Disclaimer: I don't own the Skylanders, it's locations, the story or it's characters, they belong to their respective creators. I only own Samuel.
Prologue
October 12, 2011, 10:36 P.M.
Jersey City, NJ
It was a dark beginning for the young, auburn Samuel. His family had tragically died in a car accident by a drunk driver and now he's taken up refuge in only dark alleys in the shadows of New Jersey. The only comfort he only has is his toy sword that his father gave him on his eighth birthday and a silver locket that his mother gave him when he was born. He would have constant nightmares about the crash, but it would end up on different scenarios, like gets stabbed or shot, or even worse, taken, kidnapped and being used for ransom, or buried alive. He even wonders if his own world was crumbling right before him? Was this his fate? To be left all alone in the world? Who'll take care of him? Who'll teach him what is good and what is bad?
It just seemed like the answers were right in front of him, but he's just feels like he's miles away from it. How Long? He thought to himself, How long do I have to wait to search for answers?
"Well, well, Rick," A voice said from behind, "Look what we got here."
"Hello boy," He greeted evilly, "Waiting for Mom and Pop for you at home?"
Samuel was shaking, scared of what these men want.
"Hey kid!" The man shouted, "I'm talking to you! Where are your parents? At home? Doin' Work? What?!"
The boy turned around slowly to find two men, one was Devin, a mid-muscular and tall man, the other was Rick, a short and skinny man, bit a little shorter than his partner.
"Dead..." He replies to them, "My parents are dead..."
"Aw, ain't that sad Devin?" Asked Rick, mockingly, "His own parents are dead, 'Oh boo hoo, I got no one to look after me! Wah-wah!'" Devin laughs at his partner impression of Samuel. "Alright, enough with the jokes," He said as he grabbed a gun from his pocket, "Hand over the money, now!" Samuel puts his right hand up with his left hand grabbing his flight money for where ever he needs to go. "Oh Hallelujah! Hello mon-nay!" He cheers as he takes it out of Samuel's hand, "Jeez kid, you rich or something?"
"No," Samuel answered, "I was using the money to buy a plane ticket, but New Jersey's my home..."
"Eh, I don't care," Devin retorts, but then sees Samuel's locket, it's nothing like he's seen before, "Holy cow, where did you get that locket?"
Samuel clutches his locket with his hands, hiding it from them.
This got Rick curious and demands to see the locket, but Samuel refuses, this made Rick angry, "Look kid, the locket belongs in a pawn shop, so unless you wanna live, you better hand over that locket or I'll blow your brains out!"
Samuel was about to make a break for it until the locket shines bright in their faces, covering their eyes with their hands, this was the perfect distraction, Samuel ran for his life, still clutching the locket in his hands, the light feeling warm and bright. He made it to a park and he hides behind a tree, unfortunately, the crooks are at the same location, not knowing where he is.
"Come out here, you brat!" Devin calls out, "Hand over the locket!"
"Devin, the money is enough," Rick says to his partner, "Let's just go what have and get out of here!"
But his partner isn't having it, "No! That locket belongs to us and he's gonna hand it over, whether he likes it, or not!" He then took his gun and starts his search for Samuel. Another disadvantage the auburn has is that his clothes, a blue zip-up sweatshirt, white shirt, brown pants and white shoes are bright colors, so they'll see him easily. Suddenly, he hears gunshots, meaning that's they're further away and he wasn't that spot.
This is making Devin impatient, "Alright kid, listen up!" He calls out, "We know you're hiding! If you don't hand over the locket in ten seconds, we'll make you!"
Samuel just closes his eyes, hoping and praying that they don't find him. The words in his mind just keep repeating, Please don't find me, Please don't find me, Please don't find me! Then a white eared tipped fox appears out of the bushes, looking at him, teeth baring. Samuel looks at the fox and shook his head at it, knowing full well it's going to attack. The fox looked at him with very strange white eyes, it then proceeds to charge at him. Samuel closes his eyes, waiting for the strike to come, the fox jumps with his fangs ready to bite him and then-
Bang!
Devin shot the fox in mid air, skidding across to the auburn boy, he scared for life. The fox's eyes looked at him, placing his head on his lap. Devin's real close now and has found Samuel with the dead fox next to him, Rick was next to him with a grin on his face, Devin smiles and points the gun to Samuel's head. "Ha, you're a pain to find you kid," He said coldly, "You should've handed over the locket when we told you, otherwise, we could've left you off the hook."
"All you asked for is the money and-" Samuel got slapped in the face by the gunman and grabbed him by the collar of his sweatshirt.
"You questioning us kid?" he asked, "You should really learn to listen and shut up!" He hung him up by a branch, using his the outside tag as a hanger. "Well, class is in session." He point the gun to Samuel's head and was ready to pull the trigger, the boy just closes his eyes, probably fate was cruel to him after all.
Before the shot could be made, Rick interrupted him, "Uh, Devin?" The gunman looks at his partner, "What on earth is that?" The thugs looked at the sky, the stars twinkling a bright white except for one, one was a bright fiery orange and it's getting closer and closer as it descends down to the ground. The muggers yelled and ran, leaving the poor boy hanging, literally. He tries to take off his sweatshirt, once he did, he landed on the ground and as he did, he noticed that the fox was gone.
Where did it go? He thought, but abruptly snapped out as he saw the fireball gonna crash into where he's standing, so Samuel ran the opposite direction where the fireball's going to hit, but he wasn't fast enough as the fireball smashes into earth, causing him to go flying without hitting into anything.
Samuel got up after the fireball hit the ground, causing a small crater in the middle of the park, so he goes to check it out.
In the crater are eight strange figurines of creatures he never seen before, two were purple dragons, one is a blue haired green skinned elf, another is entirely made up of lava, another is a dark brown shark, there's one that looks like a black griffin, one is a orange furry creature holding two golden guns and one is a blue fish carrying a harpoon launcher.
"Wow," he said softly, "Where did they come from?"
"Ugh... What happened?"
Samuel turned around, he thought he heard someone talking, he looks around, but there's no one there.
"Is everyone ok?"
"I'm fine!"
"Still solid as a rock!"
Is he sick? He couldn't be, he's perfectly fine, so where are these voices coming from?
"Hey Spyro," said a male voice, "Where do you think we are?"
No response, then a young adult male voice spoke, "If I was moving, I would love to tell to you Gill Grunt, but right now, we're small frozen statues!"
"Now's not the time to be sarcastic Spyro," a quiet young female voice said, "We need to figure out a plan, without your witty jokes."
Samuel looks around and looks at the figurines, are they the ones talking?
"Aw, come on," Spyro complained, "My jokes aren't that bad, right? Right?"
"Um, excuse me," Samuel interrupted, "Who and what are you guys and how can I hear you in my head?"
Soft gasps from the voices can be heard, then a high pitched male voice, laughed, "Can it be?! Could it be?! Would it be?!"
"Ay, calm yourself Trigger Happy!" said a rough male voice, "You, kid, what's your name?"
"S-samuel." He said frightened, "What are you guys and where did you come from?"
"Oh, our apologies, young man," said a female who's voice sounding sincere and motherly, "We are the Skylanders, I am Sonic Boom, the black griffin and the Air Skylander."
Then the high pitched voice boomed out again, scaring the poor boy, "I'M TRIGGER HAPPY, haha, ha, I-I'm a gunslinger of gold and the Skylander of the Tech element!"
"Jumping cod fish Trigger Happy, calm down!" said Gill Grunt, "You'll scare the boy!" he sighs before continuing, "Sorry about him, anyways, I'm Gill Grunt, just your regular ol' blue fishman with a harpoon launcher and a Water Skylander." Samuel chuckles at the obvious, figuring he is a man fish and water is his element.
"Terrafin," said the rough voice, "The dirt shark Skylander of Earth."
"I am Stealth Elf, the silent but deadly one," the hushed female voice introduced, "I belong to the Life Skylander class."
"Hello!" A tough but friendly male voice greeted, "I'm Eruptor! A Fire Skylander, I'm not really mean, I just sort of look that way."
"And I'm Spyro, the Magic Skylander and the best one that there is!" He greeted himself, but then a young female clears her throat and says, "Uh, Spyro? Aren't you forgetting someone?"
"Oh, oops, sorry! Heh," he apologized to the young female, she groans at him, sounds like these two been through a lot together, "The other purple dragon is Cynder, the Undead Skylander and my partner!"
"And your mate?" Samuel asks, then bursts of laughter came from the other Skylanders except Cynder, who remained quiet and Spyro, who was not amused.
"Wait, what?!"
"Well, she's a dragon too," He explains, "Wouldn't that also make her as your mate?" The laughter just continues from the Skylanders, then Cynder laughs as the others go quiet, she was laugh so hard, she couldn't breathe.
"I'm-haha-I'm so sorry, I don't mean to laugh!" She says, but Samuel can't hide the small smile forming his lips, she just continues to laugh until it dies down and she's finally calm.
Then Spyro changes the topic, "Anyways, aside from... that, we accidentally got summoned here by a dark Portal Master and... Ugh, this is kind of hard for us to explain to you humans, how some of you humans start conversations is beyond me." Samuel then sees something glow in the crater.
"What's that?" He asks, he carries the figurine sized Skylanders to the crater and there they see a device.
"Ah, that must be a portal!" Sonic Boom exclaims
A portal? Samuel thought as he picked it up, brushing off the dirt from the engraved symbols and carvings, It looks like something you can throw with.
"So, what does this portal do?" Samuel asks, "Am I suppose to use this in some way?"
"Try placing us on the portal," Cynder suggests, "I think it can take us back home."
Samuel sets the portal down and places the Skylander on it, now they wait... for a couple of minutes. "Ok, well that didn't work, we tried." Spyro said.
Stealth Elf was getting annoyed, "Ugh, really, Spyro? You're just gonna give up that easily?"
"Well don't listen to me!"
"I wouldn't, if you would've just take this seriously for once."
Samuel pays no attention to Spyro and Stealth Elf arguing, as he's more focused on the locket it was glowing the same white shine from earlier, then he looks at the portal, he realizes what this means, he takes the locket off from around his neck and places it on the portal, it didn't do anything for a couple of seconds until the locket floats, it opens and a bright light shines from the portal and into the sky itself, opening a vortex. Samuel is lifted off the ground, scared out of his mind he tries swim back down to the ground, but that barely did anything. The portal and the Skylander are to floating toward the vortex, the figurines are engulfed engulf with different colors, they grew to their original sizes and the light color balls explodes into the Skylanders, unfrozen. They're all heading toward the vortex and then...
Samuel's eyes snapped open, all he could see is clouds and a clear blue sky, then he looks down to see... fox paws? He looks at his hands, fox paws. He touches his face, he has a muzzle, his hands move up to his head, thankfully, he still has his auburn hair, but also on his head are two fox hears, with white tips on them, finally he looked behind his rear, he has a fox tail, but the tip of the tail is a bit scruffy. He looks at his toy sword, it no longer looks all plastic, the blade is a crystal clear blue blade, the blade itself looks a normal sword blade but the tip of the blade is curved a bit with a purple star gem on both faces on the blade, the handle has a sandy brown cloth wrapped around it and the guard is a combination of a cross guard and a basket hilt, on the end of it has a five loop chain, at the end of the chain is a symbol he has never seen before. He looks at his clothes, he's wore a blue war robes with shimmering light blue highlights, on his feet paws are wrapped with tan support ankle wraps, and sees a sash with elements stitched on it.
He looks around and starts to worry, where are Spyro and the others?
I remember putting the locket on the portal, he thought to himself, Then some vortex opened up and we got sucked into it and then... What even happened after that?
But then his thoughts were interrupted by a voice, a elderly gentlemen no doubt as he appears through the clouds as he started to speak, "Greetings, young Portal Master, I have been waiting for you."
Samuel looks at the elderly man's head, he had blue sky blue eyes, tan skin and a white beard, he's also wearing a cyan helmet with two long horns and two short ones under them, at the center of his helmet is a blue gem at the middle. The fox boy was terrified as the man spoke again, "Fret not, I will not hurt you, I'm only now spirit of what I once was." Now? What happened to the poor man?
"W-who are you?" He asks.
The gentleman spirit smiles in comfort as he explains, "I am Eon, your guide in this world, but where are you, you may ask."
Eon guides Samuel toward floating islands, filled with sheep, creature he never saw before, houses, buildings, architectures, windmills, etc. His eyes were wide in awe and wonder. They stopped at an island and Samuel landing on his new fox feet paws, feeling the grass underneath him, this is something he's gonna have to get use to.
"This is Skylands," Eon continues, "An ancient world of wonder and mystery." Samuel looks around the other floating islands, in front of him a mile away, there's a ruined temple, he gasps in awe, his mouth agape. "For generations, the Portal Masters and the Skylanders have kept peace and balance of this world, so that all creature could thrive."
Samuel floated again as he follows Eon to another island, the islands themselves feel so alive, people building and helping out one another, to Samuel, it looked like paradise. They stopped by at another island with a sheep eating grass. "Magic is filled here in this world, every rock, every tree, every beast," Then a huge dragon fell on top of the sheep, the beast got up and woolen being got off it's rear, Samuel chuckles at the irony, there's never peace with predator and prey, "And even in you and your bloodline."
Samuel was taken aback by what he said, "M-me?" he asked, Eon nods, "But, can there be magic flowing through me?"
"Well, young Portal Master, I'm very glad that you've asked," Eon replies to him, "But I'm afraid that is something you'll have to figure out on your own, all that you need to know is that you and your family have come from a bloodline of Portal Masters."
Samuel frowns, is there something that his parents haven't told him? He then looks behind him, dark ominous clouds with violet lightning is spreading across the sky.
"But now," The elder Portal Master continues, "Our world is in great danger, the darkness is spreading, Skylands needs your help."
"M-my help?" He asks terrified, "But Eon, I don't even know what a Portal Master is, or what I'm suppose to do! I'm not even trained!"
"That's were your training and a great adventure awaits you Portal Master," Eon said with a comforting smile.
"And you're not gonna do it alone!"
Samuels looks up, It's Spyro and the Skylanders! They're ok!
"Whoa..." That was all that Samuel could say, he looks at his new friend, then with a comforting smile he faced Eon, "Ok, I'll do the best I can to help!"
"Very well then," Eon says, "I have sent my assistant, Hugo to seek you out."
"Will we ever see you again Eon?" Samuel asks.
"We will... soon..." The last words as Eon disappears into thin air.
"Ok... sooo, how do we find Hugo?" The fox boy asks, the Skylanders just stare at him blankly.
"You've never really been here before, have you?" Cynder asks him, he shook his head. "I barely even know where to look first."
Spyro sees some debris up ahead, "Skylanders, look there!" They see pieces of wood, stone and metal floating into a dark vortex. That doesn't look good. Samuel thought. "Looks awful, isn't?" Stealth Elf said sadly, "The darkness has been like this, ever since we were gone."
"Well, I'm not gonna stay here and wait for it to continue it's destruction!" Spyro exclaims, "Portal Master, let's go see if we can rescue some civilians from the dark forces!" Samuel looks a little scared, but he tries to put his brave face and nods to the Purple dragon. Spyro grabs onto Samuel's shoulders as gravity returns to normal on his body, "Oh, and you might wanna hold on tight, cause it's gonna get real fast!" Samuel looks at him confused, but like within a second, he takes of, Samuel yelling in fear at first, but then in excitement later, the other Skylanders follow suit.
Samuel's adventure in Skylands and saving the world has begun.