants with meanie suspenders with a matching mean shirt topped with a big bully hat!"
Gilda's beak curled into a smirk and she replied, "Well guess what, I don't care. I lost my only friend to these Ponyville lame-o's, so now I'm just getting my revenge."
"You didn't loose my friendship because of them, G," Dash replied in a hard steely voice, "You lost it because 'A', you're a mean jerk, and 'B', you just stink at making new friends!"
Gilda crouched down low and readied herself to spring. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie readied themselves as well when all of a sudden, Spike jumped in between the griffin and ponies.
"Spike! Get out of the way!" Dash shouted in annoyance.
The clasp hadn't been broken. Spike now wore the broken pendant around his neck, holding the broken half in his hand tightly.
"You..." Spike said, his voice full of hate, his green eyes almost ablaze with emerald fire, his face twisted into an angry scowl.
Before long, Twilight, Applejack, and Fluttershy had arrived at the scene.
"G- G- Gilda!" Fluttershy squeaked with fright.
"Boy, howdy! Look at Spike!" Applejack said.
Twilight gulped and did the anime sweat-drop nervously. "Uh-oh. I haven't seen Spike this angry since he was jealous of Owlicious!"
"Spike! Don't do anything foolish! It isn't worth it!" Rarity called out in concern.
"Oh yeah it is!" Spike shouted, "This bird-brain over here trashes the place, threatens my friends, and break something really important to me! Oh, I'm not letting her get away with this!"
Gilda laughed and said, "Whatcha gonna do? Drool on me, little lame baby dragon? Hit me with your best shot!"
Spike pointed dramatically at Gilda with the broken piece of his pendant and said, "You bet I will, Gilda! Look out, cause I'm feeling the flow!"
The broken piece immediately began to glow with purple light. Spike gasped as the piece flashed, and reappeared connected to the rest of the pendant. Another flash of light, and the crack between them was gone.
"It's. . .all fixed!" Spike gasped.
The surprises didn't stop there. The pendant then began to glow bright purple, and then it shook violently. Spike's green eyes widened as purple light overtook his vision. . .
Spike found himself floating in darkness. Suddenly, a sphere of the purple light appeared in front of him. It slowly began to take form into. . . . .a purple dragon.
Although the dragon stood about a head taller than him, Spike couldn't believe how similar this dragon was to him. Although he lacked the green thingies Spike had on either side of his head, the resemblance was uncanny. Of course, there were a few major differences. The dragon's shade of purple was a slightly darker shade than Spike's, the dragon's own spikes and underbelly were gold, not green, and he had a bigger and wider snout than Spike. But other than that, everything was exactly were it was supposed to be.
As Spike stared at the dragon, he noticed something he hadn't noticed right away. At first glance,
the dragon appeared to be wingless, but when Spike looked closer, he saw two golden stubs on either of the dragon's sides.
His wings had apparently been ripped right off.
The mysterious dragon opened his eyes and stared back at Spike.
After an awkward silence, Spike asked, "Who – who - who. . .man I sound like Owlicious here! I mean, who are you?"
The dragon looked around nervously, looking a little lost and confused, an replied, "Spyro." Judging by his voice, the dragon seemed to be only a couple years older than Spike, perhaps around Twilight's age.
Spike nodded and shakily held out a claw, "I'm Spike. Er, nice to meet you?" he said with a nervous smile.
Spyro blinked slowly, reached a claw, and shook with Spike.
"Er, well, look I'm not really sure why I'm here or what I'm supposed to do. Maybe-," Spyro stopped and stared in horror behind Spike's shoulder, "Maybe I need to help you beat that!"
Spike turned and gasped. Floating there, flapping bat-like wings, was a terrible creature. It had a dark red body, wings that stretched from the back of its arms to its tail, and three pairs of insect-like legs. Its face resembled a demonically deranged dragon, with eyes glowing crimson red.
And then, all of a sudden, Spike found himself back in reality, standing in front of a haughty eyed and unimpressed Gilda. However, Spike was too busy looking at the creature, transparent and ghost like, that slowly floated down until Gilda was within it. Gilda's eyes popped wide upon in horror as the creature, invisible to her, became mist and began to force its way into her body.
"Gah! What's going on! What with all this. . .power?" she groaned out.
"Yes, Gilda the Griffon. Let the will of the Dark Master take hold..." a malicious voice whispered into her ear.
Gilda let out a mighty screech as black fire came out of her. After the flames subsided, Gilda had changed. She now had the wings and the eyes of the nightmarish creature.
"Spike."
Spike turned to see the ghost like image of Spyro next to him.
"Spyro! What just happened?"
"That was a Wyvern, an evil creature of darkness, and it has somehow fused with that angry
creature."
"Griffon," Spike corrected.
"Spike! What are you doing! Quit talking to yourself! RUN!"
Spike turned toward Twilight, who had been shrieking at the top of her lungs. Clearly everyone was terrified of what Gilda had become, and they were concerned for his safety.
"I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to him," Spike said in annoyance, pointing over to Spyro.
"Quit joking around Spike, get out of there!" Twilight shouted.
"But I'm not-," Spike began, but then sudden realization hit him. He turned to Spyro and said, "I'm the only one that can see you."
Spyro nodded and said, "Spike, I know we just met and all, but if we don't stop this Wyvern, this town, and everything and everybody in it will be destroyed." Spyro took a deep breath and said, "I need you to let me take over your body."
"WHAT?" Spike shouted in shock.
"Please. I might be the only one that can stop this thing. I promise that once I'm done, I'll put you back in control. Please, do this for your friends. Do it to save them."
Spike looked over to where his friends were. They were all staring at Spike with concerned, and in Fluttershy's case, horrified, expressions. Spike then turned to Gilda, wings flared out and red eyes narrowed menacingly.
Spike took a deep breath. . .
"Do it."
Spyro smiled broadly, and was suddenly sucked into Spike's pendant. The amethyst began to glow once again, and it shook and rattled about.
Spike gasped as he threw his head back out of some bizarre reflex. The power building up inside him was so great, that he had no choice but to let out a mighty roar:
"Spi – Ky – Rooooooooo!"
And then, where Spike once stood, stood Spyro.
"What the-?" Gilda gasped, taking a step back as her glowing eyes widened.
"Gilda," Spyro said with a smile, "Prepare yourself, cause I'm gonna take you down!"
Gilda snarled and flew forward, talons outstretched to strike.
Spyro, undaunted, breathed a huge blast of red fire at the possessed griffin.
Gilda snapped to a halt and pulled her bat wings in, blocking the blast of fire completely.
Once the flames subsided, Gilda glared confidently and sneered, "Foolish dragon, your pathetic breath cannot harm me!"
"I have no pathetic breaths, wyvern!" Spyro announced confidently, "But I do have. . .convexity!"
Gilda's eyes expanded with fear as she reared back in horror, "No! Impossible!"
Spyro placed his claws over the pendant as it glew with an error purple energy. The energy expanded over Spyro until his entire body was glowing with it.
"Convexity! NO!" Gilda exclaimed.
"Convexity Fury! OBLITHERATE!" Spyro roared as copies of his head, formed out of convexity energy, shot out and crashed and smashed into Gilda.
"Nooooooooo!" Gilda screeched as the spirit of the wyvern was ripped out of her body and dashed to a million pieces.
When the carnage cleared, Spike once again stood in amazement. Gilda stood, shaking violently, drained of strength. She looked over at Spike and said, "I. . .I. . .give up."
She collapsed.
That night, Mr. Cake stood with a sack of bits Gilda had literally thrown at him after she came from Nurse Redheart's emergency room. There was more than enough to pay for the damaged windows.
The group watched as Gilda flew off from Sugar Cube Corner without a word.
"Gilda, what happened to you back there?" Dash said with a note of sorrow.
"Something, or some force possessed her, I'm sure of it," Twilight said, "I sensed some very strong magic coming from Gilda, and from you too Spike."
"Well ya don't gotta be a unicorn to see that! How in the name of acorns and apples did you do alla that, Spike?" Applejack asked.
Spyro's spirit appeared next to Spike and said, "Go ahead, take the credit. Makes something up for now. You can explain things to them another time."
Spike nodded and said, "Er, well, I think it was. . .this pendant! Yeah, that's it! It gave my fire a boost, and it let me do that Convexity thingy. Yeah!"
Twilight touched her horn to the amethyst and said, "Hmm, well, I sense magic, but I can't really study it all. It's like it has a magical barrier around it."
"Well whatever it was, it was awesome!" Rainbow Dash cheered.
"Yeah!" Pinkie said jumping back and forth, imitating scenes of the battle as she rattled them off,
"First Gilda was like: smash! And Spike was like: you big meanie! And then Gilda was like: auuuuuuuggggh- rooooooaaaaar! And Spike was like Convexiteeeeeeeeeee! And Gilda was all: Nooooooooooooooooo!"
As everyone laughed at Pinkie's antics, Spike was suddenly whisked away into dark space.
"I figured that you'd want to talk to me," Spyro said.
Spike nodded and said, "Yeah. So, well, who are you exactly?"
Spyro sighed and hung his head, "I don't know. I seemed to have lost my memory. I don't why I was in that pendant, or what world I'm from, or even how I lost both my wings." Spyro sadly looked behind him at where his wings once were. "I'm all alone, I guess."
Spyro gasped as Spike wrapped his arms around his neck in a hug.
"You're not alone," Spike said, "You've got me, and when you think we're ready to explain things to the others, you'll have them too."
Spyro gave a small smile as he began to hug the smaller dragon back.
Spike returned to reality and smiled as he saw all his friends laughing happily.
"Thanks Spyro, for saving them," Spike thought.
"Hey, Spike."
Spike blushed as Rarity got close to him.
"I want to thank you. And not just for doing that battle, I mean that was really brave you, don't think I don't appreciate that but," Rarity blushed and took a breath, "Look, what I'm trying to say is, well, before all of the magic and power and, when you stood up to Gilda for me when she broke the pendant, well, that was. . .oh look at me I'm rambling, I'll do it this way."
Rarity kissed him on the cheek.
"YES! YES! That makes three! Third time's a charm! THREE! YES!" Spike thought jubilantly, although his physical body was currently paralyzed with euphoria.
As Spyro watched this, he thought, "Is this familiar? But, how? When have...? Could these be...?"
"This wasn't supposed to be like this. I feel so alone."
"You're not alone."
"I think I can stop it. I think I'm meant to."
"Then I'm with you. . . . . . .I love you. . ."
". . .my memories?" Spyro gasped.