Spyro cleared his throat and said "Welcome all to the grand council of ARK, now before we start our talks and discussions, I would please request all of you to stay quiet for the national anthem."

Suddenly the ARKian national anthem started to play through hidden speakers, it was an epic and dramatic national anthem with no words in it, like a theme song. It always lifted my heart with pride and I suspected it lifted the hearts of others as well, which was good, as that was the duty of a proper national anthem

[ARK's official anthem <watch till the end and enjoy the coolness>]

After 2 minutes, the national anthem finished, Spyro said "Firstly, I would like to thank you for coming, especially the mini bosses as even if it isn't required, they have come. Now let's get down to business, most of you may be wondering 'Where is Fenrir and where is the Crystal Queen?' Well to answer  your questions, both the provinces of Fjordur and the Crystal Isles have been taken over by the enemy, and unfortuenelty we have lost both Fenrir and the crystal queen to the demons that plague our land, let us have a moment of silence for then and than we will continue with the reports."

I was shocked to hear this. Two of ARKs newest provinces were already taken over. This was bad. I tried to get Hollowjacks's attention but he was staring at the ground, he must be really sad after hearing the news. I looked over at Gigant who also looked at me with alarm, both Fjordur and the Crystal Isles were important for ARK, the Crystal Isles was a major trade port and Fjordur was a strategic location against the Xenoian empire. Gigant mouthed the words "How could this happen?" I shook my head because even I didn't know.

Suddenly Spryo said "Carcha, how is the situation down in the lost isles, that place is important as it is right underneath us." Carcha replied "Sad news my lord, the last of our forces down there have been defeated, there was no sign of the skulldoms, but recently, 1 million skull crawlers csme out from the Pit (Tartarus) and attacked us, it seems like someone opened the entrance to Tartarus, however before escaping I managed to close it with 20 000 brave Acrocanthosauruses, none of them survived. I do not know if any other creature escaped, and by the way, I wouldn't worry too much, the lost isles is thousands of miles below the floating island and nothing can touch us." Spyro sighed, he said "Losing the lost isles is devastating as our main enemies were banished there, they may now be able to escape, well that's fine, we will manage." His brother Mufasa said "That idiot Skullcrusher, he opened the door to Tartarus, has he no common sense? As the master of all prisons I condem his actions". Bokito replied "At ease brother, we still have other prisons that are well guarded and I dont think you condeming Skullcrusher's actions will have an effect on him.."

So we had lost the lost isles (get it?). This was bad, I wanted to say something but Spyro had told me to keep quiet.

Than Spyro said "Venator, what is happening in Abberation?". Venator replied "All is going well my lord, the capital, Landfall, is under control, so are the other cities and zones. However the lower regions, including the rock drake nests, have been captured, the entrance to the lost isles, the Crystal Isles, Fjordur and Scorched earth have been captured which may aid them in taking those provinces, the radiation zones have also been captured, we tried sending spinos and Reaper Kings to defend them as they are mostly resistant to radiation, but just like spinos getting an energy boost from water and Reaper king's from darkness, the Skulldoms seemed to gain energy from the radiation. The former chamber of Rockwell, the previous owner of Abberation, is where the main fighting is happening as it is right in the center of Abberation." Spyro said "Thank you Venator, and don't worry about the radiation, all hybrids seem to get a boost from it. We must be ready for anything and protect Abberation at all costs, it is the center and heart of ARK." Arachnid said "Spyro, allow me to go to the Rockwell Chamber. I will help drove the enemy out. If Skullcrusher manages to revive Rockwell, well I fear for the future of ARK." Spyro said "Yes you are right sister, take Kai with you, that way he will learn more about our enemy". Lord Kai smiled enthusiastically, he said "Thanks big brother, I can't wait to see this 500 year old enemy I have heard so much about."

For those of you who don't know, before it's annexation, Abberation was an underground massive empire which was a superpower at the time. It was led by Rockwell who was a massive homo sapien mutated by the radiation, apparently he had several tentacles to do his bidding and also, he always had to be in pool of liquid element. In the beginning, Abberation had an alliance with ARK, until Rockwell launched 10 million Reaper Kings against us. They were all slaves and instead of killing them, Spyro freed them and used them against Rockwell, apparently Rockwell was so powerfull that he managed to kill the only 2 siblings of Spyro who were alive at that time, while they were working together, them being Bokito and Arachnid (as Mufasa and Kai came later). However, being bosses they spawned back after 3 weeks. Spyro finally defeated Rockwell by tricking him to send his whole army to attack the Xenoian empire and while they fought, he led 5 million troops in and since Rockwell couldn't leave Abberation, he was caught off guard and killed. Spyro than located Rockwell's respawn anchor and destroyed it. Than he claimed Abberation making one of the slaves–Venator, the leader. Rockwell's Chambers was a huge cavern with a liquid element pool in the middle. It was the center of Abberation where Rockwell lived, he usually lived inside the pool, as it was 50 kilometers deep and 30 kilometers wide.. It was a really strategic location as liquid element rivers led from there to every single corner of Abberation.

[Rockwell's chamber]

[Rockwell]

Spyro said "Okay next, Flame, care to tell me what is happening in scorched earth." Flame replied " It is bad my lord, half of the open uninhabitable desert has been captured, the Skulldoms are apparently immune to the intense heat and have set up base there. The Great Canyons have also been captured, as well as the capital city, Nox. The dinos have escaped the city and now reside in sulfur mountain, with rock and rubble golems guarding them, as it is their home. The wyvern canyon, my own home, has been under seige for several weeks. We have been defending the province but I fear that we will soon be overwhelmed. A couple of Thorny dragons and terror birds tried to help but unfortunately ended up as Skulldom dinner. And most importantly the entrance to the scorched sea is blocked leaving us with no port." Spyro said "Do not worry my friends I have already dispatched several Apex spinos to reclaim the scorched sea, since they are great ocean and land fighters, they will be able to help you." Suddenly Kai said "Spyro, brother, I was there during the seige, we had to come here through the hidden cave that connected the wyvern ravine to sulfur mountain. Everyday they commit war crimes, yesterday they sent us a baby poison wyvern with its head mangled and its wings torn and stuffed inside it's guts." Spyro growled in anger and said "Do not worry brother, I will send division 10 of the Arkian army, those skulldoms will feel the rage of ravagers as they tear them apart."

(By the way, Scorched earth has one of ARKs longest port and sea, the scorched sea is not scorched, it is just a name.)

Spyro than said "What about you Magma? Any troubles in Ragnarok?". Magma replied "Not really my lord, just a few indoms and skull crawlers found near the Viking bay but nothing I couldn't burn, I guess being an island nation really helps." Spyro replied "Excellant news, this is great, but be careful, anything at anytime could happen"

He than said "And what about you Prowl, any thing off in Valguero?" She replied "My lord, 50 indoms attacked Mineral Mountain but the Yutyranuses that lived there got them, also the ice wyvern ravine is under seige so they cannot help us that much, overall Valguero remains in our hands". Bokito said "It seems that Skullcrusher has laid siege to both the ice wyvern den and the Schorched earth Wyvern den. He has made sure that neither lightening, fire, poison or ice wyvern can help us. He has also taken the crystal isles and thus even the crystal wyverns can't help us [crystal wyverns are mythical creatures like unicorns and until recently we didn't know they existed, they have pure blasts of energy instead of fire, lightening, poison or ice breaths]. We have no aerial support it seems." Spyro replied "At ease brother, we still have the rock drakes, they can't fly but at least they can glide. Also the flying division of our army which includes argentavis, pteranadons  tropeognatus and quetzalcoatluses can help even if they are not as powerfull as the wyverns." Kai said "I am confused brother, the skulldoms can't fly, so what air troops does Skullcrusher have?" It was Arachnid this time who said "The Desmodi have allied with the Skulldoms, apparently they think we didn't think of them as superior as the Onyx which in fact, are there relatives, also, the Crystal wyverns function in such a way that the Queen controls them all, if Skullcrusher himself killed the queen than unless there is an egg laid by her, than Skullcrusher is the king. So they are also dangerous adversaries". Spyro said "She does have an egg, but it is with me, just a few days ago she came to me and told me that her province was about to fall and that she wanted me to care for her egg and child incase she couldn't make it. However, I am sure Skullcrusher has lied to the Crystal Wyverns about crushing the egg, that imbecile".

For those of you who don't know, Onyx are small bats who are as big as dodos, they are barely as big as my sail, however their older cousins, the desmodi [plural desmodus] are much larger, half my size and as big as a pteranadon, they hunt other flying creatures and suck their blood, which is why we mostly avoid them leading them to believe that we are racist, honestly these bats are really sensitive, they also hate their younger cousins the Onyx and have fougth them several times. If they had allied with the Skulldoms than that meant they were truly desperate for equality.

The fact that crystal wyverns, which were one of the most strongest wyverns, were on the enemy's side, was terrifying, along with the fact that our own wyverns were unavailable  sent shivers the my spine. Hollowjack was still looking at the ground, almost tears in his eyes, why was he near to crying? Next to me Gigant was also completely in shock. Thankfully no one had noticed us yet, Spyro put one of his wings on Aracnid's back who was also in shock, to most this would have seemed like a comforting gesture but in reality he did it to cover us underneath the massive wing.

Spyro than continued "Next, Aphopys my good friend and fellow boss, what is happening in Extinction." Aphophys said "All is well my lord, I don't know about the 4 sub biomes but everywhere else there is peace, I have even created a corrupted Dino army which includes 2 million corrupted dinos. If you want than we can send them first into battle to reduce the enemy numbers." Spyro said "Excellant, Frost, why don't you tell us what is going on in the ice sub biome." [Frost was the nickname given to the ice titan to make it easier to talk to him, other than him, groot is the nickname of the forest titan and Burn the desert titan's, now, back to the story]. Frost replied "As usual my lord, there are no invaders, an Indom did try to kill me, but I froze him with my ice breath, he was as big as my toenail, what was the idiot thinking?" To this the others laughed (except for me Gigant, Arachnid and Hollowjack). Spyro chuckled and said "That is excellant, and what about you Burn?" Burn replied "Again, all is well, except for a few skull crawlers, but an Apex Deathworm got them." Than Spyro said "Excellant, and what about you Groot?" Groot replied "All is well except for the underground entrance to Abberation, as you know, half of my biome is underground as trees cannot grow well in the extreme heat of Extinction, and 25 percent of the underground part has been captured. It is really bad down there. But we are slowly pushing them back into Abberation."

That's good, I thought, this means that we can still get help from the titans should we need it. But than I remembered something that almost broke my heart, The Titans were bound to the curse that the Colossus made on them after they killed him, the curse being that unless the creature is as big as them or a real threat to not just ARK but the entire world, they can't interfere directly in the war, meaning they can't just stomp on the enemy, however they could indirectly help.

Spyro said "That is great, except for the skulldoms invading Groot's Subbiome part. I will send someone special to retrieve the army, this means that we have the Center, Extinction, half of Scorched earth, half of Abberation, Valguero and Ragnarok in our hands, however we have lost, Fjordur, the Crystal Isles and the Lost isles, the loss of Fjordur especially is bad as that is a strategically important boundary between us and Xenon and it may prompt them to take it back. On that note, I want to tell you something, I have a new friend from an old species that helped us destroy the skulldoms in the first civil war, and his friend, a Giganotosaurus here, may I introduce you to Spinebreaker the spinebreaker and Gigant the giganotosaurus.

His wing slightly pushed both of us which was the signal to go to the center of the room. We got up and went to stand in the center of the room on the hologram projector. Every single person who didn't know us was shocked, partially to see a spinebreaker in the flesh [or TEK] or to see non boss creatures that are also not provincial leaders, in the sacred Arkian council.

Everyone was silent. Even Hollowjack was taken aback by the suddenness in which Spyro introduced us. I managed to say "Umm, hello everyone". Next to me Gigant whispered I'm my ear "I expected anger or shouting, not conplete silence". I said "Don't jinx it, this is probably the best reaction we will get".

But damn Gigant, cause as soon as I said that, all hell broke loose as the bosses and provincial leaders started to shout questions at Spyro and get angry.